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

Need identity of a satellite
by Roland Zurmely 15 May '09

15 May '09

This satellite is Yubileiny = RS-30 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ

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Ten Great Spacewalk Photographs
by Clint Bradford 14 May '09

14 May '09

From WIRED Magazine ... both URLs go to same site. http://tinyurl.com/qly6z8 http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/humans-in-space-10-amazing-spacew… Clint Bradford, K6LCS / KAF3359 909-241-7666

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Tracking Friends at Dayton..
by Robert Bruninga 14 May '09

14 May '09

This year you can use your DTMF HT to report where you are hanging out at the Hamvention to about 120 feet just by sending two digits for your XY coordinate. Just print a small copy of the map on www.aprs.org/aprstt.html for the XY grid to carry with you. Everyone in the world (including those at dayton) looking at an APRS display will be able to find you. See the live map here: http://hamvention.aprs.fi/ For example, the Bar at the corner of the arena is at coordinates 65 and the AMSAT booth is near 32. To send these xy coordinates into APRS using DTMF, just tune to the APRStt frequency 146.58 and hit the keys Bxy* then hit the key to send your DTMF callsign from memory, and bingo... Your transmission is received by the APRStt engine centrally located (near grid 44) and converted to packet on the APRS channel for the world to see. Using the same paper map above, if you have a TH-D7 or VX-8R you can also report your position to 60 feet without a GPS by just bumping the hundredths of a minute of lat/long to the aa/bb grid located on the same map above. LAT 3949.aa LON 8415.bb Print the map from the www.aprs.org/aprstt.html web page. It also shows you how to program your DTMF callsign so you can save it in your HT's DTMF memory. See you on the map at Dayton! Bob, Wb4APR

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Hudson Valley Satcom Group Net Tonight(May 14)
by Cotejaune2＠aol.com 14 May '09

14 May '09

It's time again for the Hudson Valley Satcom Group Net on Echolink node n2eyh-L at 8 PM EST. We can also be heard on the Mt. Beacon repeater at 146.970 PL 100. Stop in this evening and join us. We are located about 70 miles north of NYC. Hope to hear you there. 73 Gary WA2AQH **************Dell Mini Netbooks: Great deals starting at $299 after instant savings! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222627952x1201458914/aol?redir=htt…)

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AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2009, Guildford England - Final Call for Speakers
by David Johnson 14 May '09

14 May '09

This year AMSAT-UK will be holding their Colloquium on Saturday July 25th and Sunday 26th July at the Holiday Inn in Guildford, Surrey. 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 1267 AMSAT-NA LM-2260

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Re: Need identity of a satellite
by vk5alx＠amsat.org 13 May '09

13 May '09

I think that one is RS-30 Cheers Alex VK5ALX

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Shuttle launch
by Jim Sanford 13 May '09

13 May '09

All: Enjoyed the traffic about seeing the launch from Titusville and other places in FL. I grew up in Titusville with Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, know the original owner of the 146.94 machine, and remember vividly where I was when the astronauts in Challenger died . . . and COlumbia, and Apollo 1 . . . . For me it was PERSONAL, even more so for my kids, who had TOUCHED Challenger - my dad still worked at the cape, and we got to go to VIP viewing stands, open houses, and the rest. I have read the Challenger loss report and the Apollo 13 mission reports and assessment of causes. I was devastated to read in the Columbia report of the similarities with Challenger . . . . . Last week, in my day job, I was teaching some folks about lessons from all of the above, relating it to our professional work. What does this have to do with AMSAT, other than being space-related? I'm reminded of a quote from Santayana: "He who will not learn from the past is condemned to repeat it." I think we honor the lost heroes by doing all we can to learn from the past, including NASA's losses. Very 73, Jim wb4gcs(a)amsat.org

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AO-27 22:00z pass
by Jeff Yanko 13 May '09

13 May '09

Hi all, I did not copy a thing from AO-27 on the 2157z to 2212z. Was it me or was it the bird? 73, Jeff WB3JFS DM26 Las Vegas, NV

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Need identity of a satellite
by w4upd 13 May '09

13 May '09

Been hearing a satellite in which its down link similar to that of AO-51 (around 435.310 starting) All I hear is CW telemetry coming from the unit. The last contact was around 2038 UTC at 28.161350 NORTH Latitude (my location EL98) 80.703160 WEST Longitude Some of the telemetry I could copy before it faded was: ISUN0 ITXA0 ITXB6 TTXA65 TTXB66 TNAP80 ? MIXF0 MCON53 SMA86 SMB62 etc. There seems to be approximately 17 data codes and then repeats. The signal is usually strong enough that it comes through quite well even without the 70cm preamp being turned on. Anyone have an idea of what satellite that this might be? Regards, Reid, W4UPD

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PS8RF QSO's via AO-7
by K8KFJ＠aol.com 13 May '09

13 May '09

Congrats to K3SZH and K8YSE Well done!!! 73, Gary -K8KFJ- AMSAT #32,574 Sat VUCC #125 **************Dell Mini Netbooks: Great deals starting at $299 after instant savings! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221972443x1201442012/aol?redir=htt…)

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