Celebrating Kuwait National Day (February 25) with SSTV Event from QMR-KWT 2
Transmission will start on Feb. 25 at 6:50 UTC for 24 hours
NORAD ID: 67291
Frequency: 436.950 MHz
Mode: Robot 36
Timing: 36 seconds on, 3 minutes off
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SatNOGS Network - Observations lets see how we get on ! Cheers !!!
Good luck! I haven’t built my eggbeater yet, so I’ll be sitting outside, in the cold and rain, with my trusty (and rusty) yagi…
Mebbe i have some time to solder this afternoon afterall…
C
During morning passes I’ll be at work so my ground station will do the observations, and in the evening, will try to do it personally (also yagi) in the field, hoping that another snowfall will end, but I think that it is still more pleasant than rain and cold wind.
Well, at 0300Z in FM18, I got frozen fingers, a frozen nose, and telemetry from QMR-KWT2… sigh.
Good luck the rest of you!
C
(Oops, i just now noticed the 0700-ish start time at the top of this post! Edited my post to highlight my embarrassment! I guess I proved that, yes, it isn’t starting early! Lol!)
5:10 UTC just telemetry over VU Region
The SSTV event start time is shifted to 18:54 UTC due to a technical issue
Thanks @dubai for update, saves me confusing neighbours standing in sisters garden waving antenna around at 1100 this morning. Will try similar timed pass tomorrow.
The technical issue has been resolved with help from @sputnix
SSTV is now active and transmitting
Saw the SSTV signal 11:21 UTC.
Unfortunately to weak for decoding. But its transmitting.
Jomjom79
next 2 passes 8degrees 14 degrees and i 10 hours a 67 degree pass… maybe tonight then !
Cheers best 73 James / M0JFP
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Edit: The signal is weak (Some difficulty decoding with my FT-60R + Yagi OWA 7el). Interestingly, the TLM packets were also weaker than normal (I didn’t decode any packets due to setup limitations).
Perhaps @dubai can tell us if the power was reduced to avoid problems with the satellite hardware or if it was some problem on my part that caused this weak signal 
SatNOGS Network - Observations lets see how we get on ! Cheers !!!
@fredy Perhaps it would be a good idea to delete this topic, considering that we already have THIS topic.
I’ve moved them here, in this topic, so let’s continue the discussion here, thanks for note. 
Absolute low power. Nothing to decode even on overhead pass with 83deg elevation. 17:07 UTC
I was wondering. I went portable (honestly, im usually portable-at-home) before a lunch date (1600z), and heard a stack of nothing. Well, heard enough at 11 deg to know it was there, bit not decode. Sigh. Mebbe this evening!
C
low 8 degree can clearly see SSTV signal, not good enough for a decode though… next one….
This is our first SSTV attempt and we are still learning about the behavior of the satellite in orbit. We will try to do more SSTV in the near future 
