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symec and go-32
by nader omer 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Hello Sion So you are suffring from the same problem . still i have no solution and no clear answer! i asked w0sl once via echo mail , but he had no clear solution,he mentioned this problem happened to a canadian ham too . i hope we can get an answer take care 73 de Nader - st2nh "9w2qc(a)9w2qc.net" <9w2qc(a)9w2qc.net> wrote: Hello Nader, I have read your posting on the amsat-bb regarding your symek tnc3s refuses to upload any message to go-32. I am having the same problem as you do. I can request for a directory fill and messages too, but just dont seem to get an uplink. Just wonder if you have came out with a solution for this? It is ok here too with AO-51. BTW, I am running WISP to work AO-51 and GO-32. Sorry for disturbing and many thanks in advance. 73, Sion Chow Q. C., 9W2QC. >From: amsat-bb-bounces(a)amsat.org on behalf of nader omer >[st2nh(a)yahoo.com] >Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 12:34 PM >To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org >Subject: [amsat-bb] seting sprint/symec tnc > Hello all > (My first post to Amsat-bb with two questions) > 1- I need a help to setup the sprint2 TNC (satellite version) for satellite work (ao-51 >go-32) > I got confuse from the manual and the jumpers > 2- My symek tnc3s refuses to upload any message to go-32 but it is ok to down load any >message or update the directory .it is ok with ao-51 > 73 de Nader > st2nh --------------------------------- Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited.

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AO-07 healthy CW
by Mineo Wakita 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

I heard CW (145.972MHz) from AO-07. http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/61114a07.wav 80 seconds --------------------------------------------- Name: Mineo Wakita / JE9PEL, JAMSAT member Mail: ei7m-wkt(a)asahi-net.or.jp URL : http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/ QTH : Yokohama Japan, GL:pm95tj Date: Nov 14, 2006 ---------------------------------------------

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AO-27 status?
by David 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Hello all: I am a AO-27 user from Madrid Spain. I remember some months ago I read a email telling that the AO-27 was going in eclipse and this email is to ask if the eclipse season is over. Is the satellite operative again?. If not... when the Control team expects to have it operative. I have tried this weekend with no success. My last QSO was in May 2006. 73 de David EB4DEH

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Re: satpc32help---Meaning of [Brackets] after Sat names?
by Hal Pressman 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

As an almost daily user of morning FO-29 passes, I am confused and concerned about these brackets and how they will affect my use of Satpc32? I read Erichs' post and have switched to using Amsat as the source file for my Keps but I notice that when I use the AOS program to project and print my pass list, the Sat names still contain the brackets. Erich, I and I am sure other SatPC32 users would appreciate further explanation of what this bracket system is all about and a step by step correct way to use it with SatPC32. I have been extremely pleased with the good results I've had with the SSB Sats using SatPc32 and don't want to disturb my success because of these brackets. I have been away from home for several weeks and would also like to know when this new system began and why? Thanks and 73s Hal Pressman KD8SY Amsat #25698

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FYI: Virginia Commercial Space Port
by Arthur Feller 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/13/AR200611130… Anybody have some good contacts with these folks?? 73, art..... W4ART Arlington, VA Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind! - Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher and writer (1821-1881)

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SatPC32
by Arlon Nelson 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hi Anyone out there using SatPC32 and a Icom 910. I would like a copy of the DOPPLER.SQR files showing FO-29 and VO-52. Thanks Nels W0TUP

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Journal Articles
by Ed Long 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hi Gang, It's that time again. If you have any articles for the November/December issue of The AMSAT Journal please let me know. I have some content already and to those authors - thank you! I'm always looking for more. I'll begin editing what I have so far over the next several days. Regular contributors - please get going! 73 and thanks to all, Ed Long WA4SWJ Editor, The AMSAT Journal

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satpc32
by Nick Pugh 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Thanks to all who responded nick

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Trakbox and Parking Frequency.
by Vincenzo Mone 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hi to the list, it is a while that I've noticed that my trakbox when it terminated to track the satellites it should put my radio in parking frequency which should be: RX_Freq : 1296.500 TX_freq : 144.800 But I always get: RX_Freq: 1296.499.9 TX_freq: 144.800 How you can see, the RX_Freq is 1 Hz down. I've tried to set the RX_Freq to 1296.501 But when it parks, it goes to: 1296.500.9 Can anybody explain me what happens? Thanks in advance. 73 de Enzo IK8OZV EasyLog 5 BetaTester EasyLog PDA BetaTester WinBollet BetaTester D.C.I. CheckPoint Regione Campania Skype: ik8ozv8520 *************************************** ***** GSM +39 338 9749786 ***** ***** SMS +39 338 9749786 ***** ***** FAX +39 328 7244294 ***** *** 2nd e-mail: vimone(a)tin.it *** ***************************************

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Re: satpc32 help
by Keith N4ZQ 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

-- "Erich Eichmann" <erich.eichmann(a)t-online.de> wrote: Alan and Nick, SatPC32 reads the CAT data for a particular satellite from the aux. file Doppler.SQF which can be opened and edited from the menu "?", "Auxiliary Files". The spelling of the satellite's name in this file must exactly match the spelling in the Keps file. For the program FO-29 [+] is another satellite than FO-29. Therefore it will not use the FO-29 data with FO-29 [+]. Which begs the question, why don't the tracking software writers use the catalog number number instead of the satellite name? There was a time, I believe it was UO-11, that I found it listed under 5 different names. Depending on who's Keps list you downloaded. It seems to me that the catalog number remains constant and if used, it wouldn't matter what name they attached to it. Is there a reason why the name has to be used? Keith N4ZQ

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AO-51 V/S, 6-12 November 2006
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

Hi! Although I didn't get on the air as much as I had hoped to during the past week with AO-51 in the V/S configuration, I was able to work 5 passes and make contacts on all 5 passes. One pass on Sunday (6 November) night to the east, 3 on Saturday (a morning pass to the east, then two passes in the evening - one to the east, the other to the west), followed by one pass Sunday morning to the east. I made a total of 18 QSOs, a few more than my total from the last AO-51 V/S week in late August/early September when I made 14 QSOs. I used the same setup as I did in early September, with a pair of HTs, my Arrow Antennas 2m/70cm handheld Yagi for the uplink along with the dipole/corner reflector on my downconverter for the downlink. I worked stations across the USA, 3 Canadians (1 VE3, 2 VE6s), and one Mexican in this configuration. I missed a demonstration on Friday night with Andy K0SM and his radio club, but had the chance to work K0SM twice on Saturday. Two of the passes had a maximum elevation of 14 degrees, one was in the mid-30s, and the other two were around 55-65 degrees. AO-51's S-band downlink is easy to hear, but with the simple dipole on my downconverter I was having to turn it 90 degrees periodically to keep up with the signal along with pointing it in the general direction of the satellite. It's not critical to have the antenna pointed exactly at AO-51, but it doesn't hurt. I've heard that computer control really makes this more enjoyable :-) but there is something to be said for a portable V/S operation where I don't have to put a laptop and the cables to connect to at least one radio to do this. Especially when away from home (the Sunday morning pass was done from a nearby city park, with a better view of the sky and not so close to the mountains that ring Phoenix, along with being in two grids). Now I need to look at other options for the S-band antenna, besides the dipole/corner reflector, to see about improving my receive setup. Transmit is easy enough at 2m with an HT and the handheld Yagi. I was getting compliments on my 5W signals up to the satellite, and heard a couple of others comment on the low power they were also using on their uplinks. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK - Phoenix, Arizona USA http://www.wd9ewk.net/

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satpc32 help
by Nick Pugh 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

On the satellite menu some of the sats have brackets [ ] with + and - signs in them. What does the brackets and signs indicate? thanks nick

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Re: Station Control Help
by John Champa 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

At 2.4 GHz, I suspect a poor connection suffering from some thermal effect. Suggestion: Check all connections. Are you using any nickel platted connections? If so, change them to silver connectors or gold pin connectors. Apply a connector lubricant such as Caig Laboratories ProGold Connector Enhancer available from some better Radio Shacks, and carefully re-seal them. John Champa, K8OCL >From: "Bob Bruninga " <bruninga(a)usna.edu> >To: "Greg D." <ko6th_greg(a)hotmail.com>, gary_mayfield(a)hotmail.com, >amsat-bb(a)amsat.org >Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Station Control Help >Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:39:10 -0500 (EST) > >Interesting. No, I have no clue, and my data is only empirical. I hope my >link still gets bettere as more leaves fall... > >Bob > >----------------- >Hi Bob, Joe, > >This is very interesting; I have the reverse situation. My home internet >connection is from a wireless ISP who uses 2.4 ghz 802.11b Wi-Fi equipment. >The run from my house to his central antenna is about 3/4 mile, with a gain >omni on his end, and a grill on mine. There are a few trees that we're >shooting through, trunks mostly, aiming between the fluffy stuff. I've had >this setup for several years now, and by far most of my problems with >service are in the fall. Rain is not a factor (it doesn't really start >raining much here until winter sets in). Not the leaves (they're falling >not growing). Not anything I can put my finger on. I'd love to understand >why. Any ideas? > >Greg KO6TH > > >_______________________________________________ >Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

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Re: Station Control Help
by Bob Bruninga 11 Nov '06

11 Nov '06

Interesting. No, I have no clue, and my data is only empirical. I hope my link still gets bettere as more leaves fall... Bob ----------------- Hi Bob, Joe, This is very interesting; I have the reverse situation. My home internet connection is from a wireless ISP who uses 2.4 ghz 802.11b Wi-Fi equipment. The run from my house to his central antenna is about 3/4 mile, with a gain omni on his end, and a grill on mine. There are a few trees that we're shooting through, trunks mostly, aiming between the fluffy stuff. I've had this setup for several years now, and by far most of my problems with service are in the fall. Rain is not a factor (it doesn't really start raining much here until winter sets in). Not the leaves (they're falling not growing). Not anything I can put my finger on. I'd love to understand why. Any ideas? Greg KO6TH

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Station Control Help
by Gary "Joe" Mayfield 11 Nov '06

11 Nov '06

Howdy, Is there an email reflector for remote station control? I am looking into remote controlling some radios via Ethernet. I need to create a point to point Ethernet connection of a mile or so. I am especially interested in using 900 MHz to go through rather than over the trees. I can find lots of antennas, but very few Ethernet to 900Mhz radios. My new QTH has many trees around the house (great for HF wires - bad for satellite) I have another chunk of land not far from here which is pretty much in the clear. Thanks and 73, Joe kk0sd

