Thanks for the detailed update, Bob.
Tonight I was finally able to get into the DTMF decoder for the first time after trying almost daily since that mode was enabled. As the elevation kept going up, I finally lucked into being heard at 33° elevation w/ 50w to an AZ/EL tracking X-Quad antenna. Both uplink & downlink frequencies on the FT-857d were being doppler compensated throughout the pass. A few telemetry packets were decoded also.
Here is a tweet with a screen shot of the downlink packets received and a URL to audio of the DTMF read-back:
https://twitter.com/scott23192/status/1160810386016407552
-Scott, K4KDR
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On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 3:01 PM Robert Bruninga via AMSAT-BB < amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:
The live status of PSAT2 is easy to see on http://aprs.org/sats.html select the link to the Telemetry-Last-24hrs And you can see the status just minutes ago.:
20190810 182731,PSAT2-1>APOFF...:T#060,704,041,910,741,162,11010001 The status bits tell you left to right: 1 = DTMF Grid Reporting is on 1 = Always on 0 = internal use 1 = DTMF Messages are on 0 = PSK31 and SSTV Camera are on (note, inverted) 0 = Digipeater is OFF 0 = APRS-to-Voice is off 1 = Internal use
This condition will remain until we get enough users to assess the DTMF modes. We invite people to play. Lots of new and different modes. With DTMF messages now on, one can QSL a grid report and make a 2way contact.
Bob, WB4APR
On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 12:02 PM Mark D. Johns via AMSAT-BB < amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:
https://www.amsat.org/status/ suggests it's not working in APRS mode. On August 5, Bob, WB4APR, reported that the satellite was in DTMF mode. -- Mark D. Johns KØJM / MØGZO / ex-9H3DJ / ex-KØMDJ AMSAT Ambassador Brooklyn Park, MN USA EN35hd
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On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 10:18 AM Larry Fields via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Can anyone tell me if its active I never catch a signal