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Today's Topics:
1. SOLVED! RE: Re: Another newbie question (Mark Lunday, WD4ELG)
2. Re: SOLVED! RE: Re: Another newbie question (Edward Cole)
3. aea dsp 2232 (Peter Gibson)
4. Re: aea dsp 2232 (Dave Aitch)
5. Re: SOLVED! RE: Re: Another newbie question (Tim Tapio)
6. Re: SOLVED! RE: Re: Another newbie question (Tim Tapio)
7. Eurpoean IC-910 CTCSS disabled? ISS contact implication!
(andy thomas)
8. Re: Eurpoean IC-910 CTCSS disabled? ISS contact implication!
(OZ1MY)
9. IC910 ctcss - thanks (andy thomas)
10. Web Audio Ursid Meteor Pings (JoAnne Maenpaa)
11. Re: Web Audio Ursid Meteor Pings (Bob Bruninga )
12. Web Audio Ursid Meteor Pings (Dave Marthouse)
13. ARISS special event thanks and suggestion (andy thomas)
14. Re: Web Audio Ursid Meteor Pings (JoAnne Maenpaa)
15. Re: Web Audio Ursid Meteor Pings (Steven Bienvenu)
16. Re: ARISS special event thanks and suggestion
(Nitin Muttin ( VU3TYG ))
17. Re: SOLVED! RE: Re: Another newbie question (Mark Lunday, WD4ELG)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:19:51 -0500
From: "Mark Lunday, WD4ELG" <mlunday@xx.xx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] SOLVED! RE: Re: Another newbie question
To: <APBIDDLE@xxxxxxx.xxx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <002801c9632b$c0ace670$4206b350$@xx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
A bad power supply! 12V coming out, but no current out. I swapped out the
power supply and BAM! What a difference. Now I am cooking with gas!
THANKS TO ALL WHO RESPONDED WITH HELP AND GUIDANCE!
Mark Lunday
WD4ELG
wd4elg@xxxx.xxx
http://wd4elg.net
-----Original Message-----
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:27:33 -0900
From: Edward Cole <kl7uw@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: SOLVED! RE: Re: Another newbie question
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <200812210627.mBL6RXsN003878@xxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
Mark,
Great news! I think mamy of us were guessing there was a dc power
problem and you found it. An old mentor of mine in my professional
life made a fatefull observation about troubleshooting. Don't get
sidetracked with complicated possibilities. Most problems are
simple! It has been a mantra to ease my 40-years of troubleshooting
electronics, and I have found that it's very true.
Glad you have got it solved. And now you have a little experience
that you can file away for future reference.
73, Ed - KL7UW
At 08:19 PM 12/20/2008, Mark Lunday, WD4ELG wrote:
>A bad power supply! 12V coming out, but no current out. I swapped out the
>power supply and BAM! What a difference. Now I am cooking with gas!
>
>THANKS TO ALL WHO RESPONDED WITH HELP AND GUIDANCE!
>
>Mark Lunday
>WD4ELG
>wd4elg@xxxx.xxx
>http://wd4elg.net
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>
>
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:08:05 -0000
From: "Peter Gibson" <petergibson7@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] aea dsp 2232
To: <AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <000001c96343$40fb4ee0$c2f1eca0$@xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hi
Does anyone have or know where I can get a copy of
Node/Gateway Option Supplement for the dsp 2232
Thanks Pete G7LJA
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:55:08 -0000
From: "Dave Aitch" <dave@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: aea dsp 2232
To: "'AMSAT-BB'" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <004201c96352$354dd090$9fe971b0$@xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Why you no ask ?
I got one here.
CUL, Dave.
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:13:30 -0500
From: "Tim Tapio" <tim@xxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: SOLVED! RE: Re: Another newbie question
To: "'Mark Lunday, WD4ELG'" <mlunday@xx.xx.xxx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <001901c96354$c674b5f0$535e21d0$@xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Great job following it through!
