APRS Satellites RAFT and ANDE Deploy Thursday

[M5AKA]

RAFT and ANDE are Amateur Radio APRS satellites scheduled to be deployed on Thursday, see

http://www.southgatearc.org/news....day.htm (http://www.southgatearc.org/news/december2006/satellites_to_deploy_thursday.htm)

Frequencies:
ANDE Side A: 145.825 MHz Digipeater up/downlink 1200 baud packet
ANDE Side B: 145.825 MHz downlink (backup to side A only)
RAFT System: 145.825 Mhz Digipeater up/downlink 1200 baud packet
RAFT PSK-31: 28.120 MHz HF PSK-31 uplink - 145.825 MHz FM downlink

Telemetry data from the ANDE Amateur Radio Satellite will be displayed on a web page developed by Dave Johnson G4DPZ of AMSAT-UK.

At the request of Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, Dave has developed a web application in Java which will display the decoded telemetry recovered from the APRS-IS network.

Currently the application is under test, awaiting 'real' telemetry from the satellite.

The satellites orbit means it will only have a lifetime of some 12 months before it burns up in the atmosphere, so the more telemetry we can recover the better.

For further details see the AMSAT-UK website at

http://www.uk.amsat.org/

AMSAT-UK produces a newsletter Oscar News packed full of Amateur Satellite information.

For membership details contact the secretary Jim Heck G3WGM
Tel: +44 (0)1258 453959
Email: g3wgm@amsat.org

73 Trevor M5AKA
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