Triggering an observation for testing

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I moved my ground station to a different location and would like to trigger an observation so I can see if the antenna is working. I can’t seem to task my ground station. Please forgive me if I have not included enough information here. I am a newbie and will happily supply more if requested.

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Hi,

from your link I went to “Future passes” and was able to schedule 2 passes if I respected the “to be at least 5 minutes in the future” time setting.

So now I choose 2 satellites with a lot of green observations , random , which should be ran in about half an hour from now. 19:46 UTC over here :wink:

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Thank you so much!

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If you check the “metadata” tab you notice the gain is not set ?

  • gain-mode: “Overall”,

  • gain: null,

  • antenna: “RX”,

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Fixed the gain in satnog-setup and watching for it to be updated here, in the UI, but where? I can’t seem to find anything on the site to confirm the setting myself.

I have moved my ground station to (what I think is) a prime location on Hilton Head Island. I set the gain to 32.8 as a first attempt/baseline.

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  • Fixed the gain in satnog-setup and watching for it to be updated here, in the UI, but where? I can’t seem to find anything on the site to confirm the setting myself.

  • No matter what I set the Start Time/End Time to I always get “Start datetime should be in the future”.

  • I have moved my ground station to (what I think is) a prime location on Hilton Head Island. I set the gain to 32.8 as a first attempt/baseline.

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Hi

I go to this page:

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I select “Future Passes”

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I wait a bit for the calculations :slight_smile:

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I scroll down to find something in the future, anything from 15 minutes from now should work, and I select some satellites with lot of green in the bar, that shows they have been received a lot

scrolling down shows me there is free time from 16:42 UTC

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So I decide to pich Formosat and Ernst

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which scheduled succesfully.

Does that make things clear ?

Regards,

Ben

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You should redo that :slight_smile: It’s set to 3.28 instead of 32.8 so no signals in waterfall yet

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Ugh. I will get better at this. :slight_smile:

Thank you for the detailed response on scheduling also. I was able to fix the gain and schedule observations.

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The easiest solutions to help others is with the fails I made myself when starting. :grin:

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quote of the day

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