LilacSat-2 telemetry PDU decoder

Recently, I showed my experiences receiving and decoding LilacSat-2 telemetry. I managed to get 15 packets of 4k8 GFSK telemetry and 15 packets of 9k6 BPSK telemetry during a single pass. However, I couldn’t decode these packets because I didn’t know the telemetry format. It turns out that Mike DK3WN has released a decoder software. Here I show Mike’s software decoding the packets I received.

The decodes for my telemetry packets are shown below. Incidentally, the second 9k6 packet I received is the same one as the first packet on Mike’s post showing the telemetry decoder. This is handy, because I can check that I really get the same values as him (and you can see that in the image). A number of telemetry channels don’t seem to be working properly and give invalid data. This seems normal, as the same happens to the data in the telemetry server.

9k6 BPSK telemetry decode
9k6 BPSK telemetry decode
4k8 GFSK telemetry decode
4k8 GFSK telemetry decode

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