From aj9n at aol.com Tue Oct 1 02:27:20 2019 From: aj9n at aol.com (aj9n at aol.com) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 02:27:20 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-10-01 02:00 UTC References: <1755730710.1159419.1569896840502.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1755730710.1159419.1569896840502@mail.yahoo.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-10-01 02:00 UTC ? Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: ? The Southwest State University of Kursk, Kursk, Russia, direct via UB3WCL The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin Contact was successful Sat 2019-09-28 14:35 UTC (***) ? UAE school #2 with Space Flight participant, direct via A68MBR The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour Contact was successful for Sat 2019-09-28 11:20 UTC (***) ? Sonoma County Main Library, Santa Rosa, CA, telebridge via K6DUE The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-01 19:53:13 UTC 82 deg ? UAE school #3 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour Contact is go for Wed 2019-10-02 09:45 UTC ? School in Russia TBD direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-10-08 06:05 UTC ? Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin Contact is go for Tue 2019-10-08 08:25 UTC (***) ? Bampton School, Bampton, United Kingdom, direct via G2LV The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Drew Morgan KI5AAA or Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-08 12:51:26 UTC 27 deg Watch for live stream at https://live.ariss.org? ? Coll?ge Robert Doisneau, Sarralbe, France, direct via F6KFT The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-08 14:29:21 UTC 53 deg ? ? ? Watch for MAI-75 SSTV sessions: Wed 2019-10-09 09:50 to 14:00 UTC Thu 2019-10-10 08:55 to 15:15 UTC ? ? AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 ? ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ??? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? ? For many years I have on purpose not given the actual hyperlinks; I assume the user would do a copy/paste into their favorite browser.? I am now thinking that the browsers have all grown up and most should be able to handle the link.? Please let me know you experience any issues.? So now you should be able to directly click on the link.? (***) ? 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?2019-10-01 02:00 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 ? ? The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-10-01 02:00 UTC. (***) http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf ? ? ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ??? ? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) ? Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts.? Applications should be addressed by email to:? school.selection.manager at ariss-eu.org ? ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) ? Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application.? Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. ? For the application, go to:? http://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd at gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss at iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) http://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ ? ? ****************************************************************************** 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?? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting.? Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts.? ? 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 ? ? The HamTV webpage:? https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ ? ? **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: ? Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IK?WGF with 132 Sergey RV3DR with 125 (***) Gaston ON4WF with 123 ? **************************************************************************** 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. ? ? ? Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1338. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1281. (***) 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: 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 ? **************************************************************************** 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 Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts ? https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** ? Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV ? Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA ? Exp. 61 on orbit Oleg Skripochka Jessica Meir Hazza Al Mansour (Space Flight Participant) ? **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie?Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors ? ? From adrian at liggins.ca Tue Oct 1 11:58:38 2019 From: adrian at liggins.ca (adrian at liggins.ca) Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 07:58:38 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] Svalbard Activation Message-ID: <13164a1bdfe0f1e7e73ba0c1eb3dc5d9@liggins.ca> Just got the following from Halvard, LA7XK regarding an upcoming activation on Svalbard. 73 de Adrian VA3NNA I am going to Svalbard for the phone section of the Scandinavian Activity Contest (SAC) Arriving in JW mid day on Wednesday Oct. 9 returning mid day on Monday Oct. 14. I am joined by LA9DL Just and LA6VM Erling. We will be QRV via FO-29, from Wednesday Oct 9 to Friday Oct.11 during the local evenings between 1630Z and 0100Z. Call will be JW7XK and the locator is JQ78. Our best takeoff will be from 240 degrees via west and north to about 34 degrees. In that sector the elevation will be 1 to 2 degrees. We are renting a car up there and will drive west from the city out passed the airport for the best takeoff. We should be able to work most of USA and Canada and also Alaska. We will alternate between SSB and CW, using an IC-9700 and an Arrow antenna. Can you please spread the word in the North American satellite community. 73 de Halvard, LA7XK From w5rkn at w5rkn.com Tue Oct 1 14:42:59 2019 From: w5rkn at w5rkn.com (Ronald G. Parsons) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 09:42:59 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] VUCC Awards-Endorsements for September 2019 Message-ID: <8954B5E3D4FD4412BFE4A3B608F66FFE@Ron8300PC> Here are the endorsements and new VUCC Satellite Awards issued by the ARRL for the period September 1, 2019 through October 1, 2019. Congratulations to all those who made the list this month! CALL Sep Oct WC7V 1200 1218 N9EAT 550 706 AA8CH 584 620 N3GS 525 597 WD9EWK (DM43) 575 585 VE7CEW 428 478 K9UO 450 475 KK4YEL 300 400 AD0HJ 300 325 PS8ET 274 303 WI4T 101 301 N7EGY 250 300 K7VNE New 150 KS1G 102 134 N7AME 125 127 N4QX 106 120 KJ4M New 102 N4BAF New 100 If you find errors or omissions. please contact me off-list at @.com and I'll revise the announcement. This list was developed by comparing the ARRL .pdf listings for the two months. It's a visual comparison so omissions are possible. Apologies if your call was not mentioned. Thanks to all those who are roving to grids that are rarely on the birds. They are doing most of the work! Ron W5RKN From ke4al at yahoo.com Tue Oct 1 14:55:19 2019 From: ke4al at yahoo.com (Robert Bankston) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 14:55:19 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Svalbard Activation In-Reply-To: <13164a1bdfe0f1e7e73ba0c1eb3dc5d9@liggins.ca> References: <13164a1bdfe0f1e7e73ba0c1eb3dc5d9@liggins.ca> Message-ID: <1732472067.2031099.1569941719885@mail.yahoo.com> Yes, Hal, LA7XK, is heading back to Svalbard.? NOTE:? This will be FO-29 only. In addition, Ron,? AD0DX, will be activating CM79 next week. If you chase grids or DX, I encourage you to regularly check AMSAT's Upcoming Satellite Operation page: https://www.amsat.org/satellite-info/upcoming-satellite-operations/ 73, Robert Bankston, KE4ALVice-President, User ServicesRadio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) Twitter:? @KE4ALabamaWebsite:? KE4AL.wordpress.com On Tuesday, October 1, 2019, 07:57:34 AM CDT, Adrian Liggins via AMSAT-BB wrote: Just got the following from Halvard, LA7XK regarding an upcoming activation on Svalbard. 73 de Adrian VA3NNA I am going to Svalbard for the phone section of the Scandinavian Activity Contest (SAC) Arriving in JW mid day on Wednesday Oct. 9 returning mid day on Monday Oct. 14. I am joined by LA9DL Just and LA6VM Erling. We will be QRV via FO-29, from Wednesday Oct 9 to Friday Oct.11 during the local evenings between 1630Z and 0100Z. Call will be JW7XK and the locator is JQ78. Our best takeoff will be from 240 degrees via west and north to about 34 degrees. In that sector the elevation will be 1 to 2 degrees. We are renting a car up there and will drive west from the city out passed the airport for the best takeoff. We should be able to work most of USA and Canada and also Alaska. We will alternate between SSB and CW, using an IC-9700 and an Arrow antenna. Can you please spread the word in the North American satellite community. 73 de Halvard, LA7XK _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From johnnykludt at gmail.com Tue Oct 1 16:39:05 2019 From: johnnykludt at gmail.com (John Kludt) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 09:39:05 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] Fwd: [DXLab] Interoperation with SatPC32 In-Reply-To: <065401d576f7$a1fed5d0$e5fc8170$@ambersoft.com> References: <065401d576f7$a1fed5d0$e5fc8170$@ambersoft.com> Message-ID: Folks, Great news for DxLabs users! John K4SQC ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Dave AA6YQ Date: Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 11:56 AM Subject: [DXLab] Interoperation with SatPC32 To: Based on a suggestion posted here by Joe W4TV several weeks ago, I have extended Commander to interoperate with the SatPC32 satellite tracking application. In this form of interoperation SatPC32 directly controls your transceiver, and Commander interacts with SatPC32 to display and convey uplink frequency, downlink frequency, transceiver mode, satellite name, and satellite mode to DXLab and other applications. SpotCollector has been extended to obtain the active satellite name and satellite mode from Commander so that this information can be logged without manual re-entry; SpotCollector has been extended to populate outgoing spot notes with the active satellite name and uplink frequency. I will shortly be releasing Commander 14.2.6, DXKeeper 15.1.5, and 8.4.4 with this functionality, along with additional defect repairs and enhancements. Many thanks to Dave N9FN and Jeff KB2M for their help in testing the many new versions of these applications that led to these public releases, reporting defects and suggesting improvements that made for better satellite support. Step-by-step instructions are here: 73, Dave, AA6YQ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#187864): https://groups.io/g/DXLab/message/187864 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/34336745/425138 Group Owner: DXLab+owner at groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/DXLab/leave/3823159/1792687396/xyzzy [ johnnykludt at gmail.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From aj9n at aol.com Wed Oct 2 04:07:33 2019 From: aj9n at aol.com (aj9n at aol.com) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 04:07:33 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-10-02 03:00 UTC References: <1275535267.1541046.1569989253032.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1275535267.1541046.1569989253032@mail.yahoo.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-10-02 03:00 UTC ? Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: ? Sonoma County Main Library, Santa Rosa, CA, telebridge via K6DUE The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact was successful: Tue 2019-10-01 19:53:13 UTC 82 deg (***) ? UAE school #3 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour Contact is go for Wed 2019-10-02 09:45 UTC ? School in Russia TBD direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-10-08 06:05 UTC ? Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin Contact is go for Tue 2019-10-08 08:25 UTC ? Bampton School, Bampton, United Kingdom, direct via G2LV The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Drew Morgan KI5AAA or Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-08 12:51:26 UTC 27 deg Watch for live stream at https://live.ariss.org? ? Coll?ge Robert Doisneau, Sarralbe, France, direct via F6KFT The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-08 14:29:21 UTC 53 deg ? ? ? Watch for MAI-75 SSTV sessions: Wed 2019-10-09 09:50 to 14:00 UTC Thu 2019-10-10 08:55 to 15:15 UTC ? ? AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 ? ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ??? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? ? For many years I have on purpose not given the actual hyperlinks; I assume the user would do a copy/paste into their favorite browser.? I am now thinking that the browsers have all grown up and most should be able to handle the link.? Please let me know you experience any issues.? So now you should be able to directly click on the link.? (***) ? 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?2019-10-02 03:00 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 ? ? The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-10-02 03:00 UTC. (***) http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf ? ? ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ??? ? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) ? Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts.? Applications should be addressed by email to:? school.selection.manager at ariss-eu.org ? ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) ? Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application.? Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. ? For the application, go to:? http://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd at gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss at iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) http://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ ? ? ****************************************************************************** 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?? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting.? Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts.? ? 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 ? ? The HamTV webpage:? https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ ? ? **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: ? Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IK?WGF with 132 Sergey RV3DR with 125 Gaston ON4WF with 123 ? **************************************************************************** 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. ? ? ? Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1339. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1282. (***) 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: 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 ? **************************************************************************** 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 Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts ? https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** ? Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV ? Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA ? Exp. 61 on orbit Oleg Skripochka Jessica Meir Hazza Al Mansour (Space Flight Participant) ? **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie?Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors ? ? From n4csitwo at bellsouth.net Wed Oct 2 13:13:29 2019 From: n4csitwo at bellsouth.net (n4csitwo at bellsouth.net) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 09:13:29 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISS News Release (ANR) No. 19-14 Message-ID: <4AC678152A6F409D84BA6AD93F064BD2@DHJ> ARISS News Release No. 19-14 Dave Jordan, AA4KN ARISS PR aa4kn at amsat.org Oct. 2, 2019 Message to US Educators Amateur Radio on the International Space Station Contact Opportunity Call for Proposals New Proposal Window is October 1, 2019 to November 30, 2019 The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS. ARISS anticipates that the contact would be held between July 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact contact dates. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate the contact into a well-developed education plan. The deadline to submit a proposal is November 30, 2019. Proposal information and documents can be found at www.ariss.org. The Opportunity Crew members aboard the International Space Station will participate in scheduled Amateur Radio contacts. These radio contacts are approximately 10 minutes in length and allow students to interact with the astronauts through a question-and-answer session. An ARISS contact is a voice-only communication opportunity via Amateur Radio between astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space station and classrooms and communities. ARISS contacts afford education audiences the opportunity to learn firsthand from astronauts what it is like to live and work in space and to learn about space research conducted on the ISS. Students also will have an opportunity to learn about satellite communication, wireless technology, and radio science. Because of the nature of human spaceflight and the complexity of scheduling activities aboard the ISS, organizations must demonstrate flexibility to accommodate changes in dates and times of the radio contact. Amateur Radio organizations around the world with the support of NASA and space agencies in Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe present educational organizations with this opportunity. The ham radio organizations' volunteer efforts provide the equipment and operational support to enable communication between crew on the ISS and students around the world using Amateur Radio. More Information For proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of Information Webinars, go to www.ariss.org. Please direct any questions to ariss.us.education at gmail.com . 