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ARISS test [REPORT]
by Robert Bruninga 27 Oct '17

27 Oct '17

Pretty Good Test Report on USA pass of ISS at 1834 to 1839 UTC on 27 Oct 2017: Conclusion, HT's outdoors with whip antennas do not hear as well as we thought and the Uplink is more challenging than we thought. But certainly gave the thrill expected of monitoring the ISS pass with an HT. This was during mid-afternoon class time on a Friday over Maryland with noob operators. We had 6 radios, One was an Oscar class ground station plus 5 HT's outside. * The Oscar station heard 11 stations (out of 32 packets total) * HT with long dual band whip heard 4 stations * HT with full size 1/4 whip heard 3 stations * HT with long dual band whip heard 2 stations * HT with rubber duck heard 2 stations * HT with arrow heard one (but had bumped radio on 145.830!) Of the 11 different stations heard by the OSCAR station: * Two were heard 6 or 7 times * One was heard three times * four were heard twice, one using 5W & ELK, one 10W to quad, one 10W to arrow * four were heard once, one was a mobile, HTs Receive performance: all of the stations heard by the HT's were from the same 5 in the middle of the pass, with none being more than 250 miles away. The other six stations heard by the Oscar class ground station were up to a bit farther up to 600 miles away. All 5 of our HTs were on the Planned-Test-1-minute schedule and NONE were heard by the ISS(digipeated). Of all the 11 stations, three of the four heard twice were following the suggested protocol and so were assumed to be on a 1 minute schedule. So, during an 8 minute pass, only got two packets through even though they had modest beams on uplink. Again, probably during the middle of their overhead geometry. But for our 4 minute window, then they had a 50% success rate. The APRS-IS captured a total of 30 packets during the same time frame that we got 32 and only 2 or 3 were missed by either of us. There were 8 different Igates with four of them contributing 4 to 6 packets and four contributing one or two. All of this data was from the 4 minute pass window from first station heard by the Oscar class station to the last one heard by that station. The APRS-IS of course heard other stations before and after, but the window was only taken during our OSCAR class pass. The downlink was sparse and it is doubtful that there was too much overload on the uplink, (though we all know that the downlink says NOTHING about what the uplink receiver on ISS is having to deal with). But that could be eliminated if we could get someone in Hawaii to do the same test. Horizon to horizon with a few radios at the same time. On the same 1 minute test schedule. The students with the handhelds were not skilled operators and so the attitude of the HT's and antennas relative to the ISS track should be considered completely random. For what it's worth. Bob, WB4aPR -----Original Message----- From: Robert Bruninga [mailto:bruninga@usna.edu] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 1:17 PM Subject: QIKCOM-1 and ARISS test We have not heard from QIKCOM-1 but since we asked users to include their Power and Antenna gain and beacon once a minute for these few passes, we are going to finish the day by seeing what we hear from ISS. We already see a few people giving that data, so we are going to switch our uplink from the path of APRSAT back to the path of ARISS for the remainder of the day. This will give us all an idea of what hits ISS and what does not. I've seen these so far: WN9Q>CQ,RS0ISS*,qAR,WA8LMF-SG::APRSAT :5w 14el klm cross yagi KB6LTY-3>CQ,RS0ISS*,qAR,W0ARP-15:=3429.70N/11712.30W- power 20W - 9.2 dbi beam- DM14jl Attended packets only to end of today's test. Bob, WB4aPR

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FalconSAT-3 and WISP
by Andrew Glasbrenner 27 Oct '17

27 Oct '17

Hi All, I apologize for my lack of timely responses for many of you that have emailed me personally about getting WISP running on FalconSAT-3. I've been overwhelmed. Today I scanned and posted the chapter on WISP from Gould Smith's 2005 Digital Satellite & Telemetry Guide to the FalconSAT-3 page on amsat.org. I hope it is helpful to everyone diving back into this excellent program from the past. It can be found near the bottom of the page at https://www.amsat.org/falconsat-3/ 73, Drew KO4MA AMSAT VP Operations

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QIKCOM-1 and ARISS test
by Robert Bruninga 27 Oct '17

27 Oct '17

We have not heard from QIKCOM-1 but since we asked users to include their Power and Antenna gain and beacon once a minute for these few passes, we are going to finish the day by seeing what we hear from ISS. We already see a few people giving that data, so we are going to switch our uplink from the path of APRSAT back to the path of ARISS for the remainder of the day. This will give us all an idea of what hits ISS and what does not. I've seen these so far: WN9Q>CQ,RS0ISS*,qAR,WA8LMF-SG::APRSAT :5w 14el klm cross yagi KB6LTY-3>CQ,RS0ISS*,qAR,W0ARP-15:=3429.70N/11712.30W- power 20W - 9.2 dbi beam- DM14jl Attended packets only to end of today's test. Bob, WB4aPR

