[amsat-bb] Re: Mode S

[John Melton]

The current schedule shows that the AO-51 Mode-S voice downlink will be 
turned on from the 28th to 31st of this month.

    http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/echo/ControlTeam.php

There are quite a few of us who have been waiting to test out our Mode-S 
receive hardware.

Out of interest I will be using a quad patch antenna into a modified 
2500HG MMDS downconverter which I have successfully used with several 
different receivers before.

What is different this time is that I will be feeding the output into a 
Microwave Modules Transverter and then into a Softrock V5 and/or 
Softrock V7 Software Defined Radio.  For the software side I will be 
running the latest DttSP dsp code on Linux along with the GUI  front end 
that I have written in Java.

Regards,

John g0orx/n6lyt


Bruce wrote On 08/18/06 10:11,:

>Scott
>
>  AO-51 is the only one I know of that has that capability but is currently 
>not turned on. Review of current schedule does not show it to be turned on 
>anytime soon. Keep reviewing schedule for any up coming annoucements for it 
>to be activated. There is also a email request that can be submitted 
>requesting it be scheduled.
>
>73 Bruce KG4YEV
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Scott Smith" <ve6itv@telus.net>
>To: "amsat" <amsat-bb@amsat.org>
>Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:39 PM
>Subject: [amsat-bb] Mode S
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>>Hi folks, is there a bird up there where i can test my new mode S 
>>antenna?. 73 de Scott VE6ITV
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