- 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
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
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
... 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,
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