On 18/11/13 5:40 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
Thanks for all the responses on the FT-736 and the pointers to the pic
hardware emulator.
Just to be clear, does the N6BIL emulator allow the manual tuning of the
FT-736?
It would seem that the lack of the ability to tune is a significant problem
to
On 11/11/13 6:44 PM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:14:26AM -0600, George Henry wrote:
There are very good reasons why no other amateur radio manufacturer
will touch it.
George, KA3HSW
What, apart from encryption being illegal on the amateur bands?
Without a radical
On 12/11/13 12:17 AM, Paul Stoetzer wrote:
An interesting idea would be trying a FreeDV QSO via satellite. I've made a
few QSOs with it on HF and it's an interesting mode.
Obviously it's full duty-cycle, so any attempts should be limited to just a
few tests, but I'm sure it would work.
I
On 12/11/13 3:25 AM, Stefan Wagener wrote:
Yes,
It could work as long as software for doppler control (eg SatPc32) can
invoke the smaller frequency changes which it actually can (see my other
note on the IC-9100). So you would use the built-in DSTAR module for uplink
or downlink and the 9600
On 12/11/13 4:10 PM, George Henry wrote:
FreeDV would probably work on the transponder birds if your doppler
update was fast enough... it has built-in AFC. Your only chance to
try it on an FM bird would probably be in the middle of the night...
I'd be looking at using FreeDV with the linear
On 11/11/13 7:45 AM, Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) wrote:
Stefan,
It appears that stations attempting to work D-Star via
satellite would need to use two radios. This was the
case a few years ago, when AA4RC and N3UC were able to
make a brief QSO on AO-27. You can read about what gear
the
On 19/05/13 12:33 AM, Philip Jenkins wrote:
Thanks for the replies. I do have a Win 7-64 machine with 4GB RAM as my
main PC; I've just never used the 32 bit version and wanted to see if I
needed to avoid it.
I'd only use the 32 bit version on a machine with 4GB RAM. The amount
of RAM you have
On 9/02/13 2:26 AM, Greg Dolkas wrote:
Is the 435KW an EIRP number, or power into their feed. I was thinking the
later. No?
If you read the link that was recently posted, their transmitter uses
2x250kW klystrons, so it'd be RF power. :)
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On 8/02/13 7:49 AM, Bob- W7LRD wrote:
maybe asteroid bounce? (EAE)
73 Bob W7LRD
Someone on the moonbounce reflector crunched the numbers and came up
with a path loss figure something like 51dB worse than EME, if I
recall. The small cross section area was the killer.
Still, nothing ventured,
On 8/02/13 9:33 AM, Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL wrote:
Well from the original post:
The Goldstone 70M dish will be running MAX QRO with 435 kW.
That ought to be enough for EAE. H. CQ asteroid, CQ asteroid!
There's your 51+ dB! :D Slightly outside amateur power levels or the
antennas
On 8/02/13 11:11 AM, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
I wonder if they considered that it may be significantly more reflective?
I can't see it being more than 15-20db to get from the moon's
reflectivity to a perfect reflector. Still, every bit helps. :)
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At 02:49 AM 10/13/2012, Patrick STODDARD \(WD9EWK/VA7EWK\) wrote:
Fantastic work Patrick!
73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL
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At 03:26 AM 10/6/2012, R Oler wrote:
http://onorbit.com/node/5003
This link should take you to it, but if not go to NASA WAtch then
either ON ORBIT or just scroll down to find the story and click on
the link. The pics are stunning
You're not wrong there!
73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL
At 11:21 AM 10/4/2012, Arthur Feller wrote:
If you do not like what you see, let the authorizing administration
(FCC) know and why, in detail, citing rules and regulations in a way
to be persuasive.
Well, it would seem to go against the definition of the Amateur and
Amateur Satellite
At 06:04 PM 9/26/2012, Gus 8P6SM wrote:
On 09/26/2012 01:38 AM, Tony Langdon wrote:
And of someone wanted to try out a new propulsion system on a live
satellite, I'm sure AMSAT would be more than happy to help with the
comms side of things.
