[amsat-bb] FITSAT-1 LED New Photos

2013-01-13 Thread Mineo Wakita
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/fitsatle.htm#led JE9PEL, Mineo Wakita ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription

[amsat-bb] HamSatDroid

2013-01-13 Thread David Johnson
Hi, Just a note to say that there will be a series of updates coming out in the next few weeks which will introduce some of the most popular feature requests. Also a quick heads up to say that once these are done we will be introducing a paid HamSatDroidPlus version which will have a richer

[amsat-bb] Re: Newsky dongle?

2013-01-13 Thread Andrew Glasbrenner
Does anyone know what the conversion spec is? What input range maps to what output range? Seems like a most basic spec, but I can't find it anywhere. Fire up your favorite SDR software. Tune to 100MHz + (+/- the tuning offset from the tuning procedure) + your desired frequency and

[amsat-bb] Re: HamSatDroid

2013-01-13 Thread Jaime Robles
Hi David, I sent you an email some days ago with some suggestions... The thing I am missing most is a feature to select just a few satellites to quickly predict one or the other without having to work with the full list. I think a way to select the so50, vo52, ao7 and iss, for example, would be

[amsat-bb] Re: Newsky dongle?

2013-01-13 Thread Limaunion
On 01/13/2013 04:45 PM, Greg Dolkas wrote: Right, I got that part. But what is the input range? Does it cover DC to 100Mhz continuous? Down to 160 meters? AM broadcast? VLF? Sensitivity? Image rejection? It's nice to know that it uses it has a PTC fuse on the USB port, but for an RF

[amsat-bb] Re: Newsky dongle?

2013-01-13 Thread Jeff Kelly
The dongle with the 820T chip starts at about 12 meters and goes to nearly 1.7 ghz, so you can use the dongle itself (without up converter) for anything above HF. It will also receive FM stereo. ...Unless you are using the up converter with some other device. Jeff K2SDR -Original

[amsat-bb] ARISSat-1 Operational Survey at 2012 ARRL/TAPR DCC (Digital Communications Conference), Atlanta

2013-01-13 Thread Mark Thompson
  ARISSat-1 Operational Survey by TAPR's Steve, N7HPR at 2012 ARRL/TAPR DCC (Digital Communications Conference), Atlanta http://youtu.be/t0i_6in8CE0 More Info about TAPR at: www.tapr.org ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of