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Today's Topics:
1. G-5500 question (Bob- W7LRD)
2. Re: G-5500 question (Mark L. Hammond)
3. Re: G-5500 question (Dave Beumer W?DHB)
4. Re: G-5500 question (Greg D)
5. Re: G-5500 question (Bob- W7LRD)
6. ANS-006 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins (JoAnne Maenpaa)
7. Re: G-5500 question (George and Cheryl Abbott)
8. Kline School Solar Arrays Donation (Alan)
9. Re: [sarex] Kline School Solar Arrays Donation (JoAnne Maenpaa)
10. Quick question about G-5500 (Raydel Abreu Espinet (CM2ESP))
11. Re: Quick question about G-5500 (Dave Beumer W?DHB)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 22:05:22 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bob- W7LRD <w7lrd@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] G-5500 question
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The 5500 goes up to 450 degrees in az. I use satpc-32, every once in awhile
for no "forseeable " reason the rotor will park at 450 degrees. This is not
what it is set for. It is a bit concerning as the coax is not the right
length for that much rotation and it puts a strain on things. Any ideas??
73 Bob W7LRD
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 18:17:16 -0500
From: "Mark L. Hammond" <marklhammond@xxxxx.xxx>
To: Bob- W7LRD <w7lrd@xxxxxxx.xxx>, amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: G-5500 question
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Hi Bob,
Not sure I can help--but I wonder what interface you're using between
SatPC32 and the G-5500?
Mark N8MH
At 10:05 PM 1/5/2013 +0000, Bob- W7LRD wrote:
>The 5500 goes up to 450 degrees in az. I use satpc-32, every once in awhile
for no "forseeable " reason the rotor will park at 450 degrees. This is not
what it is set for. It is a bit concerning as the coax is not the right
length for that much rotation and it puts a strain on things. Any ideas??
>73 Bob W7LRD
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 16:43:45 -0700
From: Dave Beumer W?DHB <dave@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "'Bob- W7LRD'" <w7lrd@xxxxxxx.xxx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: G-5500 question
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Bob
Which rotator controller are you using with your 5500 ?
Did you configure your Rotator to be 450deg in SATPC32 ?
Some controllers like EA4TX have the smarts to utilize 450 deg even if your
software is configured for 360 For example if your rotator is sitting at 350
degs and you tell it to go to 45 degs, it goes to 360+45 405 deg 'cause it's
closer.
SATPC32 software itself may do that also if configured for a 450 deg
rotator. I'll test to see what it does. I've got a G-5500 setup.
If your park position is set for 90 degs, you might try making it 91 degs
(451 degs).
Dave W0DHB
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Behalf Of Bob- W7LRD
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2013 3:05 PM
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] G-5500 question
The 5500 goes up to 450 degrees in az. I use satpc-32, every once in awhile
for no "forseeable " reason the rotor will park at 450 degrees. This is not
what it is set for. It is a bit concerning as the coax is not the right
length for that much rotation and it puts a strain on things. Any ideas??
73 Bob W7LRD
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 16:10:43 -0800
From: Greg D <ko6th.greg@xxxxx.xxx>
To: Bob- W7LRD <w7lrd@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: G-5500 question
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The thing that's suspicious is that 450 is the limit of rotation. I
don't know which end of the movement potentiometer that represents, but
you might have a loose position sense connection or dirty pot wiper. The
controller would think it's not where it's supposed to be, and tries to
move in that direction, eventually (hopefully) hitting the limit switch
and stopping.
Is it otherwise reliable in tracking a bird during a pass? No jumps or
other erratic movement?
Just a thought,
Greg KO6TH
Bob- W7LRD wrote:
> The 5500 goes up to 450 degrees in az. I use satpc-32, every once in
awhile for no "forseeable " reason the rotor will park at 450 degrees. This
is not what it is set for. It is a bit concerning as the coax is not the
right length for that much rotation and it puts a strain on things. Any
ideas??
