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Re: [amsat-bb] DSLWP-2 elements for GMAT?
by Ken Swaggart 23 Jun '18

23 Jun '18

Thanks, The most recent elements I could find was a tweet posted by Scott Tilley on June 9th. https://twitter.com/coastal8049/status/1005575611627139072 I think there have been some changes as they refine the orbit, but I’ll use those unless something newer surfaces. I’d think there would be a project web page someplace with current data. 73, Ken, W7KKE From: W3AB/GEO <w3ab(a)yahoo.com> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2018 16:50 To: Ken Swaggart <k.swaggart(a)charter.net> Cc: 'AMSAT BB' <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] DSLWP-2 elements for GMAT? Ken, I C&P your title into Dr Google & got lots of info. ___ Sent from my two way wrist watch 73 de W3AB/GEO On Jun 23, 2018, at 16:46, Ken Swaggart <k.swaggart(a)charter.net <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Are the DSLWP-2 elements used by GMAT available somewhere? Google wasn't any help this time. 73, Ken, W7KKE _____ Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org <mailto:[email protected]> . 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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ANS-175 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by E.Mike McCardel 23 Jun '18

23 Jun '18

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-175 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor at amsat.org. In this edition: * AMSAT-NA President to attend AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2018 * AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2018 Second call for Speakers * AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2018 Speakers (to date) * K4R EL84 Grid Expedition - July 6-8 * South Africa Symposium Papers Posted * Call for Field Day Stories, Pictures * Call for Volunteers, ANS Seeks Rotating Editors * ARISS News * Satellite Shorts From All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-175.01 ANS-175 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 175.01 >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. June 24, 2018 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-175.01 AMSAT-NA President to attend AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2018 AMSAT-UK is very happy to announce that the dates of the next AMSAT-UK Colloquium will be October 13-14, 2018. The AMSAT-UK Colloquium, incorporated into the RSGB Convention, will take place at the Kents Hill Park Conference Centre, Timbold Drive, Milton Keynes, MK7 6BZ. The AMSAT-UK Committee are pleased to announce that Joe Spier, K6WAO will be presenting a paper entitled '50 Years of AMSAT and Beyond' AMSAT-UK invites speakers, to cover topics about Amateur satellites, CubeSats, Nanosats, Space, High Altitude Balloons and associated activities, for this event. Those wishing to speak should contact Dave, G4DPZ, dave at g4dpz dot me dot uk AMSAT-UK Colloquium web page: https://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/ [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2018 Second call for Speakers This is the second call for speakers for the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium 2018 which will be held on Saturday and Sunday, October 13-14 at the Kents Hill Park Conference Centre, Timbold Drive, Milton Keynes, MK7 6BZ, United Kingdom. AMSAT-UK invites speakers, to cover topics about Amateur satellites, CubeSats, Nanosats, Space, High Altitude Balloons and associated activities, for this event. Those wishing to speak should contact Dave, G4DPZ: dave at g4dpz dot me dot uk Further information https://amsat-uk.org/colloquium [ANS thanks Dave G4DPZ for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2018 Speakers (to date) On behalf of the AMSAT-UK Committee I am pleased to announce the list of speakers who have volunteered to present papers at the event (https://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/ <https://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/>) Dr, Chris Bridges, M0IEB (and students), Surrey Space Centre: "ESA ESEO Payloads" Matthew Cosby, Chief Scientist, Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd: "Goonhilly : Developing a global deep space communications network" The FUNcube Team: "JY1Sat , FUNcube Next" Peter Guelzow, DB2OS, AMSAT-DL: "Es'hail-2 and it's amateur radio payload" David Johnson, G4DPZ & Carlos Eavis, G3VHF: "An introduction to Amateur Satellites" Naomi Kurahara, Chief Exec, Infostellar JP: "Distributed Grounstations (StellarStation)" Ciaran Morgan, M0XTD, ARISS-UK (and school pupil): ARISS / STEM Outreach Prof. David Southwood, Imperial College London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_College_London: "Cassini- Huygens: Odyssey to Saturn and Titan" Joe Spier, K6WAO, President, AMSAT-NA: "50 Years of AMSAT and Beyond" Iain Young, G7III: "Automated reception of FUNcube and Fox Telemetry" Details of when they will be presenting during the event will be published in the near future. (We still have 3 slots available if you want to volunteer a presentation. See above announcement) In addition to the presentations, the ARISS-UK team will be assembling a demonstration ground station with the same configuration as that used in schools contacts. [ANS thanks Dave, G4DPZ for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- K4R EL84 Grid Expedition - July 6-8 Between July 6-8, 2018, NJ4Y, N4ESS, and KE4AL will venture to Fort Jefferson on Garden Key, in the Dry Tortugas island chain. Their main purpose for the trip is to activate EL84, one of the maidenhead grids with the least land area of any in the CONUS, on satellites and 6m. The team wrote, "We are scheduled to arrive around 11am (1500z) on July 6th, and stay through 3pm (1900z) on the 8th. "Two complete satellite stations are planned, with capabilities