The other day I was using my Yeasue el/az rotator just fine in flip mode with sat-pc and PST-rotator. Today trouble. In Pst-rotator If I ask for 90 the position bar showed actual 120 and it continues to show about 30 degrees off all the way to 359 where it will stop 30 degrees in advance of where it should since it thinks it is there. Is this one of those problems that happens when the wire breaks on the resister or perhaps something else? It has been loyal for many years. Is it time to send it back for repair? Any help would be good.
Kb3pmr
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- Re: LilacSat-2 will have FM voice transponder capability ([email protected])
- Re: LilacSat-2 will have FM voice transponder capability (M5AKA)
- XE1SEW/P DL90 & Operating FO-29 Portable (Clayton Coleman)
- NanosatC-BR1 (PY5LF)
- FUNcube/AO-73 Mode change (Jim Heck)
- Question for Gpredict Users (Richard Lawn)
- SpaceX Launch Postponed (B J)
- Tracking assistance requested for DTUsat-2 on 2.4GHz (Jonas Bjarn?)
- Re: Trakbox pricing ? (Joe Leikhim)
- CAT control for TX and RX (Stu2)
Message: 1 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 21:53:10 +0800 From: "[email protected]" [email protected] To: amsat-bb [email protected] Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] LilacSat-2 will have FM voice transponder capability Message-ID: [email protected] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Hi All,
LilacSat-2 is expected to be launched in May or June 2015.
We haven?t decided how to use the repeater yet. An idea is to use a subaudio PSK31 telemetry with it.
About XW-2, LilacSat-2 will be launched with several satellites designed by CAST and CAMSAT with amateur radio, but we don't know the exact name indeed.
We will update our website later.
73!
Wei Mingchuan, BG2BHC
Message: 2 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:48:57 +0100 From: M5AKA [email protected] To: amsat-bb [email protected] Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] LilacSat-2 will have FM voice transponder capability Message-ID: [email protected] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Thanks for the update.
Trevor M5AKA
On Friday, 20 June 2014, 16:40, "[email protected]" [email protected] wrote:
Hi All,
LilacSat-2 is expected to be launched in May or June 2015.
We haven?t decided how to use the repeater yet. An idea is to use a subaudio PSK31 telemetry with it.
About XW-2, LilacSat-2 will be launched with several satellites designed by CAST and CAMSAT with amateur radio, but we don't know the exact name indeed.
We will update our website later.
73!
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Message: 3 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:59:53 -0500 From: Clayton Coleman [email protected] To: AMSAT-BB [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] XE1SEW/P DL90 & Operating FO-29 Portable Message-ID: <CAPovOwc8MVxixau7WmHADmgEbs0dcBKbm= [email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
On the last pass of SO-50 (15:27 UTC, 20-Jun) over North America, I worked XE1SEW operating portable in DL90.
Last night he was calling CQ on FO-29 from EL00. I do not believe he made any successful contacts due in part to many stations calling CQ within 3 kHz of him. There may have been other factors. Having operated many times portable, I can assure you that neighboring stations on adjacent frequencies can pose challenges. I am not laying blame but rather making an observation.
Please, consider moving away from FO-29's passband center if you intend to operate portable. As a general rule on FO-29 I try to transmit portable below 145.93 and above 145.97. As a portable station this provides some shielding from the "death zone" of higher power, fixed stations who always seem to appear and call CQ +/- 10 kHz of the transponder's center frequency. (some suffering from terminal CHS syndrome)
73, Clayton W5PFG
Message: 4 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:31:33 -0300 From: "PY5LF" [email protected] To: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] NanosatC-BR1 Message-ID: [email protected] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hi
The first Brazilian cubesat are working well .
Video ; http://youtu.be/FZdiZMX9rcI
Preliminary TLE ;
NANOSATC-BR1 1 00362U 00362A 14170.81049769 .00000000 00000-0 10000-4 0 7 2 00362 97.9897 66.2289 0012982 291.8733 244.3145 14.85013404 03
Doppler for SatPC32;
NANOSATC-BR1,145868.0,,USB,,,,TLM
Thank you
PY5LF
Luciano Fabricio
Curitiba-PR-BR GG54jm
Message: 5 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 20:48:53 +0100 From: "Jim Heck" [email protected] To: "'AMSAT BB'" [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] FUNcube/AO-73 Mode change Message-ID: 008301cf8cc0$ac3d1f10$04b75d30$@com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hi Folks,
FUNcube/AO-73 is now in continuous transponder mode with low powerbeacon, as at approx 20:24 UTC. Change back to Auto eclipse mode planned for Sunday PM UTC.
