[amsat-bb] FD Postmortem: was a cheap LEO tracker for single op

2013-06-26 Thread Bill (W1PA)
A quick follow-up and some questions. I made it to the FD site about 11pm local. Schedule had two passes of SO-50 (1am and 3am) and two passes of AO-7 (at 4am and 6am local). Let's focus on AO-7. I had my FT-847, two 10 ft lengths of coax, and the trusty Arrow dual-band. I had my Ubuntu

[amsat-bb] Re: FD Postmortem: was a cheap LEO tracker for single op

2013-06-26 Thread i8cvs
Hi Bill, W1PA You are tuning the uplink 432.125 MHz (LSB) and 145.975 MHz (USB) for down link but so you are at the very edge of the transponder passband. I suggest to tune the uplink in the middle of the passband at 432.150 MHz (LSB) and while transmitting a CW string of dots tune very slowly

[amsat-bb] Re: Nigerian scam span purporting to be from W0SL

2013-06-26 Thread Roy
Thanks Phil. Yes, I'm not sure how it was done but the settings are correct in my PC. ATT has helped me to assign a new password to my account to shut this down. They say it appears to have been hacked on the ATT web mail site. We too noticed the Reply To address change. I suspected

[amsat-bb] Re: FO-29 wierdness during field day

2013-06-26 Thread Art McBride
Greg, I had a hard time getting into the bird on that pass, figured it was pointing angle or inversion layer. Next morning it was fine. Art, KC6UQH (W6NWG for FD) -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Greg D Sent: Tuesday,