Hi All,
FUNcube-1 is now changing mode autonomously again. In sunlight – Educational Mode and in eclipse – Amateur mode.
The FUNcube operations team really appreciates the telemetry that we continue to receive from stations around the globe. This data is proving invaluable in helping us understand exactly what the status is of all the on board systems and we are very grateful for everyone’s support.
If you have the opportunity to leave a receiver running on the 145.935MHz nominal downlink frequency with FUNcube Dashboard running we would be very pleased to have the data you receive. Full details of the FUNcube Dashboard and the associated Data Warehouse can be found at the https://funcube.org.uk/ website.
Many thanks and 73
Graham G3VZV
On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 22:14:26 +0100, "Graham Shirville" g.shirville@btinternet.com wrote:
Hi All,
FUNcube-1 is now changing mode autonomously again. In sunlight – Educational Mode and in eclipse – Amateur mode.
The FUNcube operations team really appreciates the telemetry that we continue to receive from stations around the globe. This data is proving invaluable in helping us understand exactly what the status is of all the on board systems and we are very grateful for everyone’s support.
If you have the opportunity to leave a receiver running on the 145.935MHz nominal downlink frequency with FUNcube Dashboard running we would be very pleased to have the data you receive. Full details of the FUNcube Dashboard and the associated Data Warehouse can be found at the https://funcube.org.uk/ website.
On a related note, what is the status of UKube-1 as far as the transponder goes? I am regularly switching back and forth to send telemetry on both birds using the Dashboard (even though it's not really optimized for Ukube-1) and hope that one day I can eventually make a contact or two through it.
73
Hi Jeff,
Firstly, many thanks for forwarding the telemetry from both FUNcube-1 and FUNcube-2!
Sadly it is not possible at the moment to directly answer your question about possible transponder operations on FUNcube-2 but we hope that it will be possible in the fairly near future. In the meantime, the FC2 transmitter is currently continuously downlinking valid real time telemetry. This provides a good overview of the on board systems and thanks, to the many stations regularly listening (using the normal Dashboard), this data is available on the FUNcube Data Warehouse.
Of course we can be looking forward to the launch of the 1U CubeSat - Nayif-1 around the middle of the year. This will also carry a FUNcube transponder and is presently being prepared for insertion into its QuadPack deployer. This operation will take place within the next few days and is in preparation for launch in mid summer on the same launcher as Fox1-C and Fox1-D.
73
Graham G3VZV
-----Original Message----- From: J. Boyd (JR2TTS) Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2016 11:11 PM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] FUNcube-1
On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 22:14:26 +0100, "Graham Shirville" g.shirville@btinternet.com wrote:
Hi All,
FUNcube-1 is now changing mode autonomously again. In sunlight – Educational Mode and in eclipse – Amateur mode.
The FUNcube operations team really appreciates the telemetry that we continue to receive from stations around the globe. This data is proving invaluable in helping us understand exactly what the status is of all the on board systems and we are very grateful for everyone’s support.
If you have the opportunity to leave a receiver running on the 145.935MHz nominal downlink frequency with FUNcube Dashboard running we would be very pleased to have the data you receive. Full details of the FUNcube Dashboard and the associated Data Warehouse can be found at the https://funcube.org.uk/ website.
On a related note, what is the status of UKube-1 as far as the transponder goes? I am regularly switching back and forth to send telemetry on both birds using the Dashboard (even though it's not really optimized for Ukube-1) and hope that one day I can eventually make a contact or two through it.
73
On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 23:42:11 +0100, "Graham Shirville" g.shirville@btinternet.com wrote:
Of course we can be looking forward to the launch of the 1U CubeSat - Nayif-1 around the middle of the year. This will also carry a FUNcube transponder and is presently being prepared for insertion into its QuadPack deployer. This operation will take place within the next few days and is in preparation for launch in mid summer on the same launcher as Fox1-C and Fox1-D.
Great, looking forward to it.
Gee, with all these new birds going up, perhaps constant coverage is no longer a far-off dream.... :D
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