To be honest, I JUST YESTERDAY discovered your previous post about reporting CW beacons, and was planning on starting in my free time today (see Yagi catastrophe below).
I’m a case study in “progressive discoveries”… Last year, I was an “ISS/SSTV only guy.” I heard about the Cornell Light Sail project on a podcast, and that led to my TinyGS station. That was cool, and led me to SatNOGS. That’s led me to other opportunities for satellite SSTV. That’s led me to other telemetry opportunities, even though I’m still just working with a homebrew Yagi (which fell over last night and busted… grr… time for version 2.0 now), an FT818 and a cheap digital voice recorder… no GMSK this week…
Now that I’m aware, I’ve added a ton of CW telemetry sats to my queue and will start playing and reporting. My morse skills are worse than horrible. It’s time consuming and prone to error. But… progress.
Im rebuilding my station, which includes a SatNOGS station and MUCH more automation. WOOT! More progress.
Loks of fun, therefore worth it. Hobby, and all that.
TL;DR: I wasn’t aware that CW telemetry reporting was a thing! I’m starting soon(ish) and mebbe some others will to, if they also become aware.
Successfully received CW beacons on 18:44-47 and 20:17-20 UTC. For 7el.yagi and RTL SDR V4 signal was at more than 30dB over -95dB noise floor. Many thanks for this event and happy anniversary!
Dear all, I am very happy that so many of you received the beacon This event has been a lot of fun for me too!! I got many requests for the eQLS cards and will be sending them out in a couple of days Also, a big thank you to everyone who shared their Morse code! While reading your emails, I found that this event was not only a lot of fun but created some scientific data of the payload as well, which I didn’t intend to do, but find very interesting. Hope to repeat such an event in the future!
As many of you wondered: yes, the symbols behind the call sign state the temperature of the transceivers Also, this is the part I think is very interesting. Hopefully, I will find the time to analyse the temperature increase of the transceivers during beacon transmission.
As I just about gave up that did not receive any CW Beacon from the satellite, I recheck all my SatNOGS observation and there it is, at less than 2 degree maximum elevation, I barely can decode it. Luckily the “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” beacon is rather clear
It barely can be seen on the observation waterfall and FLdigi CW decoder does not work at all, but I found this tutorial from @dl7ndr to see the spectrogram and there it is!
Nice!! It has impressed me how LITTLE elevation I’ve needed to collect from InnoCube!
And I’m glad Audacity helps me to use my eyes, not just my ears, to work thru the CW… if I had to listen only, I’d still be working on the Christmas message!
Glad to see that other people are still waiting too. I was beginning to think my request was rejected for some reason. I am sure @vici is working through the pile as quickly as possible. We will just need to be patient.
I’ve received way more eQSL requests than last time (more than double!), so it just takes me a little while to get all the cards created and sent out. But don’t worry, everyone will get one
This event has been a lot of fun for me too!! I got many requests for the eQLS cards and will be sending them out in a couple of days 
Also, a big thank you to everyone who shared their Morse code! While reading your emails, I found that this event was not only a lot of fun but created some scientific data of the payload as well, which I didn’t intend to do, but find very interesting. Hope to repeat such an event in the future!
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