filipsPL / autowx2

The program for scheduling recordings and processing of the satellite and ground radio transmissions (like capturing of the weather APT images from NOAA satellites, voice messages from ISS, fixed time recordings of WeatherFaxes etc.) :earth_africa: :satellite:

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Tested same record config as NOAA

SA7BNT opened this issue · comments

Hey,
i should recommend to use the same recording config (noaa.sh) for ISS record.
Tested in the morning and was a working great.
20181029-0542_ISS-SSTV.mp3.zip
iss1

Congratulations on the nice SSTV image! 👍

I don't fully understand what config do you mean? Could you please send the config you used for that?
Which software did you use for the mp3 to image conversion?

I was just running the noaa.sh instead of the iss_voice.sh in the autowx2_config.py
See pic below
I did not convert to MP3. Took the wav from the noaa rec. map and run it in Multiscan 3B SSTV
https://www.qsl.net/kd6cji/
Was working absolutely great for me.

bildschirmfoto 2018-10-29 um 14 49 53

bildschirmfoto 2018-10-29 um 14 51 16
Unfortunately I live too far in the north and did not have a good elevation angle.
Here is one more ok pic. with ca 20 degree elevation.
iss2

Ok, so then it depends on what you are trying to achieve. For recording of voice transmission, I would stay with mp3. For further decoding, like SSTV, wav is better. I will try to modify iss.sh to give these two options.

Fixed in 9abe2d9. Now there is an option in iss_voice.sh to select mp3 or wav destination. Please test! 🔧

I have decided to do it another way: there are two separate modules:

  • for recording wav file
  • for recording mp3

and it is configured on the level of autowx2_conf.py.

changed in d22d4bc