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QIKCOM 1 TLE available
by Nico Janssen 27 Oct '17

27 Oct '17

SIMPL / QIKCOM 1 is object 42983, 1998-067NF. TLE available through the usual sources. 73, Nico PA0DLO

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EI1ISS
by Dave Ryan 27 Oct '17

27 Oct '17

Congratulations to ARISS - EI on completing 2 fantastic ISS QSO's, from Tallaght in Dublin and Glanmire in Cork. Here are my recordings of both, Im currently holidaying in Cyprus, but was able to hear the very end of the Tallaght QSO from Paphos. Both recordings were from my remote station in the UK. Dave M0GIW / EI4HT https://youtu.be/PhUxwEjbLuo https://youtu.be/VW2t0KTAmK4

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Re: [amsat-bb] ANS-299 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Elects Joe Spier, K6WAO, President
by george.carrii15 27 Oct '17

27 Oct '17

Congrats to all. Looking forward to continuing growth of AMSAT as we grow the interest in hamsats. Many thanks to Barry for his past leadership 73George CarrWA5KBH Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message --------From: JoAnne K9JKM <k9jkm(a)comcast.net> Date: 10/26/17 18:34 (GMT-06:00) To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS-299 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Elects Joe Spier, K6WAO, President AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN ANS-299 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor at amsat.org. In this edition: * AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Elects Joe Spier, K6WAO, President SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-299.01 ANS-299 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin 299.01 From AMSAT SYMPOSIUM, RENO, NV DATE October 26, 2017 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-299.01 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Elects Joe Spier, K6WAO, President At it’s annual meeting, held at the Silver Legacy Resort Hotel in Reno, NV, the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors elected Joe Spier, K6WAO, of Reno, NV, President, succeeding Barry Baines, WD4ASW, who has retired after nine years of service as AMSAT’s President. Joe is a Life Member of AMSAT-NA and has previously served as Executive Vice President and Vice-President Educational Relations. He also has Life Memberships in the ARRL, SARA (Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers) and the AFA (Air Force Association). He holds an Extra Class license as well as commercial licenses. Immediate Past President Barry Baines, WD4ASW, said “It has been an honor to serve as President for the past nine years and as a board member since 1999. I’m confident that the successes of the past nine years while serving as President will lead to new opportunities in AMSAT’s future as Joe assumes the helm working with the new Senior Leadership Team. I’m also thrilled that Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, and Clayton Coleman, W5PFG, are new voting members on the Board, including the assumption of my former slot. I’m excited that the new Board combined with the new Senior Leadership Team will bring insight, enthusiasm, energy and commitment to move AMSAT forward.” Other officers elected by the Board were: * Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, of Washington, DC, as Executive Vice President * Jerry Buxton, N0JY, of Granbury, TX, as Vice-President Engineering * Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, of New Port Richey, FL, as Vice-President Operations * Clayton Coleman, W5PFG, of Granbury, TX, as Secretary * Keith Baker, KB1SF/VA3KSF, of Corunna, ON, as Treasurer * Martha Saragovitz of Silver Spring, MD, as Manager [ANS the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors for the above information] /EX _______________________________________________ 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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Quickcom
by alex weimer 27 Oct '17

27 Oct '17

Pass at 1516Z over western U.S. Nothing heard.. RS0ISS heard very strong. JACK KC7MG DM42

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Re: [amsat-bb] Australia Pass ISS : Nothing heard from QIKCOM Yet
by Andrew Rich 27 Oct '17

27 Oct '17

CW heard with doppler 145.828 MHz might be a cube sat Andrew > On 28 Oct 2017, at 12:48 am, Andrew Rich <vk4tec(a)tech-software.net> wrote: > > Next pass is right over the top > > Andrew VK4TEC

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QIKCOM-1 monitoring
by Robert Bruninga 27 Oct '17

27 Oct '17

SIMPL deployed from ISS at 0515 EDT. Didn’t hear it during the first 0628 EDT pass over the Southeast USA. Did hear RS0ISS OK. Bob, WB4APR

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Microset Dual band Amp for sale
by jeffory broughton 27 Oct '17

27 Oct '17

New never used Microset VUR 30 dual band LINEAR amp for sat work,SSB AND FM.Bought new for $300.never used. $250 free ship.WB8RJY JEFF jeff broughton

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