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- Subject: Info-Hams Digest V93 #1318
- To: Info-Hams
-
-
- Info-Hams Digest Sun, 7 Nov 93 Volume 93 : Issue 1318
-
- Today's Topics:
- 10m equip
- ANS-310 BULLETINS
- BAUD VS BAUDS
- Bird watt-meters can't be exported?
- Homosaturation
- How to calibrate a DVM
- MorseTrainer for Mac
- Need ALASKA for 75m WAS
- Observations on Kenwood TH-78
- PK232 vs Kenwood
- Radio Shack HTs
- Scanner for sale from Canada
- Sony HVC-2500 Video Camera Pinouts?
- We've lost him, Jim!
- WW-DX Fone 93 QSL info collection
-
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-
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- (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/info-hams".
-
- 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: Fri, 5 Nov 93 19:29:00 -0400
- From: news.service.uci.edu!paris.ics.uci.edu!csulb.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!darwin.sura.net!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!uvaarpa!pplace!chris.myers@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: 10m equip
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- Hey, if anybody has any "cheap" (guess that's relative huh? :) 10m
- equip for sale let me know...
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 7 Nov 93 17:20:50 GMT
- From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
- Subject: ANS-310 BULLETINS
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-310.01
- DOVE-OSCAR-17 RETURNS TO 2M!
-
- HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 310.01 FROM AMSAT HQ
- SILVER SPRING, MD NOVEMBER 6, 1993
- TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
- BID: $ANS-310.01
-
- DOVE-OSCAR-17 (DO-17) Returns To 2M: DOVE RECOVERY BEGINS!
-
- DOVE is currently up and running on 2M. It is sending normal ASCII tele-
- metry and a short text bulletins on 145.825 MHz. A very quick look at
- telemetry indicates the spacecraft is basically healthy. The DOVE Recovery
- Team of Bob Diersing (N5HAD), Bill McCaa (K0RZ), and Jim White (WD0E) have
- been working very intensively for about 10 days to create and test new
- software that allowed automated software loading via 2M in a half-duplex
- mode. This replaces the "ear-ack on S-Band" method N4HY had used in the
- past that was so difficult as to be a barrier to recovery.
-
- WD0E and the DOVE Recovery Team would like to receive telemetry reports.
- Please send them to vk7zbx@KO-23, @AO-16 or on INTERNET to vk7zbx@amsat.org
- or to wd0e@amsat.org, or to the CompuServe address of 71477,546. The most
- recent version of TLMDCII (3-8-92) will decode and record DOVE telemetry
- very nicely. For more information about obtaining a copy of the TLMDC
- program, contact AMSAT-NA HQs at (301) 589-6062. After the DOVE Recovery
- Team is sure the satellite is stable in this configuration and the RF
- transmitter power targets are established, the next step will be to load up
- through PHTX and test the voice module. Depending on the condition of the
- spacecraft and other issues, this could take several weeks.
-
- WD0E would like to express sincere thanks to Bob Diersing for all of his
- hard work creating a RAM loader, and Bill McCaa for the many passes of S-
- band and two meter receive he provided (often late into the night). It
- could not have been done without their enthusiastic efforts. Also, thanks
- to Harold Price (NK6K) for providing the the developement system hardware,
- software, and a good deal of coaching. His contributions were invaluable.
-
- Given a reasonably healthy satellite, WD0E is confident we can make DOVE
- talk as he described at the AMSAT-NA Space Symposium in Dallas a few weeks
- ago.
-
- [The AMSAT News Service (ANS) would like to thank Jim White (WD0E) for this
- bulletin item. If you would like to send DOVE telemetry to Jim, again, his
- INTERNET address is wd0e@amsat.org and his CompuServe address is 71477,546.]
-
- /EX
- SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-310.02
- ITAMSAT-OSCAR-26 STATUS REPORT
-
- HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 310.02 FROM AMSAT HQ
- SILVER SPRING, MD NOVEMBER 6, 1993
- TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
- BID: $ANS-310.02
-
- IW3QOK Provides An Update On ITAMSAT-OSCAR-26 (IO-26)
-
- First of all IW3QOK wants to apologize to all those who have sent their
- status reports and telemetry data about IO-26 satellite to him without
- having had any response come back from him. IW3QOK reports that he has not
- enough time to read all the messages to answer each individually, nor to
- follow the all the discussions concerning IO-26. For those who have sent
- in these telemetry and status reprots to IW3QOK, he notes that he has
- found them to be quite invaluable and they contribute greatly to making
- IO-26 an even more interesting and useful satellite from the user's point
- of view.