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 ISS National Lab and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEAM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or public forms. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org. Media Contact: Dave Jordan, AA4KN ARISS PR --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From aj9n at aol.com Wed Oct 2 16:44:58 2019 From: aj9n at aol.com (aj9n at aol.com) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 16:44:58 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-10-02 16:00 UTC References: <2093951644.1691921.1570034698466.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <2093951644.1691921.1570034698466@mail.yahoo.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-10-02 16:00 UTC ? Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: ? UAE school #3 with Space Flight participant, direct via A68MBR (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour Contact was successful for Wed 2019-10-02 09:45 UTC (***) ? School in Russia TBD direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-10-08 06:05 UTC ? Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin Contact is go for Tue 2019-10-08 08:25 UTC ? Bampton School, Bampton, United Kingdom, direct via G2LV The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Drew Morgan KI5AAA or Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-08 12:51:26 UTC 27 deg Watch for live stream at https://live.ariss.org? ? Coll?ge Robert Doisneau, Sarralbe, France, direct via F6KFT The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-08 14:29:21 UTC 53 deg ? ? ? Watch for MAI-75 SSTV sessions: Wed 2019-10-09 09:50 to 14:00 UTC Thu 2019-10-10 08:55 to 15:15 UTC ? ? AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 ? ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ??? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? ? For many years I have on purpose not given the actual hyperlinks; I assume the user would do a copy/paste into their favorite browser.? I am now thinking that the browsers have all grown up and most should be able to handle the link.? Please let me know you experience any issues.? So now you should be able to directly click on the link.? (***) ? 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?2019-10-02 16:00 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 ? ? The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-10-02 16:00 UTC. (***) http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf ? ? ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ??? ? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) ? Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts.? Applications should be addressed by email to:? school.selection.manager at ariss-eu.org ? ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) ? Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application.? Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. ? For the application, go to:? http://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd at gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss at iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) http://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ ? ? ****************************************************************************** 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?? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting.? Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts.? ? 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 ? ? The HamTV webpage:? https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ ? ? **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: ? Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IK?WGF with 132 Sergey RV3DR with 126 (***) Gaston ON4WF with 123 ? **************************************************************************** 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. ? ? ? Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1340. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1283. (***) 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: 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 ? **************************************************************************** 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 Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts ? https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** ? Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV ? Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA ? Exp. 61 on orbit Oleg Skripochka Jessica Meir Hazza Al Mansour (Space Flight Participant) ? **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie?Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors ? ? From bruninga at usna.edu Wed Oct 2 21:21:36 2019 From: bruninga at usna.edu (Robert Bruninga) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 17:21:36 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] The bleeding DIY edge: Othernet Ku RX now available Message-ID: <21cd916834b6f7b91b54f85e4955d7b5@mail.gmail.com> AL0I reports that Othernet has now released their latest Ku band downlink receiver for the Othernet project. These receivers and the process of setting up are only for those on the bleeding edge of tinkering, but supposedly there is an APRS satellite-traffic channel on the GEO downlink that can be received anywhere in North America now with just the feed horn. https://othernet.is/products/dreamcatcher-v3-05 The APRS feed comes from FINDU.COM and selects only APRS Satellite traffic for uplink to the GEO bird. This can form half of the link for rapid response anywhere... see http://aprs.org/othernet.html -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB On Behalf Of Matthew J Wolf via AMSAT-BB Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2019 8:18 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] OUTERnet becomes OTHERnet (APRS geo feed) I go ta Dreamcatcher Data Radiowhen they where on sale for $49. I can confirm that you can replace the supplied USB WiFi NIC with the TP-Link TL-UE3000 USB Ethernet NIC. I have to use a Pringles can on the LNB to get a marginalsignal, SNR -12.5 to -14 dB. Every time it rains I have to readjustthe LNB. I have sent a few test ARPS messages from N4MTT-2 via rf to a local i-gate. The messages then were seen on the down link via a text file. The Skylark operating system has a "Messages" application that displays the text file. APRS Link can display the history of the messages sent to OUTNET, https://aprs.link/app/aprs/stations/messages-OUTNET I noticed the messages I sent to OUTNET did not receive a REPLY ACK. There where duplicate messages on the down link from another SSID. I wanted to avoid sending duplicate messages. In Xastir I canceled the messages after the first message transmission. I agree tha tit "is a powerful capability" . -Matt, N4MTT ------------- original message ----------------------------- Hi Bob, I have been watching Outernet/Othernet developments for a couple of years and waiting for their system to stabilize (it still has not). I bought a Dreamcatcher 3 Version 3.03 receiver in April when they dropped the price to $49.00US. The User Manual may be of interest: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0770/0935/files/Dreamcatcher_V_3.03_SL_5.5_User_Manual_1.pdf?6506786568900441680 Information about the current state of affairs is unfortunately scattered throughout a number of threads in the Othernet forum. As noted in the following thread, Othernet is/was dumping the Dreamcatcher 3.03 in favor of a "cost-reduced version" of the receiver: https://forums.othernet.is/t/is-sale-price-an-omen/5974 The Dreamcatcher 3.03 uses a LoRa device for KU-band reception unlike the older L-band receiver which was based on an RTL-SDR as noted in the this post: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/othernet-dreamcatcher-on-sale-for-only-49/ I am not aware of any specific information released concerning the upcoming Othernet receiver, but it is supposed to be forthcoming soon. The current North American downlink is about 30 kbps with 8 kbps allocated for an audio stream (Voice of America at the moment) and the rest for files, including the satellite APRS transmissions. The latest kits were sold with a bare LNB, but a number of users have been experimenting with adding a feedhorn to improve reception: https://forums.othernet.is/t/increasing-gain-with-15-degree-cone/5258 Some users are using re-purposed KU-band antennas as well. Hope this helps. Todd AL0I -----Original Message----- From: Robert Bruninga Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 4:30 PM Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] Transponders For Rent??? (for free) Actually there is a geostationary channel that can be used by Ham Operators that is for free. https://othernet.is/ About 2 years ago, the APRS satellite ground station captures were made available worldwide via three GEO satellites for reception anywhere on earth. But I recently found that the OUTERnet system has changed to a new GEO satellite constellation and no longer uses INMARSAT L band satellites but is now using a KA band downlink over the USA. And that they are now selling a new KA receiver kit for this satellite. Has anyone kept up with them? Here is my original WEB page but with the links changed from OUTnet to OTHERnet, but otherwise, not kept up to date. http://aprs.org/othernet.html If anyone has one of their receivers or is receiving the downlink and/or wants to help me get my web page all cleaned up to what has changed over the last two years, let me know. This is a powerful capability. I hope we can keep it working. The way it is supposed to work is that you can send a specially formatted APRS packet (position, status or message) on any APRS network (terrestrial or satellite) and it should get parsed by the APRS-IS. Therer it can be captured by the OTHERNET non-profit ground station and uplinked to the APRS channel on their satellites to the downlink that anyone can receive. Ostensibly a ham radio volunteer global emergency backup channel. Its round-about, but a possible play-point... Bob, Wb4APR From aj9n at aol.com Wed Oct 2 22:20:46 2019 From: aj9n at aol.com (aj9n at aol.com) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 22:20:46 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-10-02 22:30 UTC References: <877756184.1823732.1570054846011.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <877756184.1823732.1570054846011@mail.yahoo.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-10-02 22:30 UTC ? Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: ? Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin Contact is go for Tue 2019-10-08 08:25 UTC ? Bampton School, Bampton, United Kingdom, direct via G2LV The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Drew Morgan KI5AAA (***) Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-08 12:51:26 UTC 27 deg Watch for live stream at https://live.ariss.org? ? Coll?ge Robert Doisneau, Sarralbe, France, direct via F6KFT The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-08 14:29:21 UTC 53 deg ? ? ? Watch for MAI-75 SSTV sessions: Wed 2019-10-09 09:50 to 14:00 UTC Thu 2019-10-10 08:55 to 15:15 UTC ? ? AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 ? ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ??? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? ? 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?2019-10-02 22:30 UTC.? (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled?school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. ? http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt ? ? The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-10-02 16:00 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf ? ? ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ??? ? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? ? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) (***) ? Message to US Educators?(***) Amateur Radio on the International Space Station? Contact Opportunity? ? Call for Proposals? New Proposal Window is October 1, 2019 to November 30, 2019? ? The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS.? ARISS anticipates that the contact would be held between July 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact contact dates. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate the contact into a well-developed education plan.? ? The deadline to submit a proposal is November 30, 2019.? Proposal information and documents can be found at http://www.ariss.org .? ? The Opportunity? ? Crew members aboard the International Space Station will participate in scheduled Amateur Radio contacts. These radio contacts are approximately 10 minutes in length and allow students to interact with the astronauts through a question-and-answer session.? ? An ARISS contact is a voice-only communication opportunity via Amateur Radio between astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space station and classrooms and communities. ARISS contacts afford education audiences the opportunity to learn firsthand from astronauts what it is like to live and work in space and to learn about space research conducted on the ISS. Students also will have an opportunity to learn about satellite communication, wireless technology, and radio science. Because of the nature of human spaceflight and the complexity of scheduling activities aboard the ISS, organizations must demonstrate flexibility to accommodate changes in dates and times of the radio contact.? ? Amateur Radio organizations around the world with the support of NASA and space agencies in Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe present educational organizations with this opportunity. The ham radio organizations' volunteer efforts provide the equipment and operational support to enable communication between crew on the ISS and students around the world using Amateur Radio.?? ? More Information ? For proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of Information Webinars, go to http://www.ariss.org . ? Please direct any questions to?ariss.us.education at gmail.com? ? **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) ? Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts.? Applications should be addressed by email to:? school.selection.manager at ariss-eu.org ? ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) ? Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application.? Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. ? For the application, go to:? http://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd at gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss at iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) http://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ ? ? ****************************************************************************** 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?? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting.? Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts.? ? 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 ? ? The HamTV webpage:? https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ ? ? **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: ? Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IK?WGF with 132 Sergey RV3DR with 126 Gaston ON4WF with 123 ? **************************************************************************** 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. ? ? ? Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1340. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1283. 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: 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 ? **************************************************************************** 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 Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts ? https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** ? Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV ? Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA ? Exp. 61 on orbit Oleg Skripochka Jessica Meir Hazza Al Mansour (Space Flight Participant) ? **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie?Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors ? ? From mountain.michelle at gmail.com Thu Oct 3 16:06:22 2019 From: mountain.michelle at gmail.com (Michelle Thompson) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 09:06:22 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] AREDN via GEO satellite discussion on GEO.IO Group. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Rent-a-GEO funding proposal was published 28 September 2019. Current document can be found at https://openresearch.institute/2019/09/28/open-research-institute-phase-4-space-rent-a-geo/ Unlike the Phase 4 Space funding proposal, which is four dedicated GEO amateur payloads, the Rent-a-GEO was not invited for submission to ARDC. ARDC is not currently accepting grant proposals, according to their website. If you want to see it considered by ARDC, then it would be helpful to tell them. That may make a difference. Other funding sources under consideration are ARRL Foundation and FEMA. I have several meetings scheduled to talk about Rent-a-GEO at AMSAT-NA Symposium and will be available the entire event for discussions about this, the global GEO payload proposal, the major advancements in LDPC decode and channelizers, and more. I anticipate being able to incorporate quality feedback, comment, and critique at Symposium into the draft and publish a revision in late October. That's the current status. -Michelle W5NYV On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 8:49 AM KC9SGV wrote: > Please pay attention to the discussion about AREDN (Amateur Radio > Emergency Network) via a GEO satellite on the GEO.IO Group. > These guys want our GEO sat(s) up ! > Rent-A-GEO would work in the interim...