Date: Fri, 1 Jul 94 04:30:36 PDT From: Ham-Space Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Ham-Space-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Ham-Space@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: Ham-Space Digest V94 #173 To: Ham-Space Ham-Space Digest Fri, 1 Jul 94 Volume 94 : Issue 173 Today's Topics: AO-13 and Field Day (2 msgs) Newbie Experience with DOVE Satellite Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send subscription requests to: Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the Ham-Space Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/ham-space". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 30 Jun 1994 14:04:44 -0000 From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!sacsa3.mp.usbr.gov!ash.lab.r1.fws.gov!ash.lab.r1.fws.gov!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu Subject: AO-13 and Field Day To: ham-space@ucsd.edu davem@ee.ubc.ca (Dave Michelson) writes: >Did anyone else manage to work anybody through AO-13 on Field Day? >We heard the beacons loud and clear but the transponders were >absolutely silent. Was this just a case of a really bad squint angle >or was there something else going on? I was able to work 2 people in during the first 15 minutes of the contest. Since I only needed one, I didn't listen any longer. Tough job, huh!? Did you check the mode schedule? I noticed that a while back somebody in Italy reported that the bird was off between 0 and 80. The official reports say it's on, but when I listened during the week prior to FD, it didn't appear to be on until MA 80. I did hear the beacon though... -- Stu Mitchell stu@lab.r1.fws.gov USFWS Forensic Lab mitchellstu@fws.gov Ashland, Oregon wd4eck@w7oek *** These are my opinions, not the Government's *** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jun 94 08:49:50 CST From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!iat.holonet.net!vulcan!n4nr@network.ucsd.edu Subject: AO-13 and Field Day To: ham-space@ucsd.edu ve8ev@gov.nt.ca (John Boudreau) writes: > In article <1994Jun29.083523.6609@ee.ubc.ca> davem@ee.ubc.ca (Dave Michelson) > >Did anyone else manage to work anybody through AO-13 on Field Day? > > > We heard the beacons loud and clear but the transponders were > >absolutely silent. Was this just a case of a really bad squint angle > >or was there something else going on? > > > -- > >Dave Michelson ve7tsx > >davem@ee.ubc.ca > > > > Same here. I think it was the squint angle though. At about 1130UTC > I did manage to hear my own CW and a few other stations on the downlink > but signals were too weak for me to copy. It does seem strange that > it was not working at the beginning of the orbit. I had the beacon > at S-9 when it was already 11000 km out but nothing else was heard. > Oh well. Moving to attitude 180/0 on July 11 :-) :-) :-) :-) > ============================================================= > John Boudreau VE8EV INTERNET: ve8ev@amsat.org > Inuvik, NWT, CANADA PACKET: VE8EV@KL7GNG.#NAK.AK.USA.NA > ============================================================= > > Could it be that you were listening during the time that mode B was off? The schedule according to the cw beacon had mode b switched off for quite a while around perogee....This was never (to my knowledge) published in the written schedules, but when I copied the beacon, sure 'nuff...the command team said mode b was off around perogee....... as for contacts, we made 80 contacts, (42 on AO-13, 33 on AO-10 and 5 on FO-20) and we were using only cush-craft antennas......don't think that our differences in QTH would make much difference, as we both suffered poor squint angles and condx....maybe just unlucky timing? -- Dennis T. Dease internet - n4nr@vulcan.com (or n4nr@amsat.org) Pelham, Alabama, USA packet radio - n4nr@kd4cim.al.usa.na ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 17:51:11 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!battin@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Newbie Experience with DOVE Satellite To: ham-space@ucsd.edu In article <1994Jun27.154429.3566@radian.uucp>, Phil Riba (philr@radian.com) wrote: > Newbie Experience with DOVE Satellite > I finally decided to see if I could "catch" my first > satellite last week. Since DOVE is supposed to be so > easy to hear, I decided that it would be my target. > Everything you've heard about it is TRUE. I fired up > a tracking program, determined when the next pass would > be, and then turned on my ICOM handi-talkie. Right on > schedule, there it was saying, "HI, THIS IS DOVE IN SPACE." > Would could be easier? I thought I'd share my experience > with the net just in case there are any others out there > who have been wanting to try and hear a satellite first > hand, but haven't ever gotten around to it. [snip,snip] I want to thank you for this informative article. I heard DOVE today (around 11:40 am, EST) with a simple 1/4-wave ground-plane on my HTX-202, by following your advice to just monitor 145.825, since I don't have any tracking prog set up yet. I might mention that the DOVE team is interested in reports on how well simple equipment does at receiving the satellite - the last SpaceNews article has an internet address for sending reception reports, although I unfortunately didn't document my reception well enough to say anything other than that I _could_ hear it. Anyhow, thanks again for the neat info! -- Gene Battin, N9XAM battin@iucf.indiana.edu ------------------------------ End of Ham-Space Digest V94 #173 ******************************