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.
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?
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.
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.
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