Hello,
I received several ax25 frames and also the digitalker at 18:35utc over
Europe.
73,
Eric.
Amateur radio station ON4HF
Satellite manager UBA
Member Amsat-UK
Member Amsat-ON
Eric Knaps
Waterstraat 30
B-3980 Tessenderlo
Belgium
http://www.on4hf.be
Akihiro Kubota schreef op 22/05/2014
Hello Tony,
This is what I have in my DOPPLER.SQF file:
FUNCUBE-1 (AO-73),145936.58,0,USB,USB,NOR,0,0,TLM
FUNCUBE-1 (AO-73),145958.3,435147.78,USB,LSB,REV,0,0,SSB transponder
The first frequency is the downlink and should be USB. The second
frequency is the uplink and should be LSB.
73,
Hello Chris.
I listen daily to AO-73 to gather the telemetry data.
I use a 12 elements cross yagi and can switch between left CP or right CP.
At low elevations (between 0 and 10 degrees) I also suffer from deep
fadings where the signal is in the noise and then slowly coming back.
73,
Eric.
Sorry Erich,
It's in the upper RIGHT corner here with me :-)
73,
Eric.
Amateur radio station ON4HF
Satellite manager UBA
Member Amsat-UK
Member Amsat-ON
Eric Knaps
Waterstraat 30
B-3980 Tessenderlo
Belgium
http://www.on4hf.be
Erich Eichmann schreef op 29/04/2014 20:25:
The program displays
Hello Paolo,
I see that you use the same antenna than I do (from vpa-systems.pl)
here is my portable satellite setup:
https://picasaweb.google.com/101021064082474580425/PortableSatAntenna?noredirect=1
Hope to hear you on the birds soon.
Welcome to the satellite world!
73,
Eric.
Amateur radio
Op 10/05/2013 14:48, Ib Christoffersen schreef:
Hi all,
This morning a little before 1040 UTC I found AO-07 in mode-B to my big
surprise.
I can also see another report at 1046 UTC to the effect that it was in
mode-B
Now at 1240 UTC it is not in mode-B as far as I can hear.
I do not have the
Well done Frank!
Hope to hear you again soon.
73,
Eric.
Amateur Radio Station ON4HF
Eric Knaps
Satellite manager UBA
http://www.on4hf.be
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Van: K4FEG k4...@k4feg.com
Aan: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Verzonden: Donderdag 21 februari 2013 20:22:07
Onderwerp:
Hello Ib,
I go to Italy next monday. Maybe I can pull the plug :-)
Amateur Radio Station ON4HF
Eric Knaps
Satellite manager UBA
http://www.on4hf.be
Op 09/06/2012 13:52, Ib Christoffersen schreef:
Hi all,
I do not remember when it started with an output frequency of 145.850 MHz.
Right on
I'm sorry Clint, but this is the way I see it:
If you can't hear the downlink, stop calling cq because you won't hear
anyone to talk to.
I know that station for a long time and this wasn't the first time.
When I call cq on a lineair transponder, Jean-Marie is also there to
call also cq on the
Hi Craig, and others,
I use full duplex from the first day that I use the ham satellites.
I also prefer the ssb birds but if I am working handheld with an arrow
antenna I can only work the fm sats for now :-( with 2 portables, full
duplex as it should be.
If Jean-Marie had wait for about 20
Today I wanted to use my arrow and portable to make a qso on SO-50.
M6DNU (also portable) called me but it took 5 minutes to complete that
contact.
F2IL was constantly calling cq on top of us. Do these guys even listen
to the downlink??
Give portable stations also a change please! We only have
Hello Steve,
Welcome to the small world of ham satellite users!
I worked a lot on the ssb transponders for the past 3 years. Last week
I've build myself an arrow antenna and work alot on the fm birds now.
Pictures can be seen here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/ON4HF.Eric/PortableSatAntenna
Hello Domenico,
I know what you mean :-)
I have allways worked with big antennas and now I did it with a yagi
that you can hold in your hand.
The portable gives 2 watts of rf power and I was surprised that my
signal was so clear to copy.
