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Bad link
by Luc Leblanc 16 May '09

16 May '09

Sorry Bad link on my previous message copy paste this one instead. http://r- onetrading.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&product_id=281&category_… 16 "-" Luc Leblanc VE2DWE Skype VE2DWE www.qsl.net/ve2dwe WAC BASIC CW PHONE SATELLITE

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Re: Dayton demos
by Andrew Glasbrenner 15 May '09

15 May '09

I picked up one of the 100 that Alinco released this morning. I'll put together a review as soon as I get home. 73, Drew KO4MA > Hello Drew, > > Any word on the Alinco HT that will do full duplex 2M/70cm ?? >

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Atlantis and Hubble Photo
by Clint BRADFORD 15 May '09

15 May '09

An incredible shot of Atlantis and Hubble - with the Sun as their backdrop ... http://www.astrosurf.com/legault/atlantis_hst_transit.html

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Rig Ttracking
by Howard Kowall 15 May '09

15 May '09

I just might see if I can make a pic module to go from one transceiver to the other and would be able to be programmed to be able to send cat info back and fourth to each transceiver so it would be able to track the Doppler offset,and just with a selector switch pick your programed sat and one rig would follow the other Howard VE4ISP

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How do you do that?
by Jerry Felts 15 May '09

15 May '09

Reading Howard's post about gtting his rig to follow each other. I use a FT-857D for the uplink TX, and my FT-817 for the downlink. Wondering how you get them to follow ech other? That would sure be easier than what I do now. I'm a newbie and I'm having mixed results. For the FM birds I just use my FT-60R and Elk antenna. -- Jerry - NR5A - South Dakota www.freewebs.com/nr5a http://nr5abikeblog.blogspot.com/ http://nr5abeaconblog.blogspot.com/

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uni_trac keps
by Gerry 15 May '09

15 May '09

Hope someone can help.Have been wintering in Arizona for past five months and upon my return cannot seem to find a set of keps that will work, my old system cleaning out the + and - etc now fails me . Have I missed something, has there been a change?? 73 Gerry VE4GTB/KD7MDB

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Re: Satpc32 with 2 Transceivers
by Bill Dzurilla 15 May '09

15 May '09

Howard, With Erich's kind help, I was able to get SatPC32 working last week with 2 transceivers. I had a similar problem with the SSB sats at first. I could not hear my downlink while the program was controlling the frequencies on the 2 rigs. It turned out that the issue was that the default settings for some of the birds was off (either because my rigs are off calibration or because the frequency on the sat's transponder drifted since Erich wrote Doppler.SQF). The fix is not difficult. With the program controlling the rigs, and with the satellite near to its maximum elevation on a pass, tune to a clear downlink frequency and click CAT on the program. Then start transmitting (say testing, testing, count to 10, anything) while clicking on the up and down arrows under "Upl. Calibr. (Hz)". When you hear your voice on the downlink in a natural sounding tone, click "Change/Store Data File" and then click save, which automatically changes the Doppler.SQF file. Once set correctly for each bird, your uplink and downlink will track perfectly. I couldn't get it right at first because I kept clicking on the 10 hz arrows. This was insufficient, as some of the sats were over 500 hz off. But it was easy after I started clicking the 100 hz arrows. You can also manually review and edit the Doppler.SQF file by clicking ? and then Auxiliary Files, but this should not be necessary. 73, Bill NZ5N Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 11:22:53 -0500 From: "Howard Kowall" <hkowall(a)shaw.ca> Subject: [amsat-bb] Satpc32 with 2 Transceivers To: "AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org" <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Message-ID: <000a01c9d579$65dbc2f0$6701a8c0@sysoffice> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Good morning everyone Trying to run Satpc32 with a FT897d and FT817nd The ft897nd is on the uhf antenna and the ft817nd is on the vhf antenna it all seems to work on the FM sats but having some problems with ssb sats AO7,VO52,FO29 The trouble I am having is on the calibration of the freq. and doppler adjument has anyone run into this hopefully someone has a few pointers and tricks Thanks to all who reply Howard VE4ISP

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Satpc32 with 2 Transceivers
by Howard Kowall 15 May '09

15 May '09

Good morning everyone Trying to run Satpc32 with a FT897d and FT817nd The ft897nd is on the uhf antenna and the ft817nd is on the vhf antenna it all seems to work on the FM sats but having some problems with ssb sats AO7,VO52,FO29 The trouble I am having is on the calibration of the freq. and doppler adjument has anyone run into this hopefully someone has a few pointers and tricks Thanks to all who reply Howard VE4ISP

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hot shot !
by Joseph Armbruster 15 May '09

15 May '09

Now that's what I call a hot shot ! http://www.astrosurf.com/legault/atlantis_hst_transit.html http://gizmodo.com/5255723/amateur-astronomer-captures-stunning-image-of-at… Joseph Armbruster, KJ4JIO

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Dayton demos
by Andrew Glasbrenner 15 May '09

15 May '09

Please keep an ear out for W5IU, KO4MA, et al. doing satellite demos from Dayton starting this morning! 73, Drew KO4MA

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