[amsat-bb] Re: [amsatindia] ISRO's 100th Mission and keps for PROITERES

2012-09-08 Thread Nitin Muttin
Mani,   Congratulations to ISRO on this milestone and wishing many more successful missions.   Below are the keps for   PROITERES 1 0U 1200 12253.19430671 . 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 0U 1200 12253.19430671 . 0-0 0-0 0 0 2 0 98.2295 318.1569 00011

[amsat-bb] ISRO's 100th Mission

2012-09-08 Thread Mani VU2WMY
The Japanese amateur radio satellite PROITERES will be one of the payloads of today's PSLV C21 launch and will be the 100th mission of ISRO. PROITERES was built by a team of students and faculty members of Osaka Institute of Technology (OIT) and the spacecraft aims to demonstrate powered

[amsat-bb] ANS-253 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

2012-09-08 Thread JoAnne Maenpaa
AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-253 ANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communica

[amsat-bb] sstv

2012-09-08 Thread jerry keeton
I have in the past received as many as 2 images from seeds II on one pass . Don't know if it's still operational or not . Jerry WB5LHD ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to suppo

[amsat-bb] Re: IO-26 as digital EMAIL relay?

2012-09-08 Thread Mark L. Hammond
IO-26 will apparently no longer run the PACSAT software. It's in MBL mode and doesn't have any sort of PACSAT file system software, etc.Same issue with AO-16 when it was warm enough to try to resurrect; some type of hardware issue that prevents it from running (memory? memory controller?)

[amsat-bb] Re: Deciphering Phase 3D Telemetry

2012-09-08 Thread Tony
On 9/8/2012 8:47 AM, Alan P. Biddle wrote: Tony,Here are the first few Keps, covering a week, from Space Track after the launch. Alan, The last set of keps show AO-40 at 26,612 km above the earth and about 28,880 km from my location. Elevation was 36 degrees. I used NOVA to backtrack the p

[amsat-bb] Re: Camera on an antenna

2012-09-08 Thread Franklin Antonio
At 10:22 AM 9/8/2012, James Luhn wrote: Please don't ya'll laugh too hard at me. Has anyone ever mounted a camera on a beam? Now I am not trying to see AO40, but I would like to simply double check the location of my beam for eme. I saw (many years ago), pictures of video cameras mounted on

[amsat-bb] Re: Camera on an antenna

2012-09-08 Thread Jim Jerzycke
Greg, KO6TH, has done this. I've got enough stuff to do it, and now that my antennas are down, I might add a camera to the cross-boom. Here's Greg's website: http://home.wavecable.com/~ko6th/ 73, Jim KQ6EA On 09/08/2012 05:22 PM, James Luhn wrote: Please don't ya'll laugh too hard at me. H

[amsat-bb] Re: NOVA Software

2012-09-08 Thread Adrian Engele
Hi James, Very simple. - Go to AMSAT.org -Look for Sat Status and find SO-50, you will find it's other name under Saudisat-C.   You can do the same for other satellites. -Open Nova go to Setup tab on top left of screen. Open drop down list look for Satellites -Open the Satellites List look fo

[amsat-bb] Re: Camera on an antenna

2012-09-08 Thread Bob- W7LRD
That's cool idea Jim...could even aim it at the neighbors 73 Bob W7LRD - Original Message - From: "James Luhn" To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Saturday, September 8, 2012 10:22:21 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Camera on an antenna Please don't ya'll laugh too hard at me. Has anyone ever mou

[amsat-bb] Re: PROITERES Launch

2012-09-08 Thread Trevor .
Thanks Mineo for the info on this Pulsed Plasma Thruster microsat. There is a video of the PSLV-C21 launch vehicle being prepared for take-off at http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=10201 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are

[amsat-bb] NOVA Software

2012-09-08 Thread James Luhn
I have been tinkering with NOVA Software. I simply cannot figure out how to add additional satellites like SO50. I have pointed the update to various sites that I thought should work but I have not succeeded in getting so50 and some other amateur satellites to show up. Any advice would be ap

[amsat-bb] Camera on an antenna

2012-09-08 Thread James Luhn
Please don't ya'll laugh too hard at me. Has anyone ever mounted a camera on a beam? Now I am not trying to see AO40, but I would like to simply double check the location of my beam for eme. If anyone has mounted a camera on a beam, I would be interested in what you used. Yes, I know all ab

[amsat-bb] PROITERES Launch

2012-09-08 Thread Mineo Wakita
PROITERES, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan Launch : 9 Sep 2012 4:21UTC (9:51IST) Vehicle: PSLV-CA with SPOT6 and mRESINS Site : Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, India 30cm^3, 10kg, 10W, 437.485MHz FM/AFSK http://www.oit.ac.jp/elc/~satellite/index-e.html http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamra

[amsat-bb] Re: Manchester Encoding

2012-09-08 Thread Mark L. Hammond
Tom, For now, about the only thing is IO-26. It spits out telemetry from time to time, in bursts of "5' frames. It often burps as it goes into and out of eclipse, for one thing... There doesn't appear to be a timed schedule for transmission. And of course, you can use MixW to decode the packet

[amsat-bb] Manchester Encoding

2012-09-08 Thread Tom Lubbers K8TL
Didn't know there was anything left with Manchester encoding!! There is a PSK-1/DFMTNC on Ebay with a few days to go. 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

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-10 and AO-16

2012-09-08 Thread Alan P. Biddle
Joe, Sure. They are in the AMATEUR.TXT file from CelesTrak, or direct from Space Track: PHASE 3B (AO-10) 1 14129U 83058B 12175.07756213 -.0148 0-0 1-3 0 9907 2 14129 27.2164 331.8891 6028293 170.2637 211.0686 2.05868475190346 73s, Alan WA4SCA -Original Messag

[amsat-bb] Re: Digital Slow Scan in space

2012-09-08 Thread Wouter Weggelaar
Hi All, SSDV indeed shows you the images "as they come in" Most High Altitude Balloons use RTTY with relatively slow baudrates. The balloons are limited to using FSK modems in the ISM bands, because of legal issues. Therefore, RTTY is the most feasable mode. Tim Zaman here in the Netherlands has r

[amsat-bb] Re: Digital Slow Scan in space

2012-09-08 Thread Trevor .
--- On Fri, 7/9/12, g0...@aol.com wrote: > An essential feature would be that whenever a 'packet' of > data is received, that data is displayed rather than waiting > for the complete image to be received error free. > I couldn't find much on DRM encoding but I think it was > originally intended fo

[amsat-bb] BL02 Operation on Sunday 9/9 & Tuesday 9/11

2012-09-08 Thread Tom Deeble - KA6SIP
Aloha, For those looking for a contact with Hawaii here is my schedule for this Sunday and Tuesday: Sunday 9/9/12 FO-29 2116-2123Z 11:16-11:23 HAST 14:16-14:23 PDT AO-27 2242-2248Z 12:42-12:48 HAST 15:42-15:48 PDT Tuesday 9/11/12 AO-07 Mode B 0123-0134z (9/12/12) 15:23-15:34 HAST