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Surplus JPL parts at Sphere
by G. Beat 11 Nov '06

11 Nov '06

If you ever wondered where spare parts from previous space projects have been going lately, here is a collection of parts from the Jet Propulsion Labs (JPL) at Sphere. You can read from the tags of JPL space projects. Sphere indicates that none of these parts are rejected, just obsolete parts, spares, surpluses. Many marked as "Space qualified or Flight spare" Galileo, Tiros, Topex, STFL, TIFN http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/jpl-parts.html If not usable for your latest home satellite project -- some would make great Christmas ornaments ! Greg w9gb

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2006 Micro-DXpedition to Cambodia
by Thailand Amateur Radio Satellites Corporate 11 Nov '06

11 Nov '06

Sawasdee Krab, Announce the 2006 Micro-DXpedition to Cambodia. Team members Champ C. Muangamphun XU7ADE : E21EIC (HF-CQWW CW) Bruce E. Ault XU7ADF : AA4XR/HS0ZCY (HF-CQWW CW) Narongdej Gomonrat XU7ADK : E21YDP (RTTY and PSK-31) Part P Wissawaplanont XU7ADL : E20PFE (HF) Supong Sakchoowong XU7ADM : E21QEB (UHF-Satellite) Tanan Rangseeprom XU7ADN : HS1JAN (VHF-Satellite and 6m) Noppadol Nimwanadon XU7ADP : HS5IGY (VHF-Satellite and 6m) We will operate from Sihanouk Ville (aka: Kampong Som), Southern Cambodia. We will operate from Nov 23 to Nov 29, 2006 Freq: 160m-10m (+WARC), 6m, 2m and 70cm Mode: CW, SSB, RTTY, PSK-31, FM and Satellite. More infomation will up to website: www.tamsat.org/xu7 We make a souvenir for the fund for this DXpedition. It's Yellow T-Shirt (100% cotton) (see picture) B.Width A.Length size: L 21" 28" size: XL 22" 29" size: XXL 24" 30" (Man's European) Price : 150 Baht/each (Pse +25 Baht for postage fee) For Oversea: $17/each (include postage fee) Contact: Champ - E21EIC Tel: 081-4967611 or E-mail: e21eic(a)arrl.net I can bring T-shirt to next RAST meeting on Dec 3, 2006 Thank you very much for support new Thai-hams to learn more Amateur Radio and DXing! Thank you very much for make more activity of Ham Radio by Thai-Hams. 73, Champ, E21EIC/XU7ADE Team Leader _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

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Re: WiFi accelerator !
by Tony Langdon 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

At 11:42 PM 11/10/2006, Eric Christensen wrote: >Wow! I wonder if that would work on our S-band gear?!? j/k Might make you sound like Donald Duck on amphetamines... ;) 73 de VK3JED http://vkradio.com

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Re: New Computer Application
by G0MRF＠aol.com 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

Hi. Perhaps telling us how this new application relates to amateur radio satellites would prevent me from just pressing delete? Thanks David In a message dated 10/11/2006 20:40:30 GMT Standard Time, sco(a)sco-inc.com writes: I have a new web based application that is almost ready for commercial sale. It has been developed by another programmer of mine. You are welcome to register and set up a personal account and use it. It is FREE for now. It will be $9.95/year to use. Now I need more people to use it and let me know what they think of it. Look at the page I am going to use on my Log Window website where i have a link to my favorite links. The user can do this themselves, no need to pay a programmer or webmaster to do it for you (except to create the link code from your website to the links page). http://myweblinks.cc/elink.aspx?suid=logwindow If you want to create your own links page go to www.myweblinks.cc . Les W4SCO

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New Computer Application
by sco＠sco-inc.com 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

I have a new web based application that is almost ready for commercial sale. It has been developed by another programmer of mine. You are welcome to register and set up a personal account and use it. It is FREE for now. It will be $9.95/year to use. Now I need more people to use it and let me know what they think of it. Look at the page I am going to use on my Log Window website where i have a link to my favorite links. The user can do this themselves, no need to pay a programmer or webmaster to do it for you (except to create the link code from your website to the links page). http://myweblinks.cc/elink.aspx?suid=logwindow If you want to create your own links page go to www.myweblinks.cc . Les W4SCO

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Houston AMSAT Net
by Bruce 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

Sorry for the computer glitch that kept the net off the air this past Tuesday and my forgetting to set it up at all the previous Tuesday. On November 21, we will move from the 145.31 repeater in Houston to the 145.47 (pl 123.0) repeater located atop Memorial/Hermann Hospital Southwest. We used this repeater years ago. It has since been repaired and is back in normal operation. 73...bruce -- Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards ARRL Awards Manager (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on W0KIE Intelsat Americas, T1, 6.2/6.8Mhz Also streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News http://www.arrl.org

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Last two passes for PJ4/K0NR
by Bob Witte K0NR 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

For those of you that tried to work me today on the 1556 UTC Nov 9 SO-50 pass, I didn't catch any stateside contacts. I was there but didn't acquire the downlink soon enough. (Seems to be a challenge near the horizon...probably operator error on my part.) I will be on for the 0237 UTC Nov 10 pass tonight trying to work a couple of YV stations. I've got one more solid pass tomorrow at 1444 UTC Nov 10th. No AO-51 passes for me as I don't have the right gear to work the scheduled mode. Thanks to all that have tried to work me down here. 73, Bob PJ4/K0NR

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New Item at the AMSAT Online Store
by Bruce 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

For those that were unable to attend the 24th AMSAT-NA Space Symposium in San Francisco, California this year, the proceedings are now available online at the AMSAT Store. You can purchase your copy and with a credit card conveniently online and have it sent to your door. It is full of interesting topics. In fact, 284 pages and almost two pounds of interesting stuff. Order yours today at the AMSAT Online Store http://www.amsat.org 73...bruce AMSAT Store Manager -- Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards ARRL Awards Manager (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on W0KIE Intelsat Americas, T1, 6.2/6.8Mhz Also streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News http://www.arrl.org

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IT time
by w7lrd＠comcast.net 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Hello Running IT on a P4 computer with XP. The time gets really messed up. I have to reload IT very often to be accurate. Any ideas? 73 Bob W7LRD Seattle

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Amateur Radio in ITV1 Pride of Britain TV Program
by Trevor 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Amateur Radio in ITV1 Pride of Britain TV Program On Tuesday 7th November ITV1 showed the Pride of Britain Awards in which the Teacher of the Year award was given to Head Teacher, Linda Davies who has made going to school an out-of-this world experience for pupils at Wiltshire's Neston Primary School. They were the first school in Britain to speak to an astronaut in space using Amateur Radio during a ten-minute question and answer session from their moonbase-themed classroom. Head Teacher Linda Davies was awarded for her work in promoting Science at Neston Primary School in which Amateur Radio played a vital role. The Amateur Radio contact with the International Space Station (ISS) helped inspire the young people at the school to take an interest in science. ARISS and members of AMSAT-UK arranged the contact. The Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) provided the GB4FUN radio communications van. The Radio Amateurs that took part in the ISS contact were Charles Riley G4JQX (on the mic), Howard Long G6LVB and Carlos Eavis G0AKI who manages the RSGB GB4FUN van. Of these only Charles G4JQX actually appeared in the video clip shown in the programme. For those that missed the programme the video can be seen at http://www.g6lvb.com/Neston/NestonPOB.mpg (41.6Mb) http://www.g6lvb.com/Neston/NestonPOBLo.mpg (12.7Mb) Additional information on the Neston ISS contact can be found at AMSAT-UK - ARISS - Contact with Neston School http://www.uk.amsat.org:8080/ariss/Recent_QSOs/Neston/default.php AMSAT-UK - ARISS - Neston School Audio, Video and Press Cuttings http://www.g6lvb.com/Neston/index.htm Information on how a contact with the Astronauts on the ISS can be arranged for your school, college or university can be found at http://www.uk.amsat.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid… RSGB GB4FUN Radio Communications Van http://www.gb4fun.org/ Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS-EU) http://www.ariss-eu.org/ AMSAT-UK produces a newsletter Oscar News packed full of Amateur Satellite information. For membership details contact the secretary Jim Heck G3WGM Tel: +44 (0)1258 453959 Email: g3wgm(a)amsat.org Web: http://www.uk.amsat.org/ 73 Trevor M5AKA --------------- Daily Amateur Radio RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email your news items to: editor at southgatearc.org News On Your Website: http://www.southgatearc.org/rss/index.htm News On Your PC: http://www.southgatearc.org/rss/newsreader.htm Upload Your News: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/your_news.htm --------------- Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: SO-50 under-utilized over North America
by John Mock KD6PAG 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

