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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/TSDPAJEKRCLZFZ26C3SC6SFJQA3UUSWE/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "TSDPAJEKRCLZFZ26C3SC6SFJQA3UUSWE", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/XI6AGMKKBESGUYQBR65JO5SNKA5L4JTK/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "john (a) amber.org.uk", "mailman_id": "df98048e9a0c4dc0947497ab8309470b", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/df98048e9a0c4dc0947497ab8309470b/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "John", "subject": "Re: [amsat-bb] doppler shift", "date": "2018-01-05T08:34:38Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/6IG4BNYBBMI7EBZN7OOWWMCOWVXGRDQ7/?format=api", "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "Wow. Just wow! I bet they loved that.\n\nOur experience was somewhat different, mostly because it was total luck. I'd\njust finished talking to the two cub-scouts (8-10 years old) and their\nleader who were sat with me, in one of the last sessions of the day before\nthey were due to leave. I'd done a bit of explanation about satellites, the\nISS, mentioned Tim Peake (we're British after all, and pretty much every kid\nhad heard of him) along with a little bit more about all that good stuff. I\nglanced at my screen, as I didn't have any ARISS schedules to hand, and saw\nthat the ISS was about to come over the horizon, so I said to them \"if you\nwant to try to listen and see if we hear anything, I'll show you how it\nworks\". I set the expectation at zero, and they said \"yeah, why not\".\nTracking starts, and nothing heard initially, but then a dead FM carrier...\nThey didn't know what that was but heard a change in the sound. Then they\nheard the ISS calling down to a ground station, but didn't understand the\ncallsigns. They did, however, understand the words \"calling from the\nInternational Space Station\". Bearing in mind this was the first time I'd\nheard the prelim calls (the ISS hadn't quite appeared over the Italian\nhorizon at that point I don't think), I was still working out what was going\non myself, but immediately shouted for the rest of the visitors who were on\nsite to join us. The two cub scouts sat by me still hadn't picked up their\njaws at this point - the thud was probably about as loud as your guys' jaws\nhitting the deck too - but then everyone else piled in, and duly listened to\nthe entire contact, despite not one of them understanding a single word as\nfrom that point on once contact had been made, it was all conducted in\nItalian!\n\nBy the time the parents had come to collect their children an hour later or\nso, video footage had been shared by one of the leaders into the Whatsapp\nchat they run with their childrens' parents, and most parents had seen/heard\nabout it - they were talking about it on the way in to collect their\nchildren, and the children themselves didn't stop talking about it - I'm\nlead to believe it was the biggest surprise of the weekend, and the most\nmemorable moment for them!\n\nFor me, that ten minute pass was the highlight of the weekend, and if\nnothing else, it made it all well and truly worth it, especially since I was\nusing two completely unknown and untested beams, a rotator kit I'd had in\npieces on my lap two weeks prior resoldering connections inside, rebuilding\nmotors and bearings for, and a radio I'd only owned for 3 months and had\nbarely played with. It was most definitely \"a bit of a lash-up\", but it\nworked, we got the contacts we wanted (ie any at all), and the young people\nthroughout the weekend got a bit of a better idea about radio, AMSAT and so\non. We did keep a couple of 2M tape measure receivers handy too, so we could\ndemonstrate the simple end of the scale, but that made it even better.\n\nYou should have heard some of the guesses for the size of the automated\nbirds though - none of them ever imagined a cubesat can be as small as they\nare...\n\n73, and a firm left handshake,\nJohn (XLX)\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: George Henry [mailto:[email protected]] \nSent: 05 January 2018 05:18\nTo: 'John' <[email protected]>; 'Nick Hart' <[email protected]>\nCc: [email protected]\nSubject: RE: [amsat-bb] doppler shift\n\nSeveral years ago, when the ISS repeater was still working, I was doing a\nsatellite demo for the scouts under the K9BSA callsign, working stations\nright and left with 20 - 25 scouts gathered around the rig, when astronaut\nMike Fincke picked up the mic and said \"hello to the scouts from the\nInternational Space Station, NA1SS!\"\n\nI swear, the collective \"thud\" of the scouts' jaws hitting the floor could\nbe heard for miles...\n\nGeorge, KA3HSW\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: AMSAT-BB [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John\nSent: Thursday, January 04, 2018 1:46 PM\nTo: 'Nick Hart'\nCc: [email protected]\nSubject: Re: [amsat-bb] doppler shift\n\nHi Nick,\n\nIt all depends on the knowledge and skillset of the scouts in question. My\nlast significant AMSAT demo was done during JOTA, and at that point we had\nbetween 100 and 150 young people come through the shack doors throughout the\nweekend. We didn't have a huge amount of time to explain everything or go\nreally interactive with the control or tracking, and to be honest most of\nthem were amazed enough that they could hear voices coming back from space,\nso when we listened in to one of the Italian ARISS contacts, they were even\nmore thrilled! My trusty FT-847, SatPC32, ERC-M interface and Kenpro KR5600\ndid the job nicely, we made quite a few QSOs, and we got to listen to a full\nISS pass - something the 80 odd people who poured into the shack when it\nstarted will likely not forget for a long time yet.\n\n<snip>\n\n", "attachments": [] }