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

Bryce Salmi bstguitarist at gmail.com
Fri Nov 22 08:58:26 PST 2013


Interesting, it looks like the only thing that changed between them are the
first two columns of the first row and the first column of the second row.
Tricky. Thanks Andrew, yes, trust the FUNcube website!


On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Andrew Glasbrenner <
glasbrenner at mindspring.com> wrote:

> 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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