[amsat-bb] Re: FAST1
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 19:47:28 -0800 Kevin Deane summit...@live.com wrote: the team has decided to open up FASTRAC-1 to the amateur radio community with the hope as more people use it to digipeat through the satellite, the battery levels will diminish and cause a hard reset of the microcontrollers on board. So the only reason we get to use it is to wear down the batteries in hopes of a hard reset. Then what they turn the digipeater back off? Maybe we should be launching more c*b*s*ts with APRS digipeaters on board? What we really need is a good, stable TNC that doesn't require obsolete chips or closed-source firmware. It can't be that hard, can it? Oh look, a couple of Arduinos, a Tiny-2 and a week off work - well, let's just try and find out eh? Well at least we get to have some fun, I heard it last pass and will try this next one if I can get the split in my radio in time. I dont suppose there will be a message board like the ISS? I don't really like the message board on the ISS, because what invariably happens is that some idiot fires onto the message board and then that's everyone else locked out of the fun for the entire pass. They manage to get logged in, then for the next ten minutes it just ends up sending retrys because the ground station isn't getting in very well. Once someone is on the message board, it stops digipeating. -- Gordon JC Pearce MM0YEQ gordon...@gjcp.net ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Re: moderated list
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 4:33:44 -0500 normn3...@stny.rr.com wrote: Anyone else feel the need for a moderated list? Well, with the odd exception the list seems to be largely spam-free. I don't see why we need to fix a problem that doesn't really exist. Oh, were you talking about moderating discussions you don't like? Yeah, there's another word for that. Can't quite remember it, it's on the tip of my tongue. And all you lids, kids and space cadets can get off my Internet. -- Gordon JC Pearce MM0YEQ gordon...@gjcp.net ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Orbitron Help ?
Hi Orbitron users. I find the simulation feature is very useful but I can't find out how to pause it. Does anyone have the required key strokes, or is that feature not included in the software. Thanks John G7HIA ___ 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
[amsat-bb] FAST1
Sorry I meant the Stations Heard via ISS I know about logging in to the Maildrop. Did not get in on the pass I mentioned before, but I did hear some packets. Did not come through on my screen anyway. Can we get another clarifacation on the path? FAST1 or FAST-1? I saw KO6TH was trying and K8TL did get into the Maildrop and said also that he saw some unproto go through. I think it is almost as fun as voice when it is working good. Kevin KF7MYK ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Re: Orbitron Help ?
Hi John, G7HIA when you are in simulation mode, over the clock (on the right of Orbitron page) you have AUTO-FWD, if you clik on this , it changes in AUTO-BCK (the simulation go back in the past), if you click again, it changes in AUTO-OFF and the simulation stops. Best 73 Fernando - IW6OVD. - Original Message - From: John Heath To: Amsat Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 11:58 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Orbitron Help ? Hi Orbitron users. I find the simulation feature is very useful but I can't find out how to pause it. Does anyone have the required key strokes, or is that feature not included in the software. Thanks John G7HIA ___ 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 ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Orbitron Help thanks
Orbitron Help Thanks to those who replied. Now that I know how to pause the Orbitron simulation I can get on with the orbital decay project I am working on. I just love it when members of this bb are so helpful. Its what its all about. 73 John G7HIA ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Re: SatPS32 off screen window
Thanks Dave! and Erich! My window no longer starts off screen, had no idea the Quit was different than x. See you on the birds. Andy kn6za From: kn...@hotmail.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: Re: SatPS32 off screen window Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:39:30 + Has anyone had a SatPC32 problem where the program opens in a window off screen. I'm stuck here and none of the standard window fixes to bring the window back onscreen I goggled up work. I need to know where SatPC32 stores it's startup window information, somehow it must of got clobbered. I'm running XP... I have the same question ;) Andy ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Re: FAST1
