O/OREOS Amateur Radio satellite beacon

Samudra, N3RDX, provides information on the satellite O/OREOS Amateur Radio satellite beacon which will be on 437.305MHz from this Saturday UT.

On the AMSAT bulletin board he writes:

I have been requested to spread the word to the amateur radio community for the O/OREOS 3U cubesat to be launched this Friday [AST] on a Minotaur IV from Kodiak Island, relayed from Dr. Pascale Ehrenfreund of The George Washington University, Space Policy Institute.

AX.25 437.305 MHz Beacon decoding information:
http://beacon.engr.scu.edu/BeaconProcessingSystem/
OOREOSBeaconDecoding.pdf

If you are able to capture the beacon telemetry, please take the time to file a report at http://beacon.engr.scu.edu/Submission.aspx which is an interface to the Beacon Data Processing System.

The O/OREOS project is co-sponsored by Santa Clara University, Ohlone College and NASA

Note the same system is used for reporting beacon data from GeneSat, PharmaSat and NanoSail-D.

73 de
Samudra Haque, N3RDX

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

Amateur radio operators - help track the FASTRAC satellites
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/november2010/
fastrac_tracking.htm

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