From mccardelm at gmail.com Sun Jan 1 01:58:39 2017 From: mccardelm at gmail.com (E.Mike McCardel) Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 20:58:39 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS-001 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins Message-ID: AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-001 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: * Tomsk-TPU-120 CubeSat to deploy during EVA * New Amateur Radio FM Transponder CubeSat Now in Space * Background info on launch problems for BY70-1 * Possible Satellite Activity Galapagos Islands * CONTACT! via UHF ISS digipeater using Kenwood TH-D72 * AMSAT CW Activity Day * ARISS News * Satellite Shorts From All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-001.01 ANS-001 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 001.01 >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. January 01, 2017 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-001.01 Tomsk-TPU-120 CubeSat to deploy during EVA The amateur radio CubeSat Tomsk-TPU-120 may be deployed during a Russian spacewalk (EVA) in July 2017. The satellite was developed by students at the Tomsk Polytechnic University to test new space materials technology and is the world?s first space vehicle with a 3D-printed structure. It was launched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan to the ISS on March 31, 2016 in a Progress-MS- 2 cargo vessel. It will be deployed by hand during a Russian spacewalk, which is why unlike other CubeSats this one has a handle. The call sign of the satellite is RS4S. According to Alexey Yakovlev, head of the Tomsk Polytechnic University?s Institute of High Technologies, the 3D printed satellite is something of a landmark for additive manufacturing, being the first example of a fully 3D printed satellite: ?The Tomsk-TPU-120 is the first such project in the world, in which the entire casing of a satellite is fully 3D printed using dynamic modeling,? Yakovlev recently told Sputnik. ?The combination of these technologies can significantly reduce the development time and the number of full- scale tests, find new engineering solutions, and reduce the project?s cost.? In May 2016 the Tomsk Polytechnic University celebrated its 120th anniversary. As part of the celebrations on May 10/11 the Tomsk-TPU- 120 was activated in the ISS and transmitted a greeting to Earth inhabitants, recorded by students of the university in 10 languages: Russian, English, German, French, Chinese, Arabic, Tatar, Indian, Kazakh and Portuguese. The greeting message was transmitted once a minute on 437.025 MHz FM. A Kenwood transceiver on the ISS provided a cross-band relay, re- transmitting the signal on 145.800 MHz FM. Read the 3ders article at http://tinyurl.com/ANS001-3darticle Sputnik News ? Unique 3D-Printed Siberian Satellite to Orbit Earth http://tinyurl.com/ANS001-3D/ ISS Calendar http://spaceflight101.com/iss/iss-calendar/ Tomsk-TPU-120 CubeSat Video http://tinyurl.com/ANS001-Tomsk-TPU-120 [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- New Amateur Radio FM Transponder CubeSat Now in Space The BY70-1 CubeSat launched on December 28 from the Taiyuan Space Launch Center in China, but in a lower orbit than intended. The satellite carries an Amateur Radio FM transponder. BY70-1 was intended to go into a 530-kilometer (approximately 329- mile) circular Sun-synchronous orbit, but it appears the orbit is 524 x 212 kilometers, which will give the spacecraft an orbital lifetime of just a month or two. Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, reported working Wyatt Dirks, AC0RA, through the FM transponder during the 1709 UTC pass on December 28. "Uplink requires precise frequency adjustment, and there's a delay on the downlink, but the signal is strong," Stoetzer said. BY70-1 is a 2U CubeSat project for education and Amateur Radio. It features 3-axis stabilization and deployable solar panels. In addition to the FM transponder, BY70-1 has a camera, and plans call for downloading images and telemetry via a 9600 bps BPSK downlink. The IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination pages list an uplink of 145.920 MHz, and a downlink of 436.200 MHz. AMSAT-UK has more information online at, http://tinyurl.com/ANS001-AMSAT-UK-BY70 [ANS thanks ARRL for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Background info on launch problems for BY70-1 On Dec 28 China launched a CZ-2D from Taiyuan - the first time the 2D model has flown from their southern launch site. However, the rocket appears to have run into problems and achieved orbit with an underspeed of 100 m/s, making a 212 x 520 km orbit instead of a circular 500 km one. The main payloads are Gaojing 1 and 2, two commercial high resolution (0.5m) imaging satellites also called SuperView 1 and 2. The satellites are owned by Beijing Aerospace World View Information Technology Co., Ltd (also called Beijing Space View Tech Co.Ltd.); the US company DigitalGlobe is a major investor. Also aboard was BY70-1, or Bayi kepu weixing 01 xing, a 2U cubesat with an amateur radio payload developed by high school students at the PLA-related Beijing Bayi School. [ANS thanks Jonathan's Space Report, No. 733 for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Possible Satellite Activity Galapagos Islands HC8, GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. Geoff, G8OFQ, will once again be active as HC8/G8OFQ from Isabela Island (SA-004) between August 1st and October 31st, 2017. Activity will be on 160-6 meters using SSB only. There is a possibility of some satellite activity on 2m and 70cm SSB. Geoff is there working as a volunteer for the Galapagos National Park at the Giant Tortoise Breeding Center (see pictures on QRZ.com) on Isabela Island. QSL via G8OFQ: Geoff Dobson, 9 Fitzpain Road, Ferndown, Dorset, BH22 8RZ, United Kingdom. Also LoTW on request. [ANS thanks Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin #1297 for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT! via UHF ISS digipeater using Kenwood TH-D72 I made CONTACT! Through the UHF ISS digipeater using my Kenwood TH-D72 View the video at: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceComms/videos/1342108185861041/ This was my second contact through the ISS digipeater. I actually contacted the same station I contacted in this video, W8LR, three days before, but I wasn't recording any video. For this video I recorded the audio from my Kenwood TH-D72a and later played it back to Soundmodem+UISS. Soundmodem decodes many more packets than my radio does. I made a screen capture of UISS and its map so you can see the complete details of every received packet. Another thing this video shows is how hard it can be to track a near overhead pass (close to 90 degrees elevation). When I was beginning in satellites I only tried to work overhead passes because I knew the signal would be strongest when the satellite was closest to me. While that is true, the closer the satellite is to you the faster its relative speed is. When it passes overhead it switches from coming towards you to going away from you very fast, and drops 10s of degrees in seconds. That makes the satellite very easy to lose track of. In this video I got distracted while changing settings on my radio and lost the ISS after it went overhead. It didn't help that I was using a tripod for the first time. I prefer to hold the antenna in my hand precisecly because I find it's easier to track, as I can make quick adjustments and listen for the signal going up and down. To control the radio for packet, it helps to have two hands. See my previous UHF ISS digi video to see how hard it is to change settings with one hand. Here is the very appropriate QSL card I got from W8LR for my first ISS digi contact: http://imgur.com/vUfwkiE http://imgur.com/DIq7fD4 Here are all the stations I heard on the pass from this video (time stamps GMT -5) -------------- N4ZQ 12/18/2016 11:08:08 System time KG4AKV-5 12/18/2016 11:08:13 W8LR 12/18/2016 11:09:02 KC4LE 12/18/2016 11:09:17 W0NBC 12/18/2016 11:11:07 RS0ISS 12/18/2016 11:11:38 W4TBD-6 12/18/2016 11:12:14 KA8YES-6 12/18/2016 11:12:52 Total Stations = 8 The music at the end is "Jubilee - Opa--locka" You can subscribe to John's SpaceComms YouTube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/SpaceComms1?sub_confirmation=1 [ANS Thanks John KG4AKV for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT CW Activity Day January 1, 2017 (UTC) will be AMSAT's first annual CW Activity Day! As with the old Straight Key Night, this is a fun event, not a contest. It will run for 24 hours on January 1, 2017 (UTC). All forms of CW are welcome, -- straight keys, bugs, keyers, even keyboards and decoders. Since it is not a contest, there is no required exchange. A QSO is a QSO. Working the same station on more than one satellite is permitted. Instead of submitting Best Fist nominations, all participants are asked to post their results, including "Soapbox" comments, to AMSAT- BB. Please include the satellites you used, and the number of CW QSOs you had on each. While it is not necessary to post your full log, you may do so if you wish. [ANS thanks Ray W2RS for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS News + A Successful contact was made between Primary School Georges Wallers, Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (59), France and Astronaut Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG using Callsign FX?ISS. The contact began Sat 2016-12- 31 11:31:12 UTC and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was direct via F4KJV. ARISS Mentor was Joseph F6ICS. Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule Coll?ge Mathilde Marthe Faucher, Allassac, France, direct via F1IMF. The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be FX?ISS. The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Wed 2017-01-04 11:16:26 UTC Rainbow Middle School, Rainbow City, AL, direct via K4JMC. The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS. The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Wed 2017-01-04 17:29:40 UTC [ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above information] [ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts From All Over + Amateur Radio Kids Day January 7 Organized by the ARRL Kids day, scheduled this year for January 7 is meant to develop interest in Amateur Radio. Please consider this while operating the satlleite January 7. Listen for kids on-the-air or plan to assist kids with operating the satellites. For more information visit http://www.arrl.org/kids-day. [ANS thanks the ARRL for the above information] + ANS Seeks Rotating Editors The AMSAT News Service (ANS) seeks additional volunteers to serve as rotating editors. The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and information 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. If you are interested in serving AMSAT-NA in this important and rewarding role, please contact Lee McLamb, KU4OS: ku4os at amsat dot org. [ANS thanks the ANS editorial staff for the above information] + The AMSAT News Service editors wish you and yours a prosperous and safe 2017. [ANS thanks Lee KU4OS, Joe K6WAO and EMike AA8EM 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, EMike McCardel, AA8EM aa8em at amsat dot org From wa4sca at gmail.com Sun Jan 1 06:46:35 2017 From: wa4sca at gmail.com (Alan) Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 00:46:35 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Tips for posting to AMSAT-BB Message-ID: <000001d263fa$cbefa620$63cef260$@GMAIL.COM> People sometimes post time-sensitive messages to AMSAT-BB. Examples are last minute grid activities, unexpected satellite mode changes, requests for critically important telemetry, etc. These normally go through promptly, but occasionally get held for two primary reasons: While AMSAT-BB is an open list, that means it is open for membership, not posting. In order to post to the list, it normally must be from the same account you originally registered. For instance, if you registered from your home account, and post from your office account, it will normally be held for release by a moderator. Likewise, some people have all their email forwarded to a single account from which they reply. We can create a filter to pass the second address, but that is not automatically done on the first instance, and does require moderator action. AMSAT-BB receives many pieces of spam for each legitimate message. As part of the filtering process, emails larger than 50 kB are blocked. This usually happens to legitimate email when someone attempts to attach a large file. Also, there is a limit to the number of addresses before an email is held as potential spam. I have seen legitimate email sent to 30+ addresses. We have a team of volunteer moderators, but they are not available 24/7. The result is that a message sent in the evening or on a holiday, US time, may well be held for several hours before being released. So, if it absolutely, positively needs to be distributed promptly: 1. Post from the same account you registered, or one which from past experience you know has been flagged as acceptable. 2. Do not use attachments. (Pictures and other files should be included by a link.) They will be blocked to the list, and if the total size of the message plus attachments exceeds 50 kB, the mail will be held. 3. Send it to AMSAT-BB and a few other addresses at most. If you must send to a large distribution list, send to them, and another copy to AMSAT-BB. (A trick which seems to work well is to place most of the addresses in the BCC rather than CC line.) 4. Consider also posting to the AMSAT Twitter and Facebook accounts. There is overlap in membership, though at present it is far from 100%. 5. Do not send large commercial press releases, or things which look like them. They will be caught by heuristic spam filters. A simple posting of an event or activity will normally go through. Note that there are existing exemptions for official channels such as ANS, ARISS, other AMSAT organizations, etc. 6. New accounts are automatically flagged for moderation. This flag will normally be cleared on the first or second posting, but do allow for and expect an initial delay if you establish a dedicated account for your satellite organization. From AJ9N at aol.com Sun Jan 1 04:06:12 2017 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 23:06:12 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-01 04:00 UTC Message-ID: <29224f8.4b1dc923.4599da34@aol.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-01 04:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Primary School Georges Wallers, Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (59), France, Direct via F4KJV The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be FX?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact was successful: Sat 2016-12-31 11:31:12 UTC 44 deg (***) Coll?ge Mathilde Marthe Faucher, Allassac, France, direct via F1IMF The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be FX?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Wed 2017-01-04 11:16:26 UTC 30 deg Rainbow Middle School, Rainbow City, AL, direct via K4JMC The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Wed 2017-01-04 17:29:40 UTC 80 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 119 **************************************************************************** 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 2017-01-01 04:00 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 1103. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1068. (***) 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 2017-01-01 04:00 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 Exp. 50 on orbit Peggy Whitson Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Oleg Novitskiy **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors From mjohns166 at yahoo.com Sun Jan 1 14:36:55 2017 From: mjohns166 at yahoo.com (Mark Johns) Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 14:36:55 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 In-Reply-To: References: <5866AAC4.2040306@gmail.com> <770901661.4023448.1483125624343@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <2011200055.4902012.1483281415655@mail.yahoo.com> Steve (and others), I wrote directly to Erich, the SatPC32 author, about this problem. FYI, below is his very nice reply: Mark, Happy New Year! I don't remember my comment in 2006. You are right - since the problem is specific to only one satellite it doesn't make sense to completely re-install the program, I think. Perhaps you proceed step-by-step: Run SatPC32 with configuration #1 (menu "Setup") and group "Standard". Choose nasa.all as Keps file. Leave Doppler.SQF and SubTone.SQF and (eventually) Prior.SQF unchanged, that means WITHOUT entries for BY70-1. Make sure that there is at least one ident letter free for a new satellite. Then open menu "Satellites" and add BY70-1 from the "Available" list to the "Selected" list and click the "OK" button. A new ident letter should appear. Click on it to switch to BY70-1. Does that cause already the io 105 error? SatPC32 saves the "Selected" list of group "Standard" in the text file "Standard.Sat" in the SatPC32 DATA folder (path can be seen in footline of menu "Satellites" ). Is there something unusual with that file? At its end it should show: BY70-1 - The minus char below the name indicates that the option "Show On/Off" (menu "Satellites") is unchecked (no asterix in front of the satellite name). Attention: Make first hidden files and folders visible using the Windows File Explorer, because the folder "AppData" in the path is hidden by default. 73s, Erich, DK1TB -- 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: Stephen E. Belter To: Mark Johns ; AMSAT-BB Sent: Friday, December 30, 2016 3:00 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Mark, I also get the ?E/A-Fehler 105.? error message when I add BY70-1 to a satellite group in SatPC32. Other people don?t have the problem. The error message (in German) means I/O Error 105 in the Delphi programming environment, which I believe is an error writing to a file. What I can?t yet answer is how to fix the problem. We may have a file permissions problem. Anybody have a solution or know where to look? 73, Steve N9IP -- Steve Belter, seb at wintek.com On 12/30/16, 1:20 PM, "AMSAT-BB on behalf of Mark Johns via AMSAT-BB" wrote: >When I put keps for BY70-1 into SatPC32 (either yesterday's keps or >today's), it pops up a box that says, "E/A - Fehler 105." SatPC32 freezes >up. > >Does anyone know what this error code means? Anyone else getting it? > >-- > >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: Greg D >To: AMSAT-BB >Sent: Friday, December 30, 2016 12:43 PM >Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 > >18:20 pass not as strong as prior passes. Only got a few moments of >full-quieting audio. Contacts with W5ACM and KC7M. As before, the >second half of the pass was much better (nothing heard at all until just >before indicated TCA), so perhaps the bird is late compared to the >Keps. Worked it almost into the ground before LOS. I'm using >2016-083C, updated from Celestrak right before the pass. Playing with >polarization seemed to help, but I'm assuming the bird's antennas are >linear, right? Possibly my relays are getting dirty. > >One question, for scale... We know that the satellite will not last >"long", given it's crippled orbit. How long? Days? Weeks? Months? > >Greg KO6TH > > >Nico Janssen wrote: >> >> If you are still using yesterday's TLE set, then you will indeed find >> that BY70-1 is now about half a minute earlier. The problem is that >> the TLEs for this satellite are not stable yet in the first days after >> the >> launch. The right value for e.g. the decay rate has not yet been >> established. So for the time being you need to make sure you use the >> most recent TLE set that is available. >> >> By the way, the two SuperView satellites are now using their own >> propulsion system to increase their altitude, preventing an early decay. >> As BY70-1 does not have any propulsion, it is stuck in its low orbit. >> >> 73, >> Nico PA0DLO >> >> >> On 30-12-16 13:42, PY5LF wrote: >>> Hi >>> We had a low pass over here minutes ago and i felt the keps BY70-1 are >>> wrong . >>> I start to hear 25 seconds before . Does anyone feels the same ? >>> 73 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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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Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From jefforybroughton at gmail.com Sun Jan 1 16:05:08 2017 From: jefforybroughton at gmail.com (jeffory broughton) Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 11:05:08 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] WINDCAMP CHARGE PROBLEM FIXED In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Win camp charging problem solved. I never saw a RED charge light on the wall wart,only green.The charger had no 12 volt output ! the green light was battery voltage feeding back.I have asked the supplier to replace it .if not,they are on EBAY for $7.29 and free ship front Chicago !Since this appears to be a common problem,I ordered two ! jeff broughton From jikandel at icloud.com Sun Jan 1 16:00:04 2017 From: jikandel at icloud.com (Joel Kandel) Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2017 11:00:04 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Bad Tracker EEPROM Message-ID: <3C266601-B154-432F-A659-E3629A0464AF@icloud.com> Fellow members, I am getting a "Bad EEPROM data" message on my Tracker readout. I queried the office about a fix and Martha forwarded it to the appropriate Individuals. It's been a couple of months since my inquiry and have not heard back. Is there anyone out there who can tell me where to find a new chip, or do I have to scrap the unit and use a different tracking source? My unit was purchased around 2008. The readout says Firmware version 0.9. The board indicates version 1.2. Thanks in advance for your help and Happy New Year. Joel Kandel, KI4T Carried by dog sled From nj1h at comcast.net Sun Jan 1 21:22:40 2017 From: nj1h at comcast.net (Bill Bordy, NJ1H) Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 16:22:40 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Bad Tracker EEPROM In-Reply-To: <3C266601-B154-432F-A659-E3629A0464AF@icloud.com> References: <3C266601-B154-432F-A659-E3629A0464AF@icloud.com> Message-ID: I have had this happen and have corrected the error with a calibration. In my case it didn't seem to be a permanent error and I have gone years without having to calibrate. The document LVB Tracker PCB Version 1-9.doc has instructions on how to calibration the controller. I have sent you a copy of the document directly. 73, Bill NJ1H On 1/1/2017 11:00 AM, Joel Kandel wrote: > Fellow members, > I am getting a "Bad EEPROM data" message on my Tracker readout. > I queried the office about a fix and Martha forwarded it to the appropriate > Individuals. It's been a couple of months since my inquiry and have not heard back. > Is there anyone out there who can tell me where to find a new chip, or do I have > to scrap the unit and use a different tracking source? > My unit was purchased around 2008. The readout says Firmware version 0.9. > The board indicates version 1.2. > Thanks in advance for your help and Happy New Year. > Joel Kandel, KI4T > > Carried by dog sled > > _______________________________________________ > 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 nj1h at comcast.net Sun Jan 1 21:16:22 2017 From: nj1h at comcast.net (Bill Bordy, NJ1H) Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 16:16:22 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Bad Tracker EEPROM In-Reply-To: <3C266601-B154-432F-A659-E3629A0464AF@icloud.com> References: <3C266601-B154-432F-A659-E3629A0464AF@icloud.com> Message-ID: <350efc46-3d36-2391-b231-b7e86ff89b61@comcast.net> I have had this happen and have corrected the error with a calibration. In my case it didn't seem to be a permanent error and I have gone years without having to calibrate. The document LVB Tracker PCB Version 1-9.doc has instructions on how to calibration the controller. I have sent you a copy of the document directly. 73, Bill NJ1H On 1/1/2017 11:00 AM, Joel Kandel wrote: > Fellow members, > I am getting a "Bad EEPROM data" message on my Tracker readout. > I queried the office about a fix and Martha forwarded it to the appropriate > Individuals. It's been a couple of months since my inquiry and have not heard back. > Is there anyone out there who can tell me where to find a new chip, or do I have > to scrap the unit and use a different tracking source? > My unit was purchased around 2008. The readout says Firmware version 0.9. > The board indicates version 1.2. > Thanks in advance for your help and Happy New Year. > Joel Kandel, KI4T > > Carried by dog sled > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Mon Jan 2 05:21:18 2017 From: matthew at mrstevens.net (Matthew Stevens) Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 00:21:18 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 keps update Message-ID: <41441312-F140-4344-B72B-AFD9AAAC3362@mrstevens.net> I've noticed a lot of people tweeting that they weren't able to hear BY70-1 on recent passes. Most of the issue probably lies with the fact that the low orbit of the sat is causing wide variations in pass times. The TLEs in the Amsat kep file aren't updated often enough to keep up with these variations, so you might try the keps from Celestrak https://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/tle-new.txt These are updated several times a day, and should provide better tracking than the Amsat keps. - Matthew KK4FEM Sent from my iPhone From rsoifer1 at aol.com Mon Jan 2 13:11:38 2017 From: rsoifer1 at aol.com (rsoifer1 at aol.com) Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 08:11:38 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] CW ACTIVITY DAY REPORT Message-ID: <1595f4e8387-57c8-5fbf8@webprd-m50.mail.aol.com> I worked Mike, WA6ARA, and Wayne, NM3B, on FO-29. Tnx to both, and Happy New Year to all. 73 Ray W2RS From n4csitwo at bellsouth.net Mon Jan 2 17:34:09 2017 From: n4csitwo at bellsouth.net (n4csitwo at bellsouth.net) Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 12:34:09 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] =?iso-8859-1?q?Upcoming_ARISS_contact_with_Coll=E8ge_M?= =?iso-8859-1?q?athilde_Marthe_Faucher=2C_Allassac=2C_France?= Message-ID: <0612315B80934D0990159718C0997F14@DHJ> An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Coll?ge Mathilde Marthe Faucher, Allassac, France on 04 Jan. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 11:16 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between FX0ISS and F1IMF. The contact should be audible over France 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. Allassac is a French town in the corr?ze department, in the new Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes aera. There are 3.869 inhabitants. It is 20 kilometers north of Brive-la-gaillarde and 200 km north of Toulouse. The Mathilde Marthe FAUCHER public middle school currently hosts 400 of students in 16 classes. It is the students of 6th graduate participating in the ARISS project. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. Doit-on avoir la citoyennet? fran?aise pour devenir spationaute fran?ais? 2. Pr?f?rez-vous ?tre chez vous ou dans l'espace? 3. Est-il important de savoir nager pour devenir spationaute? 4. De combien de centim?tres avez-vous grandi depuis que vous ?tes dans la station? 5. A quelle fr?quence les spationautes m?nent-ils des exp?riences scientifiques ? bord de l'lSS? 6. Est-il physiquement possible de pleurer en apesanteur? 7. Quelle est la plus belle chose que vous avez-vu dans l'espace? 8. Comment lavez-vous vos v?tements? 9. Quel est le danger que vous redoutez le plus ? bord de la station? 10. Les spationautes peuvent-ils entendre des impacts de m?t?orites sur la station? 11. Comment organisez-vous vos soir?es? 12. Est-ce que les spationautes ?teignent les lumi?res la nuit? 13. Les spationautes peuvent-ils utiliser leur t?l?phone mobile dans l'espace? l4. Comment les astronautes peuvent-ils utiliser twitter ou les r?seaux sociaux depuis l'espace? 15. Peut-on voir la pollution sur la terre depuis la station? 16. Produisez-vous beaucoup de d?chets par jour? 17. Est-ce que les spationautes se sentent seuls ? bord de l'lSS? 18. Quel est votre plus grand r?ve? l9. Comment l'eau parvient-elle ? la station? 20. Souhaitez-vous aller sur une autre plan?te? 21. Quel est le fuseau horaire adopt? dans l'espace? 22. Les spationautes sont-ils plus stress?s lors des sorties dans l'espace? Translated: 1. Do you need to be a French citizen to become a French spationaut? 2. Do you prefer being at home or in space? 3. Is it essential skill to know swimming to become an astronaut? 4. How many centimeters did you gain in height since you are in the Station? 5. How frequently do you run experiments in the ISS? 6. Is it physically possible to cry in micro-gravity? 7. What is the most beautiful thing you have seen in space? 8. How do you wash your clothes? 9. What is the hazard you fear the most in the station? 10. Is it possible to hear meteorite impacts on the Station ? 11. How do you spend your evenings after work? 12. Do you switch off the lights during your sleeping time? 13. Is it possible to use your mobile phone in the ISS? l4. How could the astronauts use twitter or other social networks from space? 15. is the earth pollution visible from the ISS? 16. Are you producing a lot of waste per day? 17. Could the astronauts feel alone onboard the ISS? 18. What is your most important dream? l9. : How do you get water in the station? 20. Would you like to travel to another planet? 21. Which Time zone is used in space? 22. Are the spationauts particularly stressed during EVAs? 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): 1. Rainbow Middle School, Rainbow City, AL, direct via K4JMC The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Wed 2017-01-04 17:29 UTC 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 Mon Jan 2 17:34:09 2017 From: n4csitwo at bellsouth.net (n4csitwo at bellsouth.net) Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 12:34:09 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] =?iso-8859-1?q?Upcoming_ARISS_contact_with_Coll=E8ge_M?= =?iso-8859-1?q?athilde_Marthe_Faucher=2C_Allassac=2C_France?= Message-ID: <700B3F43697741E98D2D8909E499090C@DHJ> An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Coll?ge Mathilde Marthe Faucher, Allassac, France on 04 Jan. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 11:16 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between FX0ISS and F1IMF. The contact should be audible over France 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. Allassac is a French town in the corr?ze department, in the new Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes aera. There are 3.869 inhabitants. It is 20 kilometers north of Brive-la-gaillarde and 200 km north of Toulouse. The Mathilde Marthe FAUCHER public middle school currently hosts 400 of students in 16 classes. It is the students of 6th graduate participating in the ARISS project. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. Doit-on avoir la citoyennet? fran?aise pour devenir spationaute fran?ais? 2. Pr?f?rez-vous ?tre chez vous ou dans l'espace? 3. Est-il important de savoir nager pour devenir spationaute? 4. De combien de centim?tres avez-vous grandi depuis que vous ?tes dans la station? 5. A quelle fr?quence les spationautes m?nent-ils des exp?riences scientifiques ? bord de l'lSS? 6. Est-il physiquement possible de pleurer en apesanteur? 7. Quelle est la plus belle chose que vous avez-vu dans l'espace? 8. Comment lavez-vous vos v?tements? 9. Quel est le danger que vous redoutez le plus ? bord de la station? 10. Les spationautes peuvent-ils entendre des impacts de m?t?orites sur la station? 11. Comment organisez-vous vos soir?es? 12. Est-ce que les spationautes ?teignent les lumi?res la nuit? 13. Les spationautes peuvent-ils utiliser leur t?l?phone mobile dans l'espace? l4. Comment les astronautes peuvent-ils utiliser twitter ou les r?seaux sociaux depuis l'espace? 15. Peut-on voir la pollution sur la terre depuis la station? 16. Produisez-vous beaucoup de d?chets par jour? 17. Est-ce que les spationautes se sentent seuls ? bord de l'lSS? 18. Quel est votre plus grand r?ve? l9. Comment l'eau parvient-elle ? la station? 20. Souhaitez-vous aller sur une autre plan?te? 21. Quel est le fuseau horaire adopt? dans l'espace? 22. Les spationautes sont-ils plus stress?s lors des sorties dans l'espace? Translated: 1. Do you need to be a French citizen to become a French spationaut? 2. Do you prefer being at home or in space? 3. Is it essential skill to know swimming to become an astronaut? 4. How many centimeters did you gain in height since you are in the Station? 5. How frequently do you run experiments in the ISS? 6. Is it physically possible to cry in micro-gravity? 7. What is the most beautiful thing you have seen in space? 8. How do you wash your clothes? 9. What is the hazard you fear the most in the station? 10. Is it possible to hear meteorite impacts on the Station ? 11. How do you spend your evenings after work? 12. Do you switch off the lights during your sleeping time? 13. Is it possible to use your mobile phone in the ISS? l4. How could the astronauts use twitter or other social networks from space? 15. is the earth pollution visible from the ISS? 16. Are you producing a lot of waste per day? 17. Could the astronauts feel alone onboard the ISS? 18. What is your most important dream? l9. : How do you get water in the station? 20. Would you like to travel to another planet? 21. Which Time zone is used in space? 22. Are the spationauts particularly stressed during EVAs? 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): 1. Rainbow Middle School, Rainbow City, AL, direct via K4JMC The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Wed 2017-01-04 17:29 UTC 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 Mon Jan 2 18:03:40 2017 From: n4csitwo at bellsouth.net (n4csitwo at bellsouth.net) Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 13:03:40 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS contact with Rainbow Middle School, Rainbow City, AL Message-ID: An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Rainbow Middle School, Rainbow City, AL on 04 Jan. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 17:29 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between N4ISS and K4JMC. The contact should be audible over the state of Alabama 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 located in North East Alabama. We are a 6th - 8th grade school of about 700 students. This is an exciting adventure for our students to learn more about the challenges and opportunities of space exploration. We hope to enliven their curiosity and interest through efforts and experiences before, during, and after the ARISS contact. This also provides our students the occasion to learn about amateur radio and how it works. We have completed a variety of activities and lessons which have heightened our anticipation for our contact date. Many of our students did not understand the International Space Station or what it is used for before we started this process. On October 19, and November 18, our 6th grade classes joined to watch a replay of both ISS launches. It was very exciting to watch Expedition Crew 49 and 50 begin their journey into orbit. We have viewed tours of the ISS and have watched recent interviews with crew members aboard the ISS. Many students have downloaded a NASA app to keep up with current news and happenings. We are currently researching the crew members of Expeditions 49 and 50 to understand their background and interests. Half of the 6th grade curriculum focuses on the Sun Earth Moon System and Planetary Systems. Various lab activities are helping us to explore gravity on different planets, construct and utilize scale models of our solar system, simulate different planetary and solar system processes, and expand our student's overall knowledge of the Solar System. After our contact in January we will be continuing activities and research of space exploration, the ISS, and amateur radio. As teachers we have been energized as we have learned more and more about the ISS and NASA. It has been exciting to share with our students in this process of learning and preparation. We are amazed as we study our Earth and beyond. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. What made you want to become an astronaut? 2. How does it feel to achieve something as cool as being in space? 3. Who did you look up to when you were young? 4. What was the hardest thing you went through while training to become an astronaut? 5. During blast off, did you feel any physical pain or sickness? 6. Before launch what were you thinking? 7. How does being in space affect blood pressure? 8. Because it takes two days to get to the ISS, how do you eat? 9. What was the hardest challenge for you to overcome knowing that you would be in space for a long period of time? 10. How, and how often, do you communicate with your family while aboard the ISS? 11. Now that you have been in space a while, what simulations on Earth did you find to be most helpful? 12. What's the most fun thing you do for entertainment while aboard the ISS? 13. Does the change in gravity cause your daily chores and work to be easier or harder? 14. What happens if you were to get sick in space? 15. Are the astronauts able to vote while in space? 16. How do you wash your dirty laundry while aboard the ISS? 17. While on ISS, do you miss Earth's ways of doing life? 18. Is there a minimum age limit for space travel? 19. What is one thing that you enjoy doing in space that you can't do on 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 scottolitsky at gmail.com Mon Jan 2 21:18:40 2017 From: scottolitsky at gmail.com (Scott Olitsky) Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 15:18:40 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] conifer/andrews 2.4 ghz "BBQ" grid dish for sale Message-ID: This has been sitting in the shed for a number of years. If interested, please email me. Scott AC3A From scott23192 at gmail.com Tue Jan 3 04:13:06 2017 From: scott23192 at gmail.com (Scott) Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 23:13:06 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Observation & Question Message-ID: Happy New Year to everyone. So for the second evening in a row, as I monitored BY70-1 for telemetry packets, I noticed performance on the FM voice transponder that prompts me to ask a question. Specifically, I hear K8YSE getting into the satellite with a crystal clearness that you would expect from a simplex QSO with someone in your front yard. Unfortunately, he?s been by himself for the most part... a station or two might try to get in but you just get fragments or a lot of static. As a novice, should that make me think that this satellite requires a lot of ERP to get into cleanly? Or maybe with the TLE?s changing so rapidly, is this sat just more difficult to track than the others? One other variable tonight is the weather; I suppose anyone using a hand-held antenna who normally works outside might be off the air because of all the rain in parts of the country right now. Maybe it?s just a lot of football on TV! I know that any answer might be speculation, but when I hear something happen on the air repeatedly it makes me want to see if I can learn the cause (or possible causes). Thanks! -Scott, K4KDR Montpelier, VA twitter: @scott23192 From k7trkradio at charter.net Tue Jan 3 04:42:47 2017 From: k7trkradio at charter.net (Ted) Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 20:42:47 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Observation & Question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <000901d2657b$d59dff50$80d9fdf0$@charter.net> Scott, John, K8YSE is the Gold Standard, so I'm looking forward to his reply to your question. (I'm waiting before dabbling with BY70-1, but we better be quick !) HNY and 73, Ted K7TRK -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Scott Sent: Monday, January 2, 2017 8:13 PM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Observation & Question Happy New Year to everyone. So for the second evening in a row, as I monitored BY70-1 for telemetry packets, I noticed performance on the FM voice transponder that prompts me to ask a question. Specifically, I hear K8YSE getting into the satellite with a crystal clearness that you would expect from a simplex QSO with someone in your front yard. Unfortunately, he?s been by himself for the most part... a station or two might try to get in but you just get fragments or a lot of static. As a novice, should that make me think that this satellite requires a lot of ERP to get into cleanly? Or maybe with the TLE?s changing so rapidly, is this sat just more difficult to track than the others? One other variable tonight is the weather; I suppose anyone using a hand-held antenna who normally works outside might be off the air because of all the rain in parts of the country right now. Maybe it?s just a lot of football on TV! I know that any answer might be speculation, but when I hear something happen on the air repeatedly it makes me want to see if I can learn the cause (or possible causes). Thanks! -Scott, K4KDR Montpelier, VA twitter: @scott23192 _______________________________________________ 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 maccody at att.net Tue Jan 3 05:10:19 2017 From: maccody at att.net (Mac A. Cody) Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 23:10:19 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Observation & Question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Scott, I can't speak for John K8YSE either, although he does very good at getting into the birds. One thing that does help is that he has two stations, K8YSE in EN91 and K8YSE/7 in DM43, which he operates remotely. I actually listened to him work BY70-1 and SO-50 from both stations on a single pass. Can't speak to the TX power or antenna configuration he has. I have been pretty successful with getting into BY70-1 with the 7W TX power on my satellite 'battle station'. There are a couple of things to keep in mind regarding working BY70-1: 1) The TLEs of BY70-1 are changing rapidly, so it is advised to use the TLEs provided through Celestrak New Launches. 2) The low perigee of its orbits makes for wickedly fast passes. I just worked one that was 8 minutes long. I worked one a few days ago that passed almost directly overhead and was a little over 6 minutes. Antenna pointing agility/accuracy are important. 3) It has been stated that BY70-1 has a narrow RX bandwidth. Therefore, it is necessary to adjust your TX frequency often to get in. On 12/29/2016, I posted a suggested frequency list for use with channelized radios that I have found to work well from my own experience. Hope this helps. Mac Cody / AE5PH P.S. We had a QSO back on 12/22, so I recognized your call sign. On 01/02/2017 10:13 PM, Scott wrote: > Happy New Year to everyone. > > So for the second evening in a row, as I monitored BY70-1 for telemetry packets, I noticed performance on the FM voice transponder that prompts me to ask a question. > > Specifically, I hear K8YSE getting into the satellite with a crystal clearness that you would expect from a simplex QSO with someone in your front yard. Unfortunately, he?s been by himself for the most part... a station or two might try to get in but you just get fragments or a lot of static. > > As a novice, should that make me think that this satellite requires a lot of ERP to get into cleanly? Or maybe with the TLE?s changing so rapidly, is this sat just more difficult to track than the others? > > One other variable tonight is the weather; I suppose anyone using a hand-held antenna who normally works outside might be off the air because of all the rain in parts of the country right now. Maybe it?s just a lot of football on TV! > > I know that any answer might be speculation, but when I hear something happen on the air repeatedly it makes me want to see if I can learn the cause (or possible causes). > > Thanks! > > -Scott, K4KDR > Montpelier, VA > twitter: @scott23192 > _______________________________________________ > 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 Tue Jan 3 06:47:49 2017 From: diehl.mike.a at gmail.com (Mike Diehl) Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 22:47:49 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Observation & Question In-Reply-To: <000901d2657b$d59dff50$80d9fdf0$@charter.net> References: <000901d2657b$d59dff50$80d9fdf0$@charter.net> Message-ID: <8164E1D0-E252-4698-8DFA-27B3C0DAC1AA@gmail.com> Ted, I worked the last pass over SoCal from my driveway with 500mW. I had little trouble getting in once it cleared the local obstructions. Hand guided Elk with VFO Doppler tuning. I think most people have outdated keps so they're way off. I've worked this bird a couple times now and never over 2.5W with 817 as an uplink. As usual, QRO isn't the answer. 73's Mike Diehl AI6GS > On Jan 2, 2017, at 8:42 PM, Ted wrote: > > Scott, John, K8YSE is the Gold Standard, so I'm looking forward to his reply to your question. (I'm waiting before dabbling with BY70-1, but we better be quick !) > > HNY and 73, Ted > K7TRK > > -----Original Message----- > From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Scott > Sent: Monday, January 2, 2017 8:13 PM > To: amsat-bb at amsat.org > Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Observation & Question > > Happy New Year to everyone. > > So for the second evening in a row, as I monitored BY70-1 for telemetry packets, I noticed performance on the FM voice transponder that prompts me to ask a question. > > Specifically, I hear K8YSE getting into the satellite with a crystal clearness that you would expect from a simplex QSO with someone in your front yard. Unfortunately, he?s been by himself for the most part... a station or two might try to get in but you just get fragments or a lot of static. > > As a novice, should that make me think that this satellite requires a lot of ERP to get into cleanly? Or maybe with the TLE?s changing so rapidly, is this sat just more difficult to track than the others? > > One other variable tonight is the weather; I suppose anyone using a hand-held antenna who normally works outside might be off the air because of all the rain in parts of the country right now. Maybe it?s just a lot of football on TV! > > I know that any answer might be speculation, but when I hear something happen on the air repeatedly it makes me want to see if I can learn the cause (or possible causes). > > Thanks! > > -Scott, K4KDR > Montpelier, VA > twitter: @scott23192 > _______________________________________________ > 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 ko6th.greg at gmail.com Tue Jan 3 07:45:39 2017 From: ko6th.greg at gmail.com (Greg D) Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 23:45:39 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Observation & Question In-Reply-To: <8164E1D0-E252-4698-8DFA-27B3C0DAC1AA@gmail.com> References: <000901d2657b$d59dff50$80d9fdf0$@charter.net> <8164E1D0-E252-4698-8DFA-27B3C0DAC1AA@gmail.com> Message-ID: <586B56A3.2020904@gmail.com> Hi Mike, Good to work you on the last 06:00z pass. Also heard KK6OTJ, but never made 2x contact. For a change, the bird seemed alive and well from the beginning of the pass until nearly the end (vs before when I couldn't work it until after TCA). In fact, it seems like it was too active too soon, suggesting my keps are late. I'm using the keps from object 41909, updated from Celestrak right before the pass. Is that the best set? Greg KO6TH Mike Diehl wrote: > Ted, > > I worked the last pass over SoCal from my driveway with 500mW. I had little trouble getting in once it cleared the local obstructions. > > Hand guided Elk with VFO Doppler tuning. I think most people have outdated keps so they're way off. I've worked this bird a couple times now and never over 2.5W with 817 as an uplink. As usual, QRO isn't the answer. > > 73's > > Mike Diehl > AI6GS > >> On Jan 2, 2017, at 8:42 PM, Ted wrote: >> >> Scott, John, K8YSE is the Gold Standard, so I'm looking forward to his reply to your question. (I'm waiting before dabbling with BY70-1, but we better be quick !) >> >> HNY and 73, Ted >> K7TRK >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Scott >> Sent: Monday, January 2, 2017 8:13 PM >> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org >> Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Observation & Question >> >> Happy New Year to everyone. >> >> So for the second evening in a row, as I monitored BY70-1 for telemetry packets, I noticed performance on the FM voice transponder that prompts me to ask a question. >> >> Specifically, I hear K8YSE getting into the satellite with a crystal clearness that you would expect from a simplex QSO with someone in your front yard. Unfortunately, he?s been by himself for the most part... a station or two might try to get in but you just get fragments or a lot of static. >> >> As a novice, should that make me think that this satellite requires a lot of ERP to get into cleanly? Or maybe with the TLE?s changing so rapidly, is this sat just more difficult to track than the others? >> >> One other variable tonight is the weather; I suppose anyone using a hand-held antenna who normally works outside might be off the air because of all the rain in parts of the country right now. Maybe it?s just a lot of football on TV! >> >> I know that any answer might be speculation, but when I hear something happen on the air repeatedly it makes me want to see if I can learn the cause (or possible causes). >> >> Thanks! >> >> -Scott, K4KDR >> Montpelier, VA >> twitter: @scott23192 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 zulip817 at gmail.com Tue Jan 3 09:20:12 2017 From: zulip817 at gmail.com (Zeljko Ulip) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 10:20:12 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT CW Activity Day Message-ID: Hello, During AMSAT CW Activity Day 01.01.2017. I worked: 1. 21.21 UTC EB5YF, Juan Jose on FO-29 2. 21.26 UTC 9A2KI, Ico on FO-29 3. 23.02 UTC EA1BYA, Andoni on FO-29 4. 23.11 UTC HA1SE, Laci on FO-29 Best regards and Happy New Year 73 de Zeljko 9A2EY From pa3guo at upcmail.nl Tue Jan 3 14:52:23 2017 From: pa3guo at upcmail.nl (PA3GUO) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 15:52:23 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] Kenwood D710 firmware ? Message-ID: <000001d265d0$fe423340$fac699c0$@upcmail.nl> .. I am a bit in trouble :-) For APRS (ISS, PSAT, ..) I have recently put a Kenwood D710 in my car. Worked fine. I used the MCP2 program to program memories & settings. Until I decided today to update the firmware: from 2.01 --> 2.10. After that I could not use the MCP2 software anymore. Doesn't read any data from the radio any longer, it sticks at 0%. Re-did the firmware update, same result, still doesn't read. Doesn't write either btw. ('model / market code does not match') Tried to also update the Panel Firmware (maybe this was a combo ?). Doesn't work either: says cannot find Panel. ..but the panel is connected and works fine ! Cannot find anything on Google reporting the same (apart from G4ILO, but the poor man is SK). Any clue anyone - there must be plenty of D710's installed for satellite operations. Or else: does someone have a previous version of the firmware, such that I can try if a downgrade would work ? Thanks Henk Pa3GUO From dave.w8aas at verizon.net Tue Jan 3 15:07:49 2017 From: dave.w8aas at verizon.net (Dave Taylor) Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 10:07:49 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Kenwood D710 firmware ? In-Reply-To: <000001d265d0$fe423340$fac699c0$@upcmail.nl> References: <000001d265d0$fe423340$fac699c0$@upcmail.nl> Message-ID: I was just updating my D710 yesterday, to panel version 2.13. There is a note in the Kenwood doc for the 2.10 update saying that you?ll need an updated version of MCP-2A after this firmware update. Try downloading the latest MCP-2 (it is version 2.3.1, I think). Dave, W8AAS > On Jan 3, 2017, at 9:52 AM, PA3GUO wrote: > > .. I am a bit in trouble :-) > > For APRS (ISS, PSAT, ..) I have recently put a Kenwood D710 in my car. > Worked fine. I used the MCP2 program to program memories & settings. > > Until I decided today to update the firmware: from 2.01 --> 2.10. > After that I could not use the MCP2 software anymore. > Doesn't read any data from the radio any longer, it sticks at 0%. > > Re-did the firmware update, same result, still doesn't read. > Doesn't write either btw. ('model / market code does not match') > > Tried to also update the Panel Firmware (maybe this was a combo ?). > Doesn't work either: says cannot find Panel. > ..but the panel is connected and works fine ! > > Cannot find anything on Google reporting the same (apart from G4ILO, > but the poor man is SK). > > Any clue anyone - there must be plenty of D710's installed for > satellite operations. > Or else: does someone have a previous version of the firmware, such > that I can try if a downgrade would work ? > > Thanks > Henk Pa3GUO > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Tue Jan 3 17:15:53 2017 From: diehl.mike.a at gmail.com (Mike Diehl) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 09:15:53 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Observation & Question In-Reply-To: <586B56A3.2020904@gmail.com> References: <000901d2657b$d59dff50$80d9fdf0$@charter.net> <8164E1D0-E252-4698-8DFA-27B3C0DAC1AA@gmail.com> <586B56A3.2020904@gmail.com> Message-ID: Greg, Thanks for the QSO. I was able to hear you down to my visible LOS, San Gabriel mountains do a good job of blocking the birds to the north. As far as keps go if you're using the Celestrak New Launches then you have the most current. Even with that it seems like people are sometimes off enough to struggle getting in. This seems to be where hand guided has the upper hand, pun intended. Unfortunately, it seems like this isn't going to change considering the short expected life. QRO probably helps a few because they're catching the bird with a less than optimal part of their antenna radiation pattern. RX quality can lead you to think you're in the right direction but I think I could receive this bird with a BNC stuck in a potato. I actually heard WD9EWK the other day near LOS with Elk laying on top of my truck. Personally, my biggest struggle is the delayed audio. I catch myself speaking slowly and noticed other operators doing the same thing. When I listen to my recordings I almost sound like I had one too many cold ones before the pass hi hi. Scott probably hit the nail on the head as to why activity has been a little slim. I haven't been on as many passes because we have been getting some rain for a change. 73's Mike Diehl AI6GS > On Jan 2, 2017, at 11:45 PM, Greg D wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > Good to work you on the last 06:00z pass. Also heard KK6OTJ, but never > made 2x contact. > > For a change, the bird seemed alive and well from the beginning of the > pass until nearly the end (vs before when I couldn't work it until after > TCA). In fact, it seems like it was too active too soon, suggesting my > keps are late. I'm using the keps from object 41909, updated from > Celestrak right before the pass. Is that the best set? > > Greg KO6TH > > > Mike Diehl wrote: >> Ted, >> >> I worked the last pass over SoCal from my driveway with 500mW. I had little trouble getting in once it cleared the local obstructions. >> >> Hand guided Elk with VFO Doppler tuning. I think most people have outdated keps so they're way off. I've worked this bird a couple times now and never over 2.5W with 817 as an uplink. As usual, QRO isn't the answer. >> >> 73's >> >> Mike Diehl >> AI6GS >> >>> On Jan 2, 2017, at 8:42 PM, Ted wrote: >>> >>> Scott, John, K8YSE is the Gold Standard, so I'm looking forward to his reply to your question. (I'm waiting before dabbling with BY70-1, but we better be quick !) >>> >>> HNY and 73, Ted >>> K7TRK >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Scott >>> Sent: Monday, January 2, 2017 8:13 PM >>> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org >>> Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Observation & Question >>> >>> Happy New Year to everyone. >>> >>> So for the second evening in a row, as I monitored BY70-1 for telemetry packets, I noticed performance on the FM voice transponder that prompts me to ask a question. >>> >>> Specifically, I hear K8YSE getting into the satellite with a crystal clearness that you would expect from a simplex QSO with someone in your front yard. Unfortunately, he?s been by himself for the most part... a station or two might try to get in but you just get fragments or a lot of static. >>> >>> As a novice, should that make me think that this satellite requires a lot of ERP to get into cleanly? Or maybe with the TLE?s changing so rapidly, is this sat just more difficult to track than the others? >>> >>> One other variable tonight is the weather; I suppose anyone using a hand-held antenna who normally works outside might be off the air because of all the rain in parts of the country right now. Maybe it?s just a lot of football on TV! >>> >>> I know that any answer might be speculation, but when I hear something happen on the air repeatedly it makes me want to see if I can learn the cause (or possible causes). >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> -Scott, K4KDR >>> Montpelier, VA >>> twitter: @scott23192 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 pa3guo at upcmail.nl Tue Jan 3 19:55:02 2017 From: pa3guo at upcmail.nl (PA3GUO) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 20:55:02 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] Kenwood D710 firmware ? Message-ID: <001401d265fb$45e64040$d1b2c0c0$@upcmail.nl> Dave (W8AAS) and Arno (PE1RDP) gave some valuable suggestions.... which made me check the procedures again. ... where I found out you actually have to push the READ button twice (!) before the MCP software starts reading from the radio :-) Solved ! Henk - PA3GUO .. I am a bit in trouble :-) For APRS (ISS, PSAT, ..) I have recently put a Kenwood D710 in my car. Worked fine. I used the MCP2 program to program memories & settings. Until I decided today to update the firmware: from 2.01 --> 2.10. After that I could not use the MCP2 software anymore. Doesn't read any data from the radio any longer, it sticks at 0%. Re-did the firmware update, same result, still doesn't read. Doesn't write either btw. ('model / market code does not match') Tried to also update the Panel Firmware (maybe this was a combo ?). Doesn't work either: says cannot find Panel. ..but the panel is connected and works fine ! Cannot find anything on Google reporting the same (apart from G4ILO, but the poor man is SK). Any clue anyone - there must be plenty of D710's installed for satellite operations. Or else: does someone have a previous version of the firmware, such that I can try if a downgrade would work ? Thanks Henk Pa3GUO From john at papays.com Wed Jan 4 06:39:50 2017 From: john at papays.com (John Papay) Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 01:39:50 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Observations Message-ID: <20170104064001.D4FD589A5@lansing182.amsat.org> I had a chance to run some tests on BY70-1 this evening from my Arizona Station since there was no one on the pass. It was only a 15 degree pass for me but the satellite did very well. BY70-1 is much stronger than SO-50. The morning passes are around 500KM and the evening passes are only 250KM. But the signal is quite strong on both. If you are having trouble hearing SO-50, try BY70-1. You should hear it much better. At first I thought the sensitivity might not be very good, but upon further testing it was possible to hold the satellite at 1 watt provided that you were on the right polarity at the moment. I was changing between horizontal and vertical frequently. The wrong polarity produced noise, but a switch to the opposite polarity yielded a full quieting signal consistently. Many have experienced dropout when attempting to talk through the satellite. Sometimes it is due to the many signals present on the input frequency including those that are not coming from satellite users. It's the same situation on SO-50. But there are also dropouts that occur when there is no one else on the input. It seems that if you are fairly wide in deviation, certain speech will cause the satellite to stop transmitting. This may be a receiver bandwidth issue or perhaps the PL decoder responding to voice frequencies etc. At any rate I think the dropouts are due to the PL decoder not decoding the PL tone for the above reasons. BY70-1 seems to be less sensitive to dropouts if you use narrow band FM on the transmit. I found very little difference in the repeated audio level when using wide or narrow. So there is signal processing in play which keeps the audio output level constant. AO-85 audio levels do change quite a bit between wideband and narrow. So do use narrow FM on this bird for best results. The signal processing also apparently causes a significant delay in the repeated audio. It can cause some discomfort but keep the rx level low so you are able to ignore the delay and converse normally. Audio quality is quite good. Some have thought there is some sort of VOX on the bird but a dead carrier seems to hold the transmitter keyed with no audio present. Again, the PL Decoder is likely responsible for the dropouts. Be sure to download the latest keps from Celestrak or apace-track. The keps on the amsat site may not always be current. The orbit is changing daily so get the new keps every 24 hours. The catalog number is 41909. http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/tle-new.txt The amsat nasa.all file can be edited with Wordpad and the new keps can replace the ones in the file if different. Set your PL to 67Hz just like SO-50. doppler.sqf: BY70-1,436200,145920,FM,FM,NOR,0,0,FM Voice BY70-1,436200,145920,FM,FMN,NOR,0,0,Narrow FM Voice The coordinated frequencies seen to be close enough. I have asked KX9X to facilitate adding BY70-1 to the list of satellites in LOTW. Don't be reluctant to try this satellite. You will find it much easier to access than SO-50 or AO-85. It does have a short window but you can hear it down low if you don't have any obstructions. 