July 2014 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

Seeking volunteers for cooperative data reconstruction from weak signals transmitted by a deep0space craft “DESPATCH”
by Akihiro Kubota 11 Jul '14

11 Jul '14

Dear AMSAT members, Hello. the ARTSAT Project is going to launch a deep-space sculpture/spacecraft DESPACH this December. This is the first edition of the public announcement of call for receivers of cooperative reception from deep-space. https://www.dropbox.com/s/u96t1ywz97deki5/despatch_abstract_en_ver1.0.pdf If you have any comments and suggestions. Please contact us freely. Thanks in advance. All the best, ARTSAT Project Team info(a)artsat.jp http://artsat.jp

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UKube-1
by PY5LF 11 Jul '14

11 Jul '14

Hi Heard UKube-1 on the first pass over Brazil ; http://youtu.be/eMAcwgeI6eE All information about found on the Mike`s DK3WN website . 73 PY5LF Luciano Fabricio Curitiba-PR-BR GG54jm http://www.qrz.com/db/PY5LF

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ARRL Centennial QSO Party W1AW Portable Satellite Operations - Halfway Point
by Paul Stoetzer 11 Jul '14

11 Jul '14

Good evening, This week marks the halfway point and a break in the W1AW portable calendar for the 2014 World Radiosport Team Championships coming up this weekend during the IARU HF World Championship. As this is the halfway point, I wanted to compile some statistics on satellite operations during this event. All of this data comes from the W1AW logs as uploaded to LoTW and reported on the Centennial QSO Party Leaderboard ( https://centennial-qp.arrl.org/index.php ). The QSO statistics reflect unique callsigns worked on any satellite, not total number of separate QSOs. If you work W1AW/x during a week on AO-7 Mode A, AO-7 Mode B, AO-73, FO-29, VO-52, and ISS Packet, you still only get credit for 1 QSO towards the Centennial QSO Party points challenge. Satellite participation has not been great. Of the 55 operations that have taken place so far, only 18 have reported making any satellite QSOs (WI and UT from this past week are not yet uploaded, but I do not believe they had any activity and have marked them at 0 for now). A total of 780 unique QSOs have been made. The leading operation at this point is W1AW/9 in Illinois the week of June 25th with 122 unique callsigns worked by AA9LC. There are still lots of opportunities to have the chance to use the W1AW callsign on the satellites coming up during the second half of the year. If your state still has a week assigned, be sure to contact your state's coordinator ( http://www.arrl.org/files/file/On%20the%20Air/W1AW_2014_sked.pdf ) and sign up to be the satellite operator. Lots of big states with plenty of satellite operators have not appeared on the satellites! I personally look forward to my opportunity to activate W1AW/3 from the District of Columbia in October. Wisconsin, New York, Utah, Minnesota, and Nebraska are the only states that have had both of their weeks pass at this point. We ease back into the W1AW operations with South Carolina next week. I hope this table comes out OK in most email readers: Call State Week Of Sat QSOs W1AW/9 IL 6/25 122 W1AW/7 AZ 3/12 101 W1AW/5 LA 6/4 75 W1AW/1 MA 4/9 61 W1AW/7 ID 3/5 58 W1AW/5 MS 4/16 49 W1AW/4 VA 4/9 49 W1AW/0 CO 5/21 49 W1AW/2 NY 1/22 40 W1AW/2 NY 5/21 38 W1AW/3 MD 6/25 31 W1AW/0 MN 6/11 29 W1AW/0 MN 1/29 22 W1AW/8 MI 2/19 20 W1AW/KL7 AK 6/18 15 W1AW/0 MO 5/28 8 W1AW/2 NJ 4/23 7 W1AW/KH6 HI 2/5 6 W1AW/KP4 PR 4/9 0 W1AW/KH2 GU 3/19 0 W1AW/KG4 KG4 2/22 0 W1AW/9 WI 2/12 0 W1AW/8 OH 3/12 0 W1AW/8 WV 1/1 0 W1AW/7 MT 6/18 0 W1AW/7 WY 5/28 0 W1AW/7 NV 4/30 0 W1AW/7 OR 4/2 0 W1AW/7 WA 2/26 0 W1AW/7 UT 1/8 0 W1AW/6 CA 2/12 0 W1AW/5 AR 6/11 0 W1AW/5 NM 3/19 0 W1AW/5 TX 1/29 0 W1AW/5 OK 1/22 0 W1AW/4 AL 6/4 0 W1AW/4 TN 3/19 0 W1AW/4 KY 3/5 0 W1AW/4 FL 2/19 0 W1AW/4 GA 2/5 0 W1AW/4 SC 1/8 0 W1AW/4 NC 1/1 0 W1AW/3 PA 4/2 0 W1AW/3 DE 1/15 0 W1AW/1 CT 4/30 0 W1AW/1 NH 4/23 0 W1AW/1 VT 3/26 0 W1AW/0 SD 5/14 0 W1AW/0 NE 5/7 0 W1AW/0 ND 4/16 0 W1AW/0 IA 3/26 0 W1AW/0 KS 2/26 0 W1AW/0 NE 1/15 0 W1AW/9 WI 7/2 0 W1AW/7 UT 7/2 0 Total 780 73, Paul Stoetzer, N8HM Washington, DC (FM18lv)

