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Re: [amsat-bb] trip
by Clayton Coleman 26 Oct '16

26 Oct '16

Steve, While I can't speak to the ARISS meeting / NASA tour schedules, the full AMSAT Symposium agenda will be posted on the website this weekend and distributed in this weekend's ANS. Thank you, Clayton W5PFG > > Is there any schedule as for what is happening? Schedule on the boat? When > Talks start, end, lunch, dinner, free time? I Have No Idea What Is > Happening On The Boat!!!!!!!!!! > NASA VISIT when we return, what will we visit? What times? ARISS meeting > schedule. etc... trying to finalize plans. > > Steve Akkala > W2AKK > 631-871-5689 > > PS yes I check the AMSAT web page daily. And nothings been updated. You > shouldn't have to look at random page 1234 to find out the most recent info > is 3 moths old. > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >

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Schedules
by Joe 26 Oct '16

26 Oct '16

Where can someone go to try to make up some schedules? Joe WB9SBD -- Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com

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Re: [amsat-bb] Schedules
by Dave Webb KB1PVH 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

Joe, This page has active operators http://aar29.free.fr/sat/indexlogin.html look them up on QRZ and ask for sleds. Dave-KB1PVH Sent from my Galaxy S7

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trip
by Steve A 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

Is there any schedule as for what is happening? Schedule on the boat? When Talks start, end, lunch, dinner, free time? I Have No Idea What Is Happening On The Boat!!!!!!!!!! NASA VISIT when we return, what will we visit? What times? ARISS meeting schedule. etc... trying to finalize plans. Steve Akkala W2AKK 631-871-5689 PS yes I check the AMSAT web page daily. And nothings been updated. You shouldn't have to look at random page 1234 to find out the most recent info is 3 moths old.

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HEO opertunity
by Nick Pugh 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

Hello AMSAT-ers The University of Louisiana has a slot on a ULA mission to GTO launch to GTO for a 1u. WE are asking the community what payload should we fly, how to mitigate the radiation and who wants to help the students? http://www.ulalaunch.com/ula-announces-2016-cubesat-stem-winners.aspx?title= United+Launch+Alliance+Announces+CubeSat+STEM+Education+Program+Winners <http://www.ulalaunch.com/ula-announces-2016-cubesat-stem-winners.aspx?title =United+Launch+Alliance+Announces+CubeSat+STEM+Education+Program+Winners&Cat egory=News> &Category=News 73's and see you on the baot nick k5qxj

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Re: [amsat-bb] HEO opertunity
by Ross Whenmouth 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

Hi, I am thinking along the lines of K.I.S.S - a simple "bent pipe" linear transponder, with as little to go wrong as possible (the bird will be in GTO for a very long time). Power and link budget permitting (eg a 5 GHz / 10 GHz machine), a wideband transponder would permit ranging experiments, high speed data and video modes in addition to CW & SSB... Can the attitude of a 1U cubesat in GTO be passively stabilised (gravity gradient?) to keep the antennae pointing towards nadir? Is a microprocessor (or any digital logic) strictly required? simply having the transponder run whenever the arming pin is out (pulled by ejection from the cubesat canister) and the DC volts are high enough, would eliminate the need for a rad-hard processor. As far as I am aware, the RF circuits in a "rock locked" (no PLL) linear transponder are not as prone to SEU induced latchup as digital circuitry. 73 ZL2WRW Ross Whenmouth

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-10-25 03:30 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-10-25 03:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Istituto Comprensivo “Marco da Melo”, Mel, Italy, direct via I3XFY The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD (***) Contact is a go for: Fri 2016-11-04 08:47:20 UTC 42 deg (***) Students in Ingushetia, Russia, direct via TBD (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Andrei Borisenko (***) Contact is a go for 2016-11-03 08:06 UTC(***) Exp. 49 on orbit. Welcome aboard! (***) Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Andrei Borisenko Sergey Ryzhikov **************************************************************************** ** Call for Proposals Proposal Window September 1 – November 1, 2016 The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS. ARISS anticipates that the contact would be held between July 1, 2017 and December 31, 2017. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact contact dates. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate the contact into a well-developed education plan. The deadline to submit a proposal is November 1, 2016. Proposal information and documents can be found at www.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact. **************************************************************************** ** 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. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8Ø MHz. **************************************************************************** *** All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. (***) **************************************************************************** *** 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: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 123 Gaston ON4WF with 121 Francesco IKØWGF with 118 **************************************************************************** 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 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-10-25 03:30 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 http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1090. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1055. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. 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, South Dakota, 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 2016-10-18 09:00 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. 48 on orbit Anatoly Ivanishin Kate Rubins KG5FYJ Takuya Onishi KF5LKS Exp. 49 on orbit. Welcome aboard! (***) Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Andrei Borisenko Sergey Ryzhikov **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Re: [amsat-bb] Outernet L-Band now carries AMSAT and ARISS weeklybulletins
by Robert Bruninga 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

