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ISILaunch01 Status update - September 23 06:45 UTC Launch Successful!
by Wouter Jan Ubbels 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Hi all, please find an update on the ISILaunch01 below: 1. Launch has been successful, the PSLV-C14 has put all satellites including the four cubesats into orbit. Separation of the four CubeSats was confirmed exactly on time. 2. Launch has been exactly on time so the estimated TLE on http://blog.isilaunch.com/ are still valid, at this moment a pass over the Western US is coming up, so any help in listening for beacons is appreciated! best 73 on behalf of the ISILaunch01 team, Wouter Jan Ubbels PE4WJ

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Re: ISIlaunch01 Status update September 22 19:00 UTC
by Nitin Muttin [VU3TYG] 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Great launch of the satellites by the PSLV launch vehicle from India. 73's Nitin VU3TYG --------- Original Message -------- From: Mani VU2WMY <wmy(a)isac.gov.in> To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ISIlaunch01 Status update September 22 19:00 UTC Date: 09/22/09 09:46 AM" > Wishing PSLV C14 a great launch and all the seven spacecrafts a great > success. Watching closely all the activities from ISAC Bangalore. > Good luck to you and to your team, Wouter! > > 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 > > > Quoting G0MRF(a)aol.com: > > > > > The UWE2 site does not seem to be available. > > > > But the Swisscube team have some nice detail _http://swisscube.epfl.ch/_ > > (http://swisscube.epfl.ch/) > > > > 7 hours and counting. > > > > Good luck Wouter / ISIS > > > > David > > > > > > > > In a message dated 22/09/2009 19:50:46 GMT Standard Time, > > w.j.ubbels(a)isispace.nl writes: > > > > Hi all, > > > > please find an update regarding the upcoming ISILaunch01 on board PSLV-C14 > > below > > > > 1. All is good to go now, PSLV-C14 with ISILaunch01, a cluster launch of > > the > > following CubeSats: > > > > -BEESAT > > -ITUpSAT1 > > -SwissCube > > -UWE-2 > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > ________________________________________________

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need mike for Yaesu F-t530
by Scott Smith 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Hi folks, i need a speaker mic for my FT530. The original one gave up. As the unit is now discontinued.... is there any other makes or models that will work with the FT530?, any help will be appeciated. 73 de VE6ITV Scott

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Re: ISIlaunch01 Status update September 22 19:00 UTC
by G0MRF＠aol.com 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

The UWE2 site does not seem to be available. But the Swisscube team have some nice detail _http://swisscube.epfl.ch/_ (http://swisscube.epfl.ch/) 7 hours and counting. Good luck Wouter / ISIS David In a message dated 22/09/2009 19:50:46 GMT Standard Time, w.j.ubbels(a)isispace.nl writes: Hi all, please find an update regarding the upcoming ISILaunch01 on board PSLV-C14 below 1. All is good to go now, PSLV-C14 with ISILaunch01, a cluster launch of the following CubeSats: -BEESAT -ITUpSAT1 -SwissCube -UWE-2

