JUNGU received by N8MH on an AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle SDR

Radio Amateurs have been reporting good signals on 437.425 MHz and 437.275 MHz from the new Amateur Radio satellites SRMSAT and JUGNU.

Unfortunately due to the 20 degree inclination of the orbit hams in the United Kingdom are unable to hear them.

Mark Hammond N8MH reports on the FUNcube Yahoo group that he has been using his AMSAT-UK FUNcube dongle Software Defined Radio to receive signals from JUGNU.

Watch the lift off of SRMSAt and JUGNU on the PSLV-C18 launcher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRGTCJmJnLY

Information on how to decode the telemetry from SRMSAT can be found at
http://srmsat.in/srmvu.html

JUGNU 437.275 MHz reports should be sent to
wmy@isac.gov.in
shantag@iitk.ac.in

SRMSAT 437.425 MHz reports should be sent to KC2YQJ <at> arrl.net

The Hindu launch report http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2530847.ece

JUGNU in The Economic Times
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/IIT-students-satellite-Jugnu-to-be-launched-into-space/articleshow/10325537.cms

AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/maillist/

Join the FUNcube Yahoo Group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUNcube/

Amateur Radio satellites SRMSAT and Jugnu launched Wednesday, Oct 12 at 05:32 UT and hams are asked to send in reception reports of the signals on 437.275 MHz and 437.425 MHz. A video of the launch can be seen at http://www.isro.org/pslv-c18-video.aspx

These satellites were launched into a 20 degree inclination orbit so are not receiveable in high latitude countries such as the United Kingdom. See http://www.pe0sat.vgnet.nl/2011/unable-to-receive-srmsat/

On the AMSAT bulletin board Mani, VU2WMY, writes

I’m herewith forwarding the mail from Mr. Shantanu Agarwal, Team Lead for the ‘Jugnu’, requesting the Global Amateur Radio fraternity to provide the CW Beacon signal Report along with the plain decoded morse message, if possible.

Any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated, as this would be very helpful to evaluate various on-board system performance.

‘Jugnu’ beacon is at 437.275 MHz, OOK.

The reports can be sent to the following mail ID.s
wmy@isac.gov.in
shantag@iitk.ac.in

The predicted TLE’s:

JNU
1 99999U 11072A   11285.24724444  .00001785  00000-0  96625-3 0  1235
2 99999  20.0506  66.7109 0018405   5.1080 190.7439 14.11338922    19
SRM
1 88888U 11072A   11278.34967500  .00001077  00000-0  60876-3 0  1233
2 88888  20.0603  97.4017 0010015 338.6461 208.4324 14.09199968    14

Thanks in advance and looking forward to your valuable reports.

Additional SRMSAT Information:
Telemetry downlink and CW beacon: 437.425 MHz (10 dbm)
Keps file: http://dinesh.cyanam.net/dl/SRMSAT_TLEs.txt
Website: http://srmsat.in/
Send SRMSAT reports to KC2YQJ <at> arrl.net

AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/maillist/

Getting started on Amateur Radio Satellites PDF http://www.uk.amsat.org/2011/05/09/getting-started-on-amateur-radio-satellites/

SRMSAT and JUGNU to launch October 12 http://www.uk.amsat.org/2011/10/04/srmsat-and-jugnu-to-launch-october-12/