Assuming you can ship some of the parts to me in Canada then I am willing to help in whatever way I can. Either testing with the ground station I developed, porting some of the Pacsat server code that I have written for ARISS or whatever else helps. Let me know.
73 Chris G0KLA / AC2CZ
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 11:30 AM Jonathan Brandenburg via pacsat < pacsat@amsat.org> wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jonathan Brandenburg jbrandenburg@amsat.org To: pacsat@amsat.org Cc: Bcc: Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 10:29:55 -0500 Subject: [pacsat] Re: PACSAT Components in My Possession On 10/24/2022 4:36 PM, JIm McCullers wrote:
Is some of each acceptable?
Absolutely!
I need a couple Launchpad boards to work out the dimensions and header
sizes needed for a daughter board.
The documentation is sketchy to none.
That makes sense. I figure each active pacsat developer needs at least one and perhaps two Launchpad boards.
When do you believe the Raspberry Pi boards will be in? I want to do one while working on the Launchpad daughter board. If it's soon that would save one shipping.
OSHPark expects the panel on Thursday and will likely ship the boards to me quickly after receiving the panel. I expect the Raspberry Pi boards early next week. I'd expect each pacsat developer to need three boards at peak development to implement a two-up-one-down system. If I'm right, it might make sense to wait until the Raspberry Pi boards arrive. (For those that might be confused, the Raspberry Pi boards are a convenient way to develop using the AX5043 and can be jumpered to the LaunchPad... I've done that before.) (Also, to be clear, the Raspberry Pi boards require assembly with surface mount components. In particular the AX5043 has a ground pad making the use of a reflow oven beneficial. Admittedly it could be done with hot air and hand-soldering, too.)
As to the board you sent me, do you have the schematic available? I'll assume it's Kicad. Package it together with any support libraries
and send it to me.
I'll switch to my other computer and pull up what I have. I won't have any software specifically written for that prototype board I accidentally sent you as I hadn't assembled one. But I think you'll find the AX5043 portion to be a lot like the V1.3 board with the addition of the second antenna connection. Thus, the software written for the V1.3 board should be functional on the prototype board.
Jonathan
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On 10/25/2022 3:34 PM, Chris Thompson wrote:
Assuming you can ship some of the parts to me in Canada then I am willing to help in whatever way I can. Either testing with the ground station I developed, porting some of the Pacsat server code that I have written for ARISS or whatever else helps. Let me know.
I need to figure out what needs to happen to ship physical objects internationally. I know one way is to determine the stuff is classified as EAR99. There are also other ways.
I'll put out a call for help on this one...
Jonathan
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