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KB9BIT from DM86 and DM87 summary
by Tom Laskowski 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Hello all, I just returned from my trip to DM86/87 and wanted to post a short bit of info about my adventures. The main purpose for my trip was to attend the Okie-Tex Star Party just outside the tiny town of Kenton, OK in the far west part of the OK Panhandle. At night I planned to do lots of stargazing from this incredibly dark location and during the day I wanted to work as many satellite passes as I could. Kenton, with a population of about 23, is located in grid square DM86 and is just a few miles south of the OK-CO border and about 1 1/2 miles east of the OK-NM border. (Kenton is the only town in Oklahoma on Mountain Time). I also planned to make a few trips to the DM86/87 grid boundary to activate that rare grid. On my way out west I had a planned stop Thursday night, 9/10, at Wilson State Park in Kansas, Grid EM08. I had pass predictions for SO-50 and AO-51 but only ended up making 5 QSOs from this location on SO-50, as I was unaware that AO-51 had not been operating. These QSOs were from N38° 55.452' W98° 29.523' On Friday night, 9/11, I ended up staying just outside my final destination near Kenton at Black Mesa State Park in DM86 where I worked one pass of SO-50 and made 7 QSOs. These QSOs were from N36° 50.587' W102° 52.942' On Saturday morning, 9/12, I arrived at Camp Billy Joe where the star party was held at N36° 53.904' W102° 57.073' All of my contacts from DM86, except the state park QSOs, were made from this location. My satellite operating was mostly confined to mid-morning to early evening passes. I had to work around the star party activities, meals and my sleep schedule. During the 8 days I was here I made 44 QSOs on AO-51, SO-50 and AO-27 from DM86. For my DM86/87 operating I had to travel only about 8 miles north to the CO-OK border. My location was just about 500 feet east of the point where the states of New Mexico, Oklahoma and Colorado have their common border. I hoped to operate from this common border where there is a granite obelisk marking the tri-state point, but the coordinates of this point are N37° 00.012' W103° 00.139' thus it seemed to be located just north of the true grid boundary. I ended up working all DM86/87 contacts from exactly N37° 00.000' W103° 00.000' This point was easy enough to find, fortunately, because someone had created a small marker made from a pile of rocks to mark this convergence point. I set my GPS on this rock pile and let it average for about 10 minutes to confirm that I was standing on the exact grid boundary. To the best of my knowledge this point is smack dab on the Colorado-Oklahoma state line, or possibly just over the border in Colorado. (Google maps show this as being in Colorado, but it's pretty close to the true border, nonetheless). The DM86/87 site was accessible from the star party by driving north on an unmarked but paved road just outside the entrance to the camp, around the east side of Black Mesa (the highest point in Oklahoma) then north to the Colorado border. At the border the pavement ends and continues north into Colorado as a dirt road. At this point I needed to head west about a mile down another dirt road, which leads to the tri-state marker. My operating location was just about 50 feet north of this dirt road in the middle of an open field full of cactus, Yucca and sunflowers. I made two trips to DM86/87. Both were chosen to coincide with simultaneous AO-51 and SO-50 passes that were both high elevation passes and not far apart in time. I ended up making a total of 34 QSOs from the two trips to the DM86/87 grid boundary. It was a very fun experience hearing station after station calling me, sort of a mini pileup! I was very surprised how well I could hear SO-50 even down near the horizon. From home I usually can't hear SO-50 until it's at least 30 degrees above the horizon in the clear from the trees and buildings. On the first SO-50 pass I worked from DM86/87 I could hear Patrick WD9EWK calling me very weakly but perfectly readable. This was a few minutes before the Heavens-Above AOS prediction. The satellite was at less than 10 degrees elevation at the time! I ended up with exactly 90 QSOs total from all three locations for the week. I have not tallied up how many different stations or grids I worked on my trip yet. The Black Mesa area is a very beautiful and remote region. My DM86/87 QSOs were especially memorable because they took place near sunset which really added to the experience and beauty of the area. I plan to use some of the photos I took for making up the QSL cards. As for QSLs, I have received a number of nice emails and had a pile of snail mail requests waiting for me when I got home. I'll get QSLs out ASAP, hopefully within a few weeks. If you need a card just send me an email or you can send a direct request to my QRZ address. No SASE needed. The only downsides of the whole trip was the speeding ticket I received in Keyes, OK, having one of my van's windows completely shattered by a rock that fell out of a dump truck on I-80 near Des Moines, Iowa on my way home, having only three clear nights out of eight at the star party and driving 2300 miles round trip. On the plus side, one of the emails I received thanked me for the new grids and stated, "You've made my day." Well, that email made my day too and made the whole trip all worth it. 73, Tom -- KB9BIT

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keps
by Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

