November 2011 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

Re: Hamsphere
by Nigel A. Gunn, W8IFF/G8IFF 06 Nov '11

06 Nov '11

Nope. Hamsphere is an internet chat system with an interface that looks like a radio. Echolink has real radios connected to it and is usable, through a repeater for instance, from your VHF handheld. > *Hi All, > Was wondering how the "Weekend Symposium" went? > Also, downloaded a software program call "HamSphere" > thru "Echo-Link" (Home Page)& was wondering if it does the same > things as"Echo-Link"? 73,.Stu (WA2BSS) > * > > >

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Question?
by Stuart Balanger 06 Nov '11

06 Nov '11

*Hi All, Was wondering how the "Weekend Symposium" went? Also, downloaded a software program call "HamSphere" thru "Echo-Link" (Home Page) & was wondering if it does the same things as"Echo-Link"? 73,.Stu (WA2BSS) *

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Rotor
by DOUGLAS WILLETS 06 Nov '11

06 Nov '11

I am setting up a satellite station and have the following question. Does it matter if you use a south center or north center rotor. Is there advantages using one over the other. Doug. KE4MSG

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Re: M-Cubed telemetry decoded
by PA3GUO 06 Nov '11

06 Nov '11

Hi Carl ! MCubed & RAX use 9k6, you see that in an SDR, but don't really hear it. Aubiesat is CW, but relative weak. I would start with Explorer 1. Explorer-1 uses 1k2 and you can clearly hear that in USB or LSB. Also its signal is relative strong compared to the other sats. Finally, you can decode it by just playback audio (eg mp3) via MixWin. It transmits every 15 seconds a burst. Downlink frequency is 437.505 MHz. Step 1: see if you hear it (and let us know - I am interested) Step 2: decode it Henk, PA3GUO (antenna: 16 element, horiontal beam, pre-amp: SSB mast-mounted, RX: FCD SDR) >FB Mike. Could you share which Keps you were using? Also, what mode >did you use? What is your setup...radio, TNC, etc? > >I have had no luck with any of the projects. I would like to try M-Cubed. >-- >*Carl W8KRF*

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Chart of CubeSat Frequencies
by Trevor . 06 Nov '11

06 Nov '11

Christophe has produced a handy chart showing the CubeSat UHF downlink frequencies. http://cubesat.free.fr/IMG//pdf/Cubesat_-_frequence_bande_U.pdf CubeSat France in Google English http://tinyurl.com/CubeSatfFrance 73 Trevor M5AKA AMSAT-UK: http://www.uk.amsat.org ----

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M-Cubed telemetry decoded
by Carl Rimmer W8KRF 06 Nov '11

06 Nov '11

FB Mike. Could you share which Keps you were using? Also, what mode did you use? What is your setup...radio, TNC, etc? I have had no luck with any of the projects. I would like to try M-Cubed. 73, -- *Carl W8KRF*

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WD9EWK at CM86 - Sunday (6 November) on AO-27
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 05 Nov '11

05 Nov '11

Hi! Thanks to those who were up at the early (for us here on the west coast) hour for those passes on AO-51 and AO-7 this morning. I started out on AO-51 just after 1100 UTC from the AMSAT Symposium site in San Jose (grid CM97bi). After working that pass, I drove south to Santa Cruz, a small city on the Pacific coast where part of the city lies in the rarely-heard grid CM86. I worked 3 stations on the AO-7 pass around 1228 UTC, talked to myself on the AO-51 pass that came just after AO-7, then drove back to San Jose. Then I worked a couple stations on AO-7 around 1430 UTC, followed by one quick chat on VO-52 around 1630 UTC. Thanks for the QSOs this morning, and those from the past two days I have been in San Jose. Along with the little bit of radio activity, the AMSAT Symposium has been fun. Since I know that there are at least a few who would like to work grid CM86, and I have a bit of free time before I fly home Sunday evening, I will make a return trip to Santa Cruz and work a pair of AO-27 passes in the late morning and early afternoon (around 1938 and 2114 UTC - the repeater will start a couple of minutes after those predicted AOS times). I know that I am near grid boundaries down there in Santa Cruz, but I am confining my plans to just CM86. I, or someone else, can work from CM96 or CM87 some other time. As I have been making QSOs from here, I am uploading them to the Logbook of the World system. It has been swamped with uploads from last weekend's CQ WW SSB contest, so it has been taking a little while for the QSOs - and any QSLs - to show up in there. If you'd like a QSL card for a QSO with me from San Jose and/or Santa Cruz, please e-mail me with the QSO details. If you're in my log, I will send out a card. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/

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M-Cubed telemetry decoded
by Mike Rupprecht 05 Nov '11

05 Nov '11

I could decode some M-Cubed telemetry packets last night on an 80 deg elevation pass (01:20 UTC) :-) See here: http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=23728 73, Mike DK3WN

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WD9EWK @ CM86 now
by Patrick STODDARD 05 Nov '11

05 Nov '11

Hi! I am on the waterfront in SantaCruz CA, grid CM86xx, for the AO7 pass at 1226 UTC and the AO51 pass around 1241 UTC. Then it is back to San Jose for the AMSAT Symposium. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/

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Fw: NY SATELLITE SPECIAL EVENT STATION
by Peter Portanova 05 Nov '11

05 Nov '11

Good Morning, I was asked by Hamilton, who attended one of my Satellite Presentations, to make satellite operators aware of this event, thank you. 73's Pete WB2OQQ www.massapequanyweather.com Hi, A satellite special event station N3Y will operate from the New Yorker Hotel in NY City on November 5th to raise awareness for the effort to restore Nikola Tesla's last lab in Shoreham, NY into a science museum; The New Yorker Hotel, was Tesla’s last home in Manhattan. Wardenclyffe, the lab, is located in Shoreham, NY on Long Island. We are helping to raise awareness for the effort to purchase the laboratory and restore it into a science museum. To read more about the effort to restore Wardencyffe, please check out http://www.teslasciencecenter.org. . For the latest updates on what frequencies to catch the stations on and a sneak peek at the QSL cards and QTHs, go to http://copaseticflows.appspot.com/teslaevent. Thanks for your help! -- 73 de KD0FNR Hamilton http://copaseticflows.appspot.com http://copaseticflow.blogspot.com

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