Researchers are reaching out to the amateur radio community to listen for CW signals from a CubeSat built in Tokyo.

The Sakamoto Laboratory in Tokyo, Japan, is asking for the continued support of the amateur radio community for its ARICA-2 CubeSat. The 2U CubeSat, launched from New Zealand in late April, has been transmitting CW signals to the laboratory and is relying on the amateur community as well to send reports. The CW data is sent at 20 wpm on 436.830 MHz.

At some point, GMSK transmissions will also commence and will be announced by the satellite team on the social media platform "X" and through the AMSAT bulletin board. The satellite will use 4,800 GMSK in AX25 format.

ARICA-2 also has a mission unrelated to amateur radio: Its function is to collect images of the Earth and aurora using machine learning, and to demonstrate real-time alerts of gamma-ray bursts and other astronomical events using commercial satellite services.

CW reception reports can be submitted using the link that appears in the text version of this week's newscast at arnewsline.org

More Information - https://sakamotolab.phys.aoyama.ac.jp/research/future_space/ARICA-2_en/cw_beacon