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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Linear Xpndr Operating Economics & more again (k6yk)
2. Help with predict (Andrew Rich)
3. Re: 16 Feb ISS EVA sked (Bob- W7LRD)
4. Re: ""you may as well use Skype..." (Jim Shorney)
5. AO-7 Mode A anomaly (Scott Armstrong)
6. Re: ""you may as well use Skype..." (Greg D.)
7. Re: Help with predict (Greg D.)
8. Re: ""you may as well use Skype..." (Gordon JC Pearce)
9. (no subject) (John Hackett)
10. Re: Help with predict (Iain Young, G7III)
11. Re: (no subject) DON'T CLICK LINK!! -- SPAM (Jeff Moore)
12. Re: Help with predict (Andrew Rich)
13. Re: Help with predict (Iain Young, G7III)
14. Re: ""you may as well use Skype..." (Tony Langdon)
15. Re: (no subject) (Eric Knaps, ON4HF)
16. Linear xnspdr birds fm (Ellis Foley)
17. APRS Digi Question (Zachary Beougher)
18. DL7VTX Update (Zachary Beougher)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:41:19 -0800
From: k6yk <k6yk@xxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Linear Xpndr Operating Economics & more again
To: k6yk@xxxx.xxx
Cc: nss@xxx.xxxx amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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Whoops!
I forgot to mention that the antennas were an omni vertical
ground plane on 2 meters for the uplink and tri-band beam
for the 10 meter downlink.
73,
John K6YK
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 09:33:46 -0800 k6yk <k6yk@xxxx.xxx> writes:
> Boy, that sounds familiar !
> My first Oscar station was a Regency HR-2B FM rig
> with ONE crystal in the middle of the uplink band on 2 meters,
> keying the high-low power switch. You couldn't hear the low
> power but the 15 watts on high power made it fine.
>
> And the receivers were an HW-101 and Hallicrafters SX-117.
> Bought an AMECO preamp for HF, which helped out on 10 meters.
>
> That was good enough to work lots of stations, maybe a total of
> 600 QSO's on OScar 6 and 7!
>
> Then when the RS-10, 11 came along, I tried some mobile work
> using an ICOM 230, again only one frequency, keying the PTT line,
> no chirp, and Yaesu FT-301 for receiver. Larson 2 meter antenna
> and
> Hustler 10 meter antenna on the pickup. Worked quite a few QSO's
> that way, too!
>
> All CW only, of course on mode A. Didn't get an all-mode rig
> until about 1986 during the "RS" era.
>
> 73,
> John
>
>
> On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:59:28 -0600 Joe <nss@xxx.xxx> writes:
> > My first Oscar Station,,,
> >
> > I do not remember if it was Oscar 6 or 7, but it was 1975, and we
>
> > listened to many passes on the ten meter downlink.
> >
> > We got from a local ham, an old AM vfo controlled 2 meter rig.
> It
> > was
> > AM only. it had a Red face and was BIG like the size of a heathkit
>
> > SB-200 amp. two VFO's one for transmit and a separate one for
> > receive.
> >
> > anyway we connected out Hallicrafters TO Keyer to the PTT line of
>
> > the
> > mic, (with no mic installed) and it worked amazingly well. That
>
> > was
> > out Oscar station back then, we made like 25 states or so on that
>
> > setup,
> >
> > Joe WB9SBD
> >
> > The Original Rolling Ball Clock
> > Idle Tyme
> > Idle-Tyme.com
> > http://www.idle-tyme.com
> >
> > On 2/4/2011 9:16 AM, Roger Kolakowski wrote:
> > > Simple answer...FM rigs will tend to "chirp" as you key the mic
>
> > line as
> > > the VCO pulls onto frequency...crystal matrix FM radios such as
>
> > the old
> > > Standard will be T-9...
> > >
> > > The purists will cry about the chirpy signal...but, most people
>
> > who work
> > > CW on satellites would relish a new operator/contact even if
> they
> > were QLF.
> > >
> > > That being said...I have works scores of stations with my own
> > "chirpy"
> > > signal and even have received some polite 599's back.
> > >
> > > Roger Kolakowski
> > > WA1KAT
> > >
> > > On 2/4/2011 9:30 AM, Rich Dailey wrote:
> > >> Let's not forget about the funcube dongle as a terrific
> > economical
> > >> solution for receiving. And any decent FM transmitter can key
>
> > CW,
> > >> no? Assuming someone already has a vhf/uhf rig, I can see
> getting
> > qrv on linear
> > >> transponders today for under $200.