> SO-50 is one of the sats that I am going to try out because all I have > is an FM handie-talkie. I've built an (admittedly heavy!) antenna > which is a 6 element 70cm beam and a 4 element 2m beam joined > together, but I'm not sure if it will have enough gain for SO-50, my > H/T will only do about 4W max, and if possible I'd like to run it at > 0.5 or 1.5W to extend the battery life. Good. That should give you gain comparable to an Arrow, that is, about 10dBi at 70cm and 6dBi at 2m. Be careful how you feed it; as you will probably need a diplexer if you not using different radios for transmit and receive. > I noticed your signature line "Satellite QRPer" so I thought you might > know if I ought to be able to transmit only 1/2W and have a reliable > QSO. In the absence of QRM, 1.5W should be enough to work both coasts with your antenna and you will probably do fine with 1/2W. I doubt if you'll need 4W. I rarely run more than 1W myself (and generally only when i'm roving and want to make sure i don't miss anyone). >> transcontinental passes on SO-50 > What does that mean? I'm looking at a pass for example which is at > 00:20 tonight EST, which goes South to North just west of Florida > right overhead Ottawa. Is that what you meant by a transcontinental > pass? I don't think that pass covers the West Coast, but the next one does: Thu 09Nov06 07:16:45 07:23:00 07:29:20 00:12:36 256 322 30 21.4 Ottawa Thu 09Nov06 07:10:15 07:16:00 07:21:40 00:11:25 166 109 52 14.6 SFBay SO-50 07:16:45 07:21:40 4.9 min overlap (Thu 02:16 EST/23:10 PST) Transcontinental are passes on which both the East Coast and West Coast can be heard. On the West Coast, that's an azimuth between about 20 and 160 degrees; on the East Coast, between 200 and 340 degrees. (Over the middle of the US, these would then be overhead passes.) You can also ascertain this information graphically if your satellite prediction program offers a map as well as numeric displays. (The one that i use only does this in real-time, and not for predictions.) > Anyway I've got the radio all programmed up and ready to go. The next > reasonable pass that I will be able to try is the one on Saturday > morning at 8:20am EST. It comes to me from the West and so it should > be very busy by the time it gets to me... anyway I'll have a go! I looked at that pass and it doesn't quite reach the West Coast, as i have it as being only 7 degrees in Denver, Colorado, Sat 11Nov06 13:24:09 13:30:56 13:37:55 00:13:46 323 230 147 86.6* Ottawa Sat 11Nov06 13:22:56 13:27:33 13:32:19 00:09:24 348 32 76 7.1 Denver SO-50 13:24:09 13:32:19 8.2 min overlap (Sat 08:24 EST/06:22 MST) and a bit early at that. So there won't be many people on out west. But if you are able to work that pass, come back in about an hour and a half, as then you should be able to work California if at least part of your western horizon is clear (and there's anyone on to listen -- i'll try for that pass): Sat 11Nov06 15:05:42 15:10:59 15:16:20 00:10:38 303 252 201 11.2 Ottawa Sat 11Nov06 15:01:49 15:07:02 15:12:19 00:10:30 348 39 90 10.1 SFBay SO-50 15:05:42 15:12:19 6.6 min overlap (Sat 10:05 EST/07:01 PST) I'll try to be on Thursday morning, albeit that's a more difficult pass and you will need a good western horizon: Thu 09Nov06 15:47:37 15:52:27 15:57:25 00:09:47 299 254 207 8.8 Ottawa Thu 09Nov06 15:43:17 15:48:50 15:54:23 00:11:06 346 41 95 12.0 SFBay SO-50 15:47:37 15:54:23 6.8 min overlap (Thu 10:47 EST/07:43 PST) Starting on Monday, AO-51 should be back in mode J-FM, and being in a sun- sychronous orbit, its approximate times don't change more than a couple of hours from day to day. SO-50's schedule drifts alot, and during the first half of November, it's going to be on mostly in the middle of the night. You can get a graphical display of their schedules for your location by going to: http://www.qsl.net/kd6pag/GraphSched Don't forget to specify your local time zone. 73's and good luck! -- KD6PAG

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seting sprint/symec tnc
by nader omer 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Hello all (My first post to Amsat-bb with two questions) 1- I need a help to setup the sprint2 TNC (satellite version) for satellite work (ao-51 go-32) I got confuse from the manual and the jumpers 2- My symek tnc3s refuses to upload any message to go-32 but it is ok to down load any message or update the directory .it is ok with ao-51 73 de Nader st2nh --------------------------------- Sponsored Link Mortgage rates near historic lows: $150,000 loan as low as $579/mo. Intro-*Terms

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AO-40/P3D galleries
by Robert McGwier 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

I have begun the large upload of AO-40 galleries. More will follow. Thanks again to the MANY people who have contributed these photos for our widespread distribution. http://n4hy.smugmug.com/AMSAT/250592 Bob N4HY -- AMSAT Director and VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR WG Chair "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." - Einstein

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Re: SO-50 under-utilized over North America
by Tony Langdon 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

At 09:24 AM 11/9/2006, Martin Gillen wrote: >Hi, John. > >I'm in Ottawa, and I'm new to satellites. > >SO-50 is one of the sats that I am going to try out because all I have >is an FM handie-talkie. I've built an (admittedly heavy!) antenna >which is a 6 element 70cm beam and a 4 element 2m beam joined >together, but I'm not sure if it will have enough gain for SO-50, my >H/T will only do about 4W max, and if possible I'd like to run it at >0.5 or 1.5W to extend the battery life. > >I noticed your signature line "Satellite QRPer" so I thought you might >know if I ought to be able to transmit only 1/2W and have a reliable >QSO. Well, I have worked satellites in the past (specifically UO-14, when it was active) with 0.25W and a 2 element Yagi. When the uplink is quiet, your 0.5W will work fine. However, both contention from hams and foreign QRM will increase the uplink requirements considerably. In any case, give it a whirl! :-) 73 de VK3JED http://vkradio.com

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Re: SO-50 under-utilized over North America
by Martin Gillen 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Hi, John. I'm in Ottawa, and I'm new to satellites. SO-50 is one of the sats that I am going to try out because all I have is an FM handie-talkie. I've built an (admittedly heavy!) antenna which is a 6 element 70cm beam and a 4 element 2m beam joined together, but I'm not sure if it will have enough gain for SO-50, my H/T will only do about 4W max, and if possible I'd like to run it at 0.5 or 1.5W to extend the battery life. I noticed your signature line "Satellite QRPer" so I thought you might know if I ought to be able to transmit only 1/2W and have a reliable QSO. Also: > transcontinental passes on SO-50 What does that mean? I'm looking at a pass for example which is at 00:20 tonight EST, which goes South to North just west of Florida right overhead Ottawa. Is that what you meant by a transcontinental pass? > If you're east of the Mississippi, you'll be especially welcomed on transcontinental SO-50 passes. Why? I am East of the Mississippi :) Anyway I've got the radio all programmed up and ready to go. The next reasonable pass that I will be able to try is the one on Saturday morning at 8:20am EST. It comes to me from the West and so it should be very busy by the time it gets to me... anyway I'll have a go! 73 Martin.

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Trakbox and Parking Frequency
by Vincenzo Mone 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Hi to the list, it is a while that I've noticed that my trakbox when it terminated to track the satellites it should put my radio in parking frequency which should be: RX_Freq : 1296.500 TX_freq :144.800 But I always get: RX_Freq: 1296.499.9 TX_freq: 144.800 How you can see, the RX_Freq is 1 Hz down. I've tried to set the RX_Freq to 1296.501 But when it parks, it goes to: 1296.500.9 Can anybody explain me what happens? Thanks in advance. 73 de Enzo IK8OZV EasyLog 5 BetaTester EasyLog PDA BetaTester WinBollet BetaTester D.C.I. CheckPoint Regione Campania Skype: ik8ozv8520 *************************************** ***** GSM +39 338 9749786 ***** ***** SMS +39 338 9749786 ***** ***** FAX +39 328 7244294 ***** *** 2nd e-mail: vimone(a)tin.it *** ***************************************

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Office Closed
by MARTHA SARAGOVITZ 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

The AMSAT Office will be closed on Friday, November 10th in observance of Veteran's Day. Martha Saragovitz AMSAT Manager

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Mirage D1010ATVN
by VE3CJE 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

I am looking at buying a 440 amp for future satellite uplink. Used to have Mirage D1010 but I no longer have it and have been looking at a Mirage D1010ATVN, is this a good choice or should I look for another Mirage D1010? Norman.

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Doppler tracking wrong..
by Luc Leblanc VE2DWE 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

I always want to know why my doppler tracking program is never right. Always off by a couple a khz. Here is the explanation... could be not the right one for me but it helps in rejecting the blame on Einstein... Here is the link http://www.imakenews.com/symmntp/e_article000690350.cfm?x=b8nmCb1,b4dqlMly "-" The medium is the message...The content is the audience...;) Luc Leblanc VE2DWE WAC basic,CW,Phone,Satellite Skype VE2DWE www.qsl.net/ve2dwe

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71GHz
by David Barber 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Ofcom has today published provisions for opening the 71-76GHz and 81-86GHz bands for licensed use which will increase the opportunities for broadband fixed wireless services. Further details can be found at: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/71-86ghz/statement/ "Ofcom will permit the operation of the Amateur and Amateur Satellite allocations on a primary basis within the upper guard band of the 71-76 GHz block i.e. 75.875-76 GHz band. Amateur and Amateur Satellite use between 75.5 - 75.875 GHz will be permitted on a secondary basis."

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Correct battery numbering on AO-51's battery tray?
by Douglas Quagliana 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Hi, I'm working on my own version of an AO-51 telemetry program and I'd like to be able to correctly identify the batteries in the battery tray by their assigned numbers. Does anyone know the correct numbering of the batteries in the battery tray? For example, which battery is battery number one? number two? and so on up to six? If you don't know what this is all about, you can see the AO-51 testing battery tray at http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/echo/integration.php (scroll down to the sixth photo) and what is presumably the AO-51 flight battery tray is pictured at http://n4hy.smugmug.com/gallery/2106604/2/108837840 and also a later picture of the flight battery tray is at this link (put it all on one line in your browser) http://bach.as.arizona.edu/gallery/v/chuck/echo/ The_Stack/Chuck_3_144.jpg.html the latter apparently taken later since the "blue goop" appears in the same shapes but additional "white goop" has been added. :-) So, how are the batteries numbered? Bonus points if you can identify what the colored "goops" are. Douglas KA2UPW/5

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ECHO's of the past
by Robert McGwier 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Partial Echo galleries, all sources are several times bigger than this. Thanks to Chuck and Dick and others. Again, let me remind you that it is much easier to upload these pictures than to caption them. That will take longer. The AMSAT's have an amazing history. Continue to enjoy and remember how difficult our joint enterprise is and just how much we need to all work together to succeed. http://n4hy.smugmug.com/AMSAT/250591 Bob N4HY -- AMSAT Director and VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR WG Chair "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." - Einstein

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More galleries
by Robert McGwier 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

The larger anniversary celebrations for AMSAT-NA and AMSAT-DL are captured in my galleries: http://n4hy.smugmug.com/AMSAT/250476 AO-40 and AMSAT ECHO (HUGE HUGE HUGE) are next. Again, thanks to W4PUJ for his packrat nature! Enjoy. Bob N4HY -- AMSAT Director and VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR WG Chair "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." - Einstein

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PJ4/K0NR on SO-50
by Bob Witte K0NR 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Just to let you know, I've had pretty good luck with working stations on SO-50 from PJ4. I usually catch the best afternoon pass for grid FK52UE (around 1600-1730 UTC). I will not be on the air Tuesday, but Wed/Thurs/Fri should be OK. Let me know if you need a sked. 73, Bob PJ4/K0NR bob at k0nr.com

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Trakbox upgrade kit - 4X speed up.
by Don Ferguson 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

I have a few sets of upgrade parts for the original Tapr Trakbox to convert it to a Trakbox Turbo at 4 times the processing speed. This allows faster tracking of higher frequency doppler shift and generally improved communication with computers. The kit includes new 2X processor (80c320), faster eeprom, faster address latch, double speed Xtal. The new prom is already loaded and all chips are tested in one of my Trakboxes before I send them. The price is right and I will include all documentation. I will offer support to assist with questions. Email me if there is any interest. Don kd6ire at donferguson dot net

