When FUNcube was first launched, I went out to listen to it on the first pass that I was home for (orbit #11 I believe). Since I live in an apartment building, I have to go outside to hear most satellite passes. I recorded the audio on my normal MP3 voice recorder and to my great surprise, when I fed the audio into my computer, I was able to decode several packets. I was not expecting it to be robust enough to survive 192 kbps MP3 compression and encoding.
73, Paul, N8HM On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:07 AM, Nick Pugh K5QXJ <quadp...@bellsouth.net>wrote: > Hi Phil et All > I can copy and decode the beacon at 30 mw EIRP using the M^2 yagi at very > low SNR ~ 10 db SNR I do not see much fading > > nick > > -----Original Message----- > From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On > Behalf Of Phil Karn > Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 4:34 AM > To: amsat-bb@amsat.org > Subject: [amsat-bb] FUNcube telemetry performance? > > I haven't done anything with AO-73, but I understand it's transmitting the > FEC format I originally designed for AO-40. > > How well is it working? What fraction of the frames are successfully > decoded? How bad is the fading? I designed my format specifically for the > spin fading on AO-40, and if the fading due to the tumbling of a cubesat is > too slow my format won't be able to fix it. > > Phil > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb