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

Three Hams Head to ISS
by Clint Bradford 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

SB SPACE ARL ARLS004 ARLS004 Three Hams Scheduled to Head to ISS This Weekend NASA will televise the launch and docking of the next mission to the International Space Station (ISS), scheduled for 8:40 PM (CDT) Saturday, July 14 (0140 UTC, Sunday, July 15). NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams, KD5PLB, along with Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, RK3DUP, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, KE5DNI, are completing preparations as they undergo their final Soyuz spacecraft fit. Live NASA TV coverage of the Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan begins at 8:30 PM CDT on Saturday, July 14 (0130 UTC July 15). The trio will arrive at the station on July 16, joining NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba, KE5DAR, and two Russian cosmonauts: Expedition 32 Commander Gennady Padalka, RN3DT, and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin, RN3BS. Acaba, Padalka and Revin have been aboard the ISS since mid-May. Williams, Malenchenko and Hoshide -- who also will be part of the Expedition 33 crew starting in September -- will return to Earth in mid-November. A link with NASA TV's scheduled coverage is available at, http://www.arrl.org/news/three-hams-scheduled-to-head-to-iss-this-weekend. NNNN /EX

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AMSAT-UK Membership
by Rob Styles 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

For all Newcomers to the wonderful world of Amateur Radio in space there has never been a more exciting time for you to join one of the UK’s largest group of people who have an interest in Amateur radio satellites/space activities from all around the world. AMSAT-UK has an ever growing membership base from shortwave listeners to satellite engineers, amateur radio in space is becoming more affordable with the concept of Cubesats. join today here http://www.uk.amsat.org/8879 73 Rob M0TFO AMSAT-UK

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Satellite presentation/demo @ Goodyear AZ on Monday (16 July) evening
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

Hi! I will give a satellite-related presentation for the Tri-City Amateur Radio Association's monthly meeting on Monday, 16 July 2012, at 7.30pm. The meeting will be at the Goodyear City Hall, located at 190 N. Litchfield Road in Goodyear, Arizona (southwest corner of Litchfield Road/Van Buren Street, south of exit 128 on the I-10 freeway). More information about the club is available at http://www.tricityara.org/ About 30 minutes before the meeting (0200 UTC on Tuesday, 17 July), WD9EWK should be on an eastern VO-52 pass for a demonstration. Depending on how long the meeting and presentation go, there may be another demonstration later in the evening (SO-50 @ 0300 UTC, or a west-coast VO-52 pass @ 0335 UTC). All demonstration plans are dependent on the weather. I will try to update the -BB with the demonstration plans on Monday afternoon, as well as my Twitter feed @WD9EWK (use http://twitter.com/wd9ewk if you aren't on Twitter directly to view my feed). Please give us a call if you hear WD9EWK on any of these passes. If you work WD9EWK during any of these passes Monday evening and want a QSL card, please e-mail me with the QSO details. I will be happy to send out a card, without first receiving a card or SASE. QSOs will also be uploaded to the Logbook of the World. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/

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Operation ON-Target out west needs APRS Ops
by Bob Bruninga 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

Las Vegas, Arizona area help needed among others? The annual Operation On-Target of scouts and hams manning dozens of mountain tops out west and back east to attempt signalling with mirrors and Ham radio is taking shape for Saturday 21 July. Here is the current map. http://goo.gl/maps/zc33 Although we pretty well have the Appalachains covered from GA to Maine (with some gaps still needed), for the first time we are starting to see lots of participation out west. On the above map there seems to be a mountain chain forming in So Cal and in Utah. All we need are a station or two in the Las Vegas, western Arizona or death valley area to link them up. This year will be the first year for APRS to do the Golden Packet linking out west. There are already dozens of hams out there involved, but we need them to use their APRS radios to bring the event alive. For more info please see http://aprs.org/at-golden-packet.html Bob, WB4APR

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Possible passes in EL61 and EL60
by Omar Alvarez 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

Hello, the most probably passes I can work are: SO-50 2012-07-13 20:35 XE 2012-07-14 01:35 UTC AO-27 (Xcaret) 2012-07-14 13:07 XE 18:07 UTC probably EL60 2012-07-14 14:45 XE 19:45 UTC probably EL60 SO-50(Xcaret) 2012-04-14 19:23 XE 2012-04-15 00:23 UTC probably EL60, not sure. AO-27 2012-04-15 14:16 XE 19:16 UTC SO-50 2012-04-15 19:51 XE 2012-04-16 00:51 UTC AO-27 2012-04-16 13:48 XE 18:48 UTC SO-50 2012-04-16 18:39 XE 23:39 UTC 2012-04-16 20:20 XE 2012-04-17 01:20 UTC My hotel is in EL61 and the EL60 is 14 km away, maybe I can go for a second day to activate EL60, I will try to email or tweet it. It depends of weather, activities or Murphy´s law.... Omar XE1AO DK89df ******************************** M.C. Omar Alvarez Cárdenas Facultad de Telematica, U de C 316 1075 xe1aom(a)ucol.mx omar_ac(a)hotmail.com ********************************

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email issue
by Robert Coppock 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

hi, rusprint qsl cards is telling me my amsat dot org email is not working. i just tried it and it works fine for me. has there been any issues in say, the last 5 weeks that i have been waiting for my cards ?robert k f 0 g

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Trying to catch up with my QSL sending efforts.
by Raydel Abreu Espinet (CM2ESP) 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

Hello every one, I finally got the ink for my deskjet printer to continue printing my QSL card. Please if I owe any one of you a printed QSL card, please send me an e-mail off-list with the details, i usually work from my roof with so many things and in some passes are not logged properly, specially the time and grids... 73, Raydel, CM2ESP Havana, EL83 Este mensaje ha sido enviado mediante el servicio de correo electronico que ofrece la Federacion de Radioaficionados de Cuba a sus miembros para respaldar el cumplimiento de los objetivos de la organizacion y su politica informativa. La persona que envia este correo asume el compromiso de usar el servicio a tales fines y cumplir con las regulaciones establecidas.

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F-1 CubeSat on TV
by Trevor . 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

The F-1 CubeSat featured on VTV1 and included an interview with XV9AA. See the TV broadcast at http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=8861 Also on the AMSAT-UK site is report on todays opening of the National Radio Center (NRC). The satellite antennas at the NRC were provided by AMSAT-UK. See http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=8841 73 Trevor M5AKA

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HRD etc.
by Richard Lawn 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

I'm back at our summer lake place and trying again to work birds using a TS2000 and stationary antennas which I've been experimenting with now for 2 summers. Not very impressive just yet but also fooling around with different software including macdoppler and HRD satellite software running windows on a MacBook pro. I spend too much time it seems trying to find myself, in part because I'm more used to my ft847 at home which I prefer to the kenwood. Anyone out there using the ts2000 have any suggestions for finding yourself using cw and HRD or macdoppler I'd appreciate the advice. I've learned with these stationary antennas that QSOs are possible but you have to move quickly. Rick W2JAZ

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SST-US and Virgin Galactic Small Satellite Launches
by Trevor . 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC is collaborating with Virgin Galactic to offer radically cheaper option for developing, launching small satellites. See http://www.uk.amsat.org/8836 73 Trevor M5AKA AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sept. 15-16 http://www.uk.amsat.org/colloquium/twelve AMSAT-UK News on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AMSAT_UK ----

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