(What is the status of this?) > > Please join the GEO.IO Group as well. > > https://groups.io/g/GEO/topic/aredn_over_a_geo_satellite/34370267?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,34370267 > > Bernard, > KC9SGV > > Sent from my iPad From kc9sgv at gmail.com Thu Oct 3 15:49:53 2019 From: kc9sgv at gmail.com (KC9SGV) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 10:49:53 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] AREDN via GEO satellite discussion on GEO.IO Group. Message-ID: Please pay attention to the discussion about AREDN (Amateur Radio Emergency Network) via a GEO satellite on the GEO.IO Group. These guys want our GEO sat(s) up ! Rent-A-GEO would work in the interim...(What is the status of this?) Please join the GEO.IO Group as well. https://groups.io/g/GEO/topic/aredn_over_a_geo_satellite/34370267?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,34370267 Bernard, KC9SGV Sent from my iPad From johnnykludt at gmail.com Thu Oct 3 16:34:50 2019 From: johnnykludt at gmail.com (John Kludt) Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 09:34:50 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] AREDN via GEO satellite discussion on GEO.IO Group. Message-ID: <5d96232c.1c69fb81.5ae87.ac43@mx.google.com> Bernard, Thanks for defining ARDEN.? Lots of folks are on this distribution and not everyone can be expected to know every acronym. Michelle, please take note. 73 John Sent from my Verizon Motorola Smartphone On Oct 3, 2019 08:49, KC9SGV via AMSAT-BB wrote: > > Please pay attention to the discussion about AREDN (Amateur Radio Emergency Network) via a GEO satellite on the GEO.IO Group. > These guys want our GEO sat(s) up ! > Rent-A-GEO would work in the interim...(What is the status of this?) > > Please join the GEO.IO Group as well. > https://groups.io/g/GEO/topic/aredn_over_a_geo_satellite/34370267?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,34370267 > > Bernard, > KC9SGV > > Sent from my iPad > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From kb2cwn at yahoo.com Thu Oct 3 19:15:27 2019 From: kb2cwn at yahoo.com (Frank Staffa Jr.) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 19:15:27 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] (no subject) References: <1812508540.3267759.1570130127535.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1812508540.3267759.1570130127535@mail.yahoo.com> Anyone having luck with FO-29? Seems its down again? Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android From k8bl at ameritech.net Thu Oct 3 21:50:13 2019 From: k8bl at ameritech.net (Bob Liddy (K8BL)) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 21:50:13 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] (no subject) In-Reply-To: <1812508540.3267759.1570130127535@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1812508540.3267759.1570130127535.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1812508540.3267759.1570130127535@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1469310624.3385824.1570139413644@mail.yahoo.com> Frank (KB2CWN - I think), Check out the AMSAT Status Page. Doesn't look good atthe moment. GL/73,? ? ?Bob? K8BL https://www.amsat.org/status/? On Thursday, October 3, 2019, 03:15:47 PM EDT, Frank Staffa Jr. via AMSAT-BB wrote: Anyone having luck with FO-29? Seems its down again? Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From wa4sca at gmail.com Thu Oct 3 22:07:05 2019 From: wa4sca at gmail.com (Alan) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 17:07:05 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] FO-29 Message-ID: <000401d57a36$e4b1fc30$ae15f490$@gmail.com> >From Twitter: >From JARL FO-29 control center FO-29 Transponder will be available until UVC active in the CW telemetry. as follows UTC date and time. 10/5? 06:40?15:00 10/6? 07:25?17:35 10/12?05:30?15:35 10/13?08:00?14:40 10/19?07:45?14:25 10/20?05:10?15:15 73, Alan WA4SCA <-----Original Message----- ; kb2cwn at yahoo.com wrote: < < Anyone having luck with FO-29? Seems its down again? < Message-ID: <1094183253.2182767.1570142147447@mail.yahoo.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-10-03 22:30 UTC ? Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: ? Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin? Back on earth (***) Nick Hague KG5TMV Back on earth (***) ? Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA ? Exp. 61 on orbit Oleg Skripochka Jessica Meir Hazza Al Mansour (Space Flight Participant) Back on earth (***) ? Congratulations to Aleksey, Nick, and Hazza for a job well done. (***) ? ? ? Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin Contact is go for Tue 2019-10-08 08:25 UTC ? Bampton School, Bampton, United Kingdom, direct via G2LV The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Drew Morgan KI5AAA Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-08 12:51:26 UTC 27 deg Watch for live stream at https://live.ariss.org? ? Coll?ge Robert Doisneau, Sarralbe, France, direct via F6KFT The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-08 14:29:21 UTC 53 deg ? ? ? Watch for MAI-75 SSTV sessions: Wed 2019-10-09 09:50 to 14:00 UTC Thu 2019-10-10 08:55 to 15:15 UTC ? ? AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 ? ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ??? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? ? 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?2019-10-03 22:30 UTC.? (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled?school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. ? http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt ? ? The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-10-02 16:00 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf ? ? ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ??? ? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? ? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? Message to US Educators? Amateur Radio on the International Space Station? Contact Opportunity? ? Call for Proposals? New Proposal Window is October 1, 2019 to November 30, 2019? ? The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS.? ARISS anticipates that the contact would be held between July 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact contact dates. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate the contact into a well-developed education plan.? ? The deadline to submit a proposal is November 30, 2019.? Proposal information and documents can be found at http://www.ariss.org .? ? The Opportunity? ? Crew members aboard the International Space Station will participate in scheduled Amateur Radio contacts. These radio contacts are approximately 10 minutes in length and allow students to interact with the astronauts through a question-and-answer session.? ? An ARISS contact is a voice-only communication opportunity via Amateur Radio between astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space station and classrooms and communities. ARISS contacts afford education audiences the opportunity to learn firsthand from astronauts what it is like to live and work in space and to learn about space research conducted on the ISS. Students also will have an opportunity to learn about satellite communication, wireless technology, and radio science. Because of the nature of human spaceflight and the complexity of scheduling activities aboard the ISS, organizations must demonstrate flexibility to accommodate changes in dates and times of the radio contact.? ? Amateur Radio organizations around the world with the support of NASA and space agencies in Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe present educational organizations with this opportunity. The ham radio organizations' volunteer efforts provide the equipment and operational support to enable communication between crew on the ISS and students around the world using Amateur Radio.?? ? More Information ? For proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of Information Webinars, go to http://www.ariss.org . ? Please direct any questions to?ariss.us.education at gmail.com? ? **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) ? Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts.? Applications should be addressed by email to:? school.selection.manager at ariss-eu.org ? ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) ? Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application.? Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. ? For the application, go to:? http://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd at gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss at iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) http://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ ? ? ****************************************************************************** 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?? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting.? Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts.? ? 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 ? ? The HamTV webpage:? https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ ? ? **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: ? Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IK?WGF with 132 Sergey RV3DR with 126 Gaston ON4WF with 123 ? **************************************************************************** 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. ? ? ? Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1340. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1283. 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: 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 ? **************************************************************************** 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 Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts ? https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** ? Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin? Back on earth (***) Nick Hague KG5TMV Back on earth (***) ? Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA ? Exp. 61 on orbit Oleg Skripochka Jessica Meir Hazza Al Mansour (Space Flight Participant) Back on earth (***) ? Congratulations to Aleksey, Nick, and Hazza for a job well done. (***) ? **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie?Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors ? ? From hans.bx2abt at msa.hinet.net Fri Oct 4 14:13:31 2019 From: hans.bx2abt at msa.hinet.net (Hans BX2ABT) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 22:13:31 +0800 Subject: [amsat-bb] Athenoxat-1 Message-ID: I'm not having luck with decoding Athenoxat-1. I get clean, strong signals, use the UZ7HO soundmodem with the GOMX-1 4800bd settings. Audio is getting in, but no decoding whatsoever. The PY4ZBZ web page has good information, but I'm still not succeeding. Before I waste any more time: can Athenoxat-1 signals still be decoded or did they change protocol? Any hints welcome. 73 de Hans BX2ABT From propgrinder at gmail.com Fri Oct 4 14:56:16 2019 From: propgrinder at gmail.com (Bob Hammond) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 07:56:16 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] Counterbalance weight on antenna rotator? Message-ID: Do a lot of you, or all, use a counterbalance weight on your elevation rotor? If so, how did you implement it? I have 3 antennas (2M, 70cm, 23cm) on my cross boom and want to reduce the load on the Yaesu rotor so it lasts longer. 73s, Bob W7OTJ From hbasri.schiers6 at gmail.com Fri Oct 4 15:16:24 2019 From: hbasri.schiers6 at gmail.com (Hasan al-Basri) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 10:16:24 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Counterbalance weight on antenna rotator? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Bob, Are you talking Front to Back (EL) or Side to Side ? When I had clearance issues I had to mount my 2m yagi forward of its natural balance point. I hose clamped a steel bar on top and parallel to the boom to rebalance the load of the yagi on the rotor. It worked fine. I also used tape protected tie-wraps as a secondary safety net, so the iron bar didn't fall on someone's head! I did not have any side to side balance issues across the rotor. (The 70cm on one side and the 2m on the other, but if I would have, I would have used the same trick: Steel bar on the lighter side of the boom, to balance the load across the rotor.) Cheap, easy, dirty. But be sure to make that steel bar counterweight mount to the antenna boom or cross-boom VERY secure. 73, N0AN Hasan On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 9:58 AM Bob Hammond via AMSAT-BB wrote: > Do a lot of you, or all, use a counterbalance weight on your elevation > rotor? If so, how did you implement it? > > I have 3 antennas (2M, 70cm, 23cm) on my cross boom and want to reduce the > load on the Yaesu rotor so it lasts longer. > > 73s, > > Bob > W7OTJ > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From scott23192 at gmail.com Fri Oct 4 15:18:32 2019 From: scott23192 at gmail.com (Scott) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 11:18:32 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] Counterbalance weight on antenna rotator? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1DF2873504184156943F06EAFCAC173F@CSI9020> Hi Bob! I don't have any additional weight as a specific counterbalance, but I did mount my two X-Quads at their balance points. So, while I was only as scientific as the "balance the antenna on your finger until it doesn't dip in either direction" method to find the center point, I feel like I am putting minimal stress on the elevation rotor. Since my S-Band Wimo helical could not be mounted at just any point along its length, I did add a few inches of PVC to the bottom of the boom. Epoxied inside the PVC are a few fishing weights to cause the obvious mounting point on that antenna to also be the balance point. -Scott, K4KDR ======================================================= -----Original Message----- From: Bob Hammond via AMSAT-BB Sent: Friday, October 04, 2019 10:56 AM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Counterbalance weight on antenna rotator? Do a lot of you, or all, use a counterbalance weight on your elevation rotor? If so, how did you implement it? I have 3 antennas (2M, 70cm, 23cm) on my cross boom and want to reduce the load on the Yaesu rotor so it lasts longer. 73s, Bob W7OTJ From aj9n at aol.com Fri Oct 4 15:22:51 2019 From: aj9n at aol.com (aj9n at aol.com) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 15:22:51 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-10-04 14:30 UTC References: <511165787.2382234.1570202571275.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <511165787.2382234.1570202571275@mail.yahoo.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-10-04 14:30 UTC ? Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: ? ? Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Alexander Skvortsov (***) Contact is go for Tue 2019-10-08 08:25 UTC ? Bampton School, Bampton, United Kingdom, direct via G2LV The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Drew Morgan KI5AAA Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-08 12:51:26 UTC 27 deg Watch for live stream at https://live.ariss.org? ? Coll?ge Robert Doisneau, Sarralbe, France, direct via F6KFT The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-08 14:29:21 UTC 53 deg ? ? Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin Contact is go for Tue 2019-10-08 08:25 UTC ? Bampton School, Bampton, United Kingdom, direct via G2LV The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Drew Morgan KI5AAA Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-08 12:51:26 UTC 27 deg Watch for live stream at https://live.ariss.org? ? Coll?ge Robert Doisneau, Sarralbe, France, direct via F6KFT The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-08 14:29:21 UTC 53 deg ? ? ? Watch for MAI-75 SSTV sessions: Wed 2019-10-09 09:50 to 14:00 UTC Thu 2019-10-10 08:55 to 15:15 UTC ? ? AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 ? ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ??? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? ? 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?2019-10-04 14:30 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 ? ? The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-10-02 16:00 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf ? ? ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ??? ? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? ? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? Message to US Educators? Amateur Radio on the International Space Station? Contact Opportunity? ? Call for Proposals? New Proposal Window is October 1, 2019 to November 30, 2019? ? The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS.? ARISS anticipates that the contact would be held between July 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact contact dates. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate the contact into a well-developed education plan.? ? The deadline to submit a proposal is November 30, 2019.? Proposal information and documents can be found at http://www.ariss.org .? ? The Opportunity? ? Crew members aboard the International Space Station will participate in scheduled Amateur Radio contacts. These radio contacts are approximately 10 minutes in length and allow students to interact with the astronauts through a question-and-answer session.? ? An ARISS contact is a voice-only communication opportunity via Amateur Radio between astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space station and classrooms and communities. ARISS contacts afford education audiences the opportunity to learn firsthand from astronauts what it is like to live and work in space and to learn about space research conducted on the ISS. Students also will have an opportunity to learn about satellite communication, wireless technology, and radio science. Because of the nature of human spaceflight and the complexity of scheduling activities aboard the ISS, organizations must demonstrate flexibility to accommodate changes in dates and times of the radio contact.? ? Amateur Radio organizations around the world with the support of NASA and space agencies in Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe present educational organizations with this opportunity. The ham radio organizations' volunteer efforts provide the equipment and operational support to enable communication between crew on the ISS and students around the world using Amateur Radio.?? ? More Information ? For proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of Information Webinars, go to http://www.ariss.org . ? Please direct any questions to?ariss.us.education at gmail.com? ? **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) ? Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts.? Applications should be addressed by email to:? school.selection.manager at ariss-eu.org ? ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) ? Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application.? Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. ? For the application, go to:? http://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd at gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss at iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) http://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ ? ? ****************************************************************************** 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?? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting.? Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts.? ? 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 ? ? The HamTV webpage:? https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ ? ? **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: ? Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IK?WGF with 132 Sergey RV3DR with 126 Gaston ON4WF with 123 ? **************************************************************************** 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. ? ? ? Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1340. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1283. 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: 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 ? **************************************************************************** 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 Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts ? https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** ? Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch ? Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA ? Exp. 61 on orbit Oleg Skripochka Jessica Meir ? **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie?Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors ? ? From zleffke at vt.edu Fri Oct 4 15:46:48 2019 From: zleffke at vt.edu (Leffke, Zachary) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 15:46:48 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Counterbalance weight on antenna rotator? In-Reply-To: <1DF2873504184156943F06EAFCAC173F@CSI9020> References: <1DF2873504184156943F06EAFCAC173F@CSI9020> Message-ID: I use 1 inch perforated square tube (https://www.lowes.com/pd/Steelworks-L-x-1-in-W-x-1-in-H-Plated-Steel-Perforated-Square-Tube/3049421). On the crossboom, I use a mast adapter bracket with holes drilled to mate to the perforated square tube and U-bolts with a saddle clamp to mate the bracket to the crossboom. On the other end I use a Walmart Barbell handle chopped in half with an angle grinder (https://www.walmart.com/ip/CAP-Barbell-Standard-14-Dumbbell-Handle-w-Collars-Single/45014178). The non-threaded sided is welded to the other end of the perforated steel tube and is horizontally aligned with the threaded end facing away from the tower (to avoid hitting anything when pointed at zenith). I then use their standard barbell weights to get the right counter-balance (https://www.walmart.com/ip/CAP-Barbell-Black-Olympic-Grip-Plate-Single-2-5-45-lb/47917559), held in place by the threaded collar of the barbell handle. The weights are about 2.5-3ft 'behind' the rotator, so mileage may vary for the amount of weight needed for the counterbalance. I use two of these, one on either side of the crossboom. Spray painted everything (including the weights) with an appropriate paint to avoid rust over time. Using the u-bolts on the crossboom for this setup is a double-edge sword. The pro is you can slide them left/right to get balance for azimuth, and then adjust the amount of weight for the elevation balance. The con is that if the U-bolts aren't a solid mechanical connection with lots of surface area contact, and if the rotator is jittery at all, the brackets can slip sometimes....not really an issue if the saddle clamp and u-bolt are sized right for the crossboom and have lots of surface area contact. You could also pin the bracket to the rotator if you wanted to avoid this, but then it's a bit less modular and you'd have to pay attention to hole alignment, drill the crossboom, etc. Overall, pretty cheap solution that works at VT on a few different antenna setups......but it does require the use of an angle grinder and welder the way we did it. -Zach, KJ4QLP -- Research Associate Aerospace & Ocean Systems Lab Ted & Karyn Hume Center for National Security & Technology Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Work Phone: 540-231-4174 Cell Phone: 540-808-6305 -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB On Behalf Of Scott via AMSAT-BB Sent: Friday, October 4, 2019 11:19 AM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Counterbalance weight on antenna rotator? Hi Bob! I don't have any additional weight as a specific counterbalance, but I did mount my two X-Quads at their balance points. So, while I was only as scientific as the "balance the antenna on your finger until it doesn't dip in either direction" method to find the center point, I feel like I am putting minimal stress on the elevation rotor. Since my S-Band Wimo helical could not be mounted at just any point along its length, I did add a few inches of PVC to the bottom of the boom. Epoxied inside the PVC are a few fishing weights to cause the obvious mounting point on that antenna to also be the balance point. -Scott, K4KDR ======================================================= -----Original Message----- From: Bob Hammond via AMSAT-BB Sent: Friday, October 04, 2019 10:56 AM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Counterbalance weight on antenna rotator? Do a lot of you, or all, use a counterbalance weight on your elevation rotor? If so, how did you implement it? I have 3 antennas (2M, 70cm, 23cm) on my cross boom and want to reduce the load on the Yaesu rotor so it lasts longer. 73s, Bob W7OTJ _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From propgrinder at gmail.com Fri Oct 4 17:01:02 2019 From: propgrinder at gmail.com (Bob Hammond) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 10:01:02 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] Counterbalance weight on antenna rotator? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I forgot to add that all my antennas are end-mount with the 2M antenna on one side of the EL rotor and the 23cm and 70cm antennas on the other side. On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 7:56 AM Bob Hammond wrote: > Do a lot of you, or all, use a counterbalance weight on your elevation > rotor? If so, how did you implement it? > > I have 3 antennas (2M, 70cm, 23cm) on my cross boom and want to reduce the > load on the Yaesu rotor so it lasts longer. > > 73s, > > Bob > W7OTJ > From propgrinder at gmail.com Fri Oct 4 22:41:53 2019 From: propgrinder at gmail.com (Bob Hammond) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 15:41:53 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] Counterbalance weight on antenna rotator? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hasan, front to back on the EL so as to reduce the load on the motor and gears. thanks, Bob On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 8:16 AM Hasan al-Basri wrote: > Bob, > Are you talking Front to Back (EL) or Side to Side ? > > When I had clearance issues I had to mount my 2m yagi forward of its > natural balance point. I hose clamped a steel bar on top and parallel to > the boom to rebalance the load of the yagi on the rotor. It worked fine. I > also used tape protected tie-wraps as a secondary safety net, so the iron > bar didn't fall on someone's head! > > I did not have any side to side balance issues across the rotor. (The 70cm > on one side and the 2m on the other, but if I would have, I would have used > the same trick: Steel bar on the lighter side of the boom, to balance the > load across the rotor.) > > Cheap, easy, dirty. But be sure to make that steel bar counterweight mount > to the antenna boom or cross-boom VERY secure. > > 73, N0AN > > > Hasan > > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 9:58 AM Bob Hammond via AMSAT-BB < > amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote: > >> Do a lot of you, or all, use a counterbalance weight on your elevation >> rotor? If so, how did you implement it? >> >> I have 3 antennas (2M, 70cm, 23cm) on my cross boom and want to reduce the >> load on the Yaesu rotor so it lasts longer. >> >> 73s, >> >> Bob >> W7OTJ >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. >> Opinions expressed >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of >> AMSAT-NA. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >> > From kb2ysi at gmail.com Fri Oct 4 23:01:37 2019 From: kb2ysi at gmail.com (Don KB2YSI) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 19:01:37 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] Counterbalance weight on antenna rotator? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I use a square wooden dowel on the back end of my Arrow that I clip my RX radio on to act as a counter balance. On Fri, Oct 4, 2019, 18:44 Bob Hammond via AMSAT-BB wrote: > Hasan, front to back on the EL so as to reduce the load on the motor and > gears. > > thanks, > > Bob > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 8:16 AM Hasan al-Basri > wrote: > > > Bob, > > Are you talking Front to Back (EL) or Side to Side ? > > > > When I had clearance issues I had to mount my 2m yagi forward of its > > natural balance point. I hose clamped a steel bar on top and parallel to > > the boom to rebalance the load of the yagi on the rotor. It worked fine. > I > > also used tape protected tie-wraps as a secondary safety net, so the iron > > bar didn't fall on someone's head! > > > > I did not have any side to side balance issues across the rotor. (The > 70cm > > on one side and the 2m on the other, but if I would have, I would have > used > > the same trick: Steel bar on the lighter side of the boom, to balance the > > load across the rotor.) > > > > Cheap, easy, dirty. But be sure to make that steel bar counterweight > mount > > to the antenna boom or cross-boom VERY secure. > > > > 73, N0AN > > > > > > Hasan > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 9:58 AM Bob Hammond via AMSAT-BB < > > amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote: > > > >> Do a lot of you, or all, use a counterbalance weight on your elevation > >> rotor? If so, how did you implement it? > >> > >> I have 3 antennas (2M, 70cm, 23cm) on my cross boom and want to reduce > the > >> load on the Yaesu rotor so it lasts longer. > >> > >> 73s, > >> > >> Bob > >> W7OTJ > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. > >> Opinions expressed > >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > >> AMSAT-NA. > >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite > program! > >> Subscription settings: https://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: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From py4zbz at yahoo.com Sat Oct 5 11:19:26 2019 From: py4zbz at yahoo.com (Roland Zurmely) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2019 11:19:26 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] PSAT-2 References: <1660763911.2586448.1570274366154.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1660763911.2586448.1570274366154@mail.yahoo.com> Check out the 33 SSTV images received from PSAT-2 : 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ From propgrinder at gmail.com Sat Oct 5 17:28:21 2019 From: propgrinder at gmail.com (Bob Hammond) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2019 10:28:21 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] Counterbalance weight on antenna rotator? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: What do all think of this idea? Pictured is a trial weight (20 lbs). I envision using stainless steel cable instead of the nylon rope for security and safety. As the antenna crossboom is rotated, the rope unwinds. Bob W7OTJ On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 7:56 AM Bob Hammond wrote: > Do a lot of you, or all, use a counterbalance weight on your elevation > rotor? If so, how did you implement it? > > I have 3 antennas (2M, 70cm, 23cm) on my cross boom and want to reduce the > load on the Yaesu rotor so it lasts longer. > > 73s, > > Bob > W7OTJ > From n1uw at gokarns.com Sun Oct 6 00:10:01 2019 From: n1uw at gokarns.com (Frank Karnauskas) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2019 17:10:01 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS-279 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletin Message-ID: <000101d57bda$65f80e20$31e82a60$@gokarns.com> AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-279 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. The news feed on http://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 dot org. In this edition: * AO-7 to Enter Full Illumination Period October 9, 2019 * 2019 AMSAT Symposium On-line Registration Open Until October 11 * New ARISS Proposal Window is October 1, 2019 to November 30, 2019 * VUCC Awards-Endorsements for September 2019 * Amateur Radio Gets Temporary Use of 2400 MHz in Spain * AMSAT-SA to Fly Cubesat Transponders on Balloon Flight * SSTV Event Planned for ARISS on October 9, 2019 * Upcoming Satellite Operations * ARISS Activities & Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule * Satellite Shorts from All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-279.01 ANS-279 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 279.01 >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. October 06, 2019 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-279.01 AO-7 to Enter Full Illumination Period October 9, 2019 On or about October 9, AO-7 will enter a period of full illumination that will last until approximately December 2. During this time, the satellite's onboard timer should switch it between Mode A (145 MHz uplink / 29 MHz downlink) and Mode B (432 MHz uplink / 145 MHz downlink) every 24 hours. To check or report the satellite's current mode, please see the AMSAT Live OSCAR Satellite Status Page at https://www.amsat.org/status/. Reporting observations during the first few days of the full illumination period will be helpful for determining the approximate time of the daily mode change. Historical information on AO-7's systems, including the functioning of the 24 hour timer, and operational plans can be found in the AMSAT-OSCAR 7 Technical Operations Plan And Experimenter's Guide, available at https://tinyurl.com/ANS-279-AO-7. Mode V/A (A) Linear Transponder (Non-Inverting): Uplink: 145.850 - 145.950 MHz SSB/CW Downlink 29.400 - 29.500 MHz SSB/CW Mode V/A (A) TLM Beacon: Downlink 29.5020 MHz CW Mode U/V (B) Linear Transponder (Inverting): Uplink: 432.125 - 432.175 MHz SSB/CW Downlink 145.975 - 145.925 MHz SSB/CW Mode U/V (B) TLM Beacon: Downlink 145.975 MHz CW Mode U TLM Beacon Downlink 435.100 MHz CW Additional frequency details are also posted at: https://www.amsat.org/two-way-satellites/ao-7/ [ANS thanks AMSAT Operations for the above information.] +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Don't miss the 50th Anniversary AMSAT Space Symposium October 18-20 in Arlington, VA. https://www.amsat.org/amsat-symposium/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ 2019 AMSAT Symposium On-line Registration Open Until October 11 An on-line registration rate for the 37th Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and General Meeting, Friday through Sunday, October 18-20, 2019, in Arlington, Virginia, is available through October 11, 2019 per the following schedule: Registration September 16, 2019 - October 11, 2019 is $65 (on-line). Registration at the Door is $70. You can complete your registration on-line via the AMSAT Store: https://www.amsat.org/product-category/amsat-symposium/ This year, all registrants will receive a digital copy of the Proceedings on a thumb drive. Attendees may purchase a hard copy for $25.00. Non-attendees may put their name on a waiting list for a hard copy, if there are any left over. The digital version of the Proceedings will be made available on the online store shortly after the Symposium concludes. Student Registration is 50% off and does not include the Proceedings. [ANS thanks the 2019 AMSAT Symposium Team for the above information.] -------------------------------------------------------------------- New ARISS Proposal Window is October 1, 2019 to November 30, 2019 The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS. ARISS anticipates that the contact would be held between July 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact contact dates. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate the contact into a well-developed education plan. The deadline to submit a proposal is November 30, 2019. Proposal information and documents can be found at www.ariss.org. The Opportunity Crew members aboard the International Space Station will participate in scheduled Amateur Radio contacts. These radio contacts are approximately 10 minutes in length and allow students to interact with the astronauts through a question-and-answer session. An ARISS contact is a voice-only communication opportunity via Amateur Radio between astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space station and classrooms and communities. ARISS contacts afford education audiences the opportunity to learn firsthand from astronauts what it is like to live and work in space and to learn about space research conducted on the ISS. Students also will have an opportunity to learn about satellite communication, wireless technology, and radio science. Because of the nature of human spaceflight and the complexity of scheduling activities aboard the ISS, organizations must demonstrate flexibility to accommodate changes in dates and times of the radio contact. Amateur Radio organizations around the world with the support of NASA and space agencies in Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe present educational organizations with this opportunity. The ham radio organizations' volunteer efforts provide the equipment and operational support to enable communication between crew on the ISS and students around the world using Amateur Radio. More Information For proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of Information Webinars, go to www.ariss.org. Please direct any questions to ariss dot us dot education at gmail dot com. [ANS thanks the 2019 ARISS for the above information.] +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Purchase AMSAT Gear on our Zazzle storefront. 25% of the purchase price of each product goes towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ VUCC Awards-Endorsements for September 2019 Here are the endorsements and new VUCC Satellite Awards issued by the ARRL for the period September 1, 2019 through October 1, 2019. Congratulations to all those who made the list this month! CALL Sep Oct WC7V 1200 1218 N9EAT 550 706 AA8CH 584 620 N3GS 525 597 WD9EWK (DM43) 575 585 VE7CEW 428 478 K9UO 450 475 KK4YEL 300 400 AD0HJ 300 325 PS8ET 274 303 WI4T 101 301 N7EGY 250 300 K7VNE New 150 KS1G 102 134 N7AME 125 127 N4QX 106 120 KJ4M New 102 N4BAF New 100 If you find errors or omissions. please contact Ron Parsons, W5RKN off-list at @.com and he will revise the announcement. Thanks to all those who are roving to grids that are rarely on the birds. They are doing most of the work! [ANS thanks Ron Parsons, W5RKN for the above information.] -------------------------------------------------------------------- Amateur Radio Gets Temporary Use of 2400 MHz in Spain Spain?s national amateur radio society URE reports that amateurs will be allowed to use 2,400.050 to 2,409.500 MHz for QO-100 (Es?hail-2) geostationary satellite contacts until Dec 26, 2020. A translation of the URE post says: At the request of the Spanish Amateur Radio Union (URE), last March the Secretary of State for Digital Advance authorized until September 26, 2019 under certain conditions and on a temporary and experimental basis the realization of emissions from the amateur service in the frequency band 2400,050 to 2409,500 MHz. The URE has again requested the Secretary of State for Digital Advance the extension of the aforementioned administrative authorization for a period of one year. On September 26, the Resolution of the Secretary of State for Digital Advance is approved by the resolution Authorize until December 26, 2020 to the holders of amateur radio authorizations, the realization of emissions from the amateur service in the frequency band 2,400,050 to 2,409,500 MHz., With a maximum eirp of 1500 watts and using directive antennas with a gain not less than 22.5 dBi, from authorized amateur radio stations located anywhere in the national territory to the QO-100 satellite located in the 25.9?E orbital position of the geostationary orbit. See the resolution of the Secretary of State for Digital Advance at https://tinyurl.com/ANS-279-Spain. [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information.] -------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT-SA to Fly Cubesat Transponders on Balloon Flight The Secunda Amateur Radio Club in South Africa will be launching a high-altitude balloon on Saturday 12 October 2019. AMSAT SA will have two payloads, Kletskous and AfriCUBE. Both transponders are part of the AMSAT SA CubeSat programme and will be tested on the BACAR 7 balloon. The Kletskous transponder which has been developed and built by Leon Lessing, ZS6LMG has an uplink on 435,155 MHz plus/minus 15 kHz and a downlink on 145,865 MHz plus/minus 15 kHz. It is a linear transponder supporting FM and SSB transmissions. AfriCUBE, the brainchild of Anton Janovsky, ZR6AIC has an uplink on 435,100 MHz plus/minus 40 kHz and a downlink on 145,950 MHz plus/minus 40 kHz. AfriCUBE supports several modes including FM, SSB, SSTV and CW. Please consult the band plan and ground station requirements on www.amsatsa.org.za. A voice beacon will operate on 10,480 GHz with the call sign ZS6BZP. Additional payloads will also transmit RTTY telemetry on 434,650 MHz and 1,296,600 MHz CW. The Hammies club has built a SSTV payload oper- ating on 144.500 MHz. Standard APRS on 144.800 MHz is also available. The 10 GHz band is also active with a beacon. ZS6WBT will have a voice beacon on 145.550 MHz reading out flight information. ZS6IIX will be attempting an altitude and distance record for 868 MHz LORAWAN equipment. Please send all the telemetry and SSTV info decoded to admin at stratosfeer.co.za. The BACAR team will send you a certificate of participation as well. For the final detail frequencies and latest flight predictions from Wednesday 9 October 2019 visit www.sarl.org.za and www.amsatsa.org.za frequently before the flight. [ANS thanks the SARL weekly news in English 2019-10-5 for the above information] -------------------------------------------------------------------- SSTV Event Planned for ARISS on October 9, 2019 An SSTV event employing the Russian MAI-75 experiment is planned for October 9 from 09:50 to 14:00 UTC and on Oct 10 from 08:55 to 15:15 UTC. The frequency will be 145.800 MHz and the mode will be PD120 SSTV. For more details, visit the Amateur Radio on the ISS (ARISS) Facebook page. [ANS thanks ARISS for the above information.] +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ The digital download version of the 2019 edition of Getting Started with Amateur Satellites is now available as a DRM-free PDF from the AMSAT Store. Get yours today! https://tinyurl.com/ANS-237-Getting-Started +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Upcoming Satellite Operations + Briefly MD (& DE?) W3ZM/3 (N8HM), Oct 6 DN05,DN06 KC7JPC & KI7UXT, Oct 6, 1500z-2100z, FM & Linears DN03 - KI7UNJ, October 7, 1700Z to 1910Z, FM only EL99 - K4WPX, October 11-12 (evening) and possibly morning/afternoon on October 13; FM only EM45,EM46 (possible EM45/46/55/56) - N4DCW, Oct0ber 13, 1616Z to 1810Z; FM only EM25,EM35 - WI4T, October 15-16; holiday style DN04 - KI7UNJ, October 21, 1653Z to 1910Z; FM only EN67 WN9Q, Oct 8 + CM79, do we need to say more? ? October 7-9, 2019 Super Rover Ron, AD0DX, has a little vacation time to burn, so he?s heading to CM79, October 7-9. Day 1 will be getting set up in camp and scouting out the CM79/CM89/CN70/CN80 corner, so there is a slight chance Ron will jump on a pass or two on October 7. Day 2 & 3 (October 8-9) are main days for operation. Steep terrain, lots of trees, and a formidable ridgeline will ultimately decide his operating position and pass availability, but the main objective is CM79. FM and Linears. Limited (if any) cell coverage, but Ron will Tweet when he can: https://twitter.com/ad0dx. In addition, Ron will be driving up to Seattle via the 101 on his way back home, with planned stops in CN70, CN71, CN72, CN73, and CN74. + Hungary (JN97) October 7-10, 2019 Pedro, CU2ZG, will be in Budapest on business, but he is bringing his sat gear as HA/CU2ZG. FM only and subject to availability. Follow Pedro on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/pdsousa. + Svalbard (JQ78) October 9-11, 2019 Halvard (LA7XK), along with Just (LA9DL) and Erling (LA6VM), are going to Svalbard for the phone portion of the Scandinavian Activity Contest (SAC). They will arrive in JW mid-day on Wednesday October 9 and return mid-day on Monday October 14. They will be QRV via FO-29 from Wednesday October 9 to Friday October 11 during the local evenings between 1630Z and 0100Z. Call sign will be JW7XK and the locator is JQ78. Our best takeoff will be from 240 degrees via west and north to about 34 degrees. In that sector the elevation will be 1 to 2 degrees. We are renting a car up there and will drive west from the city out passed the airport for the best takeoff. We should be able to work most of USA and Canada and also Alaska. They will alternate between SSB and CW, using an IC-9700 and an Arrow antenna. + #AMSATandAngling (DM15, DM06) October 11-13, 2019 Ed, KN6DBC, is going fishing (literally), but he is bring gear to work FM Satellites. October 11 he?ll be in DM15, and October 12 and 13 in DM06. Visit Ken?s Twitter feed for specific pass schedule and further updates: https://twitter.com/KN6DBC. + Central California (CM95, CM96, DM05, DM06) ? October 19, 2019 David AD7DB will re-visit the four grids near Kettleman City CA. AO-91, AO-92, SO-50 will be used, with eastern passes a priority. Maybe PO-101 if it?s on, and AO-85 if it?s not too finicky. Contacts will be put on LOTW following the trip. Updates on Twitter https://twitter.com/ad7db. + Hawaii (BK19, BK28, BK29, BL20) December 21-28, 2019 Alex, N7AGF, is heading back to Hawaii over Christmas. This will be a holiday-style activation, with special emphasis on the grid that got away ? BK28. Keep an eye on Alex?s Twitter feed for further announcements at https://twitter.com/N7AGF [ANS thanks Robert Bankston, KE4AL for the above information.] +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ The digital download version of the 2019 edition of Getting Started with Amateur Satellites is now available as a DRM-free PDF from the AMSAT Store. Get yours today! https://tinyurl.com/ANS-237-Getting-Started +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ ARISS Activities & Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule + Completed Contacts The Southwest State University of Kursk, Kursk, Russia, direct via UB3WCL The ISS callsign was RS?ISS. The astronaut was Aleksey Ovchinin . Contact was successful Saturday, September 28, 2019, 14:35 UTC. UAE school #2 with Space Flight participant, direct via A68MBR The ISS callsign was RS?ISS. The astronaut was Hazza Al Mansour. Contact was successful Saturday, September 28, 2019, 11:20 UTC. + Upcoming Contacts School in Russia TBD direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 06:05 UTC Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin Contact is go for Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 08:25 UTC Bampton School, Bampton, United Kingdom, direct via G2LV The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Drew Morgan KI5AAA Contact is go for: Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 12:51:26 UTC 27 deg Watch for live stream at https://live.ariss.org Coll?ge Robert Doisneau, Sarralbe, France, direct via F6KFT The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 14:29:21 UTC 53 deg [ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N for the above information.] -------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts from All Over + FO-29 Update >From JARL FO-29 control center as of October 3, 2019: FO-29 Transponder will be available until under voltage control activates in the CW telemetry. The current schedule is as follows (UTC date and time): 1 October 5, 06:40-15:00 October 6, 07:25-17:35 October 12, 05:30-15:35 October 13, 08:00-14:40 October 19, 07:45-14:25 October 20, 05:10-15:15 [ANS thanks Alan Biddle, WA4SCA for the above information.] + ESA Academy Hosts CubeSat Academy ESA Academy hosted the CubeSats Hands-On Training Week 2019. The training ran from September 16 - 20, 2019. It was held at ESA Academy's Training and Learning Centre, ESEC-Galaxia, Belgium. The event was attended by twenty-six university students from fifteen different ESA Member States and Canada. The Training Week had a clear objective: transfer hands-on knowledge to university students who are keen to start their own educational CubeSat initiatives, or who are already at the conceptual or preliminary design stage of a CubeSat project at university. The full article posted at: https://tinyurl.com/ANS-279-ESA-Academy. [ANS thanks ESA for the above information.] + Cubesat Developers 2020 Workshop Announced Cubesat has announced its 2020 Developers Workshop will be held May 4?6, 2020 at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Cal Poly Performing Arts Center, San Luis Obispo, CA. Workshop details are available at cubesat-workshop at calpoly.edu. [ANS thanks Cubesat for the above information.] + Cal Poly Aerospace Engineering Professor and Computer Engineering Student Help Cambodian High School?s Quest to Launch Nation?s First CubeSat A two-person team from Cal Poly helped the Cambodian space program get off the ground in August. The pair traveled to the capital city of Phnom Penh to assist a group of high school seniors, with the goal to install and test the students? ground station for tracking satellites ? not to launch a national program. But they were happy to play a role in the potentially history-making student project as well as the bigger picture of lifting the nation into orbit. An excellent story can be read at https://tinyurl.com/ANS-279-Cal-Poly. [ANS thanks Cal Poly News for the above information.] + Santa Rosa Middle School ARISS Contact Gets Good Press The Santa Rosa Press Democrat gave the Middle School's ARISS contact on October 1, 2019 excellent coverage. Read the article at https://tinyurl.com/ANS-279-Santa-Rosa. [ANS thanks JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM for the above information.] + The Rise of the Smallsat Gaining Traction Satellites of less than 180 kilograms are becoming increasingly popular because of their ability to enable new technologies and achieve revolutionary results. No longer used exclusively by government agencies, satellites ? and in particular ? small satellites (smallsats) are gaining in popularity with the private sector. SatMag describes the current trend and why the use of smallsats is on the rise. Read the full article at http://www.satmagazine.com/story.php?number=8941393. [ANS thanks SatMag.com for the above information.] + World Space Week, 4-10 October The United Nations General Assembly declared in 1999 that World Space Week (WSW) will be held each year from October 4-10. The dates were in recognition of the October 4, 1957 launch of the first human-made Earth satellite, Sputnik 1, thus opening the way for space exploration and the October 10, 1967 signing of the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies. The theme for World Space Week 2019 is "The Moon: Gateway to the Stars". During World Space Week space education and outreach events are organized by space agencies, aerospace companies, schools, planetaria, museums, and astronomy clubs around the world. Find an event near you at http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/outreach/events/wsw/index.html [ANS thanks the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs for the above information.] -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 additional 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 student rate for a maximum of six post-secondary years in this status. Contact Martha at the AMSAT office for additional student membership information. 73, This week's ANS Editor, Frank Karnauskas, N1UW n1uw at amsat dot org Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. 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Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From cchunter3 at mindspring.com Sun Oct 6 00:33:47 2019 From: cchunter3 at mindspring.com (christy hunter) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2019 17:33:47 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] Nice Article VK5ZAI Message-ID: <1058a040-0555-147a-121b-b99002a81e53@mindspring.com> ALL, short article on Tony Hutchison's involvement with Nasa/MIR/ARISS https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-06/nasa-considers-amateur-radio-buff-part-of-astronaut-family/11530046 73 Christy KB6LTY From wr0honline at gmail.com Sun Oct 6 22:52:09 2019 From: wr0honline at gmail.com (Rick Harrington) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2019 17:52:09 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Need an elmer to get me going with an IC-910H Message-ID: I just picked up a new-to-me ICOM IC-910H to explore working amateur satellites. For whatever reason, I'm able to track and hear them fine but don't hear myself or get a response when I transmit. I've tried both PstRotator and SatPC32 with no luck. If somebody familiar with the 910 would walk me through the correct setup via email I'd be grateful. I can be contacted offline at: wr0honline at gmail.com 73 Rick WR0H From n4csitwo at bellsouth.net Mon Oct 7 00:05:42 2019 From: n4csitwo at bellsouth.net (n4csitwo at bellsouth.net) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2019 20:05:42 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS contact with Bampton School, Bampton, United Kingdom Message-ID: <9D071DDD307E4684B4DA526FC702CB81@DHJ> An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Bampton School, Bampton, United Kingdom on 08 Oct. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 12:51 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between NA1SS and GB4BPS. The contact should be audible over the United Kingdom 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. Watch for live stream at https://live.ariss.org . Story: Bampton Church of England Primary School, part of the Alumnis Multi Academy Trust is a is a vibrant, friendly and nurturing school, located on the edge of Exmoor National park, serving the small agricultural town of Bampton and surrounding areas of East Devon. We are part of a supportive and friendly community with strong links to our local church, 'St Michael and All Angels.' As a church school, our vision, 'Believe, Belong, Become' is embedded throughout our school and curriculum. Through core Christian values, we teach children to be able to understand and articulate their views about what they 'believe' and to respect the beliefs of others around them. We encourage them to understand how they 'belong' to family, school and the local and wider community, and how they fit into, and can impact the wider world around them. We encourage children to think about how and what they are aiming to 'become' as they grow, and how they are able to shape their world. Through Christian values, together we inspire individuals to celebrate their uniqueness and empower them to become confident, aspirational, inquisitive and flourish in the modern world. We celebrate our school values of; Joy, Aiming High, Friendship, Kindness, Respect, Trust and Honesty, and Forgiveness and Compassion, and embed these values into everyday school life. We offer an exciting, broad and balanced curriculum in a happy, stimulating environment, supported by a wide range of after school clubs and high quality, offsite residential visits. We are always seeking ways to enhance the teaching and learning experience for our children, with a breadth of experiences that develop the whole child and create a genuine love of learning. We are passionate about bringing STEM subjects to life and encouraging children to see how these subjects translate into the world beyond school. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. Has the International Space Station ever suffered any damage from a meteor strike? 2. How can space be made accessible to people with disabilities? 3. How long will it take you to get used to gravity again when you get home? 4. What would happen if I took a snowball into space? 5. How do you get to and from the International Space Station? 6. If you cut yourself in space, who acts as the doctor to fix it for you? 7. Do you dream differently in space or dream of anything in particular? 8. If I kick a football in space, how far would it travel? 9. When you were a child did you want to go to space and is there anything that disappointed you about it? 10. What does it feel like when you are in a rocket and you are about to get shot into space? 11. If you could make one improvement to the International Space Station, what would it be? 12. The International Space Station travels at 5 miles per second, can you feel it moving when travelling fast like you can on earth? 13. The International Space Station is so fast, how does it not crash into the other satellites that are also in orbit? 14. Did you have any concerns looking back at Earth for the first time? 15. How many planets have you seen from the International Space Station? 16. If you could grow any plant in the International Space Station what would it be? 17. How long have you been on the International Space Station and how long do you think you could stay there for? 18. What time goes your clock show on the Space Station? Is it USA, UK, Russian or Japan time? 19. Do you get to keep your customised seat or anything else as a souvenir of your trip? 20. We are getting aware about the amount of rubbish on earth, are you worried about the amount of space junk and can you see it? 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 Robert Doisneau, Sarralbe, France, direct via F6KFT The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-08 14:29 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 ISS National Lab 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 public forms. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.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 Oct 7 00:36:23 2019 From: n4csitwo at bellsouth.net (n4csitwo at bellsouth.net) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2019 20:36:23 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] =?iso-8859-1?q?Upcoming_ARISS_contact_with_Coll=E8ge_R?= =?iso-8859-1?q?obert_Doisneau=2C_Sarralbe=2C_France?= Message-ID: An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Coll?ge Robert Doisneau, Sarralbe, France on 08 Oct. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 14:29 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between OR4ISS and F6KFT. 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. Story: As the name suggests, Sarralbe was formed at the confluence of the valleys of the Saar and the Albe, two rivers that go down, the first from the Vosges foothills, the second from the near area of the Moselle ponds. Sarralbe is located between Strasbourg an Metz. Our city, main canton town, is a member of the "Albe and Lakes" Local Council Community. The city territory covers a total area of 27 square kilometers and it is between 206 and 262 meters high. Its inhabitants are called the Sarralbenois and Sarralbenoises. At the last census, there were 4645 inhabitants in Sarralbe. In College Robert Doisenau, our middle school, we are 500 pupils and we are 9h graders. In the last two years, we have launched two weather balloons, with 3 cameras, in the atmosphere that have climbed up to 30 km altitude to get as close as possible to the ISS station! At the same time, with amateur radio club F6KFT, we often practice using Morse language. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. Avez vous peur lorsque vous faites une sortie dans l'espace? 2. Que mangez vous? 3. Combien de temps travaillez vous chaque jour? 4. Avez-vous constate des changements physiques a cause de l'absence de gravite? 5. Est il difficile de vivre ensemble dans la station ISS? 6. Avez vous assez d'espace, de pieces pour vivre dans la station ISS? 7. Faites vous du sport dans la station et lequel? 8. Quels details de la Terre voyez vous depuis l'espace? 9. Quelle tache est la plus compliquee a realiser en apesanteur? 10. Pourquoi avez vous choisi ce metier? 11. Est ce votre premier voyage dans l'espace? 12. Combien de temps avez vous mis pour vous preparer ? cette mission? 13. Comment dormez vous? 14. Combien de temps allez vous rester dans la station? 15. Quelles sont vos sensations quand vous quittez la Terre? 16. Comment et a quelle frequence communiquez vous avec vos proches? 17. Est ce que vous vous ennuyez parfois dans la station? 18. Quelle est votre perception du temps dans la station? 19. Quelles sont les experiences que vous realisez? 20. Est il difficile de s'adapter a la vie dans l'espace? 1. Are you afraid when you are outside in space? 2. What do you eat? 3. How long do you work each day? 4. Do you notice any changes on your body because of zero gravity? 5. Isn't it difficult to live together in ISS? 6. Do you have room enough to move in ISS? 7. Can you do sport and how? 8. What do you see about Earth? 9. What is the most difficult thing to do with zero gravity? 10. Why did you choose this job? 11. Is it your first trip in space? 12. How long did it take to get ready for this mission? 13. How do you sleep? 14. How long are you staying in ISS? 15. How do you feel when you leave Earth? 16. How and how often do you communicate with your relatives? 17. Can it be sometimes boring to live in a space station? 18. Which perception of time do you have from up there? 19. What kind of experience do you do? 20. Is it hard to adapt to this way of living? 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 ISS National Lab 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 public forms. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.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 Mon Oct 7 18:20:36 2019 From: aj9n at aol.com (aj9n at aol.com) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 18:20:36 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-10-07 18:30 UTC References: <786949501.3111940.1570472436548.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <786949501.3111940.1570472436548@mail.yahoo.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-10-07 18:30 UTC ? Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: ? ? About GAGARIN FROM SPACE, Conducting an amateur radio session with the Lyceumists "AmSU Blagoveshchensk?, Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via RK?J (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Alexander Skvortsov (***) Contact is go for Tue 2019-10-08 08:25 UTC ? Bampton School, Bampton, United Kingdom, direct via G2LV The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Drew Morgan KI5AAA Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-08 12:51:26 UTC 27 deg Watch for live stream at https://live.ariss.org? ? Coll?ge Robert Doisneau, Sarralbe, France, direct via F6KFT The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-08 14:29:21 UTC 53 deg ? S.M. Calvino ? Istituto Comprensivo Settimo IV, Settimo Torinese, Italy, direct via IK1SLD and Istituto Comprensivo Statale Don Milani, Monza, Italy, direct via IQ2MZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be IR?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Mon 2019-10-14 09:37:58 UTC 59 deg (***) ? Istituto Comprensivo Statale ?Diego Valeri?, Campolongo Maggiore, Italy, direct via IQ3RW and Istituto Comprensivo Ladispoli1, Ladispoli, Italy, direct via IK?WGF The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be IR?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Thu 2019-10-17 08:49:52 UTC 73 deg (***) ? Science & Technologie e.V. / event: Science Days, Teningen, Germany, direct via DD1US The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP (***) Contact is go for: Fri 2019-10-18 09:37:45 UTC 64 deg (***) ? ? Watch for MAI-75 SSTV sessions: Wed 2019-10-09 09:50 to 14:00 UTC Thu 2019-10-10 08:55 to 15:15 UTC ? ? AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 ? ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ??? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? ? 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?2019-10-07 18:30 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 ? ? The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-10-02 16:00 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf ? ? ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ??? ? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? ? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? Message to US Educators? Amateur Radio on the International Space Station? Contact Opportunity? ? Call for Proposals? New Proposal Window is October 1, 2019 to November 30, 2019? ? The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS.? ARISS anticipates that the contact would be held between July 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact contact dates. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate the contact into a well-developed education plan.? ? The deadline to submit a proposal is November 30, 2019.? Proposal information and documents can be found at http://www.ariss.org .? ? The Opportunity? ? Crew members aboard the International Space Station will participate in scheduled Amateur Radio contacts. These radio contacts are approximately 10 minutes in length and allow students to interact with the astronauts through a question-and-answer session.? ? An ARISS contact is a voice-only communication opportunity via Amateur Radio between astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space station and classrooms and communities. ARISS contacts afford education audiences the opportunity to learn firsthand from astronauts what it is like to live and work in space and to learn about space research conducted on the ISS. Students also will have an opportunity to learn about satellite communication, wireless technology, and radio science. Because of the nature of human spaceflight and the complexity of scheduling activities aboard the ISS, organizations must demonstrate flexibility to accommodate changes in dates and times of the radio contact.? ? Amateur Radio organizations around the world with the support of NASA and space agencies in Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe present educational organizations with this opportunity. The ham radio organizations' volunteer efforts provide the equipment and operational support to enable communication between crew on the ISS and students around the world using Amateur Radio.?? ? More Information ? For proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of Information Webinars, go to http://www.ariss.org . ? Please direct any questions to?ariss.us.education at gmail.com? ? **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) ? Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts.? Applications should be addressed by email to:? school.selection.manager at ariss-eu.org ? ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) ? Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application.? Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. ? For the application, go to:? http://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd at gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss at iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) http://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ ? ? ****************************************************************************** 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?? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting.? Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts.? ? 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 ? ? The HamTV webpage:? https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ ? ? **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: ? Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IK?WGF with 132 Sergey RV3DR with 126 Gaston ON4WF with 123 ? **************************************************************************** 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. ? ? ? Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1340. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1283. 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: 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 ? **************************************************************************** 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 Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts ? https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** ? Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch ? Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA ? Exp. 61 on orbit Oleg Skripochka Jessica Meir ? **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie?Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors ? ? From k6vug at sbcglobal.net Mon Oct 7 18:51:37 2019 From: k6vug at sbcglobal.net (k6vug at sbcglobal.net) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 18:51:37 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Counterbalance weight on antenna rotator? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <860953462.3124108.1570474297024@mail.yahoo.com> In my case, the light weight beam was mounted to a tripod at the rear-most end so that the 2m reflector would not foul with the tripod legs. The counter balance required was not much (less than 4 pounds), so I used some fishing lead weight, see link below.? It comes in a coil that conveniently wraps around the end of the boom.? A length of magic tape secured it to the boom.? ? PS: The arrangement worked fine but I wasn't happy that the weight of the whole thing was now twice the weight of the antenna.? ? Link fyi:? https://www.walmart.com/ip/Bullet-Weights-Lead-Wire/52497626 ? 