Hi all,

I was able to receive up to 10KB (size of the resulting .funcubebin file) of Telemetry from FUNCube-1 (AO-73) here at my home in Havana, Cuba, (EL83sc) during the 03:41-03:52 UT pass of Nov. 26th.

I used a MAR-8 MMIC pre-amp with ZERO filtering, a QFH antenna and a cheap RTL-SDR dongle. Software was SDRSharp with Plugin for Doppler Control and Orbitron as Sat Tracking Software.

Even with the poorly filtered and not too much sensitive RTL-SDR dongle the signals amplified with the also poorly filtered MAR-8 pre-amp was VERY STRONG even in complete Eclipse.

I used Virtual Audio Cable software to feed the demodulated audio into the FUNCube Dashboard software and it was very smooth. I am very happy because after many days being busy I was finally able to get some free time to try listening to FUNCube. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE FUNCUBE AND AMSAT-UK TEAM!!!

Today at the GROS (the Cuban Satellite Group) we created and registered an account in the FUNCube Warehouse data server to upload all the received Telemetry. The most common Internet access in Cuba are at workplaces which usually has a proxy server for Internet navigation and the FUNCube Dashboard has no proxy compatibility, that's why many of our hams cannot upload directly the received telemetry frames. To overcome this issue and to contribute with the telemetry forwarding the GROS_Cuba user was created and we will be sending the telemetry through a direct Internet line at IGA (Cuba's Institute of Geophysics and Astronomy, see: www.iga.cu). This morning a total of 124 frames received from Hector CO6CBF and Pavel CO7WT were uploaded.

Tomorrow I will upload more telemetry received, including the frames received by me and also Pavel's and Hector's data in case they have some more frames from today.

73,

Raydel Abreu Espinet, CM2ESP EL83sc, Havana, Cuba.