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Oxygen 2.3.2 Released [13/11/2011]

Monday, November 14, 2011 / posted in Android / No Comments

Adam G and group again have released a great ROM. By the looks of it Oxygen 2.3.2 is going to be the last release in the ‘honeycomb’ code name of ROMs.

Changelog
Added battery controls for brightness & sound in status bar power widget
Added compact carrier
Added croation dictionary
Added customized Launcher2 with plenty of new options and enhancements
Added option to turn off volume button music controls
Added swipe-to-clear notifications
Decreased bootup time
Improved lock screen animation
Improved media scanner, now scans all external volumes (/emmc & /sdcard)
Removed FM support
Removed useless wallpapers consuming 6.5MB
Reverted back to old battery percentage

Device specific changelog
Device specific settings menu added for NS & SGS2
Fixed battery drain on SGS2
Updated kernels for all devices

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ARISSat-1 Recording 2011-11-11

Saturday, November 12, 2011 / posted in Amateur Radio / No Comments

This video was recorded this evening from my QTH as ARISSat-1 passed under Australia.

Equipment used:
Yaesu FT-897D
Gpredict, for controlling the radio for doppler
Homemade dual band J-Pole mounted few meters up.

Video captured on Canon EOS DSLR and edited in OpenShot for your enjoyment.

Compile SD-PEX15022 (MCS9922) drivers for Debian

Friday, November 11, 2011 / posted in Hardware / 2 Comments

Recently I purchased a Syba SD-PEX15022 (MCS9922) PCI-e to Serial card for Amateur Radio radio control. Well the drivers that came on the CDRom would not compile and got heaps of errors, any ways after 30 mins or so of trolling the Internet for more update drivers which I found here and they compiled under the 3.0.0-1 kernel with no problems.

In case the drivers go a miss from the above ASIX link you can grab them from here:
MCS99xx_NoCascade_Linux_driver_v1.0.0.1

UPDATE 2011-12-28
As of the release of the 3.1 Kernel this card now works out the box, so no need to compile the drivers for it if running kernel 3.1 onwards.

Doing ‘lspci -v‘ shows – note the ‘Kernel driver in use:‘. Also the port assignment has change from ‘/dev/ttyF0‘ etc, back to ‘/dev/ttyS0‘ etc.

04:00.0 Serial controller: NetMos Technology PCIe 9922 Multi-I/O Controller (prog-if 02 [16550])
        Subsystem: Device a000:1000
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
        I/O ports at e880 [size=8]
        Memory at fbffd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Memory at fbffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: serial

04:00.1 Serial controller: NetMos Technology PCIe 9922 Multi-I/O Controller (prog-if 02 [16550])
        Subsystem: Device a000:1000
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
        I/O ports at ec00 [size=8]
        Memory at fbfff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Memory at fbffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: serial

ARISSat-1 Transponder file for GPredict

Friday, November 11, 2011 / posted in Amateur Radio / No Comments

This is the transponder file I made up for GPredict as it not have one for the ARISSat-1 satellite.

Just copy and pasted the below info into a text file and save it to ~/.config/Gpredict/trsp/37772.trsp

[Mode V Digitalker (Voices Messages and Telemetry)]
DOWN_LOW=145950000
MODE=FM

[Mode V Imaging (Robot 36 SSTV from onboard cameras)]
DOWN_LOW=145950000
MODE=SSTV in FM carrier

[Mode V Telemetry (1000 baud (400 baud backup))]
DOWN_LOW=145920000
MODE=BPSK 1000 bps

[Mode U/V (B) Linear Transponder]
UP_LOW=435742000
UP_HIGH=435758000
DOWN_LOW=145922000
DOWN_HIGH=145938000
INVERT=true

[Mode V TLM Beacon (CW-2, BPSK-1000)]
DOWN_LOW=145919000
MODE=CW

[Mode V TLM Beacon (CW-1, BPSK-400)]
DOWN_LOW=145939000
MODE=CW

Now sit back and enjoy listening and transmitting to the ARISSat-1 🙂

Reference:
Satellite Detail – ARISSat-1