At the 1850z pass, ARISSat passed at approximately 20 degrees for me. I hadn't tried the SSB transponder in a while, and decided to give it a go. Once I found my downlink, it was loud and clear throughout most of the past. Called CQ for several minutes, but no takers.
Those who haven't tried it, really should.
73 de Sebastian, W4AS
Sebastian,
I saw what must have been you in the transponder, but I was busy gathering TLM. Thanks for the report!
73s,
Alan WA4SCA
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sebastian, W4AS Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 2:05 PM To: AMSAT-BB Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISSat transponder
At the 1850z pass, ARISSat passed at approximately 20 degrees for me. I hadn't tried the SSB transponder in a while, and decided to give it a go. Once I found my downlink, it was loud and clear throughout most of the past. Called CQ for several minutes, but no takers.
Those who haven't tried it, really should.
73 de Sebastian, W4AS
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Hi,
Very good quality recordings of ARISSAT1 wide band RF signals are available on AMSAT telemetry directory.
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/telemetry/arissat/recordings/
However, the server downloads are very slow probably due to a limited bandwidth.
Laurent, F6FVY managed to upload the three files on a ten times faster server.
http://dl.free.fr/kMOKtIsK2 http://dl.free.fr/n5dpN5JJx http://dl.free.fr/jXbL1U3Dz
These RF stereo audio wav files may be played back and demodulated using any SDR software like HDSDR.
AMSAT-DK made available BPSK telemetry audio files already demodulated that may be decoded by ARISSatTLM program.
http://www.amsat.dk/oz7sat/sched.php?gs=oz1kte&sat=ARISSAT-1&status=...
These audio files are sampled at48 kHz and include CW andBPSK1000 designed by Phil KA9Q (http://www.ka9q.net/bpsk1000.html).
73 de Bernard, f6bvp
At approximately 1800z today, I had a nice high elevation ARISSat pass, and again tried out the SSB transponder.
I easily heard my uplink while calling CQ a few times. I was pleasantly surprised when Bob, K9OIM in EM56 answered me. The QSO was very brief, but exciting.
I wonder if anyone is keeping a tally of contacts made using the ARISSat transponder? Or are there just too many to count?
73 de Sebastian, W4AS - EL95
On Aug 29, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Alan P. Biddle wrote:
Sebastian,
I saw what must have been you in the transponder, but I was busy gathering TLM. Thanks for the report!
73s,
Alan WA4SCA
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sebastian, W4AS Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 2:05 PM To: AMSAT-BB Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISSat transponder
At the 1850z pass, ARISSat passed at approximately 20 degrees for me. I hadn't tried the SSB transponder in a while, and decided to give it a go. Once I found my downlink, it was loud and clear throughout most of the past. Called CQ for several minutes, but no takers.
Those who haven't tried it, really should.
73 de Sebastian, W4AS
I would like to have joined you Sebastian but Irene blew my satellite array down :( I had my main HF tower in hurricane mode, but nothing else to do with the sat antennas. Funny thing is Irene didn't have much of a punch till after it made Landfall 40 miles from here about 6 am. The antennas blew down sometime in the early afternoon after Irene was past. The trailing winds 6 hours later were stronger then the leading ones! Very strange. So now I'm in a rebuilding mode. I should be back on the air in a few weeks...
73 Jeff kb2m
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sebastian, W4AS Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 15:05 PM To: AMSAT-BB Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISSat transponder
At the 1850z pass, ARISSat passed at approximately 20 degrees for me. I hadn't tried the SSB transponder in a while, and decided to give it a go. Once I found my downlink, it was loud and clear throughout most of the past. Called CQ for several minutes, but no takers.
Those who haven't tried it, really should.
73 de Sebastian, W4AS
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