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Re: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 and Satellites Question
by Erich Eichmann 09 Aug '19

09 Aug '19

Hi Alan, check whether one of the selected sats is a geostationary one, e.g. QO-100, which does not rise and set but is continously in range. When I add QO-100 to the 'Selected' list, the Countown window does no longer sort the sats by their AOS/LOS times (but in alphabetical order). My friend LX1BB reports the same observation. 73s, Erich, DK1TB Am 09.08.2019 um 12:03 schrieb Alan Blind via AMSAT-BB: Umesh Here is the path the SatPC32 installer defaulted to. - :\Program Files (x86)\SatPC32\SatPC32ISS.exe" Another observation. When I use one of the groups included in the SatPC package, it sorts in the order of AOS. However, when I customize a group by adding new Sats, the customized list no longer sorts?? Alan On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 12:09 AM k6vug(a)sbcglobal.net <k6vug(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Works fine here, > > the only thing I can think of is that, I hope SatPC32 is NOT installed > under any Windows folders like Program Files 32 or Documents etc. > > Umesh > k6vug > > > On Thursday, August 8, 2019, 10:21:07 AM PDT, Alan Blind via AMSAT-BB < > amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> wrote: > > > New to Satellites and SatPC32. > > Question - On the “CountDown” accessory, there are two buttons for > sorting > the list. I prefer to select “AOS/LOS Times”. When I select, the list > stays in the “Ident/Letters” order. > > What am I doing wrong? > _______________________________________________ > 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: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > _______________________________________________ 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: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

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Re: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 and Satellites Question
by Alan Blind 09 Aug '19

09 Aug '19

Umesh Here is the path the SatPC32 installer defaulted to. - :\Program Files (x86)\SatPC32\SatPC32ISS.exe" Another observation. When I use one of the groups included in the SatPC package, it sorts in the order of AOS. However, when I customize a group by adding new Sats, the customized list no longer sorts?? Alan On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 12:09 AM k6vug(a)sbcglobal.net <k6vug(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Works fine here, > > the only thing I can think of is that, I hope SatPC32 is NOT installed > under any Windows folders like Program Files 32 or Documents etc. > > Umesh > k6vug > > > On Thursday, August 8, 2019, 10:21:07 AM PDT, Alan Blind via AMSAT-BB < > amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> wrote: > > > New to Satellites and SatPC32. > > Question - On the “CountDown” accessory, there are two buttons for sorting > the list. I prefer to select “AOS/LOS Times”. When I select, the list > stays in the “Ident/Letters” order. > > What am I doing wrong? > _______________________________________________ > 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: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-08-09 04:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 08 Aug '19

08 Aug '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-08-09 04:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Kyoto Tachibana Junior & Senior High School, Kyoto, Japan, direct via 8N3KT The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact was successful: Thu 2019-08-08 10:36:37 UTC 56 deg (***) Loreto College, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, telebridge via IK1SLD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be IRØISS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV (***) Contact is go for: Thu 2019-08-15 09:17:06 UTC 53 deg Watch for live stream at www.ariotti.comstarting about 15 min before AOS. The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For many years I have on purpose not given the actual hyperlinks; I assume the user would do a copy/paste into their favorite browser. I am now thinking that the browsers have all grown up and most should be able to handle the link. Please let me know you experience any issues. So now you should be able to directly click on the link. (***) Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2019-08-09 04:00 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-08-09 04:00 UTC. (***) http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts. Applications should be addressed by email to: school.selection.manager(a)ariss-eu.org ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application. Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. For the application, go to: http://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd(a)gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss(a)iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) http://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ ****************************************************************************** ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n(a)amsat.org or aj9n(a)aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8Ø MHz. ******************************************************************************* All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting. Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts. If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke(a)sbcglobal.net The HamTV webpage: https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 (***) Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 120 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed, and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1326. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1269. (***) Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correctio… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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SatPC32 and Satellites Question
by Alan Blind 08 Aug '19

08 Aug '19

New to Satellites and SatPC32. Question - On the “CountDown” accessory, there are two buttons for sorting the list. I prefer to select “AOS/LOS Times”. When I select, the list stays in the “Ident/Letters” order. What am I doing wrong?

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Re: [amsat-bb] AMSAT 50th Award
by David Bartholomew 08 Aug '19

08 Aug '19

Thank you, I will get on it. BTW, I know those special signed goldenrod certificates for the other award (50th Anniversary Communications Achievement) are probably long gone, but is the award itself still available? Dave AD7DB KI7UNJ wrote: David, To apply for this award, visit the AMSAT 50th Anniversary Award section in the AMSAT Online Store and select the 50th Anniversary AMSAT Satellite Friends of 50 Award. https://www.amsat.org/product/50th-anniversary-amsat-satellite-friends-of-5… In the comment section, enter or copy and paste the required log information, which must include: (1) Date, (2) UTC time, (3) Satellite name, and (4) Station worked. KI7UNJ

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Full Duplux Radio?
by Brad Smith 08 Aug '19

