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- Subject: Ham-Space Digest V94 #318
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- Ham-Space Digest Fri, 11 Nov 94 Volume 94 : Issue 318
-
- Today's Topics:
- Ham Satellite
- Ku Band Satellite Receivers ?
- Proper way to call Mir / Shuttle help needed
- STS-66 Element Set (94314.805)
- Where to get MacSat?
- WISP with KCT ??
-
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- policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 22:16:49 GMT
- From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman)
- Subject: Ham Satellite
-
- In article <1994Nov8.151954.2585@arrl.org> zlau@arrl.org (Zack Lau (KH6CP)) writes:
- >But, this doesn't quite solve the uplink problem--how people will
- >access the satellite with small antennas and low power. The
- >satellite receiver is hampered by the warm Earth (ground stations
- >get to look at cold sky), so the trick of going to a quiet
- >microwave band doesn't quite work.
-
- To give a feel for that, we use 3 meter dishes and 400 watt TWT
- amps at Ku Band to just get a sparklie free video picture on a
- GE K2 transponder (the most senstive in our footprint). That's
- a hell of an ERP for most amateurs to think about generating.
-
- Gary
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- Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary
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- Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | |
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 10 Nov 1994 19:30:16 -0500
- From: harold@cc.gatech.edu (Harold C. Forbes)
- Subject: Ku Band Satellite Receivers ?
-
- Anyone have a list of commercially available Ku band satellite
- recievers?
-
- thanks.
- harold
-
- --
- FORBES, HAROLD C. N5JCM harold@cc.gatech.edu
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
- http://www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/f/Harold.Forbes/Harold.Forbes.html
- uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!cc!harold
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 9 Nov 1994 22:50:05 -0500
- From: wdunckel1@aol.com (WDUNCKEL1)
- Subject: Proper way to call Mir / Shuttle help needed
-
- In article <39p7qo$gip@newsbf01.news.aol.com>, tomsunman@aol.com (TOM
- SUNMAN) writes:
-
- >My question is, what is the PROPER procedure for calling these craft? Is
- >it a regular call (their callsign then "this is" my callsign)? Maybe
- >"shuttle atlantis" (or whichever) "this is my callsign"? I want to make
- >sure I do it properly.
-
- For Shuttle, just say the phonetics of your callsign. For istance, Kilo
- Delta Victor Yanke Victor for me KD6VYV. If they hear you they will
- repeat your callsign and give you a reference number. They change
- channels between the four randomly. So you wont know what channel they
- are listening to even though you hear them on 145.550! They do this to
- get rid of the huge pileups they would get if everyone was trying to
- transmit on the same freq. Good luck,
- Walt
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 21:15:33 GMT
- From: elements-request@alsys.com (Shuttle Elements)
- Subject: STS-66 Element Set (94314.805)
-
- STS-66
- 1 23340U 94073A 94314.80545708 .00267769 16725-4 84539-3 0 77
- 2 23340 56.9949 165.0315 0010404 290.5741 69.4212 15.92652338 1148
-
- Satellite: STS-66
- Catalog number: 23340
- Epoch time: 94314.80545708 = (10 NOV 94 19:19:51.49 UTC)
- Element set: 007
- Inclination: 56.9949 deg
- RA of node: 165.0315 deg Space Shuttle Flight STS-66
- Eccentricity: .0010404 Keplerian element set JSC-007
- Arg of perigee: 290.5741 deg from NASA flight Day 8 vector
- Mean anomaly: 69.4212 deg
- Mean motion: 15.92652338 rev/day Gil Carman
- Decay rate: 2.67769e-03 rev/day^2 NASA Johnson Space Center
- Epoch rev: 114
-
-
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- List. For more information about the list and how to subscribe,
- send a message to with only the command "info elements" in the
- body of your message to "listserv@alsys.com".
-
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- Alsys Inc. Packet: KK6YB @ N0ARY.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NA
- San Diego, CA, USA Phone: +1 619-457-2700 x128 (voice/fax)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 10:09:04 GMT
- From: Sean Sharkey <sean@g0oanint.demon.co.uk>
- Subject: Where to get MacSat?
-
- In article <tkreyche-071194113023@tomkreyche.zdlabs.ziff.com>, Tom
- Kreyche writes:
-
- >
- > I've looked all over the net and called Celestial BBS and can't
- find
- > MacSat. Does anyone know where to get it? Also, the apple ftp site
- for ham
- > radio is completely empty! What's the deal?
- >
- > Thanks, Tom KG6YJ
-
-
- Hello Tom,
-
- Try,
-
- ftp.demon.co.uk /pub/ham/mac
-
- you find about 10 meg compressed Mac ham programmes in there including
- SatTrack, Orbitrack and MacSPOC.
-
- Any problems or if you need any more info please let me know.
-
- Regards,
-
- Sean.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sun, 6 Nov 1994 14:57:00
- From: n7ryw@teleport.com (William Roth)
- Subject: WISP with KCT ??
-
- In article <1994Nov5.141702.18374@iglou.com> rubenc@iglou.iglou.com (Charles A. Rubenstein) writes:
- >From: rubenc@iglou.iglou.com (Charles A. Rubenstein)
- >Subject: WISP with KCT ??
- >Summary: none
- >Keywords: none
- >Date: Sat, 5 Nov 1994 14:17:02 GMT
-
- >Does anyone have a version of SATELLITE.DLL for WISP that will support
- >the Kansas City Tracker?
-
- All versions should support the KCT/T. I have been running this combo for a
- long time.
-
- For the newest version of satelite.drv, you can ftp from me at:
-
- ftp.teleport.com/pub/users/n7ryw
-
- I will put it there as a seperate file as soon as I am done with this. You may
- want to update other Wisp files, too, as I suspect you have a very old
- version. Tell me which versions you have first, as there are some other things
- that need to be done depending on the versions you have.
-
- You can find this info from GSC in the Help...About box. Be sure to write down
- all of the program names and versions.
-
- Mail the info to me at n7ryw@teleport.com
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 10 Nov 1994 20:45:38 GMT
- From: aranders@kosepc01.delcoelect.com (Alan Anderson)
-
- References<HERMIT.94Nov3104334@am.ucsc.edu> <n7ryw.37.000FCC1B@teleport.com>, <784172466snz@myth.demon.co.uk>
- Reply-To: aranders@kosepc01.delcoelect.com (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Wanted: Info on geeking at sea via satellite
-
- zeus@myth.demon.co.uk (Mike Cowgill) writes:
- >Two way data via Inmarsat is *very* expensive. We are talking around $/KB
- >[...]There is a company that do broadcast UseNet (at 1200bps compressed)
- >via satellite but I can't remember their name :-(. They do have a couple of
- >newsgroups though if you fancy a trawl through the big list.
-
- You're probably referring to Pagesat. Try the biz.pagesat newsgroup.
-
- =========================================================================
- Alan Anderson .-- -... ----. .-. ..- ..-. | Ignorance can be fixed,
- (I speak AT, not FOR, Delco Electronics) | but stupidity is permanent.
-
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