Please avoid to schedule ISS passes for 48h after the deployment time if you don’t really need them. The reason is that the initial TLE for these three satellites will be the ISS ones and we are going to use these passes for trying to receive them.
I’m going to add the satellites in db.satnogs.org later today.
JAXA announced BIRDS-3 satellites, NepaliSat-1 (Nepal), Raavana-1
(Sri Lanka) and Uguisu (Japan), deploy from ISS at 17th June.
All the satellites are in db with temporary norad ids from 99985 to 99987.
SpooQy-1 IARU entry says that it is uncoordinated, even if it is in the list of coordinated ones. I’ve found and added two frequencies from Satellite Frequency List and I’ll schedule a couple of observations to check if they are transmit on one of those.
As the cubesats are going to transmit in UHF, the above is valid only for the stations that have a UHF antenna .
Observations are scheduled, ~120 for each of the Birds-3 group for ~30h after the deployment at 8:35 UTC and ~30 for each of the frequencies of SpooQy-1 for ~9h after the deployment.
BIRDS-3 are all deployed successfully and are heard. There seems to be an overlap between two of them. They are expected to transmit in different timeslots on the same frequency.
Was able to decode CW for all three (raw IQ in gqrx, noise reduce and half tempo in audacity because I’m not very fast at CW)
JG6YLF BIRDS3 NP7E9B F30102C02C
JG6YLG BIRDS3 SL7908 FEFE02C02B
JG6YLE BIRDS3 JP838D A481C56443
works in the cw analysis software and submitted for QSL cards.
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