From lanekg at gmail.com Tue Nov 1 01:13:51 2016 From: lanekg at gmail.com (Greg Lane) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 20:13:51 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Nov 5th SO-50 Pass In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I am a beginner sat op. I will be doing the 19:16 UTC SO-50 pass from NPOTA SS08 at EM60 Santa Rosa Island, Florida. It will also help give me a bonus in the RaDAR Challenge. See n4kgl.info for RaDAR info. 73 Greg N4KGL From kayakfishtx at gmail.com Tue Nov 1 11:55:46 2016 From: kayakfishtx at gmail.com (Clayton Coleman) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 06:55:46 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] IMPORTANT notice for 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium Attendees Message-ID: October 31, the AMSAT Symposium committee was informed by Carnival that our Symposium ship, the Carnival Liberty, was experiencing a technical difficulty resulting in an itinerary change. The technical difficulty affects the maximum cruising speed of the Carnival Liberty. The full text of Carnival?s notification has been posted on the AMSAT 2016 Space Symposium web page at: http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=3667 Summary of changes and impact to attendees: 1. Our destination is now Progreso rather than Cozumel. 2. Scheduled departure is now 22:00 local time on Thursday, November 10. 3. Scheduled arrival is now 10:00 local time on Monday, November 14. 4. All guests who have purchased shore excursions for Cozumel through Carnival will receive refunds for their scheduled excursions. 5. All guests will receive a $50 on-board credit and 25% discount on a future sailing with Carnival. This itinerary change should have minimal impact on the events of the Symposium. It may affect your travel times to and from the airport. Please check your flight departure times and contact Carnival if there is any conflict regarding this modified itinerary. We have no further information from Carnival at this time.This and further communication will be emailed to all registered Symposium attendees in the next 24 hours. If you have not yet registered with AMSAT for the Symposium, please do so by contacting the AMSAT office or via the AMSAT Store at: http://store.amsat.org. Please reply directly to me (off-BB) with any questions. Thank you, Clayton W5PFG From LB2TG at hotmail.com Tue Nov 1 09:36:44 2016 From: LB2TG at hotmail.com (LB2TG Paul) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 09:36:44 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 (12.8c)-icom 910-subtone.sqf In-Reply-To: <1350355f-010c-8fe4-1cdb-0f10973ade23@t-online.de> References: , <1350355f-010c-8fe4-1cdb-0f10973ade23@t-online.de> Message-ID: Hello. Thanks a lot. If I understand this correct... Since I have a EU model modified to use subtones for repeaters I have to download and install dk1tb.de/satpcsetup_a_128c.ZI I'll give it a try later on and post the result. I guess I am not the only one who has done this modification on the 910. 73, Paul LB2TG ________________________________ Fra: Erich Eichmann Sendt: 31. oktober 2016 23:16 Til: LB2TG Paul; AMSAT-BB at amsat.org Emne: Re: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 (12.8c)-icom 910-subtone.sqf Paul, the subtone.sqf that comes with SatPC32 should work. A reason of the problem could be: With the American version of the IC-910H you need the SatPC32 version for American users, with the European model the program version for European users. The two models models are different regarding control of the sub tone functions and with the wrong SatPC32 version sub tone control doesn't work. The REV/NOR parameter in Doppler.SQF doesn't switch the radio between revers and normal satellite tracking. With REV the program changes uplink and downlink in the opposite directions when you tune around the passband, with NOR in the same directions (only AO-07 in mode A at present). With FM sats the setting is meaningless. 73s, Erich, DK1TB Am 31.10.2016 um 13:44 schrieb LB2TG Paul: > Hello. > > Can anyone help with the syntax in the subtone.sqf for ic-910? > I have tried "almost everthing" but the subtone are still in the standard value 88.5 > I can set it manually to 67.0 and 74.4 for SO-50. > I also see that I have to change "NOR" and "REV" manually. > > Maybe some can write this line correct for Icom IC-910? > > SO-50,67.0,??? > SO-50,74.4,??? > > When I connect, and change the settings for the rig, my old TS-790 works great. > > 73, Paul LB2TG > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From LB2TG at hotmail.com Tue Nov 1 12:07:15 2016 From: LB2TG at hotmail.com (LB2TG Paul) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 12:07:15 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 (12.8c)-icom 910-subtone.sqf In-Reply-To: <1350355f-010c-8fe4-1cdb-0f10973ade23@t-online.de> References: , <1350355f-010c-8fe4-1cdb-0f10973ade23@t-online.de> Message-ID: Hi. Thanks to Erich the subtones now are ok. My IC-910 orginally had only 1750Hz tone. For working our new repeaters the rig was modified to transmit subtones. SatPC32 The solution was to uninstall the European version of SatPc32 and install the US version. Now everything seems to be ok! Thanks to all for help with this "challenge". 73, Paul LB2TG ________________________________ Fra: Erich Eichmann Sendt: 31. oktober 2016 23:16 Til: LB2TG Paul; AMSAT-BB at amsat.org Emne: Re: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 (12.8c)-icom 910-subtone.sqf Paul, the subtone.sqf that comes with SatPC32 should work. A reason of the problem could be: With the American version of the IC-910H you need the SatPC32 version for American users, with the European model the program version for European users. The two models models are different regarding control of the sub tone functions and with the wrong SatPC32 version sub tone control doesn't work. The REV/NOR parameter in Doppler.SQF doesn't switch the radio between revers and normal satellite tracking. With REV the program changes uplink and downlink in the opposite directions when you tune around the passband, with NOR in the same directions (only AO-07 in mode A at present). With FM sats the setting is meaningless. 73s, Erich, DK1TB Am 31.10.2016 um 13:44 schrieb LB2TG Paul: > Hello. > > Can anyone help with the syntax in the subtone.sqf for ic-910? > I have tried "almost everthing" but the subtone are still in the standard value 88.5 > I can set it manually to 67.0 and 74.4 for SO-50. > I also see that I have to change "NOR" and "REV" manually. > > Maybe some can write this line correct for Icom IC-910? > > SO-50,67.0,??? > SO-50,74.4,??? > > When I connect, and change the settings for the rig, my old TS-790 works great. > > 73, Paul LB2TG > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb AMSAT-BB Info Page www.amsat.org To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the AMSAT-BB Archives. Using AMSAT-BB: To post a message to all the list members, send ... From kk5do at arrl.net Tue Nov 1 13:39:31 2016 From: kk5do at arrl.net (Bruce) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 08:39:31 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] IMPORTANT notice for 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium Attendees In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <627f1d9b-70e3-e460-cbb4-1e551a248531@arrl.net> I would suggest that anyone on the cruise subscribe to the Carnival text updates for this cruise. You can do so by texting CCL3 to 278473 73...bruce On 11/1/2016 6:55 AM, Clayton Coleman wrote: > October 31, the AMSAT Symposium committee was informed by Carnival > that our Symposium ship, the Carnival Liberty, was experiencing a > technical difficulty resulting in an itinerary change. The technical > difficulty affects the maximum cruising speed of the Carnival Liberty. > > The full text of Carnival?s notification has been posted on the AMSAT > 2016 Space Symposium web page at: http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=3667 > > Summary of changes and impact to attendees: > > 1. Our destination is now Progreso rather than Cozumel. > > 2. Scheduled departure is now 22:00 local time on Thursday, November 10. > > 3. Scheduled arrival is now 10:00 local time on Monday, November 14. > > 4. All guests who have purchased shore excursions for Cozumel through > Carnival will receive refunds for their scheduled excursions. > > 5. All guests will receive a $50 on-board credit and 25% discount on a > future sailing with Carnival. > > This itinerary change should have minimal impact on the events of the > Symposium. It may affect your travel times to and from the airport. > Please check your flight departure times and contact Carnival if there > is any conflict regarding this modified itinerary. > > We have no further information from Carnival at this time.This and > further communication will be emailed to all registered Symposium > attendees in the next 24 hours. If you have not yet registered with > AMSAT for the Symposium, please do so by contacting the AMSAT office > or via the AMSAT Store at: http://store.amsat.org. > > Please reply directly to me (off-BB) with any questions. > > Thank you, > Clayton > W5PFG > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb -- Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards AMSAT Board Member 2016-2018 AMSAT Board Alternate 2015-2016 ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT* Also live streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News http://www.arrl.org AMSAT on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/amsat From jbarbre at xmission.com Tue Nov 1 15:42:50 2016 From: jbarbre at xmission.com (Jim Barbre) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 08:42:50 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] Outernet files: APRS Message-ID: How do I make use of the APRS data files that are downloaded from Outernet? For example, can they be displayed on a map? My OS is Windows 7 and I do not have anything APRS-related currently on my system. Thanks. 73 Jim Barbre KB7YSY From jbarbre at xmission.com Tue Nov 1 15:45:53 2016 From: jbarbre at xmission.com (Jim Barbre) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 08:45:53 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] Outernet files: Weather Message-ID: <9d763008-36bd-3e75-346a-0e98c520b1ee@xmission.com> When I click the Weather folder in Librarian I get an outline of the Western Hemisphere and a message saying "No Data." I have 8 grib2 files in another folder. How do I get the weather info to display in Librarian? Thanks. 73 Jim Barbre KB7YSY From kk5do at arrl.net Tue Nov 1 16:07:07 2016 From: kk5do at arrl.net (Bruce) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 11:07:07 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] IMPORTANT notice for 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium Attendees Message-ID: News that came out this morning.... about 45 minutes ago. http://abc13.com/travel/technical-issues-cancel-carnival-liberty-sailings/1582591/ As they cancelled this week's cruise after everyone had boarded, my guess is that a week to make the repairs necessary should put us back on schedule for a normal departure (the boat is not coming in from anywhere to be late). Also, if they were planning on us going out with a slowed down vessel and then make final repairs when it gets back to port, everything should be just fine with the vessel not moving and being repaired over a 7 day period. On a good note, this only affected the speed of the vessel and not any of the other functions, such as A/C, electricity, water and sewage. All things that are really worse than a slow moving boat. We will try to keep everyone informed over the next few days about any news on the cruise. 73...bruce -- Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards AMSAT Board Member 2016-2018 AMSAT Board Alternate 2015-2016 ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT* Also live streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News http://www.arrl.org AMSAT on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/amsat From scott23192 at gmail.com Tue Nov 1 16:15:06 2016 From: scott23192 at gmail.com (Scott) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 12:15:06 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] Outernet files: Weather In-Reply-To: <9d763008-36bd-3e75-346a-0e98c520b1ee@xmission.com> References: <9d763008-36bd-3e75-346a-0e98c520b1ee@xmission.com> Message-ID: <77F68AAE0F2240C8BA597A2224BD37C1@CSI9020> Jim, it's my impression that there are several "it depends" to answer your question. For the weather page to work, I believe you need the most recent version of the software for whatever platform you are using. I'm using a Raspberry Pi with the rxOS image, so currently I'm at 3.1 Also, the data files that populate the overlays available for the weather globe take a while to download, so you will need a good enough signal for files to come down. Early on they had mentioned that an SNR of -2- or better might suffice, but I think it's a little higher than that to get files at a decent clip. When it's working right and you have data for the overlays, you can click the menu to the left of the "earth" word at the bottom and select various views. Here is a shot of a temperature overlay if you'd like to have a reference of how it can look: k4kdr.github.io/files/outernet/outernet-weather-screenshot.png ... note also that the globe can be moved and resized with mouse actions, so experiment with that once you have data. -Scott, K4KDR -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Jim Barbre Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 11:45 AM To: AMSAT BB Subject: [amsat-bb] Outernet files: Weather When I click the Weather folder in Librarian I get an outline of the Western Hemisphere and a message saying "No Data." I have 8 grib2 files in another folder. How do I get the weather info to display in Librarian? Thanks. 73 Jim Barbre KB7YSY From kk5do at arrl.net Tue Nov 1 16:53:35 2016 From: kk5do at arrl.net (Bruce) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 11:53:35 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] 120v power on carnival liberty Message-ID: <87f9b523-364d-8b9c-c4b0-555a792c1e69@arrl.net> I have a friend that has sailed on this ship before. There is one outlet in your cabin for 120v ac power. If you are going to bring a power strip, the ship rules state that it CANNOT be a surge protector. They can only be a dumb power strip. If you do bring a surge protector, they will confiscate it and return it to you at the end of the cruise. I found one on amazon made by Belkin that has a 5 foot cord for about $8. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002AG0IO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I am not endorsing this product, I am only letting you know what I found and am taking. It comes with a cardboard band around it and I am leaving that on so that they can see that it is not a surge protector. You can probably pick something up at your favorite discount wholesale club or super store. 73...bruce -- Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards AMSAT Board Member 2016-2018 AMSAT Board Alternate 2015-2016 ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT* Also live streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News http://www.arrl.org AMSAT on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/amsat From jbarbre at xmission.com Tue Nov 1 17:00:56 2016 From: jbarbre at xmission.com (Jim Barbre) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 10:00:56 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] Outernet antenna mod Message-ID: <83309b7e-2543-122d-d22e-0f1bc7b8d891@xmission.com> This is a resend. My apologies if it shows up twice. ............. With the help of some Velcro, I mounted my Outernet patch antenna to a flat, smooth, 10 x 12 inch aluminum cooking sheet and set it indoors on a tablet stand. I angled the antenna at 50 deg. above the horizon and pointed the stand in the direction of the satellite. Antenna pigtail is at the bottom. LNA is connected directly to the pigtail and Outernet SDR is connected directly to the LNA. I used a 9 inch USB cable to connect the dongle to my Raspberry Pi 3. With this setup I was able to increase my SNR from a max. of 1.7dB to > 5dB. A very easy setup that now makes it possible for me to download Outernet files. 73 Jim Barbre KB7YSY From jbarbre at xmission.com Tue Nov 1 15:40:01 2016 From: jbarbre at xmission.com (Jim Barbre) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 08:40:01 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] Outernet antenna mod In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: With the help of some Velcro, I attached my Outernet patch antenna to a flat, smooth, 10 x 12 inch aluminum cooking sheet and mounted it indoors on a tablet stand. I angled the antenna at 50 deg. above the horizon and pointed the stand in the direction of the satellite. Antenna pigtail is at the bottom. LNA is connected directly to the pigtail and Outernet SDR is connected directly to the LNA. I used a 9 inch USB cable to connect the dongle to my Raspberry Pi 3. With this setup I was able to increase my SNR from a max. of 1.7dB to > 5dB. A very easy setup that now makes it possible for me to download Outernet files. 73 Jim Barbre KB7YSY From philji at mac.com Tue Nov 1 15:51:12 2016 From: philji at mac.com (Phillip Lontz) Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 09:51:12 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] IMPORTANT notice for 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium Attendees In-Reply-To: <627f1d9b-70e3-e460-cbb4-1e551a248531@arrl.net> References: <627f1d9b-70e3-e460-cbb4-1e551a248531@arrl.net> Message-ID: <0CE573C9-5A85-44E6-9208-86FDA13BF550@mac.com> Sounds like they have engine problems. What me worry? > On Nov 1, 2016, at 7:39 AM, Bruce wrote: > > I would suggest that anyone on the cruise subscribe to the Carnival text updates for this cruise. You can do so by texting CCL3 to 278473 > > 73...bruce > >> On 11/1/2016 6:55 AM, Clayton Coleman wrote: >> October 31, the AMSAT Symposium committee was informed by Carnival >> that our Symposium ship, the Carnival Liberty, was experiencing a >> technical difficulty resulting in an itinerary change. The technical >> difficulty affects the maximum cruising speed of the Carnival Liberty. >> >> The full text of Carnival?s notification has been posted on the AMSAT >> 2016 Space Symposium web page at: http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=3667 >> >> Summary of changes and impact to attendees: >> >> 1. Our destination is now Progreso rather than Cozumel. >> >> 2. Scheduled departure is now 22:00 local time on Thursday, November 10. >> >> 3. Scheduled arrival is now 10:00 local time on Monday, November 14. >> >> 4. All guests who have purchased shore excursions for Cozumel through >> Carnival will receive refunds for their scheduled excursions. >> >> 5. All guests will receive a $50 on-board credit and 25% discount on a >> future sailing with Carnival. >> >> This itinerary change should have minimal impact on the events of the >> Symposium. It may affect your travel times to and from the airport. >> Please check your flight departure times and contact Carnival if there >> is any conflict regarding this modified itinerary. >> >> We have no further information from Carnival at this time.This and >> further communication will be emailed to all registered Symposium >> attendees in the next 24 hours. If you have not yet registered with >> AMSAT for the Symposium, please do so by contacting the AMSAT office >> or via the AMSAT Store at: http://store.amsat.org. >> >> Please reply directly to me (off-BB) with any questions. >> >> Thank you, >> Clayton >> W5PFG >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > > -- > > Bruce Paige, KK5DO > AMSAT Director Contests and Awards > AMSAT Board Member 2016-2018 > AMSAT Board Alternate 2015-2016 > ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE > Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT* > Also live streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com > Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes > Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News > http://www.arrl.org > > AMSAT on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/amsat > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From gp_ab5r at outlook.com Tue Nov 1 19:21:22 2016 From: gp_ab5r at outlook.com (Gerald Payton) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 19:21:22 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Outernet Question Message-ID: I apologize for using the AMSAT-BB for an OUTERNET question, but do not know of another site and is frequently used by others here. When using an Outernet hardware configuration with CHIP and it's Wi-Fi ability, I am wondering what the effective range of that Wi-Fi may be? Is a portable laptop or tablet required nearby or it there sufficient signal for , say inside the house etc.? Thanks Jerry AB5R From k8bl at ameritech.net Tue Nov 1 19:45:28 2016 From: k8bl at ameritech.net (R.T.Liddy) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 19:45:28 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] IMPORTANT notice for 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium Attendees In-Reply-To: <0CE573C9-5A85-44E6-9208-86FDA13BF550@mac.com> References: <627f1d9b-70e3-e460-cbb4-1e551a248531@arrl.net> <0CE573C9-5A85-44E6-9208-86FDA13BF550@mac.com> Message-ID: <895545385.536718.1478029528657@mail.yahoo.com> I believe in one of the previous e-mail links there was an article mentioning that the repair issues concerned one of the ship's main propulsion alternators. Below is a link to an article that fully describes the typical propulsion systems of a modern cruise ship. ?Enjoy the Cruise!! ?73, ? Bob ?K8BL Cruise Ship Engine, Propulsion, Fuel Consumption | | | | | | | | | | | Cruise Ship Engine, Propulsion, Fuel Consumption If you're interested in cruise ship technology issues - read about cruise ship engines, propulsion systems, ... | | | | From: Phillip Lontz To: kk5do at arrl.net Cc: "amsat-bb at AMSAT.Org" Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 11:51 AM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] IMPORTANT notice for 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium Attendees Sounds like they have engine problems. What me worry? > On Nov 1, 2016, at 7:39 AM, Bruce wrote: > > I would suggest that anyone on the cruise subscribe to the Carnival text updates for this cruise. You can do so by texting CCL3 to 278473 > > 73...bruce > >> On 11/1/2016 6:55 AM, Clayton Coleman wrote: >> October 31, the AMSAT Symposium committee was informed by Carnival >> that our Symposium ship, the Carnival Liberty, was experiencing a >> technical difficulty resulting in an itinerary change. The technical >> difficulty affects the maximum cruising speed of the Carnival Liberty. >> >> The full text of Carnival?s notification has been posted on the AMSAT >> 2016 Space Symposium web page at: http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=3667 >> >> Summary of changes and impact to attendees: >> >> 1. Our destination is now Progreso rather than Cozumel. >> >> 2. Scheduled departure is now 22:00 local time on Thursday, November 10. >> >> 3. Scheduled arrival is now 10:00 local time on Monday, November 14. >> >> 4. All guests who have purchased shore excursions for Cozumel through >> Carnival will receive refunds for their scheduled excursions. >> >> 5. All guests will receive a $50 on-board credit and 25% discount on a >> future sailing with Carnival. >> >> This itinerary change should have minimal impact on the events of the >> Symposium. It may affect your travel times to and from the airport. >> Please check your flight departure times and contact Carnival if there >> is any conflict regarding this modified itinerary. >> >> We have no further information from Carnival at this time.This and >> further communication will be emailed to all registered Symposium >> attendees in the next 24 hours. If you have not yet registered with >> AMSAT for the Symposium, please do so by contacting the AMSAT office >> or via the AMSAT Store at: http://store.amsat.org. >> >> Please reply directly to me (off-BB) with any questions. >> >> Thank you, >> Clayton >> W5PFG >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > > -- > > Bruce Paige, KK5DO >? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? AMSAT Director Contests and Awards > AMSAT Board Member 2016-2018 > AMSAT Board Alternate 2015-2016 >? ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE >? ? ? ? ? Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT* > Also live streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com > Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes >? ? ? ? ? ? ? Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News > http://www.arrl.org > > AMSAT on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/amsat > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From k8bl at ameritech.net Tue Nov 1 19:49:21 2016 From: k8bl at ameritech.net (R.T.Liddy) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 19:49:21 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] IMPORTANT notice for 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium Attendees In-Reply-To: <895545385.536718.1478029528657@mail.yahoo.com> References: <627f1d9b-70e3-e460-cbb4-1e551a248531@arrl.net> <0CE573C9-5A85-44E6-9208-86FDA13BF550@mac.com> <895545385.536718.1478029528657@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <798966742.2039079.1478029761193@mail.yahoo.com> Well, the BB doesn't like the way links are sent in? the NORMAL WORLD!! ? Let's try this: http://www.cruisemapper.com/wiki/752-cruise-ship-engine-propulsion-fuel From: R.T.Liddy To: AMSAT BB Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 3:45 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] IMPORTANT notice for 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium Attendees I believe in one of the previous e-mail links there was an article mentioning that the repair issues concerned one of the ship's main propulsion alternators. Below is a link to an article that fully describes the typical propulsion systems of a modern cruise ship. ?Enjoy the Cruise!! ?73, ? Bob ?K8BL Cruise Ship Engine, Propulsion, Fuel Consumption ? |? |? |? |? |? ? | ? | ? | |? |? |? Cruise Ship Engine, Propulsion, Fuel Consumption If you're interested in cruise ship technology issues - read about cruise ship engines, propulsion systems, ...? |? | ? | ? | ? ? ? From: Phillip Lontz To: kk5do at arrl.net Cc: "amsat-bb at AMSAT.Org" Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 11:51 AM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] IMPORTANT notice for 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium Attendees ? Sounds like they have engine problems. What me worry? > On Nov 1, 2016, at 7:39 AM, Bruce wrote: > > I would suggest that anyone on the cruise subscribe to the Carnival text updates for this cruise. You can do so by texting CCL3 to 278473 > > 73...bruce > >> On 11/1/2016 6:55 AM, Clayton Coleman wrote: >> October 31, the AMSAT Symposium committee was informed by Carnival >> that our Symposium ship, the Carnival Liberty, was experiencing a >> technical difficulty resulting in an itinerary change. The technical >> difficulty affects the maximum cruising speed of the Carnival Liberty. >> >> The full text of Carnival?s notification has been posted on the AMSAT >> 2016 Space Symposium web page at: http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=3667 >> >> Summary of changes and impact to attendees: >> >> 1. Our destination is now Progreso rather than Cozumel. >> >> 2. Scheduled departure is now 22:00 local time on Thursday, November 10. >> >> 3. Scheduled arrival is now 10:00 local time on Monday, November 14. >> >> 4. All guests who have purchased shore excursions for Cozumel through >> Carnival will receive refunds for their scheduled excursions. >> >> 5. All guests will receive a $50 on-board credit and 25% discount on a >> future sailing with Carnival. >> >> This itinerary change should have minimal impact on the events of the >> Symposium. It may affect your travel times to and from the airport. >> Please check your flight departure times and contact Carnival if there >> is any conflict regarding this modified itinerary. >> >> We have no further information from Carnival at this time.This and >> further communication will be emailed to all registered Symposium >> attendees in the next 24 hours. If you have not yet registered with >> AMSAT for the Symposium, please do so by contacting the AMSAT office >> or via the AMSAT Store at: http://store.amsat.org. >> >> Please reply directly to me (off-BB) with any questions. >> >> Thank you, >> Clayton >> W5PFG >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > > -- > > Bruce Paige, KK5DO >? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? AMSAT Director Contests and Awards > AMSAT Board Member 2016-2018 > AMSAT Board Alternate 2015-2016 >? ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE >? ? ? ? ? Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT* > Also live streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com > Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes >? ? ? ? ? ? ? Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News > http://www.arrl.org > > AMSAT on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/amsat > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb ? _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From kk5do at arrl.net Tue Nov 1 22:46:41 2016 From: kk5do at arrl.net (Bruce) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 17:46:41 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] BOD Meeting Message-ID: <43022e77-c77a-0d44-dd69-d6a7d085119d@arrl.net> For those that are going to be staying at the Double Tree hotel for the board of directors meeting.... If you are renting a car or are driving your own car, you can leave it parked at the Double Tree, take their shuttle to the boat for an additional $50 per room. This is much less than paying 4 days of parking at the cruise terminal. Also, baggage is a pain. Some parking locations require you to drop your baggage off at the terminal, drive and park your car and then take their shuttle to the terminal. You can add the Double Tree parking/shuttle when you check in. I also just received an email from the Double Tree with some upgrades. One of the upgrades was $25 for late check out, up to 6 hours. Might be a good deal if the ship is delayed. Will have to monitor that as time goes by. 73...bruce -- Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards AMSAT Board Member 2016-2018 AMSAT Board Alternate 2015-2016 ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT* Also live streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News http://www.arrl.org AMSAT on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/amsat From johnbrier at gmail.com Wed Nov 2 01:07:29 2016 From: johnbrier at gmail.com (John Brier) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 21:07:29 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] Great article on hams in space and ARISS! Message-ID: http://hackaday.com/2016/11/01/hams-in-space-part-2-the-manned-spaceflights/ It's very up to date and accurate too. Part 1 is about OSCAR but I haven't read it yet: http://hackaday.com/2016/01/14/hams-in-space-project-oscar/ 73, John Brier KG4AKV From n4csitwo at bellsouth.net Wed Nov 2 03:07:08 2016 From: n4csitwo at bellsouth.net (n4csitwo at bellsouth.net) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 23:07:08 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] =?iso-8859-1?q?Upcoming_ARISS_contact_with_Istituto_Co?= =?iso-8859-1?q?mprensivo_=22Marco_da_Melo=22=2C_Mel=2C_Italy?= Message-ID: <65B9A264A3944B2BBDAF3B5939F9361A@DHJ> An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Istituto Comprensivo "Marco da Melo", Mel, Italy on 04 Nov. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 08:47 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between OR4ISS and IQ3FL. The contact should be audible over Italy and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. Our school is a state school and is meant for students aged 6 to 14 years old. It has about 250 students. Its name "Marco da Melo" comes from a historic character (a painter) of the 16th century. The school is situated in a wide valley, Val Belluna (the valley of Belluno). All the subjects included in the national regulations for this age bracket are taught: Italian, History, Geography, Science, Math, foreign languages, Art, Music and IT. Some technological workshops have been started up for three years and only for the students of the last school year with the help of the radio amateurs of the local section of Feltre. Themes related to telecommunication are dealt with and experiments of electrophysics are carried out as well as CW tests. Footage and slides related to the world of the radio are shown. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. What do you like most about living in space? 2. When did you decide to become an astronaut? 3. How do you keep fit in space? 4. How did you feel when you watched planet Earth for the first time? 5. What did you feel when you first entered the Station? 6. Is it difficult to get used to living in space? 7. What planet would you prefer to visit, if you could, and why? 8. Which kind of food do you eat in space? 9. Do you believe there is life on other planets? 10. How did you reach the Station and how long does it take? 11. What was your ambition when you were young? 12. How do you think this experience will change you? 13. How were you selected for the space program? 14. What sacrifices did you have to make to become an astronaut? 15. What does planet earth look like from there? 16. Have you ever encountered any problems during this expedition? 17. How long will you be staying in space? 18. What do you see from there? 19. Would you like to land on the moon and why? 20. How big is the ISS? 21. What is the most interesting experience you have had in your job? 22. Is the Space Station comfortable? 23. Who was your inspiration when you decided to become an astronaut? 24. If I wanted to become an astronaut, what would you suggest I should do? PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES: Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status Next planned event(s): TBD About ARISS: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or informal education venues. With the help of experienced amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with large audiences in a variety of public forums. Before and during these radio contacts, students, teachers, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org, www.amsat.org, and www.arrl.org. Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From n0jy at amsat.org Wed Nov 2 03:31:14 2016 From: n0jy at amsat.org (Jerry Buxton) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 22:31:14 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] BOD Meeting In-Reply-To: <43022e77-c77a-0d44-dd69-d6a7d085119d@arrl.net> References: <43022e77-c77a-0d44-dd69-d6a7d085119d@arrl.net> Message-ID: FWIW I did the online reservation for cruise terminal parking and it was $40. The shuttles handle you and your luggage from the parking lot to the terminal. http://www.portgalvestonparking.com/ Jerry Buxton, N?JY On 11/1/2016 17:46, Bruce wrote: > For those that are going to be staying at the Double Tree hotel for > the board of directors meeting.... > > If you are renting a car or are driving your own car, you can leave it > parked at the Double Tree, take their shuttle to the boat for an > additional $50 per room. This is much less than paying 4 days of > parking at the cruise terminal. Also, baggage is a pain. Some parking > locations require you to drop your baggage off at the terminal, drive > and park your car and then take their shuttle to the terminal. You can > add the Double Tree parking/shuttle when you check in. > > I also just received an email from the Double Tree with some upgrades. > One of the upgrades was $25 for late check out, up to 6 hours. Might > be a good deal if the ship is delayed. Will have to monitor that as > time goes by. > > 73...bruce > From bruninga at usna.edu Wed Nov 2 13:58:27 2016 From: bruninga at usna.edu (Robert Bruninga) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 09:58:27 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] Outernet WiFI and Omni Mobile antenna? Message-ID: <839b62b8e4f19dcdd2bf827f77b48d6f@mail.gmail.com> > I apologize for using the AMSAT-BB for an OUTERNET... > When using Outernet's Wi-Fi ability, I am wondering > what the effective range of that Wi-Fi may be? I Quintupled the range of my Outernet Raspberry Pi from about 200' outside to about 1000' outside by soldering on a 1.2" piece of wire as a 1/4 wave vertical compared to the on-board-ceramic antenna... This hotspot would be able to cover the entire fleamarket at Dayton for example. see: http://aprs.org/outnet-hotspot.html And then today, I played around with EZNEC to see if I could come up with an Omni Vertical to be able to have an Outernet Receiver in my car able to receive the Outernet signal no matter what direction the car was pointed. I came up with this: http://aprs.org/OUTNET/antennas/Colinear-100ohmsX.png I haven't built it since it requires a hole in the middle of the roof, but its an idea... This omni is 17" tall and has a conical max gain of over 9 dBi at an elevation angle of 40 degrees that matches the elevation angle of Inmarsat over the central latitude swath of the USA. It was hard to get the 40 degrees, but was easier at 45 degrees and higher just with simple long monopoles, suitable for Southerners or Mexicans. Just cutting wire whip to the right length without even a phasing stub works at these higher elevation angles (and lower latitudes). Of course a helix woiuld be an easy to build antenna, but it needs to be pointed at the Inmarsat satellite which is geostationary south of Texas. For the overall ham radio ideas for this Global Outernet system, see: http://aprs.org/outnet.html Bob, WB4APR From jbarbre at xmission.com Wed Nov 2 14:25:53 2016 From: jbarbre at xmission.com (Jim Barbre) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 07:25:53 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] Outernet files: Weather Message-ID: <654a86f8-4f9b-49be-028d-ca9303834c3a@xmission.com> Scott, Thanks for the recommendation. I re-flashed my SD card with ver. 3.1 and collected Outernet data overnight. This morning I am seeing weather patterns displayed on the earth map. Neat! Thanks again. 73 Jim Barbre KB7YSY On 11/1/2016 10:03 AM, Scott wrote: > No, it's a completely hands-off operation other than using the web > interface to view things. > > The weather files (and I guess all the other content as well) is > handled in the background by the O/S. > > Please note that your PC & browser selection could have an impact. I > have way more functionality on my desktop PC (Windows) with a real > mouse than I do my notebook (also Windows). I don't know if it's an > issue of graphics capability, the external mouse, or what. > > However, if you're showing "no data" (which I recall was how mine > looked at first), then that's a show stopper. That would not be a > local PC issue. > > I noticed that they put out a new .zip image the other day, but > strangely it still shows as 3.1. But in your case it might be worth > downloading and re-flashing your micro-SD card. > > https://archive.outernet.is/images/rxOS-Raspberry-Pi/ > > Since starting from scratch is so painless, it's worth trying. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -----Original Message----- From: Jim Barbre > Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 12:34 PM > To: Scott > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Outernet files: Weather > > Hi Scott, > > Thanks for your reply. I am using Raspbian Jessie, latest update. > My SNR is greater that 5dB. I have already captured 8 grib2 files, but > they are in a folder by themselves, separate from the weather folder. My > earth display is not seeing any data. Do I need to move my grib2 files > into the weather folder? > > 73 > Jim > KB7YSY > > On 11/1/2016 9:15 AM, Scott wrote: >> Jim, it's my impression that there are several "it depends" to answer >> your question. >> >> For the weather page to work, I believe you need the most recent >> version of the software for whatever platform you are using. I'm >> using a Raspberry Pi with the rxOS image, so currently I'm at 3.1 >> >> Also, the data files that populate the overlays available for the >> weather globe take a while to download, so you will need a good >> enough signal for files to come down. Early on they had mentioned >> that an SNR of -2- or better might suffice, but I think it's a little >> higher than that to get files at a decent clip. >> >> When it's working right and you have data for the overlays, you can >> click the menu to the left of the "earth" word at the bottom and >> select various views. Here is a shot of a temperature overlay if >> you'd like to have a reference of how it can look: >> >> k4kdr.github.io/files/outernet/outernet-weather-screenshot.png >> >> ... note also that the globe can be moved and resized with mouse >> actions, so experiment with that once you have data. >> >> -Scott, K4KDR >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Jim Barbre >> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 11:45 AM >> To: AMSAT BB >> Subject: [amsat-bb] Outernet files: Weather >> >> When I click the Weather folder in Librarian I get an outline of >> the Western Hemisphere and a message saying "No Data." I have 8 grib2 >> files in another folder. How do I get the weather info to display in >> Librarian? >> >> Thanks. >> 73 >> Jim Barbre >> KB7YSY >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. >> Opinions expressed >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views >> of AMSAT-NA. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite >> program! >> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >> > > From johnbrier at gmail.com Wed Nov 2 14:52:08 2016 From: johnbrier at gmail.com (John Brier) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 10:52:08 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550 MHz)! Message-ID: I didn't see this on amsat-bb yet. I plan on trying the upcoming 16:45 UTC pass. https://twitter.com/RF2Space/status/793559573240115200 "#ARISS ISS packet system now operational on UHF (437.550 MHz). #hamradio" http://issfanclub.com/node/41954#comment-18163 "Due to the failure of the VHF radio in the Columbus module the packet system on 145.825 is not possible. The crew just swapped the radio for the UHF equivalent and packet is now operational on 437.550 MHz. The Kenwood D700 radios were augmented a couple years ago by a Kenwood D710E radio that was dedicated to SSTV operations. The Russian team soon afterwards adopted the D710E as their only operational radio but it was never configured for packet operations. The ARISS team is working on flying replacement D710GA models to replace and unify all the hardware. Target for delivery is late 2017. Submitted by N5VHO on Tue, 2016-11-01 17:14." 73, John Brier KG4AKV From bruninga at usna.edu Wed Nov 2 15:06:54 2016 From: bruninga at usna.edu (Robert Bruninga) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 11:06:54 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550 MHz)! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Great! But... Everyone must remember, UHF packet is *not* appliance operating. You must oppositely tune for Doppler on the uplink starting low, and going high, while tuning the downlink High and going low. Best to pre-program 5 channels and switch during the event. If you do not do this, you are simplky QRM to everyone else, blocking their successes with your failures. Bob -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of John Brier Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 10:52 AM To: AMSAT BB Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550 MHz)! I didn't see this on amsat-bb yet. I plan on trying the upcoming 16:45 UTC pass. https://twitter.com/RF2Space/status/793559573240115200 "#ARISS ISS packet system now operational on UHF (437.550 MHz). #hamradio" http://issfanclub.com/node/41954#comment-18163 "Due to the failure of the VHF radio in the Columbus module the packet system on 145.825 is not possible. The crew just swapped the radio for the UHF equivalent and packet is now operational on 437.550 MHz. The Kenwood D700 radios were augmented a couple years ago by a Kenwood D710E radio that was dedicated to SSTV operations. The Russian team soon afterwards adopted the D710E as their only operational radio but it was never configured for packet operations. The ARISS team is working on flying replacement D710GA models to replace and unify all the hardware. Target for delivery is late 2017. Submitted by N5VHO on Tue, 2016-11-01 17:14." 73, John Brier KG4AKV _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From scott23192 at gmail.com Wed Nov 2 15:36:23 2016 From: scott23192 at gmail.com (Scott) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 11:36:23 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550MHz)! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <19485DE817A1495B86F12E81C92DF117@CSI9020> Appreciate that reminder, Bob. I'm not so lazy that turning the dial is the end of the world, but for the sake of argument does anyone know of a dual-band (or just UHF) FM radio that is capable of doppler tuning via DDE (or similar) interfaces from tracking software like Orbitron. Thanks! -Scott, K4KDR -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Robert Bruninga Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 11:06 AM To: AMSAT BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550MHz)! Great! But... Everyone must remember, UHF packet is *not* appliance operating. You must oppositely tune for Doppler on the uplink starting low, and going high, while tuning the downlink High and going low. Best to pre-program 5 channels and switch during the event. If you do not do this, you are simplky QRM to everyone else, blocking their successes with your failures. Bob -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of John Brier Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 10:52 AM To: AMSAT BB Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550 MHz)! I didn't see this on amsat-bb yet. I plan on trying the upcoming 16:45 UTC pass. https://twitter.com/RF2Space/status/793559573240115200 "#ARISS ISS packet system now operational on UHF (437.550 MHz). #hamradio" http://issfanclub.com/node/41954#comment-18163 "Due to the failure of the VHF radio in the Columbus module the packet system on 145.825 is not possible. The crew just swapped the radio for the UHF equivalent and packet is now operational on 437.550 MHz. The Kenwood D700 radios were augmented a couple years ago by a Kenwood D710E radio that was dedicated to SSTV operations. The Russian team soon afterwards adopted the D710E as their only operational radio but it was never configured for packet operations. The ARISS team is working on flying replacement D710GA models to replace and unify all the hardware. Target for delivery is late 2017. Submitted by N5VHO on Tue, 2016-11-01 17:14." 73, John Brier KG4AKV From bruninga at usna.edu Wed Nov 2 16:00:31 2016 From: bruninga at usna.edu (Robert Bruninga) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 12:00:31 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550MHz)! In-Reply-To: <19485DE817A1495B86F12E81C92DF117@CSI9020> References: <19485DE817A1495B86F12E81C92DF117@CSI9020> Message-ID: <61e9a289509d43aa4fdcc1f599965d0c@mail.gmail.com> > I'm not so lazy that turning the dial is the end of the world, I may be reading too much into that statement, but just to be clear... it is not that simple... On most FM rigs you cannot turn the knob both ways at once, to the left for TX and to the right for RX . You have to tune the TX and RX in opposite directions at the same time every 2 minutes or so. Hence, the suggestion to pre-tune the -/+10, -/+5 , 0, +/-5, and +/-10 kHz offsets in 5 memories to make it trivial to make the 5 steps during the pass. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Bruninga Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 11:06 AM To: AMSAT BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550MHz)! Great! But... Everyone must remember, UHF packet is *not* appliance operating. You must oppositely tune for Doppler on the uplink starting low, and going high, while tuning the downlink High and going low. Best to pre-program 5 channels and switch during the event. If you do not do this, you are simplky QRM to everyone else, blocking their successes with your failures. Bob -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of John Brier Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 10:52 AM To: AMSAT BB Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550 MHz)! I didn't see this on amsat-bb yet. I plan on trying the upcoming 16:45 UTC pass. https://twitter.com/RF2Space/status/793559573240115200 "#ARISS ISS packet system now operational on UHF (437.550 MHz). #hamradio" http://issfanclub.com/node/41954#comment-18163 "Due to the failure of the VHF radio in the Columbus module the packet system on 145.825 is not possible. The crew just swapped the radio for the UHF equivalent and packet is now operational on 437.550 MHz. The Kenwood D700 radios were augmented a couple years ago by a Kenwood D710E radio that was dedicated to SSTV operations. The Russian team soon afterwards adopted the D710E as their only operational radio but it was never configured for packet operations. The ARISS team is working on flying replacement D710GA models to replace and unify all the hardware. Target for delivery is late 2017. Submitted by N5VHO on Tue, 2016-11-01 17:14." 73, John Brier KG4AKV _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From zmetzing at pobox.com Wed Nov 2 16:06:34 2016 From: zmetzing at pobox.com (Zach Metzinger) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 11:06:34 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550MHz)! In-Reply-To: <61e9a289509d43aa4fdcc1f599965d0c@mail.gmail.com> References: <19485DE817A1495B86F12E81C92DF117@CSI9020> <61e9a289509d43aa4fdcc1f599965d0c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <23be5077-f9be-127e-ec69-d8e2d73ff1e7@pobox.com> On 11/02/16 11:00, Robert Bruninga wrote: >> I'm not so lazy that turning the dial is the end of the world, > > I may be reading too much into that statement, but just to be clear... > > it is not that simple... On most FM rigs you cannot turn the knob both > ways at once, to the left for TX and to the right for RX . You have to > tune the TX and RX in opposite directions at the same time every 2 minutes > or so. Hence, the suggestion to pre-tune the -/+10, -/+5 , 0, +/-5, and > +/-10 kHz offsets in 5 memories to make it trivial to make the 5 steps > during the pass. However, on multi-mode rigs which have computer control, that can be done via the PC (updating both RX and TX freqs). --- Zach From my.callsign at verizon.net Wed Nov 2 18:39:42 2016 From: my.callsign at verizon.net (KO6TZ Bob) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 11:39:42 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550MHz)! Message-ID: <357799f6-2cf2-1661-3c36-aee24f4f6c18@verizon.net> ISS APRS Digi is back up and working just fine on 437.550. Using my IC-910h, SatPC32_ISS, UZ7HO, and UISS, everything worked like it is supposed to. The last pass was short, but made 1.5 contacts. BOB KO6TZ ===================== 1:Fm KO6TZ To APRS Via RS0ISS,ARISS [11:17:54] =3356.77N\11630.82WA DM13rw 1:Fm KC7MG-9 To APRS Via RS0ISS* [11:18:11] =3253.45N/11142.30W-Hello from AZ. DM42 grid 1:Fm KO6TZ To APRS Via RS0ISS,ARISS [11:18:22] :KC7MG-9 :BOB Desert Hot Spg CA DM13 1:Fm KC7MG-9 To APRS Via RS0ISS* [11:19:05] KO6TZ ACK DE KC7MG DM42 1:Fm KO6TZ To APRS Via RS0ISS,ARISS [11:19:13] :BLN0QSLs :KE0KHA-7,KC7MG-9 From m5aka at yahoo.co.uk Wed Nov 2 19:52:35 2016 From: m5aka at yahoo.co.uk (M5AKA) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 19:52:35 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] HFsat 21/29 MHz + UBAKUSAT 145/435 Linear Transponder References: <311658105.1365767.1478116355777.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <311658105.1365767.1478116355777@mail.yahoo.com> HFsat will have 21 to 29 MHz transponder https://amsat-uk.org/2016/11/02/hfsat-will-have-21-to-29-mhz-transponder/ Turkey's UBAKUSAT linear transponder satellite to deploy 2017 https://amsat-uk.org/2016/11/02/ubakusat-linear-transponder-satellite/ Ham radio in National Geographic film Before Mars https://amsat-uk.org/2016/10/26/ham-radio-in-national-geographic-film-before-mars/ Raspberry Pi could generate ISS HamTV video https://amsat-uk.org/2016/10/24/raspberry-pi-iss-hamtv/ IARU issue Amateur-Satellite Service spectrum requirements https://amsat-uk.org/2016/10/24/iaru-amateur-satellite-spectrum/ Join AMSAT-UK https://amsat-uk.org/2016/09/27/autumn-fall-oscar-news/ 73 Trevor M5AKA ---- AMSAT-UK?http://amsat-uk.org/ Twitter?https://twitter.com/AmsatUK Facebook https://facebook.com/AmsatUK YouTube?https://youtube.com/AmsatUK ---- From mvivona at yahoo.com Wed Nov 2 21:06:50 2016 From: mvivona at yahoo.com (mvivona at yahoo.com) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 21:06:50 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550MHz)! In-Reply-To: <61e9a289509d43aa4fdcc1f599965d0c@mail.gmail.com> References: <19485DE817A1495B86F12E81C92DF117@CSI9020> <61e9a289509d43aa4fdcc1f599965d0c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <816927597.641425.1478120810880@mail.yahoo.com> Robert, I'm not following your explanation, please help me understand. If the ISS is transmitting and receiving on 437.55, why would you split your TX and RX offset directions?Seems to me like you would TX and RX high on the approach and TX and RX low as it passes by. Both on the same frequency just like you would do on SO-50. Michael KC4ZVA From: Robert Bruninga To: AMSAT BB Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2016 12:00 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550MHz)! > I'm not so lazy that turning the dial is the end of the world, I may be reading too much into that statement, but just to be clear... it is not that simple...? On most FM rigs you cannot turn the knob both ways at once, to the left for TX and to the right for RX .? You have to tune the TX and RX in opposite directions at the same time every 2 minutes or so.? Hence, the suggestion to pre-tune the -/+10, -/+5 , 0, +/-5, and +/-10? kHz offsets in 5 memories to make it trivial to make the 5 steps during the pass. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Bruninga Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 11:06 AM To: AMSAT BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550MHz)! Great!? ? But... Everyone must remember, UHF packet is *not* appliance operating. You must oppositely tune for Doppler on the uplink starting low, and going high, while tuning the downlink High and going low.? Best to pre-program 5 channels and switch during the event.? If you do not do this, you are simplky QRM to everyone else, blocking their successes with your failures. Bob -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of John Brier Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 10:52 AM To: AMSAT BB Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550 MHz)! I didn't see this on amsat-bb yet. I plan on trying the upcoming 16:45 UTC pass. https://twitter.com/RF2Space/status/793559573240115200 "#ARISS ISS packet system now operational on UHF (437.550 MHz). #hamradio" http://issfanclub.com/node/41954#comment-18163 "Due to the failure of the VHF radio in the Columbus module the packet system on 145.825 is not possible. The crew just swapped the radio for the UHF equivalent and packet is now operational on 437.550 MHz. The Kenwood D700 radios were augmented a couple years ago by a Kenwood D710E radio that was dedicated to SSTV operations. The Russian team soon afterwards adopted the D710E as their only operational radio but it was never configured for packet operations. The ARISS team is working on flying replacement D710GA models to replace and unify all the hardware. Target for delivery is late 2017. Submitted by N5VHO on Tue, 2016-11-01 17:14." 73, John Brier KG4AKV _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From WB4SON at gmail.com Wed Nov 2 21:28:39 2016 From: WB4SON at gmail.com (Bob) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 17:28:39 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550MHz)! In-Reply-To: <816927597.641425.1478120810880@mail.yahoo.com> References: <19485DE817A1495B86F12E81C92DF117@CSI9020> <61e9a289509d43aa4fdcc1f599965d0c@mail.gmail.com> <816927597.641425.1478120810880@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: As the ISS is approaching, the Doppler Effect causes the frequency you need to listen to, to appear to be higher. So you tune your RX to a higher frequency. Likewise as ISS approaches you, the Doppler Effect causes you transmit frequency to be higher. But the ISS isn't adjusting for that, so you need to transmit on a LOWER frequency in order to be heard by the ISS. The adjustments are always in the opposite direction. 73, Bob, WB4SON On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 5:06 PM, mvivona--- via AMSAT-BB wrote: > Robert, > I'm not following your explanation, please help me understand. > > If the ISS is transmitting and receiving on 437.55, why would you split > your TX and RX offset directions?Seems to me like you would TX and RX high > on the approach and TX and RX low as it passes by. Both on the same > frequency just like you would do on SO-50. > > Michael KC4ZVA > > From: Robert Bruninga > To: AMSAT BB > Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2016 12:00 PM > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time > (437.550MHz)! > > > I'm not so lazy that turning the dial is the end of the world, > > I may be reading too much into that statement, but just to be clear... > > it is not that simple... On most FM rigs you cannot turn the knob both > ways at once, to the left for TX and to the right for RX . You have to > tune the TX and RX in opposite directions at the same time every 2 minutes > or so. Hence, the suggestion to pre-tune the -/+10, -/+5 , 0, +/-5, and > +/-10 kHz offsets in 5 memories to make it trivial to make the 5 steps > during the pass. > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Robert Bruninga > Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 11:06 AM > To: AMSAT BB > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time > (437.550MHz)! > > Great! But... Everyone must remember, UHF packet is *not* appliance > operating. > > You must oppositely tune for Doppler on the uplink starting low, and going > high, while tuning the downlink High and going low. Best to pre-program 5 > channels and switch during the event. If you do not do this, you are > simplky QRM to everyone else, blocking their successes with your failures. > > Bob > > -----Original Message----- > From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of John Brier > Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 10:52 AM > To: AMSAT BB > Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550 > MHz)! > > I didn't see this on amsat-bb yet. > > I plan on trying the upcoming 16:45 UTC pass. > > https://twitter.com/RF2Space/status/793559573240115200 > > "#ARISS ISS packet system now operational on UHF (437.550 MHz). #hamradio" > > http://issfanclub.com/node/41954#comment-18163 > > "Due to the failure of the VHF radio in the Columbus module the packet > system on 145.825 is not possible. The crew just swapped the radio for the > UHF equivalent and packet is now operational on 437.550 MHz. > > The Kenwood D700 radios were augmented a couple years ago by a Kenwood > D710E radio that was dedicated to SSTV operations. The Russian team soon > afterwards adopted the D710E as their only operational radio but it was > never configured for packet operations. > > The ARISS team is working on flying replacement D710GA models to replace > and unify all the hardware. Target for delivery is late 2017. > > Submitted by N5VHO on Tue, 2016-11-01 17:14." > > 73, John Brier KG4AKV > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to > all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official > views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From hobergenix at gmail.com Wed Nov 2 21:31:46 2016 From: hobergenix at gmail.com (Mike Hoblinski) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 14:31:46 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] Outernet Cube Sats Message-ID: I believe they are planning 3 cube sats from what I ran across on their forum. UHF downlink, VHF uplink 420 ? 450 MHz Transmit frequency covering the amateur bands 130 ? 150 MHz Receive frequency covering the amateur bands Transmit output power adjustable from 27 to 33 dBm o Adjustable in 3 dBm steps 9600 baud GMSK, and 1200 baud AFSK data rates Implements AX.25 protocol encoding/decoding DTMF backdoor l Low-power Flash-based FPGA Beacon (CW) mode Simple digital interfaces Here is a link to their project https://www.clyde.space/our-missions/10-outernet Mike Hoblinski N6IMF From dave.w8aas at verizon.net Wed Nov 2 21:43:32 2016 From: dave.w8aas at verizon.net (Dave Taylor) Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2016 17:43:32 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550MHz)! In-Reply-To: <816927597.641425.1478120810880@mail.yahoo.com> References: <19485DE817A1495B86F12E81C92DF117@CSI9020> <61e9a289509d43aa4fdcc1f599965d0c@mail.gmail.com> <816927597.641425.1478120810880@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <9CD58BF4-BE81-412F-AE76-55AEB56777FC@verizon.net> Michael, the opposite offsets are because all Doppler correction must be done on the ground. For example, when range is decreasing, the Doppler raises apparent frequency in both directions, up and down. That means you will hear 437.55 from ISS at a higher frequency. But, you must transmit at a lower frequency, so that ISS will hear you at 437.55 after the Doppler raises the frequency. Dave, W8AAS > On Nov 2, 2016, at 5:06 PM, mvivona--- via AMSAT-BB wrote: > > Robert, > I'm not following your explanation, please help me understand. > > If the ISS is transmitting and receiving on 437.55, why would you split your TX and RX offset directions?Seems to me like you would TX and RX high on the approach and TX and RX low as it passes by. Both on the same frequency just like you would do on SO-50. > > Michael KC4ZVA > > From: Robert Bruninga > To: AMSAT BB > Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2016 12:00 PM > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550MHz)! > >> I'm not so lazy that turning the dial is the end of the world, > > I may be reading too much into that statement, but just to be clear... > > it is not that simple... On most FM rigs you cannot turn the knob both > ways at once, to the left for TX and to the right for RX . You have to > tune the TX and RX in opposite directions at the same time every 2 minutes > or so. Hence, the suggestion to pre-tune the -/+10, -/+5 , 0, +/-5, and > +/-10 kHz offsets in 5 memories to make it trivial to make the 5 steps > during the pass. > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Robert Bruninga > Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 11:06 AM > To: AMSAT BB > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time > (437.550MHz)! > > Great! But... Everyone must remember, UHF packet is *not* appliance > operating. > > You must oppositely tune for Doppler on the uplink starting low, and going > high, while tuning the downlink High and going low. Best to pre-program 5 > channels and switch during the event. If you do not do this, you are > simplky QRM to everyone else, blocking their successes with your failures. > > Bob > > -----Original Message----- > From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of John Brier > Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 10:52 AM > To: AMSAT BB > Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550 > MHz)! > > I didn't see this on amsat-bb yet. > > I plan on trying the upcoming 16:45 UTC pass. > > https://twitter.com/RF2Space/status/793559573240115200 > > "#ARISS ISS packet system now operational on UHF (437.550 MHz). #hamradio" > > http://issfanclub.com/node/41954#comment-18163 > > "Due to the failure of the VHF radio in the Columbus module the packet > system on 145.825 is not possible. The crew just swapped the radio for the > UHF equivalent and packet is now operational on 437.550 MHz. > > The Kenwood D700 radios were augmented a couple years ago by a Kenwood > D710E radio that was dedicated to SSTV operations. The Russian team soon > afterwards adopted the D710E as their only operational radio but it was > never configured for packet operations. > > The ARISS team is working on flying replacement D710GA models to replace > and unify all the hardware. Target for delivery is late 2017. > > Submitted by N5VHO on Tue, 2016-11-01 17:14." > > 73, John Brier KG4AKV > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to > all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official > views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From mvivona at yahoo.com Wed Nov 2 21:46:01 2016 From: mvivona at yahoo.com (mvivona at yahoo.com) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 21:46:01 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550MHz)! In-Reply-To: References: <19485DE817A1495B86F12E81C92DF117@CSI9020> <61e9a289509d43aa4fdcc1f599965d0c@mail.gmail.com> <816927597.641425.1478120810880@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <523002179.674964.1478123161686@mail.yahoo.com> OK, now it makes sense. I had to draw some pictures to get it straight in my head. Thanks for explaining. I was attempting to compare it with SO-50, but since you TX on VHF it's not an issue. Cheers,?Michael KC4ZVA From: Bob To: "mvivona at yahoo.com" Cc: Robert Bruninga ; AMSAT BB Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2016 5:28 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550MHz)! As the ISS is approaching, the Doppler Effect causes the frequency you need to listen to, to appear to be higher.? So you tune your RX to a higher frequency. Likewise as ISS approaches you, the Doppler Effect causes you transmit frequency to be higher.? But the ISS isn't adjusting for that, so you need to transmit on a LOWER frequency in order to be heard by the ISS. The adjustments are always in the opposite direction. 73, Bob, WB4SON On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 5:06 PM, mvivona--- via AMSAT-BB wrote: Robert, I'm not following your explanation, please help me understand. If the ISS is transmitting and receiving on 437.55, why would you split your TX and RX offset directions?Seems to me like you would TX and RX high on the approach and TX and RX low as it passes by. Both on the same frequency just like you would do on SO-50. ?Michael KC4ZVA ? ? ? From: Robert Bruninga ?To: AMSAT BB ?Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2016 12:00 PM ?Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550MHz)! > I'm not so lazy that turning the dial is the end of the world, I may be reading too much into that statement, but just to be clear... it is not that simple...? On most FM rigs you cannot turn the knob both ways at once, to the left for TX and to the right for RX .? You have to tune the TX and RX in opposite directions at the same time every 2 minutes or so.? Hence, the suggestion to pre-tune the -/+10, -/+5 , 0, +/-5, and +/-10? kHz offsets in 5 memories to make it trivial to make the 5 steps during the pass. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Bruninga Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 11:06 AM To: AMSAT BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550MHz)! Great!? ? But... Everyone must remember, UHF packet is *not* appliance operating. You must oppositely tune for Doppler on the uplink starting low, and going high, while tuning the downlink High and going low.? Best to pre-program 5 channels and switch during the event.? If you do not do this, you are simplky QRM to everyone else, blocking their successes with your failures. Bob -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@ amsat.org] On Behalf Of John Brier Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 10:52 AM To: AMSAT BB Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550 MHz)! I didn't see this on amsat-bb yet. I plan on trying the upcoming 16:45 UTC pass. https://twitter.com/RF2Space/ status/793559573240115200 "#ARISS ISS packet system now operational on UHF (437.550 MHz). #hamradio" http://issfanclub.com/node/ 41954#comment-18163 "Due to the failure of the VHF radio in the Columbus module the packet system on 145.825 is not possible. The crew just swapped the radio for the UHF equivalent and packet is now operational on 437.550 MHz. The Kenwood D700 radios were augmented a couple years ago by a Kenwood D710E radio that was dedicated to SSTV operations. The Russian team soon afterwards adopted the D710E as their only operational radio but it was never configured for packet operations. The ARISS team is working on flying replacement D710GA models to replace and unify all the hardware. Target for delivery is late 2017. Submitted by N5VHO on Tue, 2016-11-01 17:14." 73, John Brier KG4AKV ______________________________ _________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/ listinfo/amsat-bb ______________________________ _________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/ listinfo/amsat-bb ______________________________ _________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/ listinfo/amsat-bb From m5aka at yahoo.co.uk Wed Nov 2 21:48:15 2016 From: m5aka at yahoo.co.uk (M5AKA) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 21:48:15 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Outernet Cube Sats In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1177958606.1500220.1478123295358@mail.yahoo.com> Katherine Courtney, Chief Executive of the UK Space Agency, visited Clyde Space today and inspected an Outernet CubeSat. See the picture at https://twitter.com/kcourtneybis/status/793759872357629953 73 Trevor M5AKA On Wednesday, 2 November 2016, 21:32, Mike Hoblinski wrote: I believe they are planning 3 cube sats from what I ran across on their forum. UHF downlink, VHF uplink 420 ? 450 MHz Transmit frequency covering the amateur bands 130 ? 150 MHz Receive frequency covering the amateur bands Transmit output power adjustable from 27 to 33 dBm o Adjustable in 3 dBm steps 9600 baud GMSK, and 1200 baud AFSK data rates Implements AX.25 protocol encoding/decoding DTMF backdoor l Low-power Flash-based FPGA Beacon (CW) mode Simple digital interfaces Here is a link to their project https://www.clyde.space/our-missions/10-outernet Mike Hoblinski N6IMF _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net Wed Nov 2 23:13:24 2016 From: amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 16:13:24 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550MHz)! In-Reply-To: <523002179.674964.1478123161686@mail.yahoo.com> References: <19485DE817A1495B86F12E81C92DF117@CSI9020> <61e9a289509d43aa4fdcc1f599965d0c@mail.gmail.com> <816927597.641425.1478120810880@mail.yahoo.com> <523002179.674964.1478123161686@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: ?Hi! If you want to compare the new 70cm ISS packet setup with other satellites, it is like how we receive SO-50 and transmit to AO-85 - but at the same time. When receiving SO-50, the 70cm downlink frequency moves down. For AO-85, the 70cm uplink frequency moves up. For those using radios that can't be controlled by software like SatPC32, and as mentioned earlier in this thread, this can be handled by a group of memory channels. I posted a chart on how I programmed my TH-D74A to work 70cm ISS packet to my Twitter feed last night. The same chart is below, but with the additional information on the size and direction of the offset used for each memory channel... Channel 1: Receive on 437.560, transmit on 437.540 (offset of -20 kHz) Channel 2: Receive on 437.555, transmit on 437.545 (offset of -10 kHz) Channel 3: 437.550 simplex (receive and transmit are the same frequency) Channel 4: Receive on 437.545, transmit on 437.555 (offset of +10 kHz) Channel 5: Receive on 437.540, transmit on 437.560 (offset of +20 kHz) For some radios, 4 of the 5 channels will have the receive and transmit frequencies stored in the channels. With other radios, you will store the receive frequency and the size and direction of the offset instead of the actual transmit frequency. I worked an ISS pass this morning using the 5-channel setup in my TH-D74A, a western pass starting around 1320 UTC. There were times that I had to switch between two channels, as the apparent uplink and downlink frequencies were falling almost exactly between these channels when using 5 kHz tuning steps. My TH-D74A, like most non-Chinese ham HTs, doesn't allow for 2.5 kHz tuning steps. I was able to get my position packets retransmitted about 90 seconds after AOS, sooner than I normally would when working ISS packet on 145.825 MHz when the station is to my west. I saw two other stations this morning, KK6OTJ and AI6GS, both in southern California. I was able to make a QSO with KK6OTJ using APRS messages, and saw position packets from all 3 of us through most of the pass. Another thing about this morning's pass... with the frequency change, and maybe also the need to adjust frequencies to compensate for Doppler, there were no unattended beacons on the frequency! Other than the RS0ISS ID beacons, I only saw stations where an operator was at the keyboard or keypad during the pass. Now that was nice! 