August 2011 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

Moans and Groans
by johnag9d 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

I agree not matter what you do unless its absolutely perfect and even when it is someone has something to cry about. I am a small part of the ARISS operations team and fairly new Area Coordinator. I understanf the complaints. I also was leary of calling it ARISSat because ARISS really only gave its name. Locally the failure of Yuris Night did little to promote ARISS quite the contrary. Remember this started as Suit Sat 2 and was or is a Russian experiment as was Suit Sat 1. ARISS has been working the STEM of ham radio long before it was cool. GO ARISSat ! ---------- Sent via Cricket Mobile Email

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funny
by Bruce 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

it is so funny to watch (read) all the comments here. when its good, there are complaints, when its bad, there are complaints. there just always seems to be complaints on this list all the time. i even get slammed from non-amsat members on things that they think i should be doing for amsat. you just gotta love it. 73...bruce

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Mars Probe Finds Possible Evidence Of Liquid Water
by B J 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/news/mro20110804.html 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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ARISSat-1 deployment time correction
by Gould Smith 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

In my haste to get the announcement out I put the wrong time zone in the announcement - it should read The ARISSat-1 space craft was deployed from the ISS today at 1443 EDT (1843 UTC) after a hold based upon questions about the 70cm antenna. Congratulations to the ARISSat-1 team! Now bring on those reception reports. Drew, KO4MA reported that a station in Japan, JR8LWY-QN12 reported on the dcarr site the he receive ARISSat-1 telemetry at 2011-08-03 19:16-:30 UTC. 73, Gould, WA4SXM

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TLM format
by Matt Severin 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

As I am thinking about how to use ARISSat in my school this year, I'm looking at the CSV file that was produced by the ARISSatTLM software. I am seeing some pretty nice looking data (very cyclic and symmetrical graphs). Can someone point me to the format of the CSV data...e.g. what are the column headers? It's probably in a very obvious place, but I have not found it. Here is a little excerpt from my data from this morning: Column one is obvious (date & time stamp); what are the others? 2011/08/04-12:23:13 84 81 11 0 0 72 105 44 32 84 104 105 115 32 105 115 32 65 By the way, we are very excited about this project at my school. I had a group of kids that 'flew a file' on ARISSat, and they are geeked that they are now in orbit! 73. Matt Severin, N8MS Dowagiac Middle School, principal EN61

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Re: Bickering ...
by Clint Bradford 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

>> ... We need constructive posts not this one-up-manship crap ... Agreed. If a ham cannot find constructive, educational aspects of the ARISSat-1 project to promote to all audiences, then they do not deserve their amateur radio licenses. And while we're re-thinking our priorities - let's get ARISSat-1 paid for. There's a widget on AMSAT-NA's home page. You can painlessly drop them a few dollars using PayPal. If you are not a fan of PayPal - don't use that fact as a hurdle to donate. You can call the AMSAT-NA office and give your credit card info over the phone to a live person. Clint Bradford, K6LCS 909-241-7666

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Portable in EM45
by wa4hfn＠comcast.net 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

I will be on AO27 first pass today and maybe the second from EM45 downtown Memphis,TN I will be using the Chinese Wouxun HT 4 watts and the American made Elk antenna WA4HFN Damon

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sstv
by RangerBuzcut 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

What program should I try to use to see what I recorded, I have HRD and the DM 780 isnt seeing it, Thank you Dan

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Stop this damn bickering. Have fun!
by Carl Rimmer W8KRF 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

That is IMHO. We need constructive posts not this one-up-manship crap. Has anyone posted any live WAV files anywhere, so we can experiment with them while waiting for an ARISSat1 pass? I have been able to copy the BPSK telemetry two times. I am using HRD Sat Tracker and the Doppler is not keeping up. I have to manually correct for the errors. I am using the Keps which are on the AMSAT website. I am finding the operating frequency to be much lower then 145.920. But, also, this was with a 70 degree elevation pass which requires quite a bit of Doppler correction. And also it is using USB so I guess if I did the math it would be right on. Whatever...I am having a blast trying to copy it. I even got up twice in the middle of the night to try it. I want to have a much fun as I can before the batteries go dead. That is a whole other topic that may get people bickering. I have the same feeling about the means and methods as many of you, but airing them here is not going to change a damn thing. If you all put as much energy in contacting those idiots in Washington about the mess they are making of our economy, ETC, we might be better off. Again, that is IMHO. 73, *Carl W8KRF *

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SDX works
by Andrew Glasbrenner 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

I was able to hear myself with as little as 1 watt on the 0425Z pass. Antennas are a M2 CP42 on RHCP up, and a 10 element horizontal yagi down. Sounded VERY good, and cycled on and off with the telemetry. I also managed to grab 2 frames of tlm right after AOS. I have a wav file of the transponder test. 73, Drew KO4MA

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