Hello all,
As a part of a student satellite project from India, I have a few questions regarding how can i improve my reception of data on the ground station. We have a TS2000 and have designed a few yagi antennas for uhf and vhf band. I would like to know some satellites on which we can practice receiving any signal. We are totally new to this system and have practiced some failed attempts of the same. Further, we would really appreciate If anyone could help on how we can increase our reception power. Any other help or advice would also be appreciated. Thank you.
Aayush Yadav, Team Pratham, IIT Bombay.
El 23/11/15 a las 19:16, Aayush Yadav escribió:
Hello all,
As a part of a student satellite project from India, I have a few questions regarding how can i improve my reception of data on the ground station. We have a TS2000 and have designed a few yagi antennas for uhf and vhf band. I would like to know some satellites on which we can practice receiving any signal. We are totally new to this system and have practiced some failed attempts of the same. Further, we would really appreciate If anyone could help on how we can increase our reception power. Any other help or advice would also be appreciated. Thank you.
Dear Aayush,
There are plenty of amateur satellites you can try to receive. Head over to http://www.amsat.org/status/ for the list of the "most popular" ones, together with status reports. Also, there's a huge list in http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?page_id=29535
I would mention a few of the strongest ones, but if you're using circularly polarized yagis on a rotator (as you should be using on a serious groundstation), you should be able to receive any satellite indeed.
73,
Dani M0HXM/EA4GPZ.
Hello Aayush,
Starting out with very strong signals is probably a good idea even though you can probably get any satellite that you wish with a good ground station. Start out with AO-85 for FM reception and AO-73 for SSB reception. AO-73 is especially strong during local day time during Mon-Friday (UTC). There is not transponder turned on then, so all the power goes into the telemetry.
Both of these can be received with an HT (handheld with a simple antenna) so you are very likely to receive them on any station you have and optimize from there.
I would also suggest that you might find local colleagues in AMSAT-India who would be able to tell you things of local interest (what parts are available where, for example).
73,
Burns W2BFJ
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Aayush Yadav aayushyadav825@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
As a part of a student satellite project from India, I have a few questions regarding how can i improve my reception of data on the ground station. We have a TS2000 and have designed a few yagi antennas for uhf and vhf band. I would like to know some satellites on which we can practice receiving any signal. We are totally new to this system and have practiced some failed attempts of the same. Further, we would really appreciate If anyone could help on how we can increase our reception power. Any other help or advice would also be appreciated. Thank you.
Aayush Yadav, Team Pratham, IIT Bombay. _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
In addition to what others have said, don't forget the packet radio digipeater aboard the International Space Station. It puts out 5 watts and is on most of the time except for when they're doing EVAs. You can pick it up with a handheld radio when it's overhead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5R0P3PiJn8
http://www.ariss.org/uploads/1/9/6/8/19681527/k9jkm_2012_symposium_ver2.pdf
John, KG4AKV
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Burns Fisher burns@fisher.cc wrote:
Hello Aayush,
Starting out with very strong signals is probably a good idea even though you can probably get any satellite that you wish with a good ground station. Start out with AO-85 for FM reception and AO-73 for SSB reception. AO-73 is especially strong during local day time during Mon-Friday (UTC). There is not transponder turned on then, so all the power goes into the telemetry.
Both of these can be received with an HT (handheld with a simple antenna) so you are very likely to receive them on any station you have and optimize from there.
I would also suggest that you might find local colleagues in AMSAT-India who would be able to tell you things of local interest (what parts are available where, for example).
73,
Burns W2BFJ
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Aayush Yadav aayushyadav825@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
As a part of a student satellite project from India, I have a few
questions
regarding how can i improve my reception of data on the ground station.
We
have a TS2000 and have designed a few yagi antennas for uhf and vhf
band. I
would like to know some satellites on which we can practice receiving any signal. We are totally new to this system and have practiced some failed attempts of the same. Further, we would really appreciate If anyone could help on how we can increase our reception power. Any other help or advice would also be appreciated. Thank you.
Aayush Yadav, Team Pratham, IIT Bombay. _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership.
Opinions
expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite
program!
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Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
Thanks Burns for the pointers. @Aayush, I can help you with information so that you are able to successfully receive and decode telemetry. 73 Nitin [VU3TYG]
From: Burns Fisher burns@fisher.cc To: Aayush Yadav aayushyadav825@gmail.com Cc: "amsat-bb@amsat.org" AMSAT-BB@amsat.org Sent: Tuesday, 24 November 2015 1:28 AM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Help needed please
Hello Aayush,
Starting out with very strong signals is probably a good idea even though you can probably get any satellite that you wish with a good ground station. Start out with AO-85 for FM reception and AO-73 for SSB reception. AO-73 is especially strong during local day time during Mon-Friday (UTC). There is not transponder turned on then, so all the power goes into the telemetry.
Both of these can be received with an HT (handheld with a simple antenna) so you are very likely to receive them on any station you have and optimize from there.
I would also suggest that you might find local colleagues in AMSAT-India who would be able to tell you things of local interest (what parts are available where, for example).
73,
Burns W2BFJ
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Aayush Yadav aayushyadav825@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
As a part of a student satellite project from India, I have a few questions regarding how can i improve my reception of data on the ground station. We have a TS2000 and have designed a few yagi antennas for uhf and vhf band. I would like to know some satellites on which we can practice receiving any signal. We are totally new to this system and have practiced some failed attempts of the same. Further, we would really appreciate If anyone could help on how we can increase our reception power. Any other help or advice would also be appreciated. Thank you.
Aayush Yadav, Team Pratham, IIT Bombay. _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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