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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">A satgate has to be hooked to the internet most of the time to be of any value. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I wrote up the idea once that a car, each time it is parked at home, could be plugged into an umbilical that powers the radio and has a serial port into the home station and internet for APRS uses, but I doubt anyone, including me, would go to the trouble of plugging it in every night and setting the right radio channel.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Of course, those with electric cars are used to plugging in a connector to their car every night, so if we could get the APRS umbilibical somehow included in the Charging plug, we’d have it! There is one usually-not-used pin in the typical charging plug, plus ground. So if we could do it all on one wire and ground, we’d have something to work with. <wink></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">But I am getting off track.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">But that track is an idea…. When everyone owns an electic car, and plugs it in whenever it is parked, what use could we make of an extra pin across the interface to connect our car with our shack?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Bob, WB4APR</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Frank J Rossi Jr [mailto:<a href="mailto:n3flr1@gmail.com">n3flr1@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 30, 2015 11:22 PM<br><b>To:</b> Robert Bruninga; TAPR APRS Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [aprssig] PSAT Satgates in Eastern USA?</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Bob,</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> What is the current best setup for Sat Gate mobile with D700 and D710 ?</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I know there is some outdated info out on the web.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">N3FLR - Frank </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div id="composer_signature"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#575757">Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S® 5 ACTIVE™, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Robert Bruninga via aprssig <<a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a>> <br>Date: 06/30/2015 8:16 PM (GMT-05:00) <br>To: <a href="mailto:amsat-bb@amsat.org">amsat-bb@amsat.org</a> <br>Cc: <a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a> <br>Subject: [aprssig] PSAT Satgates in Eastern USA? </p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style>We need more Tracking Satgates in the eastern USA:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style>During the last pass Solidly over Eastern USA and dozens of packets and many users, only two packets made it to the APRS-IS. So there seems to be a paucity of Oscar class SatGates at the moment.. Of course tracking and gain antennas are not needed for SatGates for the ISS, but are essential for PSAT.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style>So if anyone in the USA has rotors and wants to exercise them and put a little wear and tear on them for the next week or so, please feel free to come on line.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style>We are trying to get PSAT properly set up for its attitude control and for it to know where it is, and we need more data for a while.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style>We are getting solid data horizon to horizon over Europe, but very little over the USA.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style>I completely understand the usual need not to keep rotors running for routine. That is why we want to develop the Omni Satgates. But until we get enough of them on line, we welcome more conventional tracking SatGates for a while.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style>Thanks</p><p class="MsoNormal" style>Bob, Wb4APR</p><p class="MsoNormal" style> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style> </p></div></div></body></html>