I have realized... I have not tried packet mode yet. So I set up my station for rx/tx on aprs.

Upon further investigation I read somewhere that the sats use SSB packet ?

The older PACSATS required SSB receivers. The "PCSAT's" are standard FM 1200 baud AX.25 packet. Here are the satellites you can do APRS packet messaging and position/status reporting through:

RAFT 145.825 No more... Re-entered 2 days ago ANDE-1 145.825 needs to hear packets before it wakes up PCSAT-1 145.825 usually workable during mid-day passes ARISS 145.825 ISS Packet mode. Not always on ECHO 435.130 9600 baud with uplink 145.860 CUBESATS...

Notes: ANDE-1 only wakes up for 1 second every 16 seconds and if it does not hear a packet, then it goes back to sleep. If you want to work it, then send packets once a second until you hear it digipeat you. Then send packets at least once every 30 seconds to keep it awake..

PCSAT-1 defaults to the callsign W3ADO-1 and is currently coming over around sunrise and sunset and so does not get enough sun on its best solar panel, althogh its side panels are in full sun this week. If we can send the receovery commands, then it becomes an EXCELLENT packet digipeater for a few weeks until it goes out of sun again.

ECHO requires 9600 baud, but everyone with a Kenwood D7 HT or D700 mobile can operate APRS at 9600 baud at the push of a button. But the downlink is weak on 435.150, and so a beam is usually reuired. But you can usually hear it during its best overhead pass twice a day on the mobile whip probably... Its digipeater callsign is: PACB-1. You can tell if ECHO has the digipeater turned on by looking for the "d:1" in the telemetry...

There are many cubesat AX.25 packet downlinks, but many are 9600 baud, and I am not sure any are open for digipeating at this time? Is there anythign in the above table I have left out?

Bob, Wb4APR