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Help us collect data from UWE-2!

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We want to encourage all radio amateurs to send us the received signals from UWE-2. We know the great commitment of the radio community and would like to integrate you into our UWE-2 mission .

UWE-2 is sending regularly beacons which contain housekeeping data, like temperature on-board or solar cell current. When UWE-2 is over Europe it will also be possible to listen to the experiments planned with UWE-2. If you are able to receive the signals from UWE-2, we would be very happy if you could send us the data.

UWE-2 is sending its data over the AX.25 protocol, a digital packet radio protocol. The frequency of UWE-2 is 437.385 MHz, the signals are modulated 1200 baud AFSK. To decode the signals you need a Terminal Node Controller (TNC) for demodulating the signal from the radio, alternatively you can use the soundcard of your PC to record the data, software for decoding from line-in is freely available in the internet (e.g. soundmodem). You can send us the received signals either in a decoded text-file or even better as a recorded sound-file (e.g. .wav). The following TLEs have been issued by NORAD for the launched CubeSats with PSLV-C14. It has not been identified yet which object is UWE-2.

 

2009-051B               
1 35932U 09051B   09270.37166371  .00005219  00000-0  12986-2 0 74
2 35932  98.3348   5.0451 0007473 275.5760  84.4377 14.52123665 599
2009-051C               
1 35933U 09051C   09269.75016994  .00007797  00000-0  19109-2 0 88
2 35933  98.3342   4.4307 0004574 288.0186  72.0499 14.52693268 518
2009-051D               
1 35934U 09051D   09270.71435912  .00003303  00000-0  81574-3 0 76
2 35934  98.3277   5.3821 0005951 295.3450  64.7052 14.52721073 656
2009-051E               
1 35935U 09051E   09269.75149288  .00001930  00000-0  48744-3 0 62
2 35935  98.3414   4.4366 0007021 277.0543  82.9840 14.52119405 505

 

The launch took place on 23rd. September 2009.

Send to uwe2@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de