> 73 Bob W7LRD
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 02:00:45 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bob- W7LRD <w7lrd@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "Mark L. Hammond" <marklhammond@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: G-5500 question
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oooops should have mentioned I am using the LVB tracker
73 Bob W7LRD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark L. Hammond" <marklhammond@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "Bob- W7LRD" <w7lrd@xxxxxxx.xxx>, amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2013 3:17:16 PM
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] G-5500 question
Hi Bob,
Not sure I can help--but I wonder what interface you're using between
SatPC32 and the G-5500?
Mark N8MH
At 10:05 PM 1/5/2013 +0000, Bob- W7LRD wrote:
>The 5500 goes up to 450 degrees in az. I use satpc-32, every once in awhile
for no "forseeable " reason the rotor will park at 450 degrees. This is not
what it is set for. It is a bit concerning as the coax is not the right
length for that much rotation and it puts a strain on things. Any ideas??
>73 Bob W7LRD
>_______________________________________________
>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: 6
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 21:19:15 -0600
From: "JoAnne Maenpaa" <k9jkm@xxxxxxx.xxx>
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Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS-006 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
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Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to:
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In this edition:
* Reminder -- AMSAT Receives $25,000 Matching Funds Challenge
* SKN on OSCAR 2013 Best Fist Nominations Due
* Proposal Window for U.S. ARISS Contacts Open until January 28
* AMSAT Awards
* PhoneSat CubeSat Now Rescheduled for February Launch from Wallops
* TAPR DCC Videos Available Online
* STRaND-1 CubeSat Filmed by BBC Stargazing Live
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Reminder -- AMSAT Receives $25,000 Matching Funds Challenge
Now is the time to take advantage of this opportunity to double your
donation.
There are several ways you can double your donation to keep Amateur
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+ Members have received a form in the mail to fill out and return.
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Your generous contribution to AMSAT to support AMSAT and Project Fox
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in space will, indeed, become a reality.
Fox-1A's design goals include:
+ Fox-1 includes a U/V (mode B) FM analog transponder. It's 2 meter
downlink should be even easier to hear than AO-51.
+ Fox-1 is being designed so you can work it with just a dual-band
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ruary, and in The AMSAT Journal.
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AMSAT Awards
AMSAT Director Contests and Awards, Bruce Paige, KK5DO says congratu-
lations are in order for our latest AMSAT Awards recipients:
The following have entered into the Satellite Communicators Club for
making their first satellite QSO.
+ Joseph Fouquet, N5JF
+ Mark Gearis, KG4JAG
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PhoneSat CubeSat Now Rescheduled for February Launch from Wallops
The PhoneSat cubesat, originally planned for a December 2012 launch,
now looks like it will fly aboard a new commercial rocket from Orbit-
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ed from a new launch pad LA-0A at Wallops Island, where the former
Conestoga launch pad was located.
Phonesat carries an amateur radio payload on 437.425 MHz, has been
chosen as one of the winners in the Aerospace category for the Pop-
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PhoneSat is a technology demonstration mission consisting of three
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controlled from Earth.
With a short lifetime of only about one week, the satellites have
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Dove-1 plans to transmit its telemetry and image data to the ground
on a proposed frequency of 145.825 MHz in the amateur radio band al-
though this is a commercial mission.
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TAPR DCC Videos Available Online
Gary Pearce, KN4AQ, says HamRadioNow (http://arvideonews.com/hrn/)
recorded all of the 2012 Atlanta ARRL & TAPR Digital Communications
Conference. The videos are posted in this link above.
The HamRadioNow netcasts appear in newest to oldest order on the
web page. Scroll down to find these episodes from the 2012 DCC:
+ Episode 33 is a talk with TAPR President Steve Bible, N7HPR, about
what TAPR is today (and what it's been), the DCC.
+ Episode 34 is Steve again with his lead-off talk on the ARISSat
project's user survey.
+ Episode 35 has Scotty Cowling, WA2DFI, and Jeremy McDermond, NH6Z,
reviewing this year's hardware and software updates to HPSDR -
High Performance Software Defined Radio.
+ Episode 36 is more than a primer on SDR and FlexRadio's new 6000
series by FlexRadio's Stephen Hicks, N5AC.
+ Episode 37 has NW Digital Radio's Bryan Hoyer, K7UDR, and John
Hays, K7VE, updating a pair of old ideas: a packet-hailing channel
and AMPRNet44.
+ Episode 38 features Hessu Hannikainen OH7LZB, developer of the
APRS.FI website describing development of an open-source server
for the APRS-IS network that distributes APRS data worldwide.
Episode 44, added on December 27 is a video from the DCC presenting
the design of a Handheld SDR by Chris Testa, KD2MBH.
TAPR says the DCC videos will also be viewable on the YouTube TAPR
Digital Videos Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TAPRDigitalVideo
[ANS thanks Gary Pearce, KN4AQ and TAPR for the above information]
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STRaND-1 CubeSat Filmed by BBC Stargazing Live
AMSAT-UK reports on http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=12039 about the BBC
filming at the Surrey Space Centre (SSC) and Surrey Satellite Tech-
nology Limited (SSTL) for an item on the STRaND-1 CubeSat mission
for the "Stargazing Live" program to be broadcast January 8-10.
Volunteers from the SSC and SSTL built STRaND-1 in their spare time.
The STRaND-1 spacecraft will carry an Amateur Radio AX.25 packet
radio payload on 437.575 MHz. It will be the UK's first "PhoneSat"
carrying a Nexus Android Smartphone that will run a number of Space
Apps. In addition it will have both a Resistojet and a Pulsed Plasma
Thruster (PPT) module.
The 'STRaND Data' App, one of the Space Apps that will run on the
Smartphone was a spin-off of the work done by the AMSAT-UK FUNcube
team. This App will collect satellite telemetry from within the sat-
ellite and display it graphically on the Nexus One Display. The dis-
play is observed by an on-board camera and the images transmitted to
earth on Amateur Radio frequencies.
Pictures taken during the BBC filming can be seen at
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Surrey-Space-Centre/147861435274871
STRaND-1 on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/nanosats
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Help Wanted: AMSAT News Service Rotating Editor Positions Available
The AMSAT News Service (ANS) is responsible for researching, writing,
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With the addition of a couple of volunteers this would generally
involve taking a turn about every 3 to 4 weeks.
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If you can commit to working on the bulletins for a week on a rotat-
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[ANS thanks AMSAT Vice-President User Services, Gould Smith, WA4SXM
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First 24 GHz Contact Between USA and Japan
Al, W5LUA and Shichirou, JA6CZD made the first 24 GHz EME contact
between the USA and Japan on January 2 at 1430Z. The two stations
had about an hour of common window where each had 15 to 20 degrees
of elevation.
JA6CZD uses a 2.4 M offset fed dish with a 22 watt SSPA. W5LUA uses
a 2.4M offset fed dish and a TWT mounted on the feed support provid-
ing 100 watts at the feed. JA6CZD sent Al a 559 signal report and Al
gave Shichirou a 449 report.
Both stations use linear polarity and must compensate for the 70
degrees of spatial offset between their locations. JA6CZD was used
horizontal and Al used vertical polarization. The noise figure at
both stations was under 2 dB.
Al measured his Doppler Shift with his return echoes at 51 KHz at
the start of the contact. The mutual Doppler Shift placed both at
about 24048.108 MHz based on a center frequency of 24048.100 MHz.
This shifted down in frequency as the schedule took place.
W5LUA was GPS locked and JA6CZD uses an OCXO and a Rubidium standard
to control frequency.
[ANS thanks Al Ward, W5LUA for the above information]
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Kline School Posts AMSAT Announcement
The Kline School "Out of This World Experience" Raises $6500 for
AMSAT Fox story, originally announced in the ANS-351 bulletins,
now has some photos to accompany this event.
(See: http://amsat.org/pipermail/ans/2012/000675.html)
In conjunction with Kline School's ARISS contact on December 6 the
students launched a Spell-A-Thon and raised $6,500 dollars for solar
panels on Fox-1.
