[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 Data
- Original Message - From: Edward R. Cole kl...@acsalaska.net To: Clint Bradford clintbradf...@mac.com; AMSAT BB amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 1:38 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 Data Perhaps the result will be more activity on AO-7, VO-52, FO-29 using SSB? Looks like I am getting my satellite array working just in time to miss AO-51? Be nice to see HO-68 again. Hearing of Fox, when is it planned for orbit? P3E? any other lurkers about jump up into space? oooh well,there is always Oscar-Zero ;-) 73, Ed Hi Ed, KL7UW I don't think that after the trouble on AO-51 there will be more activity on AO-7, VO-52 , and FO-29 using CW and SSB because since 2004 when AO-51 was operational a lot of Hams invested a lot of money to buy FM hend held equipments, Arrow antennas and ELK antennas to work grids and make FM satellite demonstrations as well to work the ISS showing satellite operation in the schools so that actually the most part of them is not equipped for linear transponders. If AO-51 will be in trouble for a long time and if a similar satellite will not replace it than a lot of money all around the world has been invested in FM equipment for very small. For the FM satellite users the actual situation with AO-51 out of service is similar to our actual SSB and CW situation after the death of AO40 about 8 years ago because actually we have only three linear satellites available after having invested a lot of money for SSB and CW equipments and antennas for 144 -435-1268-2400 MHz and 24 GHz By the way since I am equipped for linear transponders I am pulling for P3E because this satellite is almost completely built in the University of Marburg waiting for a launch opportunity in the future even if we don't know when so that in the mean time I work VO-52, FO-29 and AO-7 The situation for the linear satellite users is very bad as well because HO-68 was only activated for a limited numbar of orbits that were not very suitable for most locations and actually it is not scheduled for us by Alan Kung. I don't have any information about the Fox project but I remember that few years ago in 2004 AMSAT-NA had a project for the EAGLE satellite in HEO orbit http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/eagle/Eagle_Fall_2004.php but apparently it seems that this project has been abandonedSorry ! You are right because there is always Oscar-Zero but actually EME is very different from that EME of the early years 1970 so that personally I found not too much challenge to work EME in digital mode. Ed , It is a real shame! I wanted a HEO so bad! (American slang - hi). Take care my friend and God Bless 73 de i8CVS Domenico ___ 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: AO-51 Data
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 satelliteprobably 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 clintbra...@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 -- Mark L. Hammond [N8MH] ___ 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: AO-51 Data
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-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@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 ___ 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: AO-51 Data
... you can't ... shouldn't ... don't go out any buy anything just for this ... Heavy sigh. It's just that this has been such a good friend ... Guess I picked the wrong week to stop drinking Pina Coladas. Long live AO-51. I have a 67 degree elevation pass coming up in 30 mins ... Clint, K6LCS ___ 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: AO-51 Data
Perhaps the result will be more activity on AO-7, VO-52, FO-29 using SSB? Looks like I am getting my satellite array working just in time to miss AO-51? Be nice to see HO-68 again. Hearing of Fox, when is it planned for orbit? P3E? any other lurkers about jump up into space? oooh well,there is always Oscar-Zero ;-) 73, Ed At 01:50 PM 5/6/2011, Clint Bradford wrote: ... you can't ... shouldn't ... don't go out any buy anything just for this ... Heavy sigh. It's just that this has been such a good friend ... Guess I picked the wrong week to stop drinking Pina Coladas. Long live AO-51. I have a 67 degree elevation pass coming up in 30 mins ... Clint, K6LCS ___ 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 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45 == BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com EME: 50-1.1kW?, 144-1.4kw, 432-100w, 1296-testing*, 3400-? DUBUS Magazine USA Rep dubus...@hotmail.com == ___ 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
