[amsat-bb] Re: Android Sat Apps

2012-12-18 Thread N0JY
I use/am happy with Locator for finding my grid square HamSatDroid for tracking HamGPS and Compass for a compass Callsign DB and QRZDroid for callsign lookups Catch as a voice recorder 73 Jerry N0JY On 12/17/2012 9:26 PM, Clint Bradford wrote: What apps for the Android platform are you pleased

[amsat-bb] Re: FCD/SDR

2012-12-18 Thread Matty Cunningham
I have one of the very first Funcube dongles (No.4 from the first batch released - I was lucky ;) )!! Using this with a few bits of different software (HDSDR) and Simon Brown's excellent SDRConsole V1.5 - http://sdr-radio.com/ I have had some good results with both bits of software copying t

[amsat-bb] Re: Android Sat Apps

2012-12-18 Thread Adrian Engele
I use Hamsatdroid and I also found ISS detector. ISS Detector let's you add remove ads for a small fee and also add Amateur satellites for a small fee. It has a nice compass, overhead map and does Iridium flares too. I only have had it for a few days and have not played much with it as of yet.

[amsat-bb] Re: Android Sat Apps

2012-12-18 Thread Matty Cunningham
Hi Clint, In line with what the other guys use, they're really good apps, another one I enjoy playing with is Satellite AR https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.agi.android.augmentedreality&hl=en It will even show potentially visible objects. Regards Matty MD0MAN Message: 9 D

[amsat-bb] Re: Kwangyongsong-3

2012-12-18 Thread B J
On 12/18/12, Trevor . wrote: > The BBC quotes an SSTL engineer as saying It was too early to say that the > satellite was dead. He stressed that any spacecraft would be unstable > immediately after launch, and that North Korea could be trying to rectify > the problem. But that would depend upon w

[amsat-bb] Re: Packet Contact

2012-12-18 Thread Robert Bruninga
> where is the contact? > that just shows that both were able to copy each other. But they exchanged a QSL and both got the original exchange info from each other. On a shared single channel resource, we should be concerned with contact efficiency. This takes 16 packets for 8x8 or a total of 64 co

[amsat-bb] Re: Android Sat Apps

2012-12-18 Thread Peter Goodhall
Hi Clint On 18 December 2012 03:26, Clint Bradford wrote: > What apps for the Android platform are you pleased with? Satellite > prediction, compass, > anything satellite-related that comes to mind. > I've been using the following for portable sat ops using only my Nexus 7 & Nexus One. - HamSa

[amsat-bb] Re: Kwangyongsong-3

2012-12-18 Thread B J
The satellite might have failed and is now inactive: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/world/asia/north-korean-satellite.html More information is available at: http://www.planet4589.org/space/jsr/jsr.html http://planet4589.org/space/jsr/latest.html 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL On 12/18/12, B

[amsat-bb] Last Houston AMSAT Net for 2012

2012-12-18 Thread Bruce
This evenings Houston AMSAT Net will be the last one for 2012. We will resume our regularly scheduled transmissions on January 8, 2013. We hope that you and yours have a Happy Holiday Season and may all the good DX come your way. 73...bruce -- Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT D

[amsat-bb] Kwangyongsong-3

2012-12-18 Thread Bato, Andras
It seems the catalog number of the North Korean satellite is 39026 and the International Designator is 12072A, so according to https://www.space-track.org/perl/id_query.pl the latest TLE is KYS-3 1 39026U 12072A 12353.24685568 .2596 0-0 16246-3 0 333 2 39026 097.4049 041.9729 0060

[amsat-bb] Re: Android Sat Apps

2012-12-18 Thread Mike Seguin
Using a Samsung Galaxy SIII Hamsatdroid - tracking HamGPS - 10 digit grid squares ZP Dashboard - Using the camera phone with HUD for checking position of the pass (AZ/EL) --- 73, Mike, N1JEZ "A closed mouth gathers no feet" On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:31:50 -0700, Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)

[amsat-bb] Re: Android Sat Apps

2012-12-18 Thread Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)
Hi Clint! > What apps for the Android platform are you pleased with? > Satellite prediction, compass, > anything satellite-related that comes to mind. I'm a recent convert to Android, buying a Nexus 4 mobile phone and a Nexus 7 tablet in the past month or so. For satellite pass predictions, I us

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 A/B switch

2012-12-18 Thread Rick - WA4NVM
Hi Dave, AO-7 switched from Mode B to Mode A at 1037z earlier today right after I finished a contact. The bird just went silent on Mode B. It caught me off guard even knowing it was due to change any minute. Very early in the morning here, but it was worth it... 73 all, Rick WA4NV

[amsat-bb] AO7 Mode Switch Update

2012-12-18 Thread K4FEG
Good Day BB; this morning during the 1035UTC pass of AO7 over the USA AO7 switched from Mode B to Mode A at 1037UTC according to my station clock. Due to the fact that something cause the satellite to "shift" the switch time to begin with it cannot be said that this switch time will remain c

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 A/B switch

2012-12-18 Thread Dave Beumer WØDHB
Frank K4FEG has narrowed it down to sometime between 1010 and 1042 UTC currently in mode A I believe Dave W0DHB -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Bob- W7LRD Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 3:29 PM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org S