> > >> Or am I being too simplistic?
> > >>
> > >> Rich, N8UX
> > >>
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 12:02:09 +1000
From: "Andrew Rich" <vk4tec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Help with predict
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Can someone give me hand with predict under LINUX
+ Install predict - done
+ Define QTH - done
+ Reduce satellite tracking list to just ISS / SO-50 and AO-51 (to do)
I will work out the keps location and how to script that bit
I have scripts that can query preidict in server mode
- Andrew VK4TEC -
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 03:28:11 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bob- W7LRD <w7lrd@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: 16 Feb ISS EVA sked
To: Masahiro Arai <m-arai@x.xxxxx.xx.xx>
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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Does anyone have a "guesstimate" as to long the ISS keps will work for
ARISSAT, before it takes on life of it's own?
73 Bob W7LRD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Masahiro Arai" <m-arai@x.xxxxx.xx.xx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Sent: Friday, February 4, 2011 5:37:56 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] ?16 Feb ISS EVA sked
NASA TV Live Events Programs show the 16th Feb EVA begins at
1315z (0815EST). The live show start at 0745z on NASA TV.
ARISSat-1 deployment will be seen live!
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Breaking.html
73
Masa ? JN1GKZ
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:36:54 -0600
From: "Jim Shorney" <jshorney@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ""you may as well use Skype..."
To: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:03:59 +0000, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
>It doesn't in my case. I have *no interest at all* in operating
>satellites that require a complex fixed station with computer tracking
>and tuning. None. Doesn't interest me one bit.
Require? Hah. I used to run the RS birds with a TR-7, IC-251A, and a TA-33 +
17
el Cushcraft with an old CDE rotor. No computer control, fixed at 90 degrees
elevation. What fun it was!
73
-Jim
--
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 21:55:22 -0600
From: Scott Armstrong <aa5am@xxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-7 Mode A anomaly
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Has anyone experienced anything like this on AO-7 Mode A?
Earlier today on pass 65777 ( AOS approx. 2207z) I was looking for my
downlink signal shortly after my AOS. While searching for my downlink signal
I could also hear a few other unidentifiable CW stations. I figured they
were also looking for their downlink signal since it was in that part of
the downlink passband where I usually find my downlink signal (29.452-29.454
MHz). I could finally identify one of the CW stations as W8TK. He kept
sending his call and jumping around in frequency a little. I called him
several times but to no avail. A few minutes later I heard a weak SSB
station and heard the call WA7TFZ. I didn't hear anything else so I began
calling CQ and had no replies for the remainder of the pass. I finally lost
my downlink signal but still had a few minutes before the bird went over the
horizon.
I began tuning around and found 2 more CW stations one was W1MO and K7NJ
this was about 2-3 minutes before the predicted LOS. They were high in the
passband around 29.468 MHz. I could clearly copy K7NJ and he was calling
CQ FOC. I copied the CW signals until just a little after the predicted LOS
when they faded into the noise. I listened for several minutes after LOS and
never heard any other signals.
I thought that this was very strange for several reasons:
1. 4 new calls on AO7 Mode A ( Not a bad thing but very unlikely)
2. Only hearing stations shortly after AOS and just before LOS.
3. Stations operating high in the passband.
4. One station was calling CQ FOC.
I started wondering if maybe I had a common window with both AO7 and VO52
since VO52s downlink overlaps AO7 mode A uplink. Threw this out real quick
after seeing that VO52 was half a world away.
I emailed W8TK and asked if he was on the satellite. He said that he doesn't
have any equipment for bands higher than 10m and that he was on 20m CW
chasing DX about that time. I also emailed W1MO but haven't heard back from
him.
I've played around with the numbers a bit but it doesn't appear to be a
harmonic of one of the lower bands but maybe more like some oddball mixing
product. I haven't ruled out something in my radio not working properly but
have never heard anything like this before and only seemed to be present
when the satellite was in view.
Anyone else have similar experience?
Scott AA5AM
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 00:27:40 -0800
From: "Greg D." <ko6th_greg@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ""you may as well use Skype..."
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <BLU133-W194339FC76DEEDD49A75CBA9E90@xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> From: jshorney@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
> To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 21:36:54 -0600
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ""you may as well use Skype..."
>
> On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:03:59 +0000, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
>
> >It doesn't in my case. I have *no interest at all* in operating
> >satellites that require a complex fixed station with computer tracking
> >and tuning. None. Doesn't interest me one bit.
