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Using Orbitron Satellite Tracking

written by: Michael Paul MacKillip
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posted on: Jan 01, 2017



This article will cover using the Orbitron Satellite Tracking Software with your mobile amatuer radio setup. You will need an amatuer radio license from the FCC to use and operate this setup.


Orbitron Features include:

- AMSAT and ISS communications position tracking.

- Realtime Azimuth and Elevation Information

- Uplink and Downlink Doppler information.

- Realtime Rotor Control coordinates.

- For use with and HT and Yagi antenna.



Communications Satellites *


Links to information about two-way communications satellites carrying repeaters, transponders, and digipeaters can be found here.

FM Repeater Satellites

(Click here for frequency chart, follow links below for satellite details)

SO-50 (SaudiSat 1-C)
AO-85 (Fox-1A)
LilacSat-2 (CAS-3H) Transponder activations sporadic
Transponder Satellites

(Click here for frequency chart, follow links for satellite details)

AO-7
FO-29 (JAS-2)
AO-73 (FUNcube-1)
XW-2A (CAS-3A)
XW-2B (CAS-3B)
XW-2C (CAS-3C)
XW-2D (CAS-3D)
XW-2F (CAS-3F)
EO-79 (QB50p1 and FUNcube-3)
UKube-1
LO-87 (LUSEX-OSCAR 87) Transponder active over Europe and Latin America
Digital Satellites

NO-44 (PCsat)
NO-84 (PSAT)
ISS Frequency Summary (note: 1200 baud packet on 437.550 MHz currently)



* http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=177

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