Hello fellow SatNOGS operators,
I’m excited to share that I’ve finally set up my ground station (#4386) on the roof with a VHF/UHF antenna pair. The UHF antenna is now available to the SatNOGS community, so feel free to schedule observations!
The image above shows the original setup with the SatNOGS rotator — I’ve since upgraded to a Yaesu G-5500 rotator for better performance. The station runs on a Raspberry Pi 3, and a Pi Pico 2 handles antenna control.
I’m part of the BME (TU Budapest) Pico Satellite Team in Hungary. We’ve been building PocketQubes since 2014, and many of you have tracked our previous missions: SMOG-P, SMOG-1, ATL-1, and MRC-100. Our upcoming satellite, HUNITY, is already listed in the SatNOGS database — keep an eye out for it and be sure to download smogcli2 to demodulate and decode the packets as we will use several data rates and smogcli2 supports parallel demodulation of all the different rates! You can also decode right away and read the telemetry data from the received packets!
Auto-Schedule Priorities
My station prioritizes the following satellites (HUNITY will take top priority once deployed):
- GRBBeta
- CroCube
- ISS
- VZLUSAT-2
- Suomi-100
- HADES-R
- KKS-1
The VHF antenna is currently reserved for HAM radio, but I may add it to SatNOGS in the future.
I’m happy to be part of this community – looking forward to supporting more missions and sharing data!
Tibor