One can understand the reluctance to allow
At 03:44 AM 9/27/2012, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
I'd love to get involved in that, and indeed I think a lot of the
current thread was spawned by a discussion of tracking the F-1 sat.
Unfortunately, there is only a Windows binary available of this
software. I know amateur radio is a technical
At 02:05 PM 9/26/2012, Daniel Schultz wrote:
Amsat has tried to sell the emergency and disaster communications aspect of
amateur radio but so far nobody has bitten on that bait. Getting space on a
tower is a few thousand dollars per year, getting a free satellite launch
represents a thousand
At 12:47 AM 9/7/2012, Thomas Doyle wrote:
Hi -
Thanks so much for your post. Many of us have been in this so long we
have completely lost touch with the needs of the new ham. You have
described the greatest needs in the sat hobby. Unfortunately we are
heading in a direction where we are suppose
At 10:00 AM 8/28/2012, Bob DeVarney W1ICW wrote:
I am afraid you're right, Tom, and it pains me to admit it. I am not
sure why activity has dropped off.. but I can say in my own case I
lost interest in satellite operating after AO-40 died and have gone
on to other things ( EME ) to use the
At 12:45 PM 8/19/2012, Ronald Nutter wrote:
Drew:
Think about getting Virtualbox (www.virtualbox.org). If you can
migrate your physical hard drive to a virtual one, you can run your
XP environment almost forever. Also when you move machines in the
future, the OS wont matter, all you need
At 03:36 PM 8/6/2012, B J wrote:
The first image has been transmitted and received.
Watched the whole landing, awesome stuff. :)
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At 02:21 AM 5/31/2012, Eric Knaps, ON4HF wrote:
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
At 11:00 AM 3/24/2012, K5OE wrote:
Attention old timers: anyone solve the 16-bit compatibility problem?
I presume you're using a 64 bit system. Only way I can see around it
is using one of the many virtual machines and running a 16 (Windows
3.x anyone?) or 32 bit Windows version inside.
At 07:38 PM 2/23/2012, KE7OSN wrote:
I have a few Windows computers running the AGW Packet Engine as a Software
TNC. I would like to find something that provides similar functionality but
for Linux. I am hoping someone out there uses a Linux computer with a
software TNC for satellites, but if
At 04:39 AM 2/3/2012, Bruce wrote:
yes, download a program called dosbox. you can then run the old dos programs.
http://www.dosbox.com/
That's the one I was trying to think of. :)
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At 09:31 AM 1/28/2012, g0...@aol.com wrote:
Oh..
Another (more serious) possibility.
Forget GTO and negotiate a low cost launch on one of the remaining 5 Vega
development flights (1500km?)
Then use propulsion to get to MEO.
Better than sitting on the ground and it tests the propulsion
At 06:05 AM 1/15/2012, Clint Bradford wrote:
... Many of those same radios are being sold through
legitimate/commercial dealers ...
OK so far ...
... for FRS/GMRS rigs ...
Not OK - they are not legal for either the GMRS nor the FRS.
We've had similar issues over here with UHF CB, where
At 06:01 AM 1/13/2012, George Henry wrote:
Main drawback appears to be that they are not full duplex... but at those
prices, why not buy TWO?
All of my full duplex sat operation has been with 2 radios, so why
not. :) There are some advantages of running two radios, especially
where the
At 02:42 PM 1/6/2012, Clayton Coleman W5PFG wrote:
Have you thought about upgrading your station to full-duplex capability?
I started out using full duplex, and it's a much nicer
experience. I'd recommend it for every satellite operator.
73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL
http://vkradio.com
At 11:37 AM 12/25/2011, B J wrote:
Sir Isaac Newton's birthday. Without his work on gravity, we might not
have satellites.