-
- The telemetry data received so far shows that all systems are working
- properly and that IO-26 is presently in a good health. The Bulletin Board
- System (BBS) has been opened, as the most of you already know, and the
- number of users of IO-26 is growing rapidly as each day passes.
-
- It is well known that IO-26 is presently in a state of low power con-
- sumption, and consequently the RF power output from the transmitter is
- about 250 mW. This is NOT a problem, but has been implemented because of
- battery considerations and also because its signal is already very good and
- quite readable. Two days ago an Italian command station, in Milano,
- increased the RF output power of the 70cm transmiter to its maximum value
- (approx. 4W) as a test for a few minutes. Everything worked fine during
- this test. The Battery Charge Regualator (BCR) is working well and the
- solar panels are charging the batteries regularly. Recently IW3QOK
- received some questions about why the array voltage was so low (around 11V)
- with respect to the other MICROSATs. The answer is very simple: IO-26 uses
- highly efficient solar array panels that have a lower voltage than those
- used on the other MICROSATs so it is not necessary for you to worry about
- this issue. Another question which IW3QOK receives many inquiries about is
- the very high value presented by the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC)
- telemetry counter. His theory is that there must be a little "bug" in the
- telemetry sofware and ITAMSAT's main working group (in Milano) is already
- working to solve this problem.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1993 21:08:29 +0000
- From: sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!demon!llondel.demon.co.uk!dave@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: BAUD VS BAUDS
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <CFyxCL.H5A@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> k2ph@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (The QRPer) writes:
- >
- >No. It's very much like saying "trees." Take a look at V.32, for
- >example. Take a look at ETSI DTR/TM-3017.
- >
- >There are some words that are both singular and plural. Baud is
- >not one of them. Bauds is the one word to have when you're having
- >more than one. :-)
- >
- I reckon it *is* a single word 'baud' for both cases, but that might be the
- difference between English English and American English.
-
- Dave
- --
-
- *****************************************************************************
- * G4WRW @ GB7WRW.#41.GBR.EU AX25 * Start at the beginning. Go on *
- * dave@llondel.demon.co.uk Internet * until the end. Then stop. *
- * g4wrw@g4wrw.ampr.org Amprnet * (the king to the white rabbit) *
- *****************************************************************************
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 4 Nov 93 13:06:48 CST
- From: timbuk.cray.com!hemlock.cray.com!cherry10!dadams@uunet.uu.net
- Subject: Bird watt-meters can't be exported?
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In article 011193210015@slip-3-15.ots.utexas.edu, miles@mbs.telesys.utexas.edu (Miles Abernathy) writes:
- | > : >>>>So, what's with the "Not available for export" notation across the
- | > : >>>>photo of the Bird meter in the Barry ads? Too delicate? Upsets
- | > : >>>>someone's monopoly? Munitions? Classified equipment?
- | > : >>>
- | > : >>>The meter would have to be recalibrated to read foreign watts.
- | > : >>>
- | > : >>> Greg
- | >
- |>
- |> : >>Don't be silly. There is no such thing as foreign watts.
- |>
- |> : >>For export, you need to recalibrate the Bird wattmeters to read
- |> : >>in voltage watts, not current watts.
- |>
- |>
- |> : no, boys and girls. the problem is that the coriolis effect would have the
- |> : meter rotating backwards in the southern hemisphere.
- |>
- |> Does that mean that it won't work when you're exactly over the equator?
- |
- |Not only that, but it will not work at the exact center of the Earth.
- |= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
- | _ Miles Abernathy, N5KOB =
- | | |__ miles@mbs.telesys.utexas.edu =
- |_| | POB 7580, Austin TX 78713 =
- |\ * / University of Texas @ Austin =
- | \/ tel. (512) 471-6521 U.S.A. =
- |= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
-
- That is why NASA had to instal anti-coriolators to use their meters on
- the moon.
-
- ---
- ______
- Sourdough and Ham KG0IO/AE | | |
- | | | obten comida,
- --David C. Adams dadams@cray.com | | | y sal de aqui!
- Statistician \____/
- Cray Research Inc. (____)
- .:. .
