[amsat-bb] ANS-314 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

2013-11-10 Thread Lee McLamb
AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-314 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur R

[amsat-bb] Update AMSAT INDIA, AGBM -2013 - New Office Bearers

2013-11-10 Thread Nitin Muttin
 The AGBM was held as per schedule and all points as per the agenda were discussed and closed. Following members  have been elected as office bearers of AMSAT INDIA.   President - Ramesh Ramsubbu, VU2RMS Vice President - Dr. M.S.Giridhar, VU2MGD Secretary - Nitin Muttin, VU3TYG Treasurer- Venkat

[amsat-bb] AO27 status

2013-11-10 Thread w4upd
Heard AO27 a couple of times. Both yesterday and today. Today I heard it around 18:10 UTC. The telemetry was good and strong. Hopefully they can get this old girl working again as well. It was a nice FM satellite after the demise of AO51. Reid, W4UPD __

[amsat-bb] D STAR

2013-11-10 Thread wa4hfn
D STAR is growing across the US and the world http://www.dstarinfo.com/repeater-maps.aspx Amsat UK has info about a D STAR satellite http://amsat-uk.org/2013/10/22/integration-of-worlds-first-d-star-cubesat/ If you don't have a radio, you can use a DV Dongle on your computer Give it a try 73 WA

[amsat-bb] Re: D STAR

2013-11-10 Thread Rob Roschewsk
It would benefit the amateur community more to get support behind NON-PROPRIETARY OPEN PROTOCOLS and SYSTEMS like FreeDV, Speex and Codec2. Why subject yourself to the "AMBE TAX" ??? de ka2pbt On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 7:00 PM, wrote: > D STAR is growing across the US and the world > http://ww

[amsat-bb] Re: D STAR

2013-11-10 Thread Stefan Wagener
D Star satellite? That sounds like a need idea. Would be nice to do some tests on existing satellites. With SO-50 it will not work unless someone has figured out how to have D Star (DV) active on any D-Star radio with the required tone enabled. Won't work with the IC-9100. Tried it. Another probl

[amsat-bb] Re: D STAR

2013-11-10 Thread Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)
Stefan, It appears that stations attempting to work D-Star via satellite would need to use two radios. This was the case a few years ago, when AA4RC and N3UC were able to make a brief QSO on AO-27. You can read about what gear the used, along with some useful tips for trying D-Star via satellite

[amsat-bb] Re: D STAR

2013-11-10 Thread Stefan Wagener
Thanks! Yes, will try to put a few suggestions together for Icom for the next IC-9100 firmware upgrade. It would be a good radio to use next to others. Have a good weekend, Stefan On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) < amsat...@wd9ewk.net> wrote: > Stefan, > > It

[amsat-bb] Hawaii to VK/ZL qso?

2013-11-10 Thread Tom Worthington
I occasionally have passes where I can copy myself when the footprint of either FO-29 or A-07 shows some coverage to extreme North East Australia and the North Island of New Zealand, but I've never heard any signals from there. Are there any operators who would like to try a QSO? 73 and Aloha de

[amsat-bb] Re: D STAR

2013-11-10 Thread Tony Langdon
On 11/11/13 7:45 AM, Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) wrote: Stefan, It appears that stations attempting to work D-Star via satellite would need to use two radios. This was the case a few years ago, when AA4RC and N3UC were able to make a brief QSO on AO-27. You can read about what gear the us

[amsat-bb] Re: D STAR

2013-11-10 Thread George Henry
Actually, after more than 10 years on the market, D-STAR has only about 28,000 registered users worldwide. There are fewer than 2000 active users, worldwide, daily. Many people are wondering why Icom keeps pouring money into something which is clearly unsustainable in the long run. There are

[amsat-bb] Re: D STAR

2013-11-10 Thread lucleblanc6
On 11 Nov 2013 at 10:51, Tony Langdon wrote: > On 11/11/13 7:45 AM, Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) wrote: > > Stefan, > > > > It appears that stations attempting to work D-Star via > > satellite would need to use two radios. This was the > > case a few years ago, when AA4RC and N3UC were able t

[amsat-bb] Re: D STAR

2013-11-10 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:14:26AM -0600, George Henry wrote: > > There are very good reasons why no other amateur radio manufacturer > will touch it. > George, KA3HSW > What, apart from encryption being illegal on the amateur bands? Without a radical redesign and a new codec, DStar is just not