73, John K8YSE/7 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From AJ9N at aol.com Wed Jan 4 08:42:24 2017 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 03:42:24 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-04 08:30 UTC Message-ID: <1edb7e0.258aa7b5.459e0f70@aol.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-04 08:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Coll?ge Mathilde Marthe Faucher, Allassac, France, direct via F1IMF The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be FX?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Wed 2017-01-04 11:16:26 UTC 30 deg Rainbow Middle School, Rainbow City, AL, direct via K4JMC The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Wed 2017-01-04 17:29:40 UTC 80 deg World Genesis Foundation (WGF), Goodyear AZ, direct via W6FOG The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Wed 2017-01-11 16:10:15 UTC 46 deg (***) Coll?ge Saint-Guibert, Gembloux, Belgium and Euro Space Center, Transinne, Belgium; Combined telebridge via K6DUE (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for Option #5: Thu 2017-01-12 13:46:51 UTC 36 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 119 **************************************************************************** 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 2017-01-04 08:30 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 1103. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1068. 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 2017-01-01 04:00 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 Exp. 50 on orbit Peggy Whitson Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Oleg Novitskiy **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors From n8hm at arrl.net Wed Jan 4 15:04:07 2017 From: n8hm at arrl.net (Paul Stoetzer) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 10:04:07 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Observations In-Reply-To: <20170104064001.D4FD589A5@lansing182.amsat.org> References: <20170104064001.D4FD589A5@lansing182.amsat.org> Message-ID: Good observations, John. It's a tricky satellite at times, but still fun to play around with. It's certainly a shame that it'll have such a short lifetime due to the partial launch failure. I have also sent an email requesting it's addition to LoTW. Just a general FYI about new satellites and LoTW: The name of the satellite is not able to be changed once it is added to the TQSL configuration file. After a satellite is made available to the amateur community, I have advised the ARRL to hold off on adding satellites to the configuration file until an OSCAR number is issued or we are certain that no OSCAR number will be requested and/or granted. I did ask about BY70-1 with no response, so I consider that such a request is unlikely at this point. 73, Paul, N8HM On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:39 AM, John Papay wrote: > I had a chance to run some tests on BY70-1 > this evening from my Arizona Station since there > was no one on the pass. It was only a 15 degree pass > for me but the satellite did very well. > > BY70-1 is much stronger than SO-50. The morning passes > are around 500KM and the evening passes are only 250KM. > But the signal is quite strong on both. If you are having > trouble hearing SO-50, try BY70-1. You should hear it much > better. > > At first I thought the sensitivity might not be very good, but > upon further testing it was possible to hold the satellite > at 1 watt provided that you were on the right polarity at > the moment. I was changing between horizontal and vertical > frequently. The wrong polarity produced noise, but a switch to > the opposite polarity yielded a full quieting signal consistently. > > Many have experienced dropout when attempting to talk through the > satellite. Sometimes it is due to the many signals present on > the input frequency including those that are not coming from > satellite users. It's the same situation on SO-50. But there > are also dropouts that occur when there is no one else on the > input. > > It seems that if you are fairly wide in deviation, certain > speech will cause the satellite to stop transmitting. This > may be a receiver bandwidth issue or perhaps the PL > decoder responding to voice frequencies etc. At any rate > I think the dropouts are due to the PL decoder not decoding > the PL tone for the above reasons. > > BY70-1 seems to be less sensitive to dropouts if you use narrow > band FM on the transmit. I found very little difference in the > repeated audio level when using wide or narrow. So there is > signal processing in play which keeps the audio output level > constant. AO-85 audio levels do change quite a bit between > wideband and narrow. So do use narrow FM on this bird for > best results. > > The signal processing also apparently causes a significant > delay in the repeated audio. It can cause some discomfort > but keep the rx level low so you are able to ignore the delay > and converse normally. Audio quality is quite good. > > Some have thought there is some sort of VOX on the bird > but a dead carrier seems to hold the transmitter keyed with > no audio present. Again, the PL Decoder is likely responsible > for the dropouts. > > Be sure to download the latest keps from Celestrak or apace-track. > The keps on the amsat site may not always be current. The orbit is > changing daily so get the new keps every 24 hours. The catalog > number is 41909. http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/tle-new.txt > The amsat nasa.all file can be edited with Wordpad and the new > keps can replace the ones in the file if different. Set your PL > to 67Hz just like SO-50. > > doppler.sqf: > BY70-1,436200,145920,FM,FM,NOR,0,0,FM Voice > BY70-1,436200,145920,FM,FMN,NOR,0,0,Narrow FM Voice > The coordinated frequencies seen to be close enough. > > I have asked KX9X to facilitate adding BY70-1 to the list of > satellites in LOTW. > > Don't be reluctant to try this satellite. You will find > it much easier to access than SO-50 or AO-85. It does have > a short window but you can hear it down low if you don't > have any obstructions. > > 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 wmc_jx at 163.com Wed Jan 4 15:09:36 2017 From: wmc_jx at 163.com (=?GBK?B?zqTD97So?=) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 23:09:36 +0800 (CST) Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Open Camera Operating Guide Message-ID: <547159e0.de8d.1596a073cdf.Coremail.wmc_jx@163.com> Hi All, For BY70-1, an open telecommand is designed to allow radio amateurs to send commands to take and download an image. The following article provides some details about it: http://lilacsat.hit.edu.cn/?p=542 73! Wei Mingchuan, BG2BHC -- WEI Mingchuan Research Center of Satellite Technology Harbin Institute of Technology mobile: +86-189-4501-5242 e-mail: wmc_jx at 163.com; bg2bhc at gmail.com From kk0sd1 at att.net Wed Jan 4 14:57:16 2017 From: kk0sd1 at att.net (Gary "Joe" Mayfield) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 08:57:16 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Area Coordinators Message-ID: <001001d2669a$d7c786a0$875693e0$@att.net> Greetings, I would like to update my location on the Area Coordinator page as I now live in Blue Springs, MO - who is the best person to contact for this. Thanks and 73, Joe kk0sd From kk5do at amsat.org Wed Jan 4 16:20:29 2017 From: kk5do at amsat.org (Bruce) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 10:20:29 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Area Coordinators In-Reply-To: <001001d2669a$d7c786a0$875693e0$@att.net> References: <001001d2669a$d7c786a0$875693e0$@att.net> Message-ID: done 73...bruce Sent from my iPhone On Jan 4, 2017, at 8:57 AM, Gary Joe Mayfield wrote: Greetings, I would like to update my location on the Area Coordinator page as I now live in Blue Springs, MO - who is the best person to contact for this. Thanks and 73, Joe kk0sd _______________________________________________ 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 Jan 4 18:09:09 2017 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 13:09:09 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Rainbow Middle School Successful Message-ID: <1f9b7f0.5109936d.459e9445@aol.com> Congrats John but I think there were a tad more than 000 students. 73, Charlie In a message dated 1/4/2017 10:01:40 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, johnnykludt at earthlink.net writes: All, Rainbow Middle School was successful. Three schools were present for a total of approximately 000 students involved. There were three TV stations in attendance as well as two newspapers. The station operator was a student so a total of 19 students were directly involved with all questions answered. The control operator asked an additional question for a total of 19 questions, A very successful contact indeed. John K4SQC From k7trkradio at charter.net Wed Jan 4 23:00:21 2017 From: k7trkradio at charter.net (Ted) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 15:00:21 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Observations In-Reply-To: References: <20170104064001.D4FD589A5@lansing182.amsat.org> Message-ID: <003501d266de$53f5db80$fbe19280$@charter.net> Paul, just a suggestion, but you may have better luck asking Sean Kutzko, KX9X, to talk to the LOTW crew. (they don't always seem 'user friendly') 73, Ted K7TRK -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Paul Stoetzer Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2017 7:04 AM To: John Papay Cc: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Observations Good observations, John. It's a tricky satellite at times, but still fun to play around with. It's certainly a shame that it'll have such a short lifetime due to the partial launch failure. I have also sent an email requesting it's addition to LoTW. Just a general FYI about new satellites and LoTW: The name of the satellite is not able to be changed once it is added to the TQSL configuration file. After a satellite is made available to the amateur community, I have advised the ARRL to hold off on adding satellites to the configuration file until an OSCAR number is issued or we are certain that no OSCAR number will be requested and/or granted. I did ask about BY70-1 with no response, so I consider that such a request is unlikely at this point. 73, Paul, N8HM On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:39 AM, John Papay wrote: > I had a chance to run some tests on BY70-1 this evening from my > Arizona Station since there was no one on the pass. It was only a 15 > degree pass for me but the satellite did very well. > > BY70-1 is much stronger than SO-50. The morning passes are around > 500KM and the evening passes are only 250KM. > But the signal is quite strong on both. If you are having trouble > hearing SO-50, try BY70-1. You should hear it much better. > > At first I thought the sensitivity might not be very good, but upon > further testing it was possible to hold the satellite at 1 watt > provided that you were on the right polarity at the moment. I was > changing between horizontal and vertical frequently. The wrong > polarity produced noise, but a switch to the opposite polarity yielded > a full quieting signal consistently. > > Many have experienced dropout when attempting to talk through the > satellite. Sometimes it is due to the many signals present on the > input frequency including those that are not coming from satellite > users. It's the same situation on SO-50. But there are also dropouts > that occur when there is no one else on the input. > > It seems that if you are fairly wide in deviation, certain speech will > cause the satellite to stop transmitting. This may be a receiver > bandwidth issue or perhaps the PL decoder responding to voice > frequencies etc. At any rate I think the dropouts are due to the PL > decoder not decoding the PL tone for the above reasons. > > BY70-1 seems to be less sensitive to dropouts if you use narrow band > FM on the transmit. I found very little difference in the repeated > audio level when using wide or narrow. So there is signal processing > in play which keeps the audio output level constant. AO-85 audio > levels do change quite a bit between wideband and narrow. So do use > narrow FM on this bird for best results. > > The signal processing also apparently causes a significant delay in > the repeated audio. It can cause some discomfort but keep the rx > level low so you are able to ignore the delay and converse normally. > Audio quality is quite good. > > Some have thought there is some sort of VOX on the bird but a dead > carrier seems to hold the transmitter keyed with no audio present. > Again, the PL Decoder is likely responsible for the dropouts. > > Be sure to download the latest keps from Celestrak or apace-track. > The keps on the amsat site may not always be current. The orbit is > changing daily so get the new keps every 24 hours. The catalog number > is 41909. http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/tle-new.txt > The amsat nasa.all file can be edited with Wordpad and the new keps > can replace the ones in the file if different. Set your PL to 67Hz > just like SO-50. > > doppler.sqf: > BY70-1,436200,145920,FM,FM,NOR,0,0,FM Voice > BY70-1,436200,145920,FM,FMN,NOR,0,0,Narrow FM Voice The coordinated > frequencies seen to be close enough. > > I have asked KX9X to facilitate adding BY70-1 to the list of > satellites in LOTW. > > Don't be reluctant to try this satellite. You will find it much > easier to access than SO-50 or AO-85. It does have a short window but > you can hear it down low if you don't have any obstructions. > > 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 _______________________________________________ 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 kx9x at yahoo.com Thu Jan 5 01:16:19 2017 From: kx9x at yahoo.com (Sean K.) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 01:16:19 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Observations In-Reply-To: <003501d266de$53f5db80$fbe19280$@charter.net> References: <20170104064001.D4FD589A5@lansing182.amsat.org> <003501d266de$53f5db80$fbe19280$@charter.net> Message-ID: <994887142.120155.1483578979650@mail.yahoo.com> Hi all- I have received a request to talk to the LOTW folks about adding BY70-1 from several satellite users, including N8HM and K8YSE. I have forwarded those requests to the IT staff at ARRL, and made them aware that QSOs were already being made and the shelf life of BY70-1 is not long.?Sean Kutzko Amateur Radio KX9X From: Ted To: 'Paul Stoetzer' ; 'John Papay' Cc: amsat-bb at amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2017 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Observations Paul, just a suggestion, but you may have better luck asking Sean Kutzko, KX9X, to talk to the LOTW crew. (they don't always seem 'user friendly') 73, Ted K7TRK -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Paul Stoetzer Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2017 7:04 AM To: John Papay Cc: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Observations Good observations, John. It's a tricky satellite at times, but still fun to play around with. It's certainly a shame that it'll have such a short lifetime due to the partial launch failure. I have also sent an email requesting it's addition to LoTW. Just a general FYI about new satellites and LoTW: The name of the satellite is not able to be changed once it is added to the TQSL configuration file. After a satellite is made available to the amateur community, I have advised the ARRL to hold off on adding satellites to the configuration file until an OSCAR number is issued or we are certain that no OSCAR number will be requested and/or granted. I did ask about BY70-1 with no response, so I consider that such a request is unlikely at this point. 73, Paul, N8HM On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:39 AM, John Papay wrote: > I had a chance to run some tests on BY70-1 this evening from my > Arizona Station since there was no one on the pass.? It was only a 15 > degree pass for me but the satellite did very well. > > BY70-1 is much stronger than SO-50.? The morning passes are around > 500KM and the evening passes are only 250KM. > But the signal is quite strong on both.? If you are having trouble > hearing SO-50, try BY70-1.? You should hear it much better. > > At first I thought the sensitivity might not be very good, but upon > further testing it was possible to hold the satellite at 1 watt > provided that you were on the right polarity at the moment.? I was > changing between horizontal and vertical frequently.? The wrong > polarity produced noise, but a switch to the opposite polarity yielded > a full quieting signal consistently. > > Many have experienced dropout when attempting to talk through the > satellite.? Sometimes it is due to the many signals present on the > input frequency including those that are not coming from satellite > users.? It's the same situation on SO-50.? But there are also dropouts > that occur when there is no one else on the input. > > It seems that if you are fairly wide in deviation, certain speech will > cause the satellite to stop transmitting.? This may be a receiver > bandwidth issue or perhaps the PL decoder responding to voice > frequencies etc.? At any rate I think the dropouts are due to the PL > decoder not decoding the PL tone for the above reasons. > > BY70-1 seems to be less sensitive to dropouts if you use narrow band > FM on the transmit.? I found very little difference in the repeated > audio level when using wide or narrow.? So there is signal processing > in play which keeps the audio output level constant.? AO-85 audio > levels do change quite a bit between wideband and narrow.? So do use > narrow FM on this bird for best results. > > The signal processing also apparently causes a significant delay in > the repeated audio.? It can cause some discomfort but keep the rx > level low so you are able to ignore the delay and converse normally.? > Audio quality is quite good. > > Some have thought there is some sort of VOX on the bird but a dead > carrier seems to hold the transmitter keyed with no audio present.? > Again, the PL Decoder is likely responsible for the dropouts. > > Be sure to download the latest keps from Celestrak or apace-track. > The keps on the amsat site may not always be current.? The orbit is > changing daily so get the new keps every 24 hours.? The catalog number > is 41909. http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/tle-new.txt > The amsat nasa.all file can be edited with Wordpad and the new keps > can replace the ones in the file if different.? Set your PL to 67Hz > just like SO-50. > > doppler.sqf: > BY70-1,436200,145920,FM,FM,NOR,0,0,FM Voice > BY70-1,436200,145920,FM,FMN,NOR,0,0,Narrow FM Voice The coordinated > frequencies seen to be close enough. > > I have asked KX9X to facilitate adding BY70-1 to the list of > satellites in LOTW. > > Don't be reluctant to try this satellite.? You will find it much > easier to access than SO-50 or AO-85.? It does have a short window but > you can hear it down low if you don't have any obstructions. > > 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 _______________________________________________ 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 johnnykludt at earthlink.net Thu Jan 5 02:24:55 2017 From: johnnykludt at earthlink.net (Earthlink) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 21:24:55 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Rainbow Middle School Successful In-Reply-To: <1f9b7f0.5109936d.459e9445@aol.com> References: <1f9b7f0.5109936d.459e9445@aol.com> Message-ID: Hey guys, Sorry about that...yes it is 1000. John Sent from my iPad > On Jan 4, 2017, at 1:09 PM, AJ9N at aol.com wrote: > > Congrats John but I think there were a tad more than 000 students. > 73, > Charlie > > In a message dated 1/4/2017 10:01:40 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, johnnykludt at earthlink.net writes: > All, > > Rainbow Middle School was successful. Three schools were present for a total of approximately 000 students involved. There were three TV stations in attendance as well as two newspapers. The station operator was a student so a total of 19 students were directly involved with all questions answered. The control operator asked an additional question for a total of 19 questions, > > A very successful contact indeed. > > John K4SQC From AJ9N at aol.com Thu Jan 5 08:54:07 2017 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 03:54:07 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-05 08:00 UTC Message-ID: <20b5dfd.14d11a3.459f63af@aol.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-05 08:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Coll?ge Mathilde Marthe Faucher, Allassac, France, direct via F1IMF The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be FX?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact was successful: Wed 2017-01-04 11:16:26 UTC 30 deg (***) Rainbow Middle School, Rainbow City, AL, direct via K4JMC The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact was successful: Wed 2017-01-04 17:29:40 UTC 80 deg (***) World Genesis Foundation (WGF), Goodyear AZ, direct via W6FOG The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Wed 2017-01-11 16:10:15 UTC 46 deg Coll?ge Saint-Guibert, Gembloux, Belgium and Euro Space Center, Transinne, Belgium; Combined telebridge via K6DUE The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for Option #5: Thu 2017-01-12 13:46:51 UTC 36 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 119 **************************************************************************** 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 2017-01-05 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 1105. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1070. (***) 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 2017-01-05 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 Exp. 50 on orbit Peggy Whitson Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Oleg Novitskiy **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors From pavelmc at gmail.com Thu Jan 5 14:24:36 2017 From: pavelmc at gmail.com (Pavel Milanes Costa) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 09:24:36 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 last night pass NA/Caribbean. Message-ID: <52022dee-cfe9-75c9-497d-e72967cd0a71@gmail.com> Hi, I was listening last night in the pass over NA and Caribbean (I'm in FL11/Cuba) and get a great signal of the packet downlink on the repeater output in 70cm but no audio... I tried to get into the sat repeater with no joy, is the repeater turned on full time or it has a schedule or other trick beside the PL tone? Gear here: * 70cm: 1 turn QFHA + LNA + 10m AH LDF4 +Vcc Tap for LNA with HPF + RTL-SDR (CAT controlled via GQRX in linux) * 2m: 1 turn QFHA or J-pole + 20m AH LDF4 + Alinco DR-130 (5W) / Baofeng (2.5 Khz step 5W) Note: with this setup I'm able to work SO-50 successfully (QSO with HP2BWY) just minutes before this pass of BY70-1, so the hardware is working great. -- 73 Pavel CO7WT. From w5acm at swbell.net Thu Jan 5 17:04:19 2017 From: w5acm at swbell.net (Andy) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 11:04:19 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 last night pass NA/Caribbean. In-Reply-To: <52022dee-cfe9-75c9-497d-e72967cd0a71@gmail.com> References: <52022dee-cfe9-75c9-497d-e72967cd0a71@gmail.com> Message-ID: <005501d26775$c1a31250$44e936f0$@swbell.net> Hi Pavel, Same results here on BY70-1, both last night and first pass this morning. I had some issues with element sets a few days ago, but now am OK, just no satellite transponder. I'll keep listening... 73 de Andy W5ACM -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Pavel Milanes Costa Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 8:25 AM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 last night pass NA/Caribbean. Hi, I was listening last night in the pass over NA and Caribbean (I'm in FL11/Cuba) and get a great signal of the packet downlink on the repeater output in 70cm but no audio... I tried to get into the sat repeater with no joy, is the repeater turned on full time or it has a schedule or other trick beside the PL tone? Gear here: * 70cm: 1 turn QFHA + LNA + 10m AH LDF4 +Vcc Tap for LNA with HPF + RTL-SDR (CAT controlled via GQRX in linux) * 2m: 1 turn QFHA or J-pole + 20m AH LDF4 + Alinco DR-130 (5W) / Baofeng (2.5 Khz step 5W) Note: with this setup I'm able to work SO-50 successfully (QSO with HP2BWY) just minutes before this pass of BY70-1, so the hardware is working great. -- 73 Pavel CO7WT. _______________________________________________ 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 morgan_st at bellsouth.net Thu Jan 5 17:20:07 2017 From: morgan_st at bellsouth.net (Stewart Todd Morgan) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 12:20:07 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY-70-1 Data Transmissions Message-ID: For the following BY-70-1 pass (per Orbitron and Celestrack data acquired just before the pass): Location : Boone,NC (81.7083? W, 36.2292? N) Time zone : UTC Search period : 2017-01-05 16:18:00 - 7 days 2017-01-12 16:18:00 Conditions : Maximum sun elevation = None Minimum sat elevation = 0 deg Illumination NOT required Time Satellite Azm Elv Mag Range S.Azm S.Elv -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2017-01-05 16:29:09 BY70-1 7.2 0.0 ? 2569 163.2 29.4 2017-01-05 16:34:52 BY70-1 284.4 59.1 ? 565 164.7 29.7 2017-01-05 16:40:40 BY70-1 200.8 0.0 ? 2602 166.2 30.0 Using an Alinco DJ-X11T receiver in SDR mode and a handheld Arrow antenna, Doppler-shifted data transmissions were noted at the following UTC times in the waterfall centered on 436.2 MHz: 16:34:10 16:34:40 16:35:10 16:35:40 16:36:10 Transmissions were approximately 1 second in duration and 10 kHz in bandwidth. I assume these transmissions are the 9600bps BPSK (haven't tried to decode). I saw no evidence of voice or other activity during the pass. Todd AL0I From py5lf at falautomation.com.br Thu Jan 5 20:58:43 2017 From: py5lf at falautomation.com.br (PY5LF) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 18:58:43 -0200 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 not heard Message-ID: Hi Some reports of "not heard' to BY70 on the recent passes at *AMSAT Live OSCAR Satellite Status Page* ... So , the bird already burn ? :-( 73 From pavelmc at gmail.com Thu Jan 5 17:18:15 2017 From: pavelmc at gmail.com (Pavel Milanes Costa) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 12:18:15 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 last night pass NA/Caribbean. In-Reply-To: <005501d26775$c1a31250$44e936f0$@swbell.net> References: <52022dee-cfe9-75c9-497d-e72967cd0a71@gmail.com> <005501d26775$c1a31250$44e936f0$@swbell.net> Message-ID: <11f7b912-9f11-144a-9236-8c5372e78036@gmail.com> So, it's on beacon/telemetry mode only... Thanks for your comments Andy. 73 Pavel CO7WT. El 05/01/17 a las 12:04, Andy escribi?: > Hi Pavel, > > Same results here on BY70-1, both last night and first pass this morning. > I had some issues with element sets a few days ago, but now am OK, just no > satellite transponder. > I'll keep listening... > > 73 de Andy W5ACM From kk5do at arrl.net Thu Jan 5 22:49:11 2017 From: kk5do at arrl.net (Bruce) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 16:49:11 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Kenwood THD-72A Message-ID: Just listed my Kenwood THD-72A on ebay in the event someone is looking for one. http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/112259930339? 73...bruce -- Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards AMSAT Board Member 2016-2018 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 py5lf at falautomation.com.br Fri Jan 6 02:50:25 2017 From: py5lf at falautomation.com.br (PY5LF) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 00:50:25 -0200 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 not heard In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Bill Last pass of BY70-1 at 2:30UTC over here , the repeater was on and signal strong as usual. 73 2017-01-05 21:15 GMT-02:00 Bill Attwood : > Maybe has something to do with the "camera mode": > > "For BY70-1, an open telecommand is designed to allow radio amateurs to > send commands to take and download an image. The following article provides > some details about it: http://lilacsat.hit.edu.cn/?p=542" > > Cheers, > Bill VE6WK > > > On 2017-01-05 1:58 PM, PY5LF wrote: > > Hi > Some reports of "not heard' to BY70 on the recent passes at *AMSAT Live > OSCAR Satellite Status Page* ... > So , the bird already burn ? :-( > 73 > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------ > [image: Avast logo] > > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > www.avast.com > > > From n8hm at arrl.net Fri Jan 6 02:53:08 2017 From: n8hm at arrl.net (Paul Stoetzer) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 21:53:08 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 not heard In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The FM transponder sounded good right until I lost it behind my building (I was on a south facing balcony). Then it sounded like someone keyed it up and then it started transmitting what sounded like a solid carrier to my ears. Perhaps someone was taking a photo? 73, Paul, N8HM On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:50 PM, PY5LF wrote: > Hi Bill > Last pass of BY70-1 at 2:30UTC over here , the repeater was on and signal > strong as usual. > 73 > > 2017-01-05 21:15 GMT-02:00 Bill Attwood : > >> Maybe has something to do with the "camera mode": >> >> "For BY70-1, an open telecommand is designed to allow radio amateurs to >> send commands to take and download an image. The following article provides >> some details about it: http://lilacsat.hit.edu.cn/?p=542" >> >> Cheers, >> Bill VE6WK >> >> >> On 2017-01-05 1:58 PM, PY5LF wrote: >> >> Hi >> Some reports of "not heard' to BY70 on the recent passes at *AMSAT Live >> OSCAR Satellite Status Page* ... >> So , the bird already burn ? :-( >> 73 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From w5acm at swbell.net Fri Jan 6 03:36:58 2017 From: w5acm at swbell.net (Andy) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 21:36:58 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] YES! RE: BY70-1 not heard Message-ID: <002601d267ce$25bf8cc0$713ea640$@swbell.net> Lighting the filaments now! I will be listening for the next pass that can see HOUSTON. Thanks for the report! Andy W5ACM -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of PY5LF Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 8:50 PM To: Bill Attwood ; AMSAT-BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 not heard Hi Bill Last pass of BY70-1 at 2:30UTC over here , the repeater was on and signal strong as usual. 73 2017-01-05 21:15 GMT-02:00 Bill Attwood : > Maybe has something to do with the "camera mode": > > "For BY70-1, an open telecommand is designed to allow radio amateurs > to send commands to take and download an image. The following article > provides some details about it: http://lilacsat.hit.edu.cn/?p=542" > > Cheers, > Bill VE6WK > > > On 2017-01-05 1:58 PM, PY5LF wrote: > > Hi > Some reports of "not heard' to BY70 on the recent passes at *AMSAT > Live OSCAR Satellite Status Page* ... > So , the bird already burn ? :-( > 73 > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------ > [image: Avast logo] > campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > www.avast.com > campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > > _______________________________________________ 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 w5acm at swbell.net Fri Jan 6 05:58:21 2017 From: w5acm at swbell.net (Andy) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 23:58:21 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] YES! BY70-1 heard Message-ID: <001901d267e1$e39d6010$aad82030$@swbell.net> Worked John K8YSE/7 on the 0550Z pass out to the west. Nice signals for a max 1-deg el pass! Orbit is falling, but the satellite sounds great. 73 de Andy W5ACM EL29eq -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Andy Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 9:37 PM To: 'PY5LF' ; amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] YES! RE: BY70-1 not heard Lighting the filaments now! I will be listening for the next pass that can see HOUSTON. Thanks for the report! Andy W5ACM -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of PY5LF Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 8:50 PM To: Bill Attwood ; AMSAT-BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 not heard Hi Bill Last pass of BY70-1 at 2:30UTC over here , the repeater was on and signal strong as usual. 73 2017-01-05 21:15 GMT-02:00 Bill Attwood : > Maybe has something to do with the "camera mode": > > "For BY70-1, an open telecommand is designed to allow radio amateurs > to send commands to take and download an image. The following article > provides some details about it: http://lilacsat.hit.edu.cn/?p=542" > > Cheers, > Bill VE6WK > > > On 2017-01-05 1:58 PM, PY5LF wrote: > > Hi > Some reports of "not heard' to BY70 on the recent passes at *AMSAT > Live OSCAR Satellite Status Page* ... > So , the bird already burn ? :-( > 73 > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------ > [image: Avast logo] > campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > www.avast.com > campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > > _______________________________________________ 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 pinoleronica at hotmail.com Fri Jan 6 17:43:11 2017 From: pinoleronica at hotmail.com (Rafael Pena) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 17:43:11 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] ICOM 9100 es SatPC32 Message-ID: Is the Icom 9100 fully supported by SatPC32...I see it as one of the rigs that can be selected. I am planning on a swap from FT847 to Icom. Any input is appreciated. Rafael / NN3RP From aa5pk at suddenlink.net Fri Jan 6 18:47:15 2017 From: aa5pk at suddenlink.net (Glenn Miller - AA5PK) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 12:47:15 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] ICOM 9100 es SatPC32 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6553690B6E0A471A8823AE4ECC9EF8CB@AA5PKPC> Many of us use SatPC32 with the Icom IC-9100. No problems noted here. Glenn AA5PK -----Original Message----- From: Rafael Pena Sent: Friday, January 06, 2017 11:43 AM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] ICOM 9100 es SatPC32 Is the Icom 9100 fully supported by SatPC32...I see it as one of the rigs that can be selected. I am planning on a swap from FT847 to Icom. Any input is appreciated. Rafael / NN3RP _______________________________________________ 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 Fri Jan 6 19:42:28 2017 From: WB4SON at gmail.com (Bob) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 14:42:28 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] ICOM 9100 es SatPC32 In-Reply-To: <6553690B6E0A471A8823AE4ECC9EF8CB@AA5PKPC> References: <6553690B6E0A471A8823AE4ECC9EF8CB@AA5PKPC> Message-ID: Not only is it supported, it is the only one I've tried that deals with TX and RX Doppler corrections correctly on the IC-9100. Well worth the AMSAT donation. 73, Bob, WB4SON From cee at palomarlight.com Fri Jan 6 18:45:21 2017 From: cee at palomarlight.com (CEE) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 10:45:21 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Alive and Well Message-ID: Good pass and signals over northwestern US from BY70-1 From gabrielzeifman at gmail.com Sat Jan 7 13:09:06 2017 From: gabrielzeifman at gmail.com (Gabriel Zeifman) Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 07:09:06 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Today's Roving Message-ID: <4E4B3C43-DB36-4193-A0D8-B7B7402794F9@gmail.com> Good morning fellow people of the birds, For today's Roving I have planned a run of the eastern Mexico/Texas border. I will be leaving Austin (EM10) shortly and venturing down the I-35 into the EL0x grids to the border, then cutting east into the EL1x grids and turning back north. As usual I will be on APRS (NJ7H-9) and iridium (share.delorme.com/gz). Will try to keep current on twitter @NJ7H_Radio with pass and grid details as I know them. Tomorrow I will be returning to Oklahoma City via EM10-15, so if anyone need anything in there let me know. A jaunt into EM2x is possible as well. 73, Gabe NJ7H From ku4os at cfl.rr.com Sun Jan 8 03:59:27 2017 From: ku4os at cfl.rr.com (Lee McLamb) Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 22:59:27 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS-008 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins Message-ID: AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-008 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: * The Hidden World of Space Junk * AMSAT at the Cowtown Hamfest * Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-Jan-05 * Tips for Posting to AMSAT-BB SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-008.01 ANS-008 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 008.01 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE January 8, 2017 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-008.01 The Hidden World of Space Junk Adrift is a short documentary that explores the hidden world of space junk. The film reveals an issue that is troubling and beautiful, dangerous and fascinating. It begins with the tale of astronaut Piers Sellers, who dropped his spatula in space in 2006, which became the most deadly kitchen instrument soon after, traveling at 27,000 km/h. The film then journeys across the remote deserts of Chile with astronomers of Collowara Observatory, into the skies, where threats to the International Space Station take place, and through to Thailand, where a man watches space debris burn. The film includes a narration by Vanguard, the oldest piece of space junk, voiced by Sally Potter (Dir Orlando). As featured on BBC Arts Online bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3sjd1wnYD47WLzhT9dV02YH/lost-in-space-turning- cosmic-junk-into-art [ANS thanks Stephen, G7VFY, and Southgate ARN for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT at the Cowtown Hamfest Keith Pugh, W5IU, reports that there will be an AMSAT Forum, a Booth, and Demonstrations at the Cowtown Hamfest, 20-21 January 2017. The Hamfest takes place in Forrest Hills, TX. A suburb of Fort Worth, TX. [ANS thanks Keith, W5IU, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-Jan-05 Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: World Genesis Foundation (WGF), Goodyear AZ, direct via W6FOG The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Wed 2017-01-11 16:10:15 UTC 46 deg Coll?ge Saint-Guibert, Gembloux, Belgium and Euro Space Center, Transinne, Belgium; Combined telebridge via K6DUE The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for Thu 2017-01-12 13:46:51 UTC 36 deg [ANS thanks Charlie, AJ9N, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tips for Posting to AMSAT-BB People sometimes post time-sensitive messages to AMSAT-BB. Examples are last minute grid activities, unexpected satellite mode changes, requests for critically important telemetry, etc. These normally go through promptly, but occasionally get held for two primary reasons: While AMSAT-BB is an open list, that means it is open for membership, not posting. In order to post to the list, it normally must be from the same account you originally registered. For instance, if you registered from your home account, and post from your office account, it will normally be held for release by a moderator. Likewise, some people have all their email forwarded to a single account from which they reply. We can create a filter to pass the second address, but that is not automatically done on the first instance, and does require moderator action. AMSAT-BB receives many pieces of spam for each legitimate message. As part of the filtering process, emails larger than 50 kB are blocked. This usually happens to legitimate email when someone attempts to attach a large file. Also, there is a limit to the number of addresses before an email is held as potential spam. I have seen legitimate email sent to 30+ addresses. We have a team of volunteer moderators, but they are not available 24/7. The result is that a message sent in the evening or on a holiday, US time, may well be held for several hours before being released. So, if it absolutely, positively needs to be distributed promptly: 1. Post from the same account you registered, or one which from past experience you know has been flagged as acceptable. 2. Do not use attachments. (Pictures and other files should be included by a link.) They will be blocked to the list, and if the total size of the message plus attachments exceeds 50 kB, the mail will be held. 3. Send it to AMSAT-BB and a few other addresses at most. If you must send to a large distribution list, send to them, and another copy to AMSAT-BB. (A trick which seems to work well is to place most of the addresses in the BCC rather than CC line.) 4. Consider also posting to the AMSAT Twitter and Facebook accounts. There is overlap in membership, though at present it is far from 100%. 5. Do not send large commercial press releases, or things which look like them. They will be caught by heuristic spam filters. A simple posting of an event or activity will normally go through. Note that there are existing exemptions for official channels such as ANS, ARISS, other AMSAT organizations, etc. 6. New accounts are automatically flagged for moderation. This flag will normally be cleared on the first or second posting, but do allow for and expect an initial delay if you establish a dedicated account for your satellite organization. [ANS thanks Alan, WA4SCA, 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 kn2qbw at gmail.com Sun Jan 8 16:40:15 2017 From: kn2qbw at gmail.com (Ray Soifer) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 09:40:15 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT CW Activity Day reports Message-ID: As of today, 8 January, only two of the participants in AMSAT CW Activity Day have posted reports to amsat-bb. While there is no requirement to do so, if you participated, please consider posting one while it's still fresh in your mind. You can post a list of stations worked, satellites used, "Soapbox" comments, suggestions for next year's event, or what have you. 73 Ray W2RS From jimlist at zoho.com Sun Jan 8 19:53:58 2017 From: jimlist at zoho.com (Jim Heck G3WGM) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 19:53:58 -0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-73/FUNcube Message-ID: <9E7C1224C8FB4BDAB07E6C412B14849E@jimPC2> Hi Folks, I have just switched the sat into Educational Mode, ie transponder plus low power beacon when in darkness, transponder off and full power beacon when in daylight. 73s Jim G3WGM AO-73 FUNcube-1 The transponder is normally operational only when the satellite is in eclipse, ie the solar panels are NOT being illuminated. During weekends (from pm Fridays UTC to PM Sundays UTC) the transponder is operational 24/7. When the transponder is switched off, the telemetry beacon is on full power, when the transponder is on the beacon it is on low power. During holidays, eg Christmas, New Year, Easter, etc, the transponder maybe activated for extended periods. Watch AMSAT-BB for announcements which are usually made on Friday evenings (UTC) The nominal transponder frequencies are: Uplink: 435.150 - 435.130 MHz LSB (Inverting) Downlink: 145.950 - 145.970 MHz USB Telemetry Tx: 145.935 MHz BPSK (The passband may be up to 15kHz higher depending on on-board temps. Low temperatures give higher freqs!) FUNcube-2 aka FUNcube on UKube The FUNcube-2 sub-system continues to operate autonomously and, almost continuously, in amateur mode. The transponder is operational and the telemetry downlink is functioning with about 70mW output. The FUNcube-1 Dashboard does not correctly display the telemetry but it does correctly decode the data and uploads it to the FUNcube Data Warehouse from where it can be examined. Most of the real time data channels are operational and these include battery voltages, temperatures and ADCS data coming via the main On Board Computer (OBC). The transponder is interrupted for a few seconds every 2 minutes when the other transmitter sends its CW beacon and, occasionally, for a few seconds when the main OBC reboots (approx seven times each orbit). The nominal transponder frequencies are: Uplink: 435.080 - 435.060 MHz LSB (Inverting) Downlink: 145.930 - 145.950 MHz USB Telemetry Tx: 145.915 MHz BPSK (The passband may be up to 10kHz higher depending on on-board temps. Low temperatures give higher freqs!) EO79 FUNcube-3 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 in future months as a result of experience. The nominal transponder frequencies are: Uplink: 435.0723-435.0473 MHz LSB (Inverting) Downlink: 145.946-145.971 MHz USB Further detailed info on EO79 transponder frequencies is at: https://amsat-uk.org/2016/11/10/eo79-funcube-3-transponder-commences-regular-operation/ All FUNcube transponders are sponsored by AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL. We are very grateful for the assistance given by Innovative Solution In Space Bv, The Netherlands. From jimki6wj at sbcglobal.net Sun Jan 8 20:24:17 2017 From: jimki6wj at sbcglobal.net (James Brown) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 20:24:17 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] IC 910H issues References: <738736221.619737.1483907057861.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <738736221.619737.1483907057861@mail.yahoo.com> Hello All I recently swapped from FT847 to IC910H. I am using SAT 32 with little success. Some of the issues are: ?It appears that after a bit of idle monitoring( waiting for the next sat pass) the 910 looses communications with SAT 32. When? a sat pass is activated the uplink and downlink and associated modes are reversed from what is displayed in SAT 32. can anyone relay their settings for sat 32 and the 910. maybe I can find what is configured incorrectly! ThanksJim KI6WJ? DM09 From n6rfm1 at gmail.com Sun Jan 8 21:00:50 2017 From: n6rfm1 at gmail.com (N6RFM1 gmail) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 16:00:50 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] : Re: BY70-1 not heard Message-ID: <008601d269f2$4b668de0$e233a9a0$@gmail.com> Hi Paul and AMSAT friends, It's really great to hear BY70-1 getting lots of use. Lots of familiar calls and some new ones. Perfect. Indeed, Scott K4KDR and I have recently made several coordinated attempts to collect BY70-1 telemetry and camera pictures. This would not have been even possible without the support of Mingchuan BG2BHC (as a project team representative, for GNU radio support and example wav format command files), Dani EA4GPZ (for authoring open source GNU radio blocks, and hosting a fantastic blog which describes how much of this works), and the BY70-1 project team. We have made several attempts over the past few days during favorable passes for us. So far, we have received some good telemetry, been able to command the satellite to take a picture and then download a few pieces of the JPG. Unfortunately, so far we have only fragments of JPG data. If more than a few packets in the JPG file data stream are lost, the JPG image cannot be reconstructed. For reasons we do not understand, either the downlink data stream stops, is disrupted or BY70-1 resets. It may even be our ground station hardware limitations. We don't quite know. We do hope however that some of our experiences will guide future developments. For example, as Dani suggests SSDV which has error detection and correction capability. For those interested and key point, BY70-1 will only accept a camera command after 30 seconds of transponder non-use. Given the popularity of BY70-1, which is great and what we all want, Scott and I have had a few chances to send camera commands during such "quiet times" or > 30 periods on non-use. But again, we are delighted BY70-1 is popular and being used. What you may have heard was the satellite re-transmitting my request to "take and send" a picture. These uplink commands are in FM and last a few seconds. If successful, the satellite switches modes and starts picture transmissions in SSB mode on the downlink. These last for ~10 - 15 seconds. Then we hear the transponder come right back on. You might not even notice between sips of coffee (or whatever!) Once a related camera mode has been activated, there is a 10 minute countdown before another such request will be accepted. As a practical matter, with the 10 minute camera watchdog, those interested in getting a picture really have one shot/pass and only if the transponder is quiet for the >30 second period. It's really great to hear everyone using BY70-1. That's what it's all about. And thanks to Scott K4KDR for being a great partner on this little project! Of course, I've made few Qs myself! I must say the audio quality is amazing to my ears. One last thing Paul. I need to work you on BY70-1! :-) 73, Bob From skristof at etczone.com Sun Jan 8 23:01:38 2017 From: skristof at etczone.com (skristof at etczone.com) Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2017 18:01:38 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-85 Message-ID: <1d99641f5aa2b292c40232fa72023914@etczone.com> I just tried to get telemetry from AO-85. The pass had max elevation of 76 degrees here. In the past I would get lots of data on a pass like this, but lately I've been getting nothing. I can see the signal on the "waterfall" (using SDR#) but the signal is too weak to decode. Is anyone else having this problem? Is the signal normally low when the northern hemisphere is dark? What's happening? I've asked this before and didn't get any responses. Please send a couple of responses so I have some idea if there is some problem in my set up here. Thanks! Steve AI9IN From k7trkradio at charter.net Sun Jan 8 23:16:54 2017 From: k7trkradio at charter.net (Ted) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 15:16:54 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] Icom AND HAM RADIO DELUXE-Sat Control Message-ID: <002c01d26a05$4d05c450$e7114cf0$@charter.net> This information was just posted on the IC-9100 Group. I thought it might be useful for anyone here struggling with an ICOM (other than an IC-9100) and HRD. Apparently, the IC-9100 does not have any problem with SatPC32 73, Ted K7TRK From: ic9100 at yahoogroups.com [mailto:ic9100 at yahoogroups.com] Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2017 6:09 AM To: ic9100 at yahoogroups.com Subject: [ic9100] Re: IC 9100 AND HAM RADIO DELUXE Ron, Last year I had the same problem! Look for the HRD answer: " Dear Julio, With RX and TX checked, the frequencies for uplink and downlink should be adjusted for Doppler effect, however, with the Icom radios there is a major issue which is due to the design of the radio itself. All rigs use a set of commands to control their functions. The command set is usually included in the operating manual for the rig. Any software needs to use these commands to control the various functions of your rig. Icom, has elected NOT to include commands in all their rigs to directly address VFO B or the Sub VFO. This makes it difficult to impossible to display or control VFO B. Some software authors have decided to use a kluge of sorts to work around this issue. They do this by sending the command to swap VFO's - that is, the frequency in VFO A becomes the frequency in VFO B and vice versa. The rig control program then reads the data from VFO A and stores it as VFO B. It then swaps the VFOs back to the initial frequencies. This takes a few microsecond to seconds depending on your Rig/Computer/Link speed and what data is being shared on the control bus (remember Icom CI-V is a shared serial data bus). This is an important consideration as it will interrupt the signal being received on VFO A for that period of time it is swapping back and forth as well as getting the data from the rig. It would make copying data or CW signals impossible as they would be constantly interrupted for an update of the frequency in VFO B. While that update may be a very short period of time, it would not be consistent or predictable. HRD has elected NOT to place this kludge in it's software because of this reason with the exception of the IC-9100. The IC-9100 in Satellite Mode (ONLY) will perform this swapping of VFOs as it is necessary for satellite work and the IC-9100 has individual audio outputs for the two VFOs. It's important to realize this is a shortcoming on the part of Icom by not including these commands. All attempts to work with Icom to address the issue have met with denial of a problem from Icom. The system no longer accepts replies to emails. Please click here to view or update the status of your ticket. NOTE: Our support staff is available to respond Monday through Friday 6am to 5pm EST. Support Staff HRD Software, LLC From scott23192 at gmail.com Sun Jan 8 23:20:36 2017 From: scott23192 at gmail.com (Scott) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 18:20:36 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-85 In-Reply-To: <1d99641f5aa2b292c40232fa72023914@etczone.com> References: <1d99641f5aa2b292c40232fa72023914@etczone.com> Message-ID: Steve, were you able to receive any voice traffic? Also, did you see any of the distinctive very-low freq signatures on the audio waterfall where that type of telemetry shows up? I haven't monitored AO-85 recently so I?m afraid I don't have any first-hand reports to share. What upper & lower audio bandwidth settings were you using? -Scott, K4KDR ============================================================= -----Original Message----- From: skristof at etczone.com Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2017 6:01 PM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-85 I just tried to get telemetry from AO-85. The pass had max elevation of 76 degrees here. In the past I would get lots of data on a pass like this, but lately I've been getting nothing. I can see the signal on the "waterfall" (using SDR#) but the signal is too weak to decode. Is anyone else having this problem? Is the signal normally low when the northern hemisphere is dark? What's happening? I've asked this before and didn't get any responses. Please send a couple of responses so I have some idea if there is some problem in my set up here. Thanks! Steve AI9IN From n0jy at amsat.org Sun Jan 8 23:22:46 2017 From: n0jy at amsat.org (Jerry Buxton) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 17:22:46 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-85 In-Reply-To: <1d99641f5aa2b292c40232fa72023914@etczone.com> References: <1d99641f5aa2b292c40232fa72023914@etczone.com> Message-ID: Hi Steve, I haven't been copying AO-85 telemetry for the last few weeks, but I have not heard any reports from our engineering team that there are any anomalies with the telemetry. The presence or absence of sunlight over the northern hemisphere or anywhere else should not affect the signal strength of the satellite, at least not noticeably. A quick look at the telemetry leaderboard http://www.amsat.org/tlm/leaderboard.php?id=1&db=FOXDB indicates that there are as many stations as usual copying telemetry in the last 90 minutes. So while everything I've said here doesn't conclude that AO-85 is working OK I don't see any obvious indications that there would be a problem on the satellite end of things. I'm sure that others here can help with suggestions for troubleshooting on your station end, I'm not taking a cop-out here but it is in fact suppertime so here I go for now, stomach wins over hobby! :-) Jerry Buxton, N?JY On 1/8/2017 17:01, skristof at etczone.com wrote: > I just tried to get telemetry from AO-85. The pass had max elevation of > 76 degrees here. In the past I would get lots of data on a pass like > this, but lately I've been getting nothing. I can see the signal on the > "waterfall" (using SDR#) but the signal is too weak to decode. Is anyone > else having this problem? Is the signal normally low when the northern > hemisphere is dark? What's happening? > > I've asked this before and didn't get any responses. Please send a > couple of responses so I have some idea if there is some problem in my > set up here. > > Thanks! > > 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 wa4sca at gmail.com Sun Jan 8 23:45:19 2017 From: wa4sca at gmail.com (Alan) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 17:45:19 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-85 In-Reply-To: <1d99641f5aa2b292c40232fa72023914@etczone.com> References: <1d99641f5aa2b292c40232fa72023914@etczone.com> Message-ID: <000001d26a09$45531b50$cff951f0$@GMAIL.COM> Steve, Things seem about normal. You can sometimes get periods when due to antenna alignment the signals are weaker than you would expect, but is usually something which only applies to a single pass. Some things to check are the source gain, and also make certain that the AGC is not selected. Many version of SDR# ago, I found that if the AGC was selected, it greatly reduced the data recovery on AO-85. Haven't checked lately. 