Re: [amsat-bb] Telemetry freq for Ukcube-1/Funcube-2?

2014-08-02 Thread Colin Hurst
Mark, Try 145915.2 +/- 1kHz It is a tad frequency agile. Passes are very infrequent due to testing. 73 Colin VK5HI -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Mark L. Hammond Sent: Saturday, 2 August 2014 23:46 To:

[amsat-bb] Re: Cubesat 1 axis attitude control?

2014-02-20 Thread Colin Hurst
Bob, I am not a rocket scientist but may qualify as a greybeard. Have been an ardent follower of satellite attitudes for many years. I would have thought that passive magnetic stabilisation would have been the preferred option to meet your objective. In principle your idea should work, however

[amsat-bb] Request for Solar Flux Data

2014-02-19 Thread Colin Hurst
I am looking for the 45 day Solar Flux Data (www.swpc.noaa.gov) covering/overlapping the period 21st November to 7th January. Please email me direct. Thank You. Colin VK5HI ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author.

[amsat-bb] 2 Metre Noise : was RE: Re: Keplerian Elements for FUNCUBE 1

2013-11-22 Thread Colin Hurst
Stefan and Mark, 90% of the crud on 2 metres comes from my Cable Modem / Router. Lucky so far Funcube and N3XT are in the clear. Colin VK5HI. -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Wagener Sent: Saturday, 23 November

[amsat-bb] Re: Cornell CUSat Keps?

2013-10-08 Thread Colin Hurst
QTH. 73 Colin VK5HI. PS: CUSAT remains a good fit with Object B. -Original Message- From: Nico Janssen [mailto:ham...@xs4all.nl] Sent: Tuesday, 8 October 2013 05:59 To: bstguitar...@gmail.com Cc: Colin Hurst; Amsat BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: Cornell CUSat Keps? Detailed doppler shift

[amsat-bb] Re: Cornell CUSat Keps?

2013-10-02 Thread Colin Hurst
Alan Bryce, 2013-055B appears currently to be the best fit for both DANDE and CUSAT. 73 Colin VK5HI -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Alan Sent: Wednesday, 2 October 2013 04:27 To: bstguitar...@gmail.com; 'Amsat BB' Cc:

[amsat-bb] Re: cw decoding software

2013-03-30 Thread Colin Hurst
Norm, If you have an FCD Version 1.1 try the following program. http://www.sdr-radio.com/Download/tabid/178/language/en-US/Default.aspx Click on the July 1st 2012 download for version 1058. It has Doppler correction and is an excellent piece of software. 73 Colin VK5HI. -Original Message-

[amsat-bb] Xatcobeo Pass 0922utc 14th February

2012-02-14 Thread Colin Hurst
CW only sending xatcobeo 8.24v -137dbm 33c Colin VK5HI. ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings:

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 Telemetry

2011-11-25 Thread Colin Hurst
Carl, You are there with 3862 packets. 73 Colin VK5HI -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Guy Mallery Sent: Saturday, 26 November 2011 11:06 To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 Telemetry Date: Thu, 24

[amsat-bb] Re: OSCAR or not OSCAR ?

2011-11-12 Thread Colin Hurst
Stefan, I wholeheartedly support your comments. We made a conscious decision many years ago, that in retirement, we would support the Cubesat Program by downloading their telemetry, to give something back to the hobby. Being licensed nigh on 50 years ago and being part of the Amateur Satellite

[amsat-bb] Re: Has the ARISSat-1 CW-2 frequency shifted?

2011-08-31 Thread Colin Hurst
Alan, For the last week or so we have been observing it come out of eclipse. I have noted at worst, a very slow 40Hz shift as ARISSAT1 warms up. I update the TLE's every day for ARISSAT1 (possibly an overkill) but it is always within +/-20 Hz at AOS that you quoted. 73 Colin VK5HI. -Original

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 telemetry top submitters

2011-08-17 Thread Colin Hurst
Alan, The last KURSK segment I received were 741858 on the 12th August. My educated guess is that because ARISSAT1 is resetting during every eclipse the KURSK experiment is not able to obtain the MET and use it as a file name. Hence it is defaulting to 944. 73 Colin VK5HI -Original

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 telemetry top submitters

2011-08-17 Thread Colin Hurst
Alan, I noted that yesterday as well. 73 Colin. -Original Message- From: Alan Cresswell [mailto:alancressw...@xtra.co.nz] Sent: Thursday, 18 August 2011 11:16 To: 'Colin Hurst'; 'Ben Bishop'; 'AMSAT' Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 telemetry top submitters Hi Colin, Yes