I will be in Italy on holiday from june 11 till 23 and
Hello all,
Today I made my first portable satellite qso in my backyard via SO-50.
I bought an arrow antenna from www.vpa-systems.pl and connected a
portable to it.
I didn't know it was that easy! I worked EA7HZZ and a German station
(forgot his call because I was to excited)
What a nice hobby
Knaps, ON4HF
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:50 PM
To: Amsat - BBS
Subject: [amsat-bb] My first portable sat qso made today.
Hello all,
Today I made my first portable satellite qso in my backyard via SO-50.
I bought an arrow antenna from www.vpa-systems.pl and connected a
portable to it.
I didn't
Hello Peter,
That's good news! I'm sure Mike will do a good job.
Congrats Mike!
73,
Eric.
Amateur Radio Station ON4HF
Eric Knaps
Satellite manager UBA
http://www.on4hf.be
Op 30/04/2012 16:08, Peter Guelzow schreef:
Changes to the IARU Satellite Advisor Region 1
I have recommended to the
Hello all,
Anybody wants to see my received NOAA APT pictures that I receive with
my FunCube dongle?
Here's the link:
https://picasaweb.google.com/ON4HF.Eric/NOAAWeatherPictures
Pictures will be added in the future.
73,
Eric.
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Amateur Radio Station ON4HF
Eric Knaps
Satellite manager UBA
It was also exciting from my end. We tried the pass before but that
didn't work.
The next pass I heard Wyatt calling me and we made a nice contact.
Our next goal is to do the same on FO-29. By the way, i don't use
preamps. But i have big antennas and good ears :-)
Congratulations to Wyatt for
And please use full doppler correction. I always have to follow the
other station going higher in frequency and than come in the middle of
someone elses qso.
73,
Eric.
Amateur Radio Station ON4HF
Eric Knaps
Satellite manager UBA
http://www.on4hf.be
Op 06/01/2012 13:56, i8cvs schreef:
Hi
Hello Ib,
I agree with you.
This is what I have in my Doppler.sqf file for SatPC32:
SO-50,436790,145850,FM,FM,NOR,0,0
SO-50,436795,145850,FM,FM,NOR,0,0
and in my SubTone.sqf:
SO-50,67.0,$3F,1
SO-50,74.4,$3E,3
This is for the Yaesu FT-847.
73,
Eric.
Amateur Radio Station ON4HF
Eric Knaps
Hello,
I just had a 17 degree pass of arrissat-1 here. On 145.950 FM I heard
sstv and international greetings.
When the sat was transmitting on 145.950 the transponder was active and
I could here myself but the signal was weak.
When I couldn't hear myself anymore I noticed the transmisions on
Hello,
I was listening to a 21:05 utc pass over Europe and got a nice sstv
picture and voice telemetry in full power mode. Since I was listening
with a FCD I saw activity on the transponder also.
I heard EA1JM calling cq.
As soon as it went in eclipse I heard nothing anymore untill LOS.
73,
Hella Andras,
I am using version 12.8a.
After you insert the lines in your doppler.sqf file, restart the
program, click on satellites and select amateur.txt as source file.
RADIOSCAF-B should be at the bottom of the list. If not, click on
update keps and select the url with amateur.txt in it.
Hello all,
Since we have the kepler data via celestrak.com I have configurated my
satpc32 with the following lines in the doppler.sqf file:
RADIOSCAF-B,145920,0,USB,USB,NOR,0,0,BPSK/CW-2
RADIOSCAF-B,145950,0,FM,FM,NOR,0,0,VOICE/SSTV
RADIOSCAF-B,145930.0,435750.0,USB,LSB,REV,0,0,XPDR
For those
Hello John,
I totaly agree with you. I work with full doppler control (rx and tx)
from the moment that I started on the birds.
That way I can concentrate more on seeking new stations and logging them.
73,Eric.
Amateur Radio Station ON4HF
Eric Knaps
Satellite manager UBA
Tel. +32472985876
Hello Bill,
I heard you on that pass but couldn't call you because there where so
many stations calling you.
