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LilacSat Telemetry Capture for Later Upload?
by Scott 11 Oct '15

11 Oct '15

Against all odds, I was able to download the ISO image and created a bootable USB flash drive to run the pre-packaged software for receiving telemetry from LilacSat-2. Certainly never thought I'd see GNU Radio running in this house! My question is, it "appears" that the software is designed for real-time capture and simultaneous real-time upload of the telemetry to the servers in China. Does anyone know if it's possible to capture the telemetry offline (no internet connection) and then have it upload to the database once the computer is back on an internet connection? Thanks! -Scott, K4KDR Montpelier, VA USA

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Demo from DM43ah this afternoon...
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 11 Oct '15

11 Oct '15

Hi! I will be doing a demonstration of satellite operating from a city park in the Phoenix neighborhood of Ahwatukee, southeast of the Phoenix city center in grid DM43ah, starting with SO-50 around 2100 UTC, and possibly until 0100 or 0130 UTC this evening. If you hear me on, please call and join in. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK

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FOX1-A
by PY5LF 11 Oct '15

11 Oct '15

Hi FOX1-A has just passed here and looks 10 degrees earlier than the actual keps , signal very good . 73 PY5LF Luciano Fabricio Curitiba-PR-BR GG54jm http://www.qrz.com/db/PY5LF

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LUSAT lives!
by Robert McGwier 11 Oct '15

11 Oct '15

https://youtu.be/GbkVGRBf06s

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Eimac Moonbounce Notes collection
by Phil Karn 11 Oct '15

11 Oct '15

Way back in 1980 when I first got interested in amateur satellites and AMSAT, I wrote off to Eimac Corporation for their "Moonbounce Notes" collection. While on a household paper eradication campaign I came across them and scanned them. I thought others might enjoy a look back at some bleeding-edge ham activities from the mid-late 1970s. It's particularly amusing to see how much effort was spent just tracking the moon with the technology then available. http://www.ka9q.net/moonbounce-notes This is a raw collection of pdf files, but the file names are pretty descriptive. Collect the entire set! If anybody has any notes missing from my collection, please let me know. Phil

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Download link issue for "Getting Started with Amateur Satellites"
by John Brier 11 Oct '15

11 Oct '15

Hi, As a heads up to anyone trying to download this after getting a new membership, the link (at least for me on Firefox on Windows 7) does not provide the full file name, only "Getting". Importantly, it doesn't have pdf as the extension. If you just add that to the file after downloading it, it will open fine. Thanks everyone for all your work. John, KG4AKV

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AO-85 IQ recording
by Daniel Estévez 11 Oct '15

11 Oct '15

Hi all, Here is a recording I made last night on one of the passes of AO-85 over Europe with a Funcube Dongle Pro+: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2pPGQkeEAfdaEVXSFluTGVIaUk/view?usp=shari… The centre frequency is 145.950MHz and the file can be opened directly with FoxTelem, which decodes about a dozen payloads. There is also a bit of AO-73 transponder and some other satellite downlinking BPSK telemetry at the beginning of the pass. 73, Dani M0HXM/EA4GPZ.

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-10-11 06:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 11 Oct '15

11 Oct '15

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-10-11 06:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Tun Dr Ismail (1), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, direct via 9M2RPN The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact was successful: Fri 2015-10-09 08:00:04 UTC 47 deg (***) Bay View Elementary School, Burlington, WA, telebridge via IK1SLD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for: Wed 2015-10-14 19:41:44 UTC 59 deg **************************************************************************** ** Interested in hosting an ARISS contact? The window is now open from 2015-09-01 to 2015-11-01. These proposals will be for school contacts during the second half of 2016. Go to http://www.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact or http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html for full details. To help organizations in preparing their proposals, the ARISS Program Coordinator will offer hour-long online information sessions. These are designed to provide more information regarding US ARISS contacts and the proposal process and offer an opportunity to ask questions. While attending an online information session is not required, it is strongly encouraged. These will be offered Thursday, September 17, at 2000 UTC; Tuesday, September 22, at 2000 UTC, and Wednesday, September 30, at 2300 UTC. Advance registration is necessary. Email ARISS (ariss(a)arrl.org) to sign up for an information session. **************************************************************************** ** >From 2015-12-20 to 2016-01-04, there will be no US Operational Segment (USOS) hams on board ISS. So any schools contacts during this period will be conducted by the ARISS Russia team. **************************************************************************** ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n(a)amsat.org or aj9n(a)aol.com. **************************************************************************** Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke(a)sbcglobal.net **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Gaston ON4WF with 121 Francesco IKØWGF with 114 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 111 (***) **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8061 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2015-10-11 06:00 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 998. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 963. (***) Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 46. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: Arkansas, Delaware, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** The successful school list has been updated as of 2015-10-11 06:00 UTC. (***) http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 43/44 on orbit Scott Kelly Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF Exp. 44 on orbit Oleg Kononenko RN3DX Kimiya Yui KG5BPH Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Exp. 45 on orbit Sergey Volkov RU3DIS **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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QB50 Kep location?
by Ken Swaggart 11 Oct '15

11 Oct '15

I had been copying telemetry from QB-50P1, but now I can’t find the keps on Celestrak. Anyone have an idea of where they are? Tnx, Ken, W7KKE

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Kenwood TM-V71A Test AO-85 Telemetry Decode
by Brad Schumacher 11 Oct '15

11 Oct '15

I set my TM-V71a (which has the same RF deck at the D710 series) to 9600 baud mode and attempted to decode the AO-85 telemetry without success. The radio was clearly putting out the unfiltered audio on the data port that is needed for 9600 baud operation but it wasn't good enough for FoxTelem. Basically the same results I had with the TS-2000 Brad, KG7NXH

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