Floating Buoy via Satellite Experiment
Remote Sensing Experiments Via Satellite:
While PCSAT2 and PCSAT-1 are jointly operating in constellation providing
at least 12 passes per day on 145.825, we are experimenting with our next
Amateur Satellite Project for remote environmental sensing. We have placed
a buoy design with the callsign of W3ADO-4 in operation.
It beacons environmental telemetry data once every 3 minutes at 5W via
either of the PCSAT's. We hope to find what beacon rate will give us a
reasonable probability of getting a few successful packets per day.
See:http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/buoy.html
See the picture of the blue bucket on the roof. This is a spinoff of
one of our LABsat experiments our students are working on. They experiment
with our satellite designs using what we call LABsats, which we use in
our satellite labs: http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/labsats.html
By having a dedicated channel for such uplinks, in the Amateur Satellite
Service and in the future and on multiple satellites, we hope this will
encourage student projects and involvement in space and amateur satellites.
Bob Bruninga, WB4APR
US Naval Academy Satellite Lab
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