Thanks for that, I didn't realise Newton was born on Christmas Day! :)
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At 04:55 PM 12/7/2011, Clint Bradford wrote:
It is your neighbor's sub-par electronics that are not properly
filtered/insulated. But no one wants to hear that they need to purchase
a new audio-visual system so a neighbor can play with amateur radio ... (grin)
This is one of our greatest public
At 05:24 AM 12/8/2011, Bob Bruninga wrote:
HPF above 500 MHz? Then the TV would not be able to see anything but a few
UHF channels.
What is needed is a stub filter. Just a piece of open ended coax 13 long
Ted into the antenna lead
They work well, have had occasion to use them in the
At 03:01 AM 12/4/2011, Nitin Muttin wrote:
Friends,
Thank you all for your comments and understanding. Please do not use
FM on VO-52. There are very few (less than 3-5 radio hams in India
who work thru VO-52 on FM due to the lack of all mode 2 meter and 70
cms radios and hence the
At 11:57 AM 11/30/2011, Lowell White wrote:
Please enlighten me if indeed there might be a way to get something up (and to
stay up) more economically.
Well, a bit of physics here. To get from the Earth's surface to LEO
requires 10 km/S of delta-V. Even if you could get a payload to
At 02:19 AM 12/1/2011, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
On 30/11/11 13:34, Trevor . wrote:
Current research is based on platforms between 17 and 22 km high.
At that height they could provide coverage over a radius of up to 500 km.
Roughly equivalent to NVIS HF communications, then.
One of those
At 02:28 AM 12/1/2011, Rick Tejera wrote:
Gordon,
There are at least two groups that know of that launch High altitude
balloons with amateur payloads. I just joined one: Arizona Near Space
Research. http://www.ansr.org/
High altitude balloons are fun. There's a group here that launches
At 09:33 AM 11/30/2011, Bob- W7LRD wrote:
Cool George! it's not the building and concepts
that's difficult. It's getting the damn things
up there. We should have a division of AMSAT
that does rockets, and launch our own. Like my Dad told me,
Or get in league with an amateur rocketry
At 09:18 AM 11/24/2011, Trevor . wrote:
--- On Wed, 23/11/11, Gregg Wonderly w5...@cox.net wrote:
It's really sad that this is not a
downloadable video that could be played on my
mobile device for people regardless of being on the network
or not.
Unfortunately it's not on the YouTube NASA
At 07:59 PM 11/17/2011, Luc Leblanc wrote:\
I just got a flash is it possible the moon bounce signal where
reflected on this ionosphere instead of the moon surface or both or is it
the moon libration signal often reported by moon bouncer a kind of
signal mix the one reflected over the surface
Hi,
While we are on the subject of the Moon and looking back at missions - take
a look at the web pages I have forwarded.Should prove quite a talking
point in terms of our hobby - ionosphere and radio communications
on and around the Moon.
Suddenly ham radio on the moon looks a whole
At 01:57 AM 11/2/2011, Trevor . wrote:
The 420 MHz transceivers feature speeds of up to 12 Mbps and
bandwidths of 10 MHz or 5 MHz, while data throughput of 48 Mbps is
claimed on the 1240 MHz verssion.
Very interesting, wonder how much these will cost. I want some! :)
73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL
At 03:21 AM 10/25/2011, Jeff Welsh wrote:
Same here. If I hear a portable station in the FM pileup, most likely that's
the one I'll want to work before the others! Working the LEO portable and
handheld is quite a handful, literally and I admire that!
Used to do it all the time, quite a lot of
At 11:26 AM 10/25/2011, Diane Bruce wrote:
Yes it is. It is ONLY a freakin' Hobby. If we want kids in our freakin'
HOBBY we need to make it *FUN*. Learning stuff, radio stuff, building
stuff learning what radio is how antennas work. All that stuff.
Agree with the fun bit, but fun can be
At 05:02 PM 10/11/2011, Daniel Schultz wrote:
It is true that a Geo bird would only cover 1/3 of the Earth, but it would
ALWAYS be there, with no need for antenna rotors or keps or a computer for
tracking. It would be like picking up a telephone. It would be wonderful for
emergency service in a
At 05:49 AM 10/11/2011, JoAnne Maenpaa wrote:
Hi George,
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't 900 MHz only allocated
for terrestrial use, worldwide? I know that there's no amateur
satellite service allocation at 902 MHz...
The original Cornell Chipsat mission news release that
At 09:07 AM 10/11/2011, Trevor . wrote:
--- On Mon, 10/10/11, Tony Langdon vk3...@gmail.com wrote: Still
seems a strange choice of frequency, given that GSM phones use
these frequencies in many parts of the world. ITU Region 1 seems to
be moving closer to permitting unlicensed low power use
At 08:51 AM 10/11/2011, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote:
Just a novice guess here, but aren't the geostationary orbits MUCH
higher than our satellites run? And therefore cost a lot more to
get boosted to that orbit?
Got it in one, that's the main reason we don't have any geostationary
ham
At 04:50 AM 7/22/2011, Kevin Deane wrote:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html for others
that missed it :(
Watched it live on NASA TV (local coverage was very poor). Sad to
see the Shuttle's days end, but Atlantis finished in style. I still
vividly remember watching
At 03:57 AM 6/30/2011, w4upd wrote:
This is already the case in Florida. The Amateur tag is listed as a
vanity plate and you are charged accordingly. This state has hundreds of
vanity plates.
It's the same down here, amateur plates are a special category of
vanity plates, and attract a vanity
At 02:35 AM 6/10/2011, John Geiger wrote:
Has anyone had success getting into VO52 using a vertical, omnidirectional
antenna on the uplink. I have a nice M2 2M9SSB for 2m but only have a
dualband J pole to cover UHF with and wonder if I could get into VO52 with
it for my uplink antenna.
I have
At 04:06 AM 6/10/2011, Tom Schaefer, NY4I wrote:
This is a great thread.
Well, I am going to continue with full doppler and just resolve
myself to tuning in some people that are not quite there yet. As a
lot, I would think adding computer control to handle full doppler
would not be that big a
At 10:59 AM 6/9/2011, Douglas Phelps wrote:
If you do not have a sat program automatically correcting you rig frequency,
what is the most common or preffered technique? 1 - Hold the TX
steady and adj
the RX for doppler or 2- Hold the RX steady and adjust the TX for doppler? I
know this must be
At 11:42 AM 6/7/2011, Justin Pinnix wrote:
Greg, you're overlooking something - the time dimension.
Yes, packet is a one-at-a-time affair, but those packets move quickly -
1200bps vs 31bps for PSK31. So, each station only has the bird tied up for
a short period of time. You could think of it as
At 03:34 PM 5/18/2011, Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) wrote:
Or look for the all-mode HF/VHF/UHF radios at swapmeets and
online, and get a pair for your satellite station. There are radios
out there that won't break the bank. Yes, more than a dual-band
FM HT or mobile radio, but not a whole
At 01:46 AM 5/8/2011, John Geiger wrote:
And you can still use the FM equipment you bought on AO27, SO50, and SO67.
I spent less than $200 on my FM satellite setup this year. It consists of a
used Kenwood TM251A for $99, an Arrow antennas dualband J pole for $50, and
a 50 foot run of 9913 flex
At 06:38 AM 4/29/2011, Bob Bruninga wrote:
Tell that to the likes of G4KLX, KI4LKF, the ircDDB team,
PA4YBR, the designers and builders of various GMSK modems,
and even AA4RC and Moe, who designed the DV Dongle hardware...
The real thing that would explode D-star onto the world stage would
At 11:33 AM 4/28/2011, you wrote:
I'd like to point out that it's difficult, at best, to participate when
you can't roll your own. There are many codecs available out there
today that don't require purchasing a license to use. The biggest
problem right now is that D-Star isn't backward
At 07:43 AM 4/25/2011, i8cvs wrote:
I am anxious about that because even on EME very soon
nobody will be able to use by hand a CW key and copy
Morse Code by ears.
I don't think Morse is in any danger. I've seen an increase in
interest since the compulsory Morse exams were dropped in this part
At 07:33 PM 4/23/2011, you wrote:
The chips are readily available at a few hundred dollars apiece, and
if you attempt to implement your own AMBE codec then you're going to
have DVSI's lawyers jumping on you.
More like $20 apiece in small (possible 1 off) quantities.
Proprietary software has no
At 01:42 AM 4/24/2011, Gregg Wonderly wrote:
In the end, digital compression of spectrum space is going to happen more and
more. AM style broadcast is hugely inefficient even though it is painfully
simple to do. I don't really believe that D-Star is the right choice for
everything because it is
At 04:42 AM 4/24/2011, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 10:42 -0500, Gregg Wonderly wrote:
In the end, digital compression of spectrum space is going to
happen more and
more. AM style broadcast is hugely inefficient even though it is
painfully
Okay, but *why*? Why are we so
At 06:37 AM 4/24/2011, Kevin Deane wrote:
Or he could just use FM since hardly anyone uses the SSB birds
compared to the other sats.
Although I am sure there are a million reasons not to use FM. even
though it works just fine on the SSB birds. The feedback I got from
the FO-29 Control
At 04:53 AM 4/8/2011, zdz eighty wrote:
Yaesu FT-736R interface for HRD
I finally finished a project to build an interface for the Yaesu FT736R so
that it would work with Ham Radio Deluxe. It seems to be working well and
i've sent it out to several testers and i haven't found any problems from
At 09:37 AM 4/2/2011, you wrote:
I have been following this discussion with some interest. I too have
experienced working AO-51 in areas where the footprint is over relatively
low population areas.
Despite being thrilled by my first contacts from VK4 (my home state) my
enthusuiasm on AO-51
At 11:41 PM 3/31/2011, K5OE wrote:
Please allow a little perspective on AO-51 from someone who has
worked it for a long time and from all over the world.
I left the USA in late 2003 for a work assignment in Darwin, NT
(Australia as VK8OE), where I talked to myself for over a year on
AO-51
At 07:07 AM 3/9/2011, Trevor . wrote:
Short Range Devices (SRDs) in 433-434 are bad news.
Tell me about it! :/
The United Kingdom opened up 433/434 to SRDs in the 1990's.
Automobile remote control key fobs used it - very short range, very
low power stuff but the killer was the receivers.
At 04:16 PM 3/4/2011, Clint Bradford wrote:
Great camera footage from last month's Shuttle launch. One camera is
mounted on an Solid Rocket Booster. At 2:28, it separates ... and
you watch it splash back into the ocean.
Neat video, well worth the time spent watching it. :)
73 de VK3JED /
At 08:41 AM 3/2/2011, Donald Jacob wrote:
I'm sorry, maybe I'm missing something.
Wouldn't it be much easier to say (on web page or what ever since this topic
has been address MANY MANY times) that you must check with the ships
Captain and/or communications officer. Forget FCC or any other
At 10:18 PM 2/28/2011, Dominic Hawken wrote:
For the birds (and I'm relatively new to this as well) I transmit LSB
and receive USB - am I correct in thinking this is the accepted default
or does it vary from satellite to satellite?
It depends on the transponder. The actual convention is that
At 04:22 AM 2/26/2011, Dave Webb KB1PVH wrote:
HRO has the Icom 9100 on it's site now for the low low price of $3799.95
http://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-010763
Ouch! Well, for that price, you can get 2 IC7000s and keep the
change. I bought 2 IC7000s AND AH4 tuners for that price, and
At 07:21 AM 2/25/2011, Zachary Beougher wrote:
You forgot a few.
1. When looking for a place to live you don't look for a nice neighborhood,
you look for the highest spot in the county with no trees.
Trees are important skyhooks for wire antennas! ;) Not so good for
satellite operators
At 08:19 AM 2/23/2011, n...@lavabit.com wrote:
I have always laid the big ones (FT-817, CCRadio) out in a tub for them
to look at, the first couple of times having not done so wound up with a
swab and a some questions. Having them exposed seems to have eliminated
that so far. The HTs and wall
At 09:35 PM 2/21/2011, Luc Leblanc wrote:
The main problem is here: you should hear your own downlink but
they try to call in the void hoping someone will answer??
If I don't hear anything, I don't Tx, except for a _brief_ keyup to
see if I am hitting the bird (in this part of the world at
At 04:11 AM 2/22/2011, Rocky Jones wrote:
My argument with AMSAT and others is that the organization should be
leading by pushing more linear devices AND birds with larger
footprints. Where I think things got off track badly was with the
notion of AO-40...the theory that we had to build a
At 10:45 AM 2/22/2011, jmfranke wrote:
Our presence there is secondary and the prime user has a much larger
financial and national security commitment for keeping the band clear of
others. I hope the US military takes the appropriate actions to protect the
bands for their use and thereby ours.
At
At 10:57 AM 2/22/2011, Nigel A. Gunn wrote:
True, and in Europe, where thay only have a 10MHz wide band, ATV has
gone to 23cM using FN, not AM. Makes old satellite TV receivers usable
for the Rx side without modification other than a preamp.
Australia has nominally 420-450 MHz, but 420 - 430 is
At 07:27 PM 2/5/2011, Greg D. wrote:
My second satellite QSO (ever) was from California to New York on
RS-10 with 10 watts to a copper pipe J-pole on the uplink, and a
wire strung out to a tree in the back yard hooked to a Radio Shack
DX-440 Short Wave receiver for the downlink. How can you
At 02:18 AM 2/5/2011, Diane Bruce wrote:
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 08:03:59AM +, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 13:49 -0500, Diane Bruce wrote:
...
It doesn't in my case. I have *no interest at all* in operating
satellites that require a complex fixed station with
At 04:47 AM 2/4/2011, John Geiger wrote:
Another group to target is the VHF/UHF weak signal crowd. Many of them have
the necessary equipment to get on AO7, FO29, and VO52, but might not know
it, or know how to proceed. These birds will give them a chance to use
their multimode rigs between band
At 05:49 AM 2/4/2011, Diane Bruce wrote:
What is the motivation for some to operate on LEO satellite? The
exotic mode and bands? The pleasure to achieve an OSCAR class station?
My initial motivation to getting on satellite was AO-40. That was
exciting, very neat and a fun technical
At 01:18 PM 2/4/2011, k6yk wrote:
I saw a mention of an issue of folks not wanting to make a big
investment in satellite stuff to work SSB/CW.
ALL of the original ham satellites were SSB/CW birds. No FM.
And most hams already had enough equipment to get started. The
uplinks were on 2 meters
At 09:06 AM 1/21/2011, P.H. wrote:
And why do some REGULAR stations insist on using FM as opposed to FM-N
and shouting like a banshee into the mic?! It is extremely irritating
and makes hearing those who operate properly very difficult.
Good question. I found FM-N was perfect for this bird.
73
At 03:43 AM 11/5/2010, Chris Bloy wrote:
Hi Robert,
Non-working Amateur Satellite still in-orbit? (AO-13?)
Oscar III...then Oscar V...Oscar V has no chance of coming back to life, it
was battery powered.. III? I dont think that there were enough solar cells
on it to actually power the
At 07:42 AM 11/5/2010, Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL wrote:
The moon.
;-)
That thought did cross my mind. The moon is still working in both
its original role (as stabiliser of the Earth's axis) and as a
passive communications satellite. ;)
73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL
http://vkradio.com
At 12:34 AM 9/26/2010, Alan P. Biddle wrote:
From time to time we get postings about this or that Volksrocket as a way to
get a cheap launch. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. I have
heard of all manner of failure modes for launches. However, this one is
probably near the top of the
At 10:16 AM 9/23/2010, George Henry wrote:
Which begs the question, where can one find archived keps? AMSAT does not
archive the KEPS mailing list, so unless someone on here is a subscriber and
has keps bulletins from that far back, where else can you look?
Aa a matter of fact, I have Keps going
At 08:00 AM 8/29/2010, David - KG4ZLB wrote:
I would have to side with Nigel here as my understanding is that he is
quite correct - you are not allowed to listen into the Police
frequencies for instance or any other frequency that you are not
authorized for - maybe you can in Scotland Gordon
alive and wanting my help to move money from a foreign country. I removed
the email address from the spam. Can you say spam in morse code?
... .--. .- --
There you go. :D
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At 12:16 PM 6/26/2010, B J wrote:
I believe the manual is available as a downloadable file on Yaesu's
website. Check page 11 for details on setting up the radio for charging.
In any case, googling ft-817 manual is bound to give results. I've
found Google handy for locating both user and
At 12:04 AM 6/22/2010, Jan-Albert Koekemoer wrote:
Hello
After much delay we are now in a position to re-activate the SA-AMSAT payload
schedules on a regular basis again!
Excellent news! :)
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At 09:08 AM 6/8/2010, Larry Teran wrote:
SPAM get out
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Simone T terra...@gmail.com wrote:
snip to avoid propagating spam URL further
These ones are the result of the account's owner getting infected
with something, and a spam bot hijacking their account.
At 11:31 PM 6/1/2010, Alan wrote:
I've read the Doppler tends to move more quickly near mid-pass than the
computer and software routinely seem able to keep up. Mid pass is when the
sat is moving most tangentially to you at which point Doppler shift is nil.
The rate of change of Doppler shift
At 04:45 AM 6/2/2010, Alan P. Biddle wrote:
John,
I meant to mention a nice page discussing Doppler shift. It explains many
of the questions/comments/rants brought up about Doppler shifts and
corrections:
http://www.qsl.net/vk3jed/doppler.html
Please use the official version
At 05:53 AM 6/2/2010, Michael Tondee wrote:
was fun. Not so if I came upon a station who was using manual tuning
while I was trying to let my computer do the work. I had to chase him
all over the passband and often lost stations completely that way. I
didn't fare much better with manual tuning. I
At 01:18 PM 6/2/2010, Greg D. wrote:
One problem with the Yaesu 736R is that when the rig is under
computer control you can't grab the tuning knob and hunt around the
passband for someone to talk to. Tuning directed by computer is
agonizingly slow and tedious, taking about a second per
At 08:06 AM 6/1/2010, Alan P. Biddle wrote:
My suggestion is to use full tuning until you find that the other operator
isn't. Then adapt, usually by turning off the updating for the lower
frequency. It isn't worth getting doctrinaire about it. However, by using
the One True Rule as the
At 04:50 AM 4/14/2010, Tom Azlin N4ZPT wrote:
Guess times change. Top posting is the standard on some reflectors.
Especially with folks reading using small screens.
Doesn't bother me either way, provided people trim unnecessary quotes
from their emails. I prefer things done in order, like this
At 06:17 AM 2/21/2010, George Henry wrote:
Of course, any *complete* satellite-related website will have a link to the
AO-27 Java schedule lister site
Depends on the intended audience. AO-27 information is of no
relevance down here.
73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL
http://vkradio.com
At 02:17 AM 2/20/2010, Ben Jackson wrote:
Going on two years old at this point, but (at least I feel) it's still
relevant...
The Courteous Ham's Guide to AO-51:
http://www.innismir.net/article/26
And something nearer 10 years old
http://vkradio.com/satiquette.html
/shameless plug
/another
At 06:44 AM 1/28/2010, you wrote:
What do you hear when you listen to it?
SSTV is easily recognisable by ar.
Yes, it has been described as a demented monster canary, which is a
rather accurate description of the SSTV sounds. ;) Best way to find
out is install some SSTV software (MMSSTV is good
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