[amsat-bb] Re: Keps for funcube, help needed

[Andrew Glasbrenner]

FUNCUBE
1 00312U 00312A   13325.30964218  .00000000  00000-0  10000-4 0     7
2 00312  97.7992  38.2578 0062122 196.7894 338.6768 14.77349691    03

>From the Funcube webpage (I know, right?)

73, Drew KO4MA


-----Original Message-----
>From: Bryce Salmi <bstguitarist at gmail.com>
>Sent: Nov 22, 2013 11:29 AM
>To: James Luhn <luhn at wt.net>
>Cc: "amsat-bb at amsat.org" <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
>Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Keps for funcube, help needed
>
>I noticed the new keeps from n2yo didn't seem right and kept using the
>older keeps . Worked fine last night.
>
>Bryce
>
>On Friday, November 22, 2013, James Luhn wrote:
>
>> I have just about lost my mind trying to get SatPC32 to track FUNcube-1.
>>  I just put in the follow keps off of the n2yo page:
>>
>>
>> *Two Line Element Set (TLE):*
>>
>> 1 99991U 00000   13325.30964218  .00000000  00000-0  10000-4 0     7
>> 2 99991  97.7992  38.2578 0062122 196.7894 338.6768 14.77349691    03
>>
>>
>> N2YO shows funcube over UK and I show it down by South America.  What in
>> the hell am I doing wrong?  I set up a separate group to experiment with
>> getting the program to work properly with FUNcube.  Initially
>> I used the preliminary keps and everything worked terrific.  I copied
>> FUNcube with a terrific signal.  I put the new keps in and it all went to
>> hell.  When I put the prelim keps back in, it is still not correct.
>> I double checked to see if my location is correct.  I am tracking FO-29
>> just fine.  Everything seems to work EXCEPT Funcube.
>>
>> Geesh a pete, I am as confused as the little boy who lost his bubble gum
>> in a chicken yard.
>>
>> 73,
>> -james
>> W5AOO
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