[amsat-bb] ANNOUNCE: aprstlm 1.4 Available With Support For Castor And Pollux

2009-08-02 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi All, aprstlm (A unix/linux ncurses APRS [ now AX.25] telemetry viewer) version 1.4 is now available. A Tarball of the source is at: http://hal.g7iii.net/aprstlm/v1.4/aprstlm-1.4.tar.gz For those with aprstlm v1.3, there is a patch available at

[amsat-bb] Re: ANNOUNCE: aprstlm 1.4 Available With Support For Castor And Pollux

2009-08-02 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Iain Young, G7III wrote: For those with aprstlm v1.3, there is a patch available at http://www.xciv.org/aprstlm/v1.4/aprstlm-1.3-1.4.patch.gz. Gunzip and apply with patch -p1 And Doh, Garbled URL for the patch, Sorry folks, try: http://hal.g7iii.net/aprstlm/v1.4/prstlm-1.3-1.4.patch.gz

[amsat-bb] Re: Internet Routers in Space

2009-08-02 Thread Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
Bob Bruninga wrote: There are 300,000 older DTMF Text Paging ham HT's out there from the 90's that could be integrated. Surely, as these don't have a writeable alpha numeric display they will be Tx only? There are millions of surplus text pagers going to the landfills... Most of

[amsat-bb] Re: Indian high-orbit satellite?

2009-08-02 Thread Bob McGwier
We should be ashamed of ourselves in NA and Europe for not having figured out the key to unlock the door, but having been there until my retirement from active office holder, I can tell you it was not for lack of trying. We have an essentially COMPLETE Phase 3E sitting on the shelf, looking

[amsat-bb] Re: Indian high-orbit satellite?

2009-08-02 Thread Rocky Jones
Bruce. I was impressed as well (and have been for sometime reading the newsletter...and having been in India off and on over the last 10 years in aviation related matters). The folks there (both on a ham radio basis and some other things) seem to recall a lesson we have forgotten here...keep

[amsat-bb] Re: Indian high-orbit satellite?

2009-08-02 Thread Nitin Muttin [VU3TYG]
All, Thank you for the appreciative note on our efforts for HAMSAT II and the development of space technology in our country. We are aware of the challenges that we face in realising a Amateur Radio satellite in MEO or GTO orbit and we are making all possible efforts to make this a reality.The

[amsat-bb] Re: Aug 2nd, 2009, low elevation pass still decoded

2009-08-02 Thread Mike Rupprecht
I missed the last pass due family activities... But here are the two passes from this afternoon. 13:52 UTC 58 deg pass fm POLLUX-1 to CQ via TELEM ctl UI pid F0 MEMS 246576 2.58 2.57 2.45 15.662 15.662 13.775 -0.666 0.993 1.223 -6.52 -1.41 -20.15 20.03 20.74 20.42 2.60 6 45 18 fm POLLUX-1 to CQ

[amsat-bb] Re: Indian high-orbit satellite?

2009-08-02 Thread Simon (HB9DRV)
Nitin, Your newsletter is very well presented; easy to read, delivers the information. Best of luck - I do hope you succeed ! Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Nitin Muttin [VU3TYG] vu3...@amsatindia.org Comments like these and the achivements

[amsat-bb] Re: Indian high-orbit satellite vs ITAR

2009-08-02 Thread Roger Kolakowski
The current administration seems to have given some consideration to relaxing the ITAR Satellite rules... http://rescommunis.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/obama-itar-reform-could-move-sat ellites-back-to-commerce/ Perhaps we should join the U.S. space hardware makers who have complained about lost

[amsat-bb] ANDE keps

2009-08-02 Thread Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
Here's the latest set. DRAGONSAT 1 35690U 09038B 09213.93020941 +.00019147 +0-0 +10178-3 0 00292 2 35690 051.6399 071.8356 0005119 091.0440 269.1149 15.80510826000381 OBJECT C 1 35691U 09038C 09213.86754662 +.00030508 +0-0 +16206-3 0 00044 2 35691 051.6393 072.1655 0003273 038.1987

[amsat-bb] Re: Aug 2nd, 2009, low elevation pass still decoded

2009-08-02 Thread Roger Kolakowski
Hi Mike... I notice that the packets you receive seem all perfect...have you considered turning your PASSALL ON and leaving your buffer ON to be able to look at everything coming down? Just a thought... Roger WA1KAT - Original Message - From: Mike Rupprecht m...@mike-rupprecht.de I

[amsat-bb] Re: USB-to-Serial adapter

2009-08-02 Thread myles landstein
I think the best is the keyspan units they make a 1 and 4 port unit and work w/ mac, pc's etc etc ml On Aug 1, 2009, at 10:40 AM, Clint Bradford wrote: When it comes to programming amateur HTs and such, there are many USB- to-Serial adapters that just didn't want to communicate. But the

[amsat-bb] ANDE-2 Observations

2009-08-02 Thread Ken Swaggart
During the 1948Z pass today I made an effort to determine Castor's (KD4HBO-1) frequency - it appears to be near 145.828 MHz before Doppler correction is applied. Using that frequency, with Object G's keps, the discriminator stayed centered during the entire pass, and received 3 good packets.

