Ivo, any luck?
Hi Thomas,
Nope. We just had another pass of Norsat 2. I installed ‘gpredict’ and configured ‘Norsat 2’ to actually see when the satellite is passing overhead. But so far my receiver is not picking up the LoRa signal from space.
When will the transmissions stop? As soon as the TTN conference is over? I like the challenge, but my setup needs some more tweaking I am afraid.
Cheers, Ivo
It stops tonight 0.00 UTC, so 1.00 Amsterdam time. Even though Stuart has won the prize, still nice to try! (Next pass around 13.35 Amsterdam time.)
@LoRaTracker, congrats on the prize!
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N2YO is showing passes at 22:41, which will be low in the sky for London/Amsterdam, and 00:17 over Ireland, which is technically tomorrow. Where are you getting 13:35 from?
1 minute!
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What did he win? The telex printer used during the conference? 
The previous one was very short…
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Telex has captured a few packets just now.
It’s mid Atlantic at the moment, about 5 degrees off the horizon. Is that receivable?
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Ack. Last pass starts at 23:35:06 CET.
There is a low elevation pass at 22:03 as well (2.3 degrees above the horizon).
Unfortunately I did not.
I have a nice node to play with when I get home.
I will post the receiver code at some point, it can be useful to have a simple receiver that can easily configured for different LoRa and frequency settings and can log packets as ASCII and hex to terminal and SD card. The code should run on most Arduino platforms.
We now know that LoRa can be received from low earth orbit with very simple ground based equipment.
And thanks to Thomas for such an interesting challenge.
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Last message was received in Delft last night (1 degree elevation):
TTNSAT-1 2018-02-03 22:47:55.864 goodbye!
It was great, thanks all for your enthusiasm!
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Thanks for the challenge Thomas,
I attempted to receive the messages from space. Unfortunately I received nothing with my setup. Probably my antenna setup was too simple. I colocated an aircraft antenna (120 - 140MHz) with the TTN node on the balcony. So wrong frequency and probably also wrong polarization. I did not have time to create a more sophisticated setup. You know… busy busy,…, but it was fun to try! 
It would be difficult to come up with a matching challenge for a next TTN event.
Cheers, Ivo
BTW, what was satellite’s TX power?
BTW for those of us not at the Conf what was the ‘secret message’? (Just curious!)
The message is in the video, but the code is masked there:
The xxxxxx showed some numerical code during Thomas’ presentation, either accidentally or on purpose, at which point the challenge kind of ended 
Hopefully next year Thomas’ / http://www.lacuna.space/get-involved/ has launched at least one satellite with the LoRa stuff. No pressure, @telkamp 
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26dBm into an approx 6dBm gain antenna I believe.
Anyway just off to the Flying Dutchman near Amsterdam Central station for a ‘few’ beers.
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Well done! I couldn’t find the story behind it… Did this satellite use some sort of software-LoRa on an already present radio transmitter?
At the beginning of this thread:
It was an interesting experiment. I tried to receive it a couple of times with an RFM96W/433 module (from London) but no luck. I didn’t really expect it to work but wanted to try anyway 