- . . :.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 5 Nov 93 21:47:01 GMT
- From: ogicse!emory!darwin.sura.net!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!murdoch!livia.acs.Virginia.EDU!jeg7e@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Homosaturation
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <931104203431_5@ccm.hf.intel.com>,
- Cecil A Moore <Cecil_A_Moore@ccm.hf.INTel.COM> wrote:
- >>Support immorality or we will sue you, this seems to be the gay's message.
- >
- >Hey guys, could we change this thread to talk about Hams with bipolar
- >personalities who ride Harleys and are members of Mensa? That would be
- >a lot more interesting to me.
-
- You're a stuck up, self important, schizophrenic, biker Amateur?
-
- :)
- --
- Any opinions expressed herein are not intended to be construed as those of UVA
- ______________________________________________________________________________
- ______
- \ \ / Jon Gefaell, Computer Systems Engineer | Amateur Radio - KD4CQY
- \/\/ Systems Research, ITC OSSSD/Carruthers Hall | -Will chmod for food-
- \/ The University of Virginia, Charlottesville | Hacker@Virginia.EDU
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1993 00:53:12 GMT
- From: news.kpc.com!amd!amdahl!netcomsv!netcom.com!btoback@decwrl.dec.com
- Subject: How to calibrate a DVM
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <CFz6rL.AxL@tc.fluke.COM> rem@tc.fluke.COM (Randy Mather) writes:
- >In article <2b3ol3$nph@gdls.gdls.com> turini@gdls.com (Bill Turini) writes:
- >
- >>I have three digital voltmeters in my shack, none of which agree with the
- >>others.
- >>
- >>The problem I have is how to calibrate the voltage. I have heard that
- >>mercury cells like those used in cameras are quite stable and consistent
- >>in voltage and that they can be used to calibrate a meter. Has anyone had
- >>experience with this? Will it work? Is there a better way?
- >
- >One thing you can do is find a meter that has been calibrated recently
- >say from a friend or at work and check the meters against it. Using
- >mercury cells can be tricky and not all meters are alike.
-
- One other thing you can do is send one of the three DVMs to a calibration
- lab and pay the $50 or so they'll charge you. Then calibrate the other
- two using the first as a standard. Not cheap or clever, but straightforward.
-
- -- Bruce Toback
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1993 22:59:26 GMT
- From: news.kpc.com!amd!amdahl!netcomsv!netcom.com!msattler@decwrl.dec.com
- Subject: MorseTrainer for Mac
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- Kenneth E. Harker (kharker@bnr.ca) wrote:
-
- : Stuffit Expander is a very useful freeware utility, as it can
- : decompress both .sit and .cpt archives, and it supports
- : drag-and-drop.
-
- *And* it does the BinHex conversion for you as well. Drag a
- foo.#.hqx (where # is "cpt", "sit", or "sea") and you'll see
- Stuffit Expander perform a two-pass transformation: the first
- will BinHex, the second will decompress. You'll have to then
- throw away the first two states, lest your hard disk fill up.
-
- :-) M
- --
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Michael S. Sattler msattler@netcom.com +1 (415) 621-2903
- Digital Jungle Software Encrypt now; ask me how. (finger for PGP key)
-
- All that is required for evil to triumph is
- for {wo}men of good will to do nothing.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 7 Nov 93 16:03:26 GMT
- From: ogicse!emory!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!gilbaronw0mn@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Need ALASKA for 75m WAS
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- I hope you get your Alaska station. Believe it or not by hard to get was
- Nebraska. I haven't been on for a while and probably should since lts want
- the stae abbreviation. If anyone needs my calll send me a note.
-
- Gil Baron, El Baron Rojo, W0MN Rochester,MN
- "Bailar es Vivir"
- PGP2.X key at key servers or upon request
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 7 Nov 93 16:04:04 GMT
- From: ogicse!emory!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!gilbaronw0mn@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Observations on Kenwood TH-78
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- >What about the Yaesu FT-530. Whould that be a comparable rig? Better? or
- >Worse? Has anyone used the FT-530. Can it be modified? Does the rx range
- >go below 130 MHz.
