October 2006 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

FCC Part 97 Report and Order - ISS
by Trevor 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

The recent FCC Report and Order (R&O) has a couple of changes relating to Amateur Radio and the ISS. ---- The FCC has issued a Report and Order (R&O) to amend Part 97 of the Amateur Radio Service rules, see http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-06-149A1.doc The changes to the Amateur Radio Service rules are: . revise the operating privileges of amateur radio operators to allow more spectrum in four currently-authorized amateur service HF bands to be used for voice communications; . permit auxiliary stations to transmit on additional amateur service bands; . permit amateur stations to transmit spread spectrum communications on the 1.25 meter (m) band; . permit amateur stations to retransmit communications from the International Space Station; . permit amateur service licensees to designate the amateur radio club to receive their call sign in memoriam; . prohibit an applicant from filing more than one application for a specific vanity call sign; . eliminate certain restrictions on equipment manufacturers that are no longer necessary; . permit amateur radio stations operating in Alaska and surrounding waters more flexibility in providing emergency communications; and . remove certain restrictions in the amateur service license examination system that are no longer necessary. ---- 73 Trevor M5AKA --------------- Daily Amateur Radio RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email your news items to: editor at southgatearc.org News On Your Website: http://www.southgatearc.org/rss/index.htm News On Your PC: http://www.southgatearc.org/rss/newsreader.htm Upload Your News: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/your_news.htm --------------- ___________________________________________________________ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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Re: 2MCP22
by John Champa 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

Steve, Are the elements mounted differently? That could explain the change in length. If they are mounted in the same mechanical fashion, how about the baluns? Are they different? John - K8OCL >From: "Steve kb9ups" <kb9ups(a)excite.com> >Reply-To: kb9ups(a)excite.com >To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org >Subject: [amsat-bb] 2MCP22 >Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:34:35 -0400 (EDT) > > >Hello All, >I have two used 2MCP22 beams and have found that the element lengths on one >are 1" shorter than on the other..Does anyone know if this is a problem or >not? Some difference in boom but the same length over all. The elements do >not look like they have been cut off..anyone have any clues to the >difference? > > >Steve/kb9ups >AMSAT area coordinator, Toledo, OH. >AMSAT area coordinator, Streator, IL. >www.qsl.net/kb9ups > >_______________________________________________ >Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com >The most personalized portal on the Web! > > >_______________________________________________ >Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

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PCSAT-1 (NO-44) Special Event Continues
by Robert Bruninga 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

