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Re: [amsat-bb] Solar Eclipse Reservations 2017 AMSAT
by Rick Tejera 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

Bob, I presume this is similar to the message we sent during the Venus transit? Rick Tejera (K7TEJ) Saguaro Astronomy Club www.saguaroastro.org Thunderbird Radio Club www.w7tbc.org 623-572-0713 623-203-4121 (cell) SaguaroAstro(a)cox.net -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Robert Bruninga Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 5:10 PM To: amsat bb Subject: [amsat-bb] Solar Eclipse Reservations 2017 AMSAT AMSAT, On APRS we are probably going to encourage people to post ECLIPSE objects when they are at totality so everyone can see it move across the country in real time on their APRS radios. DX'ers will probably be out in force too.. Bob, WB4APR _______________________________________________ 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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Austin Summerfest
by popopaige＠att.net 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px #715FFA solid !important; padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white !important; } anyone heading to austin for their summerfest august 5-6? i was thinking of heading there. 73...bruce Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

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Re: [amsat-bb] ISS and NO-84 at the same time last night...
by Richard Tejera 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

I'm sorry I missed it yesterday, but I was a bit under the weather. I'll try to be out for tonight's passes. I'd like to get NO-84 in the log. 73 Rick Tejera K7TEJ Saguaro Astronomy Club www.SaguaroAstro.org Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club www.w7tbc.org On June 23, 2016, at 07:19, "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)" <amsat-bb(a)wd9ewk.net> wrote: Hi! Last night around 0150 UTC (6.50pm PDT), we had a rare event - both the ISS and NO-84 were passing by at basically the same time, and in the same general direction. Both came out of the northwest, sweeping down the west coast and ending up in the south-southeast. NO-84 was higher than the ISS, and a few of us tried to make some double-hops through both. Fernando NP4JV and I started with a path RS0ISS,APRSAT to force our packets first through the ISS digipeater, and then through NO-84. I thought that it might work better having ISS retransmit the packets first, then go silent as NO-84 did its retransmissions. This did not work as well as I had hoped. Fernando did not see any of his packets make the double-hop. I saw one of my position packets make the double-hop near the end of the pass, but that wasn't picked up by any of the Internet gateways listening on 145.825 MHz. On my TH-D72A HT, I first saw "My Position via RS0ISS", followed a moment later by "My Position via ARISS". It is unfortunate that the TH-D72A won't store my own position in the list of stations heard, as many of the Yaesu APRS-ready radios do, as this means I don't have any evidence to show that packet making the double-hop. In any event, it was fun to give that a try. There may have been one or two other stations that had packets make the double-hop, along with what I saw for my position packet. Beyond the double-hop experiment, this was another opportunity to practice making QSOs using APRS messaging through the space-based digipeaters. I was able to make quick QSOs with NP4JV (Fernando is in southern Arizona, near the USA/Mexico border) and KG6BFD in California. I used only my TH-D72A HT and Elk log periodic antenna as my station, and Fernando wrote about his APRS station here on the AMSAT-BB last night. This is one way to get that 100-point ARRL Field Day bonus for making a satellite contact, something I did during last year's Field Day. I will be out this evening for the west-coast ISS and NO-84 passes around 0055-0125 UTC (5.55-6.25pm PDT). This time, the two will not pass over at the same time, so there will be a chance to make QSOs through each of them during their passes. If anyone out west is in the footprint on these passes and wants to try to make a QSO with me, please look for WD9EWK-9 - and be ready with APRS messages for the QSO. My TH-D72A won't show freeform text entered into a terminal program, but will display (and store) APRS messages addressed to my call. From a terminal program, you could send me APRS messages using this format: :WD9EWK-9 :Message follows the second colon A colon goes before my call sign, a space and a colon follows the call, and then the text of the short message. My replies to you would appear in this format, with the other station's call in place of WD9EWK-9. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK _______________________________________________ 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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ISS and NO-84 at the same time last night...
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

Hi! Last night around 0150 UTC (6.50pm PDT), we had a rare event - both the ISS and NO-84 were passing by at basically the same time, and in the same general direction. Both came out of the northwest, sweeping down the west coast and ending up in the south-southeast. NO-84 was higher than the ISS, and a few of us tried to make some double-hops through both. Fernando NP4JV and I started with a path RS0ISS,APRSAT to force our packets first through the ISS digipeater, and then through NO-84. I thought that it might work better having ISS retransmit the packets first, then go silent as NO-84 did its retransmissions. This did not work as well as I had hoped. Fernando did not see any of his packets make the double-hop. I saw one of my position packets make the double-hop near the end of the pass, but that wasn't picked up by any of the Internet gateways listening on 145.825 MHz. On my TH-D72A HT, I first saw "My Position via RS0ISS", followed a moment later by "My Position via ARISS". It is unfortunate that the TH-D72A won't store my own position in the list of stations heard, as many of the Yaesu APRS-ready radios do, as this means I don't have any evidence to show that packet making the double-hop. In any event, it was fun to give that a try. There may have been one or two other stations that had packets make the double-hop, along with what I saw for my position packet. Beyond the double-hop experiment, this was another opportunity to practice making QSOs using APRS messaging through the space-based digipeaters. I was able to make quick QSOs with NP4JV (Fernando is in southern Arizona, near the USA/Mexico border) and KG6BFD in California. I used only my TH-D72A HT and Elk log periodic antenna as my station, and Fernando wrote about his APRS station here on the AMSAT-BB last night. This is one way to get that 100-point ARRL Field Day bonus for making a satellite contact, something I did during last year's Field Day. I will be out this evening for the west-coast ISS and NO-84 passes around 0055-0125 UTC (5.55-6.25pm PDT). This time, the two will not pass over at the same time, so there will be a chance to make QSOs through each of them during their passes. If anyone out west is in the footprint on these passes and wants to try to make a QSO with me, please look for WD9EWK-9 - and be ready with APRS messages for the QSO. My TH-D72A won't show freeform text entered into a terminal program, but will display (and store) APRS messages addressed to my call. From a terminal program, you could send me APRS messages using this format: :WD9EWK-9 :Message follows the second colon A colon goes before my call sign, a space and a colon follows the call, and then the text of the short message. My replies to you would appear in this format, with the other station's call in place of WD9EWK-9. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK

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SWAYAM beacon, text and sound record
by Jean-Pierre Godet 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

Hi my friends, The SWAYAM 437.025 CW beacon was received here in western Europe this morning, begining after 0950 UTC, orbit number 20: five characters strings received, each string, lasting maybe ten seconds, including twelve Morse characters, the strings being spaced from each other by about one minute and a half: SWAYAMSNBNNN SWAYAMSNVNNN SWAYAMSNMNNN SWAYAMSNUNNN SWAYAMSNSNNN (only the ninth lettre changes, the one before the three last NNN) Here is a short sample of the record: http://f5yg.pagesperso-orange.fr/incoming/SWAYAM_orb20_23jun2016.mp3 I removed the large intervals between each CW beacon strings to shorten the file. I apologize for the lack of Dopper shift correction as the frequency and tle need now to be adjusted more precisely. :-) Best 73 ! Jean-Pierre F5YG

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A frugal approach to portable space APRS ops
by Fernando Ramirez 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

Good evening, For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been "experimenting” by using an Icom IC-2820h, an Elk Antenna, a Mobilinkd Bluetooth TNC and APRSDroid on my phone, to work the International Space Station digipeater (and PSat). I am happy to report that it works! I have made several contacts, some that have provided me with new grid squares. Besides the radio, the rest of the setup can be a budget friendly alternative to $500+ APRS-ready equipment. The Mobillinkd TNC, plus cables, can be obtained for less than $100 dollars. I prefer the Icom transceiver due to local RF sources that overwhelm the front end of cheap Chinese handheld radios. I am positive that better handheld devices will work just fine. The TNC is connected to the radio via the audio or data port and connects to the Android device via Bluetooth. The 2820h uses a DIN6 connector cable, compatible with other radios such as the Yaesu FT-817 and 857. APRSDroid acts as the main interface and has features that you will find on an APRS radio. Just enter the correct path and you will be able to work terrestrial and space APRS. The TNC can also be connected to your Bluetooth capable computer (dongles will work). I tried it with UISS and AGWPE and it worked perfectly. Today, I was able to work a simultaneous ISS and PSAT pass and heard packets from both spacecrafts. I saw messages from stations from Canada to Mexico and worked WD9EWK in Phoenix, 259 km north of my QTH. I also heard double-hop packets from K5UBQ in Texas and XE2OCM in Monterrey, Mexico. 73! Fernando, NP4JV Sent from Mail for Windows 10

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-06-23 07:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-06-23 07:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Ufa, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Oleg Skripochka RN3FU Contact is a go for Thu 2016-06-30 07:55 UTC Justus-Knecht-Gymnasium, Bruchsal, Germany, direct via DN1JKG The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Jeff Williams KD5TVQ Contact is a go for: Fri 2016-07-01 08:31:23 UTC 74 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. **************************************************************************** *** All ARISS contacts are made via the Ericsson 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: Gaston ON4WF with 121 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 119 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 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-06-23 07:00 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 1064. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1029. 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 2016-06-14 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. 47 on orbit Jeff Williams KD5TVQ Oleg Skripochka RN3FU Aleksey Ovchinin **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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[Video] TOMSK Bandit ISS Repeater
by John Brier 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svnB7h_k7_M If you liked this video please subscribe to me: https://www.youtube.com/c/SpaceComms1?sub_confirmation=1 This was recorded on May 10th and 11th of 2016 in Raleigh, North Carolina. For more info on TOMSK TP-120 see this webpage: https://amsat-uk.org/2016/04/30/tomsk-tpu-120-cubesat/ For recordings and transcriptions of many (all?) of the TP-120 messages see this webpage: http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=71801 73, John Brier KG4AKV

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Swayam
by Jean-Pierre Godet 22 Jun '16

22 Jun '16

CW beacon received around 2055 UTC orbit nr 12. More on next pass tomorrow morning. 73 ! J-P F5YG

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Telefunken CF300 needed
by Jim White 22 Jun '16

22 Jun '16

I'd appreciate any leads to a source of Telefunken CF300 dual gate MosFETs used in the old Landwehr UHF preamps. We are trying to resurrect one here. Jim jim(a)coloradosatellite.com

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