-
- I have a 530 and it does receive the aircraft band. There are to things to
- think about though. The sensitivity in the aircraft band is abysmal and it
- does require a mod to do that. If you can't unsolder a pad that is only a
- little bigger than a period on a line of text then be prepared to pay over
- 100 dollars (they were charging 160 for all dual bands at the recent hamfest
- in Minneapolis) to have it done for you. That is a rip off and I beleive
- that Yaesu should be soundly ripped for not shipping the radio with at least
- the wide band recieve enabled. The advertising is EXTREMELY misleading on
- that.
-
- Gil Baron, El Baron Rojo, W0MN Rochester,MN
- "Bailar es Vivir"
- PGP2.X key at key servers or upon request
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 5 Nov 1993 01:22:05 GMT
- From: news.centerline.com!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!gilbaronw0mn@uunet.uu.net
- Subject: PK232 vs Kenwood
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- I found that you must unplug the mike or you get this problme on my ts440.
- It might help. Also set the output from the 2323 high so that the gain on
- the kenwood can be low.
-
- Gil Baron, El Baron Rojo, W0MN Rochester,MN
- "Bailar es Vivir"
- PGP2.X key at key servers or upon request
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 7 Nov 93 16:03:44 GMT
- From: ogicse!emory!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!gilbaronw0mn@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Radio Shack HTs
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- >Has anyone done any real tests on HT's to see if any are more
- >sensitive to intermod than others?
-
- Well not scientific but my FT530 does get lots of intermod in downtown
- Mminneapolis and even some around my home area of Rochester,MN. The radio
- shcack that I used to have did not but I don't care. The features of the 530
- make it so much more useful that I can put up with it. It will never clear
- up since if you make it narrow band you can't receive the wide stuff and so
- they will always be worse. It would be possible to improve but the cost
- would be astronomical.
-
- Gil Baron, El Baron Rojo, W0MN Rochester,MN
- "Bailar es Vivir"
- PGP2.X key at key servers or upon request
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 6 Nov 93 20:32:08 GMT
- From: paris.ics.uci.edu!csulb.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cyber2.cyberstore.ca!vanbc.wimsey.com!deep.rsoft.bc.ca!@news.service.uci.edu
- Subject: Scanner for sale from Canada
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- REALISTIC RADIO SHACK SCANNER
- 300 CHANNEL PRO-2004 VHF-UHF
- DIRECT ENTRY PROGRAMMABLE AM FM RECEIVER
- MODIFIABLE TO RECEIVE CELLULAR FREQUENCIES
- CAN BE UP GRADED TO PRO-2006 WITH SIMPLE MODIFICATIONS
- ASKING PRICE $275.00 FIRM
- INQUIRES PLEASE LEAVE NET-MAIL
- Please note Scanner has been modified to receive cellular and works perfectly
- As well scanner can be simply modified to upgrade to the PRO-2006 level.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1993 15:01:45 GMT
- From: europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!col.hp.com!srgenprp!news.dtc.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!cupnews0.cup.hp.com@library.ucla.edu
- Subject: Sony HVC-2500 Video Camera Pinouts?
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- I just picked up a Sony HVC-2500 Video camera which I want to
- use for my ATV station. Anyone know the pinout information for
- this camera?
-
- Pin1 > x x x x < Pin 4
- x x x x
-
- x x x x
- x x
-
- Thanks in advance for any help!
-
- Steve King
- (KD7RO)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 93 22:30:43 EST
- From: news.centerline.com!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet@uunet.uu.net
- Subject: We've lost him, Jim!
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- This is a little off-topic, but I've been able to work RS-10 from
- a parked car, using 10 watts of 2 meter SSB into a 1/4 wave mag mount, and for
- the downlink I just used a CB whip to monitor 29 mhz.
-
- For RS-12 I've made several contacts using just an Icom 735, a ten meter
- wire dipole and a small tuner to feed 21 mhz safely into a 29 mhz antenna.
- I put the 15 meter uplink into one VFO and the 10 meter downlink into
- the other VFO, and pressed the "split" button. Yes, I could not hear
- myself on the downlink, but I usually can work the longer North-to-South
- passes that are of 15+ minutes.
-
- Enough bragging... 73 from Leigh/KM6JE in Santa Barbara.
