[amsat-bb] iss

2011-06-12 Thread Daniel Lind
Oh no the boys from Nevada broke it Or the on/off switch is in the off position Mr Nasa Guy. Please ask any of the 3 ham guys up there, to please turn the switch from the off position to the on position. Unless there is major issues happening... then we the ham fellers in

[amsat-bb] Re: Major ISS reboost June 12th

2011-06-12 Thread John Wright
At 13:10 11/06/2011, you wrote: According to Roscosmos, the ISS altitude will be raised 19.2 km tomorrow. Until updated Keps are available from Space Track, there will be a slippage in predictions of _approximately_ 6 minutes per day! Keps for post-burn, show altitude as 375Km ISS 1 25544U

[amsat-bb] ISS Lamp Glows When Space Station is Overhead

2011-06-12 Thread Ollie Eisman
From the Make: Blog: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/06/iss-lamp-glows-when-space-station-is-overhead.html 73, Ollie AJ1O ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the

[amsat-bb] Re: Major ISS reboost June 12th

2011-06-12 Thread Alan P. Biddle
According to the latest from Roscosmos, they hit the 19.2 km exactly, resulting in an altitude of 364.6 km. It will be interesting to see what the first measured Keps after the burn look like later today or Monday. http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2nid=11897lang=en 73s, Alan WA4SCA

[amsat-bb] Re: Replacement Yaesu G-5400B Controller Terminal Strips

2011-06-12 Thread G. Beat
I would keep the screw metric threaded --- likely that was an earlier problem. You can order the replacement terminal strips from Yaesu USA Parts. Vertex Standard USA, Inc. Yaesu Amateur Products Division 10900 Walker Street Cypress, CA 90630 t.fac...@vxstdusa.com   Sales

[amsat-bb] Re: G5500 change voltage supply

2011-06-12 Thread Bill Dzurilla
I just arrived in Europe with a G5500 and was successfully able to convert the controller to 220v simply by moving the wire connected to pin 2 on the KT-30 transformer to pin 3. That's all it takes. If EA4CYG's wire is on pin 3, I would guess that someone has already converted it to 220v