Need a bit of help,again Thanks in advance . Made contact on VO-52 this AM,orbit 24446 and it seemed if the down link was off freq. I have the following entered 145900,435250.3,USB,LSB,Rev,0,0 Is this correct?Jack WA1ZDV
The following entered where?
I have the following entered 145900,435250.3,USB,LSB,Rev,0,0 Is this correct?Jack WA1ZDV
Jack,
That looks very reasonable. Remember, you need to tweak the numbers slightly as time goes by to compensate for aging, temperature, etc. The docs for SATPC32 explain how to do this.
Alan WA4SCA
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jack Barbera Sent: 11 November, 2009 12:26 To: Amsat Reflector Subject: [amsat-bb] VO-52
Need a bit of help,again Thanks in advance . Made contact on VO-52 this AM,orbit 24446 and it seemed if the down link was off freq. I have the following entered 145900,435250.3,USB,LSB,Rev,0,0 Is this correct?Jack WA1ZDV _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. 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
Alan P. Biddle wrote:
Jack,
That looks very reasonable. Remember, you need to tweak the numbers slightly as time goes by to compensate for aging, temperature, etc. The docs for SATPC32 explain how to do this.
Alan WA4SCA
A quick and dirty alternative is to use the RIT to tweak during the pass.
73, Drew KO4MA
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Alan P. Biddle -
Andrew Glasbrenner -
Jack Barbera -
Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF