On Apr 27, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Mark Vandewettering wrote:
Me too!
- Bay Area: check!
- Mac: check!
- Recording: check!
I got RASCAL working on one of my Linux boxes, but not the Mac. My idea is that I am going to record the pass using my Macbook, and then play it back later and see if I can get it to decode with RASCAL.
Using my FT-817 and a simple Doppler correcting control script that I wrote using my Python satellite library, I hope that the TLE's they have will be good enough to find the signal. I'll post here if I succeed. Best wishes to all the cubesat developers for a good launch!
I'll leave Wouter out of this reply since I know he's overwhelmed with stuff right now.
I've got both an ICOM IC-910H and an ICOM IC-R1500 receiver. I'm tempted to just use the R1500 because it shows up as a USB Audio Device when I plug it in to my Mac, making it much easier to record from. Oh, and it's very portable, which the IC-910H is not. I plan to drive up to a high spot on Crestview in San Carlos (Belmont?) and point my antenna and do Doppler correction by hand (sadly, I don't think MacDoppler Pro can tune the R1500 yet).
I think the receiver in the IC-910H is better than the R1500, but it's just going to be so hard to lug up there, and I don't have a cable to record its audio. I have time to make one, so I probably should, but I've got a mental block for some reason.
Maybe someone with more experience can tell me what I should do instead.