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- Subject: Ham-Space Digest V93 #69
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- Ham-Space Digest Thu, 28 Oct 93 Volume 93 : Issue 69
-
- Today's Topics:
- Does PG_AEA really work? I am having problems
- SAREX Keps & Update: 10/26/93
- STS-58 SAREX signal strength (2 msgs)
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- Date: 28 Oct 93 01:44:39 GMT
- From: world!eac@uunet.uu.net
- Subject: Does PG_AEA really work? I am having problems
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
-
- Hello All,
-
- Has anyone got the PG_AEA program to work? I tried to upload about 144k file
- and it exhibits some problems. I am using it on com2 at 19200.
-
- Symptoms:
-
- 1. It sends two bytes of the 144k *.out file and then says "waiting for
- final handshake". The satellite gives back a -7 (No PFH) error.
-
- 2. The program immediately starts to connect to the satellite. If it does
- not connect (I get a disconnect message) than it does not do anything.
- I found out that F8 and F9 cause status displays when pressed. It stays
- in disconnected mode even when it gets open commands and there are files
- to upload. I have to exit and re-run the program.
-
- A general comment is that I wish that there was more information displayed.
- I do not like programs that run without showing what the satellite is
- beaconing and what the program was doing.
-
- 73 Eric wb1hbu@amsat.org @KO23 @UO22
-
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- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 21:17:18 -0600
- From: swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cyber2.cyberstore.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!adec23!ve6mgs!usenet@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: SAREX Keps & Update: 10/26/93
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
-
- SB SAREX @ AMSAT $STS-58.024
- SAREX Keps & Update: 10/26/93
-
- The extremely successful school group contacts have cleared three school
- group backup passes for possible general QSO opportunities. While the
- SAREX Working Group cannot fully guarantee availability, there is a high
- probability that the STS-58 crew will be ready and waiting to take general
- calls over the continental U.S. on these passes. These opportunities
- include passes on orbit 145 at MET 9 days 0 hours 6 minutes (10/27 at
- 14:59 UTC), orbit 178 at MET 11 days 1 hour 42 minutes (10/29 at 16:35 UTC)
- and orbit 192 at MET 11 days 22 hours and 29 minutes (10/30 at 13:22 UTC).
-
- School group highlights today include two horizon-to-horizon opportunities
- for the Lycee Gaston Febus school in Pau, France, where 15 questions were
- answered, and the St. Barnabas Episcopal School in Houston, Texas where 12
- questions were answered. During the French contact, one student asked
- Shuttle pilot Rick Searfoss, KC5CKM, if the crew could see satellites from
- space. Rick explained that indeed they could. He stated that during this
- mission they have had visual sightings of the Russian Space Station MIR and
- NASA's Gamma Ray Observatory. The Gamma Ray Observatory was built by TRW
- for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and was lofted into orbit on the
- STS-37 mission. (STS-37 was the first mission with an entire crew of ham
- radio operators--Ken Cameron, Jay Apt, Linda Godwin, Steve Nagel & Jerry
- Ross).
-
- Hams across the U.S. and around the world have been working the Shuttle
- Columbia on both voice and packet. This morning's voice pass over the U.S.
- had both Bill McArthur, KC5ACR and Marty Fettman, KC5AXA, firing off
- callsigns in classic DX pileup style. General QSO operations thus far can
- be summed up with one word---outstanding. The SAREX team wishes all of you
- the best of luck in your endeavor to work the shuttle.
-
- Gil Carman of the Johnson Space Center compared a recent state vector to
- element set GSFC-025 and found only a two second difference. Therefore,
- there will be no new SAREX element set released today. GSFC-025, generated
- by Ron Parise, WA4SIR is provided below for those who did not receive it
- yesterday.
-
- STS-58
- 1 22869U 93065A 93298.61712570 0.00112657 77536-5 20892-3 0 259
- 2 22869 39.0200 82.4277 0014476 28.5134 331.6466 16.00068904 1136
-
- Satellite: STS-58
- Catalog number: 22869
- Epoch time: 93298.61712570 (25 OCT 93 14:48:39.66 UTC)
- Element set: GSFC-025
- Inclination: 39.0200 deg
- RA of node: 82.4277 deg Space Shuttle Flight STS-58
- Eccentricity: 0.0014476 Keplerian Elements
- Arg of perigee: 28.5134 deg
- Mean anomaly: 331.6466 deg
- Mean motion: 16.00068904 rev/day Semi-major Axis: 6652.3600 Km
- Decay rate: 0.11E-02 rev/day*2 Apogee Alt: 283.60 Km
- Epoch rev: 113 Perigee Alt: 264.34 Km
-
-
- NOTE - This element set is based on NORAD element set # 025.
- The spacecraft has been propagated to the next ascending
- node, and the orbit number has been adjusted to bring it
- into agreement with the NASA numbering convention.
-
- Submitted by Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO for the SAREX Working Group
-
- /EX
-
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-
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 16:14:30 GMT
- From: ftpbox!mothost!lmpsbbs!news@uunet.uu.net
- Subject: STS-58 SAREX signal strength
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
-
- In article 2CCD101C@su19f.ess.harris.com, jhobson@su19f.ess.harris.com (Harv Hobson) writes:
- }In article <2ahfa0$qj8@access.digex.net> cormackj@access.digex.net (John Cormack) writes:
-
- Has anyone
- }ever worked the Shuttle using other than high power and directional
- }antennas?
- }
- }Harv
- }
- I have worked them from my mobile, which admitedly high power at 100 watts.
- I was using a 5/8th vertical. I didn't need the power, but being the rig is a
- commercial unit, I am locked in at that power level. The received signal strength
- was several microvolts.
-
- Bruce, WB4YUC, el YUCCO. . .
-
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-
- Date: 27 Oct 1993 10:50:54 GMT
- From: spool.mu.edu!olivea!inews.intel.com!ilx018-bb.intel.com!ilx049!dbraun@uunet.uu.net
- Subject: STS-58 SAREX signal strength
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
-
- Myself, I've been able to receive SAREX packets from almost every
- pass with a DJ-580 and a dipole on my roof. But I haven't been
- able to connect, no matter how much I try, even when nobody else
- is connected. (Being in a small country surrounded by ocean and
- desert helps here....) If any of you have made a successful QSO,
- could you tell me what your setup was, and how much power was
- necessary?
-
- --
-
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- Doug Braun Intel Israel, Ltd. M/S: IDC1-41
- Tel: 011-972-4-655069 dbraun@inside.intel.com
-
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