[amsat-bb] Re: JUNK
At 18:49 17/03/2014, you wrote: I thought this BB was for making satellite contacts on ham birds, I see everything but that on here. Come on guys lets work the birds and make grid trips and things like that , Leave the spam off. Support AMSAT NA not cube sats that we cant work Seems to me that a big part of these posts is about the capabilities of satellite communication, whilst not really amateur related, it is satellite related ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Re: G5400B Rotor Problem
At 21:00 28/11/2012, you wrote: Got some unexpected time today to look at the rotor. First I set the output at pin 6 of the external control output jack to 5.0 V. Then I got readings every 45 deg from 180 at the left to 180 on the right. The readings are of course subject to parallax in reading the needle. Readings from 180 on the left to 180 on the right were 0.024, 0.606, 1.270, 1.864, 2.489, 3.074, 3.690, 4.350, and 5.000 V. Draw a graph of AZ vs Voltage... It should be a straight line, if not, the pot is not linear! ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Re: G5500 N center scale
At 23:01 23/10/2012, you wrote: Still looking for a North center scale for the G5500. Several years ago there was a thread about the G5400, however the 5500 goes 450 degrees. Anyone mess with this issue? Mine was one of the threads for alternative center scale for 5400. I created mine by taking the scale off the meter, scanning it at as higher res as I could. I loaded the BMP ( preferred to jpg because of losses in compression) into Paintshop Pro, re-lettered it with the appropriate figures and airbrushed the scanning blemishes. I printed it onto a self-adhesive label ( took several attempts to get size exactly right) and stuck it on the back of the existing scale. couldn't tell it from the original. Hope this may help. ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Re: Amateur Radio in the UK during the Olympics
At 10:07 28/04/2012, you wrote: Hi All For any of you in the AMSAT world interested in what the planned restrictions are or visiting during the Olympics, here are links to the details I'm affected as I live close to the sailing but it will be fun listening in J This link contains downloadable pdf files detailing the restrictions. http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/radiocommunication-licences/amateur-radio/ar_s pectrum_use/ We do need to remember of course that we are secondary users in a lot of our bands, so governmental use obviously takes priority! The sat down links of course are another thing altogether, can't see how they can get over that! ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Re: Another ISS Video
At 00:40 29/02/2012, you wrote: http://www.universetoday.com/93828/the-best-iss-video-ever-you-decide/ WOW!!! nothing else to say! ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Re: HamSatDroid Version 0.8 (SDP4)
At 09:03 07/02/2012, you wrote: Cool, just wondering which Android tablet people are using and what is their experience in portable use. Tx Stefan VE4NSA I'm using Hamsatdroid on my Samsung Galaxy S2 Smartphone. It's compact and very quick, The phone is equipped with GPS so it even gets your location and displays the Maidenhead locator . An exceptional FREE bit of software! ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Re: TS2000 ~436.798 MHz Birdie Solution
At 17:55 30/11/2011, you wrote: Hi John, I had heard of the down converter solution before and purchased a used down converter. Unfortunately it seemed to pick up the TS- 2000 bird nearly as well as the TS-2000. I just lashed the setup together so maybe taking more care to isolate the converter from the TS-2000 might improve my results. I'll have to give it a try again. Mount the down convertor at the aerial/masthead! way out of range for the spurious and you can use cheap cable for the 10mtr down feed line! ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Re: Prospero
At 14:29 19/10/2011, you wrote: Some of you may have heard that a team in the UK are trying to re-contact and old British launched satellite for the anniversary of its launch (28th October 1971). We've been given a licence to transmit and will be testing our re-engineered ground-segment in the next fortnight. The passes we are going to concentrate on will be as far out west as possible, as to minimise QRM from Europe. Earth is a lot more EM noisy than it was in 1971. If anyone in the UK wants to try and tune in to the downlink, you can help ID any response we get from the old bird. The passes are summarised here: The Prospero Satellite was featured in a BBC program called Coast It was in the program BBC.Coast Series 2 Episode 1 Dover to Isle of White. It shows an attempt to receive the signals, which appeared to be successful, showing the frequencies on the AR2000 ( I think) RX. I have that episode, and have extracted the section that deals with it, you can get it ( 9.5Mb .avi) at http://www.taghill.co.uk/dmf/files/prospero.avi The entire program also deals with the research into the propellants, and the launch from Australia, but is far to big to upload! Let me know if this was useful... ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Re: Is Prospero still TX'ing?
At 11:41 06/09/2011, you wrote: Is Prospero still transmitting? Sometime ago, I think in 2007 the BBC TV program Coast was on the Isle of White where there had been a test stand for rocket testing. I have a copy of that program, It was BBC Coast Series 2, Episode 1 Dover to Isle Of Wight. Its right at the end of the episode. It tells the story of Prospero, and shows a receiver connected to a small yagi, and the satellite is audible. They use an AR8600 RX, and the displayed frequency is 137.5610 Wide FM Don't know about sharing, the whole episode avi is 700+meg! + copyright issues. ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Re: Adjusting true north for azimuth rotator.
At 21:42 03/09/2011, you wrote: I am planning to install my G5400 rotator inside a tower having a welded rotator shelf. The tower is not installed yet and will have one face against the side of my house which is positioned about 28 degrees northeast (Per Google Earth). I assume when I drill the rotator shelf, I can adjust for the gross 28 degree offset of the tower. However how important is it to do this at all? Does the rotator have to be installed exactly toward true north or can I make up the difference when clamping down the antenna mast assuming the antenna is oriented true north? Note I will be using a Trakbox and need the ADC to center on true north. Surely it matters not how the rotator is mount, you just clamp MAST so that the antenna are north pointing, the orientation of the physical rotator is unimportant. ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Re: Major ISS reboost June 12th
At 13:10 11/06/2011, you wrote: According to Roscosmos, the ISS altitude will be raised 19.2 km tomorrow. Until updated Keps are available from Space Track, there will be a slippage in predictions of _approximately_ 6 minutes per day! Keps for post-burn, show altitude as 375Km ISS 1 25544U 98067A 11166.87152924 .00016717 0-0 10270-3 0 9088 2 25544 51.6421 167.4160 0010688 287.4137 72.5851 15.61963750 40703 The PREDICTED keps are available at the following address, predicted for all current maneuvers several days in ahead. There are several sets for intermediate stages of the reboost. Most of the information about burns ect, go right over my head, but no doubt it will mean something to those who are a bit more 'rocket science' than I am. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/orbit/ISS/SVPOST.html I've posted this link before, but no-one has ever commented on it. You can also get preliminary keps for shuttle launches here. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/elements/index.html The ISS link goes to the ISS page in first link, the shuttle link goes to the shuttle predictions when one is in active service. Above links useful, or just some link I found to useless data? ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Re: drake 2880
At 23:26 23/02/2010, you wrote: Has any one used the Drake 2880 downconverter on the air. Not been on the Sats for some time, but when AO40 was alive, I used the drake for the downlink. my experiences are shown at - http://www.g4dmf.co.uk/dish/antenna.html From what I gather, AO51 is a magnitude stronger than AO40 ever was. The Drake provided solid copy of Telemetry. There are links in the article to various pictures I took, including a screen-shot of AO40 data on screen, and links to the mod pages for some of the many modifications done to that downconvertor. RIP AO40... Praying for a Battery Event on that bird too! ___ Sent via amsat...@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
[amsat-bb] Re: How to add Moon Keps to SatPC32
Don't specifically know for SatPC32, but Pseudo keps for the moon that seem to work in any tracking program are available on LogSat's web site. http://www.logsat.com/lsp.asp Right at the bottom of the page. I use LogSat 5.2 for tracking, its a great piece of software! ___ Sent via amsat...@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
[amsat-bb] MediaWiki Trial
At 15:42 09/09/2009, you wrote: After reading this thread, I figured it'd be worthwhile to set up a mediawiki instance to let people get familiar with it. I set one up last night on a node for my own enlightenment. The configuration is not the best by any means. For those interested in timeframe, it took thirty minutes to configure this instance from a clean arch linux installation. If you are interested in poking around in the environment to see what it feel like, go ahead, that's why I set it up. I disabled email registration, so anyone can just create an account and get a feel for creating pages / editing / preferences / etc... Tonight, i'm going to hack at creating my own skin, since it would just be cool :-) I added the amsat logo to the main page for testing, I hope this doesn't violate any copyright rules If it does, hollar and i'll remove it. For the record, I have nothing to do with Amsat right now, outside of being a first time member this year. I also don't want anyone to think that i'm pushing for media wiki or anything of the sort. I just like the idea of having a wiki. I read the email thread and figured it'd be worthwhile to set an instance up so Amsat folk could get familiar with it. I have managed two other wiki systems on my own, trac / moinmoin. MediaWiki has quite a bit to offer and is reasonably easy to configure. Here's a link to the playground: http://71.43.22.149/ Let me know if you have any comments or questions (or if you get any weird behavior). Thought I'd start this as a new thread. Just been on the Wiki, I think its a great idea. I added my comments in the discussion section just to get a feel for it. I'm not an Amsat-NA member, but non-the-less think I'm allowed to comment. I really hope this expands and becomes as useful as Wikipedia itself! John G4DMF ___ Sent via amsat...@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
