[amsat-bb] Outernet L-Band now carries AMSAT and ARISS weekly bulletins

[Robert Bruninga]

The Outernet L-band feed is now carrying a condensed version of the AMSAT
and ARISS weekly news files.  (Global Geosat coverage except for Northern
Alaska)...

Receivers are simple:  http://aprs.org/outnet.html

For ARISS, I manually added a 2 char grid square to each school listed in
the school schedule and am asking the outernet folks to parse out that
location info and plot a 1200 km footprint on their weather globe showing
where people can tune in the ARISS contacts.  Then their RTL-SDR dongle
could then actually be retuned to hear the contact.  Just an idea...

Bob, WB4APR

-----Original Message-----
From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Dani
EA4GPZ
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2016 7:36 AM
To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] New Outernet L-Band service...

>> I hope someday a service like this will be available
>>  from an AMSAT geostationary service.

> I'm pretty confident that the guys at AMSAT-DL are capable
>  of doing this much better on the upcoming EsHail'2
> than what Outernet is currently doing on Inmarsat...

> They already have in mind a "DVB-S beacon"...  broadcast
> from the ground station at Qatar ... carrying videos
> about Ham radio and Ham radio events on this signal.

> What is more, if you have equipment to operate EsHail'2 on SSB,
> it's more or less easy to use either the narrowband transponder
> or the wideband transponder to transmit an Outernet-type signal
> through EsHail'2, so anyone can have a go with this.

> Outernet uses 4200baud BPSK and half of the bitrate is spent for FEC.
> You can use a bit less bitrate to get a signal that will even pass
> through a conventional 2.7kHz SSB filter and you can use less
> bits for FEC to get increased data throughput (but more SNR required).

> Dani EA4GPZ.