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The first communication session at the MSU FSR has been completed!

Well, friends, with the beginning of a warm, truly spring week! And today we tested our portable reception point📡.

The antenna and the SDR modem have been waiting a long time, believing in people... And now it's time for work!
Today was the first full-time reception of target information :) We worked out as many as three satellites (Nanozond and NOAA-18,19), took a piece of a photo, found out where there is high noise in the vicinity, and at the same time walked around the MSU Main Building 📡.
Astrodynamics 🕵️‍♂️ — our hands are not for boredom!
Here it is, the plan of action! The satellite is already in sight, now we're catching it!
Shhh, don't scare the fish signal away!
The Nanozond carrier frequency has gone!
The radio is noisy, the signal spectrum is pulsating. You need it!
Tracking the satellite!
The NOAA-18 signal is coming!
Noises, noises... but a piece of the photo is accepted! So, basically everything works, you just need a simple Soviet...