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 2:46 PM, mvivona--- via AMSAT-BB wrote: > OK, now it makes sense. I had to draw some pictures to get it straight in > my head. Thanks for explaining. > I was attempting to compare it with SO-50, but since you TX on VHF it's > not an issue. > Cheers, Michael KC4ZVA > > From Saguaroastro at cox.net Thu Nov 3 00:22:01 2016 From: Saguaroastro at cox.net (Richard Tejera) Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2016 17:22:01 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550MHz)! Message-ID: Patrick, I didn't even think of using odd split. I has programmed in 5 simplex channels into my D72A and figured I'd load them in both bands moving in opposite directions. To program odd split the manual says set up the receive as simplex channel and store it. Thee still in VFO mode select the transmit frequency. press [F] and a memory channel should appear, select your memory channel. Hold the PTT while pressing [OK]. The Odd split should be saved. The go and name it as usual. Or if you have the MCP-4A programming software, selectthe memory channel tab. Find an open channel and click channel edit. Enter the receive frequency, make use the tone is off, and then check the box for Split Channel and enter the transmit frequency. Give it a memory name and close. Repeat ad nauseam for the rest of the channels. The passes for me right now are intractable with work though there is on 25 degree pass at 1859ut (1159 most), which is right around lunch, so I'll try that one. Keep an ear out for K7TEJ-7. 73 Rick Rick Tejera K7TEJ Saguaro Astronomy Club www.SaguaroAstro.org Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club www.w7tbc.org On November 2, 2016, at 16:13, "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)" wrote: ?Hi! If you want to compare the new 70cm ISS packet setup with other satellites, it is like how we receive SO-50 and transmit to AO-85 - but at the same time. When receiving SO-50, the 70cm downlink frequency moves down. For AO-85, the 70cm uplink frequency moves up. For those using radios that can't be controlled by software like SatPC32, and as mentioned earlier in this thread, this can be handled by a group of memory channels. I posted a chart on how I programmed my TH-D74A to work 70cm ISS packet to my Twitter feed last night. The same chart is below, but with the additional information on the size and direction of the offset used for each memory channel... Channel 1: Receive on 437.560, transmit on 437.540 (offset of -20 kHz) Channel 2: Receive on 437.555, transmit on 437.545 (offset of -10 kHz) Channel 3: 437.550 simplex (receive and transmit are the same frequency) Channel 4: Receive on 437.545, transmit on 437.555 (offset of +10 kHz) Channel 5: Receive on 437.540, transmit on 437.560 (offset of +20 kHz) For some radios, 4 of the 5 channels will have the receive and transmit frequencies stored in the channels. With other radios, you will store the receive frequency and the size and direction of the offset instead of the actual transmit frequency. I worked an ISS pass this morning using the 5-channel setup in my TH-D74A, a western pass starting around 1320 UTC. There were times that I had to switch between two channels, as the apparent uplink and downlink frequencies were falling almost exactly between these channels when using 5 kHz tuning steps. My TH-D74A, like most non-Chinese ham HTs, doesn't allow for 2.5 kHz tuning steps. I was able to get my position packets retransmitted about 90 seconds after AOS, sooner than I normally would when working ISS packet on 145.825 MHz when the station is to my west. I saw two other stations this morning, KK6OTJ and AI6GS, both in southern California. I was able to make a QSO with KK6OTJ using APRS messages, and saw position packets from all 3 of us through most of the pass. Another thing about this morning's pass... with the frequency change, and maybe also the need to adjust frequencies to compensate for Doppler, there were no unattended beacons on the frequency! Other than the RS0ISS ID beacons, I only saw stations where an operator was at the keyboard or keypad during the pass. Now that was nice! 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 2:46 PM, mvivona--- via AMSAT-BB wrote: > OK, now it makes sense. I had to draw some pictures to get it straight in > my head. Thanks for explaining. > I was attempting to compare it with SO-50, but since you TX on VHF it's > not an issue. > Cheers, Michael KC4ZVA > > _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net Thu Nov 3 00:54:45 2016 From: amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 00:54:45 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550MHz)! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Rick, Yes, you can program the memories in a TH-D72A either way. I have yet to do that on my TH-D72A, but used the Kenwood MCP-D74 software to add those 5 channels to my TH-D74A. If you don't do that, you have to set the TNC to use one of the "bands" (VFOs) as the receive band and the other as the transmit band. Since I am not working this full-duplex, the memory channel approach seemed easier to do than having to make adjustments in both VFOs. Maybe we can hook up over the weekend. Other than possibly one pass early Friday morning, I'm probably not going to be on any ISS passes until then. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 12:22 AM, Richard Tejera wrote: > Patrick, > > I didn't even think of using odd split. I has programmed in 5 simplex > channels into my D72A and figured I'd load them in both bands moving in > opposite directions. > > To program odd split the manual says set up the receive as simplex > channel and store it. Thee still in VFO mode select the transmit frequency. > press [F] and a memory channel should appear, select your memory channel. > Hold the PTT while pressing [OK]. The Odd split should be saved. The go and > name it as usual. > > Or if you have the MCP-4A programming software, selectthe memory channel > tab. Find an open channel and click channel edit. Enter the receive > frequency, make use the tone is off, and then check the box for Split > Channel and enter the transmit frequency. Give it a memory name and close. > Repeat ad nauseam for the rest of the channels. > > The passes for me right now are intractable with work though there is on > 25 degree pass at 1859ut (1159 most), which is right around lunch, so I'll > try that one. Keep an ear out for K7TEJ-7. > > 73 > Rick > > Rick Tejera K7TEJ > From saguaroastro at cox.net Thu Nov 3 01:21:40 2016 From: saguaroastro at cox.net (Rick Tejera) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 18:21:40 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550MHz)! In-Reply-To: <3Cut1u00F4F0Vt701Cuven> References: <3Cut1u00F4F0Vt701Cuven> Message-ID: <010501d23570$a1803930$e480ab90$@net> Patrick, yeah the pass time aren't great fo me, since I'm at work, save for that lunchtime pass tomorrow. We'll see what the weekend looks like. Rick Tejera (K7TEJ) Saguaro Astronomy Club www.saguaroastro.org Thunderbird Radio Club www.w7tbc.org 623-572-0713 623-203-4121 (cell) SaguaroAstro at cox.net -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 5:55 PM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ISS Digipeater is back! On UHF this time (437.550MHz)! Rick, Yes, you can program the memories in a TH-D72A either way. I have yet to do that on my TH-D72A, but used the Kenwood MCP-D74 software to add those 5 channels to my TH-D74A. If you don't do that, you have to set the TNC to use one of the "bands" (VFOs) as the receive band and the other as the transmit band. Since I am not working this full-duplex, the memory channel approach seemed easier to do than having to make adjustments in both VFOs. Maybe we can hook up over the weekend. Other than possibly one pass early Friday morning, I'm probably not going to be on any ISS passes until then. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 12:22 AM, Richard Tejera wrote: > Patrick, > > I didn't even think of using odd split. I has programmed in 5 simplex > channels into my D72A and figured I'd load them in both bands moving in > opposite directions. > > To program odd split the manual says set up the receive as simplex > channel and store it. Thee still in VFO mode select the transmit frequency. > press [F] and a memory channel should appear, select your memory channel. > Hold the PTT while pressing [OK]. The Odd split should be saved. The go and > name it as usual. > > Or if you have the MCP-4A programming software, selectthe memory channel > tab. Find an open channel and click channel edit. Enter the receive > frequency, make use the tone is off, and then check the box for Split > Channel and enter the transmit frequency. Give it a memory name and close. > Repeat ad nauseam for the rest of the channels. > > The passes for me right now are intractable with work though there is on > 25 degree pass at 1859ut (1159 most), which is right around lunch, so I'll > try that one. Keep an ear out for K7TEJ-7. > > 73 > Rick > > Rick Tejera K7TEJ > _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From n4ufo at yahoo.com Thu Nov 3 09:32:39 2016 From: n4ufo at yahoo.com (Kevin M) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 09:32:39 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] HFsat 21/29 MHz + UBAKUSAT 145/435 Linear Transponder References: <866008175.276377.1478165559463.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <866008175.276377.1478165559463@mail.yahoo.com> WOW!? Being that I started out on a Mode K bird (RS12/13) and operated on it for like 6-7 years right up until it's demise in 2002 (google RS-12/13 and you'll likely see my old callsign AC5DK in many of the results), I find the news about HFsat utterly fantastic! I enjoyed Mode K very much despite having to operate semi-duplex and deal with terrestrial stations in the transponder uplink window. The frequencies chosen for HFsat will likely eliminate a lot of the terrestrial station QRM problem (WE had to be careful not to QRM THEM), but I may still have to operate semi-duplex with my current setup. However I am already in the process of putting up a Cobweb antenna at about 30 feet which will likely be an excellent choice for working this bird! I would say that RS-12/13 was sort of like an 'Easysat' of it's day. Because IF you had an Advanced or Extra license you also likely had an HF station and could try satellites with little to no investment. (That is, whenever it was in Mode K, which was the majority of the time.) My first contact over the bird was using my Heathkit HF rig and a Hustler 4BTV mounted on the back deck. (Later I got a better antenna and added a 10m preamp.) Just like folks today with a $50 HT and a homebrew beam, not everybody that tried it stuck with sats, but at least they had a taste of what it was like and could appreciate satellites in the overall ham radio hobby. It would be great to figure out some award or operating activity to encourage use of the satellite once it is launched and operating. (being positive in my outlook there) =^)? It was the pursuit of the CQ 50th Anniversary Award and the category of 'make a satellite contact' that got me to try satellites and develop a love affair with this fascinating mode of operation. And just to reminisce... RS-12/13 used to have a Robot that you could talk to. If you got in just the right spot in the middle of the uplink window and called the bird on CW, it would answer you on one of the two beacon frequencies and give you a unique QSO number. It was not the easiest thing to do, especially semi-duplex, but I did manage to literally 'work the bird' about 4 months before it went 'end of mission'. Supposedly you could get a QSL card for such a QSO, but it was the infamous 'Box 88 Moscow' which many older ops will recognize. (I think Jerry K5OE is the only one I know to get such a QSL card and I believe it involved hand delivery.)? =^D? I even received a number of QSL requests by mail for Robot QSOs as some hams thought I was the manager since I ran a website devoted to operating the bird. But alas, I was forced to return them all marked 'Not the QSL manager'. =^( Anyway, good luck to Bob & crew and know that at least someone is looking forward to the fruit of your efforts with great anticipation! And to all the ops that have never experienced Mode K operation, especially 'Over The Horizon' technique, I'd have to say, you are in for a real treat! Using that method (taking advantage of HF propagation to work stations outside of the footprint) one avid US DXer set up skeds with a number of DX stations and managed to work 100 DXCC entities JUST on RS-12/13... got your attention now?!? X^D 73 all, Kevin N4UFO From jay.aa4fl at gmail.com Thu Nov 3 12:48:43 2016 From: jay.aa4fl at gmail.com (Jay Garlitz) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 08:48:43 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] Back in USA fro VP5 Message-ID: Back in the USA from VP5. Got an Air Force One welcome in Miami, landing right near our connection gate. Got some more SAT QSOs in after CQWW. Glad to fulfill requests for QSOs. All logs have been uploaded to LOTW, Clublog and QRZ log. My VP5/AA4FL QRZ page has a Clublog search widget. If your QSO is missing from the log let me know. I have audio recordings I can review for missing QSO's. QSL cards are on order. All cards with SASE's will be replied to direct. My award totals prior to receiving paper QSLs are listed on the VP5/AA4FL QRZ page. If you have not had a chance to check out the trip photos on my Facebook page, please do so and enjoy. It is quite easy to take portable SAT equipment on trips, and the Caribbean is a great destination suggestion. Next time when I go I will even bring my wife! 73, Jay VP5/AA4FL part of VP5DX CQWW SSB team From k8bl at ameritech.net Thu Nov 3 14:11:30 2016 From: k8bl at ameritech.net (R.T.Liddy) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 14:11:30 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] HFsat 21/29 MHz + UBAKUSAT 145/435 Linear Transponder In-Reply-To: <866008175.276377.1478165559463@mail.yahoo.com> References: <866008175.276377.1478165559463.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <866008175.276377.1478165559463@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <526851786.356681.1478182290971@mail.yahoo.com> Kevin, I worked those RS Robots numerous times back in the day. It was beyond cool to have a package of electronics flying through Space engaging in a QSO with me!! ?One day, I'll go through my boxes of old QSLs to see if I ever got a card from them. I'm sure I would have sent for one. Thanks for the memories!! ? 73, ? Bob ?K8BL From: Kevin M via AMSAT-BB To: "amsat-bb at amsat.org" Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2016 5:32 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] HFsat 21/29 MHz + UBAKUSAT 145/435 Linear Transponder WOW!? Being that I started out on a Mode K bird (RS12/13) and operated on it for like 6-7 years right up until it's demise in 2002 (google RS-12/13 and you'll likely see my old callsign AC5DK in many of the results), I find the news about HFsat utterly fantastic! I enjoyed Mode K very much despite having to operate semi-duplex and deal with terrestrial stations in the transponder uplink window. The frequencies chosen for HFsat will likely eliminate a lot of the terrestrial station QRM problem (WE had to be careful not to QRM THEM), but I may still have to operate semi-duplex with my current setup. However I am already in the process of putting up a Cobweb antenna at about 30 feet which will likely be an excellent choice for working this bird! I would say that RS-12/13 was sort of like an 'Easysat' of it's day. Because IF you had an Advanced or Extra license you also likely had an HF station and could try satellites with little to no investment. (That is, whenever it was in Mode K, which was the majority of the time.) My first contact over the bird was using my Heathkit HF rig and a Hustler 4BTV mounted on the back deck. (Later I got a better antenna and added a 10m preamp.) Just like folks today with a $50 HT and a homebrew beam, not everybody that tried it stuck with sats, but at least they had a taste of what it was like and could appreciate satellites in the overall ham radio hobby. It would be great to figure out some award or operating activity to encourage use of the satellite once it is launched and operating. (being positive in my outlook there) =^)? It was the pursuit of the CQ 50th Anniversary Award and the category of 'make a satellite contact' that got me to try satellites and develop a love affair with this fascinating mode of operation. And just to reminisce... RS-12/13 used to have a Robot that you could talk to. If you got in just the right spot in the middle of the uplink window and called the bird on CW, it would answer you on one of the two beacon frequencies and give you a unique QSO number. It was not the easiest thing to do, especially semi-duplex, but I did manage to literally 'work the bird' about 4 months before it went 'end of mission'. Supposedly you could get a QSL card for such a QSO, but it was the infamous 'Box 88 Moscow' which many older ops will recognize. (I think Jerry K5OE is the only one I know to get such a QSL card and I believe it involved hand delivery.)? =^D? I even received a number of QSL requests by mail for Robot QSOs as some hams thought I was the manager since I ran a website devoted to operating the bird. But alas, I was forced to return them all marked 'Not the QSL manager'. =^( Anyway, good luck to Bob & crew and know that at least someone is looking forward to the fruit of your efforts with great anticipation! And to all the ops that have never experienced Mode K operation, especially 'Over The Horizon' technique, I'd have to say, you are in for a real treat! Using that method (taking advantage of HF propagation to work stations outside of the footprint) one avid US DXer set up skeds with a number of DX stations and managed to work 100 DXCC entities JUST on RS-12/13... got your attention now?!? X^D 73 all, Kevin N4UFO _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. 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Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From AJ9N at aol.com Wed Nov 2 20:13:37 2016 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 16:13:37 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-11-02 20:00 UTC Message-ID: Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-11-02 20:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Students in Ingushetia, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Andrei Borisenko Contact is a go for 2016-11-03 08:06 UTC Istituto Comprensivo ?Marco da Melo?, Mel, Italy, direct via I3XFY The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Fri 2016-11-04 08:47:20 UTC 42 deg Boca Raton Christian School, Boca Raton FL, direct via N4BRF The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD (***) Contact is a go for: Mon 2016-11-07 17:15:14 UTC 30 deg (***) **************************************************************************** ** Call for Proposals Proposal Window September 1 ? November 1, 2016 The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS. ARISS anticipates that the contact would be held between July 1, 2017 and December 31, 2017. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact contact dates. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate the contact into a well-developed education plan. The deadline to submit a proposal is November 1, 2016. Proposal information and documents can be found at www.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact. **************************************************************************** ** ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n at amsat.org or aj9n at aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8? MHz. **************************************************************************** *** All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. (***) **************************************************************************** *** Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke at sbcglobal.net **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 123 Gaston ON4WF with 121 Francesco IK?WGF with 118 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-11-02 20:00 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1090. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1055. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: Arkansas, Delaware, South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DP?ISS, IR?ISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RS?ISS **************************************************************************** The successful school list has been updated as of 2016-10-18 09:00 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 48 on orbit Anatoly Ivanishin Kate Rubins KG5FYJ Takuya Onishi KF5LKS Exp. 49 on orbit Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Andrei Borisenko Sergey Ryzhikov **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors From w2hro.fn20 at gmail.com Wed Nov 2 23:34:28 2016 From: w2hro.fn20 at gmail.com (Paul Andrews) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 19:34:28 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] M2 2M-1K2 Solid State Amplifier for Sale Message-ID: I'm selling my M2 2M-1K2 Solid State Amplifier - $1600 The 1200 watt PEP amplifier is just back from the M2 factory after a full health check up. The amp has a new MOSFET device and was upgraded with the newest system control board. This amp has a JT65 mode which detects a JT65 transmission and backs off transmit power to 900 watts (adjustable) to keep the amp cool and reliable when running at 50% duty cycle. The amp is configured for 50 watts input for full output. I have a 48 vdc / 50 amp power supply available for $200. ------------- 73 - Paul - W2HRO From n8hm at arrl.net Thu Nov 3 14:31:20 2016 From: n8hm at arrl.net (Paul Stoetzer) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 10:31:20 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] M2 2M-1K2 Solid State Amplifier for Sale In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: With the recent spate of interference on 145.850 MHz, this could really help on SO-50! 73, Paul, N8HM On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 7:34 PM, Paul Andrews wrote: > I'm selling my M2 2M-1K2 Solid State Amplifier - $1600 > > The 1200 watt PEP amplifier is just back from the M2 factory after a > full health check up. The amp has a new MOSFET device and was > upgraded with the newest system control board. > > This amp has a JT65 mode which detects a JT65 transmission and backs > off transmit power to 900 watts (adjustable) to keep the amp cool and > reliable when running at 50% duty cycle. The amp is configured for > 50 watts input for full output. > > I have a 48 vdc / 50 amp power supply available for $200. > > ------------- > > 73 - Paul - W2HRO > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From pconver at gmail.com Thu Nov 3 15:08:32 2016 From: pconver at gmail.com (Pedro Converso) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 12:08:32 -0300 Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS UHF Dopplers Message-ID: You can get to know real/live uplink/downlink Dopplers for ISS in UHF through http://amsat.org.ar/pass.htm either online or offline. Will also control your rigs xmit/rcv frequencies if using pass.exe with wispdde. 73, lu7abf, Pedro From howied231 at hotmail.com Thu Nov 3 15:38:39 2016 From: howied231 at hotmail.com (Howie DeFelice) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 15:38:39 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] HFsat 21/29 MHz + UBAKUSAT 145/435 Linear Transponder In-Reply-To: <526851786.356681.1478182290971@mail.yahoo.com> References: <866008175.276377.1478165559463.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <866008175.276377.1478165559463@mail.yahoo.com>, <526851786.356681.1478182290971@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Back when we were designing the $50sat PocketQube we thought about a robot of some sort but at the time there were already too many things we didn't know how to do to add that as well. If there is ever a "next time" we'll have to consider it. - Howie AB2S ________________________________ From: AMSAT-BB on behalf of R.T.Liddy Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2016 10:11 AM To: Kevin M; amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] HFsat 21/29 MHz + UBAKUSAT 145/435 Linear Transponder Kevin, I worked those RS Robots numerous times back in the day. It was beyond cool to have a package of electronics flying through Space engaging in a QSO with me!! One day, I'll go through my boxes of old QSLs to see if I ever got a card from them. I'm sure I would have sent for one. Thanks for the memories!! 73, Bob K8BL From: Kevin M via AMSAT-BB To: "amsat-bb at amsat.org" Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2016 5:32 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] HFsat 21/29 MHz + UBAKUSAT 145/435 Linear Transponder WOW! Being that I started out on a Mode K bird (RS12/13) and operated on it for like 6-7 years right up until it's demise in 2002 (google RS-12/13 and you'll likely see my old callsign AC5DK in many of the results), I find the news about HFsat utterly fantastic! I enjoyed Mode K very much despite having to operate semi-duplex and deal with terrestrial stations in the transponder uplink window. The frequencies chosen for HFsat will likely eliminate a lot of the terrestrial station QRM problem (WE had to be careful not to QRM THEM), but I may still have to operate semi-duplex with my current setup. However I am already in the process of putting up a Cobweb antenna at about 30 feet which will likely be an excellent choice for working this bird! I would say that RS-12/13 was sort of like an 'Easysat' of it's day. Because IF you had an Advanced or Extra license you also likely had an HF station and could try satellites with little to no investment. (That is, whenever it was in Mode K, which was the majority of the time.) My first contact over the bird was using my Heathkit HF rig and a Hustler 4BTV mounted on the back deck. (Later I got a better antenna and added a 10m preamp.) Just like folks today with a $50 HT and a homebrew beam, not everybody that tried it stuck with sats, but at least they had a taste of what it was like and could appreciate satellites in the overall ham radio hobby. It would be great to figure out some award or operating activity to encourage use of the satellite once it is launched and operating. (being positive in my outlook there) =^) It was the pursuit of the CQ 50th Anniversary Award and the category of 'make a satellite contact' that got me to try satellites and develop a love affair with this fascinating mode of operation. And just to reminisce... RS-12/13 used to have a Robot that you could talk to. If you got in just the right spot in the middle of the uplink window and called the bird on CW, it would answer you on one of the two beacon frequencies and give you a unique QSO number. It was not the easiest thing to do, especially semi-duplex, but I did manage to literally 'work the bird' about 4 months before it went 'end of mission'. Supposedly you could get a QSL card for such a QSO, but it was the infamous 'Box 88 Moscow' which many older ops will recognize. (I think Jerry K5OE is the only one I know to get such a QSL card and I believe it involved hand delivery.) =^D I even received a number of QSL requests by mail for Robot QSOs as some hams thought I was the manager since I ran a website devoted to operating the bird. But alas, I was forced to return them all marked 'Not the QSL manager'. =^( Anyway, good luck to Bob & crew and know that at least someone is looking forward to the fruit of your efforts with great anticipation! And to all the ops that have never experienced Mode K operation, especially 'Over The Horizon' technique, I'd have to say, you are in for a real treat! Using that method (taking advantage of HF propagation to work stations outside of the footprint) one avid US DXer set up skeds with a number of DX stations and managed to work 100 DXCC entities JUST on RS-12/13... got your attention now?! X^D 73 all, Kevin N4UFO _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb AMSAT-BB Info Page www.amsat.org To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the AMSAT-BB Archives. 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From glasbrenner at mindspring.com Thu Nov 3 16:12:15 2016 From: glasbrenner at mindspring.com (Andrew Glasbrenner) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 12:12:15 -0400 (GMT-04:00) Subject: [amsat-bb] Back in USA fro VP5 Message-ID: <32587795.7677.1478189536413@elwamui-rustique.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Jay, You did a great job operating. I had the honor of listening to many of your low elevations QSOs with Europe and Brazil on FO-29, and hearing and working you on AO-7 Mode U/v was a thrill. For those that don't realize that you were using a single FT-817 on the transponders, the news that you were working South America, North America, and a good part of Europe half-duplex with 5 watts may be a substantial surprise. The fact you uploaded to LOTW almost instantly was just icing on the cake. Great work, and I look forward to hearing you from your next destination. Hope to see you soon, maybe at Ocala or Tampa hamfests in December? 73, Drew KO4MA -----Original Message----- >From: Jay Garlitz >Sent: Nov 3, 2016 8:48 AM >To: amsat-bb at amsat.org >Subject: [amsat-bb] Back in USA fro VP5 > >Back in the USA from VP5. Got an Air Force One welcome in Miami, landing >right near our connection gate. Got some more SAT QSOs in after CQWW. >Glad to fulfill requests for QSOs. All logs have been uploaded to LOTW, >Clublog and QRZ log. My VP5/AA4FL QRZ page has a Clublog search widget. >If your QSO is missing from the log let me know. I have audio recordings I >can review for missing QSO's. > >QSL cards are on order. All cards with SASE's will be replied to >direct. My award totals prior to receiving paper QSLs are listed on the >VP5/AA4FL QRZ page. > >If you have not had a chance to check out the trip photos on my Facebook >page, please do so and enjoy. It is quite easy to take portable SAT >equipment on trips, and the Caribbean is a great destination suggestion. >Next time when I go I will even bring my wife! > >73, Jay VP5/AA4FL >part of VP5DX CQWW SSB team >_______________________________________________ >Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed >are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. >Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From kayakfishtx at gmail.com Thu Nov 3 17:40:16 2016 From: kayakfishtx at gmail.com (Clayton Coleman) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 12:40:16 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Seven days to the AMSAT 2016 Space Symposium (at sea) Message-ID: Friday, November 4, is the last day to pre-register for the 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium. Only pre-registered attendees will be eligible for prizes. If you have registered but have not yet received an information email directly from me, please reply to this email (off-BB.) 73 Clayton W5PFG From k8bl at ameritech.net Thu Nov 3 19:59:12 2016 From: k8bl at ameritech.net (R.T.Liddy) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 19:59:12 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] CY9C Satellite Q's In LoTW? References: <1265904223.623061.1478203152091.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1265904223.623061.1478203152091@mail.yahoo.com> Has anyone received a LoTW confirmation for CY9C? on Satellite from their 8/2016 DXpedition? ?I see my QSO in their ClubLog as 2m (it was on AO-7). ?The only info I've heard was that they were having a N1MM Log issue that didn't upload Sat QSOs correctly. ?Over 2 months seems like a long time to fix something like that. I'm sure it will be resolved eventually, but I'm holding off with submissions for VUCC and DXCC because of that ONE LoTW QSL. If I submit now, that QSL will certainly show up soon afterward and sit there like an orphan for quite a while until I get others for the next submission. (Murphy's Law!!) TNX/73, ? ? ? Bob ?K8BL (Life's a Beach, and then you die!!) ? ? :o|? From n8hm at arrl.net Thu Nov 3 20:10:01 2016 From: n8hm at arrl.net (Paul Stoetzer) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 16:10:01 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] CY9C Satellite Q's In LoTW? In-Reply-To: <1265904223.623061.1478203152091@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1265904223.623061.1478203152091.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1265904223.623061.1478203152091@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: All CY9C satellite QSOs were uploaded to LoTW a few days ago, except for the last day of passes worked. Those QSOs have been recovered, formatted for LoTW, and sent to the QSL manager for upload to LoTW. However, for an unknown reason, some of the QSOs are not matching. I have not been able to find any discrepancies that would explain that. If your QSO(s) did not match, please send me a screenshot of the QSO details page from the LoTW website and I will try to figure it out. 73, Paul, N8HM On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 3:59 PM, R.T.Liddy wrote: > Has anyone received a LoTW confirmation for CY9C > on Satellite from their 8/2016 DXpedition? I see my QSO > in their ClubLog as 2m (it was on AO-7). The only info I've > heard was that they were having a N1MM Log issue that didn't > upload Sat QSOs correctly. Over 2 months seems like a long > time to fix something like that. > I'm sure it will be resolved eventually, but I'm holding off with > submissions for VUCC and DXCC because of that ONE LoTW > QSL. If I submit now, that QSL will certainly show up soon > afterward and sit there like an orphan for quite a while until I get > others for the next submission. (Murphy's Law!!) > TNX/73, Bob K8BL > (Life's a Beach, and then you die!!) :o| > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From oh2fqv at gmail.com Thu Nov 3 20:17:53 2016 From: oh2fqv at gmail.com (Jari A) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 22:17:53 +0200 Subject: [amsat-bb] CY9C Satellite Q's In LoTW? In-Reply-To: References: <1265904223.623061.1478203152091.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1265904223.623061.1478203152091@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Hi all, in my case, I had qso via FO-29, but qso has logged by CY9C operator as 70cm qso. Could that error be of this? Uplink is the band to set for a log, yes? Regards, :Jari / OH2FQV On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Paul Stoetzer wrote: > All CY9C satellite QSOs were uploaded to LoTW a few days ago, except for > the last day of passes worked. Those QSOs have been recovered, formatted > for LoTW, and sent to the QSL manager for upload to LoTW. > > However, for an unknown reason, some of the QSOs are not matching. I have > not been able to find any discrepancies that would explain that. If your > QSO(s) did not match, please send me a screenshot of the QSO details page > from the LoTW website and I will try to figure it out. > > 73, > > Paul, N8HM > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 3:59 PM, R.T.Liddy wrote: > > > Has anyone received a LoTW confirmation for CY9C > > on Satellite from their 8/2016 DXpedition? I see my QSO > > in their ClubLog as 2m (it was on AO-7). The only info I've > > heard was that they were having a N1MM Log issue that didn't > > upload Sat QSOs correctly. Over 2 months seems like a long > > time to fix something like that. > > I'm sure it will be resolved eventually, but I'm holding off with > > submissions for VUCC and DXCC because of that ONE LoTW > > QSL. If I submit now, that QSL will certainly show up soon > > afterward and sit there like an orphan for quite a while until I get > > others for the next submission. (Murphy's Law!!) > > TNX/73, Bob K8BL > > (Life's a Beach, and then you die!!) :o| > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. > Opinions > > expressed > > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > > AMSAT-NA. > > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite > program! > > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From WB4SON at gmail.com Thu Nov 3 20:21:41 2016 From: WB4SON at gmail.com (Bob) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 16:21:41 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] CY9C Satellite Q's In LoTW? In-Reply-To: References: <1265904223.623061.1478203152091.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1265904223.623061.1478203152091@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Hi Paul, Great job -- I have my LotW QSLs now. Sat stuff always harder and not obvious, sadly. 73, Bob, WB4SON On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Jari A wrote: > Hi all, in my case, I had qso via FO-29, but qso has logged by CY9C > operator as 70cm qso. Could that error be of this? Uplink is the band to > set for a log, yes? > > Regards, > > :Jari / OH2FQV > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Paul Stoetzer wrote: > > > All CY9C satellite QSOs were uploaded to LoTW a few days ago, except for > > the last day of passes worked. Those QSOs have been recovered, formatted > > for LoTW, and sent to the QSL manager for upload to LoTW. > > > > However, for an unknown reason, some of the QSOs are not matching. I have > > not been able to find any discrepancies that would explain that. If your > > QSO(s) did not match, please send me a screenshot of the QSO details page > > from the LoTW website and I will try to figure it out. > > > > 73, > > > > Paul, N8HM > > > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 3:59 PM, R.T.Liddy wrote: > > > > > Has anyone received a LoTW confirmation for CY9C > > > on Satellite from their 8/2016 DXpedition? I see my QSO > > > in their ClubLog as 2m (it was on AO-7). The only info I've > > > heard was that they were having a N1MM Log issue that didn't > > > upload Sat QSOs correctly. Over 2 months seems like a long > > > time to fix something like that. > > > I'm sure it will be resolved eventually, but I'm holding off with > > > submissions for VUCC and DXCC because of that ONE LoTW > > > QSL. If I submit now, that QSL will certainly show up soon > > > afterward and sit there like an orphan for quite a while until I get > > > others for the next submission. (Murphy's Law!!) > > > TNX/73, Bob K8BL > > > (Life's a Beach, and then you die!!) :o| > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > > > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. > > Opinions > > > expressed > > > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views > of > > > AMSAT-NA. > > > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite > > program! > > > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. > Opinions > > expressed > > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > > AMSAT-NA. > > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite > program! > > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From n8hm at arrl.net Thu Nov 3 20:24:29 2016 From: n8hm at arrl.net (Paul Stoetzer) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 16:24:29 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] CY9C Satellite Q's In LoTW? In-Reply-To: References: <1265904223.623061.1478203152091.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1265904223.623061.1478203152091@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Does anyone have a match for a QSO that occurred on August 26th? I may be finding a pattern here... On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Paul Stoetzer wrote: > All CY9C satellite QSOs were uploaded to LoTW a few days ago, except for > the last day of passes worked. Those QSOs have been recovered, formatted > for LoTW, and sent to the QSL manager for upload to LoTW. > > However, for an unknown reason, some of the QSOs are not matching. I have > not been able to find any discrepancies that would explain that. If your > QSO(s) did not match, please send me a screenshot of the QSO details page > from the LoTW website and I will try to figure it out. > > 73, > > Paul, N8HM > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 3:59 PM, R.T.Liddy wrote: > >> Has anyone received a LoTW confirmation for CY9C >> on Satellite from their 8/2016 DXpedition? I see my QSO >> in their ClubLog as 2m (it was on AO-7). The only info I've >> heard was that they were having a N1MM Log issue that didn't >> upload Sat QSOs correctly. Over 2 months seems like a long >> time to fix something like that. >> I'm sure it will be resolved eventually, but I'm holding off with >> submissions for VUCC and DXCC because of that ONE LoTW >> QSL. If I submit now, that QSL will certainly show up soon >> afterward and sit there like an orphan for quite a while until I get >> others for the next submission. (Murphy's Law!!) >> TNX/73, Bob K8BL >> (Life's a Beach, and then you die!!) :o| >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. >> Opinions expressed >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of >> AMSAT-NA. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >> > > From fredcastello at gmail.com Thu Nov 3 20:30:32 2016 From: fredcastello at gmail.com (Fred Castello) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 16:30:32 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 Ver12.8c and CAT Operating Message-ID: Hi folks, I am trying to get back into the satellites and have a Kenwood TS-790A which I am using with SatPC32 Ver12.8c. I am using THIS cable for CAT control (after research it seemed to be one of the best and reliable cables for the purpose). During the operation of the radio during a pass using AO-85 I have found that SatPC32 keeps switching the mode from FM to USB. It stopped doing that when I disconnected the USB to accessory plug but of course it stopped correcting for doppler as well. When I investigated this I noticed that the AO-85 line in the DOPPLER.SQF file seemed to be missing a comma, see below: ; For Hints look at the end of this file. ; Do not remove or modify these first ; 3 lines of the file, starting with ';'! AO-85,145980,435180FM,FM,Nor,0,0,Voice U/V AO-10,145900.0,435100.0,USB,LSB,REV,0,0 AO-73,145960,435140,USB,LSB,REV,0,0,Voice U/V AO-73,145935.0,,USB,,,,TLM ........ I corrected that and saved it and restarted the computer and the program. It continues to do it and I can't figure out why. So, on this radio there is a "Main" channel which is on 70 cm which I transmit on and there is a "Sub" channel which is on 2 meters which I receive on. The "Main" channel tracks the doppler correctly and remains on FM but the "Sub" tracks the frequency correctly but keeps switching to USB. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to correct this or am I doing something wrong? Thanks so much for your time. Regards, Fred Castello, KF4FC Fishersville, VA From w5rkn at w5rkn.com Thu Nov 3 21:21:28 2016 From: w5rkn at w5rkn.com (Ronald G. Parsons) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 16:21:28 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Unusual signal on FO-29 Message-ID: I captured this screen shot from FO-20 today at about 1850 UTC over western US. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Jez46MB5RaSUxMNmw3dF80bFE/view?usp=sharing Note the repeating signal every 3 kHz around 4:00 and 7:00 in the waterfall. I?ve seen this before. Has the same Doppler profile as FO-29. It?s pretty weak as I don?t hear it on the speakers. Any ideas? Ron W5RKN From n8hm at arrl.net Thu Nov 3 23:04:18 2016 From: n8hm at arrl.net (Paul Stoetzer) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 19:04:18 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] CY9C Satellite Q's In LoTW? In-Reply-To: References: <1265904223.623061.1478203152091.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1265904223.623061.1478203152091@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: The CY9C satellite log appears to have just been re-uploaded and it looks like the matching errors have been fixed. Passes from the last evening have also been added, so all CY9C satellite QSOs should be in LoTW. If you have a problem, please email me and I will check for any log errors. Any busted call situations will need to go to the QSL manager for his call, though. 73, Paul, N8HM On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Paul Stoetzer wrote: > Does anyone have a match for a QSO that occurred on August 26th? I may be > finding a pattern here... > > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Paul Stoetzer wrote: >> >> All CY9C satellite QSOs were uploaded to LoTW a few days ago, except for >> the last day of passes worked. Those QSOs have been recovered, formatted for >> LoTW, and sent to the QSL manager for upload to LoTW. >> >> However, for an unknown reason, some of the QSOs are not matching. I have >> not been able to find any discrepancies that would explain that. If your >> QSO(s) did not match, please send me a screenshot of the QSO details page >> from the LoTW website and I will try to figure it out. >> >> 73, >> >> Paul, N8HM >> >> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 3:59 PM, R.T.Liddy wrote: >>> >>> Has anyone received a LoTW confirmation for CY9C >>> on Satellite from their 8/2016 DXpedition? I see my QSO >>> in their ClubLog as 2m (it was on AO-7). The only info I've >>> heard was that they were having a N1MM Log issue that didn't >>> upload Sat QSOs correctly. Over 2 months seems like a long >>> time to fix something like that. >>> I'm sure it will be resolved eventually, but I'm holding off with >>> submissions for VUCC and DXCC because of that ONE LoTW >>> QSL. If I submit now, that QSL will certainly show up soon >>> afterward and sit there like an orphan for quite a while until I get >>> others for the next submission. (Murphy's Law!!) >>> TNX/73, Bob K8BL >>> (Life's a Beach, and then you die!!) :o| >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >>> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. >>> Opinions expressed >>> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of >>> AMSAT-NA. >>> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite >>> program! >>> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >> >> > From chad.kg0mw at gmail.com Fri Nov 4 00:58:25 2016 From: chad.kg0mw at gmail.com (Chad Phillips) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 19:58:25 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] DN94 tomorrow Message-ID: Hello everyone. We are making a fast road trip to DN95 tomorrow (friday). I will try to get on one of the last three afternoon passes on SO50. We will be activating DN94 on AO85 tomorrow night on the last two passes. At least that's the current plan. Chad KG0MW Sent from my iPhone From tjschuessler at verizon.net Fri Nov 4 01:39:24 2016 From: tjschuessler at verizon.net (Tom Schuessler) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 20:39:24 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 Ver12.8c and CAT Operating Message-ID: <002901d2363c$48d78ff0$da86afd0$@net> Fred, I will tell you that I get at times some similar types of conditions with SatPC32 12.8C and my FT847. The radio will flip USB modes on the main band and sometimes the transmit sub band while I am tuning the passband. I have assumed that this might be a feature of tuning too fast and the data stream getting confused. I can see this happening whether I set the radio/Com port to 9600 or 57.6 but think it is a bit more prone at 57.6 Kb/s. Any body have suggestions? Tom Schuessler N5HYP n5hyp at arrl.net _______________________________________________________________ Hi folks, I am trying to get back into the satellites and have a Kenwood TS-790A which I am using with SatPC32 Ver12.8c. I am using THIS cable for CAT control (after research it seemed to be one of the best and reliable cables for the purpose). During the operation of the radio during a pass using AO-85 I have found that SatPC32 keeps switching the mode from FM to USB. It stopped doing that when I disconnected the USB to accessory plug but of course it stopped correcting for doppler as well. When I investigated this I noticed that the AO-85 line in the DOPPLER.SQF file seemed to be missing a comma, see below: ; For Hints look at the end of this file. ; Do not remove or modify these first ; 3 lines of the file, starting with ';'! AO-85,145980,435180FM,FM,Nor,0,0,Voice U/V AO-10,145900.0,435100.0,USB,LSB,REV,0,0 AO-73,145960,435140,USB,LSB,REV,0,0,Voice U/V AO-73,145935.0,,USB,,,,TLM ........ I corrected that and saved it and restarted the computer and the program. It continues to do it and I can't figure out why. So, on this radio there is a "Main" channel which is on 70 cm which I transmit on and there is a "Sub" channel which is on 2 meters which I receive on. The "Main" channel tracks the doppler correctly and remains on FM but the "Sub" tracks the frequency correctly but keeps switching to USB. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to correct this or am I doing something wrong? Thanks so much for your time. Regards, Fred Castello, KF4FC Fishersville, VA From wa4sca at gmail.com Fri Nov 4 05:10:02 2016 From: wa4sca at gmail.com (Alan) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 00:10:02 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 Ver12.8c and CAT Operating In-Reply-To: <002901d2363c$48d78ff0$da86afd0$@net> References: <002901d2363c$48d78ff0$da86afd0$@net> Message-ID: <000201d23659$b396a7f0$1ac3f7d0$@GMAIL.COM> I saw that with a USB serial port which wasn't able to keep up with the data. I switched to a "real" PCI serial port, and that cleared it up. There is also a CAT delay parameter in SatPC32 which is worth exploring. 73s, Alan WA4SCA <-----Original Message----- cable for CAT control (after research * ARISS NEWS RELEASE * *no. 16-12 * *November 3, 2016 * *David Jordan, AA4KN* *ARISS PR* aa4kn at amsat.org *ARISS Packet Switched to UHF operation* *On board the ISS* Due to the recent failure of the VHF ham radio in the ISS Columbus module, the APRS packet system that operates at 145.825 MHz is not available. To mediate this situation, the crew has activated the ARISS UHF radio that had been in storage on the space station and packet is now operational on the UHF ham band on 437.550 MHz. This radio was installed by licensed ham and crew member Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD . The packet operation is using the same protocol as with the previous VHF radio. Only the frequency band for operation has changed. Ham operators using the system should adjust for the increased Doppler shift experienced when operating in the UHF ham band. The ARISS team is currently working on Kenwood D710GA models to replace and unify all amateur radios on board the ISS. Target date for delivery is late 2017. * About * * ARISS* Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or informal education venues. With the help of experienced amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with large audiences in a variety of public forums. Before and during these radio contacts, students, teachers, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org, www.amsat.org, and www.arrl.org. Also, join us on Facebook: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) / Follow us on Twitter: ARISS_status Contact: David Jordan, AA4KN ARISS PR , aa4kn at amsat.org From quadpugh at bellsouth.net Fri Nov 4 07:36:23 2016 From: quadpugh at bellsouth.net (Nick Pugh) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 02:36:23 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] board meet on boat Message-ID: <06e501d2366e$25449600$6fcdc200$@bellsouth.net> Will the board meet next week and if so what is the place and time? nick k5qxj . From n8hm at amsat.org Fri Nov 4 09:34:54 2016 From: n8hm at amsat.org (Paul Stoetzer) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 05:34:54 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] board meet on boat In-Reply-To: <06e501d2366e$25449600$6fcdc200$@bellsouth.net> References: <06e501d2366e$25449600$6fcdc200$@bellsouth.net> Message-ID: Nick, The Board of Directors meeting will take place at the DoubleTree Galveston on Wednesday, November 9th from 8am-10pm and Thursday, November 10th from 8am-12pm. 73, Paul, N8HM On Friday, November 4, 2016, Nick Pugh wrote: > Will the board meet next week and if so what is the place and time? > > > > nick k5qxj > > > > > > . > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org . AMSAT-NA makes this open > forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > -- 73, Paul Stoetzer, N8HM Secretary Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT-NA) From quadpugh at bellsouth.net Fri Nov 4 11:26:52 2016 From: quadpugh at bellsouth.net (Nick Pugh) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 06:26:52 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] board meet on boat In-Reply-To: References: <06e501d2366e$25449600$6fcdc200$@bellsouth.net> Message-ID: <06ff01d2368e$57d1d130$07757390$@bellsouth.net> tnx nick From: prstoetzer at gmail.com [mailto:prstoetzer at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Paul Stoetzer Sent: Friday, November 04, 2016 4:35 AM To: Nick Pugh Cc: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] board meet on boat Nick, The Board of Directors meeting will take place at the DoubleTree Galveston on Wednesday, November 9th from 8am-10pm and Thursday, November 10th from 8am-12pm. 73, Paul, N8HM On Friday, November 4, 2016, Nick Pugh wrote: Will the board meet next week and if so what is the place and time? nick k5qxj . _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org . 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Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb -- 73, Paul Stoetzer, N8HM Secretary Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT-NA) From mjohns166 at yahoo.com Fri Nov 4 13:44:56 2016 From: mjohns166 at yahoo.com (Mark Johns) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 13:44:56 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 Ver12.8c and CAT Operating In-Reply-To: <000201d23659$b396a7f0$1ac3f7d0$@GMAIL.COM> References: <002901d2363c$48d78ff0$da86afd0$@net> <000201d23659$b396a7f0$1ac3f7d0$@GMAIL.COM> Message-ID: <2027218501.225191.1478267096713@mail.yahoo.com> I have an ongoing issue with my Arduino rotor controller (K3NG software) in that SatPC32 appears to send it weird az/el info, sending the rotors to their full stops. It's kind of a pain in the backside. Adjusting the frequency of antenna aiming changes has some effect -- similar, perhaps, to the CAT delay. -- Mark D. Johns, K?MDJ Decorah, Iowa USA EN43 ----------------------------------------------- "Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." ---Mark Twain ----- Original Message ----- From: Alan To: 'Tom Schuessler' ; amsat-bb at amsat.org Sent: Friday, November 4, 2016 12:10 AM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 Ver12.8c and CAT Operating I saw that with a USB serial port which wasn't able to keep up with the data. I switched to a "real" PCI serial port, and that cleared it up. There is also a CAT delay parameter in SatPC32 which is worth exploring. 73s, Alan WA4SCA <-----Original Message----- cable for CAT control (after research References: <002901d2363c$48d78ff0$da86afd0$@net> <000201d23659$b396a7f0$1ac3f7d0$@GMAIL.COM> Message-ID: Yes Alan, it definitely is an issue at the 57K baud rate but still is at times at 9600. And you would thank that a USB to serial adapter would work happily at 9600. The only way to be portable for me is with a USB only laptop. I do currently have the cat delay set to 30 but I can try with some different numbers. Tom. N5HYP Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 4, 2016, at 00:10, Alan wrote: > > I saw that with a USB serial port which wasn't able to keep up with the data. I switched to a "real" > PCI serial port, and that cleared it up. There is also a CAT delay parameter in SatPC32 which is worth > exploring. > > 73s, > > Alan > WA4SCA > > <-----Original Message----- > < > < > < > < > < > < > < > < > < > < > < > < > < > < > < > <_______________________________________________________________ > < > < > < > < > < > < > < > < > <cable for CAT control (after research > < > < > < > < > < > < > < > <; For Hints look at the end of this file. > < > <; Do not remove or modify these first > < > <; 3 lines of the file, starting with ';'! > < > < > < > <........ > < > < > < > < > <"Sub" channel which is on 2 meters which I receive on. The "Main" channel > < > < > < > < > < > < > < > <_______________________________________________ > > From erich.eichmann at t-online.de Fri Nov 4 18:47:38 2016 From: erich.eichmann at t-online.de (Erich Eichmann) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 19:47:38 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 Ver12.8c and CAT Operating In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello Fred, I just tested my TS-790E with 12.8c (I hadn't used that radio for a longer time). With my settings CAT control works flawlessly. Frequencies and modes are set and updated correctly when I choose a satellite. When I switch between u/v and u/v sats it is necessary to click the satellite ident letter twice to activate the changed RX band. My settings in menu "Radio Setup": brand Kenwood, model TS-790, baudrate 4800, CAT delay 70, option "Satellite mode" checked (only in the program, not at the radio), option "RTS +12V" checked. That simulates RTS high and may be necessary with 12.8c in some cases. So, try wethert that helps. With 12.8c I use a new component for COM port control witch allows port numbers up to 100 (the old MSComm32.OCX supported only up to 16 port numbers). I use the Kenwood IF-232c interface connected to the PC via a USB-to-Serial adapter with FTDI chipset. The cable betwen USB-to-Serial adapter and interface is a (homemade) straight forward RS-232 cable (no null modem) with lines ground, RxD, TxD, RTS and CTS wired. Recently another user (Paul, LB2BG) reported that he got his TS-790 working with SatPC32. I will forward his mail to you. Perhapas he can tell you how he has connected the radio to the PC. With the TS-790 the the downlink must appear in the right window (SUB). 73s, Erich, DK1TB Am 03.11.2016 um 21:30 schrieb Fred Castello: > Hi folks, > > I am trying to get back into the satellites and have a Kenwood TS-790A > which I am using with SatPC32 Ver12.8c. I am using THIS > cable for CAT control (after research > it seemed to be one of the best and reliable cables for the purpose). > > During the operation of the radio during a pass using AO-85 I have found > that SatPC32 keeps switching the mode from FM to USB. It stopped doing > that when I disconnected the USB to accessory plug but of course it stopped > correcting for doppler as well. When I investigated this I noticed that the > AO-85 line in the DOPPLER.SQF file seemed to be missing a comma, see below: > > ; For Hints look at the end of this file. > ; Do not remove or modify these first > ; 3 lines of the file, starting with ';'! > AO-85,145980,435180FM,FM,Nor,0,0,Voice U/V > AO-10,145900.0,435100.0,USB,LSB,REV,0,0 > AO-73,145960,435140,USB,LSB,REV,0,0,Voice U/V > AO-73,145935.0,,USB,,,,TLM > ........ > > I corrected that and saved it and restarted the computer and the program. > It continues to do it and I can't figure out why. So, on this radio there > is a "Main" channel which is on 70 cm which I transmit on and there is a > "Sub" channel which is on 2 meters which I receive on. The "Main" channel > tracks the doppler correctly and remains on FM but the "Sub" tracks the > frequency correctly but keeps switching to USB. Does anyone have any > thoughts on how to correct this or am I doing something wrong? > Thanks so much for your time. > Regards, > Fred Castello, KF4FC > Fishersville, VA > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From bruninga at usna.edu Fri Nov 4 19:13:53 2016 From: bruninga at usna.edu (Robert Bruninga) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 15:13:53 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Packet downlink IGates are now tracking again... Message-ID: Looking at Steve's ARISS.NET downlink page, as of 1800 UTC, 4 Nov , the following ARISS IGates appear to now be tracking the new ISS packet downlink frequency of 437.550 (+/- Doppler) for almost 2 days now. DG2HSI-1 G7HCE-10 K0KOC-7 K8YSE-4 KD0KZE KC5ILO-12 JA0CAW-6 JR5YCG-10 ON4ISS-6 RK9UM VK6CO-6 VK6HV-1 YC3BVG ZL4JL-6 Prior to that, the feed was lost for 20 days since the VHF radio failure 3 weeks ago. We do need some IGates to remain on the 145.825 frequnecy so that we can maintain the downlink of PCSAT and PSAT. SO far, these IGates are still on 145.825 today as seen on pcsat.findu.com CU2ZG-1 DG2MJR-10 DL5MAM DM0AI-10 HS3SRS-1 HS0BBD JA0CAW-6 KJ6VCP-2 K9VD KD8THX-6 KD0KZE LA3QMA-6 LW4DEM-6 N0AN SQ5MJA VA5BNC-3 W9CMG-2 XE3N-4 YC3BVG ZL4JL-6 Bob, WB4aPR From john at papays.com Fri Nov 4 17:18:39 2016 From: john at papays.com (John Papay) Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2016 13:18:39 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] New Hampshire Needed for WAS Message-ID: <20161104233657.D9DFA864C@lansing182.amsat.org> New Hampshire is the last State I need for WAS from my Arizona QTH, K8YSE/7. Is there anyone in New Hampshire that would be willing to make a sked with me who is also on LOTW? I can work any bird and be available at any time, day or night. Thanks. 73, John K8YSE/7 DM43 Mesa AZ --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From AJ9N at aol.com Sat Nov 5 04:33:55 2016 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 00:33:55 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-11-05 04:30 UTC Message-ID: <753de9.15be188b.454ebb32@aol.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-11-05 04:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Students in Ingushetia, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Andrei Borisenko Contact is a go for 2016-11-03 08:06 UTC Istituto Comprensivo ?Marco da Melo?, Mel, Italy, direct via I3XFY The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact was successful: Fri 2016-11-04 08:47:20 UTC 42 deg (***) Boca Raton Christian School, Boca Raton FL, direct via N4BRF The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Mon 2016-11-07 17:15:14 UTC 30 deg Exp. 48 back on earth (***) Congrats on a job well done! (***) Anatoly Ivanishin Kate Rubins KG5FYJ Takuya Onishi KF5LKS **************************************************************************** ** Call for Proposals Proposal Window September 1 ? November 1, 2016 The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS. ARISS anticipates that the contact would be held between July 1, 2017 and December 31, 2017. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact contact dates. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate the contact into a well-developed education plan. The deadline to submit a proposal is November 1, 2016. Proposal information and documents can be found at www.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact. **************************************************************************** ** ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n at amsat.org or aj9n at aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8? MHz. **************************************************************************** *** All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. **************************************************************************** *** Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke at sbcglobal.net **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 123 Gaston ON4WF with 121 Francesco IK?WGF with 118 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-11-05 04:30 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1090. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1055. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: Arkansas, Delaware, South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DP?ISS, IR?ISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RS?ISS **************************************************************************** The successful school list has been updated as of 2016-11-05 04:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 48 back on earth (***) Congrats on a job well done! (***) Anatoly Ivanishin Kate Rubins KG5FYJ Takuya Onishi KF5LKS Exp. 49 on orbit Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Andrei Borisenko Sergey Ryzhikov **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors From n4csitwo at bellsouth.net Sat Nov 5 14:45:53 2016 From: n4csitwo at bellsouth.net (n4csitwo at bellsouth.net) Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 10:45:53 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS contact with Boca Raton Christian School, Boca Raton FL Message-ID: An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Boca Raton Christian School, Boca Raton FL on 07 Nov. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 17:15 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between NA1SS and N4BRF. The contact should be audible over the state of Florida and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. Boca Raton Christian School is a faith-based school distinguished by its academic excellence, spiritual formation, and caring environment. BRCS serves approximately 570 students in grades PreK-12. The campus is situated on approximately 22 acres in downtown Boca Raton, FL. Founded in 1973 as a ministry of Boca Raton Community Church, the school is accredited by several educational institutions and has been recognized twice as a National Blue Ribbon School. The college preparatory high school features a one-to-one laptop program as well as superior fine arts and athletic programs. All BRCS students participate in community service: grades K through 8 are involved in local projects, and high school students spend a week serving underserved communities in Tennessee, Arizona, and Costa Rica. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. Did you have any childhood experiences that made you want to become an astronaut? 2. How did you prepare to become an astronaut? 3. Has anything happened that you weren't prepared for and how did you handle it? 4. Does time feel like it goes slower or faster on the space station than on Earth and why? 5. Judging from the current rate of technology advancements, what do you see the future of space travel in the next 20 - 30 years? 6. Can you see meteors in space? 7. Have you or anyone you know experienced negative effects from radiation while in space? 8. What is the most incredible experience you've had in space? 9. What is the worst illness you or someone you know has had in space and how was it handled? 10. How much free time do you have and what do you like to do? 11. Since there are both men and women and from different countries, what kinds of interpersonal conflicts are there and how do they handle them? 12. How has your life changed since becoming an astronaut? 13. Should we colonize Mars? If so, what approach would you recommend, and would you be willing to be a colonist? 14. How do you fly your spaceship? 15. What do you like and dislike most about being an astronaut? 16. Has your ISS ever broken down, and how did you fix it? 17. Have you ever seen anything in space that you couldn't explain? 18. Do you play games in space, and, if so, what games do you play? 19. Has being in space changed your perspective on the world. If so, how? 20. Have you or anyone you know ever had a near death experience in space (other than illness), and, if so, what happened? PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES: Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status Next planned event(s): TBD About ARISS: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or informal education venues. With the help of experienced amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with large audiences in a variety of public forums. Before and during these radio contacts, students, teachers, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org, www.amsat.org, and www.arrl.org. Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From n4hf.philip at gmail.com Sat Nov 5 14:51:20 2016 From: n4hf.philip at gmail.com (Philip Jenkins) Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 10:51:20 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] ARRL Teacher's Institute/STE(A)M Message-ID: One of my high school classmates, Teresa, is a former middle school math and science teacher. Teresa has now transitioned to being a staff member of North Carolina State University's Science House. While STEM is not the main focus of her position, she still does a lot of hand-on experiences in STEM areas, some for students and some for educators, here in western NC. I made her aware last month of the ARRL Teacher's Institute. which she is placing into her November newsletter. (I included links to the institute on ARRL's website.) This newsletter reaches at least 1350 points of contact, mainly STEM educators, most of them in NC. I offered to be a point of contact if anyone was interested in learning more about the ARRL program, and especially AMSAT/ARISS, as I am an ARRL PIO (Public Information Officer). So I'm asking for videos, websites, (videos/reports of) demonstrations, etc, which are relevant for STEM educators, especially as it involves ham radio, AMSAT, and ARISS so that I can pass these various references along to folks who might have seen Teresa's newsletter. I haven't heard from anyone YET, but the month is still young. I'm hoping there will be a few nibbles for the ARRL Institute at least, as I stressed to Teresa that it is virtually cost-free for the participants. Thanks in advance! Philip N4HF (N4HF at AMSAT.ORG) From ku4os at cfl.rr.com Sun Nov 6 02:13:17 2016 From: ku4os at cfl.rr.com (Lee McLamb) Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 22:13:17 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS-311 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins Message-ID: <9068ae46-6482-c9cb-0baf-7101c553be78@cfl.rr.com> AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-311 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor at amsat.org. In this edition: * AMSAT Symposium Cruise Port Call Changed * ARISS Packet Active on 437.550 MHz * Upcoming ARISS contact with Boca Raton Christian School, Boca Raton FL * US Naval Academy Students Plan HF Transponder Satellite * UBAKUSAT 3U Linear Transponder CubeSat * NASA CubeSat Launch Opportunity * Free Program -- Cubes in SpaceTM SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-311.01 ANS-311 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 311.01 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE November 6, 2016 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-311.01 AMSAT Symposium Cruise Port Call Changed The 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium will be held aboard a commercial cruise ship departing from the port of Galveston, Texas. Sail dates are November 10-14 aboard the Carnival Liberty. Galveston is conveniently located near Houston, Texas with access from both the George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) and the Houston Hobby Airport (HOU.) AMSAT has been notified that due to a technical issue with Carnival Liberty which only affects the ship;s maximum cruise speed, the arrival and departure times as well as scheduled itinerary have been modified. This cruise will embark on Thursday evening, 19:00-22:00 CST and return on the following Monday morning at 10:00 CST. The trip includes two full days at sea and one day in port at Progreso, Mexico. Symposium presentations and meetings will be conducted during the days at sea to allow free time during the stop while in port. The AMSAT Board of Directors meeting will occur on shore at the DoubleTree by Hilton Galveston Beach, Galveston, Texas, November 9-10. [ANS thanks Carnival Cruise Lines for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS Packet Active on 437.550 MHz N5VHO reported via Twitter (#ARISS, #hamradio) that the ISS packet system now operational on UHF (437.550 MHz). See also: http://www.issfanclub.com/node/41955 [ANS thanks Kenneth, N5VHO, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming ARISS contact with Boca Raton Christian School, Boca Raton FL An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Boca Raton Christian School, Boca Raton FL on 07 Nov. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 17:15 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between NA1SS and N4BRF. The contact should be audible over the state of Florida and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. Boca Raton Christian School is a faith-based school distinguished by its academic excellence, spiritual formation, and caring environment. BRCS serves approximately 570 students in grades PreK-12. The campus is situated on approximately 22 acres in downtown Boca Raton, FL. Founded in 1973 as a ministry of Boca Raton Community Church, the school is accredited by several educational institutions and has been recognized twice as a National Blue Ribbon School. The college preparatory high school features a one-to-one laptop program as well as superior fine arts and athletic programs. All BRCS students participate in community service: grades K through 8 are involved in local projects, and high school students spend a week serving under-served communities in Tennessee, Arizona, and Costa Rica. Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or informal education venues. With the help of experienced amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with large audiences in a variety of public forums. Before and during these radio contacts, students, teachers, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org, www.amsat.org, and www.arrl.org. [ANS thanks David, AA4KN, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- US Naval Academy Students Plan HF Transponder Satellite AMSAT-UK reported the US Naval Academy HFSAT received IARU frequency coordination on October 27, 2016. This is a 1.5U CubeSat with a 15 meter to 10 meter linear transponder. The #HFsat 21.4 to 29.42 MHz inverting transponder will have a bandwidth of 30 kHz. The satellite will also carry an APRS digipeater on 145.825 MHz. crossed 1/4 wave whips on VHF and also a 10 meter dipole. No launch has yet been identified. IARU Coordination: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/formal_detail.php?serialnum=528 US Naval Academy page: http://aprs.org/hfsat.html [Thanks to IARU and US Naval Academy] --------------------------------------------------------------------- UBAKUSAT 3U Linear Transponder CubeSat Turkey?s 3U CubeSat UBAKUSAT carrying an amateur radio 145/435 MHz SSB/CW transponder is planned to be deployed from the ISS in 2017. The linear transponder is almost the same as that on the TURKSAT-3USAT which was launched on April 26, 2013. The satellite is being developed by Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Space Systems Design and Test Lab (SSDTL) along with TAMSAT, GUMUSH and ERTEK Ltd, with some support of the RF lab of ITU (RFL) and Ministry of Transportation, Communication and Maritime in collaboration with the Japanese Government. The primary mission of UBAKUSAT is to provide voice communications for amateur radio stations around the globe. Additionally the satellite will carry the TAMSAT Simplesat card which will send telemetry data, including the relative radiation data absorbed by the card, to ground stations. There is also a CW beacon. The estimated duration of the satellite mission is about 6 to 12 months before re-entry. The launch from Japan to the International Space Station is planned for late 2016 or early 2017 and deployment from the ISS will occur sometime later. IARU coordinated frequencies: ? 