[amsat-bb] Amplifier Suggestions?

2011-09-21 Thread James Cutler
Hello, We are looking for a UHF amplifier (430-440MHz) for a transceiver to go from 10 mW to ~ 75W. Most of the amps were are funding require a much stronger input power than we can do. Note, it's a transceiver, so we want to be able to receive through the system as well. This is for half duplex

[amsat-bb] Re: E1Pu2 & RAX2 downlink conflict?

2011-10-27 Thread James Cutler
Armando, that's correct, E1P and RAX-2 are now on different frequencies. Thanks to the IARU for helping us coordinate! --Jamie, KF6RFX On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:56 AM, Armando Mercado wrote: > Hello, > > RAX-2 will be using 437.345 MHz > > 9600 baud, RHCP > > http://rax.engin.umich.edu/?page

[amsat-bb] Re: ELaNa III Cubesat Launch October 28

2011-10-27 Thread James Cutler
All, the satellites below are on schedule for launch tomorrow morning. Launch will be viewable here: http://gs.engin.umich.edu/predictions/tle_elana3.txt The initial keps are here. http://gs.engin.umich.edu/predictions/tle_elana3.txt. RAX-2, MCubed, E1P, and AubieSat are all trackable by most OSC

[amsat-bb] Re: RAX-2 Launch In 30 Minutes

2011-10-28 Thread James Cutler
Launch was great. PPods have deployed! First transmission in about 30 minutes or so. James W. Cutler, Assistant Professor University of Michigan Department of Aerospace Engineering 1320 Beal Avenue 3013 FXB Building Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2140 Ph: 734-615-7238 Fax: 734-763-0578 http://www.umic

[amsat-bb] Re: New cubesats report 12:33 UTC pass

2011-10-28 Thread James Cutler
Thanks for all the tracking help. We haven't heard from MCubed yet. Hoping for the best. On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:26 AM, PA3GUO wrote: > 12:33 UTC pass (maximum of 33 degrees elevation) > > > > RAX-2: received (period 20 seconds) > > Aubiesat-1: not yet detected > > M-Cubed: not yet detecte

[amsat-bb] Re: RAX-2 Decoding

2011-10-28 Thread James Cutler
Hi Carl, I have not used AGWPE before as a TNC. How does it output it's data? A virtual serial port? --Jamie, KF6RFX On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Carl Rimmer W8KRF wrote: > I have installed the RAX-2 decoding software hoping to be able to copy and > decode the telemetry. I am using a

[amsat-bb] MCubed tracking

2011-10-28 Thread James Cutler
All, Thanks for the tracking on RAX-2. Everything is looking great. Could you try tracking MCubed next? We have been unable to hear so far. Satellite: M-Cubed (1) Downlink Freq: 437.485MHz EIRP: < 1W Modulation Scheme: FSK Protocol: AX.25 Baud Rate: 9600 M-Cubed 1 6U 011301.476615

[amsat-bb] Re: Keps! new cubesats...

2011-10-31 Thread James Cutler
http://www.umich.edu/~jwcutler/ On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Mark L. Hammond wrote: > Carl, > > James Cutler "is" RAX-2...he's the faculty advisor to the students who > built it. > > The website is most certainly behind, because we are just now getting KEPS &

[amsat-bb] Mast-mounted preamp recommendation?

2011-11-03 Thread James Cutler
All, Does anyone have any recommendations on high quality mast-mounted preamps for UHF? We're using the Icom AG-35 and not happy with the noise figure. We're going to try an adjustment described here http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/6116. We are looking at the amps from ARR and SSB. Any othe

[amsat-bb] Re: M-Cubed telemetry decoded

2011-11-05 Thread James Cutler
Mike, that's great! You're the first to decode, well done! Any idea why the beacons show in the list at the bottom all have the same time stamp? On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Mike Rupprecht wrote: > I could decode some M-Cubed telemetry packets last night on an 80 deg > elevation pass (01:20

[amsat-bb] Re: Elana-3 objects

2011-11-28 Thread James Cutler
Dear Graham, There was nothing special in the separation systems between the 1U's from the ELaNa 3 launch. They are certainly close together, in fact there are three 1Us we think in the link group. Object F appears to be AubieSat and Object G is E1P. MCubed is somewhere in between it seems. Ob

[amsat-bb] Increasing Icom 910H deviation on 9600 setting?

2011-12-23 Thread James Cutler
Dear AMSAT, Has anyone successfully increased the maximum FM deviation of the 910H when using the 9600 setting on the radio? We have not been able to. We have two units, and one is maxed at 2.5 KHz and the other at 3.2 KHz deviation. We've used the service manual to adjust the deviation to max

[amsat-bb] Re: Increasing Icom 910H deviation on 9600 setting?

2012-01-24 Thread James Cutler
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:21 PM, James Cutler wrote: > Dear AMSAT, > > Has anyone successfully increased the maximum FM deviation of the 910H > when using the 9600 setting on the radio? We have not been able to. We > have two units, and one is maxed at 2.5 KHz and the o

[amsat-bb] Ground station survey

2013-03-28 Thread James Cutler
Dear AMSAT Community, As we have done in the past, we are surveying the community for ground station capabilities. The goal is to estimate how much capacity the community has and our ability to support a variety of missions. The survey is located online at: http://gs.engin.umich.edu/gs_survey/

[amsat-bb] Re: Ground station survey

2013-03-28 Thread James Cutler
re how to respond if more than one is selected > (UHF/VHF). Would be nice to inquire about the radio in addition to > software. Some software is not supporting all radios. Would be great if you > could optimize the survey. > > Looking forward to the results, > > Stefan VE4NSA > &g

[amsat-bb] Re: HELP CAPE II

2013-11-21 Thread James Cutler
Nick, we think we picked up CAPE-2 this evening during the 5:48 pm pass over Michigan. We saw a nice Doppler shifted signal centered at 437.325. See attached figure. It shows 2 doppler curves centered around 437.325 and around 437.405. --Jamie, KF6RFX On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Pavel Mi