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Today's Topics:
1. Re: lost amateur satellite.txt in Sat32PC (Erich Eichmann)
2. G5500 Rotor LVB Tracker SATPAC Program Parking (Rich/wa4bue)
3. Balloon (Vincenzo Mone)
4. Re: Overcoming desense on FO-29 (Alan)
5. AO-73 ??? (Michel F6GLJ)
6. FWD: FUNcube-1 Operations update (PE0SAT | Amateur Radio)
7. Antennas (Terry)
8. Re: lost amateur satellite.txt insat32pc (Scott Smith)
9. Re: lost amateur satellite.txt insat32pc (PE0SAT | Amateur Radio)
10. FUNcube-1 operating mode for the next 24 hours (Graham Shirville)
11. UO-11 Turned on (Gustavo Carpignano)
12. Re: UO-11 Turned on (Gary Mayfield)
13. Re: Modern Equipment Matrix (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK))
14. Re: Modern Equipment Matrix (Pavel Milanes Costa)
15. Scottsdale AZ hamfest this morning - report
(Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK))
16. Re: Modern Equipment Matrix (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK))
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 10:03:15 +0100
From: Erich Eichmann <erich.eichmann@xxxxxxxx.xx>
To: Scott Smith <ve6itv@xxxxx.xxx>, amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] lost amateur satellite.txt in Sat32PC
Message-ID: <550D33D3.1070602@xxxxxxxx.xx>
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Hi Scott,
to me it seems that the current Celestrak file amateur.txt is faulty and
doesn't contain Keplerian data.
I download the Celestrak files noaa.txt and amateur.txt directly into
my browser.
To do so I opened Celestrak.SQF (SatPC32 menu "?", "Auxiliary Files")
and copied the Celestrak addresses for noaa.txt and amateur.txt into the
address line of my browser. The data of noaa.txt was displayed
normally, with amateur.txt I got a blank sheet.
There is a copy of amateur.txt in the folder SatPC32_DataBackup (sub
folder Kepler). The path to that folder is the same as the path of the
data folder SatPC32, see footline of menu "Satellites". But the copy is
an older file, of course.
73s, Erich, DK1TB
Am 20.03.2015 um 18:04 schrieb Scott Smith:
> Hi, this morning I was updating my satellite base , all downloaded well,
geo.txt, noaa.tx,nasa.all etc and when I updated the amateur.txt I lost all
the satellites in this section. how does one restore in this part of the
satellite base?. Any help appreciated.
> 73 de Scott VE6ITV
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 06:30:17 -0400
From: "Rich/wa4bue" <richard.siff@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] G5500 Rotor LVB Tracker SATPAC Program Parking
Message-ID: <9F80A8579CFC4A82837F0768F852DC4C@xxxxxxxxx>
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Went to tweak the azimuth rotor position and now can't get it to park
properly. Elevation is fine. It is 30 degree off in park. Help.
Park is essential since the tower tilts down on a trailer.
What did I do wrong?
Rich W4BUE
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 12:37:08 +0100
From: "Vincenzo Mone" <vimone@xxxxx.xx>
To: "Amsat - BBs" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Balloon
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Hi to the list,
Apologize for the question.
I see several times on the AMSAT list about the Launch Balloons.
Anybody please can explain me about it?
Thanks
73's de Enzo IK8OZV
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 06:39:43 -0500
From: Alan <wa4sca@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "'Jim Barbre'" <jbarbre@xxxxxxxx.xxx>, <AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Overcoming desense on FO-29
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Jim,
The problem is caused by overload of the RX preamp, and possibly front end
of the 70 cm rig. You will
still have the (same) preamp, and the converter has its own front end. So
no, that will not likely do
any good. Getting as much separation between the antennas, a good preamp,
using the mode-J filter
which Drew mentioned, and running minimum power are your best bets. With a
good mode-J filter, SSB
preamp, and 10' between the uplink and down link antennas, I can run 50
watts TX and barely hear any
hiss. If you are using linear antennas, using different orientation between
TX and RX will give you a
few more dB of isolation.
People do use your suggested arrangement with a TS-2000 to avoid the
downlink birdie on SO-50.
73s,
Alan
WA4SCA
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<From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On Behalf Of Jim Barbre
<Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 6:51 PM
<To: AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx
<Subject: [amsat-bb] Overcoming desense on FO-29
<
<Is the use of a down converter effective in overcoming desense on the
<FO-29 70 cm downlink? The downconverter would convert 435 to 10 MHz.
<Receiver is an SDR. (I have different ones for HF and for VHF.)
<Also, what is the minimum recommended distance between linearly
<polarized 2 m and 70 cm antennas on the same crossboom? Does it help
<with desense if one is mounted horizontally and the other vertically?
<
<Thanks.
<Jim Barbre
<KB7YSY
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 13:03:35 +0100
From: "Michel F6GLJ" <michel-f6glj@xxxxxx.xx>
To: "Satdx-bb" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-73 ???
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Hello.
AO-73 is not in full time transponder mode this week end ?
73 qro de Michel F6GLJ
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 13:08:35 +0100
From: PE0SAT | Amateur Radio <pe0sat@xxxxx.xx>
To: <michel-f6glj@xxxxxx.xx>, Amsat BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] FWD: FUNcube-1 Operations update
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Below the message from Graham regarding the FUNcube-1 operation this
weekend.
73 Jan PE0SAT
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [FUNcube] FUNcube-1 Operations update
Date: 20-03-2015 13:09
From: "'Graham Shirville' g.shirville@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx [FUNcube]"
<FUNcube@xxxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx>
To: <funcube@xxxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx>, "AMSAT BB" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Reply-To: FUNcube@xxxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx
Hi All,
As there is a Scouts demonstration planned for tomorrow..we are leaving
FUNcube-1 in telemetry mode until Saturday evening this weekend.
Thanks for your understanding
73
Graham
G3VZV
PS ? FUNcube-1 did ?see? the eclipse this morning ? see
http://funcube.org.uk/news/ [1]
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 00:09:07 -0400
From: Terry <af7w@xxx.xx.xxx>
To: AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Antennas
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While we are working on the equipment matrix how about available
antennas? I can only think of the ones from M2 and Arrow. Who else
makes them and which are rotor mounted and which handheld?
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 14:17:22 -0600
From: "Scott Smith" <ve6itv@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "Amsat" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] lost amateur satellite.txt insat32pc
Message-ID: <0799DCF984F6422E98CA4B64E3DB29BE@xxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Hi folks, tnx to Jan,Dave and Erich I found out the problem was not me lol.
The download site was the problem, now it?s fixed and I?ve downloaded the
latest keps 73 de Scott VE6ITV
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 21:28:16 +0100
From: PE0SAT | Amateur Radio <pe0sat@xxxxx.xx>
To: Scott Smith <ve6itv@xxxxx.xxx>, Amsat BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] lost amateur satellite.txt insat32pc
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Hi Scott,
Thanks for sharing the solution, that's a new one ;-) (empty download
file)
73 Jan PE0SAT
On 21-03-2015 21:17, Scott Smith wrote:
> Hi folks, tnx to Jan,Dave and Erich I found out the problem was not
> me lol. The download site was the problem, now it?s fixed and I?ve
> downloaded the latest keps 73 de Scott VE6ITV
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Message: 10
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 23:06:41 -0000
From: "Graham Shirville" <g.shirville@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <funcube@xxxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx>, "AMSAT BB" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] FUNcube-1 operating mode for the next 24 hours
Message-ID: <86C6203343474E45B5A7171CE8AA5F01@xxxxxxx.xxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi All,
FUNcube-1 was commanded to continuous amateur transponder mode at approx
2301 UTC this evening.
We will keep this mode until around the same time tomorrow Sunday when the
normal autonomous switching between the telemetry and amateur modes will be
restarted
73
Graham
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Message: 11
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 19:31:56 -0700
From: Gustavo Carpignano <lw2dtz@xxxxx.xxx.xx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Cc: Clive Wallis <g3cwv@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] UO-11 Turned on
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UOsat-2 turned on again. Strong signals over Buenos Aires, AR on 03-22,
02:00 UTC
on 145.825 Mhz FM.
Regards.
Gustavo, LW2DTZ
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Message: 12
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 21:50:11 -0500
From: "Gary Mayfield" <kk0sd@xxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: 'Clive Wallis' <g3cwv@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] UO-11 Turned on
Message-ID: <068901d0644a$eb474b60$c1d5e220$@xxx>
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Good catch Gustavo! I copied a strong signal around 16:30 UTC on March 21st
while mobile in central Nebraska, USA. I have no way to record or decode in
the car, but it was definitely UO-11!
73,
Joe kk0sd
-----Original Message-----
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Carpignano
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 9:32 PM
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Cc: Clive Wallis
Subject: [amsat-bb] UO-11 Turned on
UOsat-2 turned on again. Strong signals over Buenos Aires, AR on 03-22,
02:00 UTC
on 145.825 Mhz FM.
Regards.
Gustavo, LW2DTZ
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Message: 13
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 03:06:05 +0000
From: "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)" <amsat-bb@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Modern Equipment Matrix
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Clint,
Thank you for your positive contribution to this discussion thread with
your question. As you know, the list of radios currently in production
that support full-duplex operation on FM satellites (going from KE9V's
original message) would be short. If we limit the list to those able to
work SO-50 full-duplex, transmitting on 2m while simultaneously
receiving on 70cm, there is one HT:
Kenwood TH-D72A
a few dual-band FM mobile radios:
Yaesu: FT-8800, FT-8900 (I haven't tried the newer FTM-350/400 yet)
Kenwood: TM-D710, TM-V71
Icom: IC-2730A, IC-2820H (I haven't tried the ID-5100 yet, and Icom
America still lists the IC-2820H - a radio I use on FM satellites)
Alinco: DR-635 (I haven't tried the DR-638 yet)
and the two satellite-ready base transceivers:
Icom IC-9100
Kenwood TS-2000
This doesn't include using two radios to make a station capable of
full-duplex operation on SO-50. I have not tried any of the 2m/70cm
FM mobile transceivers that are coming from China, and - as far as
I know - I have not seen any reports of those radios being able to
work SO-50 full-duplex.
Not all of the rigs listed in other posts are "20-year-old ancient rigs",
as you characterized them. Some came on the amateur market after
1995, but yes - they are no longer in production. Since many of these
radios are still considered good performers on SO-50, why not include
them in the discussion?
Andrew KE5GDB took a stab at compiling a list back in 2009. His
web site no longer has that page, but the Wayback Machine cached
a copy of it from back then:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090724094403/http://www.thathamkid.com/website/ha
m-radio/full-duplex-radios
Other radios, in particular HTs like the Wouxun KG-UV8D in current
production, and many others like newer versions of the Icom IC-W32A
that have gone out of production, should work fine with the upcoming
Fox-1 satellites that use a 70cm uplink and 2m downlink - reversing
the uplink and downlink bands as used with SO-50.
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
Twitter: @xxxxxx
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Clint Bradford <clintbradford@xxx.xxx> wrote:
> The original poster named the message, " Modern Equipment Matrix." Why are
we dredging up 20-year-old ancient rigs? (Grin)
>
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Message: 14
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 23:50:44 -0400
From: Pavel Milanes Costa <co7wt@xxxxxx.xx.xx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Modern Equipment Matrix
Message-ID: <550E3C14.7060206@xxxxxx.xx.xx>
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I can give [bad] references on the Baofeng UV-5R HT...
On receive with some as simple as a moxon on top of the HT the SO-50 is
clear and loud as long your hand can turn to match polarization.
But, as soon you key the PTT on ANY rig on 2m near this tiny HT goes
overloaded, no matter if you use a diplexer or a LPF with at least 30dB
att. on 70cm...
But, maybe on Fox sat series...
I feel I need to make this clear... to others not to put his "eggs on
that basket"
73, CO7WT
El 21/03/15 a las 23:06, Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) escribi?:
> This doesn't include using two radios to make a station capable of
> full-duplex operation on SO-50. I have not tried any of the 2m/70cm
> FM mobile transceivers that are coming from China, and - as far as
> I know - I have not seen any reports of those radios being able to
> work SO-50 full-duplex.
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Message: 15
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 04:01:30 +0000
From: "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)" <amsat-bb@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Scottsdale AZ hamfest this morning - report
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Hi!
I was at the Scottsdale Amateur Radio Club's "Springfest" hamfest
this morning, with an AMSAT table. This is one of the larger hamfests
around the Phoenix area in the unofficial hamfest "season" - basically,
anytime that isn't summertime. :-) After a light rain last night in parts
of the Phoenix area, the weather was perfect this morning, and there
was a great turnout. As with most hamfests around Arizona, this one
started before sunrise, and wrapped up by midday.
Satellite passes were not the best for the hamfest this morning. I was
able to do some demonstrations early - FO-29 around 6am (1300
UTC), and SO-50 an hour later. I made one QSO on the FO-29 pass,
with Yuri UT1FG/MM (as did many others on that pass). On SO-50,
seven QSOs went in the log. The ISS pass around 1600 UTC was
a good one - I could see my packets being retransmitted, but no
QSOs were logged. Thanks to everyone who worked WD9EWK
during those passes - especially to UT1FG/MM, whose unique call
is nice to hear during the demonstrations. These QSOs have been
uploaded to Logbook of the World, and - as I do with any of these
events - I would be happy to send you a QSL card to confirm our
QSO. Please e-mail me directly with the QSO details, so I can check
that against my log. If you're in the log, I'll send out a card - no SASE
needed.
Being able to talk up the upcoming Fox-1 series of satellites has been
a very good thing. The Fox project has been around since late 2009, but
there is more interest from the ham community when launch dates can
be given, instead of "in the future" or "real soon now". I was even able
to talk about my portable SDR setup using a USB dongle (both the
FUNcube Dongle Pro+ and the cheaper "RTL-SDR" dongles) and the
smaller Windows 8.1 tablets. One ham couldn't believe that the small
tablets could do this, so I set up one of my Windows 8.1 tablets (the
WinBook TW800, which has been retailing at $79) and the FUNcube
dongle (it works well as the receiver when working our satellites) to
prove the point. The ham already had an RTL-SDR dongle, and said
he was going to order the tablet.
That's it for this morning's hamfest. I will be at another hamfest next
Saturday morning in Tucson AZ, complete with an AMSAT table and
hoping to do more demonstrations for the hamfest crowd there.
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
Twitter: @xxxxxx
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Message: 16
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 04:14:46 +0000
From: "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)" <amsat-bb@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Modern Equipment Matrix
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Hola Pavel!
Thanks for your post. I did not mention any of the Chinese-made
HTs like the Baofeng UV-5R earlier, since they are not capable of
full-duplex operation on SO-50. Unfortunately, not all UV-5Rs are
the same. I have used one of mine as the downlink receiver, when
connected through a diplexer to my Elk log periodic. I have
transmitted with another UV-5R, a Baofeng UV-82, and even a
Wouxun KG-UV8D.
Last year, I did a demonstration on SO-50 using two Baofeng HTs
(UV-82 for the uplink, UV-5R for the downlink) connected to a
diplexer and my Elk antenna. This worked OK, and I made the
satellite audio into a slideshow video I posted on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cLx9h-vNRA
I have not tried any of my Baofeng or Wouxun HTs with an Arrow
Yagi, or a homebrew equivalent of that Yagi.
I know a friend who has ordered the new AnyTone Termn-8R
2m/70cm FM HT, which is being promoted as capable of full-
duplex operation. It may be like the Wouxun KG-UV8D, which
has been promoted the same way, but cannot work full-duplex
with the weak SO-50 downlink. I hope to get a chance to try
that new AnyTone radio soon, to see if it does any better on
SO-50 than the KG-UV8D.
Buen fin de semana, y 73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
Twitter: @xxxxxx
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 3:50 AM, Pavel Milanes Costa <co7wt@xxxxxx.xx.xx>
wrote:
> I can give [bad] references on the Baofeng UV-5R HT...
>
> On receive with some as simple as a moxon on top of the HT the SO-50 is
> clear and loud as long your hand can turn to match polarization.
>
> But, as soon you key the PTT on ANY rig on 2m near this tiny HT goes
> overloaded, no matter if you use a diplexer or a LPF with at least 30dB att.
> on 70cm...
>
> But, maybe on Fox sat series...
>
> I feel I need to make this clear... to others not to put his "eggs on that
> basket"
>
> 73, CO7WT
>
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