on all current amateur satellites. Emphasis will be especially on the larger footprints of AO-7 and FO-29, but we will work as many passes as possible during our time on the island. With two experienced satellite operators who have activating nearly 80 combined grids on satellites in 15 different states, we think we've got a pretty good chance of success in getting EL84 in the logs of anyone who needs it! This includes Europe and South America - if you are in the outer reaches of the footprint between EL84np and your location, let them know ahead of the trip so they can plan some possible low elevation pass skeds! "The 6m station will consist of a 2 element 6m beam at ~20 feet, an FT-857 100w transmitter, and capabilities on SSB, CW, and digi modes, emphasizing the JT suite - FT8, JT65, and possibly some MSK144 if conditions allow. We will be there in peak E skip season, so keep your fingers crossed for some great band openings! "We will also operate on HF as time, band conditions, and battery power allow. This is secondary to the 6m and satellite ops, with no hard planned schedule, so keep your eye on the dx cluster for K4R if you need EL84 for the ARRL international grid chase. As on 6m, we will have capabilities on CW, SSB, and digi. "We will be communicating largely via twitter.com/K4R_EL84 while on the island, using a Garmin InReach messenger to post informa- tion about frequencies, modes, and pass schedules. This is an open, public twitter page, so you can view it even if you don't have a twitter account. If you do have an account, be sure and follow us before the trip so you can stay up to date! We are also working out details on a pilot station who can relay sked requests and information to us via the satellite messenger - stay tuned here for more details on that as the trip approaches. "All logs will be uploaded to LOTW as soon as possible after the trip. Cards will also be available upon request." Visit the team's web page http://k4r2018.com/ for their latest information. [ANS thanks the K4R Dry Tortugas Expedition for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- South Africa Symposium Papers Posted Papers from the South Africa AMSAT Symposium have been posted at: http://www.amsatsa.org.za/Space%20Symp2018.htm Find more news about AMSAT South Africa news on their homepage at: http://www.amsatsa.org.za/ [ANS thanks AMSAT SA for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Field Day Stories, Pictures The AMSAT Journal is looking to publish interesting, unusual or humorous stories about the upcoming AMSAT Field Day event. Please send your experience with photos, if applicable, to journal at amsat dot org. [ANS thanks Joe KB6IGK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Volunteers, ANS Seeks Rotating Editors The AMSAT News Service (ANS) is seeking volunteers to serve as rotating editors for its weekly newsletter. Editors work on a rotating schedule, each taking a different turn editing a specific week's newsletter as scheduled by the ANS Editor in Chief. Editors support each other by seeking and reporting to the Editor of the week, information and resources of interest to the AMSAT community. The number of newsletters assigned will be dependent upon the number of available editors at any given time. The average editor can expect to spend, on average, 4-5 hours for each newsletter, dependent on available material. Prospective editors are required to be AMSAT members in good standing and have a genuine interest in satellite operation and an understanding of AMSAT's mission. Former editing experience is a plus but not required. If interested, please submit an inquiry, including your contact information to ans-editor(a)amsat.com. [ANS thanks the ANS editors for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS News Recent Successful ARISS Contacts + 2018-06-19 14:20 UTC between Ricky Arnold KE5DAU (Exp 55), using ISS callsign OR4ISS, and Tehnicka škola Zajecar, Zajecar, Serbia. Contact was direct via YU1ACR. ARISS Mentor was Marko 9A8MM. Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium, Leverkusen, Germany, direct via DLØIL and Schickhardt-Gymnasium, Herrenberg, Germany, direct via DLØSGH The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be DPØISS The scheduled astronaut is Alexander Gerst KF5ONO Contact is a go for: Wed 2018-06-27 10:32:19 UTC [ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts From All Over + EN84 activation Monday June 25 Look for ops AA8CH and WW8W to be active from EN84 on Monday June 25th. Tentative plans include XWs in the 1300 hour, and the morning (our time) AO92s and the CAS4 passes. We might try AO07 and FO29 as well. Transmission on linears will be fixed frequency and tuning for callers. Bring your SAT gear to work with you if you need this grid. Email to AA8CH: aa8ch at aol dot com with any questions. QSOs uploaded to LOTW as always. [ANS thanks Chris AA8CH for the above information] + The next SSTV image downlinks are planned for June 29-July 1. These images will commemorate the various satellites that the ARISS team has developed and hand-deployed from the ISS. These will include the first satellite deployment from ISS: SuitSat-1/Radioskaf-1 which was deployed in February 2006. More details on this will be forthcoming as the date draws near. [ANS thanks Sergey Samburov, RV3DR for the above information] + The ANS Editors would like to thank and congratulate Lee McLamb KT4TZ for editing his 200th AMSAT News Service Bulletin when he published ANS 119 on April 19, 2018. He has subsequently published two more since then. [ANS thanks EMike AA8EM for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi- tional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu- dent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership information. 73, This week's ANS Editor, EMike McCardel, AA8EM aa8em at amsat dot org

