[amsat-bb] Re: Fast1

Sat Dec 10 05:26:35 PST 2011

Never fear about lack of logging from APRSISCE/32!  Looks like the UDP 
direct RF feed works even if RFtoIS is disabled.  No worries, though, 
because the direct RF feed doesn't use APRS-IS.  But anyway, here's the 
packets that were received (times are Eastern US, UTC-0500):

2011-12-09 23:45:55 FAST1>BEACON,qAR,KO6TH-13:F11G0GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG212203286 025 021 014 018 027
2011-12-09 23:46:55 FAST1>BEACON,qAR,KO6TH-13:F11G0GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG212203286 025 021 014 018 027
2011-12-09 23:48:55 FAST1>BEACON,qAR,KO6TH-13:F11G0GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG210006311 025 021 014 018 027
2011-12-09 23:49:55 FAST1>BEACON,qAR,KO6TH-13:F11G0GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG207006286 025 021 014 019 027
2011-12-09 23:50:55 FAST1>BEACON,qAR,KO6TH-13:F11G0GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG207006286 025 021 014 019 027

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32

On 12/10/2011 1:04 AM, Greg D. wrote:
> Interestingly, the last two attempts (two nights ago, and this 
> evening) to repeat this have failed.  I briefly tried the other uplink 
> frequency, 145.980, tonight, without success either.  I did hear 4 or 
> 5 beacon packets from FAST1 (they're quite distinctive, with all the 
> "G"s in them), so everything else seems to be in order.  Most of them 
> decoded, but I had APRSISCE/32 configured to not pass beacons from 
> RF->IS, so they didn't get posted.  I believe there were also couple 
> of other packets from the satellite as well but they didn't decode at all.
>
> So, either I had incredible luck earlier with the packets that did go 
> through, or we now have a lot of other folks trying to uplink, with 
> the result that the satellite isn't hearing anything that can be 
> retransmitted.  I am concerned that this weekend's attack on the 
> satellite will be totally ineffective, because an overloaded is nearly 
> equivalent to one that is totally empty.  Neither full nor empty will 
> accomplish the command team's objective of increasing the Transmit 
> duty cycle, to drain the batteries.
>
> Anybody else having any success recently?
>
> Greg  KO6TH
>
>
> > Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 18:26:44 -0500
> > From: ldeffenb at homeside.to
> > To: k8tl at earthlink.net
> > CC: amsat-bb at amsat.org
> > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Fast1
> >
> > Steve (G6UIM) and Greg (KO6TH) have been discussing this on the 
> APRSISCE
> > Yahoo group (messages below). Greg confirmed Steve's comment that FAST1
> > is uplinking on 145.825 and downlinking on 437.345. He managed to
> > bounce a few packets through it as well as capture some telemetry (also
> > shown below).
> >
> > Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
> >
> > (Note: Times are Eastern US, UTC-0500)
> >
> > 2011-12-08 00:35:04 
> FAST1>BEACON,qAR,KO6TH-13:F11G0GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG211006311 
> 022 019 020 022 024
> > 2011-12-08 00:35:06 KO6TH-13>APWW08,FAST1*,qAR,KO6TH-13::KJ4ERJ :Hi 
> Lynn... another try via FAST1{BM}
> > 2011-12-08 00:38:20 KO6TH-13>APWW08,FAST1*,qAR,KO6TH-13::KJ4ERJ 
> :good signal received on last tx. Yea!{BN}
> > 2011-12-08 00:38:24 KO6TH-13>APWW08,FAST1*,qAR,KO6TH-13::KJ4ERJ 
> :good signal received on last tx. Yea!{BN}
> > 2011-12-08 00:38:40 KO6TH-13>APWW08,FAST1*,qAR,KO6TH-13::KJ4ERJ 
> :good signal received on last tx. Yea!{BN}
> > 2011-12-08 00:39:02 KO6TH-13>APWW08,FAST1*,qAR,KO6TH-13::KJ4ERJ :You 
> still awake?
> > 2011-12-08 00:39:04 
> FAST1>BEACON,qAR,KO6TH-13:F11G0GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG207105289 
> 022 020 020 022 023
> > 2011-12-08 00:42:04 
> FAST1>BEACON,qAR,KO6TH-13:F11G0GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG264006286 
> 022 020 020 022 022
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Steve Daniels
> > <steve at daniels270.eclipse.co.uk 
> <mailto:steve at daniels270.eclipse.co.uk>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > FAST1 is up on 145.825MHz and down on 437.345MHz according to their
> > recent news release.
> >
> >
> >
> > Frequencies confirmed. I managed to bounce a few through FAST1 this
> > evening with these frequencies (with doppler shift factored in by the
> > computer).
> >
> > Greg KO6TH
> >
> >
> > On 12/8/2011 10:08 AM, Tom Lubbers K8TL wrote:
> > > Has anyone had any positive results?? I have beaconed with 1200 
> and 9600, nothing.
> > >
> > > After the 0330Z pass did copy RS0ISS on the same frequency pair, 
> boy was my element set off!!
> > >
> > > Happy Holidays
> > >
> > > Tom K8TL
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