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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-06-28 09:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-06-28 09:00 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 Science Museum of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, telebridge via VK5ZAI (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Jeff Williams KD5TVQ (***) Contact is a go for: Wed 2016-07-06 14:28:20 UTC 77 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 Out of date webpages were removed and new ones have been added.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 2016-06-28 09:00 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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N8HM Field Day Report - 1B MDC
by Paul Stoetzer 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

I only worked satellites during Field Day and I ended up making 97 QSOs on 24 passes of all active 10 voice satellites during the 24 hour period. My score for AMSAT Field Day was 83 points. The breakdown by satellite is below: AO-7B - 2 QSOs AO-73 - 10 QSOs, 1 dupe AO-85 - 1 QSO, 5 excess FM QSOs FO-29 - 37 QSOs, 4 dupes LilacSat-2 - 1 QSO, 1 excess FM QSO SO-50 - 1 QSO Ukube-1 - 6 QSOs XW-2A - 11 QSOs XW-2C - 6 QSOs, 2 dupes XW-2F - 8 QSOs, 1 dupe Total - 83 valid phone QSOs, 8 dupes, 6 excess FM QSOs = 83 points The major difference between AMSAT and ARRL Field Day rules for satellite is that "satellite" is considered a single band while for AMSAT Field Day, each satellite transponder is considered a separate band. For example, if I worked WD9EWK in SSB on FO-29 and then in SSB on XW-2A, that would be worth two points under AMSAT rules, but only one point under ARRL rules. VE3YRA was my most worked station this year - I worked them on six different satellites. I was operating 1B from the parking lot/courtyard of my apartment building in southwest Washington, DC. The equipment I used was as follows: 2 x Yaesu FT-817 (with 3000 mAh internal LiPo batteries) Microset VUR-30 dual band amplifier 5100 mAh LiPo battery for the amplifier High Sierra Microwave LNAA432 preamplifier High Sierra Microwave LNAA146FIL filtered 2m preamp Arrow II 146/437-10BP Dual Band Handheld Yagi All of this was carried in a camera bag and held by shoulder straps while I held the Arrow in my hand. It was lots of fun, though tiring to head downstairs and outside for 24 different passes. I only slept for about 2.5 hours between 3:30am and 6:00am (and skipped a pair of AO-7 passes as a result). One big issue I notice during Field Day is the use of excess power on the transponders and the inexperience and/or inadequate stations used by many of the satellite operators. Many times I would call a station and not receive a reply or someone would start CQing or tuning up on top of me. This was especially noticeable on AO-73 and UKube-1 as the frequencies for the uplink are somewhat different than published. It sounded like many were trying to use their computers to correct for Doppler and did not have the experience necessary to set the uplink offset. I heard several "ditters" trying to find themselves for entire passes. Operating satellites isn't difficult, but it does take some practice and experience to understand the characteristics of each satellite. Trying to figure it out at 1800Z on Field Day Saturday is not the recipe for success. I would note that my excess FM QSOs (both ARRL and AMSAT rules allow only one QSO per FM satellite, AMSAT rules further limit APRS digipeater QSOs to one per satellite as well) were made because stations were calling and attempting to make a contact with no one else replying and I wanted to make sure they got their QSO. It's fun doing Field Day from home, but next year I think I would like to head to a Field Day site and help with satellite operations for a club (and maybe fill in elsewhere between passes). 73, Paul, N8HM

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Southern CA Satellite Presentations
by Kevin M 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

You can hit the delete button. Every time this person with a narcissistic bent blows off and gets corrected here people on this list cry 'take it elsewhere'. The problem is you are rewarding the offending behavior. You are playing right into the hands of the person CREATING the problem in the first place. "I'll do what I want with no repercussions, because if anyone tries to correct me the masses will tell them to stop picking on me and take it off list." Don't indiscriminately tell everyone to be quiet just because you don't want to hit the delete button. The offender here uses this very public forum to spread his disinformation, yet you want everyone to just allow him to do it without being corrected. He needs to be denied the positive public attention he craves or he will never stop. Put another way, how do you like it if I say to you, "No more. Take your neutral stance elsewhere. Some people here are trying to stop the encouragement & creation of the chaos that regular satellite users have to deal with daily because of one individuals misinformation. One he has demonstrated time and again has ulterior motives and that needs to be discouraged. Agreed. No more. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 27, 2016, at 08:59, Kelly Keeton <kellyrkeeton at gmail.com> wrote: > > Can we argue in a less public email reflector. > > We all get it - some people like ford some people like Chevy let's bury it or take it offline. My inbox is tired of this. > > Sent from a mobile device.

