Hunting Satellite Telemetry

There are lots of satellites being launched. A lot of them from univerities and amateur radio clubs. These projects don’t often have the big budget having ground stations all over the world. A fun activity for amateur radio satellite enthusiasts is to track these satellites and receive and decode the telemetry from them.

Tutorials:

• Satellite Telemetry Tracking/Decoding Part 1
  • Introduction
  • Requirements
  • Setup
    • Virtual Audio Cable
    • SDR Receiver
    • HS SoundModem
    • Gpredict
  • Showtime
  • What is next ?

Resources

This is a fairly wide topic and this document will be expanded over time with information, but for now here are some interesting links to get you going

Website	Notes
Twitter List of Satellite Telemetry Hunters	People actively decoding telemetry and posting results
PE0SAT Website	Lots of information regarding software and telemetry decoding
DK3WN Satblog	Lots of information regarding software and telemetry decoding. Mike also develops various software for receiving and decoding satellite signals.
gr-satellites	A library with GNU Radio modules for decoding various different Amateur Satellites by Daniel Estevez (EA4GPZ)
EA4GPZ Blog	Lots of satellite information
SoundModem Website	Software Packet Radio TNC, used for decoding many satellite signals