437.225 MHz CW Beacon ? 437.325 MHz Telemetry ? SSB/CW transponder: ? 145.940-145.990MHz ? 435.200-435.250 MHz IARU satellite frequency coordination pages http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/ Turkish Amateur Satellite Technologies Organization (TAMSAT) http://tinyurl.com/TurkeyTAMSAT [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- NASA CubeSat Launch Opportunity NASA has opened the next round of its CubeSat Launch Initiative in an effort to engage the growing community of space enthusiasts who can contribute to NASA's space exploration goals. The CubeSat Launch Initiative gives students, teachers and faculty a chance to get hands-on flight hardware development experience in the process of designing, building and operating small research satellites. It also provides a low-cost pathway to space for research in the areas of science, exploration, technology development, education or operations consistent with NASA's Strategic Plan. Applicants must submit their proposals electronically by 4:30 p.m. EST, Nov. 22, 2016. NASA will choose the payloads by Feb. 17, 2017, but initial selection does not guarantee a launch opportunity. Certain selected experiments are slated to be flown as auxiliary payloads on agency rocket launches or to be deployed from the International Space Station beginning in 2017 and running through 2020. NASA does not fund the development of the small satellites, and this opportunity is open only to U.S. nonprofit organizations and U.S. accredited educational organizations. One goal of the CubeSat Launch Initiative is to extend the successes of space exploration to all 50 states by launching a small satellite from at least one participant in each state in the next five years. During this round, NASA is particularly focused on gaining participation in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 18 states not previously selected for the CubeSat Launch Initiative. These states are Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Washington and Wyoming. CubeSats are in a class of research spacecraft called nanosatellites. The base CubeSat dimensions are about 4 inches by 4 inches by 4 inches (10 centimeters by 10 centimeters by 11 centimeters), which equals one "cube," or 1U. CubeSats supported by this launch effort include volumes of 1U, 2U, 3U and 6U. CubeSats of 1U, 2U and 3U size typically have a mass of about three pounds (1.33 kilograms) per 1U Cube. A 6U CubeSat typically has a mass of about 26.5 pounds (12 kilograms). The CubeSat's final mass depends on which deployment method is selected. To date, NASA has selected 119 CubeSat missions from 66 unique organizations. Of those missions, 46 have been launched into space with 29 more CubeSats scheduled to go in the next 12 months. For additional information about NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative program, visit http://go.nasa.gov/CubeSat_initiative. Questions about this opportunity should be directed to Jason Crusan at Jason.Crusan at nasa.gov. [ANS thanks the NASA Education Express Message -- Nov. 3, 2016 for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Free Program -- Cubes in SpaceTM Cubes in SpaceT provides students ages 11-18 an opportunity to design and compete to launch an experiment into space at no cost! Cubes in SpaceT is offered by idoodledu, inc., in partnership with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility, the Colorado Space Grant Consortium and NASA's Langley Research Center. This global education program based on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) enables students to learn about space exploration using innovative problem-solving and inquiry-based learning methods. Participants have access to resources that help prepare them to design and develop an experiment to be integrated into a small cube. This year, experiments will be launched into space via sounding rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, in late June 2017 or from a high-altitude balloon launched from NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, in August 2017. The deadline for program registration is Jan. 6, 2017. For more information, visit http://www.cubesinspace.com. Questions about this program may be directed to info at cubesinspace.com. About idoodedu inc. idoodledu inc., a charitable nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, is a wholly owned subsidiary of idoodlelearning inc., and was created in 2015 as a legal vehicle to bring public/private partnerships and publicly funded programs to all learners and educators. idoodlelearning inc. is an education company based in Ottawa, Canada; London, England; and Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. [ANS thanks the NASA Education Express Message -- Nov. 3, 2016 for the above information] /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi- tional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu- dent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership information. 73, This week's ANS Editor, Lee McLamb, KU4OS ku4os at amsat dot org From david.n2teb at gmail.com Sun Nov 6 11:23:10 2016 From: david.n2teb at gmail.com (David Mennerich) Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 06:23:10 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Coax Assemblies for Arrow Antenna 437 X 14 Message-ID: Hello - does anyone know if there are coaxial cable assemblies commercially available for the Arrow 437 X 14 to make it circular polarization? It so, seems like a fairly inexpensive way to get a circularly polarized antenna for satellite work. I'm looking for smaller circularly polarized antennas that could be used in my portable LEO SSB satellite setup. http://www.arrowantennas.com/arrowii/437x14ii.html Thanks, Dave N2TEB From kb2m at comcast.net Sun Nov 6 13:34:17 2016 From: kb2m at comcast.net (Jeff) Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 08:34:17 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Coax Assemblies for Arrow Antenna 437 X 14 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <76914D4606874E7A92181152BB620592@kb2m4PC> I built a manual phasing harness for the Arrow 70cm cross Yagi back in the AO-40 days. After a quick search I found my old QSL.net webpage. Everything you need to make your own phasing harness is here. Read the stuff along the left side.. http://www.qsl.net/kb2m/index.html Here is a thread from 2007 about this subject... http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/amsat-bb/200712/msg00021.html 73 Jeff kb2m -----Original Message----- From: David Mennerich Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2016 6:23 AM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Coax Assemblies for Arrow Antenna 437 X 14 Hello - does anyone know if there are coaxial cable assemblies commercially available for the Arrow 437 X 14 to make it circular polarization? It so, seems like a fairly inexpensive way to get a circularly polarized antenna for satellite work. I'm looking for smaller circularly polarized antennas that could be used in my portable LEO SSB satellite setup. http://www.arrowantennas.com/arrowii/437x14ii.html Thanks, Dave N2TEB From chad.kg0mw at gmail.com Mon Nov 7 02:27:50 2016 From: chad.kg0mw at gmail.com (Chad Phillips) Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 20:27:50 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Fox Telem MAC Install issue... Message-ID: I am trying to install the FoxTelem software on my mac. I have the latest version of java installed, latest version of OS X. I hold down the cmd key when trying to open the install file, yet it says the file is corrupt. Any ideas? Thanks, Chad kg0mw From scott23192 at gmail.com Mon Nov 7 05:43:30 2016 From: scott23192 at gmail.com (Scott) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 00:43:30 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Day/Night SNR above 1GHz?? Message-ID: <19A5BA826CA2495388DC5E91981796A2@CSI9020> Hello everyone! With talk of some of the future amateur satellites using higher and higher frequencies, I can assure you that I for one am going to have a lot of questions about the world above 1GHz. Since I have been taking baby steps by monitoring L-Band with some success, a pattern has become so regular that I wonder if it will be applicable if/when I am ever equipped to work next generation AmSats in the GHz range. I have noticed (quite reliably) that the quality of my received signal easily doubles at night. One example would be the Outernet data stream from Inmarsat 4-F3. The SNR value reported by the Outernet software might be in the area of ?6- during the day, but often jumps to ?11- or ?12- (or even higher) at night. Is this normal? Should I generally expect to have significantly better performance above 1GHz at night (at least in the case of ground-to-space contacts)? If so, of course that would be nice to know before trying to work nextgen satellites on those higher frequencies. Thanks! -Scott, K4KDR Montpelier, VA USA From daniel at destevez.net Mon Nov 7 10:16:59 2016 From: daniel at destevez.net (Dani EA4GPZ) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 11:16:59 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] Day/Night SNR above 1GHz?? In-Reply-To: <19A5BA826CA2495388DC5E91981796A2@CSI9020> References: <19A5BA826CA2495388DC5E91981796A2@CSI9020> Message-ID: El 07/11/16 a las 06:43, Scott escribi?: > Hello everyone! > > With talk of some of the future amateur satellites using higher and > higher frequencies, I can assure you that I for one am going to have > a lot of questions about the world above 1GHz. > > Since I have been taking baby steps by monitoring L-Band with some > success, a pattern has become so regular that I wonder if it will be > applicable if/when I am ever equipped to work next generation AmSats > in the GHz range. > > I have noticed (quite reliably) that the quality of my received > signal easily doubles at night. One example would be the Outernet > data stream from Inmarsat 4-F3. The SNR value reported by the > Outernet software might be in the area of ?6- during the day, but > often jumps to ?11- or ?12- (or even higher) at night. > > Is this normal? Should I generally expect to have significantly > better performance above 1GHz at night (at least in the case of > ground-to-space contacts)? > > If so, of course that would be nice to know before trying to work > nextgen satellites on those higher frequencies. Hi Scott, I wouldn't expect that day/night plays any significant role on microwave propagation. In fact, propagation effects that do play some role in terrestrial microwave propagation are much harder to notice for satellite communications, just because the propagation path through the lower atmosphere is shorter. For instance, rainscatter is really a thing for terrestrial microwave, but for satellite it takes a huge storm for one to notice anything. I managed to obtain some good results on 12GHz during a big hailstorm: http://destevez.net/2016/05/hailstorm-in-12ghz/ Have you considered that the difference is not in signal strength but in background noise level. Maybe you have local QRM from devices that only run during the day. The sun is also quite noisy, but you need to point a high gain antenna towards the sun to notice. Some parts of the Milky Way are also noisy, but not so much at 1.5GHz. I would take measurements of both the noise floor and several 1.5GHz signals during day and night and compare. SDR recordings would be ideal for this. Take some SDR recordings at day and night during different days, then do all measurements on the recordings and compare. 73, Dani. From jefforybroughton at gmail.com Mon Nov 7 15:35:38 2016 From: jefforybroughton at gmail.com (jeffory broughton) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 10:35:38 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Wi9i IN the DOMINICAN REPUBLIC In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: George WI9I , was on FO29 this morning from His vacation in the Dominican Republic operating half duplex with one 817 and doing a very good job.Copy was rough do to FM activity on the bird.Listen for him again today. Jeff WB8RJY jeff broughton From jefforybroughton at gmail.com Mon Nov 7 22:14:45 2016 From: jefforybroughton at gmail.com (jeffory broughton) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 17:14:45 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Signal every 3 khz on FO 29 this morning In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I swear I read a post somewhere a few days ago where someone heard an un modulated carrier every 3 khz on FO 29. But I can not locate that post.I experienced that on FO 29 this morning along with very strong FM activity using the same uplink frequency as George WI9I in the Dominican Republic on 145.927. jeff broughton From martha at amsat.org Mon Nov 7 22:27:06 2016 From: martha at amsat.org (Martha) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 17:27:06 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Office Closed Message-ID: The AMSAT Office will be closed from November 8th - November 14th. We will reopen on Tuesday November 15th. See you in Galveston! -- 73- Martha From ei7m-wkt at asahi-net.or.jp Tue Nov 8 11:22:56 2016 From: ei7m-wkt at asahi-net.or.jp (Mineo Wakita) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 20:22:56 +0900 Subject: [amsat-bb] HTV6 to ISS Message-ID: JAXA opened to the public yesterday seven nano satellites to be installed in H-IIB Transfer Vehicle "KOUNOTORI" (HTV) to be launched next month. Satellites are only about 1U~3U in size and will conduct experiments aimed at realizing the space elevator which is expected to facilitate the movement of Earth and Universe in the future. It's the first time to launch in JAXA with seven satellites at a time. HTV6 Launch: 13:26 UTC, Dec.9, 2016 at the Tanegashima Space Center, Japan H-II Transfer Vehicle "KOUNOTORI" (HTV), JAXA http://global.jaxa.jp/projects/rockets/htv/index.html AOBA-VeloxIII Kyusyu Institute of Technology http://aoba2016.blog.fc2.com/ EGG University of Tokyo / Nihon University http://repository.exst.jaxa.jp/dspace/bitstream/a-is/2961/1/SA6000021010.pdf FREEDOM Tohoku University / Nakashimada Engneering Works, Ltd http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/newimg/pressimg/tohokuuniv-press_20140926_01web.pdf ITF-2 University of Tsukuba http://yui.kz.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/ IuPOD Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation http://www.jamss.co.jp/en/ STARS-C Shizuoka University http://stars.eng.shizuoka.ac.jp/english.html WASEDA-SAT3 Waseda University http://www.miyashita.mmech.waseda.ac.jp/Waseda-Sat3/ Downlink Beacon Mode AOBA-VeloxIII 437.375 437.375 1k2 AFSK,CW ITF-2 437.525 437.525 1k2 FM,CW STARS-C (Mother) 437.405 437.245 1k2 FM,CW STARS-C (Daughter) 437.425 437.255 1k2 FM,CW WASEDA-Sat3 437.290 437.290 1k2 PCMFSK,CW JE9PEL, Mineo Wakita From w5rkn at w5rkn.com Tue Nov 8 14:07:08 2016 From: w5rkn at w5rkn.com (Ronald G. Parsons) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 08:07:08 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Signal every 3 khz on FO 29 this morning In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <445EBE87B1144FE18E896FC4C18EB814@Ron8300PC> I wrote the original post. I have captured a waterfall representation of a pass on 3 Nov and 7 Nov. Links to these images follow: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Jez46MB5RaSUxMNmw3dF80bFE/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Jez46MB5RaWXR2eGg5N3h0NXM/view?usp=sharing The separation is a little less than 3 kHz. I also noticed the FM activity and a lot of other stuff on 7 Nov. Ron W5RKN ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 17:14:45 -0500 From: jeffory broughton To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Signal every 3 khz on FO 29 this morning Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I swear I read a post somewhere a few days ago where someone heard an un modulated carrier every 3 khz on FO 29. But I can not locate that post.I experienced that on FO 29 this morning along with very strong FM activity using the same uplink frequency as George WI9I in the Dominican Republic on 145.927. jeff broughton From m5aka at yahoo.co.uk Tue Nov 8 20:03:58 2016 From: m5aka at yahoo.co.uk (M5AKA) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 20:03:58 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Femtosats + JAXA launch + Spectrum Forum Reports References: <1875536071.1467413.1478635439001.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1875536071.1467413.1478635439001@mail.yahoo.com> Radio ham?s Femtosats project wins ISS Design Competition https://amsat-uk.org/2016/11/07/ham-radio-femtosats-iss-competition/ JAXA to launch satellites with ham radio payloads to ISS https://amsat-uk.org/2016/11/08/jaxa-iss-ham-radio-cubesats/ Sandringham students? Amateur Radio project success https://amsat-uk.org/2016/11/04/sandringham-amateur-radio-project/ RSGB Spectrum Forum Reports Released https://amsat-uk.org/2016/11/04/rsgb-spectrum-forum-reports-released/ Book - Getting Started with Amateur Satellites 2016 - now in stock https://amsat-uk.org/2016/06/27/getting-started-with-amateur-satellites-2016/ 73 Trevor M5AKA ---- AMSAT-UK?http://amsat-uk.org/ Twitter?https://twitter.com/AmsatUK Facebook https://facebook.com/AmsatUK YouTube?https://youtube.com/AmsatUK ---- From w5rkn at w5rkn.com Tue Nov 8 20:28:37 2016 From: w5rkn at w5rkn.com (Ronald G. Parsons) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 14:28:37 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Signal every 3 khz on FO 29 this morning Message-ID: <13B68941C202440A86AE7D658DD5F246@Ron8300PC> On further investigation, I now believe the signals every 3 kHz noted on the previous posts are not generated on board FO-29 but are possibly from a terrestrial source not tracking Doppler shift properly or perhaps from another satellite whose output frequency corresponds to the input frequency of FO-29. For example AO-85 has an output frequency of 145.980 MHz corresponding to an FO-20 output frequency of 435.820 MHz (plus or minus transponder frequency errors). As can be seen on the annotated waterfall spectrum from the 7 November pass over Texas around 1700Z https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Jez46MB5RaTGcyajN6VGQtREU/view?usp=sharing the FO-29 Beacon Doppler curve does not match the unknown signal?s Doppler curve. Also the FM signals in the lower part of the FO-29 passband have the same or very similar Doppler curve as the unknown signal. Note that the frequency numbers along the upper edge of the waterfall are frequencies as received by my receiver. The frequency noted near the top of the screen shot, 435,852.200 MHz, corresponds to the frequency ?at the satellite? of the yellow tuning indicator. A similar appearance of FM signals was noted today, 8 Nov around 1600Z. Note the Doppler shift of the FM signals does not match that of FO-29. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Jez46MB5RaZEoxVFpSbWowQ0k/view?usp=sharing On 8 Nov, AO-85 was near FO-29 at the time of the pass, but that was not the case on 7 Nov. Ron W5RKN From les at highnoonfilm.com Tue Nov 8 22:03:02 2016 From: les at highnoonfilm.com (Les Rayburn) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 16:03:02 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Programming a Kenwood TH-D72A for ISS Digi Contacts Message-ID: <94C1D008-EE99-435B-9C06-187A58CC720E@highnoonfilm.com> Just purchased a used Kenwood TH-D72A HT. Hoping to use it along with an Arrow antenna to make more satellite contacts while traveling. While I primarily expect to use it to make voice contacts on the FM birds, I?m also interested in making packet contacts through the International Space Station. Could someone point me towards a programming guide for this type of application? Any other pointers in using the radio to make packet QSOs through the ISS? Grateful for all suggestions. 73, Les Rayburn, N1LF 121 Mayfair Park Maylene, AL EM63nf Member WTFDA, IRCA, NRC, ARLL, and AMSAT. Former CPC Chairman for NRC & IRCA. Elad FDM-S2 SDR, AirSpy SDR, Quantum Phaser, Wellbrook ALA1530 Loop, Wellbrook Flag, Clifton Labs Active Whip. Grateful as always. From johnbrier at gmail.com Tue Nov 8 22:56:00 2016 From: johnbrier at gmail.com (John Brier) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 17:56:00 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Programming a Kenwood TH-D72A for ISS Digi Contacts In-Reply-To: <94C1D008-EE99-435B-9C06-187A58CC720E@highnoonfilm.com> References: <94C1D008-EE99-435B-9C06-187A58CC720E@highnoonfilm.com> Message-ID: You need to store the memories as split frequencies or as the manual calls them, "Odd-split Repeater Frequencies." It's in the full electronic manual. See page 2 in file 'TH-D72_02_MEMORY CHANNEL_E.pdf' The basics of it are this. You program a simplex receive frequency like normal and then go to the VFO and set the transmit frequency and then store it like normal to the same memory channel, except in addition to pressing >OK to store it at the final step, you hold down the PTT button before hand and while you press >OK. To compensate for doppler you need to store the following memories: # Receive Transmit 1. 437.560 437.540 2. 437.555 437.545 3. 437.550 (same, don't set split here) 4. 437.545 437.550 5. 437.540 437.560 When the bird is coming toward you start at 1. and as the pass progresses move towards 5. You should be at 3. at max elevation. Let me/us know if you have more questions. 73, John Brier KG4AKV On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Les Rayburn wrote: > Just purchased a used Kenwood TH-D72A HT. Hoping to use it along with an Arrow antenna to make more satellite contacts while traveling. While I primarily expect to use it to make voice contacts on the FM birds, I?m also interested in making packet contacts through the International Space Station. > > Could someone point me towards a programming guide for this type of application? Any other pointers in using the radio to make packet QSOs through the ISS? > > Grateful for all suggestions. > > 73, > > Les Rayburn, N1LF > 121 Mayfair Park > Maylene, AL > EM63nf > > Member WTFDA, IRCA, NRC, ARLL, and AMSAT. Former CPC Chairman for NRC & IRCA. > > Elad FDM-S2 SDR, AirSpy SDR, Quantum Phaser, Wellbrook ALA1530 Loop, Wellbrook Flag, Clifton Labs Active Whip. > > > Grateful as always. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From AJ9N at aol.com Tue Nov 8 09:04:20 2016 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 04:04:20 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-11-08 08:00 UTC Message-ID: Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-11-08 08:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Students in Ingushetia, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Andrei Borisenko Contact is a go for 2016-11-03 08:06 UTC Boca Raton Christian School, Boca Raton FL, direct via N4BRF The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact was successful: Mon 2016-11-07 17:15:14 UTC 30 deg (***) Col?legi Asuncion de Ntra. Sra., Barcelona, Spain, telebridge via W6SRJ (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD (***) Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-11-17 08:25:19 UTC 40 deg (***) **************************************************************************** ** Call for Proposals Proposal Window September 1 ? November 1, 2016 The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS. ARISS anticipates that the contact would be held between July 1, 2017 and December 31, 2017. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact contact dates. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate the contact into a well-developed education plan. The deadline to submit a proposal is November 1, 2016. Proposal information and documents can be found at www.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact. **************************************************************************** ** ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n at amsat.org or aj9n at aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8? MHz. **************************************************************************** *** All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. **************************************************************************** *** Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke at sbcglobal.net **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 123 Gaston ON4WF with 121 Francesco IK?WGF with 118 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-11-08 08:00 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1091. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1056. (***) Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: Arkansas, Delaware, South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DP?ISS, IR?ISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RS?ISS **************************************************************************** The successful school list has been updated as of 2016-11-08 08:00 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 49 on orbit Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Andrei Borisenko Sergey Ryzhikov **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors From diehl.mike.a at gmail.com Tue Nov 8 22:49:42 2016 From: diehl.mike.a at gmail.com (Mike Diehl) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 14:49:42 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] Programming a Kenwood TH-D72A for ISS Digi Contacts In-Reply-To: <94C1D008-EE99-435B-9C06-187A58CC720E@highnoonfilm.com> References: <94C1D008-EE99-435B-9C06-187A58CC720E@highnoonfilm.com> Message-ID: <3403575E-5E5E-4F5E-83AD-F68BE2A6C4FD@gmail.com> Les, You may want to have a look at the post by Patrick WD9EWK here http://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2016-November/061066.html 73's Mike Diehl - AI6GS > On Nov 8, 2016, at 2:03 PM, Les Rayburn wrote: > > Just purchased a used Kenwood TH-D72A HT. Hoping to use it along with an Arrow antenna to make more satellite contacts while traveling. While I primarily expect to use it to make voice contacts on the FM birds, I?m also interested in making packet contacts through the International Space Station. > > Could someone point me towards a programming guide for this type of application? Any other pointers in using the radio to make packet QSOs through the ISS? > > Grateful for all suggestions. > > 73, > > Les Rayburn, N1LF > 121 Mayfair Park > Maylene, AL > EM63nf > > Member WTFDA, IRCA, NRC, ARLL, and AMSAT. Former CPC Chairman for NRC & IRCA. > > Elad FDM-S2 SDR, AirSpy SDR, Quantum Phaser, Wellbrook ALA1530 Loop, Wellbrook Flag, Clifton Labs Active Whip. > > > Grateful as always. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From Saguaroastro at cox.net Wed Nov 9 00:05:24 2016 From: Saguaroastro at cox.net (Richard Tejera) Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 17:05:24 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] Programming a Kenwood TH-D72A for ISS Digi Contacts Message-ID: <78dkays5papxt5am4y59n2tf.1478649924905@email.android.com> You can also use the programming software that comes with the radio (if the seller provided it) If not is a free download from Kenwood. Nice thing about the D72A it it has a USB port as opposed to TH7, which needed a serial port Rick Tejera K7TEJ Saguaro Astronomy Club www.SaguaroAstro.org Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club www.w7tbc.org On November 8, 2016, at 15:56, John Brier wrote: You need to store the memories as split frequencies or as the manual calls them, "Odd-split Repeater Frequencies." It's in the full electronic manual. See page 2 in file 'TH-D72_02_MEMORY CHANNEL_E.pdf' The basics of it are this. You program a simplex receive frequency like normal and then go to the VFO and set the transmit frequency and then store it like normal to the same memory channel, except in addition to pressing >OK to store it at the final step, you hold down the PTT button before hand and while you press >OK. To compensate for doppler you need to store the following memories: # Receive Transmit 1. 437.560 437.540 2. 437.555 437.545 3. 437.550 (same, don't set split here) 4. 437.545 437.550 5. 437.540 437.560 When the bird is coming toward you start at 1. and as the pass progresses move towards 5. You should be at 3. at max elevation. Let me/us know if you have more questions. 73, John Brier KG4AKV On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Les Rayburn wrote: > Just purchased a used Kenwood TH-D72A HT. Hoping to use it along with an Arrow antenna to make more satellite contacts while traveling. While I primarily expect to use it to make voice contacts on the FM birds, I?m also interested in making packet contacts through the International Space Station. > > Could someone point me towards a programming guide for this type of application? Any other pointers in using the radio to make packet QSOs through the ISS? > > Grateful for all suggestions. > > 73, > > Les Rayburn, N1LF > 121 Mayfair Park > Maylene, AL > EM63nf > > Member WTFDA, IRCA, NRC, ARLL, and AMSAT. Former CPC Chairman for NRC & IRCA. > > Elad FDM-S2 SDR, AirSpy SDR, Quantum Phaser, Wellbrook ALA1530 Loop, Wellbrook Flag, Clifton Labs Active Whip. > > > Grateful as always. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net Wed Nov 9 01:35:58 2016 From: amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 01:35:58 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Programming a Kenwood TH-D72A for ISS Digi Contacts In-Reply-To: <94C1D008-EE99-435B-9C06-187A58CC720E@highnoonfilm.com> References: <94C1D008-EE99-435B-9C06-187A58CC720E@highnoonfilm.com> Message-ID: Les, As AI6GS mentioned, you can program a group of 5 memory channels that will compensate for Doppler on both the uplink and downlink for the 437.550 MHz frequency now being used for the ISS packet digipeater. That list is available at: http://amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2016-November/061066.html I also pinned my tweet from last week on my @WD9EWK Twitter profile page with the same chart, which you can see at: http://twitter.com/WD9EWK As for using your TH-D72A for making QSOs using the ISS packet digipeater, you can use APRS messages to do that. You can define some messages in advance, so you aren't having to enter those messages on the HT's keypad, or you can do that. Typing on the keypad is just like sending SMS messages on a flip-phone or other "non-smart" mobile phone. APRS messages are the way anyone working the digipeater can send and receive text that shows up on the screens of any station. The Kenwood APRS-ready radios will not display freeform text that someone using a simple terminal program types. APRS messages are sent in a format that contains the call signs of the two stations, along with a line of text intended for the receiving station. Using APRS messages, you are able to make the same types of exchanges you would on any other satellite. Grid locators are the most common item exchanged, but with the prepared messages you might also send your name and/or location along with the grid locator. You could skip sending your location in the APRS message, if you are using the APRS functionality to beacon your location during the ISS pass. More stations are giving the ISS digipeater on 70cm a try, and many are finding success using the 5-channel setup like I mentioned on this list last week. If you are set up to work the ISS 70cm digipeater by the end of the week, I will be on there from a hamfest near Tucson this Saturday (12 November) morning. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Les Rayburn wrote: > Just purchased a used Kenwood TH-D72A HT. Hoping to use it along with an > Arrow antenna to make more satellite contacts while traveling. While I > primarily expect to use it to make voice contacts on the FM birds, I?m also > interested in making packet contacts through the International Space > Station. > > Could someone point me towards a programming guide for this type of > application? Any other pointers in using the radio to make packet QSOs > through the ISS? > > Grateful for all suggestions. > > 73, > > Les Rayburn, N1LF > > From amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net Wed Nov 9 02:34:44 2016 From: amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 02:34:44 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT @ hamfest near Tucson AZ on Saturday (12 November 2016) Message-ID: Hi! AMSAT will be at the Oro Valley Amateur Radio Club's annual hamfest in Marana, Arizona, this Saturday, 12 November 2016. The hamfest site is the Marana Middle School, along the eastbound I-10 frontage road, south of exit 236. More information about the hamfest is available at: http://www.tucsonhamradio.org/hamfest Marana is approximately 25 miles/40km northwest of downtown Tucson, in grid DM42. During the hamfest, there will be demonstrations of satellite operating on various passes throughout the hamfest. If you hear WD9EWK on the air, or see WD9EWK-9 on ISS passes, please call and be a part of the demonstrations. All QSOs made with WD9EWK during the hamfest will be uploaded to Logbook of the World, and QSL cards will be available on request. If you want a card, please e-mail me directly with the QSO details. If you are in the log, I will gladly send a card. No need to first send me a card or SASE to receive my card. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK From Saguaroastro at cox.net Wed Nov 9 03:09:22 2016 From: Saguaroastro at cox.net (Richard Tejera) Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 20:09:22 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] Programming a Kenwood TH-D72A for ISS Digi Contacts Message-ID: To add to Patrick's advise, you can store up to 8 user phrases. APRS menu 3P0. Mine include "CQ De K7TEJ from DM33, pse K", "K7TEJ DM33, QSL" And "K7TEJ 73". (These can also be entered in the programming software" To use, press MSG and enter or select the call sign you wish to contact, in the message text line. Press "F", this will bring up the list of messages, press the number of the stored message, and it will paste in. Press the right side of the multi function button and away it goes. If successfully receive, you get a message back. Rick Tejera K7TEJ Saguaro Astronomy Club www.SaguaroAstro.org Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club www.w7tbc.org On November 8, 2016, at 18:35, "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)" wrote: Les, As AI6GS mentioned, you can program a group of 5 memory channels that will compensate for Doppler on both the uplink and downlink for the 437.550 MHz frequency now being used for the ISS packet digipeater. That list is available at: http://amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2016-November/061066.html I also pinned my tweet from last week on my @WD9EWK Twitter profile page with the same chart, which you can see at: http://twitter.com/WD9EWK As for using your TH-D72A for making QSOs using the ISS packet digipeater, you can use APRS messages to do that. You can define some messages in advance, so you aren't having to enter those messages on the HT's keypad, or you can do that. Typing on the keypad is just like sending SMS messages on a flip-phone or other "non-smart" mobile phone. APRS messages are the way anyone working the digipeater can send and receive text that shows up on the screens of any station. The Kenwood APRS-ready radios will not display freeform text that someone using a simple terminal program types. APRS messages are sent in a format that contains the call signs of the two stations, along with a line of text intended for the receiving station. Using APRS messages, you are able to make the same types of exchanges you would on any other satellite. Grid locators are the most common item exchanged, but with the prepared messages you might also send your name and/or location along with the grid locator. You could skip sending your location in the APRS message, if you are using the APRS functionality to beacon your location during the ISS pass. More stations are giving the ISS digipeater on 70cm a try, and many are finding success using the 5-channel setup like I mentioned on this list last week. If you are set up to work the ISS 70cm digipeater by the end of the week, I will be on there from a hamfest near Tucson this Saturday (12 November) morning. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Les Rayburn wrote: > Just purchased a used Kenwood TH-D72A HT. Hoping to use it along with an > Arrow antenna to make more satellite contacts while traveling. While I > primarily expect to use it to make voice contacts on the FM birds, I?m also > interested in making packet contacts through the International Space > Station. > > Could someone point me towards a programming guide for this type of > application? Any other pointers in using the radio to make packet QSOs > through the ISS? > > Grateful for all suggestions. > > 73, > > Les Rayburn, N1LF > > _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From ka1rrw at yahoo.com Wed Nov 9 19:49:19 2016 From: ka1rrw at yahoo.com (Miles) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 14:49:19 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISS Meeting Information In-Reply-To: <054501d22fe4$4c5b3360$e5119a20$@verizon.net> References: <054501d22fe4$4c5b3360$e5119a20$@verizon.net> Message-ID: <58237DBF.4080504@yahoo.com> Wow, Where does the time go. I cant believe its been 20 years since the clubs, DLR, Sarex, Marex and Amsat meet for the first time and formed ARISS. Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend this year meeting. Look foreword to haring some good results. Regards, Miles WF1F, MarexMg On 10/26/2016 7:54 PM, Frank H. Bauer wrote: > All, > > > > Those who have expressed interest in the ARISS meeting previously have > received the latest ARISS meeting information. I am including it here for > all on AMSAT-BB because there was a query about it here. > > > > Since BB will not accept attachments, our "near final" draft for our ARISS > meeting in Houston can be downloaded at: > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/7b156pcxxrjdjon/ARISS-I%20Agenda%202016%20Houston- > Rev%208.pdf?dl=0 > > > > As you review this, I think you can see that we have some really exciting > topics that we will be discussing and working through, as a team. Most > importantly, we will be celebrating our 20th anniversary as a team. For > those not aware, 20 years ago, in November 1996, an international group > interested in installing and operating a ham radio station on the ISS met at > the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston and, per NASA's direction, formed > an international working group called ARISS. And the rest is history!! > > Because we have so many things to address at our ARISS-I meeting, we have > divided our discussions into 3 primary categories: 1) Hardware Development, > 2) Education and 3) Sustainability and Funding. As you can see in the > agenda, we will be conducting two sessions simultaneously like is done in a > conference. We will also have plenary sessions, where the entire team will > attend, to discuss topics that impact the entire, world-wide team. > > If you are still interested in attending the meeting, you are welcome to > come. Please let me know (directly) of your interest. > > I thank you all for your interest in and support to our magnificent program. > It is amazing what we have accomplished in 20 years! It will be exciting to > see what we will do in the next 20!! > > 73, Frank Bauer KA3HDO > > AMSAT V.P. for Human Spaceflight Programs > > ARISS International Chair > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From kayakfishtx at gmail.com Wed Nov 9 21:34:58 2016 From: kayakfishtx at gmail.com (Clayton Coleman) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 15:34:58 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Special Awards for the 2016 AMSAT Symposium at Sea Message-ID: Two unique awards are being offered during AMSAT?s 2016 Space Symposium being held November 10-14, 2016 aboard the Carnival Liberty cruise ship. The Landlubbers Award is available to amateur radio operators who complete a two-way satellite QSO with any Symposium attendee aboard the Carnival Liberty. The Sea Legs Award is available to amateur radio operators who complete a two-way satellite QSO while sailing aboard the Carnival Liberty during the Symposium. The awards will be made available in PDF format for self-printing. Submit logs to Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, via email to n8hm at amsat.org to apply for the awards. 73 Clayton W5PFG From camsat at vip.163.com Wed Nov 9 23:54:37 2016 From: camsat at vip.163.com (Alan Kung) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 07:54:37 +0800 (CST) Subject: [amsat-bb] CAMSAT launched CAS-2T Technical Verification Satellite Message-ID: <3566be14.c97.1584b83c939.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> CAS-2T a technical verification satellite for CAMSAT CAS-2 series amateur radio satellite launched at 23:42 today, It is an 2U Cubsat and will not be separated from the final stage of rocket, so the orbital life may be 10 to 30 days since the final stage of rocket will be re-entry atmosphere. Amateur radio payloads: CW Telemetry Beacon?435.710MHz FM Transponder Uplink?145.925MHz FM Transponder Downlink?435.615MHz Launch vehicle: CZ-11(Y2) solid rocket Launch time: 23:42, 9-Nov-2016 Epoch time: +620.615 seconds Inclination degree: 97.400985 degrees RA of node degree: Eccentricity: 1.77E-4 Perigee degree: 328.206969 degrees Mean anomaly degree: 198.226766 degrees Period: 5685.564 seconds Speed: 7607.496391 m/s Longitude: 93.693693E Latitude: 13.531945N 73! Alan Kung, BA1DU Chinese Amateur Satellite Group From vu3tyg at yahoo.co.in Thu Nov 10 04:34:24 2016 From: vu3tyg at yahoo.co.in (Nitin Muttin) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 04:34:24 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] CAMSAT launched CAS-2T Technical Verification Satellite In-Reply-To: <3566be14.c97.1584b83c939.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> References: <3566be14.c97.1584b83c939.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> Message-ID: <2045310098.998070.1478752464279@mail.yahoo.com> Hi Alan, Wishing CAMSAT for a successful launch . Please share the keps when available?73 Nitin [VU3TYG]Secretary,Amsat India From: Alan Kung To: 'AMSAT' Sent: Thursday, 10 November 2016 5:24 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] CAMSAT launched CAS-2T Technical Verification Satellite CAS-2T a technical verification satellite for CAMSAT CAS-2 series amateur radio satellite launched at 23:42 today, It is an 2U Cubsat and will not be separated from the final stage of rocket, so the orbital life may be 10 to 30 days since the final stage of rocket will be re-entry atmosphere. Amateur radio payloads: CW Telemetry Beacon?435.710MHz FM Transponder Uplink?145.925MHz FM Transponder Downlink?435.615MHz Launch vehicle: CZ-11(Y2) solid rocket Launch time: 23:42, 9-Nov-2016 Epoch time: +620.615 seconds Inclination degree: 97.400985 degrees RA of node degree: Eccentricity: 1.77E-4 Perigee degree: 328.206969 degrees Mean anomaly degree: 198.226766 degrees Period: 5685.564 seconds Speed: 7607.496391 m/s Longitude: 93.693693E Latitude: 13.531945N 73! Alan Kung, BA1DU Chinese Amateur Satellite Group _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From jimlist at zoho.com Thu Nov 10 11:16:17 2016 From: jimlist at zoho.com (Jim Heck G3WGM) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 11:16:17 -0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-73/FUNcube Mode Switch In-Reply-To: <160781.62abfb43.436008a2@aol.com> References: <160781.62abfb43.436008a2@aol.com> Message-ID: <7EC00D1CB0BF4151A552591CB3B31C0E@jimPC2> Hi Folks, Just to say that I have just switched AO-73/FUNcube-1 to manual mode, so the transponder will be on full time. Its early this weekend, so those attending the AMSAT-NA Symposium can make use of the satellite. Plan is to switch back to educational mode on Monday 14 Nov during a suitable pass over Europe. Have FUN cruising! 73s Jim G3WGM From g.shirville at btinternet.com Thu Nov 10 12:16:17 2016 From: g.shirville at btinternet.com (GRAHAM SHIRVILLE) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:16:17 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] [FUNcube] AO73 - unexpected mode change? In-Reply-To: References: <4BA397CB720046E9972C64A45322E830@allgood.local> Message-ID: <891289710.2166953.1478780177816@mail.yahoo.com> Hi Brain, Well spotted sir! You are correct - FC1 is having a long weekend so that the many many operators joining the AMSAT-NA Convention on board Carnival Liberty today can have some extra FUN! Indeed please watch out for further announcement later about even more FUN in space becoming available today. best 73 from windy Galveston. Graham From: "Brian g4bip at hotmail.co.uk [FUNcube]" To: "FUNcube at yahoogroups.co.uk" Sent: Thursday, 10 November 2016, 11:47 Subject: [FUNcube] AO73 - unexpected mode change? ? Hi Graham,I noted an unexpected switch into eclipse mode today at about 10:40z in today's second southbound orbit. As far as I can tell it was not a day to night transition at that time. Or is FC1 enjoying an even longer weekend from Thursday am? Cheers,Brian On 04/11/2016 08:47, 'Graham Shirville' g.shirville at btinternet.com [FUNcube] wrote: ?Hi All,?FC1 is having a long weekend in amateur mode ...the transponder is already operational?Have fun?73?Graham __._,_.___ Posted by: Brian | Reply via web post | ? | Reply to sender | ? | Reply to group | ? | Start a new topic | ? | Messages in this topic (5) | All up-to-date FCD information at http://funcubedongle.pbworks.com Visit Your Group ? Privacy ? Unsubscribe ? 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#yiv0815661642ygrp-sponsor #yiv0815661642ov li {font-size:77%;list-style-type:square;padding:6px 0;}#yiv0815661642 #yiv0815661642ygrp-sponsor #yiv0815661642ov ul {margin:0;padding:0 0 0 8px;}#yiv0815661642 #yiv0815661642ygrp-text {font-family:Georgia;}#yiv0815661642 #yiv0815661642ygrp-text p {margin:0 0 1em 0;}#yiv0815661642 #yiv0815661642ygrp-text tt {font-size:120%;}#yiv0815661642 #yiv0815661642ygrp-vital ul li:last-child {border-right:none !important;}#yiv0815661642 From n4zq at yahoo.com Thu Nov 10 13:18:57 2016 From: n4zq at yahoo.com (Keith O'Brien) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:18:57 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] CAS-2T References: <1969044126.1238535.1478783937532.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1969044126.1238535.1478783937532@mail.yahoo.com> Newly launched CAS-2T CW Beacon heard here in EL88 West Central Florida at 13:08 UTC, Thursday November 10 2016. Signal was quite good and some TLM was copied. Will be listening again in 90 minutes to see if another pass is in range or until some Kepsbecome available... Keith N4ZQ From wa4sca at gmail.com Thu Nov 10 14:38:37 2016 From: wa4sca at gmail.com (Alan) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 08:38:37 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] EO-79 Schedule Announced Message-ID: <000001d23b60$20223e60$6066bb20$@GMAIL.COM> EO-79's new schedule has been announced: https://funcube.org.uk/2016/11/10/eo79funcube-3-enters-service-for-the-amateur-radio-community/ 73s, Alan WA4SCA ----------------------------------- Keep Calm and Carry On From ei7m-wkt at asahi-net.or.jp Thu Nov 10 15:24:47 2016 From: ei7m-wkt at asahi-net.or.jp (Mineo Wakita) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 00:24:47 +0900 Subject: [amsat-bb] HTV6 to ISS (correction) Message-ID: <29372F56DCD841A4AD0AE4415C5792E7@OwnerPC> TuPOD Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation / Gauss Srl http://www.gaussteam.com/tupod-almost-ready-for-launch/ TuPOD 437.425MHz 1k2 GMSK,CW JE9PEL, Mineo Wakita From m5aka at yahoo.co.uk Thu Nov 10 16:01:09 2016 From: m5aka at yahoo.co.uk (M5AKA) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 16:01:09 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] EO79 FUNcube transponder activated + FM transponder sat launched References: <1443227794.2541371.1478793670052.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1443227794.2541371.1478793670052@mail.yahoo.com> AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL working with ISIS BV are delighted to announce that the FUNcube 435/145 MHz SSB/CW transponder, on the 2U CubeSat QB50p1 (EO79), has now been activated with a regular schedule https://amsat-uk.org/2016/11/10/eo79-funcube-3-transponder-commences-regular-operation/ Middle School Students? FM Transponder Satellite CAS-2T Launched https://amsat-uk.org/2016/11/10/student-fm-transponder-cubesat/ JAXA to launch six satellites with ham radio payloads to ISS on December 9 https://amsat-uk.org/2016/11/08/jaxa-iss-ham-radio-cubesats/ The book Getting Started with Amateur Satellites 2016 is now in stock at the AMSAT-UK shop https://amsat-uk.org/2016/06/27/getting-started-with-amateur-satellites-2016/ 73 Trevor M5AKA ---- AMSAT-UK?http://amsat-uk.org/ Twitter?https://twitter.com/AmsatUK Facebook https://facebook.com/AmsatUK YouTube?https://youtube.com/AmsatUK ---- From pconver at gmail.com Thu Nov 10 17:25:44 2016 From: pconver at gmail.com (Pedro Converso) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 14:25:44 -0300 Subject: [amsat-bb] CAS-2T Tracking, Freq & Keps Message-ID: CAS-2T available for tracking on http://amsat.org.ar/pass.htm as CAS2T Voice FM Rpt from 145.925 MHz to 435.615 MHz, CW Beacon on 435.710 MHz. Tentative Keps 2016-066A Obj.Nbr. 41841 from http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/tle-new.txt 73, LU7ABF, Pedro From kayakfishtx at gmail.com Thu Nov 10 17:43:16 2016 From: kayakfishtx at gmail.com (Clayton Coleman) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 11:43:16 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT cruise & radio gear aboard Message-ID: If you go through port security and are denied boarding with your radio gear, mention you are with the AMSAT group. I spoke to the Carnival Liberty Chief Security Officer. There was some confusion but that has been resolved as of 11:30am. 73 Clayton W5PFG From pconver at gmail.com Thu Nov 10 17:46:42 2016 From: pconver at gmail.com (Pedro Converso) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 14:46:42 -0300 Subject: [amsat-bb] CAS-2T Tracking, Freq & Keps In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Ok, Dave, Changed CAS-2T on http://amsat.org.ar/pass.htm to Object E. It is more reasonable, as Object-A is now over 900 Km height while object E is at 525 Km height. All 2016-66 objects are made available on pass to further check. Thanks for information !! 73, lu7abf, Pedro On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Dave Webb KB1PVH wrote: > Pedro, > > DK3WN seems to think it's Object E. > > http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=75971 > > Dave-KB1PVH > > Sent from my Galaxy S7 > > > On Nov 10, 2016 12:26 PM, "Pedro Converso" wrote: >> >> CAS-2T available for tracking on http://amsat.org.ar/pass.htm as CAS2T >> >> Voice FM Rpt from 145.925 MHz to 435.615 MHz, CW Beacon on 435.710 MHz. >> >> Tentative Keps 2016-066A Obj.Nbr. 41841 from >> http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/tle-new.txt >> >> 73, LU7ABF, Pedro >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions >> expressed >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of >> AMSAT-NA. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From GW1FKY at aol.com Thu Nov 10 18:01:24 2016 From: GW1FKY at aol.com (GW1FKY at aol.com) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:01:24 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] CAMSAT- CAS-2T Message-ID: <38be4e.6a86df5a.45560ff4@aol.com> Hi, Using the reference for CAMSAT as suggested by Mike as 2016 -66 E - I heard the beacon at 1744 hrs GMT on a high pass. - down link frequency 435.712.190 Mhz. It was very strong - I heard some noises on the transponder downlink but don't know what it was. Ken Eaton GW1FKY From daniel at destevez.net Thu Nov 10 19:33:34 2016 From: daniel at destevez.net (Dani EA4GPZ) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:33:34 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] CAMSAT launched CAS-2T Technical Verification Satellite In-Reply-To: <3566be14.c97.1584b83c939.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> References: <3566be14.c97.1584b83c939.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> Message-ID: <6d5f2bae-e1a1-e4c4-084d-b0d7f6352949@destevez.net> El 10/11/16 a las 00:54, Alan Kung escribi?: > CAS-2T a technical verification satellite for CAMSAT CAS-2 series > amateur radio satellite launched at 23:42 today, It is an 2U Cubsat > and will not be separated from the final stage of rocket, so the > orbital life may be 10 to 30 days since the final stage of rocket > will be re-entry atmosphere. Hi guys, I listened for CAS-2T on the 17:30 UTC pass over Europe (an overhead pass). The CW beacon is easy to copy, but it seems that there is much QSB. Perhaps the satellite is spinning fast. The FM transponder doesn't work properly. It is weak, and it seems that it tries to modulate, but it doesn't modulate well and it shuts down, and continues doing this on and on as long as someone tries to active it. I would say that it responded to my PTT (using 5W to 3el) well, but I can't be sure, as there were a handful other stations trying. Finally, the statement that CAS-2T will not be separated from the final stage rocket and will re-enter in 10 to 30 days doesn't make any sense at all. First, in the image of CAS-2T shown on AMSAT-UK, it just looks like a regular cubesat, so no way that antennas and solar panels would work fine without separation from the rocket. Second, the TLEs for this launch are already in Celestrak and Space-Track. There are 6 objects tracked (A through F). Mike DK3WN says that object E is a good match for the Doppler profile of CAS-2T CW beacon. My observations on the 17:30 pass agree with him. Objects A through D are on 512km x 492km orbits. Objects E and F are on 1030km x 504km orbits. There is no way that any of these objects (especially E and F) will decay in less than a month. For comparison, according to Space-Track, NORAD ID 41559, which is a CZ-4B rocket body that was launched 30th May, sending its payload into a 500km circular orbit, and is currently on a 360km x 240km orbit, will decay around 15th December. This is 6 months to decay for the rocket body of a similar launch. Hopefully Alan BA1DU will be able to give us more accurate information about this launch. 73, Dani EA4GPZ. From va6bmj at gmail.com Thu Nov 10 19:45:59 2016 From: va6bmj at gmail.com (B J) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 19:45:59 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] OT But Related To Radio - Podcast On Marconi Message-ID: CBC Radio One's "Ideas" program about Marconi's life: http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/ideas_20161110_70034.mp3 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL From my.callsign at verizon.net Fri Nov 11 00:39:54 2016 From: my.callsign at verizon.net (KO6TZ Bob) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 16:39:54 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] CAMSAT- CAS-2T In-Reply-To: <38be4e.6a86df5a.45560ff4@aol.com> References: <38be4e.6a86df5a.45560ff4@aol.com> Message-ID: <253bcf6f-61cc-409e-28fb-55a688b38b8e@verizon.net> Ken, I agree with your findings. On the 00:15 utc pass over USA, I copied strong CW beacon. Copied "CAMSAT CAMSAT CAS2T FT FT T T T T T T". The FM transponder only returnes a fluttering sound when keyed. Looks like the TLE's for 2016-066E are a usable match. Can't say for sure since 2016-66F was over top of 66E on this pass. BOB KO6TZ Hi, Using the reference for CAMSAT as suggested by Mike as 2016 -66 E - I heard the beacon at 1744 hrs GMT on a high pass. - down link frequency 435.712.190 Mhz. It was very strong - I heard some noises on the transponder downlink but don't know what it was. Ken Eaton GW1FKY From scott23192 at gmail.com Fri Nov 11 00:46:52 2016 From: scott23192 at gmail.com (Scott) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 19:46:52 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] CAMSAT- CAS-2T In-Reply-To: <253bcf6f-61cc-409e-28fb-55a688b38b8e@verizon.net> References: <38be4e.6a86df5a.45560ff4@aol.com> <253bcf6f-61cc-409e-28fb-55a688b38b8e@verizon.net> Message-ID: <01FC78711F214C6D9D2FA743CC9A60B4@CSI9020> Hi everybody. Earlier this evening the East Coast USA pass went right over me. I included a couple of images (both FM & CW) and my best guess at the CW decode in a tweet: https://twitter.com/scott23192/status/796864786155847680 ... and there is also a link to the CW audio in there if anyone would like to know what to listen for. The CW beacon plays the sequence in my decode, pauses for a few seconds, and starts over again. So, in a good pass you'll get multiple shots at it should the signal fade. 73! -Scott, K4KDR ================================================ -----Original Message----- From: KO6TZ Bob Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2016 7:39 PM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] CAMSAT- CAS-2T Ken, I agree with your findings. On the 00:15 utc pass over USA, I copied strong CW beacon. Copied "CAMSAT CAMSAT CAS2T FT FT T T T T T T". The FM transponder only returnes a fluttering sound when keyed. Looks like the TLE's for 2016-066E are a usable match. Can't say for sure since 2016-66F was over top of 66E on this pass. BOB KO6TZ Hi, Using the reference for CAMSAT as suggested by Mike as 2016 -66 E - I heard the beacon at 1744 hrs GMT on a high pass. - down link frequency 435.712.190 Mhz. It was very strong - I heard some noises on the transponder downlink but don't know what it was. Ken Eaton GW1FKY From godetj at wanadoo.fr Fri Nov 11 09:19:48 2016 From: godetj at wanadoo.fr (Jean-Pierre Godet) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 09:19:48 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] CAS-2T Tracking, Freq & Keps In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3c0bbf86-9fc2-bc83-b20f-c8f094128f5e@wanadoo.fr> Hello Pedro, all ! CAS-2T telemetry beacon was received this morning in western Europe, using the 2016-66E (cat nr 41885) tle as you advised, orbits nr 16 (after 0530 UTC) and nr 17 (after 0715 UTC), but with very deep QSB. The beacon said : CAS2T FT FT TTT TTT TTT TTT TTT DED EDE DED T64 TTT TTT TTT TTT CAMSAT (repetitively). The orbit, the one of the final stage of the rocket in fact, looks very elliptical if one believes GPredict: perigee 506 km, apogee 1033 km. Have a nice day, 73 ! J-P F5YG On 10/11/2016 17:46, Pedro Converso wrote: > Ok, Dave, > > Changed CAS-2T on http://amsat.org.ar/pass.htm to Object E. > > It is more reasonable, as Object-A is now over 900 Km height while > object E is at 525 Km height. > > All 2016-66 objects are made available on pass to further check. > > Thanks for information !! > > 73, lu7abf, Pedro From wouterweg at gmail.com Fri Nov 11 09:58:31 2016 From: wouterweg at gmail.com (Wouter Weggelaar) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:58:31 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] EO-79 now in transponder mode - pass reports appeciated Message-ID: Hi all, AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL working with ISIS BV are delighted to announce that the FUNcube U/V transponder, on the 2U CubeSat QB50p1, has now been activated with a regular schedule. Due to power budget constraints the transponder cannot be operational 24/7 and an orbit specific schedule has been developed. The transponder will commence operation 27 minutes after the spacecraft enters sunlight and will stay on for a period of 25 minutes. This schedule may be modified over the forthcoming weeks as a result of experience. The transponder frequencies are: Uplink: 435.047-435.077 MHz LSB Downlink: 145.935-145.965 MHz USB And the output power is approximately 400mW. Qb50p1 was launched in June 2014, as a collaborative effort led by the von Karman Institute and ISIS-BV, into a sun synchronous 620?600 km polar orbit as a precursor spacecraft for the QB50 mission. The primary function of the satellite was to test a number of the systems and science payloads. This phase has now been completed and we are grateful to VKI and ISIS BV for carrying this transponder into space and, again, to ISIS, for developing and uploading the new, required, flight code. ========== We would like to receive pass reports on the -bb so that we can gauge how the satellite is used and if it is performing well. Please post a quick reply stating: - pass time and date - if you could use the transponder - if it was busy - any other remarks you would like to make ========== We hope you have lots of fun using EO-79! The AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL FUNcube Team From andythomasmail at yahoo.co.uk Fri Nov 11 15:41:52 2016 From: andythomasmail at yahoo.co.uk (andy thomas) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 15:41:52 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Chinese stage reenters over Myanmar References: <555226845.3760882.1478878912592.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <555226845.3760882.1478878912592@mail.yahoo.com> Please see this link:Myanmar debris: 'Mystery object lands at jade mine' - BBC News any thoughts - would it be part of the CAS mission? 73 de andy g0sfj | | | | | | | | | | | Myanmar debris: 'Mystery object lands at jade mine' - BBC News A metal cylinder, possibly from a Chinese satellite launch, falls on to a mine in Myanmar, media say. | | | | From g0kla at arrl.net Fri Nov 11 18:24:50 2016 From: g0kla at arrl.net (Chris Thompson) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:24:50 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Fox Telem MAC Install issue... In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Chad, The Mac install of FoxTelem is built for an older version of Mac OS X and uses Apple's own implementation of Java 1.6. This is now difficult to get working with the latest OS. My recommendation is to grab the windows or linux install and run the FoxTelem.jar file directly. It should run with a double click if you have installed java. If not, you should be able to run it from the command line prompt with java -jar FoxTelem.jar It is harder to run the jar file directly from the mac install because it is hidden inside the application. Let me know if this works. 73 Chris On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 9:27 PM, Chad Phillips wrote: > I am trying to install the FoxTelem software on my mac. I have the latest > version of java installed, latest version of OS X. I hold down the cmd key > when trying to open the install file, yet it says the file is corrupt. Any > ideas? > > Thanks, > > Chad > kg0mw > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > -- Chris E. Thompson chrisethompson at gmail.com g0kla at arrl.net From jc-smith at comcast.net Fri Nov 11 17:41:03 2016 From: jc-smith at comcast.net (JC Smith) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 09:41:03 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] PRICE DROP NIB 16-element Cushcraft 416-TB UHF Boomer $60 Message-ID: <040f01d23c42$c633fe50$529bfaf0$@net> New in box, cross-polarized, sixteen element Yagi w/80" boom, 12.5 dBd forward gain. See manual with pictures and complete specs here: http://www.pa3guo.com/cushcraft_416tb_manual.pdf This is a satellite antenna but of course has other applications and elements could be trimmed for higher freqs. $60 plus shipping or pick up in Walnut Creek, CA. Two available. From kayakfishtx at gmail.com Fri Nov 11 20:42:16 2016 From: kayakfishtx at gmail.com (Clayton Coleman) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:42:16 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] 2016 AMSAT Annual Meeting will not be online Message-ID: I regret to announce that the 2016 AMSAT Annual Meeting aboard the Carnival Liberty will not be made available via EchoLink as originally announced. This is due to several factors affecting the ship's onboard satellite Internet. The audio will be recorded for future posting online. 73 Clayton W5PFG From jameshickox at sbcglobal.net Sat Nov 12 06:18:43 2016 From: jameshickox at sbcglobal.net (James Hickox) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 06:18:43 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] pj: (6) References: <81668960.2228955.1478931523606.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <81668960.2228955.1478931523606@mail.yahoo.com> http://www.directbk.fpalias.domicile.fr/qeyftnk.php I kno'w it wasn't rape-rape. I think it was so'mething else, but I do'n't believe it was rape-rape.Raye Prins From johnbrier at gmail.com Sat Nov 12 06:45:17 2016 From: johnbrier at gmail.com (John Brier) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 01:45:17 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] pj: (6) In-Reply-To: <81668960.2228955.1478931523606@mail.yahoo.com> References: <81668960.2228955.1478931523606.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <81668960.2228955.1478931523606@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: This link is probably dangerous (malware, virus, etc.). Don't click. KG4AKV On Nov 12, 2016 1:18 AM, "James Hickox" wrote: > > > http://www.directbk.fpalias.domicile.fr/qeyftnk.php > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I kno'w it wasn't rape-rape. I think it was so'mething else, but I do'n't > believe it was rape-rape.Raye Prins > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From dtabor at estesvalley.net Sat Nov 12 13:37:32 2016 From: dtabor at estesvalley.net (Douglas Tabor) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 06:37:32 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] DREAM-1 (CAS-2T) Message-ID: Since this pup is up (poetic license has be revoked) for a short time, where does one go to find pass prediction info? Will listen for the CW (435.710), but can?t live by my radio all day. For those on the cruise, have a great symposium and time out there. Wishing I was there too. 73, Doug, N6UA Douglas Tabor dtabor at estesvalley.net From peter at m3php.com Sat Nov 12 13:56:22 2016 From: peter at m3php.com (Peter Goodhall) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 13:56:22 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] DREAM-1 (CAS-2T) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: It's thought that CAS-2T is object 2016-066E TLEs are 2016-066E 1 41845U 16066E 16317.18964437 -.00000069 00000-0 00000+0 0 9996 2 41845 98.7813 321.5983 0366671 172.0905 188.6260 14.37656490 314 Can find updates at https://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/tle-new.txt On 12 November 2016 at 13:37, Douglas Tabor wrote: > Since this pup is up (poetic license has be revoked) for a short time, where does one go to find pass prediction info? > Will listen for the CW (435.710), but can?t live by my radio all day. > > For those on the cruise, have a great symposium and time out there. Wishing I was there too. > > 73, > > Doug, N6UA > > Douglas Tabor > dtabor at estesvalley.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb -- Peter Goodhall, 2E0SQL From n4zq at yahoo.com Sat Nov 12 16:11:37 2016 From: n4zq at yahoo.com (Keith O'Brien) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 16:11:37 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] FunCube 3 EO-79 References: <825773311.2760756.1478967097464.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <825773311.2760756.1478967097464@mail.yahoo.com> Saturday morning local was the first chance I had to try out Funcube 3.? Finding my correctuplink frequency required a lot of tuning. I finally located it about 21 KHz up from the published frequency of 435.050. Signal level was good considering my antenna limitations here. Called CQ entire passand heard a lot of signals trying to find themselves, but got no replies this pass. Nice to have another satellite to play with.... Keith N4ZQ EL88 From scott23192 at gmail.com Sat Nov 12 16:52:44 2016 From: scott23192 at gmail.com (Scott) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 11:52:44 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] FunCube 3 EO-79 In-Reply-To: <825773311.2760756.1478967097464@mail.yahoo.com> References: <825773311.2760756.1478967097464.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <825773311.2760756.1478967097464@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I was in receive-only mode for that pass and the downlink was strong. There were some good CW signals and a few people trying SSB. K4FEG & VE4AMU were able to get in a good contact but the entire passband was covered by what appeared to be a data stream, possibly 19k2 since it was 25k wide. Unfortunately, I have not been able to decode the data nor identify the source. 73! -Scott, K4KDR Montpelier, VA USA ====================== On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Keith O'Brien via AMSAT-BB < amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote: > Saturday morning local was the first chance I had to try out Funcube 3. > Finding my correctuplink frequency required a lot of tuning. I finally > located it about 21 KHz up from the > published frequency of 435.050. > > Signal level was good considering my antenna limitations here. Called CQ > entire passand heard a lot of signals trying to find themselves, but got no > replies this pass. > Nice to have another satellite to play with.... > Keith N4ZQ EL88 From lu2dpw at yahoo.com.ar Sat Nov 12 17:09:31 2016 From: lu2dpw at yahoo.com.ar (LU2DPW Juan Carlos) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 17:09:31 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] EO-79 observation of correct frecuency. References: <2112145218.3338394.1478970571154.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <2112145218.3338394.1478970571154@mail.yahoo.com> Hi to all Few minutes ago pass EO-79 over Argentina. Up 435075 and down 145963 my signal good but strong noise, not QSO. 73 de Juan LU2DPW - Mercedes (BsAs) - GF05gi De: Keith O'Brien via AMSAT-BB Para: AMSAT-BB Enviado: S?bado, 12 de noviembre, 2016 13:11:37 Asunto: [amsat-bb] FunCube 3 EO-79 Saturday morning local was the first chance I had to try out Funcube 3.? Finding my correctuplink frequency required a lot of tuning. I finally located it about 21 KHz up from the published frequency of 435.050. Signal level was good considering my antenna limitations here. Called CQ entire passand heard a lot of signals trying to find themselves, but got no replies this pass. Nice to have another satellite to play with.... Keith N4ZQ EL88 From ingejack at cox.net Sat Nov 12 17:45:15 2016 From: ingejack at cox.net (ingejack at cox.net) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 10:45:15 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] EO-79 Message-ID: <20161112124515.BPKC8.279729.imail@fed1rmwml214> EO-79 very strong but lots of noise on the Sat. Had to correct Doppler through the pass continuously. Heard many stations trying to find themselves but no contacts. My Settings were Uplink 435066 DWNLINK 145954 Using Satpc32 Cat tuning I was able to control Doppler through pass... 73 JACK-KC7MG From kx9x at yahoo.com Sat Nov 12 18:17:26 2016 From: kx9x at yahoo.com (Sean K.) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 18:17:26 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Tracking EO79 In-Reply-To: <20161112124515.BPKC8.279729.imail@fed1rmwml214> References: <20161112124515.BPKC8.279729.imail@fed1rmwml214> Message-ID: <637482023.2401061.1478974646455@mail.yahoo.com> Hi all- A very basic question. If I understand correctly, EO79 will be QRV 27 minutes after being in sunlight, for a 25-minute period. What is the best way to determine if EO79 will be audible when it passes overhead? Should I simply aim for daytime passes??Sean Kutzko Amateur Radio KX9X From wa2ndv at gmail.com Sat Nov 12 16:18:47 2016 From: wa2ndv at gmail.com (wa2ndv at gmail.com) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 11:18:47 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] FunCube 3 EO-79 In-Reply-To: <825773311.2760756.1478967097464@mail.yahoo.com> References: <825773311.2760756.1478967097464.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <825773311.2760756.1478967097464@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <582740e7.a131ed0a.52d46.27d4@mx.google.com> I also heard the sat here on Long Island NY with my 3 ele beam fixed at 30 deg elevation. I did hear lots of wideband noise in several spots throughout the passband. Never did hear any SSB. Maybe it was cockpit error as Im still a noobie. Frank WA2NDV From: Keith O'Brien via AMSAT-BB Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 11:12 AM To: AMSAT-BB Subject: [amsat-bb] FunCube 3 EO-79 Saturday morning local was the first chance I had to try out Funcube 3.? Finding my correctuplink frequency required a lot of tuning. I finally located it about 21 KHz up from the published frequency of 435.050. Signal level was good considering my antenna limitations here. Called CQ entire passand heard a lot of signals trying to find themselves, but got no replies this pass. Nice to have another satellite to play with.... Keith N4ZQ EL88 _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From wa4sca at gmail.com Sat Nov 12 18:57:23 2016 From: wa4sca at gmail.com (Alan) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 12:57:23 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Tracking EO 79 Message-ID: <000001d23d16$9b1e6140$d15b23c0$@GMAIL.COM> Sean, SatPC32 and some other tracking programs have a method of generating a list of times which include when the satellite is eclipsed. Taking WinListen as an example, you can generated a list, note the times it exits eclipse, calculate with active window, and then compare with your local passes. 