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Re: Trakbox and Parking Frequency.
by Richard＠g3rwl.demon.co.uk 05 Nov '06

05 Nov '06

IK8OZV wrote: > it is a while that I've noticed that my trakbox when it terminated to track the satellites it should put my radio in parking frequency which should be: RX_Freq : 1296.500 But I always get: RX_Freq: 1296.499.9 Maybe your RIT or XIT is not set to zero !! 73 Richard G3RWL So many beautiful girls, (sigh) so little time

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Trakbox and Parking Frequency.
by Vincenzo Mone 05 Nov '06

05 Nov '06

Hi to the list, it is a while that I've noticed that my trakbox when it terminated to track the satellites it should put my radio in parking frequency which should be: RX_Freq : 1296.500 TX_freq :144.800 But I always get: RX_Freq: 1296.499.9 TX_freq: 144.800 How you can see, the RX_Freq is 1 Hz down. I've tried to set the RX_Freq to 1296.501 But when it parks, it goes to: 1296.500.9 Can anybody explain me what happens? Thanks in advance. 73 de Enzo IK8OZV EasyLog 5 BetaTester EasyLog PDA BetaTester WinBollet BetaTester D.C.I. CheckPoint Regione Campania Skype: ik8ozv8520 *************************************** ***** GSM +39 338 9749786 ***** ***** SMS +39 338 9749786 ***** ***** FAX +39 328 7244294 ***** *** 2nd e-mail: vimone(a)tin.it *** ***************************************

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For Sale 23cm up converter for AO-51
by Frank viggiano 05 Nov '06

05 Nov '06

23cm up converter for AO-51 or future sats. DEM1268-14TLC is a 1268MHz up-converter, 144MHz IF, 20mW output, this complete KIT is $200.From DEM I started to build but got a Kenwood TS2000 with 23CM. So... All parts, instructions, schematics etc are 100% This unit is complete kit with very little work completed. $140 shipped. Firm Thanks DE KB2MVN Frank

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L&S Band goodies on ebay
by w7lrd＠comcast.net 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

Hello For those interested I am still trying to peddle some antennas via ebay. http://stores.ebay.com/W7LRD-Antennas-and-Equipment_W0QQsspagenameZMEQ3aFQ3… 73 Bob W7LRD Seattle

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Re: AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 1, Issue 229
by Karl Sandstrom 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Karl R. Sandstrom, K5MAN W5YI Volunteer Examiner Greenwell Springs, Louisiana k5man(a)arrl.net / k5man(a)amsat.org ----- Original Message ----- From: <amsat-bb-request(a)amsat.org> To: <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 4:55 AM Subject: AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 1, Issue 229 > Send AMSAT-BB mailing list submissions to > amsat-bb(a)amsat.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > amsat-bb-request(a)amsat.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > amsat-bb-owner(a)amsat.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of AMSAT-BB digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Handheld of Choice... (Luciano G. Nachif) > 2. Trakbox and Parking Frequency. (Vincenzo Mone) > 3. Florida AMSAT Net for tonight (David J) > 4. WTB 435 MHZ Mast Mounted preamp (Jeff Kelly) > 5. FM HT (jack) > 6. Re: Handheld of Choice... IC-W32 desense problem (Stefan Wagener) > 7. Re: HITSAT Nov 1 (Mineo Wakita) > 8. D700 issues (Tim Tapio) > 9. Re: D700 issues (Paul Lenharr II) > 10. Re: AO-51 SSB/FM mode (jtowler) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 16:35:41 -0400 > From: "Luciano G\. Nachif" <nachif(a)terra.com.br> > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Handheld of Choice... > To: "amsat-bb" <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> > Message-ID: <J84EJH$3F97BCFD489997C0FC2CA6A8F777F9F0(a)terra.com.br> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > All, > > I had an Icom IC-W32A for about year and a half. I tried that with either > an Arrow or a Premier AL800 antennas and NEVER was able to work AO-51 or > any other satellite. It was quite difficult to hear a bird on 70cm > downlink. I never heard my return. > Upon trying satellite work it was noticed that one of the receivers was > not as good as the other. One can do it by simply tuning both receivers to > the same distant repeater. > I'm glad Icom has put an end to that HT and hope that the company will > come up with a new unit which will give us a chance to forget a word: > "FRUSTRATION" > > Best 73, > > Luciano Gasparini > PT9KK > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 21:57:47 +0100 > From: "Vincenzo Mone" <vimone(a)alice.it> > Subject: [amsat-bb] Trakbox and Parking Frequency. > To: "Amsat - BBs" <amsat-bb(a)Amsat.org> > Message-ID: > <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAaDWdrmjgEUaXdMxSY3dXLMKAAAAQAAAAdbAEYGcJYUK5UomMP0I1YAEAAAAA(a)alice.it> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Hi to the list, > it is a while that I've noticed that my trakbox > when it terminated to track the satellites > it should put my radio in parking frequency which should be: > > RX_Freq : 1296.500 > TX_freq :144.800 > > But I always get: > > RX_Freq: 1296.499.9 > TX_freq: 144.800 > > How you can see, the RX_Freq is 1 Hz down. > I've tried to set the > RX_Freq to 1296.501 > But when it parks, it goes to: > 1296.500.9 > Can anybody explain me what happens? > Thanks in advance. > > 73 de Enzo IK8OZV > EasyLog 5 BetaTester > EasyLog PDA BetaTester > WinBollet BetaTester > D.C.I. CheckPoint Regione Campania > Skype: ik8ozv8520 > > > > > *************************************** > > ***** GSM +39 338 9749786 ***** > ***** SMS +39 338 9749786 ***** > ***** FAX +39 328 7244294 ***** > *** 2nd e-mail: vimone(a)tin.it *** > *************************************** > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 16:31:38 -0500 > From: "David J" <n4csitwo(a)bellsouth.net> > Subject: [amsat-bb] Florida AMSAT Net for tonight > To: "AMSAT-BB" <AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org>, "AMSAT-FLORIDA" > <AMSAT-FLORIDA(a)amsat.org> > Message-ID: <001401c6fec6$4812d010$6402a8c0@DHJ> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Due to technical difficulties with the 443.100 N4HHA repeater, check-ins > in > the Orlando area should listen for tonight's Florida AMSAT Net on either > the > KE4TTE 442.100 MHz repeater or the K4SLB 444.450 MHz repeater. I will use > the 442.100 freq. as net control. If I have any problems linking into that > machine, the 444.125 WD4HIM repeater will be my backup. > > > > Dave, AA4KN > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:10:02 -0500 > From: "Jeff Kelly" <jkelly(a)bellatlantic.net> > Subject: [amsat-bb] WTB 435 MHZ Mast Mounted preamp > To: <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> > Message-ID: <000e01c6fecb$a574a8a0$6401a8c0@master> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Looking for a working 435 MHZ MM preamp. > > Please contact me off list: > > jkelly(a)bellatlantic.net > > > thanks, > > Jeff > KT2K > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:20:41 +1100 > From: jack <vk2trf(a)bigpond.net.au> > Subject: [amsat-bb] FM HT > To: amsat-bb <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> > Message-ID: <1162506041.2845.53.camel@LINUX01> > Content-Type: text/plain > > I have 2 Kenwood TH-79A duplex HTs . Work great for AO51 and use them > portable all the time. No problem hearing the downlink. Can be set for > simplex or full duplex. > -- > VK2TRF > QF56oe > P5 or nothing > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 16:30:26 -0600 > From: "Stefan Wagener" <stefan_wagener(a)hotmail.com> > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Handheld of Choice... IC-W32 desense problem > To: "'Luciano G. Nachif'" <nachif(a)terra.com.br>, "'amsat-bb'" > <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> > Message-ID: <BAY107-DAV5BC0A3F07BC1CA425C579F6FF0(a)phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Good point. > > The "second" generation of IC-W32A had and still have a horrible desense > problem. Not at all useful for full duplex on the birds. Sold mine > quickly. > > Stefan VE4NSA > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: amsat-bb-bounces(a)amsat.org [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Luciano G. Nachif > Sent: November 2, 2006 2:36 PM > To: amsat-bb > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Handheld of Choice... > > All, > > I had an Icom IC-W32A for about year and a half. I tried that with either > an > Arrow or a Premier AL800 antennas and NEVER was able to work AO-51 or any > other satellite. It was quite difficult to hear a bird on 70cm downlink. I > never heard my return. > Upon trying satellite work it was noticed that one of the receivers was > not > as good as the other. One can do it by simply tuning both receivers to the > same distant repeater. > I'm glad Icom has put an end to that HT and hope that the company will > come > up with a new unit which will give us a chance to forget a word: > "FRUSTRATION" > > Best 73, > > Luciano Gasparini > PT9KK > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 09:26:36 +0900 > From: "Mineo Wakita" <ei7m-wkt(a)asahi-net.or.jp> > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: HITSAT Nov 1 > To: <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> > Message-ID: <002b01c6fede$b96cade0$92aefea9@yourdesomzjynu> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-2022-jp"; > reply-type=original > > > HITSAT CW Telemetry Decoder > http://www.dk3wn.info/sat/afu/sat_hitsat.shtml > > AOS Primary Secondary > 0515 5.820 8.828 > 0515 7.539 8.828 > 0515 7.539 8.828 > 0648 7.539 8.711 > 0648 7.578 8.672 > 0648 7.539 8.672 > 1555 7.500 8.633 > 1555 7.500 8.594 > 1727 7.500 8.320 > 1727 7.500 8.320 > > Image of the analysis: > http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/61101hit.jpg > > --------------------------------------------- > Name: Mineo Wakita / JE9PEL, JAMSAT member > Mail: ei7m-wkt(a)asahi-net.or.jp > URL : http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/ > QTH : Yokohama Japan, GL:pm95tj > Date: Nov 3, 2006 > --------------------------------------------- > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 20:47:29 -0500 > From: "Tim Tapio" <tim(a)timtapio.com> > Subject: [amsat-bb] D700 issues > To: <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> > Message-ID: <000301c6feea$05ded5d0$4101a8c0@D6Z67P91> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Trying to set up D700 as a Satgate, so far, can't seem to copy aprs > traffic > off the air. List doesn't show anything although I am able to hear plenty > of traffic. I transmitted a beacon and status reports. Probably have > something set wrong. Using radio A for data. > > > > Would someone be willing to send me a setup file so I might see what I'm > doing wrong? > > > > 73 de Tim, K4SHF > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 21:23:46 -0500 > From: "Paul Lenharr II" <kb3nds(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: D700 issues > To: "Tim Tapio" <tim(a)timtapio.com> > Cc: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org > Message-ID: > <c6c9f2f20611021823v9cb19f0qa5a8abdc1f95d2d4(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Try this site. > Works like a charm! > > http://www.aj3u.com/aprs/tm-d700.php > > 73, > Paul > > On 11/2/06, Tim Tapio <tim(a)timtapio.com> wrote: >> >> Trying to set up D700 as a Satgate, so far, can't seem to copy aprs >> traffic >> off the air. List doesn't show anything although I am able to hear >> plenty >> of traffic. I transmitted a beacon and status reports. Probably have >> something set wrong. Using radio A for data. >> >> >> >> Would someone be willing to send me a setup file so I might see what I'm >> doing wrong? >> >> >> >> 73 de Tim, K4SHF >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite >> program! >> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >> > > > > -- > Paul D. Lenharr II (KB3NDS) > Six Club Member #2350 > "Pain is temporary, Pride is forever!" > Charles County Tactical Response Team > NREMT-I, Firefighter, Haz-Mat Technician > Department of Homeland Security Instructor > (301) 399-9504 > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 10 > Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 23:10:03 +1300 > From: "jtowler" <jtowler(a)xtra.co.nz> > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 SSB/FM mode > To: <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> > Message-ID: <008801c6ff30$3ee50f70$0201a8c0@AFOX> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I've been busy doing "other things", but have just seen the email messages > about the V(USB)/U(FM) Mode. > > So, gave it a go just now on the 09:40 UTC, 3rd November pass as AO-51 > went > just a little West of New Zealand. > > I was able to work VK2ZAZ, Geff, in New South Wales, Australia, from here > in > Wellington, New Zealand. > > Very cool giving it a go. Thanks to the AO-51 ops. > > I used Nova to watch the pass and display the rotator settings, which I > was > changing manually. (Must get around to building the interface for that :-) > > Used Ham Radio Delux to Doppler-tune my Kenwood TS-2000. Set to also > support > manual, so I could adjust the transmit a little to keep my pitch sounding > OK. > > As others have noted, including the message below, some very extreme level > changes in the receive signal. > > At times, fully quieting the FM receive, but then dipping right away to no > copy, and then fading back again. > > This is not something I have heard when AO-51 is in the more normal FM/FM > mode. > > Regards, > Jim, ZL1TYF. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: amsat-bb-bounces(a)amsat.org >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Isao SEKI >> Sent: Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:33 p.m. >> To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org >> Cc: Isao SEKI >> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 SSB/FM mode >> >> Fades suddenly comes and I feel that modulation >> of FM down signal is shallow. >> >> Isao / JM1WBB >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of >> the author. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur >> satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >> > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via amsat-bb(a)amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > > End of AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 1, Issue 229 > **************************************** >