So the only reason we get to use it is to wear down the batteries in hopes of a hard reset. Then what they turn the digipeater back off? Again, demeaning what others are doing accomplishes nothing positive. From inception, through design, and since Launch, the FAST1 team has always said that as soon as the primary science data mission is complete the satellites will be turned on for routine amateur radio APRS operation. In the past, they have turned it on for special events, and I believe they were on the verge of announcing the official end to the primary mission and were prepearing the spacecraft for this general HAM support digipeater portion of the mission. Does no good to demean them, since they have invested several years of their lives in this endeavor with the intent of being a good HAM radio service to APRS users. Bob, Wb4APR ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Re: SatPS32 off screen window
First , as I was very tired last night from working at finishing up my newly finished basement shack I neglected to mention I didn't have the problem will all SatPC32 configurations, the program was behaving properly with configuration 1. I avoided this issue for at least a year until now, as I had to add another radio. I did a search for all occurrences' of SatPos.SQF I found the offending file, did an edit, but the edit wouldn't stick as I couldn't quit the program properly(with a proper quit) as the SatPC32 window was still off screen. What I figured out I had to do, was change the SatPC32 shortcut start properties to start maximized. After the program came up, I then saved it with a quit. Then changed startup properties back to a normal window. Then restarted SatPC32 and positioned the window where I wanted it to startup and then did another quit. I had to do this for configurations 2, 3, and 4. I'm running XP , never configured a second monitor, I have no idea how this happened. Thanks for all the help. All is once again good in KB2M sat op land :-) 73 Jeff kb2m -Original Message- From: Erich Eichmann [mailto:erich.eichm...@t-online.de] Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 1:49 AM To: Jeff KB2M Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] SatPS32 off screen window Hi Jeff, if you have at least a part of the program window on the screen move it back with the mouse to the position you want. Then close the program from the menu File, Quit. That will save the last screen position. Closing the program with the x control will not. If the window is completely off the screen, change the two first entries in the text file SatPos.SQF in the SatPC32 DATA folder, for example set both values to 0. The window will then be positioned in the uppler left corner of the screen. The data folder is hidden by default. So, make all files and folders visible (Explorer- Tools - Folder Options - View). The path of the folder depends on the OS, under XP it is C:\Documents and Settings\Username \AppData\SatPC32, under Vista and Windows 7 it is C:\User\Username\AppData\Roaming\SatPC32. 73s, Erich, DK1TB - Original Message - From: Jeff KB2M k...@comcast.net To: 'Amsat BB' amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 11:59 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] SatPS32 off screen window Has anyone had a SatPC32 problem where the program opens in a window off screen. I'm stuck here and none of the standard window fixes to bring the window back onscreen I goggled up work. I need to know where SatPC32 stores it's startup window information, somehow it must of got clobbered. I'm running XP... ___ 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 ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Re: FAST1
Hi Kevin, It's FAST1, no dash. Good luck, Greg KO6TH From: summit...@live.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:42:34 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] FAST1 Sorry I meant the Stations Heard via ISS I know about logging in to the Maildrop. Did not get in on the pass I mentioned before, but I did hear some packets. Did not come through on my screen anyway. Can we get another clarifacation on the path? FAST1 or FAST-1? I saw KO6TH was trying and K8TL did get into the Maildrop and said also that he saw some unproto go through. I think it is almost as fun as voice when it is working good. Kevin KF7MYK ___ 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 ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Re: SatPS32 off screen window
