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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-10-20 07:30 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 20 Oct '16

20 Oct '16

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-10-20 07:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: TBD **************************************************************************** ** 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 2016-10-20 07:30 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. 47 on orbit Jeff Williams KD5TVQ Oleg Skripochka RN3FU Aleksey Ovchinin Exp. 48 on orbit Anatoly Ivanishin Kate Rubins KG5FYJ Takuya Onishi KF5LKS **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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En15 activation
by Chad Phillips 20 Oct '16

20 Oct '16

I will be in en15 tomorrow (Thursday) for a business project. I plan on being active in So50 in the 00:00z pass. May be able to activate en14 on Friday morning. Chad KG0MW Sent from my iPhone

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Re: [amsat-bb] Tracking Non Earth Orbit Spacecraft......how?
by Edward R Cole 19 Oct '16

19 Oct '16

Its been awhile since the Manfred Memorial Moon Mission 4M, but I tracked it on its loop around the moon on 145.980-MHz using JT65B digital mode which is std for 2m-eme (so there were a lot of stations capable of receiving the signal). I used my 4x M2-XP20 (four x-yagi) eme array for tracking. Luxspace who managed the mission, provided az-el and Doppler predicts but there was a lot of signal searching as predicts didn't exactly match the actual trajectory path. But it was certainly fun and real magic to watch the signal disappear when it passed behind the Moon! CQC will be a whole 'nuther experience. I'm planning for that as details develop. look under March - 2015 http://www.kl7uw.com/mw10g.htm 73, Ed - KL7UW http://www.kl7uw.com "Kits made by KL7UW" Dubus Mag business: dubususa(a)gmail.com

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Tracking Non Earth Orbit Spacecraft......how?
by Zach Leffke 19 Oct '16

19 Oct '16

Hello all, This might be slightly off topic, but I'm betting someone on this list can point me in the right direction. I'm looking for ways to track spacecraft that are not in Earth Orbit (NEO?...did I just invent another acronym?...probably not.). I'm trying to figure out ways to track man made space vehicles sent to places like the Moon, Mars, the Lagrange Points, and beyond. As I understand it, TLEs + SGP4 are not the appropriate model for things not in the vicinity of Earth. I'm hoping to find a similar technique though for looking up current orbital parameters for the Non-Earth satellites (like pulling TLEs from celestrak) in some kind of database that contains current elements for the spacecraft (NASA servers somewhere?), and then compute pointing angles from a location on earth so I can figure when and where to point an antenna to receive signals from these spacecraft. I believe this may be relevant to those on this list that might be interested in tracking the Cube Quest Challenge amateur radio cubesat that will be sent to the moon in the near future. After the trans-lunar injection burn, the cubesat will be ejected from the deployer. I'd like to be able to track this satellite as it travels to the moon, and potentially help receive data from the bird's 10 GHz Downlink. But.......where do I point my antenna and when? For spacecraft that are already orbiting the Moon, OK, easy enough. Unless the antenna has a very narrow beamwidth, I can use any 'ole EME tracking package to point my antenna 'at the moon' and with the beamwidths I'm working with, the satellite is probably in the main beam. But what about the initial journey to the moon? Also, for the CQC, the cubesat will not immediately enter Lunar orbit (that is where the 'Challenge' part comes in). So simply pointing at the Moon may not work reliably. To get a little more detail......but hopefully not too much...... I like using a python module called 'pyephem' for all (well...most) things related to antenna pointing. This handy module works well with TLE formats for Earth orbiters, contains a built in database for objects in the solar system, and a decent number of 'fixed' celestial objects like stars. It has the ability to import new objects in the 'Xephem' format, for things like comets and other bodies. If possible I'd like to use this feature to track other space probes like the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, various Mars missions, Satellites at Lagrange Points (ACE/DISCOVR), etc. etc. Does anyone on the list have experience with this type of thing that they might be willing to share? I believe folks from AMSAT-DL participated in the ISEE-3 reboot mission, so how did they know when and where to point the Bochum antenna for this? Again, I'm looking for a technique that hopefully involves downloading current 'orbital parameters' of some standard format type (Like TLEs from celestrak, but for non Earth Orbiters) and then importing those parameters into pyephem (by possibly converting whatever gets downloaded into the 'Xephem' format?) in order to integrate this kind of capability into my current, python-based, tracking software. Does anyone know of any publicly available databases that store current orbital or tracking data for non-earth orbiting spacecraft? Any tutorials out there about the algorithms used to compute deep space spacecraft position from the orbital elements and thus the pointing angles (Like SGP4 + coordinate system math, but for non-earth orbiters)? Any software libraries anyone is familiar with for this (I prefer python, but am open to other languages)? Any and all advice, thoughts, info, papers, links, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Zach, KJ4QLP -- Research Associate Ted & Karyn Hume Center for National Security & Technology Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Work Phone: 540-231-4174 Cell Phone: 540-808-6305

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VP5/AA4FL LOTW
by John Papay 19 Oct '16

