October 2008 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

ISS Over PY
by Fabio Teixeira Magalhaes 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

I have monitoring ISS over PY Land but nothing received.......... 73 es DX Fabio PY4AJ AMSAT 176748

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SSTV
by P. Thomas Gabel 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

Great photo on 13:17 pass over US. Mode Robot 36 73 N9RPQ

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SSTV ISS 1047AM USA PASS
by Mr Jeffrey L Ross 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

Hi folks, gave it a try, heard three sstv xmissions was not able to get a good pic. will keep trying, heard some voice beforehand, was in digital mode, did not copy. Nice to have all these daytime iss passes here in Michigan. KC8GKF

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SSTV RX from ISS
by Luc Leblanc 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

My 2 first one from ISS signal was Q5 S9+20 at time. I just upload them on the ISS gallery. You can see them too on my web page: www.qsl.net/ve2dwe they are in a zoom format less quality. "-" Luc Leblanc VE2DWE Skype VE2DWE www.qsl.net/ve2dwe WAC BASIC CW PHONE SATELLITE

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SSTV copied
by Tim Tapio 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

Copied both frames on 13:05 pass over FM04. Using base station antenna (low angle patterns). Call on both came through clear with noise. Robot 36, MMSSTV 73 de Tim, K4SHF FM04

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SSTV on Over UK
by David Barber 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

Two nice "out of the window" pictures received this pass (13.33 utc). David G8OQW

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Perfect Robot 36
by Simon (HB9DRV) 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

Perfect reception at 13:32 UTC http://www.ham-radio-deluxe.com/SSTV/tabid/85/Default.aspx Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com

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ISS on Voice over UK & Europe
by David Barber 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

Richard Garriott was on voice over UK and Europe for the 10.14 utc pass. Using a mixture of his own callsign and RS0ISS he made a brief contact with Cor, PD0RKC and the went on to call RK3DZB, the Cosmonaut Training Centre where he spoke with his father. David G8OQW

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Re: "Flea Power" follow up
by John Marranca, Jr 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

Good Stuff! You have to love it when both satellite activities AND QRP are mixed together! When ISS and NO-44 are running, I can hit them both with 500 mW to an Eggbeater. That 300 mW is VERY impressive to say the least. Great work! 73 de John KB2HSH -- _______________________________ John Marranca, Jr PBX Technician/Shop Steward CWA Local 1122 BN Systems, Inc Orchard Park, NY (716)972-2006

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SATPC32 CAT on TS-2000
by Howard Long 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

Folks I am preparing for an ISS contact later this week, and historically we have used SATPC32 to do the Doppler correction. The last contact we did over here in the UK the SATPC32 Doppler correction broke, and despite hours of trying to get it to work again, it failed to work so I resorted to manual Doppler operation if required. A similar thing happened on another contact previous to that one. I now seem to be in the same boat again. After upgrading to 12.8 tonight, I did get it to work, but then in order to make room for another low port COM port for SSTV work I shifted the CAT for SATPC32 up to COM18 and since then I can't get the CAT to work again. I reverted back to COM2, and now on launch SATPC32 says it can't open COM2. If I switch to a COM port of 0, then the error clears but of course I can't use CAT as that disables it. Using sysinternal's Portmon, I can see the rotor serial port opening but no attempt is made to open COM2 or any other port. I can open COM2 (and COM18) using Hyperterminal. Portmon indicates that no other process has the COM ports open. I know you don't really need Doppler for the ISS, but Doppler correction is a prerequisite for ARISS contacts, and I'd like to get it working again. I'm happy to mess around with the .SQFs, if I knew which one(s) to tweak, and which parameter(s) to alter. 73, Howard G6LVB

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