Tim T. K4SHF 35580
-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of Mark Lunday, WD4ELG
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 12:20 AM
To: APBIDDLE@xxxxxxx.xxxx amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] SOLVED! RE: Re: Another newbie question
A bad power supply! 12V coming out, but no current out. I swapped out the
power supply and BAM! What a difference. Now I am cooking with gas!
THANKS TO ALL WHO RESPONDED WITH HELP AND GUIDANCE!
Mark Lunday
WD4ELG
wd4elg@xxxx.xxx
http://wd4elg.net
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:16:54 -0500
From: "Tim Tapio" <tim@xxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: SOLVED! RE: Re: Another newbie question
To: "'Edward Cole'" <kl7uw@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <001a01c96355$3ffff9c0$bfffed40$@xxx>
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Ed,
As a tech type with a lot of years invested, I've found the simple is
usually the culprit. Always go back to the basic. Mark did an excellent
follow through.
Tim T. K4SHF
-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of Edward Cole
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 1:28 AM
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: SOLVED! RE: Re: Another newbie question
Mark,
Great news! I think mamy of us were guessing there was a dc power problem
and you found it. An old mentor of mine in my professional life made a
fatefull observation about troubleshooting. Don't get sidetracked with
complicated possibilities. Most problems are simple! It has been a mantra
to ease my 40-years of troubleshooting electronics, and I have found that
it's very true.
Glad you have got it solved. And now you have a little experience that you
can file away for future reference.
73, Ed - KL7UW
At 08:19 PM 12/20/2008, Mark Lunday, WD4ELG wrote:
>A bad power supply! 12V coming out, but no current out. I swapped out
>the power supply and BAM! What a difference. Now I am cooking with gas!
>
>THANKS TO ALL WHO RESPONDED WITH HELP AND GUIDANCE!
>
>Mark Lunday
>WD4ELG
>wd4elg@xxxx.xxx
>http://wd4elg.net
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>
>
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:44:39 +0000 (GMT)
From: andy thomas <andythomasmail@xxxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Eurpoean IC-910 CTCSS disabled? ISS contact
implication!
To: amsat <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <25030.80099.qm@xxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
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Hi
according to the manual, CTCSS encoding is disabled on all IC-910 s in Europe,
Sweden and Italy! I can set it in tone squelch but does that tx it too when in
satellite mode?
Otherwise it won't be possible for me and other IC910s over here to contact
the ISS in the new repeater mode (which I don't think is in operation yet
anyway).
andy G0SFJ
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:39:40 +0100
From: "OZ1MY" <oz1my@xxxxxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Eurpoean IC-910 CTCSS disabled? ISS contact
implication!
To: <andythomasmail@xxxxx.xx.xx>
Cc: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <000a01c96360$cfce8c00$6401a8c0@xxxxxx.xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi Andy,
It works on my IC-910. Just
pres the CALL/T-SQL button for more that
1 sec.
It works on both uplink and downlink.
Merry Christmas
73 OZ1MY
Ib
----- Original Message -----
From: "andy thomas" <andythomasmail@xxxxx.xx.xx>
To: "amsat" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 11:44 AM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Eurpoean IC-910 CTCSS disabled? ISS contact implication!
> Hi
>
> according to the manual, CTCSS encoding is disabled on all IC-910 s in
Europe, Sweden and Italy! I can set it in tone squelch but does that tx it
too when in satellite mode?
>
> Otherwise it won't be possible for me and other IC910s over here to
contact the ISS in the new repeater mode (which I don't think is in
operation yet anyway).
>
>
> andy G0SFJ
>
>
>
>
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:48:10 +0000 (GMT)
From: andy thomas <andythomasmail@xxxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] IC910 ctcss - thanks
To: amsat <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <735503.76825.qm@xxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
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Thanks to David B and Ib, I now have 67Hz ctcss enambled on the uplink and
have found it there using the scan function of my TMD710.
