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

ARISS Audio for Thursday Contact
by John Spasojevich 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Please join us in listening to the ISS contact with participants at Christ The King School, Rutland, Vermont, USA on Thursday 4 FEB 2016 AOS is anticipated at 18:28 UTC The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and VK5KHZ in Australia. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. Audio from this contact will be fed into the: EchoLink *AMSAT* (101377) Server IRLP Node 9010 Discovery Reflector Streaming Audio at: https://sites.google.com/site/arissaudio/ Audio on Echolink & web stream is generally transmitted around 20 minutes prior to the contact taking place so that you can hear some of the preparation that occurs. IRLP will begin just prior to the ground station call to the ISS. Breaks on Echolink and IRLP are done manually approximately every third question, connected repeaters may time out. ** Contact times are approximate. If the ISS executes a reboost or other manoeuvre, the AOS (Acquisition Of Signal) time may alter by a few minutes ** 73, John - AG9D ARISS Audio Distribution

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-02-01 19:30 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-02-01 19:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: 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 Royal Masonic School for Girls, Rickmansworth, UK, direct via GB1RMS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be GB1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-02-11 18:11:09 UTC 88 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 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 2016-02-01 19:30 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 1020. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 985. 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 2016-01-31 04:30 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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Reminder Email for Development Preferences Survey (PhD Research)
by Brandon Shirley 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

To whom it may concern, I'm Brandon Shirley, I am conducting these surveys for my PhD research at Utah State University. I really need your participation. There is a chance to win some gift cards. Please see below for more information and the link to take the survey. The survey should only take about 10 minutes. Reading this wordy email will probably take more time than actually taking the survey. Thanks. *** This is a reminder email for the Development Preferences Survey. Please note that the Background section of the survey is the same for all surveys, it establishes your background while allowing the results to remain anonymous. *** Dr. Stephen Clyde & Brandon Shirley in the Department of Computer Science at Utah State University are conducting a set of surveys as part of Brandon's PhD research to find out more about software development practices and attitudes in the space industry. You have received this email because of your interest in or involvement with the space industry. We greatly need your participation. We are asking that anyone that has insight into in software development that relates to space industry participate in this survey. The beginning of the survey has background questions that will give context to your responses. The survey set is currently made of six surveys, listed below, that will be distributed over the course of a few months. You have a chance at receiving a gift card for participating in this survey as well as a chance at receiving a gift card for your overall participation in the entire survey set. There will be seven drawings for gift cards: one drawing for each survey and one overall drawing for the survey set. For each survey-specific drawing, two participants in that survey will be selected at random to receive a $25 gift card. For the overall drawing, two participants from the pool of all participants of any survey will be selected to receive a $200 gift card. At the end of this survey, you will be redirected to a webpage that asks for an email address. You must enter a valid email address to be considered for this surveys drawing or the overall survey set drawing. Each survey stands on its own: opting to not participate in one survey does not exclude you in any way from participating in any subsequent surveys. Likewise, participating in one survey does not obligate you to participate in any subsequent surveys. The surveys are as follows and will be distributed in the following order: SISDPA : Core Concepts SISDPA : Development Preferences <========= We are here ========= SISDPA : Open Systems Architecture and Modularity SISDPA : Security SISDPA : Reuse, Interoperability, Portability, Code Complexity SISDPA : Network You can you use the link below to access the Development Preferences survey. We greatly need your participation and your responses to the surveys will make a meaningful contribution to this research while allowing you an opportunity to reflect on you current software development practices and how these practices affect the projects on which you have and will work. This survey set will be used to determine the path of future research, as well as increase the body of knowledge that relates to software development practices and attitudes in the space industry. You can access the Development Preferences survey of the Space Industry Software Development Practices and Attitudes survey set using the following link: https://usu.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3XgKdvBZTEVC7n7 You can also copy and paste the above URL into your address bar if you prefer not to click on the link. We plan to send out one reminder email a week until the survey closes. The duration of the survey will be two to three weeks. You will receive the reminder email regardless of where or not you have participated in a survey. The subject of the email will read "Reminder Email..." for these weekly reminders, and "New Distribution..." at the start of a new survey. See http://brandon.bluezone.usu.edu/Files/LOISpaceSoftwareAttitudes_Final.pdf for the Letter of Intent (LOI) that explains your role as a participant should you choose to participate. If you have questions please direct them to Brandon Shirley, via email b.l.s(a)aggiemail.usu.edu, the LOI lists additional contact information. Once the survey set is closed, we will analyze the data, and generate results. We will seek publication of these results in a conference or journal. This is a legitimate request for you participation, if you have any questions about the validity of this email you may refer to the Letter of Intent, contact Brandon Shirley, via email b.l.s(a)aggiemail.usu.edu, or Utah State University's Internal Review Board administrator at (435) 797 - 0567 or email irb(a)usu.edu. V/R, Brandon Shirley, MS b.l.s(a)aggiemail.usu.edu Please note that if you are also a member of one of the other mailing lists we are using to distribute these surveys then you may receive multiple notices and reminders about the different surveys. We do not have access to the member listings for the different mailing lists. We appreciate your understanding.

