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

GSBARC- Hamfest- Today
by Peter 09 May '09

09 May '09

Hi: I will be attending the Great South Bay Amateur Radio Club's Hamfest tomorrow, May 9th, 2009. The Hamfest will be held at Fireman's Memorial Park, Lindenhurst, LI, if anyone is near the area. I'll have an AMSAT table at the Hamfest and will be conducting a Satellite demonstration for the AO-51,14:03 pass, it is a shallow one for us, I hope I can hear you! More information about the Hamfest is available at: http://www.gsbarc.org/ 73,Pete WB2OQQ

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Re: Cal Poly's CP6 Satellite Launching May 5th
by Mineo Wakita 08 May '09

08 May '09

Launch : 5 May 2009 between 20:00 and 23:00 EDT Vehicle: Minotaur-1 Site : WI LA-0B Main Payload: TacSat-3, Air Force Research Laboratory Satellite USA Operator Downlink Mode ----------- --------------------------------- -------- ------------ AeroCube-3 Aerospace Corporation ? ? HawkSat-1 Hawk Institute for Space Sciences 437.345 ? PharmaSat-1 NASA, Stanford University 437.465 1200bps AFSK CP-6 CalPoly 437.365 1200bps AFSK ----------- --------------------------------- ------- ------------ JE9PEL, Mineo Wakita

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AO-10
by WILLIAMS MICHAEL 08 May '09

08 May '09

Has anyone heard the AO-10 beacon? The sat is in full sunlight until July 24. Is the beacon signal a very slow QSB as was the downlink? Mike K9QHO AMSAT 33589

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Mobile operation @ the annual IARC field day tomorrow
by Shamai "SAM" Opfer 08 May '09

08 May '09

Dear all, Tomorrow (Saturday May 9th) is IARC (Israel Amateru Raedio Club) annual field day. I am going to try operating and demoing mobile/portable operation on FO-29, VO-52, AO-27 between 08:00 to 11:00 UTC. (It seems that we don't have AO-51 and AO-7 passes in these hours) If you are around in range, I will appreciate if you try to make QSO with me (this is the first time i am operating this way, so report is not guaranteed... hi) Equipment: FT817 and arrow antenna for downlink. FT857 and vertical mobile antenna for uplink (of a fellow non-satellites HAM). thanks & 73 Shamai 4Z1WS

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GSBARC Hamfest, Saturday, May 9th
by Peter 08 May '09

08 May '09

Hi: I will be attending the Great South Bay Amateur Radio Club's Hamfest tomorrow, May 9th, 2009. The Hamfest will be held at Fireman's Memorial Park, Lindenhurst, LI, if anyone is near the area; I'll have an AMSAT table at the Hamfest. More information about the Hamfest is available at: http://www.gsbarc.org/ 73, Pete, WB2OQQ

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AMSAT Field Day 2009 Rules
by Bruce 08 May '09

08 May '09

Once again we are approaching the 4th full weekend in June and that means Field Day. I have posted the AMSAT 2009 Field Day rules on my website in both pdf and doc formats. http://www.amsatnet.com/2009fd.pdf http://www.amsatnet.com/2009fd.doc It will appear in the May/June issue of the AMSAT Journal and at http://www.amsat.org (soon). 73...bruce -- Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards ARRL Awards Manager (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on SkyScanner Satellite Radio Network on Galaxy-25 @97° West, Transponder 23 (12115 Vert), Symbol Rate: 22425, APID: 1794 (DVB Free To Air) Also streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News http://www.arrl.org

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Compass: High Definiton video showing beacon activation
by Henk, PA3GUO 07 May '09

07 May '09

Group, To encourage experimenting with Compass-1, here is a short video showing how to request a CW beacon of Compass-1. Actually it is a full High Definition (HD) video, taken with a CANON HV-30 camera, edited, and uploaded to Vimeo. Have a look and let me know how you experience this (download time, picture quality, etc.) http://www.vimeo.com/4515104 Henk, PA3GUO ---------------------------------------- We are happy to announce three DTMF commands to the whole community in order to say THANK YOU. Uplink frequency: 145.980 MHz FM, DTMF tones These are as follows: **35## - request a test beacon CW **36## - request a test packet 1k2 AFSK FM (UI-Frame) **60## - request a housekeeping frame in 1k2 AFSK FM (KISS frame) Every command will be confirmed with a short "beep" on the CW frequency. * frequency for CW beacon is 437.275 MHz * frequency for packet radio is 437.405 MHz See here for COMPASS decoding software http://www.dk3wn.info/software.shtml We'd be happy if you send us your received data to compass1cubesat(a)googlemail.com If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask us.

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Surface mount techniques
by Dave Guimont 07 May '09

07 May '09

This post in response to some questions here a while back..I've updated my site, and perhaps the following will assist: http://tinyurl.com/wb6lloOscar They all start with SurfMt....... Again, questions directly to me.. 73, Dave, WB6LLO dguimon1(a)san.rr.com Disagree: I learn.... Pulling for P3E...

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demo
by Nick 07 May '09

07 May '09

I would like to demo echolink to a ham class of 6th graders at 23:30 tonight on w5exi-r node 370324. If you have a few minutes for the demo please reply to this email Thanks nick

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RE: [amsat-bb] Â Equipment/Software
by Mark L. Hammond 07 May '09

07 May '09

Hi Mike, Glad to learn of your developing satellite station! You are doing it "right"... One very important item missing from your list: low noise mast mounted preamps! I really love my Advanced Receiver Research 160W mast mounted preamps for 2M and 70cm. I'll take a shot at some of your questions, responses below: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike" <sar911(a)bellsouth.net> To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 8:50:11 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [amsat-bb] Â Equipment/Software Okay, I am starting to build my station after playing around with the portable. So far I have acquired an IC-910 with 1.2G, power supply, G-5500 AZ/EL rotor, M2 2MCP14 and 436CP30 antennas. To finish I have the following questions. 1. What radio, rotor and tracking software are you using and why? (I am using Orbitron right now) SatPC32. It does it all, and does it remarkably well. There is a cost to license, but ALL of the money goes to AMSAT-NA (if you puchase there--THANKS Erich DK1TB!) 2. What interface are you using for an IC-910H and why? Not applicable, have a TS-2000X. 3. What interface are you using for your G-5500 rotor and why? The AMSAT LVB Tracker, because of cost, packaging, ease of use, proceeds go to AMSAT-NA (Thanks Howard G6LVB, Mike WB8CXO, and Gould WA4SXM!) 4. What are you using for the radio side for 2.4G? Either the TS-2000X or the TS-790A, with a self modified Transystem downconverter to 2M 5. What antenna are you using for 1.2G? 20-turn WIMO helix 6. What antenna are you using for 2.4G? A 32" DH satellite dish with G3RUH patch feed, DEM preamp Thank you in advance for your time and help. 73 Mike I hope the information is helpful---and don't forget the preamps :) -- Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]

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