[amsat-bb] Re: ANDE-2 Deployment

2009-07-29 Thread g7iii
Hi Joe, You Wrote: > have any idea as to what the telemetry may consist of? Telemetry is documented on the website Bob referenced, on each Satellite's own page, see: https://goby.nrl.navy.mil/ANDE/Castor.html and https://goby.nrl.navy.mil/ANDE/Pollux.html TX is on 145.825, so any Satgate shou

[amsat-bb] Re: Glory Fails

2011-03-04 Thread g7iii
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 02:23:19AM -0800, Clint Bradford wrote: > Launch failure ... fairing did not deploy ... not sufficient speed to > maintain ... launch failure. Very sad indeed, but due to the name of the spacecraft,I can't help thinking of an old campfire song (He jumped from 4 feet),

[amsat-bb] Re: New Frequencies for AMSAT-UK FUNcube-1

2012-05-02 Thread g7iii
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 12:25:21AM +0100, Trevor . wrote: > Announcement at http://www.uk.amsat.org/7014 According to my records, and the IARU pages, that gives me: 145.880-145.920 Delfi n3xt Downlink 145.940-145.960 UKube 1 / Funcube 2 145.950-145.970 Funcube 1 Is uKube 1/FC2 going to be rep

[amsat-bb] Re: ANDE-2 Deployment

2009-07-29 Thread Iain Young, G7III
g7...@g7iii.net wrote: > TX is on 145.825, so any Satgate should pick them up and transfer > the data to APRS-IS. > > I suppose I should go update my APRS/PCSAT/PCSAT2/ANDE telemetry decoder > now. Wish I'd realised these were going to be this "open" earlier *mutter*. And Hmm. With a closer look

[amsat-bb] Re: ANDE-2 Callsigns?

2009-07-29 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Ken Swaggart wrote: > What callsigns should we expect from the two ANDE-2 satellites? > According to the telemetry examples: KD4HBO-1 for castor, and POLLUX-1 for pollux No idea if the KD4 call was just used for testing, or if it's going to be used in flight. Guess we'll have to wait for AOS t

[amsat-bb] ANNOUNCE: aprstlm 1.4 Available With Support For Castor And Pollux

2009-08-02 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi All, aprstlm (A unix/linux ncurses APRS [& now AX.25] telemetry viewer) version 1.4 is now available. A Tarball of the source is at: http://hal.g7iii.net/aprstlm/v1.4/aprstlm-1.4.tar.gz For those with aprstlm v1.3, there is a patch available at http://www.xciv.org/aprstlm/v1.4/aprstlm-1.3-1.4

[amsat-bb] Re: ANNOUNCE: aprstlm 1.4 Available With Support For Castor And Pollux

2009-08-02 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Iain Young, G7III wrote: > For those with aprstlm v1.3, there is a patch available at > http://www.xciv.org/aprstlm/v1.4/aprstlm-1.3-1.4.patch.gz. > Gunzip and apply with patch -p1 And Doh, Garbled URL for the patch, Sorry folks, try: http://hal.g7iii.net/aprstlm/v1.4/prstlm-1.3-1.4

[amsat-bb] Re: WBFM with the ICOM: IC706MK2 and G, IC-703+

2009-10-29 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Stan, Stan, W1LE wrote: > Hello The Net: > > Can some one confirm that the IC-706MK2 and the 706MK2G > can both handle WBFM in the 6M and 2M ham bands ? > > Objective is to use this rig as an RX IF with a 2.4 GHz down converter > and have enough detected BW for a Multi7 TNC to decode the 2.4

[amsat-bb] ARISSat 1 & Funcube Telemetry Question: DBPSK vs BPSK

2011-02-06 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi All, Just a quick clarification needed by me on the Telemetry format that is going to be used by ARISSat-1 and Funcube (& I guess the Funcube boards onboard UKube-1...) Lots of places are referring to it as BPSK1000, but I have seen references claiming it is DBPSK. Can someone clarify if it is

[amsat-bb] Re: Full Duplex as a Single Channel on a HT

2011-04-08 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 08/04/11 20:09, Bill W1PA wrote: > Do any of the current or classic "satellite" HT's (FT-51R, IC-W32A, etc) > allow you to create a single channel with a FM bird rx/tx pair in full > duplex? IIRC, the IC-32A/AT/E does, but it's been a long long time since I used one in that manner... 73s

[amsat-bb] Re: Actual P3E Status/Update

2011-05-22 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Peter, Many thanks for the detailed update, it's helped with my own project planning! Hopefully the postponement was just diaries getting to full, and will happen soon, maybe in time for breaking news at the AMSAT-UK Colloquium in late July ? :) Good Luck, and fingers crossed for a launch clo