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D700 issues
by Tim Tapio 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Trying to set up D700 as a Satgate, so far, can't seem to copy aprs traffic off the air. List doesn't show anything although I am able to hear plenty of traffic. I transmitted a beacon and status reports. Probably have something set wrong. Using radio A for data. Would someone be willing to send me a setup file so I might see what I'm doing wrong? 73 de Tim, K4SHF

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Re: Kenwood TS-2000 settings
by Jerry W 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Nick, Check Menus: 48 set for Main & Sub 50C set for at least 7 50E set for Main or Sub depending on which "receiver" your using 50F Set for 1200bps 55 OFF (Internal TNC) 56 if your going to use CAT control, set that for the same speed as the software your using. HTH, Jerry - K0HZI

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Re: AO-51 SSB/FM mode
by jtowler 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

I've been busy doing "other things", but have just seen the email messages about the V(USB)/U(FM) Mode. So, gave it a go just now on the 09:40 UTC, 3rd November pass as AO-51 went just a little West of New Zealand. I was able to work VK2ZAZ, Geff, in New South Wales, Australia, from here in Wellington, New Zealand. Very cool giving it a go. Thanks to the AO-51 ops. I used Nova to watch the pass and display the rotator settings, which I was changing manually. (Must get around to building the interface for that :-) Used Ham Radio Delux to Doppler-tune my Kenwood TS-2000. Set to also support manual, so I could adjust the transmit a little to keep my pitch sounding OK. As others have noted, including the message below, some very extreme level changes in the receive signal. At times, fully quieting the FM receive, but then dipping right away to no copy, and then fading back again. This is not something I have heard when AO-51 is in the more normal FM/FM mode. Regards, Jim, ZL1TYF. > -----Original Message----- > From: amsat-bb-bounces(a)amsat.org > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Isao SEKI > Sent: Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:33 p.m. > To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org > Cc: Isao SEKI > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 SSB/FM mode > > Fades suddenly comes and I feel that modulation > of FM down signal is shallow. > > Isao / JM1WBB > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of > the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur > satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >

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ts 2000 Help
by Nick Pugh 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Hi List I am trying to connect the ts 2000 to the sound card via the ACC2 plug pin 3 and 4 and unable to get any audio out. Is there a software switch or something else I am over looking? thanks nick

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Re: HITSAT Nov 1
by Mineo Wakita 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

HITSAT CW Telemetry Decoder http://www.dk3wn.info/sat/afu/sat_hitsat.shtml AOS Primary Secondary 0515 5.820 8.828 0515 7.539 8.828 0515 7.539 8.828 0648 7.539 8.711 0648 7.578 8.672 0648 7.539 8.672 1555 7.500 8.633 1555 7.500 8.594 1727 7.500 8.320 1727 7.500 8.320 Image of the analysis: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/61101hit.jpg --------------------------------------------- Name: Mineo Wakita / JE9PEL, JAMSAT member Mail: ei7m-wkt(a)asahi-net.or.jp URL : http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/ QTH : Yokohama Japan, GL:pm95tj Date: Nov 3, 2006 ---------------------------------------------

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Re: Handheld of Choice...
by Luciano G. Nachif 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

All, I had an Icom IC-W32A for about year and a half. I tried that with either an Arrow or a Premier AL800 antennas and NEVER was able to work AO-51 or any other satellite. It was quite difficult to hear a bird on 70cm downlink. I never heard my return. Upon trying satellite work it was noticed that one of the receivers was not as good as the other. One can do it by simply tuning both receivers to the same distant repeater. I'm glad Icom has put an end to that HT and hope that the company will come up with a new unit which will give us a chance to forget a word: "FRUSTRATION" Best 73, Luciano Gasparini PT9KK

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FM HT
by jack 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

I have 2 Kenwood TH-79A duplex HTs . Work great for AO51 and use them portable all the time. No problem hearing the downlink. Can be set for simplex or full duplex. -- VK2TRF QF56oe P5 or nothing

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WTB 435 MHZ Mast Mounted preamp
by Jeff Kelly 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Looking for a working 435 MHZ MM preamp. Please contact me off list: jkelly(a)bellatlantic.net thanks, Jeff KT2K

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Florida AMSAT Net for tonight
by David J 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Due to technical difficulties with the 443.100 N4HHA repeater, check-ins in the Orlando area should listen for tonight's Florida AMSAT Net on either the KE4TTE 442.100 MHz repeater or the K4SLB 444.450 MHz repeater. I will use the 442.100 freq. as net control. If I have any problems linking into that machine, the 444.125 WD4HIM repeater will be my backup. Dave, AA4KN

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Trakbox and Parking Frequency.
by Vincenzo Mone 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Hi to the list, it is a while that I've noticed that my trakbox when it terminated to track the satellites it should put my radio in parking frequency which should be: RX_Freq : 1296.500 TX_freq :144.800 But I always get: RX_Freq: 1296.499.9 TX_freq: 144.800 How you can see, the RX_Freq is 1 Hz down. I've tried to set the RX_Freq to 1296.501 But when it parks, it goes to: 1296.500.9 Can anybody explain me what happens? Thanks in advance. 73 de Enzo IK8OZV EasyLog 5 BetaTester EasyLog PDA BetaTester WinBollet BetaTester D.C.I. CheckPoint Regione Campania Skype: ik8ozv8520 *************************************** ***** GSM +39 338 9749786 ***** ***** SMS +39 338 9749786 ***** ***** FAX +39 328 7244294 ***** *** 2nd e-mail: vimone(a)tin.it *** ***************************************

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Handheld of choice...
by Tim Tapio 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

What's the best handheld for use on the FM sats? How about portable/mobile? Fixed station?? 73 de Tim, K4SHF

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Prospero not heard
by john heath 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Hi Thanks to those who supplied interesting information on this thread. I monitored three passes today (Monday) 08:17, 11:46 and 13:28. Nothing heard and nothing visible in the Spectran waterfall display. I only have a modest station. 5el X yagi. Be interesting to see if anyone with a n EME standard receiving set up could detect anything. Any takers ?? 73 John G7HIA

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Re: AO-51 SSB/FM mode
by Isao SEKI 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Fades suddenly comes and I feel that modulation of FM down signal is shallow. Isao / JM1WBB

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SSTV via VO-52
by Tony 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

All: I'll be QRV SSTV next VO-52 pass (orbit 8080) @ 03:22z. Downlink 145.920 + / - doppler. Tony KT2Q

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Florida AMSAT Net
by David J 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

The Florida AMSAT Net will meet this Thursday evening at the usual time of 19:30 ET, 23:30 UTC on the West Florida Group Ni4CE repeater system, the Orlando N4HHA repeater at 443.1 MHz, 103.5Hz tone, the N4LEM Cocoa repeater, 147.36 MHz +107.2 PL or connect by echolink to KG4YZY-R. The net's purpose is to provide a platform for hams with amateur satellite interest to meet and discuss topics of interest. All amateurs are invited to join in. PLEASE NOTE: If the N4HHA repeater is not available tomorrow evening, the net will most likely be held on the 444.125 MHz W4AES repeater 103.5 Hz tone access. Dave, AA4KN

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Reinhardt Richter DL1KM - SK
by Emily Clarke 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

I received the following message concerning the passing of Reinhard Richter DJ1KM. I don't know what the complete distribution is, so I thought I should forward it to the BB. If you are not familiar with Reinhard, I first met Reinhard when he was working on the AMSAT-DL Website, most directly he was managing the AO-40 Schedule. He was active on AO-40 and I `had several contacts with him in the short time I was working that bird. 73, Emily >Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:13:09 +0200 >From: Reinhard Richter <r.richter(a)dj1km.de> >Reply-To: Reinhard Richter <dj1km(a)amsat-dl.org> >Organization: - >To: DF3KV Peter Völpel <DF3KV(a)darc.de> >Subject: traurige Nachricht > >Dear friends & OM'S, > >today we have to annouce to You the sad news >that Reinhard Richter (DJ1KM) has passed away >on October 27th, 2006. He will always be present in our hearts. >Inge Richter and family , Lohfeldweg 40, 30459 Hannover

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HITSAT Nov 1
by Mike Rupprecht 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

AOS 0515 UTC Nov, 1 (JN49lr) Hit3 3c4b514a4e4c484a Hit4 95e2d1e6 Hit1 jr8yjt Hit2 b0114163428 Hit3 284a534c5149484c Hit4 c1e2d2e6 Hit1 jr8yjt Hit2 b011420312c Hit3 294d514a4d4b484a Hit4 c1e2d1c4 Hit1 jr8yjt AOS 0648 UTC Nov, 1 (JN49lr) Hit2 b0115462029 Hit3 284b51484e4c4849 Hit4 c1dfd2e6 Hit1 jr8yjt Hit2 b0115501730 Hit3 4b4b41484c4b474a Hit4 c2ded2e6 Hit1 jr8yjt Hit2 b011554112c Hit3 2b4d524b4e49484a Hit4 c1ded1e6 Hit1 jr8yjt AOS 1555 UTC Nov, 1 (JN49lr) Hit3 334f514d52504c4f Hit4 c0ddd1c3 Hit1 jr8yjt Hit2 b0200572441 Hit3 0e52544c54514e4f Hit4 c0dcd1e6 Hit1 jr8yjt AOS 1727 UTC Nov, 1 (JN49lr) Hit3 3a4d524c544e4f50 Hit4 c0d5d1e6 Hit1 jr8yjt Hit2 b020227402c Hit3 2b51524f52504b50 Hit4 c0d5d1e6 Hit1 jr8yjt Hit2 b020231382c Hit3 2c4e534f514f4b4e 73, Mike DK3WN

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Re: AMSAT history
by Eric Rosenberg 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

I am nostalgic, though. I well remember my first Oscar QSOs in the 1970s, the sadness of the P3A launch failure followed by the success of AO-10. Then came the early UoSATs and Jeff Ward's UoSAT-2 (UO-11) Packet gateway, Pacsats and involvement with UoSAT-3 and 4 (the infamous VITASAT, half amateur/half 'commercial'). And on it went through AO-13's launch, which I managed to get telecast live on C-SPAN. Unlike Bob, these days I'm totally out of the satellite business for work or play. I've donated all of my AMSAT publications, videos and the like to the Historic Electronics Museum south of Baltimore. What's left are great memories and continued friendships! 73, Eric W3DQ (ex- WA6YBT , WD3Q) Washington, DC --------------- amsat-bb-request(a)amsat.org wrote: > Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:30:51 -0500 > From: Bob McGwier <n4hy(a)idaccr.org> > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT history > To: Peter Guelzow <peter.guelzow(a)kourou.de> > Cc: amsat bb <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> > Message-ID: <45461AAB.6000700(a)idaccr.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Peter: > > We are all getting older. I find I am more nostalgic than I ever believed I could be. May be it is the current launch environment that has me wanting to go back to the "good old days". > > 73's > Bob > N4HY > > > Peter Guelzow wrote: > >> Bob, >> >> great pictures - thank you!! >> >> Indeed, they give me a few good memories about places I'd like to be and where I have been long time ago.. >> Man, I'm getting old!!!! ;-) >> >> >>> AMSAT has an amazing history. I find the memories are best aided by photo's because I would otherwise probably forget. I have taken all of >>> >>> >>> >> For the same reason I started to upload images of various satellite project into the AMSAT-DL Gallery at: >> >> http://www.amsat-dl.org/pic/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=312 >> >> Got stuck somewhere, but will continue when time permits... >> >> 73s Peter >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >> >> > > >

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HITSAT 1758 UTC
by Mike Rupprecht 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

AOS 1758 UTC Oct, 31 (JN49lr) Hit4 c1dbd1e6 Hit1 jr8yjt Hit2 b0103001547 Hit3 474a4a4a4f4a4a49 Hit4 93dbd1e6 *** Hit1 jr8yjt 73, Mike DK3WN

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HITSAT 1624 UTC
by Mike Rupprecht 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

AOS 1624 UTC Oct, 31 (JN49lr) Hit3 484c4c4a4c494a48 Hit4 c1dfd1e6 Hit1 jr8yjt Hit2 b0101260939 Hit3 374c4c494e4c474a Hit4 c1dfd1e6 Hit1 jr8yjt Hit2 b010130052d 73, Mike DK3WN

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My apologies for multiple messages
by Jason White 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

My email software didn't inform me that it was occurring. 73, Jason

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Re: info on satellite placement
by Robert Bruninga 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

> Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] Re: info on satellite placement > > That is the most lucent simple explanation I could have > imagined. The missing link was the realization the rocket > headed horizontal (or a srequired for a specific orbit). > Obviously the further out, the longer it takes to do a > revolution. I imagine at some point earths gravity will not > be sufficient to hold an object of given mass in a circular orbit? Exactly, If you are at a given altitude and you are going to slow, then your satellite will "fall" towards earth.. But as it falls, it speeds up as it approaches its lowest point (on the other side) and that makes it go higher to arrive back where you are on this side... In otherwords, the circular orbit becomes an elipse with a high side and a low side. Now, If you were at a given altitude and you were going to fast for that altitude, then you would end up going higher on the other side and slower... Again an elipse.... And because it is higher and slower on the other side, it will fall back to where you were in the first place... Again, an elipse. The only problem with going too slow, or going to fast is whether the elongation of your elipse just happens to run into Earth. That makes for a bad day.. Remember, the satellite is orbiting around the CENTER of the Earth and its Gravity. The satellite has no idea how big the "earth" is... So as long as the low point of an eliptical orbit stays about 4500 miles above the center of the earth, then it wont run into earth... But if the low point gets below that, then it runs into earth or the atomsphere and dies... > Or would it have to slow down below the speed limit in weaker gravity? Whatever speed at what ever altitude will always define an eliptical orbit. The only question is, is whether the Earth gets in the way of that elipse... Neat stuff! Bob, Wb4APR > -----Original Message----- > From: amsat-bb-bounces(a)amsat.org > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Robert Bruninga > Sent: Tuesday, 31 October 2006 12:56 AM > To: 'Simon'; Amsat-bb(a)amsat.org > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: info on satellite placement > > > I was wondering if any one can suggest where I might find > > information on "how a satellite" gets placed into orbit. > > I ... can only find that a rocket gets it there. > > Actually, the only thing the rocket does is get it going fast > enough. The only way to stay in orbit is to be going 17,500 MPH > You could orbit the earth at tree-top level if it were not for > air friction which would cause you to loose your speed and hence > fall to the ground. > > So the only thing the rocket does is 1) Get you going fast > enough to stay in orbit, and conicidently, get you a hundred or > so miles above tha atmosphere so you can keep that speed up long > enough to do something useful. > > Notice how the rocket almost immediately starts turning towards > the horizon after launch, because it is horizontal speed that is > what defines an orbit. It does travel upward at first to get to > less dense air friction as soon as possible, but then begins to > head horizontal until 17,500 MPH is achieved. > > > I hope to learn how and when its gets kicked off the rocket, > > and what happens after that. > > Once the rocket gets to 17,500 MPH horizontally at the altitude > you want, that is when you separate the satellite and let it > continue. Usually the rocket uses some left over fule to > slow-down and hence, fall back to earth. > > If you are not perfectly horizontal and not exactly at the right > speed, then your orbit will not be circular but will be an > elipse. AO-40 was launched into a very eliptical orbit to get > out to 40,000 km at apogee for a very large footprint. > Eliptical orbits are just fine, as long as they do not intersect > the earth or the earth's atmosphere. > > I said 17,500 MPH as a representative number. It is different > for each altitude orbit relative to the center of the earth. > Remember that a 500 mile orbit (above the Earth's surface) 1s > 4,500 miles above the center of the Earth. But a 200 mile orbit > is 4,200 miles above the center, so the speed is not that much > different. > > Hope that helps. > Bob, WB4APR > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of > the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite > program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > >

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AO-51 SSB/FM mode
by Alan P. Biddle 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Over the past few days there are more and more people getting on. In a way, it sounds like a traditional linear transponder, with some people exactly on frequency, and most within a 100 Hz or so. It does allow people to break in more easily than the FM mode. One effect becoming more apparent is deep fading in the audio. I am wondering if this is caused by people outside the passband, but near enough to drive down the gain on the uplink? Alan WA4SCA

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OSCAR-11 Report
by Clive Wallis 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