73! Umesh k6vug ? ? ? On Friday, October 4, 2019, 4:02:49 PM PDT, Don KB2YSI via AMSAT-BB wrote: ? ? I use a square wooden dowel on the back end of my Arrow that I clip my RX radio on to act as a counter balance. On Fri, Oct 4, 2019, 18:44 Bob Hammond via AMSAT-BB wrote: > Hasan, front to back on the EL so as to reduce the load on the motor and > gears. > > thanks, > > Bob > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 8:16 AM Hasan al-Basri > wrote: > > > Bob, > > Are you talking Front to Back (EL) or Side to Side ? > > > > When I had clearance issues I had to mount my 2m yagi forward of its > > natural balance point.? I hose clamped a steel bar on top and parallel to > > the boom to rebalance the load of the yagi on the rotor. It worked fine. > I > > also used tape protected tie-wraps as a secondary safety net, so the iron > > bar didn't fall on someone's head! > > > > I did not have any side to side balance issues across the rotor. (The > 70cm > > on one side and the 2m on the other, but if I would have, I would have > used > > the same trick: Steel bar on the lighter side of the boom, to balance the > > load across the rotor.) > > > > Cheap, easy, dirty. But be sure to make that steel bar counterweight > mount > > to the antenna boom or cross-boom VERY secure. > > > > 73, N0AN > > > > > > Hasan > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 9:58 AM Bob Hammond via AMSAT-BB < > > amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote: > > > >> Do a lot of you, or all, use a counterbalance weight on your elevation > >> rotor?? If so, how did you implement it? > >> > >> I have 3 antennas (2M, 70cm, 23cm) on my cross boom and want to reduce > the > >> load on the Yaesu rotor so it lasts longer. > >> > >> 73s, > >> > >> Bob > >> W7OTJ_______________________________________________Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From wr0honline at gmail.com Mon Oct 7 21:33:18 2019 From: wr0honline at gmail.com (Rick Harrington) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 16:33:18 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Need an elmer to get me going with an IC-910H In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks to all who responded to my request. It's gone from "doesn't work" to "work in progress" so hopefully I'll have some good news soon! 73 Rick WR0H On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 5:52 PM Rick Harrington wrote: > I just picked up a new-to-me ICOM IC-910H to explore working amateur > satellites. For whatever reason, I'm able to track and hear them fine but > don't hear myself or get a response when I transmit. > > I've tried both PstRotator and SatPC32 with no luck. If somebody familiar > with the 910 would walk me through the correct setup via email I'd be > grateful. > > I can be contacted offline at: wr0honline at gmail.com > > 73 > Rick WR0H > From k9qho67622 at comcast.net Mon Oct 7 22:58:53 2019 From: k9qho67622 at comcast.net (MICHAEL WILLIAMS) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 18:58:53 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [amsat-bb] Counterbalance weight on antenna rotator? Message-ID: <1914074801.1824327.1570489133496@connect.xfinity.com> My thinking has been to put it out of balance, especially with the light weight satellite antennas we use. In a perfectly balanced system, the wind will work the gearing back and forth. In an unbalanced system, the gears will stay meshed in one direction not working the internal parts when the antennas are moving or are at rest. It's difficult to balance a system when coax and preamps added to the rear. It's also good to have the least wind resistance when SatPC32 returns antennas to the rest position The Yaesu elevation rotors are pretty tough. I used an Alliance U-110 for years with no problems. Talk about out of balance, check my qrz page. Good luck with this. It has been an interesting subject. 73, Mike (K9QHO) From jkopala at gmail.com Tue Oct 8 04:01:30 2019 From: jkopala at gmail.com (John Kopala) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 22:01:30 -0600 Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 14, Issue 368 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Re: Counterbalance weight on antenna rotator? (Bob Hammond) My antennas are mostly "center" mounted because of their length and are pretty well balanced as a result. For antennas rear mounted to the cross boom, a length of tubing extending in the opposite direction from the antennas could be used with an adjustable weight that can be positioned to achieve the correct balance. The idea of a counter balance weight is interesting, but the antennas present a variable load depending upon the elevation. The weight on the cable presents a constant load independent of the elevation. Worse yet, I use a flip mode tracking that resolves the issue of having the satellite path cross the stops of the azimuth rotor and having to rotate the antennas 360 degrees to continue tracking the satellite. But this requires 180 degree movement of the elevation rotor. The weight on a cable would then add to the weight of the antennas which would make the problem worse and make the elevation rotor work twice as hard. See a picture of my home satellite installation on qrz.com by looking up N7JK. Using an opposing counterbalance weight mounted opposite the antennas can essentially change the function of the elevation rotor to being simply a positioning device if the array is properly balanced. John Kopala N7JK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2019 10:28:21 -0700 From: Bob Hammond To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Counterbalance weight on antenna rotator? Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" What do all think of this idea? Pictured is a trial weight (20 lbs). I envision using stainless steel cable instead of the nylon rope for security and safety. As the antenna crossboom is rotated, the rope unwinds. Bob W7OTJ :56 AM Bob Hammond wrote: > Do a lot of you, or all, use a counterbalance weight on your elevation > rotor? If so, how did you implement it? > > I have 3 antennas (2M, 70cm, 23cm) on my cross boom and want to reduce the > load on the Yaesu rotor so it lasts longer. > > 73s, > > Bob > W7OTJ > From martha at amsat.org Tue Oct 8 21:23:55 2019 From: martha at amsat.org (Martha) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 17:23:55 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] Office Closed Message-ID: The AMSAT office will be closed on Wednesday, October 9th -- 73- Martha From g0kla at arrl.net Wed Oct 9 01:11:38 2019 From: g0kla at arrl.net (Chris Thompson) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 21:11:38 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] Small update to KLA Track Message-ID: If you use the G0KLA Sat Tracker then I have made a minor update to the display to improve the rendering. There are no other changes so this is very optional. You can download it here: https://www.g0kla.com/klatrack/index.php If you want to know what I fixed that is discussed here: https://www.g0kla.com/workbench/2019-10-08.php -- Chris E. Thompson chrisethompson at gmail.com g0kla at arrl.net From w5rkn at w5rkn.com Wed Oct 9 01:26:47 2019 From: w5rkn at w5rkn.com (Ronald G. Parsons) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 20:26:47 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] L/v AO-92 tonight/tomorrow Message-ID: <0BF4D3402A5348139C8A3E44E3F99E3F@Ron8300PC> I believe AO-92 L/v should be commanded tonight around 0150Z for 24 hours. I?m planning on it. See you there! Ron W5RKN From marklhammond at gmail.com Wed Oct 9 01:42:05 2019 From: marklhammond at gmail.com (Mark L. Hammond) Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:42:05 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] L/v AO-92 tonight/tomorrow In-Reply-To: <0BF4D3402A5348139C8A3E44E3F99E3F@Ron8300PC> References: <0BF4D3402A5348139C8A3E44E3F99E3F@Ron8300PC> Message-ID: <20191009014207.45ED688FE@lansing182.amsat.org> Hi Ron, Maybe (trees to my east) If not that pass--the one after! Mark N8MH At 08:26 PM 10/8/2019 -0500, Ronald G. Parsons via AMSAT-BB wrote: >I believe AO-92 L/v should be commanded tonight around 0150Z for 24 hours. I???m planning on it. See you there! Ron W5RKN _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From marklhammond at gmail.com Wed Oct 9 01:53:43 2019 From: marklhammond at gmail.com (Mark L. Hammond) Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:53:43 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] L/v AO-92 tonight/tomorrow 0150z for 24 hours In-Reply-To: <20191009014207.45ED688FE@lansing182.amsat.org> References: <0BF4D3402A5348139C8A3E44E3F99E3F@Ron8300PC> <20191009014207.45ED688FE@lansing182.amsat.org> Message-ID: <20191009015344.6B4E886DE@lansing182.amsat.org> Made it...L-band, 24 hours. Mark N8MH At 09:42 PM 10/8/2019 -0400, Mark L. Hammond via AMSAT-BB wrote: >Hi Ron, > >Maybe (trees to my east) If not that pass--the one after! > >Mark N8MH > >At 08:26 PM 10/8/2019 -0500, Ronald G. Parsons via AMSAT-BB wrote: >>I believe AO-92 L/v should be commanded tonight around 0150Z for 24 hours. I???m planning on it. See you there! Ron W5RKN _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: https://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: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb From joanne.k9jkm at gmail.com Wed Oct 9 02:01:24 2019 From: joanne.k9jkm at gmail.com (JoAnne K9JKM) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 21:01:24 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Tweet from AMSAT (@AMSAT) AO-92 L/v Message-ID: AMSAT (@AMSAT) tweeted at 8:57 PM on Tue, Oct 08, 2019: AO-92 was switched to Mode L/v at 0150Z and will remain in that mode for 24 hours. Uplink is 1267.359 MHz, downlink is 145.880 MHz. (https://twitter.com/AMSAT/status/1181750375818366977?s=09) Get the official Twitter app at https://twitter.com/download?s=13 From aj9n at aol.com Wed Oct 9 02:33:54 2019 From: aj9n at aol.com (aj9n at aol.com) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 02:33:54 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-10-09 03:00 UTC References: <1981214154.3662173.1570588434396.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1981214154.3662173.1570588434396@mail.yahoo.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-10-09 03:00 UTC ? Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: ? ? About GAGARIN FROM SPACE, Conducting an amateur radio session with the Lyceumists "AmSU Blagoveshchensk?, Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via RK?J The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Alexander Skvortsov Contact was successful: Tue 2019-10-08 08:25 UTC (***) ? Bampton School, Bampton, United Kingdom, direct via G2LV The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Drew Morgan KI5AAA Contact was successful: Tue 2019-10-08 12:51:26 UTC 27 deg (***) Watch for live stream at https://live.ariss.org? ? Coll?ge Robert Doisneau, Sarralbe, France, direct via F6KFT The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact was successful: Tue 2019-10-08 14:29:21 UTC 53 deg (***) ? S.M. Calvino ? Istituto Comprensivo Settimo IV, Settimo Torinese, Italy, direct via IK1SLD and Istituto Comprensivo Statale Don Milani, Monza, Italy, direct via IQ2MZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be IR?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Mon 2019-10-14 09:37:58 UTC 59 deg ? Istituto Comprensivo Statale ?Diego Valeri?, Campolongo Maggiore, Italy, direct via IQ3RW and Istituto Comprensivo Ladispoli1, Ladispoli, Italy, direct via IK?WGF The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be IR?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Thu 2019-10-17 08:49:52 UTC 73 deg ? Science & Technologie e.V. / event: Science Days, Teningen, Germany, direct via DN1EME The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Fri 2019-10-18 09:37:45 UTC 64 deg ? ? Watch for MAI-75 SSTV sessions: Wed 2019-10-09 09:50 to 14:00 UTC Thu 2019-10-10 08:55 to 15:15 UTC ? ? AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 ? ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ??? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? ? 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?2019-10-09 03:00 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 ? ? The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-10-09 03:00 UTC. (***) http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf ? ? ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ??? ? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? ? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? Message to US Educators? Amateur Radio on the International Space Station? Contact Opportunity? ? Call for Proposals? New Proposal Window is October 1, 2019 to November 30, 2019? ? The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS.? ARISS anticipates that the contact would be held between July 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact contact dates. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate the contact into a well-developed education plan.? ? The deadline to submit a proposal is November 30, 2019.? Proposal information and documents can be found at http://www.ariss.org .? ? The Opportunity? ? Crew members aboard the International Space Station will participate in scheduled Amateur Radio contacts. These radio contacts are approximately 10 minutes in length and allow students to interact with the astronauts through a question-and-answer session.? ? An ARISS contact is a voice-only communication opportunity via Amateur Radio between astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space station and classrooms and communities. ARISS contacts afford education audiences the opportunity to learn firsthand from astronauts what it is like to live and work in space and to learn about space research conducted on the ISS. Students also will have an opportunity to learn about satellite communication, wireless technology, and radio science. Because of the nature of human spaceflight and the complexity of scheduling activities aboard the ISS, organizations must demonstrate flexibility to accommodate changes in dates and times of the radio contact.? ? Amateur Radio organizations around the world with the support of NASA and space agencies in Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe present educational organizations with this opportunity. The ham radio organizations' volunteer efforts provide the equipment and operational support to enable communication between crew on the ISS and students around the world using Amateur Radio.?? ? More Information ? For proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of Information Webinars, go to http://www.ariss.org . ? Please direct any questions to?ariss.us.education at gmail.com? ? **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) ? Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts.? Applications should be addressed by email to:? school.selection.manager at ariss-eu.org ? ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) ? Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application.? Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. ? For the application, go to:? http://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd at gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss at iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) http://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ ? ? ****************************************************************************** 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?? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting.? Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts.? ? 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 ? ? The HamTV webpage:? https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ ? ? **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: ? Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IK?WGF with 132 Sergey RV3DR with 127 (***) Gaston ON4WF with 123 ? **************************************************************************** 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. ? ? ? Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1343. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1286. (***) 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: 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 ? **************************************************************************** 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 Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts ? https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** ? Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch ? Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA ? Exp. 61 on orbit Oleg Skripochka Jessica Meir ? **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie?Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors ? ? From n8hm at arrl.net Wed Oct 9 12:45:53 2019 From: n8hm at arrl.net (Paul Stoetzer) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 08:45:53 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] Register for the 50th Anniversary AMSAT Symposium by 5:00pm EDT Friday Message-ID: Be sure to register for the 50th Anniversary AMSAT Symposium by 5:00pm EDT on Friday, October 11th. Walk-ins are welcome, but banquet and tour tickets must be purchased in advance. Details at https://www.amsat.org/amsat-symposium/ I look forward to seeing everyone there! 73, Paul Stoetzer, N8HM Executive Vice President AMSAT From propgrinder at gmail.com Wed Oct 9 13:09:01 2019 From: propgrinder at gmail.com (Bob Hammond) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 06:09:01 -0700 Subject: [amsat-bb] Counterbalance weight on antenna rotator? In-Reply-To: <1914074801.1824327.1570489133496@connect.xfinity.com> References: <1914074801.1824327.1570489133496@connect.xfinity.com> Message-ID: Thanks everyone for the input. I think I will go without a counterbalance, per Mike K9QHO, and see how it goes. Bob W7OTJ On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 4:00 PM MICHAEL WILLIAMS via AMSAT-BB < amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote: > My thinking has been to put it out of balance, especially with the light > weight satellite antennas we use. > > > In a perfectly balanced system, the wind will work the gearing back and > forth. In an unbalanced system, the gears will stay meshed in one direction > not working the internal parts when the antennas are moving or are at rest. > > > It's difficult to balance a system when coax and preamps added to the > rear. It's also good to have the least wind resistance when SatPC32 returns > antennas to the rest position The Yaesu elevation rotors are pretty tough. > > > I used an Alliance U-110 for years with no problems. Talk about out of > balance, check my qrz page. > > > > Good luck with this. It has been an interesting subject. > > > 73, Mike (K9QHO) > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From aj9n at aol.com Wed Oct 9 13:44:18 2019 From: aj9n at aol.com (aj9n at aol.com) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 13:44:18 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-10-09 14:00 UTC References: <566269879.3785819.1570628658547.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <566269879.3785819.1570628658547@mail.yahoo.com> Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-10-09 14:00 UTC ? Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: ? S.M. Calvino ? Istituto Comprensivo Settimo IV, Settimo Torinese, Italy, direct via IK1SLD and Istituto Comprensivo Statale Don Milani, Monza, Italy, direct via IQ2MZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be IR?