>
> Require? Hah. I used to run the RS birds with a TR-7, IC-251A, and a TA-33
+ 17
> el Cushcraft with an old CDE rotor. No computer control, fixed at 90 degrees
> elevation. What fun it was!
>
> 73
>
> -Jim
>
My second satellite QSO (ever) was from California to New York on RS-10 with
10 watts to a copper pipe J-pole on the uplink, and a wire strung out to a
tree in the back yard hooked to a Radio Shack DX-440 Short Wave receiver for
the downlink. How can you not get hooked on this hobby after an experience
like that?
Want to top that? Then DO have that complex fixed station with computer
tracking and tuning (that you built and/or assembled yourself) and talk from
California to Perth, Australia via AO-40.
Greg KO6TH
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 00:30:05 -0800
From: "Greg D." <ko6th_greg@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Help with predict
To: <vk4tec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <BLU133-W14D0047FE3FBCAAF40716DA9E90@xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
What do you need? I use it regularly.
Greg KO6TH
> From: vk4tec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
> To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
> Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 12:02:09 +1000
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Help with predict
>
> Can someone give me hand with predict under LINUX
>
> + Install predict - done
> + Define QTH - done
> + Reduce satellite tracking list to just ISS / SO-50 and AO-51 (to do)
>
> I will work out the keps location and how to script that bit
>
> I have scripts that can query preidict in server mode
>
> - Andrew VK4TEC -
> _______________________________________________
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 08:41:18 +0000
From: Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp@xxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ""you may as well use Skype..."
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <1296895278.31196.64.camel@xxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 21:36 -0600, Jim Shorney wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:03:59 +0000, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
>
> >It doesn't in my case. I have *no interest at all* in operating
> >satellites that require a complex fixed station with computer tracking
> >and tuning. None. Doesn't interest me one bit.
>
> Require? Hah. I used to run the RS birds with a TR-7, IC-251A, and a TA-33
+ 17
> el Cushcraft with an old CDE rotor. No computer control, fixed at 90 degrees
> elevation. What fun it was!
>
> 73
>
> -Jim
You're so far south you can get away with that, though ;-)
Gordon MM0YEQ
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 10:14:24 +0100
From: John Hackett <archie.hackett@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] (no subject)
To: <alankung@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx.xx>, <allan_gm1sxx@xxxxxxx.xxx>,
<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, <archie.hackett@xxxxxxx.xxx>,
<arman.yusuf@xxxxx.xxx>, <ba1du@xxxxx.xxx>, <ban158@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <SNT104-W49F1B286045FDCDB01936991E90@xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
http://angkorshop.orkun2u.com/mywork.html
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Message: 10
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 09:30:07 +0000
From: "Iain Young, G7III" <g7iii@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Help with predict
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <4D4D189F.1070304@xxxxx.xxx>
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There will be a directory in your home directory called .predict
In there, you'll find predict.qth, predict.db, and predict.tle
73s
On 05/02/11 02:02, Andrew Rich wrote:
> Can someone give me hand with predict under LINUX
>
> + Install predict - done
> + Define QTH - done
> + Reduce satellite tracking list to just ISS / SO-50 and AO-51 (to do)
>
> I will work out the keps location and how to script that bit
>
> I have scripts that can query preidict in server mode
>
> - Andrew VK4TEC -
> _______________________________________________
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Message: 11
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 02:17:46 -0800
From: "Jeff Moore" <tnetcenter@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: (no subject) DON'T CLICK LINK!! -- SPAM
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, <archie.hackett@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <C5C410B601BA4CCAA7B417146B44B1D1@xxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
The following message is from a hacked account! DO NOT CLICK THE
LINK!!!!!
ARCHIE - Change Your PASSWORD!!
Jeff Moore -- KE7ACY
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<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>; <archie.hackett@xxxxxxx.xxx>; <arman.yusuf@xxxxx.xxx>;
<ba1du@xxxxx.xxx>; <ban158@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 1:14 AM
Subject: [amsat-bb] (no subject)
http://angkorshop.orkun2u.com/mywork.html
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Message: 12
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 21:21:39 +1000
From: Andrew Rich <vk4tec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Help with predict
To: "Greg D." <ko6th_greg@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Cc: "<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Which file do I trim to reduce to a few sats ?
