ANDE-MAA is alive and well. We have been communicating with her today, and signals are comparable to PCSAT-1. I even activated the voice synthesizer for a test today. Here is the good news from Cheyenne Mountain:
Just wanted to give you an update for our tracking of ANDE. It appears as if we are currently tracking five pieces from the ANDE deployment. SCC# 29663 is still the ID on record and we have built four additional analyst satellites with the remaining tracks.
The pieces are separating quite nicely, but we're waiting on a couple additional SSN sensors tracks before we catalog the remaining pieces. I'll try to pass along SCC ID numbers for the other four pieces as soon as I have been informed.
Bob Bruninga, Wb4APR US Naval Academy Satellite Lab
Is this the one that was "stuck" in the deployment cannister? If so, CONGRATS! I've got some serious antenna work planned for this weekend, so maybe I'll try and snag some telemetry. 73, Jim KQ6EA
--- Bob Bruninga bruninga@usna.edu wrote:
ANDE-MAA is alive and well. We have been communicating with her today, and signals are comparable to PCSAT-1. I even activated the voice synthesizer for a test today. Here is the good news from Cheyenne Mountain:
Just wanted to give you an update for our tracking
of
ANDE. It appears as if we are currently tracking
five
pieces from the ANDE deployment. SCC# 29663 is
still
the ID on record and we have built four additional analyst satellites with the remaining tracks.
The pieces are separating quite nicely, but we're waiting on a couple additional SSN sensors tracks
before
we catalog the remaining pieces. I'll try to pass
along
SCC ID numbers for the other four pieces as soon as I have been informed.
Bob Bruninga, Wb4APR US Naval Academy Satellite Lab _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@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
Yep, that was ande. So we are good to go. Bob
-----Original Message----- From: Jim Jerzycke [mailto:kq6ea@pacbell.net] Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 11:08 PM To: Bob Bruninga; amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ANDE-MAA has deployed!
Is this the one that was "stuck" in the deployment cannister? If so, CONGRATS! I've got some serious antenna work planned for this weekend, so maybe I'll try and snag some telemetry. 73, Jim KQ6EA
--- Bob Bruninga bruninga@usna.edu wrote:
ANDE-MAA is alive and well. We have been communicating with her today, and signals are comparable to PCSAT-1. I even activated the voice synthesizer for a test today. Here is the good news from Cheyenne Mountain:
Just wanted to give you an update for our tracking
of
ANDE. It appears as if we are currently tracking
five
pieces from the ANDE deployment. SCC# 29663 is
still
the ID on record and we have built four additional analyst satellites with the remaining tracks.
The pieces are separating quite nicely, but we're waiting on a couple additional SSN sensors tracks
before
we catalog the remaining pieces. I'll try to pass
along
SCC ID numbers for the other four pieces as soon as I have been informed.
Bob Bruninga, Wb4APR US Naval Academy Satellite Lab _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@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
Now that ANDE has deployed and we have been away from family for too long. We are declaring ANDE a success even though we have a few more steps to complete in the checkout process. But due to the holidays, we are going to secure testing for a few days and open them up to limited USER access:
LIMITED USER digipeating is authorized: 1) ATTENDED operations ONLY 2) Low Dutycyle only. Say once per minute per station 3) NO DIGIPEATING VIA RAFT AT NIGHT 4) Use only the path UNPROTO APRS VIA ANDE-1 or VIA RAFT 5) DIGIpeating via any other aliases on 145.825 not authorized
*) UNATTENDED BEACONS ARE NOT AUTHORIZED.
If you cannot hear these sateliltes PLEASE do not transmit. You are only adding QRM and destroying others ability to use them. Beam antennas appear to be required. Please work on your receive capablity and measure your success by how many packets you can RECEIVE, not by how many times you can hit the bird.
Pace yourselves Enjoy.
Bob Bruninga, WB4APR USNA Satellite Lab
Hello all!
I'm in the process of building up a LNA for 2 meters from an old copy of the ARRL handbook. The article calls for a MGF1402 GaAsFET. I have yet to be able to find any of those.
Does anyone know of a source for MGF1402s? Does anyone have some they want to part with?
I'm going to try to substitute in a NEC NE3509M04, but it's a bit of a challenge to solder to! What else have people substituted in for MGF1402 devices?
Thanks,
Tyler KM3G
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