I've owned Nova for a number of years but recently had to reload it when
I upgraded my PC. For some reason, the maps don't seem to look the same
as they used to. Is there a separate download for better maps? I've been
to the website, but can't seem to find anything.
Thanks,
Kelley
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Kelley - WØRK
Folks
It seems some people are unable to find the handbook (in English, French and Italian). Look here: <http://funcube.org.uk/working-documents/funcube-handbook/>
I am awaiting the translations into Dutch and Spanish, maybe the translators were waiting for me to get back from holiday (got back yesterday)
73
Richard G3RWL
I am running xp pro and I cannot get satpc32 to load any suggestions
nick
Thanks
nick
Office 337 593 8700
Cell 337 258 2527
Helping UL become a world Class Engineering and Educational School
Using the keps from this morning (epoch 13333.066), I measured the frequency of the telemetry signal of AO-73 during a 43 deg pass at about 1648 UTC (Nov 29). This is a pass with the satellite in the sun
The frequencies are the frequency “at the satellite” calculated by SatPC32 to place the center of the telemetry in the middle of my 3.0 kHz USB passband. Thus the frequency of the center “at the satellite” are 1.50 kHz higher than these.
Elevation xx where the frequency is 145935.xx MHz
0 .94
5 .87
10 .81
15 .73
20 .70
25 .62
30 .60
35 .56
40 .57
43 .54
40 .48
35 .42
30 .37
25 .39
20 .36
15 .32
10 .30
5 .27
0 .20
Thus a change of about 600 Hz over the entire pass with the frequency DECREASING.
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Using the keps from this evening (epoch 13333.744), I measured the frequency of the telemetry signal of AO-73 during a 21 deg pass at about 0340 UTC (Nov 30). This is a pass with the satellite in shadow, running on batteries.
The frequencies are the frequency “at the satellite” calculated by SatPC32 to place the center of the telemetry in the middle of my 3.0 kHz USB passband. Thus the frequency of the center “at the satellite” are 1.50 kHz higher than these.
Elevation xx where the frequency is 145934.xx MHz
0 145933.98
5 .00
10 .12
15 .16
****
20 .21
****
20 .32
****
15 .48
****
10 .50
5 .65
2.5 .74
0 .76
Thus a change of about 800 Hz over the entire pass with the frequency INCREASING. However, where noted with ****, there were were sudden shifts in frequency up and down of 1.0 to 1.5 kHz.
During this pass, the linear transponder was on, and I assume the sudden shifts of frequency noted by **** could have been caused by changes in total power used by the transponder.
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The first pass above was during battery charging and the frequency decreased. The second pass was during battery discharging and the frequency was increasing.
The sudden shifts of frequency are very obvious when you are in QSO on the transponder.
It would be interesting for someone to correlate the frequency shifts with some parameter such as voltage or temperature.
Ron W5RKN
EM10ci
Hi all,
In spite of my usual ineptness with this program, I have managed to have it
talking to my FT-847, downloaded the keps for AO73 and appear to be tracking
it!!
However, I can't seem to get the radio to hold the up/dn frequencies in the
proper VFO's. I start out with the uplink showing in VFOA, but after a min
or so the frequencies swap and I have to use the a><b button to get them
back.
Am I missing a setting?
Any help appreciated
And Happy Thanksgiving to all
73, Ted
K7TRK
Hi AMSATERS
The CAPE team is having trouble copying the bacon's from out sat below is a
table of our receiver noise with different azimuths notice our system
temperature terminated in a 50 resistor is 367 deg k and when connected to
an antenna ranges from 4000 to 12000 deg k. The noise appears to be white
noise
Question
1. Does this seem reasonable?
2. If the noise is not reasonable how to you go about trouble shooting
it?
3. We are concerned about the gain of our antenna to help us trouble
shoot this question what is the bacon at 145.935 mhz received level on
fundcube-1 what is your antenna gain and what range to the sat did you
observe the receive level?
date
frequency(mkz)
bandwith (hz)
termination (type)
Az (deg)
Ele (deg)
input (dbm)
Tempreture (k)
13 11 29 0500
145.825
7000
50 ohm res
****
***
-134.5
367
145.825
7000
ant #2 KLM
0
0
-122.8
5433
145.825
7000
ant #2 KLM
90
0
-119.1
12736
145.825
7000
ant #2 KLM
180
0
-123.7
4416
145.825
7000
ant #2 KLM
270
0
-125.9
2661
Thanks
nick
Office 337 593 8700
Cell 337 258 2527
Helping UL become a world Class Engineering and Educational School
Hi!
I will be on the next AO-73 pass at 0632 UTC tonight.
Hope to hear anyone else out west that might still
be up and around the radio at that hour.
The last pass around 0455 UTC was the best pass to
the east that I've worked on this satellite so far. I made
only 2 QSOs, but could hear my 5W signals through
the transponder from 2 minutes after AOS almost
until LOS, up around .965 to .967. That was fun!
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
The first attempt scrubbed due to low engine thrust after ignition.
The second attempt ended at less than 1 minute to go. There was no
announcement on the live Internet feed about what the cause was or
when the next attempt will be made.
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL
