[amsat-bb] Re: SkyCube CubeSat Proposes "Tweets from Space"

2012-06-20 Thread Stefan Wagener
Swatch had to cancel the mission after international protest and violating amateur radio rules. Stefan On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Bruce wrote: > i seem to remember a satellite with a swatch message of some sort. could i > donate $10,000 and get about 30 minutes of air time... pretty inexp

[amsat-bb] Re: SatPC Win List Error

2012-06-20 Thread Rick Tejera
George, Both SATPc and WinAOS work fine, so if they are pulling the same set of keps, I'm not certain that's the issue. I may try a reinstall. Thanks for the ideas. 73 Rick Tejera (K7TEJ) Sagauro Astronomy Club www.saguaroastro.org Thunderbird Amatuer Radio Club www.w7tbc.org -Original M

[amsat-bb] Re: SkyCube CubeSat Proposes "Tweets from Space"

2012-06-20 Thread Bruce
i seem to remember a satellite with a swatch message of some sort. could i donate $10,000 and get about 30 minutes of air time... pretty inexpensive advertising compared to radio and tv time. 73...bruce On 6/20/2012 6:05 PM, Lee Maisel wrote: Interesting. But if they word it properly, and the

[amsat-bb] Re: SkyCube CubeSat Proposes "Tweets from Space"

2012-06-20 Thread Lee Maisel
Interesting. But if they word it properly, and the $1 donation is strictly to support the mission, then only donors can "tweet" or whatever. Since it's not for-profit venture anyway. Lee W5LMM Trevor . wrote: The funding concept of this CubeSat is $1 will sponsor 10 seconds of the mi

[amsat-bb] Interview with author of DIY Satellite Platform

2012-06-20 Thread Trevor .
Video interview with Dr. Sandy Antunes, Author of DIY Satellite Platform. In it he talks about IARU amateur satellite frequency coordination and GENSO. See http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=8480 Dr. Sandy Antunes used Kickstarter to raise funds for the project. 73 Trevor M5AKA

[amsat-bb] Fw: 2M1EUB/P QRV 24 JUNE-JULY 8 (loc) IO76/77/87/86

2012-06-20 Thread paul robinson
  Hi Guys,its that time yet again...2weeks in scotland,fun begins 24/6   ill be driving round scotland and hope to be qrv from any spots i can hit the birds from,grid sq covered should be io76 io77 io87 and io86 and may be more if i have the time...will be about for 2weeks till about july 08

[amsat-bb] Re: SatPC Win List Error

2012-06-20 Thread George Henry
The first error translates as "invalid numeric input"... your keps may be corrupt, or you may have selected a satellite which has re-entered. WinListen and WinAOS use the same keps file as SatPC32, so I would suggest downloading fresh keps, or downloading them from a different provider, and th

[amsat-bb] ArduSat Ardino CubeSat Technical Details

2012-06-20 Thread Trevor .
The ArduSat team have released a video giving further technical details on their satellite. See http://www.uk.amsat.org/?=8472 By using Kickstarter and reaching out to the DIY / Maker community the team have raised over $30,000 in pledges very quickly. Makes you wonder if Kickstarter fundrai