[amsat-bb] Re: usb to serial adapter woes

2010-04-29 Thread Larry Gerhardstein
Problem reported in this thread solved. Bought and installed two optical isolators. One in ICOM serial line and one in GS232/G5500 serial line. Rotor position now reading correctly, but there was one more issue. Cables that I believed to be straight through were not; they were null modem.

[amsat-bb] Re: SatPC32 and SDX won't talk

2010-04-29 Thread Larry Gerhardstein
I applied the suggested fix to get the Speech SDX. That worked, but on the computer in question, I do not have sound coming from my speakers. I'm working with the vendor on that. But there are more troubles with my set setup and I will detail those in separate postings. Larry W7IN -- H

[amsat-bb] Re: Space Debris:

2010-04-29 Thread Phil Karn
Stephen Melachrinos wrote: > were a major hazard to everyone, themselves included. So they must > have allocated more resources to the problem, as this is a massive > undertaking. (Note that some reports say that the US has about 20,000 > objects that are tracked and cataloged. In theory, this mea

[amsat-bb] Re: Galaxis Space Scanner ACU

2010-04-29 Thread Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)
Hi! > I did find this in archives and the website for Gary > (Gary Gonnella W6RYO  http://www.w6ryo.com) is no good > and Google no help in finding a mirrored site. Google may not be any help, but the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine appears to have many copies of that web site over several yea

[amsat-bb] Re: Galaxis Space Scanner ACU

2010-04-29 Thread Joe Leikhim
I did find this in archives and the website for Gary (Gary Gonnella W6RYO http://www.w6ryo.com) is no good and Google no help in finding a mirrored site. On 4/28/2010 12:09 AM, kq...@verizon.net wrote: > Search the archives. > http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/amsat-bb/200409/msg00443.html >

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 Telemetry Software - TLmEcho

2010-04-29 Thread Mark L. Hammond
Hi Bruce, I have a simpler three step process outlined on my personal webpage AND a newer version of the software that doesn't seem to be listed on the link below: Scroll to the bottom of this page: http://sites.google.com/site/marklhammond/hamradio 73, Mark N8MH On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 6:43

[amsat-bb] AO-51 Telemetry Software - TLmEcho

2010-04-29 Thread Bruce Semple
Looks like Mike Kingery (KE4AZN) wrote TLmEcho back in July 2004 -- But for those of us getting back into the hobby .. it's new to us! It does a nice job visualizing the various measurements collected in the telemetry stream Great job Mike! http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/echo/tlm_decode.php

[amsat-bb] KiwiSat video

2010-04-29 Thread Trevor .
New KiwiSat video http://www.southgatearc.org/news/april2010/kiwisat_video.htm Violet Amateur Radio satellite http://www.southgatearc.org/news/april2010/violet.htm FUNcube FlatSat Meeting http://www.southgatearc.org/news/april2010/funcube_flatsat_meeting.htm AMSAT-UK International Colloqui

[amsat-bb] Re: Rooftop Antenna Labs?

2010-04-29 Thread Edward R Cole
At 04:49 PM 4/28/2010, Franklin Antonio wrote: >At 05:25 PM 4/28/2010, Robert Bruninga wrote: > >I may have an opportunity to begin planning for a major building > >upgrade at my school and want to propose a modern root-top > >antenna lab. > >Most antenna test labs now use anechoic chambers rather