Tonight on the Thursday night GCARC net there was some discussion about digipeating your signal thru the ISS and NO-84 satellite. This is detailed in the December 2018 issue of QST so I won’t repeat those details, but here’s a quick write-up of that process and how I made it work. Both NO-84 and the […]
SatNOGS is a great way for individuals tracking satellites to obtain telemetry from sites throughout the world, but apparently some of the ham satellite groups can’t get their telemetry directly from SatNOGS. Instead the users must download the audio files and upload them through the respective telemetry decoders. K2ZA and I spent some time today […]
Astronauts on the International Space Stations have recently been having conversations with school students and one QSO was captured by our station on November 13. In this recording astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor answers questions from school students about the experience of being in space. We can only hear one side of the conversation (hence the periods of […]
How We Built the GOES Reception Project Updated 12/1/18 Building our functional GOES 16 receiver was a process of broad web research and cobbling together the experiences of many other successful experimenters. We found lots of individual articles on antenna selection, software, and many other topics, but nothing that really pulled everything together. Hopefully this […]
