December 2009 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

XW-1 Pass over FN02ox
by John Marranca, Jr 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

AWESOME! We had an amazing 75 degree pass here...and not only could the CW beacon be heard quite low on the horizon, but it exhibited very little fade. What's even more exciting, is that looking ahead, XW-1 promises many TRANS-ATLANTIC QSOs with Western Europe from the Northeast. Thank you AMSAT China. Good job! John KB2HSH -- _______________________________ John Marranca, Jr -PBX Technician- BN Systems, Incorporated Orchard Park, NY (716)406-7130

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XW 1 CW Beacon Heard
by Mani VU2WMY 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Hi all, The beacon was heard over India during 16:45 pass. The max elevation was 54 Deg. The beacon was pretty strong and 5-6 VU stations copied with no big set up. All the stations copied using "J" and "Slim Jims". Sure, XW 1 is going to open up a new interest in satellite working and truly an amazing "New Year Gift" from AMSAT-CHINA. Thank you guys for that wonderful gift. 73 de Mani, VU2WMY Secretary & Station-In-Charge Upagrah Amateur Radio Club VU2URC ISRO Satellite Centre Airport Road, Bangalore-560 017. Phone:(O)91-80-2508 2054/2192/2537 Mobile: 91-80-98803 41456 E-mail ID: wmy(a)isac.gov.in vu2wmy_mani(a)yahoo.com isrohams(a)yahoo.com

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XW-1 CW beacon report
by Andrew Glasbrenner 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Very strong signal over -NA this evening, SDR display indicates 20 to 25 db out of the noise. Receive system here is M2 CP30, LHCP, mast mounted SSB preamp, R7000 and SDR-IQ. 73, Drew KO4MA

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XW-1 over Brazil
by Roland Zurmely 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Good signal from XW-1 beacon ! Spectrogram of CW signal and telemetry decoding here: http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/satelite.htm#xw 73 de Roland

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XW-1 FM transponder works great
by Michael Chen 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

All, I managed to operate the special event station BT3WX to work several E2, BY, VR2, XX9 throughout the evening pass of XW-1 using the FM transponder. It was the 1st test open of this bird's transponder. Everything works just great! Michael Chen, BD5RV/4 Email: michael.bd5rv(a)gmail.com MSN: bd5rv(a)jsdxc.org Skype: michael-bd5rv

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XW-1 beacon heard in Oz
by vk5alx＠amsat.org 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Good signal from the 200mW beacon over Australia at 23:00 UTC December 15 Well done. Alex VK5ALX

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XW-1 Pass over NE USA
by Peter 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Are We Having Fun!!! Copied 23:56 pass of XW-1, 20 degrees, FN30, NY. This baby has healthy Lungs!!! Started to copy CW at .3 degrees, solid tone, thank you Nigel the Keps are spot on. We all know this is a high LEO Satellite, this pass covered Iceland, Northern Ireland, Sweden and the tip of Russia, can you say more awards, grids and most important building relationships deeper into Europe, it isn't A0-40 or a HEO but it will be thrilling to work. Thank you to the XW-1 team that developed this latest Satellite to the fleet.... 73, Pete, WB2OQQ

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XW-1 again over Europe
by OZ1MY 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Hi all, It works great. Thanks to Nigel for the new keps for Object A: XW-1 1 36121U 09072A 09349.53641119 -.00000045 00000-0 00000+0 0 31 2 36121 100.5050 046.6267 0007989 035.4736 324.6735 13.16391085 50 I changed the name from Object A to XW-1 :-) It works on SatPC32 and NOVA for Windows. On the pass with AOS at 16:45:50 UTC here in Copenhagen the tone did not change (to my old ears) over the whole pass. Used 435.789400 MHz as the center frequency on the IC-910 in USB. The usual ICOM offset in USB. Nice 20 minute passes and long range. Looking forward to the transponders. 73 OZ1MY Ib

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XW1 heard in Holland, keppler comment, and audio recording.
by Cor 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Hello All, I have heard XW1 sat. with a fine signal. I've used the folowing kepler data which Mineo Wakita earlier posted in amsat-bb (please read the comment below!). 1 36121U 09072A 09349.15640464 -.00000045 00000-0 00000+0 0 19 2 36121 100.5046 046.2483 0006436 232.0630 127.9902 13.18995687 00 Keep in mind these keppler data are not accurate because I've heard XW1 3 minutes longer compared to keppler XW1 LOS on my tracker screen! Last signal (on my radio) heard at 22:24UTC in locator JO23XE. Used equipment: Transceiver: Yaesu FT897 with standard ceramic CW filter and 300Hz inrad filter. Antenna: M2 436CP30 (45 deg. fixed elevation, I can not move up or down!). An audio recording is to listen here: http://iss.ontwikkel.nl/15Dec2009_XW1a_low.mp3 An amateur radio operator in Holland (Jan PDØSDO) also could hear the XW1 on an little GP antenna (about 60cm length). Congratulations to all who have worked on the XW1 sat! 73's Cor PDØRKC Ham Radio In Space: http://iss.ontwikkel.nl

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Re: back to DN71
by Rodney Waln 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

hi, and sorry to those that were looking forword to DN71..ect , do to snow and wind chillis down to -20 it was not faverable to operate as i would of liked to (with arrow) :-( the good news is that when i got home there was a UC-4364-328RUW antenna waiting for me :-), Rodney kc0zhf

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