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AMSAT Journal
by Ed Long 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

Hi Everyone, Happy New Year! Now is a good time to write something for the Journal. I have some articles already but can always use more (sound familiar?). Thanks and I'll be checking the inbox. 73, Ed Long WA4SWJ Editor, The AMSAT Journal

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ANDE LASERs ON at 04:45 EST over Wash DC
by Robert Bruninga 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

At 04:46 Saturday Morning Eastern Standard Time we will turn on the lasers on the ANDE MAA satellite as it comes over the WashingtonDC area. This is a horrid hour, and we do not expect anyone to look or to waste sleep trying, but we figured we should alert the amateur list just in case... Someone had an interest. Remember that these are not visible lasers, but 800nm (infrared below visual red). They would need a CCD and large telescope to detect them. They will be pulsing several times a second for 3 to 5 minutes. We do not expect any amateurs to see them nor to even look for them. Just wanted to give you a heads up. Oh, and we had the wrong names on the wrong objects so the object with the lasers on it is ANDE MAA which is now object 29664 . The ANDE telemetry on 145.825 should show when the command is successful. You would see a packet coming back from ANDE saying LEDS WAS OFF (meaning it just switched to ON). Those of you with familiarity with the Kantroincs TNC (that is all ANDE is) will notice that all we did to control the lasers was to hook them to a switch hooked to the front panel POWER LED. Since the Kantrnoics TNC has a LEDS OFF command to save power when the TNC is in a low power application, we set the default to be LEDS OFF. This way, we can use that command to turn on the 6 Watts worth of lasers easily. Bob, Wb4APR

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Peheunsat-1 over West Malaysia
by Sion Chow Q. C. (9W2QC) 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Dear All, This evening (19th January 2007) at 2222 hours Malaysian Standard Time or 1422 hours UTC, I had a 62 degree pass of Peheunsat-1 over West Malaysia. As I was in the shack during the pass, I decided to track this satellite and am pleased to report a successful reception of Peheunsat-1. Below are three voice recordings heard on 145.825 MHz +/-: http://www.9w2qc.net/peheunsat/voice-1.mp3 http://www.9w2qc.net/peheunsat/voice-2.mp3 http://www.9w2qc.net/peheunsat/voice-3.mp3 Unfortunately, the audio level of the 1200 baud packet was too low, and I did not manage to decode anything. I have the complete pass recording in wav format, if it may be of use to anyone. Equipment used were ICOM IC-910H, 10 Element 2M yagi, SSB SP-2000 Preamp. Thank you and have a nice weekend to everyone. 73, Sion Chow Q. C., 9W2QC. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.17.0/639 - Release Date: 1/18/2007

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PCSAT-1 digipeater off
by Robert Bruninga 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

End of PCSAT-1 operating period. During the afternoon pass over USA, PCSAT-1 was overloaded over the west coast and crashed back to W3ADO-1 at 1850z. But one minute later we had AOS over the Naval Academy ground station and recovered it to PCSAT-1 and digipeating.. But the number of users was just so high, that there was no way she would survive the next eclipse. So after 8 minutes of operations and just prior to LOS, we turned off the digipeater and set the MYCALL tto NODIGI as a way of letting users know the digi was off. This is probably the end of this PCSAT-1 operating period. We will see if the NODIGI will hold. But eclipses still get worse and eventually she will be back to resetting on every orbit and be practially useless except mid-day sunnyside passes for a lucky packet or two... The next full receovery period will be the second week in March. Then none until October. Bob Bruninga, WB4APR US Naval Academy Satellite Ground Station

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Yaesu 5500 rotator plugs
by Paul Luggar 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Is anybody on list going to buy some of these? Paul Luggar M0SCI Website WWW.M0SCI.CO.UK Amsat-UK Member 6484 www.m0sci.co.uk/forum Devon and Cornwalls Amateur Radio Message Board

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Re: ANDE MAA and FCAL were reversed.
by Mineo Wakita 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

REALLY in Space-Track: 29664 ANDE SPHERE 1 2006-055F 29667 FCAL SPHERE 2 2006-055J --------------------------------------------- Name: Mineo Wakita / JE9PEL, JAMSAT member Mail: ei7m-wkt(a)asahi-net.or.jp URL : http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/ QTH : Yokohama Japan, GL:pm95tj Date: Jan 20, 2007 ---------------------------------------------

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qsl ande-1/disc1
by Mr Jeffrey Ross 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

qsl ande-1, neato, de kc8gkf west michigan usa ANDE-1*>BEACON <UI>: T#002,002,009,008,004,004,01000000,000 DISC1*>W3ADO-15 <UA>

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FW: ANDE MAA and FCAL were reversed.
by Robert Bruninga 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

I wondered why the reliability of commanding ANDE had gone down hill... I have been tracking the wrong object! I am convinced that CELESTRACK has had the names of ANDE MAA and FCAL swapped. I clearly heard the difference during an overhead pass. The signals from ANDE were clearly 2 minutes ahead of where I was tracking... What I thought was ANDE MAA is actually FCAL and when I pointed at FCAL, if found strong signals on ANDE... In otherwords, 29667 is REALLY FCAL 29664 is REALLY ANDE MAA CELESTRACK has had them reversed in its AMATEUR satellite list. Thanks Bob

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Fw: Non-Technical Question
by MARTHA SARAGOVITZ 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

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Re: AO-27 lives indeed (bootloader packets captured)
by Howard Stephenson - K6IA 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Just listened to the 0035 UTC West Coast pass, the TX was on! I also checked the AO-27 web site and noted under news "TOPR schedule is now running" Congratulation's to the control...AO-27 is Back!!! Howard Stephenson K6IA

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