From davidb-f00f at rcpt.to Mon Feb 6 13:58:04 2006 From: davidb-f00f at rcpt.to (David Basden) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 13:58:04 +0800 Subject: [URC] Suit Sat In-Reply-To: References: <20060130041505.GB23522@shikita.rcpt.to> Message-ID: <20060206055804.GB4256@shikita.rcpt.to> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 02:26:31PM +0800, Alwyn Lloyd wrote: > > Awesome. > > > > The only problem is that Meryki is due in something like 18 hours, > > so there's a slight possiblity i'll be busy. > > ooh, well I'm hoping everything works out well on that front :) Still no baby :) Will be soon hopefully. > > I've got an FM-92 (with a custom ROM so you can set it's VCO directly) > > that works well on 2 meters. I've also got a hand-held scanner that > > will receive FM in the 2m band if anyone wants to borrow it. The > > only other 2M gear I have is a crystal driven rig, and I don't think > > it's going to be easy to get hold of a crystal for 145.990MHz in a > > couple of days. > > The handheld scanner should be enough shouldn't it? Perhaps with a > preamp... The reports are that it is alive, but very, very weak. The recommended setup is a 12 element yagi with a mast-head pre-amp. At the same time, the people that are saying this are crack monkeys living in the US. We live next to the ocean (which aparrently has good ground plane effects), and we also don't have countless people filling the 2m band with 2kW transmitters so they can talk to someone down the road. I've consistently picked up signals that were aparrently 'almost theoretically impossible' if living in the US. Someone in Melbourne has done the same while sitting on a tram with a HT. Scanners, especially hand-held scanners have quite crappy sensitivity. A good tranceiver (which I don't really have for 2m on that freq.) will normally give you 10-15dB better. Give it a go anyhow, about 10 minutes before and after the pass is meant to be there. Even if the gear you have isn't really good enough, there are enough variables that might shift things in your favor for a bit. > > Thanks for the links.. something to predict its path will be fairly > useful. gpredict is alpha, but seems to work. there are much better out there, but I haven't had time to look recently. > As for the polarisation issue, what about circularly polarised antennas? > aren't they useful for avoinding the changing polarisation issue? > http://home.comcast.net/~ross_anderson/quadix.htm > http://www.amsat.org/amsat/articles/houston-net/antenna.html > > according the the articles i have read, they're expecting a 10-15 minute > window for recieveing.. the park at steves or even james oval would be a > good location. It's still up there, will be xmitting for another few days even if it's drawing full power. It's really unlikely to be drawing full power, so it could even be up there another week. Current info is at www.amsat.org, and up-to-the-minute signal reports are at www.suitsat.org > and well, i think recording the whole thing would be a good idea. there > are 9 different messages... of about 30 seconds duration each.. then a 30 > second gap. so we'd need 10 minutes of contact time to get it all.... :0 If you can record 10 seconds of telemetry data, you will make the people at amsat very, very happy. Getting 2 seconds of clear signal is aparrently an achievement at the moment though. I'm probably going to keep trying for a while to get something anyhow. I didn't have much success with the one time I was listening. David From davidb-f00f at rcpt.to Sun Feb 26 15:54:41 2006 From: davidb-f00f at rcpt.to (David Basden) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:54:41 +0800 Subject: [URC] [likwei@pl.jaring.my: [vk6foxhunt] Foxhunt] Message-ID: <20060226075441.GB5024@shikita.rcpt.to> Anyone interested in foxhunting? (competitionish radio direction finding)? David ----- Forwarded message from Likwei ----- Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys Organization: Great Sign To: WA FoxHunters From: Likwei Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:21:36 +0800 Subject: [vk6foxhunt] Foxhunt Hi Guys, It seems the fox is dead again. Now there are more and more Foundation license holders out there, any idea if foxhunt will attracts them? Mayb mobile hunt change to walking hunt or something? -- Regards, Likwei VK6YLW "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving saafely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather, to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, one hand holding a bottle of wine, the other hand holding a cigar and loudly proclaiming... WOW! What a ride!" Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vk6foxhunt/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: vk6foxhunt-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ----- End forwarded message ----- From zarquin at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Mon Feb 27 10:29:18 2006 From: zarquin at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Alwyn Lloyd) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:29:18 +0800 (WST) Subject: [URC] [likwei@pl.jaring.my: [vk6foxhunt] Foxhunt] In-Reply-To: <20060226075441.GB5024@shikita.rcpt.to> Message-ID: I'd be interested. trying to build a nice simple 2m reciever though.. now theres a challenge :P Alwyn On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, David Basden wrote: > > Anyone interested in foxhunting? (competitionish radio direction > finding)? > > David > > > ----- Forwarded message from Likwei ----- > > Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys > Organization: Great Sign > To: WA FoxHunters > From: Likwei > Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:21:36 +0800 > Subject: [vk6foxhunt] Foxhunt > > Hi Guys, > It seems the fox is dead again. > Now there are more and more Foundation license holders out there, any > idea if foxhunt will attracts them? Mayb mobile hunt change to walking > hunt or something? > > -- > Regards, > Likwei > VK6YLW > > "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving > saafely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather, to skid in > sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, one hand holding a > bottle of wine, the other hand holding a cigar and loudly proclaiming... > WOW! What a ride!" > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vk6foxhunt/ > > <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > vk6foxhunt-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com > > <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > From davidb-f00f at rcpt.to Mon Feb 27 13:03:03 2006 From: davidb-f00f at rcpt.to (David Basden) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:03:03 +0800 Subject: [URC] [likwei@pl.jaring.my: [vk6foxhunt] Foxhunt] In-Reply-To: References: <20060226075441.GB5024@shikita.rcpt.to> Message-ID: <20060227050303.GD5024@shikita.rcpt.to> A 2m CW receiver would be pretty easy, which is all you'd need for the foxhunt. *evil grin* On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 10:29:18AM +0800, Alwyn Lloyd wrote: > I'd be interested. > > trying to build a nice simple 2m reciever though.. now theres a challenge > :P > > Alwyn > > On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, David Basden wrote: > > > > > Anyone interested in foxhunting? (competitionish radio direction > > finding)? > > > > David > > > > > > ----- Forwarded message from Likwei ----- > > > > Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys > > Organization: Great Sign > > To: WA FoxHunters > > From: Likwei > > Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:21:36 +0800 > > Subject: [vk6foxhunt] Foxhunt > > > > Hi Guys, > > It seems the fox is dead again. > > Now there are more and more Foundation license holders out there, any > > idea if foxhunt will attracts them? Mayb mobile hunt change to walking > > hunt or something? > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Likwei > > VK6YLW > > > > "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving > > saafely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather, to skid in > > sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, one hand holding a > > bottle of wine, the other hand holding a cigar and loudly proclaiming... > > WOW! What a ride!" > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vk6foxhunt/ > > > > <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > vk6foxhunt-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com > > > > <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > > > > > From redruby_4000 at hotmail.com Mon Feb 27 21:09:10 2006 From: redruby_4000 at hotmail.com (Lizzie Potter) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:09:10 +0800 Subject: [URC] .....I Want To join You Message-ID: Hi, My name is Lizzie Potter and I want to join up with you. I am a first year student and am looking for a good time. So If you could tell me what I need to do (clubrooms/where to sign up/whats on/coming events/ years programmes) and where I go to sign up that would be great! Thanks very much Cheers Lizzie Potter