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Radio heads…help me work the SO-50 satellite May 15, 2025 9:27 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Of Interest, radioContacting the ISS and working satellites is a personal goal. I read SO-50 is a good satellite to try first. I’m a little confused. “operating on 145.850 MHz uplink and 436.795 MHz downlink. The repeater is available to amateurs worldwide as power permits, using a 67.0 Hertz PL tone on the uplink, for on-demand activation. SO-50 also has a 10 minute timer that must be armed before use. Transmit a 2 second carrier with a PL tone of 74.4 to arm the timer.” Do I need to program my radio with 7 memories? 1. 145.850 with PL tone 74.4 for activation
2. 145.850 with PL tone 67 for transmitting
3. 435.785 (for doplar shift)
4. 435.790 (for doplar shift)
5. 436.795 for receive
6. 436.800 (for doplar shift)
7. 436.805 (for doplar shift) I’m using a Yaesu FTM-500DR. Is there another way to send the 2 second carrier? I have RT-Systems programmer and it shows Tone Mode options as None, Tone, T Sql, DCS, Rev CTCSS, User CTCSS, Pager, D Code, T DCS, and D Tone. I’m reading manuals but still don’t know what half these tones mean. Is my 1-7 correct? Or am I completely misunderstanding how to work sats? Thank you!
add a commentPremature hearing loss May 1, 2025 6:53 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily LifeI slept with earplugs in last night. Woke several times thinking I’d lost my hearing.
add a commentCelsius makes sense now April 30, 2025 6:38 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily LifeI looked at my watch this morning to see the temperature was 17°. I’m thrilled to say I didn’t even think about Fahrenheit. Without a conversion, no math, no thinking about the other temperature, I just knew what 17°C means for my comfort. Also without math I instinctively knew it to be 65°F…but I didn’t need to think about it that way because Celsius now has meaning to me like learning a new language eventually just becomes natural.
add a commentA little cleaning does a world of good April 18, 2025 9:32 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily LifeI cleaned my desk last night and not only do I feel more focused, I feel more relaxed.
add a commentAsk a ninja has returned! April 8, 2025 2:54 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily LifeAsk a ninja is back!
Basement archeology April 4, 2025 2:39 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily LifeWe interrupt this day to see if I can find a desk under all the stuff that has been accumulating upon it
add a commentAchievement unlocked! April 2, 2025 8:26 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily LifeCelsius to Fahrenheit conversion in head without math 92% accuracy
add a commentDo what you can April 1, 2025 9:39 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily LifeIn the chaos that is the collapse of the United States, we feel the pressure to prepare for the coming recession. We are limited in time, and money, and space. I want to be growing food but don’t have a greenhouse. I want to be ready to taken in people into my home but we are out of space. I want to be able to have potable water on hand, and generate my own power, and have plenty of food in storage but I don’t have the means.
I will do what I can with what little I have. I will be calculating in my planning. We will survive.
add a commentPrivate equity claimed huge tracks of land March 21, 2025 7:20 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily LifeSo apparently Hooters is going tits up
add a commentVacations for work March 19, 2025 5:52 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily LifeWhen I was a child, I never understood why my father took vacations to work. Now, as an adult, I want nothing more than to take a vacation just to catch up.
add a commentQuote March 2, 2025 1:41 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life“It’s said that ‘power corrupts,’ but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.”
? David Brin, The Postman
Cleansing and discovery February 26, 2025 9:18 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily LifeSometimes cleaning is simply about rediscovering what you own. Remember to clean your mind as you would your house.
add a commentInto the black February 26, 2025 8:55 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily LifeIt was so easy to let go
add a commentYin Yang November 22, 2024 6:06 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily LifeAll I’ve ever tried to do is bring goodness into the world. Must I be punished for that?
add a commentCatching worms November 22, 2024 5:06 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily LifeWoke at 4:45 today and actually got my ass out of bed! Let the productivity begin.
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