[amsat-bb] ANDE-2: for those that do not have equipment :-)

2009-08-02 Thread Henk, PA3GUO
For those that unfortunately lack equipment today, and read all our enthousiastic emails; Here is how the ANDE-2 satellites (Castor Pollux) sound at 145.825 MHZ FM: http://www.pa3guo.com/ande2_demo_02aug2009.mp3 Pollux: at T=1 and T=28 seconds, Castor: at T=14 and T=44 seconds. When the mp3

[amsat-bb] Kudos from K4DLG

2009-08-02 Thread n3tl
Hey everyone, Dave, K4DLG, has asked me to post the following because he is unable to get posts through to the BB. From Dave: I just want to take a moment to thank a number of folks that have been adding much enjoyment to my satellite operations lately.

[amsat-bb] Re: Kudos from K4DLG

2009-08-02 Thread David - KG4ZLB
I too have tried to help Dave with his BB problem including sending his message of help directly to the List Administrator - on the basis that you have had to post a message for him Tim, I guess the problem still exists (unfortunately!) David KG4ZLB n...@bellsouth.net wrote: Hey everyone,

[amsat-bb] Re: Indian high-orbit satellite?

2009-08-02 Thread Bruce Robertson
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Bob McGwierrwmcgw...@gmail.com wrote: We should be ashamed of ourselves in NA and Europe for not having figured out the key to unlock the door,  but having been there until my retirement from active office holder, I can tell you it was not for lack of trying.

[amsat-bb] Re: Indian high-orbit satellite?

2009-08-02 Thread Bob McGwier
Some people misread my poor prose as blaming Europe and NA for ITAR. I was commenting on Hamsat II requesting HEO and if they get a ride from ISRO, it will be good for amateur radio but reflects badly on the rest of us who have had multiple programs over more than a decade with no success at

[amsat-bb] Re: Question Re: Itar

2009-08-02 Thread Jim Jerzycke
Wikipedia has a good overview of what ITAR encompasses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITAR Jim  KQ6EA --- On Sun, 8/2/09, Dave Marthouse dm...@pure.net wrote: From: Dave Marthouse dm...@pure.net Subject: [amsat-bb] Question Re: Itar To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 3:42 PM

[amsat-bb] ANDE-2 TLM

2009-08-02 Thread kc8ran
I left the equipment running on autopilot today. Here's the TLM data captured (times in EDT/UTC-4) Fm POLLUX-1 To CQ Via TELEM UI pid=F0 Len=101 [12:47:42] SYST 257037 0 0 33 0 001f 1280 1150 0185 1158 0005 0e30 0030 0cb0 0156 08d2 0fbc 0038 Fm POLLUX-1 To CQ Via TELEM UI pid=F0

[amsat-bb] Re: Internet Routers in Space

2009-08-02 Thread Ben Jackson
Bob Bruninga wrote: cultural change for AMSAT. Voice communications would no longer be the primary motivation or justification for a project; it would merely be a nice side-effect. I believe the number 1 thing we should be working on is Universal Amateur Radio Text Messaging. The goal is

[amsat-bb] Tubesat, a $4,000 launch opportunity

2009-08-02 Thread Bruce Robertson
The first team that puts a linear transponder on board one of these, wins! (And I want William Leijenaar PE1RAH on my team ...) http://spacefellowship.com/2009/08/01/interorbital-syatems-tubesat-personal-satellite-kit/ Seriously, if this is for real, I think AMSAT should get at the front of the

[amsat-bb] Re: Tubesat, a $4,000 launch opportunity

2009-08-02 Thread w7lrd
I checked to make sure it wasn't April first.  As Bruce said, if this is for real, the question should be not putting a linear transponder on it, but how many!  For 4K a few of use could pool our Visa cards! 73 Bob W7LRD - Original Message - From: Bruce Robertson

[amsat-bb] twitter

2009-08-02 Thread Joseph Armbruster
I started following Amsat on twitter today, woot! I feel bad because i'm not sure how I didn't catch this earlier. I just did a search through my amsat folder and saw that this was advertised on 6/22 via amsat-bb email... grrr... I got curious and started searching around and found this

[amsat-bb] Here's another set.

2009-08-02 Thread Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
DRAGONSAT 1 35690U 09038B 09213.93020941 +.00019147 +0-0 +10178-3 0 00292 2 35690 051.6399 071.8356 0005119 091.0440 269.1149 15.80510826000381 OBJECT C 1 35691U 09038C 09214.62641247 .00031165 0-0 16508-3 037 2 35691 051.6393 068.2313 0003297 041.5608 318.5671 15.80263744 462

[amsat-bb] Re: Question Re: Itar

2009-08-02 Thread Bob McGwier
The short version is, if you, a US person (in the broad definition), talk to or write or transfer information or hardware to non US nationals about things in a satellite system which helps them in anyway do satellite work, and I do mean in almost any way, this is a deemed export and