Has anyone located a driver for the LVB Tracker internal USB to serial
port adapter on Windows 7 x64?
If not, has anyone reverted to the serial port connection on LVB Tracker
and used an external USB to serial port adapter successfully with
SatPC32 on Windows 7 x64?
I have an Edgeport multiple USB to serial port that has drivers for
Windows 7 x64 that I will use if I have to. I would prefer using the LVB
Tracker with its USB to serial adapter if someone has another solution.
73,
Bill
NJ1H
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Steve,
I have both a commercial and a homebrew Eggbeater and am disappointed with both, especially in light of its rather high price. Connected to my IC-7000 via an ARR mast-mounted preamp, performance is far less than with an HT and an Arrow. Guess an omni can't cut it, at least not from my QTH.
Maybe if I could get it up higher, clear of all roofs, it would do better. I can make contacts at relatively high sat elevations, but can do just as well with a $10 dual band ground plane. My friend has an Eggbeater and the same preamp at a clearer QTH, and he hears substantially better, down to 10 degrees elevation in some directions.
Good luck and 73,
Bill NZ5N
> > Hi Steve,
> >
> > It is surprising to read that you are not hearing
> anything. I have
> > repeatedly used a 2m and 70cm Eggbeater for the sats
> and have had no
> > problem hearing things. No pre-amp.
> >
> > I was using a short cable (e.g. less than 10 meters).
> The rigs I
> > used were a FT-736r (deaf) and a FT-847 (so-so).
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Dave
We have met the enemy and they are us. WE need to do something. Yes, $15m is
outta reach, but isn't there a cash prize for the first on-commercial moon
landing?
Dave
DM78qd // KA0SWT
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be
eating frozen radio dinners.-- Johnny Carson
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-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces(a)amsat.org [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Jeff Davis
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 9:35 AM
To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: The Moon is our Future
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 06:48:51AM -0600, Jack K. wrote:
> communications anyway) and move forward... We can put up all the leos
> we want, but until someone makes something like B. Bruninga's cell
> concept work, we are only going to have more of the same, We don't
> need more of the same!
I couldn't agree more - we don't need more of the same.
If I want to sit back and have a two hour rag-chew with someone on the other
side of the planet I will use Skype or my cell phone!
Dreaming about what *might* be in space is a fun exercise. Actually doing
something about it requires sending things to LEO because reality has
dictated that's as far as we can afford to go.
How's about we use some of that frustrated *imagineering* to come up with
interesting new concepts at LEO? We don't need any more FM repeaters buzzing
overhead, but what about more cameras downloading HD images, scientific
payloads that monitor the ongoing climate change, payloads to study the
Earth's magnetic field, etc. etc. Our own 'Twitter' messaging network from
space...?
The Apollo 13 creed of "failure is not an option" has completely infected
the brains at AMSAT and this list. You want something at HEO or on the moon,
cut a check for $15 million dollars and let's get on with it. Been waiting
since 1996 for another AO-13 and I am getting too old to keep waiting.
AMSAT is becoming completely irrelevant as it strives without success for
the impossible mission and exhibits a shocking amount of leadership
malfesance as it stubbornly refuses to recognize and adapt to realities in
the launch business.
I know, I know maybe NEXT year someone rich will die and leave us a boatload
of cash. Or the bankrupt US government will suddenly cough up a billion
dollars for some orbiting emergency communication system. In the meantime we
have to stifle the truth because it might blow yet another *secret* deal
that's in the works and *almost* a done deal, so let's not complain publicly
and ruin it.
Heard the stories, heard the lies, got all the t-shirts and ball caps.
Whatever.
--
Jeff, KE9V
AMSAT-NA member since 1994,
Skeptic that we will ever go back to HEO since 2002
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Hello friends,
The new record via AO-7 was established today between Luciano, PY5LF and Joe , K3SZh via AO-7. The distance the new record is 7839 KM. I have a audio record with a portion of the QSO. The log of QSO can be seen on web site http://www.planetemily.com/ao7/ao7log.php . Congratulations to both.
