It's time for another College Satellite night! Expect to hear many Oscar capable NA college club stations on the air Thursday evening Nov.5th-6th (NA local times) from 22:00 UTC to 0500 UTC for this special event.
College clubs are getting priority on the QRP AO-51 repeater that night (uplink: 145.880 MHz FM. downlink: 435.150 MHz FM). Please work each college station but afford them the ability to take calls and make as many QSOs as possible. We do want you to speak to each other as well, but give priority to college stations.
Club stations will also be on other birds so make as many contacts if you can, on each bird. We have encouraged college stations to QSL all the stations they work during the event as we (either through AMSAT or a college group) are planning on creating an award for working college club stations on satellite.
Make sure to e-mail or call as many hams that you know associated with college ham radio clubs so that they will know about this special event and get on the air.usage and NA-wide involvement is important. While we are focusing on North American activity let me know of interest and participation from other parts of the globe, e-mail me off-list at mailto:jgarlitz@ufl.edu jgarlitz@ufl.edu.
73, Dr. Jay Garlitz, AA4FL
Gator ARC Faculty Advisor at UF
http://www.gatorradio.org/ www.gatorradio.org
I have a G-5500 and GS-232B being commanded from SatPC32. These items used to work fine 5 months ago while I was using a temporary antenna set up. Since then, I've been building a new permanent antenna system. Now, SatPC32 transceiver controls work, but not the rotor controls.
The G-5500 control box works fine as long is it's not connected into the computer via GS-232B. I can run the antennas up and down and left and right and the meteres display the correct values.
When I connect the GS-232B into the G-5500 using the supplied AZ/EL cable, the control box still works and displays correct Azimuth and Elevation on the G-5500 meters.
But when I next connect the GS-232B into the serial port on the computer, the Azimuth meter suddenly goes to zero setting. The Elevation meter displays the correct value. If I then disconnect the AZ half of the cable from the GS-232B, both meters display correctly. This is true whether the power on the GS-232B is On or Off.
The GS-232B manual shows 10 wires going from the G-5500 to the GS-232B AZ/EL connectors on the pin-out diagram. My cable has only 7 wires total. What's with that?
In any case, computer control of the G-5500 from SatPC32 is not working.
I'm wondering if I may have fried the GS-232B. Right now, I'm letting SatPC32 control the rig and I'm manually adjusting the AZ/EL rotors to values SatPC32 has displayed; it's tricky.
Any help in troubleshooting this system will be greatly appreciated. Later today, I will make certain that the computer serial port is still working.
73, Larry W7IN, Plains, Montana DN27.
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