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.

Wrong! http://www.suitsat.org/ Not dead, but intermittently transmitting
weakly . . .

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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

Lisa Simpson wrote:

Wrong! http://www.suitsat.org/ Not dead, but intermittently transmitting
weakly . . .

Please see my later post... and note that it's VERY weak, and not operating
properly, by all posted accounts.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"Lisa Simpson" wrote in message
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Wrong! http://www.suitsat.org/ Not dead, but intermittently transmitting
weakly . . .

Interesting, it's news to me, last I heard it was silent.

On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:13:04 -0600, 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?

I just got my scanner all ready when I started seeing reports that its
already fallen silent. Hopefully someone will try it again sometime soon.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...23C50220D9.htm