Makers eXperimenters and Operators: February 2019

Thursday 28 February 2019

The Portapack H1 for the Hack Rf one, a quick look..

Wednesday 27 February 2019

JY1SAT decoding audio and image

pic.twitter.com/PybgkQ67Y7
— Arow Antena (@arrowantenna) February 28, 2019

Full audio over UK just now pic.twitter.com/OwXmf4N6jn
— Arow Antena (@arrowantenna) February 28, 2019

Download the JY1SAT dashboard from this page:

https://funcube.org.uk/working-documents/funcube-telemetry-dashboard/

Insert funcube dongle, click on capture from funcube, st back and relax.

Monday 25 February 2019

QO-100 Ehails2 CW beacon received using Funcube dongle, sdrsharp and existing untouched Sky digital feed

To quote M0LTE "That sounds like it’s done every single one of those 35786km"
This gives you a instant clue that this is experimenting and nothing more

I set up sdrsharp with my old funcube pro plus dongle, setting the bias-T on and using some help from some people smarter than me to know where abouts the software would find 10GHz was able to easily find the qo-100 Ehailssat2 CW lower beacon.

I left the right side coax (as you look from the back) plugged into the sky box, and used the left side into the funcube. It's not a perfect fit, but ensure the outer casing is touching the outer dongle connection.

Tune the sky box to ITV Non HD, so this is "vertical low-band channel"

pic.twitter.com/LQOu1CP0IZ
— Arow Antena (@arrowantenna) February 25, 2019

The CW reads: "dl50amsat hi hi hi de qo-"

Suggested SDR settings to help improve reception

The CW lower end beacon is on 10489550.00 KHz.
You can use the web based SDR here: https://eshail.batc.org.uk/nb/ to hear all narrow band transmissions.

M0EYT and DF8JO sending Packet radio AX25 1k2 on Ehails2 shout out to Chertsey club

@AmsatUK @amsatdl @amsat #amsat #packet #ax25 #ehails2 @uhf_satcom playing packet radio m0EYT and df8JO @MakExpOp cheers for the shout ! pic.twitter.com/a8y7TMfon2
— Arow Antena (@arrowantenna) February 25, 2019

Saturday 23 February 2019

MARCONIssta call to power stickers and thank you note for taking part

@TUBerlin @RF2Space @ISS_Ham_Radio @AmsatUK @amsat #marconissta thanks to Martin @dj1mbb for the stickers and letter today great motivation for the club @MakExpOp cheers and best 73 from the UK pic.twitter.com/Hykw94Qefm
— Arow Antena (@arrowantenna) February 23, 2019

Martin DJ1MBB kindly send us some stickers and a nice letter to thank us for sending a carrier on UHF at the ISS as it flew over the UK. This helped them track and record data needed for their project.

Monday 18 February 2019

M0EYT on qo-100 ehails2

SSTV martin 1

using mmsstv

Software available from https://digilander.libero.it/i2phd/spectran.html

using virtual audio and the qo-100 narrow band web sdr

Qatar OSCAR-100 decoding narrow band upper beacon from the websdr.

Access the narrow band web based sdr here: https://eshail.batc.org.uk/nb/
Download software decoder here http://www.moetronix.com/ae4jy/ao40rcv.htm

Install virtual audio cable:
https://chertseyradioclub.blogspot.com/2018/05/download-and-install-vb-audio-virtual.html

Ensure to click on *click here to start sound*
Select upper beacon preset
open AO40Rcv software
(Sound from websdr should pipe to AO40 decoder)
Allow to run for some time as the beacon is not always transmitting