dxAce wrote:

James Douglas wrote:

Ok, it just passed over TX again still nothing here! DXAce any luck, or
are you trying? Anyone else listening to this signal, or trying?

Uhhhh... where you been? Widely reported that SuitSat died after two orbits.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


Dammit, nope didn't hear about it, and actually went to electronics
store to find special connector to link my scanner to a long wire
antenna! Thanks for the info!

James Douglas wrote:

dxAce wrote:

James Douglas wrote:

Ok, it just passed over TX again still nothing here! DXAce any luck, or
are you trying? Anyone else listening to this signal, or trying?

Uhhhh... where you been? Widely reported that SuitSat died after two orbits.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


Dammit, nope didn't hear about it, and actually went to electronics
store to find special connector to link my scanner to a long wire
antenna! Thanks for the info!

I rather doubt that hooking a long wire antenna to your scanner is going to help.
A good antenna matched for that frequency range would be much better.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

On 2006-02-04 16:17:06 -0500, dxAce said:



James Douglas wrote:

dxAce wrote:

James Douglas wrote:

Ok, it just passed over TX again still nothing here! DXAce any luck, or
are you trying? Anyone else listening to this signal, or trying?

Uhhhh... where you been? Widely reported that SuitSat died after two orbits.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


Dammit, nope didn't hear about it, and actually went to electronics
store to find special connector to link my scanner to a long wire
antenna! Thanks for the info!

I rather doubt that hooking a long wire antenna to your scanner is
going to help.
A good antenna matched for that frequency range would be much better.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


I have heard packet bursts from suitsat on the ISS relay of 437.800

Tom Randy wrote:


I have heard packet bursts from suitsat on the ISS relay of 437.800

Tom,
Are you sure you heard "packet"? Per all the published reports, it is
only sending voice and SSTV (slow scan TV), which sounds quite different
from packet.

From NASA:

SuitSat transmits for 30 seconds, pauses for 30 seconds, and then
repeats. "This is SuitSat-1, RS0RS," the transmission begins,
followed by a prerecorded greeting in five languages. The greeting
contains "special words" in English, French, Japanese, Russian,
German and Spanish for students to record and decipher. (Awards will
be given to students who do this. Scroll to the "more information"
area at the end of this story for details.)

Next comes telemetry: temperature, battery power, mission elapsed
time. "The telemetry is stated in plain language—in English," says
Bauer. Everyone will be privy to SuitSat's condition. Bauer adds,
"Suitsat 'talks' using a voice synthesizer. It's pretty amazing."

The transmission ends with a Slow Scan TV picture.

On 2006-02-07 07:43:07 -0500, "Carter, K8VT" said:

Tom Randy wrote:


I have heard packet bursts from suitsat on the ISS relay of 437.800

Tom,
Are you sure you heard "packet"? Per all the published reports, it is
only sending voice and SSTV (slow scan TV), which sounds quite different
from packet.


Yup, packet bursts, others hear it too.

http://www.suitsat.org/

Tom Randy wrote:
On 2006-02-07 07:43:07 -0500, "Carter, K8VT" said:

Tom Randy wrote:


I have heard packet bursts from suitsat on the ISS relay of 437.800

Tom,
Are you sure you heard "packet"? Per all the published reports, it is
only sending voice and SSTV (slow scan TV), which sounds quite different
from packet.


Yup, packet bursts, others hear it too.


OK, but according to NASA, it can't be from SuitSat--they aren't sending
packet. There is a guy north of me that has a packet beacon on 145.990
(heaven only knows why) and there may be other *terrestrial* packet
stations around the country that are getting repeated on 437.8

Just out of curiosity, what is your location and do you have a TNC and
software that would allow you to decode the packet transmissions?

On 2006-02-08 06:43:27 -0500, "Carter, K8VT" said:

Tom Randy wrote:
On 2006-02-07 07:43:07 -0500, "Carter, K8VT" said:

Tom Randy wrote:


I have heard packet bursts from suitsat on the ISS relay of 437.800

Tom,
Are you sure you heard "packet"? Per all the published reports, it is
only sending voice and SSTV (slow scan TV), which sounds quite different
from packet.


Yup, packet bursts, others hear it too.


OK, but according to NASA, it can't be from SuitSat--they aren't
sending packet. There is a guy north of me that has a packet beacon on
145.990 (heaven only knows why) and there may be other *terrestrial*
packet stations around the country that are getting repeated on 437.8

Just out of curiosity, what is your location and do you have a TNC and
software that would allow you to decode the packet transmissions?


Hudson Valley of N.Y., packet gear not hooked up. 437.8 is repeating
Suitsat from what I read. Again, suitsat reports show others hearing it
as well.

http://www.suitsat.org/