PCSAT-1 remains fully operational as a digipeater on 145.825 up and down using the aliases of PCSAT-1, ARISS, RELAY, WIDE and WIDEn-N and TRACEn-N. Users are welcome to use it and we are seeing about 80 people a day. PCSAT-1 was resetting to W3ADO-1 a few times (the bad default power negative condition), but as long as the SIDE-B system does not reset at the same time, then PCSAT-1 is recoverable and useable. But as long as people do not use the W3ADO-1 path, but use the other ones above instead, then we should be able to keep PCSAT-1 alive for a few more weeks. Enjoy... http://pcsat.aprs.org And http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/pcsat.html de WB4APR, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: aprssig-bounces(a)lists.tapr.org > [mailto:aprssig-bounces@lists.tapr.org] On Behalf Of Robert Bruninga > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 7:43 AM > To: 'TAPR APRS Mailing List' > Subject: [aprssig] PCSAT-1 (NO-44) Special Event Thursday Morn > > PCSAT-1 Special Event (results) > > Thanks to you guys that participated. You may continue to > transmit unattended VIA PCSAT-1 as long as she stays up. The > students were like "wow"... The posits below were shortened by > cutting out the LAT/LONG but many show the statistics we were > after. > > > We'd like to demo PCSAT-1 to students on this Thursday 28 Sept > > at 0923 EDT and 1112 EDT over the eastern USA.... > > 1) Attended stations set posit rate to 2 minutes > > 2) Unattended stations set APRS posit rate to 5 minutes > > 3) Include ur name, TX power and ANT Gain > > RESULTS SUMMARY: Knowing the TX rate and EIRP, it is clear to > See that even 5W HT's can get in with a J-pole (3dB) > > 2 minute rate stations > 50W EIRP 5 hits > 150W EIRP 8 hits > 120W EIRP 4 hits > 10W EIRP 3 hits > > 5 min rate stations > 120W EIRP 2 hits end of pass > 10W EIRP 3 hits > 20W EIRP 1 hit > > Unknown rates > 50W EIRP 1 hit > 40W EIRP 6 hits > 90W EIRP 4 hits > > Here is the raw data W/O LAT/LONG to fit: > > 1 VE3FFR =281329z- (UIV32N) > 5 KC0RWZ-2 =281330z`Brian,2min,25w,3.7dBi,Hi Navy retired > 2 W3ADO-6 @281330zK000/000/TH-D7/M0/Off duty.. > 8 KB1GVR =281331z-2min 50W 5.5dBi omni. Nice work! > 3 WA4AEJ =281331zyDale in Niceville, FL {UISS50} > 4 W1CGA-1 =281331zK_2min,10W,11dBiYagi CGA says Go MIDS > 1 N9IDH-7 @281331z[000/000/TH-D7/M2/In Service > 15N1XED =281331z-73, FROM RIK, FN44ch {UISS50} > 4 VE2FDA =281332z-Francois, 45W, 3db,Go boys {UIV32N} > 2 KI4LMR-3 @281332z>000/000/TH-D7/M0/Off duty../A=-00089 > 6 WA1KAT =281333z-Topsfield,MA 10W collinear > 3 N1CLV-8 =281335zCWayne, 2 min, 5W, 3dbi omni, Go CG! > 13W3ADO-15 /281335z->FM19sa/- unattended use 5 min rate. > 3 N1CLV-8 =281336zCWayne, 5 min, 5W, 3dbi omni, Go CG! > 2 N3ZLL-5 @281339zK000/000/D-700/C1/Custom 1 > 2 W1CGA-1 =281340zK_5min,10W,11dBiYagi CGA says Go MIDS > 1 KB2M-7 @281518zj000/000/D-700/M2/In Service/A=-00072 > 1 W4HFZ =281519z-Chas,25w,3db Omni,Subs Rule!{UIV32N} > 1 W8AAS /281519z]Dave,5min,10W, J-pole > ? N4ZQ-2 no posit > > > > _______________________________________________ > aprssig mailing list > aprssig(a)lists.tapr.org > https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig >

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Pseudo Keps for the moon
by Isao SEKI 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

Hello, I am using a satellite tracking software for tracking the moon but my pseudo keps was out of date. I'm looking for pseudo keps for the moon because MOONKEPS.EXE doesn't work well for year 2006. Does anyone have other making program or the pseudo keps for the moon? tia, Isao / JM1WBB

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Re: FCC Part 97 Report and Order - ISS
by John K9IJ 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

At 06:49 PM 10/11/2006, you wrote: >On 10/11/06, Trevor <m5aka(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > The recent FCC Report and Order (R&O) has a couple of changes relating to > > Amateur Radio and the ISS. > > ---- > > > > The FCC has issued a Report and Order (R&O) to amend Part 97 of the Amateur > > Radio Service rules, see > >Thanks for posting this Trevor! In addition to rebroadcast of ISS, >this finally makes Kenwood "SkyCommand" legal in the U.S. > >I note the document indicates "Adopted: October 4, 2006". Am I to >understand that this means these amendments to Part 97 are now in >effect, or is there a further step required by the FCC? This is only the Report and Order. The changes are effective 30 days after they are published in the Federal Register which usually takes some time after the R&O is issued. John - K9IJ - John Rice K9IJ k9ij(a)vx5.com Webmaster, Network Admin, Janitor http://www.k9ij.com http://www.suhfars.org http://www.vx5.com/~teampf

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WiFi mitigation
by Anthony Monteiro 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

Dear friends, MCM Electronics currently has a sale on a WiFi base station for $18.95. See: http://www.mcminone.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=MCMProducts&product%5Fid… This is a very basic Linksys unit. But, at this price, it might make sense to buy a few, put them in your house as close to your neighbors as possible, and set them all to channel 1 (which overlaps the ham band at 2.4 GHz.) This may help encourage your neighbors to use other channels. When you want to operate on S-band, just turn them off. They may also be useful if you want to set up a very basic WIFi network and you don't care about any extra features. 73, Tony AA2TX

