[amsat-bb] AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 12, Issue 350

Wed Dec 27 13:58:14 UTC 2017

I'm writing to you to let you know Jim O'Leary N7DRB
passed away October 3rd 2017.

Please let everyone know that might have known Jim.

I will be monitoring his email address for the next
month or so until his sister has his account terminated.

Best Regards, Barry Thompson N6CID

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Today's Topics:

   1. [Video] UNCUT AO-91 demo (impromptu Christmas
Eve demo)
      (John Brier)
   2. Re: polarisation switch (Bob- W7LRD)
   3. Re: [Video] UNCUT AO-91 demo (impromptu
Christmas Eve	demo)
      (Michael Styne)
   4. Re: polarisation switch (JoAnne K9JKM)
   5. Re: polarisation switch (JoAnne K9JKM)
   6. polarisation switch (Roland Zurmely)
   7. Re: [Video] UNCUT AO-91 demo (impromptu
Christmas Eve	demo)
      (John Brier)
   8. Re: polarisation switch (JoAnne K9JKM)
   9. Re: Has anyone made a satellite QSO with an
orbiting	ISS
      astronaut? (Andy)
  10. Falconsat-3 Wisp Error NO -5 (Tony)
  11. Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of
2017-12-27 01:00	UTC
      (AJ9N at aol.com)
  12. 3 Element Yagi Design (Wendy and Terry Osborne)
  13. WIMO X-Quads (Dave Tipton)

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 11:18:12 -0500

https://youtu.be/w7Ukh_nT2Tg

This is an uncut and lightly edited video I made
mostly so Blair (the ham
who saw and joined me at the 8 minute mark) could see
it. I normally only
upload highly edited videos (24, 32 or more hours of
editing). Even though
it doesn't meet my normal standards I figured others
besides Blair might
still be interested.

2017-12-24 1753 UTC

03:05 Bird comes in strong
04:58 YV6CR FJ78 Contacted? he said WP3KG
07:42 KG3GDS FN00 CONTACTED
08:00 Blair arrives - demo begins
09:02 KE4AL EM761 CONTACTED
09:16 WO3T FN00 CONTACTED
09:29 K3RRR CONTACTED
10:22 ???MTS FN32 Contacted? What was prefix?
13:00 KC3GFZ FN00 CONTACTED
13:13 WN9Q EN64 CONTACTED

This is from the Christmas Eve AO-91 pass at 1753 UTC
(2017-12-24). I was
just having a little fun for myself before I left
Raleigh for Wilmington to
be with my parents for Christmas. About halfway
through the pass, Blair,
another ham, saw me from his car in this shopping lot
and came over, so I
did I did a little demo for him.

I was lucky because I recently made a cable for my
Kenwood TM-V71 to pull
the audio off the DATA pin. This cable allowed me to
get audio into my
recorder and play audio from the radio's speaker
simultaneously. Normally I
plug a cable into the speaker out port but that
disables the internal
speaker.

I made the cable originally so I could decode the
Data Under Voice (DUV)
telemetry from AO-91 during commissioning, which
helps the engineers
determine if the bird is okay. You need the
unfiltered audio because the
data is all below 200 hz, which is normally filtered
from speaker out.

Unfortunately, even using the supposedly unfiltered
audio from the DATA pin
I still couldn't get the FoxTelem software to decode
anything. But without
this cable if I wanted someone else to hear the audio
I would have to hook
up a splitter in front of the recorder and run a
second cable to an
external speaker. I couldn't have done that in time
for Blair to hear, or
it would have been a lot of effort for not a lot of
gain because the pass
might have been over before I got it all hooked up.

I also have another proper AO-91 video I'm making. It
is from the second
daytime pass right after it was commissioned about a
month ago (on the US
Thanksgiving holiday).

To those that celebrate it, Merry Christmas! Happy
Holidays to everyone
else!

73, John Brier KG4AKV

P.S. I think my phone's tracking app was set for a
location I was at the
previous day about 40 minutes from where I live, so
it was off slightly as
far as timing and max elevation. The pass was
actually about 72 degrees max
elevation, not 67 or whatever I told Blair, and when
I thought the bird was
at 2 degrees during the last contact,  it was
actually about 4 or 5 degrees
elevation.

