Happy Birthday Compass-1

The Amateur Radio satellite Compass-1, designed and built by students at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences in Germany, celebrates its first year in space on April 28.

On the AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) Mike Rupprecht DK3WN writes:

In two days we will celebrate the first anniversary of COMPASS-1.

We are happy to announce three DTMF commands to the whole community in order to say THANK YOU.

Uplink frequency: 145.980 MHz FM, DTMF tones
These are as follows:

**35## - request a test beacon CW
**36## - request a test packet 1k2 AFSK FM (UI-Frame)
**60## - request a housekeeping frame in 1k2 AFSK FM (KISS frame)

Every command will be confirmed with a short "beep" on the CW frequency.

* frequency for CW beacon is 437.275 MHz
* frequency for packet radio is 437.405 MHz

See here for COMPASS decoding software http://www.dk3wn.info/software.shtml

We'd be happy if you send us your received data to
compass1cubesat@googlemail.com

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask us.

Have much fun, 73 and thank you !

Kevin, DG9KK
Mike, DK3WN

April 2008 - Ten new satellites in orbit
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/april2008/
10_new_satellites_in_orbit.htm

Sep 2008 - Worldwide Amateur Radio effort saves COMPASS cubesat
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/september2008/
compass_cubesat_saved.htm

AMSAT Bulletin Board AMSAT-BB
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/maillist/