[amsat-bb] Re: Decoding wideband recordings

2011-08-10 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 09/08/11 23:54, Phil Karn wrote: > It's been suggested that I modify my ARISSat-1 BPSK-1000 telemetry > demodulator/decoder to accept wideband quadrature (I & Q) recordings > like those produced by most of the software defined radios out there. > > This is fundamentally not that hard, but fi

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1: still silent 12 Aug 21:30utc

2011-08-12 Thread Iain Young, G7III
I was testing some grc/gnuradio code, and I'm sure I saw something on the waterfall bang where I was expecting CW-2 and the BPSK Beacon (and that was after a ton of my own filtering and re-sampling, so I'm pretty sure I got the code right on the first attempt for once, and I heard the bird) Unfort

[amsat-bb] Re: ARRISat-1 heard

2011-08-13 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Matthias, You Wrote: On 13/08/11 21:35, Matthias Bopp wrote: > Very nice copy of ARISSAT-1 on 145.950 MHz in Germany JN49QF at 20:28 UTC. > > Satellite had strong signal until it switched off during the pass and did > not come back before LOS. Correlates exactly with what I observed from G l

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT-UK - Fall OSCAR News

2011-10-01 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Trevor Wrote: On 30/09/11 00:26, Trevor . wrote: > AMSAT-UK - Fall OSCAR News > > The Fall edition of the color A4 newsletter OSCAR News is being posted to > AMSAT-UK members this week > > As usual it's packed with Amateur Satellite articles: > [SNIP] > - Syncart geostationary transponder

[amsat-bb] [OTish] Reasonably Dual-Band Large Crossed Beam

2010-07-07 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi All, I have been looking at replacing my 3/6 ele Dual Band Beam with a larger one (actually for some semi-local packet work rather than satellite, hence the OT-ishness of this post. I know there is the 9/19 ele crossed Tonna, but I also understand the build quality on the boom isn't wonderful.

[amsat-bb] Re: Need Advice for SDR choice

2011-01-03 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 03/01/11 15:03, Gordon JC Pearce wrote: > There *are* sample programs, but none of them appear to build in Linux. > Maybe I'm missing something. I got somewhere with the Qt version, but > it moans about libusb not being installed. Why it can't see libusb > sitting there happily in /lib/ is

[amsat-bb] Re: Need Advice for SDR choice

2011-01-03 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 03/01/11 21:26, Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL wrote: > At 06:25 PM 1/2/2011 -0500, marklhamm...@gmail.com wrote: >> Check out: >> >> http://www.funcubedongle.com/ >> >> Assuming you only need receive, of course... >> >> Works great...just had a QSO on FO-29 using it for receive (thanks KB1RVT!). >> >>

[amsat-bb] Re: HO-68 Status 110120

2011-01-20 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 20/01/11 04:25, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote: > Unfortunately no beacon and no transponder heard on the 0420z pass here. Nothing heard on the 2043z 20th Jan pass over the UK either, despite it being a long and high 20 minute pass. Would have been great to road test my Gnuradio SDR CW receiver as w

[amsat-bb] Re: Help with predict

2011-02-05 Thread Iain Young, G7III
There will be a directory in your home directory called .predict In there, you'll find predict.qth, predict.db, and predict.tle 73s On 05/02/11 02:02, Andrew Rich wrote: > Can someone give me hand with predict under LINUX > > + Install predict - done > + Define QTH - done > + Reduce satellite t

[amsat-bb] Re: Help with predict

2011-02-05 Thread Iain Young, G7III
predict.tle See my other email for details. You should have a directory in your home directory, called .predict You'll find it there. 73s Iain On 05/02/11 11:21, Andrew Rich wrote: > Which file do I trim to reduce to a few sats ? > > Sent from my iPhone > Andrew Rich > > On 05/02/2011, at 18:3

[amsat-bb] Re: CAMSAT BUAA-SAT Amateur Radio Satellite

2012-09-19 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Trevor, On 19/09/12 01:52, Trevor . wrote: CAMSAT BUAA-SAT Amateur Radio Satellite http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=10387 Is this the same CAMsat as Graham mentioned in his presentation, or an entirely different spacecraft ? 73s Iain ___ Sent via AMS

[amsat-bb] Re: so long

2013-09-17 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 17/09/13 20:19, n0jy wrote: Dang. Now what are we going to do? Eat the fish left behind ? :) 73s Iain ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satelli