ready in a short time as it was intended to be launched
around 2007 if I'm not mistaken.
it has a simpler IF system but the signals should be just as strong as
ao-40 was.
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but that is not of concern to the ITU.
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up, why not stream on the output and only transmit ctcss when there is
voice trafic, that would be simpler to implement on all repeater sites
and not just the ones that use 2 transievers.
And to get back on topic of this list, that would also work on cubesats.
73 de Andre PE1RDW
Just had my 1st 2way SSB qso via Ao-73 with Keith ZS6TW.
Strong s7-9 without p/amp and excellent SSB audio.
Congrats to the team !
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*absolutely true*
We've surrendered freedoms by using this. ICOM of course had no real
understanding or appreciation of this (I've talked with higher-up managers
at Dayton), so it's become something we have to live with.
It does reek, however.
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On 11/12/13 15:58
thought of this one.
Let the acolytes gather...
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. But, I hope no one does that because Trevor
has done a lot.
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-- with the right amount of money.
I'm not sure that a kick motor would ultimately be cheaper
than a flight designed to get something into HEO, nor as safe.
It's really all about money, several millions of little dollarettes...
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using the 1200 baud data out (and in) you don't want any
squelsh action but do want deamphasing.
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to the programfiles directory, try installing it at a
different directory
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request that everyone that has known him
remembers him for what he has done and celibrate his life.
ps. please respect his wish and don't refer to him as OM.
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of the classic EME-capabile station.
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makes a
difference when you flip 180 degrees.
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makes a
difference when you flip 180 degrees.
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Op 14-2-2012 6:43, Michael Fletcher schreef:
Incredibly quiet on all forums,
or am I missing something regardin
BLT-28 ?
http://www.w5acm.net/b28.html
Michael OH2AUE
The tracker went quiet a few hours after launch so nobody knows where it is.
73 Andre PE1RDW
the hamspirit, something plenty CW only opperators
lack by refusing the work station using machine generated morse code.
gl de ha6nn
Andras
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it's not likely to be a mic-e packet because it is not an UI frame but an UA
frame, in this case an ackowladge to a SABM frame or connect request.
RK3KPK connected the digi, but that does not solve who RK3KPK is and why he
did it.
73 Andre PE1RDW
Op 28-1-2012 2:00, Stefan Wagener schreef:
Some mysteries are meant to be unsolved :-)
Stefan, VE4NSA
looks like it just got solved, I picked up a message on my packet bbs
from RK3KPK, looks like he is using internet gateways and that might
explain him ending up on 144.390 thinking
the digi, but that does not solve who RK3KPK is and why
he did it.
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boosting the background noise and not improving the reception.
So if your cable is very short there is not point in using a preamp.
73 Andre PE1RDW
Hi Andre, PE1RDW
It depends on the noise figure NF of your receiver.
Lets suppose the NF of your commercial receiver is as usually in the order
of 6 dB
it was ready to
go awaiting rfi aprovement.
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that, it is not even tested.
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with it may be its age, and getting some of
the specialty ICs could be hard. I seem to remember a few
of them selling on ebay in the $200 area?
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only one power bus.
73,
Joe kk0sd
If I remember right they where connected to a host satelite and used
that satelites powerbus, same for RS12/13.
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There are still the aprs sats like iss pcsat go-32 and maybe some more I
forgot.
offcourse this is direct digpeating and not store and forward but can
still be a lot fun.
73 Andre PE1RDW
Op 4-1-2012 20:27, Mark L. Hammond schreef:
Hi Chris,
The golden days of the Pacsat Store/forward
there, there should be posibileties.
73 Andre PE1RDW
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The Flex 5000 with their 2m/70cm board would make a fantastic rig,
albeit at a price (3500 ish?) but is in the neighborhood of the 9100.
The IC-290/IC-490 are older ssb rigs, but they'd work pretty well, too.
A few thoughts...
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with
people, but hardly think that orbiting is bad.
So use either. Orbital is better--or more historically accurate--
but not worth fights over (not implying you were thinking that).
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with registration, one of the conditions being the need to
pass a test.