There is a whole host of bands and subband combinations when in sat mode and
with HRD and in one of them - the critical one! - it was still set to 77Hz.
thanks guys
andy g0sfj
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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:40:00 -0600
From: "JoAnne Maenpaa" <k9jkm@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Web Audio Ursid Meteor Pings
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <000301c9637a$014d68a0$03e839e0$@xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Here's something to do while waiting for the next satellite pass ...
http://spaceweather.com/ has an audio feed of the meteor pings from the
Ursid Meteor Shower as they pass through the Air Force Space Surveillance
Radar in Texas. Note: the Ursid radiant is circumpolar (always up) over the
radar so the echoes may be heard at any hour, night or day. I've heard 4
pings over the past 45 minutes of listening this morning.
--
73 de JoAnne K9JKM
k9jkm@xxxxx.xxx
Editor, AMSAT News Service
Copy Editor, AMSAT Journal
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Message: 11
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:49:24 -0500 (EST)
From: "Bob Bruninga " <bruninga@xxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Web Audio Ursid Meteor Pings
To: JoAnne Maenpaa <k9jkm@xxxxxxx.xxx>, amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <20081221094924.AIL14646@xxx.xxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Thanks Joanne!
I would think that it might also hear the short 1 sec pings of any big
satllites (ISS etc) that also went through it unless they have filered those
out somehow...
Easy to check. Just put a gnd station at the coordinates of kikapoo texas and
watch for any ISS or hubble etc passes the instant they pass an azimuth of
91.5 or 271.5 fro m Kikapoo.
Bob, WB4APR
> Here's something to do while waiting
> for the next satellite pass ...
>
> http://spaceweather.com/ has an audio
> feed of the meteor pings from the
> Ursid Meteor Shower as they pass through
> the Air Force Space Surveillance
> Radar in Texas. Note: the Ursid radiant
> is circumpolar (always up) over the
> radar so the echoes may be heard at any
> hour, night or day. I've heard 4
> pings over the past 45 minutes of
> listening this morning.
>
>--
>73 de JoAnne K9JKM
>k9jkm@xxxxx.xxx
>Editor, AMSAT News Service
>Copy Editor, AMSAT Journal
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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:57:06 -0500
From: "Dave Marthouse" <dmart@xxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Web Audio Ursid Meteor Pings
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <B0735F8E636D4FA1822CA0008D2E8443@xxxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
reply-type=original
Is the radar used the one that operates around 216MHZ?
Dave Marthouse N2AAM
dmart@xxxx.xxx
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Message: 13
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:36:37 +0000 (GMT)
From: andy thomas <andythomasmail@xxxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISS special event thanks and suggestion
To: amsat <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <136232.65092.qm@xxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
My greatest thanks for this special ARISS event. It's new challenges encourage
me to hone my equipment up to standard (which is arguably the serious point of
the thing).
My frustration has been that due to work commitments (which I do in my spare
time from satellites, hi) I haven't had any time except weekends, and just got
my 9k6 tnc adjusted so that it'll properly modulate my rig, and the 9k6 effort
has now stopped.
But I see that there's a programme gap between the 3rd and 15th of January?
So I am sending this to the -bb because others may have their wish list too!!
73 de andy g0SFJ
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Message: 14
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:52:44 -0600
From: "JoAnne Maenpaa" <k9jkm@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Web Audio Ursid Meteor Pings
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <000c01c96384$2a754090$7f5fc1b0$@xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hi Dave,
> Is the radar used the one that operates around 216MHZ?
