December 17, 2020 If you bought Fox-in-a-Box SD card from the AMSAT store and it has a serial number older than 161 (that is you received it before about December 1, 2020), or if you downloaded the SD card image from this website, there is a newer, better-performing version of FoxTelem with some new features available, including support for Fox-1e. As of December 17, 2020 I have not yet uploaded an image of this version to this website. The AMSAT store SD cards are now shipping this newer version, V1.09n4 and you can upgrade by buying a new card. However, it is also easy to do yourself, either by downloading the new image from this site when it arrives , or just upgrading FoxTelem on your existing SD card. Here are the instructions for upgrading FoxTelem. Notice that these instructions will likely work for future upgrades as well with appropriate changes of version numbers. If you already have FoxTelem V1.09n3, you can follow these instructions, but there is a slightly easier way shown at the end. 1) Download FoxTelem V1.09n5 from http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/linux/FoxTelem_1.09n5_linux.tar.gz You can do this as follows: You may get a notification from the older FoxTelem that there is a new version available with a question about whether you want to download it. Say yes and click on the FoxTelem_1.09n5_linux.tar.gz link when it appears. If you do not see this notification, or if you said "no" when it appeared, go to the "raspberry" menu on your Raspberry Pi, slide down to "Internet" and choose "Chromium Browser". Then type the above URL (internet address) into the top white window of the browser. In either case, the file should download and you will see a rectangle button at the bottom of the browser with the name of the file you just downloaded. Be sure to wait until the download is complete! 2) Extract the folder containing FoxTelem V1.09n5 from the "tarball" archive. Click on the button with the filename, and you should start up the program "Xarchiver" which will show a folder on the screen entitled "FoxTelem_1.09n5_linux" (without .tar.gz). Hit the 'extract' button at the top of the screen (it looks like an empty box with a tag on the side (not the box with the green arrow pointing into it). You will get a file choice dialog. Have it extract the folder to your desktop (type "Desktop" in place of "Downloads" in the text that is there). 3) Edit the startup shell script to point to the new folder. Close the browser and archiver windows. Find "StartFoxTelem" on the desktop. Right click and select Text Editor. About 3 lines from the bottom of the file you are editing, you will see something like: cd /home/pi/Desktop/FoxTelem_1.08z5_linux Change FoxTelem_1.08z5 to FoxTelem_1.09n5_linux. You must get the upper and lower case letters correct when you make this change. Then choose the menu file/save. Then file/quit. 4) Run FoxTelem and allow it to update its properties and spacecraft files. Double click on the newly-edited StartFoxTelem. It will give you a number of choices. Select "Execute". FoxTelem will start and give you several dialog boxes like "Could not read properties" and "New Spacecraft File". In all cases answer yes. You are done. You can reboot your system to be sure it all starts automatically as it did before. There are also updated instructions in the folder you extracted that describe the new features. One important feature is that FoxTelem V1.09n5 can switch between receive bands depending on the current satellite. This is necessary for Fox-1e, which we hope will launch by the end of the year. Note that Fox-1e downlinks at 1200BPS on 70cm and has whole orbit data. Given the limited number of times each whole orbit data record is downlinked, all of your data is especially important for 1E! ========== SPECIAL FOR PEOPLE WHO ALREADY HAVE FoxTelem V1.09n3 and want to upgrade to V1.09n5: In this case, you only need to download FoxTelem.jar to the desktop and drop it into the folder, also on your desktop, named FoxTelem_1.09n3_linux. You will get a message telling you there is already a file of that name there--you say it is ok to overwrite it. You get the new FoxTelem.jar file from the URL http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/test/FoxTelem.jar That's it. If you are OCD about such things like I am, you can change the name of the folder to match the version, but then you also have to edit the StartFoxTelem file to match. 73, Burns WB1FJ