 SERACC
amateur radio software for SSETI Express just released!
The SSETI Express Mission team are delighted to be able to announce
the release today of the SERACC software. This will be needed by radio
amateurs to decode the telemetry and payload data from “SSETI1”
and to submit it to the main SSETI Express central database.
Thanks to the efforts of Karl Kaas Laursen from the OBC team in Denmark
and of the TDBI team based in France, the software can now be downloaded
from the Mission Operations Website at:
http://sseti.gte.tuwien.ac.at/express/mop/index.php?uri=downloads.html
Two audio test files, suitable for feeding into a 9k6 TNC are also available
from that page. (Please note they are quite large!)
As is always the case, it is important to read the “User Manual”
before starting to use the software..
In this regard please go to the TDBI site and enter your details here
FIRST. It is especially critical that you register the details with your
Login, Name, and Callsign at the TDBI (Telemetry Database Interface) website,
which
is available via http://www.sseti.org/express
at the 'Telemetry Interface' tab, with exactly the same details
that you subsequently enter in the “vitals” screen in SERACC.
This is important because someone else may have already registered a
particular Login name. This data will be embedded by SERACC into the telemetry
submissions that you make to the TDBI to ensure that they are correctly
recorded in the competition entries "logbook".
So please register with TDBI, download SERACC, read the User Manual,
and practise using SERACC with the audio files provided.
If, having read the User Manual carefully(!) and also having reviewed
the general support information provided on the Mission webpages, you
have any questions – please email me and I will try to redirect
them to the responsible/capable person.
Presently we are aware that the tracking map and predictions are still
suffering from some functionality disorders, so please give the team a
few more hours to fix those particular features.
As at 16:20 23rd October 2005, the four other satellites have already
been integrated onto the launch adaptor and lift-off is still scheduled
for 06:52:26 UTC on Thursday 27th October so hopefully only a few more
hours of finger crossing are required – thanks!
73
Graham
UA/G3VZV – Plesetsk
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