AMSAT-BB August 2015

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Re: [amsat-bb] SATPC32 registration
by Erich Eichmann 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

The program stores the registration code in the file UserDaten.txt in the DATA folder "SatPC32". The path to that folder is shown in the foot line of menu "Satellites". The folder "AppData" in the path is hidden by default. Therefore make first hidden folders and files visible (Windows Explorer - Tools - Folder Options - View). Open the file with Notepad, note your password and enter it in the new installation. 73s, Erich, DK1TB A Am 31.08.2015 um 03:20 schrieb Douglas Phelps: > I have a working and registered SATPC32 on my Windows 7 computer. I > am trying to get SATPC32 working on a Windows 10 computer. I have > lost my registration number but the Windows 7 computer has it and > works fine. I was told to transfer userdaten from the old computer to > the new one. Doing this does not work. Can you help me. Thanks, > > Doug > K9DLP

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Video of my reception of ISS contact with Machonaquah School
by John Brier 30 Aug '15

30 Aug '15

Took over half the day but I finally finished editing video of my reception of the ISS contact with Machonaquah School in Bunker Hill, Indiana from this past Thursday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StJbYHSMwt0 John Brier, KG4AKV, Raleigh, NC

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SDRplay RSP as downlink receiver
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 30 Aug '15

30 Aug '15

Hi! In July, I ordered an SDRplay RSP SDR receiver from the SDRplay web site: http://www.sdrplay.com/ This is an SDR receiver that covers from 100 kHz to 2 GHz without gaps, at bandwidths from 200 kHz up to 8 MHz. There is front-end filtering across the entire range this radio covers - something that caught my eye for use as a satellite downlink receiver with an FT-817ND. At US$ 149 plus shipping from the UK, it is a good value. It is a small box, larger than the FUNcube Dongle Pro+ I have been using for some time. After some issues getting this device working on Windows 8.1 and 10 tablets, resolved with a new API installer, I have been testing my SDRplay on my 8- and 10-inch tablets - now running Windows 10, after being upgraded earlier this month. Over this weekend, after installing the new API and ExtIO drivers needed for HDSDR to see the SDRplay receiver, I wanted to try it to work satellites. I made an attempt on Friday evening, during an AO-73 pass. Although I could hear the satellite, I could not hear myself with the SDRplay and HDSDR. I went back to the documentation and the different interfaces in HDSDR that control the SDRplay, and I figured out the issue. SDRplay's ExtIO driver assumes the user will want to reduce the amount of gain in the receiver, where I want as much as I can get for working satellites. After making some changes, I successfully worked another AO-73 pass this morning. I made two QSOs, with Leo W7JPI in southern Arizona and Brad KG7NXH a few miles/km southeast of me in the Phoenix area. Other than the normal delay I hear from the SDR receiver and software (I hear the same sort of delay when I use my FUNcube Dongle Pro+), the SDRplay receiver did a good job. As I have done when using my FUNcube dongle, I made an RF recording of this pass in HDSDR. That WAV file is big - for an 8:35 recording, it was about 450 MB in size. I also made an audio recording, in the same way I would if I used my second FT-817ND as the downlink receiver - audio splitter plugged into the tablet, feeding audio to both my headset/mic and Sony digital audio recorder. With these tablets, I find that the performance of HDSDR is very poor when it is trying to write both AF and RF recordings. Since I can make an AF recording away from the tablet, I let HDSDR do the RF recording. The default bandwidth used by the SDRplay receiver is 1.536 MHz. It can go up to 8 MHz, but my tablets have issues when the bandwidth is more than the 1.536 MHz default value. When I work our satellites, whether using my tablets or a laptop, I'll probably go with the 200 kHz bandwidth. This is all I really need, and this will help keep the RF recordings from taking over the drives in the tablets and laptop. :-) I have been posting more details about how I have been using the SDRplay to work satellites in a QRZ.com satellite forum thread. That thread is at: https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/sdrplay-as-satellite-downlink-rece… My HDSDR RF recording, along with screenshots and photos of my station, I have put them in my Dropbox space, accessible at: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6nl39qjkfyw5y5h/AADynnchNPayKAnU0XYwl3TCa?lst I am not planning on selling my FUNcube Dongle Pro+. It is still a good SDR receiver for working our satellites. It is smaller than the SDRplay, it works with the FUNcube Dashboard software, and sales of the dongle support the FUNcube project. It is nice that there is another SDR device that is showing promise as a downlink receiver for our satellites, and at a reasonable price. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK

