[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 Screen Shots

2011-08-03 Thread Alexandru Csete
Maybe they will put it on their youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision If not, we can ask them do so. 73 Alex OZ9AEC On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Clint Bradford clintbra...@earthlink.net wrote: What a day! And reception reports are already coming in! I apologize for

[amsat-bb] Re: Hamlib for Windows and COM ports question (re: Gpredict)

2011-03-18 Thread Alexandru Csete
Hi Mark, I have not used hamlib in a long time since I now have others to test rig interfaces in gpredict. When I used it few years ago on windows it worked well with high COM-port values. I always used USB to serial converters, which get high values. I would suggest you try the hamlib mailing

[amsat-bb] Re: GPREDICT

2011-03-08 Thread Alexandru Csete
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:41 AM, PE0SAT pe0...@vgnet.nl wrote: On Tue, March 8, 2011 03:45, Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF wrote: Alexandru has just made Gpredict 1.3 available free for all you Windows operators at https://sourceforge.net/projects/gpredict/files/Gpredict/1.3/ Great to here that

[amsat-bb] Re: GPREDICT

2011-03-08 Thread Alexandru Csete
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:25 PM, George and Cheryl Abbott ka1...@cox.netwrote: FYI:My security software gave me two strong warnings about downloading this program. Can you provide any more details about these strong warnings, please? Alex ___ Sent

[amsat-bb] Re: IC-9100

2011-02-25 Thread Alexandru Csete
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Dave Webb KB1PVH kb1...@gmail.com wrote: HRO has the Icom 9100 on it's site now for the low low price of $3799.95 http://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-010763 Wow, when I first saw that radio some time ago I thought it was supposed to be some kind of

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 decoding software release

2011-02-10 Thread Alexandru Csete
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Diane Bruce d...@db.net wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 07:32:40AM +, Gordon JC Pearce wrote: On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 20:01 +, Darren Long wrote: I'd also like access to the source if available. Cheers, Darren, G0HWW I already mentioned that I'd

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat 1 Funcube Telemetry Question: DBPSK vs BPSK

2011-02-06 Thread Alexandru Csete
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Iain Young, G7III g7...@g7iii.net wrote: Hi All, Just a quick clarification needed by me on the Telemetry format that is going to be used by ARISSat-1 and Funcube ( I guess the Funcube boards onboard UKube-1...) Lots of places are referring to it as

[amsat-bb] Re: Rideshare missions to GTO, only $14 million for Eagle, $800K for 3U Cubesat

2011-02-01 Thread Alexandru Csete
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Daniel Schultz n8...@usa.net wrote: Spaceflight Services Announces Lunar and GTO Mission Pricing Prague, CZ - September 30, 2010:  Spaceflight Services (Spaceflight) announced today pricing for small payloads to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) and Low Lunar

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSAT-1

2011-01-26 Thread Alexandru Csete
Today the Soyuz was moved to the launch pad - I assume with ARISSat onboard. Roll-out video from tvroscosmos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IF8V8212W0 73 Alex OZ9AEC On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Gould Smith gould...@bellsouth.net wrote: Hello John, There is current information about

[amsat-bb] Re: Another Budget Launch Vehicle

2010-09-08 Thread Alexandru Csete
The launch was canceled already Sunday so no more launch attempts this time. They plan to try again in June 2011. Until then we can enjoy these nice photos from the campaign: http://picasaweb.google.com/thomas.tp/HEAT1XPCampaign# Copenhagen Suborbitals has a blog where they provide frequent

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 obseved solar eclipse?

2010-07-14 Thread Alexandru Csete
Greetings, I ran a simulation using the Celestia space simulator and could indeed observe a partial solar eclipse as seen from AO-51 :) I have recorded the simulation to a video and you can watch it on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ET8BhbqmVk I couldn't find any 3d model of AO-51 so I

[amsat-bb] Re: LEO/cube sat for sale 8000$

2010-01-26 Thread Alexandru Csete
Quoting William Leijenaar pe1...@yahoo.com: Hi AMSATs, I just read the message about the tube-sats. I was having a look to their options, but when I understand well in the structure there is already a radio integrated ? Hi William, You can get a tubesat both with or without

[amsat-bb] Re: Sun sat thesis

2010-01-19 Thread Alexandru Csete
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:47:59 -0500 Bob McGwier rwmcgw...@gmail.com wrote: http://etd.sun.ac.za/handle/10019/1346 Very impressive by Mr. Van Wyk. I wish they had asked me to be an outside reader. ;-). Great reading! Thanks for the pointer Bob. 73 Alex OZ9AEC

[amsat-bb] Re: XW-1 == YAOGAN 8 ?

2009-12-16 Thread Alexandru Csete
The influence of the drag force also depends on the mass since F=m*a, so the same drag force will cause less deceleration on a heavier satellite. You have to put this together with F=pressure*surface_area to take both the size and the mass of the satellite into account. By the way, is there any

[amsat-bb] Re: video: stand-alone tracking and tuning with Arduino

2009-12-01 Thread Alexandru Csete
Quoting Bruce Robertson ve9...@gmail.com: Gang: The following one-minute video shows my breadboarded Arduino (ATMega328) tracking two satellites and tuning an FT-817 in response. It also shows the chip periodically announcing the location of the bird in CW, and, as a bonus, you'll see AO-51

[amsat-bb] Re: Tubesat, a $4,000 launch opportunity

2009-08-03 Thread Alexandru Csete
Greetings, Yes, I think they are very much for real! Interorbital Systems are also part of team SYNERGY MOON, a fully registered team in the Google Lunar X PRIZE. I can only see a price of $8k (not 4k). Still a bargain compared to the price of a cubesat launch today (~$80k I think). The 8k

[amsat-bb] Re: Pass predictions and differences in software

2009-07-13 Thread Alexandru Csete
Hi LeRoy, Which version of gpredict are you using? The one that is included with Ubuntu? That version is very much out of date and did have several bugs that could affect pass predictions. In particular the time controller function was very immature back then. Did you try the predict pass

[amsat-bb] Re: Minotaur 1 Launch Video

2009-05-20 Thread Alexandru Csete
Both videos work for me. The first one is even higher quality than the second. Thanks for posting. 73 Alex OZ9AEC Quoting Trevor . m5...@yahoo.co.uk: This one works: NASA Launches Minotaur-1PharmaSat TacSat-3 - 20 May 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEs2STSF7Lo 73 Trevor M5AKA