OSCAR-11 REPORT 31 October 2006 OSCAR-11 is back! It was first heard by Peter ZL3TC, at 06:23 UTC on October 18. It had been silent since August 26. During the period 28 September to 30 October, the satellite was heard from 18 to 28 October. Good signals have been heard on most passes, often very strong. Further deterioration of the time/date stamp has occurred. Here is a frame of telemetry captured on 27 October at 08:43:51 UTC. UOSAT-2 060=601033448 000000010001020002030003040004050005060006070007080008090009 100001110000120003130002140005150004160007170006180009190008 20000221000322000023000124000625000726000427000528000A29000B 30000331000232000133000034000735000636000537000438000B39000A 40000441000542000643000744000045000146000247000348000C49000D 50000551000452000753000654000155000056000357000258000D59000C 60800E615FC1620105633305644402651E0C662AC467000168000E69000F The date/time stamp is the block of characters following 'UOSAT-2' having the format YYMMDDWHHMMSS (Year, month, day, day of week, hours, minutes, seconds). The month, shown as '0=' in the date stamp is now in all telemetry frames. When the satellite was heard in August the month, had stuck at 07 and the day had incremented to 60. During the ten day reception period in October, the day had correctly incremented from 51 to 60. While the satellite was silent, it appears likely that the day may have incremented to 99 and then reset to zero. It will be interesting verify this theory on future passes. During the last ten days of beacon transmission the time stamp incremented accurately, and no gain or loss was detected ( within one or two seconds). However, on one occasion, the most significant digit of the hours failed to change from zero to one, although it didn't cause a permanent error. If the satellite continues to operate normally, the beacon should switch ON around 07 November. If nothing is heard, it may be worth listening ten days later, ie. around 17 November. I am indebted Peter ZL3TC, Bob G4VRC, Paul KB5M, and Doug KA2UPW/5 for their reports and for monitoring the satellite. Peter listened for the satellite daily, often during several passes, while it was silent. Many thanks. The status of the satellite, when last heard, was that all the analogue telemetry channels, 0 to 59 are zero, ie they have failed. The status channels 60 to 67 were still working. The spacecraft computer and active attitude control system have switched OFF, ie. the satellite' attitude is controlled only by the passive gravity boom gradient, and the satellite is free to spin at any speed. When telemetry was last received it showed that one of the solar arrays had failed, and there was a large unexplained current drain on the main 14 volt bus. After 22 years in orbit the battery has undergone around 100,000 partial charge/discharge cycles, and observations suggest that it cannot power the satellite during eclipses, or sometimes during periods of poor solar attitude. The watchdog timer now operates on a 20 day cycle. The ON/OFF times have tended to be very consistent. The average of many observations show this to be 20.7 days, ie. 10.3 days ON followed by 10.4 days OFF. However, poor solar attitude may result may result in a low 14 volt line supply, which may cause the beacon to switch OFF prematurely, and reset the watchdog timer cycle. When this occurs, the beacon is OFF for 20.7 days. The Beacon frequencies are - VHF 145.826 MHz. AFSK FM ASCII Telemetry UHF 435.025 MHz. OFF S-band 2401.5 MHz. OFF Listeners to OSCAR-11 may be interested in visiting my website. If you need to know what OSCAR-11 should sound like, there is a short audio clip for you to hear. The website contains an archive of news & telemetry data. It also contains details about using a soundcard or hardware demodulators for data capture. There is software for capturing data, and decoding ASCII telemetry. The URL is www.users.zetnet.co.uk/clivew/ If you place this bulletin on a terrestrial packet network, please use the bulletin identifier $BID:U2RPT126.CWV, to prevent duplication. 73 Clive G3CWV xxxxx(a)amsat.org (please replace xxxxx by g3cwv)

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ISS status??
by Len N9IJ 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Pardon my ignorance, but is ISS still not operating in digital mode? AMSAT status still shows it operational but I've not heard it in weeks. -- Len Revelle N9IJ "My career goal is to retire"

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HITSAT 0718 UTC
by Mike Rupprecht 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

AOS 0718 UTC Oct, 31 (JN49lr) Hit4 c1dcd1e6 Hit1 jr8yjt Hit2 a3116183222 Hit3 244c4a4b4d4c4b49 Hit4 c1dbd1e6 Hit1 jr8yjt Hit2 a311622262c Hit3 2c4c4c4a4d4c4b49 Hit4 bedbd1e6 Hit1 jr8yjt Hit2 a3116261829 73, Mike DK3WN

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PacComTiny2. Help Request
by Vincenzo Mone 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Hi to the list, I have a problem with my Tiny-2 Tnc. When I switch it on I can see the Tnc initialize with All the details the I get the prompt command but Whatever I type or even I give just a carriage return, The cmd: disappear and do not get any reply from the Tnc. Anybody can tell me how to get the prompt command again? It comes out again only if I switch it off and then on again But when I do how explained above I get again the problem. Any help will be really appreciated. 73 de Enzo IK8OZV EasyLog 5 BetaTester EasyLog PDA BetaTester WinBollet BetaTester D.C.I. CheckPoint Regione Campania Skype: ik8ozv8520 *************************************** ***** GSM +39 338 9749786 ***** ***** SMS +39 338 9749786 ***** ***** FAX +39 328 7244294 ***** *** 2nd e-mail: vimone(a)tin.it *** ***************************************

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info on satellite placement
by Fred A Parker 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Does anyone know the formula to tell how much energy it takes to place an object into orbit? Or a software program to calculate this? Fred

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Re: CW from an FM HT
by John W Lee 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

A lot of the time, you don't have to QSY much on CW, so the step isn't all that super important. Just pick a spot and give out a few CQ's. Of course you have to have some other receiver than the HT unless it receives SSB/CW. (I used to get some SSB/CW QSO's on the old birds) Call CQ on CW and get a SSB answer or vice-versa.. Of course at that time most folks could copy CW. 73 John > > I was doing some testing here at home with this. I used an IC-W32A > and IC-T7H > with a straight key plugged into the mic jack on each radio. > Nothing fancy from > the key, just an adapter to fit the 3/32" (2.5mm) jack, and I could > key the > transmitter. When I did this, listening on another radio, I could > hear only the > carrier. No audio was coming from the HTs' built-in mics. > > I might try this on FO-29 this evening, and maybe VO-52. One > additional > drawback with an HT for a CW transmitter is the fact that most HTs > (including these two I tried this morning) have 5 kHz as the > smallest tuning > step. I also have an FT-817ND, but I only have one of those > radios. > Otherwise, I would be trying all of this with a pair of FT-817s and > making > some CW and SSB contacts. > > 73! > > > Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK >

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LA/W5ACM on AO-51
by Andrew Glasbrenner 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

I worked Andy just now on AO-51 VHF SSB/ UHF FM as he is cruise ship portable in EL63. It takes dedication and skill to work this mode portable, and I'm happy to have made the QSO with him. 73, Drew KO4MA

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WTB M2 2 meter eggbeater
by Jeff Kelly 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Looking for a M2 2 meter Eggbeater antenna with radials if anyone has one for sale. Jeff KT2K

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Lots of activity on AO-51 SSB uplink
by OZ1MY 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Hi all, Lots of activity this evening on AO-51 2 meter uplink with SSB over Europe. We have a full week to use this mode :-) 73 OZ1MY Ib

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HITSAT 1826 UTC
by Mike Rupprecht 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

after voltage recovery AOS 1829 UTC Oct, 30 (JN49lr) Hit4 c0d5d1e6 Hit1 jr8yjt Hit2 a3103295730 Hit3 0e4c4d4c4d4a494d Hit4 c1d5d2e6 Hit1 jr8yjt 73, Mike DK3WN

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AMSAT history
by Robert McGwier 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

AMSAT has an amazing history. I find the memories are best aided by photo's because I would otherwise probably forget. I have taken all of the photo's I have, and have been given to me by others (primarily Dick Daniels) and placed them into a my picture repository at smugmug. I have a photo history, incomplete, of the Project Oscar and AMSAT-NA work, whether or not it was secondary or primary with the exception of ECHO/ AO-51, which was our fifth microsat. It is amazing to go back and see the earliest days when Jan King, Dick Daniels, Perry Kline and others did amazing things and to follow the history as it moved forward into the "Karl Meinzer era" beginning with Oscar 7 and continuing into Phase3A and then into the successful AO-10. These photo galleries are available here: http://n4hy.smugmug.com/AMSAT and are subdivided into missions and further subdivided by events or focus. I have not yet collected photo's for the space missions: SAREX and ARISS that involve AMSAT work. I will be trying to do that as well. I will periodically post updates when I complete captioning of these pictures or add a significant new body of pictures to the missions. Please, if you can provide a caption for a photo, send it to me with the link. Bob N4HY -- AMSAT Director and VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR WG Chair "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." - Einstein

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info on satellite placement
by Simon 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Hi everybody, I was wondering if any one can suggest where I might find information on "how a satellite" gets placed into orbit. I have had a quick search of the web and can only find that a rocket gets it there. I hope to learn how and when its gets kicked off the rocket (or Shuttle), and what happens after that. How does it loose what momentum the rocket may have given it, and how it then goes into an orbit etc . Any help much appreciated. Thankyou Simon, VK3ZSJ

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Re: ITUNE with Mic-buttons?
by Anthony Monteiro 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

At 08:40 AM 10/29/2006, SV1BSX wrote: >Hi folks, > > during last couple of days I was looking for setup of ITUNE (v1.10) with >an old >RIG by using UP-Down Mic-buttons for Doppler correction. > ... > > But, If I change the command line with "rx", in irder to cover the >Downlink of >FO-29, the ITUNE >does not correspond correctly anylonger! ("itune.cfg" command is now: rx >micbutton 1 435.850 100). >The ITUNE seems to accept the command for FO-29 without any obvious problem, >but the Doppler correction does not work properly (symptom: always ITUNE >trying to correct the frequency, even the Sat is "out of range". Always >"Tuning Complete" LED is OFF !) Hi Mak, I just tried this and it works perfectly. I think you may be confused because it takes a long time to complete the tuning. A mic button radio tunes at a maximum rate of 9 clicks per second. This is the fastest rate that you can reliably tune most radios with the mic buttons. The beacon of FO-29 is 435.795 MHz. If you use your command line: rx micbutton 1 435.850 100 then the radio has to be tuned by 55KHz in 100 Hz clicks which takes more than 1 minute at 900 Hz/Sec. A better command line would be: rx micbutton 1 435.795 100 which will only take a few seconds to complete tuning. ... >And once more question: the Doppler correction is it possible for several >Satellites without changes in "itune.cfg" or just >for this one which included in to command-line of "itune.cfg"? You can set a different radio config command for each satellite if you want to so you never need to have multiple copies of the itune.cfg file. This is mostly useful for micbutton radios so you can set a different start frequency for each satellite. I would suggest starting with the beacon as this will require the least amount of tuning to lock. To do this, just put the radio command line after the satellite transponder info. You can also have a default if you like which will be in effect unless you put something different for a particular satellite. If you have any more questions, please send me email. 73, Tony AA2TX

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FS - UK ONLY - Updated
by Dave G1OCN 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

FT 707 with matching power supply and AMU, with desk microphone for the above. £275:00 Kenwood MC-85 desk microphone. £90:00 ICOM IC1271E 23cms mulitmode £499:00 NETSET PRO 2032 UHF/VHF AM/FM receiver. £25:00 ECHOSTAR SR-50 24cms ATV receiver. £80:00 ATV Callsign generator. Free with above. Two PacComm PicoPacket TNCs. £80:00 each METEOSAT Weather satellite receiver 1700MHz. TIMESTEP Meteosat receiver & pre-amp. Offers. 15, 17 & 19" CRT monitors. Offers Dual band beam 2/70. £50:00 Dual band Omni vertical 2/70. £35:00 Tri-band Omni vertical 6,2 & 70. £50:00 All items in working order. Will consider trade for other equipment. W.H.Y. ? Cheers, Dave. Member of Purple Mug Tour DX Group Serious Operators Having Serious FUN! www.pmtdxgroup.co.uk

