[amsat-bb] RE NO-44 "worked" with HT and Elk

2012-10-25 Thread transb...@gmail.com
HI This is for Wayne, W9AE I apologize if I was a bit vague, but I was dancing around my living room and quite excited. I "worked" NO-44 by digipeating packet data to the satellite and got a confirmation on the sat board that it heard me. I can't seem to get a solid ack back from it so I did no

[amsat-bb] Re: NO-44 SATPC worked today with an HT and Elk.

2012-10-24 Thread Wayne Estes
What is the meaning of "work NO-44"? Does that mean you digipeated packet data through NO-44? Does that mean you had a 2-way exchange of packet data with another user? I'm not trying to start an argument or belittle the accomplishment-I'm just ignorant and want to know what it means. Wayne Es

[amsat-bb] Re: NO-44 SATPC worked today with an HT and Elk.

2012-10-23 Thread Roger Kolakowski
Yes you did! K3ODX-7>T0PY7W,W3ADO-1*,qAR,KU4BL-3:`fPFl!q[/`"49}Hi fr Betsy, Levittown,PA :-}_ Congratulations! Roger WA1KAT On 10/23/2012 11:20 AM, transb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I just wanted to share my excitement that I worked NO-44 at 14:47 today, 10/23, with my Yaesu VX8DR HT with

[amsat-bb] Re: NO-44 SATPC worked today with an HT and Elk.

2012-10-23 Thread Kevin Deane
> Subject: [amsat-bb] NO-44 SATPC worked today with an HT and Elk. > > Hi all > > I just wanted to share my excitement that I worked NO-44 at 14:47 today, > 10/23, with my Yaesu VX8DR HT with a five element Elk, for the first time. > I have been trying for awhile and didn't expect much in the w

[amsat-bb] Re: NO-44 status?

2012-06-12 Thread Robert Coppock
http://pcsat.aprs.org for those who dont know its a bit hard with a D7A and arrow sometimes, but i still like to see mycall on the map. i think it only works in sunlight.seventhreek f zero grobert cn81 _

[amsat-bb] Re: NO-44 status?

2012-06-12 Thread Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL
At 11:28 PM 6/12/2012 +0100, Gordon JC Pearce wrote: I left my packet gear set on 145.825 after the last ISS pass, and just now (about 23:20 BST) I heard some pretty weak packet. It times in with NO-44 coming past about 35 degrees high and to the north. What sort of state is NO-44 in these d

[amsat-bb] Re: NO-44

2011-09-01 Thread Roger
Sometimes Ham Radio gives me a headache... WA1KAT On 9/1/2011 9:55 PM, Rodney Waln wrote: hi, i have used this satellite with limited results do to the battery condition a while back, this page http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/pcsat.cgi lists PCSat as being used for aprs messages not just beconin

[amsat-bb] Re: NO-44

2011-09-01 Thread Rodney Waln
hi, i have used this satellite with limited results do to the battery condition a while back, this page http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/pcsat.cgi lists PCSat as being used for aprs messages not just beconing? please correct me if i am wrong, but when sending a message over aprs it does sound like a

[amsat-bb] Re: NO-44

2011-09-01 Thread JoAnne Maenpaa
The guys who still run beacons on 145.825 probably don't read amsat-bb. The beacons have been there for years and none of our requests/comments have changed things much. -- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9...@amsat.org -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@a

[amsat-bb] Re: NO-44 working?

2010-07-25 Thread Douglas Quagliana
There is a webpage for PCSAT on findu.com. The callsigns from the satellite appear as W3ADO-1 and PCSAT-11. See http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/pcsat.cgi Douglas KA2UPW/5 Gordon JC Pearce wrote: > It's not loud enough to copy with my dipole, because it's still pretty > low in the sky to the n

[amsat-bb] Re: NO-44 working?

2010-07-25 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 19:57 -0500, Rick - WA4NVM wrote: > Gordon, > > Where is the ISS at the time you are hearing this signal? It's been running > packet quite often on that frequency. Just a thought. > > 73, > Rick WA4NVM Well south of the horizon. NO-44 was at it again today (gpredict conf

[amsat-bb] Re: NO-44 working?

2010-07-24 Thread Rick - WA4NVM
Gordon, Where is the ISS at the time you are hearing this signal? It's been running packet quite often on that frequency. Just a thought. 73, Rick WA4NVM > It's not loud enough to copy with my dipole, because it's still pretty > low in the sky to the north (shielded by hills a bit) - but NO-4