[amsat-bb] How to build a Satellite.

2011-11-26 Thread GW1FKY
Over the past few weeks over here in the UK, the BBC has been running a series on How to Build Tomorrow evening (Sunday 27th November ) on BBC2 at 2100 hrs, the final programme in the series will be shown. It should prove of interest as the title is How to Build a Satellite and it looks

[amsat-bb] Mars Science Laboratory On Its Way To Mars

2011-11-26 Thread B J
The spacecraft has just separated from the booster after a successful launch and spin-up. Go MSL! 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support

[amsat-bb] Re: How to build a Satellite.

2011-11-26 Thread Trevor .
After it's been broadcast it should be viewable at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017wy06 The BBC try to stop people overseas viewing their shows so a proxy server would have to be used. I've never tried it but have been told that Expat Shield (DM-232.exe) is software that reportedly

[amsat-bb] Re: How to build a Satellite.

2011-11-26 Thread Bruce
i just installed the expat shield and then loaded the bbc link and it played just fine in texas. 73...bruce On 11/26/2011 10:52 AM, Trevor . wrote: After it's been broadcast it should be viewable at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017wy06 The BBC try to stop people overseas viewing their

[amsat-bb] ARRL Surfin' Column - Tracking the Dead Zone

2011-11-26 Thread Trevor .
Just spotted that Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU, covers this weekends ISS experiment in his column, see http://www.arrl.org/news/surfin-tracking-the-dead-zone 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not

[amsat-bb] quick LVB cal question

2011-11-26 Thread myles landstein
Hi For some reason I couldn't find this online sure I overlooked the obvious I have a LVB Tracker with a Yaesu G5500 Wanted to cal the unit and was sure if this was considered a 360degree max az rotor or 450 South CCW = FEN or 450North CCW = FEE also is this considered

[amsat-bb] Re: quick LVB cal question

2011-11-26 Thread i6kzr
Hi Myles, this is what LVB notes teel us about your question: Calibration from the serial, or virtual serial USB or Ethernet connection (1)Connect to the unit using a terminal emulator at 9600 bps, 1 stop bit, no parity and no handshake. (2)Check for communication by typing the ā€˜Cā€™ key

[amsat-bb] ANS-331 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

2011-11-26 Thread JoAnne Maenpaa
AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-331 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] Re: quick LVB cal question

2011-11-26 Thread myles landstein
thanks very much for trying to help unfortunately it really wasn't what I asked. hope someone out there might be able to help a newbie out thanks N2EHG Myles On Nov 26, 2011, at 6:49 PM, i6kzr wrote: Hi Myles, this is what LVB notes teel us about your question:

[amsat-bb] Re: NASA Video - Coming Back Down to our Fragile Oasis

2011-11-26 Thread Gregg Wonderly
On 11/23/2011 5:02 PM, Miguel Barreiro wrote: Hi, Perhaps someone on this list knows of a good video capture utility that'll work on the NASA website. Video capture utility? tcpdump is your friend :) Saved to http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5S6R67YH for the benefit of the

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 now shutting off tx soon after eclipse

2011-11-26 Thread Richard Grabotin
Mark, Thank you for the reply. I didn't expect to hear right from the lions mouth! My only hope is that future birds do not have a downlink of 436.795. I always wanted to use satellites ever since I became a ham at 14. I thought it was a very expensive aspect of the hobby. Recently I sold be