[amsat-bb] FUNcube-1 launch week has arrived!

2013-11-17 Thread Graham Shirville
Well it has finally arrived. Little did we think, back in 2009 that we would not be launching FUNcube-1 until late 2013 but, at last, we are almost there. The past four years have been spent trying to find a suitable launch opportunity, dealing with many legal and administrative issues, in addit

[amsat-bb] Re: FunCube Dashboard under Wine?

2013-11-17 Thread PE0SAT | Amateur Radio
Hi Greg, I think the biggest challenge is installing .Net framework 4 The reason is, I tried to install SDR# under wine and wasn't able to get .Net working. But maybe there are amateurs out there that found a way. Try VirtualBox with a Windows version, that will be a lot easier. 73 PE0SAT On

[amsat-bb] FT-736R Question

2013-11-17 Thread Gregory Beat
N6BIL developed a hardware widget (PIC and USB interface) for the Yaesu FT-736R to work as a FT-847 (Hardware Emulator). That address some issues. http://home.comcast.net/~tinkyr/736/N6BIL%20Hardware%20Emulator.htm Sent from iPad Air ___ Sent via AMSAT

[amsat-bb] Re: FUNcube-1 launch week has arrived!

2013-11-17 Thread Nitin Muttin
Graham, This is a significant accomplishment and the progress was very much visible due to the frequent updates by the project team. On behalf of AMSAT INDIA I  thank AMSAT UK and the entire team of Funcube for their hardwork and also wish  a successful launch,deployment and activation of the Fu

[amsat-bb] Re: FT-736R Question

2013-11-17 Thread Matthias Bopp
Hi all, I can confirm that the translator of Chuck works fine ... as HRD does not support the FT-736 this is an excellent work around. Best regards Matthias www.dd1us.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] Im Auftrag von Gregor

[amsat-bb] Re: FUNcube-1 launch week has arrived!

2013-11-17 Thread Bill Ress
Graham, My best wishes to you and your team. It will be an exciting week to be sure. Your comments were very nicely put. I'd would also like to commend your team for its "openness" all these years about the project's status. For the life of me I fail to understand why so many Cubesat project

[amsat-bb] Re: FUNcube-1 launch week has arrived!

2013-11-17 Thread Graham Shirville
Dear Nitin, Very many thanks for your kind words and thoughts on behalf of AMSAT-India. We are very grateful. We have tried quite hard to develop the project with a wish and intent to make it as "open" as possible and to respect the great support that we have had from many directions. best

[amsat-bb] FT-736

2013-11-17 Thread Tom Worthington
Thanks for all the responses on the FT-736 and the pointers to the pic hardware emulator. Just to be clear, does the N6BIL emulator allow the manual tuning of the FT-736? It would seem that the lack of the ability to tune is a significant problem to making contacts. 73 and Aloha, Tom, NH6 Y

[amsat-bb] Re: FT-736

2013-11-17 Thread David Beumer
Tom I read up on that N6BIL emulator box, it appears its' main purpose is to emulate an FT-847 for software that does not support the 736. This won't solve your manual tuning issue. A local buddy that uses a 736 does the manual tuning using the tuning buttons in SATPC32. He is seriously consid

[amsat-bb] MAVEN Ready For Launch

2013-11-17 Thread B J
http://www.americaspace.com/?p=45239 http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av038/131117preview/ http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av038/rollout/ 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMS

[amsat-bb] SatPc32 Cubesat SQF files

2013-11-17 Thread Rob styles
Any one had the chance to write up some SatPC32 Sqf (Doppler/AmsatNames.txt. files for the latest Cubesats due to be launched this week. I understand the TLE’s might change. Rob ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the

[amsat-bb] Re: FUNcube-1 launch week has arrived!

2013-11-17 Thread paul robinson
Thanks for the hard work,and overcoming all the red tape to hopefully give us another usefull satalite,ive got every thing crossed!  Ill be keeping an ear out this week for signals off funcube-1 and others...best wishes again Paul 2E1EUB   Amsat uk Amsat NA RSGB _

[amsat-bb] Re: SatPc32 Cubesat SQF files

2013-11-17 Thread Alan
Rob, FUNCUBE-1 1 1U 13999A 13325.30956308 -.0106 0-0 0 0 118 2 1 97.7956 38.2570 0059925 198.5190 336.5388 14.7784139415 FUNCUBE-1,145934.0,,USBTLM FUNCUBE-1,145960.0,435140.0,USB,LSB,REV,,, Transponder 73s, Alan WA4SCA PS If you want to get a jump on FOX

[amsat-bb] Re: FunCube Dashboard under Wine?

2013-11-17 Thread David Giles
Hi Greg, I've installed it on a virtual box running XP and it appears to work ok. Haven't tried it using wine. 73 de David VK5DG On 17/11/13 13:54, Greg D wrote: Hi all, Before I try, does anyone know if the new FunCube Dashboard software will run on Linux under Wine? Except under unusua

[amsat-bb] Re: FT-736

2013-11-17 Thread Greg D
The lack of manual tuning when under computer control is a fundamental limitation of the rig. When it switches to CAT mode, the front panel is disabled. Nothing an external box can do to change this. For the FM sats, full computer control is still possible, since all you need is to stay on t

[amsat-bb] Remote Satellite SDR station with Raspberry Pi.

2013-11-17 Thread Matty Cunningham
I have been experimenting with Raspberry Pi, for streaming SDR and rotator control with Simon Brown's SDR Console V2. I am looking for a way to remotely stream the audio from my FUNCube Dongle (plugged into a Raspberry Pi) and control my rotator (G6LVB type tracker). So far I have been able t

[amsat-bb] Re: FUNcube-1 launch week has arrived!

2013-11-17 Thread Matty Cunningham
Graham and the FunCube team, A huge thankyou to all of you for the hard work and regular updates of progress, I think I first heard about the FunCube satellite when I was made aware of the FunCube Dongle, shortly before it was released for sale. I was very lucky and managed to get serial no.

[amsat-bb] Re: FT-736

2013-11-17 Thread Tony Langdon
On 18/11/13 5:40 AM, Tom Worthington wrote: Thanks for all the responses on the FT-736 and the pointers to the pic hardware emulator. Just to be clear, does the N6BIL emulator allow the manual tuning of the FT-736? It would seem that the lack of the ability to tune is a significant problem to m

[amsat-bb] Re: FUNcube-1 launch week has arrived!

2013-11-17 Thread Mani [VU2WMY/KJ6LRS]
Good wishes and Greetings from India to Team FUNcube-1 for a great mission success. All the very best. 73 de Mani [VU2WMY/KJ6LRS] Secretary & Station-In-Charge Upagrah Amateur Radio Club VU2URC ISRO Satellite Centre HAL Airport Road, Bangalore-560 017. Phone:(O)91-80-25082054/2598/2192 Mobil