Kline School posted coverage of AMSAT's write-up at:
https://sites.google.com/a/klineschool.com/return-to-space/highlights
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kline-School/153838291839
(plus you get a preview of page 5 of the January/February 2013 AMSAT
Journal under production.)
[ANS thanks Kline School and The AMSAT Journal for the above
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donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi-
tional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT
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Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership
information. And with that, please keep in mind when Christmas was
over Rudolph had a chance to do something he had wanted to do for a
long time. He made an appointment with a plastic surgeon because he
was so sensitive about his looks. However, it wasn't his glowing pro-
boscis that he wanted changed. He was proud of his nose and the help
he had given Santa because of it. No, he was sensitive about his
long ears which were much more prominent than the ears of the aver-
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as ... New Ears Day.
73,
This week's ANS Editor,
JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM
K9JKM at amsat dot org
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 18:40:23 -0500
From: "George and Cheryl Abbott" <ka1ajf@xxx.xxx>
To: "Bob- W7LRD" <w7lrd@xxxxxxx.xxx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: G-5500 question
Message-ID: <E87E077D0C6E4162B008511C38542E7E@xxxxxxxx>
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reply-type=original
Does the software have an antenna parking setting?
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob- W7LRD
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2013 5:05 PM
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] G-5500 question
The 5500 goes up to 450 degrees in az. I use satpc-32, every once in awhile
for no "forseeable " reason the rotor will park at 450 degrees. This is not
what it is set for. It is a bit concerning as the coax is not the right
length for that much rotation and it puts a strain on things. Any ideas??
73 Bob W7LRD
_______________________________________________
Sent via AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx. Opinions expressed are those of the author.
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 08:30:30 -0600
From: Alan <wa4sca@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "AMSAT-BB" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, "SAREX-BB" <SAREX@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Kline School Solar Arrays Donation
Message-ID: <4B1D4A242A5F468E91D610061DEA73BB@xxxxxx>
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A good SARC article on the recent donation of solar arrays to the Fox
Project.
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2013/kline_school_raises_$6500_for_a
msat_fox.htm
Alan
WA4SCA
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 09:14:14 -0600
From: "JoAnne Maenpaa" <k9jkm@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "'AMSAT-BB'" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, "'SAREX-BB'" <SAREX@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: [sarex] Kline School Solar Arrays Donation
Message-ID: <000601cdec20$7dbf2580$793d7080$@xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> A good SARC article on the recent donation of solar arrays
> to the Fox Project ... http://www.southgatearc.org/news/
Also posted on http://www.amsat.org and covered in ANS on December 16.
--
73 de JoAnne K9JKM
k9jkm@xxxxx.xxx
Editor, AMSAT Journal
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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 13:08:49 -0500
From: "Raydel Abreu Espinet \(CM2ESP\)" <cm2esp@xxxxxx.xx.xx>
To: "AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Quick question about G-5500
Message-ID: <60486A0B68894474A2247D6292BBE16B@xxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"
Hello,
After reading the previous asked question about the G-5500 and seeing some
photos i just wanted to know... Using a properly weight balanced antenna
system, What's the maximum weight this rotator can handle???
Thanks,
Raydel, CM2ESP
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Message: 11
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 12:50:36 -0700
From: Dave Beumer W?DHB <dave@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "'Raydel Abreu Espinet \(CM2ESP\)'" <cm2esp@xxxxxx.xx.xx>,
<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Quick question about G-5500
Message-ID: <001501cdec47$18dfdd90$4a9f98b0$@xxx>
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>From Yaesu specifications:
Total vertical Load 200kg
Total wind surface 1 square meter
Dave W0DHB
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From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of Raydel Abreu Espinet (CM2ESP)
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 11:09 AM
To: AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Quick question about G-5500
Hello,
After reading the previous asked question about the G-5500 and seeing some
photos i just wanted to know... Using a properly weight balanced antenna
system, What's the maximum weight this rotator can handle???
Thanks,
Raydel, CM2ESP
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