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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 09:24:48 -0800 (PST)

I think it was in the AMSAT Journal several years
back..Do a archive search
73 Bob W7LRD
> On December 24, 2017 at 8:01 PM Mike Thompson
<zryder94 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> This might not be exactly what you are looking for,
but might be a good
> place to start.
> 
>  http://www.sm5bsz.com/polarity/simplesw.htm 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 5:55 AM,
<jerry.tuyls at telenet.be> wrote:
> 
> > Hello all
> >
> > Does someone has the article from late I8CVS,
switching 4 polarisations on
> > a 70cm crossed yagi?
> > In pdf if possible for a friend of mine, i used
to have it but can't find
> > it anymore on my pc.
> >
> > Best 73's
> >
> > Jerry,ON4CJQ
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 12:01:49 -0500

It was me! Looks like I was stomped on a little.
Should have said my call again. 

Thanks for posting this recording & happy holidays. 

Michael Styne K2MTS
mstyne at k2mts.org

> On Dec 25, 2017, at 11:18, John Brier
<johnbrier at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 10:22 ???MTS FN32 Contacted? What was prefix?

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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 12:01:48 -0600

I added parts 1 and 2 of Domenico's I8CVS article
from the 2007 AMSAT
Journal archive to the files section of the AMSAT
North America group on
Facebook. The files are too big to upload to
amsat.org without
administrator intervention.

--
73 de JoAnne K9JKM
k9jkm at amsat.org

On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 8:13 AM, JamesDuffey
<jamesduffey at comcast.net>
wrote:

> Can you share it with the rest of Us? - Duffey KK6MC
>
>
> James Duffey KK6MC
> Cedar Crest NM
>
> > On Dec 25, 2017, at 02:04, jerry.tuyls at telenet.be
wrote:
> >
> > Tnx all for the replies, the article has arrived.
> >
> > 73's
> >
> > Jerry,ON4CJQ
> >
> > ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
> > Van: "jerry tuyls" <jerry.tuyls at telenet.be>
> > Aan: "amsat-bb" <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
> > Verzonden: Zondag 24 december 2017 12:55:33
> > Onderwerp: [amsat-bb] polarisation switch
> >
> > Hello all
> >
> > Does someone has the article from late I8CVS,
switching 4 polarisations
> on a 70cm crossed yagi?
> > In pdf if possible for a friend of mine, i used
to have it but can't
> find it anymore on my pc.
> >
> > Best 73's
> >
> > Jerry,ON4CJQ
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 12:13:56 -0600

Part 1 was in the March/April 2007 issue; Part 2 was
in the May/June 2007
issue of the AMSAT Journal.

--
73 de JoAnne K9JKM
k9jkm at amsat.org

On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Bob- W7LRD
<w7lrd at comcast.net> wrote:

> I think it was in the AMSAT Journal several years
back..Do a archive search
> 73 Bob W7LRD
> > On December 24, 2017 at 8:01 PM Mike Thompson
<zryder94 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > This might not be exactly what you are looking
for, but might be a good
> > place to start.
> >
> >  http://www.sm5bsz.com/polarity/simplesw.htm 
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 5:55 AM,
<jerry.tuyls at telenet.be> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all
> > >
> > > Does someone has the article from late I8CVS,
switching 4
> polarisations on
> > > a 70cm crossed yagi?
> > > In pdf if possible for a friend of mine, i used
to have it but can't
> find
> > > it anymore on my pc.
> > >
> > > Best 73's
> > >
> > > Jerry,ON4CJQ
> > > _______________________________________________
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 20:31:04 +0000 (UTC)

< http://www.qsl.net/py1ll/amtccy.pdf> 

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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 22:33:38 -0500

Haha! I thought I might find you if I posted this. I
would have asked for
your prefix on the pass but I figured it would be on
the recording earlier
in the pass. Didn't search hard for you in it but I
didn't hear you.

73, John Brier KG4AKV

On Dec 25, 2017 12:02 PM, "Michael Styne"
<mstyne at k2mts.org> wrote:

> It was me! Looks like I was stomped on a little.
Should have said my call
> again.
>
> Thanks for posting this recording & happy holidays.
>
> Michael Styne K2MTS
> mstyne at k2mts.org
>
> > On Dec 25, 2017, at 11:18, John Brier
<johnbrier at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 10:22 ???MTS FN32 Contacted? What was prefix?
>
>

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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 12:02:17 -0600

Domenico's article has been added to the AMSAT
Station and Operating Hints
page: 

 https://www.amsat.org/station-and-operating-hints/ 

It is placed down on the page with the antenna
articles. Look for "Domenico,
I8CVS (SK) published a two-part article in the AMSAT
Journal about his
design for switching polarization on circularly
polarized antennas. The PDF
files are available for download as Part1 (2MB) and
Part2 (4MB)"

--
73 de JoAnne K9JKM
k9jkm at amsat.org

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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 14:48:28 -0600

During the SAREX days we coordinated a QSO between
the Shuttle and MIR on 2
meters. It was a bit involved due to Doppler and
choosing a window on the
Shuttle for the antenna, but it did work. Operating
via a VHF/UHF FM Hamsat
would be more involved, but could certainly work with
the external antenna
on ISS and a satellite like AO-91. Complete frequency
calculations would be
needed for the ISS astronaut.

