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

Re: [amsat-bb] FalconSAT-3 PacSats
by Alan 25 Sep '17

25 Sep '17

Jeff, Let me add that the Direwolf TNC program has a section on a virtual TNC serial port. No personal experience, but that should work the same as MixW, and is freeware. 73s, Alan WA4SCA <-----Original Message----- <From: Alan [mailto:[email protected]] <Sent: Monday, September 25, 2017 12:30 PM <To: 'jeff griffin' <kb2m(a)arrl.net>; 'AMSAT' <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> <Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] FalconSAT-3 PacSats < <Jeff, < <I don't have 9600 baud TX, but I have used the MixW virtual TNC to copy the <BBS and digi with WiSP and a VU5K. Looks just like 25 years ago when I was <using a hardware TNC. Should work witi the any rig if you have the right <soundcard interfacing. I have already have a copy of MixW, but there is a 30 <demo, last time I looked. < <73s, < <Alan <WA4SCA < < < < <<-----Original Message----- <<From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jeff <<griffin <<Sent: Monday, September 25, 2017 09:36 AM <<To: 'AMSAT' <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> <<Subject: [amsat-bb] Falconsat-3 pacsat << <<I'm interested in getting back on the pacsat(s). It's been awhile, I'm <<thinking about 15 years since I ran WiSP. I just installed a copy of WiSP, <<but my software key is in Florida at my winter home, so I'm running the <<demo. Now a few questions. << << << <<1 Is anybody doing the BBS on FalconSat-3? << <<2. Is so what software are you using? << <<3. can someone recommend a software derived 9600 baud TNC that will talk <<to <<either a Flex VU5K, or an IC-9100. I would need this to work with a WiSP <<like program to do the BBS thing. Thanks for helping this old guy get <<restarted with pacsats. << << << <<73 Jeff kb2m << << << << << <<_______________________________________________ <<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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Upcoming ARISS contact with Colegio Nueva Concepcion, San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 25 Sep '17

25 Sep '17

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Colegio Nueva Concepcion, San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina on 28 Sept. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 17:51 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between NA1SS and LU1KCQ. The contact should be audible over portions of Argentina and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. Colegio Nueva Concepcion is located in the heart of the city of San Miguel de Tucuman in northern Argentina. This is a coed, secular school with a 981-student population from Pre-K at age 3. Today, high school has 290 students with a curriculum oriented towards social science and an intensive English program (10 weekly classes per week). To graduate from high school, students at Colegio Nueva Concepcion write a thesis paper on issues which they are personally interested in and usually in the field of humanist studies. However, there has been a tendency for some teenagers to do research in the hard sciences possibly because of the work done in other areas, such as the Astrophysics Workshop. Unlike most schools in the province, Colegio Nueva Concepcion offers an elective workshop on Astrophysics, whose activities have motivated the class to contact you through the ISS experience. The Astrophysics Workshop has been added to complement the humanist orientation of the curricular program. Students attending the workshop are sixteen to seventeen-year olds in the fifth and sixth year (juniors and seniors), and we firmly believe that the ISS contact will motivate them as well as younger students to become more interested in exact sciences, and more specifically the sciences of space. In the meantime, we are getting ready for the communication experience by discussing the possible questions with the workshop teacher, and carrying out comprehension activities in the English classes to be ready to listen and understand about space, space race, and life in the ISS. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. What research activities you are developing in space do you consider more relevant for the future of humanity? 2. What kind of investigations you do in space can only be done only there and not on the Earth? 3. Have you seen anything weird or unusual in space that science hasn't been able explain yet? 4. Considering you know both earth's gravity and space's microgravity, which one do you prefer? 5. After living so many months in space, have you developed any different perspective on the life and problems of the world on the Earth's surface? 6. Are there any Argentinean or Latin American people working in your team? 7. What was the most complicated situation you had to go through in the ISS and how did you solve it? 8. How do you think you will feel when you return to earth after a long time? 9. Does everyone have the same role in ISS, or are there superiors and subordinates? 10. Which is more important for traveling and staying in space, physical condition or mental state? 11. How long have you stayed in the ISS and how long did you prepare for that? 12. Is it possible to reproduce living organisms in space? What about human reproduction? 13. If you go out of the ISS, why do you do it for? 14. What are the protocols in the event that one of the astronauts becomes lightly or severely ill? 15. How do you spend your free time? - if you have any. 16. Can you communicate with your relatives frequently? How do you do it? 17. Would you like to go back to space or is it an experience that you would not like to repeat? 18. Do you have an agreement with the other astronauts on ISS on what language or time zone to use? 19. Have you always wanted to travel to space? Or, did this opportunity come up in your job as an obligation? 20. What is the thing you enjoy the most about being in the space? 21. What type of food are you used to eating? Do you exercise your body? PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES: Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status Next planned event(s): TBD About ARISS: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or informal education venues. With the help of experienced amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with large audiences in a variety of public forums. Before and during these radio contacts, students, teachers, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org, www.amsat.org, and www.arrl.org. Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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WH6XM on FO29
by alex weimer 25 Sep '17

