Success!!! I just had a pass and I heard and decoded quite a few packets which showed up in the UIView terminal window. I also had WA4AEJ in Florida show up on the map. On checking the website, he appears to be the only active APRS station that was in the footprint at the same time I was. Now to work on the TX side. Thanks again to Roger, Andrew and everyone else for all of the advice!! 73, Michael W4HIJ Roger Kolakowski wrote:
Check here after or during a pass to see what is really happening that you are not hearing:
Roger WA1KAT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Tondee" [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 11:43 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Packet activity? I'm having problems and gettingfrustrated
Since for the moment I am down to just a two meter mobile for ham equipment, I have been trying to get a setup going for packet and APRS. At the moment I have only been experimenting with the receive side of things but I'm not having much luck. I'm using a 4 element beam with Az/El tracking that I used to use when working the LEO's along with SatPC32 for rotor control. I'm setup with AGWPE and UIview32 using a soundcard. I've tried several passes tuned to 145.825 and so far on just one I was able to get one small packet to decode on the UIView32 terminal screen. I'm not seeing any APRS stations appear on the map and on the last three good passes I've tried I've heard little if any packet activity at all. What am I doing wrong here? Is it possible there is no activity on some of the passes? Even when I've heard packets I've only successfully decoded one. Tnx for any advice or pointers someone could give, 73, Michael, W4HIJ AMSAT # 36017
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