Sent from my iPhone
Andrew Rich
On 05/02/2011, at 18:30, Greg D. <ko6th_greg@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> What do you need? I use it regularly.
>
> Greg KO6TH
>
>
> > From: vk4tec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
> > To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
> > Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 12:02:09 +1000
> > Subject: [amsat-bb] Help with predict
> >
> > Can someone give me hand with predict under LINUX
> >
> > + Install predict - done
> > + Define QTH - done
> > + Reduce satellite tracking list to just ISS / SO-50 and AO-51 (to do)
> >
> > I will work out the keps location and how to script that bit
> >
> > I have scripts that can query preidict in server mode
> >
> > - Andrew VK4TEC -
> > _______________________________________________
> > Sent via AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx. Opinions expressed are those of the author.
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Message: 13
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 11:41:58 +0000
From: "Iain Young, G7III" <g7iii@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Help with predict
To: "<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <4D4D3786.8060408@xxxxx.xxx>
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predict.tle
See my other email for details. You should have a directory in your
home directory, called .predict You'll find it there.
73s
Iain
On 05/02/11 11:21, Andrew Rich wrote:
> Which file do I trim to reduce to a few sats ?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> Andrew Rich
>
> On 05/02/2011, at 18:30, Greg D.<ko6th_greg@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>
>> What do you need? I use it regularly.
>>
>> Greg KO6TH
>>
>>
>>> From: vk4tec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
>>> To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
>>> Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 12:02:09 +1000
>>> Subject: [amsat-bb] Help with predict
>>>
>>> Can someone give me hand with predict under LINUX
>>>
>>> + Install predict - done
>>> + Define QTH - done
>>> + Reduce satellite tracking list to just ISS / SO-50 and AO-51 (to do)
>>>
>>> I will work out the keps location and how to script that bit
>>>
>>> I have scripts that can query preidict in server mode
>>>
>>> - Andrew VK4TEC -
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Sent via AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx. Opinions expressed are those of the author.
>>> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!
>>> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
>
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Message: 14
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 22:47:29 +1100
From: Tony Langdon <vk3jed@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ""you may as well use Skype..."
To: "Greg D." <ko6th_greg@xxxxxxx.xxx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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At 07:27 PM 2/5/2011, Greg D. wrote:
>My second satellite QSO (ever) was from California to New York on
>RS-10 with 10 watts to a copper pipe J-pole on the uplink, and a
>wire strung out to a tree in the back yard hooked to a Radio Shack
>DX-440 Short Wave receiver for the downlink. How can you not get
>hooked on this hobby after an experience like that?
Almost a duplicate setup for my first satellite QSO, which was also
on RS-10. :) Uplink was 25W into an old Icom 2m all mode radio and a
2m "Ringo" antenna, and the downlink was a Yaesu FRG-7700 with some
random length of wire strung across the backyard. :)
73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL
http://vkradio.com
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Message: 15
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 15:36:33 +0100
From: "Eric Knaps, ON4HF" <on4hf@xxxxxxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: (no subject)
To: la2qaa@xxxxx.xxx
Cc: ba1du@xxxxx.xxxx allan_gm1sxx@xxxxxxx.xxxx ban158@xxxxxxx.xxxx
amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx John Hackett <archie.hackett@xxxxxxx.xxx>,
arman.yusuf@xxxxx.xxx
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Spam???
Amateur Radio Station ON4HF
Eric Knaps
Satellite manager UBA
Tel. +32472985876 (mobile)
http://www.on4hf.be
Op 5/02/2011 10:14, John Hackett schreef:
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Message: 16
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 07:04:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Ellis Foley <wa1rks@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Linear xnspdr birds fm
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Nice to see I wasn't the only "Fool" around in those days! my first
satellite station and contacts were made with an old Regency HR2A fm rig. I
took one of the xstals, put an eraser to it to get it in the cw passband. of
AO7,and cut and keyed the B+ line to the final transistor,brought that out
thru a jack to my hand pump,and worked cw! no chirps, just rock bound,but
worked tons of qso's with that before getting my FT221 SSB/CW rig.where
there is a will, there is a way,
de Ellis
WA1RKS
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Message: 17
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 10:30:30 -0500
From: "Zachary Beougher" <zack.kd8ksn@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] APRS Digi Question
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Hi All,
I know this is generally a satellite specific list, but since a lot of you
are APRS users, I am going to see if anyone can answer this question. I
will try to keep it simple. Please email me if I don?t make sense.