25 Sep '17

Bob: WH6XM in grid BK29 Hilo HI was on FO29 and will be on looking for contacts on future passes of FO29 .. Anyone needing HI for WAS should look for him. He has a great signal

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WH6XM on FO29
by alex weimer 25 Sep '17

25 Sep '17

Bob: WH6XM does not get on AO7 . I have worked him many times and only on FO29... 73 DE JACK-KC7MG

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Fwd: [Starcom-bb] Daniel "Nick" Kucij, KB1RVT Silent Key
by Matthew Stevens 25 Sep '17

25 Sep '17

In case this did not get passed to the amsat-bb. Very sad news indeed.. 73, - Matthew nj4y Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: Frank Griffin <k4feg(a)k4feg.com> > Date: September 25, 2017 at 11:34:11 EDT > To: starcom-bb(a)star-com.net, amsat-bb-request(a)amsat.org, satdx-bb(a)star-com.net > Subject: [Starcom-bb] Daniel "Nick" Kucij, KB1RVT Silent Key > > Hello All: > > it is with a sad heart that I am writing this email, Nick, KB1RVT's, family contacted me and asked me to relay this information: > > Nick, while riding a bicycle trail in Vermont over the weekend, suffered a fall, he apparently suffered some head injuries resulting in hemorrhaging in the brain and passed away suddenly, local paramedics were quickly on the scene & worked vigorously to tend to his injuries. > The family is still in the process of contacting people & asked me to reach out to the satellite community. > Any details about the arrangements should be in the local Burlington Free Press newspaper, burlingtonfreepress.com. > > As I receive any additional information I will post it to the various BB's. > Please pass any information along any of the other social media conveyances. > > Nick will be missed by the satellite community. > -.- -... .---- .-. ...- - ... -.- > > regards: > > Frank; K4FEG > _______________________________________________ > Starcom-bb bulletin board > Starcom-bb(a)star-com.net > http://lists.star-com.net/listinfo/starcom-bb

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Falconsat-3 pacsat
by jeff griffin 25 Sep '17

25 Sep '17

I'm interested in getting back on the pacsat(s). It's been awhile, I'm thinking about 15 years since I ran WiSP. I just installed a copy of WiSP, but my software key is in Florida at my winter home, so I'm running the demo. Now a few questions. 1 Is anybody doing the BBS on FalconSat-3? 2. Is so what software are you using? 3. can someone recommend a software derived 9600 baud TNC that will talk to either a Flex VU5K, or an IC-9100. I would need this to work with a WiSP like program to do the BBS thing. Thanks for helping this old guy get restarted with pacsats. 73 Jeff kb2m

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Get Ready for the 2017 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting!
by Paul Stoetzer 25 Sep '17