Andy W5ACM

-----Original Message-----

STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)

astronaut?

Douglas,

No, this hasn't happened - but not from a lack of trying.

In 2006, at the very end of Bill McArthur's ISS tour,
there was an effort to
see if Bill could make a QSO via AO-51. Bill had
already completed WAS, WAC,
and DXCC working hams around the world, and this was
considered the last big
thing he could do from the ISS radio. Time was tight,
and probably the
biggest reason why this didn't work. Instructions
were sent up to the ISS,
and stations were recruited on the ground in
locations compatible with both
available AO-51 passes and Bill's available time.
Bill was heard through
AO-51, but no QSOs were made.

I am not aware if there have been other attempts
since 2006 for an ISS
crewmember to work an amateur satellite from the ISS.
Maybe if Doug Wheelock
can get another ISS tour, this could be tried again.

IIRC crewmembers that used the ISS cross-band
repeater to work stations on
the ground are not using a different radio to work
through the ISS repeater.
Since the cross-band repeater was a function of the
Kenwood dual-band mobile
transceivers, the crews would use the microphone and
speaker on that radio
to work stations. Really no different than if the
cross-band repeater
function on those radios is turned off, or if the
crews used the GE/Ericsson
HTs to work stations.

73!

Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
 http://www.wd9ewk.net/ 
Twitter: @WD9EWK or  http://twitter.com/WD9EWK 

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Douglas Quagliana
<dquagliana at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Has anyone ever had a successful two-way QSO with
an orbiting ISS 
> astronaut through an amateur radio satellite
transponder?
>
> Regards,
> Douglas KA2UPW/5
>
>
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 19:59:27 -0500

All:

Wisp is showing the following error when accessing
Falconsat-3: 
"Directory request error NO -5 K2MO"

I searched the archives and it seems this error takes
place if the 
parameter "Test for SMACK TNC"? is checked which is
not the case here.

Any suggestions?

Tony -K2MO

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Message: 11
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 20:20:46 -0500

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-12-27 
01:00 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and  events:

Higher National School of Computer Science and
Systems  Analysis (ENSIAS), 
Rabat, Morocco, telebridge via VK5ZAI (***)
The ISS  callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS
(***) 
The scheduled astronaut is  Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP (***)
Contact is a go for: Wed 2018-01-03 13:52:42 UTC  33
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:  

Francesco IK?WGF with 132 
Satoshi 7M3TJZ with  127
Gaston ON4WF with 123
Sergey RV3DR with  100

****************************************************************************
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
2017-12-27 01:00 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
1200.
Each school counts as 1  event.
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is
1149.
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
2017-12-27 01:00 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.  53 on orbit
Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP
Alexander Misurkin
Joe Acaba  KE5DAR

Exp. 54 on orbit
Scott Tingle KG5NZA
Norishige  Kanai
Alexander  Skvortsov

****************************************************************************

73,
Charlie  Sufana AJ9N
One of the ARISS operation team  mentors

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Message: 12
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 16:56:08 +1300

Hi Folks,

I have recently built up a 3 Element 2M yagi antenna
from a some old TV antenna parts in my junk box.
It seems to work well on AO-91.
If anyone is interested, the details are here:
 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4f4m07pzhy8lyvi/AAAv3yVEIK45ClC0RHCt3s3Ea?dl=0 

Happy holidays and 73,

Terry Osborne ZL2BAC 

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Message: 13
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 04:28:46 -0600

Good Morning folks,   After an extended hiatus, (Like
15 years) I'm back.
Looking at getting the shack set back up for the
birds, and was wondering if
anyone here was using the WIMO X-Quad antennas.   
They look pretty
impressive for their size, and I was thinking about
putting a pair of them
on a split Yaesu 5500 over top of my TA-33 on the tower.

Just wondering what you guys thought of them.

Thanks,
Dave

Dave Tipton, W5DMT  (Formerly N8KXA)

(615) 689-0685

 < mailto:dave at w5dmt.com>  dave at w5dmt.com

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