[amsat-bb] Re: HO-68 Audio 24December2009 1807z FM/BBS

2009-12-25 Thread Luc Leblanc
On 24 Dec 2009 at 14:52, John Papay wrote: Date sent: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:52:48 -0500 From: John Papay j...@papays.com Subject:[amsat-bb] HO-68 Audio 24December2009 1807z FM/BBS To: amsat-bb@amsat.org An audio recording of the

[amsat-bb] HO-68 Beacon Copied in FM19

2009-12-25 Thread Mike Benonis
I was able to copy the HO-68 Beacon from my QTH in FM19fa using my new Arrow II Handheld Satellite Antenna. I wanted to thank the Chinese AMSAT Folks for a wonderful gift to the amateur satellite community and wish everyone a very merry Christmas tonight. I look forward to many QSO's on this

[amsat-bb] HO-68 FM/Packet Understanding

2009-12-25 Thread Peter
Luc, John and the Group, I want to wish everyone a Healthy and Peaceful New Year, and I hope that Santa was good to you; I know Santa gave me a terrific Satellite gift. I asked Alan to give me a better understanding of how signals are processed with XO-68, I hope his explanation below helps.

[amsat-bb] SO-67 schedule (adapted)

2009-12-25 Thread Jan-Albert Koekemoer
Hello Herewith an amended schedule for SO-67 with South America, USSR and Australia/NZ included. Note that I had to adapt the previous schedule in three instances to accommodate the added countries (see below). SOUTH AMERICA: 26/12 01:38 26/12 10:36 26/12 12:09 26/12 23:45 27/12 01:18 27/12

[amsat-bb] HO-68 : SSB S Africa 1st time

2009-12-25 Thread Andre' v Deventer
Hi Alan, Well I can report like many others, the SSB operation is excellent and clear comms. My switch on was at 5 degs going North to LOS and I worked ZS6Y, ST2NH, ZS1LS ZS6BNE. I was still copying at zero degs the stations in the North ! Congrats also for this fantastic SSB xponder.

[amsat-bb] Problem with mast-mounted ARR preamp, help please

2009-12-25 Thread Bill Dzurilla
Hello and Merry Christmas, I have an ARR SP432VDG preamp, which is mast-mounted to an Elk antenna in my attic. This set-up has worked well until today, when I did not hear any sats with 70cm downlink. I then tried to see if I could bring up the local 70cm repeaters. Interestingly, I could key

[amsat-bb] Re: Problem with mast-mounted ARR preamp, help please

2009-12-25 Thread Mark L. Hammond
Hi Bill, Merry Christmas! I'm sorry to hear about your ARR preamp problem---I have used these over the years, and unfortunately what you describe is very consistent with the GAsFET device going bad. The 1 second of signal that you hear is from the relays working with the RF sense circuit.

[amsat-bb] Landwehr

2009-12-25 Thread Jim
I have a Landwehr 145ma and have lost the power plug. I am looking for the # of the DIN plug for the 145ma Tnx Jim K7UDG hartw...@hartwell.net ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member?

[amsat-bb] HO-68 telemetry decoded.

2009-12-25 Thread Eric Knaps, ON4HF
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

[amsat-bb] Re: Progress on Sat antennas

2009-12-25 Thread Edward Cole
Sorry slight typo on my callsign http://www.kl7uw.com/LBant.htm 73, Ed At 05:15 PM 12/25/2009, you wrote: Ed, no soap with that website, as shows none exist. You sure on the website name? John W6ZKH - Original Message - From: Edward Cole kl...@acsalaska.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org