08 Aug '19

Does anyone know if the Wouxin 8D radio is capable of full duplux for satelite use? Brad Smith KC9UQR

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sonate satellite
by Larry Fields 07 Aug '19

07 Aug '19

Just curious has anyone heard anything from it yet and if not how soon do they normally make it mentioned. Just checking *Thanks and 73* *Larry Fields: du1/n6hpx* Manila PHILIPPINES Retired from Federal Government MSC Pac Office:(63)46-571-5687 cell: (63)916-756-7781 owner: https://boxchiptt.com/ https://www.facebook.com/n6hpx1 AMSAT Facebook Member ======================================================= LICENSED HAM RADIO OP: DX1PRS GROUP 145.340 mhz DX1PAR HF NET 7095.00 khz & 7143.00 khz ======================================================== DU1/N6HPX:QRX DX1PAR 7095 DX1PRS 7165 khz evening DX1PRS 145.340 mhz DX1L 431.9, SIMPLEX 144.6, FRS 462.550 2M 144.225 SSB , APRS n6hpx(-08) HT ============================================================= SATELLITE: APRS N6HPX-2 GATEWAY #Note:I listen to APRS

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Yaesu G-5500 rotor control box
by JOEL KANDEL 07 Aug '19

07 Aug '19

Has anyone ever been successful in just purchasing the control box without the rotor motor? If please let me know how to go about it. Thank you in advance. Joel, KI4T Traveling at 300,000,000 meters per second

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question for G5500DC owner
by ok2gz 07 Aug '19

07 Aug '19

I need to buy G5500 rotator. But now Yaesu produces G5500 with DC motors only, instead of AC in previous versions. My question is for owner of the new G5500 with DC motor. When DC motor in G5500 is working (turning) ,will noise increase in reciever (detectably, noticeably, can be weak)? (or other kind of interferece ?) Which kind of DC motor is in G500 used ? - with commutator, or brushless ? I am asking, because I had bad experience with some DC rotator (but it was not from YAESU!). I have experience with G5500 which has AC motors. There is no problem.. 73 Jarda ok2gz --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com

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Re: [amsat-bb] Help with Spid rotor setup on Satpc32
by Richard Gussow 07 Aug '19

07 Aug '19

Hi Everyone, I wanted to thank Erich and the rest of the members here for the help in getting my Alpha Spid rotor working with SatPC32. Erich's responses solved the problem and the rotor and software are now working together. Rich 4Z1JJ On Tuesday, August 6, 2019, 11:58:18 PM GMT+3, Erich Eichmann <erich.eichmann(a)t-online.de> wrote: Hi Rich, after choosing AlphaSpid in the list of supported controllers press the UPPER 'Store' button. I suppose you clicked the 'Store' button at the bottom of the menu. Try that again, then restart SatPC32. If it still works SatPC32 will start ServerSpid and display it as symbol in the taskbar. Click on the symbol to display the program normally for further settings (COM port etc.) If that doesn't work (because you used already the 'Search' button): The file you need is ServerSpid.exe in the sub folder Spid of the SatPC32 program folder. To choose it open menu 'Rotor Setup' and click 'Search'. Then navigate to C:\Program Files(x86)\SatPC32\Spid\ServerSpid.exe and double click on the file name. Then click the upper Store button and restart SatPC32. The attached screenshot shows the path to ServerSpid.exe on this Laptop. 73s. Erich, DK1TB Am 06.08.2019 um 20:11 schrieb Richard Gussow: Hi Erich, First of all, thank you for developing such a great program. Secondly, thank you for personally responding to my query. Sorry my reply is a bit delayed, but work took priority (I guess I have the wrong priorities). I chose AlphaSpid and stored that, exited the program through File/Quit. I restarted and that didn't work. I then used the Search button located in the Rotor Setup menu. It came up with 2 files under the Spid directory: ROTSERVPOS.SQF and SPIDPARAM.SQF. I selected the first one, stored, exited and upon restart, I received the message that it could not find file ROTSERVPOS.EXE. I then selected the second one, and upon restart I received a message that it could not find SPIDPARAM.EXE. I did a search of my PC and could not find either of these files anywhere. Should they have been installed during the setup? Should I do a reinstall of the program? Any suggestions from you or anyone else on the great forum would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Rich 4Z1JJ On Monday, August 5, 2019, 10:54:50 PM GMT+3, Erich Eichmann <erich.eichmann(a)t-online.de> wrote: Hi Rich, The LPT ports are only used with the old parallel port interfaces (IF-100, FODTrack etc.). Open the list of supported rotor controllers at the top of menu 'Rotor Setup' and choose item 'AlfaSpid'. 73s, Erich, DK1TB Am 05.08.2019 um 21:00 schrieb Richard Gussow via AMSAT-BB: > Hi everyone, > I was wondering if someone can help me with an issue I am having with setting up Satpc32 and my Spid Ras rotor. SatPC32 asks for a parallel port of 1-4 in the set up menu, while the Spid Ras controller set up a serial port (com port 8 in my case). How do I reconcile the two? > Thanks, > Rich4Z1JJ > _______________________________________________ > 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: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

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