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CAPE-2 over Brazil : Gretchen said hello PY4ZBZ !
by Roland Zurmely 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

Successful "Send Text to Speech" command on orbit #3571 ! http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/cape.htm#s Satélite CAPE Satélite CAPE-2 = LO-75 por PY4ZBZ em 28-11-2013 rev. 10-07-2014 Recepção do primeiro beacon em AX25. Primeira execução de comandos co... View on www.qsl.net Preview by Yahoo http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/C2gret.wav 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ GH70un

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IEEE Conference on Wireless for Space (neitherlands) seeks papers (APRS?)
by Robert Bruninga 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

If anyone in Europe wants to submit a paper on APRS and other AX.25 satellite relay, this conference might be a good match. We like to think of the 145.825 AMSATs as a continuum of remote-data access for student experiments and remote data access… ------------------------- IEEE Conference on Wireless for Space & Extreme Environments Seeks Papers WASHINGTON (9 July 2014) -- Organizers of the International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE) are seeking papers and posters that address solutions to the significant challenges of wireless sensing and communication in space (and extreme environments). http://sites.ieee.org/wisee/ The submission deadline is 1 August. Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: * Low-power active wireless sensors, systems & networks * Passive wireless sensors, systems & networks * RFID devices & systems * Protocols & architectures for delay & disruption-tolerant networking * Network architectures, middleware integration & data management * Cognitive radio networks * Localization & tracking over wireless links * Antenna design, smart antennas, beam forming & multiple-antenna techniques * Propagation modelling for planetary surfaces & complex multipath environments * Wireless & cyber security * Optical communication systems * Availability, certification & spaceflight qualification for wireless devices & systems * Integrated vehicle systems For more information and to submit a paper or poster, see http://sites.ieee.org/wisee/call-for-papers/. WiSEE 2014 will be held at the European Space Agency’s European Space and Technology Research Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, 30-31 October 2014. The event will bring together investigators from international space agencies, including ESA, the Canadian Space Agency and NASA, along with aerospace and space defense industries and academic researchers, in an effort to understand and solve emerging problems facing wireless sensing and communication during spaceflight and in extreme environments such as planetary surfaces, space vehicles and space habitats. Background The many challenges faced in space sensing and communication are extremely diverse and overlap significantly with those found in extreme environments on earth. These environments pose significant challenges for radio frequency and optical wireless sensing and communication and will require the application of a broad range of technologies to generate reliable and cost-effective solutions. Although specific challenges vary significantly from one environment to another, many of the solutions offered by sensing, communication and statistical signal processing technologies can be applied in multiple environments. IEEE-USA serves the public good and promotes the careers and public policy interests of more than 200,000 engineering, computing and technology professionals who are U.S. members of IEEE. Web: www.ieeeusa.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/ieeeusa Twitter: www.twitter.com/ieeeusa Benefits of IEEE membership: www.ieee.org/join Contact: Chris McManes IEEE-USA Public Relations Manager 202-530-8356 c.mcmanes(a)ieee.org

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CAPE-2 over Brazil #3556
by Roland Zurmely 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

18:53 W5UL-15>W5UL>UI,C,F0: +W5UL,CAPE-2,15,GR,201301281945CST,5236mV,01000,15,23C,17C,ulcape.org# 18:54 W5UL-15>W5UL>UI,C,F0: +W5UL,CAPE-2,16,GR,201301281946CST,5200mV,01000,16,23C,18C,ulcape.org# 18:56 W5UL-15>W5UL>UI,C,F0: +W5UL,CAPE-2,17,GR,201301281948CST,5121mV,01000,17,22C,19C,ulcape.org# 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ GH70un

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ISEE-3/ICE recovery efforts: telemetry display LIVE on www.amsat-dl.org
by Achim Vollhardt 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Dear all, we try once more to guide ISEE-3 back to planet Earth and fire the thrusters for a trajectory bound for a moon swing by on August 10th. Uplink commands will be sent by the Arecibo radio observatory and the downlink is handled by the Bochum observatory and AMSAT-DL. Check out our TLM live display: www.amsat-dl.org and our twitter feed: @amsatdl and @ISEE3Reboot wish us luck! 73s Achim, DH2VA

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UKube-1
by Glenn Miller - AA5PK 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Again, strong CW telemetry from UKube-1 during 1515Z pass. Glenn AA5PK DM91 in Texas

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DSTAR BIRD?
by wa4hfn＠comcast.net 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Is there any info on the D Star satellite that was launched ? Wa4hfn Damon EM55 www.starcommgroup.org

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myflydream for LEO?
by Bill (W1PA) 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Anyone aware of any projects to adapt this technology to LEO tracking? Bill W1PA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGQ-tLxafdM

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