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Today's Topics:
1. PCSAT-1 Recovery and OPS (Robert Bruninga)
2. Why Is It ? (PCSAT) (Matthew Stennett)
3. RE: Why Is It ? (PCSAT) (Robert Bruninga)
4. PCSAT-1 Special Event Thurs! (Robert Bruninga)
5. Re: Why Is It ? (PCSAT) (J T)
6. Icom IC-2200H data Jack (Rich Casey)
7. Re: Icom IC-2200H data Jack (John Galvin)
8. Re: Icom IC-2200H data Jack (John Habbinga)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:02:59 -0400
From: "Robert Bruninga" <bruninga_at_usna.edu>
Subject: [aprssig] PCSAT-1 Recovery and OPS
PCSAT-1 has been recovered as it entered better sun angles. You may even
see it in your mobile since it does have a downlink on 144.39. The uplink
for that digipeater is not published but is available for special needs if
desired. Otherwise the PCSAT-1 digipeater is on 145.825 up and down.
PCSAT-1 should remain NORMAL OPS for the next few weeks until it
experiences an overload and resets. Then we lose it till December. So we
ask that all users please adhere to these fundamental principles:
1) No unattended operations
2) No connections to or through PCSAT-1
3) UI digipeating and APRS packets only typically at 1 minute rates or so
4) Watch pcsat.aprs.org for live activity
5) Use the path of VIA PCSAT-1 or VIA ARISS
6) No operations after dark!
Enjoy PCSAT-1 and APRS! Make contacts, QSO, enjoy!
Just remember that ACKS are pretty useless and only add QRM to the channel.
So do not expect ACKS via the satellite. If you see your outgoing packet
digipeated by PCSAT-1 a few times then you should ASSUME that the other
person got it and delete it yourself. By the same token, if someone sends
you a message, then ANSWER him in kind, so that he knows you got it.
See web page PCSAT.APRS.ORG or Google for PCSAT.
De WB4APR, Bob
US Naval Academy Satellite Lab
>-----Original Message-----
>From: amsat-bb-bounces_at_amsat.org
>[mailto:amsat-bb-bounces_at_amsat.org] On Behalf Of Robert Bruninga
>Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 9:42 AM
>To: amsat-bb_at_amsat.org
>Subject: [amsat-bb] PCSAT-1 Recovery and OPS
>
>AMSAT-BB:
>
>Users please refrain from any packets TO or VIA W3ADO-1.
>
>We are trying to recover PCSAT-1 (NO-44). We only have one shot
>per day at a given lattitude and a given orbit when the sun
>angles are just perfect.. We were trying to recover today and
>would have been successful, but there were other signals on the
>air. These packets consumed all available power while we were
>trying to connnect the command link and made the link impossible.
>
>We ask that ALL USERS not send any packets via the W3ADO-1
>default callsign. This callsign means PCSAT-1 is in RESET
>condition and is power negative. If we can recover it this
>week, then PCSAT-1 will be useable for several weeks, but we
>only have a few day window during which this recovery is
>possible. This can only work if there is no contention on the
>uplink.
>
>Please do not use W3ADO-1 in any way until it has been
>receovered. If you see the callsign PCSAT-1, then you are
>welcome to use it. But until then, we need every single packet
>worth of power to try to get in on the command link and get it
>set up for users.
>
>So if it is using W3ADO-1, then that means it has not been set
>to low power mode and has not been receoverd. If it is using
>PCSAT-1, then that means we have turned it over to users.
>
>I am glad to see users interested in using the bird. We are
>hopeful that we can recover it this week and then maybe get a
>few weeks of continuous use out of her. As always, unattended
>beacons are not welcome at this time.
>
>See pcsat.aprs.org
>
>Thanks
>
>Bob
>WB4APR
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:58:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matthew Stennett <wa4tkg_at_yahoo.com>
Subject: [aprssig] Why Is It ? (PCSAT)
I don't see myself on the HEARD List of PCSAT, even though I CLEARLY made
the Pass that JUST WENT OVER ? No sooner did I read that PCSAT was on
again, set up APRS to run, and INSTANTLY HEARD the Sat passing...woopie!
Now, if I just saw SOMETHING Post on the Screen, I would have been MORE
happy.
PCSAT-1>BEACON,SGATE:>261244z PCSAT-1 Lives! Should be good for 3 weeks or
more
WA4TKG>APM372,PCSAT-1*:=3016.53N/08126.23WyPHG8196/MacAPRS 3.7.2 -FLDUVJAX
-372-<4b6>
>xmit To VHF>:KB1GVR-9 :GOTCHA !{000
KB1GVR-9>APK002,PCSAT-1*::WA4TKG :Thx for Call,73
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:27:36 -0400
From: "Robert Bruninga" <bruninga_at_usna.edu>
Subject: RE: [aprssig] Why Is It ? (PCSAT)
>I don't see myself on the HEARD List of PCSAT, even
>though I CLEARLY made the Pass that JUST WENT OVER ?
