{"id":38426,"date":"2019-07-08T06:57:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T10:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=38426"},"modified":"2019-07-08T06:57:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T10:57:18","slug":"tips-on-receiving-lightsail-2-telemetry-and-cw-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/tips-on-receiving-lightsail-2-telemetry-and-cw-id\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips on receiving Lightsail 2 telemetry and CW ID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lightsail2-cubesat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38358\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lightsail2-cubesat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lightsail2-cubesat.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lightsail2-cubesat-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lightsail2-cubesat-768x354.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lightsail2-cubesat-624x288.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Grayhat, who shares the following update to <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/lightsail-2-to-transmit-morse-code-id-on-437-025-mhz\/\">our post regarding the Lightsail 2<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some updates about the micro-satellite; first of all, sounds like it may be possible to receive the satellite CW beacon and FSK telemetry data using an SDR and a 70cm Yagi antenna, at least according to what is reported at the RTL-SDR website:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"2FIGsIcl9r\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtl-sdr.com\/solar-sail-satellite-lightsail-2-now-transmitting-morse-code-beacon\/\">Solar Sail Satellite Lightsail-2 Now Transmitting Morse Code Beacon<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Solar Sail Satellite Lightsail-2 Now Transmitting Morse Code Beacon&#8221; &#8212; rtl-sdr.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rtl-sdr.com\/solar-sail-satellite-lightsail-2-now-transmitting-morse-code-beacon\/embed\/#?secret=n3AYy0ZENK#?secret=2FIGsIcl9r\" data-secret=\"2FIGsIcl9r\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtl-sdr.com\/solar-sail-satellite-lightsail-2-now-transmitting-morse-code-beacon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, one will also need to be between 42\u00b0 and -42\u00b0 latitude to have some hope to pick up the satellite signal; also, the satellite now got a different NORAD ID (44339) so the N2YO tracking URL is now:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.n2yo.com\/?s=44339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.n2yo.com\/?s=44339<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The above may be useful to track the satellite and know when to attempt receiving its signals, other than that, the mission is proceeding well and the &#8220;mission dashboard&#8221; is now active:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/explore\/projects\/lightsail-solar-sailing\/lightsail-mission-control.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/explore\/projects\/lightsail-solar-sailing\/lightsail-mission-control.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only missing bit for hams willing to track the satellite status is a piece of software to decode the telemetry data, whose format is publicly available:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/projects\/lightsail\/manuals\/ls2-beacon-info-v01.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/projects\/lightsail\/manuals\/ls2-beacon-info-v01.txt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, given that, once the satellite will deploy the solar sail, its orbit will change, I think that it would be a good idea attempting to receive it now, since later on, it may become more difficult.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank you sharing these tips, Grayhat. I will attempt to receive the CW signal from Lightsail 2. I do miss one crucial element: the 70cm yagi. I&#8217;m willing to bet I know a local radio friend that has one, though!<\/p>\n<p>If you successfully receive the CW ID or telemetry data from Lightsail 2, please comment and share your results here. A video or audio recording would be wonderful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Grayhat, who shares the following update to our post regarding the Lightsail 2: Some updates about the micro-satellite; first of all, sounds like it may be possible to receive the satellite CW beacon and FSK telemetry data using an SDR and a 70cm Yagi antenna, at least according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[90,7880,7869],"class_list":["post-38426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cw","tag-grayhat","tag-lightsail-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9ZM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38356,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/lightsail-2-to-transmit-morse-code-id-on-437-025-mhz\/","url_meta":{"origin":38426,"position":0},"title":"LightSail 2 to transmit Morse Code ID on 437.025 MHz","author":"Thomas","date":"July 1, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Southgate ARC and ARRL) The Planetary Society's\u00a0LightSail 2\u00a0CubeSat, launched on June 25, will transmit Morse code from space. 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