Date: Wed, 3 Aug 94 04:30:26 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 #213 To: Ham-Space Ham-Space Digest Wed, 3 Aug 94 Volume 94 : Issue 213 Today's Topics: Oscar 10 questions Sat freqs 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: 2 Aug 1994 15:51:01 -0500 From: cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail@uunet.uu.net Subject: Oscar 10 questions To: ham-space@ucsd.edu Question #1: The Satellite Experimenter's Handbook says not to use Oscar 10 if the beason doesn't transmit a pure tone. On Sunday night the beacon sounded very distorted. As an experiment I tried sending a CQ in the passband and could hear myself on the downlink loud and clear. (nobody else was on the satellite) Question #1: Is it really true that I should avoid transmitting to Oscar 10 when the beacon does not transmit a pure tone? Instant Track indicates that the Oscar 10 antennas are almost always severely off-pointed from earth (more than 90 degrees most of the time) Question #2: Are the Oscar 10 antennas omnidirectional enough to allow reliable contacts when the offpointing angle is large? - Wayne Estes WD5FFH wayne@csg.mot.com -- Wayne A. Estes Motorola Asia-Pacific Cellular Subscriber Division 600 N. U.S. Hwy. 45, Rm. A-S345 Libertyville, IL 60048-1286 PHONE: 1-708-523-2386 Z-MAIL: wayne@csg.mot.com FAX: 1-708-523-8795 POST: w10191@email.mot.com ------------------------------ Date: 2 Aug 94 14:42:38 GMT From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu Subject: Sat freqs To: ham-space@ucsd.edu Message: In Ham-Space Digest, V94 #212, Edson (ewp@world.std.com) writes: >Anyone could post the frequencies of the digital satellites? A really good FAQ can be downloaded by E-mail from the ARRL Server. Send the following: To: Info@ARRL.org Subject: (nl) Message: send faqsat.txt quit While you're at it, also ask for the Help and Index files. Just put "quit" as the last command. Hope this helps. Gary, WA4YMZ Gary Rogers@DGC.ceo.dg.com "My opinions are my own!" ------------------------------ End of Ham-Space Digest V94 #213 ******************************