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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Ettus B210 (Juan Jose Sanchez Denis)
2. KG5CCI/P 1/27/2016 & 2/1/2016 thru 2/4/2016 (Dave Swanson)
3. Re: Az-El Rotors (Jeff Breitner)
4. Re: Az-El Rotors (Ted)
5. Re: 18 minutes QSO on WX2 (Paul Stoetzer)
6. Re: Latest TQSL on Ubuntu (Pavel Milanes (CO7WT))
7. Re: Ettus B210 (Norm n3ykf)
8. Re: IC-9100 Satellite Memories.. (Steve Nordahl)
9. Re: Latest TQSL on Ubuntu (Koos van den Hout)
10. Thank You All (Fred Castello)
11. Re: Thank You All (E.Mike McCardel)
12. Re: Latest TQSL on Ubuntu (James K4JK)
13. 18:15 UTC AO-07 will be 3deg elev over Spain, great sole over
USA (Juan Antonio)
14. AO-7 (Gustavo Nicolau)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 23:10:10 +0100
From: Juan Jose Sanchez Denis <jsdenis@xxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Ettus B210
Message-ID: <1453759810.7928.2.camel@xxxxxxxxx>
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What do you think about these amps?
http://www.rfbayinc.com/subcategory_product.php?cPath=58
The HPA-155 and HPA 480
73 de Juan EB2FVT
El lun, 25-01-2016 a las 10:56 -0900, Edward R Cole escribi?:
> =======snip
> I looked into the Toshiba Module solution mentioned, and it is a pretty
> decent solution, but my problem with it was filtering. Those modules
> are great but have pretty bad third harmonic and spur rejection. This
> means that final stage filtering will be required to stay within FCC
> limits (I think -60 dBc is the requirement, can't remember off the top
> of my head). The W6PQL reference is fantastic and is closer to a good
> solution because he has the filtering problem solved in his designs (you
> may have to get the filter board separate for the 70cm design, I think
> he includes a filter in the 80W 2m Amp design). For the budget
> conscious, this is the path I would recommend. I would probably look
> into using the Toshiba modules with lower output power (single digit
> Watts) as a driver for something like a Mirage Amp (that I think has the
> final stage filtering built in).
> ====snip
>
> The W6PQL board is wide-band and one only needs to use proper value
> bypass capacitors and wind coils for 435-MHz. Not saying that is
> trivial but that is all that would be needed for filtering using that
> pc board. In the past others made generic pc boards for using the
> Toshiba modules. This is going to require some engineering to
> accomplish or you can spend big bucks and go the Kuhne Engineering route.
>
> I assume anyone using the Ettus B210 is willing to do that.
>
>
> 73, Ed - KL7UW
> http://www.kl7uw.com
> "Kits made by KL7UW"
> Dubus Mag business:
> dubususa@xxxxx.xxx
>
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:02:25 -0600
From: Dave Swanson <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] KG5CCI/P 1/27/2016 & 2/1/2016 thru 2/4/2016
Message-ID: <56A6A981.70109@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
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Satellite Friends and Colleagues,
I've got some travel coming up in the following weeks, and wanted to
make the community aware of my plans for /P operating.
On January 27th, 2016 I will be in Jonesboro, AR which will place me in
the vicinity of the EM45/EM55/EM46/EM56 confluence. I'll have some free
time between 1700UTC and 2100UTC, and plan to operate from one or more
of those grids during that window. As EM46/EM56 are the more rarely
heard of that group, I plan to focus on them. There are several
FO29/AO7/AO85 passes in my free window, so be prepared for all mode
operation.
Following that trip on February 1st, 2016 I will be traveling to the
EM03 area for several days. I will be passing thru EM23/EM14/EM13/EM04
during my travels to and from, and will try to at least hit a few of
those grids during the drive out and back. Tentative plans are to return
on February 4th, but I may have to stay longer depending on workload in
the area. Travel to and from will be primary satellite operating time,
with some individual passes from EM03 in the evenings from the site. I
haven't calculated out specific passes yet, as exact locations and times
will be fluid, but like normal I will be QRV on all birds and all modes.
Like always, follow me on Twitter @xxxxxx for up to the second /P pass
information.
73!
-Dave, KG5CCI
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:43:35 -0500
From: Jeff Breitner <lists@xxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Az-El Rotors
Message-ID: <56A6B327.4060700@xxxx.xxx>
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On 1/25/16 9:08 AM, A. Kevin Arber wrote:
> Agree about the "Eggbeater" style. When I first returned to the sats I
> homebrewed a couple and they worked fine. But even better is a Moxin style
> which provides gain and circular polarization. See Larry Cebik"s article
> in August 2001 QST. I built these and they worked great for the LEOs.
> Great for portable too, as are omnidirectional.
> Kevin/W3DAD
>
I prefer them over the Eggbeater/Texas Potato Mashers, and the Moxons
are a Field Day favorite for the linear transponder birds. Easy to set
up, and with a small field day operation, I like simple. Have been able
to work someone on pretty much every pass.
Never tried them for the FM birds or ISS contacts, I don't think they'll
do well there at all during Field Day. Maybe normal operation, they
would be "just okay" to "meh, need something better someday".
Image of the ones I built for field day:
http://imgur.com/KAkV44Q
The design PDF is at http://www.oocities.org/w9bci/VHFUHFSatelite.pdf.
The next iteration of the 400MHz antenna will use an appropriately sized
rod rather than 12g copper wire.
ka8ncr
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 15:52:41 -0800
From: "Ted" <k7trkradio@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "'Jeff Breitner'" <lists@xxxx.xxx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Az-El Rotors
Message-ID: <001401d157cb$7d059330$7710b990$@xxxxxxx.xxx>
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Jeff, I made mine using brass tubing from the hobby shop. Easy to solder,
light weight. You make a small corner joint out of the next size down tubing
73, Ted
K7TRK
-----Original Message-----
From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On Behalf Of Jeff
Breitner
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 3:44 PM
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Az-El Rotors
On 1/25/16 9:08 AM, A. Kevin Arber wrote:
> Agree about the "Eggbeater" style. When I first returned to the sats
> I homebrewed a couple and they worked fine. But even better is a
> Moxin style which provides gain and circular polarization. See Larry
> Cebik"s article in August 2001 QST. I built these and they worked great
for the LEOs.
> Great for portable too, as are omnidirectional.
> Kevin/W3DAD
>
I prefer them over the Eggbeater/Texas Potato Mashers, and the Moxons are a
Field Day favorite for the linear transponder birds. Easy to set up, and
with a small field day operation, I like simple. Have been able to work
someone on pretty much every pass.
Never tried them for the FM birds or ISS contacts, I don't think they'll do
well there at all during Field Day. Maybe normal operation, they would be
"just okay" to "meh, need something better someday".
Image of the ones I built for field day:
http://imgur.com/KAkV44Q
The design PDF is at http://www.oocities.org/w9bci/VHFUHFSatelite.pdf.
The next iteration of the 400MHz antenna will use an appropriately sized rod
rather than 12g copper wire.
ka8ncr
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 22:03:35 -0500
From: Paul Stoetzer <n8hm@xxxx.xxx>
To: PY5LF <py5lf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx>
Cc: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] 18 minutes QSO on WX2
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I noted that I have 36 workable voice satellite passes from here in
Washington, DC tomorrow and we have at least four more transponders
scheduled to launch this year. There are tons of opportunities to work
satellites these days, no matter what your schedule is.
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 4:26 PM, PY5LF <py5lf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx> wrote:
> Right now we had a nice QSO jumping from XW2C to WX2F and finally to XW2A .
>
> PU2RAS , PT9BM and me , PY5LF , 18 minutes on QSO.
>
> 73
>
>
>
> PY5LF
>
> Luciano Fabricio
>
> Curitiba-PR-BR GG54jm
>
> http://www.qrz.com/db/PY5LF
>
>
>
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 23:25:52 -0500
From: "Pavel Milanes (CO7WT)" <co7wt@xxxxxx.xx.xx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Latest TQSL on Ubuntu
Message-ID: <56A6F550.8090804@xxxxxx.xx.xx>
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Use the kamal's PPA.
It's a kind of super updated unofficial repository ready to use, see here:
https://ppa.launchpad.net/kamalmostafa/trustedqsl
73
El 25/01/16 a las 12:20, John KI4RO escribi?:
> Well, I'm not much of an expert on Linux/Ubuntu and hoping for some help
> here; ARRL hasn't been much help yet.
> I got TQSL out of the Ubuntu Software Center; it downloaded and installed
> just fine. I was under the impression that, having installed it that way,
> updates would be installed as they became available but apparently that is
> not the case.
> I've gone to the site and downloaded the appropriate tar.gz file and
> unpacked it but I don't know what to do with it now. I've tried the make
> command and such as specified on other sites but they don't seem able to
> work.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> 73
> John KI4RO
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 03:20:22 -0500
From: Norm n3ykf <normanlizeth@xxxxx.xxx>
To: Juan Sanchez <jsdenis@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: "<,amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxxxxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Ettus B210
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Attached the B210 to the UHF antenna for FO-29. Didn't notice the
uplink power was set on 50 watts until afterward. B210 could have
cared less. Talked with Captain Yuri.
Score one for National Instruments!
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 4:38 AM, Juan Sanchez <jsdenis@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> I'm looking for some information about using some ettus SDR for sat work. I
> have a B210. What kind of amplifier can I use able to be driven with the
> 200 mW of the Tx/RX output, better if it's pass trought. My google search
> was unable to find some ham who has made somethin similar
> Is ther some similar work with another SDR?
> I would appreciate any kind of help... I'm a newbie...
> Thanks a lot.
> 73
> Juan
> EB2FVT
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:46:28 +0000 (UTC)
From: Steve Nordahl <ns3l@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] IC-9100 Satellite Memories..
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Thanks for all the replies. I'm just going to leave them empty and rely on
satpc32 to handle things..
Steve NS3L
From: Jeff <jeff_griffin@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: Steve Nordahl <ns3l@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] IC-9100 Satellite Memories..
You really don't have to program in any sat channels if your going to be
using SatPC32 to control it. The program will set the u/l and d/l for
doppler as you work the sat. I have a doppler.sqf file for SatPC32? I can
send? you if you like...
73 Jeff kb2m
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Nordahl via AMSAT-BB
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 8:47 AM
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] IC-9100 Satellite Memories..
Hi all,,
Just purchased a IC-9100 with RT Software to program it. Although I'll be
using SatPC32 to control things I was wondering what do most of you put in
the Satellite memory channels? FM birds?? Is it even worth programming
them..?
Steve NS3L
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 14:05:09 +0100
From: Koos van den Hout <koos@xxxxxx.xxxxxx.xx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Latest TQSL on Ubuntu
Message-ID: <20160126130509.GA20821@xxxxxx.xxxxxx.xx>
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Quoting Pavel Milanes (CO7WT) who wrote on Mon 2016-01-25 at 23:25:
> Use the kamal's PPA.
>
> It's a kind of super updated unofficial repository ready to use, see here:
>
> https://ppa.launchpad.net/kamalmostafa/trustedqsl
.. which has no newer versions than trustedqsl 2.0.3
I'll mail the maintainer, maybe he can start updating the ubuntu trustedqsl
package again.
Koos van den Hout
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 08:06:15 -0500
From: Fred Castello <fredcastello@xxxxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT bbs <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Thank You All
Message-ID: <0AC941A9-E5A7-4870-B045-EF4C462FF37B@xxxxx.xxx>
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Don?t know if this is an appropriate thing to do or not, so forgive a newbie
if not. I just wanted to thank all of you who have sent me notes and
answered my questions regarding rotors. The response was very helpful and
much appreciated. Looking forward to contacting this group on the satellites.
Best,
Fred Castello
KF4FC
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Message: 11
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 09:03:11 -0500
From: "E.Mike McCardel" <mccardelm@xxxxx.xxx>
To: Fred Castello <fredcastello@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: AMSAT bbs <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Thank You All
Message-ID: <224B99FD-9284-44AB-BB9A-15511F0E6855@xxxxx.xxx>
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Fred,
Politeness and consideration is always appropriate.
EMike
EMike McCardel, AA8EM
Rotating Editor AMSAT News Service
Sent from my iPhone
> On Jan 26, 2016, at 8:06 AM, Fred Castello <fredcastello@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>
> Don?t know if this is an appropriate thing to do or not, so forgive a
newbie if not. I just wanted to thank all of you who have sent me notes and
answered my questions regarding rotors. The response was very helpful and
much appreciated. Looking forward to contacting this group on the satellites.
> Best,
> Fred Castello
> KF4FC
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Message: 12
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 09:32:51 -0500
From: James K4JK <k4jk.james@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Latest TQSL on Ubuntu
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For anyone new to Linux who's confused:
When ARRL releases a new version of TQSL, they only supply the source code
as far as Linux goes. They do not maintain the respective packages for each
distribution, like they do for windows.
The package maintainer for a particular distribution will have to compile
the source for each architecture and version before it will install
"automatically" through a package manager.
So, a lot of times there will be a delay between when you see the ARRL
announce that a new version is released, and when you will see it show up
in your Linux package manager as an update ready to be pushed out and
installed.
This delay is the time between a source release and the maintainer building
the package for your particular distro, version, and architecture.
If you don't want to wait you can always compile and install yourself, not
hard to do at all once you get used to it!
73
James
K4JK
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:05 AM, Koos van den Hout <koos@xxxxxx.xxxxxx.xx>
wrote:
> Quoting Pavel Milanes (CO7WT) who wrote on Mon 2016-01-25 at 23:25:
>
> > Use the kamal's PPA.
> >
> > It's a kind of super updated unofficial repository ready to use, see
> here:
> >
> > https://ppa.launchpad.net/kamalmostafa/trustedqsl
>
> .. which has no newer versions than trustedqsl 2.0.3
>
> I'll mail the maintainer, maybe he can start updating the ubuntu trustedqsl
> package again.
>
> Koos van den Hout
>
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Message: 13
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 19:00:43 +0100
From: "Juan Antonio" <ea4cyq@xxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] 18:15 UTC AO-07 will be 3deg elev over Spain,
great sole over USA
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
I will be waiting USA stations, GL
Juan Antonio
EA4CYQ
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Message: 14
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 16:24:05 -0200
From: Gustavo Nicolau <bombeiro.gustavo@xxxxx.xxx>
To: Satdx-bb@xxxxxxxx.xxxx amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-7
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good window to SA 20:02 utc. 73
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