73s, Alan WA4SCA <-----Original Message----- References: <1d99641f5aa2b292c40232fa72023914@etczone.com> <000001d26a09$45531b50$cff951f0$@GMAIL.COM> Message-ID: <3f8238c02b6e36cf035235563656fa6f@etczone.com> Thanks to all who replied. I have a tendency to try the most frugal (i.e. cheapest) methods to do things so I'm using an RTL-SDR with SDR# software. I use the VB virtual audio cable to connect the SDR# to FoxTelem. As I mentioned, this has worked wonderfully in the past, just not lately. I did check the AGC on SDR#, and it is not enabled. The only filtering that is occurring that I can see is the low pass filtering in FoxTelem. My gut feeling is that I'm going to have get on the roof this spring and check out the antenna connection. The antenna is an M2 turnstile. Yes, I know it's not the top choice, but, as I said, it worked pretty well a couple of months ago. Steve AI9IN On 2017-01-08 18:45, Alan wrote: > Steve, > > Things seem about normal. You can sometimes get periods when due to antenna alignment the signals are > weaker than you would expect, but is usually something which only applies to a single pass. Some > things to check are the source gain, and also make certain that the AGC is not selected. Many version > of SDR# ago, I found that if the AGC was selected, it greatly reduced the data recovery on AO-85. > Haven't checked lately. > > 73s, > > Alan > WA4SCA > > <-----Original Message----- > < > <76 degrees here. In the past I would get lots of data on a pass like > <"waterfall" (using SDR#) but the signal is too weak to decode. Is anyone > < > < > < > <_______________________________________________ > <738736221.619737.1483907057861@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Radio 1: Icom, model IC-910H, COM port 6, CAT delay 70. Baud rate 9600, address $60, $60, $60, $60. Satellite mode checked, others not checked. Radio 2 not set. I am using the West Mountain Radio Rig Talk USB dongle to interface to the radio. I occasionally see the situation you describe where the bands are reversed when first connecting to the radio, but un-clicking and re-clicking on the "C" option corrects it. Otherwise, mine works flawlessly. George, KA3HSW ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Brown" To: "AMSAT BB" Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2017 2:24 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] IC 910H issues > Hello All > I recently swapped from FT847 to IC910H. I am using SAT 32 with little > success. Some of the issues are: > It appears that after a bit of idle monitoring( waiting for the next sat > pass) the 910 looses communications with SAT 32. > When a sat pass is activated the uplink and downlink and associated modes > are reversed from what is displayed in SAT 32. > can anyone relay their settings for sat 32 and the 910. maybe I can find > what is configured incorrectly! > ThanksJim KI6WJ DM09 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From n0jy at amsat.org Mon Jan 9 05:55:15 2017 From: n0jy at amsat.org (Jerry Buxton) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 23:55:15 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-85 In-Reply-To: <3f8238c02b6e36cf035235563656fa6f@etczone.com> References: <1d99641f5aa2b292c40232fa72023914@etczone.com> <000001d26a09$45531b50$cff951f0$@GMAIL.COM> <3f8238c02b6e36cf035235563656fa6f@etczone.com> Message-ID: On 1/8/2017 20:03, skristof at etczone.com wrote: > My gut feeling is that I'm going to have get on the roof this spring and > check out the antenna connection. The antenna is an M2 turnstile. Yes, I > know it's not the top choice, but, as I said, it worked pretty well a > couple of months ago. Santa's sleigh runners play havoc on any rooftop coax runs. Jerry Buxton, N?JY From Mvivona at yahoo.com Mon Jan 9 12:39:18 2017 From: Mvivona at yahoo.com (Mvivona) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 07:39:18 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] IC 910H issues In-Reply-To: References: <738736221.619737.1483907057861.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <738736221.619737.1483907057861@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Jim, My settings are the same as George's. I also had the issue of intermittent loss of connection and saw some threads about cable lengths under certain circumstances. I was using a long 6' cable. I purchased a 3' cable part number RPC-i17-UF made by Valley Enterprises. It has the C-17 USB FTDI chipset and is designed especially for the iCom CI-V cat control. After that my problems went away. Michael KC4ZVA On Jan 9, 2017, at 12:15 AM, George Henry wrote: Radio 1: Icom, model IC-910H, COM port 6, CAT delay 70. Baud rate 9600, address $60, $60, $60, $60. Satellite mode checked, others not checked. Radio 2 not set. I am using the West Mountain Radio Rig Talk USB dongle to interface to the radio. I occasionally see the situation you describe where the bands are reversed when first connecting to the radio, but un-clicking and re-clicking on the "C" option corrects it. Otherwise, mine works flawlessly. George, KA3HSW ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Brown" To: "AMSAT BB" Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2017 2:24 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] IC 910H issues > Hello All > I recently swapped from FT847 to IC910H. I am using SAT 32 with little success. Some of the issues are: > It appears that after a bit of idle monitoring( waiting for the next sat pass) the 910 looses communications with SAT 32. > When a sat pass is activated the uplink and downlink and associated modes are reversed from what is displayed in SAT 32. > can anyone relay their settings for sat 32 and the 910. maybe I can find what is configured incorrectly! > ThanksJim KI6WJ DM09 --- 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 kellyrkeeton at gmail.com Mon Jan 9 15:53:40 2017 From: kellyrkeeton at gmail.com (Kelly Keeton) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 07:53:40 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] Icom AND HAM RADIO DELUXE-Sat Control In-Reply-To: <002c01d26a05$4d05c450$e7114cf0$@charter.net> References: <002c01d26a05$4d05c450$e7114cf0$@charter.net> Message-ID: I have always found this answer from HRD to be a total joke. They blame icom and refuse to just make it work like every other software product on the market. Someone on staff likely got a 9100 and wanted it working. Why they made one radio work and didn't just kluudge other radios working to then just go back I hope was the choice of the fella who just left the company. Like HRD is so stable they don't want to jeopardize the high quality product?! Ha. Why paying customers don't get what they want out of a product they pay for is a good reason to not pay for the product. /rant Sent from a mobile device. > On Jan 8, 2017, at 3:16 PM, Ted wrote: > > This information was just posted on the IC-9100 Group. I thought it might be useful for anyone here struggling with an ICOM (other than an IC-9100) and HRD. Apparently, the IC-9100 does not have any problem with SatPC32 > > > > 73, Ted > > K7TRK > > > > From: ic9100 at yahoogroups.com [mailto:ic9100 at yahoogroups.com] > Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2017 6:09 AM > To: ic9100 at yahoogroups.com > Subject: [ic9100] Re: IC 9100 AND HAM RADIO DELUXE > > > > > > Ron, > > > > Last year I had the same problem! Look for the HRD answer: > > > > " > > > Dear Julio, > > > With RX and TX checked, the frequencies for uplink and downlink should be adjusted for Doppler effect, however, with the Icom radios there is a major issue which is due to the design of the radio itself. > > All rigs use a set of commands to control their functions. > The command set is usually included in the operating manual for the rig. > Any software needs to use these commands to control the various functions of your rig. > > Icom, has elected NOT to include commands in all their rigs to directly address VFO B or the Sub VFO. > This makes it difficult to impossible to display or control VFO B. > > Some software authors have decided to use a kluge of sorts to work around this issue. > They do this by sending the command to swap VFO's - that is, the frequency in VFO A becomes the frequency in VFO B and vice versa. > > The rig control program then reads the data from VFO A and stores it as VFO B. > It then swaps the VFOs back to the initial frequencies. > > This takes a few microsecond to seconds depending on your Rig/Computer/Link speed and what data is being shared on the control bus (remember Icom CI-V is a shared serial data bus). > > This is an important consideration as it will interrupt the signal being received on VFO A for that period of time it is swapping back and forth as well as getting the data from the rig. > > It would make copying data or CW signals impossible as they would be constantly interrupted for an update of the frequency in VFO B. > > While that update may be a very short period of time, it would not be consistent or predictable. > > HRD has elected NOT to place this kludge in it's software because of this reason with the exception of the IC-9100. > The IC-9100 in Satellite Mode (ONLY) will perform this swapping of VFOs as it is necessary for satellite work and the IC-9100 has individual audio outputs for the two VFOs. > > It's important to realize this is a shortcoming on the part of Icom by not including these commands. > All attempts to work with Icom to address the issue have met with denial of a problem from Icom. > > > > > The system no longer accepts replies to emails. Please click here to view or update the status of your ticket. > > NOTE: Our support staff is available to respond Monday through Friday 6am to 5pm EST. > > Support Staff > HRD Software, LLC > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Mon Jan 9 20:24:51 2017 From: bruninga at usna.edu (Robert Bruninga) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 15:24:51 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Friendship 7 details? Message-ID: <9bdfa4ce06b9ce05b72b81a7461ea68d@mail.gmail.com> After seeing the great movie ?hidden figures? last night, I had lots of questions from my faded memory of the time (it was the same year I got my ham license and was 14 years old). This Wiki page has a lot? but the questions lingering in my mind were: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury 1) Was his mission planned at 3 orbits? (I thought it was more and then cut to three). 2) If #1, then they must have had to have recovery ships at a different spot for every potential orbit since he could not maneuver anything other than when to fire the retros. If it was 7 cut to three, then I guess they only needed two ship areas? 3) What frequency was CAPCOM? Was it the 108 MHz? I think the tracking stations all relayed the voice via HF? 4) Also related to #1, if something happened to the pilot, I assume ground control could fire the retros. From scott23192 at gmail.com Mon Jan 9 20:51:04 2017 From: scott23192 at gmail.com (Scott) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 15:51:04 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Friendship 7 details? In-Reply-To: <9bdfa4ce06b9ce05b72b81a7461ea68d@mail.gmail.com> References: <9bdfa4ce06b9ce05b72b81a7461ea68d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <58EB6CCB27B74F6084F5DD204187FBD9@CSI9020> Great questions, Bob. I don't know how much of the following are as-built or how much detail was for planning purposes only, but the following two links have a lot of very interesting details: http://www.angelfire.com/space2/sp425/26.html http://www.angelfire.com/space2/sp425/21.html -Scott, K4KDR =================================================== -----Original Message----- From: Robert Bruninga Sent: Monday, January 09, 2017 3:24 PM To: AMSAT Subject: [amsat-bb] Friendship 7 details? After seeing the great movie ?hidden figures? last night, I had lots of questions from my faded memory of the time (it was the same year I got my ham license and was 14 years old). This Wiki page has a lot? but the questions lingering in my mind were: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury 1) Was his mission planned at 3 orbits? (I thought it was more and then cut to three). 2) If #1, then they must have had to have recovery ships at a different spot for every potential orbit since he could not maneuver anything other than when to fire the retros. If it was 7 cut to three, then I guess they only needed two ship areas? 3) What frequency was CAPCOM? Was it the 108 MHz? I think the tracking stations all relayed the voice via HF? 4) Also related to #1, if something happened to the pilot, I assume ground control could fire the retros. _______________________________________________ From va6bmj at gmail.com Mon Jan 9 21:02:43 2017 From: va6bmj at gmail.com (B J) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 21:02:43 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Friendship 7 details? In-Reply-To: <9bdfa4ce06b9ce05b72b81a7461ea68d@mail.gmail.com> References: <9bdfa4ce06b9ce05b72b81a7461ea68d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On 1/9/17, Robert Bruninga wrote: > After seeing the great movie ?hidden figures? last night, I had lots of > questions from my faded memory of the time (it was the same year I got my > ham license and was 14 years old). This Wiki page has a lot? but the > questions lingering in my mind were: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury > > > > 1) Was his mission planned at 3 orbits? (I thought it was more and > then cut to three). The comment by the capcom was that he was "good for 7 orbits", but the plan was for only 3. > > 2) If #1, then they must have had to have recovery ships at a > different spot for every potential orbit since he could not maneuver > anything other than when to fire the retros. If it was 7 cut to three, > then I guess they only needed two ship areas? There were several potential landing sites during a mission in case something went wrong. Gemini VIII, with Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott, had to be cut short after a few orbits because of the problem with one of the spacecraft's manoeuvring thrusters. It splashed down in one of the auxiliary recovery zones in the South China Sea and they were picked up by a USN destroyer. That didn't always work as NASA found out during the next Mercury mission, Aurora 7. Carpenter apparently fired his retro thrusters a bit late and landed some 400 km away from he was supposed to. > > 3) What frequency was CAPCOM? Was it the 108 MHz? I think the > tracking stations all relayed the voice via HF? I don't believe so. I think the ground stations might have connected by telephone lines to Mission Control. The only signal fading would be when the spacecraft was out of range of a tracking station. > > 4) Also related to #1, if something happened to the pilot, I assume > ground control could fire the retros. If I remember correctly, the spacecraft was entirely under control of the pilot. During Shepard's mission, Freedom 7, the retros didn't fire automatically so he had to light them manually. 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL From marklhammond at gmail.com Mon Jan 9 22:01:06 2017 From: marklhammond at gmail.com (Mark L. Hammond) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 17:01:06 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-85 Message-ID: Hi Steve, What OS and what virtual audio program are you using? A few months ago, an automatic update to Win10 killed my audio stuff; I had to do a reversion/back and it cleared it up... Too many variables--but give us a few of yours! I've been copying pretty well lately using SDR#, Airspy mini, and VB Audio. Mark N8MH From: skristof at etczone.com Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2017 6:01 PM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-85 I just tried to get telemetry from AO-85. The pass had max elevation of 76 degrees here. In the past I would get lots of data on a pass like this, but lately I've been getting nothing. I can see the signal on the "waterfall" (using SDR#) but the signal is too weak to decode. Is anyone else having this problem? Is the signal normally low when the northern hemisphere is dark? What's happening? I've asked this before and didn't get any responses. Please send a couple of responses so I have some idea if there is some problem in my set up here. Thanks! Steve AI9IN From skristof at etczone.com Mon Jan 9 22:26:09 2017 From: skristof at etczone.com (skristof at etczone.com) Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 17:26:09 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-85 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <84c7a2cf1e732466b6277a74e58f54ef@etczone.com> I use Windows 10, SDR# and VB virtual audio cable. The dongle is an RTL-SDR. Steve AI9IN On 2017-01-09 17:01, Mark L. Hammond wrote: > Hi Steve, > > What OS and what virtual audio program are you using? > > A few months ago, an automatic update to Win10 killed my audio stuff; I had > to do a reversion/back and it cleared it up... > > Too many variables--but give us a few of yours! > > I've been copying pretty well lately using SDR#, Airspy mini, and VB Audio. > > Mark N8MH > > From: skristof at etczone.com > Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2017 6:01 PM > To: amsat-bb at amsat.org > Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-85 > > I just tried to get telemetry from AO-85. The pass had max elevation of > 76 degrees here. In the past I would get lots of data on a pass like > this, but lately I've been getting nothing. I can see the signal on the > "waterfall" (using SDR#) but the signal is too weak to decode. Is anyone > else having this problem? Is the signal normally low when the northern > hemisphere is dark? What's happening? > > I've asked this before and didn't get any responses. Please send a > couple of responses so I have some idea if there is some problem in my > set up here. > > Thanks! > > 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 Saguaroastro at cox.net Mon Jan 9 22:51:47 2017 From: Saguaroastro at cox.net (Richard Tejera) Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 15:51:47 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] Friendship 7 details? Message-ID: IIIRC, it was planned for 6 orbits. But when telemetry showed the landing bag deployed, it was cut to 3. Flight Director Kris Kraft was convinced,, based on report from controllers and the spacecraft that it was a faulty indication and wanted to go the full six. He was overruled by upper management. During t-shirt they told Glenn to keep the retro package on during re-entry, the idea being the straps would keep the heat shield attached and thus the landing bag stowed. After the flight, Kraft lobbied for and got the rule added to tall mission profiles the "The Flight Director shall have the final authority for call decisions pertaining to completion of mission objectives and crew safety", essentially preventing management from interfering again. Also IIRC there were two landing zones. In the event of an abort or, in this case, a shortening of the mission, retro fire would be planned for one of those. Now much after 6orbits, the rotation of earth, put the ground track out of range of groundbreaking station s for extended times. They had tracking stations on the Canadiens, Zanzibar Canberra, Hawaii & Goldstein, can (there may more,but those come to mind right now), so even under optimal conditions they were in direct contact with the spacecraft for about 10 minutes at a time maybe 4 or 5 times per orbit. During Gemini VIII, when the spacecraft almost spun out of control due to a stuck thruster, they had to abort since Armstrong had used their reentry thrusters to recover. All that happened out of communication range. When they came back in range the abort was called at the first opportunity. This put them well away from the recovery area. The crew had to wait several hours before recovery teams got to them not being a boat, the capsule bombed around a lot. armstrong, being a Navy man rode it out, but Scott, who was Air force, spent the time puking his guts out. Rick Tejera K7TEJ Saguaro Astronomy Club www.SaguaroAstro.org Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club www.w7tbc.org On January 9, 2017, at 14:02, B J wrote: On 1/9/17, Robert Bruninga wrote: > After seeing the great movie ?hidden figures? last night, I had lots of > questions from my faded memory of the time (it was the same year I got my > ham license and was 14 years old). This Wiki page has a lot? but the > questions lingering in my mind were: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury > > > > 1) Was his mission planned at 3 orbits? (I thought it was more and > then cut to three). The comment by the capcom was that he was "good for 7 orbits", but the plan was for only 3. > > 2) If #1, then they must have had to have recovery ships at a > different spot for every potential orbit since he could not maneuver > anything other than when to fire the retros. If it was 7 cut to three, > then I guess they only needed two ship areas? There were several potential landing sites during a mission in case something went wrong. Gemini VIII, with Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott, had to be cut short after a few orbits because of the problem with one of the spacecraft's manoeuvring thrusters. It splashed down in one of the auxiliary recovery zones in the South China Sea and they were picked up by a USN destroyer. That didn't always work as NASA found out during the next Mercury mission, Aurora 7. Carpenter apparently fired his retro thrusters a bit late and landed some 400 km away from he was supposed to. > > 3) What frequency was CAPCOM? Was it the 108 MHz? I think the > tracking stations all relayed the voice via HF? I don't believe so. I think the ground stations might have connected by telephone lines to Mission Control. The only signal fading would be when the spacecraft was out of range of a tracking station. > > 4) Also related to #1, if something happened to the pilot, I assume > ground control could fire the retros. If I remember correctly, the spacecraft was entirely under control of the pilot. During Shepard's mission, Freedom 7, the retros didn't fire automatically so he had to light them manually. 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL _______________________________________________ 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 n8fgv at usa.net Mon Jan 9 23:30:09 2017 From: n8fgv at usa.net (Daniel Schultz) Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 18:30:09 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Friendship 7 details? Message-ID: <441VaiXdJ2864S08.1484004609@web08.cms.usa.net> Bob, According to my coffee table book "The History of Manned Space Flight" by David Baker (1982), the Mercury capsule was initially designed to support only a three orbit mission, and both John Glenn and Scott Carpenter's flights were planned to last only that long. Page 137 of this book describes extensive modifications that were made to Wally Schirra's Sigma-7 spacecraft to allow it to fly a six orbit mission. This leads to the interesting question of why Glenn was told that he was "Go for at least seven orbits" by his capcom (page 118) when there was absolutely no possibility of his flight lasting that long. The Navy had 24 ships including three aircraft carriers spread out across the Atlantic to cover possible launch aborts and reentry after one, two or three orbits (page 113). There was no mention of any recovery plans for more than three orbits. The book also describes the flight of Enos the Chimp (page 105) in which ground control was responsible for firing the retros (since the chimp had not been trained on retrofire procedures). I don't know if that remote firing capability was also carried on the manned flights. During Enos' flight the telephone line between mission control at the Cape and the Point Arguello tracking station was cut when a farmer in Arizona plowed up a telephone cable, but Chis Kraft was able to reestablish voice contact to order Point Arguello to transmit the retrofire command just seconds before the deadline. This very excellent book is marred only by the fact that it describes rocket thrust in kilograms (one of my pet peeves), no doubt caused by English majors in the publisher's editorial department who never took a physics course. Dan Schultz N8FGV -------Original Message------- Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 15:24:51 -0500 From: Robert Bruninga Subject: [amsat-bb] Friendship 7 details? After seeing the great movie ?hidden figures? last night, I had lots of questions from my faded memory of the time (it was the same year I got my ham license and was 14 years old). This Wiki page has a lot? but the questions lingering in my mind were: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury 1) Was his mission planned at 3 orbits? (I thought it was more and then cut to three). 2) If #1, then they must have had to have recovery ships at a different spot for every potential orbit since he could not maneuver anything other than when to fire the retros. If it was 7 cut to three, then I guess they only needed two ship areas? 3) What frequency was CAPCOM? Was it the 108 MHz? I think the tracking stations all relayed the voice via HF? 4) Also related to #1, if something happened to the pilot, I assume ground control could fire the retros. From va6bmj at gmail.com Mon Jan 9 23:33:03 2017 From: va6bmj at gmail.com (B J) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 23:33:03 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Friendship 7 details? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 1/9/17, Richard Tejera wrote: > IIIRC, it was planned for 6 orbits. But when telemetry showed the landing > bag deployed, it was cut to 3. I've heard different accounts about that. Some say 7, others say 3. I don't know if it was mentioned in the mission transcripts. Maybe I should check my copies. Flight Director Kris Kraft was convinced,, > based on report from controllers and the spacecraft that it was a faulty > indication and wanted to go the full six. Had the landing bag been deployed, it wouldn't have mattered how long Glenn had stayed in orbit. He was overruled by upper > management. During t-shirt they told Glenn to keep the retro package on > during re-entry, the idea being the straps would keep the heat shield > attached and thus the landing bag stowed. > > After the flight, Kraft lobbied for and got the rule added to tall mission > profiles the "The Flight Director shall have the final authority for call > decisions pertaining to completion of mission objectives and crew safety", > essentially preventing management from interfering again. > > Also IIRC there were two landing zones. In the event of an abort or, in this > case, a shortening of the mission, retro fire would be planned for one of > those. You might be right, but the Mercury astronauts were trained for landing anywhere, just in case. Now much after 6orbits, the rotation of earth, put the ground track > out of range of groundbreaking station s for extended times. They had > tracking stations on the Canadiens, Zanzibar Canberra, Hawaii & Goldstein, > can (there may more,but those come to mind right now), so even under optimal > conditions they were in direct contact with the spacecraft for about 10 > minutes at a time maybe 4 or 5 times per orbit. I believe the Indian Ocean tracking ships came later, starting with Gemini. > > During Gemini VIII, when the spacecraft almost spun out of control due to a > stuck thruster, they had to abort since Armstrong had used their reentry > thrusters to recover. That was part of the mission rules. Once Armstrong activated them, the flight was over and the crew had to return as soon as possible. All that happened out of communication range. When > they came back in range the abort was called at the first opportunity. This > put them well away from the recovery area. I believe that the flight director on duty at the time, John Hodges, selected the South China Sea site. It was an auxiliary location, so there wouldn't have been a full recovery force on hand, but it was within reach of any ships in the area. Part of that might have been because the base at Subic Bay, plus the presence of the USN in the Gulf of Tonkin. The crew had to wait several > hours before recovery teams got to them not being a boat, the capsule bombed > around a lot. armstrong, being a Navy man rode it out, but Scott, who was > Air force, spent the time puking his guts out. One thing that nobody counted on was the sea state. The account I heard was that even Armstrong became queasy. 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL From n8fgv at usa.net Tue Jan 10 01:47:46 2017 From: n8fgv at usa.net (Daniel Schultz) Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 20:47:46 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Friendship 7 details? Message-ID: <780VaJBUU6560S04.1484012866@web04.cms.usa.net> Further research indicates that the "Go for at least seven orbits" line from capcom was to inform Glenn that the Atlas rocket had injected him into an orbit that would be stable for at least seven orbits, not that he was approved to stay up that long. This has led to an often repeated but historically inaccurate notion that Glenn's flight had been cut short by a problem, when in fact he was never intended to stay up for more than three orbits. The fact that Scott Carpenter's flight was also for only three orbits should indicate that the first two manned orbital flights were only intended to fly for three orbits, being our first initial baby steps into the cosmos. see http://www.thespacereview.com/article/550/1 and http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/space-flight-history/our-spaceflight-heritage-the-odyssey-of-friendship-7/ Dan Schultz N8FGV ------ Original Message ------ Received: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 06:30:09 PM EST > This leads to the interesting question of why > Glenn was told that he was "Go for at least seven orbits" by his capcom (page > 118) when there was absolutely no possibility of his flight lasting that long. From jim at coloradosatellite.com Tue Jan 10 02:54:12 2017 From: jim at coloradosatellite.com (Jim White) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 19:54:12 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] Friendship 7 details? In-Reply-To: <9bdfa4ce06b9ce05b72b81a7461ea68d@mail.gmail.com> References: <9bdfa4ce06b9ce05b72b81a7461ea68d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <7c23c819-0a7b-f2f7-49b3-a3146e8b5adc@coloradosatellite.com> I worked Apollo comms from late 67 until 71 in Hawaii and on Eniwetok Atoll. As I recall prior to Apollo there were astronauts deployed to all the ground stations who were sort of local CAPCOMs. They talked back to the Cape and later Houston by land line, some by 4 wire land line. If there was any HF involved it would have been to places like the Seychelles via commercial links or to the tracking ships. It was with the advent of the ARIA aircraft that we started using HF between them and shore stations, and using them, shore stations and ships to connect the astronauts back to the single Houston CAPCOM. The ARIA filled in the over-the-ocean gaps between the shore stations. We built an elaborate system of multiple HF links to assure good comm through as many as 8 aircraft during the first few orbits and at recovery. One of the innovations we worked out was cross patching the AGC from a tone in one sideband of an HF receiver to the other channel to suppress the white noise when no one was talking. That let us do very effective double HF hops, plus S band. For example from Hawaii to Eniwetok on HF, Eniwetok to the ARIA on HF, S band via the dish in the nose of the ARIA to the Apollo capsule - with no more white noise than a phone line. There are some very good web sites about how all that worked. One is http://honeysucklecreek.net/other_stations/ARIA/index.html There are also some great stories on flyaria.com The most challenging part of the HF piece of this was that the launches almost all occurred as dawn was happening over the Pacific, and that was where they fired the engine to leave earth orbit (TLI) so we had to have ARIA comms to them for those first orbits. Imagine the challenge of establishing full duplex quite HF comms with 4 aircraft taking off before dawn from a couple of Pacific islands, then leap frogging frequencies up the bands until the Apollo capsule came over a couple of times in late morning. This was pretty much the height of the cycle so we might go from 5 MHz to 22 MHz freqs in a couple of hours with perhaps 5 or 6 frequency changes. It was actually much more complicated than I'm describing here with 5 ground stations around the Pacific and as many as 30 HF frequencies in use at once. All wonderful fun for us hams in the program, building these complex HF networks in changing conditions under great pressure not to mess up. And great fun using 10KW to 40KW transmitters and huge fields of Rhombics, giant rotatable log periodics, vertical logs, 400' tall discones and pretty much every other HF antenna you can think of. Jim On 1/9/2017 1:24 PM, Robert Bruninga wrote: > After seeing the great movie ?hidden figures? last night, I had lots of > questions from my faded memory of the time (it was the same year I got my > ham license and was 14 years old). This Wiki page has a lot? but the > questions lingering in my mind were: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury > > > > 1) Was his mission planned at 3 orbits? (I thought it was more and > then cut to three). > > 2) If #1, then they must have had to have recovery ships at a > different spot for every potential orbit since he could not maneuver > anything other than when to fire the retros. If it was 7 cut to three, > then I guess they only needed two ship areas? > > 3) What frequency was CAPCOM? Was it the 108 MHz? I think the > tracking stations all relayed the voice via HF? > > 4) Also related to #1, if something happened to the pilot, I assume > ground control could fire the retros. > _______________________________________________ > 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 Tue Jan 10 03:18:56 2017 From: k.alexander at rogers.com (Ken Alexander) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 22:18:56 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Setting up SatPC32 Message-ID: <68b28ade-7a59-27f5-3b54-0cd44de8b4c0@rogers.com> I'm trying to set up SatPC32 to run two FT-817s, one for transmit and one for receive. The instructions say "with the FT-817/857/897 set the CAT delay to 110" How? The Radio Setup dialog box has a small box where the following appears: COM-Port (0 - 99) CAT Delay A box to the right of that has: 10 20 and a box to the right of that simply has 10 What are those? COM Ports or CAT Delay numbers? I tried entering 110 (the CAT Delay for the FT-817) in the right-most box and got an error message. How do you tell it you want to enter the Com-Port, and then the CAT Delay? That's for Radio 1. There doesn't seem to be a way to specify the CAT Delay for Radio 2. What if it's a different radio? Finally, How do I tell SatPC32 I want to transmit on Radio 1 and receive on Radio 2, or vice versa? Any help would be gratefully accepted. Thanks and 73, Ken Alexander VE3HLS From DFox at rwglaw.com Tue Jan 10 03:31:29 2017 From: DFox at rwglaw.com (D. Craig Fox) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 19:31:29 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] Friendship 7 details? In-Reply-To: <7c23c819-0a7b-f2f7-49b3-a3146e8b5adc@coloradosatellite.com> References: <9bdfa4ce06b9ce05b72b81a7461ea68d@mail.gmail.com> <7c23c819-0a7b-f2f7-49b3-a3146e8b5adc@coloradosatellite.com> Message-ID: Great one Jim. Write a book! Don't let your personal experiences be forgotten. Just my two cents. Craig N6RSX (novice license in '63, general the next year- big space fan the whole time) -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Jim White Sent: Monday, January 09, 2017 6:54 PM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Friendship 7 details? I worked Apollo comms from late 67 until 71 in Hawaii and on Eniwetok Atoll. As I recall prior to Apollo there were astronauts deployed to all the ground stations who were sort of local CAPCOMs. They talked back to the Cape and later Houston by land line, some by 4 wire land line. If there was any HF involved it would have been to places like the Seychelles via commercial links or to the tracking ships. It was with the advent of the ARIA aircraft that we started using HF between them and shore stations, and using them, shore stations and ships to connect the astronauts back to the single Houston CAPCOM. The ARIA filled in the over-the-ocean gaps between the shore stations. We built an elaborate system of multiple HF links to assure good comm through as many as 8 aircraft during the first few orbits and at recovery. One of the innovations we worked out was cross patching the AGC from a tone in one sideband of an HF receiver to the other channel to suppress the white noise when no one was talking. That let us do very effective double HF hops, plus S band. For example from Hawaii to Eniwetok on HF, Eniwetok to the ARIA on HF, S band via the dish in the nose of the ARIA to the Apollo capsule - with no more white noise than a phone line. There are some very good web sites about how all that worked. One is http://honeysucklecreek.net/other_stations/ARIA/index.html There are also some great stories on flyaria.com The most challenging part of the HF piece of this was that the launches almost all occurred as dawn was happening over the Pacific, and that was where they fired the engine to leave earth orbit (TLI) so we had to have ARIA comms to them for those first orbits. Imagine the challenge of establishing full duplex quite HF comms with 4 aircraft taking off before dawn from a couple of Pacific islands, then leap frogging frequencies up the bands until the Apollo capsule came over a couple of times in late morning. This was pretty much the height of the cycle so we might go from 5 MHz to 22 MHz freqs in a couple of hours with perhaps 5 or 6 frequency changes. It was actually much more complicated than I'm describing here with 5 ground stations around the Pacific and as many as 30 HF frequencies in use at once. All wonderful fun for us hams in the program, building these complex HF networks in changing conditions under great pressure not to mess up. And great fun using 10KW to 40KW transmitters and huge fields of Rhombics, giant rotatable log periodics, vertical logs, 400' tall discones and pretty much every other HF antenna you can think of. Jim On 1/9/2017 1:24 PM, Robert Bruninga wrote: > After seeing the great movie ?hidden figures? last night, I had lots > of questions from my faded memory of the time (it was the same year I > got my ham license and was 14 years old). This Wiki page has a lot? > but the questions lingering in my mind were: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury > > > > 1) Was his mission planned at 3 orbits? (I thought it was more and > then cut to three). > > 2) If #1, then they must have had to have recovery ships at a > different spot for every potential orbit since he could not maneuver > anything other than when to fire the retros. If it was 7 cut to > three, then I guess they only needed two ship areas? > > 3) What frequency was CAPCOM? Was it the 108 MHz? I think the > tracking stations all relayed the voice via HF? > > 4) Also related to #1, if something happened to the pilot, I assume > ground control could fire the retros. > _______________________________________________ > 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 (If this message is spam, please report it to IT Dept. Thank you.) From wb4gcs at wb4gcs.org Tue Jan 10 03:46:06 2017 From: wb4gcs at wb4gcs.org (Jim Sanford) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 22:46:06 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Friendship 7 details? In-Reply-To: References: <9bdfa4ce06b9ce05b72b81a7461ea68d@mail.gmail.com> <7c23c819-0a7b-f2f7-49b3-a3146e8b5adc@coloradosatellite.com> Message-ID: <29873392-88bb-de03-14bc-c41086bdbd53@wb4gcs.org> I agree! Jim, *_/PLEASE/_* Write a book!!!!!!! 73, Jim wb4gcs at amsat.org . . .one of those kids who grew up with Mercury, Gemini and Apollo . . .one of those kids who watched live as the Apollo 8 astronauts read from Genesis as they circled the moon . . . one of those million people on the Indian River when Apollo11 launched . . . . one of those kids who didn't sleep between the big bang and when Apollo 13 splashed down . . . . On 1/9/2017 10:31 PM, D. Craig Fox wrote: > Great one Jim. Write a book! Don't let your personal experiences be forgotten. > > Just my two cents. > > Craig > N6RSX > (novice license in '63, general the next year- big space fan the whole time) > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Jim White > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2017 6:54 PM > To: amsat-bb at amsat.org > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Friendship 7 details? > > I worked Apollo comms from late 67 until 71 in Hawaii and on Eniwetok Atoll. As I recall prior to Apollo there were astronauts deployed to all the ground stations who were sort of local CAPCOMs. They talked back to the Cape and later Houston by land line, some by 4 wire land line. If there was any HF involved it would have been to places like the Seychelles via commercial links or to the tracking ships. > > It was with the advent of the ARIA aircraft that we started using HF between them and shore stations, and using them, shore stations and ships to connect the astronauts back to the single Houston CAPCOM. The ARIA filled in the over-the-ocean gaps between the shore stations. We built an elaborate system of multiple HF links to assure good comm through as many as 8 aircraft during the first few orbits and at recovery. One of the innovations we worked out was cross patching the AGC from a tone in one sideband of an HF receiver to the other channel to suppress the white noise when no one was talking. That let us do very effective double HF hops, plus S band. For example from Hawaii to Eniwetok on HF, Eniwetok to the ARIA on HF, S band via the dish in the nose of the ARIA to the Apollo capsule - with no more white noise than a phone line. There are some very good web sites about how all that worked. One is > > http://honeysucklecreek.net/other_stations/ARIA/index.html There are also some great stories on flyaria.com > > The most challenging part of the HF piece of this was that the launches almost all occurred as dawn was happening over the Pacific, and that was where they fired the engine to leave earth orbit (TLI) so we had to have ARIA comms to them for those first orbits. Imagine the challenge of establishing full duplex quite HF comms with 4 aircraft taking off before dawn from a couple of Pacific islands, then leap frogging frequencies up the bands until the Apollo capsule came over a couple of times in late morning. This was pretty much the height of the cycle so we might go from 5 MHz to 22 MHz freqs in a couple of hours with perhaps > 5 or 6 frequency changes. It was actually much more complicated than > I'm describing here with 5 ground stations around the Pacific and as many as 30 HF frequencies in use at once. All wonderful fun for us hams in the program, building these complex HF networks in changing conditions under great pressure not to mess up. And great fun using 10KW to 40KW transmitters and huge fields of Rhombics, giant rotatable log periodics, vertical logs, 400' tall discones and pretty much every other HF antenna you can think of. > > Jim > > > On 1/9/2017 1:24 PM, Robert Bruninga wrote: >> After seeing the great movie ?hidden figures? last night, I had lots >> of questions from my faded memory of the time (it was the same year I >> got my ham license and was 14 years old). This Wiki page has a lot? >> but the questions lingering in my mind were: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury >> >> >> >> 1) Was his mission planned at 3 orbits? (I thought it was more and >> then cut to three). >> >> 2) If #1, then they must have had to have recovery ships at a >> different spot for every potential orbit since he could not maneuver >> anything other than when to fire the retros. If it was 7 cut to >> three, then I guess they only needed two ship areas? >> >> 3) What frequency was CAPCOM? Was it the 108 MHz? I think the >> tracking stations all relayed the voice via HF? >> >> 4) Also related to #1, if something happened to the pilot, I assume >> ground control could fire the retros. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > (If this message is spam, please report it to IT Dept. Thank you.) > _______________________________________________ > 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 va6bmj at gmail.com Tue Jan 10 04:24:05 2017 From: va6bmj at gmail.com (B J) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 04:24:05 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Friendship 7 details? In-Reply-To: <29873392-88bb-de03-14bc-c41086bdbd53@wb4gcs.org> References: <9bdfa4ce06b9ce05b72b81a7461ea68d@mail.gmail.com> <7c23c819-0a7b-f2f7-49b3-a3146e8b5adc@coloradosatellite.com> <29873392-88bb-de03-14bc-c41086bdbd53@wb4gcs.org> Message-ID: On 1/10/17, Jim Sanford wrote: > . . .one of those kids who grew up with Mercury, Gemini and Apollo . > . .one of those kids who watched live as the Apollo 8 astronauts read > from Genesis as they circled the moon . . . one of those million people > on the Indian River when Apollo11 launched . . . . one of those kids who > didn't sleep between the big bang and when Apollo 13 splashed down . . . . I was one of those kids, too, though from a more remote perspective here in Canada. The early space program was one reason I studied engineering in university. I wanted to do that stuff myself. 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL From va6bmj at gmail.com Tue Jan 10 04:30:33 2017 From: va6bmj at gmail.com (B J) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 04:30:33 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Friendship 7 details? In-Reply-To: <7c23c819-0a7b-f2f7-49b3-a3146e8b5adc@coloradosatellite.com> References: <9bdfa4ce06b9ce05b72b81a7461ea68d@mail.gmail.com> <7c23c819-0a7b-f2f7-49b3-a3146e8b5adc@coloradosatellite.com> Message-ID: On 1/10/17, Jim White wrote: > I worked Apollo comms from late 67 until 71 in Hawaii and on Eniwetok > Atoll. As I recall prior to Apollo there were astronauts deployed to > all the ground stations who were sort of local CAPCOMs. They talked > back to the Cape and later Houston by land line, some by 4 wire land > line. If there was any HF involved it would have been to places like > the Seychelles via commercial links or to the tracking ships. > > It was with the advent of the ARIA aircraft that we started using HF > between them and shore stations, and using them, shore stations and > ships to connect the astronauts back to the single Houston CAPCOM. The > ARIA filled in the over-the-ocean gaps between the shore stations. We > built an elaborate system of multiple HF links to assure good comm > through as many as 8 aircraft during the first few orbits and at > recovery. One of the innovations we worked out was cross patching the > AGC from a tone in one sideband of an HF receiver to the other channel > to suppress the white noise when no one was talking. That let us do very > effective double HF hops, plus S band. For example from Hawaii to > Eniwetok on HF, Eniwetok to the ARIA on HF, S band via the dish in the > nose of the ARIA to the Apollo capsule - with no more white noise than a > phone line. There are some very good web sites about how all that > worked. One is > > http://honeysucklecreek.net/other_stations/ARIA/index.html There are > also some great stories on flyaria.com > > The most challenging part of the HF piece of this was that the launches > almost all occurred as dawn was happening over the Pacific, and that was > where they fired the engine to leave earth orbit (TLI) so we had to have > ARIA comms to them for those first orbits. Imagine the challenge of > establishing full duplex quite HF comms with 4 aircraft taking off > before dawn from a couple of Pacific islands, then leap frogging > frequencies up the bands until the Apollo capsule came over a couple of > times in late morning. This was pretty much the height of the cycle so > we might go from 5 MHz to 22 MHz freqs in a couple of hours with perhaps > 5 or 6 frequency changes. It was actually much more complicated than > I'm describing here with 5 ground stations around the Pacific and as > many as 30 HF frequencies in use at once. All wonderful fun for us hams > in the program, building these complex HF networks in changing > conditions under great pressure not to mess up. And great fun using > 10KW to 40KW transmitters and huge fields of Rhombics, giant rotatable > log periodics, vertical logs, 400' tall discones and pretty much every > other HF antenna you can think of. Your experiences would be great material for The Space Show: http://www.thespaceshow.com/ or, maybe, QSO Today: http://www.qsotoday.com/ 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL From AJ9N at aol.com Tue Jan 10 04:48:53 2017 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 23:48:53 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-10 04:30 UTC Message-ID: <1bc967f.24da58bd.45a5c1b5@aol.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-10 04:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: World Genesis Foundation (WGF), Goodyear AZ, direct via W6FOG The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Wed 2017-01-11 16:10:15 UTC 46 deg Coll?ge Saint-Guibert, Gembloux, Belgium and Euro Space Center, Transinne, Belgium; Combined telebridge via K6DUE The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for Option #5: Thu 2017-01-12 13:46:51 UTC 36 deg High School "L?on Blum", Le Creusot, France, telebridge via K6DUE (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Mon 2017-01-16 11:53:17 UTC 60 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 119 **************************************************************************** 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 2017-01-10 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 1105. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1070. 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 2017-01-05 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 Exp. 50 on orbit Peggy Whitson Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Oleg Novitskiy **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors From aa4kndhj at gmail.com Tue Jan 10 05:29:16 2017 From: aa4kndhj at gmail.com (David H Jordan) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 00:29:16 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS contact with World Genesis Foundation (WGF), Goodyear AZ Message-ID: An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at World Genesis Foundation (WGF), Goodyear AZ on 11 Jan. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 16:10 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between NA1SS and W6FOG. The contact should be audible over the state of Arizona 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. There are two non-profit organizations based in Quartzsite, Arizona, coordinating this ARISS contact. The World Genesis Foundation operates with a mission to "leave no child without hope for the future." Quartzsite in Motion is a public/private partnership with the town of Quartzsite that operates to "promote health, education and community' in Quartzsite and surrounding towns. Students participating in the event come from six small schools in five town towns in rural western Arizona. The coordinating organizations have provided training and support materials to administrators and teachers at every participating school. The contact is part of a year-long program designed to encourage students to study and pursue work in science, technology, engineering and math. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. What is the most unusual thing you have seen in space? 2. Did you want to be an astronaut as a kid? 3. What is it like with no gravity? 4. Can a person be in space too long? 5. What are your favorite science experiments that you have been a part of in space? 6. What do you do when you are not in space? 7. What kinds of hazards are you exposed to in space? 8. How has Robotics played a role with the ISS? 9. Can you share a story that sticks out in your mind since becoming an astronaut? 10. Are you able to grow plants in the ISS? 11. Has your understanding of the universe changed since seeing it from space? 12. What kind of games or things do you do for entertainment there? 13. What are the effects of weightlessness on your body or mental state? 14. What has been one thing you have learned from your studies there that surprised you? 15. Is there one thing that your training has not prepared you for? 16. What have been your missions outside the Space Station? 17. Have you used 3-D printing on the ISS? 18. What's your advice to young people dreaming of becoming involved in NASA's space program? 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): 1. Coll?ge Saint-Guibert, Gembloux, Belgium and Euro Space Center, Transinne, Belgium; Combined telebridge via K6DUE The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Thu 2017-01-12 13:46:51 UTC 2. High School "L?on Blum", Le Creusot, France, telebridge via K6DUE The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Mon 2017-01-16 11:53:17 UTC 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 From jefforybroughton at gmail.com Tue Jan 10 19:41:18 2017 From: jefforybroughton at gmail.com (jeffory broughton) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 14:41:18 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Mast mount gaasfet preamp for sale In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Brand new microset PR145A ,bought never used.paid $175 with shipping. 20 db .5 db nf.RF switched. $135 and free shipping !WB8RJY JEFF jeff broughton From kayakfishtx at gmail.com Tue Jan 10 20:59:36 2017 From: kayakfishtx at gmail.com (Clayton Coleman) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 14:59:36 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] M2 2MXP20 pair of two antennas for sale Message-ID: I have two M2 2MXP20 yagi's for sale along with phasing bars to give you 20 elements vertical and 20 elements horizontal total between the two antennas. These are 10x10 element (not circular) 2m yagis. $500 shipped continental USA. 73 Clayton W5PFG From w2hro.fn20 at gmail.com Tue Jan 10 21:23:37 2017 From: w2hro.fn20 at gmail.com (Paul Andrews) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:23:37 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] M2 2MXP20 pair of two antennas for sale In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: FYI - The XP20s can easily be configured for RHCP by using a power splitter and feeding the V-pol and H-pol on a single boom with the 3db split signal. The V-pol and H-pol elements on the XP20s are staggered by 1/4 WL so a CP wave front will be generated for null free sat work. The XP20 is a great antenna. With fancy switching, you can have V / H / CP. 2 x XP20s and 1kw makes a very capable 2M EME setup. I'm just sayin' 73 - Paul - W2HRO On Jan 10, 2017 3:59 PM, "Clayton Coleman" wrote: > I have two M2 2MXP20 yagi's for sale along with phasing bars to give > you 20 elements vertical and 20 elements horizontal total between the > two antennas. > > These are 10x10 element (not circular) 2m yagis. > > $500 shipped continental USA. > > 73 > 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 > From scott23192 at gmail.com Wed Jan 11 01:11:41 2017 From: scott23192 at gmail.com (Scott) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 20:11:41 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] RX-only Antenna "tee" connector? Message-ID: Hi everyone. I suppose that any deviation from the ideal setup of a near-perfectly matched antenna & receiver will have SOME negative effect, but for a receive-only antenna, how badly am I hurting myself to split the antenna between two receivers? Since frequency is probably important to answer this, I?m referring to 70cm. Also, if it matters, I have a very good preamp (SP-70 from SSB) at the antenna feeding 25 meters of LMR-400. Both receivers are SDR devices (receive-only). When I tested against a 70cm beacon, there was some small reduction in signal strength but it wasn?t much. With voice, you might not notice but my interest is telemetry data. Thanks for any recommendations or experiences with a similar arrangement! -Scott, K4KDR Montpelier, VA USA twitter: @scott23192 From k.alexander at rogers.com Wed Jan 11 03:19:38 2017 From: k.alexander at rogers.com (Ken Alexander) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 22:19:38 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Thank you! Message-ID: <86fd96dd-0e0d-af16-7bf0-02027a1dfb2b@rogers.com> Many thanks to Bruce KK5DO, Glenn AA5PK and Erich DK1TB for your assistance in getting SatPC32 set up with my two FT-817s. I'm looking forward to continuing and seeing how they work together! 73 and thanks again! Ken VE3HLS From david.xe3dx at gmail.com Wed Jan 11 03:54:19 2017 From: david.xe3dx at gmail.com (David Maciel (XE3DX)) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 21:54:19 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Last Grid Expedition Message-ID: Hi Guys, thank all your company on the satellites, in my last trip I made 163 contacts, activate grids DK97, DK98, DK87, DK88, EK06, EK07, EK15, EK16, EK25 and EK26. Now I can say that I have worked from 35 grids rare, XE in Mexico as station "Rover". We will look for other new adventures, and return to the previous ones for those who could not work on this trip. Thanks also to Doug N6UA, the donation of a battery for my Handy FT-60R, to be like my sponsor. All records are in Lotw now. Until the next trip ... David Maciel XE3DX *http://www.qsl.net/xe3dx/ * *david.xe3dx at gmail.com * From kk5do at arrl.net Wed Jan 11 04:11:57 2017 From: kk5do at arrl.net (Bruce) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 22:11:57 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] EM00kb Message-ID: <9216a0d9-41b1-af6f-bb4b-4278118af5ea@arrl.net> I will be in EM00kb Saturday, Jan 14 through Wednesday, Jan 18. Will try to be on SO-50 when I can get in with the HT. 73...bruce -- Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards AMSAT Board Member 2016-2018 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 pe0sat at vgnet.nl Wed Jan 11 06:42:28 2017 From: pe0sat at vgnet.nl (PE0SAT | Amateur Radio) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 07:42:28 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] RX-only Antenna "tee" connector? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <813c04272b47e2db78ddae402362cc06@vgnet.nl> Hi Scott, I use a power-splitter (http://www.pe0sat.vgnet.nl/antenna/power-splitter/) in reverse. So two receivers connected to the same antenna via this splitter. This, as expected will drop down the signal with 3db but leaves the impedance at 50 ohm. Make sure you don't, by accident, TX or enable a BIAS-T on such a setup. I have a complete separate DC supply to the pre-amp. Antenna -> pre-amp -> coax -> power splitter -> RX1 -> RX2 73 Jan PE0SAT --- 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 On 11-01-2017 02:11, Scott wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I suppose that any deviation from the ideal setup of a near-perfectly > matched antenna & receiver will have SOME negative effect, but for a > receive-only antenna, how badly am I hurting myself to split the > antenna between two receivers? > > Since frequency is probably important to answer this, I?m referring to > 70cm. > > Also, if it matters, I have a very good preamp (SP-70 from SSB) at the > antenna feeding 25 meters of LMR-400. Both receivers are SDR devices > (receive-only). > > When I tested against a 70cm beacon, there was some small reduction in > signal strength but it wasn?t much. With voice, you might not notice > but my interest is telemetry data. > > Thanks for any recommendations or experiences with a similar > arrangement! > > -Scott, K4KDR > Montpelier, VA USA > twitter: @scott23192 > _______________________________________________ > 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 Jan 11 07:20:34 2017 From: scott23192 at gmail.com (Scott) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 02:20:34 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] RX-only Antenna "tee" connector? In-Reply-To: <813c04272b47e2db78ddae402362cc06@vgnet.nl> References: <813c04272b47e2db78ddae402362cc06@vgnet.nl> Message-ID: <67649AC0626043E0BF4F84CB17EA099F@CSI9020> I've never heard of such a thing - thank you so much for the great info! Looks like a very worthwhile project. I also have a separate power feed to the pre-amp, so hopefully I won't have a BIAS-T accident. I'll certainly keep that in mind, though! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: PE0SAT | Amateur Radio Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 1:42 AM To: Scott Cc: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] RX-only Antenna "tee" connector? Hi Scott, I use a power-splitter (http://www.pe0sat.vgnet.nl/antenna/power-splitter/) in reverse. So two receivers connected to the same antenna via this splitter. This, as expected will drop down the signal with 3db but leaves the impedance at 50 ohm. Make sure you don't, by accident, TX or enable a BIAS-T on such a setup. I have a complete separate DC supply to the pre-amp. Antenna -> pre-amp -> coax -> power splitter -> RX1 -> RX2 73 Jan PE0SAT --- 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 On 11-01-2017 02:11, Scott wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I suppose that any deviation from the ideal setup of a near-perfectly > matched antenna & receiver will have SOME negative effect, but for a > receive-only antenna, how badly am I hurting myself to split the > antenna between two receivers? > > Since frequency is probably important to answer this, I?m referring to > 70cm. > > Also, if it matters, I have a very good preamp (SP-70 from SSB) at the > antenna feeding 25 meters of LMR-400. Both receivers are SDR devices > (receive-only). > > When I tested against a 70cm beacon, there was some small reduction in > signal strength but it wasn?t much. With voice, you might not notice > but my interest is telemetry data. > > Thanks for any recommendations or experiences with a similar arrangement! > > -Scott, K4KDR > Montpelier, VA USA > twitter: @scott23192 From aa4kndhj at gmail.com Wed Jan 11 05:08:02 2017 From: aa4kndhj at gmail.com (David H Jordan) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 00:08:02 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] =?utf-8?q?Upcoming_ARISS_contact_with_Coll=C3=A8ge_Sai?= =?utf-8?q?nt-Guibert=2C_Gembloux=2C_Belgium_and_Euro_Space_Center?= =?utf-8?q?=2C_Transinne=2C_Belgium?= Message-ID: An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Coll?ge Saint-Guibert, Gembloux, Belgium and Euro Space Center, Transinne, Belgium on 12 Jan. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 13:46 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 K6DUE. The contact should be audible over the east 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 French/English. Presentation Saint-Guibert College (Gembloux) Belgium The Saint-Guibert College was founded by the congregation of the Brethren of the Chtistian Schools, following the principles of its founder Jean Baptiste de La Salle. This pedagogy is centered on the youngsters, adapted to their time and devoted to their social insertion, with special care for the most needy. Our College, located at Gembloux in central Belgium, comprises 4 separate schools and 3100 students: - The basic school with kindergarten and primary school 2 - 12, Saint?Guibert square - The secondary school, general, technical and professional, 12 ? 18, Orneau square - The small school at the Station, for Dutch immersion tuition, 2 ? - 12, and French kindergarten - The kindergarten at Ernage. Openness, listening, availability, faith, the place of the pupil are the values of our pedagogic project, summarized by Albert Jacquard?s saying: ? I am the relations I weave ? We want a school that favors: A. The relation to oneself, B. The relation to knowledge, C. The relation to others. Euro Space Center - Belgium Opened in June 1991, Euro Space Center is a discovery center specializing in socio-educational recreation. Our field of specialization is space. Euro Space Center has become a leader in Belgium for the dissemination of knowledge about space sciences and technologies. Euro Space Center is open to the general public all year round and also welcomes trainees from many different countries. The goal is to spark a love for the sciences and innovation. Euro Space Center and its high-tech environment are unique in Europe. They enable young people and adults to learn about astronomy, robotics, space engineering and more. Euro Space Center also lets people (re)discover an exceptional human adventure: mankind?s conquest of space. Kindergarten and Primary school Sainte-Lutgarde ?One school, two locations in a green and country side environment? For more than 130 ans, the Sainte-Lutgarde schools are active in the splendid landscape of central Brabant, in the town Lasne. The schools feature two locations: one in the Lasne town center, with some 245 students of the primary cycle; the other at the Chapel site, with 40 students in Kindergarten and the two lower primary. Headteacher Sainte-Lutgarde schools Mrs Dominique Hut states: The Sainte-Lutgarde schools in Lasne aim to help the child build up competence and knowledge, while developing self-confidence, awareness and autonomy. Our schools wish to promote the joy of learning in a serene and positive atmosphere, in line with requirements. To meet these goals, the Child-Parent-Teacher partnership is an indispensable asset. Saint-Laurent school Since several years, the Saint-Laurent school participates to the Space Classes. Every year, the pupils of 3rd primary work on space topics, so we can devote many lessons to this thematic. Twice we had the opportunity to talk to Thomas and we follow his training for his great adventure on the ISS. This year, two classes participate to the project and we are very excited to ask questions to Thomas on his work on the Space Station and his dream as an astronaut. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. Gembloux :La nourriture a-t-elle le m?me go?t que sur Terre? 2. Lasnes : Est-ce facile de toujours rester en apesanteur? 3. Gembloux : Dormez-vous bien dans cette position? 4. Sombreffe : Quelle a ?t? votre premi?re sensation lors de votre entr?e dans l?ISS? 5. Gembloux : Que faites-vous de votre temps libre? 6. Lasnes : ? quoi ressemble l?espace vue de l?ISS, voit-on quelque chose? 7. Gembloux : D?o? vient l?oxyg?ne que vous respirez dans la station? 8. Lasnes : Quel est le plus gros danger ? bord de l?ISS? 9. Gembloux : Les animaux de compagnie sont-ils autoris?s? 10. Sombreffe : Quelles sont les exp?riences que vous menez dans la station spatiale? 11. Gembloux : Avez-vous besoin d?un casque audio pour communiquer entre vous dans la station? 12. Lasnes : Avez-vous du WiFi? 13. Gembloux : La notion de temps est-elle la m?me que sur la Terre? 14. Sombreffe: Quelles sont vos diff?rentes t?ches dans l?ISS? 15. Gembloux : Comment entretenez-vous vos v?tements (lavage, s?chage)? 16. Lasnes : Peut-on voir la pollution autour de la terre? 17. Gembloux : Qui peut ?tre astronaute? 18. Sombreffe : Comment avez-vous v?cu le d?collage ? 19. Gembloux : Avez-vous des exp?riences ? r?aliser dans le domaine de la sant?? 20. Lasnes : Aimeriez-vous aller sur Mars? Translated: 1. Does the food taste the same on board as on earth? 2. Is it easy to always remain in zero gravity? 3. Do you sleep well in your position (in space)? 4. What is your first feeling when you arrived in the ISS? 5. What do you do in your free time? 6. How does space look like seen from ISS, can you see anything? 7. Where from comes the oxygen you breathe? 8. What is the biggest danger on board of ISS? 9. Are pets allowed on board? 10. What experiments do you perform on board of ISS? 11. Do you use a headset when you communicate with crew on board of ISS? 12. Do you have WiFi on board? 13. Is the perception of time the same on board as on earth? 14. What are your duties on board of ISS? 15. How do you wash your clothes? 16. Can you see the air pollution around the earth? 17. Who can become an astronaut? 18. How did you experience the lift-off? 19. Do you perform experiments about health? 20. Would you like to go to Mars? 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 From daniel at destevez.net Wed Jan 11 14:46:53 2017 From: daniel at destevez.net (Dani EA4GPZ) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:46:53 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] RX-only Antenna "tee" connector? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: El 11/01/17 a las 02:11, Scott escribi?: > Hi everyone. > > I suppose that any deviation from the ideal setup of a near-perfectly > matched antenna & receiver will have SOME negative effect, but for a > receive-only antenna, how badly am I hurting myself to split the > antenna between two receivers? > > Since frequency is probably important to answer this, I?m referring > to 70cm. > > Also, if it matters, I have a very good preamp (SP-70 from SSB) at > the antenna feeding 25 meters of LMR-400. Both receivers are SDR > devices (receive-only). Hi Scott, A perfect splitter introduces a loss of 3dB, since half of the signal goes to the other receiver. A real world splitter will have a slightly greater loss due to imperfections, but something like 3.1dB or 3.2dB is usual, so I'll call that 3dB for the sake of the argument. If you have no preamp, this raises your noise figure by 3dB. However, since you have a preamp before the splitter, you have to divide by the gain of the preamp. Say your preamp has a gain of 20dB (which is typical). Then your noise figure is only raised by 0.03dB, which is tiny. The important question is how much signal-to-noise you lose because of this increase of 0.03dB in noise figure. This depends on your antenna temperature (which is the amount of noise that your antenna grabs from the environment). Noise figure is normalized at 290K, so if your antenna temperature is 290K you lose precisely 0.03dB of SNR. Your antenna temperature is almost never 290K. At 2m it is likely that the antenna temperature will be much greater than 290K, on the order of thousands of K. Therefore, your losses in SNR are much smaller than 0.03dB. On 70cm and higher, the antenna temperature can be lower than 290K (much lower on the high microwave bands), especially in quiet rural zones. Therefore, your SNR losses will be much greater than 0.03dB but still a fraction of a dB, so you won't even notice the losses. These are the exact calculations (by the way, the same calculations can be used for coax losses and any other sort of losses after the preamp). In layman's term it's much simpler: you lose (almost) nothing, because your preamp provides enough signal gain to feed both of your receivers with adequate signal level, despite the fact that the signal power is split in half. There might be a problem if the gain of your preamp is especially low (say 10dB) and you're in a very quiet area. 73, Dani. From RSoifer1 at aol.com Wed Jan 11 16:32:33 2017 From: RSoifer1 at aol.com (RSoifer1 at aol.com) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 11:32:33 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS contact with World Genesis Foundation (WGF), Good Message-ID: <605eef.4b076c29.45a7b821@aol.com> I listened in on today's ARISS schedule. It was very successful. Congratulations to all involved. 73 Ray W2RS From jay.aa4fl at gmail.com Wed Jan 11 16:34:14 2017 From: jay.aa4fl at gmail.com (Jay Garlitz) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 11:34:14 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] College OSCAR Activity, grow future membership Message-ID: In 2008-2009 we used to have regular College Satellite Nights, where clubs active in our area of interest would get on the birds at the same time and give out contacts. Please let me know if there is an interest again in doing this once per month and if the group minds allowing SO-50 to be the venue. It is important to our future that we grow our ranks through attracting younger hams. OSCAR operating at the college level can also be a huge advantage for attractive college students to the hobby. Many of our technician course attendees at UF are there for that reason (we give two licensing courses a year). Please help spread the word to those at your local universities, and to other college clubs. There will be a College Student Amateur Radio Forum at HamCation HamFest in Orlando, Saturday Feb. 11. Please let college student hams know of the event info. The event is ARRL sponsored, part of CARI, the Collegiate Amateur Radio Initiative. The forum will take place at 3pm, and there is room for 50 college student attendees. There are more events planned for the day, including an evening social event for college students. We should also have table space for the day for college clubs to distribute club info and to meet, greet, and network with alumni. The table would be a good place for high school student hams to network in preparation for a life of amateur radio during the upcoming college years. Questions can be directed to the moderator of the forum, UF Doctoral student Andy Milluzzi, KK4KWR - andy at gatorradio.org For the latest of information see the CARI Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/ARRLCARI/ 73, Jay AA4FL Dr. Jay H. Garlitz . -FCC Trustee, W4DFU at Univ. of Florida, since 2005, www.gatorradio.org. The Club Station of the Gator Amateur Radio Club, at UF since 1934 From tc.fischer at yahoo.com Wed Jan 11 17:36:28 2017 From: tc.fischer at yahoo.com (Terry Fischer) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 09:36:28 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] Fwd: Upcoming ARISS contact with World Genesis Foundation (WGF), Good References: <605eef.4b076c29.45a7b821@aol.com> Message-ID: That was my first time listening to voice from the ISS. Great copy in DM13 for the first 8:30 of contact. Thank you for posting these notifications, I enjoyed listening from my car in the parking lot Terry K6TDI Begin forwarded message: > From: RSoifer1--- via AMSAT-BB > Date: January 11, 2017 at 8:32:33 AM PST > To: amsat-bb at amsat.org > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS contact with World Genesis Foundation (WGF), Good > Reply-To: RSoifer1 at aol.com > > I listened in on today's ARISS schedule. It was very successful. > Congratulations to all involved. > > 73 Ray W2RS > _______________________________________________ > 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 g0kla at arrl.net Wed Jan 11 21:48:03 2017 From: g0kla at arrl.net (Chris Thompson) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:48:03 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-85 In-Reply-To: <84c7a2cf1e732466b6277a74e58f54ef@etczone.com> References: <84c7a2cf1e732466b6277a74e58f54ef@etczone.com> Message-ID: Steve, Could be the antenna. Can you hear the local repeater as normal or a local beacon? Are you getting an eye diagram? Or no signal in FoxTelem at all? Check that the output sample rate from SDR# is the same as the sample rate on VB and on FoxTelem. Set them all to 48k if you can. Chris On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 5:26 PM, wrote: > I use Windows 10, SDR# and VB virtual audio cable. The dongle is an > RTL-SDR. > > Steve AI9IN > > On 2017-01-09 17:01, Mark L. Hammond wrote: > > > Hi Steve, > > > > What OS and what virtual audio program are you using? > > > > A few months ago, an automatic update to Win10 killed my audio stuff; I > had > > to do a reversion/back and it cleared it up... > > > > Too many variables--but give us a few of yours! > > > > I've been copying pretty well lately using SDR#, Airspy mini, and VB > Audio. > > > > Mark N8MH > > > > From: skristof at etczone.com > > Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2017 6:01 PM > > To: amsat-bb at amsat.org > > Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-85 > > > > I just tried to get telemetry from AO-85. The pass had max elevation of > > 76 degrees here. In the past I would get lots of data on a pass like > > this, but lately I've been getting nothing. I can see the signal on the > > "waterfall" (using SDR#) but the signal is too weak to decode. Is anyone > > else having this problem? Is the signal normally low when the northern > > hemisphere is dark? What's happening? > > > > I've asked this before and didn't get any responses. Please send a > > couple of responses so I have some idea if there is some problem in my > > set up here. > > > > Thanks! > > > > 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 > -- Chris E. Thompson chrisethompson at gmail.com g0kla at arrl.net From twdeckard at earthlink.net Wed Jan 11 23:51:35 2017 From: twdeckard at earthlink.net (Todd Deckard) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:51:35 -0600 (GMT-06:00) Subject: [amsat-bb] Is it possible to log BY-701 in LoTW by manually editing the .adif file Message-ID: <22735059.15777.1484178695860@mswamui-chipeau.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Greetings, I know there was a request to add BY-701, but is it possible to log the contacts now by manually editing the ADIF file to include Satellite Name: BY-701 Thanks to everyone on SO-50 for their patience with my deaf QRM and mangled call sign read-backs. Satellites are probably a poor first introduction to amateur radio, too much time pressure and juggling to work out the basics. Todd KE0CMD From n8hm at arrl.net Wed Jan 11 23:59:59 2017 From: n8hm at arrl.net (Paul Stoetzer) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 18:59:59 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Is it possible to log BY-701 in LoTW by manually editing the .adif file In-Reply-To: <22735059.15777.1484178695860@mswamui-chipeau.atl.sa.earthlink.net> References: <22735059.15777.1484178695860@mswamui-chipeau.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: No. The ARRL LoTW configuration file must include the name of the satellite for LoTW to accept the QSO. AMSAT has requested that BY70-1 be added as "BY70-1" in the next configuration file. AMSAT has also requested that this update be made no later than January 31st due to NPOTA QSOs that were made via the satellite. AMSAT has also requested the addition of IO-86 as well as SAREX and MIREX for QSOs that occurred via the digipeater carried on various Space Shuttle missions and the Mir space station. If anyone notices a satellite that was available for amateur operation that is not included in the LoTW configuration file, please let me know. Please also keep in mind that there may be a delay in requests being made for the addition of satellites to the LoTW configuration file while AMSAT awaits word of any potential OSCAR number request. 73, Paul, N8HM On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Todd Deckard wrote: > Greetings, I know there was a request to add BY-701, but is it possible to log the contacts now by manually editing the ADIF file to include > > Satellite Name: BY-701 > > Thanks to everyone on SO-50 for their patience with my deaf QRM and mangled call sign read-backs. Satellites are probably a poor first introduction to amateur radio, too much time pressure and juggling to work out the basics. > > Todd > KE0CMD > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 electricity440 at gmail.com Thu Jan 12 02:31:16 2017 From: electricity440 at gmail.com (Skyler F) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 19:31:16 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] College OSCAR Activity, grow future membership In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello from New Mexico Tech, We are working on our setup, but I would love to participate in this sort of monthly event. Let me know details if this goes through and we will try to get on the birds. I used to be net ctrl of Colorado Amateur Satellite net but have to wait 'til we get the AllStar repeater up at our school to do a net like that again. Skyler Fennell KD0WHB - TARA President On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Jay Garlitz wrote: > In 2008-2009 we used to have regular College Satellite Nights, where clubs > active in our area of interest would get on the birds at the same time and > give out contacts. Please let me know if there is an interest again in > doing this once per month and if the group minds allowing SO-50 to be the > venue. > > It is important to our future that we grow our ranks through attracting > younger hams. OSCAR operating at the college level can also be a huge > advantage for attractive college students to the hobby. Many of our > technician course attendees at UF are there for that reason (we give > two licensing courses a year). > > Please help spread the word to those at your local universities, and to > other college clubs. There will be a College Student Amateur Radio Forum > at HamCation HamFest in Orlando, Saturday Feb. 11. Please let college > student hams know of the event info. > > The event is ARRL sponsored, part of CARI, the Collegiate Amateur Radio > Initiative. The forum will take place at 3pm, and there is room for 50 > college student attendees. There are more events planned for the day, > including an evening social event for college students. We should also have > table space for the day for college clubs to distribute club info and to > meet, greet, and network with alumni. The table would be a good place for > high school student hams to network in preparation for a life of amateur > radio during the upcoming college years. > > Questions can be directed to the moderator of the forum, UF Doctoral > student Andy Milluzzi, KK4KWR - andy at gatorradio.org > > For the latest of information see the CARI Facebook group - > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/ARRLCARI/ > > 73, Jay AA4FL > > Dr. Jay H. Garlitz > . > -FCC Trustee, W4DFU at Univ. of Florida, since 2005, www.gatorradio.org. > The Club Station of the Gator Amateur Radio Club, at UF since 1934 > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Skyler Fennell amsatnet.info KD?WHB electricity440 at gmail.com From amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net Thu Jan 12 02:59:52 2017 From: amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 02:59:52 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT @ Thunderbird Hamfest in Phoenix AZ, Saturday (14 Jan) Message-ID: Hi! AMSAT will have a booth at the Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club's Thunderbird Hamfest 2017 on Saturday, 14 January 2017. The hamfest will be at the Northwest Community Church on 43rd Avenue between Greenway and Bell Roads in Phoenix AZ. The hamfest officially starts at 8am (1500 UTC), but I expect people will be wandering around an hour or even two hours before the official start time. More details about the hamfest are available at the club's web site: http://w7tbc.org WD9EWK will be on the satellites from the hamfest, for demonstrations of satellite operating. There will be passes on FM, SSB, and packet satellites during the morning. If you hear WD9EWK on the satellites, or see WD9EWK-9 on either the ISS or NO-84, please call and be a part of the demonstrations. All QSOs will be uploaded to Logbook of the World after the hamfest. If you would like to receive a WD9EWK QSL card for a QSO made during the hamfest, please e-mail me with the QSO details. If you are in the log, I will be happy to mail a QSL card. No need to first send me a QSL card or SASE. I will use my @WD9EWK Twitter feed to send updates from the hamfest on Saturday morning. If you do not use Twitter, you can still see these updates in a web browser at: http://twitter.com/WD9EWK Thanks in advance, and 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK From AJ9N at aol.com Thu Jan 12 05:13:25 2017 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 00:13:25 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-12 05:00 UTC Message-ID: <14af02c.7526412d.45a86a75@aol.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-12 05:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: World Genesis Foundation (WGF), Goodyear AZ, direct via W6FOG The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact was successful: Wed 2017-01-11 16:10:15 UTC 46 deg (***) Coll?ge Saint-Guibert, Gembloux, Belgium and Euro Space Center, Transinne, Belgium; Combined telebridge via K6DUE The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for Option #5: Thu 2017-01-12 13:46:51 UTC 36 deg High School "L?on Blum", Le Creusot, France, telebridge via K6DUE (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Mon 2017-01-16 11:53:17 UTC 60 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 119 **************************************************************************** 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 2017-01-12 05:00 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 1106. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1071. (***) 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 2017-01-12 05:00 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 Exp. 50 on orbit Peggy Whitson Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Oleg Novitskiy **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors From lists at rudn.com Thu Jan 12 13:12:17 2017 From: lists at rudn.com (Jeff Breitner) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 08:12:17 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] RX-only Antenna "tee" connector? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:11 PM, Scott wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I suppose that any deviation from the ideal setup of a near-perfectly > matched antenna & receiver will have SOME negative effect, but for a > receive-only antenna, how badly am I hurting myself to split the antenna > between two receivers? > > Since frequency is probably important to answer this, I?m referring to > 70cm. > > > I have used 1/4 wave sections of 75 ohm coax to create ad hoc power dividers, although not at 70cm. I imagine the lengths being rather short and more critical, it may be easier to buy one. But then, it may be more fun to make one. From jj3grx at gmail.com Thu Jan 12 14:27:15 2017 From: jj3grx at gmail.com (Toshihiro Kameda) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 23:27:15 +0900 Subject: [amsat-bb] ITF-2 will be released from ISS on Jan. 16 at 0910UTC Message-ID: Cubesat ITF-2 will be released from ISS soon. Jan 16, 2017 0910 UTC Downlink format is in http://operationitf-2.blogspot.jp/p/blog-page_13.html Downlink frequency is 437.525 MHz. Updated information will be announced here, amsat-bb. ITF-2 is a 1U cubesat designed and built by Univesity of Tsukuba, Japan, which is in ISS now and soon be released. Toshihiro KAMEDA, JJ3GRX (also W3GRX) Director of University of Tsukuba Satellite project From gabrielzeifman at gmail.com Thu Jan 12 17:40:08 2017 From: gabrielzeifman at gmail.com (Gabriel Zeifman) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:40:08 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] VE8 Roving Message-ID: Hello fellow bird men, Here is the announcement the grid chasers have been waiting for: VE8 is near! My leave has just been approved and I plan to depart for Yellowknife, NT on Jan 20 returning to Oklahoma City by Feb 5. I will start by hitting some of the rare US grids in DN land on the way for our Grid Masters. After that I will enter Canada somewhere in Alberta and head north towards Yellowknife. The fantastic thing about the winter in the Northwest Territories is the transportation infrastructure. Most towns in the NT are accessible only by air on ludicrously expensive flights, however in winter 2,000km of ice roads are built. I will be doing my best to utilize these ice roads to activate grids that have never before been heard on satellite. I plan to activate numerous grids in the CO, DO, CP, and DP areas. Where and how far I go will depend on time and conditions. With AO-7 eclipsing and FO-29 getting higher, this should be an ideal time for this trip. I will upload to LoTW as cell coverage allows. Outside of normal cell service, I will forward my logs to Paul N8HM, Dave KG5CCI, and Fernando NP4JV via Iridium SBD service for uploading. Due to the harsh conditions, my SBD device will usually stay in the car and may take time to acquire a solid link to an Iridium satellite (although in the polar region, there should be many satellites in view at any given time). Tracking will be available as usual on APRS as NJ7H-9 (as cell service allows) and on Iridium at share.delorme.com/gz. I may also be contacted via the Iridium portal if need be. Please use first name and callsign and include a reply email address in the portal, and use this service sparingly. I have unlimited messaging, but I only plan to use this for important communications and check it periodically. I have the capability to post to twitter (@NJ7H_Radio) via Iridium and will do so as much as practical, although please note that I will be unable to see any replies when using Iridium. All logging will be done using the appropriate Canadian suffix. On any packet satellites, I will use as the callsign NJ7HVE8 or NJ7H-7 and will have the correct callsign NJ7H/VE8 in the position comment or message itself. On the way home I may make a trip down the Pacific Coast through California and through the desert back. One final request: pleas do not work me repeatedly in the same grid or try to with with the DX in a pileup. This has become an apparent issue and has prevented some from working rare grids. As an example, if the XW train is flying over and I'm not moving grids, there is absolutely no reason to work me on 2B and 5 minutes later on 2C in the same grid. The exception to this is if I move grids rapidly, which has happened. Use your ears. Situational awareness is key. Also the same goes to geographic situational awareness, if you're in the northern US and have another 8 minutes of footprint and a QRP op in Florida is calling with a minute of footprint left, let them go first. I am good with callsigns and hearing, if I call you back you will be in the log, no need for insurance. If there is any doubt (as in you don't have a LoTW confirmation within a few days or know others have QSLs for the same pass), send an email and I will fix it. I would rather you send an email than ruin someone else's shot at a virgin grid. Please don't tie up the frequency with non-essential information. I wall call you back, tell you my grid, and say 73 and wait for the next call. If you don't catch the grid the first time, please just wait and listen to the next QSO, I guarantee I'll tell them too. If you still don't catch the grid you still have a few better options that asking me over and over on frequency: 1. wait for your LoTW confirmation, it will be there, 2. ask someone else, 3. send an email. Just use common sense please. This also applies to FM birds, if you are linear capable and know you can work the grid on a linear bird, let the FM bro's have their shot, it may be their only. There may be grids that I only operate FM. Just as always, use situational awareness, good judgement, and courtesy. I hope to give you all many new grids and look forward to the trip! 73! Gabe NJ7H From m5aka at yahoo.co.uk Thu Jan 12 20:49:38 2017 From: m5aka at yahoo.co.uk (M5AKA) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 20:49:38 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Small Sat SDR Paper + Outernet + BY70-1 References: <1316917265.100535.1484254178853.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1316917265.100535.1484254178853@mail.yahoo.com> Mamatha R. Maheshwarappa 2E0CZO has released her paper ?Improvements in CPU & FPGA Performance for Small Satellite SDR Applications? https://amsat-uk.org/2017/01/10/small-satellite-sdr-paper/ BY70-1 FM transponder contact video https://amsat-uk.org/2016/12/30/by70-1-fm-transponder-contact/ Chertsey Radio Club article - Getting started with FM satellites?http://chertseyradioclub.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/getting-started-with-fm-satellites.html Video of Daniel Est?vez EA4GPZ / M0HXM talk - Reverse Engineering the Outernet - at Chaos Communication Congress #33c3 http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2017/january/reverse-engineering-%20the-outernet.htm Blog update?http://destevez.net/2017/01/updated-format-for-outernet-ldp-protocol/ ITF-2 CubeSat 437.525 MHz to deploy from ISS Monday https://www.facebook.com/amsatuk/posts/1269720816404298 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 jim at milnet.uk.net Fri Jan 13 15:52:21 2017 From: jim at milnet.uk.net (Jim Heck) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:52:21 -0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2017 Message-ID: Folks AMSAT-UK is very happy to announce that the dates of the next AMSAT-UK Colloquium will be 14-15 Oct 2017. This year it will be incorporated into the RSGB Convention at the Kents Hill Park Convention Centre in Milton Keynes. Exact details are currently being finalised with the RSGB and these will be notified when they are known. If you have not been to Kents Hill before, it is very close to the M1 motorway and is near to Bletchley Park, where RSGB members have free entry. For overseas visitors it is convenient for planes to London Luton Airport (30-minute taxi ride) and also London Gatwick and Birmingham airports, both of which have direct train connections to Bletchley and/or Milton Keynes stations. These stations are approximately 10 minutes away by taxi. 73s Jim G3WGM Hon Sec AMSAT-UK From jim at milnet.uk.net Fri Jan 13 20:59:15 2017 From: jim at milnet.uk.net (Jim Heck) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 20:59:15 -0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-73/FUNcube Mode change Message-ID: <3ACFDC004A6C46909A173042B43621E8@jimPC2> Hi folks, I have just changed the sat into continuous transponder mode. Plan is to switch back to auto mode on Sunday 15 Jan 2017 pm UTC as usual. Pls see below for FUNcube transponder info Have FUN with the transponder. 73s Jim G3WGM and the FUNcube team. AO-73 FUNcube-1 The transponder is normally operational only when the satellite is in eclipse, ie the solar panels are NOT being illuminated. During weekends (from pm Fridays UTC to PM Sundays UTC) the transponder is operational 24/7. When the transponder is switched off, the telemetry beacon is on full power, when the transponder is on the beacon it is on low power. During holidays, eg Christmas, New Year, Easter, etc, the transponder maybe activated for extended periods. Watch AMSAT-BB for announcements which are usually made on Friday evenings (UTC) The nominal transponder frequencies are: Uplink: 435.150 - 435.130 MHz LSB (Inverting) Downlink: 145.950 - 145.970 MHz USB Telemetry Tx: 145.935 MHz BPSK (The passband may be up to 15kHz higher depending on on-board temps. Low temperatures give higher freqs!) FUNcube-2 aka FUNcube on UKube The FUNcube-2 sub-system continues to operate autonomously and, almost continuously, in amateur mode. The transponder is operational and the telemetry downlink is functioning with about 70mW output. The FUNcube-1 Dashboard does not correctly display the telemetry but it does correctly decode the data and uploads it to the FUNcube Data Warehouse from where it can be examined. Most of the real time data channels are operational and these include battery voltages, temperatures and ADCS data coming via the main On Board Computer (OBC). The transponder is interrupted for a few seconds every 2 minutes when the other transmitter sends its CW beacon and, occasionally, for a few seconds when the main OBC reboots (approx seven times each orbit). The nominal transponder frequencies are: Uplink: 435.080 - 435.060 MHz LSB (Inverting) Downlink: 145.930 - 145.950 MHz USB Telemetry Tx: 145.915 MHz BPSK (The passband may be up to 10kHz higher depending on on-board temps. Low temperatures give higher freqs!) EO79 FUNcube-3 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 in future months as a result of experience. The nominal transponder frequencies are: Uplink: 435.0723-435.0473 MHz LSB (Inverting) Downlink: 145.946-145.971 MHz USB Further detailed info on EO79 transponder frequencies is at: https://amsat-uk.org/2016/11/10/eo79-funcube-3-transponder-commences-regular-operation/ All FUNcube transponders are sponsored by AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL. We are very grateful for the assistance given by Innovative Solution In Space Bv, The Netherlands. From bruninga at usna.edu Fri Jan 13 21:00:20 2017 From: bruninga at usna.edu (Robert Bruninga) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 16:00:20 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] PSAT SPin Rate? Message-ID: We just noticed that PSAT is in full sun. We want to know its spin rate but seaman Murphy is visiting the shack rignt now? and our UHF seems to have an intermittent? Passes are in the afternoon approaching sunset (and of course in the morning around sunrise? that?s why its in full sun all the time, because its orbit is near the day/night terminator right now?) So, simply tune in 435.350 +/- 10 KHz doppler and listen to the SWISHES of the UHF FM downlink and count SWISHES per minute. SWISHES are the nulls you might hear in the UHF antenna pattern on an FM receiver. Hold your squelch open so you don?t get confused. It might be swishing at above 10 RPM which would be a swish every 6 seconds. Of course, if no one is transmitting PSK31 on 28.121 MHz then the PSK31 transponder might not be up?. So this is a good time to dust off the PSK31 Ten meter transmitter. Just transmit PSK31 in the 28.120 to 28.122 MHz passband and it should bring up the transponder. Send comments to my lastname AT usna DOT edu Bob Bruninga, WB4APR From AJ9N at aol.com Sat Jan 14 05:38:21 2017 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 00:38:21 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-14 04:00 UTC Message-ID: <17aa12f.2dd0b85c.45ab134d@aol.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-14 04:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Coll?ge Saint-Guibert, Gembloux, Belgium and Euro Space Center, Transinne, Belgium; Combined telebridge via K6DUE The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact was successful Option #5: Thu 2017-01-12 13:46:51 UTC 36 deg (***) High School "L?on Blum", Le Creusot, France, telebridge via K6DUE The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Mon 2017-01-16 11:53:17 UTC 60 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 123 (***) Francesco IK?WGF with 119 **************************************************************************** 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 2017-01-14 04:00 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 1108. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1072. (***) 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 2017-01-14 04:00 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 Exp. 50 on orbit Peggy Whitson Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Oleg Novitskiy **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors From mbdittmar at comcast.net Fri Jan 13 17:36:32 2017 From: mbdittmar at comcast.net (mbdittmar at comcast.net) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 17:36:32 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] IC-9100 and SATPC32 In-Reply-To: <993019835.1138491.1484327857103.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net> Message-ID: <614777092.1156528.1484328992453.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net> Hi, I know this has been asked before on this list, as I have searched the archives, but I have been unable to find a solution to the problem after several hours of messing with it. Specifically, getting SATPC32 to "talk" via USB port with IC-9100. I am referring to the latest version of SATPC32 downloaded from DK1TB's web site as of yesterday afternoon. I am using Windows 7, 64 bit. 1) Correct USB drivers for the Ic9100 have been installed and they do work with other software ( I've used the 9100 with FLDIGI ). The two SiLab USB ports of the 9100 show up as ports 14 and 13. In the radio control menu I have selected IC9100, baud 19200, port 13 ( to correspond with USB1 of the IC9100 ) and all four addresses are $60 ( I changed my 9100s CIV address from $7C to $60, as SATPC32 would not allow me to "store" $7C addresses ( It gives me an error when storing ). $60 comes up as a default in the software, however, so I just switched the radio to that. I verified the radio's baud rate is set to 19200. 2) I closed the software using the "File" and "Quit" menu selection. 3) re-started software. enabled CAT control ( C+). Enabled VFO control ( V+ ). No action whatsoever when using the up/down VFO control in the software. Can't find any evidence that the software sees the radio. 4) Tried closing the software, power cycling the radio, and re-opening software. No change. 5) I verified all of the following from the archives ( except for address of $7C as noted above ), as written by Stefan VE4NSA: A few things: 1. In SatPC32 under Radio Setup you do not need any of the serial port settings like RTS, DTR etc. Don't check them. 2. Make sure radio and software have the same baudrate 3. Make sure all four addresses (Icom) are set to $7C. Use the upper arrow keys to change and set both of the lower windows. Check the box "Addresses OK" to set the upper window. All four addresses need to be $7C. 4. Store the setting and restart the software. 5. Make sure C+ (Cat Control) is enabled). 6. Go to CAT (Cat Tuning) and set the Interval for SSB/CW and FM/PKT to zero and click "Store" for both and select "Continue". 7. Restart the software. Assumptions: 1.You installed the Silabs drivers for the Icom USB driver *BEFORE* you connected the radio and turned it on. 2. You verified in Windows, System Properties, Device Manager that you have 2 com ports (CP210x...) and you use the lower one for SatPC32. Any ideas what I might be missing here ? Thanks for any advice ! 73, Mark AB0CW From mail at mike-rupprecht.de Sat Jan 14 09:04:13 2017 From: mail at mike-rupprecht.de (Mike Rupprecht) Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 10:04:13 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] PSAT SPin Rate? Message-ID: See here:?http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=76608 73 MikeDK3WN? -------- Urspr?ngliche Nachricht --------Von: Robert Bruninga Datum: 13.01.17 22:00 (GMT+01:00) An: AMSAT Betreff: [amsat-bb] PSAT SPin Rate? We just noticed that PSAT is in full sun.? We want to know its spin rate but seaman Murphy is visiting the shack rignt now? and our UHF seems to have an intermittent? Passes are in the afternoon approaching sunset (and of course in the morning around sunrise? that?s why its in full sun all the time, because its orbit is near the day/night terminator right now?) So, simply tune in 435.350 +/- 10 KHz doppler and listen to the SWISHES of the UHF FM downlink and count SWISHES per minute. SWISHES are the nulls you might hear in the UHF antenna pattern on an FM receiver.? Hold your squelch open so you don?t get confused. It might be swishing at above 10 RPM which would be a swish every 6 seconds. Of course, if no one is transmitting PSK31 on 28.121 MHz then the PSK31 transponder might not be up?.? So this is a good time to dust off the PSK31 Ten meter transmitter.? Just transmit PSK31 in the 28.120 to 28.122 MHz passband and it should bring up the transponder. Send comments to? my lastname AT usna DOT edu Bob Bruninga, 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 m-arai at a.email.ne.jp Sat Jan 14 15:58:53 2017 From: m-arai at a.email.ne.jp (Masahiro Arai) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 00:58:53 +0900 Subject: [amsat-bb] Six CubeSats deployment from ISS at 16 Jan Message-ID: <512568f8-b9eb-361c-9170-020d071ef0d9@a.email.ne.jp> Six CubeSats delivered to ISS by HTV-6 will deploy from ISS with new JEM Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (J-SSOD) at 16h Jan. New J-SSOD has four satellite install cases. One satellite install case has 3U space, so new J-SSOD can delploy twelve CubeSat at one time. Six CubeSats are installed followings, satellite install CubeSats case #1 three 1U CubeSats ITF-2?WASEDA-SAT3?FREEDOM #2 one 3U CubeSat EGG #3 one 2U CubeSat AOBA-VELOX3 #4 one 3U CubeSat TuPOD (including Tancredo1 and OSNSAT) ITF-2?WASEDA-SAT3?AOBA-VELOX3, TuPOD and Tancredo1 are opeprate on ham band. #1 and #2 will be deployed at 0900-0930z 16th Jan, #3 and #4 will be 1030-1100z. Live broadcast will start at 0850z on YouTube JAXA channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4xq_rj0QiQ This info from JAXA. 73 Masa JN1GKZ From dave at g4dpz.me.uk Sat Jan 14 16:13:26 2017 From: dave at g4dpz.me.uk (David Johnson) Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 16:13:26 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] FUNcube Warehouse Maintenance Message-ID: <612EFC75-B62B-499F-970D-889FBE87F807@g4dpz.me.uk> Hi, We are making some changes to allow us to migrate some functions to another server, you may experience some short outages during this period. If you experience any problems, either with the web site or Dashboard uploads, please let me know. 73 Dave G4DPZ From bruninga at usna.edu Sat Jan 14 16:38:39 2017 From: bruninga at usna.edu (Robert Bruninga) Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 11:38:39 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] FW: NO084 PSAT Spin Rate over 10 RPM (BRICSAT listening?) Message-ID: <58851b267985e91786d5aaf894e4fade@mail.gmail.com> Thanks everyone! Here is the question. Did anyone ever happen to hear anything on 435.350 during the last week that did *not* correlate with PSAT? It may have been BRICSAT in full sun! Its PSK31 trasnponder is on the same downlink... and since its only problem was poor power budget, it may have been alive and no one was listening? It all started Friday afternoon, when I happened to tune to PSAT and heard only about 10 seconds at the tail end of a pass and saw about a 5 second swoosh before the transponder dropped out. Giving me a complete guess at maybe 12 RPM. KO6TZ reported: a screen capture from Spectran of the "swoosh" fade lines from the 23:30utc pass of NO-84. The tick marks ? are 1 second spacing? [with] just slightly over 5 secs between the fades. That puts the spin at ~11.7 RPM. And of course DK3WN nailed it with this high res plot: http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=76608 Showing 5 rotations in 32 seconds or about 9.4 RPM We had to use this signal strength method since the the telemetry spin data is of no practical use since it is undersampled. IE, we are only sampling at once every 5 seconds and so this is HALF the Nyquist rate. To capture a spin of 12 RPM we would need to sample over 24 times a minute. So that is why we needed people to simply listen for it and determine the spin that way. And it looks like today is the last day of full sun. We had gotten excited when we noticed this full sun late Friday afternoon and realized it would be a good time to listen for BRICSAT which also has an HF PSK31 downlink on 435.350. But we noticed that after 20 months in space, that BRICSAT has separated enough that it ended its full sun period the day before. Then we went and looked and noticed this full sun period for both satellites was only 5 days long anyway. We are embarrassed that we have not been watching the orbit and looking for these full sun periods. They may be rare indeed. Bob From m5aka at yahoo.co.uk Sat Jan 14 17:11:55 2017 From: m5aka at yahoo.co.uk (M5AKA) Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 17:11:55 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] AlSat-1N image + AMSAT-UK Colloquium + Phase 4 References: <812678764.8782869.1484413915042.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <812678764.8782869.1484413915042@mail.yahoo.com> Six CubeSats to Deploy from ISS Monday, January 16 https://amsat-uk.org/2017/01/14/six-cubesats-to-deploy-from-iss/ AMSAT Phase 4B video report N4HY and KJ4QLP http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2017/january/amsat-phase-4-video-report.htm Chris Bridges M0IEB @DrChrisBridges reports AlSat-1N CubeSat image received 2 x Groundstations + 210 kB/day throughput over 9K6 G3RUH link = 1.328 MB RGB image https://www.facebook.com/amsatuk/posts/1267028420006871 Sandringham School students High Altitude Balloon project #sandHABflight https://www.facebook.com/amsatuk/photos/a.555434137832973.1073741826.208113275898396/1270788916297488/?type=3 David Crump G8GKQ @davegkq and Noel Matthews @G8GTZ attended the Es'Hail 2 Phase 4A Geostationary Amateur Radio transponder meeting at Bochum https://www.facebook.com/amsatuk/posts/1271327429576970 2017 AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium https://amsat-uk.org/2017/01/13/2017-amsat-uk-colloquium/ 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 wao at vfr.net Sun Jan 15 04:41:33 2017 From: wao at vfr.net (Joseph Spier) Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 20:41:33 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS-015 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins Message-ID: <9533336e-914c-ef44-38c3-80a3ea5df9d3@vfr.net> AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-015 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: * RadFxSat (Fox-1B) Launch Date Moved to August 29, 2017 * AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2017 * ITF-2 CubeSat Set to Deploy from ISS * Satellite Logging Updates Requested for ARRL LoTW * College OSCAR Activity, Grow Future Membership * 2017 Interplanetary Small Satellite Conference * Frequency Plan of the PicSAT Project Validated by the IARU * AMSAT Events * ARISS News * Satellite Shorts from All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-015.01 ANS-015 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 015.01 >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE January 15, 2017 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-015.01 --------------------------------------------------------------------- RadFxSat (Fox-1B) Launch Date Moved to August 29, 2017 The launch date for RadFxSat (Fox-1B) has been moved to August 29, 2017. RadFxSat is one of four CubeSats making up the NASA ELaNa XIV mission, riding as secondary payloads aboard the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)-1 mission. JPSS-1 will launch on a Delta II from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. RadFxSat is a partnership with Vanderbilt University ISDE and hosts four payloads for the study of radiation effects on commercial off the shelf components. RadFxSat features the Fox-1 style FM U/v repeater with an uplink on 435.250 MHz (67.0 Hz CTCSS) and a downlink on 145.960 MHz. Satellite and experiment telemetry will be downlinked via the "DUV" subaudible telemetry stream and can be decoded with the FoxTelem software. RadFxSat construction and testing was completed in the fourth quarter of 2016 and the CubeSat is currently in clean storage at Fox Labs, waiting for delivery and integration which is now scheduled for June, 2017. [ANS thanks Jerry Buxton, N?JY, AMSAT Vice President for Engineering for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2017 AMSAT-UK is very happy to announce that the dates of the next AMSAT-UK Colloquium will be 14-15 Oct 2017. This year it will be incorporated into the RSGB Convention at the Kents Hill Park Convention Centre in Milton Keynes. Exact details are currently being finalized with the RSGB and these will be notified when they are known. If you have not been to Kents Hill before, it is very close to the M1 motorway and is near to Bletchley Park, where RSGB members have free entry. For overseas visitors it is convenient for planes to London Luton Airport (30-minute taxi ride) and also London Gatwick and Birmingham airports, both of which have direct train connections to Bletchley and/or Milton Keynes stations. These stations are approximately 10 minutes away by taxi. [ANS thanks Jim Heck, G3WGM for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ITF-2 CubeSat Set to Deploy from ISS Toshihiro Kameda, JJ3GRX/W3GRX, of the University of Tsukuba's "Yui" satellite project in Japan, reports that the ITF-2 ("Imagine The Future") CubeSat is set for release from the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday, January 16, at 0910 UTC. The 1U ITF-2 was designed and built at the university. The Amateur Radio downlink is 437.525 MHz. Updated information will be announced on the AMSAT Bulletin Board at, http://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/ . ITF-2 is the successor to the unsuccessful ITF-1, which launched in 2014 but was never heard. Six CubeSats delivered to ISS by HTV-6 will deploy from ISS with new JEM Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (J-SSOD) at 16h Jan. New J-SSOD has four satellite install cases. One satellite install case has 3U space, so new J-SSOD can delploy twelve CubeSat at one time. Six CubeSats are installed as follows, satellite install CubeSats case #1 three 1U CubeSats ITF-2, WASEDA-SAT3, FREEDOM #2 one 3U CubeSat EGG #3 one 2U CubeSat AOBA-VELOX3 #4 one 3U CubeSat TuPOD (including Tancredo1 and OSNSAT) ITF-2, WASEDA-SAT3, AOBA-VELOX3, TuPOD and Tancredo1 operate on the amateur radio bands. #1 and #2 will be deployed at 0900-0930z 16th Jan, #3 and #4 will be 1030-1100z. Live broadcast will start at 0850z on YouTube JAXA channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4xq_rj0QiQ [ANS thanks the ARRL and JAXA for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Logging Updates Requested for ARRL LoTW AMSAT has requested that BY70-1 be added as "BY70-1" in the next configuration file for the ARRL Logbook of the World (LoTW). AMSAT has also requested that this update be made no later than January 31st due to NPOTA QSOs that were made via the satellite. AMSAT has also requested the addition of IO-86 as well as SAREX and MIREX for previous QSOs that occurred via the digipeater carried on various Space Shuttle missions and the Mir space station. If anyone notices a satellite that was available for amateur operation that is not included in the LoTW configuration file, please let me know: Paul Stoetzer n8hm at arrl.net Please also keep in mind that there may be a delay in requests being made for the addition of satellites to the LoTW configuration file while AMSAT awaits word of any potential OSCAR number request. [ANS thanks Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- College OSCAR Activity, Grow Future Membership In 2008-2009 we used to have regular College Satellite Nights, where clubs active in our area of interest would get on the birds at the same time and give out contacts. Please let me know if there is an interest again in doing this once per month and if the group minds allowing SO-50 to be the venue. It is important to our future that we grow our ranks through attracting younger hams. OSCAR operating at the college level can also be a huge advantage for attractive college students to the hobby. Many of our technician course attendees at UF are there for that reason (we give two licensing courses a year). Please help spread the word to those at your local universities, and to other college clubs. There will be a College Student Amateur Radio Forum at HamCation HamFest in Orlando, Saturday Feb. 11. Please let college student hams know of the event info. The event is ARRL sponsored, part of CARI, the Collegiate Amateur Radio Initiative. The forum will take place at 3pm, and there is room for 50 college student attendees. There are more events planned for the day, including an evening social event for college students. We should also have table space for the day for college clubs to distribute club info and to meet, greet, and network with alumni. The table would be a good place for high school student hams to network in preparation for a life of amateur radio during the upcoming college years. Questions can be directed to the moderator of the forum, UF Doctoral student Andy Milluzzi, KK4KWR - andy at gatorradio.org For the latest of information see the CARI Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/ARRLCARI/ [ANS thanks Dr. Jay H. Garlitz, AA4FL, FCC Trustee, W4DFU at Univ. of Florida, since 2005, www.gatorradio.org. The Club Station of the Gator Amateur Radio Club, at UF since 1934, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2017 Interplanetary Small Satellite Conference The Interplanetary Small Satellite Conference (ISSC) will be held at San Jose State University on May 1-2, 2017 in San Jose, California. The conference addresses interplanetary small satellites, including mission design, enabling technologies, science applications, and all other technical aspects of these missions. You can find out more details about the conference at http://www.intersmallsatconference.com/ This year we are expecting over 200 people to attend the conference. This year?s keynote speakers will be announced soon. The conference will feature a suite of talks and attendees from JPL, NASA and other space agencies, universities, and companies from around the world to work on developing this important new direction for small spacecraft missions. The Interplanetary Small Satellite Conference also gives an exciting chance for organizations to sponsor an exhibitor table or a booth. A table is $270 (includes one registration) and a booth is $540 (includes two registrations). Prices are guaranteed until January 31, when they may increase. Registration will be available soon on our website, but please email us at exhibitors at intercubesat.org for information and to reserve your spot. Tables and booths will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis when registration payments are received. Please also consider submitting an abstract to represent your organization. Abstracts are due on February 15, 2017. I hope you'll be able to join us in beautiful San Jose. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any additional questions. [ANS thanks the ISSC Committee (via the cubesat.org mailing list) for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Frequency Plan of the PicSAT Project Validated by the IARU AMSAT-F (AMSAT Francophone) announced on January 8 the the IARU validated the proposed frequency plan for the PICSAT satellite project of the Paris Observatory. The satellite will offer capabilities for telemetry data transmission: AX25 - 9k6 BPSK, and an FM transponder. Uplink : 145.910 MHz FM Downlink : 435.925 MHz FM AMSAT-F and R?seau des ?metteurs Fran?ais (REF), the national non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in France, will provide active technical support for this project. For more information : IARU Coordination: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/formal_detail.php?serialnum=536 Link budget estimated: https://perso.lesia.obspm.fr/picsat/files/2016/12/PicSat_IARU_Coordination.pdf Project page: http://lesia.obspm.fr/PICSAT.html REF-Info: http://ref-info.ref.org/projet-picsat-de-lobservatoire-de-paris/ [ANS thanks AMSAT-Francophone for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT Events Information about AMSAT activities at other important events around the country. Examples of these events are radio club meetings where AMSAT Area Coordinators give presentations, demonstrations of working amateur satellites, and hamfests with an AMSAT presence (a table with AMSAT literature and merchandise, sometimes also with presentations, forums, and/or demonstrations). *Saturday, 14 January 2017 ? Thunderbird Hamfest 2017 in Phoenix AZ *Friday and Saturday, 20-21 January 2017 ? Cowtown Hamfest in Forest Hill, TX *Thursday, 26 January 2017 ? presentation for Arizona Repeater Association in Tempe AZ *Saturday, 4 February 2017 ? Palm Springs Hamfest in Palm Springs CA *Friday-Sunday, 10-12 February 2017 Orlando HamCation in Orlando, FL *Friday and Saturday, 17-18 February 2017 ? Yuma Hamfest in Yuma AZ *Friday-Sunday, March 31, April 1 & 2, 2017, NVCON in Las Vegas, NV [ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS News Successful Contacts * A combined telebridge via K6DUE with students at Coll?ge Saint-Guibert, Gembloux, Belgium and Euro Space Center, Transinne, Belgium was successful Thu 2017-01-12. * A direct contact via W6FOG with students at the World Genesis Foundation (WGF), Goodyear, AZ. & Quartzsite in Motion, Quartzsite, AZ. was successful Wed 2017-01-11. * A direct contact via K4JMC with students at Rainbow Middle School in Rainbow City, AL. was successful Wed 2017-01-04. * A direct contact via F1IMF with students at Coll?ge Mathilde Marthe Faucher, Allassac, France was successful Wed 2017-01-04. * A direct contact via F4KJV with students at Primary School Georges Wallers, Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (59), France was successful Sat 2016-12-31. * A direct contact via IK1SLD with students at Ecole Communale de Saint Sylvestre, Saint Sylvestre, France was successful Wed 2016-12-21. Upcoming Contacts * A telebridge via K6DUE students at the L?on Blum High School, Le Creusot, France, is presently scheduled for Mon 2017-01-16 11:53:17 UTC 60 deg. The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet, KG5FYG. Le Creusot is a commune in the Sa?ne-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France. Formerly a mining town, its economy is now dominated by large metallurgical companies such as ArcelorMittal, Schneider Electric, and Alstom. In the 19th century, iron ore mines and forges around Le Creusot generated a business in steel, railways, armaments, and shipbuilding. The lyc?e L?on Blum (Le Creusot-71) together with the lyc?e international Charles de Gaulle (Dijon-21) and lyc?e Pierre Paul Riquet (Saint-Orens-31) were selected after a call for projects in March 2015 by the CNES Youth Education department for the PROXIMA mission. The project is named CERES (after the name of ancient roman goddess of agriculture). Thomas will grow some seeds in space as part of the CERES educational experiment. A special cargo of mustard, lentil and radish seeds was sent to him on the Space Station. He should water them and take pictures at regular intervals to study how the seeds grow in space. Students of the two partner high schools and a local elementary school are also participating to the list of questions. Watch http://www.ariss.org/upcoming-contacts.html for information about upcoming contacts as they are scheduled. [ANS thanks ARISS and Charlie, AJ9N for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts From All Over South East VHF Society Conference Charlotte NC April 28-29 The SVHF Society will hold their convention in Charlotte, NC this year on April 28 and 29 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Charlotte Airport, 2600 Yorkmont Road, Charlotte, NC 28201. We have arranged rooms at $95; you can call 800-222-TREE and ask for this rate under the name "South East VHF Society". Early registration guest room rate of $89 is offered for reservations made by January 31, 2017. If you plan to attend, please call now to reserve your room at this lower rate before the end of January. Registration information will be posted soon on the web site (http://svhfs.org) so watch for the sign up details. The conference fee for pre-registration is $30, Friday's Luncheon is $15, and Saturday's banquet is $40. [ANS thanks Gary Greene, W2ZV, SVHF Society conference committee member for the above information] AMSAT CW Activity Day reports As of 8 January, only two of the participants in AMSAT CW Activity Day have posted reports to amsat-bb. While there is no requirement to do so, if you participated, please consider posting one while it's still fresh in your mind. You can post a list of stations worked, satellites used, "Soapbox" comments, suggestions for next year's event, or what have you. [ANS thanks Ray, W2RS, for the above information] DXpedition Teams Make Satellite Plans FP, ST. PIERRE & MIQUELON. Eric, KV1J, will once again be operating from the Island of Miquelon (NA-032, DIFO FP-002 WLOTA 1417, Grid GN17) as FP/KV1J between July 4-18th. Activity will be on 160-10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY (but primarily SSB and RTTY). He will generally be on the highest frequency band that is open (favoring 12/10m). He will be active in the IARU HF Contest (July 8-9th), NA QSO Party-RTTY (July 15-16th) and the CQ VHF Contest [6M only] (July 15-16th). QSL via KV1J, direct or by the Bureau. Also eQSL and LoTW. For more details and updates, check out his Web page at: http://www.kv1j.com/fp/July17.html PLEASE NOTE: Eric mentions, "I will also be on the analog Satellites when the WX is good enough to operate from outside." YN, NICARAGUA. A team of four operators, sponsored by Texas DX Society, will be operating near Granada beginning March 20th and ending March 27th. Operators mentioned are Keith/NM5G (YN2MG), Ken/KD2KW (YN2KW), Bill/K5WL (YN2WL) and Marty/W5MF (YN2MF). The group plans to participate in the CQWW WPX SSB Contest (March 25-26th) as YN2KW and station, as a Multi-Op/Single- Transmitter/All-Bands/Low-Power entry. Outside of the contest, operators will use their own callsigns on CW, SSB, RTTY and other Digital modes. They will also have equipment to make some satellite contacts as time and weather permit. QSL YN2KW via N5ET, all others callsigns listen for instructions, but probably the same route. [ANS thanks the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 1299 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, Joe Spier, K6WAO k6wao at amsat dot org From GW1FKY at aol.com Sun Jan 15 09:41:08 2017 From: GW1FKY at aol.com (GW1FKY at aol.com) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 04:41:08 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Fox1-b and also UO-11 (News) Message-ID: <8d75f7.4274e441.45ac9db4@aol.com> Hi all, Pleased to learn the good news on the success of Space-X and the announcement for the launch date for the Fox1-b payload being slated for 29th August 2017. With thanks to Bob Doran ( G4VRC ) whom has been closely monitoring for activity on UO-1. He posted the following good news this morning. Ken Eaton GW1FKY From: robert.doran28 at btinternet.com [mailto:robert.doran28 at btinternet.com] Sent: 15 January 2017 09:11 To: G3YJO at amsat.org; GW1FKY at aol.com Subject: UO-11 on Good morning Martin and Ken, UO-11 was switched on on the 8.24 pass this morning. The next pass is 10.00 - 10.12. Bob Doran G4VRC From cqkg8co at yahoo.com Sun Jan 15 00:51:18 2017 From: cqkg8co at yahoo.com (Brian Sarkisian, KG8CO) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 00:51:18 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] KLM 2m 14c polarization circuit question (Capacitor Replacement) References: <2083314271.3179350.1484441478162.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <2083314271.3179350.1484441478162@mail.yahoo.com> I had to replace the RCA connector on the circuit board. ?I see there is a capacitor that there was a capacitor soldered to the RCA connector. What is the capacitance of that capacitor ? Thank you Brian, KG8CO? From aa4kndhj at gmail.com Sun Jan 15 02:08:11 2017 From: aa4kndhj at gmail.com (David H Jordan) Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 21:08:11 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] =?utf-8?q?Upcoming_ARISS_contact_with_High_School_=22L?= =?utf-8?q?=C3=A9on_Blum=22=2C_Le_Creusot=2C_France?= Message-ID: An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at High School "L?on Blum", Le Creusot, France on 16 Jan. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 11:53 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 K6DUE. The contact should be audible over the east 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. Le Creusot is a commune in the Sa?ne-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France. Formerly a mining town, its economy is now dominated by large metallurgical companies such as ArcelorMittal, Schneider Electric, and Alstom. In the 19th century, iron ore mines and forges around Le Creusot generated a business in steel, railways, armaments, and shipbuilding. The lyc?e L?on Blum (Le Creusot-71) together with the lyc?e international Charles de Gaulle (Dijon-21) and lyc?e Pierre Paul Riquet (Saint-Orens-31) were selected after a call for projects in March 2015 by the CNES Youth Education department for the PROXIMA mission. The project is named CERES (after the name of ancient roman goddess of agriculture) Thomas will grow some seeds in space as part of the CERES educational experiment. A special cargo of mustard, lentil and radish seeds was sent to him on the Space Station. He should water them and take pictures at regular intervals to study how the seeds grow in space. Students of the two partner high schools and a local elementary school are also participating to the list of questions. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. On imagine la vie dans l'espace tr?s diff?rente de celle sur Terre. Malgr? les liaisons radios, vous sentez-vous coup? de la r?alit?? 2. Qu?avez-vous ressenti pendant votre sortie extrav?hiculaire? Avez-vous eu peur du vide? 3. Constatez-vous quelques changements corporels? Par exemple la croissance acc?l?r?e des poils, des cheveux ou des ongles, ou ? l'inverse une d?shydratation de la peau, perte de cheveux, etc...? 4. Y aurait-il une diff?rence de ressenti si la station elle-m?me n??tait plus en chute libre mais en r?elle apesanteur, ?loign?e de toute source de gravit?? 5. Avez vous d?j? r?alis? notre exp?rience CERES sur la croissance des plantules? sinon quelles hypotheses ou conclusions pouvez vous d?j? faire? 6. Serait-il possible d?entretenir des cultures ou d?velopper un jardin dans l?ISS afin de subvenir ? une partie des besoins nutritionnels des astronautes? 7. Pensez- vous qu'il soit possible de faire pousser dans l'espace des v?g?taux dont la plus grande partie est ici enfouie sous terre comme les carottes par exemple? et des v?g?taux plus grands comme des arbustes? 8. Que pensez-vous de la participation et l'implication de lyc?ens ? des exp?riences men?es dans l'espace? 9. Pensez-vous que des exp?riences comme CERES pourraient ?tre r?alis?es sur Mars et permettre dans les ann?es ? venir d'?ventuelles cultures sur cette plan?te pour une future colonisation? 10. Le fait de rester plusieurs mois dans une m?me station avec cinq co?quipiers ne cr?e-t-il pas parfois des conflits ? cause du stress? 11. Sur Terre, l'homme est un g?ant de la d?couverte, de la technologie et du progr?s. Mais, au milieu de l'univers, comment se sent-on? 12. Les particules dues aux pluies d'?toiles filantes ont-elles des cons?quences (m?me minimes) sur l'ISS ou peut-?tre m?me sur vous, astronautes? 13. Quelles diff?rences observez-vous entre les exp?riences r?alis?es sur Terre et dans l'Espace? 14. Comment vous organisez vous dans l?ISS avec les autres astronautes? Existe-t-il un roulement pour les diff?rents services, comme la pr?paration des repas, etc... 15. Pouvez-vous vous v?tir comme vous le souhaitez dans la station spatiale internationale? Avez-vous la possibilit? de laver votre linge dans l?ISS? 16. Pensez-vous au retour sur Terre? Si oui, appr?hendez-vous cet instant? 17. Les astronautes suivent-ils (ensembles) toutes les traditions et f?tes de leur pays d'origine? (par exemple No?l le 25 d?cembre pour les Europ?ens et Am?ricains et le 7 janvier pour les Russes) 18. J?ai toujours r?v? d??tre astronaute. Quels conseils me donneriez-vous? 19. Allez-vous r?aliser des exp?riences dans l'ISS dans le but d?installer la vie sur Mars? 20. Pensez-vous que votre g?n?ration d'astronautes ira sur Mars? Esp?rez- vous y aller vous-m?me? Translated: 1. Life in space is thought to be very different from life on Earth. In spite of radio connections, do you ever feel you are cut off from reality? 2. How did you feel during your Extra-Vehicular-Activity? Did you fear the void? 3. What sort of body changes can you notice on you? For instance, did you notice any accelerated growth or loss phenomena concerning your hairs, hair, nails or even any form of dehydration? 4. Would you feel different sensations if the Space Station was not continuously falling around Earth, but really away from any source of gravity? 5. Did you already start our CERES experiment about seed germination? What difficulties did you meet? Otherwise what hypothesis could you make on its potential results? 6. Would it be possible to grow crops or develop a garden on the ISS in order to partially feed astronauts? 7. Do you think it?s realistic to grow vegetables in space, considering that their major parts are buried in the soil here on earth, such as carrots for instance? What about bigger size plants like trees? 8. How do you feel about the fact that high schoolers take part in and get involved into space experiments? 9. Do you think that experiments like CERES could be made on Mars and enable potential cultivation on that planet in the years to come to pave the way for a future colonization? 10. You are living with five other astronauts in the same station for several months: Could it be source of tension because of stress? 11. Here on Earth, human beings are witnessing major scientific discoveries and huge technological progress. However, how do we feel in the middle of the universe? 12. Do the particles triggered by meteor showers have some consequences ? even tiny ones ? on the ISS or maybe even on you as an astronaut? 13. What differences can you make between experiments that are being carried out on Earth and those in space? 14. How do you schedule activities with the other astronauts? Do you take turns to work on different tasks, like preparing meals? 15. Can you dress as you want on the ISS? Can you wash your clothes there? 16. Do you have in mind the moment you will come back on Earth? If so, do you feel concerned about that moment? 17. Do the astronauts share together all the traditions and celebrations of their own countries? Christmas for instance, which is celebrated on December 25th in Europe and America but on January 7th in Russia? 18. I have always dreamt of being an astronaut. Any helpful piece of advice? 19. Are you going to make experiments in the ISS in order to settle life on Mars? 20. Do you think that your current generation of astronauts will go on Mars? Is that your personal hope? 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 From dave at g4dpz.me.uk Sun Jan 15 17:10:22 2017 From: dave at g4dpz.me.uk (David Johnson) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 17:10:22 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] FUNcube Warehouse may be slower than usual Message-ID: <97443CA0-F781-46AA-AB74-43D266A4A90F@g4dpz.me.uk> Hi, Please excuse us while we try out some new ideas in the warehouse. There will be some remote debugging across the network so you might experience a few timeouts. We will keep these to a minimum. 73 Dave, G4DPZ From normanlizeth at gmail.com Sun Jan 15 18:49:55 2017 From: normanlizeth at gmail.com (Norm n3ykf) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 13:49:55 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Dead LVB tracker rehab for free! Message-ID: Dude below commented on my project on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9V7JaE_psE Since the possibility of repair was out the window, I just made do. Please contact him: Hi Norm, I've built over 700 LVB trackers for AMSAT NA and have fixed many that were lightening damaged. All the parts are currently available and I don't charge for the repairs. Just an FYI. 73 Mike WB8CXO? Our new model X p100d rocks. Will check out RFI compatibility soon. From jj3grx at gmail.com Sun Jan 15 21:03:06 2017 From: jj3grx at gmail.com (Toshihiro Kameda) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 06:03:06 +0900 Subject: [amsat-bb] ITF-2 First 100 Reports AWARD announced Message-ID: ITF-2 team announces the AWARD for First 100 reports, which includes one paper certificate and a few cool items. The first 100 reports are qualified for this award. Especially top 10 stations are entitled to receive it for free, others with two IRCs. The ranking will be updated on the project website. Reception reports can be submitted at: https://operationitf-2.blogspot.jp/p/blog-page_58.html ITF-2 is a 1U cubesat designed and built by Univesity of Tsukuba, Japan, which soon be released from ISS on Jan 16, 2017 at 0910 UTC. ISS TLE can be used for tracking during early stage. Toshihiro KAMEDA, JJ3GRX (also W3GRX) Director of University of Tsukuba Satellite project From DFox at rwglaw.com Sun Jan 15 22:29:35 2017 From: DFox at rwglaw.com (D. Craig Fox) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 14:29:35 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] Working PSAT with TS-2000/Signalink Message-ID: Can someone using a TS2000 and soundcard interface like a Signalink USB advise if there are any special menu settings unique to using PSK1 on this satellite? Initiating tx in digipan works fine in simplex but doesn't key the TX in the TS2K when in SAT mode and CAT control ON in SATPC32. If I press the mike, it is active. This has to be something obvious- apparently too obvious for me to see. Suggestions from anyone using this setup would be appreciated. Thank you Craig N6RSX From martha at amsat.org Mon Jan 16 02:21:30 2017 From: martha at amsat.org (Martha) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 21:21:30 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Office Closed Message-ID: The AMSAT office will be closed on Monday, January 16th. -- 73- Martha From bryan at kl7cn.net Mon Jan 16 03:15:02 2017 From: bryan at kl7cn.net (Bryan KL7CN) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:15:02 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] CM98 QRV FO-29 2017-01-16 05:32z Message-ID: <27E32441-EA77-41DD-9563-BDA1F37583A1@kl7cn.net> Howdy, all! I'll be QRV on FO-29 at about 435.855 tonight 2017-01-16 05:32z from CM98 in California. I promise a quick LotW confirmation! I'm looking for night owls in CT, GA, MA, MS, MO, MT, NH, NJ, RI, SC, VT. Thank you! -- bag Bryan KL7CN/W6 bryan at kl7cn.net CM98, usually From skristof at etczone.com Mon Jan 16 12:07:25 2017 From: skristof at etczone.com (skristof at etczone.com) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 07:07:25 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS Message-ID: <1163e9c40adcaad990ed058a05ccfcdc@etczone.com> Got a nice recording of the ISS side of the ISS-school contact this morning. I'll need to brush up on my French to make any sense of it, but it's a good recording. Steve AI9IN EM79ji Oldenburg IN USA From johnbrier at gmail.com Mon Jan 16 12:48:19 2017 From: johnbrier at gmail.com (John Brier) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 07:48:19 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS In-Reply-To: References: <1163e9c40adcaad990ed058a05ccfcdc@etczone.com> Message-ID: Same here. Contact seemed to start a little late and it sounded like they didn't get all the questions answered. I had Thomas answering all the way past LOS, and the pass should have ended for me later than it did for K6DUE. 73, John Brier KG4AKV On Jan 16, 2017 7:07 AM, wrote: Got a nice recording of the ISS side of the ISS-school contact this morning. I'll need to brush up on my French to make any sense of it, but it's a good recording. Steve AI9IN EM79ji Oldenburg IN 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 n4zq at yahoo.com Mon Jan 16 14:42:53 2017 From: n4zq at yahoo.com (Keith O'Brien) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 14:42:53 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Is It Zero or Lettrt O References: <1950960533.6058628.1484577773143.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1950960533.6058628.1484577773143@mail.yahoo.com> I have noticed both a Zero (0) and the Letter O in the callsign of the BY7 satellite. So is it BY70-1 or BY7O-1 ?? Keith N4ZQ From n8hm at arrl.net Mon Jan 16 14:47:53 2017 From: n8hm at arrl.net (Paul Stoetzer) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 09:47:53 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Is It Zero or Lettrt O In-Reply-To: <1950960533.6058628.1484577773143@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1950960533.6058628.1484577773143.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1950960533.6058628.1484577773143@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: BY70-1 73, Paul, N8HM On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Keith O'Brien via AMSAT-BB wrote: > I have noticed both a Zero (0) and the Letter O in > the callsign of the BY7 satellite. So is it BY70-1 > or BY7O-1 ?? > 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 py4zbz at yahoo.com Mon Jan 16 16:40:11 2017 From: py4zbz at yahoo.com (Roland Zurmely) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 16:40:11 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] AOBA-VELOXIII heard in Brazil References: <1146530890.3923306.1484584811944.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1146530890.3923306.1484584811944@mail.yahoo.com> AOBA-VELOXIII heard in Brazil in CW ?only 2h and 20 min after ISS ejection. One of the messages was as follows, at 10:20 am UTC JG6YBW AV3 HKD7ZZZ53ZZZC7FZZZZZ3 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ From twdeckard at earthlink.net Mon Jan 16 17:25:10 2017 From: twdeckard at earthlink.net (Todd Deckard) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 11:25:10 -0600 (GMT-06:00) Subject: [amsat-bb] Is amsat.org.ar down? Message-ID: <32580989.5481.1484587510151@elwamui-milano.atl.sa.earthlink.net> I get a DNS error? Best (The pass prediction page from Pedro Converso - LU7ABF is absolutely wonderful) From aa5pk at suddenlink.net Mon Jan 16 17:40:17 2017 From: aa5pk at suddenlink.net (Glenn Miller - AA5PK) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 11:40:17 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Is amsat.org.ar down? In-Reply-To: <32580989.5481.1484587510151@elwamui-milano.atl.sa.earthlink.net> References: <32580989.5481.1484587510151@elwamui-milano.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: Working fine for me. Glenn AA5PK -----Original Message----- From: Todd Deckard Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 11:25 AM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Cc: twdeckard at earthlink.net Subject: [amsat-bb] Is amsat.org.ar down? I get a DNS error? Best (The pass prediction page from Pedro Converso - LU7ABF is absolutely wonderful) _______________________________________________ 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 kb1pvh at gmail.com Mon Jan 16 17:43:04 2017 From: kb1pvh at gmail.com (Dave Webb KB1PVH) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 12:43:04 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Is amsat.org.ar down? In-Reply-To: <32580989.5481.1484587510151@elwamui-milano.atl.sa.earthlink.net> References: <32580989.5481.1484587510151@elwamui-milano.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: I also get a DNS error. Dave-KB1PVH Sent from my Galaxy S7 On Jan 16, 2017 12:25 PM, "Todd Deckard" wrote: > I get a DNS error? > > Best > (The pass prediction page from Pedro Converso - LU7ABF is absolutely > wonderful) > _______________________________________________ > 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 Mon Jan 16 17:44:45 2017 From: oh2fqv at gmail.com (Jari A) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 19:44:45 +0200 Subject: [amsat-bb] Is amsat.org.ar down? In-Reply-To: References: <32580989.5481.1484587510151@elwamui-milano.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: http://amsat.org.ar/pass.htm I have: Server not found error Been so for few hours :Jari / OH2FQV On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 7:40 PM, Glenn Miller - AA5PK wrote: > Working fine for me. > > Glenn AA5PK > > -----Original Message----- From: Todd Deckard Sent: Monday, January 16, > 2017 11:25 AM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Cc: twdeckard at earthlink.net Subject: > [amsat-bb] Is amsat.org.ar down? > I get a DNS error? > > Best > (The pass prediction page from Pedro Converso - LU7ABF is absolutely > wonderful) > _______________________________________________ > 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 ko6th.greg at gmail.com Mon Jan 16 17:51:27 2017 From: ko6th.greg at gmail.com (Greg D) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 09:51:27 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] Is amsat.org.ar down? In-Reply-To: References: <32580989.5481.1484587510151@elwamui-milano.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <587D081F.2060105@gmail.com> I get a dummy (replacement / ad) page. Did their DNS record expire? Greg KO6TH Jari A wrote: > http://amsat.org.ar/pass.htm > I have: Server not found error > > Been so for few hours > > :Jari / OH2FQV > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 7:40 PM, Glenn Miller - AA5PK > wrote: > >> Working fine for me. >> >> Glenn AA5PK >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Todd Deckard Sent: Monday, January 16, >> 2017 11:25 AM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Cc: twdeckard at earthlink.net Subject: >> [amsat-bb] Is amsat.org.ar down? >> I get a DNS error? >> >> Best >> (The pass prediction page from Pedro Converso - LU7ABF is absolutely >> wonderful) >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 pconver at gmail.com Mon Jan 16 18:03:03 2017 From: pconver at gmail.com (Pedro Converso) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 15:03:03 -0300 Subject: [amsat-bb] Is amsat.org.ar down? In-Reply-To: <32580989.5481.1484587510151@elwamui-milano.atl.sa.earthlink.net> References: <32580989.5481.1484587510151@elwamui-milano.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: Pass access & ITF-2 Due temporary amsat.org.ar server outage: Pass predictions available at http://lu7abf.com.ar/pass.htm Besides ITF-2 satellite predictions added for certificate chasers. 73, LU7ABF, Pedro On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Todd Deckard wrote: > I get a DNS error? > > Best > (The pass prediction page from Pedro Converso - LU7ABF is absolutely wonderful) > _______________________________________________ > 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 paulopv8dx at gmail.com Mon Jan 16 18:15:54 2017 From: paulopv8dx at gmail.com (Paulo PV8DX) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 14:15:54 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] AOBA-VELOXIII heard in Brazil In-Reply-To: <1146530890.3923306.1484584811944@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1146530890.3923306.1484584811944.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1146530890.3923306.1484584811944@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: FB job Roland Congratulations. TU 73 de Paulo PV8DX LABRE/ARRL AMSAT-BR/AMSAT-NA member FJ92pt - VUCC SAT http://amsat-br.org/ www.qrz.com/db/pv8dx Contact ARISS 13/fev/2014 http://www.labre-rr.org/ariss.html Boa Vista-Roraima-Brasil pv8dx at arrl.net -----Mensagem Original----- From: Roland Zurmely via AMSAT-BB Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 12:40 PM To: AMSAT BB Subject: [amsat-bb] AOBA-VELOXIII heard in Brazil AOBA-VELOXIII heard in Brazil in CW only 2h and 20 min after ISS ejection. One of the messages was as follows, at 10:20 am UTC JG6YBW AV3 HKD7ZZZ53ZZZC7FZZZZZ3 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ _______________________________________________ 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 Mon Jan 16 18:27:01 2017 From: pconver at gmail.com (Pedro Converso) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 15:27:01 -0300 Subject: [amsat-bb] Pass Predictions backup & ITF-2 Message-ID: We apologize for temporary amsat.org.ar server outage: Pass predictions backup at http://lu7abf.com.ar/pass.htm Besides ITF-2 satellite predictions added for certificate chasers. 73, LU7ABF, Pedro From tosca005 at umn.edu Mon Jan 16 20:01:36 2017 From: tosca005 at umn.edu (John Toscano) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 14:01:36 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Small Sat SDR Paper + Outernet + BY70-1 In-Reply-To: <1316917265.100535.1484254178853@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1316917265.100535.1484254178853.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1316917265.100535.1484254178853@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I found the paper on CPU & FPGA performance in satellite communications to be very interesting, and mostly very well-done. However there seemed to be some obvious places in the paper where the authors could have better conveyed their findings. 1. Throughout the paper, they never identify the x86 processor that was present in their Dell Optiplex 745 computer. Several different Intel x86 processors have been used in that machine, including Pentium D and Core 2 Duo processors. I presume it was the latter. 2. Figures 8, 10, and 11 would have been much improved if they showed a fourth data series, namely the Cortex A9 CPU % Consumption (Figures 8, 10) and Success Rate (Figure 11) when assisted by moving critical code to the FPGA from the GPP. 3. I find Table VII mostly impossible to understand. In the first two columns, I don't understand what the percentage numbers are referring to. And the tabulated items under Post Implementation are not defined, and seem to be a mix of physical circuits in the FPGA (such as Flip Flops) and software subroutines (DSP48). It is poor practice to use descriptors such as "LUT", "MemoryLUT", "BRAM", "DSP48", "BUFG", and "MMCM" which are never defined in the paper. Without knowing what a "MMCM" is, I can barely appreciate that it stayed at 50% (half of what, I am uncertain) before and after FPGA implementation of critical software routines, giving an Overhead of 0% (no change). And the pictures of "Implementation on FPGA Fabric" are meaningless without any explanation of what they are and what they mean. The only thing I can offer as assistance in interpreting this table is to remind the reader that the dual Cortex A9 CPUs of the Zedboard are actually implemented using a portion of the FPGA. Therefore a pure GPP software implementation still uses some of the FPGA. What fraction of the FPGA capacity is consumed by the dual A9 implementation? What fraction of the FPGA capacity is consumed by the A9 implementation plus the software SDR implementation? What fraction of the FPGA capacity is consumed by the A9 + software SDR + FPGA implementation of the SDR? I can't figure this out from the paper. 4. The purpose of the paper, to show the improvement in functionality of an SDR by moving critical functions from GPP to FPGA, was accomplished in that it was shown that the FPGA implementation could receive more satellite signals concurrently at low data rates. But it appears that neither a dual-core A9, dual-core A9 + FPGA, nor a quad-core A15 + quad-core A7 could keep up with a lowly Intel Core 2 Duo processor. It seems that a ground station with a built-in SDR processor would do best with a modern x86 processor rather than any of the ARM processors available at the present time. Given the higher power consumption of fast x86 processors than fast ARM processors, it may be best to handle the SDR functions in a desktop PC or at least in a high-end laptop PC, instead of embedding an ARM processor inside the ground terminal. Anyway, that's my take on the paper. I congratulate the authors and acknowledge their hard work. I sincerely hope that they continue their efforts in this field. Maybe we should personally invite them to join the team working on the AMSAT Ground Terminal for future digital satellites using the "5 and Dime" frequencies (5 GHz up and 10 GHz down). John Toscano, W0JT/5 AMSAT LM On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 2:49 PM, M5AKA via AMSAT-BB wrote: > Mamatha R. Maheshwarappa 2E0CZO has released her paper ?Improvements in > CPU & FPGA Performance for Small Satellite SDR Applications? > https://amsat-uk.org/2017/01/10/small-satellite-sdr-paper/ > > BY70-1 FM transponder contact video > https://amsat-uk.org/2016/12/30/by70-1-fm-transponder-contact/ > > Chertsey Radio Club article - Getting started with FM satellites http:// > chertseyradioclub.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/getting-started- > with-fm-satellites.html > > Video of Daniel Est?vez EA4GPZ / M0HXM talk - Reverse Engineering the > Outernet - at Chaos Communication Congress #33c3 > http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2017/january/reverse- > engineering-%20the-outernet.htm > Blog update http://destevez.net/2017/01/updated-format-for- > outernet-ldp-protocol/ > > ITF-2 CubeSat 437.525 MHz to deploy from ISS Monday > https://www.facebook.com/amsatuk/posts/1269720816404298 > > > 73 Trevor M5AKA > ---- > AMSAT-UK http://amsat-uk.org/ > Twitter https://twitter.com/AmsatUK > Facebook https://facebook.com/AmsatUK > YouTube https://youtube.com/AmsatUK > ---- > _______________________________________________ > 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 Mon Jan 16 20:26:01 2017 From: skristof at etczone.com (skristof at etczone.com) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 15:26:01 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Small Sat SDR Paper + Outernet + BY70-1 In-Reply-To: References: <1316917265.100535.1484254178853.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1316917265.100535.1484254178853@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I sure hope we never have to know any of this to talk on a satellite. If so, my Arrow antenna becomes a multi-hot dog skewer. Steve AI9IN On 2017-01-16 15:01, John Toscano wrote: > I found the paper on CPU & FPGA performance in satellite communications to > be very interesting, and mostly very well-done. However there seemed to be > some obvious places in the paper where the authors could have better > conveyed their findings. > > 1. Throughout the paper, they never identify the x86 processor that was > present in their Dell Optiplex 745 computer. Several different Intel x86 > processors have been used in that machine, including Pentium D and Core 2 > Duo processors. I presume it was the latter. > 2. Figures 8, 10, and 11 would have been much improved if they showed a > fourth data series, namely the Cortex A9 CPU % Consumption (Figures 8, 10) > and Success Rate (Figure 11) when assisted by moving critical code to the > FPGA from the GPP. > 3. I find Table VII mostly impossible to understand. In the first two > columns, I don't understand what the percentage numbers are referring to. > And the tabulated items under Post Implementation are not defined, and seem > to be a mix of physical circuits in the FPGA (such as Flip Flops) and > software subroutines (DSP48). It is poor practice to use descriptors such > as "LUT", "MemoryLUT", "BRAM", "DSP48", "BUFG", and "MMCM" which are never > defined in the paper. Without knowing what a "MMCM" is, I can barely > appreciate that it stayed at 50% (half of what, I am uncertain) before and > after FPGA implementation of critical software routines, giving an Overhead > of 0% (no change). And the pictures of "Implementation on FPGA Fabric" are > meaningless without any explanation of what they are and what they mean. > The only thing I can offer as assistance in interpreting this table is to > remind the reader that the dual Cortex A9 CPUs of the Zedboard are actually > implemented using a portion of the FPGA. Therefore a pure GPP software > implementation still uses some of the FPGA. What fraction of the FPGA > capacity is consumed by the dual A9 implementation? What fraction of the > FPGA capacity is consumed by the A9 implementation plus the software SDR > implementation? What fraction of the FPGA capacity is consumed by the A9 + > software SDR + FPGA implementation of the SDR? I can't figure this out from > the paper. > 4. The purpose of the paper, to show the improvement in functionality of > an SDR by moving critical functions from GPP to FPGA, was accomplished in > that it was shown that the FPGA implementation could receive more satellite > signals concurrently at low data rates. But it appears that neither a > dual-core A9, dual-core A9 + FPGA, nor a quad-core A15 + quad-core A7 could > keep up with a lowly Intel Core 2 Duo processor. It seems that a ground > station with a built-in SDR processor would do best with a modern x86 > processor rather than any of the ARM processors available at the present > time. Given the higher power consumption of fast x86 processors than fast > ARM processors, it may be best to handle the SDR functions in a desktop PC > or at least in a high-end laptop PC, instead of embedding an ARM processor > inside the ground terminal. > > Anyway, that's my take on the paper. I congratulate the authors and > acknowledge their hard work. I sincerely hope that they continue their > efforts in this field. Maybe we should personally invite them to join the > team working on the AMSAT Ground Terminal for future digital satellites > using the "5 and Dime" frequencies (5 GHz up and 10 GHz down). > > John Toscano, W0JT/5 > AMSAT LM > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 2:49 PM, M5AKA via AMSAT-BB > wrote: > >> Mamatha R. Maheshwarappa 2E0CZO has released her paper "Improvements in >> CPU & FPGA Performance for Small Satellite SDR Applications" >> https://amsat-uk.org/2017/01/10/small-satellite-sdr-paper/ >> >> BY70-1 FM transponder contact video >> https://amsat-uk.org/2016/12/30/by70-1-fm-transponder-contact/ >> >> Chertsey Radio Club article - Getting started with FM satellites http:// >> chertseyradioclub.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/getting-started- >> with-fm-satellites.html >> >> Video of Daniel Est?vez EA4GPZ / M0HXM talk - Reverse Engineering the >> Outernet - at Chaos Communication Congress #33c3 >> http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2017/january/reverse- >> engineering-%20the-outernet.htm >> Blog update http://destevez.net/2017/01/updated-format-for- >> outernet-ldp-protocol/ >> >> ITF-2 CubeSat 437.525 MHz to deploy from ISS Monday >> https://www.facebook.com/amsatuk/posts/1269720816404298 >> >> 73 Trevor M5AKA >> ---- >> AMSAT-UK http://amsat-uk.org/ >> Twitter https://twitter.com/AmsatUK >> Facebook https://facebook.com/AmsatUK >> YouTube https://youtube.com/AmsatUK >> ---- >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 superiortrading at gci.net Mon Jan 16 17:43:17 2017 From: superiortrading at gci.net (Todd) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 08:43:17 -0900 Subject: [amsat-bb] IC-9100 and SATPC32 In-Reply-To: <614777092.1156528.1484328992453.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net> References: <614777092.1156528.1484328992453.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net> Message-ID: <75ca3eec-4a58-22ff-ff9d-a59c2c51c174@gci.net> Mark: I have a 9100 and using SatPC32. Did you figure out what your problem was? Let me know and I can check any setting I have that is working. Also running same operating system SW. 73, Todd AL7PX From va6bmj at gmail.com Mon Jan 16 22:07:09 2017 From: va6bmj at gmail.com (B J) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 22:07:09 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Gene Cernan, RIP Message-ID: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38641121 Farewell, sir, and thank you. 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL From AJ9N at aol.com Tue Jan 17 07:40:47 2017 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 02:40:47 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-17 07:30 UTC Message-ID: Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-17 07:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: High School "L?on Blum", Le Creusot, France, telebridge via K6DUE The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact was successful: Mon 2017-01-16 11:53:17 UTC 60 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 123 Francesco IK?WGF with 119 **************************************************************************** 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 2017-01-17 07:30 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 1109. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1073. (***) 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 2017-01-17 07:30 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 ko6th.greg at gmail.com Tue Jan 17 18:47:50 2017 From: ko6th.greg at gmail.com (Greg D) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 10:47:50 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] AOBA-VELOXIII heard in Brazil In-Reply-To: <1146530890.3923306.1484584811944@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1146530890.3923306.1484584811944.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1146530890.3923306.1484584811944@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <587E66D6.4090308@gmail.com> Congrats! What is the satellite known by? I'm not finding its Keps, looking in the usual places, though I'm guessing it's still fairly close to the ISS. I presume 437.375 still correct for the downlink? Thanks, Greg KO6TH Roland Zurmely via AMSAT-BB wrote: > AOBA-VELOXIII heard in Brazil in CW only 2h and 20 min after ISS ejection. > One of the messages was as follows, at 10:20 am UTC > JG6YBW AV3 HKD7ZZZ53ZZZC7FZZZZZ3 > > 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ > _______________________________________________ > 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 py4zbz at yahoo.com Tue Jan 17 21:58:49 2017 From: py4zbz at yahoo.com (Roland Zurmely) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 21:58:49 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] AOBA-VELOXIII heard in Brazil References: <553498085.4876263.1484690329325.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <553498085.4876263.1484690329325@mail.yahoo.com> Hi Greg, Yes, QRG is 437,375. Very strong signal !And TLE from ISS for now... 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ From wageners at gmail.com Tue Jan 17 22:21:07 2017 From: wageners at gmail.com (Stefan Wagener) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:21:07 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] FunCube Dongle Pro+ -For Sale- Message-ID: Selling my FCD Pro+ (like new condition). First $95 takes it (includes shipping to US or Canada!!!). If interested, contact me direct via email (my callsign at gmail.com). Thanks, Stefan, VE4NSA From paulopv8dx at gmail.com Wed Jan 18 00:53:18 2017 From: paulopv8dx at gmail.com (Paulo PV8DX) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 20:53:18 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] AOBA-VELOXIII heard in Brazil In-Reply-To: <1146530890.3923306.1484584811944@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1146530890.3923306.1484584811944.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1146530890.3923306.1484584811944@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <5D0DB1CC829A403BA0C47BC2477D9EDF@PAULOPV8DXPC> RX JG6YBW AV3 HKD9EZZD4ZZZD55ZZZZZ4 HKD9EZZD6ZZZD51ZZZZZ3 ITF-2 Nothing heard 73 de Paulo PV8DX LABRE/ARRL AMSAT-BR/AMSAT-NA member FJ92pt - VUCC SAT http://amsat-br.org/ www.qrz.com/db/pv8dx Contact ARISS 13/fev/2014 http://www.labre-rr.org/ariss.html Boa Vista-Roraima-Brasil pv8dx at arrl.net -----Mensagem Original----- From: Roland Zurmely via AMSAT-BB Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 12:40 PM To: AMSAT BB Subject: [amsat-bb] AOBA-VELOXIII heard in Brazil AOBA-VELOXIII heard in Brazil in CW only 2h and 20 min after ISS ejection. One of the messages was as follows, at 10:20 am UTC JG6YBW AV3 HKD7ZZZ53ZZZC7FZZZZZ3 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ _______________________________________________ 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 Wed Jan 18 02:37:14 2017 From: wageners at gmail.com (Stefan Wagener) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 20:37:14 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] FunCube Dongle Pro+ SOLD Message-ID: Thanks for the interest! 73, Stefan, VE4NSA From godetj at wanadoo.fr Wed Jan 18 06:49:38 2017 From: godetj at wanadoo.fr (Jean-Pierre Godet) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 06:49:38 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] AOBA-VELOXIII heard in Brazil In-Reply-To: <5D0DB1CC829A403BA0C47BC2477D9EDF@PAULOPV8DXPC> References: <1146530890.3923306.1484584811944.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1146530890.3923306.1484584811944@mail.yahoo.com> <5D0DB1CC829A403BA0C47BC2477D9EDF@PAULOPV8DXPC> Message-ID: Received, orbit nr 28 (?) around 0535 UTC, very low pass above horizon here (North of France): JG6YBW AV3 HKDB2FFC2FFZD82ZZZZZ3 Congratulation to NTU Singapore and Kyutech Japan, 73 ! Jean-Pierre F5YG On 18/01/2017 00:53, Paulo PV8DX wrote: > RX > > JG6YBW AV3 HKD9EZZD4ZZZD55ZZZZZ4 > HKD9EZZD6ZZZD51ZZZZZ3 > > ITF-2 Nothing heard > > > > 73 de Paulo PV8DX > LABRE/ARRL > AMSAT-BR/AMSAT-NA member > FJ92pt - VUCC SAT > http://amsat-br.org/ > www.qrz.com/db/pv8dx > Contact ARISS 13/fev/2014 > http://www.labre-rr.org/ariss.html > Boa Vista-Roraima-Brasil > pv8dx at arrl.net > > -----Mensagem Original----- From: Roland Zurmely via AMSAT-BB > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 12:40 PM > To: AMSAT BB > Subject: [amsat-bb] AOBA-VELOXIII heard in Brazil > > AOBA-VELOXIII heard in Brazil in CW only 2h and 20 min after ISS ejection. > One of the messages was as follows, at 10:20 am UTC > JG6YBW AV3 HKD7ZZZ53ZZZC7FZZZZZ3 > > 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ > _______________________________________________ > 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 py4zbz at yahoo.com Wed Jan 18 12:58:01 2017 From: py4zbz at yahoo.com (Roland Zurmely) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 12:58:01 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] ITF-2 received References: <1692890840.5274338.1484744281432.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1692890840.5274338.1484744281432@mail.yahoo.com> CW message on 437.525 MHz: JQ1ZTK ?YUI2 ?ITF2 ?COMSYSAAAAA ?S2 ?31 ?07 ?7C ?67 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ in GH70un From fredcastello at gmail.com Wed Jan 18 14:04:48 2017 From: fredcastello at gmail.com (Fred Castello) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 09:04:48 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Recording Software Message-ID: <9965E659-601B-411A-B65D-C027E8C7D381@gmail.com> I am trying to record my passes on the computer and am using software called ?Free Audio Recorder?. I have found that in my opinion it is not as flexible as I need it to be. It seems to record at a relatively low level and I have to play it back full volume and even then can?t pick out some details that I need from a recording. I am using a Windows computer that should be plenty fast. I am curious what you folks use to achieve this function? As usual, thanks for your time. Fred - KF4FC Fishersville, VA From nss at mwt.net Wed Jan 18 14:15:02 2017 From: nss at mwt.net (Joe) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 08:15:02 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Recording Software In-Reply-To: <9965E659-601B-411A-B65D-C027E8C7D381@gmail.com> References: <9965E659-601B-411A-B65D-C027E8C7D381@gmail.com> Message-ID: <8d6f5c94-0eb4-8a79-8921-17915bd352f2@mwt.net> Audacity, or Goldwave is what I use. Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 1/18/2017 8:04 AM, Fred Castello wrote: > I am trying to record my passes on the computer and am using software called ?Free Audio Recorder?. I have found that in my opinion it is not as flexible as I need it to be. It seems to record at a relatively low level and I have to play it back full volume and even then can?t pick out some details that I need from a recording. I am using a Windows computer that should be plenty fast. I am curious what you folks use to achieve this function? > As usual, thanks for your time. > 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 mvivona at yahoo.com Wed Jan 18 15:31:46 2017 From: mvivona at yahoo.com (Mike) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 10:31:46 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Recording Software In-Reply-To: <9965E659-601B-411A-B65D-C027E8C7D381@gmail.com> References: <9965E659-601B-411A-B65D-C027E8C7D381@gmail.com> Message-ID: Fred, My experience with recording software has shown that if the recordings are low it typically is one of two things and not the software. 1. Mismatch to your recording device such a wrong impedance. 2. Windows device input setting take priority over recording software. This means that your windows input levels must be set to a usable level before attempting to use software to record. I hope this helps. Michael KC4ZVA Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 18, 2017, at 9:04 AM, Fred Castello wrote: > > I am trying to record my passes on the computer and am using software called ?Free Audio Recorder?. I have found that in my opinion it is not as flexible as I need it to be. It seems to record at a relatively low level and I have to play it back full volume and even then can?t pick out some details that I need from a recording. I am using a Windows computer that should be plenty fast. I am curious what you folks use to achieve this function? > As usual, thanks for your time. > 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 petitnoel47 at gmail.com Wed Jan 18 15:37:49 2017 From: petitnoel47 at gmail.com (Noel Petit) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 09:37:49 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Recording Software In-Reply-To: References: <9965E659-601B-411A-B65D-C027E8C7D381@gmail.com> Message-ID: <1D5CF4E7-3F84-46CD-B87D-BE9D3678164D@gmail.com> Use audacity. Works on all machines. Fidelity great. http://www.audacityteam.org/download/ Noel Petit WB0VGI From kayakfishtx at gmail.com Wed Jan 18 16:47:30 2017 From: kayakfishtx at gmail.com (Clayton Coleman) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 10:47:30 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Possible DM87/97 grid activation In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I'm staying on the far northern edge of DM95 this week and have been operating some passes from DM86/96. I was looking at the map and I could activate DM87/97 easily with an hour and a half drive. If you need these grids, please reply direct to this email. I'm thinking about doing it tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon or evening. 73 Clayton W5PFG From zmetzing at pobox.com Wed Jan 18 17:19:46 2017 From: zmetzing at pobox.com (Zach Metzinger) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 11:19:46 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] News: Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures Message-ID: The BBC has an interesting story on the Galileo navigation satellites: > The onboard atomic clocks that drive the satellite-navigation > signals on Europe's Galileo network have been failing at an alarming > rate. > > Across the 18 satellites now in orbit, nine clocks have stopped > operating. > > Three are traditional rubidium devices; six are the more precise > hydrogen maser instruments that were designed to give Galileo > superior performance to the American GPS network. > > Galileo was declared up and running in December. For more on the story, see: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38664225 --- Zach N0ZGO From ewpereira at gmail.com Wed Jan 18 18:55:07 2017 From: ewpereira at gmail.com (Edson W. R. Pereira) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 16:55:07 -0200 Subject: [amsat-bb] Tubesat Tancredo-1 Message-ID: Hello everyone, The tubesat Tancredo-1 (http://www.ubatubasat.com/en/), built by middle school students at the Tancredo Neves public school in Ubatuba, state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is scheduled to be deployed from the TuPOD, a tubesat deployer developed by Gauss in Italy (https://www.gaussteam.com/tag/tupod/). TuPOD was successfully deployed from the ISS this past Monday, Jan 16th, and should start transmitting a CW beacon on 437.425 MHz for a few days, starting from tomorrow around 22:00 UTC. The Tancredo-1 deployment is also scheduled for tomorrow around 22:00 UTC and right after deployment it should start transmitting telemetry using packet radio (1200 bps AFSK) on 437.200 MHz with the callsign PY0ETA. The telemetry format is described in this document: https://goo.gl/qOK6qM Reports will be much appreciated and can be send online using this web page: http://www.amsat-br.org/tools/srs/ 73, Edson PY2SDR AMSAT-BR --- - We humans have the capability to do amazing things if we work together. - N?s seres humanos temos a capacidade de fazer coisas incr?veis se trabalharmos juntos. From kayakfishtx at gmail.com Wed Jan 18 21:13:54 2017 From: kayakfishtx at gmail.com (Clayton Coleman) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 15:13:54 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] DM87/97 grid activation from Kansas Message-ID: I'll be operating some passes on Thursday, January 19 from Elkhart, Kansas on the DM87/97 grid line. 19.01.2017 XW-2C 23:17-23:26 19.01.2017 SO-50 23:30-23:43 20.01.2017 XW-2B 00:44-00:54 20.01.2017 SO-50 01:12-01:21 I might work a few other passes in between these. Updates via Twitter @w5pfg 73 Clayton W5PFG From maccody at att.net Thu Jan 19 05:42:00 2017 From: maccody at att.net (Mac A. Cody) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 23:42:00 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Has BY70-1 gone 'dark'? Message-ID: <8ad945fa-c361-fa21-7c16-ac6e7944b6ed@att.net> I tried to work BY70-1 (repeater) for the last three days without success. Has anyone determined whether it is 'stuck' in data mode or has the repeater stopped working? I've noticed on the AMSAT Satellite Status Page that the last three days of reports are mostly 'No signal'. Has there been any report from the 'mission control' of BY70-1 regarding this? 73, Mac / AE5PH From peter at m3php.com Thu Jan 19 05:47:08 2017 From: peter at m3php.com (Peter Goodhall) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 05:47:08 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Has BY70-1 gone 'dark'? In-Reply-To: <8ad945fa-c361-fa21-7c16-ac6e7944b6ed@att.net> References: <8ad945fa-c361-fa21-7c16-ac6e7944b6ed@att.net> Message-ID: Doesn't appear to have "gone dark" more the repeaters been turned off and its currently in telemetry mode. My guess is that its so they can run the science payload (camera) and get some data from it. 73, Peter, 2E0SQL On 19 January 2017 at 05:42, Mac A. Cody wrote: > I tried to work BY70-1 (repeater) for the last three days without success. > Has anyone determined whether it is 'stuck' in data mode or has the > repeater stopped working? I've noticed on the AMSAT Satellite Status Page > that the last three days of reports are mostly 'No signal'. Has there > been any report from the 'mission control' of BY70-1 regarding this? > > 73, > > Mac / AE5PH > > _______________________________________________ > 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 w5acm at swbell.net Thu Jan 19 05:59:44 2017 From: w5acm at swbell.net (Andy) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 23:59:44 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Has BY70-1 gone 'dark'? In-Reply-To: References: <8ad945fa-c361-fa21-7c16-ac6e7944b6ed@att.net> Message-ID: <00c101d27219$3bfe8310$b3fb8930$@swbell.net> It's such an excellent FM transponder! I hope to hear it again very soon. Time flies as the orbit drops... Andy W5ACM -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Peter Goodhall Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 11:47 PM To: Mac A. Cody Cc: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Has BY70-1 gone 'dark'? Doesn't appear to have "gone dark" more the repeaters been turned off and its currently in telemetry mode. My guess is that its so they can run the science payload (camera) and get some data from it. 73, Peter, 2E0SQL On 19 January 2017 at 05:42, Mac A. Cody wrote: > I tried to work BY70-1 (repeater) for the last three days without success. > Has anyone determined whether it is 'stuck' in data mode or has the > repeater stopped working? I've noticed on the AMSAT Satellite Status > Page that the last three days of reports are mostly 'No signal'. Has > there been any report from the 'mission control' of BY70-1 regarding this? > > 73, > > Mac / AE5PH > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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 Thu Jan 19 07:39:22 2017 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 02:39:22 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-19 06:30 UTC Message-ID: <15a3661.5b5b2a40.45b1c72a@aol.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-19 06:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: South Street School, Danbury CT, telebridge via VK4KHZ (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Fri 2017-01-27 19:50:18 UTC 72 deg (***) Swiss Space Center ? EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, telebridge via W6SRJ (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Thu 2017-01-26 11:06:29 UTC 53 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 123 Francesco IK?WGF with 119 **************************************************************************** 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 2017-01-19 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 1109. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1073. 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 2017-01-17 07:30 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 daniel at destevez.net Thu Jan 19 13:41:49 2017 From: daniel at destevez.net (Dani EA4GPZ) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 14:41:49 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] Has BY70-1 gone 'dark'? In-Reply-To: References: <8ad945fa-c361-fa21-7c16-ac6e7944b6ed@att.net> Message-ID: <24a19c34-90b4-7577-d172-c6375ac58801@destevez.net> El 19/01/17 a las 06:47, Peter Goodhall escribi?: > Doesn't appear to have "gone dark" more the repeaters been turned off > and its currently in telemetry mode. > > My guess is that its so they can run the science payload (camera) and > get some data from it. Hi all, The camera is not only the science payload. It's open for all hams to use it. As far as I know, it's the first time in the history of Amateur Radio that something like this happens (namely that scientific equipment on a satellite is open for remote control by all Amateurs). BY70-1 will reenter in a few weeks. In the mean time, go and have some fun: try to use the camera. Probably you'll need to team up with fellow hams in your area to receive the complete image properly. http://lilacsat.hit.edu.cn/?p=542 More info: http://destevez.net/2017/01/open-telecommand-for-by70-1/ http://destevez.net/2016/12/looking-at-by70-1-image-downlink/ 73, Dani EA4GPZ. From martha at amsat.org Thu Jan 19 22:21:55 2017 From: martha at amsat.org (Martha) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:21:55 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Office Closed Message-ID: The AMSAT Office will be closed on Friday, January 20th. -- 73- Martha From hamsat at xs4all.nl Fri Jan 20 15:03:03 2017 From: hamsat at xs4all.nl (Nico Janssen) Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 16:03:03 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] Cubesats launch and IDs Message-ID: All, Last Monday 2017-01-16 six cubesats were launched from the Japanese Kibo module of the ISS, using the J-SSOD cubesat deployer. ITF 2, Waseda-sat 3 and Freedom were deployed at 09:10 UTC. EGG was deployed at 09:20 UTC. AOBA-Velox 3 was deployed at 10:40 UTC. TUPOD was deployed at 10:50 UTC. The JSpOC published the first TLE sets two days after the launch and assigned preliminary IDs to the new cubesats. Detailed doppler measurements show that some of these IDs are not correct: ITF 2 is object 41932, 1998-067KU AOBA-Velox 3 is object 41935, 1998-067KX TUPOD is object 41931, 1998-067KT. Around 22:00 UTC on 2017-01-19 the first ever Tubesats were deployed into orbit from the cubesat TUPOD, i.e. Tancredo 1 (Brazil) and OSNSAT (USA). Tancredo 1 is still close to TUPOD, so for the time being TUPOD's TLE set can be used to track this Tubesat. 73, Nico PA0DLO From godetj at wanadoo.fr Sat Jan 21 07:55:07 2017 From: godetj at wanadoo.fr (Jean-Pierre Godet) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 07:55:07 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] AOBA-VELOX3 In-Reply-To: References: <1146530890.3923306.1484584811944.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1146530890.3923306.1484584811944@mail.yahoo.com> <5D0DB1CC829A403BA0C47BC2477D9EDF@PAULOPV8DXPC> Message-ID: As she was recorded in western Europe last night January 21st around 0258 UTC. Looks like the frequency is not exactly 437.375 MHz as announced. I noticed 437.3727 MHz. No ? Telemetry: JG6YBW AV3 HKD ZDZZ33ZZZD2DZZZZZ3 Sound file: http://f5yg.pagesperso-orange.fr/incoming/AOBA-VELOX3_orb71_21jan2017.mp3 Best 73 my friends, have a nice week-end! Jean-Pierre F5YG From hamsat at xs4all.nl Sat Jan 21 13:29:26 2017 From: hamsat at xs4all.nl (Nico Janssen) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 14:29:26 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] Cubesats launch and IDs In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4b584051-3e18-e95f-6ece-fe2f64db15fe@xs4all.nl> All, Apparently the Tubesat deployment from TuPOD on 2017-01-19 was around 23:30 UTC (so not around 22:00 UTC). Either Tancredo 1 or OSNSAT is now tracked by the JSpOC as object 41936, 1998-067KY. (There is a typo in the TLE set: '16067KY' should read '98067KY'.) 