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share a room Dayton
by Nick Pugh 09 May '17

09 May '17

Hello Amsat-ers I got the last reservation for 2 queen beds at the Fairborn motel and would like to split the room expenses. Please reply if you are interested Thanks nick Office 337 593 8700 Cell 337 258 2527 Helping UL become a world Class Engineering and Educational School

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-05-09 07:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 09 May '17

09 May '17

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-05-09 07:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Ecole College Park School, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, telebridge via W6SRJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Jack Fisher K2FSH Contact was successful: Mon 2017-05-08 18:19:40 UTC 59 deg (***) Virginia Reinhardt Elementary School, Rockwall, TX, telebridge via W6SRJ (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG (***) Contact is a go for: Mon 2017-05-15 15:28:09 UTC 71 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. **************************************************************************** *** 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 additi onal 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 2017-05-09 07:00 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 1138. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1097. (***) 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 2017-05-09 07:00 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. 50 on orbit Peggy Whitson Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Oleg Novitskiy Exp. 51 on orbit (***) Jack Fisher K2FSH Fyodor Yurchikhin RN3FI **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Dowkey microwave 62-110
by Nestor Punales 08 May '17

08 May '17

Hello to all, I am thinking on using the Dowkey Microwave 62-110 relay switch on my 2 meter crossed elements yagi to switch polarization, I was wondering if anyone else here have done something similar. Any input would be much appreciated! Nestor K6JTT DM12kr

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Re: [amsat-bb] [amsat-fox] K3IO email problems
by RT 08 May '17

08 May '17

Tom, And FYI to all, Verizon had been sending out notices of their decision to stop email, they are doing it region by region, some may have not seen the change yet. FIOS here has not done it yet. I believe Verizon is the parent of both verizon and AOL, no sense doing verizon email when aol was doing it I did the DSL AOL migration, nothing was lost, all folders transferred, it was quick and no problems encountered. Nothing at all is changed. Also you keep your verzon email address, I even use my legacy bellatlantic. But you need to do it before the cut off. It may be too late Tom, but suggest contact Verizon support, if not done already, they may still have your folders stored somewhere.. 73 ES GL Ron N3AEA -----Original Message----- From: Tom Clark <tom.k3io(a)gmail.com> To: AMSAT BoD <bod(a)amsat.org>; senior-officers <senior-officers(a)amsat.org>; Rick HamblyW2GPS <rick(a)cnssys.com>; Brian Gaffney <beg(a)verizon.net>; Brian Gaffney <beg(a)bellatlantic.net>; Jean Clark <jeanmgclark(a)hotmail.com>; Mollie Palmer <molliegp11(a)gmail.com>; John Glover <jngglover(a)att.net>; 'Ma, Chopo (GSFC-698.0)' (GSFC-698.0)' <chopo.ma-1(a)nasa.gov>; 'Ed Himwich' <Ed.Himwich(a)nasa.gov>; 'Arthut Niell' <aniell(a)haystack.mit.edu>; Alan Whitney <awhitney(a)haystack.mit.edu>; Alan Rogers <aeer(a)haystack.mit.edu>; AMSAT/MSS Mission <phase4(a)amsat.org>; AMSAT ASCENT Program <ascent(a)amsat.org>; amsat-fox <amsat-fox(a)alum.wpi.edu>; Bob McGwier <rwmcgwier(a)gmail.com>; Sharon McGwier <smmcgwier(a)gmail.com>; Martha Saragovitz <martha(a)amsat.org>; Bdale Garbee <bdale(a)gag.com>; amsat-bb <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org>; gerrie Checkon <gcheckon(a)gmail.com>; Kate Hutton <k6htn(a)arrl.net> Cc: Tom Clark <tom.k3io(a)gmail.com> Sent: Mon, May 8, 2017 4:40 am Subject: [amsat-fox] K3IO email problems Sometime in April, my old "K3IO(a)VERIZON.NET" email address went extinct due to Verizon making a unilateral decision to get out of the email business. They had an ill-conceived (and IMHO quite user hostle) scheme to hand over all their responsibilities to AOL.COM. As a result, all my old Verizon email archives were lost and I am no longer getting any mail thru the Verizon hose. As of immediately, use "TOM.K3IO(a)GMAIL.COM" for any future mail, and also please resend anything of importance to me from April. 73 de Tom, K3IO

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Dinner Tickets For Dayton
by Martha 08 May '17

08 May '17

If you are planning to attend the AMSAT-TAPR dinner in Dayton, you must purchase your tickets online at the AMSAT store (amsat.org) . We will not be selling tickets at Dayton -- 73- Martha

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Icom 9100 data on receive port
by shakeel -ur-rehman 08 May '17

08 May '17

Hi All I am ICOM 9100 user and I have read that it has many control commands which can be used command icom 9100. How to execute that control commands. can I execute it through windows hyperterminal. I have tried to run local radio AM band on icom 9100. I am interested to read the data on receive port of the icom 9100 and put it in my text file. anyone can help the steps which i need to accompish thi task. I have connected Icom 9100 through USB cable. and com3 and com4 are being shown in the control panel of my windows system. any help will be appreciated please. Regards shakeel

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K3IO email problems
by Tom Clark 08 May '17

08 May '17

Sometime in April, my old "K3IO(a)VERIZON.NET" email address went extinct due to Verizon making a unilateral decision to get out of the email business. They had an ill-conceived (and IMHO quite user hostle) scheme to hand over all their responsibilities to AOL.COM. As a result, all my old Verizon email archives were lost and I am no longer getting any mail thru the Verizon hose. As of immediately, use "TOM.K3IO(a)GMAIL.COM <mailto:[email protected]>" for any future mail, and also please resend anything of importance to me from April. 73 de Tom, K3IO

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Operations from EM97
by Tucker McGuire 07 May '17

07 May '17

Greetings space bird enthusiasts, I will be in EM97 this coming weekend May 13 afternoon until May 14th morning. Planning to operate as many passes on all satellites as time allows while I'm there. Been practicing operating the mode B linear transponder satellites only recently, so bear with me if you try and work me on those satellites. Cheers & 73, Tucker W4FS

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DM02 Resked
by Mike Diehl 07 May '17

07 May '17

Just got confirmation of rescheduling the DM02 trip. We have been rescheduled to the first weekend of June. Let's keep our fingers crossed that the weather is spectacular. At the very least it should be a little warmer out there. So long as we don't run into 15' waves again we will be good to go. 73, Mike Diehl AI6GS

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Lapan IO86
by PY5LF 07 May '17

07 May '17

Hi I short video of my first time on Lapan 2 IO86. Signal very good! https://youtu.be/nvBuLloQtXY 73

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