The problem was that the window was off screen AND the move option wasn't available, all that was available was minimize, or x close. Try right clicking on the satps32 in the taskbar, then try an alt space bar. The observer two window comes up with the move option, and that is what will move :-). Like I said none of the normal window fixes worked, or were available. What I did fixed the problem, and also after I sent my last post I had to chuckle as what Erich said would of course worked if executed before I loaded SatPC32... 73 Jeff kb2m -Original Message- From: Gregg Wonderly [mailto:w5...@cox.net] Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 12:18 PM To: Jeff KB2M Cc: 'Erich Eichmann'; amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: SatPS32 off screen window When a window is off screen, it is possible to move that window on screen by right clicking it in the task bar, selecting move, and then holding down the appropriate left or right arrow keys to move it on the display. Try it some time to see how it works and then you'll be ready for the moment. Gregg Wonderly W5GGW On 12/10/2011 9:09 AM, Jeff KB2M wrote: First , as I was very tired last night from working at finishing up my newly finished basement shack I neglected to mention I didn't have the problem will all SatPC32 configurations, the program was behaving properly with configuration 1. I avoided this issue for at least a year until now, as I had to add another radio. I did a search for all occurrences' of SatPos.SQF I found the offending file, did an edit, but the edit wouldn't stick as I couldn't quit the program properly(with a proper quit) as the SatPC32 window was still off screen. What I figured out I had to do, was change the SatPC32 shortcut start properties to start maximized. After the program came up, I then saved it with a quit. Then changed startup properties back to a normal window. Then restarted SatPC32 and positioned the window where I wanted it to startup and then did another quit. I had to do this for configurations 2, 3, and 4. I'm running XP , never configured a second monitor, I have no idea how this happened. Thanks for all the help. All is once again good in KB2M sat op land :-) 73 Jeff kb2m -Original Message- From: Erich Eichmann [mailto:erich.eichm...@t-online.de] Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 1:49 AM To: Jeff KB2M Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] SatPS32 off screen window Hi Jeff, if you have at least a part of the program window on the screen move it back with the mouse to the position you want. Then close the program from the menu File, Quit. That will save the last screen position. Closing the program with the x control will not. If the window is completely off the screen, change the two first entries in the text file SatPos.SQF in the SatPC32 DATA folder, for example set both values to 0. The window will then be positioned in the uppler left corner of the screen. The data folder is hidden by default. So, make all files and folders visible (Explorer- Tools - Folder Options - View). The path of the folder depends on the OS, under XP it is C:\Documents and Settings\Username \AppData\SatPC32, under Vista and Windows 7 it is C:\User\Username\AppData\Roaming\SatPC32. 73s, Erich, DK1TB - Original Message - From: Jeff KB2Mk...@comcast.net To: 'Amsat BB'amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 11:59 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] SatPS32 off screen window Has anyone had a SatPC32 problem where the program opens in a window off screen. I'm stuck here and none of the standard window fixes to bring the window back onscreen I goggled up work. I need to know where SatPC32 stores it's startup window information, somehow it must of got clobbered. I'm running XP... ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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
[amsat-bb] AO-27 scheduler data file error
There was a typo in the Topr.txt file as received from the AO-27 control team: the second line of the file, which defines the transponder on period, should read 420, not 240. You can edit the file yourself with your favorite text editor, or download a corrected version of the file from the scheduler website, http://sites.google.com/site/ao27satellitescheduler. Still no word on when the official AO-27 website will be back up. George, KA3HSW ___ 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
[amsat-bb] ANS-345
AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-345 ANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-edi...@amsat.org In this edition: * Radio Club of America Names AMSAT's Tom Clark K3IO Fellow * This Week 50 Years Ago: OSCAR 1 Launched December 12, 1961 * AO-27 Scheduler Data Update * IARU Coordination Request for Kagawa University Tethered Satellite * ISS Sp-Ex Shadow Beacon Experiment Postponed to May-June 2012 * SKN On OSCAR 2012 In Memory Of W1JSM * Pacific Islands Activation on Satellites * ARISS UPDATE * Delfi-n3Xt Satellite Includes Amateur Linear Transponder * Doug Loughmiller, W5BL Appointed AMSAT JOURNAL Editor * Mark Hammond, N8MH Appointed AMSAT VP-Educational Outreach SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-345.01 Radio Club of America Names AMSAT's Tom Clark K3IO Fellow AMSAT News Service Bulletin 345.01 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. December 11, 2011 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-345.01 Radio Club of America Names AMSAT's Tom Clark K3IO Fellow At its annual Awards Banquet held this year at the Texas Motor Speedway near Fort Worth November 19th, the Radio Club of America honored AMSAT's Tom Clark, K3IO, by elevating him to the rank of Fellow in that prestigious organization. The Radio club of America is the oldest radio club in the World, dating back to 1909. Among its members have numbered such nota- bles as Major Edwin H. Armstrong, the inventor of the superhet- erodyne circuit, the super-regenerative detector and the system of Frequency Modulation still used today for police, fire and most other two-way radio communication as well as broadcasting. Other Radio Club of America members included Fred M. Link, an early two-way radio equipment manufacturer, David Sarnoff of RCA and Senator Barry Goldwater, K7UGA. Next year's Awards Banquet will revert back to its customary venue, the New York Athletic Club in New York City. [ANS thanks Bill Tynan, W3XO, AMSAT Life Member No. 10 and Radio Club of America Fellow for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-345.02 This Week 50 Years Ago: OSCAR 1 Launched December 12, 1961 AMSAT News Service Bulletin 345.02 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. December 11, 2011 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-345.02 This Week 50 Years Ago: OSCAR 1 Launched December 12, 1961 The AMSAT News Service is re-running the Project OSCAR Newsletters to commemorate the 50th anniversary of OSCAR 1. During the November/ December 2011 time frame you will be able to share the excitement of the launch campaign that started it all 50 years ago. The Newsletters were hand-typed back in 1961. Thanks to Don Ferguson, KD6IRE for scanning the original documents announcing OSCAR 1. - Begin Commemorative Message O S C A RN E W S L E T T E R December 12, 1961 OSCAR SATELLITE IN ORBIT OSCAR SATELLITE IN ORBIT OSCAR SATELLITE IN ORBIT At 2041 GMT, 12 December 1961 the Oscar satellite was hurled into orbit by the Discoverer XXXVI launching vehicle from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The satellite immediately went into a North- South orbit and was picked up loud and clear by the hams at KC4USB (Marie Byrd Base) at the South Pole a few minutes after launch. The word was quickly relayed back to the Oscar Tracking Station, K6QEZ, by W4ABY. Acquisition was also obtained by hams at Kodiak, Alaska and by KH6UK in Hawaii on the first pass. Oscar is on a frequency between 144.990 and 145.008 and has tremen- dous c.w. signal strength on a direct, overhead pass! Tracking re- ports have begun to flow into the Center. W1AW heard the first pass S9 over the East coast. The following telegram was received by the Center from the RSGB: OSCAR HEARD 0055 GMT X KEYING OK X STRENGTH NINE PLUS X DOPPLER SEVEN KC X FURTHER DATA AIR HAIL X. Orbit is being computed, but insufficient time has elapsed to per- mit predictions to be made of time Oscar will pass over your area. Listen to W1AW and the Voice of America for orbital predictions. Continuous 24-hour a day monitoring is essential until predictions are established. In fact, this monitoring is urged to check for unpredicted reception at times when the Oscar satellite is theo- retically out of range! Our thanks to the Air Force and men of Vandenburgh AFB who helped to make this historic milestone pos- sible! Actual launch was attended by W6SAI, K6LFH, W6MLZ and W0TSN. Full Oscar story in February QST and CQ and more details in our next news letter! LISTEN T0 OSCAR! 'SEND ALL REPORTS TO PROJECT OSCAR, BOX ---, SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A. End of Commemorative Message [ANS thanks Don Ferguson, KD6IRE and Project OSCAR for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-345.03 AO-27 Scheduler Data Update AMSAT News
[amsat-bb] KD8KSN/p EN75 Michigan Ops
Hi All, Thanks for the QSOs during my short trip to Michigan this past week. We were on a brief family getaway and satellite comm was a secondary activity as usual. ;-) EN75 is not an extremely rare grid, but I believe at least 5-6 ops were able to add it to the new grid list. I have updated my blog with pics, QSL card and trip info at http://kd8ksn.blogspot.com/. The cards have been ordered and should be here in 2-3 weeks. I will send an email out as soon as I receive them. No requests/SASEs are necessary. 73! Zack KD8KSN ___ 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
