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
--- On Tue, 28/8/12, Thomas Doyle tomdoyle1...@gmail.com wrote:
The activity level on the linear sats is very low and does
not seem to be getting any better. Not sure why.
Possibly a couple of factors
- In 2003 the Morse requirement for HF operating was dropped in the UK and
elsewhere (USA
Ted,
I am interested in why you consider SATPC32 almost unusable? It does
require a small amount of typing instead of clicking, but it just works, and
works perfectly. That is my criteria for usability. HRD is beautiful, and I
use it exclusively for HF, but gave up on it as a satellite program
Hi Tom,
Simon Brown's (creator of Ham Radio Deluxe) excellent SDR console should work
for you:-
http://www.sdr-radio.com/Software/tabid/174/language/en-US/Default.aspx
I have used this with TX/RX capabilities with a home built HF SDR receiver and
an Icom 746, (eg SDR console 'mutes' when
I'm also curious about what you find un-usable in SatPC32.
73 Jeff kb2m
- Original Message -
From: Alan P. Biddle apbid...@united.net
To: 'Ted' k7trkra...@charter.net
Cc: AMSAT-BB@amsat.org
Sent: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:32:42 - (UTC)
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: FUNcube + SatPC32 +
I'm jumping on this bandwagon, too! :)
Please tell me another program (for Windows) that does the following:
1) Rotor control
2) CAT control with Doppler correction (1 or 2 radios at the same time)
3) Automated operations, with specified priorities of tracking
(meaning, it automatically
My FCD receives as well as my IC-910.
At present I am using it mainly as a spectrum analyzer. On SO-52 you can see
the whole band pass plus the beacon.
It is interesting to note the beacon level versus most of the signals in the
pass band.
Also I can visually copy the CW from the beacon
I have been doing some reading about tdma digital voice applications such as
MotoTrbo etc. I am curious if tdma voice could be used on satellites
successfully Do to the time delay particularly using a heo or geo bird. Can
someone more knowledgeable than I help in answering this question?
The Funcube Dongle postings veered off into a
discussion of the current state of affairs with
the satellites that are still working. After reading
about how the activity on the linear birds was down, I
had to wonder a bit. It has not been my experience.
I really expected the activity on the FM
To
say the activity is down on the linear birds in recent years is simply
incorrect. And more hams are operating satellites away from home than ever
before.
Since my Board of Directors report from sometime ago was used as evidence, let
me state that activity on the linear transponders
Q
Well said!
73, Bob KIØG
On Aug 28, 2012, at 11:10 AM, John Papay j...@papays.com wrote:
The Funcube Dongle postings veered off into a
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Nicely put John and thanks for putting the time into composing and
posting it.
Regards...Bill - N6GHz
On 8/28/2012 10:10 AM, John Papay wrote:
The Funcube Dongle postings veered off into a
discussion of the current state of affairs with
the satellites that are still working. After reading
to dove-tail on John's post...this is not a plug and play hobby. We must
remember, if this were easy, everyone would be doing it. Satellite op's are a
very small percentage of a small hobby. I recall when AO-40 finally became
available, we became S band experts almost overnight. Short of HEO we
Sure do miss AO 40.
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Hi List,
If I may add to the conversation about linear birds, that Delfi-C3 (an Cube
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Bill Ress b...@hsmicrowave.com wrote:
Nicely put John and thanks for putting the time into composing and posting
it.
Regards...Bill - N6GHz
On 8/28/2012 10:10 AM, John
Hi List,
If I may add to the conversation about linear birds, that Delfi-C3 (an
CubeSat!) has had a linear transponder which was used quite a lot.
Unfortunately, it was a short lived service, but it proves the point.
I'm not sure why people also keep saying that CubeSats are no good,
since
Hi Dave,
The answer is yes, TDMA voice can and has been used on commercial satellites;
LEO,MEO and GEO for years. Commercial GEO satellites, for the most part, are
just high powered frequency translators. All the TDMA part is generated on the
ground. The complication is that all users will
--- On Tue, 28/8/12, Jim Jerzycke kq...@verizon.net wrote:
I think most American hams associate cube sat with easy
sat, which equals an FM satellite, like AO-51.
To me CubeSat equals Linear Transponder satellite. Not only have we had
Delfi-C3 but in the coming months four CubeSats carrying
Dave,
HamSatDroid is a fantastic program. I can't wait for the next version and will
be more than happy to pay for this app. Do you have a target date for the new
version?
Doug
K9DLP
From: David Johnson d...@thejohnsonsonline.net
To: John / NS1Z
And I thought CubeSat was just a platform. Why condemn it to one mode/variety?
We have all kinds of CubeSats -- Beep Beeps, FM repeaters, Photo bugs,
Linear transponders, AX.25 beep-beepers, science fair projects.
Sounds a lot like the ham community -- diverse.
73
Clayton
W5PFG
On Tue, Aug 28,
Looks like I stirred up a hornet's nest here, and I apologize for that.
I do not mean to condemn Cubesats.. as someone else said I tend to
generalize and say Cubesat when I mean EasySat. I guess I miss the days
of the Molniya orbit birds when you didn't have to do much for antenna
pointing for
Not everyone has given up. Listen to Allen's, N5AFV, comments at the beginning
of the Houston AMSAT net tonight...
http://www.amsatnet.com/
73,
Jerry, K5OE
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for those that would like to listen to allen, n5afv's, comments on the
houston amsat net (august 28, 2012 8pm central) without having to listen
to any part of the net, you can do so at this link...
http://www.amsatnet.com/964snip.mp3
hope this makes it easier for those interested.
73...bruce
Hi Bruce!
for those that would like to listen to allen, n5afv's, comments on the
houston amsat net (august 28, 2012 8pm central) without having to listen to
any part of the net, you can do so at this link...
http://www.amsatnet.com/964snip.mp3
Thanks for posting that excerpt, and the
Hi John!
Thanks for taking the time to post your message.
I really expected the activity on the FM birds to diminish when AO-51
died. We only get 7 minutes of AO-27 and that doesn't make
up for the much longer passes on AO-51. SO-50 has never been
off the air since I started in 2006 but it
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