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- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 94 04:30:31 PST
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- Subject: Ham-Space Digest V94 #307
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- Ham-Space Digest Mon, 31 Oct 94 Volume 94 : Issue 307
-
- Today's Topics:
- Contacting the MIR. Help!
- Getting Started on Satellites HELP! (2 msgs)
- Ham-Space Digest...Address to Subscribe?
- International Recommendations
- Satellite elements
- Satellite tracking software needed
- Tracking the MIR. Help!
-
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-
- Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 23:06:27
- From: n7ryw@teleport.com (William Roth)
- Subject: Contacting the MIR. Help!
-
- In article <1994Oct31.021040.1@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg> asirene@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg writes:
- >From: asirene@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg
- >Subject: Contacting the MIR. Help!
- >Date: 31 Oct 94 02:10:40 +0800
-
-
-
- > Can anyone tell me the minimum requirement to work the MIR.
- >I am using a 7/8 lambda Diamond F-22 vertical mounted on roof. Also
- >using IC-22A on 145.550 MHz with 10watts output. Is this sufficient
- >to work the MIR? The last pass we tried was about 440km nearest.
-
- The antenna is the exact opposite of what you want. The F-22 (and all gain
- verticals) get their gain by concentrating the signal toward the horizon.
- The problem is that MIR is UP, not at the horizon! Don't feel alone, when
- I worked at HRO, this would happen with someone once a day at least.
-
- Try an antenna called a "Crossed Dipole". I used one for years for MIR
- and Sarex. It points up toward the satellites. For a good description, look
- in the Satellite Experimenters Handbook for it.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 29 Oct 1994 15:26:37 GMT
- From: moritz@ipers1.e-technik.uni-stuttgart.de ()
- Subject: Getting Started on Satellites HELP!
-
- Here some advices, to get started quickly:
-
- 1) get a satellite tracking program from an FTP site, get
- the orb. data from the Newsgroup, and tune one of your scanners
- to 137.620 MHz or 137.750 (not sure on the 2nd one) for the NOAA
- satelites. Use an out door antenna though.
-
- 2) When you receve a good sig, get the program JVFAX, ver. 7,
- and a faxconverter. (there are some vy simple designs around,
- also for the WX sats, the JVFAX manual might help).
-
- 3) Once it works, you might want to use a proper antenna (eg.
- turnstile) and a preamp...
-
- Have fun, Moritz DL5UH
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 01:27:06 +0000
- From: zeus@myth.demon.co.uk (Mike Cowgill)
- Subject: Getting Started on Satellites HELP!
-
- In article <38s0vp$cr8@desiree.teleport.com>
- n7ryw@teleport.com "William Roth" writes:
-
- > We could go on here for weeks, and only scratch the surface, so I'll refer
- > you to a book, Satellite Experimenters Handbook. Available from good Ham stores
- > and mail order.
- >
- > Weather satellites are an entirely different service. Try Weather Satellite
- > Handbook,
- > same sources.
-
- Excellent advice. If those books get you hooked then you could do worse than
- join Amsat (don't have the US address). In the meantime, tune your 2m FM
- receiver to 145.825 and listen for Dove DO-17 (I haven't been following it
- recently so it may be temporarily off again).
-
- Mike.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 28 Oct 1994 17:05:32 GMT
- From: miles@mail.utexas.edu (Miles Abernathy)
- Subject: Ham-Space Digest...Address to Subscribe?
-
- Can someone post the address for subscribing (and un-subbing)? Thank you.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 28 Oct 1994 17:29:24 GMT
- From: nguyen@ddwilson.gsfc.nasa.gov (Richard Nguyen)
- Subject: International Recommendations
-
- Code 500 at Goddard Space Flight Center has established an Online Information
- Server (OLIS) to allow remote users browsing current Blue Books and
- Green Books through Internet. These Recommendations have been prepared
- by the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS).
-
- The OLIS provides many access and retrieval methods (e.g., WAIS, FTP,
- Gopher, Mosaic). Regardless of platform used (e.g., Mac, PC, Unix), a
- remote user can download text file of various CCSDS Blue Books and Green
- Books. Postscript format of these documents is also available for
- remote user who does not have the same word processing application
- software that was used to create the original document.
-
- Document in its native format (e.g., Word) can also be retrieved.
-
- You can ftp or run gopher to ddwilson.gsfc.nasa.gov, or
- Open URL to http://ddwilson.gsfc.nasa.gov/CCSDS-A.html.
-
-
- --
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- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 17:28:57 GMT
- From: timothy@indy.net (Timothy Toroni)
- Subject: Satellite elements
-
- Is there someone out there that could post some satellite elements?
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 30 Oct 1994 12:38:55 -0800
- From: gkennedy@helix.net (Geoff L. Kennedy)
- Subject: Satellite tracking software needed
-
- Hello All !!!
-
- I am looking for an MS-DOS based satellite tracking program which
- will produce a tabular prediction *text file* output for "visible" passes.
-
- There is one hitch.....the output, in addition to AOS/LOS times and
- Alt/Az info, *** MUST contain the ORBIT NUMBER for each pass. ***
-
- I have tried STSPLUS and TRACKSAT, and neither of these give me that
- information in their "analytical" modes....
-
- I need this information to assist me in cataloging of NOAA imagery I
- am now receiving. Right now I am entering this information manually
- (and it takes a fair chunk of time!), but I want to automate the process
- in the very near future.
-
- Is there anything from, say, AMSAT which does this ?? If so, how can
- I get my grubby little hands on it ?? <GRIN>
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
- Geoff L. Kennedy
- gkennedy@helix.net
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 30 Oct 1994 11:02:33 -0500
- From: lisansky@strauss.udel.edu (Terry Lisansky)
- Subject: Tracking the MIR. Help!
-
- I use Traksat. Works great. When Traksat says it's supposed to be there,
- it is.
- Terry
-
- --
- Terry Lisansky (lisansky@strauss.udel.edu)
- Give me a fast ship........
- For I intend to go in harms way.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 20:30:17
- From: billv@olympus.net (Bill Vaughn)
-
- References<CyCoEC.3A3@freenet.carleton.ca> <38s0vp$cr8@desiree.teleport.com>, <783566826snz@myth.demon.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: Getting Started on Satellites HELP!
-
- In article <783566826snz@myth.demon.co.uk> zeus@myth.demon.co.uk (Mike Cowgill) writes:
- >From: zeus@myth.demon.co.uk (Mike Cowgill)
- >Subject: Re: Getting Started on Satellites HELP!
- >Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 01:27:06 +0000
-
- You can can also ftp FAQSAT.TXT from the ARRL info site.They can be retrieved
- from oak.oakland.edu pub/hamradio/arrl/infoserver
- Or if you only have e-mail you can send mail to info@arrl.org, in the body of
- the text it should contain only the file name then quit on a seperate line. In
- this case; send faqsat.txt
- quit
- There you go, that should do you.
-
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