Nanozond-1 (RS49S) Transmissions

I just generated a new TLE to try and track the satellite later.

It’s early morning here in “PY4Land” and I’m dead tired, so I haven’t done any checks to see if this TLE is relatively good.

I need sleep but it’s good that the satellite is still alive :zany_face:

Ahhh reports of no SSTV transmissions started appearing a few hours ago, so I believe we won’t have any more SSTV.

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Unfortunately, I didn’t have time for another attempt to receive the Nanozond-1.

It seems the satellite re-entered a few hours ago :saluting_face: !! t was really cool to participate in this final Nanozond-1 event !!

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Hi Simon,

Why are there people taking photos of their screen with (presumably) their mobile phone in order to then transfer them from there to their computer for further editing and publishing?

I just press one key on my keyboard to take a screenshot. This saves the currently visible content to a png file.
No flash, not dirt on the screen, no transfer back to the computer.

Perhaps you can shed some light on that matter.
I really want to understand this.

Daniel

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Hi Daniel,

I have a friend who does exactly the same thing, and I asked him the same question: why not just take a proper screenshot?

His reason is surprisingly simple: convenience over quality. He is logged into all his social media and messaging apps (like WhatsApp or Instagram) only on his phone. For him, taking a quick photo and hitting “send” is much faster than taking a screenshot on the PC, finding the file, and figuring out a way to transfer it to his phone or logging into the desktop version of those apps.

It’s definitely “dirtier” and the quality is worse, but for some, the path of least resistance is the mobile camera, even if it makes tech-savvy people cringe a bit!

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When feeding the channel via a mobile phone, it’s obviously the convenient way to just take a photo instead of a screenshot (file) which then first has to be transfered back to the phone.

However, I was not aware that using libre space forum on a mobile phone is convenient at all.
In my world it’s convenient to have both the forum and the SDR software on a/one computer with a keyboard and a mouse.