January 2019 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

Antenna pointing
by Mike Herr 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Got on FO29 today after one of our gentle desert breeze wind storms. Signals were way down as was my downlink. Finally worked Brent, VE5SWL, on CW but it was a chore. Checked all the cables, rf seems to be going in the right directions.Checked CAS-4B pass, same thing. Put the array flat and dead South. Went outside and checked, dead flat but pointing due East. I guess gain and side rejection is a real thing! ;>) -- Mike Herr WA6ARA DM-15dp Home of The QRP Ranch No trees were killed in the sending of this message, however, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. "Dad says that anyone who can't use a slide rule is a cultural illiterate and should not be allowed to vote. Mine is a beauty - a K&E 20-inch Log-log Duplex Decitrig." - Robert Heinlein

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-01-23 03:30 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-01-23 03:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Ashbury College Junior School, Ottawa, ON, Canada, telebridge via VK5ZAI The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Wed 2019-01-23 19:51:36 UTC 22 deg Colégio Campo de Flores, Almada, Portugal, direct via CS5SS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Sat 2019-02-02 15:23:19 UTC 50 deg (***) 2019-01-30 to 2019-02-02 Possible SSTV as part of Inter MAI but only for a few orbits in range of Moscow. (***) 2019-02-08 to 2019-02-10 Possible ARISS requested SSTV. (***) ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS-US program’s education proposal window open Oct. 1 - Nov. 30, 2018 has now closed. The next window should go open in the spring of 2019. The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts. Applications should be addressed by email to: school.selection.manager(a)ariss-eu.org ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application. Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. For the application, click here. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Keigo Komuro, JA1KAB, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) ****************************************************************************** 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 135 Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 108 **************************************************************************** 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 2019-01-23 03:30 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 1286. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1229. 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: 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 2019-01-09 23:30 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. 58 on orbit Oleg Konenenko David St-Jacques KG5FYI Anne McClain **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Re: [amsat-bb] Yaesu rotor parts needed
by mike repinski 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

My elevation rotor has holes on both sides. Mike

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Rotor inquiry
by Roy 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Due to age and physical limitations I have not been able to keep up to date with the maintenance requirements on my satellite antennas and rotators. As a result I have given the roof top equipment to another future satellite user. My rotators were an Emotator EV-800DX AZ/El unit. The El Rotor has a problem in need of parts. The Japanese company doesn't send individual parts it seems and recommends sending the rotor back to them for repair. The guy I gave the unit to is very competent with mechanical repairs. He is wanting to find someone with a similar rotor which is only good for parts that he can scavenge. If anyone knows of a source of parts for this rotator, please let me know so I can help him repair it. The motor is OK. The problem is in the gear train. I have missed being able to be on the satellites the past couple of years but climbing on the roof at age 88 has been put to an end. And to think I got within six contacts of getting that satellite DXCC certificate many years ago. Best wishes to all the guys I used to hangout with on AO6, AO7, AO10 and the UO22 Satgate gang. 73, Roy -- W0SL (ex W5SLL) Sent from my iPad R/D/Gd/Ggd

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ICOM IC-9100 Satellite mode/HF mode issue
by Muhammad Shoaib Maqbool 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Dear Members, I am using ICOM IC-9100 for more than a year for tracking satellites. My ICOM main band is stuck in HF mode and now it never goes out of HF mode nor it goes to satellite mode. Dont know what happened even after reset the issue is not resolved. Please help me. Best Regards, Muhammad Shoaib Maqbool

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AMSAT Journals in electronic form?
by Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-717-1197 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Are these available somewhere? I'm trying to get rid of as much paper as practical, and I have a big stack of these. Iirc, there was an AMSAT project for an S100 bus card :-). 73, Doug

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Re: [amsat-bb] OrigamiSat-1
by Mike Seguin 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

I wonder if there is a chance that the 5.84 GHz downlink could be activated for a few passes over the East Coast of the US. I'm in Burlington, VT and would love to see if I can detect that satellite as I did FITSAT-1 N1WAKA. Mike On 1/20/2019 6:28 AM, Mineo Wakita wrote: > Origami is one of Japan's traditional paper-craft arts, the art > of folding paper. It make with a piece of small square paper. > JE9PEL, Mineo Wakita-- 73, Mike, N1JEZ "A closed mouth gathers no feet"

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W7LB SK
by Ray Soifer 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Sorry to have to report the passing of Larry Brown, W7LB. I uploaded info about the Celebration of Life, which will be held at Larry's home near Tucson. 73 W2RS

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Es'hail2 S Band upconverter
by David G0MRF 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Just a quick FYI for anyone building a station for P4A I decided to order a 'BU-500 70cm to S-Band upconverter' It looks to be a nice device with a USB programmable oscillator, but I was a little concerned that the e-bay shop was in Taiwan and delivery could be over a month. However, 24 hrs after placing the order, I received an e-mail saying my converter has been sent from Austria, which means no 20% import duty and hopefully delivery in a few days rather than 30. https://www.ebay.com/str/HiDes168/EsHail2/_i.html?_storecat=15474554015 Thanks David G0MRF

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Fwd: Larry Brown celebration of life
by Ray Soifer 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Sorry to have to report this 73 W2RS -----Original Message----- From: Michael <1mrcasey(a)gmail.com> To: Michael <1mrcasey(a)gmail.com> Sent: Mon, Jan 21, 2019 10:30 am Subject: Larry Brow celebration of life  Fellow SADXA members, It is with great sadness that I report the death of long time SADXA member Larry Brown, W7LB. Larry was also our the Secretary / Treasurer for many years. There will be a celebration and Larry‘s life for family and friends at his house. It will be held, Tuesday January 22nd between 4:00PM and 7:00PM. The address is: 10580 E Pinal VistaTucson, AZ 85730 Here is a URL for a map. I think the best way to get there is to start off E. Old Spanish Trail and then turn South on S. Avenida Los Reyes and then turn West on E. Pinal Vista. Much of the road is dirt as is the driveway. https://www.google.com/search?q=google+map+10580+Pinal+vista%2C+tucson&rlz=… 73,Mike -

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