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It wouldn't be difficult to write a script to calculate on and off times. 73, Paul, XE3/N8HM (currently in Progreso, Yucat?n, Mexico) On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 13:00 Alan wrote: > Sean, > > SatPC32 and some other tracking programs have a method of generating a > list of times which include when > the satellite is eclipsed. Taking WinListen as an example, you can > generated a list, note the times it > exits eclipse, calculate with active window, and then compare with your > local passes. It sounds > cumbersome, but should only take a couple of minutes per day. > > 73s, > > Alan > WA4SCA > > > 12.11.2016 E 15:36:00 92.9 -56.9 183.0 612 11398 24 -18 13030 > - > 12.11.2016 E 15:38:00 101.0 -58.2 188.3 614 11537 23 -25 13030 > - > 12.11.2016 E 15:40:00 109.4 -59.2 193.6 616 11645 21 -33 13030 > - > 12.11.2016 E 15:42:00 118.1 -59.9 198.9 617 11721 19 -40 13030 > - > 12.11.2016 15:44:00 127.0 -60.4 204.2 619 11767 16 -47 13030 > - > 12.11.2016 15:46:00 136.1 -60.6 209.5 621 11782 13 -55 13030 > - > 12.11.2016 15:48:00 145.1 -60.5 214.8 623 11767 9 -62 13030 > - > 12.11.2016 15:50:00 154.1 -60.1 220.1 624 11723 3 -69 13030 > - > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From ko6th.greg at gmail.com Sat Nov 12 19:41:08 2016 From: ko6th.greg at gmail.com (Greg D) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 11:41:08 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] Tracking EO 79 In-Reply-To: References: <000001d23d16$9b1e6140$d15b23c0$@GMAIL.COM> Message-ID: <58277054.4060604@gmail.com> Didn't AO-27 do something very similar? There was an application for it that did the calculations. I forget who the author was; perhaps it (the program, not the author) could be modified for EO-79? Greg KO6TH Paul Stoetzer wrote: > It's basically calibrated for mid-northern latitudes now, so we should hear > it on daytime NA passes. > > It wouldn't be difficult to write a script to calculate on and off times. > > 73, > > Paul, XE3/N8HM (currently in Progreso, Yucat?n, Mexico) > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 13:00 Alan wrote: > >> Sean, >> >> SatPC32 and some other tracking programs have a method of generating a >> list of times which include when >> the satellite is eclipsed. Taking WinListen as an example, you can >> generated a list, note the times it >> exits eclipse, calculate with active window, and then compare with your >> local passes. It sounds >> cumbersome, but should only take a couple of minutes per day. >> >> 73s, >> >> Alan >> WA4SCA >> >> >> 12.11.2016 E 15:36:00 92.9 -56.9 183.0 612 11398 24 -18 13030 >> - >> 12.11.2016 E 15:38:00 101.0 -58.2 188.3 614 11537 23 -25 13030 >> - >> 12.11.2016 E 15:40:00 109.4 -59.2 193.6 616 11645 21 -33 13030 >> - >> 12.11.2016 E 15:42:00 118.1 -59.9 198.9 617 11721 19 -40 13030 >> - >> 12.11.2016 15:44:00 127.0 -60.4 204.2 619 11767 16 -47 13030 >> - >> 12.11.2016 15:46:00 136.1 -60.6 209.5 621 11782 13 -55 13030 >> - >> 12.11.2016 15:48:00 145.1 -60.5 214.8 623 11767 9 -62 13030 >> - >> 12.11.2016 15:50:00 154.1 -60.1 220.1 624 11723 3 -69 13030 >> - >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions >> expressed >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of >> AMSAT-NA. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >> > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From kc2lnc at lexcominc.net Sat Nov 12 23:46:36 2016 From: kc2lnc at lexcominc.net (Steve Appleton) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 18:46:36 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] CAMSAT launched CAS-2T Technical Verification Message-ID: <2EA8D07CF7FE4246838B9DCFB54822F2@StevePC> Does anyone know what the Norad Catalog ID number is for this bird? I see 41841 ? 41846 as possibilities. From g0mrf at aol.com Sun Nov 13 00:02:10 2016 From: g0mrf at aol.com (David G0MRF) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 19:02:10 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Re Tracking EO-79 Message-ID: <1585afdc4a9-315d-45fa@webprd-a83.mail.aol.com> Hi Sean. Yes, it will be on for daytime passes which are all South to North It will turn on in the Southern hemisphere and then stay on until it gets to between 55 and 60 degrees North. Because EO-79 is sun synchronous, it should repeat reliably each day. For passes over NA it will be on as it approaches from the south and will switch off somewhere over Northern Canada Having switched off, the satellite has around 9-10 minutes to add some charge to the battery before passing into the next eclipse 73 David G0MRF Hi all- A very basic question. If I understand correctly, EO79 will be QRV 27 minutes after being in sunlight, for a 25-minute period. What is the best way to determine if EO79 will be audible when it passes overhead? Should I simply aim for daytime passes? Sean Kutzko Amateur Radio KX9X From ku4os at cfl.rr.com Sun Nov 13 02:07:07 2016 From: ku4os at cfl.rr.com (Lee McLamb) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 21:07:07 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS-318 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins Message-ID: <1576e13c-de49-3f0c-3e6d-58c6602612a7@cfl.rr.com> AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-318 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.orgpublishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor at amsat.org. In this edition: * CAMSAT launched CAS-2T Technical Verification Satellite * Listening to the 2016 AMSAT Annual Meeting * Special Awards for the 2016 AMSAT Symposium at Sea * EO79/FUNcube-3 Enters Service for the Amateur Radio Community * Ham Radio Now Webcast Sunday Seminar From the ARRL/TAPR DCC * JAXA to Launch Satellites with Ham Radio Payloads to ISS SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-318.01 ANS-318 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 318.01 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE November 13, 2016 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-318.01 CAMSAT launched CAS-2T Technical Verification Satellite CAS-2T a technical verification satellite for CAMSAT CAS-2 series amateur radio satellite launched at 23:42, 9 November 2016, It is an 2U Cubsat and will not be separated from the final stage of rocket, so the orbital life may be 10 to 30 days since the final stage of rocket will be re-entry atmosphere. Amateur radio payloads: CW Telemetry Beacon:435.710MHz FM Transponder Uplink:145.925MHz FM Transponder Downlink:435.615MHz Launch vehicle: CZ-11(Y2) solid rocket Launch time: 23:42, 9-Nov-2016 Epoch time: +620.615 seconds Inclination degree: 97.400985 degrees RA of node degree: Eccentricity: 1.77E-4 Perigee degree: 328.206969 degrees Mean anomaly degree: 198.226766 degrees Period: 5685.564 seconds Speed: 7607.496391 m/s Longitude: 93.693693E Latitude: 13.531945N [ANS thanks Alan, BA1DU, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Listening to the 2016 AMSAT Annual Meeting As part of the ?AMSAT Symposium @ Sea?, the AMSAT Annual Meeting will take place on Sunday, 13 NOV 16 at 1300 CST on board Carnival Liberty as the ship transits back to Galveston, TX from Progreso, Mexico. The Annual Meeting includes an overview of the ?State of AMSAT? by the AMSAT President followed by a Q&A whereby meeting attendees are encouraged to ask questions addressed to the Senior Leadership Team as well as to the Board of Directors. The meeting concludes with our recognition of AMSAT volunteers who have made a significant impact on behalf of AMSAT in 2016 through their efforts in support of AMSAT Engineering, Field Operations, AMSAT Journal, Human Spaceflight, Educational Relations, Dayton Hamvention, and Operations as well as Presidential Recognition. The original intent was to make the Annual Meeting available via Echolink so that AMSAT members not attending the AMSAT Symposium @ Sea could participate. At prior Annual Meetings, Echolink was used to provide access to the Annual Meeting for AMSAT members not attending Symposium with a reasonably good level of interest by those that have used this connection to hear the President?s presentation and participate in the Q&A. Given that internet access on board Carnival Liberty will not provide reliable EchoLink connections, A live EchoLink connection for this year?s Annual Meeting will not be available. However, the meeting will be recorded and the expectation is to have the recording available through the AMSAT website after the conclusion of the cruise and an announcement will be made when it is available. [ANS thanks AMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Awards for the 2016 AMSAT Symposium at Sea Two unique awards are being offered during AMSAT?s 2016 Space Symposium being held November 10-14, 2016 aboard the Carnival Liberty cruise ship. The Landlubbers Award is available to amateur radio operators who complete a two-way satellite QSO with any Symposium attendee aboard the Carnival Liberty. The Sea Legs Award is available to amateur radio operators who complete a two-way satellite QSO while sailing aboard the Carnival Liberty during the Symposium. The awards will be made available in PDF format for self-printing. Submit logs to Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, via email to n8hm at amsat.org to apply for the awards. [ANS thanks Clayton, W5PFG, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- EO79/FUNcube-3 Enters Service for the Amateur Radio Community AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL working with ISIS BV are delighted to announce that the FUNcube U/V transponder, on the 2U CubeSat QB50p1, has now been activated with a regular schedule. Due to power budget constraints the transponder cannot be operational 24/7 and an orbit specific schedule has been developed. The transponder will commence operation 27 minutes after the spacecraft enters sunlight and will stay on for a period of 25 minutes. This schedule may be modified over the forthcoming weeks as a result of experience.imagesCAAFR7EH The transponder frequencies are: Uplink: 435.047-435.077 MHz LSB Downlink: 145.935-145.965 MHz USB Output power is approximately 400mW. Qb50p1 was launched in June 2014, as a collaborative effort led by the von Karman Institute and ISIS-BV, into a sun synchronous 620?600 km polar orbit as a precursor spacecraft for the QB50 mission. The primary function of the satellite was to test a number of the systems and science payloads. This phase has now been completed and we are grateful to VKI and ISIS BV for carrying this transponder into space and, again, to ISIS, for developing and uploading the new, required, flight code. [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ham Radio Now Webcast Sunday Seminar From the ARRL/TAPR DCC Team Leader for the design and execution of the AMSAT Ground Terminal Michelle Thompson W5NYV (@abraxas3d) and AMSAT Board Member Bob McGwier, N4HY, attended the 2016 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference. Both presented the Sunday Seminar. In these videos Michelle and Bob speak about the spectrum and cognitive radio. Michelle expects technology to really disrupt the radio art in the near future. The Sunday Seminar spanned 3 hours. Gary Pearce, KN4AQ, presents the entire seminar video via his Ham Radio Now webcast. The 3 parts can viewed at these links: Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOV7jab67B4 Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V_u2vEY2CY Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciX5Jjn_Ipc [ANS thanks Gary Pearce, KN4AQ, Ham Radio Now and TAPR for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- JAXA to Launch Satellites with Ham Radio Payloads to ISS Mineo Wakita JE9PEL reports on the AMSAT Bulletin Board that six satellites with amateur radio payloads are to be launched to the International Space Station in December. JAXA announced to the public November 7 that seven nano satellites are to be installed in H-IIB Transfer Vehicle ?KOUNOTORI? (HTV) to be launched in December. Satellites are only about 1U~3U in size and will conduct experiments aimed at realizing the space elevator which is expected to facilitate the movement of Earth and Universe in the future. It?s the first time to launch in JAXA with seven satellites at a time. HTV6 Launch: 1326 UT, Dec. 9, 2016 at the Tanegashima Space Center, Japan. Downlink Beacon Mode AOBA-VeloxIII 437.375 437.375 1k2 AFSK,CW ITF-2 437.525 437.525 1k2 FM,CW STARS-C (Mother) 437.405 437.245 1k2 FM,CW STARS-C (Daughter) 437.425 437.255 1k2 FM,CW WASEDA-Sat3 437.290 437.290 1k2 PCM-FSK,CW TuPod 437.425 437.425 1k2 GMSK,CW H-II Transfer Vehicle ?KOUNOTORI? (HTV), JAXA http://global.jaxa.jp/projects/rockets/htv/index.html AOBA-VeloxIII Kyusyu Institute of Technology http://aoba2016.blog.fc2.com/ EGG University of Tokyo / Nihon University http://repository.exst.jaxa.jp/dspace/bitstream/a-is/2961/1/SA6000021010.pdf FREEDOM Tohoku University / Nakashimada Engineering Works, Ltd http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/newimg/pressimg/tohokuuniv- press_20140926_01web.pdf ITF-2 University of Tsukuba http://yui.kz.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/ TuPOD Gauss Srl http://www.gaussteam.com/tupod-almost-ready-for-launch/ STARS-C Shizuoka University http://stars.eng.shizuoka.ac.jp/english.html WASEDA-SAT3 Waseda University http://www.miyashita.mmech.waseda.ac.jp/Waseda-Sat3/ [ANS thanks Mineo, JE9PEL, for the above information] /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi- tional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu- dent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership information. 73, This week's ANS Editor, Lee McLamb, KU4OS ku4os at amsat dot org From camsat at vip.163.com Sun Nov 13 03:46:26 2016 From: camsat at vip.163.com (Alan Kung) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 11:46:26 +0800 (CST) Subject: [amsat-bb] CAMSAT launched CAS-2T Technical Verification In-Reply-To: <2EA8D07CF7FE4246838B9DCFB54822F2@StevePC> References: <2EA8D07CF7FE4246838B9DCFB54822F2@StevePC> Message-ID: <699e3615.af5.1585bcb18a3.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> 2016-066E(CAS-2T) 1 41845U 16066E 16316.63283635 -.00000070 00000-0 00000+0 0 9991 2 41845 98.7801 321.0295 0366641 173.7754 186.7993 14.37655733 231 73 Alan, BA1DU ? 2016-11-13 07:46:36?"Steve Appleton" ??? Does anyone know what the Norad Catalog ID number is for this bird? I see 41841 ? 41846 as possibilities. From camsat at vip.163.com Sun Nov 13 03:55:11 2016 From: camsat at vip.163.com (Alan Kung) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 11:55:11 +0800 (CST) Subject: [amsat-bb] XW-1/HO-68 Restores work in this morning Message-ID: <1860da21.b56.1585bd31a5f.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> Hello, China's professional space TT&C network monitored XW-1 telemetry in this morning, the Satellite has restored work, if someone heard the CW beacon signal at 435.790 MHz, Please let me know. Thanks & 73! Alan, BA1DU From n4csitwo at bellsouth.net Sun Nov 13 04:46:42 2016 From: n4csitwo at bellsouth.net (n4csitwo at bellsouth.net) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 23:46:42 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] =?iso-8859-1?q?Upcoming_ARISS_contact_with_Col=2Elegi_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?Asuncion_de_Ntra=2E_Sra=2E=2C_Barcelona=2C_Spain?= Message-ID: <643EB486F01140C08A47CB46DD7820A8@DHJ> An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Col?legi Asuncion de Ntra. Sra., Barcelona, Spain on 17 Nov. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 08:25 UTC. It is recommended that you start listening approximately 10 minutes before this time.The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and W6SRJ. The contact should be audible over the west coast of the U.S. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. In 2016, Col.legi Asuncion de Ntra. Sra. is celebrating the 140th anniversary of the 1876 founding of the school. The school has approximately 600 students of Kindergarden (from 3 to 6 years of age), Primary (6-12 years old) and Secondary (from 12 to 16 years old) and is located in Barcelona, in the Poblenou neighbourhood, belonging to Sant Mart? district. It would be very rewarding for all of us to finish the anniversary contacting the International Space Station as the main activity of a set of Interdisciplinary Didactic Projects and multiple age level participation activities. Our aim is to engage every student in these activities, which are not only STEM/STEAM related, but also cover geography, languages, history and others. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. Since you are at zero gravity, do you get the feeling of being upright or upside down? 2. How do you cope with the anxiety caused by being in such a small room where you can barely move? 3. What surprised you the most the very first time you reached the space station? Does it have a certain smell (like hospitals do)? 4. What is your current research about? 5. To compensate for bone and muscle loss caused by weightlessness, do you take any dietary supplement to complement the physical exercise? 6. Would you be willing to travel to Mars? When do you think it will be possible? 7. Have you experienced any dangerous situation during the spacewalks, for example a space debris impact? 8. What differences have you come across between 3D printing on Earth and in the station? 9. How do you think schools in the future should be so students can meet the challenges of your research? 10. Do you have control over the station or is it controlled from earth? What about in case of an emergency? 11. How long can you be outside the station during EVAs (extravehicular activities)? 12. What is your opinion on the tourist space voyages? Do you think it will be soon available for everyone? 13. What do you do when you are ill? 14. How do you spend your free time in the station? 15. What is the thing on the Earth that you miss the most? 16. Do you feel small compared to the hugeness of space? 17. How do the stars and the Earth look like from the space station? 18. Can you tell us about your daily life in the station? 19. What is the temperature and pressure inside and outside the space station? 20. Where do you get all the power for the station to function properly? PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES: Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status Next planned event(s): TDB About ARISS: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or informal education venues. With the help of experienced amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with large audiences in a variety of public forums. Before and during these radio contacts, students, teachers, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org, www.amsat.org, and www.arrl.org. Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From kx9x at yahoo.com Sun Nov 13 04:50:13 2016 From: kx9x at yahoo.com (Sean K.) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 04:50:13 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Re Tracking EO-79 In-Reply-To: <1585afdc4a9-315d-45fa@webprd-a83.mail.aol.com> References: <1585afdc4a9-315d-45fa@webprd-a83.mail.aol.com> Message-ID: <1300072724.2581741.1479012613624@mail.yahoo.com> Thanks, David; most helpful!?Sean Kutzko Amateur Radio KX9X From: David G0MRF via AMSAT-BB To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 7:02 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re Tracking EO-79 Hi Sean. Yes, it will be on for daytime passes which are all South to North It will turn on in the Southern hemisphere and then stay on until it gets to between 55 and 60 degrees North. Because EO-79 is sun synchronous, it should repeat reliably each day. For passes over NA it will be on as it approaches from the south and will switch off somewhere over Northern Canada Having switched off, the satellite has around 9-10 minutes to add some charge to the battery before passing into the next eclipse 73 David? G0MRF Hi all- A very basic question. If I understand correctly, EO79 will be QRV 27 minutes after being in sunlight, for a 25-minute period. What is the best way to determine if EO79 will be audible when it passes overhead? Should I simply aim for daytime passes? Sean Kutzko Amateur Radio KX9X ? ? _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From godetj at wanadoo.fr Sun Nov 13 06:40:36 2016 From: godetj at wanadoo.fr (Jean-Pierre Godet) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 06:40:36 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] CAMSAT launched CAS-2T Technical Verification In-Reply-To: <2EA8D07CF7FE4246838B9DCFB54822F2@StevePC> References: <2EA8D07CF7FE4246838B9DCFB54822F2@StevePC> Message-ID: <0ac97563-77f5-0ac7-8d35-df14c900ffd7@wanadoo.fr> Hi Steve ! On 12/11/2016 23:46, Steve Appleton wrote: > Does anyone know what the Norad Catalog ID number is for this bird? I see 41841 ? 41846 as possibilities. > ... 41845, (2016-066E), without any doute now. The Doppler correction agrees 100 % (good reception half an hour ago, orbit nr 45). 41846 is now well behind, and all the other birds are very far away. 73 ! J-P F5YG From scott23192 at gmail.com Sun Nov 13 16:55:46 2016 From: scott23192 at gmail.com (Scott) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 11:55:46 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Update on FunCube-3 / EO-79 Interference Message-ID: Yesterday I reported on my observation of a possible 25k-wide data stream interfering with amateur CW & SSB on FunCube-3 / EO-79 (QB50P1). I was not able to decode the data nor did I see any obvious match for a source (terrestrial nor another satellite). On today's 16:14 UTC pass over the USA East Coast, I saw the same wideband stream resembling telemetry data but would like to add to yesterday's comment. >From watching numerous hams attempt to find their downlink signal or in some cases make successful SSB or CW contacts, it became obvious that the "data" stream that I was seeing was only present when someone was actively transmitting through the transponder. No carrier on the uplink/downlink - no wideband signal. But when there was an SSB or CW signal present, the wideband stream would begin also. Please note that the match is not EXACT... sometimes there was a slight delay in the appearance of the wideband stream when the transponder was activated. But when you watch it "live", the relationship was obvious. I am not even remotely familiar enough with how a liner transponder works offer any technical explanation for this behavior, but just wanted to add my observations to the conversation. I have uploaded a screen shot of my waterfall showing how the wideband stream comes & goes in response to activation of the transponder at: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31460496/ham/2016-11-13--EO-79.png 73, -Scott, K4KDR Montpelier, VA USA From daniel at destevez.net Sun Nov 13 17:20:25 2016 From: daniel at destevez.net (Dani EA4GPZ) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 18:20:25 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] Update on FunCube-3 / EO-79 Interference In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <82e0b165-e22e-356a-02c3-2cee6ca4a21a@destevez.net> El 13/11/16 a las 17:55, Scott escribi?: > I have uploaded a screen shot of my waterfall showing how the wideband > stream comes & goes in response to activation of the transponder at: > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31460496/ham/2016-11-13--EO-79.png Hi Scott, I think that what you're seeing is just the noise floor of the transponder. I have no experience with FUNcube-3, but your picture looks very much like the noise floor I have seen on FUNcube-1. On overhead passes, it's quiet noticeable, even with only a 3 element yagi. Keep in mind that (usually) a linear transponder is running all the time. It doesn't have to be activated by an uplink signal. In general, AGC action may cause the transponder's noise floor to vary with input signals. One expects that if there are strong signals the transponder's noise floor will become weaker. This behaviour depends on lots of design parameters, so this need not always be the case. 73, Dani EA4GPZ. From g0mrf at aol.com Sun Nov 13 17:47:17 2016 From: g0mrf at aol.com (David G0MRF) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 12:47:17 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Re Update on FunCube-3 / EO-79 Interference Message-ID: <1585ecceb3c-1f21-4ad6@webprd-a88.mail.aol.com> Hi Scott. Thanks for the dropbox image.- A picture is worth a thousand words as they say. What you can see in the image is the output of the transponder across its 25kHz passband. If the signal was a little stronger you would see the level in the waterfall rise across the entire 25kHz As it is, you can see two distinct peaks, and some narrow band signals from people transmitting up to the satellite. The lower part of the picture shows how the signal received from the satellite is changing with time. This is probably the signal increasing and decreasing at your receiver as the satellite slowly spins in its orbit .- This is quite normal if you have a 'linear' antenna, say horizontal, while the satellites antenna is moving from horizontal (giving a strong signal to you) to vertical - which will produce a much weaker output from your receiver. Hope that helps. David G0MRF Yesterday I reported on my observation of a possible 25k-wide data stream interfering with amateur CW & SSB on FunCube-3 / EO-79 (QB50P1). I was not able to decode the data nor did I see any obvious match for a source (terrestrial nor another satellite). On today's 16:14 UTC pass over the USA East Coast, I saw the same wideband stream resembling telemetry data but would like to add to yesterday's comment...................... I have uploaded a screen shot of my waterfall showing how the wideband stream comes & goes in response to activation of the transponder at: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31460496/ham/2016-11-13--EO-79.png 73, -Scott, K4KDR Montpelier, VA USA From scott23192 at gmail.com Sun Nov 13 18:11:39 2016 From: scott23192 at gmail.com (Scott) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 13:11:39 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Re Update on FunCube-3 / EO-79 Interference In-Reply-To: <1585ecceb3c-1f21-4ad6@webprd-a88.mail.aol.com> References: <1585ecceb3c-1f21-4ad6@webprd-a88.mail.aol.com> Message-ID: Many thanks to you both, David & Dani, for the great explanations. I certainly learn something every day. I was just concerned that there was a noise (or data) source somewhere since the operators on SSB were reporting interference and that the sat was "difficult to work", etc. And since I had not seen anything similar on, say, FO-29, it was a different looking waveform on the waterfall to me. But of course every satellite is different. Thanks! -Scott -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: David G0MRF via AMSAT-BB Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2016 12:47 PM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re Update on FunCube-3 / EO-79 Interference Hi Scott. Thanks for the dropbox image.- A picture is worth a thousand words as they say. What you can see in the image is the output of the transponder across its 25kHz passband. If the signal was a little stronger you would see the level in the waterfall rise across the entire 25kHz As it is, you can see two distinct peaks, and some narrow band signals from people transmitting up to the satellite. The lower part of the picture shows how the signal received from the satellite is changing with time. This is probably the signal increasing and decreasing at your receiver as the satellite slowly spins in its orbit .- This is quite normal if you have a 'linear' antenna, say horizontal, while the satellites antenna is moving from horizontal (giving a strong signal to you) to vertical - which will produce a much weaker output from your receiver. Hope that helps. David G0MRF ========================================================================= Yesterday I reported on my observation of a possible 25k-wide data stream interfering with amateur CW & SSB on FunCube-3 / EO-79 (QB50P1). I was not able to decode the data nor did I see any obvious match for a source (terrestrial nor another satellite). On today's 16:14 UTC pass over the USA East Coast, I saw the same wideband stream resembling telemetry data but would like to add to yesterday's comment...................... I have uploaded a screen shot of my waterfall showing how the wideband stream comes & goes in response to activation of the transponder at: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31460496/ham/2016-11-13--EO-79.png 73, -Scott, K4KDR Montpelier, VA USA From scott23192 at gmail.com Sun Nov 13 19:48:23 2016 From: scott23192 at gmail.com (Scott) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 14:48:23 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Note ref. doppler w/ UHF iGate listener for ISS Packet Message-ID: Hello everyone. For anyone who has an interest in using the digipeater on the ISS now that it has switched to 70cm, I wanted to pass along some non-scientific findings. Of course it's great to see your packets digipeated from the ISS but part of the fun also is showing up on the ariss.net website which lists digipeated packets that were received by a ground station setup as an "iGate" to forward that traffic over the internet (resulting in a listing on the ariss.net website). It is my understanding that a couple of factors are contributing to a reduction in the number of digipeated packets successfully making it to the ariss.net site. For one, there are less iGates able to receive on 70cm. That issue can be resolved over time as people naturally add the ability to listen on 70cm with an iGate app. But another issue that several folks have pointed out is that with the more substantial doppler shift at 70cm, a receiver set to a single frequency will miss much of the traffic sent back down from the ISS. I have never run an iGate and wasn't completely sure what was involved, but with a number of SDR-equipped Raspberry Pi's around here I wanted to put one more set of ears out there for UHF packet. I'm sure there are any number of ways to setup a Pi as an iGate; I used the instructions at: https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/blob/master/doc/Raspberry-Pi-SDR-IGate.pdf But how to setup a Pi is not why I wanted to post this. Of course I initially setup my Pi-iGate to listen on the published frequency of 437.550. However, I received very few packets from the ISS. It crossed my mind that, at the point of closest approach, the doppler frequency is changing quite rapidly. So, I thought that I might improve my count of iGated packets if I listened on a frequency that would be viable for a longer period of time. Using (WD9EWK) Patrick's doppler adjustment guide as a reference, I chose to change my listener to 437.555. Again, this is not scientific, but I am now receiving more packets on the Pi-iGate than I was before. Only time will tell if this continues. Of course the better solution would be to program the Pi to adjust for doppler throughout the entire pass and there IS code online to provide that compensation. However, I have not been able to get that working. If anyone is interested, here is the script that I run to activate the iGate listener on my Pi... it runs in the background so that I can log off from the Pi and just leave it running stand-alone. ----------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash nohup rtl_fm -f 437.555M - | direwolf -l /home/pi/iss-uhf-log/ -c /home/pi/sdr.conf -r 24000 -D 1 - > /dev/null 2>&1 & # ----------------------------------------------------- Hope someone finds this informative and at least one of you might be prompted to add a 70cm iGate to your shack! 73, -Scott, K4KDR Montpelier, VA USA From k9qho6762 at sbcglobal.net Sun Nov 13 22:14:07 2016 From: k9qho6762 at sbcglobal.net (WILLIAMS MICHAEL) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 22:14:07 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Fox Tele Error References: <934502303.2851655.1479075247936.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <934502303.2851655.1479075247936@mail.yahoo.com> My Fox software had been running perfectly since installation. Down link and eye pattern look good. I'm now getting this:? ERROR C:\users\mike\foxtelem\seqdata(access is denied) I've reloaded the software and still the same problem. Can anyone give me a hint where to look. TU ?Mike (K9QHO) From ka3hsw at att.net Mon Nov 14 05:45:14 2016 From: ka3hsw at att.net (George Henry) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 23:45:14 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Note ref. doppler w/ UHF iGate listener for ISS Packet References: Message-ID: <133E3E402B3048A1A410F160A271C61D@parents> If your receiver is equipped with AFC, like the Icom IC-910, it will correct for doppler without the need to do it in software... George, KA3HSW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott" To: Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2016 1:48 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Note ref. doppler w/ UHF iGate listener for ISS Packet > Hello everyone. > > For anyone who has an interest in using the digipeater on the ISS now that > it has switched to 70cm, I wanted to pass along some non-scientific > findings. > > Of course it's great to see your packets digipeated from the ISS but part > of the fun also is showing up on the ariss.net website which lists > digipeated packets that were received by a ground station setup as an > "iGate" to forward that traffic over the internet (resulting in a listing > on the ariss.net website). > > It is my understanding that a couple of factors are contributing to a > reduction in the number of digipeated packets successfully making it to > the > ariss.net site. > > For one, there are less iGates able to receive on 70cm. That issue can be > resolved over time as people naturally add the ability to listen on 70cm > with an iGate app. > > But another issue that several folks have pointed out is that with the > more > substantial doppler shift at 70cm, a receiver set to a single frequency > will miss much of the traffic sent back down from the ISS. > > I have never run an iGate and wasn't completely sure what was involved, > but > with a number of SDR-equipped Raspberry Pi's around here I wanted to put > one more set of ears out there for UHF packet. > > I'm sure there are any number of ways to setup a Pi as an iGate; I used > the > instructions at: > https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/blob/master/doc/Raspberry-Pi-SDR-IGate.pdf > > But how to setup a Pi is not why I wanted to post this. Of course I > initially setup my Pi-iGate to listen on the published frequency of > 437.550. However, I received very few packets from the ISS. > > It crossed my mind that, at the point of closest approach, the doppler > frequency is changing quite rapidly. So, I thought that I might improve > my > count of iGated packets if I listened on a frequency that would be viable > for a longer period of time. Using (WD9EWK) Patrick's doppler adjustment > guide as a reference, I chose to change my listener to 437.555. > > Again, this is not scientific, but I am now receiving more packets on the > Pi-iGate than I was before. Only time will tell if this continues. Of > course the better solution would be to program the Pi to adjust for > doppler > throughout the entire pass and there IS code online to provide that > compensation. However, I have not been able to get that working. > > If anyone is interested, here is the script that I run to activate the > iGate listener on my Pi... it runs in the background so that I can log off > from the Pi and just leave it running stand-alone. > > ----------------------------------------------------- > #!/bin/bash > nohup rtl_fm -f 437.555M - | direwolf -l /home/pi/iss-uhf-log/ -c > /home/pi/sdr.conf -r 24000 -D 1 - > /dev/null 2>&1 & > # > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Hope someone finds this informative and at least one of you might be > prompted to add a 70cm iGate to your shack! > > 73, > > -Scott, K4KDR > Montpelier, VA USA > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From wouterweg at gmail.com Mon Nov 14 12:45:01 2016 From: wouterweg at gmail.com (Wouter Weggelaar) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 13:45:01 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] FUNcube-1 (AO-73) mode change Message-ID: Hi All, Just to report that FUNcube-1, AO-73, is now back in autonomous operation. The transponder will be active when the spacecraft is in eclipse during the week. I hope that many have had the opportunity to work FUNcube during the extended transponder schedule during the AMSAT symposium. 73 Wouter PA3WEG From bruninga at usna.edu Mon Nov 14 14:34:44 2016 From: bruninga at usna.edu (Robert Bruninga) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 09:34:44 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Note ref. doppler w/ UHF iGate listener for ISS Packet In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4c8bc826945d2e55b4753dc23a936326@mail.gmail.com> Good idea. Another thing you can do is anticipate where all the other igates are and choose a fixed doppler for the region you can hear better than other IGates. Though without knowing what the other gates are doing, it is a multivariable problem... Ill leave that to the tedious...bob -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Scott Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2016 2:48 PM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Note ref. doppler w/ UHF iGate listener for ISS Packet Hello everyone. For anyone who has an interest in using the digipeater on the ISS now that it has switched to 70cm, I wanted to pass along some non-scientific findings. Of course it's great to see your packets digipeated from the ISS but part of the fun also is showing up on the ariss.net website which lists digipeated packets that were received by a ground station setup as an "iGate" to forward that traffic over the internet (resulting in a listing on the ariss.net website). It is my understanding that a couple of factors are contributing to a reduction in the number of digipeated packets successfully making it to the ariss.net site. For one, there are less iGates able to receive on 70cm. That issue can be resolved over time as people naturally add the ability to listen on 70cm with an iGate app. But another issue that several folks have pointed out is that with the more substantial doppler shift at 70cm, a receiver set to a single frequency will miss much of the traffic sent back down from the ISS. I have never run an iGate and wasn't completely sure what was involved, but with a number of SDR-equipped Raspberry Pi's around here I wanted to put one more set of ears out there for UHF packet. I'm sure there are any number of ways to setup a Pi as an iGate; I used the instructions at: https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/blob/master/doc/Raspberry-Pi-SDR-IGate. pdf But how to setup a Pi is not why I wanted to post this. Of course I initially setup my Pi-iGate to listen on the published frequency of 437.550. However, I received very few packets from the ISS. It crossed my mind that, at the point of closest approach, the doppler frequency is changing quite rapidly. So, I thought that I might improve my count of iGated packets if I listened on a frequency that would be viable for a longer period of time. Using (WD9EWK) Patrick's doppler adjustment guide as a reference, I chose to change my listener to 437.555. Again, this is not scientific, but I am now receiving more packets on the Pi-iGate than I was before. Only time will tell if this continues. Of course the better solution would be to program the Pi to adjust for doppler throughout the entire pass and there IS code online to provide that compensation. However, I have not been able to get that working. If anyone is interested, here is the script that I run to activate the iGate listener on my Pi... it runs in the background so that I can log off from the Pi and just leave it running stand-alone. ----------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash nohup rtl_fm -f 437.555M - | direwolf -l /home/pi/iss-uhf-log/ -c /home/pi/sdr.conf -r 24000 -D 1 - > /dev/null 2>&1 & # ----------------------------------------------------- Hope someone finds this informative and at least one of you might be prompted to add a 70cm iGate to your shack! 73, -Scott, K4KDR Montpelier, VA USA _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From daniel at destevez.net Mon Nov 14 15:26:25 2016 From: daniel at destevez.net (Dani EA4GPZ) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:26:25 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] Note ref. doppler w/ UHF iGate listener for ISS Packet In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: El 13/11/16 a las 20:48, Scott escribi?: > But another issue that several folks have pointed out is that with the more > substantial doppler shift at 70cm, a receiver set to a single frequency > will miss much of the traffic sent back down from the ISS. > > [...] > > It crossed my mind that, at the point of closest approach, the doppler > frequency is changing quite rapidly. So, I thought that I might improve my > count of iGated packets if I listened on a frequency that would be viable > for a longer period of time. Using (WD9EWK) Patrick's doppler adjustment > guide as a reference, I chose to change my listener to 437.555. Hi Scott and all, Another thing that you can do is to correct for Doppler in software (obvious). If you're using an FM radio, this may me more complicated because you need to set up CAT, but if you're using an SDR, it's just a matter of using the appropriate software. Since you're asking this specifically for iGates, we can assume that you have an internet connection on your receiver to fetch TLEs automatically. Then you can use whatever Doppler correction tool you like to be in tune during all the ISS pass. For instance, this command line tool: https://github.com/cubehub/doppler should be useful, especially for embedded systems such as a Raspberry Pi. The disadvantage of doing Doppler correction is that you can only do it for one satellite. In 145.825 there is the problem that there are several satellites you want to receive, several of them may be in view simultaneously, and they will have different Doppler offsets. Still, you could setup the system so that if there's only one satellite in view you correct for that satellite and if there are several you either prioritize and correct for one of them, take an average of the corrections, or just do no correction. This is more complicated, of course. However, on 437.550 you only have the ISS, so it makes much sense to track Doppler correction only for the ISS, and this is much easier than handling several satellites. So, nothing new here. What I mean is that automatical Doppler correction for the ISS using an RasberryPi and RTL-SDR is not that hard (and much better solution than listening on a fixed frequency). Come on guys, we can do it! 73, Dani EA4GPZ. From scott23192 at gmail.com Mon Nov 14 15:35:16 2016 From: scott23192 at gmail.com (Scott) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 10:35:16 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Note ref. doppler w/ UHF iGate listener for ISSPacket In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Great tips, Dani - thanks for the input! I tried the code from https://github.com/cubehub/doppler but ran into difficulty with the dependencies installing correctly. But I really should revisit that since it is the best solution. I had NOT, however, considered the possibility of multiple APRS-capable satellites on UHF being visible at the same time. That is ugly, but as you mentioned we only have the ISS to accommodate for now on 70cm. Good info! -Scott, K4KDR ================================================================= -----Original Message----- From: Dani EA4GPZ Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 10:26 AM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Note ref. doppler w/ UHF iGate listener for ISSPacket El 13/11/16 a las 20:48, Scott escribi?: > But another issue that several folks have pointed out is that with the > more > substantial doppler shift at 70cm, a receiver set to a single frequency > will miss much of the traffic sent back down from the ISS. > > [...] > > It crossed my mind that, at the point of closest approach, the doppler > frequency is changing quite rapidly. So, I thought that I might improve > my > count of iGated packets if I listened on a frequency that would be viable > for a longer period of time. Using (WD9EWK) Patrick's doppler adjustment > guide as a reference, I chose to change my listener to 437.555. Hi Scott and all, Another thing that you can do is to correct for Doppler in software (obvious). If you're using an FM radio, this may me more complicated because you need to set up CAT, but if you're using an SDR, it's just a matter of using the appropriate software. Since you're asking this specifically for iGates, we can assume that you have an internet connection on your receiver to fetch TLEs automatically. Then you can use whatever Doppler correction tool you like to be in tune during all the ISS pass. For instance, this command line tool: https://github.com/cubehub/doppler should be useful, especially for embedded systems such as a Raspberry Pi. The disadvantage of doing Doppler correction is that you can only do it for one satellite. In 145.825 there is the problem that there are several satellites you want to receive, several of them may be in view simultaneously, and they will have different Doppler offsets. Still, you could setup the system so that if there's only one satellite in view you correct for that satellite and if there are several you either prioritize and correct for one of them, take an average of the corrections, or just do no correction. This is more complicated, of course. However, on 437.550 you only have the ISS, so it makes much sense to track Doppler correction only for the ISS, and this is much easier than handling several satellites. So, nothing new here. What I mean is that automatical Doppler correction for the ISS using an RasberryPi and RTL-SDR is not that hard (and much better solution than listening on a fixed frequency). Come on guys, we can do it! 73, Dani EA4GPZ. From stephan.a.greene at vencore.com Mon Nov 14 15:07:56 2016 From: stephan.a.greene at vencore.com (Greene, Stephan A) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 15:07:56 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Tracking EO 79 In-Reply-To: <58277054.4060604@gmail.com> References: <000001d23d16$9b1e6140$d15b23c0$@GMAIL.COM> <58277054.4060604@gmail.com> Message-ID: <905C3C6D2F7CC24386DD63AD6DE8D841EE504A86@DC7SWEXP002.corp.adroot.internal> Yes, AO-27 used a similar technique ("TEPR") beginning not long after launch and for similar reasons - a computationally easy (for the satellite) way to control the transmitter (time after exiting eclipse) to ensure a positive power budget. Although the link to the original page on amsat.org explaining it is broken, a copy was posted here: http://www.om3ktr.sk/druzice/teprstates.html The diagram assumes the satellite orbit is counter-clockwise and the "on" times are for descending node (North to South) passes. Re-order the segments for ascending node (South the North). The AO-27 command team later replaced "TEPR" with "TOPR", using an algorithm based on when the satellite is over the desired latitude band - easier for humans to understand, more calculating on the satellite. (Guessing this occurred in late 1996-early 1997 based on amsat-bb email archives) The EO-79 control ops will have to adjust the timer settings in the satellite's software periodically to keep the transponder's "on" time roughly over the same latitude range. Otherwise, as was experienced with AO-27, the band of latitudes where the transponder is on will "drift" seasonally. It will move South approaching the Northern hemisphere winter solstice next month, and move North until the summer solstice. 73 Steve KS1G -----Original Message----- From: Greg D [mailto:ko6th.greg at gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 2:41 PM To: Amsat BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Tracking EO 79 Didn't AO-27 do something very similar? There was an application for it that did the calculations. I forget who the author was; perhaps it (the program, not the author) could be modified for EO-79? Greg KO6TH Paul Stoetzer wrote: > It's basically calibrated for mid-northern latitudes now, so we should > hear it on daytime NA passes. > > It wouldn't be difficult to write a script to calculate on and off times. > > 73, > > Paul, XE3/N8HM (currently in Progreso, Yucat?n, Mexico) From g0kla at arrl.net Mon Nov 14 17:19:49 2016 From: g0kla at arrl.net (Chris Thompson) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 12:19:49 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Fox Tele Error In-Reply-To: <934502303.2851655.1479075247936@mail.yahoo.com> References: <934502303.2851655.1479075247936.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <934502303.2851655.1479075247936@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Mike, The sequence file holds the serial number for the frames that you send to the AMSAT server. It helps with debugging or trouble shooting. The file is in your home directory C:\users\mike in a subdirectory called .FoxTelem. Yes is has a period (full stop) at the start of the word. The file is called seq.dat. Check the permissions on the subdirectory and the file. Perhaps they got changed for some reason, In windows you can right click then select properties to view the permissions. Make sure the "Attributes" for Read-only is not checked. On the Security tab you should see that your user id has write access to the file. If all seems OK, but it still won't work, you could delete the file and start your sequence again. It will not mess anything up at the server end. Let me know if this works. 73, Chris On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 5:14 PM, WILLIAMS MICHAEL wrote: > My Fox software had been running perfectly since installation. > Down link and eye pattern look good. > I'm now getting this: > ERROR > C:\users\mike\foxtelem\seqdata(access is denied) > I've reloaded the software and still the same problem. Can anyone give me > a hint where to look. > TU > Mike (K9QHO) > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > -- Chris E. Thompson chrisethompson at gmail.com g0kla at arrl.net From hfcomnet at gmail.com Mon Nov 14 16:10:09 2016 From: hfcomnet at gmail.com (Glenn Pritchard) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 09:10:09 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 11, Issue 363 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi everyone, I guess it would be time to take those Ten Tec 2510B transverters out of the closet now wouldn't it?? I have two of them and looking to pick up third for a new ham. Nice to see this bird up. For those of you who don't know the 2510 is an analog transverter designed to use a 10 meter I.F. on RX to mix the 2 meter downlink to 29 Mhz. It has a 435 Mhz uplink at, you guessed it, 435 to 435.500. Have fun, I will. Glenn, VE6ND, DO20xv On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 11:59 AM, wrote: > Send AMSAT-BB mailing list submissions to > amsat-bb at amsat.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > amsat-bb-request at amsat.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > amsat-bb-owner at amsat.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of AMSAT-BB digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. EO-79 (ingejack at cox.net) > 2. Tracking EO79 (Sean K.) > 3. Re: FunCube 3 EO-79 (wa2ndv at gmail.com) > 4. Re: Tracking EO 79 (Alan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 10:45:15 -0700 > From: > To: amsat-bb at amsat.org > Subject: [amsat-bb] EO-79 > Message-ID: <20161112124515.BPKC8.279729.imail at fed1rmwml214> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > EO-79 very strong but lots of noise on the Sat. Had to correct Doppler > through the pass continuously. Heard many stations trying to find > themselves but no contacts. My Settings were > Uplink 435066 > DWNLINK 145954 > Using Satpc32 Cat tuning I was able to control Doppler through pass... > 73 JACK-KC7MG > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 18:17:26 +0000 (UTC) > From: "Sean K." > To: AMSAT BB > Subject: [amsat-bb] Tracking EO79 > Message-ID: <637482023.2401061.1478974646455 at mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi all- > A very basic question. If I understand correctly, EO79 will be QRV 27 > minutes after being in sunlight, for a 25-minute period. > What is the best way to determine if EO79 will be audible when it passes > overhead? Should I simply aim for daytime passes??Sean Kutzko Amateur Radio > KX9X > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 11:18:47 -0500 > From: > To: Keith O'Brien via AMSAT-BB > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] FunCube 3 EO-79 > Message-ID: <582740e7.a131ed0a.52d46.27d4 at mx.google.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I also heard the sat here on Long Island NY with my 3 ele beam fixed at 30 > deg elevation. > I did hear lots of wideband noise in several spots throughout the > passband. Never did hear any SSB. > > Maybe it was cockpit error as Im still a noobie. > > > Frank > WA2NDV > > > > From: Keith O'Brien via AMSAT-BB > Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 11:12 AM > To: AMSAT-BB > Subject: [amsat-bb] FunCube 3 EO-79 > > Saturday morning local was the first chance I had to try out Funcube 3.? > Finding my correctuplink frequency required a lot of tuning. I finally > located it about 21 KHz up from the > published frequency of 435.050. > > Signal level was good considering my antenna limitations here. Called CQ > entire passand heard a lot of signals trying to find themselves, but got no > replies this pass. > Nice to have another satellite to play with.... > Keith N4ZQ EL88 > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 12:57:23 -0600 > From: Alan > To: "'Sean K.'" > Cc: AMSAT-BB > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Tracking EO 79 > Message-ID: <000001d23d16$9b1e6140$d15b23c0$@GMAIL.COM> > > Sean, > > SatPC32 and some other tracking programs have a method of generating a > list of times which include when > the satellite is eclipsed. Taking WinListen as an example, you can > generated a list, note the times it > exits eclipse, calculate with active window, and then compare with your > local passes. It sounds > cumbersome, but should only take a couple of minutes per day. > > 73s, > > Alan > WA4SCA > > > 12.11.2016 E 15:36:00 92.9 -56.9 183.0 612 11398 24 -18 13030 > - > 12.11.2016 E 15:38:00 101.0 -58.2 188.3 614 11537 23 -25 13030 > - > 12.11.2016 E 15:40:00 109.4 -59.2 193.6 616 11645 21 -33 13030 > - > 12.11.2016 E 15:42:00 118.1 -59.9 198.9 617 11721 19 -40 13030 > - > 12.11.2016 15:44:00 127.0 -60.4 204.2 619 11767 16 -47 13030 > - > 12.11.2016 15:46:00 136.1 -60.6 209.5 621 11782 13 -55 13030 > - > 12.11.2016 15:48:00 145.1 -60.5 214.8 623 11767 9 -62 13030 > - > 12.11.2016 15:50:00 154.1 -60.1 220.1 624 11723 3 -69 13030 > - > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via amsat-bb at amsat.org. > AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons > worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > ------------------------------ > > End of AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 11, Issue 363 > ***************************************** > From wouterweg at gmail.com Mon Nov 14 19:14:41 2016 From: wouterweg at gmail.com (Wouter Weggelaar) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 20:14:41 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] Tracking EO 79 In-Reply-To: <905C3C6D2F7CC24386DD63AD6DE8D841EE504A86@DC7SWEXP002.corp.adroot.internal> References: <000001d23d16$9b1e6140$d15b23c0$@GMAIL.COM> <58277054.4060604@gmail.com> <905C3C6D2F7CC24386DD63AD6DE8D841EE504A86@DC7SWEXP002.corp.adroot.internal> Message-ID: Hi Steve, Spot on. Is is indeed a set of timers running off the eclipse detection, and this will indeed make the on time drift. We have not decided yet how to handle the drift, and we are still characterizing the behavior of the transponder and its effect on the power budget. We are looking for longer term trends, as the utilization of the transponder varies quite a lot in the short term. If we are power positive enough, we may for instance lengthen the activation period. But we also need to still do things like getting housekeeping and whole orbit data down, and detumble the satellite periodically. We will see how this develops over time! Wouter PA3WEG On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Greene, Stephan A wrote: > Yes, AO-27 used a similar technique ("TEPR") beginning not long after > launch and for similar reasons - a computationally easy (for the > satellite) way to control the transmitter (time after exiting eclipse) > to ensure a positive power budget. Although the link to the original > page on amsat.org explaining it is broken, a copy was posted here: > http://www.om3ktr.sk/druzice/teprstates.html The diagram assumes the > satellite orbit is counter-clockwise and the "on" times are for > descending node (North to South) passes. Re-order the segments for > ascending node (South the North). The AO-27 command team later replaced > "TEPR" with "TOPR", using an algorithm based on when the satellite is > over the desired latitude band - easier for humans to understand, more > calculating on the satellite. (Guessing this occurred in late > 1996-early 1997 based on amsat-bb email archives) > > The EO-79 control ops will have to adjust the timer settings in the > satellite's software periodically to keep the transponder's "on" time > roughly over the same latitude range. Otherwise, as was experienced > with AO-27, the band of latitudes where the transponder is on will > "drift" seasonally. It will move South approaching the Northern > hemisphere winter solstice next month, and move North until the summer > solstice. > > 73 Steve KS1G > > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg D [mailto:ko6th.greg at gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 2:41 PM > To: Amsat BB > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Tracking EO 79 > > Didn't AO-27 do something very similar? There was an application for it > that did the calculations. I forget who the author was; perhaps it (the > program, not the author) could be modified for EO-79? > > Greg KO6TH > > > Paul Stoetzer wrote: >> It's basically calibrated for mid-northern latitudes now, so we should >> hear it on daytime NA passes. >> >> It wouldn't be difficult to write a script to calculate on and off > times. >> >> 73, >> >> Paul, XE3/N8HM (currently in Progreso, Yucat?n, Mexico) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From wouterweg at gmail.com Mon Nov 14 19:18:38 2016 From: wouterweg at gmail.com (Wouter Weggelaar) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 20:18:38 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] Update on FunCube-3 / EO-79 Interference In-Reply-To: <82e0b165-e22e-356a-02c3-2cee6ca4a21a@destevez.net> References: <82e0b165-e22e-356a-02c3-2cee6ca4a21a@destevez.net> Message-ID: Dani, you are right. What you are seeing is the combination of the attack and decay time of the AGC with a strong signal. You can see the AGC bringing the noise back up as soon as the carrier is gone. The transponder is fast-attack and slow decay on the AGC. Since the downlink passband is a bit stronger as compared to FUNcube-1, you can now more clearly see the passband. Wouter PA3WEG On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Dani EA4GPZ wrote: > El 13/11/16 a las 17:55, Scott escribi?: > >> I have uploaded a screen shot of my waterfall showing how the wideband >> stream comes & goes in response to activation of the transponder at: >> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31460496/ham/2016-11-13--EO-79.png > > Hi Scott, > > I think that what you're seeing is just the noise floor of the > transponder. I have no experience with FUNcube-3, but your picture looks > very much like the noise floor I have seen on FUNcube-1. On overhead > passes, it's quiet noticeable, even with only a 3 element yagi. > > Keep in mind that (usually) a linear transponder is running all the > time. It doesn't have to be activated by an uplink signal. > > In general, AGC action may cause the transponder's noise floor to vary > with input signals. One expects that if there are strong signals the > transponder's noise floor will become weaker. This behaviour depends on > lots of design parameters, so this need not always be the case. > > 73, > > Dani EA4GPZ. > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? 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Sra., Barcelona, Spain, telebridge via W6SRJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-11-17 08:25:19 UTC 40 deg Private Salesian High School named of St. Dominic Savio, Wroclaw, Poland, telebridge via W6SRJ (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD (***) Contact is a go for: Fri 2016-11-25 11:12:47 UTC 65 deg (***) **************************************************************************** ** Call for Proposals Proposal Window September 1 ? November 1, 2016 The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS. ARISS anticipates that the contact would be held between July 1, 2017 and December 31, 2017. 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A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: Arkansas, Delaware, South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DP?ISS, IR?ISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RS?ISS **************************************************************************** The successful school list has been updated as of 2016-11-08 08:00 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 49 on orbit Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Andrei Borisenko Sergey Ryzhikov **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors From ingejack at cox.net Tue Nov 15 15:33:35 2016 From: ingejack at cox.net (ingejack at cox.net) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 8:33:35 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] XW2B XW2D Message-ID: <20161115103335.Q8UWY.27974.imail@fed1rmwml106> Both Chinese satellites were turned on this morning at 1509 UTC over the west coast. passes. KO6TZ in DM13 was worked by myself.. The frequencies in SATPC32 Doppler.sqf file were right on... XW2D seemed a bit weaker than XW2B but both satellites were perfectly workable at my max elevation of only 7 degrees. I don't know if they will be left on or if they will be turned off again ! JACXK-KC7MG DM42 ARIZONA From wa4sca at gmail.com Wed Nov 16 06:45:14 2016 From: wa4sca at gmail.com (Alan) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 00:45:14 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] CY9C QSL card Message-ID: <000001d23fd4$fd05fb50$f711f1f0$@GMAIL.COM> Just received my actual QSL card, and it is spectacular! It is a double card which opens to show pictures of both operating sites, as well as the contact information. LotW is great, but cards like this are a real treat. 73s, Alan WA4SCA ----------------------------------- Keep Calm and Carry On From ei7m-wkt at asahi-net.or.jp Wed Nov 16 11:57:09 2016 From: ei7m-wkt at asahi-net.or.jp (Mineo Wakita) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 20:57:09 +0900 Subject: [amsat-bb] IITMSAT, Max Valier, Venta-1 Message-ID: <53526991C25E4018845A490337A6FB89@OwnerPC> I, JE9PEL edited the above satellites to be launched. http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/iitmaxve.htm JE9PEL, Mineo Wakita From wb3csy at gmail.com Wed Nov 16 12:43:12 2016 From: wb3csy at gmail.com (Rick Walter) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 07:43:12 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] CY9C QSL card Message-ID: <96298C56-7155-47D8-B51D-D025AB65A71E@gmail.com> I also received my CY9C QSL in the mail. Alan is correct, LOTW is great but there is nothing like an actual card in your hands. It is beautiful. On a side note, a ham friend and I talk about what our wives will do with our ham radio gear when we die. We both agree, one of our first prized possessions to be thrown out in the trash will be our QSL card collection! 73, Rick WB3CSY Sent from Rick's iPad2 > On Nov 16, 2016, at 1:45 AM, Alan wrote: > > 73s, > > Alan > WA4SCA > > ----------------------------------- > > Keep Calm and Carry On > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > Just received my actual QSL card, and it is spectacular! It is a double card which opens to show > pictures of both operating sites, as well as the contact information. LotW is great, but cards like > this are a real treat. > > 73s, > > Alan > WA4SCA > > ----------------------------------- > > Keep Calm and Carry On > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From AJ9N at aol.com Wed Nov 16 16:34:39 2016 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:34:39 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Off topic subject: Looking for an independant EMP testing facility Message-ID: <34f73.5b0abc56.455de49e@aol.com> Hi all, Sorry for the bit off-topic email but the company I work for is looking for an EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) testing facility to test our protective relays. I know some of you are concerned about that so I am reaching out to see if you can pass along contact information to me as to who can do this sort of testing. Please respond privately. Thanks for the help. 73, Charlie Sufana PE AJ9N One of the ARISS mentors From g0mrf at aol.com Wed Nov 16 23:30:03 2016 From: g0mrf at aol.com (David G0MRF) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 18:30:03 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] EO-79 Transponder frequencies Message-ID: <1586f79cf66-3468-26d9@webprd-a86.mail.aol.com> Hi All. Hope those of you back from cruising across the Gulf of Mexico had a good time. Over the past few days I've been trying to determine the transponder frequencies for EO-79 as there are some differences between published sources and those appearing on the BB >From AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NA Uplink: 435.047-435.077 MHz LSB Downlink: 145.935-145.965 MHz USB However, from observations, there seems to be no downlink below 145.946. By taking readings at TCA on low elevation passes, which for me is about 20 minutes into the 25 minute schedule. The transponder appears as follows: Downlink. Lower limit is quite well defined at 145.946. Upper limit roles off slowly above 970. But 145.971 seems a reasonable limit. Very strong signals are visible to 973 but are heavily attenuated. Uplink Upper limit (for 145.946) = 435.0723 Lower limit (for 145.971) = 435.0473 This suggests the transponder has a nominal bandwidth of 25kHz. My best guess at a translation frequency is 581.0183MHz If anyone with some fancy computer control would care to refine these a bit further....I'm sure we would all be grateful. Many thanks to Ken GW1FKY for providing 'known' signals in the transponder. and Juan LU2DPW for observations from Argentina (when the satellite is much colder) Regards David G0MRF From jefforybroughton at gmail.com Thu Nov 17 01:47:59 2016 From: jefforybroughton at gmail.com (jeffory broughton) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 20:47:59 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Data from AO-73 using a IC-910 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Which pin is the best to pull Data from the IC-910 to feed to the sound card For AO-73 data ? AF from detector ? 1200 bps data out ? Or ,9600 bps data out ? Thanks to all who reply.jeff WB8RJY jeff broughton From n8hm at arrl.net Thu Nov 17 01:51:32 2016 From: n8hm at arrl.net (Paul Stoetzer) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 20:51:32 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Data from AO-73 using a IC-910 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: AO-73 isn't critical at all. I've often recorded the audio with my digital audio recorder and later decoded it. Any audio out wll do. 73, Paul, N8HM On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 8:47 PM, jeffory broughton < jefforybroughton at gmail.com> wrote: > Which pin is the best to pull Data from > the IC-910 to feed to the sound card > For AO-73 data ? AF from detector ? > 1200 bps data out ? Or ,9600 bps data out ? Thanks to all who reply.jeff > WB8RJY > > jeff broughton > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From va6bmj at gmail.com Thu Nov 17 01:58:06 2016 From: va6bmj at gmail.com (B J) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 01:58:06 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] CAMSAT- CAS-2T In-Reply-To: <38be4e.6a86df5a.45560ff4@aol.com> References: <38be4e.6a86df5a.45560ff4@aol.com> Message-ID: I heard the beacon here in DO33 during its last pass. I acquired the signal at 0140 UTC and followed it for about 3 minutes. I heard most of the characters, though the signal faded in and out, partly because I was manually tuning my FT-817. It wasn't as strong as I thought it would be, though there was some background noise and a bit of local QRM which sometimes obscured it. 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL From amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net Thu Nov 17 02:14:31 2016 From: amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 02:14:31 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] CY9C QSL card In-Reply-To: <000001d23fd4$fd05fb50$f711f1f0$@GMAIL.COM> References: <000001d23fd4$fd05fb50$f711f1f0$@GMAIL.COM> Message-ID: Hi Alan! My CY9C card was in the mailbox today. Very nice! It shows I made a 70cm SSB QSO with them, but didn't mention anything about a satellite QSO or the satellite I worked them on (AO-7). Not a big deal, since I already received an LOTW QSL from them - complete with the satellite related stuff, along with their DXCC entity and grid. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 6:45 AM, Alan wrote: > Just received my actual QSL card, and it is spectacular! It is a double > card which opens to show > pictures of both operating sites, as well as the contact information. LotW > is great, but cards like > this are a real treat. > > 73s, > > Alan > WA4SCA > > From rolf.krogstad at gmail.com Thu Nov 17 03:33:12 2016 From: rolf.krogstad at gmail.com (Rolf Krogstad) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 21:33:12 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 11, Issue 363 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: If you know someone looking for a TenTec 2510, I have one available. I used it a year or so ago for several QSOs on AO-7, so it is still working. Rolf. NR0T EN34it On Nov 14, 2016 12:02 PM, "Glenn Pritchard" wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I guess it would be time to take those Ten Tec 2510B transverters out of > the closet now wouldn't it?? > I have two of them and looking to pick up third for a new ham. > > Nice to see this bird up. > > For those of you who don't know the 2510 is an analog transverter designed > to use a 10 meter I.F. on RX to mix the 2 meter downlink to 29 Mhz. It has > a 435 Mhz uplink at, you guessed it, 435 to 435.500. > > Have fun, I will. > > Glenn, VE6ND, DO20xv > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 11:59 AM, wrote: > > > Send AMSAT-BB mailing list submissions to > > amsat-bb at amsat.org > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > amsat-bb-request at amsat.org > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > amsat-bb-owner at amsat.org > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of AMSAT-BB digest..." > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. EO-79 (ingejack at cox.net) > > 2. Tracking EO79 (Sean K.) > > 3. Re: FunCube 3 EO-79 (wa2ndv at gmail.com) > > 4. Re: Tracking EO 79 (Alan) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 10:45:15 -0700 > > From: > > To: amsat-bb at amsat.org > > Subject: [amsat-bb] EO-79 > > Message-ID: <20161112124515.BPKC8.279729.imail at fed1rmwml214> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > > > EO-79 very strong but lots of noise on the Sat. Had to correct Doppler > > through the pass continuously. Heard many stations trying to find > > themselves but no contacts. My Settings were > > Uplink 435066 > > DWNLINK 145954 > > Using Satpc32 Cat tuning I was able to control Doppler through pass... > > 73 JACK-KC7MG > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 2 > > Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 18:17:26 +0000 (UTC) > > From: "Sean K." > > To: AMSAT BB > > Subject: [amsat-bb] Tracking EO79 > > Message-ID: <637482023.2401061.1478974646455 at mail.yahoo.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > > Hi all- > > A very basic question. If I understand correctly, EO79 will be QRV 27 > > minutes after being in sunlight, for a 25-minute period. > > What is the best way to determine if EO79 will be audible when it passes > > overhead? Should I simply aim for daytime passes??Sean Kutzko Amateur > Radio > > KX9X > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 3 > > Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 11:18:47 -0500 > > From: > > To: Keith O'Brien via AMSAT-BB > > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] FunCube 3 EO-79 > > Message-ID: <582740e7.a131ed0a.52d46.27d4 at mx.google.