73,
Pirajá, PS8RF
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Hi!
Thanks for the QSOs during the last AO27 pass. It was nice to hear much of
North America on the pass. Even Larry XE2/KI6YAA from another part
of this city.
I do not know if I will work any of the upcoming AO51 passes,
since I need to make my drive home sometime this afternoon or
evening. Apparently there has been
a lot of rain in my home
city Phoenix.
Thanks to everyone who made QSOs with XE2/WD9EWK over the past
couple of days. 73!
Patrick XE2/WD9EWK - Mexicali, Baja California
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
Hello all!
I have not been able to work many passes lately due to schedule at work but
the last two early morning passes that were very good I have not been able
to pick up the satellite at all. Is the satellite not in V/U mode? I was
just wondering if others are seeing the same thing.
Thanks to all the ground operations team members that keep the satellite in
check and to all that I have met on the satellites! It has been a great new
facet to the hobby for me!
Pat
N2VYT
FN20un
We are completely reloaded and operational, in about 24 hours.
145.92/435.3 repeater is running with 67 Hz tone required to activate,
and will stay on for 2 minutes at a time. Output is 740 mw and subject
to change. We may have to adjust some other settings over the next day
or two. Please use the webpage at http://oscar.dcarr.org/ to post
reports. For some reason very few US stations use this. Please do as it
is impossible for us to listen to every pass.
73, Drew KO4MA
AMSAT-NA VP Ops
That may be because the source of the birdie is near the radio and
not necessarily coming from the radio (e.g. nearby computers).
The FT-847 is famous for its internal birdies, but they are either
gone or diminished when I connect my eme antenna with tower-top
preamp. Some do not disappear so are probably being radiated from
the neighborhood.
A good test is to terminate the radio with a dummy load and see what
birdies remain (most likely are internally produced in the
radio). Then connect the antenna with preamp and see how many go
away or are greatly reduced. And see how many new ones show up! a
preamp can generate birdies from intermodulation products or
self-oscillation. So saying, RF is a messy business. ;-)
When I point the 2m eme array at 70-mi distant Anchorage the noise
floor rises (slightly). It drops if I swing in azimuth or raise
above 10-degrees elevation. In character the noise is not exactly
white noise but has a faint line-noise sound. Cities have a lot of lines. ;-)
73, Ed
PS: I am going to be interested to observe how many birdies my
Elecraft K3+DEMI 144/28 xvtr combo produce compared with the FT-847
on 144 (144-144.030 is unusable due to birdies)
At 12:11 PM 7/31/2010, Bruce Robertson wrote:
>To improve the birdie issue on the TS-2000, be sure to keep your
>antennas well away from the radio. I found the birdie less serious
>recently, now that my antennas are 100' away.
>
>73, Bruce
>VE9QRP
>
>On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 4:28 PM, i8cvs <domenico.i8cvs(a)tin.it> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <wa4hfn(a)comcast.net>
> > To: "AMSAT" <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 8:45 PM
> > Subject: [amsat-bb] AO27/TS2000
> >>
> >>
> >> Just installed a preamp Ar2 { Advance Reciever Research) M# MSP432DG-160
> > and the birdy that the TS2000 has on AO27 recieve is now gone and
> I was able
> > to hear the bird from start of the pass to the end.Why ,I do not know, but
> > the preamp seems to kill the birdy . Has anyone found this to be the same.
> >>
> >> WA4HFN Damon
> >> _______________________________________________
> >
> > Hi Damon, WA4HFN
> >
> > The pramplifier "seems" to kill the birdy because the preamplifier gain is
> > very high and so the birdy is belove the noise introduced by the
> > preamplifier itself.
> >
> > I guess that without any signal on the band your S meter reading is well
> > above S-9 only because of the preamplifier noise that is apparently killing
> > the birdy.
> >
> > If you reduce the gain of your preamplifier to get an S-meter
> reading of say
> > S-1 or S-2 without any signal on the band then the birdy will appear again.
> >
> > Best 73" de
> >
> > i8CVS Domenico
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
>
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73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45
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