The Funcube Dongle receiving the CW becon of the CUTE-1.7 + APDII (CO-65) cubesat. Reception done at OZ7SAT using an 8 element Wimo X-yagi and Quisk software defined radio on Ubuntu Linux. According to the website the CW beacon transmit with 100mW RF: http://lss.mes.titech.ac.jp/ssp/cute1.7/subsystem_comm_e.html
The Funcube Dongle is USB-memory sized software defined radio receiver for 60 MHz - 1.7 GHz. It provides a 96 ksps I/Q stream via USB audio interface and uses USB HID for control protocol, thus no special drivers are required.
More info: http://www.funcubedongle.com/
Recorded by Alexandru Csete OZ9AEC
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