UTC:
31 Oct 2010
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16:30...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
India, Africa, Middle East,
Europe,NA
17:15...Turn Off
18:20...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
NA,East Asia,Oceania
19:05...Turn Off
22:20...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
NA,North Asia,East Asia,
Oceania
23:05...Turn Off
01 Nov 2010
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02:06...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
North Asia, East Asia,South Asia
02:21...Turn Off
13:00...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
NA, South America
13:45...Turn Off
16:15...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
India,Middle East,Europe,NA
17:00...Turn Off
18:00...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
India,Middle East,Europe,NA
18:45...Turn Off
22:05...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
Africa,Europe,NA
22:50...Turn Off
02 Nov 2010
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01:49...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
North Asia,East Asia,South Asia
02:04...Turn Off
10:45...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
NA,East Asia,Oceania
11:30...Turn Off
12:45...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
Europe,NA,South America
13:30...Turn Off
16:00...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
India, Africa,Europe,NA
South America
16:45...Turn Off
17:45...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
Africa,Middle East,Europe,NA
18:30...Turn Off
19:10...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
Africa,Middle East,Europe,NA
19:55...Turn Off
03 Nov 2010
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23:35...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
NA,North Asia,East Asia,Oceania
00:20...Turn Off
01:32...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
Asia,Oceania
01:43...Turn Off
12:25...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
Europe,NA,South America
13:10...Turn Off
17:25...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
Africa,India,Middle East
Europe,NA
18:10...Turn Off
19:15...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
Africa,Europe,NA
20:00...Turn Off
20:40...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
Africa,Europe,NA
21:25...Turn Off
04 Nov 2010
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23:20...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
Oceania,Asia,Europe,NA
00:05...Turn Off
03:03...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
North Asia,East Asia,South Asia
03:18...Turn Off
13:55...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
Europe, NA,South America
14:40...Turn Off
17:10...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
India,Africa,Europe,NA
17:55...Turn Off
19:00...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
India,Africa,Europe,NA
19:45...Turn Off
20:25...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
Africa,Europe,NA
21:10...Turn Off
23:05...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
NA,North Asia, Oceania
23:50...Turn Off
05 Nov 2010
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02:46...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
North Asia,East Asia,South Asia
03:02...Turn Off
13:40...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
Europe, NA,South America
14:25...Turn Off
16:50...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
Africa,Europe,NA
17:35...Turn Off
18:45...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
India,Africa,Europe,NA
19:30...Turn Off
20:10...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
Africa,Europe,NA
20:55...Turn Off
22:45...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
North Asia,East Asia,
South Asia,Oceania
23:30...Turn Off
06 Nov 2010
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02:28...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
North Asia,East Asia,South Asia
Oceania
02:43...Turn Off
13:25...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
Europe,NA,South America
14:10...Turn Off
16:35...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
Africa,Europe,NA
17:20...Turn Off
18:25...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
India,Africa,Europe,NA
19:10...Turn Off
19:50...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
Africa,Europe,NA
20:35...Turn Off
22:30...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
North Asia,East Asia,
South Asia,Oceania
23:15...Turn Off
07 Nov 2010
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02:12...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
North Asia,East Asia,South Asia
Oceania
02:28...Turn Off
13:05...Turn On--FM/PACSAT
Europe,NA,South America
13:50...Turn Off
73
Alan Kung, BA1DU
HO-68(XW-1) Project Manager
www.camsat.cn
I am having a problem getting the subtone entered into the SatPC32 program for
HO-67 on my FT-847. Going to the sqf file, I have entered the sequence as I
have for the other satellites, making sure the name is spelled correctly, etc.
This is what I have entered:
SUMBANDILA(SO-67),233.6,$3F,1
Dont know why it wont transfer over to the CAT system, as had no problem with
the others... any ideas?? Right now I have to enter it into the radio
manually.
John W6ZKH
OSCAR-11 REPORT 31 October 2010
This report covers the period from 30 September to 31 October
2010. During this time the satellite has been heard from 09 to
19 October and from 30 October. At the time of writing it is
transmitting and is expected to continue until 09 November.
Excellent signals have been reported from stations located
around the world, and good copy obtained from decoded telemetry
frames.
The satellite is now transmitting during eclipses, although
signals are weaker at those times. This indicates that there is
still some capacity remaining in the battery.
The on-board clock is now very stable. It gained only ten
seconds in 33 days. This is comparable with its accuracy when the
satellite was fully operational, when it gained approximately one
minute per year. However, there is still an accumulated loss of
309 days, which has occurred during eclipses of the last few
years.
Operation during eclipses and stability of the on-board clock
suggest that some part of the system may have recently failed
'open circuit' thus reducing the overall power drain of the
system, and allowing more power to be available during eclipses.
There was an unexplained current drain observed when analogue
telemetry was last transmitted. This fault might have cleared.
