[amsat-bb] First Call for Speakers for AMSAT UK Colloquium 2011

Hi All, This is the first call for speakers for the AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2011 which will be held at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, UK (same venue as in 2010) from *Fri 29 Jul to Sun 31 July 2011* AMSAT-UK invite speakers, about amateur radio, space and associated activities, for this event. Offers o

[amsat-bb] Second Call for Speakers for AMSAT UK Colloquium 2011

Hi All, This is the second call for speakers for the AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2011 which will be held at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, UK (same venue as in 2010) from *Sat 30 Jul to Sun 31 July 2011* AMSAT-UK invite speakers, about amateur radio, space and associated activities, for this event. Offers

[amsat-bb] Re: Extra, Extra, Read All About It - AMSAT Online Store

Yep failing from the UK too: ... 25 muir-720-nodem-core-720-10ge.ucsd.edu (132.239.255.249) 205.652 ms 207.114 ms 207.325 ms 26 amsat.org (128.54.16.15) 214.968 ms 215.428 ms 216.165 ms Server is answering but not apache. 73 Dave G4DPZ On 08/06/11 17:02, Michael Wolthuis wrote: > I

[amsat-bb] FS Kuhne 23Cm 0.7 dB, 35 dB gain preamp

Hi, Never been used. MKU LNA 232 A2 Selective preamplifier, NF typ. 0.7 dB, Gain >35 dB, incl. 23cm notch (1250 MHz notch) N-Type connectors Please contact off-line for details. 73 - Dave, G4DPZ ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed

[amsat-bb] Shack Changes - FS IC-910H plus Accessories

Hi, I'm upgrading the shack so have an IC-910H with the following accessories for sale: CR-293 : Crystal unit UX-910 : Band Unit 2 x UT-106 : DSP units Power Cable Icom Hand Mic Original Box and Manuals CT-17 : Interface The rig is about 9 years old and is still in regular service on all mode

[amsat-bb] Re: Shack Changes - FS IC-910H plus Accessories

Hi, Now on eBay: 270692765876 73 - Dave On 13/01/11 13:48, David A. B. Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm upgrading the shack so have an IC-910H with the following > accessories for sale: > > CR-293 : Crystal unit > UX-910 : Band Unit > 2 x UT-106 : DSP units &g

[amsat-bb] Heard VO-52 on 17:27 pass form UK using FUNcube Dongle

Hi, Great to see the passband in the SDR-RADIO. Great work guys! 73 Dave, G4DPZ ___ 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 setti

[amsat-bb] Prototype Prediction web service

Hi, I'm doing some work with RESTful web services and have thrown together a prediction service that generates XML. For a URL of: http://websat.g4dpz.cloudbees.net/api/position/25544 (the ISS catalogue number) you get: 392 0.0 25544 0.0 8.3 263.4 327 adding locator and a

[amsat-bb] Prototype Prediction web service

Hi, Further development this afternoon... http://websat.g4dpz.cloudbees.net/api/passes/25544/locator/io82xl/amsl/200/future/6 note the URI change to /passes the value 6 being the number of hours ahead yeilds: 202 2012-04-08T21:07:41.020Z 81 14.6 2012-04-08T20:58:31.020Z 2012-04-08T21:03:01.

[amsat-bb] HamSatDroid 0.9

Hi, FYI, the app has been temporarily removed from the Google Play Store while I reload it with the new signing key. Should be back tomorrow. Will post another message when it's back. The info site is still up: https://sites.google.com/site/hamsatdroid/ 73 - Dave, G4DPZ __

[amsat-bb] HamSatDroid now AmsatDroid FREE

Hi, As part of the transition to a 'paid' version of the application. The original HamSatDroid has been removed from 'Google Play' and replaced with 'AmsatDroid FREE'. It has all the functionality of HSD and can now - support 4/7/10 inch displays in landscape for the current satellite positi

[amsat-bb] Re: HamSatDroid now AmsatDroid FREE

e but AmsatDroid search comes back empty. What am I doing wrong? Doug K9DLP *From:* David A B Johnson *To:* Amsat - BBs *Sent:* Sun, June 9, 2013 4:21:12 PM *Subject:* [amsat-bb] HamSatDroid now AmsatDroid FREE Hi, As pa

[amsat-bb] Alternative TLE / Satellite Info Source

Hi, There are many very worthy sources of TLE data and satellite catalogues. However, there is no user-defined source. I.e one where the user can: Categorise their own satellite types Choose from one of the many aliases for an individual satellite Have satellite channels / modes available for

