Date: Thu, 13 Oct 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: List Subject: Ham-Space Digest V94 #289 To: Ham-Space Ham-Space Digest Thu, 13 Oct 94 Volume 94 : Issue 289 Today's Topics: NASCOM retransmit when? What are these?? WINSAT AMSAT Software Question 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: 13 Oct 1994 00:38:22 GMT From: ai@iol.ie (Astronomy Ireland) Subject: NASCOM retransmit when? The Goddard Amateur radio club retransmit NASCOM on HF. Are their transmissions only available while a Shuttle is up as I may want to test a scanner in the very near future. Thanks. -- David Moore BSc FRAS, Editor of "Astronomy & Space" magazine. (ai@iol.ie) Chairman, Astronomy Ireland, P.O.Box 2888, Dublin 1. Tel: +353-1-459 8883. Fax: +353-1-459 9933. ________Irish News: 1550-111-442 (calls cost upto 58p/minute)________ _____U.K.: 0891-88-1950 (39p/min cheap, 49p/min all other times)_____ ------------------------------ Date: 12 Oct 94 14:53:35 GMT From: neill.p.taylor@aea.ORGn.UK (Neill Taylor) Subject: What are these?? Gary Rogers wrote: >Reading through the Kep lists, I keep seeing satellites that are >unknown to me. In the list group "OSCAR", I see UO-11. In the list >group "Micros", I see UO-14 and ........ UO-11 is UoSAT-2/OSCAR-11 from the University of Surrey. Launched over 10 years ago but still going strong. No uplink for the "public" use, although the Digital Communications Experiment (DCE) was the first successful amateur satellite store-and-forward facility and linked packet networks in many countries. Still sends data on 145.826 MHz at 1200 baud including news bulletins, and is very easy to decode. This satellite has been extremely popular with school groups over the years because of the simplicity of the ground station needed. UO-14 is UoSAT-3/OSCAR-14, which was the first of the 9600 baud microsats. However it also carried a non-amateur package (a VITA project, I think) and eventually the bird was switched to 100% non-amateur use so that UO-22 could become 100% amateur, where it gave better service. There was also a UO-15, launched at the same time, but sadly it failed shortly after launch. Neill G4HLX ------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Neill P. Taylor UKAEA Government Division Fusion D3 Culham, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB, UK. Internet: neill.p.taylor@aea.orgn.uk Tel: +44 1235 463348 Fax: +44 1235 463435 ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: 12 Oct 1994 09:49:02 -0400 From: mhogan@aol.com (MHOGAN) Subject: WINSAT AMSAT Software Question In article , sem2r@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Stacey E. Mills) writes: It won't do it. You'll have to use logSat for windows if you want as much info as IT provides. To update, Add, sats just update file from an AMSAT FORMAT file. otherwise it will just dupe the current sats. It does not like any other format of keps. Logsat is available on C-serve hannet forum and AOL ham radio forum. Version 2.41 will be here soon. If registered it gives future scheduals etc. I have both programs and the LogSat is far superior to WinSat. That is a shame because winsat is pretty fast. I access from AOL so I dont know any othere way to get the program. Send me a disk and mailer and I'll make you a copy, less registration number. The author has written me that I should have 2.41 real soon. Mark Hogan, N5OBC P.O. Box 2437 Broken Arrow, OK 74013 ------------------------------ End of Ham-Space Digest V94 #289 ******************************