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > > I also heard the sat here on Long Island NY with my 3 ele beam fixed at > 30 > > deg elevation. > > I did hear lots of wideband noise in several spots throughout the > > passband. Never did hear any SSB. > > > > Maybe it was cockpit error as Im still a noobie. > > > > > > Frank > > WA2NDV > > > > > > > > From: Keith O'Brien via AMSAT-BB > > Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 11:12 AM > > To: AMSAT-BB > > Subject: [amsat-bb] FunCube 3 EO-79 > > > > Saturday morning local was the first chance I had to try out Funcube 3.? > > Finding my correctuplink frequency required a lot of tuning. I finally > > located it about 21 KHz up from the > > published frequency of 435.050. > > > > Signal level was good considering my antenna limitations here. Called CQ > > entire passand heard a lot of signals trying to find themselves, but got > no > > replies this pass. > > Nice to have another satellite to play with.... > > Keith N4ZQ EL88 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. > Opinions > > expressed > > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > > AMSAT-NA. > > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite > program! > > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 4 > > Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 12:57:23 -0600 > > From: Alan > > To: "'Sean K.'" > > Cc: AMSAT-BB > > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Tracking EO 79 > > Message-ID: <000001d23d16$9b1e6140$d15b23c0$@GMAIL.COM> > > > > Sean, > > > > SatPC32 and some other tracking programs have a method of generating a > > list of times which include when > > the satellite is eclipsed. Taking WinListen as an example, you can > > generated a list, note the times it > > exits eclipse, calculate with active window, and then compare with your > > local passes. It sounds > > cumbersome, but should only take a couple of minutes per day. > > > > 73s, > > > > Alan > > WA4SCA > > > > > > 12.11.2016 E 15:36:00 92.9 -56.9 183.0 612 11398 24 -18 13030 > > - > > 12.11.2016 E 15:38:00 101.0 -58.2 188.3 614 11537 23 -25 13030 > > - > > 12.11.2016 E 15:40:00 109.4 -59.2 193.6 616 11645 21 -33 13030 > > - > > 12.11.2016 E 15:42:00 118.1 -59.9 198.9 617 11721 19 -40 13030 > > - > > 12.11.2016 15:44:00 127.0 -60.4 204.2 619 11767 16 -47 13030 > > - > > 12.11.2016 15:46:00 136.1 -60.6 209.5 621 11782 13 -55 13030 > > - > > 12.11.2016 15:48:00 145.1 -60.5 214.8 623 11767 9 -62 13030 > > - > > 12.11.2016 15:50:00 154.1 -60.1 220.1 624 11723 3 -69 13030 > > - > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Subject: Digest Footer > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sent via amsat-bb at amsat.org. > > AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons > > worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > > AMSAT-NA. > > Not an AMSAT member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > > http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > End of AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 11, Issue 363 > > ***************************************** > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From camsat at vip.163.com Thu Nov 17 03:58:20 2016 From: camsat at vip.163.com (Alan Kung) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 11:58:20 +0800 (CST) Subject: [amsat-bb] Info of Chinese Launch 2016-066 Message-ID: <735bf443.4b06.158706f6e66.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> 2016-066D Satellite Name: TY-1 Mission: Technical experiment TT&C: 437.5MHz Bandwith 300kHz 2016-066E Satellite Name: CAS-2T(Dream-1) Mission: Education, Amateur radio, Technical experiment CW Beacon: 435.710MHz FM Transponder Uplink: 145.925MHz FM Transponder Downlink: 435.615MHz 2016-066E Satellite Name: KS-1Q Mission: Technical experiment TT&C: 436.5MHz 20kbps GMSK 2016-066F Satellite Name: Pegasus-1 Mission: Technical experiment TT&C: 468.0MHz FSK 73 Alan, BA1DU Chinese Amateur Satellite Group(CAMSAT) From bryan at kl7cn.net Thu Nov 17 04:32:43 2016 From: bryan at kl7cn.net (Bryan KL7CN) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 20:32:43 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] Info of Chinese Launch 2016-066 In-Reply-To: <735bf443.4b06.158706f6e66.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> References: <735bf443.4b06.158706f6e66.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> Message-ID: <60DCDC2A-97C1-4F42-A308-D4F021462620@kl7cn.net> Excellent, Alan! Can you tell us more? When will these launch? -- bag Bryan KL7CN/W6 bryan at kl7cn.net CM98, usually On Nov 16, 2016, at 19:58, Alan Kung wrote: 2016-066D Satellite Name: TY-1 Mission: Technical experiment TT&C: 437.5MHz Bandwith 300kHz 2016-066E Satellite Name: CAS-2T(Dream-1) Mission: Education, Amateur radio, Technical experiment CW Beacon: 435.710MHz FM Transponder Uplink: 145.925MHz FM Transponder Downlink: 435.615MHz 2016-066E Satellite Name: KS-1Q Mission: Technical experiment TT&C: 436.5MHz 20kbps GMSK 2016-066F Satellite Name: Pegasus-1 Mission: Technical experiment TT&C: 468.0MHz FSK 73 Alan, BA1DU Chinese Amateur Satellite Group(CAMSAT) _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From daniel at destevez.net Thu Nov 17 08:25:59 2016 From: daniel at destevez.net (Dani EA4GPZ) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:25:59 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] Info of Chinese Launch 2016-066 In-Reply-To: <735bf443.4b06.158706f6e66.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> References: <735bf443.4b06.158706f6e66.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> Message-ID: <9640ce72-16ec-4dbf-cdee-79c37140593b@destevez.net> El 17/11/16 a las 04:58, Alan Kung escribi?: > 2016-066D > Satellite Name: TY-1 > Mission: Technical experiment > TT&C: 437.5MHz Bandwith 300kHz Hi all, Has anyone heard this one? Can anyone keep an ear? I wonder what sort of modulation it uses, since 300kHz is quite wide for the 70cm (probably excessive, if you ask many people). 73, Dani EA4GPZ. From pe0sat at vgnet.nl Thu Nov 17 08:34:20 2016 From: pe0sat at vgnet.nl (PE0SAT | Amateur Radio) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:34:20 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] Info of Chinese Launch 2016-066 In-Reply-To: <60DCDC2A-97C1-4F42-A308-D4F021462620@kl7cn.net> References: <735bf443.4b06.158706f6e66.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> <60DCDC2A-97C1-4F42-A308-D4F021462620@kl7cn.net> Message-ID: <0c6bf100db76d62e40497edb21c00d3c@vgnet.nl> Hi Brian, They are already launched. Here the kepler data from celestrak tle-new.txt : 2016-066D 1 41844U 16066D 16322.22237288 -.00000070 00000-0 00000+0 0 9995 2 41844 97.4048 326.6901 0014852 260.7199 228.1538 15.21457474 1107 2016-066E 1 41845U 16066E 16321.99208595 -.00000068 00000-0 00000+0 0 9995 2 41845 98.7815 326.5167 0367187 157.7574 204.0013 14.37653650 1001 2016-066F 1 41846U 16066F 16321.78743598 -.00000068 00000-0 00000+0 0 9990 2 41846 98.7853 326.3011 0370412 158.7880 202.9134 14.36772856 971 @Alan, thanks for the information, good to see there are even two extra satellites. TY-1 and Pegasus-1, these are new to me and I will try to receive them the next couple of days. 73 Jan PE0SAT On 17-11-2016 05:32, Bryan KL7CN wrote: > Excellent, Alan! > > Can you tell us more? > > When will these launch? > > -- bag > > Bryan KL7CN/W6 > bryan at kl7cn.net > CM98, usually > > On Nov 16, 2016, at 19:58, Alan Kung wrote: > > 2016-066D > Satellite Name: TY-1 > Mission: Technical experiment > TT&C: 437.5MHz Bandwith 300kHz > > 2016-066E > Satellite Name: CAS-2T(Dream-1) > Mission: Education, Amateur radio, Technical experiment > CW Beacon: 435.710MHz > FM Transponder Uplink: 145.925MHz > FM Transponder Downlink: 435.615MHz > > 2016-066E > Satellite Name: KS-1Q > Mission: Technical experiment > TT&C: 436.5MHz 20kbps GMSK > > 2016-066F > Satellite Name: Pegasus-1 > Mission: Technical experiment > TT&C: 468.0MHz FSK > > > 73 > Alan, BA1DU > Chinese Amateur Satellite Group(CAMSAT) > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. > Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views > of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite > program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. > Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views > of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite > program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb -- With regards PE0SAT Internet web-page http://www.pe0sat.vgnet.nl/ DK3WN SatBlog http://www.dk3wn.info/p/ Online Telemetry Forwarder: http://tlm.pe0sat.nl/ irc://chat.freenode.net #Cubesat - Twitter @pe0sat From tjschuessler at verizon.net Thu Nov 17 13:37:01 2016 From: tjschuessler at verizon.net (Tom Schuessler) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 07:37:01 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Symposium pictures Message-ID: <001c01d240d7$ae499590$0adcc0b0$@net> If anyone from the AMSAT Symposium cruise has pictures, especially the antenna gathering on Sunday mornig, please could you post them online and post a link on the BB? I am doing a presentation to my home club and wanted a few like that which I did not take myself. Thanks, 73 Tom, N5hyp at ARRL dot net From camsat at vip.163.com Thu Nov 17 15:19:41 2016 From: camsat at vip.163.com (Alan Kung) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 23:19:41 +0800 (CST) Subject: [amsat-bb] Info of Chinese Launch 2016-066 In-Reply-To: <60DCDC2A-97C1-4F42-A308-D4F021462620@kl7cn.net> References: <735bf443.4b06.158706f6e66.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> <60DCDC2A-97C1-4F42-A308-D4F021462620@kl7cn.net> Message-ID: Bryan, It was launched on 9 Nov at 23:42UTC by CZ-11 solid rocket in JiuQuan Satellite Launch Center of China. 73 Alan, BA1DU At 2016-11-17 12:32:43, "Bryan KL7CN" wrote: >Excellent, Alan! > >Can you tell us more? > >When will these launch? > >-- bag > >Bryan KL7CN/W6 >bryan at kl7cn.net >CM98, usually > >On Nov 16, 2016, at 19:58, Alan Kung wrote: > >2016-066D >Satellite Name: TY-1 >Mission: Technical experiment >TT&C: 437.5MHz Bandwith 300kHz > >2016-066E >Satellite Name: CAS-2T(Dream-1) >Mission: Education, Amateur radio, Technical experiment >CW Beacon: 435.710MHz >FM Transponder Uplink: 145.925MHz >FM Transponder Downlink: 435.615MHz > >2016-066E >Satellite Name: KS-1Q >Mission: Technical experiment >TT&C: 436.5MHz 20kbps GMSK > >2016-066F >Satellite Name: Pegasus-1 >Mission: Technical experiment >TT&C: 468.0MHz FSK > > >73 >Alan, BA1DU >Chinese Amateur Satellite Group(CAMSAT) >_______________________________________________ >Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed >are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. >Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From les at highnoonfilm.com Fri Nov 18 03:52:04 2016 From: les at highnoonfilm.com (Les Rayburn) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 21:52:04 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Programming a Kenwood TH-D72A for ISS Digi Contacts In-Reply-To: References: <94C1D008-EE99-435B-9C06-187A58CC720E@highnoonfilm.com> Message-ID: Cannot thank you enough John, and many others on the group. Very helpful! 73, Les N1LF Les Rayburn, director High Noon Media Services 130 1st Avenue West Alabaster, AL 35007-8536 205-621-7500 205-621-7505 FAX 205-253-4867 CELL highnoonfilm.com [This message and any attached documents contain information from the sender that may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message. Thank you.] > On Nov 8, 2016, at 4:56 PM, John Brier wrote: > > You need to store the memories as split frequencies or as the manual > calls them, "Odd-split Repeater Frequencies." It's in the full > electronic manual. See page 2 in file 'TH-D72_02_MEMORY CHANNEL_E.pdf' > > The basics of it are this. You program a simplex receive frequency > like normal and then go to the VFO and set the transmit frequency and > then store it like normal to the same memory channel, except in > addition to pressing >OK to store it at the final step, you hold down > the PTT button before hand and while you press >OK. > > To compensate for doppler you need to store the following memories: > > # Receive Transmit > 1. 437.560 437.540 > 2. 437.555 437.545 > 3. 437.550 (same, don't set split here) > 4. 437.545 437.550 > 5. 437.540 437.560 > > When the bird is coming toward you start at 1. and as the pass > progresses move towards 5. You should be at 3. at max elevation. > > Let me/us know if you have more questions. > > 73, John Brier KG4AKV > > > On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Les Rayburn wrote: >> Just purchased a used Kenwood TH-D72A HT. Hoping to use it along with an Arrow antenna to make more satellite contacts while traveling. While I primarily expect to use it to make voice contacts on the FM birds, I?m also interested in making packet contacts through the International Space Station. >> >> Could someone point me towards a programming guide for this type of application? Any other pointers in using the radio to make packet QSOs through the ISS? >> >> Grateful for all suggestions. >> >> 73, >> >> Les Rayburn, N1LF >> 121 Mayfair Park >> Maylene, AL >> EM63nf >> >> Member WTFDA, IRCA, NRC, ARLL, and AMSAT. Former CPC Chairman for NRC & IRCA. >> >> Elad FDM-S2 SDR, AirSpy SDR, Quantum Phaser, Wellbrook ALA1530 Loop, Wellbrook Flag, Clifton Labs Active Whip. >> >> >> Grateful as always. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From AJ9N at aol.com Fri Nov 18 07:47:25 2016 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 02:47:25 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-11-18 08:00 UTC Message-ID: <7a50cd.306aa7e.45600c0d@aol.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-11-18 08:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Col?legi Asuncion de Ntra. Sra., Barcelona, Spain, telebridge via W6SRJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact was successful: Thu 2016-11-17 08:25:19 UTC 40 deg (***) Private Salesian High School named of St. Dominic Savio, Wroclaw, Poland, telebridge via W6SRJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Fri 2016-11-25 11:12:47 UTC 65 deg **************************************************************************** ** ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n at amsat.org or aj9n at aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8? MHz. **************************************************************************** *** All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. **************************************************************************** *** Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke at sbcglobal.net **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 123 Gaston ON4WF with 121 Francesco IK?WGF with 118 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-11-18 08:00 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1093. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1058. (***) Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: Arkansas, Delaware, South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DP?ISS, IR?ISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RS?ISS **************************************************************************** The successful school list has been updated as of 2016-11-18 08:00 UTC. (***) http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 49 on orbit Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Andrei Borisenko Sergey Ryzhikov **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors From rsoifer1 at aol.com Fri Nov 18 13:31:45 2016 From: rsoifer1 at aol.com (rsoifer1 at aol.com) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 08:31:45 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] W1NU SK Message-ID: <15877a2c198-2071-7d33@webprd-m96.mail.aol.com> Through "Silent Keys" in QST, I learned of the passing of Vic Politi, W1NU. He was 93. Before going into assisted living several years ago, he was on top of the DXCC Honor Roll. Vic held Satellite DXCC No, 3, earned entirely via LEO satellites. In 1992, he was AMSAT SKN's first Best Fist winner. RIP. 73 Ray W2RS Subject: From bruninga at usna.edu Fri Nov 18 20:28:04 2016 From: bruninga at usna.edu (Robert Bruninga) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 15:28:04 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] G5500 AZ/EL controller Glitching? Message-ID: <29c571cfce0314588e62f87ee19b2f0f@mail.gmail.com> What is the cause of intermittent glitching on the G5500 rotor controller? Every now and then (and only when transitioning the LEFT switch), BOTH positioning meters jump down about 10%. And then with a few more flips of the switch, you can get it back. Apparently the internal 6v supply is dropping since both meters glitch down and an externmal voltmeter on the rotator feedback terminals also show the same10% drop in the 6v line. (though it appears to be a constant 5.5 volts not 6) And then glitches down from the 5.5. Also noticed the Adjust voltage pots on the back do not change anything. Sorry, I know we see these same questions ALL the time, but this is the first time in 20 years for me? and when Mine wasn?t broke, it was easy to ignore all the emails? Bob From my.callsign at verizon.net Fri Nov 18 22:00:35 2016 From: my.callsign at verizon.net (KO6TZ Bob) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:00:35 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] G5500 AZ/EL controller Glitching? In-Reply-To: <29c571cfce0314588e62f87ee19b2f0f@mail.gmail.com> References: <29c571cfce0314588e62f87ee19b2f0f@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4e8c3dac-b767-1b61-b071-e89cc9fe6079@verizon.net> Bob, My guess is that since it is only when turning Left, the problem is with the "bow-tie" or something mechanical in the break that is causing a lot of drag on the motor when turning left. Try measuring the voltage between lug 6 & 4 turning left and compare to the voltage between 6 and 5 turning right. I suspect the load or drag is drawing down the secondary side of the AC transformer, affecting both the feed back circuits and the drive motor. Easier said than done, since as you state the issue is intermittent and the switching action clears the problem. When you say the voltage pots do not change anything, I suppose you mean adjusting them does not fix the problem. That is, it is not a dirty pot issue. BOB KO6TZ Apparently the internal 6v supply is dropping since both meters glitch down and an externmal voltmeter on the rotator feedback terminals also show the same10% drop in the 6v line. (though it appears to be a constant 5.5 volts not 6) And then glitches down from the 5.5. Also noticed the Adjust voltage pots on the back do not change anything. From wouterweg at gmail.com Fri Nov 18 22:10:58 2016 From: wouterweg at gmail.com (Wouter Weggelaar) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 23:10:58 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] Delayed schedule on AO-73 / FUNcube-1 Message-ID: Hi All, Just to let you know that I have made an error setting up FUNcube for the weekend, and it is not yet in manual transponder mode. Please stand by, I will attempt a 1.1 degrees pass for setting it, and otherwise it will have to be tomorrow morning. Sorry folks! Wouter PA3WEG From bruninga at usna.edu Fri Nov 18 22:21:11 2016 From: bruninga at usna.edu (Robert Bruninga) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 17:21:11 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] G5500 AZ/EL controller Glitching? In-Reply-To: <4e8c3dac-b767-1b61-b071-e89cc9fe6079@verizon.net> References: <29c571cfce0314588e62f87ee19b2f0f@mail.gmail.com> <4e8c3dac-b767-1b61-b071-e89cc9fe6079@verizon.net> Message-ID: > When you say the voltage pots do not change anything, > I suppose you mean adjusting them does not fix the problem. No, I mean they do not affect either AZ or EL meter reading. Turn pot end-to-end and meters still correctly read the AZ and EL and an external voltmeter does not show any change on the We used the full scale pots to calibrate the system, since the volts adjust pots do nothing.. Further, when the 10% glitch happens, it stays down permanently even with the motors not turning and no fingers on the switches... until it glitches back up eventually.. Thanks Bob -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of KO6TZ Bob Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 5:01 PM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] G5500 AZ/EL controller Glitching? Bob, My guess is that since it is only when turning Left, the problem is with the "bow-tie" or something mechanical in the break that is causing a lot of drag on the motor when turning left. Try measuring the voltage between lug 6 & 4 turning left and compare to the voltage between 6 and 5 turning right. I suspect the load or drag is drawing down the secondary side of the AC transformer, affecting both the feed back circuits and the drive motor. Easier said than done, since as you state the issue is intermittent and the switching action clears the problem. When you say the voltage pots do not change anything, I suppose you mean adjusting them does not fix the problem. That is, it is not a dirty pot issue. BOB KO6TZ Apparently the internal 6v supply is dropping since both meters glitch down and an externmal voltmeter on the rotator feedback terminals also show the same10% drop in the 6v line. (though it appears to be a constant 5.5 volts not 6) And then glitches down from the 5.5. Also noticed the Adjust voltage pots on the back do not change anything. _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From my.callsign at verizon.net Fri Nov 18 23:46:03 2016 From: my.callsign at verizon.net (KO6TZ Bob) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 15:46:03 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] Fwd: Re: G5500 AZ/EL controller Glitching? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Bob, The "out voltage adjust" pots are used to calibrate the "external control" via the DIN jack going to the computer interface. The out voltage pots will not affect the meter. They will have a major impact on computer control if you use it. As you stated, the "Full scale" pots calibrate the meter system. The next likely cause would be something in the rotor cable shorting or grounding. Beyond that, there are too many possibilities for an email. BOB KO6TZ On 11/18/2016 02:21 PM, Robert Bruninga wrote: >> When you say the voltage pots do not change anything, >> I suppose you mean adjusting them does not fix the problem. > No, I mean they do not affect either AZ or EL meter reading. Turn pot > end-to-end and meters still correctly read the AZ and EL and an external > voltmeter does not show any change on the We used the full scale pots to > calibrate the system, since the volts adjust pots do nothing.. > > Further, when the 10% glitch happens, it stays down permanently even with > the motors not turning and no fingers on the switches... until it glitches > back up eventually.. > > Thanks > Bob > > -----Original Message----- > From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of KO6TZ Bob > Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 5:01 PM > To:amsat-bb at amsat.org > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] G5500 AZ/EL controller Glitching? > > Bob, > > My guess is that since it is only when turning Left, the problem is with > the "bow-tie" or something mechanical in the break that is causing a lot > of drag on the motor when turning left. Try measuring the voltage between > lug 6 & 4 turning left and compare to the voltage between 6 and > 5 turning right. I suspect the load or drag is drawing down the secondary > side of the AC transformer, affecting both the feed back circuits and the > drive motor. > > Easier said than done, since as you state the issue is intermittent and > the switching action clears the problem. > > When you say the voltage pots do not change anything, I suppose you mean > adjusting them does not fix the problem. That is, it is not a dirty pot > issue. > > BOB > KO6TZ > > > Apparently the internal 6v supply is dropping since both meters glitch > down and an externmal voltmeter on the rotator feedback terminals also > show the same10% drop in the 6v line. (though it appears to be a constant > 5.5 volts not 6) And then glitches down from the 5.5. > > Also noticed the Adjust voltage pots on the back do not change anything. > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent viaAMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to > all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official > views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings:http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From glasbrenner at mindspring.com Sat Nov 19 00:29:06 2016 From: glasbrenner at mindspring.com (Andrew Glasbrenner) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 19:29:06 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Info of Chinese Launch 2016-066 In-Reply-To: <735bf443.4b06.158706f6e66.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> References: <735bf443.4b06.158706f6e66.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> Message-ID: <094801d241fb$efeeb140$cfcc13c0$@com> Hi Alan, I have listened to CAS-2T on several passes now. I can make the repeater transmitter come on by transmitting on the uplink, but as others have pointed out, nothing is repeated. The downlink is intermittent and choppy, with no audio apparently passed through. It almost sounds like older handhelds would sound on transmit with a low battery. I wonder if it's possible to try turning the CW beacon off? It would be great to recover the satellite, as it is in a very nice orbit! 73, Drew KO4MA -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Alan Kung Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 10:58 PM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Info of Chinese Launch 2016-066 2016-066D Satellite Name: TY-1 Mission: Technical experiment TT&C: 437.5MHz Bandwith 300kHz 2016-066E Satellite Name: CAS-2T(Dream-1) Mission: Education, Amateur radio, Technical experiment CW Beacon: 435.710MHz FM Transponder Uplink: 145.925MHz FM Transponder Downlink: 435.615MHz 2016-066E Satellite Name: KS-1Q Mission: Technical experiment TT&C: 436.5MHz 20kbps GMSK 2016-066F Satellite Name: Pegasus-1 Mission: Technical experiment TT&C: 468.0MHz FSK 73 Alan, BA1DU Chinese Amateur Satellite Group(CAMSAT) _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From bruninga at usna.edu Sat Nov 19 01:10:50 2016 From: bruninga at usna.edu (Robert Bruninga) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 20:10:50 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Solar Ham Radio Interference In-Reply-To: <0bcc3f7c9a6e4c117b8e933d93d991ee@mail.gmail.com> References: <0bcc3f7c9a6e4c117b8e933d93d991ee@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: NEW ISSUE: Previously QST and my emails discussed the rise in the noise floor from home solar and my suggestions to avoid purchasing a system with micro-invrters or elecronic "optimizers" on every panel on the roof, and stick with the wuieter or easier-to-fix all DC wiring and central inverters. THAT?S NOT ALL! It was pointed out at the ARISS meeting this weekend that one must also watch out for their NEIGHBORS! That is, if you want to keep your clean noise floor for your own hamming and your own solar, you must also be vigilant of your surrounding neighbors. The time to make friends so you can guide their future investment is NOW, well in advance before they make an irreversible decision. Ill try to remember to go out and see how far the noise radiates from some of the other solar panels in my neighborhood. Although my DC system with central inverters is much quieter, I should go out and see how far beyond these houses, the various system's interference can be detected. Bob, Wb4APR -----Original Message----- From: Robert Bruninga [mailto:bruninga at usna.edu] Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2016 12:55 PM To: Amsat BB Cc: bruninga at usna.edu Subject: Solar Ham Radio Interference Not Satellite related, but people often ask about any RFI from my solar arrays at home. Interest stems from an RFI issue in April QST and my letter in Sept 2016 QST. Well, FINALLY, the jury is in. For the first time since installing solar, I finally got all my full-sized dipoles up in the air again. And listened with the arrays on and off. Yes, I have inverter noise about 12 dB above the noise floor every 38 kHz on 80 meters,. But couldn't really find anything on 20 meters. I did not do a thorough search, but enough to finally say, "yes, there is some noise..." I post this because my 16kw of arrays are conventional series string arrays and much quieter than the "optimizers" on every panel all over the roof noted in the April QST article. I always thought my string array was quiet, but now I have some data noted above. This could easily be fixed with some clamp-on ferrites down in the basement on the wires going into the inverters... But for my rare HF operating, the solar AC disconnect switch is about 3 feet from the kitchen door. Easy enough to pull if I want HF silence. I could also install a 40 amp disconnect relay from a switch in the shack... But with my rare operating style, I'll probably do nothing. Of course it is perfectly quiet at night ;-) It took me 6 years to get around to this test, so don't hold your breath waiting for me to add some clamp-on filters to the inverter wires and see what that does. For those into solar, come join us on SolarDIY at yahoogroups.com Bob, WB4APR From vk4tec at tech-software.net Sat Nov 19 04:04:11 2016 From: vk4tec at tech-software.net (Andrew Rich) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 14:04:11 +1000 Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS on rtl SDR Message-ID: <576793E1-65C9-4D0D-AFCE-56305ADD1030@tech-software.net> I would like to talk with people that are using rtl SDR dongles to receive and then decode packet from the ISS Andrew ----------------------------- Sent from my iPhone Andrew Rich e vk4tec at tech-software.net w www.tech-software.net m 0419 738 223 From wouterweg at gmail.com Sat Nov 19 07:00:42 2016 From: wouterweg at gmail.com (Wouter Weggelaar) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 08:00:42 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] FUNcube-1 (AO-73) mode change In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi All, Just to report that FUNcube-1, AO-73, is now in manual transponder operation. Sorry for the late switch and have FUN! 73 Wouter PA3WEG From glasbrenner at mindspring.com Sat Nov 19 14:18:42 2016 From: glasbrenner at mindspring.com (Andrew Glasbrenner) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 09:18:42 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] XW-1/HO-68 Restores work in this morning In-Reply-To: <1860da21.b56.1585bd31a5f.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> References: <1860da21.b56.1585bd31a5f.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> Message-ID: <09b201d2426f$d4b4afa0$7e1e0ee0$@com> Hi again Alan, I've listened to a few passes last night and this morning and didn't hear HO-68 at all. Good luck in the recovery efforts. 73, Drew KO4MA -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Alan Kung Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 10:55 PM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] XW-1/HO-68 Restores work in this morning Hello, China's professional space TT&C network monitored XW-1 telemetry in this morning, the Satellite has restored work, if someone heard the CW beacon signal at 435.790 MHz, Please let me know. Thanks & 73! Alan, BA1DU _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From pe0sat at vgnet.nl Sat Nov 19 14:24:38 2016 From: pe0sat at vgnet.nl (PE0SAT | Amateur Radio) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 15:24:38 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] XW-1/HO-68 Restores work in this morning In-Reply-To: <09b201d2426f$d4b4afa0$7e1e0ee0$@com> References: <1860da21.b56.1585bd31a5f.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> <09b201d2426f$d4b4afa0$7e1e0ee0$@com> Message-ID: <06a5ca5b81677a29d287afbb3721dc19@vgnet.nl> I had the same experience over Europe, no signals heard. Fingers crossed that the recovery will be successful. 73 Jan PE0SAT On 19-11-2016 15:18, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote: > Hi again Alan, > > I've listened to a few passes last night and this morning and didn't > hear > HO-68 at all. Good luck in the recovery efforts. > > 73, Drew KO4MA > > -----Original Message----- > From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Alan > Kung > Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 10:55 PM > To: amsat-bb at amsat.org > Subject: [amsat-bb] XW-1/HO-68 Restores work in this morning > > Hello, > > > China's professional space TT&C network monitored XW-1 telemetry in > this > morning, the Satellite has restored work, if someone heard the CW > beacon > signal at 435.790 MHz, Please let me know. > > > Thanks & 73! > > > Alan, BA1DU > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all > interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the > official > views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite > program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. > Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views > of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite > program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb -- With regards PE0SAT Internet web-page http://www.pe0sat.vgnet.nl/ DK3WN SatBlog http://www.dk3wn.info/p/ Online Telemetry Forwarder: http://tlm.pe0sat.nl/ irc://chat.freenode.net #Cubesat - Twitter @pe0sat From bruninga at usna.edu Sat Nov 19 15:56:55 2016 From: bruninga at usna.edu (Robert Bruninga) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 10:56:55 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] PSAT digipeater is back on. Message-ID: I noticed PSAT digipeater is back on. As well as its 28.121 ten meter PSK31 uplink and 435.350 MHz downlink. Bob, WB4APR From n4zq at yahoo.com Sat Nov 19 21:51:24 2016 From: n4zq at yahoo.com (Keith O'Brien) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 21:51:24 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] SatPC32ISS References: <1803144374.368543.1479592284915.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1803144374.368543.1479592284915@mail.yahoo.com> Having used and gotten use to the excellent program SatPC32 for many years, thereare a few things I like to see carried over to SatPC32ISS that aren't available. there. I really like the CT clock feature in SatPC32 and would find it useful. Also to make ita option so it would always remain in AL or CT when the either program gets bootedup. I miss the availability of the Count Down screen in SatPC32ISS found under Accyin SatPC32. The addition of Observer 2 grid location to see when a station is a mutual footprint. I'm sure there are some others but these jump out to me the most as I find myselfusing SatPC32ISS a lot lately. With the change over of the ISS to 435 packet and now with PSAT-1? 145.825 digipeater back on, these would be a helpful addition to a already fine program.. Just some thoughts for future additions to an already great program.. Keith N4ZQ From ei7m-wkt at asahi-net.or.jp Sun Nov 20 11:49:29 2016 From: ei7m-wkt at asahi-net.or.jp (Mineo Wakita) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 20:49:29 +0900 Subject: [amsat-bb] KS-1Q heard Message-ID: <5CA5281B9DC0451C9C43465643F67C80@OwnerPC> KS-1Q 436.500MHz 20kbps GMSK, CC712 with RS(255,223) every 8-10 seconds (actually every 4'40") http://www.chinaspaceflight.com/satellite/KS-1Q.html 2016-066E 41845 08:01-08:17 UTC, 20 Nov 2016, Ele 77 S-Z-N, 20 kbps GMSK http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/cas2tks1.htm http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/61120ks1.jpg JE9PEL, Mineo Wakita From wa4sca at gmail.com Sun Nov 20 13:30:50 2016 From: wa4sca at gmail.com (Alan) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 07:30:50 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Get a piece of Hara history Message-ID: <000001d24332$50038740$f00a95c0$@GMAIL.COM> They are going to be auctioning off bits of Hara Arena. http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/business/hara-arena-items-to-be-auctioned-off-starting-than/ns9 YW/ or http://preview.tinyurl.com/hrduasu if it wraps. A perfect gift for a ham who has everything. Especially good for someone you don't like. :) 73s, Alan WA4SCA From vimone at alice.it Sun Nov 20 14:36:06 2016 From: vimone at alice.it (Vincenzo Mone) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 15:36:06 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] TS-2000X & Trakbox Message-ID: Hi folks, i used till a couple of days ago the Kenwood TS-790E connected with the Trakbox trough the ACC1 connector . I have changed the radio with an Kenwood TS-2000X and now got problems to attach the Trakbox to ita s the TS-2000x does not have anymore the ACC1 connector. Anybody can tell me how to connect it or if there is no way to connect it to the radio, can give me an alternative way of the trakbox? Hanks 73's de Enzo IK8OZV 73 de Enzo IK8OZV EasyLog 5 BetaTester EasyLog PDA BetaTester WinBollet BetaTester D.C.I. CheckPoint Regione Campania Skype: ik8ozv8520 ******************************************* ****** GSM +39 328 7244294 ****** ***** SMS +39 328 7244294 ***** ******************************************* From mccardelm at gmail.com Sun Nov 20 14:40:14 2016 From: mccardelm at gmail.com (E.Mike McCardel) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 09:40:14 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS-325 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins Message-ID: AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-325 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor at amsat.org. In this edition: * ARISS-I Celebrates 20th Anniversary and Plans for the Future of Amateur Radio in Human Spaceflight * AMSAT Space Symposium at Sea a Success! * NEON - NASA Educators Online Network Free STEM Education Webinars * Lunar Amateur Radio Satellites DSLWP-A1/A2 * XW-1/HO-68 Restoration Work - Listening Reports Requested * Jim Wilson, K5ND Earns Satellite VUCC * ARISS News * Satellite Shorts From All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-325.01 ANS-325 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 325.01 >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. November 20, 2016 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-325.01 ARISS-I Celebrates 20th Anniversary and Plans for the Future of Amateur Radio in Human Spaceflight The ARISS-I delegates met this week in Houston, Texas at the ISS Conference Facility to celebrate 20 years of Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). Prior to and during the conference, over 50 delegates and guests from Russia, Japan, Italy, German, the UK, and North America had the option for a behind the scenes tour of Johnson Space Center. The conference also had special guest visits from Astronauts Mike Fincke, Ken Cameron, and Cosmonaut Aleksandr Poleshchuk. The delegates and guests also were able to tour the W5RRR Johnson Space Center Amateur Radio Club and utilize the club's amateur radio repeater. The three main tracks of the conference were covered in two tracks per day to maximize the short time span of the 4 day meeting with the international delegates. Delegates who could not attend in person utilized video conferencing. ARISS Benefactors such as SCaN (Space Communications and Navigation office at NASA-JSC) and CASIS (Center for the Advancement of Science in Space) also attended in-person and online. The three main tracks were Sustainability & Funding, Hardware Development, and Educational Impact. Plenary Sessions were held in the mornings on selected topics of great interest to all attendees. Members also met informally at Ken Ransom's house (N5VHO) for a BBQ - "Texas Style." The 20th Anniversary Dinner was held overlooking Galveston Bay. Much work, many thanks, and a wonderful spirit of international camaraderie was evident by the end of the week at this International Face-to-Face meeting. The future of Amateur Radio in Human Space was discussed heavily and many tasks were undertaken by the delegations to report back or develop a response. Summarizing one comment at the end of the meeting, "This week, just as with any ARISS contact, as we approach LOS (loss of signal), I know it's coming soon, but I don't want it to end." The international attendees expressed great appreciation for the 20th Anniversary ARISS Face-to-Face Meeting organizing committee lead by Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, ARISS International Chair and AMSAT-NA Vice President, Human Spaceflight, Rosalie White, K1STO, ARISS Delegate, Debra Johnson, K1DMJ, ARRL, Mark Steiner, K3MS, ARISS, and Ms. Janet Bauer. Next year's ARISS International Face-to-Face Meeting is schedule for September 2017 in Rome, Italy. [ANS thanks ARISS for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT Space Symposium at Sea a Success! The 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium and General Meeting held aboard the Carnival Liberty in the Gulf of Mexico is now history! Approximately 70 AMSAT members as well as family and friends from the United States, Canada, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Israel, and the Azores enjoyed the presentations, activities, and camaraderie during the four day cruise, which departed from Galveston, Texas and included a port call at Progreso, Mexico. Look for more details about the Symposium presentations and activities in the next issue of The AMSAT Journal. Due to a lack of internet bandwidth, live audio of the 2016 AMSAT General Meeting was not available via Echolink. Please see the following slides presented during the General Meeting by AMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW, for an update on the status of AMSAT: http://tinyurl.com/ANS325-AnnualMeeting For selected photos see this post on the AMSAT website: http://www.amsat.org/?p=5664 [ANS thanks Paul N8HM for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- NEON - NASA Educators Online Network Free STEM Education Webinars ANNOUNCEMENTS Free STEM Education Webinars From NASA Educator Professional Development Audience: In-service, Pre-service, Home School and Informal Educators The NASA STEM Educator Professional Development Collaborative (EPDC) at Texas State University is presenting a series of free webinars open to all educators. Join NASA education specialists to learn about activities, lesson plans, educator guides and resources that bring NASA into your classroom. Registration is required to participate. To register, simply click on the link provided beneath the webinar description. November 21, 2016, at 5:00 p.m. ET: NASA Technology in Your Classroom: Images and Data (Grades 4-10) - Explore NASA resources for using images and data in the classroom. These resources can be used to engage students, illustrate concepts, and develop educational exhibits, programs or products. Learn about the latest science discoveries and more at http://nasawavelength.org/data-and-images. Register online to participate. https://www.etouches.com/203264 ++++++++++++ November 21, 2016, at 7:00 p.m. ET: Astrobiology and the Origin of Life (Grades 6-12) - Learn how NASA has turned the search for alien life from science fiction to a quickly growing research field. Topics in earth and space science linked to biology will help us understand the most current theories for how life came to be here on Earth and where we could find it next. Classroom activities fit for numerous grade levels will put this exploration into the hands of our next generation of scientists! Register online to participate. https://www.etouches.com/198801 ++++++++++++ November 22, 2016, at 4:00 p.m. ET: NASA Technology in Your Classroom: NASA Apps for All Ages (Grades K-12) - NASA has over 50 FREE apps for educational use. Learn how to use and integrate some of the applications in the classroom setting. Virtual reality, 3-D exploration and NASA missions come alive with the use of these apps. Engage students on topics such as earth science, the solar system, robotics and space station research through the usage of technology apps. Register online to participate. https://www.etouches.com/202778 ++++++++++++ For the NASA STEM Educator Professional Development webinar schedule, go to: http://www.txstate-epdc.net/events/ ************ SPACE EXPLORATION EDUCATORS CONFERENCE (SEEC) February 9-11, 2017 at Space Center Houston 1601 NASA Pkwy, Houston, TX 77058 Experience three days of complete immersion into the out-of-this world adventure of space exploration! This conference is for grades kindergarten to 12th ? and not just for science teachers! Space Center Houston strives to use space to teach across the curriculum. The activities presented can be used for science, language arts, mathematics, history, and more. Attend sessions hosted by the actual scientists and engineers working on exciting endeavors like the International Space Station and explorations of Mars and the planets beyond. Hear from the astronauts leading the charge in exploration! Come learn about the bold vision to send humans back to the Moon and off to Mars! Attend sessions presented by educators and receive ready to implement classroom ideas and experience minds-on, hands-on fun. Network with fellow educators, take back a multitude of cross-curriculum ideas and activities and earn 24 hours of continuing professional education credit. For more information or to register, visit : http://spacecenterSEEC.org email seec at spacecenter.org or call (281) 244-2149. [ANS thanks NEON for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lunar Amateur Radio Satellites DSLWP-A1/A2 Mingchuan Wei BG2BHC reports DSLWP is a lunar formation flying mission for low frequency radio astronomy, amateur radio and education, consists of 2 microsatellites. Developed by students at the Harbin Institute of Technology the amateur radio payload onboard DSLWP-A1 will provide telecommand uplink and telemetry / digital image downlink. An open telecommand is also designed to allow amateurs to send commands to take and download an image. The satellites are 50x50x40 cm with a mass of about 45 kg and are 3- axis stabilized. Two linear polarization antennas are mounted along and normal to the flight direction. The team proposes downlinks for A1 on 435.425 MHz and 436.425 MHz while downlinks for A2 would be 435.400 MHz and 436.400 MHz using 10K0F1DCN or 10K0F1DEN 250 bps GMSK with concatenated codes or JT65B. Planning a launch into a 200 x 9000km lunar orbit in June 2018. Further info at http://lilacsat.hit.edu.cn/ IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination pages http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/ [ANS thanks Southgate ARN for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- XW-1/HO-68 Restoration Work - Listening Reports Requested China's professional space TT&C network has been monitoring XW-1 telemetry Since November 12 in an effort to restore its work. If anyone has heard the CW beacon signal at 435.790 MHz, Please contact Alan Kung, BA1DU, camsat (at) vip.163.com [ANS thanks Alan BA1DU for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Wilson, K5ND Earns Satellite VUCC Congratulations to Jim Wilson, K5ND on earning his Satellite VUCC award for working 100 grids. At the same time, because so many grid expeditions were confirmed on LoTW, he also qualified for the VUCC endorsement sticker for 125 grids. Jim wrote, "Thanks everyone for taking the time to enter your QSOs on Logbook of the World or to send me QSL cards in response to my own card. As I?ve mentioned before, it has been such a blast to work all these grids and to figure out how to work both the FM and linear satellites." [ANS thanks JoAnne K9JKM for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS News + A Successful contact was made between Col?legi Asuncion de Ntra. Sra., Barcelona, Spain and Astronaut Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD using Callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2016-11-17 08:25 UTC and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was telebridge via W6SRJ. ARISS Mentor was Marcelo IK?USO. In 2016, Col?legi Asuncion de Ntra. Sra. is celebrating the 140th anniversary of the 1876 founding of the school. The school has approximately 600 students of Kindergarden (from 3 to 6 years of age), Primary (6-12 years old) and Secondary (from 12 to 16 years old) and is located in Barcelona, in the Poblenou neighbourhood, belonging to Sant Mart? district. It was a very rewarding finish the anniversary by contacting with the International Space Station as the main activity of a set of Interdisciplinary Didactic Projects and multiple age level participation activities. Col?legi Asuncion de Ntra. Sra's aim is to engage every student in these activities, which are not only STEM/STEAM related, but also cover geography, languages, history and others. Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule Private Salesian High School named of St. Dominic Savio, Wroclaw, Poland, telebridge via W6SRJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Fri 2016-11-25 11:12:47 UTC ************ ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n at amsat.org or aj9n at aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8? MHz. ************ All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. ************ Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ************ Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke at sbcglobal.net ************ ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 123 Gaston ON4WF with 121 Francesco IK?WGF with 118 ************ The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-11-18 08:00 UTC. Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1093. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1058. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact Charlie, aj9n at amsat.org or aj9n at aol.com, if more detailed statistics are needed. ************ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: Arkansas, Delaware, South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ************ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DP?ISS, IR?ISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RS?ISS ************ The successful school list has been updated as of 2016-11-18 08:00 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_cor rection.rtf [Editor's Note: Please note truncation of above address. Please use care when copy/pasting the above URL] Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 ************ Exp. 49 on orbit Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Andrei Borisenko Sergey Ryzhikov [ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts From All Over + W1NU, Satellite DXCC No. 3, SK The December 2016 issue of QST reports the passing of Vic Politi, W1NU, among its Silent Keys department article. Vic was 93. Before going into assisted living several years ago, he was on top of the DXCC Honor Roll. Vic held Satellite DXCC No. 3, earned entirely via LEO satellites. In 1992, he was AMSAT SKN's first Best Fist winner. RIP, Vic. [ANS thanks Ray W2RS for the above information] + PSAT digipeater is back on. As well as its 28.121 ten meter PSK31 uplink and 435.350 MHz downlink. [ANS thanks Bob WB4APR for the above information] + The 2016 edition of the book "Getting Started with Amateur Satellites" is once again available from the AMSAT-UK shop. http://shop.amsat-uk.org/ [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi- tional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. 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Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership information. 73, This week's ANS Editor, EMike McCardel, AA8EM aa8em at amsat dot org From dave at g4dpz.me.uk Sun Nov 20 14:52:19 2016 From: dave at g4dpz.me.uk (David Johnson) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 14:52:19 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] For Sale Message-ID: <890D2787-F953-49F2-A0BE-27583CEA6200@g4dpz.me.uk> Hi, Have moved from TS-2000 to IC-9100 and TH-D7e to TH-D72e so have available TS-2000x with L-band (boxed with manuals) ?1050 2 x DCW 15 B Sequencers ?90 TH-D7e ?160 All plus delivery (or collection) For sale in the UK only, please contact me offline. 73 Dave, G4DPZ From n4zq at yahoo.com Sun Nov 20 15:17:39 2016 From: n4zq at yahoo.com (Keith O'Brien) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 15:17:39 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Message Format References: <1134691623.586084.1479655059444.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1134691623.586084.1479655059444@mail.yahoo.com> I apologize for the way my message SatPC32ISS showed up when posted to the AMSAT-BB.Any resemblance between what I composed in my Yahoo e Mail account? and what showed upon the AMSAT-BB is strictly coincidental. All message formatting seemed to have disappeared. Does anyone know what caused that or better yet, how to correct the formatting issue ? Is ita Yahoo or AMSAT-BB issue ? Keith N4ZQ From pconver at gmail.com Sun Nov 20 17:39:24 2016 From: pconver at gmail.com (Pedro Converso) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 14:39:24 -0300 Subject: [amsat-bb] EO-79 Frequencies & Operation Message-ID: Using http://amsat.org.ar/pass.htm & exe. Today on EO-79 on Orbit 13147 at 15:46Z on a Buenos Aires pass, got excellent signal & SSB return from EO-79. Frequency used was Doppler automatically corrected, getting good return from my signal. For those using Satpc32 the Doppler.sqf line could be: EO-79,145967.6,435069.4.0,USB,LSB,REV,0,0,Transponder For Pass application (don't need to set is already included) ["40025","EO-79","435069.4","145967.6","145815","LSB","USB","CW","REV","0","0","Linear Transponder",""], EO-79 Pass & contact was after 25 minutes after sunlit, very strong return. Wishing good contacts thru this nice bird. Congrats and THANKS to Funcube-3 teams for this excellent linear transponder. 73, lu7abf, Pedro From k8bl at ameritech.net Sun Nov 20 18:06:57 2016 From: k8bl at ameritech.net (R.T.Liddy) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 18:06:57 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Message Format In-Reply-To: <1134691623.586084.1479655059444@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1134691623.586084.1479655059444.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1134691623.586084.1479655059444@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1927906452.605371.1479665217616@mail.yahoo.com> Keith, The AMSAT BB seems to like double "enter" at the end of eachline as opposed to any/every other message system in the realworld. That's why I usually only post to Starcom-BB instead.I don't know why it is like that, but it is really irritating. Now, here is the same message with double "enters": The AMSAT BB seems to like double "enter" at the end of each line as opposed to any/every other message system in the real world. That's why I usually only post to Starcom-BB instead. I don't know why it is like that, but it is really irritating. 73, ? ? Bob ?K8BL From: Keith O'Brien via AMSAT-BB To: AMSAT-BB Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2016 10:17 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Message Format I apologize for the way my message SatPC32ISS showed up when posted to the AMSAT-BB.Any resemblance between what I composed in my Yahoo e Mail account? and what showed upon the AMSAT-BB is strictly coincidental. All message formatting seemed to have disappeared. Does anyone know what caused that or better yet, how to correct the formatting issue ? Is ita Yahoo or AMSAT-BB issue ? Keith N4ZQ _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From g.shirville at btinternet.com Sun Nov 20 18:09:04 2016 From: g.shirville at btinternet.com (Graham Shirville) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 18:09:04 -0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] EO-79 Frequencies & Operation In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41AB57071DCA4638BC68D4466C2508EA@allgood.local> Hi Pedro, Many thanks for your report and kind comments! We are delighted that it is working so well especially as it has already been in space for more than two years. best wishes Graham G3VZV -----Original Message----- From: Pedro Converso Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2016 5:39 PM To: AMSAT Subject: [amsat-bb] EO-79 Frequencies & Operation Using http://amsat.org.ar/pass.htm & exe. Today on EO-79 on Orbit 13147 at 15:46Z on a Buenos Aires pass, got excellent signal & SSB return from EO-79. Frequency used was Doppler automatically corrected, getting good return from my signal. For those using Satpc32 the Doppler.sqf line could be: EO-79,145967.6,435069.4.0,USB,LSB,REV,0,0,Transponder For Pass application (don't need to set is already included) ["40025","EO-79","435069.4","145967.6","145815","LSB","USB","CW","REV","0","0","Linear Transponder",""], EO-79 Pass & contact was after 25 minutes after sunlit, very strong return. Wishing good contacts thru this nice bird. Congrats and THANKS to Funcube-3 teams for this excellent linear transponder. 73, lu7abf, Pedro _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From py41 at att.net Sun Nov 20 18:13:39 2016 From: py41 at att.net (Perry Yantis) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 18:13:39 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] FO-29 orbit number wrong References: <821289074.769626.1479665619844.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <821289074.769626.1479665619844@mail.yahoo.com> I see that the newest keps I downloaded yesterday has the wrong orbit number for FO-29!!!The last time I worked FO-29 was on 10/31/16 at 1619?gmt and the orbit number was 99797. Now I get an orbit number in the 50's.Has anyone else noticed this?????Perry WB8OTH py41 at att.net sent from my Apple Macbook Pro From camsat at vip.163.com Sun Nov 20 18:14:42 2016 From: camsat at vip.163.com (Alan Kung) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 02:14:42 +0800 (CST) Subject: [amsat-bb] Info of Chinese Launch 2016-066 In-Reply-To: <094801d241fb$efeeb140$cfcc13c0$@com> References: <735bf443.4b06.158706f6e66.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> <094801d241fb$efeeb140$cfcc13c0$@com> Message-ID: <131016be.1f95e1.15882f28795.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> Hi Drew, Thanks for your report! I think the problem is not lack of electric energy, CAS-2T is an 2U structure, we installed solar panels on five sides with 30% efficiency, average total power about 2.2 Watts, the power budget: CW Beacon=0.5W, FM Transponder=0.7W, OBC=0.05W, TT&C Receiver=0.12W, Total=1.37W, normally there is some superfluous power to supply to heating resistances. What problems are I think: First CAS-2T was not separated from the launch vehicle, final stage of the lauch vehicle is much bigger than CAS-2T satellite, and it keeps self spin in approx. 7 seconds per circle. It lead to the antenna radiation pattern becomes chaotic, the gain at some positions become much lower and is accompanied by a parasitic amplitude modulation. On the other hand, in order to avoid chaotic signal on VHF from land in East Asia to disturb the Satellite uplink , we adjusted the uplink receiver squelch at very deep position, it makes the transponder opening sensitivity less than -110dBm at RF input port of the receiver. So I think the solution is only to improve the uplink EIRP, some of the high schools' club stations here using 3 meters boom antennas with approx. 50W RF power to get through the transponder well. 73 Alan, BA1DU At 2016-11-19 08:29:06, "Andrew Glasbrenner" wrote: >Hi Alan, > >I have listened to CAS-2T on several passes now. I can make the repeater >transmitter come on by transmitting on the uplink, but as others have >pointed out, nothing is repeated. The downlink is intermittent and choppy, >with no audio apparently passed through. It almost sounds like older >handhelds would sound on transmit with a low battery. I wonder if it's >possible to try turning the CW beacon off? It would be great to recover the >satellite, as it is in a very nice orbit! > >73, Drew KO4MA > >-----Original Message----- >From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Alan Kung >Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 10:58 PM >To: amsat-bb at amsat.org >Subject: [amsat-bb] Info of Chinese Launch 2016-066 > >2016-066D >Satellite Name: TY-1 >Mission: Technical experiment >TT&C: 437.5MHz Bandwith 300kHz > >2016-066E >Satellite Name: CAS-2T(Dream-1) >Mission: Education, Amateur radio, Technical experiment CW Beacon: >435.710MHz FM Transponder Uplink: 145.925MHz FM Transponder Downlink: >435.615MHz > >2016-066E >Satellite Name: KS-1Q >Mission: Technical experiment >TT&C: 436.5MHz 20kbps GMSK > >2016-066F >Satellite Name: Pegasus-1 >Mission: Technical experiment >TT&C: 468.0MHz FSK > > >73 >Alan, BA1DU >Chinese Amateur Satellite Group(CAMSAT) >_______________________________________________ >Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all >interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions >expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official >views of AMSAT-NA. >Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From pconver at gmail.com Sun Nov 20 18:23:03 2016 From: pconver at gmail.com (Pedro Converso) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 15:23:03 -0300 Subject: [amsat-bb] FO-29 orbit number wrong In-Reply-To: <821289074.769626.1479665619844@mail.yahoo.com> References: <821289074.769626.1479665619844.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <821289074.769626.1479665619844@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Hello Perry, You are right, problem shows due orbit number in TLE Keps is just 5 digits. Therefore after 99999 , counts goes to 0. In fact FO-29 is now at orbit 100,044 , same happens with ISS and AO-7. I have accounted for this on http://amsat.org.ar/pass.htm that show correct and updated Orbit Numbers for satellites old enough to have overflowed the Orbit number. 73, lu7abf, Pedro On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Perry Yantis wrote: > I see that the newest keps I downloaded yesterday has the wrong orbit number for FO-29!!!The last time I worked FO-29 was on 10/31/16 at 1619 gmt and the orbit number was 99797. > Now I get an orbit number in the 50's.Has anyone else noticed this???? Perry WB8OTH > > py41 at att.net > sent from my Apple Macbook Pro > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From wa4sca at gmail.com Sun Nov 20 18:30:26 2016 From: wa4sca at gmail.com (Alan) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:30:26 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] FO-29 orbit number wrong In-Reply-To: <821289074.769626.1479665619844@mail.yahoo.com> References: <821289074.769626.1479665619844.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <821289074.769626.1479665619844@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <000101d2435c$2a4f2d90$7eed88b0$@GMAIL.COM> Perry, SatPC32? Add 100,000 and you get about the right number, so it looks like Erich needs to add another space for numbers greater than 99,999. Same thing in Itrack. 73s, Alan WA4SCA <-----Original Message----- References: <1134691623.586084.1479655059444.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1134691623.586084.1479655059444@mail.yahoo.com> <1927906452.605371.1479665217616@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Bob, The AMSAT-BB, by design, passes plain text only. Be sure you set your email program to plain text mode to ensure that any special formatting characters are not sent. Please remember that the Starcom-BB is not an alternative to the AMSAT-BB. It's a private club designed to stroke the owner's own ego, not a resource for the entire amateur satellite community. Posting here ensures that everyone in the worldwide amateur satellite community will see your messages. 73, Paul, N8HM On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 1:06 PM, R.T.Liddy wrote: > Keith, > The AMSAT BB seems to like double "enter" at the end of eachline as opposed to any/every other message system in the realworld. That's why I usually only post to Starcom-BB instead.I don't know why it is like that, but it is really irritating. > Now, here is the same message with double "enters": > > The AMSAT BB seems to like double "enter" at the end of each > line as opposed to any/every other message system in the real > world. That's why I usually only post to Starcom-BB instead. > I don't know why it is like that, but it is really irritating. > > 73, Bob K8BL > > > > > From: Keith O'Brien via AMSAT-BB > To: AMSAT-BB > Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2016 10:17 AM > Subject: [amsat-bb] Message Format > > I apologize for the way my message SatPC32ISS showed up when posted to the AMSAT-BB.Any resemblance between what I composed in my Yahoo e Mail account and what showed upon the AMSAT-BB is strictly coincidental. All message formatting seemed to have disappeared. > Does anyone know what caused that or better yet, how to correct the formatting issue ? Is ita Yahoo or AMSAT-BB issue ? > Keith N4ZQ > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From daniel at destevez.net Sun Nov 20 18:57:33 2016 From: daniel at destevez.net (Dani EA4GPZ) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 19:57:33 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] Info of Chinese Launch 2016-066 In-Reply-To: <131016be.1f95e1.15882f28795.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> References: <735bf443.4b06.158706f6e66.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> <094801d241fb$efeeb140$cfcc13c0$@com> <131016be.1f95e1.15882f28795.Coremail.camsat@vip.163.com> Message-ID: <9cb9b2d2-879a-b0a5-4f74-70f927bf9df9@destevez.net> El 20/11/16 a las 19:14, Alan Kung escribi?: > Hi Drew, > > > Thanks for your report! I think the problem is not lack of electric > energy, CAS-2T is an 2U structure, we installed solar panels on five > sides with 30% efficiency, average total power about 2.2 Watts, the > power budget: CW Beacon=0.5W, FM Transponder=0.7W, OBC=0.05W, TT&C > Receiver=0.12W, Total=1.37W, normally there is some superfluous power > to supply to heating resistances. > > What problems are I think: First CAS-2T was not separated from the > launch vehicle, final stage of the lauch vehicle is much bigger than > CAS-2T satellite, and it keeps self spin in approx. 7 seconds per > circle. It lead to the antenna radiation pattern becomes chaotic, the > gain at some positions become much lower and is accompanied by a > parasitic amplitude modulation. On the other hand, in order to avoid > chaotic signal on VHF from land in East Asia to disturb the Satellite > uplink , we adjusted the uplink receiver squelch at very deep > position, it makes the transponder opening sensitivity less than > -110dBm at RF input port of the receiver. > > So I think the solution is only to improve the uplink EIRP, some of > the high schools' club stations here using 3 meters boom antennas > with approx. 50W RF power to get through the transponder well. Hi Alan, Given my own observations and all the reports I've heard from other Amateurs, I don't agree with your explanation. It is not a problem with the squelch or the uplink EIRP. The FM comes on even with an uplink of 5W to a 7el yagi. The problem is that the downlink is not a clean FM modulation, but some sort of "rubbish". I haven't heard of anyone that succeeded to downlink his signal through the FM transponder fine. People using big or small groundstations have the same problem. What is this high schools thing? Do you mean that they were able to use the CAS-2T FM repeater successfully? If so, can anyone with a big groundstation give this a try and preferably do an SDR recording of the downlink? More info: http://destevez.net/2016/11/some-measurements-of-cas-2t-on-orbit-25/ 73, Dani EA4GPZ. From k8bl at ameritech.net Sun Nov 20 19:00:42 2016 From: k8bl at ameritech.net (R.T.Liddy) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 19:00:42 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Test - Ignore References: <1368009386.623700.1479668442270.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1368009386.623700.1479668442270@mail.yahoo.com> test test test test test test test test test Please ignore TNX de K8BL From dave at g4dpz.me.uk Sun Nov 20 20:55:03 2016 From: dave at g4dpz.me.uk (David Johnson) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 20:55:03 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] For Sale In-Reply-To: <17F59EA9-1687-4597-9E06-065CED03C51E@gmail.com> References: <890D2787-F953-49F2-A0BE-27583CEA6200@g4dpz.me.uk> <17F59EA9-1687-4597-9E06-065CED03C51E@gmail.com> Message-ID: <1B379325-7211-43B0-A5EC-5FED55B650D2@g4dpz.me.uk> Hi Stefan, The sequencers have already gone. Thanks for your interest. 73 - Dave > On 20 Nov 2016, at 17:24, Stefan Wagener wrote: > > I like to buy the sequencers if you ship to Canada :-) > > Thanks, Stefan VE4NSA > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Nov 20, 2016, at 11:52 AM, David Johnson wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Have moved from TS-2000 to IC-9100 >> and TH-D7e to TH-D72e >> >> so have available >> >> TS-2000x with L-band (boxed with manuals) ?1050 >> 2 x DCW 15 B Sequencers ?90 >> TH-D7e ?160 >> >> All plus delivery (or collection) >> >> For sale in the UK only, please contact me offline. >> >> 73 >> >> Dave, G4DPZ >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From dmarthouse at gmail.com Sun Nov 20 21:21:17 2016 From: dmarthouse at gmail.com (Dave Marthouse) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 16:21:17 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Sat Tracking Software For IPhone Message-ID: What kind of tracking software is available for the IPhone? -- Dave Marthouse N2AAM dmarthouse at gmail.com From wa2ndv at gmail.com Sun Nov 20 21:45:38 2016 From: wa2ndv at gmail.com (wa2ndv at gmail.com) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 16:45:38 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Pegasus-1 Message-ID: <58321982.433bed0a.2f7cc.9c9f@mx.google.com> Is this sat beacon working on 468.0 FSK ? Thanks Frank WA2NDV From bryan at kl7cn.net Sun Nov 20 21:45:49 2016 From: bryan at kl7cn.net (Bryan Green) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 13:45:49 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] Sat Tracking Software For IPhone In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: GoSatWatch. Hands down. -- bag Bryan KL7CN/W6 bryan at kl7cn.net > On Nov 20, 2016, at 13:21, Dave Marthouse wrote: > > What kind of tracking software is available for the IPhone? > > > > > > -- > > Dave Marthouse N2AAM > dmarthouse at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From mccardelm at gmail.com Sun Nov 20 22:11:30 2016 From: mccardelm at gmail.com (E.Mike McCardel) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 17:11:30 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Sat Tracking Software For IPhone In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: HamSat is also a good app EMike McCardel, AA8EM Rotating Editor AMSAT News Service Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 20, 2016, at 4:21 PM, Dave Marthouse wrote: > > What kind of tracking software is available for the IPhone? > > > > > > -- > > Dave Marthouse N2AAM > dmarthouse at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From ve3land at tjmail.ca Sun Nov 20 22:31:38 2016 From: ve3land at tjmail.ca (Don) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 17:31:38 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Need PrimeSat Controller Software Message-ID: <5832244A.4050308@tjmail.ca> Last cog in the wheel. I have a PrimeSat Controller and need the software and drivers. I need to tell it which radio (IC9100), SATPC32 and which rotor (G5500) that I am using. Can not locate software and it is not supported. Any help locating software would be a great help. Thanks Don From normanlizeth at gmail.com Mon Nov 21 00:36:51 2016 From: normanlizeth at gmail.com (Norm n3ykf) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 19:36:51 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Solar Ham Radio Interference In-Reply-To: References: <0bcc3f7c9a6e4c117b8e933d93d991ee@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Blatant plug for the engineering team here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liBMNdWh6N4 Site overview here: https://youtu.be/sZp7xqP6F7k Underneath the poles for RFI survey 1: https://youtu.be/n7zCSf280XI 50' away for RFI survey 2: https://youtu.be/DpwA4PoKUE4 Condx: Dipole resonant on 10m about 5' off the ground, Sweepstakes weekend so there was a lot of activity on 20m. The RFI surveys are trips through the upper portion of the 20m band. Inverters producing 10kW during the test. Not sure the inverters or panels are producing any RFI of note. Based on what I saw, there is little to complain about. The noise floor is lower directly under the panels than it is 50' away. Nothing lower in frequency is useful during the day and so was ignored. The next 20kW will be done the same way. Next year. Wife wanted a car. Get 50kWhr per day, rain or shine. Best day is 82kWhr. Today's yield: https://www.flickr.com/photos/n3ykf/30774099190/in/dateposted/ Last year when I did this survey the first time, the neighbor had grow lights running. Ugly RFI. Amazing what a few words will do. His end is here: http://www.ocala.com/news/20161116/near-fort-myers-driver-kills-marion-man-attacking-deputy Norm n3ykf On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 8:10 PM, Robert Bruninga wrote: > NEW ISSUE: > > Previously QST and my emails discussed the rise in the noise floor from home > solar and my suggestions to avoid purchasing a system with micro-invrters or > elecronic "optimizers" on every panel on the roof, and stick with the > wuieter or easier-to-fix all DC wiring and central inverters. > > THAT?S NOT ALL! It was pointed out at the ARISS meeting this weekend that > one must also watch out for their NEIGHBORS! That is, if you want to keep > your clean noise floor for your own hamming and your own solar, you must > also be vigilant of your surrounding neighbors. > > The time to make friends so you can guide their future investment is NOW, > well in advance before they make an irreversible decision. > > Ill try to remember to go out and see how far the noise radiates from some > of the other solar panels in my neighborhood. Although my DC system with > central inverters is much quieter, I should go out and see how far beyond > these houses, the various system's interference can be detected. > > Bob, Wb4APR > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Bruninga [mailto:bruninga at usna.edu] > Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2016 12:55 PM > To: Amsat BB > Cc: bruninga at usna.edu > Subject: Solar Ham Radio Interference > > Not Satellite related, but people often ask about any RFI from my solar > arrays at home. Interest stems from an RFI issue in April QST and my letter > in Sept 2016 QST. > > Well, FINALLY, the jury is in. For the first time since installing solar, I > finally got all my full-sized dipoles up in the air again. And listened with > the arrays on and off. > > Yes, I have inverter noise about 12 dB above the noise floor every 38 kHz on > 80 meters,. But couldn't really find anything on 20 meters. I did not do a > thorough search, but enough to finally say, "yes, there is some noise..." > > I post this because my 16kw of arrays are conventional series string arrays > and much quieter than the "optimizers" on every panel all over the roof > noted in the April QST article. I always thought my string array was quiet, > but now I have some data noted above. This could easily be fixed with some > clamp-on ferrites down in the basement on the wires going into the > inverters... > > But for my rare HF operating, the solar AC disconnect switch is about 3 feet > from the kitchen door. Easy enough to pull if I want HF silence. I could > also install a 40 amp disconnect relay from a switch in the shack... But > with my rare operating style, I'll probably do nothing. Of course it is > perfectly quiet at night ;-) > > It took me 6 years to get around to this test, so don't hold your breath > waiting for me to add some clamp-on filters to the inverter wires and see > what that does. > > For those into solar, come join us on SolarDIY at yahoogroups.com Bob, WB4APR > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From g.shirville at btinternet.com Mon Nov 21 09:59:45 2016 From: g.shirville at btinternet.com (Graham Shirville) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 09:59:45 -0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] AO73/FUNcube-1 Third Birthday Message-ID: <59A43D1358A24D0F99BED00135632240@allgood.local> Today, November 21st 2016, marks the third birthday in space for our baby, 985 gram, spacecraft. FUNcube-1 was launched at 07:10 UTC on November 21st 2013 and its first signals were received immediately after deployment over the Indian Ocean by amateurs in South Africa. Since then it has been operating continuously in either its education mode or, with the transponder active, in amateur mode when in eclipse and at weekends. The FUNcube team are very grateful to everyone who has been contributing their telemetry records to the Data Warehouse and also to those who are using FUNcube-1 for educational outreach to schools and colleges around the world. This important part of our mission is intended to encourage young people to develop an interest and passion in all STEM subjects for their future. The spacecraft is operating nominally - the telemetry indicates that all the sub-systems are fine. The battery voltages, solar panel charge currents and on board temperatures are virtually unchanged since launch. In addition to FUNcube-1, there are now similar FUNcube transponders operating in low earth orbit on the UKube-1 and EO79/QB50p1 CubeSats. The team has recently contributed to the development of Nayif-1, which is presently awaiting launch, and is currently working on a number of further CubeSat and microsat projects. HAPPY BIRTHDAY AO73! From jim at beeson.cc Mon Nov 21 13:55:40 2016 From: jim at beeson.cc (jim at beeson.cc) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 08:55:40 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Sat Tracking Software For IPhone In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2e3a320fa946ec8301b6b848215a33f9.squirrel@webmail04.register.com> I agree with Bryan - GoSatWatch is the way to go ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Sat Tracking Software For IPhone From: "Bryan Green" Date: Sun, November 20, 2016 4:45 pm To: amsat-bb at amsat.