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The problem with these definitions is that the ITU defines all radio
users as services, even CB falls under land mobile services.
Guess CB is not a hobby too.
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, the better.
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it was not the transponder that caused the end of this
experiment but the cost of running the uplink station.
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I think answering 59 please repeat all details is dumb but I
don't go around making my personal opinion superior to any other, if
they are happy doing it fine, the hobby is big enough to allow all
aspects to be valid.
73 Andre PE1RDW
Op 2-10-2011 19:29, Clint Bradford schreef:
In another forum
it is very unlikely to be hindering any satelite operation now and in
the future.
73 Andre PE1RDW
Op 1-10-2011 0:41, Roger schreef:
Google would seem to indicate that the best solution would be to use
the rules outlined by your local 2 meter coordinating committee...in
reality, those frequencies
On 08/21/11 18:56, Kevin Deane wrote:
Enough with the friggin ARISSAT-1 reports, gee I heard it too. Post your
reports here http://oscar.dcarr.org/ I mean really .
Kevin
KF7MYK
Whats wrong with that? Just hit your delete key when you see arissat
and report.
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it would
give pleny bandwith for all kinds of experiments and if you can use the
host sat's powerbus there would also be no power restrictions.
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This pass just gone 09h58 UTC and the previous one at 08h22 UTC both had
packet or APRS ? over the 145.950 Arissat SSTV. This last pass was just LOS
when the packet tx was again and only ISS
was still visable at my QTH.
I have recordingds but no decode of that PKT yet.
73
andre ZS2BK
a 2x way cw contact with ZS6A Pierre.
Got to be quick to beat the fades.
Got a nice recording of this contact too.\
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Just worked thru the Lin xpndr.
CW Bcn strong but return thru xpndr weak but copy 100%
FM sigs very strong and good SSTV pic
73
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Op 4-8-2011 11:58, Andre' v Deventer schreef:
Just worked thru the Lin xpndr.
CW Bcn strong but return thru xpndr weak but copy 100%
FM sigs very strong and good SSTV pic
73
andre ZS2BK
One advantage of the weak but useable uplink, it will be much less
likely that high erp stations
of the problems that happened. I suppose this is a
good lesson for kids, that nothing in space should be taken for granted.
This failed to be deployed once before? So a lesson to learn.
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experimental workplace. ...How long did the
various US
astronauts train for Hubble missions? I'm not excusing rough or really
careless
handing, but things happen.
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On 08/03/11 17:15, Michael Schulz wrote:
So let me play devils advocate here for a second or three. When
?
Absolutely!
But consider this: where would the ISS be if it was run the way the US
congress
has been acting lately?
At the bottom of an ocean, I'd say...
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in communications, and
speak of the exercise opportunities at the other contests, especially
those of rovers.
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On 06/27/11 14:21, Nigel Gunn wrote:
A bigger FD problem is that FD is advertised as a chance to demonstrate
your emergency comms ability to Joe Public.
FD
Me, I'm recovering from bad sunburn. I look like a lobster ready for
dinner...
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On 06/27/11 15:40, Bob- W7LRD wrote:
After all the hoopala settles. When/where else can you play with
radios, go camping, go potty in the woods, get bug bites, have a good
time
impressed with some of the closed source programs they've seen--and wanted
to improve on.
But this is changing, and is yet another reason to get more younger people
involved in ham radio in general.
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arissattlm code. Apologies if it came off that way.
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On 06/23/11 21:57, Anthony Monteiro wrote:
Hi Guys,
This has always been open source, its just that the
server is temporarily down. You can find
? Like, here?
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Yes, it's the APU, I think.
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Are you releasing the source?
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it expired a robot came
along and snatched it up, in the hopes that its owners would
pay 25+ times the renewal price for it.
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George, KA3HSW
From what I can read they are using ISM rules, for earth bound
transmitters these would indeed be licence free *but* I do have my
doubts if ISM transmitters are alowed in space crafts.
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is the archive?
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wrote:
Hi Steve,
I wonder how that would work with multiple languages:)
73
Graham G3VZV
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Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: New Satellite Downlink?
