PCSAT2 Telemetry

The PCSat2 team sends a, 'Thank You!' to all of the AMSAT and APRS stations feeding science and telemetry data from 437.975 to the APRS-IS. This data feeds the live telemetry page and lets everyone see how the spacecraft is doing around the world: http://www.pcsat2.info

We do, of course, need more stations feeding telemetry, especially from those stations in unusual footprints such as Hawaii and remote areas of the USA, Europe and down-under. More stations capable of receiving and forwarding 9600 baud data would be especially helpful.

The PCSat2 telemetry team plans to write-up a set of turn-key instructions on how to set up a satgate so that others not familiar with APRS can easily join this satgate network. In the interim, stations that wish to experiment and learn can begin using any version of APRS or download the stand-alone ALOGGER 2.02 program from http://www.billdiaz.dynip.com/.

To set up a satgate, just tune a radio and TNC to one of these channels:

437.975 9600 bd for PCSAT2 data
437.975 1200 bd for PCSAT2 telemetry
145.800 for ARISS packet data
145.825 for the original PCsat

You will need to run your favorite APRS software and connect to satgate.aprsca.net:10150. ALOGGER, mentioned previously now has serial port support for a TNC as a satgate monitoring station.

For the overall PCSAT2 Operations system, see
http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/pec/pc2ops.html

[ANS thanks Bob, WB4APR and the U.S. Naval Academy Satellite Lab for the above information.]

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