[amsat-bb] Re: Need help to compile Gpredict

2011-11-03 Thread Joseph Armbruster
Oscar, I did a make install and everything worked. Let me know if you run into any issues. Here's a screenshot! Joseph Armbruster On Nov 2, 2011, at 8:31 PM, Joseph Armbruster wrote: Oscar, After reading the posts today I figured I would go home and take a quick stab at it. Here

[amsat-bb] Re: Satellite Tracking?

2011-11-03 Thread John Heath
Hi folks, The Celestrak web site has some great in depth stuff on keps and tracking. I think most people just drop onto the site to get the keps,  but its certainly worth a more detailed look. A big thank you to Dr. Kelso for a great site. 73 John G7HIA

[amsat-bb] Re: Satellite Tracking?

2011-11-03 Thread Armando Mercado
Hello Geoff, The doppler method was used in the early days of the space age, (and maybe still is). It's a neat bit of detective work. Monitor the frequency of the satellite, and determine the time of closest approach. From that you can determine the speed and altitude. Build up enough data

[amsat-bb] ARISSat-1 Nov 3, 2011

2011-11-03 Thread Farrell Winder
Did anyone hear signals from ARISSat-1 on the last pass, (16:53 Z Cincinnati) ? I did not hear anything on 2 m or the transponder. Will listen and try both 2 m and also Tx thru the transponder ,Rx approx 145.930 +/- doppler. Farrell Winder, W8ZCF

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 Nov 3, 2011

2011-11-03 Thread JoAnne Maenpaa
Hi Farrell, Did anyone hear signals from ARISSat-1 on the last pass I copied ARISSat-1 on that pass. I was only tuned to 145.950 so just heard the FM stuff. The SSTV pictures were live shots. Signals were nominal. -- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9...@amsat.org

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 Nov 3, 2011

2011-11-03 Thread Mark L. Hammond
Yes, 50 telemetry frames received from North Carolina. Mark N8MH At 01:43 PM 11/3/2011 -0400, Farrell Winder wrote: Did anyone hear signals from ARISSat-1 on the last pass, (16:53 Z Cincinnati) ? I did not hear anything on 2 m or the transponder. Will listen and try both 2 m and also Tx

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 Nov 3, 2011

2011-11-03 Thread Farrell Winder
JoAnne, Thanks, Signals OK last pass, Nov3, 18:29 Cincinnati. 2 m loud and clear, heard Bob K9OIM approx 145.930 thru the transponder for a few seconds at beginning of pass. Trying to connect with someone next pass 20:06 Z. Farrell, W8ZCF, Cincinnati Try next pass at

[amsat-bb] Kansas City Tracker

2011-11-03 Thread Al Ozias
Surplus KCT I have at my QTH a Kansas City Tracker board with a printed manual and a copy of the KCT.ZIP file. The owner of the board, George-WA5KBH, would like to find it a home. To acquire it contact me (Al-N7EQF) directly by email. The cost of acquiring the item is to pay for the

[amsat-bb] Re: Kansas City Tracker

2011-11-03 Thread Robert McGwier
Since it has been a while since these have been up on the list, I want to remind folks that this requires an early early early generation slot, called an ISA slot. The drivers for the card are STRICTLY DOS 6.2 and earlier interrupt handlers and are zero likely to work on a modern windows machine.

[amsat-bb] Re: Kansas City Tracker

2011-11-03 Thread Tim Cunningham
WISP is another Windows program that controlled the Kansas City Tracker ISA based card very nicely, if you want to use it in a Windows 95/98 environment. Tim - N8DEU - Original Message - From: Robert McGwier rwmcgw...@gmail.com To: Al Ozias aloz...@copper.net Cc: AMSAT-BB

[amsat-bb] Re: Some Elmering requested for uplinking to ARISSAT-1

2011-11-03 Thread Burns Fisher
Thanks Dave and everyone else who responded, both personally and on the board. To comment on a couple of comments: I certainly expect to hook up computer control of the doppler comp etc, but was trying to do it manually at first just to understand better. Re my problems inside: The shingles on

[amsat-bb] Re: Kansas City Tracker

2011-11-03 Thread Edward R. Cole
I have my original PacardBell P100 desktop with win95 which has been gathering dust on a shelf. It has ISA slots and parallel port which would probably be ideal for running KC Tracker. I offer it for sale for $50-OBO (as-is with keyboard and mouse but no monitor) plus shipping (best to go

[amsat-bb] Re: Kansas City Tracker

2011-11-03 Thread jeff kb2m
I still use my KCT card with SatPS32 under windows XP. I bought an updated ISA slot motherboard for somewhat more then I would of paid for a comparable performance Mobo for the same money. That was about 3 years ago. All is still working well. I tried to upgrade to Win7 a year ago but gave up

[amsat-bb] Mast-mounted preamp recommendation?

2011-11-03 Thread James Cutler
All, Does anyone have any recommendations on high quality mast-mounted preamps for UHF? We're using the Icom AG-35 and not happy with the noise figure. We're going to try an adjustment described here http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/6116. We are looking at the amps from ARR and SSB. Any

[amsat-bb] Re: Mast-mounted preamp recommendation?

2011-11-03 Thread Stan, W1LE
The difficulty with mast mounted preamplifiers is that they have to be selected for a specific electromagnetic environment. If your environment is hot with a lot of ham activity, local pagers and FAA stations, the preamp may not be able to handle all of the RF, unless it is suitably narrow

[amsat-bb] Re: Kansas City Tracker

2011-11-03 Thread Greg D.
I also have an old Motherboard with an ISA slot. Just the motherboard, processor (1ghz, I think), and memory. I do not have anything that needs the ISA slot anymore, so it's up for grabs. No reasonable offer will be refused. My wife insists... :-) Greg KO6TH Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011

[amsat-bb] Re: Mast-mounted preamp recommendation?

2011-11-03 Thread Stefan Wagener
Here you go: http://www.hf-berg.de/HFC/vorverstaerker_vox_mast.htm Excellent products, quick shipment from Germany, good communication. Stefan, VE4NSA On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:18 PM, James Cutler jwcut...@gmail.com wrote: All, Does anyone have any recommendations on high quality

[amsat-bb] Re: Mast-mounted preamp recommendation?

2011-11-03 Thread i8cvs
Hi Jamie In a separate email I have sent to you an article that I write for Radio Rivista 9/1993 describing with schematic diagrams and mechanical drawings my low noise GaAsFET high dinamic range and high selectivity cavity preamplifier for 435 MHz with NF=0,43 dB and gain G = 20 dB I am using