Eclectic said:
For the Morse illiterate (me and others),what are we listening for?
As SRNET has said, there is an MP3 available via the link at post #1. If it sounds like morse, a steam train, bleeps or warbling data then variously you may have it. Morse wise, it's a variety of idents
but not strictly so!
Eclectic said:
And, as a re-cap, USB or LSB?
Most definitaly USB in my book. Why? Because the signal is arriving from the high end of the spectrum and enters the band pass filter as a higher tone that is likely audible. Using LSB then when appearing on the margin of the bandpass filter, any audio is at near to zero beat and so inaudible for the best part of in the order of 200 to 250Hz, so I would tend to set watch on USB for best opportunity.
Manuka said:
Thought:Aside from your TLE set (Two Line Element) is there any chance that tracking data can be more graphically organised? The resources at =>
www.n2yo.com/space-station/ really enthuse & educate youngsters!
Orbitron is a good graphic representation. The track and footprint can be shown and, to me, there is nothing quite as impressive as the edge of the footprint touching your location on the display and the bird breaks silence. Sorry, but TLEs themselves are what they are, a shorthand data representation of position parameters in a circular geometry terms, drag and other statistics at the epoch. Understanding the terms themselves is both interesting and educational in themselves. An introduction into a new world, Apogee, Perigee, Right Ascension, Inclination, Eccentricity and Release Cohort (Thanks Manuka); to mention a few.
An indication that this is a very different and exciting way of thinking and representation. I wish to God that I fully understood some of those terms usefully. An introduction to the fact that mapping, even on earth uses a variety of standard models to represent best adjusted guesses of an imperfect world in a consistent and better understandable way. It's all about new concepts.
My theory is that concepts are accommodated, not leaned. One becomes familiar as a by product of exposure..
MFB said:
Thanks for the advise Manuka. A Baofeng transceiver and USB cable have now been added to my Santa list.
As long as you expect the USB cable to be used for programming your raido then you are OK. I would hate you to confuse USB (Universal Serial Bus) with USB (Upper SideBand). Unlikely but worth mentioning as there are neophites out there and it's worth making the distinction when bringing radio and computers together that the one acronym has two meanings. And, NO, not a good reason for adopting LSB . . .
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A lot of opinion from me. Not intended to be at all argumentative and I accept that my explanations may not always be as elegant as they should be, but I do hope that most of what I speak of has some relevance.
Technically we live in exciting times and just how to best infect our youth with the bug is frankly a little beyond me personally.