January 2016 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

VUCC Application Submitted
by Fernando Ramirez 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Good evening everyone! I wanted to share my excitement with all of you! After three months and 8 days operating the FM satellites, I have received confirmation of my 100th grid from KG5CCI. I have submitted my application with hopes of receiving my VUCC award in the near future. Even though I was licensed 23 years ago, I have never had so much fun. Knowing that I'm talking through a flying repeater hundred of miles away, fascinates me. 98% percent of my confirmed grids were worked on SO-50. Two unique grids worked on AO-85. This, using a 4 watts handheld, an Arrow antenna and some luck. Confirming one hundred grids will sound minuscule to some, but thinking that I was trying to hear a ham radio satellite on a rubber ducky some months ago, is something I feel very proud of. I would like to thank all the operators I have worked during this time. A special thank you to N6UA, WD9EWK, W5PFG, KC5CCI, N8HM, KA4H, KO4MA and KI4RO for all the support, the advice, the grids and above everything else for the patience. To AMSAT-NA my best wishes and support! Take care everyone and catch you on the birds! 73 Fernando, NP4JV

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Ic7100 SatPC32 control
by Richard Lawn 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Anyone know if this newer icom radio is compatible with satpc32? Rick,W2JAZ -- Sent from Gmail Mobile

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Re: [amsat-bb] Ic7100 SatPC32 control
by Glenn Miller - AA5PK 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Oops. Read it as IC-7000 versus IC-7100. Wine will do that to you :-) -----Original Message----- From: Glenn Miller - AA5PK Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 9:13 PM To: Richard Lawn ; Amsat BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Ic7100 SatPC32 control The IC-7000 is one of the Radio Setup menu picks, so I assume the answer is yes. I've never tried to control my IC-700 with SatPC32, however. Glenn / AA5PK -----Original Message----- From: Richard Lawn Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 8:42 PM To: Amsat BB Subject: [amsat-bb] Ic7100 SatPC32 control Anyone know if this newer icom radio is compatible with satpc32? Rick,W2JAZ

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Colorado Amateur Satellite net Begins in 1 hour
by Skyler F 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

This is a reminder that the Colorado Amateur Satellite net will begin in 1 hour from now (7PM mountain time Thursday). 6PM Pacific 7PM Mountain 8PM Central 9PM Eastern Please visit us on *AMSATNET.INFO <http://amsatnet.info/>* *IRLP* 9870, the Denver Reflector *ALLSTAR LINK* 40764, direct hookup to the repeater here. 41715, KC9ZHV hub at a data center if I am out of bandwidth. More info on AllStar - amsatnet.info/#node *ECHOLINK* *AMSAT* unless there is an ARISS contact, then go direct to KD0WHB-L *LOCAL RF* 449.625 (-) 141.3 ( WØKU Lookout Mountain) 447.225 (-) 141.3 (The STEM school repeater we set up) 447.850 (-) 141.3 (ACØKQ's repeater where he lives on TOP of saddleback mountain) 147.450 SIMPLEX (Aurora, CO) 446.275 (-) 100.0 Galena St. Local repeater at my house, giving a whopping 5 blocks of great coverage *REMOTE RF* Your Repeater here!, Email me if you want to link in or me to link your echolink or allstar repeater in automatically (no automatic IRLP linking supported) Skyler Fennell amsatnet.info KDØWHB electricity440(a)gmail.com

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Aggiesat4 and BEVO-2 ready for deployment
by Masahiro Arai 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Tim and Scott set Aggiesat4 and BEVO-2 on Kibo module airlock. See the ISS On-Orbit Status 27th Jan. http://spaceref.com/international-space-station/nasa-international-space-st… 73 Masa JN1GKZ Tokyo Japan

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Happy birthday, Mr. Yagi
by J. Boyd (JR2TTS) 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Just pointing out that today is the 130th birthday of Hidetsugu Yagi, co-inventor of the Yagi-Uda antenna. 2016 is the 90th anniversary of the antenna's patent being granted, a technology which revolutionized radio communication and played a large part in making our endeavors as amateur radio operators more global in scope. It's also one of the main reasons we're all able to work satellites. Google Japan (http://www.google.co.jp/) has made it today's Google doodle: http://i.imgur.com/loS5b4U.jpg For some reason I felt very excited about this, as if we all got on the news :) -- J. Boyd, JR2TTS/NI3B the2belo(a)msd.biglobe.ne.jp http://www.flickr.com/photos/the2belo/ http://www.qrz.com/db/JR2TTS Twitter: @Minus2_C

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-01-27 21:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-01-27 21:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: PSU. Wittayanusorn School, Kho Hong District, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand, direct via E29AJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Sat 2016-01-30 11:06:23 UTC 63 deg Christ The King School, Rutland, Vermont, telebridge via VK4KHZ (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN (***) Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-02-04 18:28:16 UTC 88 deg (***) "Gesmundo Moro Fiore" Secondary School, Terlizzi, Italy, telebridge via LU1CGB (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI (***) Contact is a go for: Sat 2016-02-06 09:09:01 UTC 40 deg (***) **************************************************************************** ** 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 115 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 115 **************************************************************************** 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 2016-01-27 21:00 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 1019. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 984. 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 2016-01-20 23:30 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. 45 on orbit Sergey Volkov RU3DIS Exp. 46 on orbit Tim Kopra KE5UDN Timothy Peake KG5BVI Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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APRS Harmonization and removal of OSCAR sub-band
by M5AKA 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

IARU R1 Paper: APRS Harmonization and removal of OSCAR sub-band http://amsat-uk.org/2016/01/27/iaru-paper-aprs-harmonisation/ ISS Satellite Deployment Jan 29 http://amsat-uk.org/2016/01/27/iss-satellite-deployment/ Chelmsford Talk: Amateur Radio Satellites - with emphasis on beginners http://amsat-uk.org/2016/01/24/chelmsford-talk-amateur-radio-satellites/ Video of Tim Peake ham radio contact with Sandringham School http://amsat-uk.org/2016/01/09/video-tim-peake-sandringham/ Local newspaper reports reception of Tim Peake on ISS http://amsat-uk.org/2016/01/13/local-paper-tim-peake-iss/ Amateur radio village at EMF 2016 Guildford http://amsat-uk.org/2016/01/13/amateur-radio-village-at-emf-2016/ 73 Trevor M5AKA ---- AMSAT-UK http://amsat-uk.org/ Twitter https://twitter.com/AmsatUK Facebook https://facebook.com/AmsatUK YouTube https://youtube.com/AmsatUK ----

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-01-27 01:30 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-01-27 01:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: PSU. Wittayanusorn School, Kho Hong District, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand, direct via E29AJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI (***) Contact is a go for: Sat 2016-01-30 11:06:23 UTC 63 deg **************************************************************************** ** 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 115 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 115 **************************************************************************** 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 2016-01-27 01:30 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 1019. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 984. 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 2016-01-20 23:30 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. 45 on orbit Sergey Volkov RU3DIS Exp. 46 on orbit Tim Kopra KE5UDN Timothy Peake KG5BVI Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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18:15 UTC AO-07 will be 3deg elev over Spain, great sole over USA
by Juan Antonio 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

I will be waiting USA stations, GL Juan Antonio EA4CYQ --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electrónico en busca de virus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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