February 2017 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

Grid-Roving
by R.T.Liddy 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

This morning I operated from the EM20/EM30 Grid Line near Evadale, TX, and made 22 Q's on FO29 & SO50. It was a special thrill to work K2CHS during the Conroe High School 4th Period Astronomy Class. Last evening I made 7 Q's on XW2F & XW2C. Those SAT's are really easy to work since they hear good and have a strong downlink and don't seem to tumble all that much. Sure wish there was more activity on them. Tomorrow, my plan is to operate from the EM30/EM31 Grid Line on the 1700Z pass of FO29. 73, Bob K8BL/5 (EM20vg Snowbird from Ohio) P.S. See my QRZ.com page for QSL info.

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NAYIF-1
by PY5LF 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Signal recorded today on the first pass. https://youtu.be/-1yb0AUDueA 73

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NAYIF-1 TRANSPONDER TEST HEADS-UP
by Graham Shirville 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Hi All, It is likely that the transponder will be activated to test its performance for one orbit from approx 1605 until 1735 UTC today. If you hear it on then feel free to test and evaluate its performance and please let us have any reports via email to operations(a)funcube.org.uk or on IRC channel http://irc.lc/freenode/funcube The nominal uplink and downlink frequencies are shown here - 435.045 - 435.015 MHz Uplink 145.960 - 145.990 MHz Downlink 73 and thanks Graham G3VZV

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Any current 2 meter usage by ISS?
by Philip Jenkins 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

I'm one of the instructors for a Technician class course; I'll be teaching the specialized communication section (e.g. satellites, EME, APRS, fox-hunting) among other topics. I'd like to give those students who are already interested sat comms enough info so that they can start listening to ISS and the FM sats NOW; the specialized comms topic doesn't come up until a little more than midway through the course. As a teaser, I plan to give them the downlink frequencies from ISS and FM sats, explain tuning for doppler a little, and show them how to use the Pass Predictions page on AMSAT.ORG. I know that ISS packet is currently only on UHF (not VHF), but is the 2 meter voice frequency of 145.800 being used, either for random contacts by the astronauts, or for school contacts? None of them currently have packet/APRS gear, so I'm focusing only on voice contacts at least until the class ends (but I'll mention both of those when I do my more lengthy presentation in about a month). So, in short, my question is - is 2 meters being used at all right now for voice from ISS? If not, are random contacts being made on a UHF frequency? (I don't see a UHF voice downlink frequency listed in the 2016 "Getting Started with Amateur Satellites" book.) Thanks Philip N4HF

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Nayif Warehouse
by David Johnson 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Hi, First of all, thank you all on behalf of the team for submitting data via the dashboard to the warehouse. As you can understand we are now getting to grips with the data flowing in and will need to make a few changes to the display portion of the application. This will entail stopping it a few times today as we make updates. The data collection part of the application will remain unaffected. If I have to stop that, your dashboards will back off until it becomes avaialble again. 73 Dave, G4DPZ

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Having Issues with UISS/Soundmodem for ISS contacts.. Resolved..!!
by hdskullfire2 . 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Thanks for all the help... The issue has been resolved and now able to make contacts though the ISS... A couple points that helped were putting the Icom IC-9100 into data mode, setting up five channels with doppler corrections, and a few misc changes in both UISS & Soundmodem. Again thanks for the help.. Steve NS3L (NS3L-3)

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PSLV Launch -NAYIF-1
by GW1FKY＠aol.com 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Hi all, I am pleased to report that I have just captured my first Dashboard frames from NAYif-1 here in Wales UK. A high elevation pass commencing approx. 1007hrs GMT - Tracked with SatPC32 original keps and using an Elk antenna and Kenwood TS2000. Many congratulations to the NAYIF-! team and off course the PSLV launch team on another success. Thanks - Another satellite to add to my list and I look forward to making contacts via the transponder. Ken Eaton GW1FKY Amsat-UK Amsat- NA

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-02-15 06:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-02-15 06:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Collège André Malraux, Chatelaillon-Plage, France, direct via F4KJT The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be FXØISS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact was successful: Mon 2017-02-13 14:00:35 UTC 67 deg (***) Congratulations to the Collège André Malraux students and Thomas! (***) Assistance was also provided by telebridge station ON4ISS (***) John Glenn Middle School, Maplewood MN, direct via KØJDD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Wed 2017-02-22 18:47:59 UTC 25 deg (***) Ecole primaire Elie Desplan, Boissières, France and Marie Castang, Saint Dionisy, France, direct via F4HHV The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be FXØISS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is a go for: Thu 2017-02-23 08:31:45 UTC 48 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: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 123 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Francesco IKØWGF with 119 **************************************************************************** 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 2017-02-15 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 http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1115. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1079. (***) 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 2017-02-15 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. 49 on orbit Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Andrei Borisenko Sergey Ryzhikov Exp. 50 on orbit Peggy Whitson Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Oleg Novitskiy **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Nayif-1 Launch
by David G0MRF 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Live feed from India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPPV46KaR5o&feature=youtu.be First orbit over Western USA around 5.00 UTC 73 David

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LO87
by PY5LF 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

Hi Signal report of LO87 over here ; https://youtu.be/YDXWg7Llrk8 73

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