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Falconsat-3 Whole Orbit Data
by Roland Zurmely 27 Dec '17

27 Dec '17

WOD from 26 dec 2017 <http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/falconsat.htm#g> 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ

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3 Element Yagi Design
by Wendy and Terry Osborne 27 Dec '17

27 Dec '17

Hi Folks, I have recently built up a 3 Element 2M yagi antenna from a some old TV antenna parts in my junk box. It seems to work well on AO-91. If anyone is interested, the details are here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4f4m07pzhy8lyvi/AAAv3yVEIK45ClC0RHCt3s3Ea?dl=0 Happy holidays and 73, Terry Osborne ZL2BAC

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-12-27 01:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 27 Dec '17

27 Dec '17

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-12-27 01:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Higher National School of Computer Science and Systems Analysis (ENSIAS), Rabat, Morocco, telebridge via VK5ZAI (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP (***) Contact is a go for: Wed 2018-01-03 13:52:42 UTC 33 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. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8Ø MHz. **************************************************************************** *** All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood 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: Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 127 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 100 **************************************************************************** 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 2017-12-27 01:00 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 http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1200. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1149. 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 2017-12-27 01:00 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. 53 on orbit Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP Alexander Misurkin Joe Acaba KE5DAR Exp. 54 on orbit Scott Tingle KG5NZA Norishige Kanai Alexander Skvortsov **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Falconsat-3 Wisp Error NO -5
by Tony 27 Dec '17

27 Dec '17

All: Wisp is showing the following error when accessing Falconsat-3: "Directory request error NO -5 K2MO" I searched the archives and it seems this error takes place if the parameter "Test for SMACK TNC" is checked which is not the case here. Any suggestions? Tony -K2MO

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Has anyone made a satellite QSO with an orbiting ISS astronaut?
by Douglas Quagliana 26 Dec '17

26 Dec '17

Has anyone ever had a successful two-way QSO with an orbiting ISS astronaut through an amateur radio satellite transponder? Regards, Douglas KA2UPW/5

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polarisation switch
by jerry.tuyls＠telenet.be 26 Dec '17

26 Dec '17

Hello all Does someone has the article from late I8CVS, switching 4 polarisations on a 70cm crossed yagi? In pdf if possible for a friend of mine, i used to have it but can't find it anymore on my pc. Best 73's Jerry,ON4CJQ

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[Video] UNCUT AO-91 demo (impromptu Christmas Eve demo)
by John Brier 26 Dec '17

26 Dec '17

https://youtu.be/w7Ukh_nT2Tg This is an uncut and lightly edited video I made mostly so Blair (the ham who saw and joined me at the 8 minute mark) could see it. I normally only upload highly edited videos (24, 32 or more hours of editing). Even though it doesn't meet my normal standards I figured others besides Blair might still be interested. 2017-12-24 1753 UTC 03:05 Bird comes in strong 04:58 YV6CR FJ78 Contacted? he said WP3KG 07:42 KG3GDS FN00 CONTACTED 08:00 Blair arrives - demo begins 09:02 KE4AL EM761 CONTACTED 09:16 WO3T FN00 CONTACTED 09:29 K3RRR CONTACTED 10:22 ???MTS FN32 Contacted? What was prefix? 13:00 KC3GFZ FN00 CONTACTED 13:13 WN9Q EN64 CONTACTED This is from the Christmas Eve AO-91 pass at 1753 UTC (2017-12-24). I was just having a little fun for myself before I left Raleigh for Wilmington to be with my parents for Christmas. About halfway through the pass, Blair, another ham, saw me from his car in this shopping lot and came over, so I did I did a little demo for him. I was lucky because I recently made a cable for my Kenwood TM-V71 to pull the audio off the DATA pin. This cable allowed me to get audio into my recorder and play audio from the radio's speaker simultaneously. Normally I plug a cable into the speaker out port but that disables the internal speaker. I made the cable originally so I could decode the Data Under Voice (DUV) telemetry from AO-91 during commissioning, which helps the engineers determine if the bird is okay. You need the unfiltered audio because the data is all below 200 hz, which is normally filtered from speaker out. Unfortunately, even using the supposedly unfiltered audio from the DATA pin I still couldn't get the FoxTelem software to decode anything. But without this cable if I wanted someone else to hear the audio I would have to hook up a splitter in front of the recorder and run a second cable to an external speaker. I couldn't have done that in time for Blair to hear, or it would have been a lot of effort for not a lot of gain because the pass might have been over before I got it all hooked up. I also have another proper AO-91 video I'm making. It is from the second daytime pass right after it was commissioned about a month ago (on the US Thanksgiving holiday). To those that celebrate it, Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays to everyone else! 73, John Brier KG4AKV P.S. I think my phone's tracking app was set for a location I was at the previous day about 40 minutes from where I live, so it was off slightly as far as timing and max elevation. The pass was actually about 72 degrees max elevation, not 67 or whatever I told Blair, and when I thought the bird was at 2 degrees during the last contact, it was actually about 4 or 5 degrees elevation.

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polarisation switch
by Roland Zurmely 25 Dec '17

25 Dec '17

<http://www.qsl.net/py1ll/amtccy.pdf>

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Seasons Greetings
by Bill Greene 25 Dec '17

25 Dec '17

Just wanted to take a moment to wish my friends all over the world Merry Christmas and Best Wishes Holiday Season! Best of 73, Bill Greene VE7WFG Falkland BC

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Kenwood TS-2000X @38k4 Baud
by vimone＠alice.it 24 Dec '17

24 Dec '17

Hello, I'm a bit stuck by the world of radiant because of renovation of the house. In the meantime I took advantage of replacing my old Kenwood TS-790E with a new Kenwood TS-2000X. I had in the old TS-790 the Symek IFD card for receiving satellites at 38k4 baud. I wanted to know if there are still satellites transmitting at that speed and if it is worth to insert the same schedule into the TS-2000X. Thank you 73's de Enzo IK8OZV EasyLog 5 BetaTester EasyLog PDA BetaTester WinBollet BetaTester D.C.I. CheckPoint Regione Campania Skype: ik8ozv8520 ************************************* ****** GSM +39 328 7110193 ****** ****** SMS +39 328 7110193 ****** *************************************

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