Enjoy the transponder
73s Jim G3WGM
Message: 6 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 17:41:24 -0400 From: Richard Lawn [email protected] To: Amsat BB [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Question for Gpredict Users Message-ID: < CADQmrTGLNWzACfvOZGK5nC_okeCGhcod2dac0ht_X_Ks0Gsomg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
I'm new to using Ubuntu-Linux. I finally with a lot of outside counciling got FlDigi to run using either Hamlib or Flrig to handle CAT on my FT-847. I thought I was home free until I found that Gpredict would not control CAT on the radio. What am I doing wrong? Can anyone help? Linux is my only resource on this old XP P3 computer. Ubuntu runs great if I can only learn how to use command line Linus language hi hi! 73 Rick W2JAZ
Message: 7 Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 01:11:22 +0000 From: B J [email protected] To: amsat-bb [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] SpaceX Launch Postponed Message-ID: < CAP7QzkMWM+OXLEfq4S_uoe+bNoPmStGKeLzmaRWsA2n59qLsDw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/space-flight-missions/commercial-space-spa... http://www.americaspace.com/?p=62948 http://innerspace.net/spacex/spacex-orbcomm-launch-attempt-scrubbed/
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/06/spacex-falcon-9-v1-1-orbcomm-og2-miss...
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL
Message: 8 Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 00:12:18 +0200 From: Jonas Bjarn? [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Tracking assistance requested for DTUsat-2 on 2.4GHz Message-ID: <CAFt0jx8KymGqUJ_vwx3jPJmhqEp8jHbNGaua=_ [email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Hi Guys,
DTUsat-2 is now operational on orbit and transmitting both CW beacons and AX25 frames at 1200bps 2FSK. Beacons are alternating at 30sec intervals.
Any help you could offer in tracking and recording beacons would be much appreciated at this early stage in the mission. Please find attached a short technical note on how to decode CW beacons. More information is also available on our project webpage at : http://www.dtusat.dtu.dk/index.php?id=130
Next pass here at DTU is coming up in 20minutes, whish us luck!
73's all around! Jonas Bjarnoe OZ3AGY, OZ2DTU
Message: 9 Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 03:29:01 -0400 From: Joe Leikhim [email protected] To: "[email protected]" [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Trakbox pricing ? Message-ID: [email protected] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Are you talking about the TAPR/JAMSAT TrakBox?
I bought a nice one a couple years ago for about $200 USD shipped from Canada. I found a turbo kit available from someone here on AMSAT to speed up the CPU and installed it. The turbo kit if still available is a bargain, new CPU, Y2K firmware, a faster crystal and another faster chip. Apart from soldering the crystal, there is not much to do but follow instructions.
I also plan to install a back-lighted LCD display to be easy on my eyes.
They work pretty well. The only drawback is the RS232 interface for the KEPS. I am going to try and add an Ethernet to RS232 adapter so I can use a browser to upload the KEPS.
What I like is that it has real time tracking, _doppler __correction _and autonomous operation in one package. I don't think there is anything on the market that has everything these have.
Assuming the lithium battery has not leaked and the kit is well constructed, you should be able to recoup your investment. They are no longer available.
Joe K4SAT
Hi Gang
I'll be selling a Trakbox soon; would be grateful for advice on what price to ask (in UK money). Original price AFAIRC 100-150 UK pounds.
For those who don't know this item, its an az/el rotator controller. Feed it keplers on the RS232 input occasionally and it'll track both rotators at the right time.
73 Richard G3
-- Joe Leikhim
Leikhim and Associates
Communications Consultants
Oviedo, Florida
407-982-0446
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Message: 10 Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 07:32:33 -0400 From: Stu2 [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] CAT control for TX and RX Message-ID: [email protected] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
I'm preparing for Field day and would like to use a combination of HDSDR (RX) and a Kenwood TS-2K (TX) radio. The RTL-SDR dongle and preamp make a great RX. Ham Radio Deluxe only connects to a single radio. (Transceiver)
Is there a way to control both radios at once to correct for Doppler?
The problem would be similar to controlling two FT-817s, except both radios would be different in my case.
Thanks and 73's
Stu2 W7IY
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