[amsat-bb] Re: Mount an Arrow on rotator with 2m vertical orhorizontal

2013-04-17 Thread i8cvs
Hi Douglas, Using two identical 50 ohm coax lenght you can't transform each 50 ohm antenna impedance into 100 ohm but if you connect both 50 ohm coax cables to a T connector than the resulting impedance at the common output of the T connector will be 25 ohm i.e. two 50 ohm impedances in parallel

[amsat-bb] TH-D7 in kiss mode

2013-04-17 Thread Abdeslam Salah
Hi All, I’m a little bit disappointed. I try to use my kenwood TH-D7 in kiss mode. When I send an APRS packet via [BCON] of my second kenwood TH-D7, I receive this packet with my first kenwood TH-D7 operating in kiss mode but without the flags (0x7E). Here is an example of what I received in Hex

[amsat-bb] AMSAT/TAPR Joint Hamvention Banquet Menu Announced

2013-04-17 Thread Alan
Join us at the Dayton Hamvention this year for the AMSAT/TAPR Banquet on Friday evening, 17 May. The Evangelist's Dilemma: Driving New Ideas With Nothing But Words. Bruce Perens, K6BP, presents a humorous history of technology evangelism and the things that inevitably go wrong, drawing from his

[amsat-bb] PhoneSat-1 Launch Scrubbed Today

2013-04-17 Thread Peter Portanova
Hello: SCRUBBED. The Orbital launch team is securing today's countdown after this unexpected technical problem arose. Officials are assessing the plan ahead to reattach the umbilical and determine when the next launch attempt can be made 73 Pete WB2OQQ

[amsat-bb] Fwd: Re: Fwd: [Tracking] PhoneSat launch April 17th! 437.425MHz

2013-04-17 Thread Samudra Haque
Update: If launch is successful, deployment will be in T+10 or so, a fairly rapid deployment! First transmissions shortly thereafter! I think that means a lucky radio station over which the spacecraft will be flying (possibly, Pacific Rim/US West Coast) will be getting first transmission shortly

[amsat-bb] Next Launch Attempt For Antares

2013-04-17 Thread B J
http://spaceflightnow.com/antares/demo/status.html http://www.orbital.com/NewsInfo/MissionUpdates/Antares_Test_Flight/ Weather permitting, it'll be Friday at 2100 UTC. 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed