[amsat-bb] Re: FAST1 Status?
Hi Carl,
Well, same results here. Success early in the week, but nothing since. I
wonder if our collective traffic has reset something up there?
However, on my last try (last night), I copied one beacon clearly - decoded and
forwarded to IS - but I also heard a few other weak packets by ear that were
not decoded. I could tell that they were not beacon packets (the long string
of G's is very distinctive), so either I was hearing somebody uplinking on the
downlink, or perhaps other satellite activity on 145.825.
There was also a portion of the pass where the FM noise would suddenly drop for
a second and then return a few times. I suspect that was 9600 baud traffic
from the satellite. I'm not set up to receive 9600 packet, but if that was the
case, perhaps we'll have more success digipeating at 9600. Of course, that
won't keep the transmitter as occupied - the packets are so much shorter - but
it would indicate that the satellite is still in active digipeat mode.
Greg KO6TH
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 07:31:54 -0500
From: w8...@w8krf.net
To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] FAST1 Status?
Has there been a change to FAST1 since Thursday? During two passes on
Thursday, I was able to digipeat through it using AGWPE (set to 1k2),
UISS, and SatPC. I have included a portion of my log below. Both
yesterday (12/10) and this morning (12/11) I was not able to digi
through it although I was receiving the beacon.
[UISS Auto-Log date - Mode: Only Digipeated Packets - 12/8/2011]
{snip}
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[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: 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: 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: Fast1
Interestingly, the last two attempts (two nights ago, and this evening) to
repeat this have failed. I briefly tried the other uplink frequency, 145.980,
tonight, without success either. I did hear 4 or 5 beacon packets from FAST1
(they're quite distinctive, with all the Gs in them), so everything else
seems to be in order. Most of them decoded, but I had APRSISCE/32 configured
to not pass beacons from RF-IS, so they didn't get posted. I believe there
were also couple of other packets from the satellite as well but they didn't
decode at all.
So, either I had incredible luck earlier with the packets that did go through,
or we now have a lot of other folks trying to uplink, with the result that the
satellite isn't hearing anything that can be retransmitted. I am concerned
that this weekend's attack on the satellite will be totally ineffective,
because an overloaded is nearly equivalent to one that is totally empty.
Neither full nor empty will accomplish the command team's objective of
increasing the Transmit duty cycle, to drain the batteries.
Anybody else having any success recently?
Greg KO6TH
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 18:26:44 -0500
From: ldeff...@homeside.to
To: k...@earthlink.net
CC: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Fast1
Steve (G6UIM) and Greg (KO6TH) have been discussing this on the APRSISCE
Yahoo group (messages below). Greg confirmed Steve's comment that FAST1
is uplinking on 145.825 and downlinking on 437.345. He managed to
bounce a few packets through it as well as capture some telemetry (also
shown below).
Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
(Note: Times are Eastern US, UTC-0500)
2011-12-08 00:35:04
FAST1BEACON,qAR,KO6TH-13:F11G0211006311
022 019 020 022 024
2011-12-08 00:35:06 KO6TH-13APWW08,FAST1*,qAR,KO6TH-13::KJ4ERJ :Hi Lynn...
another try via FAST1{BM}
2011-12-08 00:38:20 KO6TH-13APWW08,FAST1*,qAR,KO6TH-13::KJ4ERJ :good
signal received on last tx. Yea!{BN}
2011-12-08 00:38:24 KO6TH-13APWW08,FAST1*,qAR,KO6TH-13::KJ4ERJ :good
signal received on last tx. Yea!{BN}
2011-12-08 00:38:40 KO6TH-13APWW08,FAST1*,qAR,KO6TH-13::KJ4ERJ :good
signal received on last tx. Yea!{BN}
2011-12-08 00:39:02 KO6TH-13APWW08,FAST1*,qAR,KO6TH-13::KJ4ERJ :You still
awake?
2011-12-08 00:39:04
FAST1BEACON,qAR,KO6TH-13:F11G0207105289
022 020 020 022 023
2011-12-08 00:42:04
FAST1BEACON,qAR,KO6TH-13:F11G0264006286
022 020 020 022 022
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Steve Daniels
st...@daniels270.eclipse.co.uk mailto:st...@daniels270.eclipse.co.uk
wrote:
FAST1 is up on 145.825MHz and down on 437.345MHz according to their
recent news release.
Frequencies confirmed. I managed to bounce a few through FAST1 this
evening with these frequencies (with doppler shift factored in by the
computer).
Greg KO6TH
On 12/8/2011 10:08 AM, Tom Lubbers K8TL wrote:
Has anyone had any positive results?? I have beaconed with 1200 and 9600,
nothing.
After the 0330Z pass did copy RS0ISS on the same frequency pair, boy was my
element set off!!
Happy Holidays
Tom K8TL
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[amsat-bb] Re: Fast1
The satellite has been confirmed working by a member of the aprsisce yahoo group. Uplink 145.825MHz and downlink of 437.345MHz and an APRS path of FAST1 That was at 2011-12-08 00:35 Steve Daniels G6UIM -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lubbers K8TL Sent: 08 December 2011 15:09 To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Fast1 Has anyone had any positive results?? I have beaconed with 1200 and 9600, nothing. After the 0330Z pass did copy RS0ISS on the same frequency pair, boy was my element set off!! Happy Holidays Tom K8TL ___ 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
