Posts by I0LYL

I had booked out of technical/technological curiosity and today I received the offer from Starlink.

For those who live in the city, served by optical fiber, Starlink is definitely out of the market.

Ok Jean-Pierre,

I'm glad we cleared up. I have simply reported the release of new versions also to enhance / appreciate your work. All cleared up, thanks again and good work.

Dear Jean-Pierre,

first let me congratulate you on the great job you do for us all. I am personally very grateful to you and greatly appreciate and respect your work. Regarding this umpteenth controversy, I answered you in private via email but let me clarify a small detail.

I have reported here the release of a new version of your programs, I have put the official links to your site. No external links, no unofficial links. A simple report that still reported to your official website. Not even so good? ok.

Let's close it here.

Just update the new version over the old one.

it seems to work.

Win-10 Vers.20H2

P.S. it is clearly written by JP that to work it is necessary to install VLC vers. 32 bit which can be downloaded from here

http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/last/win32/

ok Charly, I thought that ON/OFF is different than in failure, in maintenance.

hi Robert, is there a link about this news?

tomorrow was a good transition for me...

The beacon is on the air when both the following criteria are met:

• The elevation of the moon at the transmitter site is > +10 degrees
• The declination of the moon is > -15 degrees (resulting in the elevation of the moon at transit being > +20 degrees). This means it's off for 8-9 days each month when the moon elevation is at its lowest elevation.

more video, even from the drone

how sad ...

Achim, thanks for your contribution. Earthquakes have also given a blow but these natural events I believe are part of the project. So, the next question might be this: why did they let him die?

Official site of the observatory.The beginning of the end is dated August 10, 2020.

Here is the chronology of events.

Antenna maintenance is essential. Small, medium, large antennas must be checked, inspected, always, before it's too late.

New satellite image reveals the damage that shut down the facility, ending an era in astronomical observation.

Ok guys, let's specify that if we write about these memories it is not for nostalgia. Or maybe yes?

Telemetry transmitted on RTTY by Oscar-10 on August 21, 1985. Two blocks of telemetry. The left block with the satellite in eclipse, the one on the right after the eclipse. Note the temperatures in particular. Decoding program written by me for Apple][ and home built decoder. You didn't find anything ready, you had to make it at home, even the coffee.

I confirm, at the time I think I took something from Karl DJ4ZC for my Basic program written for Olivetti M10. But with the Basic we were already in the modern era compared to the Oscar Locator.

Little memory available, not a single byte was wasted.

When a PC had not yet entered our homes, how did you track a satellite?

Patiently, we waited for W1AW's RTTY bulletin on HF which broadcast among other things the daily equator crossing of the few satellites of our interest. Only one data per day for each satellite. Then we calculated by hand the subsequent orbits that applied to this stuff here.

It worked fine and we never lost a satellite.

Later in my house (late 70s) the first Apple ][ arrived and the new era began.

Good times ... and you learned a lot.

Thomas, maybe you are referring to this kit. (webcache.google)

Also I have a hardware BPSK decoder, design G3RUH. At the time, it took me three or four months to source the components, build and test it. It gave me a lot of satisfaction but then times change, with the AO-40 software decoders arrived and not just for BPSK. Our hardware has an enormous emotional value, I would say historical. But it's no use anymore, I think.

Same as for AO-40.

The IZ8BLY P3D (AO40) Decoder program by Nino Porcino Vers. 0.5 - 9 dec 2000 works correctly here with Win 10 Vers. 2004.

Equally well works AO40RCV vers. 2.04.

Naturally the two programs are able to receive the blocks of messages in pure text K, L, M, N.

No telemetry data is currently available for QO-100

new firmware available 20201013

For this hardware "SAA-2N" the firmware to load is 4 "   " V2.74 "from blackmagic

Changes since last production release:

• First production release for V2 Plus4
• Increased save slots to 7
• Increased maximum sweep points over USB for plus4 to 65536
• Add CALIBRATE > RESET ALL to completely reset current view
• Fix PAUSE SWEEP
• AGC bugfixes

As for previous versions, a new calibration is required after the firmware update, now there are seven slots to save.

In addition, touch screen calibration is also required