I came across this info (and it also has a picture of the antenna we are
listening to)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Space_Surveillance_System
--
73 de JoAnne K9JKM
k9jkm@xxxxx.xxx
Editor, AMSAT News Service
Copy Editor, AMSAT Journal
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Message: 15
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:37:24 -0600
From: "Steven Bienvenu" <sbienv@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Web Audio Ursid Meteor Pings
To: <AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <F4325B3842864168929025EF8FD9147C@xxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"
Try the fun I had 10 years ago:
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast22dec98_1.htm
It's very easy to do; I just sat perched a TV antenna (only thing I could get
very quickly) on a camera tripod, and pointed it
in the direction of Lake Kickapoo, Texas (very close to Wichita, Tx) with some
slight elevation. Lots of very loud returns (had to dive for the
audio control at times) during the shower, lots of short ones- a great visual
as well as radio event.
As for Spacecraft, it was no sweat to pick up returns from the then small ISS.
Just use your prediction program to predict when the station will
pass through the beam (a huge, fan shape directed straight up), point your
antenna at that point in the sky, and you will hear it if it is above the
horizon
at that moment at your location, and you are not too far away. The station is
*much* larger now, so has a much greater RCS/larger return signal, so the
horizon might be the only
limiting factor now. I found the strongest signals occurred when the
spacecraft was located in the NavSpaSur radar beam, and between my location
and the transmitting ground site or nearer overhead and in the beam.
I used no preamp, and only the twin lead from the antenna directly to an Icom
R7000 receiver.
The Shuttle was also quite audible. I did not try other spacecraft; remember
these two are leo's.
I could not convince the author of the NASA article that the short fainter
pings were not other satellites, even with simple math examples.
The receiving sites the government runs catch about 20,000 pings a day
according to personnel.
73,
Steve W5ZA (located in Shreveport, La. -Northwest Louisiana, about 300
miles east of the radar site)
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Message: 16
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:14:16 +0530
From: "Nitin Muttin \( VU3TYG \)" <vu3tyg@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARISS special event thanks and suggestion
To: "amsat" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <B9C6CEDE62C9479D8CA29CF619A25267@xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
reply-type=original
Agree with Andy. The last few months have been fantastic for the Amateur
Radio ops on the ISS. Thanks ARISS Team and all those who made this
possible.Though the activity on this part of the world is less compared to
the rest it is a great feeling to work all these new modes.
73
Nitin [VU3TYG]
www.amsatindia.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "andy thomas" <andythomasmail@xxxxx.xx.xx>
To: "amsat" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 9:06 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISS special event thanks and suggestion
> My greatest thanks for this special ARISS event. It's new challenges
> encourage me to hone my equipment up to standard (which is arguably the
> serious point of the thing).
>
> My frustration has been that due to work commitments (which I do in my
> spare time from satellites, hi) I haven't had any time except weekends,
> and just got my 9k6 tnc adjusted so that it'll properly modulate my rig,
> and the 9k6 effort has now stopped.
>
> But I see that there's a programme gap between the 3rd and 15th of
> January?
>
> So I am sending this to the -bb because others may have their wish list
> too!!
>
> 73 de andy g0SFJ
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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>
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Message: 17
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:27:05 -0500
From: "Mark Lunday, WD4ELG" <mlunday@xx.xx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: SOLVED! RE: Re: Another newbie question
To: "'Tim Tapio'" <tim@xxxxxxxx.xxx>, "'Edward Cole'"
<kl7uw@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <004601c963a2$1bb7c550$53274ff0$@xx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Tim, Ed
In my case, I am not as practiced with hardware as I should be. I do a lot
more wire antenna work where it does not require delicacy...I am clumsy with
huge hands and bad near-vision (in the Far Side cartoons, they call it
"mechanically DE-clined."). I should be more comfortable, as part of the
Radio Amateur's creed and as an Amateur Extra since 1990, but focus on work
with travel 46 weeks a year has deteriorated my hardware skills. That added
to my impatience is a sort of handicap of sorts. Although it sure was
thrilling to get that preamp working late last nigh!
For sure, I have found that some sort of operator error or simple
explanation is the culprit...both with the radios and at work with computer
programming.
Mark Lunday
WD4ELG
wd4elg@xxxx.xxx
http://wd4elg.net
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