[amsat-bb] CAPE-2 text to speech

2014-01-21 Thread Roland Zurmely
On orbit #950 over GH70un Sete Lagoas, Brazil. Hello papa yankee 5 lima foxtrot, 73 from papa yankee 4 zulu bravo zulu with the voice of Perfect Paul and Robo Robert: http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/C21py5lf.wav 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ ___ Sent via

[amsat-bb] Re: CAPE-2 text to speech

2014-01-21 Thread Nick Pugh K5QXJ
Tnx roland -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Roland Zurmely Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 5:04 AM To: AMSAT Subject: [amsat-bb] CAPE-2 text to speech On orbit #950 over GH70un Sete Lagoas, Brazil. Hello papa yankee 5

[amsat-bb] Data signal in FO-29 passband

2014-01-21 Thread Ken Swaggart
During FO-29 passes near the USA west coast I've noticed a 9600 baud data signal in the downlink. Today I finally got a decode and the OnLineKissPlus file shows: À 2014-01-21 17:56:35.490 UTCÀÀž¦†jhlÛÜŽ¦°nhr ðThis is another Trailblazer Repeater test`À The uplink would be about 145.945

[amsat-bb] SO-50 Acquisition

2014-01-21 Thread Peter Wilson
Hi all, We had a northerly pass of SO-50 earlier today and I was unable to switch the timer on, get any response, or hear anyone else. I used the 74.4 Hz sub tone to arm the timer but nothing. I have 100 Watts available to steerable beams, so signal strength is not the issue. Is this bird

[amsat-bb] Re: SO-50 Acquisition

2014-01-21 Thread Andrew Glasbrenner
Have you used SO-50 before? It's not always easy to hear, even with large beams. However, it hears excellently. Before the 74.4 command was made public, I used to enable it automatically with a 2 watt HT and packet beacon every 3 minutes, to an omni. 73, Drew KO4MA -Original Message-

[amsat-bb] Re: Data signal in FO-29 passband

2014-01-21 Thread Douglas Quagliana
Hi Ken, Hope this helps: The output below certainly appears to be AX.25 in KISS format with the extended ASCII characters translated to perhaps something like Windows Arial font. The a-grave (the A with the backwards accent) is hex C0, which is the KISS frame delimiter that appears at the