> It might be useful to start... each file with the date of publication I agree. I guess I can remember to add a date when I manually edit it down to under 6K as requested by the Outernet Folks. And the other NEAT application of an OUternet WiFi hotspot at ham events, such as hamfests, or Public Service events or scouting events or anything where Ham Radio is helping to provide communications is that this Outernet WiFi hot spot not only serves all the Outernet (L-Band delivered) files to everyone in the local WiFi area, but also the local SYSOP can upload his own files in real time to the server. Imagine if he maintains the latest Agenda, Schedule, Plans, Reports, Pass times, Lost-N-found, and any other important real-time files of interest to anyone in the area with a smart phone or tablet! Remember, this Outerlink Hotspot and Geostationary satellite feed is just a stand-alone cigarbox size piece of hardware powered by a small battery. What could be easier and have so much potential... See http://aprs.org/outnet-ariss.html Bob, WB4APR -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Scott Sent: Monday, October 24, 2016 6:40 PM To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Outernet L-Band now carries AMSAT and ARISS weeklybulletins So cool to see this type of info delivered via geosynchronous satellite! =============== AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-297 http://amsat.org ---------- VHF Handheld Radio on ISS Failed, ARISS Contacts Moved to Kenwood Radio ~~~ {other articles follow} ~~~ =============== It might be useful to start the body of each file with the date of publication. A viewer might come across this content some days after it was originally uploaded. Looks great! -Scott, K4KDR -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ -----Original Message----- From: Robert Bruninga Sent: Monday, October 24, 2016 9:53 AM To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Outernet L-Band now carries AMSAT and ARISS weeklybulletins The Outernet L-band feed is now carrying a condensed version of the AMSAT and ARISS weekly news files. (Global Geosat coverage except for Northern Alaska)... Receivers are simple: http://aprs.org/outnet.html For ARISS, I manually added a 2 char grid square to each school listed in the school schedule and am asking the outernet folks to parse out that location info and plot a 1200 km footprint on their weather globe showing where people can tune in the ARISS contacts. Then their RTL-SDR dongle could then actually be retuned to hear the contact. Just an idea... Bob, WB4APR -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Dani EA4GPZ Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2016 7:36 AM To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] New Outernet L-Band service... >> I hope someday a service like this will be available from an AMSAT >> geostationary service. > I'm pretty confident that the guys at AMSAT-DL are capable of doing > this much better on the upcoming EsHail'2 than what Outernet is > currently doing on Inmarsat... > They already have in mind a "DVB-S beacon"... broadcast from the > ground station at Qatar ... carrying videos about Ham radio and Ham > radio events on this signal. > What is more, if you have equipment to operate EsHail'2 on SSB, it's > more or less easy to use either the narrowband transponder or the > wideband transponder to transmit an Outernet-type signal through > EsHail'2, so anyone can have a go with this. > Outernet uses 4200baud BPSK and half of the bitrate is spent for FEC. > You can use a bit less bitrate to get a signal that will even pass > through a conventional 2.7kHz SSB filter and you can use less bits for > FEC to get increased data throughput (but more SNR required). > Dani EA4GPZ _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

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Re: [amsat-bb] HEO opertunity (APRS?)
by Robert Bruninga 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

> The University of Louisiana has a slot ... to GTO for a 1u. > WE are asking the community what payload should we fly... You could always fly an APRS digipeater. PSAT works well at LEO, but is only 300 mW. Our next 1U APRS satellite will have a 2W transmitter and will be quite strong horizon to horizon to an HT on the ground. But if you raise the cubesat TX power to 4W, and use Oscar class stations running 50w instead of 5W HT's on the ground, you can pick up 23 dB more performance which is exactly what you need to operate to GTO at 35,000km. The problem is the TX duty cycle. All of the APRS satellites operate with a quite low TX duty cycle because Hams only cover about 10% of the Earth's surface so the average transmitter power is low. On GTO, half the users in the world can see it half the time and if they all start banging it with chatter, then a 1U wont have the average power. Does your GTO remain attached to a large spacecraft? Does it have more than the average 1 Watt Solar power that a cubesat gets? If so, then the duty cycle might not be a problem. ON THE OTHER HAND, every APRS digipeater has a DUPE-WAIT setting that is normally 30 seconds for mobiles to prohibit duplicating packets. You could extend this to X miuntes to make sure no one tries to get through more than one packet per X minutes. Or you can think of otherways to control the user load. Again, I am assuming 2m on 145.825 MHz. Although that is full of existing users trying to hit the PCSAT, PSAT and ISS, no users without an OSCAR class station and 50W will even be heard out there at GEO. SO that is a good way to share the channel. Unless I overlooked something, I think it could work. It would be a great emergency response and disaster preparedness link. For low duty cycle comms into and out of an area. You could build the whole system includeing a 10W PA using the parts from a Byonics Microtrak TT4. That is what we use (without the 10W PA) for our PSAT-2 and follow-on designs. See http://aprs.org/psat-2.html Bob, Wb4APR

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HEO Opportunity
by David G0MRF 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

Hi Nick. FYI - I understand that Atmel has been purchased byMicrochip. – And the new company is offering rad hard (ish) processors forspace I wish you luck for your 'educational discount' Would love to help, But with ITAR, you may have to shoot me. 73 David G0MRF Hello AMSAT-ers The University of Louisiana has a slot on a ULA mission to GTO launch to GTO for a 1u. WE are asking the community what payload should we fly, how to mitigate the radiation and who wants to help the students?

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