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Today's Topics:
1. Symposium Audio (Clint Bradford)
2. Re: N. Europe AO-7 (Bato, Andras)
3. Thanks for the Symposium (Doug Kuitula)
4. ND9M Road Trip Update #8 (claryco@xxx.xxxx
5. Experimental Web Radio from New Zealand and Europe
(Mike Rupprecht)
6. Re: SatPC32 & Windows 7 (Erich Eichmann)
7. Re: Experimental Web Radio from New Zealand and Europe
(Nader Omer)
8. FUNcube Dongle (Howard Long)
9. Missed AO-51 contact (Jeremy Kiehner)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:20:40 -0700
From: Clint Bradford <clintbradford@xxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Symposium Audio
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Are any of the sessions from the Symposium posted online? And I am sorry if
this was already published info - I missed it.
Clint, K6LCS
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:51:47 +0000
From: "Bato, Andras" <bato@xxxxxxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: N. Europe AO-7
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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Hi Bob W7LRD,
I just would like to let you know that I often call CQ WVE but on CW !
I use CW because it is much more reliable for DX activity.
PLEASE USE CW ON AO-7 and on HO-68 as well.
Canada and even KL7 can be reached using these birds not only from
Northern Europe but from Central Europe as well.
For God's sake use CW please!
gl de ha6nn
Andras
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:17:24 -0400
From: "Doug Kuitula" <ka8qcu@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Thanks for the Symposium
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Hi all,
I just wanted to add my thanks to the folks who put on this years AMSAT
Symposium in Chicago. I had a wonderful time and absolutely enjoyed all of
the speakers. Unfortunately, I had to leave to leave on Saturday, and was
not able to be there Sunday for the tour of the Fermi Lab.
I'm not sure where next years Symposium will be. But if it is anywhere near
you, try to attend.
Once again, Thanks!
73 de Doug KA8QCU
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:29:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: claryco@xxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] ND9M Road Trip Update #8
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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Here's our tentative sked for grids tomorrow (14 Oct):
DN68 - SO50 - 1513Z (Earlier AO51 and SO50 passes are possible, but it's
COLD outside here at those times!)
DN68 / DN78 - AO27 - 1906Z
DN68 / DN78 - AO27 - 2045Z
DN68 / DN78 - AO51 - 2123Z
DN77 - AO51 - 2259Z (possibly on the line with DN76)
DN76 / DN77 - AO51 - 0039Z (15 Oct)
We may stick around the local area an extra day on Friday before heading
into North Dakota; we won't know for sure until tomorrow night.
73 for now,
Jim, ND9M / VQ9JC
Glasgow MT / Valley Co. / DN68
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:40:45 +0200
From: "Mike Rupprecht" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Experimental Web Radio from New Zealand and
Europe
To: "'amsat-bb'" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, <eu-amsat@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
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All,
You can now listen to 3 stations via internet - ZL2BX, PA3GUO and DK3WN.
Go to my SatBlog and follow the link to Web Radio or simply click here
http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?page_id=17689
Alan (ZL2BX) in New Zealand is streaming some hours per day and you can
listen to the satellites at the other end of the world ;-)
Henk (PA3GUO) is mostly following AO-51 or HO-68 in FM.
I provide what I hear. If you follow my audio stream you can listen what I
receive momentarily. It could be any satellite from AO-7 up to the NOAA's.
We are open for any ideas. Let us know what you want to hear. Any
suggestions are very appreciated.
New stations are welcome, hihi. Let's share our receiver to the other ones.
73, Mike
DK3WN
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 07:14:04 +0200
From: "Erich Eichmann" <erich.eichmann@xxxxxxxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: SatPC32 & Windows 7
To: "Bob Herrell" <aj5c@xxx.xxx>
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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Hello Bob,
What kind of serial port are you using?
Unfortunately I don't have Windows 7, 64-bit, but on one of my PCs I run
Windows Vista 64-bit.
CAT steering of the IC-910H works here (CAT baud rate 19200, CAT delay 70):
1. with COM 1 (genuine physical port that came with the PC),
2. with a Prolific USB-to-Serial adapter, driver date Nov. 19, 2009, driver
version 3.3.10.140,
3. with a FTDI USB-to-Serial adapter, driver date March 13, 2009, driver
version 2.4.6.0,
4. with 2 serial ports on a PCI card (MosChip-Semiconductor Technology Ltd.,
driver date May 22, 2008, driver version 1.0.0.6
I suppose these drivers will also work with Windows 7, 64-bit.
But it is most important to look for the latest driver versions for Windows
7, 64-bit.
73s, Erich, DK1TB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Herrell" <aj5c@xxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 5:22 AM
Subject: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 & Windows 7
> Hi all,
>
> Anyone running and IC-910H with SatPC32 and Windows 7 64-bit? Everything
> seems to work except for the CAT function. I have the proper port
> selected for the radio, but cannot get CAT to do any controlling.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks & 73
>
> Bob Herrell
> AJ5C
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:33:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Nader Omer <st2nh@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Experimental Web Radio from New Zealand and
Europe
To: amsat bb bb <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Great work .
Kudos to everyone who share in Satellite webradio net. ZL2BX, PA3GUO and
DK3WN.
FB OMs.
?
73 de Nader
st2nh
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:21:05 +0100
From: "Howard Long" <howard@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] FUNcube Dongle
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Folks
I've been enormously gratified by the large volume of interest I've had in
the FUNcube Dongle over the past few weeks, and as the pace of enquiries has
stepped up I've decided to come clean about the development progress.
In case -bb subscribers are unaware, the FUNcube Dongle was originally
designed to be an accessible way to be able to receive amateur satellites,
most noteably AMSAT-UK's forthcoming FUNcube cubesat
(http://www.funcube.org.uk). What does accessible mean? Essentially we mean
both low cost and easy to setup. The original target market is, and remains,
what I call the unconverted, those, particularly in education, who need a
means of being able to practically introduce and demonstrate real space
technology in a hands-on way.
When the work on FUNcube was distributed, I was given the task of coming up
with the ground segment, and the result is the FUNcube Dongle.
As it's tuned out, the FUNcube Dongle has the added bonus that it's a
VHF/UHF and low microwave equivalent to the well-known Softrock in an
integrated plug and play package. We intend to have two models, an
entry-level frequency-restricted version targeted at the educational market,
and a full blown Pro version that seems to piqued the interest of many radio
amateurs, radio astronomers and short wave listeners.
In pr?cis, it includes an integrated front end filter, LNA, quatrature LO,
zero-IF quadrature downconverter, dual 16 bit ADC and USB soundcard. In it's
simplest of forms, it's SMA in, USB out. It's also compatible with pretty
much any software that works for the Softrock, for example LinRad,
Spectravue, M0KGK and Rocky.
The passband is 96kHz, tuneable from 64MHz to 1,700MHz. The tuning is via a
USB HID interface meaning that as well as your favourite soundcard SDR
program, you'll need a little app supplied with the FUNcube Dongle to
control the centre frequency or you'll end up only listening to my favourite
FM broadcast station ;-)
It's also compatible with XP, Vista , Windows 7 in 32 bit and Vista and
Windows 7 in 64 bit. Initial testing on the Mac and Ubuntu 32 and 64 bit
shows compatibility too, however I haven't written the frequency control
application for those platforms yet.
So, no USB drivers are required!
To keep people informed going forward, I have set up a blog here:
http://www.funcubedongle.com/. A few of us on the -BB may be aware of an
rather prolific internal blog I've been writing for the FUNcube technical
team that covers 100 posts or so over the past three months. The choice cuts
of the internal blog will also appear in the http://www.funcubedongle.com/
blog.
Also there's a video here of the first pre-production unit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqzTBPLqal0
Projected availability of the first production batch of the Pro version is
December 2010. Pricing is subject to assembly costs, but to give you
indicative pricing we are working on an initial price of the Pro version to
be circa USD150/GBP100.
73, Howard G6LVB
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 07:02:25 -0400
From: Jeremy Kiehner <jeremy.kiehner@xx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Missed AO-51 contact
To: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Today 10/13/10 while mobile on my way home from work I saw AO-51 making a
high pass. Curiously I loaded up the memories in my Alinco DJ-G5 (mobile rig
went kaput) and heard the bird and a QSO. Waiting for a break, I sent my
call and location of York, Pennsylvania. An operator came back with my call
and location each time I attempted to transmit. Unfortunately I was unable
to hear the bird well on my mag mount dual band 1/4wave. This occurred
around 0615 eastern. I apologize to, and thank the operator who was trying
to contact me in return. It was my FIRST attempt at contact via a satellite
(had been listening for a few weeks now while at home on my 3element 2 meter
beam and the same Alinco HT. Successful to a point, made contact, I was
heard i just could not hear the bird well. All in all, I'm now hooked. If I
can hit this bird (and SO-51 earlier in the night tho it was dead and timer
needed reset but I heard myself on it!) via mobile dual band mag mount on
high passes, I ca!
n not wait to try on the 2 meter beam.
73,
Jeremy KB3DLP
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