February 2018 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

FUNcube Warehouse update
by David Johnson 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

Hi, The data service has stated to collect data but the web page has not started up, so am investigating. 73 Dave, G4DPZ

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FUNcube Warehouse down again!
by David Johnson 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

Hi, I've just been informed by the hosting company that they have diagnosed the fault to being a problem with a bank of memory and they have taken the decision to swap us to new hardware. Will let you know when we are back online again. 73 Dave, G4DPZ

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2018-02-27 06:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2018-02-27 06:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Bellefonte Area Middle School, Bellefonte, PA, direct via W3YA The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Scott Tingle KG5NZA Contact was successful: Mon 2018-02-26 17:59:16 UTC 63 deg (***) The event will be livestreaming on youtube at this location: BAMS in Space Livestream. The livestream event begins tomorrow at 17:00 UTC. Please feel free to offer the web link to others as you feel appropriate. Also, There is a chat session that will accompany the live stream so feel free to join in the chat and help guide the discussion as needed. The more hams the better \uD83D\uDE0A Parkside Middle School, San Bruno, CA, direct via K6PVJ (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Scott Tingle KG5NZA Contact is a go for: Mon 2018-03-05 18:12:55 UTC 79 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 128 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 102 **************************************************************************** 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 2018-02-27 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 1213. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1162. (***) 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 2018-02-27 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. 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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HRD Satellite Tracking
by Michael Carper, Ph.D. 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

Greetings all! Recently, I announced that I was bringing on a total of five developers to help us with our development backlog. In fact, I've got six developers on-boarded now. I'm going to assign one of these developers to the Satellite application. After the last go 'round on this reflector, I had some volunteers. I need a couple volunteers - who understand how to demonstrate and test the Doppler problem - that I can introduce to the developer. The developer should work directly with these people. A few things to keep in mind: - The focus will be entirely on correction of previously recorded defects (not enhancement requests at this point). If new defects are identified during the process, the developer will discuss them with me (so I can determine if it's really a defect or an enhancement; we'll get to the FOUR existing enhancement requests after we get the defects corrected). - There are exactly 19 defects associated with the Satellite application. - The developer assigned probably won't be a ham. That's fine. They don't really need to be a ham to resolve these defects. (Point I'm making here is this. These guys are "hired guns" that I'm bringing in as part of this "troop surge" to get rid of the backlog. They're good developers, rather than experienced hams. So take it easy on them.) Interested volunteers, please contact me directly (outside the reflector) at mike(a)hrdsoftwarellc.com 73 de Mike, WA9PIE

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AMSAT website?
by anderson9000 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

Hi Steve, I believe it was down last night and partially still is (?). The home page comes up for me today, but the search returns a database error for me. Mark W9AT ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 08:46:15 -0500 From: skristof(a)etczone.com To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT website? Message-ID: <9d7ab6bffaac5e26c66b60e162b667cd(a)etczone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Is the AMSAT website down? My browser and internet are working but trying to connect to amsat.org times out. Steve AI9IN

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AO-92 schedule for next week
by Andrew Glasbrenner 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

I've updated https://www.amsat.org/satellite-schedules/ for the coming week. AO-92 operations are scheduled among the U/v FM repeater, L-Band Downshifter, Virginia Tech Camera, and the University of Iowa's High Energy Radiation CubeSat Instrument (HERCI). Please keep the uplink clear during passes with scheduled mode changes. For the week of 25 Feb to 3 Mar 2018, the following mode changes are scheduled: Approximately 1420UTC 25Feb we will enable the L band uplink for ~24 hours Approximately 1515UTC 27Feb we will enable high speed data in order to download from the HERCI experiment for 40 minutes Approximately 1545UTC 2Mar we will enable high speed data in order to download from the VT camera for 40 minutes in support of a demonstration at a Virginia high school All other times the U/v repeater will be open continuously. 73, Drew KO4MA AMSAT VP Operations

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camera tripod
by James Brown 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

forgot to add pictureJim KI6WJ

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tripod mount
by James Brown 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

here is my Arrow portable mount. The antenna and the counterweight is attached with lock pins for easy assembly. The center piece is secured with the camera pods 1/4x20. I added a l bracket to the camera mount as a stop to prevent any rotation of the antenna.inside the pvc counter balance is the actual weight. It works nice and the balance and handling is perfect.I should use it more! Jim KI6WJ

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Es’hail-2 geostationary satellite discussed in Doha
by M5AKA 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

Es’hail-2 geostationary satellite discussed in Doha in January https://amsat-uk.org/2018/02/26/eshail-2-geostationary-satellite-discussed-… On February 25, 2018 Es'hailSat @eshailsat tweeted that Es'hail-2 reached a major milestone in spacecraft and ground compatibility, with successful completion of TT&C RF and baseband compatibility tests. https://twitter.com/eshailsat/status/967678982404689920 Radio amateur brings her hobby to university https://amsat-uk.org/2018/02/12/radio-amateur-brings-her-hobby-to-universit… Trevor M5AKA ---- AMSAT-UK http://amsat-uk.org/ Twitter https://twitter.com/AmsatUK Facebook https://facebook.com/AmsatUK YouTube https://youtube.com/AmsatUK ----

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2018-02-26 04:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2018-02-26 04:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: On The Gagarin from Space, "Galaxy - Children and Youth Center for Space Education", Kaluga, Russia, direct via RK3X (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Alexander Misurkin Contact was successful 2018-02-18 10:45 UTC (***) Agrupamento de Escolas do Fundão, Fundão, Portugal, direct via CS5DBB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Scott Tingle KG5NZA Contact was successful: Wed 2018-02-21 09:38:11 UTC 33 deg (***) Museum of Science & Technology - Danforth Middle School, Syracuse, NY, direct via K2MST The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP Contact was successful: Fri 2018-02-23 14:08:52 UTC 28 deg (***) On The Gagarin from Space Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Southwest State University", Kursk, Russia, direct via RV3DR (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact was successful Sat 2018-02-24 08:45 UTC (***) Bellefonte Area Middle School, Bellefonte, PA, direct via W3YA The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Scott Tingle KG5NZA Contact is a go for: Mon 2018-02-26 17:59:16 UTC 63 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 128 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 102 (***) **************************************************************************** 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 2018-02-26 04:00 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 1212. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1161. (***) 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 2018-02-26 04:00 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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