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EQUiSat Optical Beacon CubeSat
by Trevor . 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

Students at the Ivy League Brown University are developing an amateur radio satellite EQUiSat that will carry a Xenon Flash Tube (XFT) subsystem to act as an Optical Beacon that should be visible to the unaided eye of observers on Earth. See http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=10635 73 Trevor M5AKA AMSAK-UK http://www.amsat-uk.org/ ----

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Using 1.2Ghz
by Todd 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

Thinking about adding the 1.2Ghz module for my 9100. Prices have dropped a little and units will start become harder to find once production ends. Anybody using this band? I read it's used as a uplink frequency for some satellites. Any input appreciated.ToddAL7PX

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Outernet L-Band now carries AMSAT and ARISS weekly bulletins
by Robert Bruninga 17 Mar '18

17 Mar '18

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.

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-10-26 23:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-10-26 23:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Possible Russian contact with Kursk Tue 2015-10-27 11:35 UTC Dearborn Public Schools, Dearborn, Michigan, USA, direct via K8UTT The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for Option #3: Tue 2015-10-27 16:01:59 UTC 57 deg Watch for a live video stream that should start about 15:00 UTC: (***) http://www.dearbornschools.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbhrQiZ62LE Daggett Montessori School K-8, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, direct via K5COW The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for Option #4: Thu 2015-10-29 14:12:56 UTC 31 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 112 **************************************************************************** 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 2015-10-24 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 1001. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 966. (***) 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 2015-10-24 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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BY70-1
by PY5LF 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

Hi We had a low pass over here minutes ago and i felt the keps BY70-1 are wrong . I start to hear 25 seconds before . Does anyone feels the same ? 73

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Vacation from DK97.
by David Maciel (XE3DX) 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

Hello Guys I am on vacation in Ixtapa Zihuatanejo.Mexico, about DK97, I will be very few passes here, I think I will work little, I will handle SKED whenever possible, I will try to activate other grids in the area. A hug to everyone and Happy New Year ... only contact via twitter @xe3dx David Maciel XE3DX *http://www.qsl.net/xe3dx/ <http://www.qsl.net/xe3dx/>* *david.xe3dx(a)gmail.com <david.xe3dx(a)gmail.com>* Before printing, please think about your responsibility and commitment with the* ENVIRONMENT.* *Antes de Imprimir, *piensa en tu responsabilidad y compromiso con el *MEDIO AMBIENTE.*

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FT 817 WINDCAMP BATTERY
by jeffory broughton 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

received my new 3000 mah windcamp li ion battery for my FT 817.It arrived with NO instructions.Online instructions say to turn off new little switch on nEw cover plate while charging.It also says LED on wall wart is BI COLOR.Red while charging,green when done.Mine is always green .Anyone else experience this !thanks ! Jeff WB8RJY jeff broughton

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AO-73 status report
by GW1FKY＠aol.com 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

Just dropping a quick line to report that nothing has been heard ( Transponder or Dashboard ) from AO-73 during the evening passes over here in Europe. I just monitored the latest pass 2000 2015 hrs today Saturday 31st December and could hear nothing. I have posted to the satellite status web pages and other stations had also made reports for this pass and the previous one. I worked AO-73 this morning and it was active but observed very deep fading which I put down to the spin rate. Looking at the graph published the spin rate was now projected to be in the same ball part as when the satellite was launched and activated. Regards Ken GW1FKY

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M2LEO
by Steve A 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

Santa brought me a M2LEO-PACK. Yah. I will order a az/el rotor soon. And a controller. But what do you guys who have one use as a base? Steve W2AKK

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FW: BY70-1
by Jeff Griffin 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

I was hoping someone with a better memory, or Erich would chime in on this but here goes. I would first add this line to the Doppler.SQF file... BY70-1,436200,145920,FM,FM,Nor,0,0,Voice V/U Then add this line to the subTone.SQF file... BY70-1,67.0,$3F,1 (for an Icom, I'm not sure of other rigs, but you can watch your rigs display to see if the tone is toggled on/off) RTFM Then I download the keps from nasa.all (I was fudging them in for a day) and you should be good to go when you add BY70-1 73 Jeff kb2m -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Stephen E. Belter Sent: Friday, December 30, 2016 4:01 PM To: Mark Johns; AMSAT-BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 Mark, I also get the “E/A-Fehler 105.” error message when I add BY70-1 to a satellite group in SatPC32. Other people don’t have the problem. The error message (in German) means I/O Error 105 in the Delphi programming environment, which I believe is an error writing to a file. What I can’t yet answer is how to fix the problem. We may have a file permissions problem. Anybody have a solution or know where to look? 73, Steve N9IP -- Steve Belter, seb(a)wintek.com On 12/30/16, 1:20 PM, "AMSAT-BB on behalf of Mark Johns via AMSAT-BB" <amsat-bb-bounces(a)amsat.org on behalf of amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> wrote: >When I put keps for BY70-1 into SatPC32 (either yesterday's keps or >today's), it pops up a box that says, "E/A - Fehler 105." SatPC32 >freezes up. > >Does anyone know what this error code means? Anyone else getting it? > >-- > >Mark D. Johns, KØMDJ Decorah, Iowa USA EN43 >----------------------------------------------- >"Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, > you would stay out and your dog would go in." > ---Mark Twain > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Greg D <ko6th.greg(a)gmail.com> >To: AMSAT-BB <AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org> >Sent: Friday, December 30, 2016 12:43 PM >Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 > >18:20 pass not as strong as prior passes. Only got a few moments of >full-quieting audio. Contacts with W5ACM and KC7M. As before, the >second half of the pass was much better (nothing heard at all until >just before indicated TCA), so perhaps the bird is late compared to the >Keps. Worked it almost into the ground before LOS. I'm using >2016-083C, updated from Celestrak right before the pass. Playing with >polarization seemed to help, but I'm assuming the bird's antennas are >linear, right? Possibly my relays are getting dirty. > >One question, for scale... We know that the satellite will not last >"long", given it's crippled orbit. How long? Days? Weeks? Months? > >Greg KO6TH > > >Nico Janssen wrote: >> >> If you are still using yesterday's TLE set, then you will indeed find >> that BY70-1 is now about half a minute earlier. The problem is that >> the TLEs for this satellite are not stable yet in the first days >> after the launch. The right value for e.g. the decay rate has not yet >> been established. So for the time being you need to make sure you use >> the most recent TLE set that is available. >> >> By the way, the two SuperView satellites are now using their own >> propulsion system to increase their altitude, preventing an early decay. >> As BY70-1 does not have any propulsion, it is stuck in its low orbit. >> >> 73, >> Nico PA0DLO >> >> >> On 30-12-16 13:42, PY5LF wrote: >>> Hi >>> We had a low pass over here minutes ago and i felt the keps BY70-1 >>> are wrong . >>> I start to hear 25 seconds before . Does anyone feels the same ? >>> 73 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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? 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