Hope to make a contact with you soon on the sats!
73,
Eric.
Amateur Radio Station ON4HF
Eric Knaps
Satellite manager UBA
Tel. +32472985876 (mobile)
http://www.on4hf.be
Op 9/07/2011
Hello,
Just worked AO-51 without 67Hz tone. I noticed that the carrier drops
out sometimes. I guess you activate the carrier again with subtone but
i'm not sure.
73,
Eric.
Amateur Radio Station ON4HF
Eric Knaps
Satellite manager UBA
Tel. +32472985876 (mobile)
http://www.on4hf.be
Op
Thanks Ib, I'll give it a try.
73
Eric.
Amateur Radio Station ON4HF
Eric Knaps
Satellite manager UBA
Tel. +32472985876 (mobile)
http://www.on4hf.be
Op 7/02/2011 19:08, Ib Christoffersen schreef:
Hi all,
SO-67 is on over Europe this week.
You can see the planned times on:
Spam???
Amateur Radio Station ON4HF
Eric Knaps
Satellite manager UBA
Tel. +32472985876 (mobile)
http://www.on4hf.be
Op 5/02/2011 10:14, John Hackett schreef:
http://angkorshop.orkun2u.com/mywork.html
___
Received the beacon from HO-68. Orbit 5271 at 21:09 utc.
XW-1 Telemetry Decoder (c) Mike Rupprecht, DK3WN
==
PA Output RF Switch Status: PA2 Works (Beacon only)
Transponder Working Status: Beacon only
Transponder Temperature : 18 C
Hello group,
Just received the telemetry beacon from Hope-1 (HO-68)
Orbit 5229 at 16:45 utc.
XW-1 Telemetry Decoder (c) Mike Rupprecht, DK3WN
==
PA Output RF Switch Status: PA2 Works (Beacon only)
Transponder Working Status: Beacon only
Hello Group,
I am hearing the HO-68 beacon strong while writing this ( 21:25 utc)
I have seen reports here that the bird was not heard for a while, I
guess it's still out there.
Only no transponder active.
73
Eric.
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Amateur Radio Station ON4HF
Eric Knaps
Satellite manager UBA
Tel.
Hello Alan,
A merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
I want to thank you and your team for giving us the use of a fine satellite.
All the best for the coming year.
Amateur Radio Station ON4HF
Eric Knaps
Satellite manager UBA
Tel. +32472985876 (mobile)
http://www.on4hf.be
Op 25/12/2010 16:10,
Hi there,
Do you really think that the European alligators will wait for 3 seconds?
Op 21/06/2010 16:04, Jan-Albert Koekemoer schreef:
Hello
After much delay we are now in a position to re-activate the SA-AMSAT payload
schedules on a regular basis again!
During the downtime we
Hello group,
Is there any Belgian station that want to join me to the AMSAT-DL symposium on
april 24th this year?
I don't like to drive alone and with a few guys it's more fun.
You can mail me off list for details...
The AMSAT-DL Symposium and AGM will be held in the radome of the
spectacular
Hello,
A few minutes ago a new satellite forum was born.
http://www.on4hf.be/forum
Feel free to register and have fun with it!
73,
Eric.
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Amateur radio station ON4HF
Satellite manager UBA
Eric Knaps
Waterstraat 30
B-3980 Tessenderlo
Belgium
Tel. +32472985876 (mobile)
www.on4hf.be
Op 29/01/2010 22:20, Louis House schreef:
I am having trouble with the Doppler sql file for the transponder on FO-29.
I believe that the file I have is not correct. Is there a current file known
to be the correct one. The Big Bird sounds great again, but my up and down
link are pretty far
Op 29/01/2010 22:20, Louis House schreef:
I am having trouble with the Doppler sql file for the transponder on FO-29.
I believe that the file I have is not correct. Is there a current file known
to be the correct one. The Big Bird sounds great again, but my up and down
link are pretty far
Op 4/01/2010 19:43, Elan Portnoy schreef:
When footprints cover multiple countries at the same time, do you speak
English, or local language to stations in your country?
