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

Mak-SV1BSX
by TERRY BROMLEY 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

I'm very sad to hear the bad news about Mak, it was alway's a pleasure to say hi to him via the sat's. He will be sadly missed, goodby my friend. Terry G1WPR.

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Earth Venus Earth communications at
by Bob McGwier 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

I am really happy to tell everyone of a terrific "SDR" experiment. HI. Our colleagues in AMSAT-DL have been working towards demonstrating several of the pieces to allow for interplanetary communications in the event the Phase V mission to Mars comes to fruition. A team consisting of many well known amateurs including Wolfgang Büscher (DL4YHF), Freddy de Guchteneire (ON6UG), Hermann Hagner (DK8CI), Michael Lengrüsser (DD5ER) , Karl Meinzer (DJ4ZC), James Miller (G3RUH), Max Münich (DJ1CR), Hartmut Paesler (DL1YDD), Achim Vollhardt (DH2VA). The AMSAT-DL web page is here: http://www.amsat-dl.org//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=166&Item… and the English press release is here: http://www.amsat-dl.org/pic/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_… In the photographs attached to these pages and press releases, one can see the SDR-IQ and Spectrum Lab. Congrats to RFSPACE (http://rfspace.com/Home.html) and Wolfgang DL4YHF (http://freenet-homepage.de/dl4yhf/spectra1.html). I hope everyone joins in congratulating this team on their multiple year effort and outstanding achievement. Bob McGwier N4HY -- (Co)Author: DttSP, Quiktrak, PowerSDR, GnuRadio Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. "It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.", Anatole France. Twitter:rwmcgwier Active: Facebook,Myspace,LinkedIn

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Rotator Yaesu G-5400B
by Vincenzo Mone 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

Hi Folks, sorry for the OT message. I own the rotator Yaesu G-5400B which are a Azimuth and elevation rotators. I had enclosed with the pack when I bought it an "L" bracket. Unfortunately due to maintenance I have lost the Bracket. Please is there anybody which own one and can pass me all the measures So I can build a new one? I need the measures of the "L" bracket and the right Positions of the holes to fix the two rotators. Any help will be really appreciated. Thanks in advance 73 de Enzo IK8OZV EasyLog 5 BetaTester EasyLog PDA BetaTester WinBollet BetaTester D.C.I. CheckPoint Regione Campania Skype: ik8ozv8520 *************************************** ***** GSM +39 338 9749786 ***** ***** SMS +39 338 9749786 ***** ***** FAX +39 328 7244294 ***** *** 2nd e-mail: vimone(a)tin.it *** ***************************************

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Re: successful first EVE-Echoes (Earth-Venus-Earth) in Germany and Europe
by m5aka＠yahoo.co.uk 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

Congratulations to all at AMSAT-DL. I see there is a video showing Karl Meinzer DJ4ZC and Freddy ON6UG with the 2.4 GHz amplifier used for EVE which can be seen at: http://tinyurl.com/EVE13cmAmp GO-Mars with AMSAT-DL's P5A Mission http://www.ticket-to-mars.org/ A video of the Amateur Radio Mars Orbiter P5-A presentation given at the 2008 AMSAT-UK Colloquium by Achim Vollhardt DH2VA can be seen via http://tinyurl.com/P5Apresentation This 2009 AMSAT-UK Colloquium is being held at the University of Manchester from Friday July 24th to Sunday 26th July. Further details at http://www.uk.amsat.org/colloquium 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ Get Daily Amateur Radio News by Email http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2783644&loc=en_US ----

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by andy thomas 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

KKS-1 ia alive and wel land sending good CW: Reception #1 (AOS 0047 this morning) ano metropolitan college wfinkstrialtechnology 8x and in the next orbit (AOS 0232U) Reception #2 gn we ology 8-52-11 minami senjyuarakawa kutokyo tojapan http://www.metro-cit.ac.jp kks-1 project tokyo metropolitan 437.385 cw, doppler corrected and saved in a wav file for later decode. Evidently slightly off tunee. Note that the keps I used were slightly old: KKS-1 1 33499U 09002H 09086.21173095 .00000079 00000-0 21069-4 0 1989 2 33499 098.0312 196.9754 0009336 217.2504 142.8055 14.70668037 9259 which I found on www.n2yo.com and NOT on Celestrak. Have emailed the KKS-1 crew. 73 de andy g0sfj

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Alaska on FO-29 ???
by K8KFJ＠aol.com 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

Naw .... it's just Steve (NL7VX) in Virginia. :-) You had me goin' there for a while Steve until I copied that FM grid. I'm going to try and get on the bird soon and perhaps we can QSO. Good job!!! 73, Gary -K8KFJ- West Virginia <EM98> Sat VUCC #125 **************Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? Make dinner for $10 or less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001)

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Dayton SDR Forum so far
by Robert McGwier 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