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France (IN94) on AO-07
by F6GLJ 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hello everybody. I'll be on AO-07 between 17: 55 and 18:06, very good pass for qso France SA and France NA. I hope meet you 73 Qro de F6GLJ https://www.qrz.com/db/F6GLJ

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Listening to Russian EVAs
by John Brier 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Anyone going to try and listen to Wednesday's EVA? http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-television-to-air-russian-spacewalk They start at 8:10 a.m. Eastern for a 5.5 hour EVA and the only pass I have is at 16:43 so I won't be able to hear anything, which I've never even tried, but I'm learning about it by reviewing the following URLs: http://issfanclub.com/voice-reports-noham "Good reception in Sweden on 143.625, 130.167, and 121.750 during docking." http://issfanclub.com/node/40396 http://issfanclub.com/frequencies https://soundcloud.com/liamcarbin/russian-eva-37-27-12-13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6qnhrSDjC8 73, John KG4AKV

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AO-7
by Gustavo Nicolau 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hello to all, gud window to NA today after 19:40 utc. Look to SA, 73 de PTBM.

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EUROPEANS SCHEDULES FOR 6W8CK
by afesan＠gmail.com 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hi all, I´m making the ***EUROPEAN*** list for possible schedules with 6W8CK, Conrad, in Senegal. So,EUROPEAN stations, can send me an email to see the possibilties. Today, 1th February the first list with ONLY European stations were sent,and checked by 6W8CK to try it. It was accepted. USA stations lists are taken by Frank, K4FEG and I believe, Paul N8HM. I will not take lists for USA stations. Read carefully the paragraph where a simulation pass between your grid and Conrad`s gridsquare IK14MH must be done for you, (the interested statio) and the send me the Satellite-Day-Hour UTC proposal .. Second: If your proposal is approved, I´ll sent back an email confirming it to you.Conrad says YOU MAKE THE CALL..you CALL and he will be listening trying to catch you. You can send me several passes proposals in order to try the QSO ..But when QSO is done.. DON¨T TRY AGAIN . Please, understand that there are more stations waiting for scheds and few days. Thanks for your patience. I must attend my daily work and in free time I´m behind the PC writing to all. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conrad, 6W8CK , will be in Senegal until mid-February 2016. He will try to be active on CW near 145.930 on AO-7 and 435.830 on FO-29 during the afternoons, but may also be available on late night / early morning passes for skeds. Conrad is using a Yaesu FT-736R and an Elk antenna mounted up 5 meter above ground. He does occasionally lose power, so keep this in mind if you do not hear him on a particular pass. QSL only via the DARC bureau to his home call, DF7OL. He may also return to Senegal from November 2016 - February 2017. Sometimes , he can take some private schedules .If you want an schedule with him,make a simulation of a satellite pass ( AO-7,FO-29) between your Gridsquare and the Conrad gridsquare : IK14MH . Then choose what you consider is the best one opportunity of QSO. Write the satellite-day-hour UTC you consider it´s the best option for the QSO and send it to me. Send it to: ea1iw(a)amsat.org ea1iw(a)ure.es Then I will forward your QSO proposal to Conrad and he can decide if possible. If It´s OK, I´ll send you back again an email confirming the sched with Conrad. That´s all ! 73,s¡ Antonio (EA1IW)

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RE; SatPC32 CAT control and HDSDR via VSPE (Tom Schuessler)
by Tom Schuessler 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Thanks to the response from the group. The V+ setting worked fine. I knew I was missing something. The CAT control via the Virtual Serial Port Emulation software is a bit finicky and sometimes may take 5 or 10 seconds to update SatPC32 as Doppler changes, Then it will seem to catch up and be pretty current. Oh well. I think though it will work for what I need. Thanks to all. Tom Schuessler 2713 Lake Gardens Drive Irving, Texas 75060 972-986-7456 214-403-1464 (Cell) n5hyp(a)arrl.net

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