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

FoxTelem server
by Joe Pereira 19 Sep '18

19 Sep '18

Is the server down ??? I have several hundred frames queued ready for upload. 73

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AMSAT LVB Tracker
by George Sakai 18 Sep '18

18 Sep '18

Looking for an AMSAT LVB Tracker. Let me know if you want to sell one. 73, George N3GS, EM28

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Office Closed
by Martha 18 Sep '18

18 Sep '18

The AMSAT Office will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday,September 19th. We will re-open on Thursday. -- 73- Martha

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2018-09-18 05:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 18 Sep '18

18 Sep '18

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2018-09-18 05:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Otori Elementary School, Sakai City, Japan, direct via 8N3OH The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Ricky Arnold KE5DAU Contact was successful: Mon 2018-09-17 11:45:55 UTC 74 deg (***) Bischöfliche Schule / Technisches Institut, St.Vith, Belgium, and Berufliche Schule Direktorat 1 Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany telebridge via W6SRJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Alexander Gerst KF5ONO Contact is a go for: Fri 2018-09-21 10:15:22 UTC 44 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 134 (***) Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 107 **************************************************************************** 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 2018-09-18 05:00 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 1256. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1203. (***) 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 2018-09-18 05:00 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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ANS-261 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - AMSAT Board of Directors Election Results
by JoAnne Maenpaa 17 Sep '18

17 Sep '18

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN ANS-261.01 In this Special Bulletin: * 2018 AMSAT Board of Directors Election Results SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-261.01 ANS-261 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin 261.01 >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE September 18, 2018 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-261.01 2018 AMSAT Board of Directors Election Results As a result of the 2018 Board of Directors Election, Tom Clark, K3IO; Mark Hammond, N8MH; and Bruce Paige, KK5DO; will serve on the board for two years. The First Alternate is Peter Portanova, W2JV. The Second Alternate is Scott Harvey, KA7FVV. Both will serve for a term of one year. The results of the voting with 698 ballots cast are as follows: Tom Clark, K3IO............574 Mark Hammond, N8MH.........507 Scott Harvey, KA7FVV.......176 Bruce Paige, KK5DO.........402 Peter Portanova, W2JV......359 Submitted by: Martha Saragovitz, Manager Clayton Coleman W5PFG, Secretary [ANS thanks Martha Saragovitz, Manager and Clayton Coleman, W5PFG, Secretary for the above information] /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers life memberships, and sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional 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 student rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership information. 73 and Remember to help keep Amateur Radio in space, This week's ANS Contributing Editor, JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM k9jkm at amsat dot org

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Re: [amsat-bb] ICESat-2 (ELaNa-XVIII -18) CubeSats freq & TLEs
by Ryan Caron 17 Sep '18

17 Sep '18

Scott & Fredy, Thanks for your passes so far. ELFIN A & B have been successfully demoded and commanded and are healthy. DAVE has passed similar milestones. SurfSat sadly does not beacon but I hope to hear good news from the UCF team soon. The 2018-070B/C/D/E objects in tle-new.txt are pretty great. We expect ELFIN A is the leading-most satellite, and ELFIN B is the trailing-most, but of course it is too early to know for sure. B is in a slightly lower orbit and should overtake A, especially once we deploy our magnetometer's stacer boom and get some differential drag started (possibly as early as Thursday). We want them to spread apart a bit to make our passes easier! Please send any pass contacts to elfin(a)igpp.ucla.edu and we'll ingest the beacon data into our database. Once we're commissioned and collecting science data we are interested in scheduling downlinks over any interested stations. https://elfin.igpp.ucla.edu/listen-to-elfin/ 73, Ryan NX1U On 9/15/2018 7:04 PM, Scott <scott23192(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Ryan! > > Recorded the 2201utc pass over Eastern USA and just reviewed the signals > from that. > > No sign of the others, but good decodes from DAVE (please note correct > freq. is 437.150); see my tweet w/ pics: > > https://twitter.com/scott23192/status/1041118626055680001 > > 73! > > -Scott, K4KDR

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missed complete call
by johnv＠frontier.com 17 Sep '18

17 Sep '18

I was deploy (rover) to Benton County WA, grid DN06, for the weekend for Washington State Salmon Run QSO Party. While operating for the contest I worked a couple of FM satellites AO-91 and AO-92. I believe I got all the call which I will upload to LOTW today. I went back to my recorder to clarify the call and found it stopped recording because the cord pulled out of my pocket. Another "lesson learned". So, may I ask the N6?TC to give me a fill? 9/15/2018 04:40 - 04:50 - AO-92I worked W7BMD - CM87 - thanks Chris W6D - DM14 RT66 - thanks Christy N6??C - DM-03 ??? KP4JV - DM41 - thanks Jose Thank you JohnN7AME

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Re: [amsat-bb] Assistance with NAISS school contact
by Ken Ernandes 17 Sep '18

17 Sep '18

The person making the request may contact me off the list and we can discuss what you need. I do have spam filters, so bear with them. Ken Ernandes N2WWD n2wwd(a)mindspring.com -----Original Message----- >From: Roy Dean <royldean(a)gmail.com> >Sent: Sep 17, 2018 8:04 AM >To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org >Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Assistance with NAISS school contact > > Brian, > >If you don't get any offers, please contact me directly (royldean(a)gmail.com). > I do NOT own the equipment you are asking for, but I was considering >partnering with somebody local to purchase all the equipment needed for >ARISS contacts as my daughter is in elementary school and I would LOVE to >support local ARISS events. > >--Roy >K3RLD > > > >> Hello, I need assistance with my NAISS school contact that I have planned. >> The >> school and the date is set. The person I had planned to loan me an antenna >> and AZ/EL rotator cannot provide the equipment for the event. I am >> wholeheartedly requesting that someone in this email group could loan me a >> rotator and antenna for the school contact in October. I'll pay shipping >> both ways. Warmest Regards, Brian K2CCW >_______________________________________________ >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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Re: [amsat-bb] Assistance with NAISS school contact
by Roy Dean 17 Sep '18

17 Sep '18

Brian, If you don't get any offers, please contact me directly (royldean(a)gmail.com). I do NOT own the equipment you are asking for, but I was considering partnering with somebody local to purchase all the equipment needed for ARISS contacts as my daughter is in elementary school and I would LOVE to support local ARISS events. --Roy K3RLD > Hello, I need assistance with my NAISS school contact that I have planned. > The > school and the date is set. The person I had planned to loan me an antenna > and AZ/EL rotator cannot provide the equipment for the event. I am > wholeheartedly requesting that someone in this email group could loan me a > rotator and antenna for the school contact in October. I'll pay shipping > both ways. Warmest Regards, Brian K2CCW

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Assistance with NAISS school contact
by Brian Bourdon 16 Sep '18

16 Sep '18

Hello, I need assistance with my NAISS school contact that I have planned. The school and the date is set. The person I had planned to loan me an antenna and AZ/EL rotator cannot provide the equipment for the event. I am wholeheartedly requesting that someone in this email group could loan me a rotator and antenna for the school contact in October. I'll pay shipping both ways. Warmest Regards, Brian K2CCW

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