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Re: weird 847 behavior
by Jeff Griffin 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

I ordered a new RX filter before taking the 847 apart, hence the delay getting back with my fix. What I found was several loose screws on a couple of the boards in the 847. In fact the only screws that were consistently tight were the one's that I had removed/replaced when installing the Symec wide IF mod 5 years ago, I didn't open the bottom of the radio up at that time, so I don't know how long they may have been loose. After I buttoned up , all is now well, full duplex is back on FM. And I have much better RX on Ao-7 SSB, thanks to the 2.0 SSB Inrad filter ! It's about time I installed the filter, my 847 is over 8 years old. So it appears the fix was a loose semi-grounded board, most notably the AF-CNTL unit board. Thanks to everyone that emailed me privately with their suggestions.... 73 Jeff kb2m ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Griffin" <kb2m(a)comcast.net> To: "amsat-bb" <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 4:54 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] weird 847 behavior > I just noticed that when I'm working FM sats My d/l get's desenced, when > I'm transmitting. This doesn't happen on SSB birds, only FM , and it just > started. I also tried another Transceiver and the problem doesn't exist, I > would think that would eliminate any problems with the antenna system, > feedline, etc. Did anyone else ever have this problem with their 847? > > 73 Jeff kb2m

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XI-IV 1738 UTC
by Mike Rupprecht 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

XI-IV AOS 1738 UTC Oct, 11 (JN49lr) ut3 19b80046 ut4 2f4256 ut5 041370 ut6 6666656644 ut1 www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp ut2 1d0895 ut3 19b80048 ut4 30435e ut5 00a011 ut6 776676775e ut1 www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp ut2 1d0903 ut3 19b80045 ut4 2f4257 ut5 100370 ut6 666776663b ut1 www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp ut2 1d0971 ut3 19b.0038 ut4 324259 ut5 0a7130 ut6 677775663a ut1 www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp ut2 1d09df ut3 19380035 ut4 33357f ut5 401000 ut6 9998989838 ut1 www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp ut2 1d0a52 ut3 19b80023 ut4 2f425b ut5 083340 ut6 7677756622 ut1 www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp ut2 1d0ac0 ut3 19b80027 ut4 2f4258 ut5 202006 ut6 6776656622 ut1 www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp ut2 1d0b2e LOS 1750 73, Mike DK3WN

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KENPRO KR 600 RC circuit diagram ?
by Dave G1OCN 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

On behalf of Russell, G5XW, could the kind soul, either John, G8OQN, or, Domenico, please send the circuit diagram again to me please ? I will forward it on to Russell. Thank you. Dave.

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Eagle's New Design
by Eric H. Christensen 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

I have to say that I have been very critical of the Eagle development team with their plans for the bird. At the time I did not agree with their recommendations nor did I agree with their decisions. I WAS WRONG. While I am quite relieved with the new plan for Eagle, which includes a linear transponder for V/U and L/S along with the new digital "Advanced Communications Payload", there is no excuse for my previous words. Contrary to popular belief, the satellite builders and the Eagle team are not out to just build whatever they want but rather to build what will work. There is no way that they would spend the many hours it takes to build all the pieces and parts it takes to make a satellite to send up something that no one will use or that won't work. I don't know if EaglePedia has been updated with the latest and greatest information but I was very impressed with Bob McGwier's presentation on the latest configuration of Eagle. If you weren't able to attend the annual symposium then please keep an eye out on the website (amsat.org) for the latest and greatest information on the project. Take a look at the new information and then make sure you let everyone know that you support Eagle by going to http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/eagle/#donating and donating. It is very important that we all pitch in and help fund this project so that construction can move forward. From my understanding, we raised quite a bit of money at the symposium but we need more. Help the amateur satellite community and join the President's Club and/or donate directly to the Eagle project. It is the future of our community. 73s, Eric KF4OTN kf4otn(a)amsat.org http://www.ericsatcom.net

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