25 Sep '17

Get Ready for the 2017 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting! Everything you need to know and get done today Here is a summary of what you need to do to get ready for the 2017 AMSAT-NA Space Symposium and Annual Meeting, October 27-29, 2017 at the Silver Legacy Resort Hotel, Reno, NV. Complete Your Symposium Registration in the AMSAT Store ------------------------------------------------------- You can register for the 2017 Space Symposium, the Saturday Evening Banquet, and the Sunday Morning Area Coordinators breakfast in the AMSAT store: https://www.amsat.org/shop/ Symposium Registration (including a copy of the Proceedings) + Starting September 15 -- $50 + At the door -- $55 Make Your Reservations for the Symposium Hotel in Reno ------------------------------------------------------ You must make your hotel reservations at the Silver Legacy at this link: https://www.amsat.org/symposium-hotel/ (block code ISAMSAT) The hotel phone number is 1-800-687-8733. TO GUARANTEE OUR RATES PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS BEFORE OCTOBER 12, 2017. The Silver Legacy is a 4-star Resort/Hotel/Casino which is an iconic 42-story hotel with its massive round dome and spires centered in downtown Reno. 2017 AMSAT-NA Space Symposium Preliminary Schedule Announced ------------------------------------------------------------ Preliminary Schedule for the 2017 AMSAT-NA Space Symposium and Annual Meeting, October 27-29, 2017 at the Silver Legacy Resort Hotel, Reno, NV. Check the Symposium Web Page for updates and new information as it becomes available: https://www.amsat.org/symposium-schedule/ 2017 AMSAT-NA Space Symposium Tours Announced --------------------------------------------- The 2017 AMSAT Space Symposium will be held Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Oct 27-29 in Reno. There will be two tours of the sights around Reno offered after the Symposium ends on Sunday morning. The first tour is offered on Sunday October 29, 10:00AM to 4:00PM This tour will visit Historical Virginia City. Tour cost is $46 per person. Lunch will be on your own. The second tour is offered on Monday October 30, 8:30AM to 5:30PM This tour will Discover Truckee, the Donner Party, Lake Tahoe & Genoa. The tour cost is $80 per person. There is an optional Lake Tahoe Cruise on a paddle-wheel ship available. The tour cost with the Lake Tahoe Cruise is $147 per person. Lunch is provided with either tour option. A description of the tours has been posted at https://www.amsat.org/symposium-tours/ Complete tour information is available by paging through each tour description and a link to purchase the tour through the AMSAT Store is provided below the description. You may also purchase all Symposium events at the AMSAT Store. https://www.amsat.org/product-category/amsat-symposium/ Introducing Banquet Keynote Speaker Garrett L. Skrobot, NASA Cubesat Launch Initiative Program, Kennedy Space Center -------------------------------------------------------------- Garrett was born in Myrtle Beach, S.C., but moved to West Cocoa, Florida at the age of six months. Immediately after graduating from Cocoa High School in 1980, Garrett began a four-year tour of duty in the United States Marine Corp that took him around the world. In 1988 Garrett earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee; he later received his master's degree in space systems from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1992. Garrett joined the NASA team at Kennedy Space Center in 2000 as an Integration Engineer for the Launch Services Program. Prior to his work with NASA, Garrett was employed by General Dynamics as a System Engineer for the Atlas/Centaur booster program. During his tenure with General Dynamics, Garret participated in more than 50 launches while working in the Electrical, Ground Instrumentation, Payload Mission Integration, Telemetry and Project Management divisions. Garrett continues to live in Cocoa with his wife and their three daughters. In his free time, Garrett enjoys nature photography, fishing, and actively supporting his daughters in their sports. Garrett himself is also an accomplished athlete, having earned a black belt in karate.

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DM39 on 25 September
by Glenn Miller 24 Sep '17

24 Sep '17

Carlos, W7QL, and I will activate DM39 on FO-29 at ~1550Z and SO-50 at ~1915Z. QSOs will be uploaded to LoTW when I return home next weekend. Hard copy QSLs by email request. 73 Glenn / AA5PK

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EM96 SO-50 Sunday September 24th
by Ruth Willet 23 Sep '17

23 Sep '17

I'm planning to rove in EM96 for the 18:50z SO-50 pass on Sunday September 24th. I'm near the Virginia and North Carolina state line, but hope to operate the pass from Virginia. 73, Ruth KM4LAO Sent from my iPhone

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-09-23 20:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 23 Sep '17

23 Sep '17

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-09-23 20:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Heart of America Council Boy Scouts of America, Kansas City, MO, telebridge via W6SRJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Paolo Nespoli IZØJPA Contact was successful: Sat 2017-09-23 12:03:49 UTC 26 deg (***) Colegio Nueva Concepcion, San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina, direct via LU1KCQ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Joe Acaba KE5DAR Contact is a go: Thu 2017-09-28 17:51:00 UTC 37 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 124 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Francesco IKØWGF with 119 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 2017-09-23 20:00 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 1160. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1119. (***) 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 2017-09-23 20:00 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. 52 on orbit Randy Bresnik Paolo Nespoli IZØJPA Sergey Ryazanskiy Exp. 53 on orbit Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP Alexander Misurkin Joe Acaba KE5DAR **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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