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

W1AW/4 Orlando Hamcation Demo
by John Papay 13 Feb '16

13 Feb '16

Thanks to everyone who called in to work K8YSE portable at the Orlando Hamcation. We had a great time working everyone on SO-50 and FO-29. The crowds were big and the weather outside was sunny and warm Although there was a lot of interest in seeing our station, 9 year old Hope, KM4IPF operating W1AW/4 on SO-50 definitely stole the show. Before the pass I watched her pull the compass out of a bag and tell her father where to point the antenna at AOS and where it would finish up at LOS. She used two HT's for the operation. Dad held the antenna for her as she made contact after contact. She had a crowd around her and we had the IC910 set up about 40' away and our crowd was listening to her on our setup. Steve, N9IP, was the antenna man at our station. Near the end of the pass I called her on the 910H and got a confirmation from W1AW/4! We had a signal path hundreds of miles long but were only 40' apart! Rick WA4NVM provided a recording of the pass and it is up on my website: http://www.papays.com/sat/general.html Frank K9CIS also sent in some recordings of our FO-29 passes which I'll put on the website later. Anyone needing confirmation of a Hamcation contact with K8YSE on LOTW, just send me the qso details and I'll upload it. I can also do a qsl card on request. There is nothing like a good demo to generate interest in satellites. Just set up a station and the crows starts gathering. Thanks to everyone who helped with the effort. 73, John K8YSE

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Flex 5000A For Sale
by Richard Lawn 13 Feb '16

13 Feb '16

I'm looking to trade or sell my Flex 5000A that is bundled with ATU, 2nd RX and V/U module. I'd trade for a K3. Contact me off list if you are interested in either a purchase or have a K3 to trade. 73 Rick, W2JAZ

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AO-7 from GH53
by Ronnan Werneck 13 Feb '16

13 Feb '16

Hi, I'll be active on AO-7 next orbit from my QTH grid GH53. Hope to work some of you in a few minutes. 73 Ron PP2RON

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W1AW/4 on SO-50
by James Lea - WX4TV 13 Feb '16

13 Feb '16

Hope (KM4IPF) will be working as W1AW/4 from the Orlando Hamcation on SO-50 this afternoon from 13:50-14:04 EDT. EL98 James Lea Sent from my iPhone

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Possible KMS-4 Radio Reception w/ video
by Scott 13 Feb '16

13 Feb '16

At approximately 0111 UTC 12-Feb-2016, I was monitoring a wide spectrum in the area of 460 Mhz in hopes of seeing a signal with doppler movement that might correspond to the TLE track of the KMS-4 satellite launched by North Korea. A very strong signal appeared up near 465.985 and tracked as you would expect. Since the signal strength and doppler movement correlated nicely to the track on Orbitron, I suppose there is a decent chance that I was actually receiving KMS-4. Naturally I forgot to record the IF until well through the pass, but I don't really expect to be able to decode the signal anyway. I'm not even sure if there was anything but a carrier, to be honest. On the outside chance that I did see anything on this pass, I was recording the screen and have uploaded the video to YouTube. Orbitron is very small on the right side as I wanted to have as much area as possible to watch for a signal in HDSDR. The max elevation on the pass was 55 degrees. Antenna was a fixed, omni-directional QFH built for 432 Mhz. The radio was the SDRPlay RSP. If anyone would like to see what the signal looked & sounded like, the video is at: https://youtu.be/9JiEyUM-8U4 (please jump to the 4:40 mark where the signal first appears) Oh, and sorry about the manual tuning... not knowing the frequency beforehand, I did not have the software setup to track the doppler automatically. 73! -Scott, K4KDR Montpelier, VA USA

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-02-12 20:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 12 Feb '16

12 Feb '16

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-02-12 20:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Oasis Academy Brightstowe, Bristol, UK, direct via GB1OAB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be GB1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Fri 2016-02-19 14:23:23 UTC 78 deg UAH Space Hardware Club, Huntsville, Alabama, direct via K4UAH The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN Contact is a go for: Fri 2016-02-19 17:20:14 UTC 72 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 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 116 Francesco IKØWGF with 116 **************************************************************************** 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 2016-02-12 20:00 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 1023. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 988. 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, 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 2016-02-12 05:00 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. 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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FS: ICOM IC-275A and IC-475H Tranceivers
by Frank Westphal 12 Feb '16

12 Feb '16

Sorry Dirk, both radios are long gone to new homes. Frank On 2/12/16 1:10 PM, amsat-bb-request(a)amsat.org wrote: > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 09:36:17 +0000 > From: Dirk Jarrett<dirkhaminit(a)hotmail.com> > To:"amsat-bb(a)amsat.org" <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] FS: ICOM IC-275A and IC-475H Tranceivers > Message-ID: > <CY1PR12MB0393929F534BD7B243072D77A5A90(a)CY1PR12MB0393.namprd12.prod.outlook.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi Frank, a long long shot here. I assume you sold the icom 275,475. LOL i am trying to find a PAIR. Thanks, Dirk > > Sent from my iPad

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Updates to AMSAT KEP Distribution - 2-12-2016
by Ray Hoad 12 Feb '16

12 Feb '16

The following satellites have been added to this week's KEP Distribution AGGIESAT4 - NORAD ID # 41313 KWANGMYONGSONG4 - NORAD ID # 41332 Per AMSAT-BB the North Korean KWANGMYONGSONG4, NORAD ID # 41332, (also known as DPRK Brilliant Star) has achieved a stable orbit, but has so far remained silent. We will continue to include the TLEs for this satellite for the time being. See http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-satellite-orbit-idUSKCN0VI1XN for more info. Per AMSAT-BB the launch of ChubuSat-2 and ChubuSat-3 is postponed due to weather issues. No new launch date has been set. Ray Hoad WA5QGD

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Office Closed
by Martha 12 Feb '16

12 Feb '16

The AMSAT Office will be closed on Monday, February 15th in observance of Presidents' Day -- 73- Martha

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ARISS UK release 77 minute video of Tim Peake GB1SS and RMS
by M5AKA 12 Feb '16

12 Feb '16

ARISS UK release 77 minute video of Tim Peake GB1SS and Royal Masonic School for Girls GB1RMS amateur radio contact event http://amsat-uk.org/2016/02/12/ariss-uk-release-full-video-of-tim-peake-and… Southampton University students receive Tim Peake http://amsat-uk.org/2016/02/12/southampton-university-students-receive-tim-… Radio ham interviewed about Tim Peake on BBC Radio Norfolk http://amsat-uk.org/2016/02/12/radio-ham-on-bbc-radio-norfolk/ 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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