The Beacon frequencies are -
VHF 145.826 MHz. AFSK FM ASCII Telemetry
UHF 435.025 MHz. OFF
S-band 2401.5 MHz. OFF
Reception reports have been received from Jeff N3QO, Rod CX2ABP
and Ian KI4HLV/6Y5 (G4JMM) . Many thanks for those and to
everyone who posted reports on the satellite status website. This
is a very convenient and easy to use facility, which shows the
current status of all the amateur satellites. Strongly
recommended for future reports! Reports around the expected times
of switch-on and switch-off are of special interest. The URL is
http://oscar.dcarr.org/index.php
OSCAR-11 transmits on 145.826 MHz., set receiver to NBFM. The
satellite has a characteristic sound, rather like raspy slow
morse code, sending "di di dah dah dah dah dah dah dah" sent over
a period of five seconds. If you are receiving a very weak
signal, switch the receiver to CW or SSB. You should hear several
sidebands around the carrier frequency and should be able to hear
the characteristic 'morse code like' sound on at least one
sideband.
Please note that you need a clean noise-free signal to decode
the signals, and your receiver must be set to NBFM mode, for a
decoder to work.
If you need to know what OSCAR-11 sounds like, there is an audio
clip on my website www.g3cwv.co.uk/ which may be useful for
identification and as a test signal for decoding.
The current status of the satellite, is that all the analogue
telemetry channels, 0 to 59 are zero, ie they have failed. The
status channels 60 to 67 are still working. The real time clock
is showing a large accumulated error, but is now incrementing
accurately to within a few seconds per month. The day of the
month has a bit stuck at 'one' so the day of the month may show
an error of +40 days for some dates. The time display has
switched into 12 hour mode. Unfortunately, there is no AM/PM
indicator, since the time display format was designed for 24 hour
mode.
The spacecraft computer and active attitude control system have
switched OFF, ie. the satellite' attitude is controlled only by
the passive gravity boom gradient, and the satellite is free to
spin at any speed.
The watchdog timer operates on a 20 day cycle. The ON/OFF times
have tended to be very consistent. The average of many
observations have shown this to be 20.7 days, ie. 10.3 day s ON
followed by 10.4 days OFF.
Listeners to OSCAR-11 may be interested in visiting my website.
If you need to know what OSCAR-11 should sound like, there is a
short audio clip for you to hear. The last telemetry received
from the satellite is available for download. The website
contains an archive of news & telemetry data which is updated
from time to time. It also contains details about using a
soundcard or hardware demodulators for data capture. There is
software for capturing data, and decoding ASCII telemetry. The
URL is www.g3cwv.co.uk .
If you place this bulletin on a terrestrial packet network,
please use the bulletin identifier $BID:U2RPT150.CWV, to prevent
duplication.
73 Clive G3CWV xxxxx(a)amsat.org (please replace xxxxx by g3cwv)
Hi Jack
I have a Kenwood TS2000, which is very similar to the IC910.
For this discussion one important difference, the TS2000 has
a build in TNC, which can be used on either bands & sat mode.
Many years I simply connected that build-in TNC to my PC
and used Alogger under Windows (via RS232) for packet.
Mostly ISS APRS, but also to command RAFT, ANDE, etc.
Two years ago I bought a 2nd hand PK96, external TNC,
which I connect to the TS2000 (ACC plug) and PC (RS232).
Works fine. It allows me to use the build in TNC on one band
and the PK96 on the other band. Also, when I use the build-in
TNC, I cannot use CAT (doppler) access. So to do AND doppler
compensation (HRD) AND packet I need the external TNC.
Also with the PK96 I use ALogger.
Another option is to feed the audio to MixW, and create a virtual
link in SW: connect MixW to Alogger, then you can set up an APRS
Satgate without hardware TNC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSFVTN2KKog shows how
ISS APRS is decoded by MixW.
Audio can directly be decoded by MMSSTV for SSTV (both TX/RX).
A SW only solution gets you running for SSTV. I did SSTV over HO68
this way: http://www.pa3guo.com/ho68_sstv_dec30_007.jpg
One year ago I added an interface between the radio & PC, to
decouple them physically (for 20+ years I was 'unsafe'). For this
I use a kit from http://www.ezkits.eu/. This is insurance only, it
doesn't add anything new.
Then, I use HRD for Doppler control, but it can do much more
including decoding of many digital modes.
When you connect the audio of the IC910 to a PC and run MixW
you are operational to receive APRS already ! Maybe start there
and extend then step by step. (oh, you then can also decode
9k6 from AO51)
Success !
Henk
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Henk, PA3GUO
http://www.pa3guo.com
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I'm in the process of adding digital mode to my satellite station which
consists
of IC910 radio using SATPC 32 12.8A. I will be using a Signalink USB & would
like to know if this is the way to go. I will be using it for packet,
digipeater, SSTV.etc. Two programs that I'm looking into using are MIXW & or
mltimode. I would appreciate any suggestions or help about moving foreword
with
this configuration.
Thanks for any input. Jack WA1ZDV
