[amsat-bb] K4DKR via Falconsat APRS

Scott scott23192 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 6 23:47:54 UTC 2017


>>>skCUBE has a 9600 baud 70 cm simplex digipeater on board, but it's only
been active over Europe and Japan

... Great point - and that's been painful because every time I've seen the
"digipeater active" countdown timer running on someone else's telemetry
posting, the math always seems to work out that it'll be turning off about
10 minutes before getting over my house!

-Scott,  K4KDR

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On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 6:37 PM, Paul Stoetzer <n8hm at arrl.net> wrote:

> skCUBE has a 9600 baud 70 cm simplex digipeater on board, but it's only
> been active over Europe and Japan.
>
> 73,
>
> Paul, N8HM
>
> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 6:35 PM, Scott <scott23192 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, very cool seeing your initial call -and- a reply back!
>>
>> Thanks for giving 9600 a try on the new-to-us satellite.  I'll certainly
>> be
>> putting that one into LoTW.
>>
>> I believe that I've seen that a D-Star capable satellite will be going up
>> soon.  That's very neat.   Anyone of know of any more 9600 baud packet
>> satellites in the planning stages?
>>
>> Or, are we more likely to see additional 1200 satellites to maintain
>> compatibility with the 145.825 APRS network?
>>
>> 73!
>>
>> -Scott,  K4KDR
>>
>>
>> ================================
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Tony <dxdx at optonline.net> wrote:
>>
>> > Scott:
>> >
>> > Message received via K4KDR-6 APRS / Falconsat.
>> >
>> > Tony -K2MO
>>
>


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