[amsat-bb] Carrying Arrow Sat antenna on airplane

2011-04-15 Thread Bill Photinos
Has anyone had any issues trying to carry an Arrow Sat antenna as a carry on on a airplane? Am going to be doing some traveling and would like to take it along to make some contacts. 73, Bill - W4RVN ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions

[amsat-bb] Re: Carrying Arrow Sat antenna on airplane

2011-04-15 Thread B J
snip Has anyone had any issues trying to carry an Arrow Sat antenna as a carry on on a airplane? Am going to be doing some traveling and would like to take it along to make some contacts. Over a year ago, I flew on a domestic flight to another province. I partly disassembled my Arrow

[amsat-bb] Verticals and such on SSB birds

2011-04-15 Thread John Geiger
I have found firsthand that verticals, J poles, and the like work pretty good on FM satellites. How well do these same antennas work on the SSB satellites? Would they make VO52 usable? That seems to be the easiest of the SSB sats to get into. What about FO29? 73s John AA5JG

[amsat-bb] Re: Verticals and such on SSB birds

2011-04-15 Thread Dave Guimont
At 10:07 AM 4/15/2011, you wrote: I have found firsthand that verticals, J poles, and the like work pretty good on FM satellites. How well do these same antennas work on the SSB satellites? Would they make VO52 usable? That seems to be the easiest of the SSB sats to get into. What about FO29?

[amsat-bb] Re: Carrying Arrow Sat antenna on airplane

2011-04-15 Thread Eric H. Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:38:43AM -0400, Bill Photinos wrote: Has anyone had any issues trying to carry an Arrow Sat antenna as a carry on on a airplane? Am going to be doing some traveling and would like to take it along to make some

[amsat-bb] RF Quiet my digital recorder

2011-04-15 Thread Bill W1PA
I am using an Olympus digital audio recorder for logging LEO passes, because I can directly transfer a .wma to my PC from it (versus the tape recorder I used in the 90's). I am using an extension clip-on mic. I am finding that it generates a lot of RF crud on 435, enough to swamp the RX if I am

[amsat-bb] ISS Packet using AGWPE

2011-04-15 Thread Ng, Peter
hey what's going on? amsat-bb got quiet all of the suddentoo quiet! :) I'm trying to connect to ISS using AGWPE with my soundcard. can anyone help me with this? How does one connect to the ISS digipeater? Are there documentation on the AMSAT site or elsewhere? Any help would be

[amsat-bb] Re: ISS Packet using AGWPE

2011-04-15 Thread Edward R. Cole
At 01:21 PM 4/15/2011, Ng, Peter wrote: hey what's going on? amsat-bb got quiet all of the suddentoo quiet! :) I'm trying to connect to ISS using AGWPE with my soundcard. can anyone help me with this? How does one connect to the ISS digipeater? Are there documentation on the AMSAT site

[amsat-bb] Re: RF Quiet my digital recorder

2011-04-15 Thread Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)
Hi Bill! I am using an Olympus digital audio recorder for logging LEO passes, because I can directly transfer a .wma to my PC from it (versus the tape recorder I used in the 90's). I am using an extension clip-on mic. I am finding that it generates a lot of RF crud on 435, enough to swamp

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 - Battery Failure

2011-04-15 Thread R Oler
There are LOTS of reasons that the bird could have failed, in my viewpoint the BEST one is that the battery has some issues. Operating the vehicle in a thermal environment that it was not designed for would be a first guess, followed by some sort of crib death issue, and next comes parts

[amsat-bb] Re: ANS-104 ANS Special Bulletin - ARISSat-1 Not HeardDuring Gagarin Commemoration

2011-04-15 Thread John Spasojevich
My understanding was that the D-700 was turned off. Packet transmission began soon after the posted time for ARISSat to be powered off. Since theory and conjecture abound I would toss out a theorie that they did turn it on but were unaware it was not transmitting. Until they actually say what

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 battery

2011-04-15 Thread Nitin Muttin [VU3TYG]
Hi David, Agree with your comments, I am sure many were waiting egarly to hear the signals from ARRISsat.I think the team must have documented some key learnings from this which will help during the July launch of the satellite. Regards Nitin [VU3TYG] - Original Message