... If you have 9k6 digital capability, you can listen in on our attempts at recovery on 435.150 on many passes over the US. ...
I am packet-illiterate. But HRO locally does not have the Yaesu mic cable in stock to interface any of the West Mountain RigBlaster products I could purchase for my Yaesu FT-8800.
How else can I attempt to monitor this? HRO is open four more hours today ...
Clint, K6LCS 909-241-7666
Hi Clint,
I'm not sure I'd spend any money in order to maybe happen to catch a handful of packets ACKS from the satellite....probably not worth it. You can probably get away with running the 9k6 packet line out of the radio straight into a computer sound card and using something like MixW or AWGPacketEngine to decode. Heck, Douglas Quagliana has done an article (or two) in the AMSAT Journal about his 9k6 software decoder.
73,
Mark N8MH
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Clint Bradford clintbrad4d@earthlink.net wrote:
... If you have 9k6 digital capability, you can listen in on our attempts at recovery on 435.150 on many passes over the US. ...
I am packet-illiterate. But HRO locally does not have the Yaesu mic cable in stock to interface any of the West Mountain RigBlaster products I could purchase for my Yaesu FT-8800.
How else can I attempt to monitor this? HRO is open four more hours today ...
Clint, K6LCS 909-241-7666 _______________________________________________ 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
Clint,
You can't monitor 9600 baud through the normal audio channels. They do not have enough bandwidth, and have too much filtering. Many rigs do have dedicated I/O for the purpose. Likewise, standard packet/PSK31 interfaces will also fail due to lack of bandwidth. You will either need one of the hardware TNCs which do have 9600 baud capability, or you can work with programs like MixW which support it. In either case, you will need direct connections rather than the usual audio transformers. If you don't have the existing capability, it might not be cost/time effective. Sigh.
Alan WA4SCA
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Clint Bradford Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 3:21 PM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-51 Data
... If you have 9k6 digital capability, you can listen in on our attempts
at recovery on 435.150 on many passes over the US. ...
I am packet-illiterate. But HRO locally does not have the Yaesu mic cable in stock to interface any of the West Mountain RigBlaster products I could purchase for my Yaesu FT-8800.
How else can I attempt to monitor this? HRO is open four more hours today ...
Clint, K6LCS 909-241-7666 _______________________________________________ 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
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