I recently put up a digi on my property (KD8KSN-1). I am using a Kenwood
TM-271 (25w ? lowest power setting), Diamond F22A 6.7db ground plane on a
1112ft hill, and a Kantronics Packet Communicator 3 Plus TNC. From what I
can tell, everything seems to be working fine from the RF side. Here is the
issue:
On aprs.fi, when KD8KSN-1 is digipeated by station (eg) xx1xx, xx1xx shows
up in KD8KSN-1?s ?info bubble? as one of the stations who digi?d the most
recent packet. (You can also view it by going into raw packets
(http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&call=KD8KSN-1) and looking at what stations digi?d
KD8KSN-1. Just in case you don?t know what this ?info bubble? is I am
referring to, follow this link http://aprs.fi/?call=a%2FKD8KSN-1 I am
referring to the box in the middle of the screen with my digipeater?s status
text, power/gain/HAAT/range.) Now, when I watch the TNC and the receive
light comes on, then the transmit light comes on (which would indicate it is
didgipeating a station), I monitor with the D7, and as soon as the TNC
transmits, I receive a packet on the D7 with (eg) KB8TZE-9. I then
immediately get on the computer, lookup KB8TZE-9 on aprs.fi, and according
to his raw packets and ?info bubble,? I am nowhere in the chain of digis
that digipeated him. I have tried this with se!
veral different stations, and not once have a seen myself come up in
anyone?s raw packets as a station that digipeated them. The *only* time I
have seen KD8KSN-1 in the chain of digis that digipeated a station is when
it has digipeated me (KD8KSN-7/-9).
Me and my other APRS friend speculated that it might be due to the fact that
I live in the country and don?t live close to an internet gateway, but I am
able to send myself email messages without issues, and I am also aware of at
least three gateways that I am very frequently digipeated by.
I know this is probably not a huge issue. Having your call in someone?s raw
packets or ?info bubble? isn?t a big deal, but WHY its not working is what?s
bugging me. Everyone else?s digi does this, so why isn?t mine?
Any help would definitely be appreciated. Please feel free to ask me any
questions if I am not making sense. Just keep in mind that I am brand new
to this, so please keep it in layman?s terms. ;-)
73!
Zack
KD8KSN
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Message: 18
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 10:46:18 -0500
From: "Zachary Beougher" <zack.kd8ksn@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] DL7VTX Update
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Hi All,
I have been emailing back and forth with Jens, DL7VTX, over the past day or
so, and he wanted me to fill you all in on a few of his trip details.
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Message 1:
Hi Zack ,
Tnx qso & qsl , I will send qsl direct if printed in abt 1..2 month . Was
vy enjoyed working via sats during hikes at this very beautiful small
tropical island . Had always good takeoffs either at sea - level or in
500...860 mtrs elevation .
RIG : 2 Watts RF ; Handheld Kenwood TH-D7E & RH-770 telescope duoband ant..
see pictures
I also had several aprs-contacts via NO-44 , once via ISS and once to
KP4 digi from top of Saba-Isl.
vy 73s , best wishes and cul de Jens , dl7vtx
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Message 2:
Hello Zack ,
Yes please feel free to foward this to the amsat-bb board .
additional info :
I wkd as many as 40 diffrent stns. via AO-27 and AO-51 from Saba - Isl. and
Saint Marteen , last day at 29.th Jan.2011 also from Sint Maarten PJ7
Maho-Beach but only last reachable orbit of AO51 not got through the
jam of stations at saturday night of course anymore ,sri.
>From PJ6 I wkd. many W1,2,3,4,5, 8,9,0 , also FY,VE3,
YV,KP4,TI,HI,HK,CO , EA8
hrd W7 fm DN45 ,DN42 PY and LU but not got trough the commercial-qrm or
qro-jam at that time of orbits when real dx > 3000 miles would be possible .
Was real fun work all you folks in this hemisphere - while try to make
contacts via FM-SATs & ISS aprs-digi with qrp its much harder or
really not possible at all in Central - Europe due to qrm ..
RIG : 2 Watts RF ; Handheld Kenwood TH-D7E & RH-770 telescope duoband ant.
DC-Pwr. 4 x R6 AA Battery-Pack .
. PJ6 / PJ7 /FS QSLs ready in March 2011, promised
qsl via HC DL7VTX ; info at qrz.com or via bureau
73s Jens DL7VTX
my activity in DL see : www.df0yy.de and @xxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxx
73!
Zack
KD8KSN
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