[amsat-bb] AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2013 Programme Online

Hi, As programme organiser, on behalf of the AMSAT-UK committee, I'm pleased to let the AMSAT community know that the programme is now online at: *http://tinyurl.com/pyey25w* Details of the event at: http://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/colloquium-2013/ 73 Dave, G4DPZ ___

[amsat-bb] FUNCube Data Warehouse Ready for Demo

Hi, AMSAT-UK & AMSAT-NL are pleased to announce a new version of the FUNcube Data Warehouse which will collect, collate, deduplicate and display data from FUNcube Dashboards running on user PCs (see section at end). The URL is:https://warehouse.funcube.org.uk The intention of the warehouse is t

[amsat-bb] FUNcube Slide Presentation

Hi, I made a presentation on FUNcube at the RSGB Convention a couple of weeks ago and several people have asked for a set. Instead of emailing them out, we have put the on the FUNcube web site in the working documents page: http://funcube.org.uk/working-documents/ 73 - Dave, G4DPZ _

[amsat-bb] FUNcube WOD available for Download

Hi, As part of our STEM outreach strategy we are making WOD available for off-line analysis. This is delivered as a .csv file which can be downloaded from the Data Warehouse by clicking on the link on the WOD page: https://warehouse.funcube.org.uk/wod.html The file is written at 23:59 UTC

[amsat-bb] FUNcube Realtime data available as a .csv download

Hi, The FUNcube Data Warehouse is now producing .csv files containing Realtime data channels. The data is produced every hour, on the hour and contains 3000 rows, starting 250 minutes before the last record in the database. As we do not have worlwide coverage, there will be missing segments

[amsat-bb] Funcube - data warehouse a bit of technical backgrounf

Hi, A bit more technical detail on the FC Data Warehouse for those that are interested. Its a pair of Java Enterprise Web Applications using the following technologies: Spring 3, providing: RESTful web services Security Model-View-Controller JPA/Hibernate Integration Mysql

[amsat-bb] FUNcube Fitter Messages available as a text file

Hi, A text file which contains ALL the Fitter Messages that have been captured by groundstations can be downloaded using the link on the Fitter Messages page on the FUNcube Warehouse at: http://warehouse.funcube.org.uk/fitter.html The process

[amsat-bb] FUNcube Data Warehouse maintenance

Hi, As part of the changes to improve the calculation of satellite time I've got to take the server down for about 20 minutes to make and validate some database changes. I detail, I'm changing attributes currently stored as datetime into timestamp. This gives us sub-second accuracy which I n

[amsat-bb] FUNcube Data Warehouse Server disruption

Hi, You may experience some outages to the server this weekened as I make some changes to it's database and operation. These are to improve the accuracy of the date and time receords in the database and hence the reporting / graphing. If the outages are short-lived, the Dashboard will retry a

[amsat-bb] FUNcube Data warehouse

Hi, You might find that the Realtime MinMax values look a bit strange this evening while I do some tests on the date range. I'll fix them up when I've finished. - Dave, G4DPZ ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the autho

[amsat-bb] FUNcube Warehouse Upload Ranking Changes

Hi, At the request of several users we have added another column to the page which enumerates the position in the ranking as well as the number of uploads. http://warehouse.funcube.org.uk/ranking.html?satelliteId=2 Current range is 1 – 536 73 Dave, G4DPZ FUNcube Team Member _

[amsat-bb] FUNcube Warehouse Outages 21st April

Hi, The warehouse is undergoing some changes today to add reporting of eclipse (transponder) status on the RealTime screen , please excuse and short lived outages. 73 Dave, G4DPZ FUNcube Team Member ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions express

[amsat-bb] FUNcube Warehouse Outage

Hi, We had a problem with the server yesterday evening and it was only reported to me at 09:30 UTC today! The problem has been fixed and should not re-occur (we had not allocated enough memory to a process). If you see any problems with the server please email me directly at the above addr

[amsat-bb] FUNcube Data Warehouse Upload Problems Fixed

Hi, The data warehouse is now back online and uploads and scores are working more efficiently. If you suffer any more problems, please use the forum http://forum.funcube.org.uk so that we can respond to the reports more effectively. As always, many thanks to those submitting data. 73 Dave

[amsat-bb] FUncube Data Warehouse

Hi, There may be some some short-live outages while we prepare for supporting UKube-1 / FUNcube 2. We will try do these while the satellite is over Antartica / Pacific (allowing for Hawaii of course) but they also have to fit in with day-job schedules too so we may disrupt a pass somewhere i