Hello everyone. I just build my first station and scheduled a few observations last weekend and turns out it is really fun scheduling satellite observation with fully automated acquisition!
I repurposed my old Raspberry Pi 3B+ and RTL SDR V3 (I’ve experimenting with Airspy HF+ but unfortunately with no success) acquiring VHF signals as I only have VHF QFH antenna at the moment, but probably I would like to switch to UHF as its more crowded there.
In the future I might integrate my rotator with this system, I’ve seen the option on satnogs-setup to connect to a rotator and probably will try that, maybe any tips from anyone regarding this? Also, I might plan to split the UHF output from the Yagi to SDR and my radio (RX only) so I can have regular QSO with the audio recorded by SatNogs on that pass, I wonder if this is possible?
I think that’s it for now, we’ll see how long this station will be online up
By the way, I think there’s an upcoming Transporter 14 next month. Is there any way that my station can contribute to that launch observation?
I have an extremely tiny experience using pre-eliminary TLE with ASTRU/AO-123 launch back then, but that was mostly manual observation using a laptop and smartphone to see the pass schedule.
If your station is online and there is a satellite or more transmitting on your station’s supported frequency range then your station is going to be part of the usual operations we perform as Network.
This option isn’t related with the generic scheduling but only for those that don’t follow regulations, for example satellites that are not coordinated with IARU and transmit in amateur radio frequency. You can check more about it in this thread, which soon will be added in the satnogs wiki with some more details.