73, Nico PA0DLO On 20-01-17 16:03, Nico Janssen wrote: > All, > > Last Monday 2017-01-16 six cubesats were launched from the Japanese > Kibo module of the ISS, using the J-SSOD cubesat deployer. > > ITF 2, Waseda-sat 3 and Freedom were deployed at 09:10 UTC. EGG was > deployed at 09:20 UTC. AOBA-Velox 3 was deployed at 10:40 UTC. TUPOD > was deployed at 10:50 UTC. > > The JSpOC published the first TLE sets two days after the launch and > assigned preliminary IDs to the new cubesats. Detailed doppler > measurements show that some of these IDs are not correct: > ITF 2 is object 41932, 1998-067KU > AOBA-Velox 3 is object 41935, 1998-067KX > TUPOD is object 41931, 1998-067KT. > > Around 22:00 UTC on 2017-01-19 the first ever Tubesats were deployed into > orbit from the cubesat TUPOD, i.e. Tancredo 1 (Brazil) and OSNSAT (USA). > Tancredo 1 is still close to TUPOD, so for the time being TUPOD's TLE set > can be used to track this Tubesat. > > 73, > Nico PA0DLO > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Sat Jan 21 17:42:04 2017 From: jefforybroughton at gmail.com (jeffory broughton) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 12:42:04 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] WINDCAMP BATTERY FOR FT817 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Very disappointed with the performance of the win camp battery in my FT 817. I can't even get thru a full pass of FO 29 before it dies.I had hoped being 3000 MAh,it would be much better than the stock 1700 mah unit.I have gone to a SUPER LITHIUM ION BATTERY for a fraction of the cost.It lasts several passes of making qso after qso after qso. jeff broughton From bryan at kl7cn.net Sat Jan 21 19:41:29 2017 From: bryan at kl7cn.net (Bryan Green) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 11:41:29 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] LotW WAS NH, NY, NJ, CT, GA, MO, MS Message-ID: Hello, all! I'm closing in on LotW WAS from CM98. I have had great success setting up skeds with helpful ops! After today's sked for RI, I'll need LotW confirmation for NH, NY, NJ, CT, MO, and MS. Are any LotW-capable operators from those 6 states around this weekend? Many thanks for the cosideration! Best 73s! -- bag Bryan KL7CN/W6 bryan at kl7cn.net From ei7m-wkt at asahi-net.or.jp Sun Jan 22 01:00:26 2017 From: ei7m-wkt at asahi-net.or.jp (Mineo Wakita) Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 10:00:26 +0900 Subject: [amsat-bb] Cubesats launch and IDs Message-ID: <955775D962724D5DAEE44F840B472C82@OwnerPC> Thanks Nico, http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/aobaitf2.htm JE9PEL, Mineo Wakita From mccardelm at gmail.com Sun Jan 22 01:29:34 2017 From: mccardelm at gmail.com (E.Mike McCardel) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 20:29:34 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS-022 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins Message-ID: AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-022 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: * Reno, Nevada to Host 2017 AMSAT Space Symposium Oct 27-29 * Diwata 2's payload includes amateur radio * AMSAT News From South Africa * JAMSAT Symposium in Kyoto on 11-12 March, Presenters Requested. * Kenwood features ARISS in February 2017 Two Page QST Ad * AMSAT Phase 4 Weekly Engineering Report * US Naval Academy HFsat Receives IARU Frequency Coordination * ARISS News * Satellite Shorts From All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-022.01 ANS-022 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 022.01 >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. January 22, 2017 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-022.01 Reno, Nevada to Host 2017 AMSAT Space Symposium Oct 27-29 AMSAT NA announces that the 2017 AMSAT Space Symposium will be held on Friday through Sunday, Oct 27, 28, 29, 2017 in Reno, Nevada. Location will be at the Silver Legacy Resort , 407 N Virginia Street, in Downtown, Reno. The Silver Legacy is a 4 star Resort/Hotel/Casino which is an iconic 42-story hotel with its massive round dome and spires centered in downtown. The Silver Legacy is typically lit green at night and is referred to by many as the "Emerald City" of Reno. In support of the University of Nevada Wolf Pack, the Silver Legacy will sometimes turn blue. Some of the perks include * Free parking for attendees. * Free transportation to and from the airport (10 minutes shuttle ride). * Complimentary WiFi. * The Silver Legacy has 8 restaurants and 8 different retail shops. * Large selection of additional restaurants and casinos (El Dorado, Circus Circus, and the rest of downtown Reno) are in close proximity and within walking distance. * Multiple alternate activities and attractions are in the Reno area. Nevada Museum Of Modern Art National Automobile Museum Fleischmann Planetarium (UNR Campus) National Bowling Stadium * If you are staying longer in the Reno area, there are several other points of interest close by, including Virginia City and Lake Tahoe. 2017 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting The annual AMSAT Space Symposium features: * Space Symposium with Amateur Satellite Presentations * Operating Techniques, News, & Plans from the Amateur Satellite World * Board of Directors Meeting open to AMSAT members * Opportunities to Meet Board Members and Officers * AMSAT-NA Annual General Membership Meeting * Auction, Annual Banquet, Keynote Speaker and Door Prizes !! Several members from The Sierra Nevada Amateur Radio Society (SNARS) as well as many other local radio amateurs will be participating in helping with this event. Additional information about the 2017 AMSAT Symposium will be posted on the AMSAT web site, www.amsat.org as it becomes available. [ANS thanks Joe Spier, K6WAO, Frank Kostelac, N7ZEV, Linda Kostelac, KC7IIT, and the AMSAT-NA Office for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Diwata 2's payload includes amateur radio THE whole world is again set to witness come 2018 a third-world country launching into space another microsatellite -- this time with an amateur or ham radio included in the payload. An amateur radio is a communication technology that allows its operators to talk or send messages to other people, especially first responders, planners and government agencies whose own communications have been knocked out, in time of disasters and emergencies. Diwata 2 -- the Philippines' second microsatellite that is currently being developed by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman, Hokkaido University, and Tohoku University in Japan -- has this technology, along with a telescope and cameras. Its predecessor, the Diwata 1, was launched into orbit last April 2016 and has been sending pictures to DOST-Advanced Science and Technology Institute (Asti); the latest photo posted on PHL-Microsat Program's website shows the swollen Pinacanauan River, as well as agricultural areas damaged by flood after Tropical Cyclone Lawin (Haima) made landfall in Pe?ablanca, Cagayan on October 19, 2016. The PHL-Microsat said that as of January 13, the "Diwata 1 has circled the world approximately 4,083 times, taking images not just of the Philippines but also of other parts of the Earth." "We will download the images every time the Diwata 1 passes by the Philippines," said Dr. Joel Joseph Marciano Jr., program leader of PHL-Microsat and acting director of DOST-Asti, in an interview with SunStar. As to the amateur radio included in the payload of Diwata 2, Marciano said it is a very important feature of the second microsatellite, especially that the country is prone to natural disasters and calamities. "So when the satellite passes over in time of disaster, you can get a ham radio and send messages to another person in other areas in the country, and even give updates on evacuation using ham radio," he told fellows of the 20th Lopez Jaena Community Journalism Workshop held in UP Diliman last November 2016. The Philippines has more than a thousand amateur radio operators nationwide. Most of them are members of the Philippine Amateur Radio Association. Aside from the amateur radio, Diwata 2 has a Spaceborne Multispectral Imager (SMI) with liquid crystal tunable filter (LCTF) for environmental monitoring; high precision telescope (HPT) for rapid post-disaster assessment; and enhanced resolution cameras (instead of wide and middle field cameras used in Diwata 1). "Medium and wide cameras will be replaced by enhanced resolution cameras but there will still be the HPT and SMI with LCTF... Three cameras, plus an amateur radio as part of the payload," Marciano told SunStar. He said 11 Filipino scholars are working on the Diwata 2. "Mas dumami pa, because we now have 11 scholars. They are in Japan, working with the two universities (Hokkaido and Tohoku)," said Marciano. There were only nine Filipino scholars who assembled the Diwata 1. "They are considered as scholars because they are under the DOST scholarships, and building the microsatellites is part of their studies," added Marciano. He said that at present, they are working on the engineering model. "We are now in the design phase. We are working on the blocks. They are being done here locally and they will be tested in Japan." The DOST targets to launch the Diwata 2 in the first half of 2018, but Marciano said the launching will also depend on the availability of the launching facility. "The target overall for the completion of the flight model is in December 2017," he said. Except for the amateur radio and enhanced resolution cameras, Diwata 2 will hover 400 kilometers above the Earth's surface just like Diwata 1. It also weighs 50 kilograms, the size of a room air conditioner. "The characteristics are the same. There will be chances na mag-abot sila doon, which is an advantage to us since it will mean that we can generate more images from them... The idea is they should be operated on the same constellation. They have to communicate with other satellites to provide us better images," said Marciano. He explained that the country's microsatellites are not geostationary satellites, which have an altitude of 39,000 kilometers and are more expensive. "Diwata 2 only has 400 to 600 kilometers altitude," he said, adding that because it is a microsatellite, it is only considered a secondary payload. "Parang nakikiangkas lang tayo sa paglaunch (We are just hitching a ride), because it is very expensive to launch big satellites. You have to pay for the rocket," he told the Lopez Jaena journalism workshop fellows. He also said in November that the challenge of Diwata satellites' orbit is they can only take images of a certain location if they passes by it. "Diwata 1 passes every day, but it passes in different places, so there's a challenge of being in the right place at the right time," said Marciano. Asked about the possibility of a launching failure, Dr. Marc Caesar Talampas, project leader in-charge of the microsatellite BUS development, said in a follow-up interview: "They undergo rigorous testing before they will be launched into space. There is vibration test, radiation testing, etc. We have to comply with all the specifications." "The failure is more on not responding, not on the launching. But so far, based on our experience with Diwata 1, the communication has been positive," added Marciano. The government has allotted P2 billion per year for DOST's space technology program. This is on top of the P840 million that was already invested for the PHL-Microsat program. "There's an increase in the availability of funding for research in space technology... In 2018, we will come up with a new (budget) proposal,"Marciano said. [ANS thanks LAUREEN MONDO?EDO-YNOT and SunStar Philippines for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT News From South Africa ** Turn your laptop into a 24 MHz to 1,7 GHz receiver. AMSAT SA is holding a half-day SDR Workshop in association with the South African Radio League at the NARC on 18 February 2017. This is a hands-on workshop where participants will install a VHF/UHF RTL dongle and programme it to become a VHF/UHF receiver covering 24 MHz to 1,7 GHz. Anton Janovsky, ZR6AIC, and Cor Rademeyer, ZS6CR, will present the Workshop. The Workshop fee includes the RTL dongle and a memory stick with all the required software as well as light refreshments. Register before 11 February 2017, all the details and registration form are available on www.amsatsa.org.za. Book early to avoid disappointment. ** The 2017 AMSAT SA Space Conference will be held on Saturday 20 May 2017 in Pretoria. This is the first call for paper proposals. The theme of the conference is "Conquering Space as an educational pastime." Proposals for papers should include a brief synopsis of the proposed paper. The closing date for proposals is 31 January 2017. Authors will be notified of acceptance of their paper by 15 February 2017. More details on www.amsatsa.org.za [ANS thanks the SARL weekly news in English 2017-1-7 for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- JAMSAT Symposium in Kyoto on 11-12 March, Presenters Requested. Mikio Mouri, JA3GEP, JAMSAT announces "We are going to held our AGM and JAMSAT Symposium in Kyoto next March. "I hope to have some attendance from AMSAT-NA, even via Skype. We hope to hear some update of activities in US." The meeting will be held at: http://hotel-binario.jp/en/ The Hotel Binario Saga Arashiyama is located in the beautiful Arashiyama district of Kyoto and is perfect for sightseeing. Date and Time of Symposium: 14:30-17:30JST(05:30-08:30UTC) March 11(Sat) 09:00-13:00JST(00:00-04:00UTC) March 12(Sun) If anyone has an opportunity to join and present, please let Mikio know the appropriate time of your availability. He will keep the time slot for your presentation. Mikio can be contacted via JBH02173 (at) nifty.com] [ANS thanks Mikio JA3GEP for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Kenwood features ARISS in February 2017 Two Page QST Ad Kenwwood features ARISS donations in its two page ad in the February 2017 QST. Check out the ad on pages 27 and 28. During February the ARRL is running a special slider in their rotating banner, on their website home page, with an appeal for ARISS donations. Also, The QST Cover story for February teases "Texas Students Take Amateur Radio to the Edge of Space" The article "To the Edge of Space and Back with Ham Radio" by Chase Mertz, KG5KKX is featured on page 76. Mertz highlights "Student engineers in the Eldorado Space Program design, build, and program instrument packages, sending them as high as 120,000 feet using a highaltitude weather balloon." [ANS thanks ARRL for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT Phase 4 Weekly Engineering Report AMSAT Phase 4 Ground Radio prototype with Ettus Research B210 by John Petrich W7FU can be viewed at: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oyAe21bWR4g&feature=youtu.be [ANS thanks Michelle W5NYV for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- US Naval Academy HFsat Receives IARU Frequency Coordination The US Naval Academy has received IARU satellite frequency coordination for HFsat, a 1.5 U CubeSat with a 15 meter to 10 meter linear transponder with 30kHz bandwidth. The CubeSat will also carry an APRS digipeater on 145.825MHz. HFsat is a project to demonstrate the viability of HF satellite communications as a backup communications system using existing ubiquitous HF radios that are usually a part of the communications suite on all small mobile platforms such has ham radio mobiles and portable operations frequently used by Amateurs in support of disaster and emergency response communications. The HFsat will be gravity gradient stabilized by its long full size 10 meter band halfwave HF dipole antenna with tip masses. A standardized CubSsat VHF communications card based on the popular Byonics MTT4B all-in-one APRS Tiny-Track4 module for telemetry, command and control is under development at the US Naval Academy. Standardizing the communications board makes it easy to add the HF Transponder mission into Naval Academy?s standard CubeSat bus without an all new start. HFsat will continue the long tradition of small amateur satellites designed by Aerospace students at the US naval Academy. The students are working with Bill Ress, N6GHZ on the HF transponder card. HF Uplink: 21.40 MHz, 30 kHz wide multi user bandwidth HF downlink: 29.42 MHz, the 30 kHz wide downlink passband VHF APRS DigiPeater: 145.825 MHz FM 1200 baud AFSK packet Find additional information on-line at: http://aprs.org/HFsat.html (US Naval Academy) http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/ (search for HFsat in the list of satellites that have been coordinated) [ANS thanks the US Naval Academy and the IARU for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS News + A Successful contact was made between High School "L?on Blum", Le Creusot, France and Astronaut Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG using Callsign NA1SS. The contact began Mon 2017-01-16 11:53:17 and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was Telebridge via K6DUE. ARISS Mentor was Joseph F6ICS. Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-19 06:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: South Street School, Danbury CT, telebridge via VK4KHZ. The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS. The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD. Contact is a go for: Fri 2017-01-27 19:50:18 UTC Swiss Space Center ? EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, telebridge via W6SRJ. The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS. The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG. Contact is a go for: Thu 2017-01-26 11:06:29 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 145.800 MHz. 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 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 [ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts From All Over + APRS Symbol Look Up Table Kenneth Finnegan, W6KWF has created an easy to use lookup table for APRS symbol codes. "I've made a lookup table which has the symbol code, the primary symbol, and the secondary symbol all on top of each other as opposed to the three adjacent tables on the aprs.org page: http://tinyurl.com/ANS-022-APRS-Table [ANS thanks Kenneth K6KWF for the above information.] + Colloquium Videos for 2009-2012 Posted on YouTube AMSAT-UK reports that thanks to Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG and @BATC online videos of talks given at AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2009-2012 are now posted at: https://www.youtube.com/user/AMSATUK/videos [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information] + June Page of the 2017 ARRL Calendar Features NPOTA Satellite Ops "Fernando Ramirez-Ferrer NP4JV, overlooks the vastness of Grand Canyon National Park (NP22) in Arizona as he makes contacts via the SO-50 Amateur Radio satellite. This was the sixth NPOTA unit he had activated via satellite." (Ruth V Ramirez, photo credit) [ANS thanks ARRL for the above information.] + UT1FG/MM is departing Finland ~1900 UTC (21 January) heading to Mexico. Clean your antennas, de-wax your ears and remember to give others a chance to get through.. [ANS thanks Jari OH2FQV, Via Twitter, 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, EMike McCardel, AA8EM aa8em at amsat dot org From AJ9N at aol.com Sun Jan 22 06:25:21 2017 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 01:25:21 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-22 06:00 UTC Message-ID: <1f0ce0f.69c7591e.45b5aa51@aol.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-22 06:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: South Street School, Danbury CT, telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Fri 2017-01-27 19:50:18 UTC 72 deg Swiss Space Center ? EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, telebridge via W6SRJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Thu 2017-01-26 11:06:29 UTC 53 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 123 Francesco IK?WGF with 119 **************************************************************************** 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 2017-01-22 06:00 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 1109. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1073. 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 2017-01-17 07:30 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 k8tl at earthlink.net Sun Jan 22 19:29:13 2017 From: k8tl at earthlink.net (Tom Lubbers K8TL) Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 14:29:13 -0500 (GMT-05:00) Subject: [amsat-bb] PCSAT32 + LVB tracker. Message-ID: <4344397.4896.1485113353799@elwamui-cypress.atl.sa.earthlink.net> After many successful orbits I'm retiring my Trak Boxes. While looking at PCSATs interface choices I notice the LVB tracker isn't included. Which one should I use? Tom K8TL k8tl at earthlink.net From kq6ea at verizon.net Sun Jan 22 21:05:44 2017 From: kq6ea at verizon.net (Jim Jerzycke) Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 21:05:44 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] PCSAT32 + LVB tracker. In-Reply-To: <4344397.4896.1485113353799@elwamui-cypress.atl.sa.earthlink.net> References: <4344397.4896.1485113353799@elwamui-cypress.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <47fb1981-c9f8-2ee8-445b-e3a60c6eb03c@verizon.net> IIRC, "EasyCom" works. 73, Jim KQ6EA On 01/22/2017 07:29 PM, Tom Lubbers K8TL wrote: > After many successful orbits I'm retiring my Trak Boxes. While looking at PCSATs interface choices I notice the LVB tracker isn't included. Which one should I use? > Tom K8TL > k8tl at earthlink.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 > From kb2m at comcast.net Mon Jan 23 01:20:05 2017 From: kb2m at comcast.net (Jeff) Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 20:20:05 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] PCSAT32 + LVB tracker. Message-ID: Hi Tom. LVB with SatPC32 uses the Yaesu_GS-232 as a rotor interface/controller selection as the LVB uses the Yaesu command format... 73 Jeff kb2m -----Original Message----- From: Tom Lubbers K8TL Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2017 2:29 PM To: AMSAT BB Subject: [amsat-bb] PCSAT32 + LVB tracker. After many successful orbits I'm retiring my Trak Boxes. While looking at PCSATs interface choices I notice the LVB tracker isn't included. Which one should I use? Tom K8TL k8tl at earthlink.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 From cee at palomarlight.com Mon Jan 23 03:30:46 2017 From: cee at palomarlight.com (CEE) Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 19:30:46 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] PCSAT32 + LVB tracker. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I have a Fox Delta FT ST2 USB LVB Tracker interface, for my laptop to Yaesu G5400 rotor. I use "SAEBRTrackBox" rotor interface selection from the Rotor Setup menu in SatPC 32; This works very well. Chuck N7BFO On 1/22/2017 5:20 PM, Jeff wrote: > Hi Tom. LVB with SatPC32 uses the Yaesu_GS-232 as a rotor > interface/controller > selection as the LVB uses the Yaesu command format... > > > 73 Jeff kb2m > > -----Original Message----- From: Tom Lubbers K8TL > Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2017 2:29 PM > To: AMSAT BB > Subject: [amsat-bb] PCSAT32 + LVB tracker. > > After many successful orbits I'm retiring my Trak Boxes. While > looking at > PCSATs interface choices I notice the LVB tracker isn't included. > Which one > should I use? > Tom K8TL > k8tl at earthlink.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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 nss at mwt.net Mon Jan 23 12:52:01 2017 From: nss at mwt.net (Joe) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 06:52:01 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Doppler PSK Message-ID: <36d42d55-b7ae-7d51-b19d-e3022cd7becf@mwt.net> Looking for help with this program. All the Google results that have help guides are busted. I fully understand the concept of the program. But wonder is there a way to adjust the base start up frequency? Every time I have used it, I'm worried if I may be passing out of many peoples passbands! Even my radios for that matter on transmit. It seems really high all the time. I do not think it has ever been lower than 2500 Hz Joe WB9SBD -- Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com From my.callsign at verizon.net Mon Jan 23 14:29:59 2017 From: my.callsign at verizon.net (KO6TZ Bob) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 06:29:59 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] Doppler PSK In-Reply-To: <36d42d55-b7ae-7d51-b19d-e3022cd7becf@mwt.net> References: <36d42d55-b7ae-7d51-b19d-e3022cd7becf@mwt.net> Message-ID: <01a92506-debb-05f4-2a46-0526ea3a698d@verizon.net> Joe, There is no configuration utility built into the program. You need to simply edit the following four (4) text files in the program as needed: 1. SETTINGS.INI (this is where the settings you asked about are) 2. DOPPLER.SQF (use this to add future satellites)(rarely needed) 3. TLE / nasabare.txt (VERY Important...update weekly) 4. MACROS / (configure to your liking) I have seen your call recently on the satellite, late in the pass for me. At present the high spin rate of NO-84 is making copy of the PSK31 signals difficult. You are there. Bob KO6TZ Looking for help with this program. All the Google results that have help guides are busted. I fully understand the concept of the program. But wonder is there a way to adjust the base start up frequency? Every time I have used it, I'm worried if I may be passing out of many peoples passbands! Even my radios for that matter on transmit. It seems really high all the time. I do not think it has ever been lower than 2500 Hz Joe WB9SBD -- Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com From nss at mwt.net Mon Jan 23 14:37:40 2017 From: nss at mwt.net (Joe) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:37:40 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Doppler PSK In-Reply-To: <01a92506-debb-05f4-2a46-0526ea3a698d@verizon.net> References: <36d42d55-b7ae-7d51-b19d-e3022cd7becf@mwt.net> <01a92506-debb-05f4-2a46-0526ea3a698d@verizon.net> Message-ID: <3f584f88-b634-3cb6-3936-2a750f931706@mwt.net> Yeah just getting started on this cool bird. How well was I getting in? I need to better my receive end. Started with a Mini wheel and ARR Gas fet pre amp, was OK but nothing to scream about. Over the weekend swapped that out to what Bob APR suggests a 2 meter GP 3/4 wave on 70 CM and the pre-amp. See of that works any better B4 I end up with the complex beams and rotors etc. Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 1/23/2017 8:29 AM, KO6TZ Bob wrote: > Joe, > > There is no configuration utility built into the program. You need to > simply edit the following four (4) text files in the program as needed: > > 1. SETTINGS.INI (this is where the settings you asked about are) > 2. DOPPLER.SQF (use this to add future satellites)(rarely needed) > 3. TLE / nasabare.txt (VERY Important...update weekly) > 4. MACROS / (configure to your liking) > > I have seen your call recently on the satellite, late in the pass for > me. At present the high spin rate of NO-84 is making copy of the > PSK31 signals difficult. You are there. > > Bob > KO6TZ > > > > Looking for help with this program. > > All the Google results that have help guides are busted. > > I fully understand the concept of the program. > > But wonder is there a way to adjust the base start up frequency? > > Every time I have used it, I'm worried if I may be passing out of many > peoples passbands! Even my radios for that matter on transmit. It seems > really high all the time. I do not think it has ever been lower than > 2500 Hz > > Joe WB9SBD From aflowers at frontiernet.net Mon Jan 23 14:51:14 2017 From: aflowers at frontiernet.net (aflowers at frontiernet.net) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:51:14 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Doppler PSK In-Reply-To: <3f584f88-b634-3cb6-3936-2a750f931706@mwt.net> References: <36d42d55-b7ae-7d51-b19d-e3022cd7becf@mwt.net> <01a92506-debb-05f4-2a46-0526ea3a698d@verizon.net> <3f584f88-b634-3cb6-3936-2a750f931706@mwt.net> Message-ID: <705096562.1928574.1485183074269@mail.yahoo.com> I sent Joe the documentation directly.? If the site isn't fixed in a little while I'll find somewhere else to put them.? In the meantime, if anyone else needs?the DopplerPSK package please let me know directly. While not documented, the settings.ini file defines the Doppler center frequency in Hz.? This can be changed manually and the program restarted to "recenter" the audio carrier driving the SSB transmitter.??The default?was chosen to be 2000Hz as the default since this means that the entire Doppler shift will typically run?from about 1400-2600Hz with NO-84.? This should be within the IF passband of most SSB transmitters while keeping the second harmonic beyond the cutoff frequency of that same filter...if?you keep things linear in the audio chain a lower frequency should be okay.? This might be helpful if your transmitter shows significant rolloff at high frequencies. Andy K0SM/2 On Monday, January 23, 2017 9:37 AM, Joe wrote: Yeah just getting started on this cool bird. How well was I getting in? I need to better my receive end. Started with a Mini wheel and ARR Gas fet pre amp, was OK but nothing to scream about. Over the weekend swapped that out to what Bob APR suggests a 2 meter GP 3/4 wave on 70 CM and the pre-amp. See of that works any better B4 I end up with the complex beams and rotors etc. Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 1/23/2017 8:29 AM, KO6TZ Bob wrote: > Joe, > > There is no configuration utility built into the program.? You need to > simply edit the following four (4) text files in the program as needed: > > 1.? ? ? ? SETTINGS.INI? (this is where the settings you asked about are) > 2.? ? ? ? DOPPLER.SQF (use this to add future satellites)(rarely needed) > 3.? ? ? ? TLE / nasabare.txt? (VERY Important...update weekly) > 4.? ? ? ? MACROS / ? (configure to your liking) > > I have seen your call recently on the satellite, late in the pass for > me.? At present the high spin rate of NO-84 is making copy of the > PSK31 signals difficult.? You are there. > > Bob > KO6TZ > > > > Looking for help with this program. > > All the Google results that have help guides are busted. > > I fully understand the concept of the program. > > But wonder is there a way to adjust the base start up frequency? > > Every time I have used it, I'm worried if I may be passing out of many > peoples passbands! Even my radios for that matter on transmit. It seems > really high all the time. I do not think it has ever been lower than > 2500 Hz > > Joe WB9SBD _______________________________________________ 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 kb2m at comcast.net Mon Jan 23 18:28:47 2017 From: kb2m at comcast.net (Jeff) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 13:28:47 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Message-ID: <0EF85110CC954AB795484B32EAD431C1@kb2m4PC> BY70-1 is now a valid satellite in LoTW ! 73 Jeff kb2m From kx9x at yahoo.com Mon Jan 23 18:40:30 2017 From: kx9x at yahoo.com (Sean K.) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 18:40:30 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] New TQSL Config File References: <336915296.1945227.1485196830602.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <336915296.1945227.1485196830602@mail.yahoo.com> >From the ARRL LoTW/IT staff: config.xmlversion 10.5 has been released. This is an update release containing?additions and changes made sincethe release of config.xml 10.4 The changes in config.xml 10.5 are: - In the Satellite enumeration, added entries for: - "BY70-1": Bayi Kepu Weixing 1 - "IO-86": Indonesia-OSCAR 86 (LAPAN-ORARI) - "SAREX" for 2-way contacts made using the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX) packet digipeater - "MIREX": for 2-way contacts made using the Mir packet digipeater ?Sean Kutzko Amateur Radio KX9X From w5pfg at amsat.org Mon Jan 23 18:55:43 2017 From: w5pfg at amsat.org (Clayton W5PFG) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 12:55:43 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 In-Reply-To: <0EF85110CC954AB795484B32EAD431C1@kb2m4PC> References: <0EF85110CC954AB795484B32EAD431C1@kb2m4PC> Message-ID: <5c6dc286-1c1a-9bc4-3b17-d8d538e541b6@amsat.org> Our QSO was my first match! 73 Clayton W5PFG On 1/23/2017 12:28, Jeff wrote: > BY70-1 is now a valid satellite in LoTW ! > > 73 Jeff kb2m > _______________________________________________ > 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 Mon Jan 23 19:16:40 2017 From: k.alexander at rogers.com (Ken Alexander) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:16:40 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Make Up Grid Expedition FN27 + FN28 Message-ID: <7fdf2a14-bcea-7ded-fc08-3a60195bdce1@rogers.com> Technical difficulties prevented me from reaching FN27 in my recent grid expedition. It's time to correct that situation. February 20th is a statutory holiday in Canada, so I'm going to tack on a few vacation days and return to FN27. As it turns out, there's a small sawmill town further up the road and just south of the FN28 boundary! The plan as of today's will be to haul a$$ from home to Mont-Laurier QC (FN26gn) on Friday Feb 17th, then head into FN27 and FN28 on Saturday. Spend the night in Parent QC, (FN27qw) and operate a little more from both grids on Sunday morning. Sunday night in will be spent in Ottawa, ON and return to base on Monday. My objective is to make up for missing FN27 and to activate FN28 because it's possible. Operation from other grids will only take place in the evenings, when I arrive at my hotel. It's not very ambitious as far as activating new grids is concerned (although they are high quality grids!), but there's a lot of driving involved to get there and back; nearly 2,000 km (approx 1,200 mi) of driving in only 3 days. That said, if anyone has the time and thinks they could put up with me, I would be very happy to have a co-pilot to share the driving and modest expenses with. The Quebec countryside is very beautiful and the people are warm and friendly. Please contact me privately if you're up for a mini-adventure in February. More details as we get closer to the date. 73, Ken VE3HLS From k7trkradio at charter.net Tue Jan 24 00:20:51 2017 From: k7trkradio at charter.net (Ted) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:20:51 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] New TQSL Config File In-Reply-To: <336915296.1945227.1485196830602@mail.yahoo.com> References: <336915296.1945227.1485196830602.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <336915296.1945227.1485196830602@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <002501d275d7$b96f8e40$2c4eaac0$@charter.net> THANK YOU, Sean !! 73, ted K7TRK -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Sean K. via AMSAT-BB Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 10:41 AM To: AMSAT BB Subject: [amsat-bb] New TQSL Config File >From the ARRL LoTW/IT staff: config.xmlversion 10.5 has been released. This is an update release containing additions and changes made sincethe release of config.xml 10.4 The changes in config.xml 10.5 are: - In the Satellite enumeration, added entries for: - "BY70-1": Bayi Kepu Weixing 1 - "IO-86": Indonesia-OSCAR 86 (LAPAN-ORARI) - "SAREX" for 2-way contacts made using the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX) packet digipeater - "MIREX": for 2-way contacts made using the Mir packet digipeater 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 AJ9N at aol.com Tue Jan 24 04:39:38 2017 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 23:39:38 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-24 04:30 UTC Message-ID: <14787ed.dd857af.45b83489@aol.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-24 04:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Swiss Space Center ? EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, telebridge via W6SRJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Thu 2017-01-26 11:06:29 UTC 53 deg South Street School, Danbury CT, telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Fri 2017-01-27 19:50:18 UTC 72 deg Cours Saint Maur, Monaco, Monaco, telebridge via LU1CGB (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Wed 2017-02-01 09:30:57 UTC 35 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 123 Francesco IK?WGF with 119 **************************************************************************** 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 2017-01-24 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 1109. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1073. 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 2017-01-17 07:30 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 ingejack at cox.net Tue Jan 24 14:19:53 2017 From: ingejack at cox.net (ingejack at cox.net) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 7:19:53 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70 and LOTW Message-ID: <20170124091953.IOBJT.422641.imail@fed1rmwml113> All Qso's from Jack KC7MG in DM42 Arizona have now been entered In LOTW . If anyone is missing his/her Confirmation please email me to verify. Qso's entered under Bayi Kepu Weixing 1 73 JACK-KC7MG DM42 From dan at post.com Tue Jan 24 15:10:55 2017 From: dan at post.com (Daniel Cussen) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:10:55 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] NOW:Watch_a_live_Education_Inflight_Call_with_ESA_astronaut_Thomas_Pesquet_on_24_January Message-ID: Not ARISS. Inflight call live stream NOW here: http://www.esa.int/Education/Teachers_Corner/Watch_a_live_Education_Inflight_Call_with_ESA_astronaut_Thomas_Pesquet_on_24_January Actual live link up 14:55GMT Livestream, including the introductions at each site before the inflight call, will start at 15:55 CET (14:55 GMT, 16:55 EET). The actual inflight call will start at around 16:35 CET and will last about 20 minutes. Don?t miss it! More info: http://www.thejournal.ie/irish-students-talk-iss-3197340-Jan2017/?utm_source=shortlink Every year, ESA gives some of its ESERO offices the unique opportunity to gather primary and secondary school teachers, students, and space scientists and engineers around an inflight call with an ESA astronaut on board the ISS. This year, local events are organised by ESERO Ireland, ESERO Romania and ESERO Portugal. These events will take place in Limerick, Timi?oara, and Lisbon, respectively. The inflight call with Thomas Pesquet is part of a vast range of educational activities delivered by ESA and its European Space Education Resource Office (ESERO) project. There are currently 10 operational ESERO Offices across Europe, covering 13 ESA Member States. ESA?s ESERO project is a collaboration between ESA, national space agencies, and educational partners. ESEROs design and disseminate classroom resources ? all tailored to the national school curricula and language - which make use of space to make teaching and learning of STEM subjects more appealing and effective. In addition, they offer teacher training workshops and conferences for both primary and secondary school teachers, and support educational hands-on projects in the country. Through their activities, ESEROs also raise awareness about STEM-related career prospects, and promote the importance of space in our daily lives. From dan at post.com Tue Jan 24 15:21:38 2017 From: dan at post.com (Daniel Cussen) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:21:38 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] NOW:Watch_a_live_Education_Inflight_Call_with_ESA_astronaut_Thomas_Pesquet_on_24_January In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Live stream is on now Astronaut is at 15:35GMT (16:35CET) On 24/01/2017, Daniel Cussen wrote: > Not ARISS. > Inflight call live stream NOW here: > > http://www.esa.int/Education/Teachers_Corner/Watch_a_live_Education_Inflight_Call_with_ESA_astronaut_Thomas_Pesquet_on_24_January > > Actual live link up 14:55GMT > > Livestream, including the introductions at each site before the > inflight call, will start at 15:55 CET (14:55 GMT, 16:55 EET). The > actual inflight call will start at around 16:35 CET and will last > about 20 minutes. Don?t miss it! > > More info: > > http://www.thejournal.ie/irish-students-talk-iss-3197340-Jan2017/?utm_source=shortlink > > Every year, ESA gives some of its ESERO offices the unique opportunity > to gather primary and secondary school teachers, students, and space > scientists and engineers around an inflight call with an ESA astronaut > on board the ISS. > > This year, local events are organised by ESERO Ireland, ESERO Romania > and ESERO Portugal. These events will take place in Limerick, > Timi?oara, and Lisbon, respectively. > > The inflight call with Thomas Pesquet is part of a vast range of > educational activities delivered by ESA and its European Space > Education Resource Office (ESERO) project. There are currently 10 > operational ESERO Offices across Europe, covering 13 ESA Member > States. ESA?s ESERO project is a collaboration between ESA, national > space agencies, and educational partners. > > ESEROs design and disseminate classroom resources ? all tailored to > the national school curricula and language - which make use of space > to make teaching and learning of STEM subjects more appealing and > effective. In addition, they offer teacher training workshops and > conferences for both primary and secondary school teachers, and > support educational hands-on projects in the country. Through their > activities, ESEROs also raise awareness about STEM-related career > prospects, and promote the importance of space in our daily lives. > From n4csitwo at bellsouth.net Wed Jan 25 04:33:43 2017 From: n4csitwo at bellsouth.net (n4csitwo at bellsouth.net) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 23:33:43 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] =?iso-8859-1?q?Upcoming_ARISS_contact_with_Swiss_Space?= =?iso-8859-1?q?_Center_-_EPFL=2C_Lausanne=2C_Switzerland?= Message-ID: An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Swiss Space Center - EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland on 26 Jan. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 11:06 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 French. Description du Swiss Space Center Le Swiss Space Center oeuvre pour que les institutions de recherche et les entreprises puissent acc?der au secteur spatial et collaborer entre elles sur des projets d'envergure internationale. Raccord? ? l'EPFL, le Swiss Space Center s'investit aussi dans la formation professionnelle, les activit?s ?ducatives avec les jeunes et l'appr?ciation de l'espace de la part du grand public. Ecoles participantes Deux ?coles ont r?pondu pr?sent ? l'offre de passer un coup de fil ? la Station Spatiale Internationale. 1. L'Ecole primaire de Ch?teauneuf participera avec des enfants tr?s jeunes et d?j? tr?s experts de l'espace: ils ont ?tudi? le Syst?me Solaire et la Terre ainsi que diff?rentes missions spatiales et l'implication de la Suisse et l'Europe dans leur contexte. Ils suivent Thomas Pesquet sur les r?seaux sociaux depuis son entra?nement et sont pr?ts ? prendre le relais de lui: ils savent d?j? quoi mettre dans la valise d'un kilo et demi ? laquelle les astronautes ont droit pour un s?jour ? bord de la Station. 2. Les ?l?ves de secondaire l'Etablissement de Pr?verenges sont aussi tr?s bien pr?par?s: pour ces gar?ons et filles la gravit? ne fait plus peur car ils ont ?tudi? les forces, comment les mod?liser, mesurer et calculer. De plus les classes ont aussi conduit un atelier autour de l'alimentation des astronautes ? bord de la Station. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1 Quelle heure est-il en ce moment sur ISS? 2 F?teras-tu ton anniversaire autour de bougies, g?teau et de cadeaux? 3 Pouvez-vous s'il vous plait nous d?crire ce que vous voyez hormis la Terre et le Soleil? 4 Quelles sont les choses les plus dr?les que vous faites en apesanteur? 5 Que faites-vous pendant votre temps libre? 6 Quel est la nourriture que tu n'aimes pas manger dans l'espace? 7 Quelles ?taient tes mati?res pr?f?r?es ? l'?cole? 8 Ta maman te manque? 9 As-tu observ? les effets de la pollution sur notre plan?te? 10 Dans le Soyouz et ISS as-tu entendu des bruits qui font peur? 11 Quelle ?tait votre motivation pour aller dans l'espace? 12 Entre combien de candidats avez vous ?t? choisi et pourquoi? 13 Pendant l'entra?nement, quelle a ?t? pour vous la chose la plus difficile a r?aliser? 14 Quelles sont les exp?riences scientifiques que vous faites? 15 Qu'est-ce que cela vous procure d'?tre en apesanteur? 16 Votre sommeil est-il diff?rent quand vous dormez dans l'ISS? 17 Qu'est-ce que vous faites si vous avez une urgence m?dicale? 18 Y a-t-il des disputes entre les astronautes? 19 Qu'est-ce qu'il vous manque le plus de la vie normale? 20 Quelle est votre plus grande peur durant votre s?jour dans l'espace? Translated: Description of the Swiss Space Center The Swiss Space Center works to facilitate access to the space sector for both research institutions and industrial partners, so that they can collaborate on the realization of international projects. Based at EPFL, the Swiss Space Center also works to disseminate public awareness of space, to provide educational activities to school pupils and training to university students. Participating Schools Two schools have answered present to the offer of giving astronauts a ring onboard the International Space Station. 1. The Ecole primaire de Ch?teauneuf will participate with kids as young as 6, who are already very knowledgeable about space: they studied the Solar System and the Earth, various space missions and what role Europe and Switzerland have in them. They have been following Thomas Pesquets on social media since his training and they are ready to take over from him, as they already know what to put in the 1.5 kg suitcase that astronautes are allowed to bring onboard the ISS. 2. Middle school students from the Etablissement de Pr?verenges are also very well prepared: for these boys and girls gravity holds no secret anymore as they have studied the concept of forces, how to model, compute, and measure them; they have also learned about how astronauts eat on the ISS by conducting a workshop in the classroom. 1 What time is right now on the ISS? 2 Will you celebrate your birthday with candles, cake and gifts? 3 Could you please describe us what you can see apart the Earth and the Sun? 4 What are the funniest things you can do without gravity? 5 What do you do in your spare time? 6 What is the type of food that you don't enjoy eating in space? 7 What were your favorite school subjects? 8 Do you miss your mum? 9 Have you been able to observe the effects of pollution on our planet? 10 Have you ever experienced frightening noises on both Soyuz and the ISS? 11 What was your motivation to go to space? 12 Among how many candidates were you chosen and why? 13 During your training, what was the most difficult task to accomplish? 14 What experiments are you conducting? 15 What effects does weightlessness have on your body? 16 Does sleeping feel different on the ISS? 17 What do you do if there's a medical emergency onboard? 18 Are there disputes among astronauts? 19 What do you miss the most of life on Earth? 20 What do you fear the most about your stay in space? 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): 1. South Street School, Danbury CT, telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Fri 2017-01-27 19:50 UTC 2. Cours Saint Maur, Monaco, Monaco, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Wed 2017-02-01 09:30 UTC 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 maccody at att.net Wed Jan 25 05:41:54 2017 From: maccody at att.net (Mac A. Cody) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 23:41:54 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 log entries on LOTW Message-ID: All, I have posted my backlog of QSOs for BY70-1 on LOTW. If you are missing a QSL, please let me know. 73, Mac Cody / AE5PH From bruninga at usna.edu Wed Jan 25 13:01:00 2017 From: bruninga at usna.edu (Robert Bruninga) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 08:01:00 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] satpc32 "sun tracking" Message-ID: Does SatPC32 have a ?sun tracking? feature for indicating the Sun AZ/EL like Instantrack did? I use it frequently for sun noise measurements and for solar angle calculations for solar system design. Bob, WB4A{R From wa4sca at gmail.com Wed Jan 25 13:06:49 2017 From: wa4sca at gmail.com (Alan) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 07:06:49 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 "sun tracking" Message-ID: <000001d2770b$e3b548e0$ab1fdaa0$@GMAIL.COM> Bob, There is an auxiliary program in the SatPC32 folder called SuM.exe which track both the sun and moon. 73s, Alan WA4SCA <-----Original Message----- References: Message-ID: Yes. Use SuM in the SatPC32 folder for sun and moon tracking. 73, Paul, N8HM On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Robert Bruninga wrote: > Does SatPC32 have a ?sun tracking? feature for indicating the Sun AZ/EL > like Instantrack did? > > > > I use it frequently for sun noise measurements and for solar angle > calculations for solar system design. > > Bob, WB4A{R > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From bruninga at usna.edu Wed Jan 25 14:00:38 2017 From: bruninga at usna.edu (Robert Bruninga) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 09:00:38 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 "sun tracking" In-Reply-To: <000001d2770b$e3b548e0$ab1fdaa0$@GMAIL.COM> References: <000001d2770b$e3b548e0$ab1fdaa0$@GMAIL.COM> Message-ID: Thanks ALL! Found it (SuM.exe). But it won't let me easily slide around in time. So I just went back to my 20 year old copy of Instantrack, verified that it gives same result as SuM and now I'm good. I used IT to see how many hours of sun a south facing solar array would be illuminated at what elevation angle. For my latitude (39 degrees), I developed this table in about a minutes work: 7 Hrs over +/-49 deg AZ above 10 deg EL 6 hrs over +/- 43 deg AZ above 14 deg EL 5 Hrs over +/- 37 deg AZ above 18 deg EL 4 Hrs over +/- 31 deg AZ above 21 deg EL 3 Hrs over +/- 24 deg AZ above 24 deg EL To figure out where to top off some trees. Bob, WB4APR From erich.eichmann at t-online.de Wed Jan 25 17:15:27 2017 From: erich.eichmann at t-online.de (Erich Eichmann) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 18:15:27 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 "sun tracking" In-Reply-To: References: <000001d2770b$e3b548e0$ab1fdaa0$@GMAIL.COM> Message-ID: <0f9054cc-c043-5773-d29e-a91934353870@t-online.de> Bob, for your purpose you could use SumListen.exe (also in the SatPC32 program folder). It outputs lists with azimuth and elevation of Sun and Moon to the screen and/or printer for selectable increments and periods. 73s, Erich, DK1TB Am 25.01.2017 um 15:00 schrieb Robert Bruninga: > Thanks ALL! Found it (SuM.exe). But it won't let me easily slide around > in time. > > So I just went back to my 20 year old copy of Instantrack, verified that > it gives same result as SuM and now I'm good. > > I used IT to see how many hours of sun a south facing solar array would be > illuminated at what elevation angle. > > For my latitude (39 degrees), I developed this table in about a minutes > work: > 7 Hrs over +/-49 deg AZ above 10 deg EL > 6 hrs over +/- 43 deg AZ above 14 deg EL > 5 Hrs over +/- 37 deg AZ above 18 deg EL > 4 Hrs over +/- 31 deg AZ above 21 deg EL > 3 Hrs over +/- 24 deg AZ above 24 deg EL > > To figure out where to top off some trees. > > 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 n4csitwo at bellsouth.net Thu Jan 26 04:07:14 2017 From: n4csitwo at bellsouth.net (n4csitwo at bellsouth.net) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 23:07:14 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS contact with South Street School, Danbury CT Message-ID: An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at South Street School, Danbury CT on 27 Jan. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 19:50 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 VK4KHZ. The contact should be audible over portions of Australia 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. There are two schools participating in this event; South Street Elementary School and Westside Middle School Academy (WMSA). Westside Middle School Academy offers students a unique opportunity to partake in rigorous hands-on activities. There are two academies at Westside, STEM and Global Studies. In the STEM academy, students take part in engineering projects such as building small paper boats, designing escape pods and launching weather balloons. Students also participate in the Connecticut Invention Convention and Connecticut State Science Fair. Teamwork is essential at Westside. Our teachers encourage us to go beyond our limits and to give our best effort. In addition, Westside has a culture of safety, respect and responsibility (S R 2), which ensures that all students are learning in a safe environment. Finally, the diversity of our school community enhances the learning experience for all students. South Street School is one of 13 elementary schools in the city of Danbury. The staff of South Street prides themselves on the diversity of the school as it compares to the rest of the district as well as the state. The state average for Hispanic students making up the school population is 22.1%, South Street boasts a solid 64.5% Hispanic population. The "Melting Pot" community that is found at the school allows for an incredible mix of background experiences, cultural traditions and a wealth of different styles of learning. The majority of students gets to and from school by walking with their families or friends and the sense of community and family is strongly felt in the school and the surrounding areas. Students at South Street thrive in an environment that emphasizes inquiry based Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: >From South Street 1. What is the most difficult part of your job? 2. What type of microorganisms are dangerous in space? What micro-organisms are important and needed in space? 3 What type of medical testing does and astronaut have to go through to be physically and mentally fit for duty? 4. Did you always want to be an astronaut, or is it something you came to as part of a different career? 5. Does it bother you that you cannot see your family in space? 6. What was it like to leave the Earth's atmosphere, how did it feel? 7. How long can a human stay in space? 8. How are you able to get internet in space and send information back and forth to Earth? >From WSMA 9. How do you handle Major Medical emergencies such as a broken arm or a heart attack? 10. Do you have medical equipment besides a first aid kit? 11. Can you alter the procedure of an experiment? 12. Are you limited in the types of experiment? Such as doing an experiment with open fire? 13 Do astronauts work only on experiments that suit his/her specialty? 14. Do all the astronauts sleep at the same time? 15. How do you overcome the language barrier aboard the ISS? 16. Do astronauts have specific chores aboard the ISS? 17. Is there different types of weather in space? How does the temperature change during the time you are there? 18. Is time different in space? How do you figure out what time it is on Earth? 19. What is the emergency procedure if debris were going to hit the space station? 20. What time zone is the ISS on? 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): 1. Cours Saint Maur, Monaco, Monaco, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Wed 2017-02-01 09:30:57 UTC 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 AJ9N at aol.com Thu Jan 26 04:48:15 2017 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 23:48:15 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-26 04:00 UTC Message-ID: <1cbc639.10c8de1a.45bad98f@aol.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-26 04:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Swiss Space Center ? EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, telebridge via W6SRJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Thu 2017-01-26 11:06:29 UTC 53 deg South Street School, Danbury CT, telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Fri 2017-01-27 19:50:18 UTC 72 deg Cours Saint Maur, Monaco, Monaco, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Wed 2017-02-01 09:30:57 UTC 35 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 123 Francesco IK?WGF with 119 **************************************************************************** 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 2017-01-26 04:00 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 1109. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1073. 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 2017-01-17 07:30 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 hamsat at xs4all.nl Thu Jan 26 10:24:59 2017 From: hamsat at xs4all.nl (Nico Janssen) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 11:24:59 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] Cubesats launch and IDs In-Reply-To: <4b584051-3e18-e95f-6ece-fe2f64db15fe@xs4all.nl> References: <4b584051-3e18-e95f-6ece-fe2f64db15fe@xs4all.nl> Message-ID: All, As witnessed by Mike, DK3WM, the TLE sets of some of the Cubesats from this launch have been cross-tagged a couple of days ago. TuPOD is now object 41936, 1998-067KY. Probably Tancredo 1 is now 41931, 1998-067KT, and OSNSAT is 41939, 1998-067KZ. I informed Kelso and he has now updated CelesTrak. Unfortunately Space-Track is still using the IDs that they originally guessed. TuPOD's batteries are empty so the satellite is not transmitting anymore. Also Tancredo 1 does not seem to transmit anymore, at least not when in eclipse. As far as I know, Waseda-Sat 3 never transmitted any signals. 73, Nico PA0DLO On 21-01-17 14:29, Nico Janssen wrote: > All, > > Apparently the Tubesat deployment from TuPOD on 2017-01-19 was > around 23:30 UTC (so not around 22:00 UTC). > > Either Tancredo 1 or OSNSAT is now tracked by the JSpOC as object > 41936, 1998-067KY. (There is a typo in the TLE set: '16067KY' should > read '98067KY'.) > > 73, > Nico PA0DLO > > > On 20-01-17 16:03, Nico Janssen wrote: >> All, >> >> Last Monday 2017-01-16 six cubesats were launched from the Japanese >> Kibo module of the ISS, using the J-SSOD cubesat deployer. >> >> ITF 2, Waseda-sat 3 and Freedom were deployed at 09:10 UTC. EGG was >> deployed at 09:20 UTC. AOBA-Velox 3 was deployed at 10:40 UTC. TUPOD >> was deployed at 10:50 UTC. >> >> The JSpOC published the first TLE sets two days after the launch and >> assigned preliminary IDs to the new cubesats. Detailed doppler >> measurements show that some of these IDs are not correct: >> ITF 2 is object 41932, 1998-067KU >> AOBA-Velox 3 is object 41935, 1998-067KX >> TUPOD is object 41931, 1998-067KT. >> >> Around 22:00 UTC on 2017-01-19 the first ever Tubesats were deployed >> into >> orbit from the cubesat TUPOD, i.e. Tancredo 1 (Brazil) and OSNSAT (USA). >> Tancredo 1 is still close to TUPOD, so for the time being TUPOD's TLE >> set >> can be used to track this Tubesat. >> >> 73, >> Nico PA0DLO >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 akx2 at dacor.net Thu Jan 26 19:24:21 2017 From: akx2 at dacor.net (Michael A. Foster) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 14:24:21 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Hawaii Message-ID: <06E8339AFA4F484AB100EAC3431A6EAD@WorldComm> Need satellite operator in Hawaii that can work AO-7 Cw or SSB. Contact off list. QRZ.com. e-mail address. Thanks, Michael A. Foster ? n8iup From akx2 at dacor.net Thu Jan 26 19:21:50 2017 From: akx2 at dacor.net (Michael A. Foster) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 14:21:50 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Hawaii Message-ID: Need satellite operator in Hawaii that can work AO-7 Cw or SSB. Contact off list. QRZ.com. e-mail address. Thanks, Michael A. Foster ? n8iup From n4csitwo at bellsouth.net Fri Jan 27 02:58:34 2017 From: n4csitwo at bellsouth.net (n4csitwo) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 21:58:34 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Important Update concerning ARISS contact with South Street School - Danbury, CT. Message-ID: The International Space Station school contact with South Street School, Danbury CT, that was scheduled for January 27 has been postponed. ?ARISS will work with NASA and the school to reschedule the contact. Dave, AA4KN?ARISS PR? Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device From clintbradford at mac.com Fri Jan 27 05:37:54 2017 From: clintbradford at mac.com (Clint Bradford) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 21:37:54 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] Sat Show in Palm Springs Message-ID: <668A3F91-3FE7-4952-BB6D-9F94A9054624@mac.com> I will be conducting my 89th "How to Work Ham Satellites With Your HT" presentation at the Palm Springs HamFest on Saturday, February 4, 2017. Show opens at 9AM. The satellite presentation is at 11AM. Your admission allows access to the marvelous Palm Springs Air Museum exhibits, too! And did I mention FREE PARKING??? One lucky attendee of my sat session will "win" a brand new Arrow Satellite Antenna. Several others will leave with mousepads that have 8x10" copies of extraordinary NASA photographs - just for participating in the Q&A and answering trivia questions. The HamFest's Web site is at ... http://www.palmspringshamfest.com Kids under 12 years of age admitted FREE! And kids who visit my exhibitor table will receive a free NASA photograph. Hope to see you in Palm Springs February 4, 2017! Clint Bradford K6LCS (909) 999-SATS From AJ9N at aol.com Fri Jan 27 08:15:55 2017 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 03:15:55 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-27 08:30 UTC Message-ID: <13e7726.37dd8a4a.45bc5bbb@aol.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-27 08:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Swiss Space Center ? EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, telebridge via W6SRJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact was successful: Thu 2017-01-26 11:06:29 UTC 53 deg (***) South Street School, Danbury CT, telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Fri 2017-01-27 19:50:18 UTC 72 deg Cours Saint Maur, Monaco, Monaco, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Wed 2017-02-01 09:30:57 UTC 35 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 123 Francesco IK?WGF with 119 **************************************************************************** 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 2017-01-27 08:30 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 1110. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1074. (***) 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 2017-01-27 08:30 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 kk0sd1 at att.net Fri Jan 27 14:33:20 2017 From: kk0sd1 at att.net (Gary "Joe" Mayfield) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 08:33:20 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Auction Message-ID: <000e01d278aa$50156ac0$f0404040$@att.net> I am not sure if auction listings are allowed on amsat-bb. I noticed there is a Yaesu G-5500 AZ/EL rotator controller and an Icom IC-970A on the Schulman site for the current auction. You can see them by going to: http://bid.schulmanauction.com/ I have purchased things from them before without issues. 73, Joe kk0sd From nss at mwt.net Fri Jan 27 16:34:13 2017 From: nss at mwt.net (Joe) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 10:34:13 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] NO-84 Message-ID: I had a decent pass just now, Saw mine as well as a few other signals and the telemetry. Key word is I "SAW" in the waterfall these signals. BUT.. not one of them would decode. Anyone have a guess what might be happening? Joe WB9SBD -- Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com From pconver at gmail.com Fri Jan 27 16:44:30 2017 From: pconver at gmail.com (Pedro Converso) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 13:44:30 -0300 Subject: [amsat-bb] Sat Show in Palm Springs In-Reply-To: <668A3F91-3FE7-4952-BB6D-9F94A9054624@mac.com> References: <668A3F91-3FE7-4952-BB6D-9F94A9054624@mac.com> Message-ID: Hi Clint ! Congratulations for your next 89th Sat session at Palm Springs, will sure spread satellite passion to new breed, we appreciate that. To possibly assist your "Work Ham Satellites With Your HT" presentation, perhaps you can show real time availability of ham satellites. Thru http://lu7abf.com.ar/pass.htm , that works on any portable device (smartphones/tablets) as well as any Op. System in Mac's or PC's. Also useful as a graphical education tool to simplify and ease understanding of Ham's satellite tracking that could operate offline or online. Wishing good success at Palm Spring HamFest, with thanks for your your long standing compromise with Sat amateur community. 73, lu7abf, Pedro Converso On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 2:37 AM, Clint Bradford wrote: > I will be conducting my 89th "How to Work Ham Satellites With Your HT" presentation at the Palm Springs HamFest on Saturday, February 4, 2017. Show opens at 9AM. The satellite presentation is at 11AM. Your admission allows access to the marvelous Palm Springs Air Museum exhibits, too! And did I mention FREE PARKING??? > > One lucky attendee of my sat session will "win" a brand new Arrow Satellite Antenna. Several others will leave with mousepads that have 8x10" copies of extraordinary NASA photographs - just for participating in the Q&A and answering trivia questions. > > The HamFest's Web site is at ... > > http://www.palmspringshamfest.com > > Kids under 12 years of age admitted FREE! And kids who visit my exhibitor table will receive a free NASA photograph. > > Hope to see you in Palm Springs February 4, 2017! > > Clint Bradford K6LCS > (909) 999-SATS > > _______________________________________________ > 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 k9jkm at comcast.net Fri Jan 27 17:30:45 2017 From: k9jkm at comcast.net (JoAnne Maenpaa) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 11:30:45 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] NO-84 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <001501d278c3$17ebc950$47c35bf0$@net> Hi Joe, > Key word is I "SAW" in the waterfall these signals. > BUT.. not one of them would decode. > Anyone have a guess what might be happening? I'm in the Chicago suburbs. The most recent pass was nearly overhead for me. I copied the same as you described. There were signals in my waterfall but none decoding. The downlink signal sounded much weaker than usual (by ear). The findu.com page logged only one station getting gated and a few telemetry packets. -- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm at amsat.org From AJ9N at aol.com Fri Jan 27 17:48:55 2017 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:48:55 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-27 17:30 UTC Message-ID: <1481d1a.442c91ff.45bce207@aol.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-27 17:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Cours Saint Maur, Monaco, Monaco, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Thu 2017-02-02 08:38:27 UTC 75 deg via LU1CGB (***) Rescheduled due to Service Module spatial constraint. (***) South Street School, Danbury CT, telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is being rescheduled per crew request. (***) **************************************************************************** ** 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 123 Francesco IK?WGF with 119 **************************************************************************** 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 2017-01-27 17:30 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 1110. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1074. 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 2017-01-27 08:30 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 nss at mwt.net Fri Jan 27 19:23:03 2017 From: nss at mwt.net (Joe) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 13:23:03 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] NO-84 In-Reply-To: <001501d278c3$17ebc950$47c35bf0$@net> References: <001501d278c3$17ebc950$47c35bf0$@net> Message-ID: <6a5ff64b-f1a1-03a3-6907-ff9558c6e68c@mwt.net> Exactly! i WAS USING fl-dIGI FOR SOFTWARE, HOW ABOUT U? Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 1/27/2017 11:30 AM, JoAnne Maenpaa wrote: > Hi Joe, > >> Key word is I "SAW" in the waterfall these signals. >> BUT.. not one of them would decode. >> Anyone have a guess what might be happening? > I'm in the Chicago suburbs. The most recent pass was nearly overhead for me. > I copied the same as you described. There were signals in my waterfall but > none decoding. The downlink signal sounded much weaker than usual (by ear). > The findu.com page logged only one station getting gated and a few telemetry > packets. > > -- > 73 de JoAnne K9JKM > k9jkm at amsat.org > > > > > > From k9jkm at comcast.net Fri Jan 27 19:32:11 2017 From: k9jkm at comcast.net (JoAnne Maenpaa) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 13:32:11 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] NO-84 In-Reply-To: <6a5ff64b-f1a1-03a3-6907-ff9558c6e68c@mwt.net> References: <001501d278c3$17ebc950$47c35bf0$@net> <6a5ff64b-f1a1-03a3-6907-ff9558c6e68c@mwt.net> Message-ID: <002b01d278d4$0ee25700$2ca70500$@net> > ... i WAS USING fl-dIGI FOR SOFTWARE, HOW ABOUT U? I was on the 145.825 packet digipeater aide. With Fl-digi I think you were trying the PSK side. The next pass at around 11:45 AM central time was about 20 degrees elevation and I could barely copy the 145.825 downlink on that pass. Also, no USA stations or telemetry were gated to the findu.com site. -- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm at amsat.org From nss at mwt.net Fri Jan 27 19:35:31 2017 From: nss at mwt.net (Joe) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 13:35:31 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] NO-84 In-Reply-To: <002b01d278d4$0ee25700$2ca70500$@net> References: <001501d278c3$17ebc950$47c35bf0$@net> <6a5ff64b-f1a1-03a3-6907-ff9558c6e68c@mwt.net> <002b01d278d4$0ee25700$2ca70500$@net> Message-ID: Yes I was trying to use the 435 psk-31 ummm transponder? ya know 10M up 70 cm down Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 1/27/2017 1:32 PM, JoAnne Maenpaa wrote: >> ... i WAS USING fl-dIGI FOR SOFTWARE, HOW ABOUT U? > I was on the 145.825 packet digipeater aide. With Fl-digi I think you were > trying the PSK side. The next pass at around 11:45 AM central time was about > 20 degrees elevation and I could barely copy the 145.825 downlink on that > pass. Also, no USA stations or telemetry were gated to the findu.com site. > > -- > 73 de JoAnne K9JKM > k9jkm at amsat.org > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Jan 27 20:23:53 2017 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 15:23:53 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-27 20:00 UTC Message-ID: <14aefdc.5370a2a7.45bd0658@aol.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-27 20:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Cours Saint Maur, Monaco, Monaco, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Thu 2017-02-02 08:38:27 UTC 75 deg via LU1CGB (***) Rescheduled due to Service Module spatial constraint. (***) South Street School, Danbury CT, telebridge via ON4ISS (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Thu 2017-02-02 18:49:14 UTC 80 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 123 Francesco IK?WGF with 119 **************************************************************************** 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 2017-01-27 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 1110. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1074. 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 2017-01-27 08:30 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 my.callsign at verizon.net Fri Jan 27 22:56:33 2017 From: my.callsign at verizon.net (KO6TZ Bob) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:56:33 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] NO-84 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7edc92e3-0a87-f49a-f6b2-6c23170bf86f@verizon.net> Joe, I was not on that pass. Most of the time, you will see the telemetry very strong down at 310Hz. You should see your own signal where ever you put it. (I use 1600Hz) You should also see the non Doppler corrected beacons. These skew across the waterfall. Won't waste time trying to copy them. Now for FlDigi... The maximum acquisition range is 500 Hz. If the signal is not within the "Red" bar limit above the waterfall, the program will not look for it. Also look in the configuration for multi option being selected. CONFIG/OPERATOR/MODEM/PSK/MULTI As a frequent user of NO-84_PSK31, I recommend DigiPAN or WinPSKse. They each have their advantages. DigiPAN copies many signals with limited AFC. WinPSKse copies only two signals with 3,000Hz of AFC. Your choice. Bob KO6TZ I had a decent pass just now, Saw mine as well as a few other signals and the telemetry. Key word is I "SAW" in the waterfall these signals. BUT.. not one of them would decode. Anyone have a guess what might be happening? Joe WB9SBD -- Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com From jim at milnet.uk.net Sat Jan 28 09:53:49 2017 From: jim at milnet.uk.net (Jim Heck) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 09:53:49 -0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-73/FUNcube Mode change Message-ID: <46374069F51A4A4EAC45D0A24B1D1477@jimPC2> Hi folks, I have just changed the sat into amateur (continuous transponder) mode. Plan is to switch back to auto mode on Sunday 15 Jan 2017 pm UTC as usual. Apologies for the delay in switching this weekend which was due to an inter command station communications error. Pls see below for FUNcube transponder info Have FUN with the transponder. 73s Jim G3WGM and the FUNcube team. AO-73 FUNcube-1 The transponder is normally operational only when the satellite is in eclipse, ie the solar panels are NOT being illuminated. During weekends (from pm Fridays UTC to PM Sundays UTC) the transponder is operational 24/7. When the transponder is switched off, the telemetry beacon is on full power, when the transponder is on the beacon it is on low power. During holidays, eg Christmas, New Year, Easter, etc, the transponder maybe activated for extended periods. Watch AMSAT-BB for announcements which are usually made on Friday evenings (UTC) The nominal transponder frequencies are: Uplink: 435.150 - 435.130 MHz LSB (Inverting) Downlink: 145.950 - 145.970 MHz USB Telemetry Tx: 145.935 MHz BPSK (The passband may be up to 15kHz higher depending on on-board temps. Low temperatures give higher freqs!) FUNcube-2 aka FUNcube on UKube The FUNcube-2 sub-system continues to operate autonomously and, almost continuously, in amateur mode. The transponder is operational and the telemetry downlink is functioning with about 70mW output. The FUNcube-1 Dashboard does not correctly display the telemetry but it does correctly decode the data and uploads it to the FUNcube Data Warehouse from where it can be examined. Most of the real time data channels are operational and these include battery voltages, temperatures and ADCS data coming via the main On Board Computer (OBC). The transponder is interrupted for a few seconds every 2 minutes when the other transmitter sends its CW beacon and, occasionally, for a few seconds when the main OBC reboots (approx seven times each orbit). The nominal transponder frequencies are: Uplink: 435.080 - 435.060 MHz LSB (Inverting) Downlink: 145.930 - 145.950 MHz USB Telemetry Tx: 145.915 MHz BPSK (The passband may be up to 10kHz higher depending on on-board temps. Low temperatures give higher freqs!) EO79 FUNcube-3 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 in future months as a result of experience. The nominal transponder frequencies are: Uplink: 435.0723-435.0473 MHz LSB (Inverting) Downlink: 145.946-145.971 MHz USB Further detailed info on EO79 transponder frequencies is at: https://amsat-uk.org/2016/11/10/eo79-funcube-3-transponder-commences-regular-operation/ All FUNcube transponders are sponsored by AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL. We are very grateful for the assistance given by Innovative Solution In Space Bv, The Netherlands. From jimlist at zoho.com Sat Jan 28 10:23:42 2017 From: jimlist at zoho.com (Jim Heck G3WGM) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 10:23:42 -0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-73/FUNcube Mode change In-Reply-To: <46374069F51A4A4EAC45D0A24B1D1477@jimPC2> References: <46374069F51A4A4EAC45D0A24B1D1477@jimPC2> Message-ID: <14FFE923B52A49CB9EB3271C4A6DA5EF@jimPC2> OOppss that should be switched back on Sunday 29 Jan 17, of course!! 73s Jim -----Original Message----- From: Jim Heck Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 9:53 AM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AO-73/FUNcube Mode change Hi folks, I have just changed the sat into amateur (continuous transponder) mode. Plan is to switch back to auto mode on Sunday 15 Jan 2017 pm UTC as usual. Apologies for the delay in switching this weekend which was due to an inter command station communications error. Pls see below for FUNcube transponder info Have FUN with the transponder. 73s Jim G3WGM and the FUNcube team. From hamsat at xs4all.nl Sat Jan 28 13:08:13 2017 From: hamsat at xs4all.nl (Nico Janssen) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 14:08:13 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 decay estimate Message-ID: All, If the current trend continues, BY70-1 may be expected to decay and burn up in the atmosphere by mid-February. The apogee of the satellite has decreased from initially 520 km to now 426 km and the perigee has decreased from initially 216 km to now 208 km. 73, Nico PA0DLO From nss at mwt.net Sat Jan 28 14:20:25 2017 From: nss at mwt.net (Joe) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 08:20:25 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Active Lst Message-ID: Is there anywhere a list of like active members or station that are active on the birds? Joe WB9SBD -- Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com From bruninga at usna.edu Sat Jan 28 15:29:18 2017 From: bruninga at usna.edu (Robert Bruninga) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 10:29:18 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] NO-84 In-Reply-To: <7edc92e3-0a87-f49a-f6b2-6c23170bf86f@verizon.net> References: <7edc92e3-0a87-f49a-f6b2-6c23170bf86f@verizon.net> Message-ID: Would it be a good idea to mention what you use for uplink doppler correction? I assume Andys K0SM's DopplerPSK? http://www.frontiernet.net/~aflowers/dopplerpsk/dopplerpsk.html Bob On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 5:56 PM, KO6TZ Bob wrote: > Joe, > > I was not on that pass. > > Most of the time, you will see the telemetry very strong down at 310Hz. > You should see your own signal where ever you put it. (I use 1600Hz) You > should also see the non Doppler corrected beacons. These skew across the > waterfall. Won't waste time trying to copy them. > > Now for FlDigi... The maximum acquisition range is 500 Hz. If the > signal is not within the "Red" bar limit above the waterfall, the program > will not look for it. Also look in the configuration for multi option being > selected. > > CONFIG/OPERATOR/MODEM/PSK/MULTI > > As a frequent user of NO-84_PSK31, I recommend DigiPAN or WinPSKse. They > each have their advantages. DigiPAN copies many signals with limited AFC. > WinPSKse copies only two signals with 3,000Hz of AFC. Your choice. > > > Bob > KO6TZ > > > > > I had a decent pass just now, > Saw mine as well as a few other signals and the telemetry. > > Key word is I "SAW" in the waterfall these signals. > > BUT.. not one of them would decode. > > Anyone have a guess what might be happening? > > Joe WB9SBD > -- > Sig > The Original Rolling Ball Clock > Idle Tyme > Idle-Tyme.com > http://www.idle-tyme.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 nss at mwt.net Sat Jan 28 15:58:56 2017 From: nss at mwt.net (Joe) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 09:58:56 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] NO-84 In-Reply-To: References: <7edc92e3-0a87-f49a-f6b2-6c23170bf86f@verizon.net> Message-ID: Yes I use that also. For Transmit. I was using FL-Digi for recv, but the single channel I know I was missing people calling me. I tried some of the others that use a multi trace capability. but wasn't too happy with it. But just now tried ACDS, and was quite impressed on it's working. The 34 seperate ummm channels or passbands? anyway,the being off freq, or freq sweeping too fst will not it seems to be a problem with that program. Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 1/28/2017 9:29 AM, Robert Bruninga wrote: > Would it be a good idea to mention what you use for uplink doppler > correction? > I assume Andys K0SM's DopplerPSK? > > http://www.frontiernet.net/~aflowers/dopplerpsk/dopplerpsk.html > Bob > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 5:56 PM, KO6TZ Bob wrote: > >> Joe, >> >> I was not on that pass. >> >> Most of the time, you will see the telemetry very strong down at 310Hz. >> You should see your own signal where ever you put it. (I use 1600Hz) You >> should also see the non Doppler corrected beacons. These skew across the >> waterfall. Won't waste time trying to copy them. >> >> Now for FlDigi... The maximum acquisition range is 500 Hz. If the >> signal is not within the "Red" bar limit above the waterfall, the program >> will not look for it. Also look in the configuration for multi option being >> selected. >> >> CONFIG/OPERATOR/MODEM/PSK/MULTI >> >> As a frequent user of NO-84_PSK31, I recommend DigiPAN or WinPSKse. They >> each have their advantages. DigiPAN copies many signals with limited AFC. >> WinPSKse copies only two signals with 3,000Hz of AFC. Your choice. >> >> >> Bob >> KO6TZ >> >> >> >> >> I had a decent pass just now, >> Saw mine as well as a few other signals and the telemetry. >> >> Key word is I "SAW" in the waterfall these signals. >> >> BUT.. not one of them would decode. >> >> Anyone have a guess what might be happening? >> >> Joe WB9SBD >> -- >> Sig >> The Original Rolling Ball Clock >> Idle Tyme >> Idle-Tyme.com >> http://www.idle-tyme.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 nss at mwt.net Sat Jan 28 16:10:31 2017 From: nss at mwt.net (Joe) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 10:10:31 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] NO-84 Questions Message-ID: <9905ba12-ffc7-8a0f-75da-e7f624be4b47@mwt.net> I am just curious. For those of you active on NO-84, The PSK-31 Machine part, I am curious as to what you are are using for stations? 10 meter Transmitter? 10 Meter Antenna 10 Meter transmit power 435 reciever 435 ant 435 pre amp? Rec software using? What is your level of success on NO-84 with the above setup, And what would you change if you were to change anything? Joe WB9SBD -- Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com From michel-f6glj at orange.fr Sat Jan 28 18:05:33 2017 From: michel-f6glj at orange.fr ( F6GLJ) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 19:05:33 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] [Satdx-bb] UT1FG In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <000901d27991$1fef9720$5fcec560$@fr> Hello. I have heard Yuri on AO-07B at 17:47 TU. His signal was very low and in the noise, I have call him, and I think he respond me but I?m not sure. I haven?t his locator. Somebody have heard Yuri on this pass ? 73 Qro de Michel F6GLJ https://www.qrz.com/db/F6GLJ De : Satdx-bb [mailto:satdx-bb-bounces at star-com.net] De la part de Frank Griffin Envoy? : vendredi 20 janvier 2017 22:14 ? : starcom-bb at star-com.net; satdx-bb at star-com.net Objet : [Satdx-bb] UT1FG Hello All; an update from our good friend Jari, OH2FQV in Helsinki: He reported on Twitter that Yuri, UT1FG, would be departing today & that he had gotten the needed coax and stuff needed to set-up his ship board station. I believe he said give a week to get everything installed. The reported speed of the CHESTNUT appears to be slower than previous ships he has been on so the crossing time may be longer than we have seen in the past. The "night-shift" begins soon! Good Luck All & Good SatDX!! 73 K4FEG From cmhobbs at cryptolab.net Sat Jan 28 16:09:45 2017 From: cmhobbs at cryptolab.net (Christopher M. Hobbs) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 10:09:45 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Active Lst In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20170128100945.7dcc4acb@dissentio> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 08:20:25 -0600 Joe wrote: > Is there anywhere a list of like active members or station that are > active on the birds? > > Joe WB9SBD I don't know of any such list but I do visit the AMSAT status page from time to time to see calls that might be working the birds in recent history. I also listen for those calls on close passes. cmh KD5RYO - -- Happy Hacking! http://manor.space/~cmhobbs GPG: 1200 0808 F968 47AB F489 91A3 FE26 6FFB 1A77 0868 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJYjMJLAAoJEP4mb/sadwhoTpMP/0zvSq7pj6svuD870kwr4B/b wYFG0Gl4kiZZ7aEzlvrQarsscng3HlOGD61Tsymb9Ei359lahS7BPoU0ejGc3nLs s6kBlcxybA34BnDomZLq2w18wNfrmTrzxGa5x8fY2DQvnUpqallYNvOTZIIF/07K 5u06q3GAQ9C64KD0vErjI+FqFJVht3uYTTUxuspPO60/COsi3rIEwZz4rQW0cKpL k1gi++neRMiZjbfE7+osBewkzTKleLqmFFO0CiOl5kEWmZLfaND6klKxFm2ZALOw WQoTVaFBSi49pb179Wo/pW/YHuFpR9biVAxsDarCZj56rUrTMJY97oZOj30cDwML byGPfFssBFaPZtAaP1b/ZqwZZ7FPK4NgLWpwtCDxO+ic5Tz7kAoR6JYyrmAIlKZL jwDWIY/f5iHPYq1jQywUvjE0Fwt9HvBNEt9fAj51iZ9MvVvjLcubxU/uhqQdqwat XORX+CDQafabE71R6hysU9wAFexUmCSYJOCYCPfbg20ZdjwyepFhYfgbOBQGIuKY tMivPOuxutfvYw9PQFC0jti67O9z9jiqlXXlI4+IYAci+aydNWU5qn0DiXV2qE9M HAqscsjdUSdF98+MJm6iSsHMkKsMCbNUDfHu3CWyhVkCvW7aPTtThPYwBg+katrx QDCICwt6SCiXwudFEdSx =szmZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From k8tl at earthlink.net Sat Jan 28 19:10:35 2017 From: k8tl at earthlink.net (Tom Lubbers K8TL) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 14:10:35 -0500 (GMT-05:00) Subject: [amsat-bb] Trak Boxes. Message-ID: <7774893.5543.1485630635799@elwamui-rubis.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Now that I have managed to convert to the LVB tracker I find myself with two Trak Boxes. If any one is interested in giving them a home other than on my "I'm not using this any more shelf" e-mail me. Never could get the LVB to work with the suggested Yaesu GS-230 selection. Always got a note saying TLE-new.exe not found. However did get it to run almost perfectly when I selected Saebert box. I did the calibration procedure several times. However when I selett 179 degrees it comes up short about 30 degrees. By the time I get over to 270 it is correct. Tom K8TL From na2x at yahoo.com Sat Jan 28 18:37:28 2017 From: na2x at yahoo.com (na2x at yahoo.com) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 18:37:28 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Yaesu 847 satellite radio available References: <1232523130.2569987.1485628648309.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1232523130.2569987.1485628648309@mail.yahoo.com> I thought I'd offer this here first for satellite users.? For sale - Yaesu 847 satellite radio. Includes hand mic, power cord and box. This is my backup radio that has very little use lately. The serial number is 9I2509xx. E-mail with any questions or for photos. Contact me directly -? NA2X (at) yahoo (dot) com Price - $745 shipped to CONUS. From twdeckard at earthlink.net Sun Jan 29 02:16:28 2017 From: twdeckard at earthlink.net (Todd Deckard) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 20:16:28 -0600 (GMT-06:00) Subject: [amsat-bb] Where did the TLEs go for BY70-1? Message-ID: <7828764.9767.1485656188045@elwamui-norfolk.atl.sa.earthlink.net> I cannot find BY70-1 in any of the Celestrak categories? 73 Ke0cmd Todd From maccody at att.net Sun Jan 29 02:43:52 2017 From: maccody at att.net (Mac A. Cody) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 20:43:52 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Where did the TLEs go for BY70-1? In-Reply-To: <7828764.9767.1485656188045@elwamui-norfolk.atl.sa.earthlink.net> References: <7828764.9767.1485656188045@elwamui-norfolk.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <565ec766-93b9-6600-e7ac-5ca1322612a9@att.net> Todd, Mark KK6OTJ told me that you can find the latest TLEs for BY70-1 by using the SATCAT search function at http://www.celestrak.com/satcat/search.asp Search using the name BY70-1. 73, Mac / AE5PH On 01/28/2017 08:16 PM, Todd Deckard wrote: > I cannot find BY70-1 in any of the Celestrak categories? > 73 > Ke0cmd > Todd > > _______________________________________________ > 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 kc0bmf at gmail.com Sun Jan 29 03:31:37 2017 From: kc0bmf at gmail.com (John Fickes) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 21:31:37 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] NJ7H-9 Message-ID: ? Hello to the Group I've been tracking NJ7H-9 on aprs.fi and clicked on track on street view, pretty country up there. However it's not available in all areas, it's got some dead spots. 73 John W0JW? From af5cc2 at gmail.com Sun Jan 29 03:35:45 2017 From: af5cc2 at gmail.com (John Geiger) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 21:35:45 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Satellites and small yagis Message-ID: After having been off the satellites for a while due to life stuff, I am almost ready to get back on again, I hope. I have a little space on the mast under my miniquad where I can mount a small dualband end mounted yagi. I have been looking at the Jetstream 2m/70cm since it is cheapest and should fit there fine. It has 3 elements on 2m and 5 elements on 70cm. Will that good enough on the satellites? I have used a Cushcraft 5/5 dualband yagi before with good results. I hope in another year or so to have the parent's estate finally settled and money for a real satellite station again, but am hoping this will do in the meantime. Anyone else tried a yagi this size? 73 John AF5CC From ku4os at cfl.rr.com Sun Jan 29 04:33:41 2017 From: ku4os at cfl.rr.com (Lee McLamb) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 23:33:41 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS-029 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins Message-ID: <7e882c3a-508e-3c51-dfbd-7b9148c00bdc@cfl.rr.com> AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-029 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: * Colloquium Videos for 2009-2012 Posted on YouTube * ARRL LoTW Adds Additional Satellite Entries * Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-27 * Get Your Iridium Fix Before It?s Too Late! SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-029.01 ANS-029 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 029.01 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE January 29, 2017 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-029.01 Colloquium Videos for 2009-2012 Posted on YouTube AMSAT-UK reports that thanks to Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG and @BATC online videos of talks given at AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2009-2012 are now posted at https://www.youtube.com/user/AMSATUK/videos The videos were made by members of the British Amateur Television Club (BATC) and stored on the club?s streaming site. Dedicated BATC members have carried out the world-wide streaming and recording of the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium since 2007. [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARRL LoTW Adds Additional Satellite Entries ARRL LoTW/IT staff announce an update release containing additions and changes made since the release of config.xml 10.4 The changes in config.xml 10.5 are: - In the Satellite enumeration, added entries for: - "BY70-1": Bayi Kepu Weixing 1 - "IO-86": Indonesia-OSCAR 86 (LAPAN-ORARI) - "SAREX" for 2-way contacts made using the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX) packet digipeater - "MIREX": for 2-way contacts made using the Mir packet digipeater [ANS thanks Sean, KX9X, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-27 Cours Saint Maur, Monaco, Monaco, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Thu 2017-02-02 08:38:27 UTC 75 deg via LU1CGB Rescheduled due to Service Module spatial constraint. South Street School, Danbury CT, telebridge via ON4ISS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Thu 2017-02-02 18:49:14 UTC 80 deg [ANS thanks Charlie, AJ9N, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Get Your Iridium Fix Before It?s Too Late! The shock and dazzle of Iridium flares will soon be a thing of the past. Here's how to make the most of seeing them before a new generation of spacecraft replaces the Iridium satellites. Each of the approximately 66 Iridiums in orbit have three door-sized aluminum antennae treated with highly reflective, silver-coated Teflon for temperature control. When the angle between observer and satellite is just right, sunlight reflecting off an antenna can cause the satellite to surge from invisibility up to magnitude ?8.5 in a matter of seconds. If you've never seen one, the searing brilliance may make you recoil instinctively. On rare occasions, flares can reach magnitude ?9.5. That's 100 times brighter than Venus! Sadly, that era will soon draw to a close. On January 14th, SpaceX?s Falcon 9 delivered the first 10 of a new generation of Iridium NEXT satellites to low- Earth orbit, starting the process to replace the older units in a maneuver called slot-swapping. While the new birds will provide faster data rates and enhanced global communications, their antenna design is completely different and not expected to produce significant flares. Heavens Above is one of the easiest sites to get you looking in the right place at the right time. The Heavens Above website allows for easy figuring and finding of Iridium flares. Just sign in and give it your location, then click the Iridium Flares link under the Satellites heading on the left side of the homepage. A table will pop open with a week's worth of passes that includes pertinent information like brightness, altitude, and magnitude of the flare at flare center, the brightest possible magnitude for a particular pass. Clicking on the date will produce a map showing the flare's path and ground track where the flare will appear brightest. When that path passes near or over your location, you'll see a ?8 dazzler. If not, you can use the map to drive to the sweet spot and await the display. The transition to the Iridium NEXT generation will be gradual but certain, so make the most of the opportunities that remain. If you're a teacher, do your homework and plan an outing to show a daytime flare to your science class. Anything that gets people talking more about the sky is a good thing, and I guarantee those kids will never forget the sight. [ANS thanks Bob King, and Sky and Telescope 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 maccody at att.net Sun Jan 29 05:03:47 2017 From: maccody at att.net (Mac A. Cody) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 23:03:47 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Satellites and small yagis In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3557be96-df24-82a1-c8fa-e0d8bbbed17f@att.net> John, My satellite 'battle station' uses a three-element 2m Yagi and a six-element 70 cm Yagi, both based upon the antenna set found in the July/August and September/October 2006 issues of AMSAT Journal. I've used them for many QSOs on the FM birds and they should work fine on the transponder birds, too. I would imagine that the antennas you've described should work fine. I presume you will be placing them on an AZ/EL mount? I've read that if you can only have an azimuth rotator, you can place the antennas at a fixed elevation of 15 degrees. You'll experience fading if the satellite passes directly overhead, but that doesn't happen too often. 73, Mac / AE5PH On 01/28/2017 09:35 PM, John Geiger wrote: > After having been off the satellites for a while due to life stuff, I am > almost ready to get back on again, I hope. I have a little space on the > mast under my miniquad where I can mount a small dualband end mounted > yagi. I have been looking at the Jetstream 2m/70cm since it is cheapest > and should fit there fine. It has 3 elements on 2m and 5 elements on 70cm. > Will that good enough on the satellites? I have used a Cushcraft 5/5 > dualband yagi before with good results. > > I hope in another year or so to have the parent's estate finally settled > and money for a real satellite station again, but am hoping this will do in > the meantime. Anyone else tried a yagi this size? > > 73 John AF5CC > _______________________________________________ > 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 nanrspm at gmail.com Sun Jan 29 10:52:04 2017 From: nanrspm at gmail.com (Tanan Rangseeprom) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 17:52:04 +0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] interested in India's Rocket Provider Launch by PSLV rocket. Message-ID: Dear All of AMSAT India The delegate of Radio Amateur Society of Thailand under the patronage of His Majesty the King (RAST) has provided us with AMSAT India contact information in conjunction with our plans to launch a CUBESAT amateur radio satellite in the near future. Perhaps, I should begin with a brief introduction and an outline of our project to launch Thailand's first amateur radio satellite. RAST is the national non-profit society for amateur radio enthusiasts in Thailand which qualifies as a charitable entity pursuant to a Thai Ministry of Finance declaration while the society is also a member of the International Amateur Radio Union. RAST has joined three Thai institutes of technology to support the first Joint Academy Intelligent Satellites for Amateur Radio of Thailand (JAISAT-1) project which has received funding from the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Research and Development Fund for the Public Interest (BTFP), which is under Thailand's regulator, the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC). The three academic institutes are all in the King Mongkut's Institute of Technology group, being King Mongkut's University of Technology of North Bangkok (KMUT-NB), King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) and King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL). In a meeting on July 22, 2015 the NBTC committee approved state funding for RAST's JAISAT-1 project over a two-year period: 2016-2017. In my capacity as the JAISAT-1 project leader in charge of building the satellite along with a technical team from RAST, I am writing to you with a humble request for assistance. We currently face the challenge of finding an appropriate rocket for the launch of the CUBESAT satellite, one that will be within our limited budget and we are interested in India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or PSLV rocket. In addition to our JAISAT-1 satellite there are two other CUBESAT projects that have received funding in Thailand, including a KNACKSAT satellite to be built by the King Mongkut Institute of Technology of North Bangkok (KMUT-NB) and a SPACEBOX satellite to be built by the King Mongkut University of Technology Thon Buri (KMUTT) as part of a project to "Explore the World" using remote sensing with these satellites being equipped with cameras. But RAST 's JAISAT-1 satellite will be for amateur radio communications for which we are designing and building a linear transponder ourselves in Thailand and we would like to seek your recommendations to help us to get in touch with someone who can provide a PSLV rocket to launch the CUBESAT satellite at a special rate one that we will be able to afford. We would very much appreciate any assistance, advice or recommendations that you can make for us to help our project achieve all its goals. With deep respect. Sincerely, Tanan Rangseeprom, HS1JAN JAISAT-1 Project Leader Manager Radio Amateur Society of Thailand Under the royal patronage of His Majesty the King From twdeckard at earthlink.net Sun Jan 29 12:48:03 2017 From: twdeckard at earthlink.net (Todd Deckard) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 06:48:03 -0600 (GMT-06:00) Subject: [amsat-bb] THANKS Re: Where did the TLEs go for BY70-1? Message-ID: <551816.313.1485694083109@elwamui-norfolk.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Greetings Mac, Thanks for this! The AMSAT ftp site isn't updated frequently enough for the deteriorating orbit and a single precision PLAN13 implementation on the ATmega1280. As an example here's the CELESTRAK output: BY70-1 1 41909U 16083C 17029.24424671 .00506735 24288-5 70240-3 0 9991 2 41909 97.5768 109.7306 0160558 244.2616 114.2002 15.85900257 5044 Here's the AMSAT record sampled from the same time. BY70-1 1 41909U 16083C 17026.84471594 .00329730 24344-5 49404-3 0 9999 2 41909 97.5781 107.0760 0167800 253.3870 105.1424 15.83446051 4663 As expected, atmospheric drag has the largest effect on the semi-major axis, eccentricity, and argument of perigee. Alas it won't be long now. Still haven't gotten a confirmed QSO! Best Todd >Mac A. Cody maccody at att.net >Sun Jan 29 02:43:52 UTC 2017 >Previous message: [amsat-bb] Where did the TLEs go for BY70-1? >Next message: [amsat-bb] NJ7H-9 >Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] >Todd, >Mark KK6OTJ told me that you can find the latest TLEs for BY70-1 by using >the SATCAT search function at http://www.celestrak.com/satcat/search.asp >Search using the name BY70-1. > >73, > >Mac / AE5PH From wa4sca at gmail.com Sun Jan 29 13:21:56 2017 From: wa4sca at gmail.com (Alan) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 07:21:56 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] THANKS Re: Where did the TLEs go for BY70-1? In-Reply-To: <551816.313.1485694083109@elwamui-norfolk.atl.sa.earthlink.net> References: <551816.313.1485694083109@elwamui-norfolk.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <000001d27a32$aa6847c0$ff38d740$@GMAIL.COM> A suggestion would be to contact Tim through his website, politely explain that BY70-1 is of interest to amateurs, and request that he include it in the amateur.txt list because you need frequent updates. In the past he has been very responsive. 73s, Alan WA4SCA <-----Original Message----- Mac A. Cody maccody at att.net <>Sun Jan 29 02:43:52 UTC 2017 <>Previous message: [amsat-bb] Where did the TLEs go for BY70-1? <>Next message: [amsat-bb] NJ7H-9 <>Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] <>Todd, < <>Mark KK6OTJ told me that you can find the latest TLEs for BY70-1 by using <>the SATCAT search function at http://www.celestrak.com/satcat/search.asp <>Search using the name BY70-1. <> <>73, <> <>Mac / AE5PH < < <_______________________________________________ Hi to all, I have a general question, I am modeling a 45 element 1296 loop yagi with 1/2" wide elements instead of 1/4". According to predictions the pattern and gain are just about right on for one with 1/4" wide elements. The only issue that I can see is a little more bandwidth. Has anyone done this before I build this? Thanks and 73 Glenn, VE6ND From flynavyf14 at hotmail.com Sun Jan 29 05:39:57 2017 From: flynavyf14 at hotmail.com (Robert Oler) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 05:39:57 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Satellites and small yagis In-Reply-To: <3557be96-df24-82a1-c8fa-e0d8bbbed17f@att.net> References: , <3557be96-df24-82a1-c8fa-e0d8bbbed17f@att.net> Message-ID: John...they work great as my first station here in Turkey...I took them right from Santa Fe where I used them well.good dxing Robert WB5MZO /TA1 Sent from my iPad > On Jan 29, 2017, at 08:04, Mac A. Cody wrote: > > John, > > My satellite 'battle station' uses a three-element 2m Yagi and a six-element > 70 cm Yagi, both based upon the antenna set found in the July/August and > September/October 2006 issues of AMSAT Journal. I've used them for many > QSOs on the FM birds and they should work fine on the transponder birds, too. > I would imagine that the antennas you've described should work fine. I > presume you will be placing them on an AZ/EL mount? I've read that if you > can only have an azimuth rotator, you can place the antennas at a fixed > elevation of 15 degrees. You'll experience fading if the satellite passes > directly overhead, but that doesn't happen too often. > > 73, > > Mac / AE5PH > >> On 01/28/2017 09:35 PM, John Geiger wrote: >> After having been off the satellites for a while due to life stuff, I am >> almost ready to get back on again, I hope. I have a little space on the >> mast under my miniquad where I can mount a small dualband end mounted >> yagi. I have been looking at the Jetstream 2m/70cm since it is cheapest >> and should fit there fine. It has 3 elements on 2m and 5 elements on 70cm. >> Will that good enough on the satellites? I have used a Cushcraft 5/5 >> dualband yagi before with good results. >> >> I hope in another year or so to have the parent's estate finally settled >> and money for a real satellite station again, but am hoping this will do in >> the meantime. Anyone else tried a yagi this size? >> >> 73 John AF5CC >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 nss at mwt.net Sun Jan 29 14:54:39 2017 From: nss at mwt.net (Joe) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 08:54:39 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] THANKS Re: Where did the TLEs go for BY70-1? In-Reply-To: <551816.313.1485694083109@elwamui-norfolk.atl.sa.earthlink.net> References: <551816.313.1485694083109@elwamui-norfolk.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <47a00948-3dd3-d970-fc91-1c9ac22224f8@mwt.net> When will we have a closer idea of when it may re-enter? It would be neat to try to catch it on video. Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 1/29/2017 6:48 AM, Todd Deckard wrote: > Greetings Mac, > > Thanks for this! > > The AMSAT ftp site isn't updated frequently enough for the deteriorating orbit and a single precision PLAN13 implementation on the ATmega1280. > > As an example here's the CELESTRAK output: > > BY70-1 > 1 41909U 16083C 17029.24424671 .00506735 24288-5 70240-3 0 9991 > 2 41909 97.5768 109.7306 0160558 244.2616 114.2002 15.85900257 5044 > > Here's the AMSAT record sampled from the same time. > > BY70-1 > 1 41909U 16083C 17026.84471594 .00329730 24344-5 49404-3 0 9999 > 2 41909 97.5781 107.0760 0167800 253.3870 105.1424 15.83446051 4663 > > As expected, atmospheric drag has the largest effect on the semi-major axis, eccentricity, and argument of perigee. Alas it won't be long now. Still haven't gotten a confirmed QSO! > > Best > Todd > > >> Mac A. Cody maccody at att.net >> Sun Jan 29 02:43:52 UTC 2017 >> Previous message: [amsat-bb] Where did the TLEs go for BY70-1? >> Next message: [amsat-bb] NJ7H-9 >> Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] >> Todd, >> Mark KK6OTJ told me that you can find the latest TLEs for BY70-1 by using >> the SATCAT search function at http://www.celestrak.com/satcat/search.asp >> Search using the name BY70-1. >> >> 73, >> >> Mac / AE5PH > > _______________________________________________ > 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 twdeckard at earthlink.net Sun Jan 29 16:07:14 2017 From: twdeckard at earthlink.net (Todd Deckard) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 10:07:14 -0600 (GMT-06:00) Subject: [amsat-bb] Re-entry predictions for BY70-1 Message-ID: <17380776.1743.1485706034200@elwamui-royal.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Greetings Joe! space-track.org lists the decay epoch as 2017-02-22 0:00:00 -- note this is not strictly the re-entry time but perhaps gives us an approximate window? I do not understand the material very well. It appears for large objects they will calculate a time-and-impact prediction as things become more certain but perhaps poor Bayi-Kepu-Weixing-1 may not rate as it doesn't pose a hazard. I don't even know if it would be visible during re-entry given the speed? >When will we have a closer idea of when it may re-enter? > >It would be neat to try to catch it on video. > >Joe WB9SBD From nss at mwt.net Sun Jan 29 16:30:24 2017 From: nss at mwt.net (Joe) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 10:30:24 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Re-entry predictions for BY70-1 In-Reply-To: <17380776.1743.1485706034200@elwamui-royal.atl.sa.earthlink.net> References: <17380776.1743.1485706034200@elwamui-royal.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: Cool, well it won't be a bad idea that for starting a few days before to be outside waiting whenever an overhead pass was to happen. Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 1/29/2017 10:07 AM, Todd Deckard wrote: > Greetings Joe! > > space-track.org lists the decay epoch as 2017-02-22 0:00:00 -- note this is not strictly the re-entry time but perhaps gives us an approximate window? > > I do not understand the material very well. It appears for large objects they will calculate a time-and-impact prediction as things become more certain but perhaps poor Bayi-Kepu-Weixing-1 may not rate as it doesn't pose a hazard. > > I don't even know if it would be visible during re-entry given the speed? > >> When will we have a closer idea of when it may re-enter? >> >> It would be neat to try to catch it on video. >> >> Joe WB9SBD > _______________________________________________ > 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 Sun Jan 29 17:31:41 2017 From: fredcastello at gmail.com (Fred Castello) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 12:31:41 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Message-ID: Hi Folks, I am trying to find the correct file with SatPC32 to correct the TLE for Sat BY70-1? I have found the Keplerian elements at: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\SatPC32\Kepler and have the following files there: amateur.txt cubesat.txt geo.txt intelsat.txt nasa.all noaa.txt OrbsManu.ele SatPass 10-31-16 tle-new.txt weather.txt and have searched within all of those to find BY70-1 and can't find it. I have found the most current TLE as was suggested yesterday via this same mailing list and ended up putting them in amateur.txt but of course when I update the Keps again, it disappears. What am I missing? Thanks so much for your help! Fred - KF4FC From af5cc2 at gmail.com Sun Jan 29 19:31:23 2017 From: af5cc2 at gmail.com (John Geiger) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 13:31:23 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Satellites and small yagis In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks for all of the feedback on small yagis and the satellites. There is no way I can angle it up, so it will be horizontal. I have seen people talking about angling up their yagis, how do you do that. It does seem possible on a vertical mast, the only way I can see to do it would be if it was on a horizontal crossboom. 73 John AF5CC On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 5:56 AM, A. Kevin Arber wrote: > John, > It will work. I completed VUCC last year using a Arrow mounted about 20 > degrees up in elevation on a AZ only rotor. I used SatPC 32 to control the > antenna AZ automatically. Very convenient that way. > Good Luck & 73, > Kevin W3DAD > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 10:35 PM, John Geiger wrote: > >> After having been off the satellites for a while due to life stuff, I am >> almost ready to get back on again, I hope. I have a little space on the >> mast under my miniquad where I can mount a small dualband end mounted >> yagi. I have been looking at the Jetstream 2m/70cm since it is cheapest >> and should fit there fine. It has 3 elements on 2m and 5 elements on 70cm. >> Will that good enough on the satellites? I have used a Cushcraft 5/5 >> dualband yagi before with good results. >> >> I hope in another year or so to have the parent's estate finally settled >> and money for a real satellite station again, but am hoping this will do >> in >> the meantime. Anyone else tried a yagi this size? >> >> 73 John AF5CC >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 Sun Jan 29 19:48:49 2017 From: amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 19:48:49 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] WD9EWK @ DM23/DM24 on Friday (3 February) Message-ID: Hi! On my way to Palm Springs on Friday (3 February), I have a chance to stop at the DM23/DM24 grid boundary north of Quartzsite AZ for some passes. My tentative plans are to be out to that boundary sometime between 1600 and 1700 UTC, which could make it possible for an FO-29 pass around 1643 UTC covering much of North America, and an AO-85 pass as that FO-29 pass ends. I don't plan on spending the whole day at this spot, as I would like to arrive in Palm Springs by mid- to late-afternoon. QSOs will be uploaded to Logbook of the World, and QSL cards to confirm QSOs are available on request. As with my other road trips, my travels should appear on sites like aprs.fi as WD9EWK-9: http://aprs.fi/WD9EWK-9 I will also use my @WD9EWK Twitter feed to post updates, which are also visible in a web browser without a Twitter account at: http://twitter.com/WD9EWK By the way, if anyone going to Palm Springs is up for dinner on Friday, please e-mail me off the list or send a direct message to my @WD9EWK Twitter account. I don't know all of the eating establishments in that area other than an In-N-Out along I-10, but I'm sure we can find a place that works for a meal and some conversation before Saturday's hamfest. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK From jimki6wj at sbcglobal.net Sun Jan 29 20:06:34 2017 From: jimki6wj at sbcglobal.net (James Brown) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:06:34 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-85 sat 32 issue References: <1978836164.2947098.1485720394770.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1978836164.2947098.1485720394770@mail.yahoo.com> ? Sat 32 does not switch to FM mode on AO 85. The CAT window shows? 145980/435180 fm/fm radio is IC 910H What Am I missing? ThanksJim KI6WJ From amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net Sun Jan 29 20:13:47 2017 From: amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:13:47 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT at Palm Springs Hamfest on Saturday, 4 February 2017 Message-ID: Hi! A reminder that AMSAT will have a booth at the Palm Springs Hamfest on Saturday, 4 February 2017. More information about the hamfest is available at its web site: http://www.palmspringshamfest.com/ During the day, there will be demonstrations of satellite operating using satellites in different modes. I hope to be able to have these demonstrations to show off operating in FM, SSB, and packet. If you hear me on during any of these passes during Saturday, please call and be a part of the demonstrations. Any QSOs will be uploaded to Logbook of the World after the hamfest, and QSL cards are available on request. The hamfest site is in grid DM13rt, at the Palm Springs Air Museum along Gene Autry Trail, south of the I-10 freeway. For up-to-the-minute news on demonstrations and other AMSAT activities at the hamfest, I will tweet using my @WD9EWK Twitter feed. If you do not use Twitter, you can still view these updates and any photos I tweet in a web browser at: http://twitter.com/WD9EWK Thanks again to Rick Fearns and the hamfest committee of the Palm Springs Hamfest for extending an invitation for AMSAT to be a part of this event. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK From amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net Sun Jan 29 20:24:07 2017 From: amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:24:07 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Dinner after Palm Springs Hamfest on Saturday (4 February)? Message-ID: Hi again! Would anyone attending the Palm Springs Hamfest on Saturday (4 February) be interested in getting dinner after the hamfest? I'd be happy to get together with other satellite operators - and any others - for a bite to eat before I drive back to Phoenix in the evening. As with my previous offer for Friday evening, I am open to suggestions for where we could go. Please e-mail me off-list or send a direct message to my @WD9EWK Twitter feed if interested. Thanks, and 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK From ko6th.greg at gmail.com Sun Jan 29 21:37:59 2017 From: ko6th.greg at gmail.com (Greg D) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 13:37:59 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <588E60B7.1040006@gmail.com> Hi Fred, See if you can find it via Catalog # 41909, though I do see it under BY70-1 on the Amsat Keps page. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasa.all Greg KO6TH Fred Castello wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I am trying to find the correct file with SatPC32 to correct the TLE for > Sat BY70-1? I have found the Keplerian elements at: > > C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\SatPC32\Kepler > > and have the following files there: > > amateur.txt > cubesat.txt > geo.txt > intelsat.txt > nasa.all > noaa.txt > OrbsManu.ele > SatPass 10-31-16 > tle-new.txt > weather.txt > > and have searched within all of those to find BY70-1 and can't find it. I > have found the most current TLE as was suggested yesterday via this same > mailing list and ended up putting them in amateur.txt but of course when I > update the Keps again, it disappears. > What am I missing? Thanks so much for your help! > Fred - KF4FC > _______________________________________________ > 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 maccody at att.net Sun Jan 29 22:45:15 2017 From: maccody at att.net (Mac A. Cody) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 16:45:15 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Satellites and small yagis In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: John, Perhaps something like the mount used here might work: http://www.waterlog.com/productsdetail.php?GOES-Satellite-Antenna-H-223-G-10 Of course, it would all be mounted on top of an azimuth rotator. The web page "LEO Azimuth Tracking" (http://aprs.org/LEO-tracking.html) provides a lot of insight on the issue. 73, Mac / AE5PH On 01/29/2017 01:31 PM, John Geiger wrote: > Thanks for all of the feedback on small yagis and the satellites. There is > no way I can angle it up, so it will be horizontal. I have seen people > talking about angling up their yagis, how do you do that. It does seem > possible on a vertical mast, the only way I can see to do it would be if it > was on a horizontal crossboom. > > 73 John AF5CC > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 5:56 AM, A. Kevin Arber > wrote: > >> John, >> It will work. I completed VUCC last year using a Arrow mounted about 20 >> degrees up in elevation on a AZ only rotor. I used SatPC 32 to control the >> antenna AZ automatically. Very convenient that way. >> Good Luck & 73, >> Kevin W3DAD >> >> On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 10:35 PM, John Geiger wrote: >> >>> After having been off the satellites for a while due to life stuff, I am >>> almost ready to get back on again, I hope. I have a little space on the >>> mast under my miniquad where I can mount a small dualband end mounted >>> yagi. I have been looking at the Jetstream 2m/70cm since it is cheapest >>> and should fit there fine. It has 3 elements on 2m and 5 elements on 70cm. >>> Will that good enough on the satellites? I have used a Cushcraft 5/5 >>> dualband yagi before with good results. >>> >>> I hope in another year or so to have the parent's estate finally settled >>> and money for a real satellite station again, but am hoping this will do >>> in >>> the meantime. Anyone else tried a yagi this size? >>> >>> 73 John AF5CC >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 maccody at att.net Sun Jan 29 22:51:32 2017 From: maccody at att.net (Mac A. Cody) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 16:51:32 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Re-entry predictions for BY70-1 In-Reply-To: <17380776.1743.1485706034200@elwamui-royal.atl.sa.earthlink.net> References: <17380776.1743.1485706034200@elwamui-royal.