[amsat-bb] 2317utc Pass over VK

2011-08-14 Thread Colin Hurst
The 2317UTC 14th August 2011 pass over VK, was Continuous for the whole pass on High Power Last frame shows Battery Voltage at 35.977 73 Colin VK5HI ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA

[amsat-bb] ARRISAT1 pass over VK 0017utc

2011-08-13 Thread Colin Hurst
ARISSAT1 was on for the whole pass. Strangely no 1000 baud packets were decoded, which is a disappointment. CW copied is as follows. hi this is arissat1 rs01s ct1xi phi met 25 m ihu +41 c cp +47 c bat 36.09 v -12 ma rf 369 ma hi this is arissat1 rs01s ct1zx phi met 27 m ihu +41 c cp +48 c bat

[amsat-bb] ARISSat1 2338UTC 12th August 2011 Pass over VK

2011-08-12 Thread Colin Hurst
1000 baud telemetry showing Clock has been reset Last frame 1565 seconds Voltage 35.549 LOW POWER From memory copied 8 frames from AOS then it went off (low voltage). When it came back on the 1000 baud sounded very raucous and was difficult copy, just 2 frames. CW copy was good. 73

[amsat-bb] ARISSat 0116 UTC 13th August

2011-08-12 Thread Colin Hurst
Reasonably confident pass was on for full pass on HIGH POWER. 7 Degree pass passing behind an 80 foot gum tree. Managed 16 frames until beam went through 180 degrees, which is good considering copy with other sats is not good behind that gum tree. Copied continuously till the beam started to

[amsat-bb] Telemetry from ARISSat 0116 UTC 13th August

2011-08-12 Thread Colin Hurst
Telemetry captured using parallel decoder (CWGet) during the 0116 UTC pass. -16 ma rf 431 ma hi this is arissat1 rs01s f6bvp phi met 31 m ihu +37 c cp +26 c bat 35.78 v +4 ma rf 460 ma hi this is arissat1 rs01s g3ior phi met 33 m ihu +38 c cp +26 c bat 35.65 v -8 ma rf 435 ma hi this is

[amsat-bb] ARISSat over VK

2011-08-11 Thread Colin Hurst
ARISSat was in low power mode during the pass commencing at 0628UTC in full sunlight. 73 Colin VK5HI ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite

[amsat-bb] ARISSat Telemetry 0529utc 12th August 2011

2011-08-11 Thread Colin Hurst
ARISSat in Low power mode, 45 minutes after exiting eclipse. Managed to catch the following telemetry, alas no 1000 baud telemetry. su +36 c cp +28 c bat 35.86 v +12 ma 470 ma hi this is arissat1 rs01s 73 Colin VK5HI ___ Sent via

[amsat-bb] Re: New Control Software

2010-02-19 Thread Colin Hurst
Angelo, Further to Drew's comments I would confirm the 1268.703 uplink. One further hint besides deviation and frequency, is to set the TXDelay to 1000 milliseconds. This will ensure all the switches or relays in the system have settled prior to issuing the uplink packet. If you find this to be

[amsat-bb] Re: How to add Moon Keps to SatPC32

2010-02-17 Thread Colin Hurst
Michael, From memory there is a limit on the number of Groups. I suggest you select a Group that you do not use and select the Moon within that group. 73 Colin VK5HI. -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org]on Behalf Of Dale Hershberger

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 reception report

2009-12-06 Thread Colin Hurst
Reid, I refer you to ANS-340 posted recently to the -bb. The FLIP experiment has been a success. Additionally, A number of positives and negatives have resulted from the experiment. Positives. AO-51 has increased its spin rate. Reception in the Southern Hemisphere is much improved. Negatives The

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 S band off

2009-11-02 Thread Colin Hurst
Luc, I am not too sure what you are attempting to imply in your post. First up there are 8 members of the operations group. Their task is to analyse the numerous requests that are submitted to ao-51modes at amsat.org and prepare a schedule in conjunction with the command stations. On occasions it

[amsat-bb] Re: [ao51-modes] AO-51 S band off

2009-11-01 Thread Colin Hurst
Drew, Thanks for that. Better to be safe than sorry. 73 Colin VK5HI. -Original Message- From: ao51-modes-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:ao51-modes-boun...@amsat.org]on Behalf Of Andrew Glasbrenner Sent: Monday, 2 November 2009 11:15 To: Amsat-BB; AO51 Modes Subject: [ao51-modes] AO-51 S

[amsat-bb] Re: CP6 Decoding

2009-06-16 Thread Colin Hurst
Jim, Mike DK3WN and I have done some work evaluating CP6 Decoding. Like you we have difficulty decoding CP6 with hardware TNC's. Best performance is to use MixW, with audio from the data port. We have passed this information to the CP6 Team who are investigating the TNC Header that CP6 sends. It