METEOR-M 1 35865U 09049A 09264.66617459 .00000176 00000-0 10000-3 0 61 2 35865 098.8010 314.8326 0003553 071.4378 288.7185 14.21824773 567 OBJECT B 1 35866U 09049B 09265.08696135 .00000178 00000-0 10000-3 0 70 2 35866 098.8018 315.2595 0004151 067.9183 292.2422 14.22295207 624 OBJECT C 1 35867U 09049C 09265.14656966 .00002262 00000-0 10000-3 0 162 2 35867 097.3747 315.1390 0008570 273.9779 170.9818 15.22703750 673 OBJECT D 1 35868U 09049D 09263.68043127 +.00000177 +00000-0 +10000-3 0 00061 2 35868 098.8011 313.8514 0005222 059.4870 300.6822 14.22083657000423 OBJECT E 1 35869U 09049E 09265.08793246 .00000176 00000-0 10000-3 0 61 2 35869 098.7998 315.2516 0005481 069.7398 290.4329 14.21977706 627 FREGAT/IRIS 1 35870U 09049F 09264.80225469 .00002269 00000-0 10000-3 0 75 2 35870 097.3736 314.7944 0010162 281.9080 078.0998 15.22791106 623 -- Nigel A. Gunn, 1865 El Camino Drive, Xenia, OH 45385-1115, USA. tel +1 937 825 5032 Amateur Radio G8IFF W8IFF (was KC8NHF), e-mail nigel(a)ngunn.net www http://www.ngunn.net Member of ARRL, GQRP #11396, QRPARCI #11644, SOC #548, Flying Pigs QRP Club International #385, Dayton ARA #2128, AMSAT-NA LM-1691, AMSAT-UK 0182, MKARS, ALC, GCARES, XWARN.

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SwissCube preliminary TLEs
by HB9TUH 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

Hello, You can use this preliminary TLE's to peak the beacon data from SwissCube satellite. More information's & tools on http://swisscube-live.ch & http://swisscube.epfl.ch . First pass is on West coast (LE) at 07:10 UTC but low elevation & short time. TLE's ----- ISILaunch01 SwissCube 1 99996U 09999S 09266.27831065 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 00017 2 99996 098.2862 000.8438 0005852 035.1139 179.1923 14.51386990000002 73 Martial HB9TUH

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ISIlaunch01 Status update September 22 19:00 UTC
by Wouter Jan Ubbels 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

Hi all, please find an update regarding the upcoming ISILaunch01 on board PSLV-C14 below 1. All is good to go now, PSLV-C14 with ISILaunch01, a cluster launch of the following CubeSats: -BEESAT -ITUpSAT1 -SwissCube -UWE-2 is scheduled to launch at 06:21 UTC from Sriharikota, India. The launch window is 15 minutes. 2. For all latest info and TLE's for each satellite, please refer to the ISIlaunch blog at http://blog.isilaunch.com/ 3. For frequency info visit http://www.isispace.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80&Itemid=… and the websites of the satellite teams. 4. We will be monitoring the AMSAT-BB, as well as the #cubesat IRC channel for reception reports. All help in listening for beacons and assigning the correct TLE to each satellite is highly appreciated! best 73 on behalf of the ISILaunch01 team, Wouter Jan Ubbels PE4WJ

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Re: Young Satellite Operator
by Daniel "Nick" Kucij 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

Hi, Wes, KP4WES; is the youngest ham in a family of hams. His father Walter, WP4T; his mother Carmen, WP3PJ; and his 13 year old brother, Walner, WP4NYS; are all active on the satellites. They can often be heard at the beginning of the afternoon, AO-27 passes coming up from the south. 73 Nick KB1RVT

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Hotel For 2009 AMSAT Symposium
by Martha 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

Please be advised that the cut-off date for the AMSAT block at the Four Points by Sheraton BWI Airport is September 28th. Getting our meeting rooms for free is dependant on the number of room nights we secure. So, PLEASE make your room reservations as soon as possible. For more information on the meeting, go to the AMSAT website and click on the box 2009 AMSAT Symposium on the left-hand side. -- 73- Martha

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