[amsat-bb] Wanted: AMSAT-UK Colloquium paper from 1993 or 1994

2014-06-30 Thread Douglas Quagliana
I am looking for a battery paper by Carlos Lovett-Linares from the 1993 or 1994 AMSAT-UK Colloquium. Does anyone have a copy? Thanks and 73, Douglas KA2UPW/5 ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA

[amsat-bb] Wanted: IQ recording of UO-11 pass

2014-04-21 Thread Douglas Quagliana
Does anyone have a recording of a good UO-11 pass made with an SDR receiver? I'm looking for a recording that has I and Q channels (not just regular audio) and something that has most of a good pass. Douglas KA2UPW/5 ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org.

[amsat-bb] Re: Data signal in FO-29 passband

2014-01-21 Thread Douglas Quagliana
Hi Ken, Hope this helps: The output below certainly appears to be AX.25 in KISS format with the extended ASCII characters translated to perhaps something like Windows Arial font. The a-grave (the A with the backwards accent) is hex C0, which is the KISS frame delimiter that appears at the

[amsat-bb] Has anyone demodulated the GMSK signals from BeeSat-2 or BeeSat-3?

2013-04-22 Thread Douglas Quagliana
Has anyone demodulated the GMSK signals from BeeSat-2 or BeeSat-3? Does demodulating the data require a CMX909 chip or is there an all software solution? 73, Douglas KA2UPW/5 ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the

[amsat-bb] Wanted: STRaND-1 9600 baud recording ( either I/Q recording or WAV file recording )

2013-03-01 Thread Douglas Quagliana
Does anyone have a recording of STRaND-1 transmitting at 9600 baud? I am looking for either an IQ recording of the signal or a WAV file recording. Thanks, Douglas KA2UPW/5 ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author.

[amsat-bb] Re: IO-26 as digital EMAIL relay?

2012-09-08 Thread Douglas Quagliana
Bob wrote: In the old days, it required everyone to get a $300 modem and use an SSB rig on the downlink. But the Uplink is FM. SO anyone can transmit. And these days, somone I am sure has already written the sound-card generate the manchester uplink! Hi Bob, I wrote that program to

[amsat-bb] Re: Deciphering Phase 3D Telemetry

2012-09-07 Thread Douglas Quagliana
Hi Tony, All of the AO-40 telemetry is archived on the AMSAT website. You can start at http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/telemetry/ao40/ For November 17 at 15:11 UTC you probably want the file http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/telemetry/ao40/2000/11/ao40_2000-11-17_3.zip for the

[amsat-bb] FYI - The deadline for submissions for the next AMSAT Journal is July 23

2012-07-15 Thread Douglas Quagliana
As a friendly reminder, we are approaching the deadline for article submissions for the next issue of the AMSAT Journal. Please finish your articles and submit them to jour...@amsat.org by July 23. Thanks and 73, Douglas KA2UPW/5 ___ Sent via

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 TLM decod tool

2012-01-28 Thread Douglas Quagliana
Hi Masa, The binary files on the AMSAT FTP site today are the RAW (not decoded) telemetry files. We will have the decoded ARISSat-1 telemetry available as decoded CSV files on the AMSAT FTP site soon. Douglas KA2UPW/5 -Original Message- From: Masahiro Arai

[amsat-bb] Re: Hamtronics receive converters

2012-01-20 Thread Douglas Quagliana
Hi John, Hamtronics previously offered a UHF receive converter. It was available as a kit and was a mix of through-hole components and surface mount. This was the first surface mount kit that I built. There were two options for the crystals, so that it would convert either 435.0 MHz or

[amsat-bb] K6RPT-11 APRS Balloon heard by CU2IE / Sao Miguel - still at 109k - almost across the Atlantic

2011-12-13 Thread Douglas Quagliana
All, It looks like the balloon is almost all of the way across the Atlantic! Current course will place it closer to Morocco or slightly south of Portugal. K6RPT-11 APRS Balloon heard by CU2IE / Sao Miguel - still at 109k 2011-12-13 19:30:31 UTC:

[amsat-bb] K6RPT-11 transatlantic balloon is now being heard in Portugal

2011-12-13 Thread Douglas Quagliana
The K6RPT-11 transatlantic balloon is now being heard in Portugal. At 02:00:30 z K6RPT-11 was heard by CT1END in Amadora, Portugal. APRS packets: 2011-12-14 02:00:30 UTC: K6RPT-11APBL10,WIDE2-1,qAR,CT1END,PORTUGAL: !3531.31N/01636.70WO077/129/A=110384V1B2 CNSP-11 The balloon is still over

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 Telemetry

2011-11-25 Thread Douglas Quagliana
If you are interested in a certificate for ARISSat reception, the directions are at http://www.arissat1.org/v3/index.php?option=com_contentview=categorylayout=blogid=61Itemid=137 If you are just interested in submitting BPSK1000 telemetry, you can configure ARISSatTLM to forward

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSATTLM Website

2011-10-27 Thread Douglas Quagliana
All, Thanks for bringing this to my attention. It looks like the telemetry server had a slight hiccup. Telemetry was still being accepted and was saved, but the web pages were not being updated. I gave the telemetry server a gentle nudge. It has started updating the web pages again.

[amsat-bb] Explorer-1 Prime - how long is the tracking tone?

2011-10-04 Thread Douglas Quagliana
According to the Explorer-1 Prime operations web page at http://ssel.montana.edu/e1p/operations/ the satellite will transmit a 2200 Hertz tracking tone before each FSK AX.25 packet is transmitted. What is the duration of the tracking tone? one second? ten seconds? Does anyone have a sample

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 Silent? ( Request)

2011-09-29 Thread Douglas Quagliana
Hi Stuart, As of right now, ARISSat-1 is up. Telemetry has come in from multiple ground stations within the last few minutes. Depending on the orbit, there is often a delay between the time when ARISSat comes out of eclipse and the time when it starts transmitting telemetry. If

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSAT-1 TLM Problem

2011-08-31 Thread Douglas Quagliana
All, ARISSatTLM only uses the 48 kHz sampling rate on soundcards, so that's the only rate your card needs to be able to run at for ARISSatTLM. Douglas KA2UPW/5 James McBride wrote: Randy, Make sure you have any audio or DSP filters switched off, IF shift to centre etc. I found the 'tone'

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1

2011-08-27 Thread Douglas Quagliana
Telemetry came into the Internet telemetry server up until 02:43:37 UTC Aug 27. Then there's no further telemetry until 3:35:46 UTC. If you are receiving telemetry, please turn on the forwarding to the Internet telemetry server, and also please email in your .CSV files to telemetry at

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat clock and TLM records

2011-08-17 Thread Douglas Quagliana
Hi Richard, Don't worry. All of the telemetry data sent to telemetry.arissattlm.org is timestamped with the UTC date and time when the receiving station received the telemetry. All received telemetry is saved to a .CSV file (one CSV file per day) with one line per telemetry frame. Each

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 telemetry top submitters

2011-08-17 Thread Douglas Quagliana
All these data are based on the STP telemetry files from the AMSAT-FTP server (Kursk / Spacecraft). Every telemetry frame exist only once. If 10 stations listen to ARISSat and every station is forwarding the telemetry to the server - only one packet wins. Actually, the telemetry on the

[amsat-bb] Re: Certificate for receiving BPSK-1000 telemetry

2011-08-16 Thread Douglas Quagliana
All, If you received any BPSK1000 telemetry, then ARISSatTLM should have created a .CSV file in the ARISSatTLM\Telemetry folder on your desktop. The file should be named with the date (for example, 2001-8-5.CSV). We would really like to get a copy of the telemetry you received. Email the

[amsat-bb] Re: Certificate for receiving BPSK-1000 telemetry

2011-08-16 Thread Douglas Quagliana
-Original Message- From: n0jy n...@lavabit.com To: Douglas Quagliana dquagli...@aol.com Cc: amsat-bb amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Tue, Aug 16, 2011 11:12 am Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: Certificate for receiving BPSK-1000 telemetry Hi Douglas, Do you want these files, even if we have been forwarding

[amsat-bb] Share your SSTV images (was: Re: Bickering ...)