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Help Uni-Trac and keps
by Perry Yantis 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Yes I think I have figured it out. I noticed that when I download from Celestial bbs I went to word pad and hit replace. I then told it to replace all "-" with a space. I forgot that there was a "-" in the satellite name and I think that was the problem. After reading a comment on the Amsat bbs I decided to open the amateur.txt in word pad and then hit the replace button. Then I told it to find [-] and replace with 3 spaces, then the do all button. I then repeated this procedure after changing the "-" to "+" and again with "+"being changed to "P". Then I clicked the "save" button. This seemed to work OK so far. When you edit the kep file if you leave out a space or something the txt file no longer works in Uni-trac but does work OK in Nova. That is why I hate to edit the file and up until lately I did not have to with the keps from Celestial bbs. The Amsat keps had a header that had to be edited out until not too long ago when those keps became available in the bare keps (with no header) Also check the satellite names as keps from different bbs have different names for some satellites like Oscar 7. Anyway try this and see if it works for you I just don't know everybodies keps have to be different! Perry WB8OTH Perry Yantis pyantis(a)earthlink.net

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info
by w3vvp 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Was any body on.. when the 0402 pass came up. I listened and heard nothing. George

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VX-1 HT
by John W Lee 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Hello folks, Anybody have a Yaesu VX-1 HT? What I'm trying to find out is how to get it into and out of the program mode, and how to set the P.L. on it. Pse advise if you can help. 73, John, K6YK

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Re: ITUNE with Mic-buttons?
by Anthony Monteiro 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

At 08:40 AM 10/29/2006, SV1BSX wrote: >Hi folks, > > during last couple of days I was looking for setup of ITUNE (v1.10) with >an old >RIG by using UP-Down Mic-buttons for Doppler correction. > ... > > But, If I change the command line with "rx", in irder to cover the >Downlink of >FO-29, the ITUNE >does not correspond correctly anylonger! ("itune.cfg" command is now: rx >micbutton 1 435.850 100). >The ITUNE seems to accept the command for FO-29 without any obvious problem, >but the Doppler correction does not work properly (symptom: always ITUNE >trying to correct the frequency, even the Sat is "out of range". Always >"Tuning Complete" LED is OFF !) Hi Mak, I just tried this and it works perfectly. I think you may be confused because it takes a long time to complete the tuning. A mic button radio tunes at a maximum rate of 9 clicks per second. This is the fastest rate that you can reliably tune most radios with the mic buttons. The beacon of FO-29 is 435.795 MHz. If you use your command line: rx micbutton 1 435.850 100 then the radio has to be tuned by 55KHz in 100 Hz clicks which takes more than 1 minute at 900 Hz/Sec. A better command line would be: rx micbutton 1 435.795 100 which will only take a few seconds to complete tuning. ... >And once more question: the Doppler correction is it possible for several >Satellites without changes in "itune.cfg" or just >for this one which included in to command-line of "itune.cfg"? You can set a different radio config command for each satellite if you want to so you never need to have multiple copies of the itune.cfg file. This is mostly useful for micbutton radios so you can set a different start frequency for each satellite. I would suggest starting with the beacon as this will require the least amount of tuning to lock. To do this, just put the radio command line after the satellite transponder info. You can also have a default if you like which will be in effect unless you put something different for a particular satellite. If you have any more questions, please send me email. 73, Tony AA2TX

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Satgate
by Tim Tapio 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

How does one setup up a TM-D700 to become a Satgate? De Tim, K4SHF

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AO51 with ssb uplink
by DOBarrows＠aol.com 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Worked control operator KE4AZN and Joe, N3PKC on AO51 with the uplink set for ssb on the 0104z pass 10-30-06. The higher power setting on the downlink helped me get my input aligned better. I noticed that my signal was clearer when I set my transmitted signal from upper to lower sideband. Dave W8IJ

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PJ4/K0NR Satellite Operation (Grid FK52)
by Bob Witte K0NR 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

PJ4/K0NR NETHERLANDS ANTILLES. Bob K0NR will be active as PJ4/K0NR from Bonaire (IOTA SA-006, ) from Oct 28 to Nov 9th, SSB and PSK31 on 30M through 6M. Also active on FM OSCAR satellites (Grid FK52). QSL to home call. Bob K0NR bob at k0nr.com

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NOVA: Magnetic Storm
by Robert McGwier 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

There is a really fantastic NOVA on the magnetic fields of Earth and Mars. It is entitled "Magnetic Storm". A regular AMSAT technical contributor and famous magentic field specialist, Mario Acuna, LU9HBG plays a prominent role in the NOVA episode. I really enjoyed this one. Bob -- AMSAT Director and VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR WG Chair "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." - Einstein

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(no subject)
by Radioaficionats 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

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MP3s from XF4DL via AO-51 (2006-10-29 0317 & 0458 UTC)
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

Hi! XF4DL showed up on another AO-51 pass last night, around 0455 UTC, but there were only 2 other stations on that pass besides me that made QSOs with them. I made MP3s of the recordings I have from those two passes, and you may download them from: http://www.geocities.com/xe2wd9ewk/xf4dl/ This is on free Geocities web space, so hourly bandwidth restrictions are in effect. If you have problems with that web site and want a copy of either MP3 (or both of them), please e-mail me directly. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/

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Tiny-2
by Vincenzo Mone 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

Hi to the list, I have a problem with my Tiny-2 Tnc. When I switch it on I can see the Tnc initialize with All the details the I get the prompt command but Whatever I type or even I give just a carriage return, The cmd: disappear and do not get any reply from the Tnc. Anybody can tell me how to get the prompt command again? It comes out again only if I switch it off and then on again But when I do how explained above I get again the problem. Any help will be really appreciated. 73 de Enzo IK8OZV EasyLog 5 BetaTester EasyLog PDA BetaTester WinBollet BetaTester D.C.I. CheckPoint Regione Campania Skype: ik8ozv8520 *************************************** ***** GSM +39 338 9749786 ***** ***** SMS +39 338 9749786 ***** ***** FAX +39 328 7244294 ***** *** 2nd e-mail: vimone(a)tin.it *** ***************************************

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DJSKM
by TERRY BROMLEY 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

73' s Reinhardt god bless. Terry G1WPR.

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SSETI Symposium presentation
by Greg D. 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

At the 2006 Symposium there was a presentation on Cubesats late in the day on Saturday that had to be cut short. I forget who was speaking (sorry!), but the analysis of what happened on the SSETI launch was going to be covered on Sunday morning. Unfortunately, I could only attend the one day, and missed the answer to the clif hanger. What was the answer? Thanks, Greg KO6TH _________________________________________________________________ Get today's hot entertainment gossip http://movies.msn.com/movies/hotgossip?icid=T002MSN03A07001

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SAT PROGRAMS AND TIME CHANGE
by Doug Kuitula 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

Hi all, This may be a dumb question, but I'll ask it anyway. While going through the house changing all the clocks for Standard time this morning, I started to think about how most satellite tracking programs automatically change from standard to daylight savings time. With us changing next year to March and November, won't there have to be some sort of change in the software? I'm using Instant Track and have no experience with other programs. So I'm not sure if there is a method to change with them. 73 de Doug........KA8QCU

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SSB uplink to AO-51 on 2 meters and 1268 MHz
by OZ1MY 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

Hi all, >From Monday AO-51 will be in SSB mode on the uplink like it has been before. October 30 to November 6 Cross Mode Repeater, V(SSB)/U(FM) Uplink: 145.880 MHz USB Downlink: 435.300 MHz FM Those of you who have tried it before know that you must hit the frequency correct to get a good downlink signal. If you use automatic doppler shift correction from your tracking program it is a little bit easier. Personally I use SatPC32 to do the correction with the following line in the doppler.sqr file: AO-51,435300,145879.25,FM,USB,Nor,0,0,Voice V/U This worked very good last time we had this mode running on AO-51. Your transceiver may need small adjustments to the uplink frequency. The coming week can be used to get the feeling for running SSB up to AO-51. The experience gained will be needed when AO-51 is the new mode with L-band SSB up in December. That is going to be very interesting since the doppler shift will be very fast with this much higher uplink frequency. The rate of change of frequency will be something like 340 Hz pr. sec. Worst Case. Of course it will be less most of the time so that it might be possible to do the tuning by hand. December 8 to December 11 New Mode! Cross Mode Repeater, L(SSB)/U(FM) Uplink: 1268.700 MHz USB Downlink: 435.300 MHz FM I ran some tests on HITSAT. It has a Worst Case rate of change of approximately 300 Hz. pr. sec. since it has a perigee of 290 km. That is not easy on close passes. Lessons learnt : Make sure the PC clock is correct within 0.1 s Make sure your position is correct (a friend with a GPS receiver helped on that one) The keplerian elements must be correct ( difficult to control) The tracking program MUST use SGP4/SDP4 (I tested with an older program with PLAN 13 and that was up to 2 kHz off) Your transceiver/PC/tracker combination must be able to update once every 0.1 s or faster (special version of SatPC32 in my case) Frequencies must be correct in the PC or possible to correct on the fly Then there are frequency drift of the satellite, your transceiver and so on This means that you must update the keplerian elements at least once a day. Unfortunately this is not necessarily a guaranty since the keps sometimes are "bad". Synchronize the PC clock before each pass. Lessons learnt are about using automatic full doppler tracking. If you use manual frequency correction try it on the low elevation passes first. The mode has never been tried before therefor it is very interesting to see how it will work. Hope to hear you on AO-51 mode-L(SSB)/U(FM). Thanks to Colin, VK5HI, and Erich, DK1TB, for help with the doppler correction. 73 OZ1MY Ib

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Hand Held?
by VE3CJE 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

Greetings to all, Just getting back into the sats and I am looking to purchase a hand held.. Not sure which one, any suggestions? Cross band full duplex I would like and it appears that the Icom W32A seems to be the choice of many.. best regards, Norman

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LA/W5ACM MM ops to begin on 30 OCT 2006
by Andy MacAllister 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

LA/W5ACM will be active starting on 30 OCT 2006. The endeavor begins @ 5 PM CST 29 OCT 2006 from Galveston, Texas, with first satellite activity later that evening (30 OCT 2006 UTC). Ports of call include Jamaica, Grand Cayman and Cozumel. NO operation will be attemped from land, but many grids will be made available while at sea. Target satellites include SO-50 and AO-51. Due to the difficulty of SSB up/FM down ops via AO-51, better results are expected via SO-50. We will give it our best shot! Andy LA/W5ACM QSL to home call. Other satellite ops on this cruise include WB5RMA, WA5TWT, WA5WOD and WD5BDX.

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info
by w3vvp 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

I may have transposed the call WB3IGR heard it was W0UV.George

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