Elan - WB2IOL
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Hello all,
When HO-68 was at AOS this evening here in Europe I decoded a telemetry
line at 19u18 utc before making contacts on the transponder.
PA Output RF Switch Status: PA1 Works (Transponder and Beacon)
Transponder Working Status: Beacon and Linear Transponder
Transponder
The new transponder works great. I worked 6 stations.
I made 2 recordings:
http://www.on4hf.be/HO-68-23dec2009-19u53.wav
http://www.on4hf.be/HO-68-23dec2009-20u02.wav
Thanks again to the people who made this a great christmas gift!
Eric -- ON4HF.
--
Eric Knaps
Waterstraat 30
B-3980
Hello,
I had the same problem here on the same pass. Checked everything that
could be checked but nothing from me on the downlink.
Signal was strong.
Audio file is here:
http://www.on4hf.be/HO-68-21dec2009-18u41.wav
Eric Knaps
Waterstraat 30
B-3980 Tessenderlo
Belgium
Tel. +32472985876
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4-0yuC4Sx4feature=related
Enjoy...
Eric -- ON4HF
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Waterstraat 30
B-3980 Tessenderlo
Belgium
Tel. +32472985876 (mobile)
http://www.on4hf.be
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Hi Drew,
I found the same video on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwyTZT6JkC4
Thanks to Amsat China for this new satellite!
Eric Knaps
Waterstraat 30
B-3980 Tessenderlo
Belgium
Tel. +32472985876 (mobile)
http://www.on4hf.be
Andrew Glasbrenner schreef:
Ok,
Here is my recording of the XW-1 cw beacon.
www.on4hf.be/16dec2009-18u20.wav
73,
Eric -- ON4HF.
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Waterstraat 30
B-3980 Tessenderlo
Belgium
Tel. +32472985876 (mobile)
http://www.on4hf.be
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Hello all,
Just trying to make a contact on SO-67 today. I also noticed the
dropouts. Couldn't even make a contact over it.
I made a recording of it and put it on my website.
http://www.on4hf.be/satellite.htm
73,
Eric -- ON4HF.
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Waterstraat 30
B-3980 Tessenderlo
Belgium
Tel.
Waterstraat 30
B-3980 Tessenderlo
Belgium
Tel. +32472985876 (mobile)
http://www.on4hf.be
George Henry schreef:
If you have a parallel port, the FOD-Track system uses that, instead of a
COM port
George, KA3HSW
- Original Message -
From: Eric Knaps, ON4HF eric.kn...@telenet.be
Hello guys,
I was wondering what kind of hardware to use to control my satellite rotors.
I have the G-500A elevation rotor and the G-650C azimuth rotor.
My only com port is connected with my FT-847 for doppler correction via
HamRadioDeluxe so it must be something via the USB port.
Thanks!
Eric
Hello all,
I found these nice rules from VK3JED:
1. First and foremost is to listen before and while (if possible)
transmitting, to ensure your transmissions don't drown out a weaker
station who may be on the edge of a pass or running QRP. Satellites
should be an alligator free
I think 145.880 is the uplink frequency. Downlink should be 435.350
73,
ON4HF.
Eric Knaps
Waterstraat 30
B-3980 Tessenderlo
Belgium
Tel. +32472985876 (mobile)
http://www.on4hf.be
Graham Shirville schreef:
I understand that there is a possibility that the 145.880MHz TX will be kept
on for
I like rule number 3. I hate it when somebody calls cq while you are in
the middle of a qso.
73,
Eric.
Eric Knaps
Waterstraat 30
B-3980 Tessenderlo
Belgium
Tel. +32472985876 (mobile)
http://www.on4hf.be
OZ1MY schreef:
Hi all in Europe,
It is obviously about time to repeate a few
good
Hello John,
DH5MK is working satellites with his antennas indoor.
Here's his website with more info.
http://www.dh5mk.de/
I've worked him a few times and he is strong on the birds.
Good luck!
Eric.
Amateur radio station ON4HF
Eric Knaps
Waterstraat 30
B-3980 Tessenderlo
Belgium
Tel.
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