2011-08-04 Thread Douglas Quagliana
Everyone, If you receive a SSTV picture, I encourage you to upload the image to the ARISS SSTV gallery at http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/SSTV/ so that everyone can see it. And, if you have not seen any of the images yet, go there and be amazed. There are actual images from ARISSat's

[amsat-bb] LIVE telemetry from ARISSat-1 is now being received and updated on the web

2011-08-03 Thread Douglas Quagliana
All, We now have LIVE BPSK telemetry from ARISSat-1. As it comes in, the telemetry will be updated on the web. You can see the latest telemetry that was received at http://www.arissattlm.org/mobile This web page was designed to be viewed on a cellphone or mobile device but you can still

[amsat-bb] ARISSat-1 recordings wanted

2011-07-30 Thread Douglas Quagliana
All, If you are able to make an audio recording of the signals from ARISSat-1, I would be very interested in obtaining a copy of your recording. I would be most interested in recordings of the CW and BPSK signals, but if are able to record the voice and SSTV signals I would be interested in

[amsat-bb] Re: Mac is OK with ARISSatTLM_050_Setup.exe

2011-07-27 Thread Douglas Quagliana
All, The WS.REPUTATION is an indication from Norton that he's never seen this particular executable before and Norton doesn't have this executable in its database, so, by Norton's definition, this executable doesn't have a reputation with them. We saw this same false-positive during

[amsat-bb] Wanted: ARISSat-1 audio recordings

2011-04-10 Thread Douglas Quagliana
First call for ARISSat-1 audio recordings If you haven't already heard about it, ARISSat-1 will be activated while still inside the International Space Station. The transmissions are scheduled to begin around Monday 11 April 2011 at 14:30 UTC and continue until 10:30 UTC on 13 April

[amsat-bb] Re: KIT

2011-03-05 Thread Douglas Quagliana
Hi Kevin, you wrote: I know there is a kit out there for a receiver and or a SSB converter. 2-meter/70cm SSB receiver. I heard there was an article in QST so it must exist. You might be thinking of the KK7B receivers which were in QST magazine in the early 1990s. These receivers included

[amsat-bb] Wanted: ARISSat-1 BPSK1000 recordings

2011-02-12 Thread Douglas Quagliana
If anyone made a recording of ARISSat-1's BPSK1000 signal (either an SDR recording or just a regular recording), then I'd like to get a copy. Please email me if you made a recording of the BPSK1000 signal. 73, Douglas KA2UPW/5 ___ Sent via

[amsat-bb] Re: Guess the mystery noise - UO-11 demodulated

2010-08-31 Thread Douglas Quagliana
Hi Mark, I was able to demodulate some of the weirdnoise.mp3 file with my uo11dem program. The best part of that recording comes out (with some errors) as r??{6^6vF76V'~GFGVF'fF7vCG#+Uj5000146000247000348000C49000D 555100045200075300065400015556000357000258000D59000A

[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

[amsat-bb] Re: Pass prediction algorithm

2010-06-28 Thread Douglas Quagliana
Reid Crowe wrote: I'm trying to write my own pass prediction program for tracking FM satellites. 73, Reid N0RC Hi Reid, If you want something in C, try predict.If BASIC is more to your liking, then try G3RUH's plan13 program. Both come with source code. Predict is GPL. Plan13

[amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium and Alinco DJ-G7 firmware upgrade

2009-10-06 Thread Douglas Quagliana
Is anyone coming to the AMSAT Symposium that can bring the Alinco software and the special-magic cable for firmware upgrades for the DJ-G7? Douglas KA2UPW ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA

[amsat-bb] Castor and Pollux: FX.25 all the time, or just some of the time?

2009-07-26 Thread Douglas Quagliana
Hi, Can anyone tell me if the satellites will be transmitting packets with FX.25 all of the time, or is FX.25 only going to be enabled at certain times? Douglas KA2UPW/5 ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author.