[amsat-bb] OT: 21.115 MHz DominoEX-22 Balloon Heading for USA

2013-12-29 Thread M5AKA
The 21.115 MHz DominoEX-22 Seba-6/Orient Express balloon launched from Poland on Saturday is on course for US Territory.  Real time tracking of the balloon at http://spacenear.us/tracker/ Seba-6/Orient Express http://www.southgatearc.org/news/december2013/ham_radio_balloon_seba_6.htm

[amsat-bb] Delfi-C3 and Delfi-n3Xt

2013-12-29 Thread Roland Zurmely
They passed at the same time ! Please see here: http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/Dn3Xt.htm#a 73 de Roland  PY4ZBZ  GH70un ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur

[amsat-bb] MCube-2

2013-12-29 Thread PA3GUO
For those trying to capture the Mcube-2 telemetry, it surely is a lot of fun downloading the 9k6 data at 70cm! The SW that the project team provides is really easy to use and looks nice. Cool demo for your friends when you want to show-case your involvement in Cubesats. With my modest set/up I

[amsat-bb] Re: Funcube-1 is +10 kHz on the uplink?

2013-12-29 Thread Wouter Weggelaar
Hi Henk, What you are seeing is the combined effect of various oscillators drifting over temperature and some static offsets present. It is not so easy to have these offsets quantified as static numbers. The oscillators were designed to be extremely low power, and temperature compensation is

[amsat-bb] Re: Funcube-1 is +10 kHz on the uplink?

2013-12-29 Thread PA3GUO
Thanks for the explaination Wouter. It sure is a fantastic transponder! Henk, PA3GUO ps: indeed as stated everywhere: 5W uplink is more than enough for a strong downlink. Van: Wouter Weggelaar [mailto:wouter...@gmail.com] Verzonden: zondag 29 december 2013 22:53 Aan: PA3GUO CC: