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

Flabob - Media Hits
by Clint Bradford 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

The Press-Enterprise is our region's major newspaper. Links to their video, article, and some WONDERFUL photographs all on our blog at ... http://www.iss-flabob.com/ISS-Flabob/Blog/Blog.html I just returned home from receiving our Space Week in Jurupa Valley proclamation from our city council. What a day! Clint Bradford, K6LCS http://www.iss-flabob.com

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Re: ARISS-Flabob Airport SUCCESSFUL
by Clint Bradford 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

YES - Typo was there - and being the first to identify it, you get a prize! Privately send me your email address, and I will send you a copy of the four-page program handed out to guests to our event this morning! Clint 909-241-7666 On Apr 19, 2012, at 5:53 PM, Stephen E. Belter wrote: Clint, dude, calm down - there's a typo in your URL ...

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ITAR in ARRL Executive Committee Minutes
by Trevor . 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

It's good to see ITAR getting a mention in the ARRL Executive Committee Minutes. See http://www.uk.amsat.org/6542 73 Trevor M5AKA

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ARISS-Flabob Airport SUCCESSFUL
by Clint Bradford 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

SUCCESS at Flabob Airport this morning! Flight engineer Pettit answered all seventeen of our questions - from fifteen students. 211 in the audience, including 120 Flabob students, media, city council members, Gordon West and Don Arnold, and other dignataries. AND a lot of parents, too! California's sixth largest daily newspaper, The Press-Enterprise, sent a reporter, videographer, and photographer. The Bob Heil & Gordon West mediacast, Ham Nation, sent a videographer - and we will be on an episode in the next couple of weeks. The editor and publisher of The Riverside County Record newspaper was there - acting as reporter and photographer. I have received several messages from friends who heard my six-minute interview on our local PBS radio affiliate, KVCR, this morning. The Inland Empire Television Network videotaped the entire event. MORE COMING - Watch our Web site at ... http://www-iss-flabob.com ... as we offer links and publications on amateur radio, our space programs, ARISS, AMSAT, ARRL, ham radio licensing - and MORE - on our MORE INFO page. Clint Bradford, K6LCS 909-241-7666

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NOAA APT pictures with FUNCube dongle
by Roland Zurmely 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

The yellow + is my QTH : Sete Lagoas GH70un in Minas Gerais state, Brasil. http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/apt.htm 73 de Roland.

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help with ground station
by Nick Pugh 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

The students at Drexel University need some mentoring in setting up a ground station . If you can help please contact me off list and I will put you in touch with the professor leading the cube sat program. Thanks nick Office 337 593 8700 Cell 337 258 2527 Helping UL become a world Class Engineering and Educational School

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ARISS Project at Flabob Airport
by Clint Bradford 18 Apr '12

18 Apr '12

Thirteen months in the making ... Here's our hangar setup for tomorrow's ARISS contact with flight engineer Pettit - http://youtu.be/ByOgbWfHKws We will continue to use our project's Web site after tomorrow to promote amateur radio and our space program. I will be creating a "More Info" page in the next few hours. Clint Bradford K6LCS http://www.iss-flabob.com

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Possible Asiatic Russia on Satellites
by JoAnne Maenpaa 18 Apr '12

18 Apr '12

Our satellite operator friends in range of Asiatic Russia may find this news from the DXNL 1776 - Apr 18, 2012 DX Newsletter interesting: UA9, ASIATIC RUSSIA RA9LR, RV9LF, UA9LAC, UA9LAO, UA9LEW, UA9LL, UA9LP, UA9LT and UB9LBS will sign RK9LWA/9 from the Olenyi Ruchyi nature park in CW, SSB and digital modes on 80m-10m (maybe also SSB/FM via satellite on 2m/70cm) from Apr 19-22. QSL via UA9LP, bureau QSLs can be requested via e-mail to ua9lp(a)mail.ru This news would be too late if we waited for the weekend ANS news cycle. -- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm(a)amsat.org Editor, AMSAT News Service

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SatPC32 question..& IC910H
by Ted 18 Apr '12

18 Apr '12

I'm stumped.. I have CAT control turned on and ISS selected. In CAT control, I have 144.49 and 145.800 selected and that is what shows in the uplink/downlink widow above the map. SATL function is on in the radio. BUT, the top window on the radio shows 145.800, but the bottom window (vfo a) shows 437.800. I can't find a way to change that Any help appreciated. SatPC is v 12.8b registered 73, Ted, K7TRK

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APRS remote WX opportunity
by Bob Bruninga 18 Apr '12

18 Apr '12

Anyone want to put their APRS or Satellite talents on the air in Mongolia? A Scientist goes there each summer and has the opportunity to put some small solar powered APRS weather trackers on the air (via the ISS). Here is his idea: If anyone... would like to hack together 2 or 3 small solar powered APRS transmitters and 2 meter antennas that are attached to a very small weather station (ONLY humidity, pressure, temperature, sunlight) we can leave them on mountain tops in the GOBI of Mongolia this summer. The transmitter and solar panel (with some lithium re-charge batts.) can be set to squirt data every 5 or 10 minutes. Basically, the signal will go straight up, and this will hit the ARISS space station APRS repeater about 4 times per day. If there is a receiving gateway APRS-internet station in Russia, China, or Japan under the footprint of the repeater, then we can get data on weather in the Gobi for a year or maybe more depending on the robustness of the transmitter, batt, solar panel. What do you think? These would be non-recoverable items. Just a thought that may interest people. This would be a normal HAM "no budget operation" and it has to be very small. Probably not enough time this year, so I can set up a test system this year on our Landcruiser there with my Kenwood HT and we can see if we can repeat data into the Internet with 5 watts and with APRS from the Gobi while I am there. Fun stuff - I think. I would love to set up remote weather stations like that deposited in areas where we did our work to get env. data that way, that would be so cool, until a wild Camelus bactrianus ate one... then maybe we could get gastro-physiol. data on one of them..... --------------

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