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(no subject)
by Mvivona 30 Aug '15

30 Aug '15

What is the recommended PC program to plot a grid square map of satellite QSOs? Michael Vivona Sent from my iPad

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satpc32 registration code
by Douglas Phelps 30 Aug '15

30 Aug '15

I have a registered version of SATPC32. I installed on a new computer but cannot find my registration number. Is there a way to read my registration number from my licensed and running SATPC32? DougK9DLP

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KX9X/p August Grid Trip - Logs Uploaded
by Sean K. 30 Aug '15

30 Aug '15

Hi all- All the logs from my grid trip last week have been uploaded to LOTW. Sean Kutzko Amateur Radio KX9X

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Re: [amsat-bb] Fw: SATPC32 Error Help
by Erich Eichmann 30 Aug '15

30 Aug '15

First UNZIP the downloaded file into an empty folder. Then right click on the file name "setup" and choose the option "Run as administrator", even if you are the administrator. Under Windows 7 and higher the Windows Explorer displays the content of the ZIP file. That is no extraction, hower, and clicking on "setup" causes the errro message. In the Windows Explorer look for the extraction button to extract the ZIP file. 73s, Erich DK1TB Am 30.08.2015 um 18:00 schrieb Douglas Phelps: > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > *From:* Douglas Phelps <dphelps1(a)ameritech.net> > *To:* AMSAT BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> > *Sent:* Sunday, August 30, 2015 10:59 AM > *Subject:* SATPC32 Error Help > > I have tried 6 times to install SATPC32c in my Windows 10 > computer. Everything looks fine until shortly before the install > is finished I get the error contained in the attachment. > > When I click OK, it jumps to finish but after I click on finish, > the program is not installed. Any ideas? > > > > > > >

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SATPC32 Error Help
by Douglas Phelps 30 Aug '15

30 Aug '15

I have tried 6 times to install SATPC32c in my Windows 10 computer. Everything looks fine until shortly before the install is finished I get the error contained in the attachment. When I click OK, it jumps to finish but after I click on finish, the program is not installed. Any ideas?

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LAPAN-A2/ORARI update?
by Andrew Glasbrenner 30 Aug '15

30 Aug '15

Would one of our Indonesian friends be able to give us an update on the upcoming launch of their satellite? I see from https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto <https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie= UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Forari.web.id%2Fwp%2F%3Fpage_id%3D950&edit-text> &tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Forari.web.id%2Fwp%2F%3Fpag e_id%3D950&edit-text= and https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1 <https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&p rev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://orari.web.id/wp/%3Fp age_id%3D920&usg=ALkJrhhkj1M9f01VohQw3ivG4ZohC_hTRQ> &hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://orar i.web.id/wp/%3Fpage_id%3D920&usg=ALkJrhhkj1M9f01VohQw3ivG4ZohC_hTRQ that they are preparing for a launch at the end of September. This seems to line up with the Astrosat PSLV-XL C30 launch. I can't decipher if it is just for A2, or for LAPANSAT-ORARI, or if the satellites have been combined now? Is http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=152 still correct as to modes and frequencies? If the 650km, 8 degree inclination orbit is still correct, this will be a very interesting satellite for those below 30 degrees N and S latitudes, but unusable for those further north. 73, Drew KO4MA

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share a room
by Nick Pugh K5QXJ 30 Aug '15

30 Aug '15

I will be attending the symposium in Dayton. I would like to share room expenses. If you are interested please email me off line Thanks nick Office 337 593 8700 Cell 337 258 2527 Helping UL become a world Class Engineering and Educational School Disagree I Learn

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