[amsat-bb] Re: Cubesat NANOSATC-BR

2011-07-24 Thread Clive Wallis
Hi Piraja, I'm most interested in this project, as I collected a lot of magnetometer data from OSCAR-11 when it was fully operational. Will you be transmitting WOD data, and publish full details of the format and decoding equations, so that we can all analyse it. 73 Clive G3CWV Hitchin,

[amsat-bb] ISS Message Board

2011-07-24 Thread Kevin Deane
Good morning Jeremy, saw your message but she fell out of veiw...Thanks KG6NUG for the cool flag that came up on my end anyway!! Glad to see active people and not BEACONS using the ISS Digi. Dont get me wrong, they serve their purpose... Kevin KF7MYK

[amsat-bb] Re: ISS Message Board

2011-07-24 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 05:07:16 -0700 Kevin Deane summit...@live.com wrote: Good morning Jeremy, saw your message but she fell out of veiw...Thanks KG6NUG for the cool flag that came up on my end anyway!! Glad to see active people and not BEACONS using the ISS Digi. Dont get me wrong,

[amsat-bb] ND9M/P: DM36, DM37, DM46, DM47 / Utah for Sat WAS

2011-07-24 Thread claryco
Allowing for terrain (vice train in yesterday's post!), I'll be on the DM36 / DM37 line on the Arizona side of the AZ/UT state line on VO52 this morning at 24/1543Z. If I can't get on the line with an easterly view, I'll back track and do the pass from DM37 in Utah and then come back to

[amsat-bb] ANS-205 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

2011-07-24 Thread JoAnne Maenpaa
AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-205 ANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and

[amsat-bb] OUFTI-1 - CubeSat - state of development June 2011

2011-07-24 Thread Jan ON7UX
Hi all, I put a AMSAT-ON video report on my YouTube canal concerning OUFTI-1 the D-STAR CubeSat. For they that D-STAR want to use with a traditional transceiver find there good news. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXmqYy_Q_Wg 73, Jan ON7UX Jan Poppeliers +32 475 89.99.20

[amsat-bb] Rialto and Moreno Valley, CA Presentations

2011-07-24 Thread Clint Bradford
Clint Bradford, K6LCS, will be presenting his ‘Working Amateur Satellites With Your HT’ session in Perris, CA on August 4 and in Rialto, CA on August 20. ALL are welcome to attend these club meetings! The Rialto Amateur Radio Club is one of the newer clubs serving Southern California's Inland

[amsat-bb] en31/en32 ac0ra/m

2011-07-24 Thread Wyatt Dirks
I am going to go out the the grid line of en32 and en31 today for the ao27 at 1933z and the ao-51 passes at 1950z and 2126z. If you need either of these grids confirmed and we make contact let me know and i will send a card your way. Also I am pretty new to operating away from my home grid

[amsat-bb] Re: Vietnam F-1 CubeSat Video

2011-07-24 Thread Clint Bradford
That background track was the third song selection at my wedding in 1989 ... Long live CubeSats! Clint Bradford, K6LCS ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the

[amsat-bb] Should I abandon full doppler correction?

2011-07-24 Thread Tom Schaefer, NY4I
Hi all, I just tried a nice pass on FO-29. I heard K9CIS on CW and W5BK from Texas. In both cases, while I am using full doppler correction with my 9100 and MacDoppler, I suspect they are leaving the transmit frequency fixed as they both changed frequency. K9CIS on CW was quite extreme in the

[amsat-bb] Re: Should I abandon full doppler correction?

2011-07-24 Thread Jim Sanford
All: For what it's worth, I think I prefer the manual doppler correction on the highest frequency, which can be done manually. Full doppler essentially requires constant computer control of both tx rx frequencies, AND a whole lot of accurate data. I've had similar experiences at Field Day,

[amsat-bb] 100 Degree Passes

2011-07-24 Thread Clayton W5PFG
It's summer time and a lot of us are operating mobile or portable. Due to the heat and drought conditions here in the US I have named this summer the Summer of 100 Degree Passes, commemorating the triple-digit temperatures. ..and you thought I was referring to maximum elevation / TCA in the

[amsat-bb] Re: Should I abandon full doppler correction?

2011-07-24 Thread KM9U
I am new to the linear birds and am having the same problem, Tom. It seems to be kind of a D*(%#@ if you do and D*(%#@ if you don't type of thing with computer doppler control. I have a FT-897 that I have used half-duplex with CAT control via SATPC32. I have also tried full-duplex using my

[amsat-bb] Re: Should I abandon full doppler correction?

2011-07-24 Thread Alan P. Biddle
Tom, There was an article in the Journal a few issues back on why the various manual techniques are only approximations, sometimes surprisingly bad ones. I think the author's call was WA4SCA. So it does get talked about. With an accurate clock, and current Keps it is possible to work a full pass

[amsat-bb] SatPC32 Band Change?

2011-07-24 Thread Paul Delaney - K6HR
Hello Erik et al, I'm using SatPC32 with an ICOM 821H. Is it possible to have SatPC32 change the up/down band for each satellite? The way I have it working now, I have to manually swap bands. Paul Delaney paul.hamra...@verizon.net http://k6hr.dyndns.org:8080

[amsat-bb] Re: Should I abandon full doppler correction?

2011-07-24 Thread Stephen E. Belter
Tom, I operated that same pass of FO-29. I started with a nice conversation with Mike, WA8EBM (Michigan), then moved on to another nice conversation with Drew, KO4MA (Florida). All three of us were using full Doppler control. It was great. I then heard you trying to chase W5BK across the

[amsat-bb] Re: 100 Degree Passes

2011-07-24 Thread saguaroastro
Clayton, 100 degree pass? That's nothing her in DM33... 110 is more the norm.. Since my Station is a handheld, I'm standing out in my backyard with sweat running down my eyes while trying to keep track of who on and where the frequency is. Still it fun, though my daughter thinks I'm nuts.

[amsat-bb] Re: 100 Degree Passes

2011-07-24 Thread Larry Teran
Same temperature here in Imperial Valley, in peak summer we use to reach 120 F and I have been operating outside all the time as Rick do, Patrick WD9EWK also knows the conditions of operating outside here in Souther California Desert. 73's KI6YAA On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 5:19 PM,

[amsat-bb] Re: 100 Degree Passes

2011-07-24 Thread Clayton W5PFG
Us Texans are natively equipped to handle these kind of temperatures so my designation of Summer of 100 Degree Passes was intended for our friends in more northern climates. You guys in the southwest have that dry heat HI HI The essentials for any summer time remote operations here: #1 Mosquito

[amsat-bb] Doppler Correction?

2011-07-24 Thread John Papay
The purpose of full doppler correction is to keep your signal in the exact same spot on the receiver in the satellite. It has a finite passband and if you don't correct your uplink, you move within that finite passband. Theoretically a single linear transponder can support many conversations but

[amsat-bb] Re: Should I abandon full doppler correction?

2011-07-24 Thread Stephen E. Belter
As far as Field Day and full Doppler correction goes: From listening and contacting them during FD, W5MSQ uses full Doppler correction. Andy MacAllister, W5ACM could tell you for certain. They finished first in 2007, 2008, and 2010. John Papay, K8YSE is part of the W8DXA satellite FD team,

[amsat-bb] Re: Should I abandon full doppler correction?

2011-07-24 Thread Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)
Hi Tom! Should I abandon full doppler correction? No! If you have it at your station, great! Take advantage of it, but remember that not everyone will have the same setup as you. Another less black-and-white step is that if I hear a station moving to adjust my settings so I am not doing

[amsat-bb] Saturday (23 July) on the satellites...

2011-07-24 Thread Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)
Hi! Thanks for all the QSOs when I was out at the DM32xx/DM42ax grid boundary south of Phoenix yesterday afternoon. Normally the Arizona heat is a dry heat, but there was enough humidity mixed with the 104F/40C heat that I didn't stay out there the whole afternoon. I worked two AO-27 passes,

[amsat-bb] ND9M/P: DM35 / DM36

2011-07-24 Thread claryco
Cori and I will be on from DM36 (possibly the grid line with DM35) on AO27 tomorrow (Monday) at 25/2043Z (approx turn on at 2047Z). Later on, we'll head south a bit and be on from DM34 and then green stamper DM33 after that. I don't know what pass(es) that will be however, but I know that

[amsat-bb] Re: Should I abandon full doppler correction?

2011-07-24 Thread Michael Schulz
Maybe it's just the ID-10-T error I'm having, but I just tried Macdoppler on the VO-52 pass and it didn't work so well. By the time I have found my downlink via the software the pass is over. I was much quicker doing it manually and had a good contact with K8YSE. So what's the secret? What am

[amsat-bb] Re: Should I abandon full doppler correction?

2011-07-24 Thread Michael Schulz
Tom, I tried full doppler control with HRD's sat tracking software and wasn't really thrilled to say the least. I may again try Macdoppler as it's so far the best sat program I've seen but my main shack machine unfortunately is a Windows box because HRD's logging software is more convenient