October 2010 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

Re: amsat satellites in use
by PA3GUO 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

A very good resource is the website of Mike, DK3WN, in Germany: http://www.dk3wn.info/satellites.shtml Daily reports on satellite reception are posted here: http://www.dk3wn.info/p/ Here is a video showing a recent satellite, HO-68, which has a CW (morse-code) beacon you can easily receive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&v=o6oDgUTHCwg Success ! Henk, PA3GUO http://www.pa3guo.com =========================================== Dear amsat member. I am a university student and research on getting stated with amsat satellites. could you please tell me what amsat satellites are in use and i can receive beacon and telemetry from them? also How do I can setup a UniTrac 2003 with a G-5500 rotor? Then with Nova? Thanks for your attention. Best Regards. N.Mahdinejad -- Henk, PA3GUO

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trip to NC
by wa4hfn＠comcast.net 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

I will be taking a trip to N.C. this week and will be in FM06 will also actavite FM05 and on Sunday I will TRY to go to FM 13 and 14 for a AO27 and maybe AO51 contact 16 Oct I will be using A kenwood TMD 710A an an elk antenna . I will know more later this week WA4HFN Damon

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NO-44 Pcsat-11 is alive !
by Pedro Converso 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

NO-44 heard and operated from South America. Fm W3ADO-1 To BEACON Via SGATE <UI pid=F0 Len=42 >[06:07:00] T#010,075,095,090,084,214,11111111,0001,1 Fm LU2HAM-7 To APRS Via ARISS,RS0ISS-4,WIDE3-3 <UI pid=F0 Len=60 >[06:07:51] =3120.48S/06418.04W`Sat Gate H-24 Cordoba Argentina {UISS52} You can track & report daily sats operation in http://amsat.org.ar?f=z 73, LU7ABF, Pedro Converso Lu7abf(a)amsat.org.ar www.amsat.org.ar

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AO-51 mode: dual repeaters (to support JOTA)
by Mark L. Hammond 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

Hello All, Thanks to Kevin WA6FAF we are now running dual repeaters on AO-51, as per the schedule below. The 145.880/435.150 repeater is for QRP operations only --unless-- you are contacting a Scout station during the Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) this weekend. The early part of this week is a GREAT time for new and/or inexperienced operators with simple/portable gear to make some contacts on the QRP repeater! Some hams are reluctant to attempt contacts because of the normally fast pace on 435.300, so here is a chance for folks to make some contacts they might otherwise not even attempt... Encourage people to make use of this mode--both for QRP and for JOTA!!! Operators on the East coast can expect some early morning interruptions on 435.150 while we download telemetry. AO-51 Schedule October 10 (late UTC) FM Repeater, V/U Uplink: 145.920 MHz FM (no PL tone) Downlink: 435.300 MHz FM QRP (Oct. 10-15) and JOTA (Oct. 16-17) Only FM Repeater, V/U Please give way to JOTA stations or QSO’s with JOTA stations Uplink: 145.880 MHz FM (no PL tone) Downlink: 435.150 MHz FM 73, -- Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]

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Re: amsat satellites in use
by Andrew Glasbrenner 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

For relatively recent status and frequencies, take a look at http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/status.php . I'm not familiar with the Unitrac interface, but I am familiar enough with Nova to strongly recommend you avoid it in favor of SatPC32 ( http://www.amsat-na.com/store/item.php?id=100020 ). What university are you at, and are you working on a cubesat project? 73, Drew KO4MA AMSAT VP Operations -----Original Message----- >From: MAHDINEJAD(a)aut.ac.ir >Sent: Oct 11, 2010 5:36 AM >To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org >Subject: [amsat-bb] amsat satellites in use > > >Dear amsat member. >I am a university student and research on getting stated with amsat satellites. >could you please tell me what amsat satellites are in use and i can receive beacon and telemetry from them? >also How do I can setup a UniTrac 2003 with a G-5500 rotor? Then with Nova? >Thanks for your attention. >Best Regards. >N.Mahdinejad > >_______________________________________________ >Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

