October 2012 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

This weekend--PACIFICON satellite demos!
by Mark L. Hammond 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

Hi All, This weekend (12-14 October) will be the 2012 PACIFICON at Santa Clara, CA. AMSAT members and officers will be participating in various venues. Portable satellite demos will be given by Tom Deeble, KA6SIP on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. You can expect Tom to be using the callsign: W1AW/6 in grid square CM97 Thanks Tom for putting the event on the birds! We hope some youngsters will be available to put at the microphone. 73, Mark N8MH AMSAT VP for Educational Relations Hopeful schedule of operational passes; note the local Pacific time; add 7 hours for UTC!!! WinAos QTH: -122.0/37.4 T#: 12703 Sat.: 6 [Standard] ---------------------------------------------------------- Day Object AOS (L) LOS Period maxEl AZ FRIDAY - 4 DEMOS ---------------------------------------------------------- 12.10.2012 FO-29 11:57 12:12 15 32 026 - 171 ** DEMO ** 12.10.2012 AO-27 13:12 13:25 13 21 129 - 002 ** DEMO ** 12.10.2012 FO-29 13:42 13:57 15 30 000 - 220 ** DEMO ** 12.10.2012 AO-27 14:51 15:05 14 42 184 - 340 ** DEMO ** WinAos QTH: -122.0/37.4 T#: 12704 Sat.: 6 [Standard] ---------------------------------------------------------- Day Object AOS (L) LOS Period maxEl AZ SATURDAY - 3 DEMOS ---------------------------------------------------------- 13.10.2012 FO-29 11:03 11:14 11 10 044 - 139 - will try to work this pass if I can get out of registration early 13.10.2012 AO-27 12:45 12:56 11 12 110 - 008 - same time as FO-29 pass 13.10.2012 FO-29 12:46 13:03 17 83 013 - 195 ** DEMO ** 13.10.2012 AO-27 14:22 14:37 15 79 168 - 347 ** DEMO ** 13.10.2012 AO-07 16:28 16:48 20 38 133 - 351 ** DEMO ** WinAos QTH: -122.0/37.4 T#: 12705 Sat.: 6 [Standard] ---------------------------------------------------------- Day Object AOS (L) LOS Period maxEl AZ SUNDAY - 3 DEMOS ---------------------------------------------------------- 14.10.2012 FO-29 11:52 12:07 15 30 027 - 169 ** DEMO ** 14.10.2012 FO-29 13:37 13:51 14 34 000 - 220 ** DEMO ** 14.10.2012 AO-27 13:54 14:08 14 52 151 - 353 ** DEMO ** (note: the number of passes being worked is limited by Tom's numerous responsibilities over the weekend.) -- Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]

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EU members - UHF contest tonight?
by Andrew Glasbrenner 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

Just now on AO-7 I heard a terrestrial station (DL on LSB) working a contest of some sort. He was pretty weak here, but thought I copied G4VF? His frequency would have been 432.160 or so. Always interesting hearing the unintentional sat ops...reminds me of RS-12/13. 73, Drew KO4MA

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CubeSats in October SatMagazine
by Trevor . 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

The October issue of the free publication SatMagazine has articles on the Aeneas and Firefly CubeSats as well as a Builder’s Guide To Inexpensive Space Access. See http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=11009 73 Trevor M5AKA AMSAT-UK http://www.amsat-uk.org/ ----

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Re: AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 7, Issue 333
by Thomas Frey 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

amsat-bb-request(a)amsat.org schrieb: > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: [Bod] Experimental COMMERCIAL spacecraft on > 2meters > Message-ID:<7f397ef2-bffd-4c5b-b1a5-9ab084dbbc4c.maildroid@localhost> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Here is more information > > http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/dove-1.htm > > Cosmgia Inc website is down. Does not look good for the credibility of the IARU. > > Dave > Dear OM's I understand and agree with Dave. Our IARU advisory satellite panel should rebut such coordination inquiries from commercial companies with a statement on their IARU coordination page like: "This Satellite would violate against act 'xyz' and is not coordinated" Then it would look good for the credibility of the IARU satellite panel. I would like to thank the panel for a great job they always do for our frequency bands. This is not self-evident. -- Best Regards, 73 Thomas Frey, HB9SKA ______________________________________________________________________ Thomas Frey, Holzgasse 2, CH-5242 Birr, Tel. + Fax: 056 444 93 41 http://home.datacomm.ch/th.frey/

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CubeSats TLE
by Jean-Pierre Godet 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

Hello dear CubeSats listener ! The TLE of the five CubeSats recently launched from ISS are now available with the NORAD registration numbers 1998-067-CN, CP, CQ, CR, CS. 1998 ? Yes as NORAD considers they are parts of the ISS, the first module of which, Zarya, was launched on November 20th 1998 and got the NORAD registration number 1998-067-A. Yesterday evening (evening in Western Europe, around 2130 UTC), I noticed that FITSAT-1 was already about 4 mn before the ISS predictions as this one modified altitude (higher). With a max. elevation angle of 83 deg., we received the 437.250 MHz beacon loud and clear. Have a good day my friends ! J-P/F5YG -- Powered by Linux (Slackware 10.0 - kernel 2.4.26)

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objects
by jerry keeton 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

Does anyone have the Frequencies to match the " objects " recently added to tracking on satPC 32 ? Jerry WB5LHD

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Falcon 9 Engine Anomaly
by B J 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

http://nasawatch.com/archives/2012/10/spacex-crs-1-st.html Additional video: http://www.parabolicarc.com/2012/10/07/falcon-9-suffers-engine-anomoly/ 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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Update On Falcon 9 Launch Anomaly
by B J 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2012/10/08/spacex-protective-faring-reptured-af… 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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AO-27 possible failure
by John Papay 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

AO-27 sent data after the repeater mode expired on the 1835utc pass, 5 October. 50 seconds into the data, the "mark/space" toggling stopped and a "mark" only tone was heard. That tone was heard for 4-1/2 minutes until the signal was lost when the bird went over the horizon. A recording of the entire pass is on my website: http://www.papays.com/sat/general.html AO-27 was not heard in EN91 on the scheduled 2015utc pass. I think my receiver is working fine but maybe it wasn't. Let's hope it can be recovered. An email was sent to N3UC and a message was left on his home phone. Any reports from other locations? 73, John K8YSE

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ISS CubeSat Keps + Autumn edition of OSCAR News
by Trevor . 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

I see KEPS for six new objects have been added to the end of this list: http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/tle-new.txt I presume these are the CubeSats deployed on October 4. ---- The Autumn (Fall) edition of the AMSAT-UK newsletter OSCAR News is now at the printers and should be posted to members soon. See http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=10692 for info on the contents. 73 Trevor M5AKA AMSAT-UK http://www.amsat-uk.org/ ----

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