Nico,
I have been trying to capture the signals from the both Longjiang sats for the past 2 days.
On Monday it seems that I receive a carrier on the right frequency but was not able to confirm that it was from Longjiang 1.
I used the initial Keppler’s and now using Celestrac in SatPC32 which seems to be OK when comparing with N2YO ele/az. I have been monitoring on the announced FX and having also JT4G “on” for about this evening without any results.
For sure I am doing something wrong but cannot figure it out due to the lack of information.
Also, trying to get a decoder software for the GMSK telemetry is quite difficult for a non-IT geek, I don’t have clue how to have the published GITHUB decoder to work on my Windows computers…
Here we are this side.
Quite frustrating that the communication is not that good, as if the project team want the maximum of feedback and TLM they should provide a minimum of info. Just a personal opinion.
Anyway will try hard to receive these birds as a real opportunity for HAM to learn more on outer space com, if anyone can help and share, particularly the guys who already decoded the birds, it would be more welcomed.
73
Jean Marc (3B8DU)
On May 22, 2018, at 5:03 PM, Nico Janssen [email protected] wrote:
After their launch on 2018-05-20 at 21:28 UTC, LJ 1 and LJ 2 were maneuvered onto a track to the Moon. Several amateurs received telemetry from the satellites. But now LJ 1 appears to encounter problems.
Quoting Wei BG2BHC: "Can you help to find amateurs in the US to help to monitor DSLWP-A on 435.425 and 436.425 now? We lost the contact of satellite A on S band after an orbit adjustment. We just tried to switch on UHF, but we don't know if it works or not. The sat is just above South America. If it works, 435.425 should be 500bps GMSK and JT4 alternately. 436.425 should be 250 bps GMSK. Bothtransmit once in 5 minutes.
Thank you very much!
Wei"
73, Nico PA0DLO
On 22-05-18 12:15, Mike Seguin wrote:
Any word on the two Chinese microsats LongJiang 1 & 2?
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