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <6bba8f0b-7cef-c3af-ced6-59a5d2f7eeca@att.net> Todd and Joe, Given that BY70-1 is a 2U cubesat measuring 10x10x20cm and weighing only a few kilograms (details here: https://amsat-uk.org/2016/12/27/by70-1-fm-transponder-satellite/), it will completely burn up upon reentry. When and where it will burn up, of course, depends on the orbital dynamics, atmospheric conditions (the sun's radiation affects the height of the top of the atmosphere), and the satellite cross-section. The eventual demise may be over one of the oceans or a cloudy region, with no one present or able to witness it. Since BY70-1 is reported to have 3-axis stabilization, we may be able to enjoy its use right up to its fiery end. I have been trying to work BY70-1 as much as my other responsibilities will allow. I encourage all to do the same. 73, Mac / AE5PH On 01/29/2017 10:07 AM, Todd Deckard wrote: > Greetings Joe! > > space-track.org lists the decay epoch as 2017-02-22 0:00:00 -- note this is not strictly the re-entry time but perhaps gives us an approximate window? > > I do not understand the material very well. It appears for large objects they will calculate a time-and-impact prediction as things become more certain but perhaps poor Bayi-Kepu-Weixing-1 may not rate as it doesn't pose a hazard. > > I don't even know if it would be visible during re-entry given the speed? > >> When will we have a closer idea of when it may re-enter? >> >> It would be neat to try to catch it on video. >> >> Joe WB9SBD > _______________________________________________ > 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 john at papays.com Sun Jan 29 23:44:20 2017 From: john at papays.com (John Papay) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 18:44:20 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] NJ7H/VE7/VE8 Antenna Cables Repaired Message-ID: <20170129234436.C52149319@lansing182.amsat.org> Many have been working NJ7H/VE8 and /VE7 as he travels through rare grids in the Northwest Territories and other Provinces. Unfortunately he started having problems with his antenna cables and that caused him to start using his whip on the car for transmit and limiting operations to FO-29 passes. Today the problems were fixed, if only temporarily, all due to the help of a Canadian Ham who is not a satellite operator. Tim Repas, VE7XIX, who lives in Taylor BC, near Fort St. John met up with Gabe earlier today and helped him get his cables working again. This is yet another story of hams helping other hams they have never met before. And the story probably won't find its way into QST magazine either. So I would encourage all of us who have been working Gabe and those who just might be readers on the board, to send an email of appreciation to Tim at his QRZ address. It just might make his day; he certainly helped make ours! 73, John K8YSE --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From k7trkradio at charter.net Sun Jan 29 23:50:12 2017 From: k7trkradio at charter.net (Ted) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 15:50:12 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] Satellites and small yagis In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <004201d27a8a$6f3f7170$4dbe5450$@charter.net> John, sending you my Elk setup via direct email. It is an easy solution 73, Ted K7TRK -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of John Geiger Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2017 11:31 AM To: A. Kevin Arber; AMSAT BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Satellites and small yagis Thanks for all of the feedback on small yagis and the satellites. There is no way I can angle it up, so it will be horizontal. I have seen people talking about angling up their yagis, how do you do that. It does seem possible on a vertical mast, the only way I can see to do it would be if it was on a horizontal crossboom. 73 John AF5CC On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 5:56 AM, A. Kevin Arber wrote: > John, > It will work. I completed VUCC last year using a Arrow mounted about > 20 degrees up in elevation on a AZ only rotor. I used SatPC 32 to > control the antenna AZ automatically. Very convenient that way. > Good Luck & 73, > Kevin W3DAD > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 10:35 PM, John Geiger wrote: > >> After having been off the satellites for a while due to life stuff, I >> am almost ready to get back on again, I hope. I have a little space >> on the mast under my miniquad where I can mount a small dualband end >> mounted yagi. I have been looking at the Jetstream 2m/70cm since it >> is cheapest and should fit there fine. It has 3 elements on 2m and 5 elements on 70cm. >> Will that good enough on the satellites? I have used a Cushcraft 5/5 >> dualband yagi before with good results. >> >> I hope in another year or so to have the parent's estate finally >> settled and money for a real satellite station again, but am hoping >> this will do in the meantime. Anyone else tried a yagi this size? >> >> 73 John AF5CC >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 Mon Jan 30 00:21:15 2017 From: k.alexander at rogers.com (Ken Alexander) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 19:21:15 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] NJ7H/VE7/VE8 Antenna Cables Repaired In-Reply-To: <20170129234436.C52149319@lansing182.amsat.org> References: <20170129234436.C52149319@lansing182.amsat.org> Message-ID: <7214917d-1c04-e160-774f-92bc098337fd@rogers.com> Done! On 2017-01-29 6:44 PM, John Papay wrote: > Many have been working NJ7H/VE8 and /VE7 as > he travels through rare grids in the Northwest > Territories and other Provinces. Unfortunately > he started having problems with his antenna cables > and that caused him to start using his whip on the > car for transmit and limiting operations to FO-29 > passes. > > Today the problems were fixed, if only temporarily, > all due to the help of a Canadian Ham who is not a > satellite operator. Tim Repas, VE7XIX, who lives > in Taylor BC, near Fort St. John met up with Gabe > earlier today and helped him get his cables working > again. This is yet another story of hams helping > other hams they have never met before. And the story > probably won't find its way into QST magazine either. > > So I would encourage all of us who have been working > Gabe and those who just might be readers on the board, > to send an email of appreciation to Tim at his QRZ > address. It just might make his day; he certainly > helped make ours! > > 73, > John K8YSE > > > --- > 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 k.alexander at rogers.com Mon Jan 30 00:23:05 2017 From: k.alexander at rogers.com (Ken Alexander) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 19:23:05 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Re-entry predictions for BY70-1 In-Reply-To: <6bba8f0b-7cef-c3af-ced6-59a5d2f7eeca@att.net> References: <17380776.1743.1485706034200@elwamui-royal.atl.sa.earthlink.net> <6bba8f0b-7cef-c3af-ced6-59a5d2f7eeca@att.net> Message-ID: A unique meteor scatter opportunity! 73, Ken VE3HLS On 2017-01-29 5:51 PM, Mac A. Cody wrote: > Todd and Joe, > > Given that BY70-1 is a 2U cubesat measuring 10x10x20cm and weighing > only a few kilograms (details here: > https://amsat-uk.org/2016/12/27/by70-1-fm-transponder-satellite/), > it will completely burn up upon reentry. When and where it will > burn up, of course, depends on the orbital dynamics, atmospheric > conditions (the sun's radiation affects the height of the top of the > atmosphere), and the satellite cross-section. The eventual demise may > be over one of the oceans or a cloudy region, with no one present or > able to witness it. > > Since BY70-1 is reported to have 3-axis stabilization, we may be > able to enjoy its use right up to its fiery end. I have been trying > to work BY70-1 as much as my other responsibilities will allow. I > encourage all to do the same. > > 73, > > Mac / AE5PH > > On 01/29/2017 10:07 AM, Todd Deckard wrote: >> Greetings Joe! >> >> space-track.org lists the decay epoch as 2017-02-22 0:00:00 -- note >> this is not strictly the re-entry time but perhaps gives us an >> approximate window? >> >> I do not understand the material very well. It appears for large >> objects they will calculate a time-and-impact prediction as things >> become more certain but perhaps poor Bayi-Kepu-Weixing-1 may not rate >> as it doesn't pose a hazard. >> >> I don't even know if it would be visible during re-entry given the >> speed? >> >>> When will we have a closer idea of when it may re-enter? >>> >>> It would be neat to try to catch it on video. >>> >>> Joe WB9SBD >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 scott23192 at gmail.com Mon Jan 30 00:35:29 2017 From: scott23192 at gmail.com (Scott) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 19:35:29 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Re-entry predictions for BY70-1 In-Reply-To: References: <17380776.1743.1485706034200@elwamui-royal.atl.sa.earthlink.net><6bba8f0b-7cef-c3af-ced6-59a5d2f7eeca@att.net> Message-ID: <84F375248E504784B2FC2A4785084AF7@CSI9020> So, if you happen to be on a border between two grid squares & you make a satellite contact that becomes a meteor scatter contact, do you just sit back and watch your logging program explode? -Scott, K4KDR ========================================================== -----Original Message----- From: Ken Alexander Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2017 7:23 PM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re-entry predictions for BY70-1 A unique meteor scatter opportunity! 73, Ken VE3HLS On 2017-01-29 5:51 PM, Mac A. Cody wrote: > Todd and Joe, > > Given that BY70-1 is a 2U cubesat measuring 10x10x20cm and weighing > only a few kilograms (details here: > https://amsat-uk.org/2016/12/27/by70-1-fm-transponder-satellite/), > it will completely burn up upon reentry. When and where it will > burn up, of course, depends on the orbital dynamics, atmospheric > conditions (the sun's radiation affects the height of the top of the > atmosphere), and the satellite cross-section. The eventual demise may > be over one of the oceans or a cloudy region, with no one present or > able to witness it. > > Since BY70-1 is reported to have 3-axis stabilization, we may be > able to enjoy its use right up to its fiery end. I have been trying > to work BY70-1 as much as my other responsibilities will allow. I > encourage all to do the same. > > 73, > > Mac / AE5PH > > On 01/29/2017 10:07 AM, Todd Deckard wrote: >> Greetings Joe! >> >> space-track.org lists the decay epoch as 2017-02-22 0:00:00 -- note this >> is not strictly the re-entry time but perhaps gives us an approximate >> window? >> >> I do not understand the material very well. It appears for large objects >> they will calculate a time-and-impact prediction as things become more >> certain but perhaps poor Bayi-Kepu-Weixing-1 may not rate as it doesn't >> pose a hazard. >> >> I don't even know if it would be visible during re-entry given the speed? >> >>> When will we have a closer idea of when it may re-enter? >>> >>> It would be neat to try to catch it on video. >>> >>> Joe WB9SBD From k.alexander at rogers.com Mon Jan 30 00:43:27 2017 From: k.alexander at rogers.com (Ken Alexander) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 19:43:27 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Re-entry predictions for BY70-1 In-Reply-To: <84F375248E504784B2FC2A4785084AF7@CSI9020> References: <17380776.1743.1485706034200@elwamui-royal.atl.sa.earthlink.net> <6bba8f0b-7cef-c3af-ced6-59a5d2f7eeca@att.net> <84F375248E504784B2FC2A4785084AF7@CSI9020> Message-ID: <4ade25fb-9ef1-9039-3855-07bc27e1a516@rogers.com> Only Mr. Spock could answer that! 73, Ken VE3HLS On 2017-01-29 7:35 PM, Scott wrote: > So, if you happen to be on a border between two grid squares & you > make a satellite contact that becomes a meteor scatter contact, do you > just sit back and watch your logging program explode? > > -Scott, K4KDR > > ========================================================== > > -----Original Message----- From: Ken Alexander > Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2017 7:23 PM > To: amsat-bb at amsat.org > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re-entry predictions for BY70-1 > > A unique meteor scatter opportunity! > > 73, > > Ken > VE3HLS > > > On 2017-01-29 5:51 PM, Mac A. Cody wrote: >> Todd and Joe, >> >> Given that BY70-1 is a 2U cubesat measuring 10x10x20cm and weighing >> only a few kilograms (details here: >> https://amsat-uk.org/2016/12/27/by70-1-fm-transponder-satellite/), >> it will completely burn up upon reentry. When and where it will >> burn up, of course, depends on the orbital dynamics, atmospheric >> conditions (the sun's radiation affects the height of the top of the >> atmosphere), and the satellite cross-section. The eventual demise may >> be over one of the oceans or a cloudy region, with no one present or >> able to witness it. >> >> Since BY70-1 is reported to have 3-axis stabilization, we may be >> able to enjoy its use right up to its fiery end. I have been trying >> to work BY70-1 as much as my other responsibilities will allow. I >> encourage all to do the same. >> >> 73, >> >> Mac / AE5PH >> >> On 01/29/2017 10:07 AM, Todd Deckard wrote: >>> Greetings Joe! >>> >>> space-track.org lists the decay epoch as 2017-02-22 0:00:00 -- note >>> this is not strictly the re-entry time but perhaps gives us an >>> approximate window? >>> >>> I do not understand the material very well. It appears for large >>> objects they will calculate a time-and-impact prediction as things >>> become more certain but perhaps poor Bayi-Kepu-Weixing-1 may not >>> rate as it doesn't pose a hazard. >>> >>> I don't even know if it would be visible during re-entry given the >>> speed? >>> >>>> When will we have a closer idea of when it may re-enter? >>>> >>>> It would be neat to try to catch it on video. >>>> >>>> Joe WB9SBD > > _______________________________________________ > 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 w5pfg at amsat.org Mon Jan 30 02:44:27 2017 From: w5pfg at amsat.org (Clayton W5PFG) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:44:27 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] NJ7H/VE7/VE8 Antenna Cables Repaired In-Reply-To: <20170129234436.C52149319@lansing182.amsat.org> References: <20170129234436.C52149319@lansing182.amsat.org> Message-ID: Tim may not be active presently, but many of us worked him with his previous callsign VE5SAT and his US callsign AC2GK. It worked out well that Tim was able to help a current satellite operator. Good job on all. 73 Clayton W5PFG On 1/29/2017 17:44, John Papay wrote: > Many have been working NJ7H/VE8 and /VE7 as > he travels through rare grids in the Northwest > Territories and other Provinces. Unfortunately > he started having problems with his antenna cables > and that caused him to start using his whip on the > car for transmit and limiting operations to FO-29 > passes. > > Today the problems were fixed, if only temporarily, > all due to the help of a Canadian Ham who is not a > satellite operator. Tim Repas, VE7XIX, who lives > in Taylor BC, near Fort St. John met up with Gabe > earlier today and helped him get his cables working > again. This is yet another story of hams helping > other hams they have never met before. And the story > probably won't find its way into QST magazine either. > > So I would encourage all of us who have been working > Gabe and those who just might be readers on the board, > to send an email of appreciation to Tim at his QRZ > address. It just might make his day; he certainly > helped make ours! > > 73, > John K8YSE > > > --- > 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 maccody at att.net Mon Jan 30 05:43:04 2017 From: maccody at att.net (Mac A. Cody) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 23:43:04 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] THANKS Re: Where did the TLEs go for BY70-1? In-Reply-To: <000001d27a32$aa6847c0$ff38d740$@GMAIL.COM> References: <551816.313.1485694083109@elwamui-norfolk.atl.sa.earthlink.net> <000001d27a32$aa6847c0$ff38d740$@GMAIL.COM> Message-ID: <84a9c9c7-85f4-c847-fbfe-31df05b925f4@att.net> I worked BY70-1 during the 0439 UTC pass this evening using the TLEs provided through AMSAT.org. I had a successful QSO with W5ACM in EL29 (I'm in EM12). It became obvious, though, that BY70-1 arrived sooner than the TLEs indicated. It was very difficult to maintain proper aiming and Doppler shift correction enable proper communication with BY70-1 during the times around TCA. For those interested, I sent the email below to Dr. Kelso at Celestrak.com. Hopefully, something will be done shortly. 73, Mac / AE5PH Dr. Kelso, First, let me express my thanks for your excellent web site and TLE data service. I have used it numerous times over the years to learn more about satellite dynamics and, in recent months, to obtain predictions for amateur satellites for communications. There has been a lot of interest in the amateur satellite community regarding the recently-launched Chinese cubesat BY70-1. While it is sad to know that it will reenter in a few weeks, ham radio operators have been communicating through BY70-1 as much as possible. Since BY70-1 has exited the listing of satellites launched in the last 30 days, it has become difficult to load timely TLE data into the commonly available amateur satellite tracking softwares. I was wondering if it would be possible to place the TLE data for BY70-1 into the Amateur Radio or CubeSats listing so that timely updates become available again. This would only be to be done for the short term, as it is currently estimated that BY70-1 will reenter about February 22, 2017. Thanks for your consideration. Regards, Mac Cody / AE5PH On 01/29/2017 07:21 AM, Alan wrote: > A suggestion would be to contact Tim through his website, politely explain that BY70-1 is of interest > to amateurs, and request that he include it in the amateur.txt list because you need frequent updates. > In the past he has been very responsive. > > 73s, > > Alan > WA4SCA > > > > > <-----Original Message----- > < > < > < > < > < > <1 41909U 16083C 17029.24424671 .00506735 24288-5 70240-3 0 9991 > <2 41909 97.5768 109.7306 0160558 244.2616 114.2002 15.85900257 5044 > < > < > <1 41909U 16083C 17026.84471594 .00329730 24344-5 49404-3 0 9999 > <2 41909 97.5781 107.0760 0167800 253.3870 105.1424 15.83446051 4663 > < > argument > < > < > < > <>Mac A. Cody maccody at att.net > <>Sun Jan 29 02:43:52 UTC 2017 > <>Previous message: [amsat-bb] Where did the TLEs go for BY70-1? > <>Next message: [amsat-bb] NJ7H-9 > <>Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] > <>Todd, > < > <>Mark KK6OTJ told me that you can find the latest TLEs for BY70-1 by using > <>the SATCAT search function at http://www.celestrak.com/satcat/search.asp > <>Search using the name BY70-1. > <> > <>73, > <> > <>Mac / AE5PH > < > < > <_______________________________________________ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 vu3tyg at yahoo.co.in Mon Jan 30 08:08:26 2017 From: vu3tyg at yahoo.co.in (Nitin Muttin) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 08:08:26 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] interested in India's Rocket Provider Launch by PSLV rocket. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <471739751.2979181.1485763706905@mail.yahoo.com> Hello Tanan, Thanks for reaching out to AMSAT INDIA and very glad to know about the JAISAT-1 project and your requirements for a launch opportunity. As you have mentioned PSLV has launched many satellites successfully for many years I would suggest that you contact Antrix Corporation Limited which is the commercial arm of Indian Space research organization and put forth your proposal and requirement's.It will also be good to involve all those connected in this project during the proposal.? More details about Antrix at ?http://www.antrix.gov.in/ Feel free to contact me direct if you need any more information and I will be glad to help. Sorry to take up the bandwidth of this group but hope this information will help anyone who is looking for some similar opportunities.? 73 Nitin [VU3TYG]Secretary, AMSAT INDIA From: Tanan Rangseeprom To: info at amsatindia.org; amsat-bb at amsat.org Sent: Sunday, 29 January 2017 4:22 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] interested in India's Rocket Provider Launch by PSLV rocket. Dear All of AMSAT India The delegate of Radio Amateur Society of Thailand under the patronage of His Majesty the King (RAST) has provided us with AMSAT India contact information in conjunction with our plans to launch a CUBESAT amateur radio satellite in the near future. Perhaps, I should begin with a brief introduction and an outline of our project to launch Thailand's first amateur radio satellite. RAST is the national non-profit society for amateur radio enthusiasts in Thailand which qualifies as a charitable entity pursuant to a Thai Ministry of Finance declaration while the society is also a member of the International Amateur Radio Union. RAST has joined three Thai institutes of technology to support the first Joint Academy Intelligent Satellites for Amateur Radio of Thailand (JAISAT-1) project which has received funding from the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Research and Development Fund for the Public Interest (BTFP), which is under Thailand's regulator, the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC). The three academic institutes are all in the King Mongkut's Institute of Technology group, being King Mongkut's University of Technology of North Bangkok (KMUT-NB), King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) and King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL). In a meeting on July 22, 2015 the NBTC committee approved state funding for RAST's JAISAT-1 project over a two-year period: 2016-2017. In my capacity as the JAISAT-1 project leader in charge of building the satellite along with a technical team from RAST, I am writing to you with a humble request for assistance.? We currently face the challenge of finding an appropriate rocket for the launch of the CUBESAT satellite, one that will be within our limited budget and we are interested in India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or PSLV rocket. In addition to our JAISAT-1 satellite there are two other CUBESAT projects that have received funding in Thailand, including a KNACKSAT satellite to be built by the King Mongkut Institute of Technology of North Bangkok (KMUT-NB) and a SPACEBOX satellite to be built by the King Mongkut University of Technology Thon Buri (KMUTT) as part of a project to "Explore the World" using remote sensing with these satellites being equipped with cameras. But RAST 's JAISAT-1 satellite will be for amateur radio communications for which we are designing and building a linear transponder ourselves in Thailand and we would like to seek your recommendations to help us to get in touch with someone who can provide a PSLV rocket to launch the CUBESAT satellite at a special rate one that we will be able to afford.? We would very much appreciate any assistance, advice or recommendations that you can make for us to help our project achieve all its goals. With deep respect. Sincerely, Tanan Rangseeprom, HS1JAN JAISAT-1 Project Leader Manager Radio Amateur Society of Thailand Under the royal patronage of His Majesty the King _______________________________________________ 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 Sun Jan 29 18:44:26 2017 From: clintbradford at mac.com (Clint Bradford) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 10:44:26 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] Palm Springs Hamfest - MacDoppler Pro Prize! Message-ID: <4D460C7C-08F2-4018-A67E-8963BA7C50A0@mac.com> It just gets better and better ... Don Agro has donated a copy of MacDoppler Pro for the show! Some lucky attendee of my satellite presentation will walk away with the absolute best satellite tracking program for Mac owners! We will be working these birds ... AO85 at 9:20AM SO-50 at 12:15PM ITF-2 at 3:06PM ISS at 3:08PM Clint K6LCS http://www.palmspringshamfest.com From sqrtofone at yahoo.com Mon Jan 30 17:16:43 2017 From: sqrtofone at yahoo.com (Jay Mail) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 11:16:43 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-85 sat 32 issue In-Reply-To: <1978836164.2947098.1485720394770@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1978836164.2947098.1485720394770.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1978836164.2947098.1485720394770@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <610996EB-2BD3-441F-8C1C-E30F5DAA23F4@yahoo.com> My guess is that in your current configuration you have the following line in your Doppler.SQF, but your radio (or satpc32, in talking to your radio) somehow doesn't like "FMN". AO-85,145977,435170,FMN,FM,NOR,0,0,Transponder It seems your radio does indeed support FM Narrow, but I have to wonder how that information gets conveyed over from satpc32, or if it can even be done for some radios. I've had some trouble with my Yaesu radios with the Doppler.SQF commands to use FMN. I had previously just changed that line for AO-85 to use FM on both the TX and RX sides, but maybe there's another, better way. Jay Cox KG5BZW Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 29, 2017, at 2:06 PM, James Brown wrote: > > Sat 32 does not switch to FM mode on AO 85. The CAT window shows 145980/435180 fm/fm > radio is IC 910H > What Am I missing? > ThanksJim KI6WJ > _______________________________________________ > 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 maccody at att.net Mon Jan 30 18:27:07 2017 From: maccody at att.net (mac cody) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 18:27:07 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Celestrak BY70-1 keps References: <1134501403.1959050.1485800827958.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1134501403.1959050.1485800827958@mail.yahoo.com> All, I received a nice reply from Dr. Kelso to the email I sent him yesterday. He has added the BY70-1 TLEs to the CubeSats listing (http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/cubesat.txt). This file should be available to most software tracking applications (at least is is available as a source in AmsatDroid Free) and will be updated more frequently compared to the BY70-1 TLEs provided through AMSAT. 73, Mac Cody / AE5PH From n8hm at arrl.net Mon Jan 30 18:35:11 2017 From: n8hm at arrl.net (Paul Stoetzer) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 13:35:11 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Celestrak BY70-1 keps In-Reply-To: <1134501403.1959050.1485800827958@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1134501403.1959050.1485800827958.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1134501403.1959050.1485800827958@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I'm not sure why it also shouldn't be in amateur.txt. CubeSat.txt is OK, but it's an added step for some uses. 73, Paul, N8HM On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 1:27 PM, mac cody wrote: > All, > > I received a nice reply from Dr. Kelso to the email I sent him yesterday. He has added the BY70-1 TLEs to the CubeSats listing (http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/cubesat.txt). This file should be available to most software tracking applications (at least is is available as a source in AmsatDroid Free) and will be updated more frequently compared to the BY70-1 TLEs provided through AMSAT. > > 73, > > Mac Cody / AE5PH > _______________________________________________ > 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 kb2m at comcast.net Mon Jan 30 19:31:23 2017 From: kb2m at comcast.net (Jeff) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:31:23 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] 14000+ LoTW sat contacts uploaded Message-ID: <045D7CB816DC4F429A086F4A6D57BAE4@kb2m4PC> I finally had the time (it took mea good part of 4 days) to massage my old sat contacts and upload then to LoTW. I sent over 14,000 sat contacts from 1997 to April 2013 to LoTW. I now keep separate logs for my 3 residences. Here is what the results are so far from my main NJ log.... Sat DXCC 19 of 96 QSO?s confirmed, WAS 35 of 50 states confirmed , VUCC 114 of 569 grid?s confirmed . A pretty dismal QSL LoTW return if you ask me. More should show up when the rest of you old sat op?s upload your sat contacts to LoTW. For example I have 4 sat contacts with AK, no QSL. I will now have to go through my 3,000+ QSL cards to check for SAT contacts. I went through them last year for HF and only added 3 QSL records to my HF total?s, now 289 of 330. So I?m not feeling optimistic about getting the 77 SAT QSL?s I need! Also, Besides the logging fields mismatched with LoTW that I had to fix, there also was a big almost 3 year long area of my log that had been corrupted by LUX-LOG the logging s/w I was using at the time, I was unaware that my log was corrupted until it was too late. I recovered some of the QSO?s but there are thousands lost, including ALL of my RS-10 contacts, most of my RS-15, RS-12, RS13, and some of my AO-10, and AO-40. I now wonder if any of those lost HEO contacts would of put me over 100 SAT DXCC. Very sad.... 73 Jeff kb2m From amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net Tue Jan 31 00:54:15 2017 From: amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:54:15 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] 14000+ LoTW sat contacts uploaded In-Reply-To: <045D7CB816DC4F429A086F4A6D57BAE4@kb2m4PC> References: <045D7CB816DC4F429A086F4A6D57BAE4@kb2m4PC> Message-ID: Hi Jeff! I saw 3 new LOTW QSLs this morning, for some QSOs we had between late 2005 and 2007. Thanks! I still see some QSOs we had between 2007 and 2010 that were not confirmed. Were those logs also lost in the corrupted software? 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Jeff wrote: > I finally had the time (it took mea good part of 4 days) to massage my > old sat contacts and upload then to LoTW. I sent over 14,000 sat contacts > from 1997 to April 2013 to LoTW. I now keep separate logs for my 3 > residences. > > ? > > > From maccody at att.net Tue Jan 31 04:24:34 2017 From: maccody at att.net (Mac A. Cody) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:24:34 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Celestrak BY70-1 keps In-Reply-To: References: <1134501403.1959050.1485800827958.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1134501403.1959050.1485800827958@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <2ca437af-6ab9-42af-14d7-ecc5b62f0766@att.net> Well, I suppose you could send in a request to Dr. Kelso, like I did. :) 73, Mac / AE5PH On 01/30/2017 12:35 PM, Paul Stoetzer wrote: > I'm not sure why it also shouldn't be in amateur.txt. CubeSat.txt is > OK, but it's an added step for some uses. > > 73, > > Paul, N8HM > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 1:27 PM, mac cody wrote: >> All, >> >> I received a nice reply from Dr. Kelso to the email I sent him yesterday. He has added the BY70-1 TLEs to the CubeSats listing (http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/cubesat.txt). This file should be available to most software tracking applications (at least is is available as a source in AmsatDroid Free) and will be updated more frequently compared to the BY70-1 TLEs provided through AMSAT. >> >> 73, >> >> Mac Cody / AE5PH >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 Jan 31 08:11:35 2017 From: AJ9N at aol.com (AJ9N at aol.com) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 03:11:35 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-31 07:30 UTC Message-ID: <1835b4.2dbc2a8b.45c1a0b7@aol.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-31 07:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Cours Saint Maur, Monaco, Monaco, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Thu 2017-02-02 08:38:27 UTC 75 deg via LU1CGB Rescheduled due to Service Module spatial constraint. South Street School, Danbury CT, telebridge via ON4ISS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Thu 2017-02-02 18:49:14 UTC 80 deg Space Exploration Educators Conference, Houston, Texas, telebridge via K6DUE (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Thu 2017-02-09 20:30:10 UTC 21 deg (***) Palmetto Scholars Academy, North Charleston, SC, direct via K4PSA The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD (***) Contact is a go for: Fri 2017-02-10 17:59:18 UTC 38 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 123 Francesco IK?WGF with 119 **************************************************************************** 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 2017-01-31 07:30 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 1110. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1074. 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 2017-01-27 08:30 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 mrtoburen7 at gmail.com Tue Jan 31 02:44:26 2017 From: mrtoburen7 at gmail.com (Mr Toby) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 20:44:26 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Getting SatPC32 and new IC-9100 to talk over USB Message-ID: I just tried out these instructions to connect an IC9100 to SatPC32. They were perfect! Thank you very much. I could not find them anywhere but on the bb Marshall, AA0FO Kansas City, KS From maccody at att.net Tue Jan 31 15:16:02 2017 From: maccody at att.net (mac cody) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 15:16:02 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Celestrak BY70-1 keps References: <655418790.2670334.1485875762696.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <655418790.2670334.1485875762696@mail.yahoo.com> I received another email from Dr. Kelso this morning asking if I would like to have the BY70-1 TLEs also placed in the Amateur Radio listing as well. I told him that if he could do so, that would be great. I'm sure it will be taken care of later today. 73, Mac / AE5PH -------------------------------------------- On Mon, 1/30/17, Mac A. Cody wrote: Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Celestrak BY70-1 keps To: "Paul Stoetzer" Cc: "amsat-bb at amsat.org" Date: Monday, January 30, 2017, 10:24 PM Well, I suppose you could send in a request to Dr. Kelso, like I did. :) 73, Mac / AE5PH On 01/30/2017 12:35 PM, Paul Stoetzer wrote: > I'm not sure why it also shouldn't be in amateur.txt. CubeSat.txt is > OK, but it's an added step for some uses. > > 73, > > Paul, N8HM > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 1:27 PM, mac cody wrote: >> All, >> >> I received a nice reply from Dr. Kelso to the email I sent him yesterday.? He has added the BY70-1 TLEs to the CubeSats listing (http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/cubesat.txt).? This file should be available to most software tracking applications (at least is is available as a source in AmsatDroid Free) and will be updated more frequently compared to the BY70-1 TLEs provided through AMSAT. >> >> 73, >> >> Mac Cody / AE5PH >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 nss at mwt.net Tue Jan 31 15:36:39 2017 From: nss at mwt.net (Joe) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 09:36:39 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Celestrak BY70-1 keps In-Reply-To: <655418790.2670334.1485875762696@mail.yahoo.com> References: <655418790.2670334.1485875762696.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <655418790.2670334.1485875762696@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <2a5cef69-9933-3afa-3702-8d262a42b323@mwt.net> would he be the one to know as the time gets closer when re-entry would likely happen? Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 1/31/2017 9:16 AM, mac cody wrote: > I received another email from Dr. Kelso this morning asking if I would like to have the BY70-1 TLEs also placed in the Amateur Radio listing as well. I told him that if he could do so, that would be great. I'm sure it will be taken care of later today. > > 73, > > Mac / AE5PH > -------------------------------------------- > On Mon, 1/30/17, Mac A. Cody wrote: > > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Celestrak BY70-1 keps > To: "Paul Stoetzer" > Cc: "amsat-bb at amsat.org" > Date: Monday, January 30, 2017, 10:24 PM > > Well, I suppose you could > send in a request to Dr. Kelso, like I did. :) > > 73, > > Mac / AE5PH > > On > 01/30/2017 12:35 PM, Paul Stoetzer wrote: > > I'm not sure why it also shouldn't > be in amateur.txt. CubeSat.txt is > > OK, > but it's an added step for some uses. > > > > 73, > > > > Paul, N8HM > > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 > at 1:27 PM, mac cody > wrote: > >> All, > >> > >> I received a > nice reply from Dr. Kelso to the email I sent him > yesterday. He has added the BY70-1 TLEs to the CubeSats > listing (http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/cubesat.txt). > This file should be available to most software tracking > applications (at least is is available as a source in > AmsatDroid Free) and will be updated more frequently > compared to the BY70-1 TLEs provided through AMSAT. > >> > >> 73, > >> > >> Mac Cody / > AE5PH > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> 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 maccody at att.net Tue Jan 31 16:11:03 2017 From: maccody at att.net (mac cody) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:11:03 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Celestrak BY70-1 keps References: <1056223052.2736151.1485879063653.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1056223052.2736151.1485879063653@mail.yahoo.com> Perhaps this might be useful: >From Satview.org Forecast of Reentry Location Update Tue 31-Jan-2017 14:13 UTC http://www.satview.org/spacejunk.php?sat_id=41909U 73, Mac / AE5PH -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 1/31/17, Joe wrote: Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Celestrak BY70-1 keps To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2017, 9:36 AM would he be the one to know as the time gets closer when re-entry would likely happen? Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 1/31/2017 9:16 AM, mac cody wrote: > I received another email from Dr. Kelso this morning asking if I would like to have the BY70-1 TLEs also placed in the Amateur Radio listing as well.? I told him that if he could do so, that would be great. I'm sure it will be taken care of later today. > > 73, > > Mac / AE5PH > -------------------------------------------- > On Mon, 1/30/17, Mac A. Cody wrote: > >???Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Celestrak BY70-1 keps >???To: "Paul Stoetzer" >???Cc: "amsat-bb at amsat.org" >???Date: Monday, January 30, 2017, 10:24 PM >??? >???Well, I suppose you could >???send in a request to Dr. Kelso, like I did. :) >??? >???73, >??? >???Mac / AE5PH >??? >???On >???01/30/2017 12:35 PM, Paul Stoetzer wrote: >???> I'm not sure why it also shouldn't >???be in amateur.txt. CubeSat.txt is >???> OK, >???but it's an added step for some uses. >???> >???> 73, >???> >???> Paul, N8HM >???> >???> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 >???at 1:27 PM, mac cody >???wrote: >???>> All, >???>> >???>> I received a >???nice reply from Dr. Kelso to the email I sent him >???yesterday.? He has added the BY70-1 TLEs to the CubeSats >???listing (http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/cubesat.txt). >???This file should be available to most software tracking >???applications (at least is is available as a source in >???AmsatDroid Free) and will be updated more frequently >???compared to the BY70-1 TLEs provided through AMSAT. >???>> >???>> 73, >???>> >???>> Mac Cody / >???AE5PH >???>> >???_______________________________________________ >???>> 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. 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Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From nss at mwt.net Tue Jan 31 16:48:31 2017 From: nss at mwt.net (Joe) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:48:31 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Celestrak BY70-1 keps In-Reply-To: <1056223052.2736151.1485879063653@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1056223052.2736151.1485879063653.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1056223052.2736151.1485879063653@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: AWESOME!!!!! I Like that +/- 8 hours, 16 hour window, thats quite a few orbits. Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 1/31/2017 10:11 AM, mac cody wrote: > Perhaps this might be useful: > >From Satview.org > Forecast of Reentry Location > Update Tue 31-Jan-2017 14:13 UTC > http://www.satview.org/spacejunk.php?sat_id=41909U > > 73, > > Mac / AE5PH > -------------------------------------------- > On Tue, 1/31/17, Joe wrote: > > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Celestrak BY70-1 keps > To: amsat-bb at amsat.org > Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2017, 9:36 AM > > would he be the one to > know as the time gets closer when re-entry would > likely happen? > > Joe WB9SBD > Sig > The Original Rolling Ball Clock > Idle Tyme > Idle-Tyme.com > http://www.idle-tyme.com > On 1/31/2017 9:16 AM, mac cody wrote: > > I received another email from Dr. Kelso > this morning asking if I would like to have the BY70-1 TLEs > also placed in the Amateur Radio listing as well. I told > him that if he could do so, that would be great. I'm > sure it will be taken care of later today. > > > > 73, > > > > Mac / AE5PH > > > -------------------------------------------- > > On Mon, 1/30/17, Mac A. Cody > wrote: > > > > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] > Celestrak BY70-1 keps > > To: > "Paul Stoetzer" > > Cc: "amsat-bb at amsat.org" > > > Date: Monday, January 30, > 2017, 10:24 PM > > > > Well, I suppose you could > > send in a request to Dr. > Kelso, like I did. :) > > > > 73, > > > > Mac / AE5PH > > > > On > > 01/30/2017 12:35 PM, Paul > Stoetzer wrote: > > > > I'm not sure why it also shouldn't > > be in amateur.txt. > CubeSat.txt is > > > OK, > > but it's an added step > for some uses. > > > > > > 73, > > > > > > Paul, N8HM > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 > > at 1:27 PM, mac cody > > wrote: > > >> All, > > >> > > >> I received a > > nice reply from Dr. Kelso to > the email I sent him > > yesterday. He has added the > BY70-1 TLEs to the CubeSats > > listing (http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/cubesat.txt). > > This file should be available > to most software tracking > > applications (at least is is > available as a source in > > AmsatDroid Free) and will be > updated more frequently > > compared to the BY70-1 TLEs > provided through AMSAT. > > >> > > >> 73, > > >> > > >> Mac Cody / > > AE5PH > > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > >> 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? 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Join > now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > > > From nss at mwt.net Tue Jan 31 18:31:39 2017 From: nss at mwt.net (Joe) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 12:31:39 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Celestrak BY70-1 keps In-Reply-To: <1056223052.2736151.1485879063653@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1056223052.2736151.1485879063653.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1056223052.2736151.1485879063653@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <74ea3fc0-78ed-42a6-4702-4cb3c1b211cd@mwt.net> Hey Neat it even has a live tracker feature, AND a when it is over "Your City" but I have not found out how to tell it where "MY" city is. Anyone know how? Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 1/31/2017 10:11 AM, mac cody wrote: > Perhaps this might be useful: > >From Satview.org > Forecast of Reentry Location > Update Tue 31-Jan-2017 14:13 UTC > http://www.satview.org/spacejunk.php?sat_id=41909U > > 73, > > Mac / AE5PH > -------------------------------------------- > On Tue, 1/31/17, Joe wrote: > > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Celestrak BY70-1 keps > To: amsat-bb at amsat.org > Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2017, 9:36 AM > > would he be the one to > know as the time gets closer when re-entry would > likely happen? > > Joe WB9SBD > Sig > The Original Rolling Ball Clock > Idle Tyme > Idle-Tyme.com > http://www.idle-tyme.com > On 1/31/2017 9:16 AM, mac cody wrote: > > I received another email from Dr. Kelso > this morning asking if I would like to have the BY70-1 TLEs > also placed in the Amateur Radio listing as well. I told > him that if he could do so, that would be great. I'm > sure it will be taken care of later today. > > > > 73, > > > > Mac / AE5PH > > > -------------------------------------------- > > On Mon, 1/30/17, Mac A. Cody > wrote: > > > > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] > Celestrak BY70-1 keps > > To: > "Paul Stoetzer" > > Cc: "amsat-bb at amsat.org" > > > Date: Monday, January 30, > 2017, 10:24 PM > > > > Well, I suppose you could > > send in a request to Dr. > Kelso, like I did. :) > > > > 73, > > > > Mac / AE5PH > > > > On > > 01/30/2017 12:35 PM, Paul > Stoetzer wrote: > > > > I'm not sure why it also shouldn't > > be in amateur.txt. > CubeSat.txt is > > > OK, > > but it's an added step > for some uses. > > > > > > 73, > > > > > > Paul, N8HM > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 > > at 1:27 PM, mac cody > > wrote: > > >> All, > > >> > > >> I received a > > nice reply from Dr. Kelso to > the email I sent him > > yesterday. He has added the > BY70-1 TLEs to the CubeSats > > listing (http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/cubesat.txt). > > This file should be available > to most software tracking > > applications (at least is is > available as a source in > > AmsatDroid Free) and will be > updated more frequently > > compared to the BY70-1 TLEs > provided through AMSAT. > > >> > > >> 73, > > >> > > >> Mac Cody / > > AE5PH > > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 wa6fwf at gmail.com Tue Jan 31 19:02:19 2017 From: wa6fwf at gmail.com (kevin schuchmann) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 11:02:19 -0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] foxtelem error Message-ID: <2bdd2b6e-3fb4-f7c9-e165-9c04403ce2af@gmail.com> Hi, Does anyone else get a error message occasionally when stopping and starting the decode on foxtelem? I have seen the following error on multiple pc's javax.sound.sampled.LineUnavailableException:line with format PCM_SIGNED 48000.0Hz, 16 bit,stereo, 4 bytes/frame, little-endian not supported Makes it look like the audio line is unavailable, but doing nothing more than closing the program and restarting it clears the error. Thanks Kevin wa6fwf From wa4sca at gmail.com Tue Jan 31 19:15:03 2017 From: wa4sca at gmail.com (Alan) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:15:03 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] FoxTelem error Message-ID: <000001d27bf6$534d93d0$f9e8bb70$@GMAIL.COM> Hi Kevin, I saw that error message once several version ago, but have never seen it again. A couple of questions. Which virtual audio cable system are you using? Version of OS, including "bitness?" 73s, Alan WA4SCA <-----Original Message----- References: <000001d27bf6$534d93d0$f9e8bb70$@GMAIL.COM> Message-ID: <532ba891-d39a-aab0-bda6-30e135746a0a@gmail.com> Hi Alan, VBcable 1.0.3.2 64 bit, seen it on both win 7 64 and currently on win 8.1 64 , seen it on a intel I5 machine and currently on a I7 machine, SDR is a Airspy 73 kevin wa6fwf On 1/31/2017 11:15 AM, Alan wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > I saw that error message once several version ago, but have never seen it again. A couple of > questions. > > Which virtual audio cable system are you using? > > Version of OS, including "bitness?" > > 73s, > > Alan > WA4SCA > > > > > <-----Original Message----- > > < > < Does anyone else get a error message occasionally when stopping and > < > <48000.0Hz, 16 bit,stereo, 4 bytes/frame, little-endian not supported > < > < > < > <_______________________________________________ > > From jimki6wj at sbcglobal.net Tue Jan 31 19:26:22 2017 From: jimki6wj at sbcglobal.net (James Brown) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:26:22 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] SAT 32/IC910 problem References: <1475237499.757657.1485890782095.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1475237499.757657.1485890782095@mail.yahoo.com> ? When AO85 is selected the ic 910 does not select fm. I have also noted that AO 85 seams to be off frequency from 145980/435180 and when I change? SAT 32 pulls it back to what it wants.How should I correct this. Should I change the Doppler sqf to some other frequency? Jim KI6WJ From wa4sca at gmail.com Tue Jan 31 19:35:02 2017 From: wa4sca at gmail.com (Alan) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:35:02 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] FoxTelem error In-Reply-To: <532ba891-d39a-aab0-bda6-30e135746a0a@gmail.com> References: <000001d27bf6$534d93d0$f9e8bb70$@GMAIL.COM> <532ba891-d39a-aab0-bda6-30e135746a0a@gmail.com> Message-ID: <000001d27bf9$1e1017d0$5a304770$@GMAIL.COM> Kevin, The one time I saw it, I was testing VBcable on a 64 bit, Win10 machine for a few hours. I run pretty much 24/7 on a Win7 32-bit machine using Eugene Muzychenko's VAC with an Airspy. 73s, Alan WA4SCA <-----Original Message----- Hi Kevin, <> <> I saw that error message once several version ago, but have never seen it again. A couple of <> questions. <> <> Which virtual audio cable system are you using? <> <> Version of OS, including "bitness?" <> <> 73s, <> <> Alan <> WA4SCA <> <> <> <> <> <-----Original Message----- <> <> < <> < Does anyone else get a error message occasionally when stopping and <> < <> <48000.0Hz, 16 bit,stereo, 4 bytes/frame, little-endian not supported <> < <> < <> < <> <_______________________________________________ <> <> From hamsat at xs4all.nl Tue Jan 31 19:35:26 2017 From: hamsat at xs4all.nl (Nico Janssen) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 20:35:26 +0100 Subject: [amsat-bb] Celestrak BY70-1 keps In-Reply-To: References: <1056223052.2736151.1485879063653.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1056223052.2736151.1485879063653@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <8cdca536-76ea-87b2-65cd-793a28023aee@xs4all.nl> Unfortunately it is not that simple. That '+/- 8 hours' should actually read '+/- 8 days'. It is simply impossible to predict the decay time with such a high accuracy so far in advance. 73, Nico PA0DLO On 31-01-17 17:48, Joe wrote: > AWESOME!!!!! > > I Like that +/- 8 hours, 16 hour window, thats quite a few orbits. > > Joe WB9SBD > Sig > The Original Rolling Ball Clock > Idle Tyme > Idle-Tyme.com > http://www.idle-tyme.com > On 1/31/2017 10:11 AM, mac cody wrote: >> Perhaps this might be useful: >> >From Satview.org >> Forecast of Reentry Location >> Update Tue 31-Jan-2017 14:13 UTC >> http://www.satview.org/spacejunk.php?sat_id=41909U >> >> 73, >> >> Mac / AE5PH >> -------------------------------------------- >> On Tue, 1/31/17, Joe wrote: >> >> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Celestrak BY70-1 keps >> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org >> Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2017, 9:36 AM >> would he be the one to >> know as the time gets closer when re-entry would >> likely happen? >> Joe WB9SBD >> Sig >> The Original Rolling Ball Clock >> Idle Tyme >> Idle-Tyme.com >> http://www.idle-tyme.com >> On 1/31/2017 9:16 AM, mac cody wrote: >> > I received another email from Dr. Kelso >> this morning asking if I would like to have the BY70-1 TLEs >> also placed in the Amateur Radio listing as well. I told >> him that if he could do so, that would be great. I'm >> sure it will be taken care of later today. >> > >> > 73, >> > >> > Mac / AE5PH >> > >> -------------------------------------------- >> > On Mon, 1/30/17, Mac A. Cody >> wrote: >> > >> > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] >> Celestrak BY70-1 keps >> > To: >> "Paul Stoetzer" >> > Cc: "amsat-bb at amsat.org" >> >> > Date: Monday, January 30, >> 2017, 10:24 PM >> > >> > Well, I suppose you could >> > send in a request to Dr. >> Kelso, like I did. :) >> > >> > 73, >> > >> > Mac / AE5PH >> > >> > On >> > 01/30/2017 12:35 PM, Paul >> Stoetzer wrote: >> > > >> I'm not sure why it also shouldn't >> > be in amateur.txt. >> CubeSat.txt is >> > > OK, >> > but it's an added step >> for some uses. >> > > >> > > 73, >> > > >> > > Paul, N8HM >> > > >> > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 >> > at 1:27 PM, mac cody >> > wrote: >> > >> All, >> > >> >> > >> I received a >> > nice reply from Dr. Kelso to >> the email I sent him >> > yesterday. He has added the >> BY70-1 TLEs to the CubeSats >> > listing (http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/cubesat.txt). >> > This file should be available >> to most software tracking >> > applications (at least is is >> available as a source in >> > AmsatDroid Free) and will be >> updated more frequently >> > compared to the BY70-1 TLEs >> provided through AMSAT. >> > >> >> > >> 73, >> > >> >> > >> Mac Cody / >> > AE5PH >> > >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 wa4sca at gmail.com Tue Jan 31 19:45:53 2017 From: wa4sca at gmail.com (Alan) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:45:53 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] SAT 32/IC910 problem In-Reply-To: <1475237499.757657.1485890782095@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1475237499.757657.1485890782095.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1475237499.757657.1485890782095@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <000101d27bfa$a2a41b30$e7ec5190$@GMAIL.COM> Jim, The frequencies have been determined to be somewhat lower than the prelaunch estimates, due to the higher than expected satellite temperatures. I use this: AO-85,145979.0,435172.0,FM,FM,NOR,0,0,RPTR 145,979.0 MHz is about right most of the time, but in periods of continuous illumination, it can get down to 145,977.5 MHz. Just let the 910 AFC do its thing. Presumable the uplink also shifts, but the satellite receiver AFC should help with that. 73s, Alan WA4SCA <-----Original Message----- References: <000001d27bf6$534d93d0$f9e8bb70$@GMAIL.COM> <532ba891-d39a-aab0-bda6-30e135746a0a@gmail.com> <000001d27bf9$1e1017d0$5a304770$@GMAIL.COM> Message-ID: <6ae9b097-73b0-4971-04e5-10d3151ddf21@gmail.com> Thanks Alan, I'm kinda stuck with win 8.1 for IC-9100 audio driver support and stuck with 64 bit for some other things I'm doing. I will give VAC a try and see if it works better, I also run 24/7 and what I see is after days or weeks of running I will see a good waveform but no decodes, stop-start get error restart program and off it goes again. 73 Kevin wa6fwf On 1/31/2017 11:35 AM, Alan wrote: > Kevin, > > The one time I saw it, I was testing VBcable on a 64 bit, Win10 machine for a few hours. I run pretty > much 24/7 on a Win7 32-bit machine using Eugene Muzychenko's VAC with an Airspy. > > 73s, > > Alan > WA4SCA > > > > <-----Original Message----- > > < > < > < VBcable 1.0.3.2 64 bit, seen it on both win 7 64 and currently on > < > <73 > < > < > < > < > <> Hi Kevin, > <> > <> I saw that error message once several version ago, but have never seen it again. A couple of > <> questions. > <> > <> Which virtual audio cable system are you using? > <> > <> Version of OS, including "bitness?" > <> > <> 73s, > <> > <> Alan > <> WA4SCA > <> > <> > <> > <> > <> <-----Original Message----- > <> <> <> > <> <> < > <> <> < Does anyone else get a error message occasionally when stopping and > <> <> <> < > <> <> <48000.0Hz, 16 bit,stereo, 4 bytes/frame, little-endian not supported > <> < > <> <> <> < > <> < > <> <> <> <_______________________________________________ > <> <> <> <> <> <> > <> > > From nss at mwt.net Tue Jan 31 19:59:32 2017 From: nss at mwt.net (Joe) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:59:32 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] Celestrak BY70-1 keps In-Reply-To: <8cdca536-76ea-87b2-65cd-793a28023aee@xs4all.nl> References: <1056223052.2736151.1485879063653.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1056223052.2736151.1485879063653@mail.yahoo.com> <8cdca536-76ea-87b2-65cd-793a28023aee@xs4all.nl> Message-ID: yeah, it's changing by the hour even now. Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 1/31/2017 1:35 PM, Nico Janssen wrote: > Unfortunately it is not that simple. That '+/- 8 hours' should actually > read '+/- 8 days'. It is simply impossible to predict the decay time with > such a high accuracy so far in advance. > > 73, > Nico PA0DLO > > On 31-01-17 17:48, Joe wrote: >> AWESOME!!!!! >> >> I Like that +/- 8 hours, 16 hour window, thats quite a few orbits. >> >> Joe WB9SBD >> Sig >> The Original Rolling Ball Clock >> Idle Tyme >> Idle-Tyme.com >> http://www.idle-tyme.com >> On 1/31/2017 10:11 AM, mac cody wrote: >>> Perhaps this might be useful: >>> >From Satview.org >>> Forecast of Reentry Location >>> Update Tue 31-Jan-2017 14:13 UTC >>> http://www.satview.org/spacejunk.php?sat_id=41909U >>> >>> 73, >>> >>> Mac / AE5PH >>> -------------------------------------------- >>> On Tue, 1/31/17, Joe wrote: >>> >>> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Celestrak BY70-1 keps >>> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org >>> Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2017, 9:36 AM >>> would he be the one to >>> know as the time gets closer when re-entry would >>> likely happen? >>> Joe WB9SBD >>> Sig >>> The Original Rolling Ball Clock >>> Idle Tyme >>> Idle-Tyme.com >>> http://www.idle-tyme.com >>> On 1/31/2017 9:16 AM, mac cody wrote: >>> > I received another email from Dr. Kelso >>> this morning asking if I would like to have the BY70-1 TLEs >>> also placed in the Amateur Radio listing as well. I told >>> him that if he could do so, that would be great. I'm >>> sure it will be taken care of later today. >>> > >>> > 73, >>> > >>> > Mac / AE5PH >>> > >>> -------------------------------------------- >>> > On Mon, 1/30/17, Mac A. Cody >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] >>> Celestrak BY70-1 keps >>> > To: >>> "Paul Stoetzer" >>> > Cc: "amsat-bb at amsat.org" >>> >>> > Date: Monday, January 30, >>> 2017, 10:24 PM >>> > >>> > Well, I suppose you could >>> > send in a request to Dr. >>> Kelso, like I did. :) >>> > >>> > 73, >>> > >>> > Mac / AE5PH >>> > >>> > On >>> > 01/30/2017 12:35 PM, Paul >>> Stoetzer wrote: >>> > > >>> I'm not sure why it also shouldn't >>> > be in amateur.txt. >>> CubeSat.txt is >>> > > OK, >>> > but it's an added step >>> for some uses. >>> > > >>> > > 73, >>> > > >>> > > Paul, N8HM >>> > > >>> > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 >>> > at 1:27 PM, mac cody >>> > wrote: >>> > >> All, >>> > >> >>> > >> I received a >>> > nice reply from Dr. Kelso to >>> the email I sent him >>> > yesterday. He has added the >>> BY70-1 TLEs to the CubeSats >>> > listing (http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/cubesat.txt). >>> > This file should be available >>> to most software tracking >>> > applications (at least is is >>> available as a source in >>> > AmsatDroid Free) and will be >>> updated more frequently >>> > compared to the BY70-1 TLEs >>> provided through AMSAT. >>> > >> >>> > >> 73, >>> > >> >>> > >> Mac Cody / >>> > AE5PH >>> > >> >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > >> 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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