Got my new ballot today, voted, mailed it in.As a point of curiosity, of our total membership, what percentage, or how many people, return ballots or vote.Bob LucasWa7dxzDm33
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This week the Johnson Space Center Club is on the air as part of the NASA
on the Air (NOTA) year-long special event.
We are currently one of 12 NASA club stations participating in the event.
Throughout the year, we will be continuously operating in celebration of a
variety of significant NASA milestones.
For July, we will be operating to commemorate the 60th anniversary of
President Dwight D Eisenhower's July 29th, 1958, signing of the Space Act
which established the creation of NASA. During this week, the JSCARC will
be heavily operating on 10/15/20/40/80 m bands and also satellites. A
commemorative 1958 vacuum tube vintage station will be activated consisting
of a Johnson Ranger/Courier and a Hammarlund HQ145C, courtesy of one of our
members, K5RG. This station will be used to make CW, SSB, and AM QSOs. In
addition, our other shack radios will sue SSB, FT8, FM, CW, and SSTV to
make contacts on all bands. A special 60th Anniversary QSL card (designed
by AB5SS) will be available with an SASE for contacts made.
A QSL card can be received only if you send an SASE to our address listed
on our website (w5rrr.org), or QRZ.com.
There will be a special certificate issued for top stations that work modes
and bands across the NOTA NASA centers. Each of the other NASA stations
will be issuing their own special QSL cards as well. For more information
on this and NOTA, see NASAontheAir.wordpress.com.
73,
Keith WD9GET
Sorry for sending this to the group but I can't figure out what the email address is of individual who had questions re portable masts. I'm sorry to hear of your troubles contacting Go Vertical USA. I've had no issues contacting them, ordering things from them and getting the orders shipped to Canada.
I have purchased all most all of my mast sections locally in VE7land but Go Vertical USA does have some nice accessories that make things work much better in my experience. I've used these masts a fair bit for VHF congesting with beams and other applications.
Feel free to contact me off list if you want.
73
Mark S
VE7AFZ
mspencer12345(a)yahoo.ca
Hi All,
The spacecraft is now operating in continuous transponder mode. Plan is to
switch to Educational mode on Sunday PM UTC as usual.
Have fun
73
Jim G3WGM and the FUNCube team
After that pass of SO-50 and AO-91 over CN87 I found my recorder was malfunctioning. Does anyone have a tape of the AO-91 overpass? I have W7QL at 7/25 @ 2106 UTC. I would really appreciate it.
Thank you, and I will be getting a better recorder with my issues of grabbing the whole callsign in one call.
John
N7AME
Everett.
Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2018-07-27 02:00 UTC
Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:
ISS R&D Conference-San Francisco, CA, (CASIS#2), participating school Quest Institute for Quality Education, San Jose, CA, telebridge via VK5ZAI
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS
The scheduled astronaut is Serena Aunon-Chancellor KG5TMT
Contract was successful: Thu 2018-07-26 20:22:10 UTC 48 deg (***)
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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.
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All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted.
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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.
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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
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ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100
schools:
Francesco IKØWGF with 132
Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 130
Gaston ON4WF with 123
Sergey RV3DR with 106
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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 2018-07-27 02:00 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.rtfhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1242. (***)
Each school counts as 1 event.
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1190. (***)
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.
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The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact:
Delaware, South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands.
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QSL information may be found at:
http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html
ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS
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The successful school list has been updated as of 2018-07-27 02:00 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
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Exp. 55 on orbit
Drew Feustel
Oleg Artemyev
Ricky Arnold KE5DAU
Exp. 56 on orbit
Serena Aunon-Chancellor KG5TMT
Alexander Gerst KF5ONO
Sergei Propopev
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73,
Charlie Sufana AJ9N
One of the ARISS operation team mentors
Hi Paul,
Check out this listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/24-FOOT-FIBERGLASS-ANTENNA-TOWER-MAST-SECTIONS-POL…
These are excellent for portable and even permanent. They are mil spec so they will last a lifetime. Look at all the listings because prices are all over the map. Choose ones with free shipping. You may even find a set with an olive drab vinyl carrying bag.
I even have a trailer hitch from Harbor Freight that has a piece of muffler pipe welded to it and it fits the fiberglass pole perfectly. You can put up 4-5 pieces and it does not move.
On my permanent masts, I glue the pieces with Gorilla glue and paint them to protect from UV sun.
GL and 73
Ted
K7TRK
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Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2018 5:24 AM
To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] Antenea Masts
I know this isn't exactly satellite related, but I've asked for help in other places, and the feedback has been sparse. You guys have always been very helpful.
I'm looking for a portable antenna mast that I can use between passes while satellite roving. I would like it to be able to go to at least 20', hold a 5 element M2 6 Meter yagi, be able to fit in a small truck and be portable.
I have looked at numerous military surplus masts, like at Go-vertical-usa, but they will not return any of my correspondence. I have looked into many "home brew" solutions, but I'm just not that handy.
Anyone have any good sites I can go to for something that fits my needs?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Paul Overn
KE0PBR
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At 3 pm EDT today Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is showing a short feature
(10 min.) about amateur radio entitled "Radio Hams". The feature is from
1939. Could be fun to watch.
Check your local listings.
Steve AI9IN
Also, for the linux version at least, when you install it asks you if
you want to install specific spacecraft (I usually say yes to all of
them, including the ones that aren't in space yet). I'm sure there
is a way to add them after the fact, but never done it. You may want
to simply reinstall it and look out of that dialog that asks you if
you want to install the specific spacecraft (assuming it does that on
all platforms).
--Roy
K3RLD
Ross, Are you using the latest version of FoxTelem? It should be 1.06r and
> should include support for all 5 Fox-1 satellites (AO-85, AO-91,
> AO-92, Fox-1Cliff, and RadFxSat-2 / Fox-1E). The latest version can be
> downloaded at http://www.amsat.org/tlm/ 73, Paul, N8HM On Tue, Jul 24,
> 2018 at 9:19 PM, Ross Biggar <ross.biggar at outlook.com
> <http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb>> wrote:
> >* Hi All, *>
> >* My Fox telem program is only showing AO-91 how can I get it to show
> the other satellites as well such as AO-92, so I can deload the data from
> that sat . *>
> >
> >* Regards *>
> >* Ross *>
> >* ZL1WN*
I am interested in downloading and decoding telemetry data from various satellites.
The Fox satellites are easy, I can receive and decode them perfectly.
I would like information on how to find software to decode the various protocols such as 1k2, 4k2, 9k2 BPSK and 9k6/19k2 GMSK etc.
I have beams suitable for EME on 144 and 432 so receiving the
satellites is no problem.
I hope someone can assist me.
Regards
Ross
ZL1WN
Amsat life member