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Mon 2019-10-14 09:37:58 UTC 59 deg Watch for live stream from the Monza side of the contact: (***) www.arimonza.it/youtube ? Istituto Comprensivo Statale ?Diego Valeri?, Campolongo Maggiore, Italy, direct via IQ3RW and Istituto Comprensivo Ladispoli1, Ladispoli, Italy, direct via IK?WGF The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be IR?ISS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Thu 2019-10-17 08:49:52 UTC 73 deg Watch for live stream from IQ3RW side of the contact: (***) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDwdfkmV7_z2xtZP07Js3Rw?fbclid=IwAR2cvdFuG_oNRGmstWkJ5IPpWN7xjENlMwW4Xrpr4RGh6EhG7BsA3TWtCKU ? Science & Technologie e.V. / event: Science Days, Teningen, Germany, direct via DN1EME The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Fri 2019-10-18 09:37:45 UTC 64 deg ? ? Watch for MAI-75 SSTV sessions: Wed 2019-10-09 09:50 to 14:00 UTC Thu 2019-10-10 08:55 to 15:15 UTC ? ? AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 ? ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ??? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? ? 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?2019-10-09 14:00 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 ? ? The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-10-09 03:00 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf ? ? ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ??? ? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ??? Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ? ? ARISS Contact Applications (United States) ? Message to US Educators? Amateur Radio on the International Space Station? Contact Opportunity? ? Call for Proposals? New Proposal Window is October 1, 2019 to November 30, 2019? ? The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS.? ARISS anticipates that the contact would be held between July 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact contact dates. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate the contact into a well-developed education plan.? ? The deadline to submit a proposal is November 30, 2019.? Proposal information and documents can be found at http://www.ariss.org .? ? The Opportunity? ? Crew members aboard the International Space Station will participate in scheduled Amateur Radio contacts. These radio contacts are approximately 10 minutes in length and allow students to interact with the astronauts through a question-and-answer session.? ? An ARISS contact is a voice-only communication opportunity via Amateur Radio between astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space station and classrooms and communities. ARISS contacts afford education audiences the opportunity to learn firsthand from astronauts what it is like to live and work in space and to learn about space research conducted on the ISS. Students also will have an opportunity to learn about satellite communication, wireless technology, and radio science. Because of the nature of human spaceflight and the complexity of scheduling activities aboard the ISS, organizations must demonstrate flexibility to accommodate changes in dates and times of the radio contact.? ? Amateur Radio organizations around the world with the support of NASA and space agencies in Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe present educational organizations with this opportunity. The ham radio organizations' volunteer efforts provide the equipment and operational support to enable communication between crew on the ISS and students around the world using Amateur Radio.?? ? More Information ? For proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of Information Webinars, go to http://www.ariss.org . ? Please direct any questions to?ariss.us.education at gmail.com? ? **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) ? Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts.? Applications should be addressed by email to:? school.selection.manager at ariss-eu.org ? ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) ? Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application.? Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. ? For the application, go to:? http://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd at gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss at iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) http://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ ? ? ****************************************************************************** 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?? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting.? Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts.? ? 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 ? ? The HamTV webpage:? https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ ? ? **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: ? Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IK?WGF with 132 Sergey RV3DR with 127 Gaston ON4WF with 123 ? **************************************************************************** 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. ? ? ? Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1343. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1286. 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: 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 ? **************************************************************************** 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 Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts ? https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** ? Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch ? Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA ? Exp. 61 on orbit Oleg Skripochka Jessica Meir ? **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie?Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors ? ? From aj9n at aol.com Wed Oct 9 17:27:01 2019 From: aj9n at aol.com (aj9n at aol.com) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 17:27:01 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISS talk to be given at Melbourne Hamfest this weekend References: <684447730.3868514.1570642021346.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <684447730.3868514.1570642021346@mail.yahoo.com> Hi all, I will be giving a talk about ARISS at this weekend's Melbourne, Florida, PCARS hamfest.? So if you are interested in what ARISS is all about and are in the area, then come to the talk at 1:00 PM.? Full details about the hamfest can be found at: http://pcars.org/hamfest/2019/index.htm 73,Charlie Sufana AJ9NOne of the ARISS mentors From hbasri.schiers6 at gmail.com Wed Oct 9 20:05:53 2019 From: hbasri.schiers6 at gmail.com (Hasan al-Basri) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 15:05:53 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Small update to KLA Track In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Chris, Use KLA Tracker all the time. Has a permanent place on my monitor. Thanks so much for your contribution! 73, N0AN Hasan On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 8:13 PM Chris Thompson via AMSAT-BB < amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote: > If you use the G0KLA Sat Tracker then I have made a minor update to the > display to improve the rendering. There are no other changes so this is > very optional. > > You can download it here: > https://www.g0kla.com/klatrack/index.php > > If you want to know what I fixed that is discussed here: > https://www.g0kla.com/workbench/2019-10-08.php > > -- > Chris E. Thompson > chrisethompson at gmail.com > g0kla at arrl.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: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > From w5rkn at w5rkn.com Wed Oct 9 22:29:09 2019 From: w5rkn at w5rkn.com (Ronald G. Parsons) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 17:29:09 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Experimenter Day -- When and Why? Message-ID: <1188124F682E4BF8A943E56F7D6BF9CE@Ron8300PC> An interesting thread just started over on Twitter on When and Why there is an experimenters day. I thought this discussion ought to be on this AMSAT group also. Let me first try to capture some of the initial Twitter tweets: WD9EWK AO-92 L/V @ 1801 UTC Wednesday: Nice pass for central Arizona, TNX @w0dhb& @w5rkn for QSOs. Fewer showing up for weekday L/V out here, day and night. WY7AA I believe that it should be in L Band for 48 hours during the week for a period (say 3 months) and then 24 hours on the weekend for the same. Everyone gets some time with it then, and people can complain when they forget it changed. WD9EWK With AO-51 in the past & its different configurations, it was usually left in something like V(USB)/U(FM), V/S, or L/S for a week at a time. Not just one day at a time. Made it easier to try the different configurations when they were available. WY7AA I don't have an answer based on your choices. I believe that it should be in L Band for 48 hours during the week for a period (say 3 months) and then 24 hours on the weekend for the same. Everyone gets some time with it then, and people can complain when they forget it changed. Lets have a discussion on the AMSAT-BB also. I find changing times not ideal for me but others would prefer different times. Such as weekend vs. Weekday. Perhaps a mailing list which would be sent out as a reminder. Ron W5RKN 10092019_045738.wa From tjschuessler at verizon.net Thu Oct 10 03:29:32 2019 From: tjschuessler at verizon.net (tjschuessler at verizon.net) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 22:29:32 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-7 Mode A on the AMSAT status page Message-ID: <010201d57f1a$ef641ad0$ce2c5070$@verizon.net> As I understand, AO-7 will begin doing 24 hour mode switches about now. So I went to the status page on AMSAT.org and see that the Mode A listing is no longer there. Since it was in a long period of eclipse shutdowns, probably got dropped inadvertantly. Also looking forward to learning when the switch time is nailed down. Tom Schuessler, N5HYP EM12ms From n0jy at amsat.org Thu Oct 10 03:34:49 2019 From: n0jy at amsat.org (Jerry Buxton) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 22:34:49 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Experimenter Day -- When and Why? In-Reply-To: <1188124F682E4BF8A943E56F7D6BF9CE@Ron8300PC> References: <1188124F682E4BF8A943E56F7D6BF9CE@Ron8300PC> Message-ID: On 10/9/2019 17:29, Ronald G. Parsons via AMSAT-BB wrote: > WY7AA > I believe that it should be in L Band for 48 hours during the week for a period (say 3 months) and then 24 hours on the weekend for the same. Everyone gets some time with it then, and people can complain when they forget it changed. > > WD9EWK > With AO-51 in the past & its different configurations, it was usually left in something like V(USB)/U(FM), V/S, or L/S for a week at a time. Not just one day at a time. Made it easier to try the different configurations when they were available If I may, this seems a good opportunity to present a little background on Fox-1 L band. The L band uplink capability on AO-92 and AO-95 (sobsob) are in fact, an experiment called DOWNSHIFTER.? Just as we fly partner experiments in the "top" four PCB positions of the Fox-1 avionics stack, DOWNSHIFTER occupies the EXP4 slot in Fox-1C and Fox-1D. When Fox-1C/D were assembled, the EXP4 was available as it had been on Fox-1A.? Fox-1A was of course the first flight, and it had a minimal payload because of the inherent uncertainty in any first flight.? Fox-1C consists of the flight spare Vanderbilt University radiation experiment from Fox-1A and one of the two Virginia Tech camera experiments.? Fox-1D consists of the University of Iowa HERCI experiment and the other Virginia Tech camera experiment.? In both cases, although the VT camera "peeks through" a slot in the EXP4 PCB, the EXP4 was vacant. We were kicking around the idea of maybe flying our own (AMSAT or AMSAT Engineering) experiment of some sort in order to populate the EXP4 slot on C and/or D, after the completion of Fox-1A.? With the purchased launch of Fox-1C and D (at that time) coming up in short order we did not have a lot of time to spend looking around for ideas.? John Klingelhoeffer WB4LNM came up with the design idea for an L band uplink capability made possible by down converting the 1267.x MHz uplink signal to the 435.x assigned UHF uplink for the bird and passing it to the receiver input.? It fit the bill of the smaller real estate available due to the camera notch, the mechanical limitations of EXP4 volume (less than the other three EXP slots because of the +Z solar panel right above), the need to function with the existing standard Fox-1 antennas, and the slim power budget of the Fox-1 birds "fully loaded".? John dubbed it "DOWNSHIFTER" and we went for it. Being less complex than an entire repeater or transponder made for somewhat faster fabrication to make the C/D deadline (C/D were originally booked to launch together on the same LV) and both birds were outfitted with a DOWNSHIFTER. DOWNSHIFTER was/is an experiment, given the new (to the 1U CubeSat form factor) design and uncertainty of the performance of the UHF antenna at 12xx MHz among other things.? As such it was treated as all experiments are, with an overruling control by IHU and hardware that protects the bird from a runaway experiment.? Pretty much, it's called an experiment and not a system (like the rest of the avionics stack) for a reason. For that reason we assigned a 24 hour timer to the activation of L band mode in order to protect against the bird being in L band and deaf, whether due to the antenna not being so hot at 1267.x MHz or DOWNSHIFTER failing to shift down, any malfunction that would prevent the UHF receiver/transponder from hearing a command station.? By use of the timer, if all was well then 24 hours was a good period of operation for ops around the globe and in the worst case if it didn't work, the bird would be back in UHF mode and under command control within 24 hours.? The 24 hours is required as part of the imaging device license and an FCC order to cease transmission. We are blessed and I was totally jazzed that the DOWNSHIFTER worked quite well in commissioning on AO-92 and continues to do so.? We took DOWNSHIFTER into consideration as a point of failure in AO-95's woes and did tests exploring that.? While -95 is deaf in any of its assigned bands the 24 hour timer would protect if we were able to command it to L band which offered the designed comfort to be able to try that if it was a possible path in troubleshooting. I will not enter into any discussion of the scheduling of L band mode or the use of any of the satellites as that is entirely up to Ops when the leave Engineering's hands at commissioning.? I did think it might be useful to give some history on the why and how of L band on AO-92 and AO-95 (sobsob) for your discussion.? Have fun with the birds whatever their mode and your style of operating, that's what makes my day! Jerry Buxton, N?JY From quadpugh at bellsouth.net Thu Oct 10 08:38:49 2019 From: quadpugh at bellsouth.net (Nick Pugh) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 03:38:49 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] University of Louisiana looking for partner school Message-ID: <2f0201d57f46$240037d0$6c00a770$@bellsouth.net> The satellite team an UL is looking for a college or high school in Arkansas to partner with to build a satellite for a LEO mission. IF you have an interest please contact me. Nick K5QXJ Cell 337 258 2527 Helping UL become a world Class Engineering and Educational School Disagree I Learn From wa4sca at gmail.com Thu Oct 10 09:42:33 2019 From: wa4sca at gmail.com (Alan) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 04:42:33 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-7 Mode A on the AMSAT status page In-Reply-To: <010201d57f1a$ef641ad0$ce2c5070$@verizon.net> References: <010201d57f1a$ef641ad0$ce2c5070$@verizon.net> Message-ID: <000001d57f4f$0b5ce940$2216bbc0$@gmail.com> Tom, According to ILLUM, the last eclipse was 1 minute on 10 Oct, and the next eclipse will be 1 minute on 1 December. PREDICT presents things slightly differently, and gives the period of full illumination as 9 Oct to 2 December. Apparently a status line times out if there is no data for a period of time, but not the dropdown box. Just for fun, I put in a Not Heard report, and the Mode A status line is back. Who knew? 73, Alan WA4SCA <-----Original Message----- References: <010201d57f1a$ef641ad0$ce2c5070$@verizon.net> <000001d57f4f$0b5ce940$2216bbc0$@gmail.com> Message-ID: That is the expected behavior of the status page, otherwise it would quickly clog with satellites no one is listening for. I used Flyby to run the prediction that appeared in ANS. Flyby is a modern and more fully-featured fork of PREDICT for Linux that I find very useful. I?m looking forward to seeing when that timer triggers the mode change and maybe making a few Mode A QSOs during this period. Flyby can be found at https://github.com/la1k/flyby. It can be installed on Arch Linux and derivatives using the flyby-git package in the Arch User Repository. Users of other distributions will have to build it manually. 73, Paul, N8HM On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 05:43 Alan via AMSAT-BB wrote: > Tom, > > According to ILLUM, the last eclipse was 1 minute on 10 Oct, and the next > eclipse will be 1 minute on 1 December. PREDICT presents things slightly > differently, and gives the period of full illumination as 9 Oct to 2 > December. > > Apparently a status line times out if there is no data for a period of > time, > but not the dropdown box. Just for fun, I put in a Not Heard report, and > the Mode A status line is back. Who knew? > > 73, > > Alan > WA4SCA > > > <-----Original Message----- > < > So > no > probably > switch >