[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 Data

2011-05-07 Thread i8cvs
- Original Message - From: Edward R. Cole kl...@acsalaska.net To: Clint Bradford clintbradf...@mac.com; AMSAT BB amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 1:38 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 Data Perhaps the result will be more activity on AO-7, VO-52, FO-29 using SSB? Looks

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 Data

2011-05-06 Thread Mark L. Hammond
Hi Clint, I'm not sure I'd spend any money in order to maybe happen to catch a handful of packets ACKS from the satelliteprobably not worth it. You can probably get away with running the 9k6 packet line out of the radio straight into a computer sound card and using something like MixW or

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 Data

2011-05-06 Thread Alan P. Biddle
Clint, You can't monitor 9600 baud through the normal audio channels. They do not have enough bandwidth, and have too much filtering. Many rigs do have dedicated I/O for the purpose. Likewise, standard packet/PSK31 interfaces will also fail due to lack of bandwidth. You will either need one

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 Data

2011-05-06 Thread Clint Bradford
... you can't ... shouldn't ... don't go out any buy anything just for this ... Heavy sigh. It's just that this has been such a good friend ... Guess I picked the wrong week to stop drinking Pina Coladas. Long live AO-51. I have a 67 degree elevation pass coming up in 30 mins ... Clint,

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 Data

2011-05-06 Thread Edward R. Cole
Perhaps the result will be more activity on AO-7, VO-52, FO-29 using SSB? Looks like I am getting my satellite array working just in time to miss AO-51? Be nice to see HO-68 again. Hearing of Fox, when is it planned for orbit? P3E? any other lurkers about jump up into space? oooh