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RAFT control station needed in southern USA

Bob, WB4APR, writing from the US Naval Academy Small Satellite Laboratory says, "We need a volunteer command station for RAFT in the southern states from Arizona through Texas to Georgia. The southern command station will
enable RAFT's 216.98 MHz radar fence transponder."

Station requirements include:

1) An AZ/EL tracking OSCAR array on 2 meters with preamp capable of weak signal reception.

2) AX.25 standard TNC at 1200 baud and PC to run a DOS program.

3) A recorder to record the 145.825 MHz downlink audio when RAFT flies through the fence.

You need access to your station during morning (~9 AM) or afternoon (~5 PM) passes.

Bob continued, "The RAFT packet-to-voice mode has been enabled for the first 3 weeks and several stations have made contact.

Next week, we will enable the PSK-31 transponder on RAFT. This transponder is 28.120 USB MHz PSK-31 SSB uplink and 2 meters FM down. The PSK Mode is turned on when a station performs a packet 'CONNECT RAFT' which will bring up the 10m RX and 145.825 TX for 1 minute."

RAFT Satellite information is available on-line at:
http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/ande-raft-ops.html

Telemetry web pages for the US Naval Academy satellites are available at:
http://www.g4dpz.me.uk/ANDE/RAFThome.do
http://www.g4dpz.me.uk/ANDE/home.do

 

Bob, WB4APR

 

 

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