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > GoSatWatch. Hands down. > > -- bag > > Bryan KL7CN/W6 > bryan at kl7cn.net > >> On Nov 20, 2016, at 13:21, Dave Marthouse wrote: >> >> What kind of tracking software is available for the IPhone? >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Dave Marthouse N2AAM >> dmarthouse at gmail.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From jameshickox at sbcglobal.net Mon Nov 21 14:18:32 2016 From: jameshickox at sbcglobal.net (James Hickox) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:18:32 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] (no subject) References: <1433593590.1097853.1479737912902.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1433593590.1097853.1479737912902@mail.yahoo.com> Unable to display full message.click here to view this message ___________ Yahoo error code: xu0h311/21/2016 3:18:32 PM From matthew at mrstevens.net Mon Nov 21 16:20:00 2016 From: matthew at mrstevens.net (Matthew Stevens) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 11:20:00 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Sat Tracking Software For IPhone In-Reply-To: <2e3a320fa946ec8301b6b848215a33f9.squirrel@webmail04.register.com> References: <2e3a320fa946ec8301b6b848215a33f9.squirrel@webmail04.register.com> Message-ID: <321DD83E-E463-4042-853B-6B172FAFE2B9@mrstevens.net> Thanks y'all....now I just spent another $10 on a ham radio app ;) - Matthew KK4FEM Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 21, 2016, at 08:55, jim at beeson.cc wrote: > > > > > I agree with Bryan - GoSatWatch is the way to go > > > ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- > > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Sat Tracking Software For IPhone > > From: "Bryan Green" > > Date: Sun, November 20, 2016 4:45 pm > > To: amsat-bb at amsat.org > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >> GoSatWatch. Hands down. > >> > >> -- bag > >> > >> Bryan KL7CN/W6 > >> bryan at kl7cn.net > >> > >>> On Nov 20, 2016, at 13:21, Dave Marthouse wrote: > >>> > >>> What kind of tracking software is available for the IPhone? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> > >>> Dave Marthouse N2AAM > >>> dmarthouse at gmail.com > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > >>> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > >>> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > >>> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > >>> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > >> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > >> > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From gp_ab5r at outlook.com Mon Nov 21 20:26:19 2016 From: gp_ab5r at outlook.com (Gerald Payton) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 20:26:19 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Statellite Pointing Message-ID: Is there a good satellite pointing program online that can be recommended? Sat Pointer is all that I have and I question its accuracy. Thanks for any suggestions. (Please, no cellphone apps.) Jerry AB5R From johnbrier at gmail.com Mon Nov 21 20:45:25 2016 From: johnbrier at gmail.com (John Brier) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 15:45:25 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Statellite Pointing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: http://heavens-above.com 73, John Brier, KG4AKV On Nov 21, 2016 3:26 PM, "Gerald Payton" wrote: > Is there a good satellite pointing program online that can be > recommended? Sat Pointer is all that I have and I question its accuracy. > Thanks for any suggestions. (Please, no cellphone apps.) > > > Jerry AB5R > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From gp_ab5r at outlook.com Mon Nov 21 21:16:03 2016 From: gp_ab5r at outlook.com (Gerald Payton) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 21:16:03 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Correction of last Message-ID: I am NOT looking for a "tracking program." I am trying to ascertain the correct Az and El for I-4-F3 satellite from my location. NOTHING to do with tracking moving birds. Thanks for all replies & sorry for the bad wording. 73, Jerry From n8hm at arrl.net Mon Nov 21 21:26:44 2016 From: n8hm at arrl.net (Paul Stoetzer) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 16:26:44 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Correction of last In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: This should do the trick. http://arachnoid.com/satfinderonline/satfinderphp.php 73, Paul, N8HM On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Gerald Payton wrote: > I am NOT looking for a "tracking program." I am trying to ascertain the correct Az and El for I-4-F3 satellite from my location. NOTHING to do with tracking moving birds. Thanks for all replies & sorry for the bad wording. > > > 73, > > Jerry > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From gp_ab5r at outlook.com Mon Nov 21 21:35:28 2016 From: gp_ab5r at outlook.com (Gerald Payton) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 21:35:28 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Fw: Statellite Pointing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks to Paul and Alan. Both sites gave the same read outs and THANKS to both. The 52 degree elevation from Latitude of 32 degrees just didn't seem right to me. HOWEVER, as usual, I was wrong. 73 To ALL ________________________________ From: AMSAT-BB on behalf of Gerald Payton Sent: Monday, November 21, 2016 2:26 PM To: Amsat BB Subject: [amsat-bb] Statellite Pointing Is there a good satellite pointing program online that can be recommended? Sat Pointer is all that I have and I question its accuracy. Thanks for any suggestions. (Please, no cellphone apps.) Jerry AB5R _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb AMSAT-BB Info Page www.amsat.org To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the AMSAT-BB Archives. Using AMSAT-BB: To post a message to all the list members, send ... From wb3csy at gmail.com Tue Nov 22 01:19:49 2016 From: wb3csy at gmail.com (Rick Walter) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 20:19:49 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Correction of last In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Jerry. I may have come in to this discussion too late. I just remember everyone telling which phone app they would use to track the birds. If you want to see the AZ-EL of the Outernet bird at your location, and you have SATPC32, it is a piece of cake. I used it to show me the bird with the exact AZ-EL for my house. If you tell the program to give a preview of the orbit and speed it up, it does a tiny figure eight dance at the equator, over a 12 hour time period. I'm currently getting between 4 and 10 dB SNR. I suspect the signal varies when the sun moves behind the bird but also when Inmarsat sends a lot of data down. Also, only after 4-5 days I get a great amount of repeats of WIKI items. The software immediately show 100% for the file and just waits until the bird sends something new. I think California took over 50 minutes! It seems to me the 4" X 4" patch antenna is looking slightly east of where the bird should be located in azimuth. 73, Rick WB3CSY Sent from Rick's iPad2 > On Nov 21, 2016, at 4:16 PM, Gerald Payton wrote: > > I am NOT looking for a "tracking program." I am trying to ascertain the correct Az and El for I-4-F3 satellite from my location. NOTHING to do with tracking moving birds. Thanks for all replies & sorry for the bad wording. > > > 73, > > Jerry > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From jc-smith at comcast.net Tue Nov 22 02:32:39 2016 From: jc-smith at comcast.net (JC Smith) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 18:32:39 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] NIB KLM 2M-14C w/polarity switch $165 Message-ID: <043101d24468$b1ef8e40$15ceaac0$@net> NIB KLM 2M-14C w/polarity switch $165 KLM 2M-14C satellite antenna with polarity switch. New in box with owner's manual, polarity switcher, all hardware, etc. Shipping would be approximately $35. Send me your zip code and I will calculate. k0hps at amsat.org. From vu3tyg at yahoo.co.in Tue Nov 22 06:03:59 2016 From: vu3tyg at yahoo.co.in (Nitin Muttin) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 06:03:59 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Fw: Statellite Pointing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <573526339.1848944.1479794639451@mail.yahoo.com> Hi Jerry, You could also try?http://amsat.org.ar/pass.htm | | | Sat Passes Amateur Satellite Tracking Online and Offline Application by LU7ABF | | | ?73 Nitin [VU3TYG] From: Gerald Payton To: Amsat BB Sent: Tuesday, 22 November 2016 3:05 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Fw: Statellite Pointing Thanks to Paul and Alan.? Both sites gave the same read outs and THANKS to both.? The 52 degree elevation from Latitude of 32 degrees just didn't seem right to me.? HOWEVER, as usual, I was wrong. 73 To ALL ________________________________ From: AMSAT-BB on behalf of Gerald Payton Sent: Monday, November 21, 2016 2:26 PM To: Amsat BB Subject: [amsat-bb] Statellite Pointing Is there a good satellite pointing program online that can be recommended?? Sat Pointer is all that I have and I question its accuracy.? Thanks for any suggestions.? (Please, no cellphone apps.) Jerry? AB5R _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb AMSAT-BB Info Page www.amsat.org To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the AMSAT-BB Archives. 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Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From AJ9N at aol.com Tue Nov 22 06:40:36 2016 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 01:40:36 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-11-22 07:00 UTC Message-ID: <19dd26.26e87547.45654263@aol.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-11-22 07:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Private Salesian High School named of St. Dominic Savio, Wroclaw, Poland, telebridge via W6SRJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Fri 2016-11-25 11:12:47 UTC 65 deg Coll?ge Michel Lotte, Le Palais, France, telebridge via LU1CGB (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KF5FYG Contact is a go for: Mon 2016-11-28 10:38:06 UTC 74 deg (***) Watch for live audio stream: http://radio-belleile.fr/contact-iss-michel-lotte-2016/ (sound only, the video will be recorded and available later) (***) **************************************************************************** ** ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n at amsat.org or aj9n at aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8? MHz. **************************************************************************** *** All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. **************************************************************************** *** Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke at sbcglobal.net **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 123 Gaston ON4WF with 121 Francesco IK?WGF with 118 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-11-22 07:00 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1093. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1058. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: Arkansas, Delaware, South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DP?ISS, IR?ISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RS?ISS **************************************************************************** The successful school list has been updated as of 2016-11-18 08:00 UTC. (***) http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 49 on orbit Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Andrei Borisenko Sergey Ryzhikov **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors From mlengruesser at amsat-dl.org Tue Nov 22 08:44:24 2016 From: mlengruesser at amsat-dl.org (Michael R. Lengruesser) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 09:44:24 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] Fwd: Re: Correction of last Message-ID: <358e470f-6cfa-f457-f8fb-db9b14f11a56@amsat-dl.org> Hello Jerry, try http://www.dishpointer.com/ You get all data you need 73 de Michael R. Lengruesser, DD5ER AMSAT-DL e.V. -- International Satellites for Communication, Science and Education -- mlengruesser at amsat-dl.org http:/www.amsat-dl.org Am 21.11.2016 um 22:16 schrieb Gerald Payton: > I am NOT looking for a "tracking program." I am trying to ascertain the correct Az and El for I-4-F3 satellite from my location. NOTHING to do with tracking moving birds. Thanks for all replies & sorry for the bad wording. > > > 73, > > Jerry > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From rjlawn at gmail.com Tue Nov 22 15:21:23 2016 From: rjlawn at gmail.com (Richard Lawn) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 15:21:23 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Help with 9100 & external sound card Message-ID: . I am able to connect to my computer and manage CAT functions and various digital software programs without problems. But I was unable to get sufficient audio stream via 9100 USB to my computer. After several online conversations I bought a rigblaster advantage to handle such things and am still having problems with setup. I now get good audio from the radio to the computer and software, and PTT is handled just fine but I have no audio RF out from the radio either from fldigi or wsjt. I have no idea what's wrong. I think it may have to do with driver conflict as I initially tried a Signalink so it installed drivers and of course the rigblaster did the same, installing new sound drivers. It's interesting that if I choose the USB codec in the software setup for sound in and out, which I believe is actually what was installed by the signalink, the software radio connection works but if I use the sound in and out labeled rigblaster advantage it doesn't. I should add that none of the level controls on the RBA work either even when I choose the USB audio codec as sound sources. Clearly I'm doing something wrong but I can't sort it out. I never had so much trouble getting digital mode software to work on a radio. Frustrated, Rick, W2JAZ -- Sent from Gmail Mobile From dave at g4dpz.me.uk Tue Nov 22 15:46:45 2016 From: dave at g4dpz.me.uk (David Johnson) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 15:46:45 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Changes to FUNcube Data Warehouse Message-ID: <159F1BEE-FC33-48EF-A459-FDC8B185ED81@g4dpz.me.uk> Hi, With prospect of more satellites in the FUNcube fleet, we will be making some changes to the hosting of the FC Data Warehouse. Leading up to and during the Christmas period there may be some outages as we do some migrations. The Dashboards will back-off and catch up when the servers come back on line, at most 30 minutes each time but will probably not be noticeable. More details as they become available. Many thanks as always to those who provide us with data. 73 Dave, G4DPZ From martha at amsat.org Tue Nov 22 22:24:21 2016 From: martha at amsat.org (Martha) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:24:21 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Office Closed Message-ID: The AMSAT Office will be closed from Wednesday, November 23rd - Monday, November 21. For those that celebrate - Happy Thanksgiving! -- 73- Martha From cwo4mann at comcast.net Tue Nov 22 22:33:03 2016 From: cwo4mann at comcast.net (Dave Mann) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 16:33:03 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Office Closed In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8B0A1289-CA84-4994-8E73-F00E3DD210DF@comcast.net> Have a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday Martha! Thank you for everything you do. Dave Mann N4CVX AMSAT Life Member #1848 Sent from my iPad > On Nov 22, 2016, at 16:24, Martha wrote: > > The AMSAT Office will be closed from Wednesday, November 23rd - Monday, > November 21. For those that celebrate - Happy Thanksgiving! > > -- > 73- Martha > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From my.callsign at verizon.net Tue Nov 22 23:34:23 2016 From: my.callsign at verizon.net (KO6TZ Bob) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 15:34:23 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] Landlubber's Award Message-ID: Got my "Landlubber's Award" today. Thanks Paul KO6TZ BOB From k.alexander at rogers.com Tue Nov 22 23:59:18 2016 From: k.alexander at rogers.com (Ken Alexander) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 18:59:18 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Great White North Grid Expedition Message-ID: <31ccc9ba-6002-4656-56a7-70086d924c8a@rogers.com> Things have been getting snowy, windy and cold up here lately, but it looks like the weather will be nice enough to squeeze in one more grid expedition before winter really sets in. I'm hoping to cover 11 grids in 3 days as follows (grids are listed in the order in which I hope to activate them): Day 1, Thursday Nov 24 (Thanksgiving): FN16, FN06 and EN96 Day 2, Friday Nov 25: FN07, EN97, EN98 and FN08 Day 3, Saturday Nov 26: FN17, FN18, FN19 and FN09 Note that 11 grids in 3 days means I won't be spending a lot of time in any one grid. I'll try and operate from grid boundaries where possible. This usually isn't a problem in summer, but when snow has been plowed off the road then there often isn't room to pull over and operate safely. I will be posting tentative schedules shortly. Tentative because everything depends on cooperation from the weather. Hope to work you in a few days. Follow me on Twitter @VE3HLS for updates. 73, Ken VE3HLS From k.alexander at rogers.com Wed Nov 23 00:07:43 2016 From: k.alexander at rogers.com (Ken Alexander) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 19:07:43 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Grid Expedition Schedule for Thursday Nov 24 Message-ID: Tentative and weather dependent, as mentioned before. FN16, Stonecliffe ON 24.11.2016 SO-50 12:15 24.11.2016 XW-2A 13:06 24.11.2016 FO-29 13:38 24.11.2016 SO-50 13:56 24.11.2016 FO-29 15:17 FN06/EN96, West Nipissing ON 24.11.2016 AO-07 18:35 24.11.2016 AO-85 19:39 24.11.2016 AO-07 20:26 24.11.2016 XW-2F 21:39 24.11.2016 XW-2C 22:21 24.11.2016 AO-07 22:25 24.11.2016 XW-2F 23:12 24.11.2016 XW-2A 23:39 (FN06/EN96 may get split into 2 separate sites) From aa5uk at yahoo.com Wed Nov 23 01:02:11 2016 From: aa5uk at yahoo.com (Adrian Engele) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 01:02:11 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Possible EN50/EN60 Activation on Thanksgiving References: <1783838186.58138.1479862931308.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1783838186.58138.1479862931308@mail.yahoo.com> Folks, I will be heading downstate Illinois for Thanksgiving lunch. If the weather cooperates and if there is enough interest I may try to get on the satellites EO-79 at 1547Z and FO-29 at 1600Z between from EN50XO90/EN60AO00 boundary line.? Let me know! Happy Thanksgiving! 73, Adrian AA5UK From jc-smith at comcast.net Wed Nov 23 01:02:10 2016 From: jc-smith at comcast.net (JC Smith) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:02:10 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] TAPR Trak Box kit $50 Message-ID: <054e01d24525$38912af0$a9b380d0$@net> https://www.tapr.org/kits_trakbox.html Complete unassembled kit, "New In Box." $50 + $10 insured shipping. Contact JC, k0hps at amsat.org From ve3nxk at gmail.com Wed Nov 23 01:54:39 2016 From: ve3nxk at gmail.com (Bill Booth) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 20:54:39 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Great White North Grid Expedition In-Reply-To: <31ccc9ba-6002-4656-56a7-70086d924c8a@rogers.com> References: <31ccc9ba-6002-4656-56a7-70086d924c8a@rogers.com> Message-ID: <5834F6DF.1030307@gmail.com> On 2016-11-22 6:59 PM, Ken Alexander wrote: > looks like the weather will be nice enough to squeeze in one more Bring your feather lined jacket and warm boots ... temp here tonite is -8C 18F already and in some place lots of snow on the ground. Check the weather cam below for proof. -- Bill Booth VE3NXK Sundridge ON, Canada 79.23.37 W x 45.46.18 N FN05ns Visit my weather WebCam at http://www.almaguin.com/wxcurrent/weather.html Organ and Tissue Donation - The Gift of Life Talk to your family. Your decision can make a difference. From jc-smith at comcast.net Wed Nov 23 02:11:37 2016 From: jc-smith at comcast.net (JC Smith) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 18:11:37 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] The KLM 2M-14C is sold Message-ID: <056901d2452e$ec64d910$c52e8b30$@net> The KLM 2M-14C is sold. Thanks & 73 - JC, K0HPS From jc-smith at comcast.net Wed Nov 23 03:08:12 2016 From: jc-smith at comcast.net (JC Smith) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 19:08:12 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] The TAPR Trak Box is sold Message-ID: <059001d24536$d3baf040$7b30d0c0$@net> The TAPR Trak Box kit is sold. Thanks & 73 - JC, K0HPS From ingejack at cox.net Wed Nov 23 14:02:56 2016 From: ingejack at cox.net (ingejack at cox.net) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 7:02:56 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] Landlubbers award Message-ID: <20161123090256.2I13B.345562.imail@fed1rmwml304> Received the Landlubbers Award yesterday and just want to say what a fantastic work of art it is. Thanks for the contacts from the Symposium ship and thanks To Paul N8HM for the award. JACK-KC7MG From n4csitwo at bellsouth.net Wed Nov 23 15:36:17 2016 From: n4csitwo at bellsouth.net (n4csitwo at bellsouth.net) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 10:36:17 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS contact with Private Salesian High School named of St. Dominic Savio, Wroclaw, Poland Message-ID: <918449E950D44C9C9F64DCAD339865D7@DHJ> An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Private Salesian High School named of St. Dominic Savio, Wroclaw, Poland on 25 Nov. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 11:12 UTC. It is recommended that you start listening approximately 10 minutes before this time. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and W6SRJ. The contact should be audible over the west coast of the U.S. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. Private Salesian High School named of St. Dominic Savio The Private Salesian High School is the secondary school providing general education that is led by the Salesian Community. The school was established in 1998. They stimulate students to apply knowledge to life, to embrace it wholeheartedly, to face reality with integrity, fortitude and optimism, and to serve society dedicatedly. The school focuses their attention on relationships between students and teachers, and parents and teachers. The school offers opportunities for students' involvement in activities which take place after school, at weekends and at holiday time. The school leads international exchange of students with Germany and Spain. Apart from achieving good academic results, the school provides a very wide range of cultural, sporting, physical, biological, geographical, social and extra-curricular activities for students from other schools and the local area. The school has the title of the Local Center for Environmental Activity, and it was awarded as an international Green Flag certificate in Poland - so, its role is to attract the attention of society to ecological problems, and to raise environmental awareness in the public. The "Perspektywy" magazine has placed this high school in the group of the best catholic schools in Lower Silesia. They took the 9th place in the ranking of high schools in Wroclaw in 2016, conducted by the Polish newspaper named "Wyborcza". The school has experience in conducting and coordinating environmental projects, and it has carried out so far four Comenius and Erasmus+ projects, and it was also a partner in a Youth Exchange project about global warming. During the preparation to the ARISS school contact, students attended an amateur radio course prepared by SP6PWR - a local Polish Amateur Radio Union club (DOT-01 PZK), in cooperation with members from other amateur radio local clubs: SP6ZWR, SP6PSR and SP6PWS. Wlodek SQ6NLN, Piotr SQ6VY and Waldemar 3Z6AEF prepared lectures and workshops on amateur radio classes at school. Teachers of different subjects gave many lessons based on materials the NASA and ESA, associated with the subject matter of the project. School invited a few astronomers, who gave very interesting lectures. Students created models of spaceships, capsules of mankind and science fiction literature. They took part in the 6th Polish-wide Conference of Contributors and Sympathizers of the ARISS programme in Ostr?w Wielkopolski. Students and teachers were invited to the Wroclaw Opera to the "Chopin: The Space Concert". During this event, within the World Space Week 2016, a special guest - an astronaut George D. Zamka gave them an award for promoting astronautics and astronomy amongst young inhabitants of Wroclaw. In cooperation with the Wroclaw University, they organised workshops in the astronomical observatory in Bialk?w, and various activities were undertaken there: observation of the sky, astronomical lectures and exercised astrophysical experience such as building a rocket and a spectroscope. Eventually, a few new amateur radio licensed operators (so-called HAMs) should become active on amateur radio bands in the near future. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. What personality features do you need to have to manage and stay in space for so long? 2. What were your first activities or experiments in microgravity that you did for your curiosity or pleasure? 3. Is it possible to catch flu or cold and if so, can you take the same medicines that we take here on Earth? 4. How many millimeters are you taller on the ISS than on Earth? 5. What emotions dominated you during the first expedition: fear, joy or excitement? 6. What do you think when you look down on Earth and its inhabitants? 7. Do you like to be in constantly free falling state on the ISS? 8. Is it hard to fall asleep in space? 9. What are your duties on the ISS? 10. How well is cosmic rubbish visible from the ISS and how can you protect the ISS against them? 11. Is it true that the Great Wall of China is only object built by humans that is visible from the ISS? 12. How do you feel the changes of time during a day on the ISS? 13. Is it good idea to have pets like a cat or a dog aboard the ISS? 14. Have you got some unusually felling or health problems after a few days in microgravity environment on the ISS? 15. What's your way to deal with boredom in space? 16. How were you selected to work as an astronaut and how were you selected for this mission to the ISS? 17. Will you have a Christmas tree on the ISS this year? PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES: Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status Next planned event(s): Coll?ge Michel Lotte, Le Palais, France, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KF5FYG Contact is a go for: Mon 2016-11-28 10:38:06 UTC Watch for live audio stream: http://radio-belleile.fr/contact-iss-michel-lotte-2016/ (sound only, the video will be recorded and available later) About ARISS: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or informal education venues. With the help of experienced amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with large audiences in a variety of public forums. Before and during these radio contacts, students, teachers, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org, www.amsat.org, and www.arrl.org. Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From ka3hsw at att.net Wed Nov 23 19:06:12 2016 From: ka3hsw at att.net (George Henry) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 13:06:12 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] FUNcube sats not in LOTW? Message-ID: <8057D6837D224914BB10E175E3B89A2E@parents> How do we get the FUNcube satellites (EO-79, EO-80, and UKUBE-1) accepted by LOTW? I don't see them in the ARRL list... George, KA3HSW --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From n8hm at arrl.net Wed Nov 23 19:12:18 2016 From: n8hm at arrl.net (Paul Stoetzer) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 19:12:18 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] FUNcube sats not in LOTW? In-Reply-To: <8057D6837D224914BB10E175E3B89A2E@parents> References: <8057D6837D224914BB10E175E3B89A2E@parents> Message-ID: EO-80 is not a FUNcube satellite and I don't believe it's in there. Since it's unlikely to ever be made available for amateur service, this is not a big deal. EO-79 and UKUBE1 are on the list. If you're looking at the TQSL list, EO-79 is listed as FUNcube-3 73, Paul, N8HM On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 14:06 George Henry wrote: > How do we get the FUNcube satellites (EO-79, EO-80, and UKUBE-1) accepted > by > LOTW? I don't see them in the ARRL list... > > > George, KA3HSW > > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From lanekg at gmail.com Wed Nov 23 19:39:51 2016 From: lanekg at gmail.com (Greg Lane) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 13:39:51 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] N4KGL @ EL79 Thanksgiving Day In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I will try the SO 50 Pass 13:56:17 UTC, 8:56 EST and 7:56 CST I will also checkout FO 29 Pass SSB 16:56:0 UTC, 11:56 EST and 10:56 CST I may just a listen on FO 29. I have not worked a linear sat yet. Greg N4KGL From ka3hsw at att.net Wed Nov 23 20:24:55 2016 From: ka3hsw at att.net (George Henry) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 14:24:55 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] FUNcube sats not in LOTW? References: <8057D6837D224914BB10E175E3B89A2E@parents> Message-ID: Then the league needs to update the list that comes up when you click the "What satellites are supported by LoTW?" link on the FAQ page. Neither EO-79 or UKUBE1 are on that list... George, KA3HSW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stoetzer" To: "George Henry" ; "amsat bb" Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2016 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] FUNcube sats not in LOTW? > EO-80 is not a FUNcube satellite and I don't believe it's in there. Since > it's unlikely to ever be made available for amateur service, this is not a > big deal. > > EO-79 and UKUBE1 are on the list. If you're looking at the TQSL list, > EO-79 > is listed as FUNcube-3 > > 73, > > Paul, N8HM > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 14:06 George Henry wrote: > >> How do we get the FUNcube satellites (EO-79, EO-80, and UKUBE-1) accepted >> by >> LOTW? I don't see them in the ARRL list... >> >> >> George, KA3HSW >> >> >> >> --- >> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >> https://www.avast.com/antivirus >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. >> Opinions >> expressed >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of >> AMSAT-NA. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite >> program! >> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >> > --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From py5lf at falautomation.com.br Thu Nov 24 00:26:32 2016 From: py5lf at falautomation.com.br (PY5LF) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 22:26:32 -0200 Subject: [amsat-bb] CAS-2T Message-ID: Hi Signal of CAS-2T over here today ; https://youtu.be/SHe6ib9Sk3g 73 From kb2m at comcast.net Wed Nov 23 20:38:33 2016 From: kb2m at comcast.net (Jeff) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 15:38:33 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] FUNcube sats not in LOTW? In-Reply-To: References: <8057D6837D224914BB10E175E3B89A2E@parents> Message-ID: My question is why are they named EO-79 and UKUBE-1 in the Catalogue list and not in the ARRL list? Oh well I guess it's add another yellow stickie note to my monitor in preparation for another senior moment while logging the contact :-) 73 Jeff kb2m -----Original Message----- From: Paul Stoetzer Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2016 2:12 PM To: George Henry ; amsat bb Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] FUNcube sats not in LOTW? EO-80 is not a FUNcube satellite and I don't believe it's in there. Since it's unlikely to ever be made available for amateur service, this is not a big deal. EO-79 and UKUBE1 are on the list. If you're looking at the TQSL list, EO-79 is listed as FUNcube-3 73, Paul, N8HM On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 14:06 George Henry wrote: > How do we get the FUNcube satellites (EO-79, EO-80, and UKUBE-1) accepted > by > LOTW? I don't see them in the ARRL list... > > > George, KA3HSW > > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From mccardelm at gmail.com Thu Nov 24 01:19:35 2016 From: mccardelm at gmail.com (E.Mike McCardel) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 20:19:35 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Space Symposium at Sea a Success! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Clint, I found it interesting that this was addressed to the AMSAT-BB, to the AMSAT BoD and to me individually. As such I feel compelled to reply. I speak for myself. You are right that we all need to do our part. Your promotion of AMSAT is not only appreciated but does go noticed. I think anyone who takes the time look past your own self-promotion and patronizing critique of the AMSAT organization would agree with the point you are making and the idea of taking every opportunity to promote AMSAT and recruiting new members. However, I think it is simply untrue to assume that you are the only one doing so. There is a lot of promotion going on by, not only the powers that be but by every day "grass roots" members. As for the success of the Symposium, I will leave that judgement those who attended. I am sure that the event was every bit as successful as any of your myriad of events. That said and looking at the numbers of current members, it will take more than simply speaking promoting and passing out membership forms to get the numbers up. We need to follow up and follow through with the contacts we make and the efforts we put forth. It takes time. It takes ongoing and evolving projects that get people excited and pushes their imaginations to want to get involved. This is something at which, I believe, the AMSAT organization is working hard to accomplish. Reference the number of recent and soon to be satellites and the development of new technologies that will move AMSAT and ham radio into an entire new dimension. Witness the rebirth of work toward HEO and Geosynchronous orbits, cooperative programs with colleges universities, FEMA and the ARRL. "If we build it they will come." (All of these addressed at some point during the Symposium). All of this takes Time, Talent and Treasure. Each of us, as members should be supplying a little of each and doing so without worrying about who gets the credit. If every member of AMSAT would get just one more person to join we would double our membership. So, yes, promote, hand out membership forms, take names, follow-up with people you meet, offer to help them get started, introduce them to other members, start a user group, engage students and college departments of engineering and space science, make yourself available for more than just a demo, a talk or a table at a ham fest. (Again things that happen at and post Symposium.) Yes, Clint, your efforts support and help but engaging people in concert with other AMSAT members and activities will go a lot further. 73 EMike E. Michael McCardel, AA8EM, former KC8YLD Rotating Editor for AMSAT News Service, AMSAT-NA Have you donated to get your Fox-1 Challenge Coin Yet? http://www.amsat.org/?p=3275 > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 1:15 AM, Clint Bradford wrote: > "AMSAT Space Symposium at Sea a Success!" - proudly > proclaims AMSAT-NA on its Web site and elsewhere. > > I suppose there are differing definitions of ?success.? > > The non-broadcast ?AMSAT Status Report? presentation was fairly > dismal - not ?successful? in anyone?s definition - > > - Current income from dues and other sources are not > sufficient to cover day-to-day expenses > > - Projected operating deficit in 2017 approximately $147K > > - Need 3,340 additional members @ $44.00/year to break even > > - Operating losses covered by reserves, non-designated donations > > - Level of deficits is not sustainable in the long run > > As also stated, MEMBERSHIP GROWTH is a MAJOR KEY > in sustaining AMSAT-NA. > > This means at EVERY opportunity (nets, meeting appearances, > EVERY opportunity), we need to promote AMSAT-NA at that ?ground > level.? > > Eighty-six club and conference audiences so far - totaling a few > thousand folks - in person have heard me promote AMSAT-NA - to > the point of mentioning the fact that AMSAT-NA can be included in > one?s estate as one way to support ?keeping amateur radio in space." > > Are YOU carrying with you at all times AMSAT membership forms to hand > out? Are you joining nets as a regular and promoting AMSAT-NA? Or checking > in as a visitor and mentioning AMSAT-NA? Are you promoting AMSAT-NA on > your personal sites (ask Martha for permission to use their logo)? On your > Facebook page? Twitter? > > It feels like it is going to take such ?grass roots? promotion to keep AMSAT-NA > a viable and attractive recipient of our attention AND membership dues. > > Who else has some ?promotional? ideas that individuals can immediately embrace? > > Clint Bradford K6LCS > (909) 999-SATS > (909) 999-7287 > > > > > > From clintbradford at mac.com Thu Nov 24 02:03:55 2016 From: clintbradford at mac.com (Clint Bradford) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 18:03:55 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Space Symposium at Sea a Success! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <12BBAD3B-F1A2-4705-AB10-F146380A409F@mac.com> Thank you, Mike, for your reply. That original message of mine will never be posted on the AMSAT-BB list - my posts are restricted there for the most part. My "self-promotion? irritates some. Brings in a bunch of cash ? (grin). But visitors to my Web site or attendees at my presentations are given information - in a style and format that is entertaining AND informative. I am darned proud of each and every show. Never have I given the same slideshow to groups: Each has about twenty slides that are customized to their club or event. NEVER dull - it is an quite out of the norm for ham presentations - in all the RIGHT manners. Critiquing AMSAT? When I think necessary, absolutely. No AMSAT-NA ?game plan? for the future exists. They have no idea how to ?market? themselves. Look at how AMSAT-UK put on the FunCube project: social media, daily Web site updates - IT WAS EXCITING TO JUST VISIT THE WEB SITE. And there are lessons in marketing to be learned from NASA. Sure, they have a budget for public relations. But there are people within the amateur radio community who are marketing people and public relations pros I am sure. In comparison, AMSAT-NA?s Website had a post in October - nothing the general amateur community was interested in. And then a post this week, declaring the cruise a ?success." But when AMSAT-NA posts a chart to show how less expensive it is to go on a cruise than hold a ?symposium? in a major metropolitan area - then I knew they were being misled. IF, of course, their main objective is to ?build birds and disseminate information about them to the world.? This past elitist cruise symposium did absolute nothing I can find to promote STEM education and informing students, educators, and the ham community at large. Enough for now. THANK YOU for your reply. It will be more than I ever hear from anyone at AMSAT-NA. It is time to prepare for Thanksgiving. Clint K6LCS (909) 241-7666 - personal cell (909) 999-SATS - messages > On Nov 23, 2016, at 5:19 PM, E.Mike McCardel wrote: > > Clint, > > I found it interesting that this was addressed to the AMSAT-BB, to the AMSAT BoD and to me individually. As such I feel compelled to reply. I speak for myself. > > You are right that we all need to do our part. Your promotion of AMSAT is not only appreciated but does go noticed. > > I think anyone who takes the time look past your own self-promotion and patronizing critique of the AMSAT organization would agree with the point you are making and the idea of taking every opportunity to promote AMSAT and recruiting new members. > > However, I think it is simply untrue to assume that you are the only one doing so. There is a lot of promotion going on by, not only the powers that be but by every day "grass roots" members. As for the success of the Symposium, I will leave that judgement those who attended. I am sure that the event was every bit as successful as any of your myriad of events. That said and looking at the numbers of current members, it will take more than simply speaking promoting and passing out membership forms to get the numbers up. We need to follow up and follow through with the contacts we make and the efforts we put forth. It takes time. It takes ongoing and evolving projects that get people excited and pushes their imaginations to want to get involved. This is something at which, I believe, the AMSAT organization is working hard to accomplish. Reference the number of recent and soon to be satellites and the development of new technologies that will move AMSAT and ham radio into an entire new dimension. Witness the rebirth of work toward HEO and Geosynchronous orbits, cooperative programs with colleges universities, FEMA and the ARRL. "If we build it they will come." (All of these addressed at some point during the Symposium). > > All of this takes Time, Talent and Treasure. Each of us, as members should be supplying a little of each and doing so without worrying about who gets the credit. If every member of AMSAT would get just one more person to join we would double our membership. So, yes, promote, hand out membership forms, take names, follow-up with people you meet, offer to help them get started, introduce them to other members, start a user group, engage students and college departments of engineering and space science, make yourself available for more than just a demo, a talk or a table at a ham fest. (Again things that happen at and post Symposium.) > > Yes, Clint, your efforts support and help but engaging people in concert with other AMSAT members and activities will go a lot further. > > 73 > EMike > > E. Michael McCardel, AA8EM, former KC8YLD > Rotating Editor for AMSAT News Service, AMSAT-NA > > Have you donated to get your Fox-1 Challenge Coin Yet? > http://www.amsat.org/?p=3275 > > >> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 1:15 AM, Clint Bradford wrote: >> "AMSAT Space Symposium at Sea a Success!" - proudly >> proclaims AMSAT-NA on its Web site and elsewhere. >> >> I suppose there are differing definitions of ?success.? >> >> The non-broadcast ?AMSAT Status Report? presentation was fairly >> dismal - not ?successful? in anyone?s definition - >> >> - Current income from dues and other sources are not >> sufficient to cover day-to-day expenses >> >> - Projected operating deficit in 2017 approximately $147K >> >> - Need 3,340 additional members @ $44.00/year to break even >> >> - Operating losses covered by reserves, non-designated donations >> >> - Level of deficits is not sustainable in the long run >> >> As also stated, MEMBERSHIP GROWTH is a MAJOR KEY >> in sustaining AMSAT-NA. >> >> This means at EVERY opportunity (nets, meeting appearances, >> EVERY opportunity), we need to promote AMSAT-NA at that ?ground >> level.? >> >> Eighty-six club and conference audiences so far - totaling a few >> thousand folks - in person have heard me promote AMSAT-NA - to >> the point of mentioning the fact that AMSAT-NA can be included in >> one?s estate as one way to support ?keeping amateur radio in space." >> >> Are YOU carrying with you at all times AMSAT membership forms to hand >> out? Are you joining nets as a regular and promoting AMSAT-NA? Or checking >> in as a visitor and mentioning AMSAT-NA? Are you promoting AMSAT-NA on >> your personal sites (ask Martha for permission to use their logo)? On your >> Facebook page? Twitter? >> >> It feels like it is going to take such ?grass roots? promotion to keep AMSAT-NA >> a viable and attractive recipient of our attention AND membership dues. >> >> Who else has some ?promotional? ideas that individuals can immediately embrace? >> >> Clint Bradford K6LCS >> (909) 999-SATS >> (909) 999-7287 >> >> >> >> >> >> From clintbradford at mac.com Thu Nov 24 04:07:28 2016 From: clintbradford at mac.com (Clint Bradford) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 20:07:28 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Space Symposium at Sea a Success! References: <12BBAD3B-F1A2-4705-AB10-F146380A409F@mac.com> Message-ID: Thank you, Mike, for your reply. > > My "self-promotion? irritates some. Brings in a bunch of cash ? (grin). But visitors to my Web > site or attendees at my presentations are given information - in a style and format that is > entertaining AND informative. I am darned proud of each and every show. Never have I given > the same slideshow to groups: Each has about twenty slides that are customized to their club > or event. NEVER dull - it is an quite out of the norm for ham presentations - in all the RIGHT > manners. > > Critiquing AMSAT? When I think necessary, absolutely. No AMSAT-NA ?game plan? for the future exists. > They have no idea how to ?market? themselves. Look at how AMSAT-UK put on the FunCube > project: social media, daily Web site updates - IT WAS EXCITING TO JUST VISIT THE WEB SITE. > > And there are lessons in marketing to be learned from NASA. Sure, they have a budget for > public relations. But there are people within the amateur radio community who are marketing > people and public relations pros I am sure. > > In comparison, AMSAT-NA?s Website had a post in October - nothing the general amateur community > was interested in. And then a post this week, declaring the cruise a ?success." > > But when AMSAT-NA posts a chart to show how less expensive it is to go on a cruise than > hold a ?symposium? in a major metropolitan area - then I knew they were being misled. > > IF, of course, their main objective is to ?build birds and disseminate information about them > to the world.? This past elitist cruise symposium did absolute nothing I can find to promote > STEM education and informing students, educators, and the ham community at large. > > Enough for now. THANK YOU for your reply. It will be more than I ever hear from anyone at > AMSAT-NA. It is time to prepare for Thanksgiving. > > Clint K6LCS > (909) 241-7666 - personal cell > (909) 999-SATS - messages From pedro at dutrasousa.name Thu Nov 24 12:50:44 2016 From: pedro at dutrasousa.name (pedro at dutrasousa.name) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:50:44 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Space Symposium at Sea a Success! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20161124125044.Horde.msMR78yGwtoajFMFYsao3_L@webmail.satavirtual.org> Hi, This is my opinion, and mine alone. I've attended it, and can only consider the Symposium was a success. Period. The non broadcast of the general meeting was indeed a problem, but not enough to be consider the whole event a failure. The items you point out after that (incomes, deficit, members, etc) are not related to the success of the Symposium, but more to the current status of AMSAT. So in my opinion, and mine alone, to label the whole event a failure because of something else is, at least, misleading. 73 de Pedro CU2ZG Quoting "E.Mike McCardel" : > Clint, > > I found it interesting that this was addressed to the AMSAT-BB, to > the AMSAT BoD and to me individually. As such I feel compelled to > reply. I speak for myself. > > You are right that we all need to do our part. Your promotion of > AMSAT is not only appreciated but does go noticed. > > I think anyone who takes the time look past your own self-promotion > and patronizing critique of the AMSAT organization would agree with > the point you are making and the idea of taking every opportunity to > promote AMSAT and recruiting new members. > > However, I think it is simply untrue to assume that you are the only > one doing so. There is a lot of promotion going on by, not only the > powers that be but by every day "grass roots" members. As for the > success of the Symposium, I will leave that judgement those who > attended. I am sure that the event was every bit as successful as > any of your myriad of events. That said and looking at the numbers > of current members, it will take more than simply speaking promoting > and passing out membership forms to get the numbers up. We need to > follow up and follow through with the contacts we make and the > efforts we put forth. It takes time. It takes ongoing and evolving > projects that get people excited and pushes their imaginations to > want to get involved. This is something at which, I believe, the > AMSAT organization is working hard to accomplish. Reference the > number of recent and soon to be satellites and the development of > new technologies that will move AMSAT and ham radio into an entire > new dimension. Witness the rebirth of work toward HEO and > Geosynchronous orbits, cooperative programs with colleges > universities, FEMA and the ARRL. "If we build it they will come." > (All of these addressed at some point during the Symposium). > > All of this takes Time, Talent and Treasure. Each of us, as members > should be supplying a little of each and doing so without worrying > about who gets the credit. If every member of AMSAT would get just > one more person to join we would double our membership. So, yes, > promote, hand out membership forms, take names, follow-up with > people you meet, offer to help them get started, introduce them to > other members, start a user group, engage students and college > departments of engineering and space science, make yourself > available for more than just a demo, a talk or a table at a ham > fest. (Again things that happen at and post Symposium.) > > Yes, Clint, your efforts support and help but engaging people in > concert with other AMSAT members and activities will go a lot further. > > 73 > EMike > > E. Michael McCardel, AA8EM, former KC8YLD > Rotating Editor for AMSAT News Service, AMSAT-NA > > Have you donated to get your Fox-1 Challenge Coin Yet? > http://www.amsat.org/?p=3275 > > >> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 1:15 AM, Clint Bradford >> wrote: >> "AMSAT Space Symposium at Sea a Success!" - proudly >> proclaims AMSAT-NA on its Web site and elsewhere. >> >> I suppose there are differing definitions of ?success.? >> >> The non-broadcast ?AMSAT Status Report? presentation was fairly >> dismal - not ?successful? in anyone?s definition - >> >> - Current income from dues and other sources are not >> sufficient to cover day-to-day expenses >> >> - Projected operating deficit in 2017 approximately $147K >> >> - Need 3,340 additional members @ $44.00/year to break even >> >> - Operating losses covered by reserves, non-designated donations >> >> - Level of deficits is not sustainable in the long run >> >> As also stated, MEMBERSHIP GROWTH is a MAJOR KEY >> in sustaining AMSAT-NA. >> >> This means at EVERY opportunity (nets, meeting appearances, >> EVERY opportunity), we need to promote AMSAT-NA at that ?ground >> level.? >> >> Eighty-six club and conference audiences so far - totaling a few >> thousand folks - in person have heard me promote AMSAT-NA - to >> the point of mentioning the fact that AMSAT-NA can be included in >> one?s estate as one way to support ?keeping amateur radio in space." >> >> Are YOU carrying with you at all times AMSAT membership forms to hand >> out? Are you joining nets as a regular and promoting AMSAT-NA? Or checking >> in as a visitor and mentioning AMSAT-NA? Are you promoting AMSAT-NA on >> your personal sites (ask Martha for permission to use their logo)? On your >> Facebook page? Twitter? >> >> It feels like it is going to take such ?grass roots? promotion to >> keep AMSAT-NA >> a viable and attractive recipient of our attention AND membership dues. >> >> Who else has some ?promotional? ideas that individuals can >> immediately embrace? >> >> Clint Bradford K6LCS >> (909) 999-SATS >> (909) 999-7287 >> >> >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. > Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official > views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From jefforybroughton at gmail.com Thu Nov 24 13:35:08 2016 From: jefforybroughton at gmail.com (jeffory broughton) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 08:35:08 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] YAESU FT-817 TX POWER In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Has anyone ever taken time to actually measure the tx power on vhf and uhf of the FT -817 ? After receiving a new one this week ,I took mine to the work where we have all the eqpt to spec it out and was disappointed with what I saw. Thanks to all who reply. Jeff WB8RJY jeff broughton From normanlizeth at gmail.com Thu Nov 24 13:40:32 2016 From: normanlizeth at gmail.com (Norm n3ykf) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 08:40:32 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] YAESU FT-817 TX POWER In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 5W is the spec for external power. 2.5? on internal battery. On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 8:35 AM, jeffory broughton wrote: > Has anyone ever taken time to actually measure the tx power on vhf and uhf > of the FT -817 ? After receiving a new one this week ,I took mine to the > work where we have all the eqpt to spec it out and was disappointed with > what I saw. > Thanks to all who reply. Jeff WB8RJY > > jeff broughton > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From jefforybroughton at gmail.com Thu Nov 24 14:00:50 2016 From: jefforybroughton at gmail.com (jeffory broughton) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 09:00:50 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Ft817 low power In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: What first tipped me off 2 was, when I whistled a note into the mic on UHF the lcd display would go 3/4 scale and on VHF it would only go 1/4 scale . thats what prompted me to put on the service bench at work.see: www.commsvc.com jeff broughton From jameshickox at sbcglobal.net Thu Nov 24 14:03:41 2016 From: jameshickox at sbcglobal.net (James Hickox) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 14:03:41 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] dd: (8) References: <2020031708.1627243.1479996221812.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <2020031708.1627243.1479996221812@mail.yahoo.com> http://www.asalchemi.com/dcpvxhx.php Delay no't; swift the flight o'f fo'rtune's greatest favo'urs.Alaina Matya From vk4tec at tech-software.net Thu Nov 24 14:10:49 2016 From: vk4tec at tech-software.net (Andrew Rich) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 00:10:49 +1000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Ft817 low power In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1F08FF27-CC2A-4ACA-9513-9820E6375918@tech-software.net> Front back antenna selection Andrew ----------------------------- Sent from my iPhone Andrew Rich e vk4tec at tech-software.net w www.tech-software.net m 0419 738 223 > On 25 Nov. 2016, at 00:00, jeffory broughton wrote: > > What first tipped me off 2 was, when I whistled a note into the mic on UHF > the lcd display would go 3/4 scale and on VHF it would only go 1/4 scale . > thats what prompted me to put on the service bench at work.see: > www.commsvc.com > > jeff broughton > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From w4upd at cfl.rr.com Thu Nov 24 14:13:58 2016 From: w4upd at cfl.rr.com (w4upd) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 09:13:58 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] YAESU FT-817 TX POWER In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5836F5A6.6090906@cfl.rr.com> As mentioned here, 2.5 watts if on internal battery. If you have a voltage source plugged in, it will do 5 watts. However, the supplied power pack will still only give about 3 - 3.5 volts due to the load. My old FT-817 (16 years old), finally died with the known final s shorted. It went so bad, that it fried the driver PC board as well. Since it cost almost half the value of the unit to replace3 the PC board, I bought a newer FT-817ND unit which contains the 60 meter values, and the newer type of finals to prevent the previously mentioned problem. Regards, Reid, W4UPD On 11/24/2016 8:40 AM, Norm n3ykf wrote: > 5W is the spec for external power. 2.5? on internal battery. > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 8:35 AM, jeffory broughton > wrote: >> Has anyone ever taken time to actually measure the tx power on vhf and uhf >> of the FT -817 ? After receiving a new one this week ,I took mine to the >> work where we have all the eqpt to spec it out and was disappointed with >> what I saw. >> Thanks to all who reply. Jeff WB8RJY >> >> jeff broughton >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From matthew at mrstevens.net Thu Nov 24 14:18:48 2016 From: matthew at mrstevens.net (Matthew Stevens) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 09:18:48 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] YAESU FT-817 TX POWER In-Reply-To: <5836F5A6.6090906@cfl.rr.com> References: <5836F5A6.6090906@cfl.rr.com> Message-ID: <337AD607-0A5B-45E5-9EE6-D3697F0E508E@mrstevens.net> It will do 5w on the internal battery, the power indicator will blink when set. Default is 2.5w on internals though. - Matthew KK4FEM Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 24, 2016, at 09:13, w4upd wrote: > > As mentioned here, 2.5 watts if on internal battery. If you have a voltage source plugged in, it will do 5 watts. However, the supplied power pack will still only give about 3 - 3.5 volts due to the load. > > My old FT-817 (16 years old), finally died with the known final s shorted. It went so bad, that it fried the driver PC board as well. Since it cost almost half the value of the unit to replace3 the PC board, I bought a newer FT-817ND unit which contains the 60 meter values, and the newer type of finals to prevent the previously mentioned problem. > > Regards, > > Reid, W4UPD > > >> On 11/24/2016 8:40 AM, Norm n3ykf wrote: >> 5W is the spec for external power. 2.5? on internal battery. >> >> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 8:35 AM, jeffory broughton >> wrote: >>> Has anyone ever taken time to actually measure the tx power on vhf and uhf >>> of the FT -817 ? After receiving a new one this week ,I took mine to the >>> work where we have all the eqpt to spec it out and was disappointed with >>> what I saw. >>> Thanks to all who reply. Jeff WB8RJY >>> >>> jeff broughton >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >>> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed >>> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. >>> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >>> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >> > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From mjohns166 at yahoo.com Thu Nov 24 15:04:08 2016 From: mjohns166 at yahoo.com (Mark Johns) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 15:04:08 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Help with 9100 & external sound card In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <376056029.1354059.1479999848560@mail.yahoo.com> blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px #715FFA solid !important; padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white !important; } Suggest you read the section of the 9100 manual concerning the Data mode. The 9100 puts out notoriously high audio levels from the USB port when Data mode is on. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad On Tuesday, November 22, 2016, 09:21, Richard Lawn wrote: . I am able to connect to my computer and manage CAT functions and various digital software programs without problems. But I was unable to get sufficient audio stream via 9100 USB to my computer. After several online conversations I bought a rigblaster advantage to handle such things and am still having problems with setup. I now get good audio from the radio to the computer and software, and PTT is handled just fine but I have no audio RF out from the radio either from fldigi or wsjt. I have no idea what's wrong. I think it may have to do with driver conflict as I initially tried a Signalink so it installed drivers and of course the rigblaster did the same, installing new sound drivers. It's interesting that if I choose the USB codec in the software setup for sound in and out, which I believe is actually what was installed by the signalink, the software radio connection works but if I use the sound in and out labeled rigblaster advantage it doesn't. I should add that none of the level controls on the RBA work either even when I choose the USB audio codec as sound sources. Clearly I'm doing something wrong but I can't sort it out. I never had so much trouble getting digital mode software to work on a radio. Frustrated, Rick, W2JAZ -- Sent from Gmail Mobile _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net Thu Nov 24 15:08:39 2016 From: amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 15:08:39 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] YAESU FT-817 TX POWER In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Jeff, Years ago, I measured the output frmo my two FT-817NDs. One was purchased in 2004 when that model was released, and the other in 2008 when I started working SSB satellites. Both of these radios will transmit at 5W on high power, across 2m and 70cm, when I tried this into a dummy load. These radios will default to the 2.5W power level when powered on internal battery packs that don't provide some level of voltage above 11V, but can transmit at 5W when you select that power level with the PWR button. This was the case with the Yaesu NiCad packs supplied with the radios, and with aftermarker 9.6V NiMH packs I had been using for many years. I now use the Windcamp LiPo packs that are nomially rated at 11.6V. With the Windcamp packs, my radios power up and start out at the high (5W) power level, instead of having to manually select that with the PWR button. I also like the separate charging port for these packs. Since installing the Windcamp packs a few weeks ago, I have been happy with how they perform. Charging is easier, and quicker, than using higher-capacity NiMH packs as I did in the past. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 1:35 PM, jeffory broughton < jefforybroughton at gmail.com> wrote: > Has anyone ever taken time to actually measure the tx power on vhf and uhf > of the FT -817 ? After receiving a new one this week ,I took mine to the > work where we have all the eqpt to spec it out and was disappointed with > what I saw. > Thanks to all who reply. Jeff WB8RJY > > jeff broughton > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From jefforybroughton at gmail.com Thu Nov 24 21:29:54 2016 From: jefforybroughton at gmail.com (jeffory broughton) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 16:29:54 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Ft 817 Low power mystery solved ! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: There are two ribbon cables on the main unit. A 50 pin at the front from the front panel and a much smaller one at the rear feeding the P.A. I unplugged and then reseated them ,problem fixed. Vhf high = 4.2 watts and UHF = 4.8 watts Out on INTERNAL battery ! Jeff WB8RJY jeff broughton From matthew at mrstevens.net Thu Nov 24 21:47:12 2016 From: matthew at mrstevens.net (Matthew Stevens) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 16:47:12 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Ft 817 Low power mystery solved ! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <0CD3D71F-4250-414E-A26C-6A9D0AA7ADCD@mrstevens.net> Well that's an easy fix! :) - Matthew KK4FEM Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 24, 2016, at 16:29, jeffory broughton wrote: > > There are two ribbon cables on the main unit. A 50 pin at the front from > the front panel and a much smaller one at the rear feeding the P.A. I > unplugged and then reseated them ,problem fixed. > Vhf high = 4.2 watts and UHF = 4.8 watts > Out on INTERNAL battery ! > Jeff WB8RJY > > jeff broughton > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From clintbradford at mac.com Thu Nov 24 17:23:32 2016 From: clintbradford at mac.com (Clint Bradford) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 09:23:32 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium Message-ID: Good point, Pedro! But I believe an entity suffering from financial problems would want the largest-possible attendance at what has traditionally been an exchange of important and pertinent information. Clint Sent from an iOS device. From clintbradford at mac.com Thu Nov 24 22:09:01 2016 From: clintbradford at mac.com (Clint Bradford) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 14:09:01 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium References: Message-ID: <9F0863DD-1B49-48DA-B91B-8ED10CD292B2@mac.com> Good point, Pedro! > > But I believe an entity suffering from financial problems would want the largest-possible attendance at what has traditionally been an exchange of important and pertinent information. > > Clint > > Sent from an iOS device. From seb at wintek.com Fri Nov 25 02:09:59 2016 From: seb at wintek.com (Stephen E. Belter) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 02:09:59 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: When the Symposium cruise was proposed, part of the attraction was that the venue was family friendly, likely resulting in a larger turnout than other potential sites. It was an experiment. We wouldn?t know without trying it. We had volunteers to host the Symposium and the board was willing to try the experiment. I applaud them for doing so. AMSAT had a good turnout and those that went enjoyed the exchange of important and pertinent information. Much of that information will be shared in the Proceedings, in the Journal, and on social media. Will the Symposium in 2017 be a cruise again? Probably not, but the 2016 Symposium was a success by most measures. 73, Steve N9IP -- Steve Belter, seb at wintek.com On 11/24/16, 12:23 PM, "AMSAT-BB on behalf of Clint Bradford" wrote: >Good point, Pedro! > >But I believe an entity suffering from financial problems would want the >largest-possible attendance at what has traditionally been an exchange of >important and pertinent information. > >Clint > >Sent from an iOS device. >_______________________________________________ >Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. >Opinions expressed >are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of >AMSAT-NA. >Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From ke9v at mac.com Fri Nov 25 16:12:35 2016 From: ke9v at mac.com (Jeff Davis) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 11:12:35 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Keep Amateur Radio in Space Message-ID: <2515373F-090F-4E45-92DD-D320AAA4A62F@mac.com> Congratulations to AMSAT on it?s recent successful Symposium! While looking through the slide presentation, I noticed the comment about the AMSAT Journal being a ?major membership benefit?. I agree that the value of the publication is high, but it's much more than simply a member benefit. The AMSAT Journal should be available to anyone who wants it, with or without membership ? as a digital download subscription for $20-$25 a year. The opportunity to find 5000 space enthusiasts willing to invest that amount in a highly specialized publication seems considerably better than finding 3400 new full paying members - at least over the next 12 months. Publishing the Journal electronically would save ALL of the current printing and distribution costs and potentially add enough subscribers who aren't members today to shore up the expected shortfall in 2017. And those who subscribe become prime candidates to eventually become full-freight members. Besides, there must be some who have been members in the past who, for whatever reason, can no longer afford to renew their membership. What good does it do us to cut them off from all contact with the organization? Why make it all or none? If they can?t afford full-membership or don?t see the value at full-price ? why not at least keep them engaged for half price ? by sending them bits instead of atoms? New membership should always include the excellent ?Getting Started With Amateur Satellites? book since it provides the basic framework for good amateur practice on the satellites. It?s value is also high and could become the ?major membership benefit? ? in addition to a digital subscription to the Journal. ?Keeping Amateur Radio in Space? is a BIG mission that will require new members, new income streams, and new ideas to figure out how to accomplish it, and it occurs to me that while this won?t be at all ?easy?, at least this part of the adventure isn?t rocket science. :-) 73, Jeff KE9V AMSAT #28350 From k.alexander at rogers.com Fri Nov 25 17:47:11 2016 From: k.alexander at rogers.com (k.alexander) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 12:47:11 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Great White North Grid Expedition Update Message-ID: A collision closed the highway to FN07 yesterday and I was forced to overnight in FN06. ?I did make it to FN07 a short time ago and my next hotel reservation for tonight is in Val-d'Or QC (FN18). ?Not only am I behind schedule, but there don't appear to be enough good passes to make it worth staying in FN07 this afternoon.? I'm going to drive straight to Val-d'Or after lunch and check in early. ?This gives me time to work out a schedule for Saturday and post it this evening. I will be on the following passes from FN18 this evening: 2207 ? XW-2C2304 ? XW-2A2342 ? XW-2A The plan for today was to activate EN97, FN07, EN98 and FN08. ?I will take an extra day and cover as many as of these as I can on Sunday. 