Ground station questions

Summary:

At the Inter American University of Puerto Rico, we are building a ground station, and we have some general questions.

Ground station questions

jtrinidadperez 12 Nov 2009 21:46

I am a student of the Inter American University of Puerto Rico. We are designing a ground station at our campus. We have already built an antenna for UHF and we also have a transceiver. I was just wondering how can I read and interpret data from a passing cubesat? Do I need a TNC, or can software in a computer do the job? Also, what software do we need to read the data? I am currently using Ubuntu, if thats any help. I would appreciate any information.

Pablo (guest) 10 Feb 2011 01:45

You just need a receiver (ham radio transceiver) a PC, a sound card and some free software able to decode the AFSK signals sent by cubesats from orbit. There is no need of any TNC.

At the following link you can find the story of a guy who knew nearly nothing about electronics, did a lot of mistakes bu finally succeeded in transmitting data between two transceivers intended to be used for a cubesat project:
http://cubesat.ifastnet.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=104

Re: Ground station questions

(account deleted) 16 Apr 2011 01:34

You just need a receiver (ham radio transceiver) a PC, a sound card and some free software able to decode the AFSK signals sent by cubesats from orbit. There is no need of any TNC.

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