On Wednesday 25 August
its operational status has been pretty well figured out, it isn't
something that is completely defined. Thats my guess.
I'm simply glad (and amazed) that it works at all.
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john, whats a good rule for height of the antennas to avoid large
back lobes reflecting, ie how many wavelengths up should the
antennas be? Thanks...
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On Saturday 05 June 2010 17:07:15 John Belstner wrote:
Just another $0.02 to add.
You will find that the size
this mode will save some power in swithing TX off ?
73
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to the
satellite. Now is a good time to tweak your 9600 baud receive setups, as
the digital transmitter is on at about 2 watts.
73, Drew KO4MA
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Unquote
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Sri,
a Blond moment.
Posted to wrong detination.
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(scorpio blue), they don't publish
MTBF any more.
So while I want aa batteries with 13.1AH capacity and 12,000 recharge
cycles, I'm going to have to wait for them... ;-)
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if this was a tempreture output shutdown ?
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prove this wrong in your further searches. If you do
find it, please let folks know.
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Hi All,
Congrats to Luciano PY5LF and Pierre ZS6BB who just completed a 2x CW
QSO
via AO-7
which is a distance of 7,630 km between these two stations. (GG54jm -
KG43eu)
The mp3 clip shows the short window they had with good signals both ways.
Well Done guy's !!!
73
andre
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Hi Alan,
We just experienced our 1st live pass in South Africa.
Easy QSO's with ZS6Y and ZS6BNE.
FM signal @ S7 and stable till my LOS.
Congrats to the Team for a wonderful new Sat to have fun with.
Seasons Greetings and Happy Holidays to All the Satellite fraternity !
73
Andre
Hi All,
Just worked thru mode-B xpnder all seems normal.
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Hi All,
Just worked thru ao-7 mode-B xpndr and all seems normal.
73
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Hi William,
Check out the LVB tracker by Howard G6LVB.
You can upgrade the standard version to be a stand-alone tracker unit.
It uses a PIC 18F2620 microcontroller.
73, Andre PH7AT
William Leijenaar wrote:
Hi AMSATs,
For some longer time I have been looking for a way to get a stand-alone
And here is the missing link...
http://www.g6lvb.com/Articles/LVBTracker2/index.htm
73, Andre PH7AT
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Check out the LVB tracker by Howard G6LVB.
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73
This is interesting; I've learned stuff because of this.
Not that it's practical, but what could Hubble see? The first question
would be can it be positioned to stare down, and then how well
would it see something that close and fast?
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On Thursday 15 October 2009 08
.
Tim
KI6VBY
What makes them degrade over time? Are the newer ones better in this
regard?
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On Friday 25 September 2009 15:56:37 Rocky Jones wrote:
The hamsat bands are slowly being converted into cheap telemetry bands...
Robert WB5MZO
To: ni...@ngunn.net
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:31:40 -0800
From
The RF Connection, in MD.
URL is therfcinc.com I believe.
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On Thursday 13 August 2009 00:23:27 Mark Lunday wrote:
Looking for recommendations.don't want to go the eBay route. Thanks in
advance.
Mark Lunday
WD4ELG
Hillsborough, NC - FM06kb
to achieve on the LEO
satellites.
73s John AA5JG
If you were in eastern europe?
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I didn't know the 703 was discontinued. Sigh--I wanted to have some
friends get them.
I'd like to think that Icom will come out with other radios, but given
the current economy, will they do that, I wonder.
SHF on a radio--I like that!
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On Friday 07 August 2009 04
things were faked.
I do not find this discussion OT for Amsat-bb, because this affects us.
It erodes the effort of tens of thousands of technical people, and has
ripple effects for the USA, far beyond the original topic.
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[snip]
Steve you can add my witness
On Tuesday 21 July 2009 10:12:46 Edward Cole wrote:
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:52:08 -0800
To: STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu, amsat-bb@amsat.org
From: Edward Cole kl...@acsalaska.net
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: Evidence of moon landings!
LeRoy,
I'm not sure how you can have a source
-bb, because this affects us. It
erodes the effort of tens of thousands of technical people, and has ripple
effects for the USA, far beyond the original topic.
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