November 2013 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

Delfi-n3Xt Satellite
by M5AKA 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

The Delfi-n3Xt has a 435/145 MHz linear transponder and is on the November 21 Dnepr launch. See http://amsat-uk.org/2013/11/18/delfi-n3xt-update/ ---- 73 Trevor M5AKA AMSAT-UK website http://amsat-uk.org/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/AMSAT-UK/208113275898396 Twitter https://twitter.com/AMSAT_UK ----

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Dnepr satellites mounted on launcher
by M5AKA 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

ISC Kosmotras report that on November 15, 2013, the Dnepr Space Head Module with the satellites was transported to the launch pad and mounted on the launch vehicle. The final checkout and tests of the launch vehicle with the SHM are presently in progress. The launch is scheduled for November 21, 2013 at 11:10 Moscow time (07:10 UT). Picture at http://amsat-uk.org/2013/11/18/dnepr-satellites-mounted-on-launcher/ Frequencies of amateur radio satellites launching in November http://amsat-uk.org/2013/11/13/three-amateur-radio-satellite-deployments-in… Live TV coverage of satellite launches http://amsat-uk.org/2013/11/17/tv-coverage-of-two-ham-radio-sat-launches/ The #cubesat IRC channel should be active on launch days http://webchat.freenode.net/ ---- 73 Trevor M5AKA AMSAT-UK website http://amsat-uk.org/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/AMSAT-UK/208113275898396 Twitter https://twitter.com/AMSAT_UK ----

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Bryan Klofas
by Nick Pugh K5QXJ 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Bryan Please contact me off line Thanks nick Office 337 593 8700 Cell 337 258 2527 Helping UL become a world Class Engineering and Educational School

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Help needed with the CAPE II sat
by Nick Pugh K5QXJ 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

On Nov 20 at 00 30 00 GMT The CAPE II satellite is scheduled to be launched. The frequencies are 145.825/437.325 Mhz. On the VHF frequency the beacon will be in CW and AX.25 Please listen to our sat and send reports to me at quadpugh(a)bellsouth.net. Please include your location and time you first here our sat. Preliminary TLE are ORS3-2.5B 1 99905U 00000 13323.95403993 0.00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 0009 2 99905 40.5214 208.6139 0003075 205.2431 337.9664 15.19728651000004 Thanks nick Office 337 593 8700 Cell 337 258 2527 Helping UL become a world Class Engineering and Educational School

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Re: FUNcube-1 launch week has arrived!
by paul robinson 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Thanks for the hard work,and overcoming all the red tape to hopefully give us another usefull satalite,ive got every thing crossed! Ill be keeping an ear out this week for signals off funcube-1 and others...best wishes again ....Paul 2E1EUB Amsat uk Amsat NA RSGB

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FT-736
by Tom Worthington 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Thanks for all the responses on the FT-736 and the pointers to the pic hardware emulator. Just to be clear, does the N6BIL emulator allow the manual tuning of the FT-736? It would seem that the lack of the ability to tune is a significant problem to making contacts. 73 and Aloha, Tom, NH6 Y

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Re: FUNcube-1 launch week has arrived!
by Matty Cunningham 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Graham and the FunCube team, A huge thankyou to all of you for the hard work and regular updates of progress, I think I first heard about the FunCube satellite when I was made aware of the FunCube Dongle, shortly before it was released for sale. I was very lucky and managed to get serial no. 104 of the very first batch, I've had a great time with this receiving various satellites and terrestrial stations, I'm also very happy Simon Brown added support for this with is SDR console software. I'll have this running for the launch, along with the dashboard software - but will be at work for the day, and a good part of the evening - hoping I can remote in to home to check up on the reception occasionally. We have a busy week with launches - I'll be a happy chap to have some new 'toys in space' to play with. Good luck on the launch, and thank you to everyone involved in the team again for their fantastic work. Matty MD0MAN

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Remote Satellite SDR station with Raspberry Pi.
by Matty Cunningham 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

I have been experimenting with Raspberry Pi, for streaming SDR and rotator control with Simon Brown's SDR Console V2. I am looking for a way to remotely stream the audio from my FUNCube Dongle (plugged into a Raspberry Pi) and control my rotator (G6LVB type tracker). So far I have been able to use an ethernet connection only (wired) from the controlling PC running SDR console, with the Raspberry Pi, RTL type TV dongle and serial port & rotator controller at the antenna end (eliminating lossy and expensive runs of quality coax). I am running this on the Raspberry Pi as a 'serial console server' http://lesser-evil.com/2013/04/raspberry-pi-ser2net-cheap-nm16a-serial-cons… And running VSPM on the main PC:- http://k5fr.com/ddutilwiki/index.php?title=VSPM I have managed to use the DDE server from SDR console, to send data to a virtual comm port on the PC with VSPM, this connects over TCP/IP to the Raspberry Pi and is controlling the rotators hooked up to a G6LVB type tracking interface. I get around 2mhz of I/Q data from the RTL Dongle into the SDR console by running rtl_tcpip on the Raspberry Pi. SDR Console v2 now has DDE rotator support and a satellite tracking module that does automatic doppler correction. So far so good - I'm very pleased with the results, however I would prefer to use the FUNCube dongle for the RF front end, rather than the RTL TV dongle as it has better filtering on-board and is vastly superior. Does anyone know a way of using the rtl_tcpip software with the FUNcube dongle? I'm hoping this is possible. Thanks and regards Matty MD0MAN

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FunCube Dashboard under Wine?
by Greg D 17 Nov '13

17 Nov '13

Hi all, Before I try, does anyone know if the new FunCube Dashboard software will run on Linux under Wine? Except under unusual circumstances, the only windows in the shack are the glass kind... Thanks, Greg KO6TH

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SatPc32 Cubesat SQF files
by Rob styles 17 Nov '13

17 Nov '13

Any one had the chance to write up some SatPC32 Sqf (Doppler/AmsatNames.txt. files for the latest Cubesats due to be launched this week. I understand the TLE’s might change. Rob

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