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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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BY70-1 decay estimate
by Nico Janssen 18 Feb '17

18 Feb '17

All, If the current trend continues, BY70-1 may be expected to decay and burn up in the atmosphere by mid-February. The apogee of the satellite has decreased from initially 520 km to now 426 km and the perigee has decreased from initially 216 km to now 208 km. 73, Nico PA0DLO

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Re: [amsat-bb] FoxTelem error
by Alan 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Hi Kevin, I saw that error message once several version ago, but have never seen it again. A couple of questions. Which virtual audio cable system are you using? Version of OS, including "bitness?" 73s, Alan WA4SCA <-----Original Message----- <From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of kevin schuchmann <Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 1:02 PM <To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> <Subject: [amsat-bb] foxtelem error < <Hi, < Does anyone else get a error message occasionally when stopping and <starting the decode on foxtelem? I have seen the following error on <multiple pc's < <javax.sound.sampled.LineUnavailableException:line with format PCM_SIGNED <48000.0Hz, 16 bit,stereo, 4 bytes/frame, little-endian not supported < <Makes it look like the audio line is unavailable, but doing nothing more <than closing the program and restarting it clears the error. < < <Thanks <Kevin wa6fwf <_______________________________________________ <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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Re: [amsat-bb] Celestrak BY70-1 keps
by mac cody 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

Perhaps this might be useful: >From Satview.org Forecast of Reentry Location Update Tue 31-Jan-2017 14:13 UTC http://www.satview.org/spacejunk.php?sat_id=41909U 73, Mac / AE5PH -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 1/31/17, Joe <nss(a)mwt.net> wrote: Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Celestrak BY70-1 keps To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2017, 9:36 AM would he be the one to know as the time gets closer when re-entry would likely happen? Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 1/31/2017 9:16 AM, mac cody wrote: > I received another email from Dr. Kelso this morning asking if I would like to have the BY70-1 TLEs also placed in the Amateur Radio listing as well. I told him that if he could do so, that would be great. I'm sure it will be taken care of later today. > > 73, > > Mac / AE5PH > -------------------------------------------- > On Mon, 1/30/17, Mac A. Cody <maccody(a)att.net> wrote: > > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Celestrak BY70-1 keps > To: "Paul Stoetzer" <n8hm(a)arrl.net> > Cc: "amsat-bb(a)amsat.org" <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> > Date: Monday, January 30, 2017, 10:24 PM > > Well, I suppose you could > send in a request to Dr. Kelso, like I did. :) > > 73, > > Mac / AE5PH > > On > 01/30/2017 12:35 PM, Paul Stoetzer wrote: > > I'm not sure why it also shouldn't > be in amateur.txt. CubeSat.txt is > > OK, > but it's an added step for some uses. > > > > 73, > > > > Paul, N8HM > > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 > at 1:27 PM, mac cody <maccody(a)att.net> > wrote: > >> All, > >> > >> I received a > nice reply from Dr. Kelso to the email I sent him > yesterday. He has added the BY70-1 TLEs to the CubeSats > listing (http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/cubesat.txt). > This file should be available to most software tracking > applications (at least is is available as a source in > AmsatDroid Free) and will be updated more frequently > compared to the BY70-1 TLEs provided through AMSAT. > >> > >> 73, > >> > >> Mac Cody / > AE5PH > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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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SAT 32/IC910 problem
by James Brown 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

When AO85 is selected the ic 910 does not select fm. I have also noted that AO 85 seams to be off frequency from 145980/435180 and when I change SAT 32 pulls it back to what it wants.How should I correct this. Should I change the Doppler sqf to some other frequency? Jim KI6WJ

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foxtelem error
by kevin schuchmann 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

Hi, Does anyone else get a error message occasionally when stopping and starting the decode on foxtelem? I have seen the following error on multiple pc's javax.sound.sampled.LineUnavailableException:line with format PCM_SIGNED 48000.0Hz, 16 bit,stereo, 4 bytes/frame, little-endian not supported Makes it look like the audio line is unavailable, but doing nothing more than closing the program and restarting it clears the error. Thanks Kevin wa6fwf

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