GROUND STATION FOR SATELLITE COMMUNICATION

Student satellite Club-Parikrama has successfully established the ground station at the Don Bosco College of Engineering. The developed Ground station could receive the data from the NOAA satellite on 9^th April 22 at pass time 2.55 pm. The entire ground station setup is designed and developed in the campus by the active members of the club.

This project consists of Antenna, SDR, WXtoImg and SDR sharp software installed in the laptop in such way that is possible to visualize the each pass of the satellites exactly over the ground receiving station.

WXtoImg is a free weather satellite decoding program which can decode the Automatic Picture Transmission (APT) signal received from low earth orbit satellites that is integrated with SDR sharp. The exact pass of the satellites is found from the heavens above app and the signal is received to the SDR sharp from antenna and SDR dongle connected to our personal computer. Once the pass is over, the received signal is plotted using decoding software which gave weather report. Antenna used here is handmade crossed Yagi antenna. The entire project is guided by Prof. Mohini Naik- PI of the satellite club. This project received motivation from PI & Head of ETC Department, Dr. Varsha Turkar.  

Rev. Fr. Kinley D’cruz, Director and Dr. Neena S.P. Panandikar, Principal of Don Bosco College of Engineering, encouraged ground station team to achieve more mile stones in the space technology.

Parikrama satellite club of the Don Bosco College of Engineering always takes the initiatives to explore in research, and innovation along with the all-round development of the students to make future ready.

Parikrama team appeared for the HAM radio exam in February 2021. There were total of 40 student’s registrations from Goa and Maharashtra. The examination was conducted by Shri Nalnish Srivastava, Wireless Monitoring station officer from Bhopal and his team from WMS Goa. 6 of the team members are licensed HAM Radio operators.