My system received 5 frames of Telemetry and 2 Frames of Kursk - while I was sleeping!
Yeah, I set the radio to 145.920 and had the telemetry program running, and went to bed after the 1111utc pass over Alaska. That was only a 1-degree elevation pass and I saw no signal. I overslept this morning (again) and woke up eight minutes after the last pass LOS, but there on my screen was the data and a message from my anti-virus sw asking if I wanted to connect to the telemetry site. I approved that so hopefully the frames made it. MY station is pretty simple: Home made "AA2TX" Lindenblad antenna with 80-feet of RG-213 coax to a DEMI L144-28 transverter (NF=1 dB) with Elecraft K3 IF radio connected to my computer via HB soundcard interconnect. Note there is no preamp but the transverter has good NF. ARISSat was at 6-degrees elevation when the data was received. I am using NOVA with keps: RADIOSCAF-B 1 37772U 98067CK 11216.75158638 .00033717 00000-0 40433-3 0 12 2 37772 051.6382 276.2984 0012892 043.5724 316.6246 15.60501122 76 Next pass visible to Alaska will be 10:14utc 8-6-2011 I will set up for the linear transponder to test ability to pass signal on a later pass. 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45 ====================================== BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com EME: 50-1.1kw?, 144-1.4kw, 432-100w, 1296-60w, 3400-? DUBUS Magazine USA Rep dubus...@gmail.com ====================================== _______________________________________________ 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: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