Because we don't have enough Igates forwarding the dowlink into the APRS
system. PCSAT-1 has been dormant for 6 months so the Igates probably went
elsewhere. But maybe they will come back for this 3 week period. Any
Igate can serve as a SATGATE, just do your normal Igate thing, but tune to
145.825 instead of 144.39. But TURN OFF ALL IGATING TO RF!!!
One improperly set up Igate can ruin it for everyone.
Thanks!
Bob
WB4APR
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:32:07 -0400
From: "Robert Bruninga" <bruninga_at_usna.edu>
Subject: [aprssig] PCSAT-1 Special Event Thurs!
APRSSIG PCSAT-1 Special Event
We'd like to demo PCSAT-1 to students on this Thursday 28 Sept at 0923 EDT
and 1112 EDT over the eastern USA. This is normal APRS (or UI) digipeating
via the digipeater callsign of PCSAT-1 (or VIA ARISS) on the Space APRS
channel of 145.825. Our callsign is W3ADO-15. Here is what we would like
to see:
1) Attended stns set APRS posit rate to 2 minutes (til successful)
2) Unattended stations set APRS posit rate to 5 minutes
3) Include in your POSIT text these items:
a) ur name, TX power and ANT Gain
b) some reference to this event (like GO Navy! Etc)
c) Example might be: "Bob,2min,5W,3dBi omni, BeatArmy"
With this info, my students will plot your APRS posit and can calculate the
link equation for your station and we can see the statistics of how well
weak as well as strong stations get in. Please adhere to your stated rate
for the POSIT text. Our station, W3ADO-15 will QSL your packets.
If you are attended and you get more than 5 successes, cut your period (and
change your posit text) to 5 minutes. The objective is to see how many
people we can capture, not how many times you can get in!
If you are NOT running APRS, here is how to use ANY TNC to participate:
1) Set your UNPROTO to APRS VIA PCSAT-1
2) Set Btext w GRID square "[FM19sx]Joe,5min,5W,8dBi,Hi mids!"
3) Set your BEACON to every 5 minutes.
Notice that the grid square must be 6 digits or some APRS will not decode
them.
I hope we get plenty of participation. Of course, TOO MUCH participation
coiuld kill it too. But we will see how it goes.
Thanks, WB4APR, Bob
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:32:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: J T <w0jrt_at_yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Why Is It ? (PCSAT)
In order for it to show up on that web page an I-gate (satgate) needed to
hear the packet, too. Since PC-SAT has been inop for a while and only
recently became semi-usable again, many of the I-gates may not be on right
now. Hopefully that'll improve in the next few days. Try again on the
next pass.
-Jerome, W0JRT
>Matthew Stennett <wa4tkg_at_yahoo.com> wrote: I don't see myself on the
>HEARD List of PCSAT, even though I CLEARLY made the Pass that JUST WENT
>OVER ?
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:38:26 -0500
From: "Rich Casey" <rich_at_richcasey.net>
Subject: [aprssig] Icom IC-2200H data Jack
Hi!
I picked up an Icom IC-2200H on sale to replace my aging Kenwood TM-251 for
my APRS weather station but am a little confused on the data jack. Could
someone tell me which pins I use on the DB-9 that connects to the Kantronics
KPC-3+?
Thanks and 73
Rich
Rich Casey
Amateur Radio N5CSU
Dallas, Texas
www.richcasey.net
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:15:25 -0500
From: John Galvin <jrgalvin2_at_gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Icom IC-2200H data Jack
Rich,
Check through these diagrams. I would think it connects like a 2100.
73, John
http://www.packetradio.com/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?keywords=icom&search.x=55&search=
.y10&search=action
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
John Galvin - N5TIM
jrgalvin2_at_gmail.com
JUNK - Stuff we throw away. STUFF - junk we keep.
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:19:28 -0500
From: "John Habbinga" <kc5zrq_at_gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Icom IC-2200H data Jack
The data jack on the IC-2200H is for use with D-STAR low-speed data. It is
not an audio in/out connection. If your radio is equipped with the UT-118
D-STAR module, then you can use it to communicate digitally (both data and
voice) with another D-STAR equipped radio.
For AX.25 packet/APRS you will need to use the speaker output and the
microphone input.
--
John Habbinga, KC5ZRQ
Lubbock, Texas
http://find-you.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=KC5ZRQ*
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