19 Oct '16

Jay, VP5/AA4FL, is doing a great job working FM and SSB Half Duplex with a FT817. I worked him this morning from Arizona (K8YSE/7) and uploaded the qso to LOTW. The contact was confirmed 62 minutes after it was made! Congratulations to Jay for letting us know that we are in the log! Be sure to work him as VP5 is rare on satellites. 73, John K8YSE/7 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Rooms Available
by Martha 19 Oct '16

19 Oct '16

AMSAT has 7 rooms available at the DoubleTree in Galveston for the AMSAT BOD meeting. The cost is $119 for single or double. The dates are Tues 11/8 - Thurs 11/10. Minimum stay is 2 nights. If you are interested in staying with the group several days before the cruise , please call Martha for the special code (301-822-4376) -- 73- Martha

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repair of G5500
by Jim White 19 Oct '16

19 Oct '16

Who repairs Yeasu G5500's now days?

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R: ISS via UISS & AGW Broken
by Claudio Ariotti - IK1SLD 19 Oct '16

19 Oct '16

Hello Ted, I found this: AGWPE tries to start but then a "Copyright Violation" box appears. I click "OK", but the program then closes. The AGWPE.SYS file is missing from your AGWPE folder. You can reinstall the entire program from the zip file or just theAGWPE.SYS file. (The AGWPE.SYS file has the date of the program, so don't use the AGWPE.SYS file from another version. It will display the wrong version date when you start the program.) Here you can found all information about AGW install http://www.k9pq.com/2009/08/blog-post-11-packet-radio-by-agw-packet.html?m=1 73' Claudio IK1SLD -------- Messaggio originale -------- Da: Ted <k7trkradio(a)charter.net> Data: A: 'AMSAT-BB' <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Oggetto: [amsat-bb] ISS via UISS & AGW Broken Hello, In the past I was successfully digipeating the ISS using my KPC3+, UISS and AGW Packet engine. After a MB and HD change, I lost the setup. I also lost AGW or at least messed it up, so I downloaded again. On start, I get a 'copyright violation' box and it closes. So, how can I get past the 'copyright violation' message or is there a better way to digipeat using other programs Any help appreciated 73, Ted K7TRK _______________________________________________ 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] ISS via UISS & AGW Broken
by skristof＠etczone.com 19 Oct '16

19 Oct '16

This page, from the TAPR website has a link: http://www.tapr.org/pipermail/aprssig/2015-October/044896.html I cannot attest to the safety of the site, but TAPR is, of course, a reputable organization. I don't remember where I downloaded DireWolf from. It was a while ago. Hopefully, other AMSAT folks can step up and confirm this site or offer an alternative. Steve On 2016-10-18 20:46, Ted wrote: > Tnx, Steve. Would you know of a good safe site to download direwolf? > > 73, Ted > > -----Original Message----- > From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > skristof(a)etczone.com > Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 5:30 PM > To: Ted > Cc: 'AMSAT-BB' > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ISS via UISS & AGW Broken > > I use DireWolf and UISS for packet via ISS. I've never tried anything else, > so I can't say if it's better or not, but it works fine for me. > > Steve AI9IN > > On 2016-10-18 20:03, Ted wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> In the past I was successfully digipeating the ISS using my KPC3+, >> UISS and AGW Packet engine. After a MB and HD change, I lost the >> setup. I also lost AGW or at least messed it up, so I downloaded >> again. On start, I get a 'copyright violation' box and it closes. >> >> So, how can I get past the 'copyright violation' message or is there a >> better way to digipeat using other programs >> >> Any help appreciated >> >> 73, Ted >> >> K7TRK >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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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AMSAT Forum at the 2016 Melbourne Hamfest - Friday, Oct. 21, 2016
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 19 Oct '16

19 Oct '16

The Melbourne, FL Hamfest will be held this Friday and Saturday, Oct. 21 and 22, 2016. Melbourne Hamfest is one of the largest hamfests held in Florida and is located about an hour southeast of Orlando, between Cocoa Beach and Vero Beach. The hamfest is scheduled to open at 1:00pm on Friday afternoon giving you plenty of time to visit the tailgate and tables inside before the AMSAT Forum which you won't want to miss. We've all been hearing about a Geosynchronous satellite project in the works The AMSAT Forum will be presented by Wally Ritchie, WU1Y on Friday, Oct. 21 at 4:30pm in Forum Room A located in the NE Room of the Auditorium. Wally's talk is titled AMSAT 4B - The Geosynchronous Ham Satellite for the Americas. Wally is deeply involved in development tasks dealing with AMSAT 4B and will discuss it's current status and looks forward to answering your questions concerning the project. AMSAT plans to be on hand on Saturday in the main auditorium with AMSAT materials and answering general questions you may have current AMSAT operations. General information on the Melbourne, FL Hamfest and it's location can be found at www.pcars.org. The weather is supposed to be ideal both days. Hope to see everyone there. Dave, AA4KN AMSAT area coordinator in Central Florida ARISS mentor ARISS PR --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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