AMSAT-BB March 2015

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Modern Equipment Matrix
by Clint Bradford 22 Mar '15

22 Mar '15

The original poster named the message, " Modern Equipment Matrix." Why are we dredging up 20-year-old ancient rigs? (Grin)

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Scottsdale AZ hamfest this morning - report
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 22 Mar '15

22 Mar '15

Hi! I was at the Scottsdale Amateur Radio Club's "Springfest" hamfest this morning, with an AMSAT table. This is one of the larger hamfests around the Phoenix area in the unofficial hamfest "season" - basically, anytime that isn't summertime. :-) After a light rain last night in parts of the Phoenix area, the weather was perfect this morning, and there was a great turnout. As with most hamfests around Arizona, this one started before sunrise, and wrapped up by midday. Satellite passes were not the best for the hamfest this morning. I was able to do some demonstrations early - FO-29 around 6am (1300 UTC), and SO-50 an hour later. I made one QSO on the FO-29 pass, with Yuri UT1FG/MM (as did many others on that pass). On SO-50, seven QSOs went in the log. The ISS pass around 1600 UTC was a good one - I could see my packets being retransmitted, but no QSOs were logged. Thanks to everyone who worked WD9EWK during those passes - especially to UT1FG/MM, whose unique call is nice to hear during the demonstrations. These QSOs have been uploaded to Logbook of the World, and - as I do with any of these events - I would be happy to send you a QSL card to confirm our QSO. Please e-mail me directly with the QSO details, so I can check that against my log. If you're in the log, I'll send out a card - no SASE needed. Being able to talk up the upcoming Fox-1 series of satellites has been a very good thing. The Fox project has been around since late 2009, but there is more interest from the ham community when launch dates can be given, instead of "in the future" or "real soon now". I was even able to talk about my portable SDR setup using a USB dongle (both the FUNcube Dongle Pro+ and the cheaper "RTL-SDR" dongles) and the smaller Windows 8.1 tablets. One ham couldn't believe that the small tablets could do this, so I set up one of my Windows 8.1 tablets (the WinBook TW800, which has been retailing at $79) and the FUNcube dongle (it works well as the receiver when working our satellites) to prove the point. The ham already had an RTL-SDR dongle, and said he was going to order the tablet. That's it for this morning's hamfest. I will be at another hamfest next Saturday morning in Tucson AZ, complete with an AMSAT table and hoping to do more demonstrations for the hamfest crowd there. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK

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FUNcube-1 operating mode for the next 24 hours
by Graham Shirville 21 Mar '15

21 Mar '15

Hi All, FUNcube-1 was commanded to continuous amateur transponder mode at approx 2301 UTC this evening. We will keep this mode until around the same time tomorrow Sunday when the normal autonomous switching between the telemetry and amateur modes will be restarted 73 Graham

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Re: [amsat-bb] lost amateur satellite.txt insat32pc
by Scott Smith 21 Mar '15

21 Mar '15

Hi folks, tnx to Jan,Dave and Erich I found out the problem was not me lol. The download site was the problem, now it’s fixed and I’ve downloaded the latest keps 73 de Scott VE6ITV

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FWD: FUNcube-1 Operations update
by PE0SAT | Amateur Radio 21 Mar '15

21 Mar '15

Below the message from Graham regarding the FUNcube-1 operation this weekend. 73 Jan PE0SAT -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [FUNcube] FUNcube-1 Operations update Date: 20-03-2015 13:09 From: "'Graham Shirville' g.shirville(a)btinternet.com [FUNcube]" <FUNcube(a)yahoogroups.co.uk> To: <funcube(a)yahoogroups.co.uk>, "AMSAT BB" <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Reply-To: FUNcube(a)yahoogroups.co.uk Hi All, As there is a Scouts demonstration planned for tomorrow..we are leaving FUNcube-1 in telemetry mode until Saturday evening this weekend. Thanks for your understanding 73 Graham G3VZV PS – FUNcube-1 did “see” the eclipse this morning – see http://funcube.org.uk/news/ [1] __._,_.___ ------------------------- Posted by: "Graham Shirville" <g.shirville(a)btinternet.com> ------------------------- Reply via web post [2] * Reply to sender * Reply to group * Start a new topic [3] * Messages in this topic [4] (1) All up-to-date FCD information at http://funcubedongle.pbworks.com [5] Visit Your Group [6] [7] * Privacy [8] * Unsubscribe * Terms of Use [9] . __,_._,___ Links: ------ [1] http://funcube.org.uk/news/ [2] https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FUNcube/conversations/messages/9663;… [3] https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FUNcube/conversations/newtopic;_ylc=… [4] https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FUNcube/conversations/topics/9663;_y… [5] http://funcubedongle.pbworks.com [6] https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FUNcube/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmbTJiZGs2BF… [7] https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJlMnE5ajc4BF9TAzk3NDkwNTAzBGdycE… [8] https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/uk/yahoo/groups/details.html [9] https://info.yahoo.com/legal/uk/yahoo/utos/en-gb/details.html -- With regards PE0SAT Internet web-page http://www.pe0sat.vgnet.nl/ DK3WN SatBlog http://www.dk3wn.info/p/

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AO-73 ???
by Michel F6GLJ 21 Mar '15

21 Mar '15

Hello. AO-73 is not in full time transponder mode this week end ? 73 qro de Michel F6GLJ

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Overcoming desense on FO-29
by Jim Barbre 21 Mar '15

21 Mar '15

Is the use of a downconverter effective in overcoming desense on the FO-29 70 cm downlink? The downconverter would convert 435 to 10 MHz. Receiver is an SDR. (I have different ones for HF and for VHF.) Also, what is the minimum recommended distance between linearly polarized 2 m and 70 cm antennas on the same crossboom? Does it help with desense if one is mounted horizontally and the other vertically? Thanks. Jim Barbre KB7YSY

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Balloon
by Vincenzo Mone 21 Mar '15

21 Mar '15

Hi to the list, Apologize for the question. I see several times on the AMSAT list about the Launch Balloons. Anybody please can explain me about it? Thanks 73's de Enzo IK8OZV EasyLog 5 BetaTester EasyLog PDA BetaTester WinBollet BetaTester D.C.I. CheckPoint Regione Campania Skype: ik8ozv8520 ********************************** ******* GSM +39 328 7110193 ******* ****** SMS +39 328 7110193 ****** *** 2nd e-mail: vimone(a)tin.it *** *********************************

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G5500 Rotor LVB Tracker SATPAC Program Parking
by Rich/wa4bue 21 Mar '15

21 Mar '15

Went to tweak the azimuth rotor position and now can't get it to park properly. Elevation is fine. It is 30 degree off in park. Help. Park is essential since the tower tilts down on a trailer. What did I do wrong? Rich W4BUE

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lost amateur satellite.txt in Sat32PC
by Scott Smith 21 Mar '15

21 Mar '15

Hi, this morning I was updating my satellite base , all downloaded well, geo.txt, noaa.tx,nasa.all etc and when I updated the amateur.txt I lost all the satellites in this section. how does one restore in this part of the satellite base?. Any help appreciated. 73 de Scott VE6ITV

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