February 2018 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

Maintenance depot or individual to repair an ICOM IC-821
by Mac A. Cody 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Hello, A fellow ham in my radio club has an ICOM IC-821 that has developed a problem. The transmit power on 2M has dropped from its nominal 45 Watts to 18 Watts. He has already attempted to obtain service through ICOM and some other repair services without success. Is anyone aware of a repair outlet or an individual that is knowledgeable of the IC-821 in order to perform repairs? 73, Mac Cody / AE5PH

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Test
by Luciano Gasparini 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Test only.

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FUNcube data Warehouse outage
by David Johnson 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Hi, We had a short outage this morning between 10:00 - 11:00 UTC. There was fault with the web application running out of resources, we have been running without a break for some time :-) Server restarted and dashboards are sending their backlog and of course scores are being updated (realtime providers may look a bit strange as the warehouse collects out of sequence packets from users) 73 - Dave, G4DPZ

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AO73/FUNcube-1 Mode
by Graham Shirville 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Hi All, AO73/FUNcube-1 is now in continuous amateur mode until Sunday. Have fun with the transponder. 73 Graham G3VZV

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FO-29 with Troop 287
by Robert Bond 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

I will be working the Sept 12 7:39 pm EST (Sept 13 00:39Z) pass of FO-29 (that's all that's passing over during the Scout meeting) with Troop 287. I'm giving them an intro to the Radio Merit Badge and was going to do a satellite demo. It's a bit of a low pass and over the Atlantic at that, but we will be listening and hopefully make a QSO. Thanks, Robert Bond - KM4YSC

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Re: [amsat-bb] SATPC32 Doppler.sqf file
by Rick Tejera 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Brian, are you dying you do not see the frequencies when selecting AO-91 or 92 o that the satellites are not available to view? Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Brian Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2018 15:26 To: AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] SATPC32 Doppler.sqf file Still learning how to master the SatPC32 program. It looks like I need to update the Doppler.sqf file as AO-91 and AO-92 do not show up. Does anyhow have an up to date SatPC32.sqf file ? Thank you Brian, KG8CO _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

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Help needed with Sat32PC, GS-232 rotor interface.
by butch alline 11 Feb '18

11 Feb '18

I am trying to set up a rotor interface using an Arduino and a Yaesu GS-550. The Arduino interface by Tom Doyle W9KE is shown here <http://www.tomdoyle.org/simplesatrotorcontroller/SimpleSatRotorController.h…>. It shows up at Com 3 in device manager. My problem is that when I uses Sat32PC > setup > rotor, there are no com port choices, only LPT printer ports, as shown here: In addition, when I go to hints rotor > Yaesu - GS232, I get nothing! The other hints for ARS, DDE, etc. do show up. Any and all help appreciated. Butch K8KO

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AO-92 mode L/V over Europe
by IW1DTU Fer 11 Feb '18

11 Feb '18

worked several stations: IK8XLD IZ5ILX EA4CYQ IU2EFA SQ5KTM IZ1ERR DC7KOW IU1IEK G0IIQ SP5MG ON4CJQ ts-790 10w on L band, Satpc32, 14 elements loop yagi V pol, 7+7 rhcp-lhcp on 2m band great signals, lot of fun, thanks to AO-92 team 73 Fer IW1DTU

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AO-92 L/V Mode
by alex weimer 11 Feb '18

11 Feb '18

Perry: I made a recording of you and others on this last pass of AO-92 L/V Mode !! Emailed it to you 73 JACK KC7MG

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AO92L/V mode
by Perry Yantis 11 Feb '18

11 Feb '18

I was surprised that I had a decent signal into AO92 using L/V mode with only 11 degrees elevation max!!!Next pass will be higher at 40 degrees elevation so signals will be even better!!! Perry WB8OTH em-89mv py41(a)att.net sent from my Apple Macbook Pro

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