Hi Wouter, Thanks for the update and clarification of the keps used, I had noted a change from my previous prediction with the keps issued. Satellite actually arrived about 4 minutes later. I also followed the SSTL video streaming and saw them celebrating the success. May I also add my congratulations to the team and all concerned with the project and launch. A very proud day for you all and pleased to see another success story. Regards and looking forward to future projects. Ken Eaton GW1FKY Amsat-UK Amasat NA
Hello All
On the 22:36 UTC pass both STRaND-1 and AAUSAT3 have been heard in Cienfuegos city (EL92sd). I was running a FUNcube Dongle with SDR-Radio V1.5 and a homebrew ARROW antenna with a homebrew preamplifier. The STRaND-1 beacon has a great signal (S9+).
Congratulations to the STRaND-1 and AAUSAT3 teams for the great job!
73!
Hector, CO6CBF EL92sd
Congrats, Hector.
I printed several STRaND-1 packets and need to figure out what to do with them ;)
Which TLEs did you use? Based on timestamps and scrolling time back in SatPC32, it looks to me like the bird might be behind the pre-launch keps I'm using. Meaning, I see packets time stamped at the predicted LOS. I was NOT in the shack, but that's my guess based on time stamps.
73,
Mark N8MH
At 06:04 PM 2/25/2013 -0500, Hector, CO6CBF wrote:
Hello All
On the 22:36 UTC pass both STRaND-1 and AAUSAT3 have been heard in Cienfuegos city (EL92sd). I was running a FUNcube Dongle with SDR-Radio V1.5 and a homebrew ARROW antenna with a homebrew preamplifier. The STRaND-1 beacon has a great signal (S9+).
Congratulations to the STRaND-1 and AAUSAT3 teams for the great job!
73!
Hector, CO6CBF EL92sd
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Hello Mark and other folks,
I used the object F. I had to calibrate the automatic Doppler correction two times on the pass but AOS and LOS times were quite accurate.
I will try to decode the next pass.
73!
Hector, CO6CBF
EL92sd
De: Mark L. Hammond [mailto:marklhammond@gmail.com] Enviado el: lunes, 25 de febrero de 2013 18:36 Para: Hector, CO6CBF; amsat-bb@amsat.org Asunto: Re: [amsat-bb] STRaND-1 and AAUSAT3 heard in Cienfuegos, Cuba
Congrats, Hector.
I printed several STRaND-1 packets and need to figure out what to do with them ;)
Which TLEs did you use? Based on timestamps and scrolling time back in SatPC32, it looks to me like the bird might be behind the pre-launch keps I'm using. Meaning, I see packets time stamped at the predicted LOS. I was NOT in the shack, but that's my guess based on time stamps.
73,
Mark N8MH
At 06:04 PM 2/25/2013 -0500, Hector, CO6CBF wrote:
Hello All
On the 22:36 UTC pass both STRaND-1 and AAUSAT3 have been heard in Cienfuegos city (EL92sd). I was running a FUNcube Dongle with SDR-Radio V1.5 and a homebrew ARROW antenna with a homebrew preamplifier. The STRaND-1 beacon has a great signal (S9+).
Congratulations to the STRaND-1 and AAUSAT3 teams for the great job!
73!
Hector, CO6CBF EL92sd
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