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KP4IG > SAT 21.12.03 05:16l 36 Lines 1291 Bytes #999 (0) @ AMSAT
BID : ANS-355.08
Read: DB0FHN GUEST
Subj: PCSAT Ops Going Well
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Sent: 031221/0307Z @:KP4IG.#JD.PR.USA.NA #:20021 WFBB7.00i $:ANS-355.08
From: KP4IG@KP4IG.#JD.PR.USA.NA
To : SAT@AMSAT
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 355.08 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. December 21, 2003
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-355.08
PCsat is doing fine and will continue in good Sun through New Years Eve.
Seeing about 50 users per day and 30 per pass over the USA. Any packet
station can copy her, just tune 145.825 and watch (1200 baud normal AX.25
packet).
To transmit though her, just set your unproto to UNPROTO APRS VIA WIDE, go
to CONVERSE and type something to somone else you see. This is the same path
as APRS users use terrestrially. (RELAY, PCSAT-1 and W3ADO-1 also work)
See also all captured packets on the downlink on http://pcsat.aprs.org
Sapphire (45) is 10 minutes behind PCsat in the same orbit. Her uplink is
145.945 and very weak downlink is on 437.095 +/- Doppler. Her digi callsign
is VIA KE6QMD. ISS is not doing packet these days, but we can hope...
During travels, set your mobile to 145.825. When you hear one PCSAT pass,
the next one is exactly 100 minutes later and the NEXT day the same pass
is
30 minutes earlier. (And Sapphire is 10 minutes behind it but takes a UHF
beam to hear it on 437.095, though it is easy to hit on 145.945..)
[ANS thanks Bob, WB4APR for the above information]
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