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

Voting
by wa7dxz 28 Jul '18

28 Jul '18

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 Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

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NASA on the Air - NASA 60th Anniversary
by Keith E. Brandt, WD9GET 27 Jul '18

27 Jul '18

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

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Re Masts
by Mark Spencer 27 Jul '18

27 Jul '18

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

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AO73/FUNcube-1 Operations
by Jim Heck 27 Jul '18

27 Jul '18

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

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AO-91 7/25 from 2056 - 2108 UTC (1356 - 1408 PDT)
by johnv＠frontier.com 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

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.

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2018-07-27 02:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

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 (***) ****************************************************************************** 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 130 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 106 **************************************************************************** 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.rtf http://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. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 2018-07-27 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 **************************************************************************** Exp. 55 on orbit Drew Feustel Oleg Artemyev Ricky Arnold KE5DAU Exp. 56 on orbit Serena Aunon-Chancellor KG5TMT Alexander Gerst KF5ONO Sergei Propopev **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Antenna Masts
by Ted Krempa 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

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 -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Overn via AMSAT-BB 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 Twitter: @KE0PBR `·.¸¸.·´¯`·.. ><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.. ><((((º> _______________________________________________ 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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Amateur radio on TV
by skristof＠etczone.com 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

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

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Re: [amsat-bb] Fox Telem program
by Roy Dean 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

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*

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Decoding telemetry data
by Ross Biggar 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

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

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