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FV80DX from FJ92PV in AO7
by Kevin M 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

Juan, my guess is that would be PV8DX Paulo who is located in PJ92pt according to QRZ. 73, Kevin N4UFO Hello, I worked FV80DX from FJ92PV through AO7 at 18.00z last Saturday 160625. I have not seen any comment about this station in amsat-bb and I can not find any info in the NET. Signal was clear and I could copy clearly its callsign and locator. Anybody knows about this station? Juan Antonio EA4CYQ

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Re: [amsat-bb] Southern CA Satellite Presentations
by Clint Bradford 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

>> ... you would quit telling people that full duplex is "not mandatory" for working sats. You've never attended one of my sat sessions. I have never uttered the sentence to groups, "It is not mandatory to work full-duplex. - PERIOD." My standard mantra for the easy FM birds is all over the place: "Ideally, we should be working the satellites in full duplex mode, where we can simultaneously listen to the downlink as we are transmitting. Although this method is preferred, it is not mandatory: Carefully monitor the downlink, and wait for a break in the conversations to announce yourself." People you might be hearing stepping on others are not following those instructions. And all my audiences are very graphically shown and told the reasons why working full- duplex is preferable. I didn't work full-duplex when speaking with Commander Wiseman - who was aboard the ISS at the time during Field Day 2014. If you haven't already given a presentation to your club on working the easy birds, I am available. Just send me an email message. Clint Bradford K6LCS (909) 999-SATS

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LOTW nick of UKUBE-1?
by Juan Antonio 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

Hello, I made my first QSO with this new bird, What nick should I use to load it in LOTW? Juan Antonio EA4CYQ --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electrónico en busca de virus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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FV80DX from FJ92PV in AO7
by Juan Antonio 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

Hello, I worked FV80DX from FJ92PV through AO7 at 18.00z last Saturday 160625. I have not seen any comment about this station in amsat-bb and I can not find any info in the NET. Signal was clear and I could copy clearly its callsign and locator. Anybody knows about this station? Juan Antonio EA4CYQ --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electrónico en busca de virus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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AMSAT Field Day Submissions
by Bruce 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

Now that Field Day is only a blur, it is time to prepare your score and submit it for the AMSAT Field Day results. All submissions are due by 11:59PM Central Time on Monday, July 11, 2016. I will then prepare the story and send it off to the editor of the AMSAT Journal who will have it in the upcoming issue that goes to press shortly thereafter. Please send your score sheet and photos to me kk5do(a)arrl.net or kk5do(a)amsat.org You will receive an email back that day or the next day when I have received your submission. If you do not receive the email from me, I did not get it. Don't assume that because you sent it that I have received it. Make sure you get the confirmation email. 73...bruce -- Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards AMSAT Board Alternate 2015-2016 ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT* Also live streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News http://www.arrl.org AMSAT on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/amsat

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FD: W1BIM 6A WMA
by Bill Acito 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

For the 13 of you who worked me (including W1AW) , thanks for the QSO's. We were in FN32, if you need the grid. I ran a modest satellite set-up for Central MA ARA; IC-820H and Arrow on a camera tripod. 12 Q's on FO-29, and 1 Q on AO-85. I left my spot at the 40 CW tent to work one AO85 pass and four FO-29 passes overnight and Sunday morning. I am a testament to prepping prior to FD -- spent much of May learning and practicing on FO-29; it became clear very early that I wasn't going to learn manual doppler control in a month, so I added SatPC32 to manage it and added an Icom "vox box" to the 820 to free up a hand and to allow me to hand control the Arrow and spin the VFO. Bill

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Any evidence of unscheduled voice QSOs between ISS SSTV transmissions?
by John Brier 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

I know the Cosmonauts sometimes make unscheduled voice QSOs between ISS SSTV transmissions but I can't remember exactly where I have read or heard that. Especially nice would be audio and/or video recordings with both the SSTV and voice QSO intact in the recording. Twitter, posts, blogs, articles etc are also very helpful. Thanks, John Brier KG4AKV

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