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AMSAT Field Day
by Ronald G. Parsons 23 Jun '18

23 Jun '18

Amazing this year. Seems like every SSB FD station has a pileup. The FM sats are so busy as to be almost useless. What a change from a couple years ago. Great going! Ron W5RKN 1D STX

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Re: [amsat-bb] How are you doing?
by Tony Stone 23 Jun '18

23 Jun '18

Same place on Parsons. I went over a couple of hours this morning and the place was packed for the picnic lunch. Looks like the same folks are still hard at work. Your shack is looking good. Congratulations. I am still working on the house and am close to getting up some weak signal antennas on 6,2, 220 and 432. I finally got the old antennas down. The new ones are HO loops. I will also put up a new discone. I have it ordered alreadly. I am thinking about a LPDA and a 1296 loop yagi on a small rotor also. These will work on the Florida Weak Signal group nets on 432 and 1296. I talked to AA4MD this week and he is still waiting on his 1296 transverter. The 600 watt amplifier has been delivered. Tony -----Original Message----- From: Mike Sprenger <mikesprenger(a)gmail.com> To: Tony Stone <w4tas(a)gte.net> Sent: Sat, Jun 23, 2018 12:54 pm Subject: Re: How are you doing? Hi tony Where is the field day site ? Same place on parsons? I’m getting the shack put back together notice it’s now a closed room and new floor. Week of 4th will be putting upantennas Thanks, Mike Sent from my iPhone On Jun 22, 2018, at 7:38 PM, Tony Stone <w4tas(a)gte.net> wrote: What's cooking Mike? Are you going to the Field Day site? We are hanging in here. Doing the weekly nets with the club on 2, 6, 10 and 80 meters. I have made my first contact on 160. It was with Ed down in Balm Florida. I think he does some AM on 80and160. With the help of my friend and ham radio buddy Andy, I finally have my beams down for 6, 2 and 70 cm. I am going back up with HO loops on 6, 2, 2 1/4 and 70cm. I hope to have my shop back to some semblance of order in a couple of weeks and can get on the air on these bands. I don't know how the 706 works on AM but I would like to find out. Maybe we can set up a schedule to try it out. I hope this finds you and your family well and that you are making good progress on your house plans. Tony

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APRS contacts between passes at field day
by Robert Bruninga 23 Jun '18

23 Jun '18

While you are between Sat passes, you can use your APRS HT to make APRS contacts all over the country too. They wont count for FD contest points, unless it is direct with no digipeater, but the opportunity to make a bunch of live APRS contacts during a global contest should be fun! Simply activate your APRS station there by sending a Global CQ FD message to the world. Just send an APRS message to CQSRVR with the first words being CQ FD XX SSS... (where XX SSS is your category and ARRL section) This message will go to every other CQ FD site on the planet (if they have sent the same CQ message). To make a contact, when you see one of these CQ FD messages from the CQSRVR, then you simply send back an APRS message to their callsign direct. When he acknowledges it, then it is a contact. Of course, I have not even read the FD rules since, for a decade, such. APRS contacts do not count because they go via digipeaters. But HAVE FUN! Enjoy APRS and put your FD site on the map. Use the PORTABLE symbol which is a tent... For info on the global CQSRVR see: http://aprs.org/cqsrvr.html And you can use it for ANY global message group any day of the year too. For example CQ AMSAT or CQ JOTA or CQ IOTA, or CQ SOTA To keep the global traffic load down, you can only send one of these CQ messages once every 30 minutes, But when you see other callsigns, you can send direct message as many as you want since they go point-to-point. Bob, WB4APR

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(no subject)
by Mike S 23 Jun '18

23 Jun '18

http://famous.rebeccakirstin.com Mike S

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Reminder! AMSAT Field Day Starts at 1800 UTC 23-Jun
by Paul Stoetzer 23 Jun '18