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 7 Nov 93 15:55:02 GMT
- From: ogicse!emory!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!hal!rab@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: WW-DX Fone 93 QSL info collection
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <1993Nov02.132819.4046@news.tu-ilmenau.de> tom@systemtechnik.tu-ilmenau.de (Thomas Planke) lists QSL info for the ww dx fone 1993 contest:
-
- Thanks for the info, Thomas. The only info I can add is as follows:
-
- >5Z4BI W4FRU
- >8R1K OH0XX
- >9K2ZZ W8CNL
- >N6VI/KH6 Martin A. Woll, 59-768 Kanalani Place, Haleiwa, HI 96712 U.S.A.
- >P40W N2MM
- >ZF2JI KG6AR
-
- I need help with these:
-
- CQ9M
- TM1K
- HK0HEU
- HR1ERL
- IO2L
- J37K
- L40A
- LX1KC
- OH2X
- OH0DX
- OM3KAG
- P40L
- PJ1B
- ZY5C
- CH6ITT
- VY9QR
- ZP80A
-
- 73, Roger AA8DV
-
- --
- Roger Bielefeld, Ph.D. Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Assistant Professor Case Western Reserve University
- rab@hal.cwru.edu Cleveland, Ohio USA
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: (null)
- From: (null)
- Again IW3QOK would like thank all those who have sent him telemetry and it
- is his hope that you will continue to enjoy using IO-26.
-
- [The AMSAT News Service (ANS) would like to thank IW3QOK for this bulletin
- item.]
-
- /EX
- SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-310.03
- AMSAT OPS NET SCHEDULE
-
- HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 310.03 FROM AMSAT HQ
- SILVER SPRING, MD NOVEMBER 6, 1993
- TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
- BID: $ANS-310.03
-
- Current AMSAT Operations Net Schedule For AO-13
-
- AMSAT Operations Nets are planned for the following times. Mode-B Nets
- are conducted on AO-13 on a downlink frequency of 145.950 MHz. If, at the
- start of the OPS Net, the frequency of 145.950 MHz is being used for a QSO,
- OPS Net enthusiasts are asked to move to the alternate frequency of 145.955
- MHz.
-
- Date UTC Mode Phs NCS Alt NCS
-
- 13-Nov-93 1230 B 146 VE2LVC W5IU
- 28-Nov-93 0230 B 39 WJ9F VE2LVC
- 12-Dec-93 0435 B 180 W9ODI WB6LLO
-
- Any stations with information on current events would be most welcomed.
- Also, those interested in discussing technical issues or who have questions
- about any particular aspect of OSCAR statellite operations, are encouraged
- to join the OPS Nets. In the unlikely event that either the Net Control
- Station (NCS) or the alternate do not call on frequency, any participant is
- invited to act as the NCS.
-
- **************************************
-
- Slow Scan Television on AO-13
-
- SSTV sessions will be held on immediately after the OPS Nets a downlink
- on a Mode-B downlink frequency 145.960 MHz.
-
- /EX
- SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-310.04
- WEEKLY OSCAR STATUS REPORTS
-
- HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 310.04 FROM AMSAT HQ
- SILVER SPRING, MD NOVEMBER 6, 1993
- TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
- BID: $ANS-310.04
-
- Weekly OSCAR Status Reports: 06-NOV-93
-
- AO-13: Current Transponder Operating Schedule:
- M QST *** AO-13 TRANSPONDER SCHEDULE *** 1993 Oct 25-Nov 15
- Mode-B : MA 0 to MA 130 !
- Mode-BS : MA 130 to MA 180 !
