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

AO-7 70-cm RTTY telemetry: Please capture, decode, and post.
by DeYoung James 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Greetings, The 70-cm beacon has been on again today. Unfortunately, the frequency was not stable at all times during the two passes monitored here. I encourage those with the capability to capture, decode, and post any 70-cm RTTY-based telemetry here on the AMSAT-BB to ensure archiving and general availability of the data obtained. Best regards, Jim, N8OQ

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Interesting orbit for a Japanese mission
by Andrew Glasbrenner 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/enterp/missions/astro-g/index.shtml Altitude Perigee 1,000km, Apogee 25,000 km Inclination 31° Type of Orbit Highly elliptical Period Approx. 7 hr 30 min That would sure be a good launch to have something with a transponder hitch a ride on. 73, Drew KO4MA

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Re: AMSAT-UK Colloquium Manchester England - First Call for Speakers
by G0MRF＠aol.com 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Given that I have sent 8 e-mails to this address over the last 2 years and every one has been rejected, wouldn't it be an idea to get an additional address which does not have the very high levels of security present on this works QTH e-mail? (Blocks all AOL addresses among others) Dave is aware of the problem but it is never resolved. Thanks David In a message dated 01/03/2009 23:10:56 GMT Standard Time, m5aka(a)yahoo.co.uk writes: Offers of talks should be submitted as soon as possible; the final date for full documents to be received is late-June 2009 in order that the "Proceedings" document be available to participants. Submissions should be sent *ONLY* to G4DPZ via the following routes: e-mail: david dot johnson at blackpepper dot co dot uk

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W5ACM/C6A/MM QSLs start shipping tomorrow
by Andy MacAllister 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

To All, QSLs for the W5ACM/C6A/MM Western Caribbean Cruise 2009 start shipping tomorrow, March 2, 2009. Operators/participants for this event included W5ACM, WB5RMA, WA5TWT and WA5WOD. Observers included ex-WB5QCC and ex-WA5VJT. Hopefully QCC and VJT will renew their tickets! We operated from various grids (EL54, EK69, EK66, EL60, EL46 and EL37) in the Gulf of Mexico from Galveston to Roatan (just off the coast of Honduras). We had a great time, and hope to see more ports of call, and operate from more grids in November. 73 de Andy W5ACM/C6A/MM http://www.w5acm.net

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AMSAT-UK Colloquium Manchester England - First Call for Speakers
by Trevor 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

AMSAT-UK Colloquium Manchester England - First Call for Speakers This year AMSAT-UK will be holding their Colloquium from Friday July 24th to Sunday 26th July at the University of Manchester right in the centre of the city and within 200 metres of Piccadilly Railway Station. The station has direct trains to Manchester Airport and there is also an hourly bus service from the Liverpool John Lennon Airport. This 3 day event attracts an International audience of those involved in building and operating Amateur Radio satellites and CubeSats. Details of this and previous events can be found at: http://www.uk.amsat.org/colloquium AMSAT-UK invite speakers, about amateur radio space and associated activities, for this event. They are also invited to submit papers for the "Proceedings" document which will be published at the same time but printed papers are not mandatory. We normally prefer authors to present talks themselves rather than having someone else give them in the authors' absence. We also welcome "unpresented" papers for the Proceedings document. Offers of talks should be submitted as soon as possible; the final date for full documents to be received is late-June 2009 in order that the "Proceedings" document be available to participants. Submissions should be sent *ONLY* to G4DPZ via the following routes: e-mail: david dot johnson at blackpepper dot co dot uk SnailMail: QTHR from http://www.qrz.com/ (enter G4DPZ is the callsign box) AMSAT-UK also invite anyone with requests for Program Topics to submit them as soon as possible to G4DPZ. Invitations for any papers on specific subjects will be included in the future call. Likewise if anyone knows of a good speaker, please send contact and other information to G4DPZ. 73 Dave G4DPZ ---- AMSAT-UK website http://www.uk.amsat.org/ Join AMSAT-UK online at https://secure.amsat.org.uk/ Colloquium page: http://www.uk.amsat.org/colloquium/ ---- 73 Trevor M5AKA ----

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Question about NOAA-19
by Mark Lunday, WD4ELG 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

Today, I downloaded the latest Keps into HRD after being offline for 2 weeks. Suddenly, I noticed NOAA-19 listed as having a pass today. It shows an FM repeater capability. Wow. I need to keep up, I did not catch this new FM bird. Or am I out of synch and this is not correct? Mark Lunday WD4ELG wd4elg(a)arrl.net http://wd4elg.net

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Sumbandila satellite info.
by G0MRF＠aol.com 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

A power point presentation on this soon to be launched South African satellite can be downloaded from _http://www.amateurradio.org.za/Sumbandila_Intecnet.pdf_ (http://www.amateurradio.org.za/Sumbandila_Intecnet.pdf) The presentation is by Dr Gert-Jan van Rooyen, ZS1GVR and is dated 22nd Feb 2009. The 80kg satellite includes an AO-51 type VHF up and UHF down repeater as a secondary payload. Launch may be as early as the end of March. Regards David

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CUTE CW TLM - 1st March 2105 to 2111 UTC
by Dave Aitch 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

CUTE 88 CA A6 69 3C 29 25 84 5E 31 17 CUTE 87 CB AC 93 3C 28 25 6F 57 34 17 CUTE 88 CB A9 9A 3C 28 25 6E 5A 34 17 CUTE 87 CB AB _5 3C 28 25 71 5C 36 17 CUTE 86 CC AA 9C 3C 28 25

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AO-27 may return, once again...
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

Hi! I saw on the AO-27 web page: http://www.ao27.org/ that the satellite is transmitting once again. From the schedule posted on that page, it appears it will be transmitting several minutes of data on the same passes it would have been on in the past (for a few minutes over the Northern Hemisphere). Let's hope all checks out well, so this satellite can return to normal (for AO-27) operation soon. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/

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Re: AO-7 70-cm RTTY beacon and telemetry on!
by DeYoung James 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

Greetings, I only recorded 1-minute of the RTTY from last evenings pass but was able to decode channel 11 through 16 from it to augment David's (VK5DG) decodes. Here is what I was able to decode using reverse,45,85 parameters. I also used the 1974 AMSAT J. final parameters and equations conversions. Great job to David for finding the 70-cm beacon on and decoding so much! Ch Value Ok? Description Converted Value ------------------------------------------------------- 11 734 Y Battery volts 13.74v 12 326 N Half battery volts 3.41v 13 695 Y Regulated volts 23.63v 14 602 Y 10v Reg volts 9.38v 15 937 Y 9v reg volts 9.37v 16 422 Y Ch reg1 volts 6.53v ------------------------------------------------------- Jim, N8OQ

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