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amsat satellites in use
by MAHDINEJAD＠aut.ac.ir 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

Dear amsat member. I am a university student and research on getting stated with amsat satellites. could you please tell me what amsat satellites are in use and i can receive beacon and telemetry from them? also How do I can setup a UniTrac 2003 with a G-5500 rotor? Then with Nova? Thanks for your attention. Best Regards. N.Mahdinejad

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G-5500 Orientation
by Dean Maluski 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

I am installing a G-5500 Elevation rotor and trying to determine orientation of elevation with reference to software specifically rtrcontrold for Linux but I'd suspect this would be typical to most PC applications. If a sat is 45 degrees above horizon should rotor control read 45 or 135 degrees on the hardware control dial? What I'm asking is when I want to mount antenna where 90 degrees is horizontal or vertical? It seems natural that midway point is horizontal but midway point is 90 degrees. I don't think I ever have a reason to point antenna into the mud so it makes most sense that midway 90 degrees is straight up??

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ND9M Road Trip Update #6
by claryco＠aol.com 10 Oct '10

10 Oct '10

We'll be leaving the Glacier Nat'l Park vicinity around midday tomorrow (11 Oct) and start heading east. The following plans are tentative, and I'll update when I can. Although grid lines are measured linearly, the roads in this area aren't; mountains and foothills will eat up a lot of the afternoon's drive time. We're just a very few miles away from the DN28 / DN38 line, but we probably won't get to DN37 until mid- to late afternoon. The crystal ball puts us on the DN37 / DN47 line for the AO51 passes that rise locally at about 11/2142Z (low easterly) and 11/2318Z (high easterly). On Tuesday (12 Oct), I may still be in DN47 (on US 87) when HO68 comes up, but I'll try to be on the DN48 / DN58 line for the AO27 passes that rise locally at about 12/2002Z and 12/2142Z. We'll probably still be in DN58 when AO51 comes up. Three days is a lot to forecast, but we'll see about DN56 and DN57 for Wednesday. More to come... 73, Jim, ND9M / VQ9JC Columbia Falls MT / Flathead Co. / DN28

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ts790 split programming
by Gary Lockhart 10 Oct '10

10 Oct '10

I have the operating manual and followed the instructions for loading split freqs but I keep getting unexpected 2M freqs., just random changes from what I tried to load. Is it just a weak memory battery? Very little TS790 forum history for this problem or others for that matter. Off list reply is fine since this isn't really the mission of this bb. Gary AB3ID

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WD9EWK @ EN40/EN41, Monday (11 Oct) morning on AO51
by Patrick STODDARD 10 Oct '10

10 Oct '10

Hi! I made it to the EN40/EN41 boundary north of Galesburg IL, but not in time to work the eastern USA on an FM satellite. One very shallow AO51 pass out west, then two higher passes on AO7 and FO29, as the sun set this evening. I will go back to the same spot tomorrow morning for the AO51 passes at 1023 and 1202 UTC. I will look at other passes after these, but will probably start heading back toward Chicago after these passes. I may make a mid-morning detour to Davenport in Iowa (EN41) for a couple of passes, before hitting I-88 back to Chicago. Maybe on SO50, and/or an SSB bird. APRS is spotty in much of the Illinois flatlands, but I will run my VX-8GR with my position for that drive as WD9EWK-7 . You may see me at http://aprs.fi/wd9ewk-7 online. Thanks for all the QSOs today on all 3 FM birds, along with AO7 and FO29. I started my drive at EN51/EN52/EN61/EN62 after I left the Symposium, then an SO50 pass at the Illinois/Wisconsin state line north of Chicago (EN62), and other passes in that grid as well as EN51 and EN41 before reaching the EN40/EN41 boundary. And did I mention I was enjoying all of this? The rental car has over 350 miles (563km) on it so far since arriving in Chicago Thursday, and it will see at least 150 more miles (241km) for the drive back to Chicago. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK - Galesburg, Illinois http://www.wd9ewk.net/

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