How late will the command stations stay up at night to activate the voice synthesizer on Ande? I have a very timely and high EL pass over my location (Southern CA) at 9:40 PM PST on 2/22 that I'd like to try...
We only had one west coast command station, but he is on a long temporary assignment out of area, so we have command stations in California at this time. But I think I know of one I can ask and see if he is willing to operate these west caost passes when convenient.
Command station needs a good OSCAR array on 2 meters for commanding.
Bob, WB4APR
Robert Bruninga [email protected] wrote:
Now that ANDE and RAFT are both speaking, here are the packet-to-voice synthesizer rules:
- it turns the packet header into "XXXXXX says"
- it then speaks normal english and normal spellings..
- It tries to spell CAPS, but we found that to force it
to
speak a callsign correctly independent of starting
character if
you make the second character a "!" then it will always
speak
properly. Such as W!B4APR will be spoken as wb4apr as
expected.
Here are DK3WN and PE1ITR in packet-to-voice QSO:
http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/ande/ande_11022007_2238.mp3
WB4APR, Bob
----original
message-----------------------------------------
RAFT is weaker, but speaks...
- if ANYONE has CONNECTED RAFT
- Then any APRS MSG to TALK will be spoken
ANDE is stronger, but is lazy and sleeps unless woken
up.
- ANDE must be awakened by 145.825 activity
- ANDE voice must be activated by command station each
pass
- Then any APRS MSG to TALK will be spoken
ANDE has better link performance for users, but needs
command
stations, but you get more workable passses due to its
better
links.
For more info, see the ANDE-RAFT-OPS web page. http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/ande-raft-ops.html
Enjoy!
Bob Bruninga, WB4APR US Naval Academy Satellite Lab
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