23 Jun '18

All those with satellite stations for Field Day, remember to calculate and submit your scores for AMSAT Field Day as well as ARRL Field Day. AMSAT Field Day allows working stations on multiple satellites, whereas ARRL rules count "satellite" as a single band (working a station on a second satellite is a dupe under ARRL rules). AMSAT Field Day also awards points for uploads and downloads of Field Day greetings from store-and-forward packet satellites (FalconSAT-3). See the AMSAT Field Day rules and submission requirements at https://www.amsat.org/field-day/. There are 4 FM satellites, 12 linear transponder satellites, and 3 digital satellites that will be operational during Field Day this year. Anyone looking for the 100 point ARRL Field Day bonus should be able to easily pick it up. FM AO-91 AO-92 (In L/v mode through 0158Z 24-Jun, U/v mode after) AO-85 SO-50 Linear Transponder AO-7 AO-73 CAS-4A CAS-4B EO-88 (Eclipse Only) FO-29 UKube-1 XW-2A XW-2B XW-2C XW-2D XW-2F Digital FalconSAT-3 (PBBS & Digipeater) NO-84 (PSK31 & Digipeater) LO-90 (FM Uplink / Codec2 Downlink) Satellite details are available at https://www.amsat.org/two-way-satellites/ . 73, Paul, N8HM

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Re: [amsat-bb] AO-92 is in L/v as of 0143Z 10Jun
by Andrew Glasbrenner 22 Jun '18

22 Jun '18

That's the plan pending a successful mode change this evening. 73, Drew KO4MA -----Original Message----- From: Greg D <ko6th.greg(a)gmail.com> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2018 4:36 PM To: Andrew Glasbrenner <glasbrenner(a)mindspring.com> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AO-92 is in L/v as of 0143Z 10Jun Hi Drew, Just confirming... Mode L/v for tomorrow? We have a perfect pass at 11:09 local PDT (Field Day start + 9 minutes) on Saturday that I'd love to try. Thanks! Greg KO6TH Greg D wrote: > My thought, exactly. > > Thanks, Drew, > > Greg KO6TH > > > Andrew Glasbrenner wrote: >> If you have L capability, this is the way to an easy 100 points.

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global satellite tracking !?
by Butch 22 Jun '18

22 Jun '18

Does anyone know anything about this: https://www.stellarstation.com/amateur <https://www.stellarstation.com/amateur> ? UHF only for now, but some neat stuff here: https://stellarstation.helpscoutdocs.com/article/40-decoding-downloaded-iq <https://stellarstation.helpscoutdocs.com/article/40-decoding-downloaded-iq> Future updates here: https://stellarstation.helpscoutdocs.com/article/36-product-roadmap <https://stellarstation.helpscoutdocs.com/article/36-product-roadmap> Some fine print (enlarged for easier reading ;-): Regarding amateur frequencies: Amateur ground stations use special credits that are designated to only amateur frequencies. Credits that are earned by sharing commercial ground stations cannot be spent for using amateur ground stations. Additionally, credits earned through amateur ground stations cannot be converted to cash. The only way to access amateur ground stations in the StellarStation network is to share your existing amateur ground station to earn special credits designated for amateur frequencies. How it works: When you share your unused antenna time and earn credit, you can then spend your credit to access other antennas, dramatically expanding your communication window without paying for additional passes. Users without a ground station can simply sign up to use any compatible ground station on our platform with pay-as-you-go billing and no upfront costs. Work in progress? Vaporware? Too good to be true? Anyone willing to give it a try? Yes, I have signed up with SatNOGS, but my ground station is not yet complete… Butch K8KO

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AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2018 Speakers
by David Johnson 22 Jun '18

22 Jun '18

Hi, On behalf of the AMSAT-UK Committee I am pleased to announce the list of speakers who have volunteered to present papers at the event (https://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/ <https://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/>) Dr, Chris Bridges, M0IEB (and students), Surrey Space Centre: "ESA ESEO Payloads" Matthew Cosby, Chief Scientist, Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd: "Goonhilly : Developing a global deep space communications network" The FUNcube Team: "JY1Sat , FUNcube Next" Peter Guelzow, DB2OS, AMSAT-DL: "Es'hail-2 and it's amateur radio payload" David Johnson, G4DPZ & Carlos Eavis, G3VHF: "An introduction to Amateur Satellites" Naomi Kurahara, Chief Exec, Infostellar JP: "Distributed Grounstations (StellarStation)" Ciaran Morgan, M0XTD, ARISS-UK (and school pupil): ARISS / STEM Outreach Prof. David Southwood, Imperial College London <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_College_London>: "Cassini-Huygens: Odyssey to Saturn and Titan" Joe Spier, K6WAO, President, AMSAT-NA: "50 Years of AMSAT and Beyond" Iain Young, G7III: "Automated reception of FUNcube and Fox Telemetry" Details of when they will be presenting during the event will be published in the near future. (We still have 3 slots available if you want to volunteer a presentation) In addition to the presentations, the ARISS-UK team will be assembling a demonstration ground station with the same configuration as that used in schools contacts. 73 Dave, G4DPZ ---------- ANS Editors, Please add article, thanks, Dave

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