- Mode-S : MA 180 to MA 205 !<- S transponder; B trsp. is OFF
- Mode-S : MA 205 to MA 210 !<- S beacon only
- Mode-BS : MA 210 to MA 226 ! Blon/Blat 210/0
- Omnis : MA 240 to MA 80 ! Move to attitude 240/0, Nov 15
- Please don't uplink to Mode-B between MA 180-205 as this interferes with
- Mode-S transponder operations. Continuous up-to-date information about
- AO-13 operations is always available on the beacons at 145.812 MHz and
- 2400.646 MHz in CW, RTTY and 400 bps PSK. Also, these bulletins are also
- posted to INTERNET, ANS bulletins, Packet, PACSATs, as well as many inter-
- national newsletters. In additional notes about AO-13, G3RUH reports the
- following: the partial solar eclipse of 13-NOV-93 [Sat] (visible from
- Antarctica) also affects AO-13. AO-13 will see the Moon eclipse the Sun
- from 13:33 - 15:13 UTC with a maximum of 89% obscuration at 14:16 UTC. This
- will be Orbit 4148, with MA 171-208. The encounter will be "visible" on
- the spacecraft telemetry to stations in the entire Pacific area, Australia
- and Japan, and the US west coast. US stations east of Salt Lake City will
- have LOS during the encounter, seeing less the further east they are. AO-
- 13 is not in view of Europe at this time. It will not be necessary to shut
- down the transponders on this occasion because Mode-S is ON, and consumes
- little power. The 145 MHz telemetry beacon will be available up to MA 205
- and will continue on S-band. The Whole Orbit Data (WOD) collection facil-
- ity will dwell on battery voltage at 1 MA intervals. On the issue of Solar
- Eclipses by the sun: these commence on 07-DEC-1993 [Tue] and continue until
- 24-DEC-93 [Fri]. These eclipses are of course total. The maximum lasts
- 136 minutes, and is the longest AO-13 has ever experienced. The Mode-B
- transponder will be OFF from MA 95 to 180 during this two week period. The
- WOD collection facility will dwell on interesting sensor points. Anybody
- requiring a specific value to be monitored should contact a command station
- with details of parameter wanted, start time, and MA interval. Up to 384
- samples can be taken per K-block. [G3RUH/DB2OS/VK5AGR]
-
- DOVE: DO-17 currently sending AX.25 packet telemetry on a downlink
- frequency of 145.825 MHz. [WD0HHU]
-
- AO-16: Operating normally. [WH6I]
-
- UO-22: Operating normally. [WH6I]
-
- LO-19: Operating normally. [WH6I]
-
- KO-23: Up and running. Busy as usual. [WH6I]
-
- KO-25: File system is up but not open for uploads. It appears that the
- satellite has taken an EIS image but it is not available. [WH6I]
-
- AO-27: No information received but it is assumed that this spacecraft is
- still in the testing phase. ANS will present further information when
- received. [W3XO]
-
- IO-26: Up and running with a lot of activity. The signal is weaker than
- AO-16 or LO-19 but good throughput is still possible. The following
- table is just a "quick-review" of the IO-26 frequencies: TXA PSK=
- 435.867 MHz, TXB PSK/FM=435.827 MHz, RX #1=145.875 MHz, RX #2=
- 145.900 MHz, RX #3=145.925 MHz, RX #4=145.950 MHz. [IK2OVV]
-
- FO-20: The following is the transponder operating schedule for the month of
- November and December:
- ANALOG Mode-J Voice & CW Operations:
- 10-NOV-93 09:23 -TO- 11-NOV-93 07:51 UTC
- 17-NOV-93 07:44 -TO- 18-NOV-93 08:15 UTC
- 24-NOV-93 08:20 -TO- 25-NOV-93 08:38 UTC
- 01-DEC-93 08:43 -TO- 08-DEC-93 07:16 UTC
- 15-DEC-93 07:41 -TO- 22-DEC-93 08:05 UTC
- Please note that that at all other times FO-20 will be in the digital BBS
- mode. In December, the analog transponder and digital transponder will
- each be turned-on for a week period, ALTERNATELY! For those who want to
- try working FO-20 in the voice mode the following are the passband fre-
- quencies of the analog transponder: Uplink passband: 145.900 MHz -->
- 146.000 MHz. Downlink passband: 435.900 MHz --> 435.800 MHz. The
- telemetry beacon can be heard at 435.795 MHz. The analog transponder
- inverts all up-linked signals. LSB on the uplink becomes USB on the
- downlink. A signal in the lower portion of the uplink passband appears
- in the upper portion of the downlink passband. For more information, see
- the September QST, p 104. [JJ1WTK/3]
-
- The AMSAT NEWS Service (ANS) is looking for volunteers to contribute weekly
- OSCAR status reports. If you have a favorite OSCAR which you work on a
- regular basis and would like to contribute to this bulletin, please send
- your observations to WD0HHU at his CompuServe address of 70524,2272, on
- INTERNET at wd0hhu@amsat.org, or to his local packet BBS in the Denver, CO
- area, WD0HHU @ W0LJF.#NECO.CO.USA.NOAM. Also, if you find that the current
- set of orbital elements are not generating the correct AOS/LOS times at
- your QTH, PLEASE INCLUDE THAT INFORMATION AS WELL. The information you
- provide will be of value to all OSCAR enthusiasts.
-
- /EX
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