December 2010
1 post
Merry X-Mas Everyone!
Hello Everybody!
I wish everybody a merry christmas and a happy new year!
COMPASS-1 was recoverd last week so it lasts further for several months :-)
We all hope COMPASS-1 being well around christmas and new year and all listeners too. Many greets from the COMPASS Team. We wish yo all the Best!
Felix
DO3FKA
November 2009
1 post
11. November 2009
Hey Folks!
Today I (hopefully) finished my failure search on the antennas. I found out, that the T-Connector to connect both 2m antennas is damaged on an electrical way, nothing to see from the outside. I’m happy that I found the bug in the system. Now I have to wait for a new part and than I can hopefully go back on air.
73 Felix
DO3FKA
October 2009
13 posts
27. October 2009
The antenna problem still won’t let me sleep at night. One month ago I thought I finished all on the electrical part of the Radio-Antenna system. One week ago now, I finished my rebuilding on the winch to pull the antennas back in the air. Everything seemed fine, the winch was working great with the new winchline and at the end of the day I tracked Compass-1 ! Nice o hear the sound...
26. April 2009
We are happy to announce three DTMF commands to the whole community in order to say THANK YOU.
Uplink frequency: 145.980 MHz FM, DTMF tones
These are as follows:
**35## - request a test beacon CW **36## - request a test packet 1k2 AFSK FM (UI-Frame) **60## - request a housekeeping frame in 1k2 AFSK FM (KISS frame) See here for COMPASS decoding software...
3. April 2009
CONGRATS to the 5000th Orbit At April 1st at 01:05 AM UTC COMPASS 1 has reached its 5000th orbit. That is more than 220.1 million kilometres! Light needs for that distance more than 12 minutes and 13.6 seconds which is more that the distance between earth and sun. And by the way the health of the satellite is well :-) Compass 1 has been launched almost 1 year ago and we have less than a...
22. December 2008
Here are the hams which have made COMPASS-1 to a successful mission. This is a teamwork around the globe.
HAM RADIO Mission Control TEAM
Every single ham was important for the mission. So, thanks to all
73
21. December 2008
COMPASS ONE is still in a good condition. The battery voltage is good, the solar panels deliver enough power. All Systems are working well.
I would like to thank all members of COMPASS ONE for this great and important year. The development, the mission control, the students who have helped the team and last but not least the hams world wide who have supported us ...
3. December 2008
A new program for decoding the Beacon Data is uploaded yet! So please use this new program, it also has the function of Beacon storage :-)
The program can be found on Mike Rupprechts homepage http://www.dk3wn.info/
30. November 2008
Hey Folks! We are sorry about not updating our homepage all the time!
But I want to let you know, that our QSL cards are here :-) fresh off the press!
So if I find time the next month, I will complete our little packet and will send it to all HAM’s who already send us a QSL card or wrote us an e-Mail.
So again may thanks to all people helping us, especially Mike ...
12. November 2008
We have successfully downloaded a couple of picture from the satellite.
Unfortunately the brightness from the earth is to high.
Some pictures are black, because COMPASS is still rotating.
Currently we are trying to fix the problem.
Extended housekeeping data have also been successfully downloaded.
73 de Kevin DG9KK
16. October 2008
We have successfully changed COMPASS into high speed mode. We are now operating with 4k8 MSK.
Many thanks to Alan (ZL2BX) and Bob (W1ICW) of course Mike (DK3WN) for this unbelievable help and support. WE ARE PROUD TO KNOW YOU.
In behalf of the whole COMPASS ONE Team! Kevin Kunz, DG9KK
10. September 2008
Since now we have changed successfully into nominal mode.
We appreciate your support. Thx!
We receive housekeeping data via the downlink frequency 437.405 Mhz as well.
We are deeply grateful to all hams worldwide who helped us so far. You have delivered a quick and solid work. Absolutely Great!!
73 and 55
DG9KK, Kevin Kunz
September 2009
4 posts
16. August 2008
The recent events are dramatically. Our two ground stations are almost inoperable and thus our yet only way to interact with COMPASS-1 is through the tremendous support of DK3WN (http://www.dk3wn.info), who is generously helping us with the mission operations.
A few days ago however, a hard-reset of the satellite had occurred, which brought the satellite back into the following...
20. May 2008
The first two weeks after launch were an extremely busy time for us, as we needed to make the critical adjustments of the satellites threshold parameters in order to adapt it to the space environment. This acquisition phase is now officially finished and the mission operation will go into the testing phase, where we will download system and mission data through the Ax.25 packet...
28. April 2008
The launch was successful! All satellites have been deployed and confirmed!
COMPASS-1 has been heard! The beacon (437.275MHz) is now being analyzed.
Note: We are ‘sharing’ the frequency with the Cute 1.7 CubeSat. Therefore there are two beacons on that band.
We are busy to decode and interpret the beacon data. We are very thankful to hams around the world who are...
21. April 2008
The launch date is scheduled for April 28, 2008 03:53 UTC. Further details regarding the launch will follow soon.