On May 16 2008 at the ARRL National Convention and the Dayton Hamvention we will have a software defined radio forum aimed at amateur radio operators. SO FAR: Bob McGwier, N4HY SDR update (< 15 minutes) Scott Cowling WA2DFI on HPSDR Project update (20 minutes) Frank Brickle, AB2KT, on VR and DttSP (20 minutes) Michelle Thompson, W5NYV on Microwave Engineering Project (http://bit.ly/G3nW) (20 minutes) Gerald Youngblood on the new Flex offerings (http://www.flex-radio.com/) (20 minutes) We have room FOR TWO MORE TALKS AND THAT IS IT. That will not count the fun we will have harassing Dave Toth relentlessly in the halls before and after! COME ONE COME ALL. The AMSAT and TAPR dinner will be that night. Richard Garriott, an amateur radio operator, computer game author, son of astronaut Owen Garriott and recent returnee from the space station where he was a space tourist will be the banquet speaker at the TAPR and AMSAT dinner! TAPR and AMSAT officially sponsor HPSDR. http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/index.php Bob McGwier ARS N4HY

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COMPASS-1 QSL received
by andy thomas 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

My postman brought me today a very nice QSL card and postacard from the COMPASS-1 team, with a very interesting leaflet and brochure in German and covering letter in English. many thanks to the COMPASS-1 team andy G0SFJ

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April AO-51 schedule
by Andrew Glasbrenner 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Hello All, Here is the new AO-51 schedule for April. Enjoy the continued higher power downlinks this month, because eclipses begin again around the last week of April, and we'll have to turn the power down then. 73, Drew KO4MA AMSAT-NA VP Operations. April 2009 AO-51 Schedule March 30 - April 12 FM Repeater, V/U Uplink: 145.920 MHz FM Downlink: 435.300 MHz FM 9k6 BBS and Telemetry Uplink: 1268.700 MHz FM Downlink: 435.150 MHz FM April 13 - April 19 FM Repeater, L/US Uplink: 1268.700 MHz FM Downlinks: 435.300 and 2401.200 MHz FM April 20 - April 26 FM Repeater, V/S Uplink: 145.880 MHz FM Downlinks: 2401.200 MHz FM 9k6 BBS and Telemetry Uplink: 1268.700 MHz FM Downlink: 435.150 MHz FM April 27 - May 3 FM Repeater, V/U Uplink: 145.920 MHz FM Downlink: 435.300 MHz FM 9k6 BBS and Telemetry Uplink: 1268.700 MHz FM Downlink: 435.150 MHz FM

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Re: First SSTV Rx
by Mike Rupprecht 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

We made some test with Robot 24 (OZ2MA) and Robot 72 (DK3WN) this morning. See the pictures here: http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=3537 73, Mike DK3WN -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: amsat-bb-bounces(a)amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] Im Auftrag von John W Lee Gesendet: Freitag, 27. März 2009 18:16 An: k5knt.kent(a)gmail.com Cc: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Betreff: [amsat-bb] Re: First SSTV Rx That looks like KO6TZ's picture. I've seen it many times ! And it does NOT take too much audio to make the MMSSTV work. I can turn the volume down on my radio to where I can just hear it on the speaker, and that's enough. Louder is OK, as long as you don't crank it up where it's all distorted. 73 JOhn K6YK On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:24:33 -0500 Kent Frazier <k5knt.kent(a)gmail.com> writes: > Hi all, > > After reading some of the posts about the SSTV on AO-51 I decided to > give it > a try. I downloaded and installed MMSSTV and waited for a pass. > There was a > good 40 degree pass over San Angelo, Texas beginning at about 00:14 > UTC. I > connected my radio's data jack to my computer with my USB adapter > and > recorded the pass with my digital voice recorder. Lucky I did as > nothing > showed up on the computer via the data jack connection. I used my > Elk > Antenna to receive the signals. > > After the pass I brought everything back into the house and > connected the > voice recorder's ear jack to the computer's mic jack. After > adjusting the > volume so MMSSTV wasn't complaining about an overload I ran the > recording. > MMSSTV was in Auto Rx Mode and changed to Robot 36 as it received > the > information. > > The image isn't very clear, but at least I was able to receive > something. > > If anyone would care to look at the image and help me identify why > it is not > clearer it would be appreciated. It has been uploaded to my > photobucket > account at the following URL: > > http://s226.photobucket.com/albums/dd316/badfrog88/Amateur%20Radio/?actio n=view$t=200903270131.jpg > > -- > 73, Kent K5KNT > AMSAT #36765 > ARRL > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > ____________________________________________________________ Book your once-in-a-lifetime Peru vacation by clicking now! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTOQu3bzhvYhnGW3MfNN5HRa2B6 5tM5uFkRV9jj5vTGzwNotvbNRpm/

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