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DTLM program Q&A
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Q1. I am very impressive about your achievement of decoding the
    telemetry data of uo-12 with DTLM. Now how can I do the same
    thing with UO22 and KO25 since I cannot find out the CFG files
    of these two satellite in order to decode with DTLM anywhere.

A1. Uo5tlm.cfg  for UO-22
    Kitsat1.cfg for KO-23
    Kitsat2.cfg for KO-25 are in wisp-tlm.zip on the following web;
    http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/CSER/UOSAT/amateur/software/wisp.html

    Tmsat1.cfg  for TO-31 is on the following web;
    http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/CSER/UOSAT/amateur/tmsat/

    Uo12obc.cfg for UO-36 is in uo12tlm.zip on the following web;
    http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/CSER/UOSAT/amateur/uosat-12/

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Q2. Where is WiSP32 program ?

A2. Updated wisp3212.exe program is on the following web;
    ftp://ftp.amsat.org/amsat/software/win32/wisp/
    http://www.jamsat.or.jp/anonftp/software/
    http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/

    You can receive a KISS and TLM data from the satellite by WiSP32.

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Q3. Where is DTLM program ?

A3. Updated dtlm.exe program is in uo12tlm.zip on the following web;
    http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/CSER/UOSAT/amateur/uosat-12/

    Command example for TO-31  >dtlm /f tmsat1 /r 99051801.tlm /mp
    Command example for UO-36  >dtlm /f uo12obc /r 99042300.kss /mc

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Q4. I have find out that it is very difficult to download a images
    from the 9600 birds. Can you shell your precious experience
    about image downloading ?

A4. I'm downloading always a large size file at AOS or LOS when
    the satellite is on the Pacific Ocean.

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Q5. What program did you use to create the graphs ?

A5. I plot by hand from the DTLM decoded data. You can dump
    to the 'Spool.tlm' log file immediately by Pause_key and
    D_key double presses.

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Q6. But the strange is that it has NO KSS or TLM files in the 
    wisp's uo36 directory at all after the uo36 had passed away.

A6. I can have the KSS files in the own wisp's UO-36 directory.
    Please check up you the following GSC_Setup.

      GSC - Setup - Satellite Setup - Edit - MSPE Settings
                    - Log KISS frames & Log Telemetry frames

    You will get the KSS and TLM files from KO-25, TO-31 etc,
    but you can get a KSS file only from UO-36 for some reasons.

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Q7. What is the difference between tlm and kss files?

A7. KSS file contains all S,U,I frames in AX25. and TLM file is
    only telemetry frames in KSS file.

    I introduce here to you a 'kiss2asc.exe' program that
    convert KISS data into ASCII data.
    ftp://ftp.amsat.org/amsat/software/PC/kiss/kiss2asc.zip

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Q8. They seem to be almost identical after decoding.

A8. Yes, DTLM program decode identically it from both KSS and
    TLM datas.


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Name : JE9PEL/Mineo Wakita
Mail : je9pel@jamsat.or.jp
URL  : http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/
QTH  : Yokohama Japan,  GL:PM95TJ
Date : May 25, 1999
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