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jmason86 / MinXSS_Beacon_Decoder

Beacon decoder for the MinXSS CubeSat in space; MinXSS-2 launch on 2018-11-19
http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/minxss
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MinXSS-2 Sample Packets? #20

Open K4KDR opened 5 years ago

K4KDR commented 5 years ago

It would be very helpful if a .WAV file of sample MinXSS-2 packets could be provided so that we could verify the proper function of the new decoder.

Thanks!

-Scott, K4KDR

jmason86 commented 5 years ago

The beacon decoder doesn't handle demodulation -- it's up to the SDR or TNC to do that. There is however a new function: tests/test_send_tcpip_packets.py to do just that. The top of that code lists the steps for how to perform the test.

K4KDR commented 5 years ago

Thank you! test_send_tcpip_packets.py works very well.

However, to maximize participation from the Amateur Community, it would be very helpful if a simple audio .WAV file of valid MinXSS-2 packets could be provided so that the end-user could verify that his entire decoding chain was functioning properly before the last second when MinXSS-2 is deployed.

A short time ago I tested my direwolf > minxss_beacon_decoder connection with an old MinXSS-1 recording, but it would be nice to confirm that I am decoding MinXSS-2 packets correctly.

Thanks!

jmason86 commented 5 years ago

Ah I see. I don't have one on hand and we don't presently have a way to record audio with our custom SDR software, but it is one of the features on the list that we plan to have ready before launch. Once that's up, I can definitely share the .WAV file in this repo that'll include data from our FlatSat running the same software as MinXSS-2. That would be a good test to do.