73, KenVE3HLS? Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. From john at papays.com Fri Nov 25 18:26:08 2016 From: john at papays.com (John Papay) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 13:26:08 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] CAS-2T & HO68 Beacon Report Message-ID: <20161125182619.F2FFD8D9E@lansing182.amsat.org> Some are reporting hearing the beacon of CAS-2T, however, I had not been hearing it for the past few days. Yesterday I set it on the Beacon Frequency and waited without tuning around. Sure enough it was eventually heard, but not in a continuous stream. It would send "CE" and then go silent for a while. Then it would send "CASS" and go silent, maybe for a minute or two before sending "CE" again. No response on the voice repeater frequency. In the past it had stuttered when activated. The HO-68 beacon was heard on frequency sending the data but often times it would stop sending in the middle of the data group. It would go off for some time and then come back sending a few characters before going off again. The beacon frequency has been absolutely stable for years. Frequency settings have not been changed here for years and it is always right there every time. 73, John K8YSE/7 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From glasbrenner at mindspring.com Fri Nov 25 19:23:41 2016 From: glasbrenner at mindspring.com (Andrew Glasbrenner) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 14:23:41 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-7 eclipses return Message-ID: <0e6201d24751$6e988ca0$4bc9a5e0$@com> The AMSAT satellite status page at http://www.amsat.org/status/ indicates that as of the morning of 11/25/2016, AO-7 is once again entering eclipse each orbit. This means that the 24 Hour mode change timer is interrupted each orbit, and the satellite will be found primarily in Mode U/v (aka Mode B). As the satellite is powered solely by the now 42 year-old solar panels, it is very sensitive to strong uplink signals, particularly CW. Users should closely monitor their downlink for excessive chirp, warbling or "FM'ing" and reduce power as necessary. More information including frequencies can be found at http://ww2.amsat.org/?page_id=1031 73, Drew KO4MA AMSAT VP Operations From m5aka at yahoo.co.uk Fri Nov 25 19:25:37 2016 From: m5aka at yahoo.co.uk (M5AKA) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 19:25:37 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 145/436 Transponder CubeSat launch Dec 26 References: <1621939334.1002223.1480101937706.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1621939334.1002223.1480101937706@mail.yahoo.com> BY70-1 is a 2U CubeSat with 145.935 to 436.200 MHz transponder planned launch December 26? 2016?http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/formal_detail.php?serialnum=531 Radio ham awarded space achievement honour https://amsat-uk.org/2016/11/25/radio-ham-awarded-space-achievement-honour/ Lunar Amateur Radio Satellites DSLWP-A1/A2 https://amsat-uk.org/2016/11/18/lunar-amateur-radio-satellites-dslwp-a1a2/ FUNcube-1 / AO73 celebrates 3 years in space https://amsat-uk.org/2016/11/21/funcube-1-ao73-celebrates-3-years-in-space/ EO79 FUNcube-3 transponder commences regular operation https://amsat-uk.org/2016/11/10/eo79-funcube-3-transponder-commences-regular-operation/ The book Getting Started with Amateur Satellites 2016 is now in stock at the AMSAT-UK shop https://amsat-uk.org/2016/06/27/getting-started-with-amateur-satellites-2016/ 73 Trevor M5AKA ---- AMSAT-UK?http://amsat-uk.org/ Twitter?https://twitter.com/AmsatUK Facebook https://facebook.com/AmsatUK YouTube?https://youtube.com/AmsatUK ---- From w5pfg at amsat.org Fri Nov 25 19:20:51 2016 From: w5pfg at amsat.org (Clayton W5PFG) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 13:20:51 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] CAS-2T & HO68 Beacon Report In-Reply-To: <20161125182619.F2FFD8D9E@lansing182.amsat.org> References: <20161125182619.F2FFD8D9E@lansing182.amsat.org> Message-ID: My assumption is that people listening for the CAS-2T beacon have not been patient the last few days. It is not continuously transmitting as it was after launch. There is a very long pause between transmissions (several minutes.) I copied the same series of letters as K8YSE/7 yesterday. There might be some confusion on reporting satellite operational status on the AMSAT OSCAR Status Page (http://www.amsat.org/status.) "Not Heard" can be subjective. Either the transponder was not heard or the beacon was not heard. My opinion is to only use "Not Heard" when you have tried the transponder and telemetry/beacon frequencies. Only if you do not hear either one should you report "Not Heard." 73 Clayton W5PFG On 11/25/2016 12:26, John Papay wrote: > Some are reporting hearing the beacon of > CAS-2T, however, I had not been hearing it > for the past few days. Yesterday I set it on > the Beacon Frequency and waited without tuning > around. Sure enough it was eventually heard, > but not in a continuous stream. It would send > "CE" and then go silent for a while. Then it > would send "CASS" and go silent, maybe for a minute > or two before sending "CE" again. No response on > the voice repeater frequency. In the past it had > stuttered when activated. > > The HO-68 beacon was heard on frequency sending the > data but often times it would stop sending in the middle > of the data group. It would go off for some time and then > come back sending a few characters before going off again. > The beacon frequency has been absolutely stable > for years. Frequency settings have not been changed here > for years and it is always right there every time. > > 73, > John K8YSE/7 From pablomiel70 at yahoo.com Fri Nov 25 20:56:13 2016 From: pablomiel70 at yahoo.com (pablomiel70 at yahoo.com) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:56:13 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium References: <1266499870.420114.1480107373572.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1266499870.420114.1480107373572@mail.yahoo.com> Clint Bragford K6LCS, Your posts amount to an epic fail. When AMSAT announced their 2016 symposium would be on a ship, you immediately tried to sink it. You were shot down by numerous, well respected individuals who have something you haven't got -- humility. When's the last time you attended a symposium? Ummm, never?? http://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2016-January/056856.html?http://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2016-January/056858.htmlhttp://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2016-January/056859.html You have no idea what a symposium costs AMSAT. The meeting space, tea, coffee, etc. didn't cost AMSAT a dime on the cruise ship. Just because you don't like W5PFG, don't take it out on AMSAT. Your idiotic posts clearly demonstrate you can't tell the difference between a general meeting slide deck and the symposium event. You just have a bone to pick because someone out-did you, again. I like how you decided to bring the conversation to your personal domain (Yahoo Work-Scat) rather than publicly discuss on AMSAT's message forum, the AMSAT-BB. Petty and weak!? While we are at it, why do you even care about AMSAT? A few months ago, you threatened them with legal action if they didn't "reign in" one of their most dedicated volunteers. That man, WD9EWK, happens to be one of the most generous and outspoken educators in the satellite community. You are not a team player and frankly I don't see why AMSAT didn't strip you of your "Area Coordinator" title sooner! Nobody cares about the "kudos" and "thank you" emails you supposedly get via email. Most of the time, you are talking to yourself on the self-promoting forum threads you scatter across the web. Intelligent people pick up on your silly auctions as a PR trick to get more website hits. Today you're promoting barbed wire antennas again on another forum. How silly? Barbed wire is not an effective material for constructing antennas. Because one guy did it as a novelty, you act like it should work for everyone in every situation. Face it, your advice sucks. Your frequency chart (which was wrong for a long time, BTW) is basically your one trick pony.? Any videos of you working a satellite on YouTube demonstrate your novice skill level. I'm thankful this season that you are not a professional educator in any school system. From clintbradford at mac.com Fri Nov 25 18:48:43 2016 From: clintbradford at mac.com (Clint Bradford) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 10:48:43 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium Message-ID: STEVE>> ? Will the Symposium in 2017 be a cruise again? Probably not, but the 2016 Symposium was a success by most measures ? Which brings us to survival - I am anxious to hear from AMSAT-NA a ?game plan? for survival. Several points were made at the Symposium. I want to hear from our AMSAT-NA how they want mere individuals to promote and assist - that was my last sentence in a post earlier this week - Who has some ?promotional? ideas that individuals can immediately embrace? There has to be some grant money out there ? Clint K6LCS From jim at milnet.uk.net Fri Nov 25 21:39:13 2016 From: jim at milnet.uk.net (Jim Heck) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:39:13 -0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-73/FUNcube-1 Message-ID: Hi Folks, Just say that I have just switched AO-73/FUNcube-1 to full time amateur (transponder ON) mode. Plan as usual is to switch back to auto mode on Sunday pm UTC. Enjoy and have a gr8 weekend. 73s Jim G3WGM From godetj at wanadoo.fr Fri Nov 25 21:55:40 2016 From: godetj at wanadoo.fr (Jean-Pierre Godet) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:55:40 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] CAS-2T & HO68 Beacon Report In-Reply-To: <20161125182619.F2FFD8D9E@lansing182.amsat.org> References: <20161125182619.F2FFD8D9E@lansing182.amsat.org> Message-ID: <5bdd0f6b-97ee-4b36-646f-921badc55e19@wanadoo.fr> Hi John, all ! The last pass I listen to CAS-2T was on November 13th. I will try again tomorrow morning. About Xiwang-1 HO-68, just after the recent post of BA1DU I tried in vain and I gave up. Your mail gives me hope again and I tried around 1625 UTC, a not too good pass of orbit nr 33385 in western Europe and, against all expectations, Xiwang-1 was partially alive, sending few characters between long periods of silence. The signal was significantly weaker than in the past, but it's a real pleasure to hear again the old bird. For comparison, this is a record of the last time I heard Xiwang-1: http://f5yg.pagesperso-orange.fr/incoming/HOPE-1_orb27606_13sep2015.mp3 And now the one of this evening pass, orbit 33385: http://f5yg.pagesperso-orange.fr/incoming/HOPE-1_orb33385_25nov2016.mp3 at 19:25:25 UTC "BJ1SA XW XW AAA TTT", then at 19:26:40 "BJ1SA XW XW". It was at night, so I will try again tomorrow morning with hope, the solar panels illuminated, to receive a full telemetry string. Best 73 ! Jean-Pierre F5YG On 25/11/2016 18:26, John Papay wrote: > Some are reporting hearing the beacon of > CAS-2T, however, I had not been hearing it > for the past few days. Yesterday I set it on > the Beacon Frequency and waited without tuning > around. Sure enough it was eventually heard, > but not in a continuous stream. It would send > "CE" and then go silent for a while. Then it > would send "CASS" and go silent, maybe for a minute > or two before sending "CE" again. No response on > the voice repeater frequency. In the past it had > stuttered when activated. > > The HO-68 beacon was heard on frequency sending the > data but often times it would stop sending in the middle > of the data group. It would go off for some time and then > come back sending a few characters before going off again. > The beacon frequency has been absolutely stable > for years. Frequency settings have not been changed here > for years and it is always right there every time. > > 73, > John K8YSE/7 > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. > Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From kk5do at arrl.net Fri Nov 25 22:14:37 2016 From: kk5do at arrl.net (Bruce) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 16:14:37 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Smile Message-ID: <6c90c77b-3b14-b6fd-83a2-222949238e28@arrl.net> This holiday season is upon us and Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Green Monday are all great opportunities for you to Smile. Yes, when you make a purchase at amazon, make sure you go to http://www.smile.amazon.com and select AMSAT as your charity of choice. A portion of you purchase will be donated to AMSAT by Amazon. You can do all your surfing on amazon.com, before you go to your cart simply change your URL to smile.amazon.com, your cart will remain intact and you can make your purchase there. As always, AMSAT thanks you for your donation and consideration. 73...bruce -- Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards AMSAT Board Member 2016-2018 AMSAT Board Alternate 2015-2016 ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT* Also live streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News http://www.arrl.org AMSAT on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/amsat From fredcastello at gmail.com Fri Nov 25 23:12:03 2016 From: fredcastello at gmail.com (Fred Castello) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 18:12:03 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Circular Polarization vs. Preamps Message-ID: <9E3C84B9-0115-4112-99CE-3BEFB5A1B831@gmail.com> Folks, I have now finally become active again on some of the satellites with a handheld Arrow and my bulky but beloved Kenwood TS-790A. See my QRZ page for picture of how I have it setup outside when I operate. I am trying to put together a more permanent antenna system within my budget. I have been rather surprised how much fade is apparent in some of the birds which responds usually to some degree by twisting the axis of the Arrow antenna. So, my question is as follows: Would you rather have: A) The ability to switch polarization, presumably from RHCP to LHCP (or maybe even vertical to horizontal)? Unfortunately my research shows to date that this option is still rather expensive. Any suggestions on how to achieve this on a modest budget would be appreciated. OR B) A reasonable preamp on both 2 meters and 70 cm? (I have never worked with a preamp yet-though I have ordered the "Original Broadband Satellite RX Preamp? from the AMSAT store and plan on using that and switching it manually depending on what bird I am using into the receive side). For information, I will have about 70 feet of feedline. Assuming that one cannot have both. As usual, I really appreciate your time and input. Best, Fred-KF4FC Fishersville, VA From jefforybroughton at gmail.com Fri Nov 25 23:30:21 2016 From: jefforybroughton at gmail.com (jeffory broughton) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 18:30:21 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT SYMPOSIUM In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Last year's symposium: Attend presentationa all day Have dinner Go home This year's SYMPOSIUM : DAY ONE: Attend presentations all day Have DINNER DAY TWO: Spend the entire next day off ship at a resort eating,drinking,getting a massage. Back to the shop trying to decide which one or all of the 22 resturants to go to. Go to the comedy club. Win some money at the casino. Meet in small groups every evening to talk about the hobby we love so much. Small groups meet all over the ship evening to talk about the hobby we love so much Operate your portable satellite station >From rare grids EVERY DAY ! DAY THREE: REPEATE DAY TWO. Hats off to all who organized this event. It was brilliant,absolutely brilliant. Morale, comorodary, fellowship was over the top.Everyone came away with a wealth of knowledge,a smile on their face and at least 8-10 extra pounds.the quality of food was outstanding. I would do it again tomorrow ! 73 WB8RJY jeff broughton From kayakfishtx at gmail.com Fri Nov 25 23:55:20 2016 From: kayakfishtx at gmail.com (Clayton Coleman) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 17:55:20 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] LilacSat-2 FM was on for a little bit tonight Message-ID: At 23:38 UTC, heard LilacSat-2 FM transponder active. I gave my callsign a few times. It switched off around 23:41 UTC. 73 Clayton W5PFG From k.alexander at rogers.com Sat Nov 26 00:24:53 2016 From: k.alexander at rogers.com (Ken Alexander) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 19:24:53 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Great White North Grid Expedition Schedule for Saturday Message-ID: <80415d2b-ecc6-f7f6-4dbc-236bd78b5788@rogers.com> Val-d'Or QC is colder and snowier than everywhere else I've been. This is where the grid activations are really going to be weather dependent. First of all, I'm afraid I have to sacrifice FN17. It's in the wrong direction and the distances are too great. Tomorrow will be all about FN09, FN18 and FN19. To be efficient, I will try to operate from grid boundaries, specifically FN18/FN19 and then FN09/FN19 a little later. Hopefully, I can park on the side of the highway without getting in the way. If you look at it on a map, the highway (Hwy 109 north from FN18at) connects civilization with...well, very very little! Traffic should be very light. I have a long drive to my next hotel tomorrow evening, so I am finishing up with the AO-7's pass at 2021. I hope I have this right...AO-7 will be in Mode B tomorrow? If not, there won't be much to do. SO-50 isn't positioned well. The only opportunity we have tomorrow is at 1305. I was hoping to do better for the FM-only ops. That's just the way it is. 26.11.2016 SO-50 13:05 26.11.2016 AO-73 14:06 26.11.2016 FO-29 15:14 26.11.2016 EO-79 15:39 26.11.2016 FO-29 17:00 26.11.2016 AO-07 18:28 26.11.2016 AO-85 18:49 26.11.2016 AO-07 20:21 As always, keep following me on Twitter @ve3hls for updates...although, once I'm up there I'll be well out of cellphone range. 73, Ken VE3HLS From k7trkradio at charter.net Sat Nov 26 00:50:22 2016 From: k7trkradio at charter.net (Ted) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 16:50:22 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium In-Reply-To: <1266499870.420114.1480107373572@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1266499870.420114.1480107373572.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1266499870.420114.1480107373572@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <001201d2477f$11cf6970$356e3c50$@charter.net> Excellent commentary, Pablo... Unfortunately, you took the bait, thus giving him another chance to toot his horn.. Everyone knows what he is. Simply ignoring ANY of his posts is the way to deal with the problem. 73, K7TRK -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of pablomiel70--- via AMSAT-BB Sent: Friday, November 25, 2016 12:56 PM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium Clint Bragford K6LCS, Your posts amount to an epic fail. When AMSAT announced their 2016 symposium would be on a ship, you immediately tried to sink it. You were shot down by numerous, well respected individuals who have something you haven't got -- humility. When's the last time you attended a symposium? Ummm, never? http://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2016-January/056856.html http://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2016-January/056858.htmlhttp://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2016-January/056859.html You have no idea what a symposium costs AMSAT. The meeting space, tea, coffee, etc. didn't cost AMSAT a dime on the cruise ship. Just because you don't like W5PFG, don't take it out on AMSAT. Your idiotic posts clearly demonstrate you can't tell the difference between a general meeting slide deck and the symposium event. You just have a bone to pick because someone out-did you, again. I like how you decided to bring the conversation to your personal domain (Yahoo Work-Scat) rather than publicly discuss on AMSAT's message forum, the AMSAT-BB. Petty and weak! While we are at it, why do you even care about AMSAT? A few months ago, you threatened them with legal action if they didn't "reign in" one of their most dedicated volunteers. That man, WD9EWK, happens to be one of the most generous and outspoken educators in the satellite community. You are not a team player and frankly I don't see why AMSAT didn't strip you of your "Area Coordinator" title sooner! Nobody cares about the "kudos" and "thank you" emails you supposedly get via email. Most of the time, you are talking to yourself on the self-promoting forum threads you scatter across the web. Intelligent people pick up on your silly auctions as a PR trick to get more website hits. Today you're promoting barbed wire antennas again on another forum. How silly? Barbed wire is not an effective material for constructing antennas. Because one guy did it as a novelty, you act like it should work for everyone in every situation. Face it, your advice sucks. Your frequency chart (which was wrong for a long time, BTW) is basically your one trick pony. Any videos of you working a satellite on YouTube demonstrate your novice skill level. I'm thankful this season that you are not a professional educator in any school system. _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From wageners at gmail.com Sat Nov 26 01:01:03 2016 From: wageners at gmail.com (Stefan Wagener) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 19:01:03 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Circular Polarization vs. Preamps In-Reply-To: <9E3C84B9-0115-4112-99CE-3BEFB5A1B831@gmail.com> References: <9E3C84B9-0115-4112-99CE-3BEFB5A1B831@gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi Fred, any preamp will only amplify what the antenna receives. No preamp can compensate for polarization mismatch. Stefan, VE4NSA On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Fred Castello wrote: > Folks, > > I have now finally become active again on some of the satellites with a > handheld Arrow and my bulky but beloved Kenwood TS-790A. See my QRZ page > for picture of how I have it setup outside when I operate. I am trying to > put together a more permanent antenna system within my budget. I have been > rather surprised how much fade is apparent in some of the birds which > responds usually to some degree by twisting the axis of the Arrow antenna. > So, my question is as follows: > > Would you rather have: > > A) The ability to switch polarization, presumably from RHCP to LHCP > (or maybe even vertical to horizontal)? Unfortunately my research shows to > date that this option is still rather expensive. Any suggestions on how to > achieve this on a modest budget would be appreciated. > > OR > > B) A reasonable preamp on both 2 meters and 70 cm? (I have never > worked with a preamp yet-though I have ordered the "Original Broadband > Satellite RX Preamp? from the AMSAT store and plan on using that and > switching it manually depending on what bird I am using into the receive > side). > For information, I will have about 70 feet of feedline. > > Assuming that one cannot have both. > As usual, I really appreciate your time and input. > Best, > Fred-KF4FC > Fishersville, VA > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From pconver at gmail.com Sat Nov 26 02:32:18 2016 From: pconver at gmail.com (Pedro Converso) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 23:32:18 -0300 Subject: [amsat-bb] HO-68 CW Beacon heard Message-ID: On orbit 33389 over Buenos Aires, on Nov-26 at 02:10z on 435.790 MHz strong copy of HO-68 CW Beacon. Just at that time, when HO-68 went dark, CW reception stopped. Seems Sun is needed to operate, congrats to recovery team. 73, LU7ABF, Pedro From scott23192 at gmail.com Sat Nov 26 03:54:23 2016 From: scott23192 at gmail.com (Scott) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 22:54:23 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] HO-68 CW Beacon heard In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On the 00:47 UTC pass over the U.S., I copied 3 good CW transmissions, but they were not complete telemetry sessions. The signal did not fade, but rather just stopped after a portion of the expected CW telemetry objects. This pass was almost 3 hours past local sunset, but I don't know if that would put the satellite in darkness or not. I just put a Tweet up with pictures, the decoded CW, and a link to an audio recording of the first of the three transmissions at: https://twitter.com/scott23192/status/802357627212730368 (no Twitter account required to view my post) (if you listen to the audio recording, please note that the changes in tone are not from the satellite, but rather doppler corrections occurring in my tracking software) -Scott, K4KDR Montpelier, VA USA ================================================================ On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Pedro Converso wrote: > On orbit 33389 over Buenos Aires, on Nov-26 at 02:10z on 435.790 MHz > strong copy of HO-68 CW Beacon. > > Just at that time, when HO-68 went dark, CW reception stopped. > > Seems Sun is needed to operate, congrats to recovery team. > > 73, LU7ABF, Pedro From pconver at gmail.com Sat Nov 26 04:06:18 2016 From: pconver at gmail.com (Pedro Converso) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 01:06:18 -0300 Subject: [amsat-bb] HO-68 CW Beacon heard In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Nice and strong signal and graph! Scott, thanks for sharing. You can know if the satellite is sunlit or not in real time during pass. Try http://amsat.org.ar/pass.htm clicking HO-68. If it is sunlit a little Sun Icon will show top right close to the name. If it is dark then the Sun Icon will not show. This takes into account height of satellite and if sees Sun. 73, lu7abf, Pedro On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 12:54 AM, Scott wrote: > On the 00:47 UTC pass over the U.S., I copied 3 good CW transmissions, but > they were not complete telemetry sessions. The signal did not fade, but > rather just stopped after a portion of the expected CW telemetry objects. > > This pass was almost 3 hours past local sunset, but I don't know if that > would put the satellite in darkness or not. > > I just put a Tweet up with pictures, the decoded CW, and a link to an audio > recording of the first of the three transmissions at: > > https://twitter.com/scott23192/status/802357627212730368 (no Twitter > account required to view my post) > > (if you listen to the audio recording, please note that the changes in tone > are not from the satellite, but rather doppler corrections occurring in my > tracking software) > > -Scott, K4KDR > Montpelier, VA USA > > ================================================================ > > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Pedro Converso wrote: > >> On orbit 33389 over Buenos Aires, on Nov-26 at 02:10z on 435.790 MHz >> strong copy of HO-68 CW Beacon. >> >> Just at that time, when HO-68 went dark, CW reception stopped. >> >> Seems Sun is needed to operate, congrats to recovery team. >> >> 73, LU7ABF, Pedro > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From clintbradford at mac.com Sat Nov 26 03:52:07 2016 From: clintbradford at mac.com (Clint Bradford) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 19:52:07 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium Message-ID: Well - good evening to you, too, Pablo. >> When's the last time you attended a symposium? Ummm, never? I just love it when truly ignorant statements are made - as if the writer knew anything about what they are talking about. I attended an AMSAT Symposium when it was in San Jose, CA. I also accumulated one of the finest assemblage of raffle prizes AMSAT-NA has ever seen when I was prize coordinator for their symposium a couple years ago. Got a plaque signed by the AMSAT prez for that effort. I know exactly what a cruise costs. I know precisely what it costs to put on events. I orchestrated a city-wide event for Riverside, CA (population 300K) that had about 7,000 attendees. From parking to logistics to communications to placing a repeater atop a local hill to working with each and every vendor - I know what it takes. I also worked with the publicity director for a large regional newspaper. I have also been involved with several 501(c)(3) organizations with their fundraising and grant writing projects. I also orchestrated an ARISS contact for my City of Jurupa Valley - earning FRONT PAGE WITH COLOR PHOTOS coverage in California?s sixth-largest daily newspaper. Along with NPR interviews, coverage by other video outlets, video highlighted on the Bob Heil / Gordon West Ham Nation mediacast - I did it all for our students. So you have no idea who I am or what I have done. Yet you spout your venom ... A group in financial problems holding an annual event on a cruise. If you do not see how horrible that looks - from a public relations and marketing aspect - then you are either naive or just plain ignorant. I acknowledged on the AMSAT-BB list that you made good points. You are welcome. How I am ?self-promoting? myself - actually ?promoting working the birds? has proven effective. I am approached monthly by conventions, groups, municipalities, clubs - to find out more about working the FM birds. In that aspect - ?spending the word? - I am tremendously successful. >> ? Barbed wire is not an effective material for constructing antennas ? Tell that to the Boy Scouts who used that barbed wire antenna to speak to an astronaut who was aboard the ISS at the time. YOU are just one of a handful that, apparently, just don?t get it. Working a couple of the FM birds is not something one needs to put a lot of money in to. Is using barbed wire the same as spending $500+ and using an M2 2MCP28? Nope. DOES IT WORK FOR THIS? ABSOLUTELY. >> ? you act like it should work for everyone in every situation ? Bovine excrement. Can one make an effective 2M/440 antenna and work a bird or three? Absolutely. >> ? I'm thankful this season that you are not a professional educator in any school system ? Sorry to disappoint you - but I still volunteer for NASA and am earned my registered ARRL instructor position. Clint Bradford K6LCS PS By the way, I don?t see any posts from you suggesting tactics to ?save? AMSAT-NA from its current financial problems. At least a few of us are ? But not you ? From clintbradford at mac.com Sat Nov 26 04:14:53 2016 From: clintbradford at mac.com (Clint Bradford) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:14:53 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium Message-ID: <34577CA3-23F8-4B59-8592-C0F2F48293B3@mac.com> I sure hope you - the moderator of my posts here - allow this little rebuttal to the post from ?Pablo? that you allowed earlier today. My bottom line remains: What can we all do to make AMSAT-NA survive. ??????????????????????????? Well - good evening to you, too, Pablo. >> When's the last time you attended a symposium? Ummm, never? I just love it when truly ignorant statements are made - as if the writer knew anything about what they are talking about. I attended an AMSAT Symposium when it was in San Jose, CA. I also accumulated one of the finest assemblage of raffle prizes AMSAT-NA has ever seen when I was prize coordinator for their symposium a couple years ago. Got a plaque signed by the AMSAT prez for that effort. I know exactly what a cruise costs. I know precisely what it costs to put on events. I orchestrated a city-wide event for Riverside, CA (population 300K) that had about 7,000 attendees. From parking to logistics to communications to placing a repeater atop a local hill to working with each and every vendor - I know what it takes. I also worked with the publicity director for a large regional newspaper. I have also been involved with several 501(c)(3) organizations with their fundraising and grant writing projects. I also orchestrated an ARISS contact for my City of Jurupa Valley - earning FRONT PAGE WITH COLOR PHOTOS coverage in California?s sixth-largest daily newspaper. Along with NPR interviews, coverage by other video outlets, video highlighted on the Bob Heil / Gordon West Ham Nation mediacast - I did it all for our students. So you have no idea who I am or what I have done. Yet you spout your venom ... A group in financial problems holding an annual event on a cruise. If you do not see how horrible that looks - from a public relations and marketing aspect - then you are either naive or just plain ignorant. I acknowledged on the AMSAT-BB list that you made good points. You are welcome. How I am ?self-promoting? myself - actually ?promoting working the birds? has proven effective. I am approached monthly by conventions, groups, municipalities, clubs - to find out more about working the FM birds. In that aspect - ?spending the word? - I am tremendously successful. >> ? Barbed wire is not an effective material for constructing antennas ? Tell that to the Boy Scouts who used that barbed wire antenna to speak to an astronaut who was aboard the ISS at the time. YOU are just one of a handful that, apparently, just don?t get it. Working a couple of the FM birds is not something one needs to put a lot of money in to. Is using barbed wire the same as spending $500+ and using an M2 2MCP28? Nope. DOES IT WORK FOR THIS? ABSOLUTELY. >> ? you act like it should work for everyone in every situation ? Bovine excrement. Can one make an effective 2M/440 antenna and work a bird or three? Absolutely. >> ? I'm thankful this season that you are not a professional educator in any school system ? Sorry to disappoint you - but I still volunteer for NASA and am earned my registered ARRL instructor position. Clint Bradford K6LCS PS By the way, I don?t see any posts from you suggesting tactics to ?save? AMSAT-NA from its current financial problems. At least a few of us are ? But not you ? From AJ9N at aol.com Sat Nov 26 06:35:20 2016 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 01:35:20 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-11-26 07:00 UTC Message-ID: <545d94.1ebd23f2.456a8728@aol.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-11-26 07:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Private Salesian High School named of St. Dominic Savio, Wroclaw, Poland, telebridge via W6SRJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact was successful: Fri 2016-11-25 11:12:47 UTC 65 deg (***) Coll?ge Michel Lotte, Le Palais, France, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KF5FYG Contact is a go for: Mon 2016-11-28 10:38:06 UTC 74 deg Watch for live audio stream: http://radio-belleile.fr/contact-iss-michel-lotte-2016/ (sound only, the video will be recorded and available later) **************************************************************************** ** ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n at amsat.org or aj9n at aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8? MHz. **************************************************************************** *** All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. **************************************************************************** *** Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke at sbcglobal.net **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 123 Gaston ON4WF with 121 Francesco IK?WGF with 118 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-11-22 07:00 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1094. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1059. (***) Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: Arkansas, Delaware, South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DP?ISS, IR?ISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RS?ISS **************************************************************************** The successful school list has been updated as of 2016-11-18 08:00 UTC. (***) http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 49 on orbit Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Andrei Borisenko Sergey Ryzhikov **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors From k6fw1 at verizon.net Sat Nov 26 07:14:53 2016 From: k6fw1 at verizon.net (Frank Westphal) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 23:14:53 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium at Sea Message-ID: I had a fantastic time at the AMSAT Symposium at Sea. I would go again next year if a cruise is offered. How about a cruise out of a Florida port. I learned a lot, had a great time meeting operators face to face that I had only talked to on the birds. Had fun in Progresso. Made a dozen QSO's from rare grids to make the operators who stayed home happy. I went to the Baltimore Symposium two years ago and spent at least as much money as the cruise trip all expenses included. I enjoyed the Baltimore trip, but there was more opportunity to get to know the other AMSAT members on the cruise and exchange ideas. A big thank you to Clayton, W5PFG, and his symposium committee and the AMSAT Board of Directors for believing in the idea and backing it. As far as furthering the fund raising for AMSAT the venue of the symposium has minimal impact on attracting additional dollars. I have to believe a symposium on a cruise ship costs AMSAT less that at a tradition hotel. Attracting additional members will of course increase the income. Getting hams exciting about working the satellites will increase membership. The funding model for most large dxpeditions is half from the operators going on the expedition and the other half from fundraising from the ham community and corporate sponsors. AMSAT is working on the corporate donors. If every AMSAT member was a member of the President's Club at what ever level they can afford that would sure help the deficit. No hobby is inexpensive. Have you checked on the cost of a golf membership lately. I for one think AMSAT is a terrific organization and hope the future is bright. Frank K6FW From godetj at wanadoo.fr Sat Nov 26 11:10:57 2016 From: godetj at wanadoo.fr (Jean-Pierre Godet) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 11:10:57 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Xiwang-1 HO-68 report Message-ID: Hi my friends, With illuminated solar panels, the signal was better this morning than yesterday evening on this pass over western Europe at about 0830 UTC (orbit number 33392) and I was able to copy some whole frames. 08:28:20 UTC, full telemetry frame then silence ; 08:30:50 UTC, only the letter B then silence ; 08:35:35 UTC, two full telemetry frames and the begining of the next one (after that, silence). The record of these two and a half frames is here: http://f5yg.pagesperso-orange.fr/incoming/HOPE-1_orb33392_26nov2016.mp3 and the content here: BJ1SA XW XW AAA TTT AVN VNE ETT TTT TTT TTT TTT TTT TTT TTT TTT XW XW BJ1SA XW XW AAA TTT AVN A6E ETT TTT TTT TTT TTT TTT TTT TTT TTT XW XW BJ1SA XW XW AAA TTT AVN VNE ETT T channel 1: AAA ==> 111 ==> PA number 2 is the one working ; channel 2: TTT ==> 000 ==> beacon mode only ; channel 3: AVN ==> 139 ==> TX temperature + 39 deg. C ; channel 4: VNE ==> 395 and A6E ==> 165 ==> beacon RF output power, large range from 395 to 165 and again 395 milliwatts ; channel 5: ETT ==> 5.00 volts ; all other channels are zero. Have a nice day, 73, long life again to Xiwang-1! Jean-Pierre F5YG From lu3emb at hotmail.com Sat Nov 26 13:10:24 2016 From: lu3emb at hotmail.com (Miguel Angel Baldonado) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 13:10:24 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Circular Polarization vs. Preamps In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Fred There is nothing better than circular polarization for fixed antenna systems. I have worked many satellites with fixed antenna in elevation (35 degrees) but only I could do well with the SSB. I can only work with FMs when installing circular polarization antennas with the possibility of changing their sense (LHCP / RHCP) and installing low noise preamplifiers (AR2) 73 to all Mike LU3EMB Obtener Outlook para Android On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 3:36 AM -0300, "amsat-bb-request at amsat.org" > wrote: Send AMSAT-BB mailing list submissions to amsat-bb at amsat.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to amsat-bb-request at amsat.org You can reach the person managing the list at amsat-bb-owner at amsat.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of AMSAT-BB digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Circular Polarization vs. Preamps (Fred Castello) 2. AMSAT SYMPOSIUM (jeffory broughton) 3. LilacSat-2 FM was on for a little bit tonight (Clayton Coleman) 4. Great White North Grid Expedition Schedule for Saturday (Ken Alexander) 5. Re: AMSAT Symposium (Ted) 6. Re: Circular Polarization vs. Preamps (Stefan Wagener) 7. HO-68 CW Beacon heard (Pedro Converso) 8. Re: HO-68 CW Beacon heard (Scott) 9. Re: HO-68 CW Beacon heard (Pedro Converso) 10. AMSAT Symposium (Clint Bradford) 11. AMSAT Symposium (Clint Bradford) 12. Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-11-26 07:00 UTC (AJ9N at aol.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 18:12:03 -0500 From: Fred Castello To: AMSAT bbs Subject: [amsat-bb] Circular Polarization vs. Preamps Message-ID: <9E3C84B9-0115-4112-99CE-3BEFB5A1B831 at gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Folks, I have now finally become active again on some of the satellites with a handheld Arrow and my bulky but beloved Kenwood TS-790A. See my QRZ page for picture of how I have it setup outside when I operate. I am trying to put together a more permanent antenna system within my budget. I have been rather surprised how much fade is apparent in some of the birds which responds usually to some degree by twisting the axis of the Arrow antenna. So, my question is as follows: Would you rather have: A) The ability to switch polarization, presumably from RHCP to LHCP (or maybe even vertical to horizontal)? Unfortunately my research shows to date that this option is still rather expensive. Any suggestions on how to achieve this on a modest budget would be appreciated. OR B) A reasonable preamp on both 2 meters and 70 cm? (I have never worked with a preamp yet-though I have ordered the "Original Broadband Satellite RX Preamp? from the AMSAT store and plan on using that and switching it manually depending on what bird I am using into the receive side). For information, I will have about 70 feet of feedline. Assuming that one cannot have both. As usual, I really appreciate your time and input. Best, Fred-KF4FC Fishersville, VA ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 18:30:21 -0500 From: jeffory broughton To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT SYMPOSIUM Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Last year's symposium: Attend presentationa all day Have dinner Go home This year's SYMPOSIUM : DAY ONE: Attend presentations all day Have DINNER DAY TWO: Spend the entire next day off ship at a resort eating,drinking,getting a massage. Back to the shop trying to decide which one or all of the 22 resturants to go to. Go to the comedy club. Win some money at the casino. Meet in small groups every evening to talk about the hobby we love so much. Small groups meet all over the ship evening to talk about the hobby we love so much Operate your portable satellite station >From rare grids EVERY DAY ! DAY THREE: REPEATE DAY TWO. Hats off to all who organized this event. It was brilliant,absolutely brilliant. Morale, comorodary, fellowship was over the top.Everyone came away with a wealth of knowledge,a smile on their face and at least 8-10 extra pounds.the quality of food was outstanding. I would do it again tomorrow ! 73 WB8RJY jeff broughton ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 17:55:20 -0600 From: Clayton Coleman To: AMSAT-BB Subject: [amsat-bb] LilacSat-2 FM was on for a little bit tonight Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 At 23:38 UTC, heard LilacSat-2 FM transponder active. I gave my callsign a few times. It switched off around 23:41 UTC. 73 Clayton W5PFG ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 19:24:53 -0500 From: Ken Alexander To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Great White North Grid Expedition Schedule for Saturday Message-ID: <80415d2b-ecc6-f7f6-4dbc-236bd78b5788 at rogers.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Val-d'Or QC is colder and snowier than everywhere else I've been. This is where the grid activations are really going to be weather dependent. First of all, I'm afraid I have to sacrifice FN17. It's in the wrong direction and the distances are too great. Tomorrow will be all about FN09, FN18 and FN19. To be efficient, I will try to operate from grid boundaries, specifically FN18/FN19 and then FN09/FN19 a little later. Hopefully, I can park on the side of the highway without getting in the way. If you look at it on a map, the highway (Hwy 109 north from FN18at) connects civilization with...well, very very little! Traffic should be very light. I have a long drive to my next hotel tomorrow evening, so I am finishing up with the AO-7's pass at 2021. I hope I have this right...AO-7 will be in Mode B tomorrow? If not, there won't be much to do. SO-50 isn't positioned well. The only opportunity we have tomorrow is at 1305. I was hoping to do better for the FM-only ops. That's just the way it is. 26.11.2016 SO-50 13:05 26.11.2016 AO-73 14:06 26.11.2016 FO-29 15:14 26.11.2016 EO-79 15:39 26.11.2016 FO-29 17:00 26.11.2016 AO-07 18:28 26.11.2016 AO-85 18:49 26.11.2016 AO-07 20:21 As always, keep following me on Twitter @ve3hls for updates...although, once I'm up there I'll be well out of cellphone range. 73, Ken VE3HLS ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 16:50:22 -0800 From: "Ted" To: , "'Amsat BB'" Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium Message-ID: <001201d2477f$11cf6970$356e3c50$@charter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Excellent commentary, Pablo... Unfortunately, you took the bait, thus giving him another chance to toot his horn.. Everyone knows what he is. Simply ignoring ANY of his posts is the way to deal with the problem. 73, K7TRK -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of pablomiel70--- via AMSAT-BB Sent: Friday, November 25, 2016 12:56 PM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium Clint Bragford K6LCS, Your posts amount to an epic fail. When AMSAT announced their 2016 symposium would be on a ship, you immediately tried to sink it. You were shot down by numerous, well respected individuals who have something you haven't got -- humility. When's the last time you attended a symposium? Ummm, never? http://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2016-January/056856.html http://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2016-January/056858.htmlhttp://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2016-January/056859.html You have no idea what a symposium costs AMSAT. The meeting space, tea, coffee, etc. didn't cost AMSAT a dime on the cruise ship. Just because you don't like W5PFG, don't take it out on AMSAT. Your idiotic posts clearly demonstrate you can't tell the difference between a general meeting slide deck and the symposium event. You just have a bone to pick because someone out-did you, again. I like how you decided to bring the conversation to your personal domain (Yahoo Work-Scat) rather than publicly discuss on AMSAT's message forum, the AMSAT-BB. Petty and weak! While we are at it, why do you even care about AMSAT? A few months ago, you threatened them with legal action if they didn't "reign in" one of their most dedicated volunteers. That man, WD9EWK, happens to be one of the most generous and outspoken educators in the satellite community. You are not a team player and frankly I don't see why AMSAT didn't strip you of your "Area Coordinator" title sooner! Nobody cares about the "kudos" and "thank you" emails you supposedly get via email. Most of the time, you are talking to yourself on the self-promoting forum threads you scatter across the web. Intelligent people pick up on your silly auctions as a PR trick to get more website hits. Today you're promoting barbed wire antennas again on another forum. How silly? Barbed wire is not an effective material for constructing antennas. Because one guy did it as a novelty, you act like it should work for everyone in every situation. Face it, your advice sucks. Your frequency chart (which was wrong for a long time, BTW) is basically your one trick pony. Any videos of you working a satellite on YouTube demonstrate your novice skill level. I'm thankful this season that you are not a professional educator in any school system. _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 19:01:03 -0600 From: Stefan Wagener To: Fred Castello Cc: AMSAT bbs Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Circular Polarization vs. Preamps Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi Fred, any preamp will only amplify what the antenna receives. No preamp can compensate for polarization mismatch. Stefan, VE4NSA On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Fred Castello wrote: > Folks, > > I have now finally become active again on some of the satellites with a > handheld Arrow and my bulky but beloved Kenwood TS-790A. See my QRZ page > for picture of how I have it setup outside when I operate. I am trying to > put together a more permanent antenna system within my budget. I have been > rather surprised how much fade is apparent in some of the birds which > responds usually to some degree by twisting the axis of the Arrow antenna. > So, my question is as follows: > > Would you rather have: > > A) The ability to switch polarization, presumably from RHCP to LHCP > (or maybe even vertical to horizontal)? Unfortunately my research shows to > date that this option is still rather expensive. Any suggestions on how to > achieve this on a modest budget would be appreciated. > > OR > > B) A reasonable preamp on both 2 meters and 70 cm? (I have never > worked with a preamp yet-though I have ordered the "Original Broadband > Satellite RX Preamp? from the AMSAT store and plan on using that and > switching it manually depending on what bird I am using into the receive > side). > For information, I will have about 70 feet of feedline. > > Assuming that one cannot have both. > As usual, I really appreciate your time and input. > Best, > Fred-KF4FC > Fishersville, VA > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 23:32:18 -0300 From: Pedro Converso To: AMSAT Subject: [amsat-bb] HO-68 CW Beacon heard Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On orbit 33389 over Buenos Aires, on Nov-26 at 02:10z on 435.790 MHz strong copy of HO-68 CW Beacon. Just at that time, when HO-68 went dark, CW reception stopped. Seems Sun is needed to operate, congrats to recovery team. 73, LU7ABF, Pedro ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 22:54:23 -0500 From: Scott To: AMSAT Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] HO-68 CW Beacon heard Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On the 00:47 UTC pass over the U.S., I copied 3 good CW transmissions, but they were not complete telemetry sessions. The signal did not fade, but rather just stopped after a portion of the expected CW telemetry objects. This pass was almost 3 hours past local sunset, but I don't know if that would put the satellite in darkness or not. I just put a Tweet up with pictures, the decoded CW, and a link to an audio recording of the first of the three transmissions at: https://twitter.com/scott23192/status/802357627212730368 (no Twitter account required to view my post) (if you listen to the audio recording, please note that the changes in tone are not from the satellite, but rather doppler corrections occurring in my tracking software) -Scott, K4KDR Montpelier, VA USA ================================================================ On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Pedro Converso wrote: > On orbit 33389 over Buenos Aires, on Nov-26 at 02:10z on 435.790 MHz > strong copy of HO-68 CW Beacon. > > Just at that time, when HO-68 went dark, CW reception stopped. > > Seems Sun is needed to operate, congrats to recovery team. > > 73, LU7ABF, Pedro ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 01:06:18 -0300 From: Pedro Converso To: Scott Cc: AMSAT Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] HO-68 CW Beacon heard Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Nice and strong signal and graph! Scott, thanks for sharing. You can know if the satellite is sunlit or not in real time during pass. Try http://amsat.org.ar/pass.htm clicking HO-68. If it is sunlit a little Sun Icon will show top right close to the name. If it is dark then the Sun Icon will not show. This takes into account height of satellite and if sees Sun. 73, lu7abf, Pedro On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 12:54 AM, Scott wrote: > On the 00:47 UTC pass over the U.S., I copied 3 good CW transmissions, but > they were not complete telemetry sessions. The signal did not fade, but > rather just stopped after a portion of the expected CW telemetry objects. > > This pass was almost 3 hours past local sunset, but I don't know if that > would put the satellite in darkness or not. > > I just put a Tweet up with pictures, the decoded CW, and a link to an audio > recording of the first of the three transmissions at: > > https://twitter.com/scott23192/status/802357627212730368 (no Twitter > account required to view my post) > > (if you listen to the audio recording, please note that the changes in tone > are not from the satellite, but rather doppler corrections occurring in my > tracking software) > > -Scott, K4KDR > Montpelier, VA USA > > ================================================================ > > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Pedro Converso wrote: > >> On orbit 33389 over Buenos Aires, on Nov-26 at 02:10z on 435.790 MHz >> strong copy of HO-68 CW Beacon. >> >> Just at that time, when HO-68 went dark, CW reception stopped. >> >> Seems Sun is needed to operate, congrats to recovery team. >> >> 73, LU7ABF, Pedro > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 19:52:07 -0800 From: Clint Bradford To: AMSAT BB Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Well - good evening to you, too, Pablo. >> When's the last time you attended a symposium? Ummm, never? I just love it when truly ignorant statements are made - as if the writer knew anything about what they are talking about. I attended an AMSAT Symposium when it was in San Jose, CA. I also accumulated one of the finest assemblage of raffle prizes AMSAT-NA has ever seen when I was prize coordinator for their symposium a couple years ago. Got a plaque signed by the AMSAT prez for that effort. I know exactly what a cruise costs. I know precisely what it costs to put on events. I orchestrated a city-wide event for Riverside, CA (population 300K) that had about 7,000 attendees. From parking to logistics to communications to placing a repeater atop a local hill to working with each and every vendor - I know what it takes. I also worked with the publicity director for a large regional newspaper. I have also been involved with several 501(c)(3) organizations with their fundraising and grant writing projects. I also orchestrated an ARISS contact for my City of Jurupa Valley - earning FRONT PAGE WITH COLOR PHOTOS coverage in California?s sixth-largest daily newspaper. Along with NPR interviews, coverage by other video outlets, video highlighted on the Bob Heil / Gordon West Ham Nation mediacast - I did it all for our students. So you have no idea who I am or what I have done. Yet you spout your venom ... A group in financial problems holding an annual event on a cruise. If you do not see how horrible that looks - from a public relations and marketing aspect - then you are either naive or just plain ignorant. I acknowledged on the AMSAT-BB list that you made good points. You are welcome. How I am ?self-promoting? myself - actually ?promoting working the birds? has proven effective. I am approached monthly by conventions, groups, municipalities, clubs - to find out more about working the FM birds. In that aspect - ?spending the word? - I am tremendously successful. >> ? Barbed wire is not an effective material for constructing antennas ? Tell that to the Boy Scouts who used that barbed wire antenna to speak to an astronaut who was aboard the ISS at the time. YOU are just one of a handful that, apparently, just don?t get it. Working a couple of the FM birds is not something one needs to put a lot of money in to. Is using barbed wire the same as spending $500+ and using an M2 2MCP28? Nope. DOES IT WORK FOR THIS? ABSOLUTELY. >> ? you act like it should work for everyone in every situation ? Bovine excrement. Can one make an effective 2M/440 antenna and work a bird or three? Absolutely. >> ? I'm thankful this season that you are not a professional educator in any school system ? Sorry to disappoint you - but I still volunteer for NASA and am earned my registered ARRL instructor position. Clint Bradford K6LCS PS By the way, I don?t see any posts from you suggesting tactics to ?save? AMSAT-NA from its current financial problems. At least a few of us are ? But not you ? ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:14:53 -0800 From: Clint Bradford To: AMSAT BB Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium Message-ID: <34577CA3-23F8-4B59-8592-C0F2F48293B3 at mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 I sure hope you - the moderator of my posts here - allow this little rebuttal to the post from ?Pablo? that you allowed earlier today. My bottom line remains: What can we all do to make AMSAT-NA survive. ??????????????????????????? Well - good evening to you, too, Pablo. >> When's the last time you attended a symposium? Ummm, never? I just love it when truly ignorant statements are made - as if the writer knew anything about what they are talking about. I attended an AMSAT Symposium when it was in San Jose, CA. I also accumulated one of the finest assemblage of raffle prizes AMSAT-NA has ever seen when I was prize coordinator for their symposium a couple years ago. Got a plaque signed by the AMSAT prez for that effort. I know exactly what a cruise costs. I know precisely what it costs to put on events. I orchestrated a city-wide event for Riverside, CA (population 300K) that had about 7,000 attendees. From parking to logistics to communications to placing a repeater atop a local hill to working with each and every vendor - I know what it takes. I also worked with the publicity director for a large regional newspaper. I have also been involved with several 501(c)(3) organizations with their fundraising and grant writing projects. I also orchestrated an ARISS contact for my City of Jurupa Valley - earning FRONT PAGE WITH COLOR PHOTOS coverage in California?s sixth-largest daily newspaper. Along with NPR interviews, coverage by other video outlets, video highlighted on the Bob Heil / Gordon West Ham Nation mediacast - I did it all for our students. So you have no idea who I am or what I have done. Yet you spout your venom ... A group in financial problems holding an annual event on a cruise. If you do not see how horrible that looks - from a public relations and marketing aspect - then you are either naive or just plain ignorant. I acknowledged on the AMSAT-BB list that you made good points. You are welcome. How I am ?self-promoting? myself - actually ?promoting working the birds? has proven effective. I am approached monthly by conventions, groups, municipalities, clubs - to find out more about working the FM birds. In that aspect - ?spending the word? - I am tremendously successful. >> ? Barbed wire is not an effective material for constructing antennas ? Tell that to the Boy Scouts who used that barbed wire antenna to speak to an astronaut who was aboard the ISS at the time. YOU are just one of a handful that, apparently, just don?t get it. Working a couple of the FM birds is not something one needs to put a lot of money in to. Is using barbed wire the same as spending $500+ and using an M2 2MCP28? Nope. DOES IT WORK FOR THIS? ABSOLUTELY. >> ? you act like it should work for everyone in every situation ? Bovine excrement. Can one make an effective 2M/440 antenna and work a bird or three? Absolutely. >> ? I'm thankful this season that you are not a professional educator in any school system ? Sorry to disappoint you - but I still volunteer for NASA and am earned my registered ARRL instructor position. Clint Bradford K6LCS PS By the way, I don?t see any posts from you suggesting tactics to ?save? AMSAT-NA from its current financial problems. At least a few of us are ? But not you ? ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 01:35:20 -0500 From: AJ9N at aol.com To: amsat-bb at AMSAT.Org Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-11-26 07:00 UTC Message-ID: <545d94.1ebd23f2.456a8728 at aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-11-26 07:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Private Salesian High School named of St. Dominic Savio, Wroclaw, Poland, telebridge via W6SRJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact was successful: Fri 2016-11-25 11:12:47 UTC 65 deg (***) Coll?ge Michel Lotte, Le Palais, France, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KF5FYG Contact is a go for: Mon 2016-11-28 10:38:06 UTC 74 deg Watch for live audio stream: http://radio-belleile.fr/contact-iss-michel-lotte-2016/ (sound only, the video will be recorded and available later) **************************************************************************** ** ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n at amsat.org or aj9n at aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8? MHz. **************************************************************************** *** All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. **************************************************************************** *** Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke at sbcglobal.net **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 123 Gaston ON4WF with 121 Francesco IK?WGF with 118 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-11-22 07:00 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1094. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1059. (***) Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: Arkansas, Delaware, South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DP?ISS, IR?ISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RS?ISS **************************************************************************** The successful school list has been updated as of 2016-11-18 08:00 UTC. (***) http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 49 on orbit Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Andrei Borisenko Sergey Ryzhikov **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Sent via amsat-bb at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb ------------------------------ End of AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 11, Issue 375 ***************************************** From skristof at etczone.com Sat Nov 26 13:31:26 2016 From: skristof at etczone.com (skristof at etczone.com) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 08:31:26 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Great White North Grid Expedition Schedule for Saturday In-Reply-To: <80415d2b-ecc6-f7f6-4dbc-236bd78b5788@rogers.com> References: <80415d2b-ecc6-f7f6-4dbc-236bd78b5788@rogers.com> Message-ID: You had a nice pile-up on SO-50 this morning, Ken. Thanks for doing the expedition and thanks for the QSO!! Steve AI9IN EM79 On 2016-11-25 19:24, Ken Alexander wrote: > Val-d'Or QC is colder and snowier than everywhere else I've been. This is where the grid activations are really going to be weather dependent. > > First of all, I'm afraid I have to sacrifice FN17. It's in the wrong direction and the distances are too great. Tomorrow will be all about FN09, FN18 and FN19. To be efficient, I will try to operate from grid boundaries, specifically FN18/FN19 and then FN09/FN19 a little later. Hopefully, I can park on the side of the highway without getting in the way. If you look at it on a map, the highway (Hwy 109 north from FN18at) connects civilization with...well, very very little! Traffic should be very light. > > I have a long drive to my next hotel tomorrow evening, so I am finishing up with the AO-7's pass at 2021. I hope I have this right...AO-7 will be in Mode B tomorrow? If not, there won't be much to do. > > SO-50 isn't positioned well. The only opportunity we have tomorrow is at 1305. I was hoping to do better for the FM-only ops. That's just the way it is. > > 26.11.2016 SO-50 13:05 > 26.11.2016 AO-73 14:06 > 26.11.2016 FO-29 15:14 > 26.11.2016 EO-79 15:39 > 26.11.2016 FO-29 17:00 > 26.11.2016 AO-07 18:28 > 26.11.2016 AO-85 18:49 > 26.11.2016 AO-07 20:21 > > As always, keep following me on Twitter @ve3hls for updates...although, once I'm up there I'll be well out of cellphone range. > > 73, > > Ken > VE3HLS > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From skristof at etczone.com Sat Nov 26 15:08:59 2016 From: skristof at etczone.com (skristof at etczone.com) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 10:08:59 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] EO79 telemetry Message-ID: <474dd339c06faa8eafc1a4fd0e5b2094@etczone.com> Can the FunCube Dashboard that decodes the AO73 telemetry also decode the EO79 telemetry? I checked the AMSAT-UK website and didn't find an answer, but I may not have looked in the right spot. Steve AI9IN From amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net Sat Nov 26 15:29:14 2016 From: amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 15:29:14 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Mr. Bradford, You are partially correct in your statement about the 2011 AMSAT Symposium that was hosted in San Jose. You were involved in obtaining prizes that were awarded during that Symposium, but you did not attend that Symposium. I was there, enjoying what was for me the second AMSAT Symposium held on the west coast, after attending the 2006 Symposium that was hosted in Foster City CA, south of SFO airport. During the 2011 Symposium, Mr. Bradford contacted me with two questions: 1. Did the prizes make it to the Symposium? 2. Was he recognized for his work in obtaining prizes? I answered "yes" to both questions. There would have been no need to contact me and ask these questions, had he attended the Symposium. I quickly went through the photos I took during the 2011 Symposium, where I had been taking photos of different people. Nothing with Mr. Bradford. I also looked in the AMSAT-BB archives and the archives of his own Yahoo! mailing list. No mention of being at the Symposium while it was taking place, and nothing after the Symposium referring to being there. To use a quote of his from a recent post in another forum... "Just for accuracy's sake." Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 3:52 AM, Clint Bradford wrote: > Well - good evening to you, too, Pablo. > > >> When's the last time you attended a symposium? Ummm, never? > > I just love it when truly ignorant statements are made - as if the writer > knew anything about > what they are talking about. > > I attended an AMSAT Symposium when it was in San Jose, CA. I also > accumulated one of the > finest assemblage of raffle prizes AMSAT-NA has ever seen when I was > prize coordinator > for their symposium a couple years ago. Got a plaque signed by the AMSAT > prez for that effort. > > From n8hm at arrl.net Sat Nov 26 15:36:26 2016 From: n8hm at arrl.net (Paul Stoetzer) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 15:36:26 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] EO79 telemetry In-Reply-To: <474dd339c06faa8eafc1a4fd0e5b2094@etczone.com> References: <474dd339c06faa8eafc1a4fd0e5b2094@etczone.com> Message-ID: No. EO-79's telemetry is from the primary transceiver on board and is in a different format. It's FUNcube payload does not include the FUNcube telemetry system, just the transponder. 73, Paul, N8HM On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 10:09 wrote: > Can the FunCube Dashboard that decodes the AO73 telemetry also decode > the EO79 telemetry? I checked the AMSAT-UK website and didn't find an > answer, but I may not have looked in the right spot. > > Steve AI9IN > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From g.shirville at btinternet.com Sat Nov 26 16:19:10 2016 From: g.shirville at btinternet.com (Graham Shirville) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 16:19:10 -0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] EO79 telemetry In-Reply-To: References: <474dd339c06faa8eafc1a4fd0e5b2094@etczone.com> Message-ID: <8477E11ACC9540E398B21E4FB435F504@allgood.local> Hi all, Mike DK3WN has some nice decoding software for the telemetry from this spacecraft. http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?page_id=75524 73 Graham -----Original Message----- From: Paul Stoetzer Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2016 3:36 PM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org ; skristof at etczone.com Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] EO79 telemetry No. EO-79's telemetry is from the primary transceiver on board and is in a different format. It's FUNcube payload does not include the FUNcube telemetry system, just the transponder. 73, Paul, N8HM On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 10:09 wrote: > Can the FunCube Dashboard that decodes the AO73 telemetry also decode > the EO79 telemetry? I checked the AMSAT-UK website and didn't find an > answer, but I may not have looked in the right spot. > > Steve AI9IN > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From n4csitwo at bellsouth.net Sat Nov 26 17:23:25 2016 From: n4csitwo at bellsouth.net (n4csitwo at bellsouth.net) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 12:23:25 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] =?iso-8859-1?q?Upcoming_ARISS_contact_with_Coll=E8ge_M?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ichel_Lotte=2C_Le_Palais=2C_France?= Message-ID: <6708058CF85F42FB96B662E477072A9B@DHJ> An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Coll?ge Michel Lotte, Le Palais, France on 28 Nov. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 10:38 UTC. It is recommended that you start listening approximately 10 minutes before this time. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and LU1CGB. The contact should be audible over portions of Argentina and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in French. Belle-Ile-en-mer (Belle Isle) is a French island off the coast of Brittany in the d?partement of Morbihan, and the largest of Brittany's islands in the Atlantic Ocean. The island measures 17 km by 9 km, and the main port is Le Palais. Michel LOTTE Junior High School is a small insular state school. It's thus isolated and in charge of training 160 pupils aged between 11 and 15 (6th grade to 9th grade), all living in the island. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. Est-ce que le d?collage depuis la Terre est difficile? 2. Quelles sensations avez-vous eu en quittant la Terre? 3. Quel est votre r?le dans la station? 4. L'apesanteur est-elle fatigante? 5. Que faites-vous pendant votre temps libre? 6. Combien de temps dormez-vous en moyenne? 7. R?vez-vous dans l'espace? 8. Quelles sont vos activit?s pr?f?r?es? 9. A votre retour, accepteriez-vous de venir nous rencontrer ? Belle-Ile? 10. Qui fera les 4 EVA (Sorties extra-v?hiculaires)? 11. Comment communiquez-vous avec votre famille? 12. Qu'avez-vous comme risques ? sortir ? l'ext?rieur de la station lors des EVA (Sorties extra-v?hiculaires)? 13. Comment vous soignez-vous si vous tombez malade? 14. Comment votre corps r?agit-il dans l'espace? 15. Quelle quantit? de nourriture avez-vous emport? pour six mois? 16. Faut-il beaucoup d'entra?nement pour se pr?parer afin d'aller dans l'espace? 17. Qu'est-ce qui vous pla?t le plus dans l'espace? 18. Comment faites-vous pour recycler vos d?chets? 19. Comment vous procurez-vous de l'eau potable? 20. Combien de temps mettez-vous pour redescendre sur Terre? Translation: 1. Is the taking off from the earth difficult? 2. What did you feel when you left the earth? 3. What's your role on board the station? 4. Is weightlessness exhausting? 5. What do you do on your spare time? 6. For how long do you usually sleep? 7. In space, do you dream? 8. What are your favorite activities? 9. After you come back, would you accept to come visit us in Belle-Ile? 10. Who will do the four extra-vehicular activities (EVA)? 11. How do you communicate with your family? 12. What dangers do you face when you are outside the space station during the EVA? 13. How do you heal when you are sick? 14. How does your body react in space? 15. How much food have you brought for the next six months? 16. Do you need a lot of practicing to go to space? 17. What do you prefer in space? 18. How do you recycle your rubbish? 19. How do you get drinkable water? 20. How long does it take to get back to earth? PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES: Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status Next planned event(s): TBD About ARISS: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or informal education venues. With the help of experienced amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with large audiences in a variety of public forums. Before and during these radio contacts, students, teachers, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org, www.amsat.org, and www.arrl.org. Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From n4csitwo at bellsouth.net Sat Nov 26 17:39:48 2016 From: n4csitwo at bellsouth.net (n4csitwo at bellsouth.net) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 12:39:48 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] =?iso-8859-1?q?Update_for_the_Coll=E8ge_Michel_Lotte?= =?iso-8859-1?q?=2C_Le_Palais=2C_France_ARISS_contact_on_Nov=2E_28?= =?iso-8859-1?q?=2C_2016?= Message-ID: Live audio will be made available for the upcoming ARISS contact with Coll?ge Michel Lotte, Le Palais, France on 28 Nov. at http://radio-belleile.fr/contact-iss-michel-lotte-2016/ . (sound only, the video will be recorded and available later) Dave, AA4KN ARISS PR --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From skristof at etczone.com Sat Nov 26 18:25:36 2016 From: skristof at etczone.com (skristof at etczone.com) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 13:25:36 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] EO79 telemetry In-Reply-To: <8477E11ACC9540E398B21E4FB435F504@allgood.local> References: <474dd339c06faa8eafc1a4fd0e5b2094@etczone.com> <8477E11ACC9540E398B21E4FB435F504@allgood.local> Message-ID: Thank you, Paul and Graham for the good, quick answers! The true camaraderie of AMSAT! Steve AI9IN On 2016-11-26 11:19, Graham Shirville wrote: > Hi all, > > Mike DK3WN has some nice decoding software for the telemetry from this spacecraft. > http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?page_id=75524 > 73 > Graham > > -----Original Message----- From: Paul Stoetzer > Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2016 3:36 PM > To: amsat-bb at amsat.org ; skristof at etczone.com > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] EO79 telemetry > > No. EO-79's telemetry is from the primary transceiver on board and is in a > different format. It's FUNcube payload does not include the FUNcube > telemetry system, just the transponder. > > 73, > > Paul, N8HM > > On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 10:09 wrote: > >> Can the FunCube Dashboard that decodes the AO73 telemetry also decode >> the EO79 telemetry? I checked the AMSAT-UK website and didn't find an >> answer, but I may not have looked in the right spot. >> >> Steve AI9IN >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions >> expressed >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of >> AMSAT-NA. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From kl7uw at acsalaska.net Sat Nov 26 22:15:54 2016 From: kl7uw at acsalaska.net (Edward R Cole) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 13:15:54 -0900 Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Symposium at Sea Message-ID: <201611262215.uAQMFT2j010619@mail40c28.carrierzone.com> Frank, Glad you enjoyed the symposium at sea. We would not have come as my wife is adverse to taking cruise ships, but the cost would be higher for us from Alaska (flying for two to Houston would be about $1600 on top of the cruise/symposium costs). I last attended Symposium in 2001 in Atlanta but was single then so costs nearly half what it costs for both of us. We attended SVHF Conference in Atlanta in 2014 and it cost about $2200 to attend. We combined the trip with visiting family in MI so the flight from Detroit only added $600 plus luggage charges. Anch-Detroit cost $1600. Plus hotels, meals, and taking the L from airport to hotel. Total vacation costs $4000 for 14-days. Had we signed up it would have been a disappointment having Cozumel dropped. But cruises are "out" as I said, before. Most of my post-AO-40 activity has been in eme and not satellite, but with possibility of new high altitude missions we may come back top satellite (helping out with P4/P5 design group in minor way). I am a mw enabled ham so looking forward to the new sats. In meantime have acquired a FT-736R and may get my AO-40 antennas back in use with current crop in the interim. Symposium is always scheduled in Oct. so possible conflict with ARRL EME Contest plus flying in winter conditions up here complicate attending. We will be starting to do extended travel with RV next summer in lower-48 so may hear from our sat-capable mobile (track us via APRS). But RV needs to arrive home by end of Sept. to avoid potential winter roads on northern end of the road. Travel season is Mid-may - end-Sept for Alaskans (and visitors). 73, Ed - KL7UW Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 23:14:53 -0800 From: Frank Westphal To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium at Sea Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed I had a fantastic time at the AMSAT Symposium at Sea. I would go again next year if a cruise is offered. How about a cruise out of a Florida port. I learned a lot, had a great time meeting operators face to face that I had only talked to on the birds. Had fun in Progresso. Made a dozen QSO's from rare grids to make the operators who stayed home happy. I went to the Baltimore Symposium two years ago and spent at least as much money as the cruise trip all expenses included. I enjoyed the Baltimore trip, but there was more opportunity to get to know the other AMSAT members on the cruise and exchange ideas. A big thank you to Clayton, W5PFG, and his symposium committee and the AMSAT Board of Directors for believing in the idea and backing it. As far as furthering the fund raising for AMSAT the venue of the symposium has minimal impact on attracting additional dollars. I have to believe a symposium on a cruise ship costs AMSAT less that at a tradition hotel. Attracting additional members will of course increase the income. Getting hams exciting about working the satellites will increase membership. The funding model for most large dxpeditions is half from the operators going on the expedition and the other half from fundraising from the ham community and corporate sponsors. AMSAT is working on the corporate donors. If every AMSAT member was a member of the President's Club at what ever level they can afford that would sure help the deficit. No hobby is inexpensive. Have you checked on the cost of a golf membership lately. I for one think AMSAT is a terrific organization and hope the future is bright. Frank K6FW 73, Ed - KL7UW http://www.kl7uw.com "Kits made by KL7UW" Dubus Mag Business e-mail: dubususa at gmail.com From bill.g.dillon at gmail.com Sat Nov 26 23:41:23 2016 From: bill.g.dillon at gmail.com (Bill Dillon) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 17:41:23 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium at Sea In-Reply-To: <201611262215.uAQMFT2j010619@mail40c28.carrierzone.com> References: <201611262215.uAQMFT2j010619@mail40c28.carrierzone.com> Message-ID: Definitely want to echo Frank's comments on the cruise, and the thanks to Clayton, W5PFG, the organizing committee, and AMSAT BoD. I especially appreciate his efforts to get my radio through port security and his ability to adapt and improvise to all the challenges that came up, and keep smiling through it all. This was my first AMSAT Symposium: I learned a great deal, and enjoyed meeting some of the people behind the call signs exchanged via satellite. I also enjoyed the challenge of making contacts at sea. By land or by sea, I look forward to attending future Symposia. 73 de Bill, KG5FQX On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Edward R Cole wrote: > Frank, > > Glad you enjoyed the symposium at sea. We would not have come as my wife > is adverse to taking cruise ships, but the cost would be higher for us from > Alaska (flying for two to Houston would be about $1600 on top of the > cruise/symposium costs). > > I last attended Symposium in 2001 in Atlanta but was single then so costs > nearly half what it costs for both of us. We attended SVHF Conference in > Atlanta in 2014 and it cost about $2200 to attend. We combined the trip > with visiting family in MI so the flight from Detroit only added $600 plus > luggage charges. Anch-Detroit cost $1600. Plus hotels, meals, and taking > the L from airport to hotel. Total vacation costs $4000 for 14-days. > > Had we signed up it would have been a disappointment having Cozumel > dropped. But cruises are "out" as I said, before. > > Most of my post-AO-40 activity has been in eme and not satellite, but with > possibility of new high altitude missions we may come back top satellite > (helping out with P4/P5 design group in minor way). I am a mw enabled ham > so looking forward to the new sats. In meantime have acquired a FT-736R > and may get my AO-40 antennas back in use with current crop in the interim. > > Symposium is always scheduled in Oct. so possible conflict with ARRL EME > Contest plus flying in winter conditions up here complicate attending. We > will be starting to do extended travel with RV next summer in lower-48 so > may hear from our sat-capable mobile (track us via APRS). But RV needs to > arrive home by end of Sept. to avoid potential winter roads on northern end > of the road. Travel season is Mid-may - end-Sept for Alaskans (and > visitors). > > 73, Ed - KL7UW > > Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 23:14:53 -0800 > From: Frank Westphal > To: amsat-bb at amsat.org > Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium at Sea > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > > I had a fantastic time at the AMSAT Symposium at Sea. I would go again > next year if a cruise is offered. How about a cruise out of a Florida > port. I learned a lot, had a great time meeting operators face to face > that I had only talked to on the birds. Had fun in Progresso. Made a > dozen QSO's from rare grids to make the operators who stayed home happy. > > I went to the Baltimore Symposium two years ago and spent at least as > much money as the cruise trip all expenses included. I enjoyed the > Baltimore trip, but there was more opportunity to get to know the other > AMSAT members on the cruise and exchange ideas. > > A big thank you to Clayton, W5PFG, and his symposium committee and the > AMSAT Board of Directors for believing in the idea and backing it. > > As far as furthering the fund raising for AMSAT the venue of the > symposium has minimal impact on attracting additional dollars. I have > to believe a symposium on a cruise ship costs AMSAT less that at a > tradition hotel. > > Attracting additional members will of course increase the income. > Getting hams exciting about working the satellites will increase > membership. > > The funding model for most large dxpeditions is half from the operators > going on the expedition and the other half from fundraising from the ham > community and corporate sponsors. AMSAT is working on the corporate > donors. If every AMSAT member was a member of the President's Club at > what ever level they can afford that would sure help the deficit. No > hobby is inexpensive. Have you checked on the cost of a golf membership > lately. > > I for one think AMSAT is a terrific organization and hope the future is > bright. > > Frank > K6FW > > > 73, Ed - KL7UW > http://www.kl7uw.com > "Kits made by KL7UW" > Dubus Mag Business e-mail: > dubususa at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From wa4sca at gmail.com Sun Nov 27 00:34:12 2016 From: wa4sca at gmail.com (Alan) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 18:34:12 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium at Sea In-Reply-To: References: <201611262215.uAQMFT2j010619@mail40c28.carrierzone.com> Message-ID: <000201d24845$fa2be650$ee83b2f0$@GMAIL.COM> References: <201611262215.uAQMFT2j010619@mail40c28.carrierzone.com> <000201d24845$fa2be650$ee83b2f0$@GMAIL.COM> Message-ID: I can't wait for the cost comparison chart for that one! On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 19:34 Alan wrote: > > Don't limit to that. Maybe the 2040 Symposium will be held on the ISS-2. > > 73s, > > Alan > WA4SCA > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From chad.kg0mw at gmail.com Sun Nov 27 01:53:54 2016 From: chad.kg0mw at gmail.com (Chad Phillips) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 19:53:54 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium at Sea In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Well stated Frank. I for one would certainly vote to host a Symposium on a cruise ship again. Not next year but maybe within the next few? In any event it was truly enjoyable experience. I learned so much from the presentations. The passion of those behind the scenes with AMSAT-NA was inspiring. Thank-you to Clayton for taking the chance and stepping outside of the box with this event. chad kg0mw > On Nov 26, 2016, at 1:14 AM, Frank Westphal wrote: > > I had a fantastic time at the AMSAT Symposium at Sea. I would go again next year if a cruise is offered. How about a cruise out of a Florida port. I learned a lot, had a great time meeting operators face to face that I had only talked to on the birds. Had fun in Progresso. Made a dozen QSO's from rare grids to make the operators who stayed home happy. > > I went to the Baltimore Symposium two years ago and spent at least as much money as the cruise trip all expenses included. I enjoyed the Baltimore trip, but there was more opportunity to get to know the other AMSAT members on the cruise and exchange ideas. > > A big thank you to Clayton, W5PFG, and his symposium committee and the AMSAT Board of Directors for believing in the idea and backing it. > > As far as furthering the fund raising for AMSAT the venue of the symposium has minimal impact on attracting additional dollars. I have to believe a symposium on a cruise ship costs AMSAT less that at a tradition hotel. > > Attracting additional members will of course increase the income. Getting hams exciting about working the satellites will increase membership. > > The funding model for most large dxpeditions is half from the operators going on the expedition and the other half from fundraising from the ham community and corporate sponsors. AMSAT is working on the corporate donors. If every AMSAT member was a member of the President's Club at what ever level they can afford that would sure help the deficit. No hobby is inexpensive. Have you checked on the cost of a golf membership lately. > > I for one think AMSAT is a terrific organization and hope the future is bright. > > Frank > K6FW > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From johnbrier at gmail.com Sun Nov 27 02:06:16 2016 From: johnbrier at gmail.com (John Brier) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 21:06:16 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium at Sea In-Reply-To: References: <201611262215.uAQMFT2j010619@mail40c28.carrierzone.com> <000201d24845$fa2be650$ee83b2f0$@GMAIL.COM> Message-ID: LOL 73, John Brier KG4AKV On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 8:30 PM, Paul Stoetzer wrote: > I can't wait for the cost comparison chart for that one! > > On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 19:34 Alan wrote: > >> > >> Don't limit to that. Maybe the 2040 Symposium will be held on the ISS-2. >> >> 73s, >> >> Alan >> WA4SCA >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions >> expressed >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of >> AMSAT-NA. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >> > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From k.alexander at rogers.com Sun Nov 27 02:26:50 2016 From: k.alexander at rogers.com (Ken Alexander) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 21:26:50 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Great White North Grid Expedition - Sunday Schedule Message-ID: <06b3387b-7f9b-16ea-9204-8d262d6cb235@rogers.com> Today's activities got cut short due to snow. It started coming down heavy and I had a long drive so I cut out early. Tomorrow I make up for the lost day when the highway was closed. Schedule below. FN07 SO-50 13:31 FO-29 14:20 AO-73 14:25 EN97/98 & FN08 FO-29 16:03 AO-07 17:31 AO-85 17:33 AO-85 19:14 AO-07 19:20 AO-07 21:15 XW-2C 21:45 XW-2F 22:34 XW-2C 23:19 XW-2A 23:30 FN07 AO-73 01:23 AO-73 03:01 SO-50 03:47 Note: I will give priority to AO-85 at 1914 and miss part or all of AO-7 at 1920 if need be. There are some roads around the junction of the four grids that may allow me to cover three of them without moving around a lot. If it doesn't work out then I have to do some extra driving and will miss one or two of the passes in the middle group. However, this time I'll be able to post updates to Twitter so stay tuned. 73, Ken VE3HLS From k.alexander at rogers.com Sun Nov 27 02:41:59 2016 From: k.alexander at rogers.com (Ken Alexander) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 21:41:59 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Great White North Grid Expedition - Sunday Schedule In-Reply-To: <06b3387b-7f9b-16ea-9204-8d262d6cb235@rogers.com> References: <06b3387b-7f9b-16ea-9204-8d262d6cb235@rogers.com> Message-ID: <11bfc106-cafe-092a-449b-9508fc0e4f47@rogers.com> Closer examination reveals an additional scheduling conflict. Therefore, please delete AO-7 at 1731 and delete AO-85 at 1914 UTC. Thanks, Ken VE3HLS On 2016-11-26 9:26 PM, Ken Alexander wrote: > Today's activities got cut short due to snow. It started coming down > heavy and I had a long drive so I cut out early. Tomorrow I make up > for the lost day when the highway was closed. Schedule below. > > FN07 > SO-50 13:31 > FO-29 14:20 > AO-73 14:25 > > EN97/98 & FN08 > FO-29 16:03 > AO-07 17:31 > AO-85 17:33 > AO-85 19:14 > AO-07 19:20 > AO-07 21:15 > XW-2C 21:45 > XW-2F 22:34 > XW-2C 23:19 > XW-2A 23:30 > > FN07 > AO-73 01:23 > AO-73 03:01 > SO-50 03:47 > > Note: I will give priority to AO-85 at 1914 and miss part or all of > AO-7 at 1920 if need be. > > There are some roads around the junction of the four grids that may > allow me to cover three of them without moving around a lot. If it > doesn't work out then I have to do some extra driving and will miss > one or two of the passes in the middle group. However, this time I'll > be able to post updates to Twitter so stay tuned. > > 73, > > Ken > VE3HLS > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. > Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views > of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite > program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From devin at thecabal.org Sun Nov 27 08:01:45 2016 From: devin at thecabal.org (Devin L. Ganger) Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 08:01:45 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium at Sea In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello, all. My name is Devin (WA7DLG) and I'm a 44 year-old IT professional and new ham. I got my Technician license in August 2015 to help encourage my daughter in the practical side of her pursuit of astrophysics in college, and got Extra this past June. I write science fiction and pretty much love all things space. I'm one of the new hams and satellite enthusiasts you may be targeting. While AMSAT wasn't the first club I joined, it didn't take me long. I'm saving my pennies for a bigger steerable antenna installation for my home station, but in the meantime I'm jumping into electronics and Arduino experimentation to work on a tracker/controller for my handheld Elk antenna. I plan on going back to school to get a physics degree focused on space studies, and maybe beyond. My wife and I SERIOUSLY talked about going on the cruise to attend this year's AMSAT Symposium. The only reason we didn't was due to job schedule conflicts. Otherwise, that would have been a very enticing entry into the AMSAT community for both of us. I don't know what I'm going to find -- will the sessions be too technical for me, will there be the kind of bickering and politics I've seen the past couple of days on this list? If so, a cruise offers me and my wife a great way to easily escape for a time. If you do another one, we'll probably see you all there. -- Devin L. Ganger (WA7DLG) email:?devin at thecabal.org web:?Devin on Earth cell:?+1 425.239.2575 -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Chad Phillips Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2016 5:54 PM To: Frank Westphal Cc: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium at Sea Well stated Frank. I for one would certainly vote to host a Symposium on a cruise ship again. Not next year but maybe within the next few? In any event it was truly enjoyable experience. I learned so much from the presentations. The passion of those behind the scenes with AMSAT-NA was inspiring. Thank-you to Clayton for taking the chance and stepping outside of the box with this event. chad kg0mw > On Nov 26, 2016, at 1:14 AM, Frank Westphal wrote: > > I had a fantastic time at the AMSAT Symposium at Sea. I would go again next year if a cruise is offered. How about a cruise out of a Florida port. I learned a lot, had a great time meeting operators face to face that I had only talked to on the birds. Had fun in Progresso. Made a dozen QSO's from rare grids to make the operators who stayed home happy. > > I went to the Baltimore Symposium two years ago and spent at least as much money as the cruise trip all expenses included. I enjoyed the Baltimore trip, but there was more opportunity to get to know the other AMSAT members on the cruise and exchange ideas. > > A big thank you to Clayton, W5PFG, and his symposium committee and the AMSAT Board of Directors for believing in the idea and backing it. > > As far as furthering the fund raising for AMSAT the venue of the symposium has minimal impact on attracting additional dollars. I have to believe a symposium on a cruise ship costs AMSAT less that at a tradition hotel. > > Attracting additional members will of course increase the income. Getting hams exciting about working the satellites will increase membership. > > The funding model for most large dxpeditions is half from the operators going on the expedition and the other half from fundraising from the ham community and corporate sponsors. AMSAT is working on the corporate donors. If every AMSAT member was a member of the President's Club at what ever level they can afford that would sure help the deficit. No hobby is inexpensive. Have you checked on the cost of a golf membership lately. > > I for one think AMSAT is a terrific organization and hope the future is bright. > > Frank > K6FW > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. > Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From w2hro.fn20 at gmail.com Sun Nov 27 13:58:08 2016 From: w2hro.fn20 at gmail.com (Paul Andrews) Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 08:58:08 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Satellite Antennas for Sale Message-ID: Satellite Antennas for Sale - New and Assembled. Ready for local pickup or I can deliver within 100 miles. M2 - 2MCP22, 144-148 MHz, Circular Polarization M2 - 436CP42UG, 420-440 MHz, Circular Polarization 73 - Paul - W2HRO From gp_ab5r at outlook.com Sun Nov 27 15:43:14 2016 From: gp_ab5r at outlook.com (Gerald Payton) Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 15:43:14 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Posted on QRZ Message-ID: This is posted on QRZ if anyone interested: http://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/shack-clearing.545760/#post-4049505 73, Jerry AB5R From amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net Sun Nov 27 16:48:00 2016 From: amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)) Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 16:48:00 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Saturday night fun with 70cm ISS packet Message-ID: Hi! With the recent change to the UHF radio for the ISS packet digipeater, this has disappointed some - and made others happy. I enjoyed working stations through the 145.825 MHz digipeater, but working packet on 437.550 MHz has been fun, and bringing new challenges. Last night, with 3 ISS passes over Arizona, was a great time for that... The first of the 3 passes came just before 0130 UTC. Using my TH-D74A HT and Elk handheld log periodic, I was able to get my position packets retransmitted on this 9.9-degree pass to the southeast. Unfortunately, I made no QSOs, and only heard one other station being retransmitted before my LOS. Although this pass was a bust in terms of adding to my logbook, the next couple of passes would be more successful. On to the 0300 UTC pass... The second of the three evening passes saw the ISS rise higher, to a maximum elevation of just under 55 degrees. For those in California, this was basically an overhead pass. After I worked a station on a similar pass using my TH-D74A and a Diamond RH77CA long duckie antenna just over a week ago, Mark KK6OTJ in southern California mentioned that he wanted to try for a QSO where both of us use an HT and long duckie. I suggested that this pass could work for us, and we went for it. Mark has a TH-D72A HT, a BNC-to-SMA adapter on his radio, and a Diamond RH77CA duckie antenna. Other than the radio, we had the same setup on each end to make this attempt. With the ISS coming up from the southwest, I thought we would have the best chance to make this QSO earlier in the pass, certainly before the midpoint of the pass. I prepared an APRS message for Mark's KK6OTJ-7 packet call sign with the text, "HT/duckie in DM43. QSL?" This is what I started sending, once the ISS was up from the horizon. Watching the clock and the AmsatDroid Free tracking app on my mobile phone, we went through the first 5 minutes of the pass with nothing. Still sending my APRS message with my grid locator, I saw an ACK come through the ISS digipeater around 0307 UTC. Mark received my message, and his TH-D72A sent an acknowledgement back to my TH-D74A. This was quickly followed by Mark's APRS message, "QSL, Thanks & 73!" I sent a final "rgr" back to Mark, completing the exchange and the QSO. After the pass, Mark sent a photo of his TH-D72A's screen showing my APRS message, and wondering if I had received his message. Apparently, my radio's ACK for receiving his message didn't make it through the ISS digipeater, but I had received his message. I tweeted a reply, showing a listing of the messages - my message to him, then his message to me, and the final message I sent him - along with a screenshot of each message from that listing. Thanks for the QSO, Mark, and for the challenge to do this. After that high pass, there was still one more pass to work around 0440 UTC. Like the first pass of the evening, this was another shallow pass - maximum elevation of just under 9 degrees, but to the northwest. I was hoping to hear Kevin VE6QO in southern Alberta on that pass, and maybe make a QSO with him. Kevin has been trying to work stations, but the passes weren't helping me make a QSO. I have a line of thick trees north of my house, which acts like a wall for the 437.550 MHz signals. I went back to my Elk log periodic for this pass, knowing that the Diamond duckie would not be a good antenna for a shallow pass. If I was able to make an exchange with Kevin before the ISS was north of me, it might be possible. And that's what we did... I started sending my position packets once the ISS rose above the houses west of me. I could see those packets being digipeated, and then I saw "VE6QO" show up on the top of my TH-D74A's display. I knew Kevin was there, even though his position wasn't being transmitted. I made a very short APRS message to him - "dm43", my grid locator - and started to send that. Kevin was also trying to send me his grid locator, but the low pass was making this tough. While this was happening, I saw two other stations showing up on my screen - VA7THO in British Columbia, and W0JW in Iowa. Kevin and I kept at it, and finally I saw my "dm43" APRS message being retransmitted. After that, I saw "TU and 73" come from Kevin's end. I followed that up with a "73" to complete our QSO. Thanks again, Kevin, for the QSO! More stations are starting to find their way over to the 437.550 MHz ISS digipeater. Unfortunately, this also includes the unattended beacons that were all too common on 145.825 MHz. It appears we will have ISS packet on 70cm for a while, given that a radio capable of VHF packet may not be sent to the ISS until late next year. For many FM transceivers capable of packet operation, using a group of 5 memory channels to compensate for Doppler is the ticket to being successful working packet on 70cm. Think of working the 70cm ISS packet digipeater like the combination of AO-85's uplink and SO-50's downlink, all on one frequency. The uplink frequency moves up as the downlink frequency moves down, and near the middle of the pass the two frequencies are the same. I posted on this list and tweeted the chart I used for programming my HTs to work the 437.550 MHz digipeater. That chart is also available from You can get to the chart with this direct link: http://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ISS _Packet_Operation_on_70cm-20161113.pdf This document, along with K9JKM's guide on ISS packet operation and more, is available from AMSAT's Station and Operating Hints page: http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=2144 If you previously worked the ISS packet digipeater on 145.825 MHz, working the 437.550 MHz is not that different. Dealing with Doppler is a must, and the higher frequency could lead to issues if your QTH has trees in the way of your antenna(s), but there are stations looking to do more than transmit beacons automatically. If you would like to attempt a QSO with me using the 70cm ISS packet digipeater, please e-mail me directly. There should be some options for QSOs with stations across much of the continental USA, as well as with many parts of Canada and Mexico. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK Go AMSAT! From scott23192 at gmail.com Sun Nov 27 17:22:34 2016 From: scott23192 at gmail.com (Scott) Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 12:22:34 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Saturday night fun with 70cm ISS packet In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9037EA5F1441447FA8E0221B6D0270BF@CSI9020> Great report! At least on the East Coast, timing of this switch to 70cm is fortunate in that the leaves are mostly off the trees now. So, for a while, they won't serve as too much of an obstruction. Question - are you just holding the duckie antenna vertical? Thanks! -Scott, K4KDR Twitter: @scott23192 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2016 11:48 AM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Saturday night fun with 70cm ISS packet Hi! With the recent change to the UHF radio for the ISS packet digipeater, this has disappointed some - and made others happy. I enjoyed working stations through the 145.825 MHz digipeater, but working packet on 437.550 MHz has been fun, and bringing new challenges. Last night, with 3 ISS passes over Arizona, was a great time for that... The first of the 3 passes came just before 0130 UTC. Using my TH-D74A HT and Elk handheld log periodic, I was able to get my position packets retransmitted on this 9.9-degree pass to the southeast. Unfortunately, I made no QSOs, and only heard one other station being retransmitted before my LOS. Although this pass was a bust in terms of adding to my logbook, the next couple of passes would be more successful. On to the 0300 UTC pass... The second of the three evening passes saw the ISS rise higher, to a maximum elevation of just under 55 degrees. For those in California, this was basically an overhead pass. After I worked a station on a similar pass using my TH-D74A and a Diamond RH77CA long duckie antenna just over a week ago, Mark KK6OTJ in southern California mentioned that he wanted to try for a QSO where both of us use an HT and long duckie. I suggested that this pass could work for us, and we went for it. Mark has a TH-D72A HT, a BNC-to-SMA adapter on his radio, and a Diamond RH77CA duckie antenna. Other than the radio, we had the same setup on each end to make this attempt. With the ISS coming up from the southwest, I thought we would have the best chance to make this QSO earlier in the pass, certainly before the midpoint of the pass. I prepared an APRS message for Mark's KK6OTJ-7 packet call sign with the text, "HT/duckie in DM43. QSL?" This is what I started sending, once the ISS was up from the horizon. Watching the clock and the AmsatDroid Free tracking app on my mobile phone, we went through the first 5 minutes of the pass with nothing. Still sending my APRS message with my grid locator, I saw an ACK come through the ISS digipeater around 0307 UTC. Mark received my message, and his TH-D72A sent an acknowledgement back to my TH-D74A. This was quickly followed by Mark's APRS message, "QSL, Thanks & 73!" I sent a final "rgr" back to Mark, completing the exchange and the QSO. After the pass, Mark sent a photo of his TH-D72A's screen showing my APRS message, and wondering if I had received his message. Apparently, my radio's ACK for receiving his message didn't make it through the ISS digipeater, but I had received his message. I tweeted a reply, showing a listing of the messages - my message to him, then his message to me, and the final message I sent him - along with a screenshot of each message from that listing. Thanks for the QSO, Mark, and for the challenge to do this. After that high pass, there was still one more pass to work around 0440 UTC. Like the first pass of the evening, this was another shallow pass - maximum elevation of just under 9 degrees, but to the northwest. I was hoping to hear Kevin VE6QO in southern Alberta on that pass, and maybe make a QSO with him. Kevin has been trying to work stations, but the passes weren't helping me make a QSO. I have a line of thick trees north of my house, which acts like a wall for the 437.550 MHz signals. I went back to my Elk log periodic for this pass, knowing that the Diamond duckie would not be a good antenna for a shallow pass. If I was able to make an exchange with Kevin before the ISS was north of me, it might be possible. And that's what we did... I started sending my position packets once the ISS rose above the houses west of me. I could see those packets being digipeated, and then I saw "VE6QO" show up on the top of my TH-D74A's display. I knew Kevin was there, even though his position wasn't being transmitted. I made a very short APRS message to him - "dm43", my grid locator - and started to send that. Kevin was also trying to send me his grid locator, but the low pass was making this tough. While this was happening, I saw two other stations showing up on my screen - VA7THO in British Columbia, and W0JW in Iowa. Kevin and I kept at it, and finally I saw my "dm43" APRS message being retransmitted. After that, I saw "TU and 73" come from Kevin's end. I followed that up with a "73" to complete our QSO. Thanks again, Kevin, for the QSO! More stations are starting to find their way over to the 437.550 MHz ISS digipeater. Unfortunately, this also includes the unattended beacons that were all too common on 145.825 MHz. It appears we will have ISS packet on 70cm for a while, given that a radio capable of VHF packet may not be sent to the ISS until late next year. For many FM transceivers capable of packet operation, using a group of 5 memory channels to compensate for Doppler is the ticket to being successful working packet on 70cm. Think of working the 70cm ISS packet digipeater like the combination of AO-85's uplink and SO-50's downlink, all on one frequency. The uplink frequency moves up as the downlink frequency moves down, and near the middle of the pass the two frequencies are the same. I posted on this list and tweeted the chart I used for programming my HTs to work the 437.550 MHz digipeater. That chart is also available from You can get to the chart with this direct link: http://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ISS _Packet_Operation_on_70cm-20161113.pdf This document, along with K9JKM's guide on ISS packet operation and more, is available from AMSAT's Station and Operating Hints page: http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=2144 If you previously worked the ISS packet digipeater on 145.825 MHz, working the 437.550 MHz is not that different. Dealing with Doppler is a must, and the higher frequency could lead to issues if your QTH has trees in the way of your antenna(s), but there are stations looking to do more than transmit beacons automatically. If you would like to attempt a QSO with me using the 70cm ISS packet digipeater, please e-mail me directly. There should be some options for QSOs with stations across much of the continental USA, as well as with many parts of Canada and Mexico. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK Go AMSAT! From amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net Sun Nov 27 17:32:12 2016 From: amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)) Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 17:32:12 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Saturday night fun with 70cm ISS packet In-Reply-To: <9037EA5F1441447FA8E0221B6D0270BF@CSI9020> References: <9037EA5F1441447FA8E0221B6D0270BF@CSI9020> Message-ID: Hi Scott! I am moving the HT/duckie around, similar to how I would point and twist a directional antenna. On higher passes, the antenna approaches horizontal, while I move the HT around. It's more of a challenge with the long duckie compared to a directional antenna, but that's part of the fun. Maybe we can make an ISS packet QSO during the next couple of months, before those leaves become a problem for you again. Timing would be important, along with finding a pass that is reasonable for both of us. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK Go AMSAT! On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Scott wrote: > Great report! > > At least on the East Coast, timing of this switch to 70cm is fortunate in > that the leaves are mostly off the trees now. So, for a while, they won't > serve as too much of an obstruction. > > Question - are you just holding the duckie antenna vertical? > > Thanks! > > -Scott, K4KDR > Twitter: @scott23192 From amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net Sun Nov 27 19:18:17 2016 From: amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)) Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 19:18:17 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] How to avoid Black Friday, working satellites... (long) Message-ID: Hi! On Friday (25 November), I didn't want to stay home. I wasn't going to visit stores or shopping malls, where I'd have to deal with crowds on "Black Friday". With decent weather throughout Arizona, and especially no snow on the highways in northern Arizona, I made a quick road trip to operate from some rarely-heard grids. I also wanted to operate from a national monument for another National Parks on the Air activation. Even with the cool weather in northern Arizona, it was a fun day to work satellites and do some sightseeing before the snow arrives. I had originally planned to visit the Walnut Canyon National Monument, east of Flagstaff along the I-40 freeway. I had been to this site in June, trying to make a NPOTA activation then. I came up short of the minimum number of stations I needed to work for an official activation (10), but wanted to rectify that before the end of the year. Walnut Canyon National Monument is in grid DM45, a rarely-heard grid on the satellites, so a trip up there would satisfy operators on two fronts. Then Steve N9IP mentioned on Twitter earlier in the week that he needed grid DM44. I started looking at pass predictions, trying to see how I could work a stop in grid DM44 along with working at least a few passes from Walnut Canyon. Seeing that SO-50 would pass by in the morning, and not be available later in the day at Walnut Canyon, I planned an early stop in DM44 to make this happen. After waking up to a 5am (1200 UTC) alarm clock, I was on the road by 1245 UTC. The first SO-50 pass was due to pass by around 1418 UTC, and I could be in DM44 at a point about halfway up the I-17 freeway between Phoenix and Flagstaff. With some hills to the east in this area, the best spot to work from DM44 was actually on the DM34/DM44 grid boundary, on a wide shoulder next to Cherry Road (AZ-169), just west of I-17. I had about 20 minutes to find the spot I wanted to use, document my location with photos, and set up for the SO-50 pass. I did all of that, tweeted photos showing my location, and I was ready for SO-50. I also had to change from a light windbreaker to a heavier jacket, as the temperature was around 43F/6C at the start of the pass with a stiff breeze. The 1418 UTC SO-50 pass was a 16-degree pass to the northeast. Once I heard the downlink, I started working stations across the USA, along with Canada and Mexico. I have operated from both DM34 and DM44 earlier in the year, but there is almost always someone looking for either of these grids - or both of them. N9IP was the fourth of the 13 stations I worked during this pass. After LOS, I quickly put the radio and antenna back in my car, so I could finish my drive up to Walnut Canyon. When I arrived at Walnut Canyon, I went to the same spot I used in June. I parked just off the main road between the I-40 freeway and the visitor center on the edge of the canyon. The national monument includes a strip of land that connects the visitor center to the freeway, and the spot I used has a Forest Service road that cuts through the national monument about a mile north of the visitor center. It is also at 6600'/2011m, and a bit cooler than it was at the DM34/DM44 grid boundary that was just over 4400'/1341m elevation. The temperature was down to 26F/-3C, something I rarely see in the Phoenix area. The heavy jacket I put on for the earlier stop was definitely necessary here. The first pass I worked from Walnut Canyon was a western SO-50 pass just before 1600 UTC. This was a surprisingly busy pass, with 13 stations worked - an official NPOTA activation, just with one pass! I didn't stop with this pass. A few minutes after SO-50 went away, FO-29 came up a few degrees to my east. The satellite went up to a maximum elevation of 8.6 degrees. Even with the low elevation, and trees around my location, I logged 3 QSOs. During the week leading up to this trip to Walnut Canyon, the 145.825 MHz packet digipeater on NO-84 had been turned on. It was still on while I was at Walnut Canyon, and made use of it. The first of two NO-84 passes was a 28-degree pass. NO-84's digipeater has a weaker downlink than what we used to hear from the ISS on the same frequency, so it is more of a challenge to make QSOs. Fernando NP4JV and I made what was my only QSO on this pass, near my LOS. About an hour later, there was another pair of passes - FO-29, followed by NO-84. It was also starting to warm up - the temperature went above freezing, up to 37F/3C. This time, just before 1800 UTC, FO-29 was passing very high over northern Arizona. I was able to work 7 stations from coast to coast in the continental USA, and one Canadian station. The NO-84 pass around 1820 UTC had a little more activity. I was able to work both KG6FIY and KK6OTJ in southern California via APRS messages. Thanks Endaf and Mark for those QSOs! For these trips, working the orbiting packet digipeaters is just another satellite or two, and it was fun to have a total of 3 QSOs via NO-84 from Walnut Canyon. By midday (1900 UTC), the outside temperature had made it up to a comfortable 53F/12C. The heavy jacket went in the car, and I put my windbreaker on instead. I had two more passes I planned to work, one more FO-29 pass at 1935 UTC followed by AO-85 just after 2000 UTC, before heading to Flagstaff for lunch and the drive home. The 1935 UTC FO-29 pass favored the west coast, and I worked just 2 stations. The AO-85 pass just after 2000 UTC passed across the continental USA, making for a busier pass. I worked 10 stations from coast to coast, including AI6GS who was also at an NPOTA site in southern California (Joshua Tree National Park). This pass would have made an NPOTA activation by itself, and it has been fun to make park-to-park QSOs during this year. After AO-85 went away, I packed up for the drive to Flagstaff for lunch, and then the drive home. It was a nice day to be in northern Arizona, as there should be snow falling up there today or tomorrow - and I don't like driving in northern Arizona snow. Road conditions were good all day, even for the drive up in the morning with below freezing temperatures. The only snow I saw was on the tops of the San Francisco Peaks that overlook Flagstaff, and that's OK with me. :-) I made a total of 38 QSOs from Walnut Canyon National Monument: 13 QSOs on the SO-50 pass, 12 QSOs across 3 FO-29 passes, 3 QSOs on 2 NO-84 passes, and 10 QSOs on the AO-85 pass to wrap up this NPOTA activation. Along with the 13 QSOs made from the DM34/DM44 line earlier, a good day to be on the satellites. All of the QSOs I made from the DM34/DM44 grid boundary, as well as those made at Walnut Canyon, are in Logbook of the World. If anyone who worked me wants a QSL card, please e-mail me directly with the QSO details. If you're in my log, I'll send you a card. No card or SASE required. Working from rarely-heard grids is always fun, and NPOTA has added to that in 2016. I still hope to make it to one or two other NPOTA sites in the last few weeks of the year. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK Go AMSAT! From k.alexander at rogers.com Sun Nov 27 19:49:44 2016 From: k.alexander at rogers.com (k.alexander) Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 14:49:44 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Sunday Schedule Update Message-ID: Please note the following changes: FN08XW-2C at 2145XW-2F at 2234 Delete: ?XW-2C at 2319 EN97XW-2A at 2330AO-73 at 0123 FN07AO-73 at 0301SO-50 at 0347 73, KenVE3HLS Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. From jefforybroughton at gmail.com Sun Nov 27 20:48:30 2016 From: jefforybroughton at gmail.com (jeffory broughton) Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 15:48:30 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Ft847 Satellite radio for sale,mint In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Selling my Yaesu FT-847 satellite radio In mint condition.Original box,manual Power cable, hand mic and null modem Cable for use with satpc32.Everything in new condition.$1100 plus ship. Jeff Wb8rjy jeff broughton From gp_ab5r at outlook.com Sun Nov 27 23:33:27 2016 From: gp_ab5r at outlook.com (Gerald Payton) Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 23:33:27 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Packet Format Message-ID: I just finished reading JoAnne Maepaa's (K9JKM) excellent PDF on ISS packet operation. Thank you JoAnne. Couple of questions, please: 1) What "Terminal Emulator" do members use? 2) Looking at the examples in her PDF I noticed "qAR and qAS." What are these terms? It has been at least 10 years since my brush with packet. I have to really REBOOT my brain, for sure. Thank you & 73, Jerry AB5R From scott23192 at gmail.com Sun Nov 27 23:45:15 2016 From: scott23192 at gmail.com (Scott) Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 18:45:15 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Packet Format In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5F4DD0E4FDA24346B1208A5FC9A25767@CSI9020> Hi Gerald. I was wondering about the meaning of those Q-constructs in packet log files just the other day. This link spells them out: http://www.aprs-is.net/q.aspx As for terminal software, I use UISS on a Windows PC but technology is catching up with us and many people are having success with radios (HT's in particular) that have APRS / packet capability built in. -Scott, K4KDR -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Gerald Payton Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2016 6:33 PM To: Amsat BB Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Packet Format I just finished reading JoAnne Maepaa's (K9JKM) excellent PDF on ISS packet operation. Thank you JoAnne. Couple of questions, please: 1) What "Terminal Emulator" do members use? 2) Looking at the examples in her PDF I noticed "qAR and qAS." What are these terms? It has been at least 10 years since my brush with packet. I have to really REBOOT my brain, for sure. Thank you & 73, Jerry AB5R _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. 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Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From AJ9N at aol.com Sun Nov 27 23:57:10 2016 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 18:57:10 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-11-27 23:30 UTC Message-ID: <762bd2.4cf8bb17.456cccd6@aol.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-11-27 23:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Coll?ge Michel Lotte, Le Palais, France, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG (***) Contact is a go for: Mon 2016-11-28 10:38:06 UTC 74 deg Watch for live audio stream: http://radio-belleile.fr/contact-iss-michel-lotte-2016/ (sound only, the video will be recorded and available later) **************************************************************************** ** ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n at amsat.org or aj9n at aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8? MHz. **************************************************************************** *** All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. **************************************************************************** *** Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke at sbcglobal.net **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 123 Gaston ON4WF with 121 Francesco IK?WGF with 118 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-11-27 22:30 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1094. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1059. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: Arkansas, Delaware, South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DP?ISS, IR?ISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RS?ISS **************************************************************************** The successful school list has been updated as of 2016-11-18 08:00 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 49 on orbit Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Andrei Borisenko Sergey Ryzhikov **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors From jim at beeson.cc Mon Nov 28 02:40:25 2016 From: jim at beeson.cc (jim at beeson.cc) Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 21:40:25 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] KG-UV8D In-Reply-To: <762bd2.4cf8bb17.456cccd6@aol.com> References: <762bd2.4cf8bb17.456cccd6@aol.com> Message-ID: Anybody use this handheld for AO85 or SO50? I Have read the instruction manual - as it is - a few times and STILL am scratching my head. I want to set it up to work these two birds - full-duplex - and still work some local repeaters. That should be do-able right??? If you have an APP you have done and it does something like this can you email it to me please ( .KG file) !!!!? Thanks !! ? From amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net Mon Nov 28 02:53:55 2016 From: amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 02:53:55 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] KG-UV8D In-Reply-To: References: <762bd2.4cf8bb17.456cccd6@aol.com> Message-ID: Hi! I don't have a KG file to share, but those should not be shared between radios anyway. Those files are not like the config files used in the "normal" ham radios like you get from Icom, Kenwood, and Yaesu. But I can offer some suggestions and advice... The KG-UV8D is not capable of working SO-50 full-duplex. When you transmit on 2m, the 70cm receiver is desensed. You won't hear the satellite again until you stop transmitting. The radio is capable of working AO-85 full-duplex. I wrote about this on the AMSAT-BB list a year ago, and you can see that message at: http://amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2015-November/056254.html I do not use memory channels for working AO-85. I use the two VFOs, open the squelch all the way for the receive VFO, and transmit from the other VFO. That link has some key settings I used with that radio. You can program a group of memory channels to work SO-50 half- duplex. A guide for that is available from AMSAT's Station and Operating Hints page at: http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=2144 (look for the document "Operating FM Satellites") Or use another HT with your KG-UV8D, so you can transmit from one radio while listening to the other radio for full-duplex operation. If you want to use an HT to work both AO-85 and SO-50 full-duplex, there is only one option currently in production: Kenwood TH-D72A. The new TH-D74A is not capable of full-duplex operation for any FM satellite. Wouxun's KG-UV9D, like the KG-UV8D, is capable of working AO-85 full-duplex, but not SO-50. Along with the KG-UV8D, I wrote about a few other Chinese-made HTs and tried using them to work FM satellites full-duplex. They could do that with AO-85, but not SO-50. You can get to the messages covering the other radios I wrote about at: http://amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2015-December/056269.html 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK Go AMSAT! On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 2:40 AM, wrote: > > > > Anybody use this handheld for AO85 or SO50? I Have read the instruction > manual - as it is - a few times and STILL am scratching my head. I want to > set it up to work these two birds - full-duplex - and still work some local > repeaters. That should be do-able right??? If you have an APP you have > done and it does something like this can you email it to me please ( .KG > file) !!!! Thanks !! > > > > From godetj at wanadoo.fr Mon Nov 28 10:13:09 2016 From: godetj at wanadoo.fr (Jean-Pierre Godet) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 10:13:09 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Xiwang-1 HO-68 Message-ID: I did not find the bird yesterday november 27th, morning and evening, but heard part of a frame today morning at about 0755 UTC, orbit number 33418, a good pass above western Europe: http://f5yg.pagesperso-orange.fr/incoming/HOPE-1_orb33418_28nov2016.mp3 BJ1SA XW XW AAA TTT A4V VNE E and then orbit number 33419, low above the western horizon: BJ1SA XW XW AAA TTT A4V VNE ETT TTT (0945 UTC) BJ1SA XW XW AAA TTT A4V VNE E (0947 UTC) BJ1S (0952 UTC) Have a nice day my friends, 73 ! Jean-Pierre F5YG From dibor at iname.com Mon Nov 28 16:57:01 2016 From: dibor at iname.com (Dimitry Borzenko) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 18:57:01 +0200 Subject: [amsat-bb] Xiwang-1 HO-68 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <002b01d24998$72d60150$588203f0$@iname.com> Heard sat at 16:48GMT Orbit: 33424 BJ1SA XW XW AAA TTT A4V VNE ETT TTT TTA TTT TTT TT Regards. -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Pierre Godet Sent: Monday, November 28, 2016 12:13 PM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org; camsat at vip.163.com Subject: [amsat-bb] Xiwang-1 HO-68 I did not find the bird yesterday november 27th, morning and evening, but heard part of a frame today morning at about 0755 UTC, orbit number 33418, a good pass above western Europe: http://f5yg.pagesperso-orange.fr/incoming/HOPE-1_orb33418_28nov2016.mp3 BJ1SA XW XW AAA TTT A4V VNE E and then orbit number 33419, low above the western horizon: BJ1SA XW XW AAA TTT A4V VNE ETT TTT (0945 UTC) BJ1SA XW XW AAA TTT A4V VNE E (0947 UTC) BJ1S (0952 UTC) Have a nice day my friends, 73 ! Jean-Pierre F5YG _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From jim at coloradosatellite.com Mon Nov 28 23:31:32 2016 From: jim at coloradosatellite.com (Jim White) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 16:31:32 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] IC 910 RX out of band Message-ID: <6884ff81-12cd-aa22-206c-38b4f273b3b9@coloradosatellite.com> Has anyone done a mod to the IC910 to make it receive out of band - up to 450.050? If so please drop me a note on what was done and how it worked. I found one online but would like some verification from someone who has one working before I commit to it. Thanks, Jim jim at coloradosatellite.com From AJ9N at aol.com Tue Nov 29 06:53:18 2016 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 01:53:18 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-11-29 06:30 UTC Message-ID: Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-11-29 06:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Coll?ge Michel Lotte, Le Palais, France, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact was successful: Mon 2016-11-28 10:38:06 UTC 74 deg (***) Watch for live audio stream: http://radio-belleile.fr/contact-iss-michel-lotte-2016/ (sound only, the video will be recorded and available later) The Museum of Innovation and Science (miSci), Schenectady NY, direct via W2IR The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD (***) Contact is a go for: Sat 2016-12-10 19:49:54 UTC 85 deg (***) Exp. 50 on orbit (***) Welcome aboard! (***) Peggy Whitson Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Oleg Novitskiy **************************************************************************** ** ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n at amsat.org or aj9n at aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8? MHz. **************************************************************************** *** All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. **************************************************************************** *** Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke at sbcglobal.net **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 123 Gaston ON4WF with 121 Francesco IK?WGF with 118 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-11-29 06:30 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1095. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1060. (***) Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: Arkansas, Delaware, South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DP?ISS, IR?ISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RS?ISS **************************************************************************** The successful school list has been updated as of 2016-11-29 06:30 UTC. (***) http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 49 on orbit Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Andrei Borisenko Sergey Ryzhikov Exp. 50 on orbit (***) Welcome aboard! (***) Peggy Whitson Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Oleg Novitskiy **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors From matthew at mrstevens.net Tue Nov 29 15:54:14 2016 From: matthew at mrstevens.net (Matthew Stevens) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 10:54:14 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] EM50/51 activation this Thursday Message-ID: <40E62CC6-150C-4A1E-9C97-75BD7EF81438@mrstevens.net> Myself and another operator from our club are making a trip to Pensacola this Thursday and Friday to activate Gulf Islands National Seashore for NPOTA, in EM60. While we are in the area, Thursday evening (12/01) we are going to make an excursion into MS to operate sats from EM50 and 51. If I can find a spot, I'll try and be on the 51/50 line. The current plan is to get there around 2200z and operate several linear passes, staying around until the 0200z SO-50 pass to cover the FM only guys. EM51/50 is the primary grid goal this trip, along with the HF park activation. Other grid stops may be possible on the trip to/from Pensacola, so if anyone needs anything in the I-10 corridor, let me know and I'll try to accommodate :) Stay tuned on Twitter @kk4fem, and APRS as KK4FEM-5. 73, - Matthew KK4FEM Sent from my iPhone From gp_ab5r at outlook.com Tue Nov 29 21:51:19 2016 From: gp_ab5r at outlook.com (Gerald Payton) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 21:51:19 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Chinese Radios Message-ID: (Forgive me for asking; I know that I have read a write-up somewhere, but can't find it now.) It is my perception that some portable operators are using these Chinese HT's (specifically BaoFeng) along with their Arrow Antennas. Maybe that I am wrong. Which model is being used, if that is so. Thanks. Jerry AB5R From chad.kg0mw at gmail.com Tue Nov 29 22:05:21 2016 From: chad.kg0mw at gmail.com (Chad Phillips) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 16:05:21 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Chinese Radios In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I use the Baofeng UV-5R and a Wouxon KG-UV6D. I use the Baofeng as a transmit radio and the Wouxon for receive. The Wouxon has a freq knob on top of the radio. Makes changing frequencies so easy. I have to say I love the Baofeng. For the $28 (with shipping) it is a solid radio. I have used this two radio setup with my arrow for a few months and have had zero issues. Good luck Chad KG0MW Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 29, 2016, at 3:51 PM, Gerald Payton wrote: > > (Forgive me for asking; I know that I have read a write-up somewhere, but can't find it now.) > > > It is my perception that some portable operators are using these Chinese HT's (specifically BaoFeng) along with their Arrow Antennas. Maybe that I am wrong. > > > Which model is being used, if that is so. Thanks. > > > Jerry AB5R > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From WB4SON at gmail.com Tue Nov 29 22:34:27 2016 From: WB4SON at gmail.com (Bob) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:34:27 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Chinese Radios In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: If you can avoid using the Baofeng on 2m transmit, things will probably work better, as several studies have indicated the UV-5R often fails 3rd harmonic suppression requirements -- this would tend to desense the 70cm RX, especially on a shared boom antenna like the arrow. That would be an issue for SO-50, but not Fox-1. 73, Bob, WB4SON From k7trkradio at charter.net Tue Nov 29 23:02:21 2016 From: k7trkradio at charter.net (Ted) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 15:02:21 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] Chinese Radios In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <004d01d24a94$a42e5200$ec8af600$@charter.net> Gerald, I'll paste WD9EWK's latest post on this which contains a link to his previous post on other Chinese radios. Patrick has done extensive evaluations of this subject. Good Luck 73, Ted K7TRK >From Patrick: "I don't have a KG file to share, but those should not be shared between radios anyway. Those files are not like the config files used in the "normal" ham radios like you get from Icom, Kenwood, and Yaesu. But I can offer some suggestions and advice... The KG-UV8D is not capable of working SO-50 full-duplex. When you transmit on 2m, the 70cm receiver is desensed. You won't hear the satellite again until you stop transmitting. The radio is capable of working AO-85 full-duplex. I wrote about this on the AMSAT-BB list a year ago, and you can see that message at: http://amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2015-November/056254.html I do not use memory channels for working AO-85. I use the two VFOs, open the squelch all the way for the receive VFO, and transmit from the other VFO. That link has some key settings I used with that radio. You can program a group of memory channels to work SO-50 half- duplex. A guide for that is available from AMSAT's Station and Operating Hints page at: http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=2144 (look for the document "Operating FM Satellites") Or use another HT with your KG-UV8D, so you can transmit from one radio while listening to the other radio for full-duplex operation. If you want to use an HT to work both AO-85 and SO-50 full-duplex, there is only one option currently in production: Kenwood TH-D72A. The new TH-D74A is not capable of full-duplex operation for any FM satellite. Wouxun's KG-UV9D, like the KG-UV8D, is capable of working AO-85 full-duplex, but not SO-50. Along with the KG-UV8D, I wrote about a few other Chinese-made HTs and tried using them to work FM satellites full-duplex. They could do that with AO-85, but not SO-50. You can get to the messages covering the other radios I wrote about at: http://amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2015-December/056269.html 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK" -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Gerald Payton Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 1:51 PM To: Amsat BB Subject: [amsat-bb] Chinese Radios (Forgive me for asking; I know that I have read a write-up somewhere, but can't find it now.) It is my perception that some portable operators are using these Chinese HT's (specifically BaoFeng) along with their Arrow Antennas. Maybe that I am wrong. Which model is being used, if that is so. Thanks. Jerry AB5R _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From diehl.mike.a at gmail.com Wed Nov 30 00:05:53 2016 From: diehl.mike.a at gmail.com (Mike Diehl) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 16:05:53 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] Chinese Radios In-Reply-To: <004d01d24a94$a42e5200$ec8af600$@charter.net> References: <004d01d24a94$a42e5200$ec8af600$@charter.net> Message-ID: <49B99FE4-1417-4E4A-8765-D83506F0187A@gmail.com> Gerald, I can confirm WD9EWK's findings on the Woxun radios. I used to own a UV8D and now a UV9D. These are pretty decent little rigs for working AO-85 in full duplex. I haven't done much on Fox with an Arrow but it works great with my Elk. I can also confirm that these rigs won't do full duplex on SO-50 because of desense. I've tried several configurations including stock Arrow and Elk antennas. I also tried again after I cut down my Arrow into a 2x4 element. I seen this done by W5PFG and decided to give it shot. It did not help anything on my UV9D but it's worth noting that it eliminated the desense I was getting on my FT-8900. One thing I do with SO-50 on these rigs is to leave the VFO I'm using for downlink as main so you can easily adjust for Doppler. I then use the secondary PTT function to key up the other VFO set for uplink. This will keep you from having to switch back and forth between VFOs to adjust RX and jump back for TX. On AO-85 I've only ever had to adjust for Doppler on the uplink so I just leave it as main. 73! Mike Diehl - AI6GS > On Nov 29, 2016, at 3:02 PM, Ted wrote: > > Gerald, I'll paste WD9EWK's latest post on this which contains a link to his > previous post on other Chinese radios. Patrick has done extensive > evaluations of this subject. Good Luck > > 73, Ted > K7TRK > > From Patrick: > > "I don't have a KG file to share, but those should not be shared > between radios anyway. Those files are not like the config files > used in the "normal" ham radios like you get from Icom, Kenwood, > and Yaesu. But I can offer some suggestions and advice... > > The KG-UV8D is not capable of working SO-50 full-duplex. When you > transmit on 2m, the 70cm receiver is desensed. You won't hear > the satellite again until you stop transmitting. The radio is > capable of working AO-85 full-duplex. I wrote about this on the > AMSAT-BB list a year ago, and you can see that message at: > > http://amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2015-November/056254.html > > I do not use memory channels for working AO-85. I use the two > VFOs, open the squelch all the way for the receive VFO, and > transmit from the other VFO. That link has some key settings > I used with that radio. > > You can program a group of memory channels to work SO-50 half- > duplex. A guide for that is available from AMSAT's Station and > Operating Hints page at: > > http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=2144 > > (look for the document "Operating FM Satellites") > > Or use another HT with your KG-UV8D, so you can transmit from one > radio while listening to the other radio for full-duplex operation. > > If you want to use an HT to work both AO-85 and SO-50 full-duplex, > there is only one option currently in production: Kenwood TH-D72A. > The new TH-D74A is not capable of full-duplex operation for any FM > satellite. Wouxun's KG-UV9D, like the KG-UV8D, is capable of working > AO-85 full-duplex, but not SO-50. Along with the KG-UV8D, I wrote > about a few other Chinese-made HTs and tried using them to work > FM satellites full-duplex. They could do that with AO-85, but not > SO-50. You can get to the messages covering the other radios I > wrote about at: > > http://amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2015-December/056269.html > > 73! > > > > > > Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK > http://www.wd9ewk.net/ > Twitter: @WD9EWK" > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Gerald > Payton > Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 1:51 PM > To: Amsat BB > Subject: [amsat-bb] Chinese Radios > > (Forgive me for asking; I know that I have read a write-up somewhere, but > can't find it now.) > > > It is my perception that some portable operators are using these Chinese > HT's (specifically BaoFeng) along with their Arrow Antennas. Maybe that I > am wrong. > > > Which model is being used, if that is so. Thanks. > > > Jerry AB5R > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all > interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official > views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From AJ9N at aol.com Wed Nov 30 07:15:07 2016 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 02:15:07 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-11-30 07:00 UTC Message-ID: <1a60b1.6fa1edbd.456fd67b@aol.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-11-30 07:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Coll?ge Jean Charcot, Saint Malo, France, telebridge via IK1SLD (****) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-12-08 15:19:45 UTC 74 deg (***) This contact might be on the downlink of 437.525 MHz (***) The Museum of Innovation and Science (miSci), Schenectady NY, direct via W2IR The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Sat 2016-12-10 19:49:54 UTC 85 deg **************************************************************************** ** ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n at amsat.org or aj9n at aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8? MHz. **************************************************************************** *** All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. **************************************************************************** *** Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke at sbcglobal.net **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 123 Gaston ON4WF with 121 Francesco IK?WGF with 118 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-11-30 07:00 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1095. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1060. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: Arkansas, Delaware, South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DP?ISS, IR?ISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RS?ISS **************************************************************************** The successful school list has been updated as of 2016-11-29 06:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 49 on orbit Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Andrei Borisenko Sergey Ryzhikov Exp. 50 on orbit Peggy Whitson Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Oleg Novitskiy **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors From n5vho.ken at gmail.com Wed Nov 30 16:32:52 2016 From: n5vho.ken at gmail.com (Kenneth Ransom) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 10:32:52 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] MAI-75 SSTV Dec 8 & 9 from ISS Message-ID: MAI-75 activities have been scheduled on Russian crew for Dec 8 (12:35-18:00) and Dec 9 (12:40-17:40) UTC. Times correspond to orbits over Moscow. Downlink is typically on 145.800 MHz. -- Kenneth - N5VHO From py5lf at falautomation.com.br Wed Nov 30 22:03:05 2016 From: py5lf at falautomation.com.br (PY5LF) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 20:03:05 -0200 Subject: [amsat-bb] CAS-2T & HO68 Beacon Report In-Reply-To: <20161125182619.F2FFD8D9E@lansing182.amsat.org> References: <20161125182619.F2FFD8D9E@lansing182.amsat.org> Message-ID: Hi John The CAS-2T has just passed over Brazil and the beacon still are working , very strong . The problem in my opinion looks that the sat reset before finish the complete set of caracteres , I mean , sometimes it send CASI or CASE , even CAS only . Since the number 2 must be the next letter , I think it can not TX the entire "2" (. . _ _ _ ) Just my guess. 73 2016-11-25 16:26 GMT-02:00 John Papay : > Some are reporting hearing the beacon of > CAS-2T, however, I had not been hearing it > for the past few days. Yesterday I set it on > the Beacon Frequency and waited without tuning > around. Sure enough it was eventually heard, > but not in a continuous stream. It would send > "CE" and then go silent for a while. Then it > would send "CASS" and go silent, maybe for a minute > or two before sending "CE" again. No response on > the voice repeater frequency. In the past it had > stuttered when activated. > > The HO-68 beacon was heard on frequency sending the > data but often times it would stop sending in the middle > of the data group. It would go off for some time and then > come back sending a few characters before going off again. > The beacon frequency has been absolutely stable > for years. Frequency settings have not been changed here > for years and it is always right there every time. > > 73, > John K8YSE/7 > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From framirezferrer at gmail.com Wed Nov 30 23:48:48 2016 From: framirezferrer at gmail.com (Fernando Ramirez) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:48:48 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] HI8KW from FK58 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I would like to thank Rafael, HI8KW, for the quick contact over AO-85 early today. Rafael is operating from grid square FK58 and will be available on all linears and FM satellites. Welcome Rafael to the satellite ops family. He will upload his contacts to LoTW very soon. Gracias! Fernando NP4JV