[amsat-bb] Who is Midori ?

2014-08-03 Thread Keith O'Brien
Caught a bit of FunCube-2 CW beacon on 145.840 Sunday AM local and it sent: 'UKUBE 1 CALLING MIDORI' Who is Midori ?? Keith N4ZQ ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support

[amsat-bb] TS-2000 TNC Program

2014-06-10 Thread Keith O'Brien
Are there any TS-2000 owners out there that use the built in TNC of the radio ? If so what terminal programs are available to use with it ? Back in the day there were a half dozen or so good terminal programs with buffers, canned messages and other features. But a Google search brings up nothing

[amsat-bb] Mon AF and Tune Drive Level Control

2013-11-19 Thread Keith O'Brien
Don't know if you saw this but it's pretty neat... Everyday I learn something new about the Flex and PowerSDR Bob (GM4CAQ) wrote : and no audio level control on the sidetone!. Bob .. the sidetone level (same as Monitor level for SSB .. useful when using a double-sided headset) can be

[amsat-bb] F1 Telemetry Decoder

2012-09-30 Thread Keith O'Brien
The F1 Telemetry Decoder Manual in Section 5.2.3 Decode Data OBC2 *You should connect this program with your transceiver first. Not sure what they are looking for here. I would like to use AGW Packet Engine as my packet TNC. Anyone offer any guidance in how to configure APWPE to the F1 decoder

[amsat-bb] Colloquium Times

2012-09-14 Thread Keith O'Brien
I ASSUME the times listed on the Colloquium Schedule are listed as local time. Can someone in the know please relate those listed times to UTC, Zulu or GMT. TNX Keith N4ZQ ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author.

[amsat-bb] Good To Hear VO-52 is Back

2012-03-14 Thread Keith O'Brien
March 14 1437 UTC Big signal from VO-52 this local morning. The Dutch transponder was very strong from AOS to LOS at a max elevation of 14 Degrees here in West Central Florida. I was able to reduce my output to as low as it would go, 2.7 watts SSB,  and still able to hear myself very well. The

[amsat-bb] Re: FASTRAC 1 Digipeating?

2011-12-03 Thread Keith O'Brien
Clayton Coleman W5PFG wrote: Anyone else try to send packets via FASTRAC 1 on the most recent two passes late evening over North America?  I only received the CW beacon and one burst of telemetry on each of the two passes over East Texas. I did notice on the first pass that my Keplerian

[amsat-bb] Radio Shack Rotator Help

2011-09-27 Thread Keith O'Brien
I was given a Radio Shack antenna rotator, model number 15-1245A, that I figured was good enough to turn my small Cushcraft Dual Band 3 element yagi I sometimes use for some satellite work. But the rotator is need of some clearing and lubrication. Has anyone taken one of these apart and can