Daniel
Has this weekend’s activation been cancelled?
Tried for 1520z pass over UK but heard nothing. Elevation was only 27deg max at my QTH but thought I should get a few packets.
If the digipeater is on I’ll try tomorrow afternoon (1454z) UK pass.
Chris
Update: just seen the university schedule page has been updated today and the next schedule is now 20th, so I guess answers that my question. I’ll look out for the SSTV next weekend if that goes ahead.
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This weekend: Digipeater! (as in schedule above)
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Is SSTV active this weekend? University website schedule page say planned 27/09/24 - 29/09/24 but I just tried during 1435UTC pass over UK and heard nothing.
Previous activations have shown specific pass times for different regions but no detail shown for this weekend. Maybe it just wasn’t on for this pass over western Europe/UK?
May try again on tomorrow afternoon pass.
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Thanks for that. When I looked earlier it was still showing the detailed pass information for last month’s activation, must have just updated it. Earliest activations now showing 1724UTC which explains why I didn’t have a copy.
I’ll try for the 1555UTC tomorrow … not dedicated enough to get up just before 4am local for that pass 
UPDATE: OK, scratch that plan. Just checked on GPredict and none of the scheduled “West Europe” passes seem viable for me here in London. All of them are less that 20Deg max elevation and the schedule time is half way through the pass here so the satellite will already be departing and dropping lower.
Must be a post-brexit thing, since the neither of the upcoming SAKURA Europe APRS activations cover the UK either (today’s pass max 2Deg, tomorrow not even in footprint) 
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Only a partial image last night at 01:22 UTC
Hopeful for the 14:19 transmission. Looks like a decent pass for Norway.
Jomjom79
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28/09/24 14:19 UTC
Ohwell… Thats what you get when you are overly positive 
Jomjom79
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Missed the first image.
2024-09-28 14:21 UTC
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Managed to get at least a partial from the first image on the Central Europe - should have checked the possibility of receiving those passes earlier but (wrongly) assumed UK would be West Europe. Anyway here’s what I got…
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2024-09-29 00:59:43 UTC
https://network.satnogs.org/observations/10316637/
reduced my RF gain slightly and the quality seems to have improved.
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23:25:34UTC 28Sep2024, #10313134 SatNOGS
I used “Google Earth Pro” to identify the location of SONATE-2
Earth image shown earlier. This is “Karkheh Dam Reservoir” on
Karkheh River, which flows into the Persian Gulf in western Iran.
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美根夫さん
Thanks for overlaying the received picture on Google Earth’s satellite image.
I identified it as the Karkheh Dam by “search by image” in Google.
Daniel
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