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list of sats
by James Brown 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

can anyone provide me a current list of "active" fm and linear sats It seams like a couple of sats such as AO85 and AO73 are gone now? Jim KI6WJ

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list of sats
by Nick Gangsta 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

James, https://www.amsat.org/two-way-satellites/

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-02-25 17:30 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-02-25 17:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Huntington High School, Huntington, TX, direct via KI5AJL The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for: Mon 2019-02-25 19:39:52 UTC 25 deg Ceip Nuestra Señora Del Carmen, Torre De La Reina, Spain, direct via EG7NSC The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI (***) Contact is go for: Tue 2019-03-05 09:50:56 UTC 48 deg (***) ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS-US program’s education proposal 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 112 **************************************************************************** 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 2019-02-25 17:30 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 1292. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1235. 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 2019-02-14 16:30 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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AO-91 demo for students EA4RCT - EB1AO 26 Feb 12:26 UTC
by Felix Paez EA4GQS 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

Dear friends, this Tuesday, February 26 and within the activity 'Picosatellites and radio amateurs by satellite', carried out by the Radioclub of the School of Telecommunications Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, AMSAT EA, in collaboration with that radioclub, will have a talk about amateur radio satellites, their history and how they are operated. Within the space of the talk, there will be a break to try to carry out a demonstration of QSO in a portable way, between us, in Madrid IN80 and José EB1AO in Vigo IN62 at 12:36 UTC, using the satellite AO-91 RadFxSAT. The callsign to be used will be EA4RCT. Please if you are reading this I ask you for priority in the sat pass so we can complete the contact. We wish to have new sat radio-amateurs in the future with this kind of activities! thanks and regards, Felix Paez EA4GQS

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Ham Radio Deluxe Version 6.5.0.196 Release Announcement
by Ted Krempa 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

Posting on behalf of Mike, WA9PIE. Looks like several updates to the Satellite portion. 73, Ted K7TRK From: Ham Radio Deluxe Newsletter [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2019 2:23 PM To: k7trkradio(a)charter.net Subject: Ham Radio Deluxe Version 6.5.0.196 Release Announcement Ham Radio Deluxe Release Announcement Email not displaying correctly? <https://sg-mktg.com/MTU1MTA0NjgyOHxqNWlleXA2eGdtcUVxUDhDUWdRUmxpQm5CT0MzYkt…> View it in your browser. Ham Radio Deluxe Ham Radio Deluxe v6.5.0.196 Released The 6.5.0.196 version of Ham Radio Deluxe is now available for download. This is the second release of 2019. Please download it from the Download pages on our website at: www.HamRadioDeluxe.com This may be a longer release announcement, because there's a ton going on here. I would encourage you to read this note in its entirety. In this release of Ham Radio Deluxe, there are 97 individual updates to the software (plus 4 duplicates, 102 total). By application, there are 26 in Logbook, 33 in Rig Control, 23 in Rotator, 13 in Satellite Tracking, and 7 in other areas (DM-780, setup, etc). Two developers simultaneously contributed to this work. We resolved the three issues that were reported with the 6.5.0.813 release - SAMCD error, installer doesn't complete and left HRD partially installed, and we restored the 3rd party serial port capability. In Rig Control, there are updates for the Yaesu FT-875D, FT-891, FT-897, FT-920, FT-1000MP, FTDX-1200, and FTDX-3000; updates for the ICOM IC-7300, IC-7610, and IC-7700; and for the Kenwood TS-990. In the Rotator application, we have validated changes for the Portable Rotation rotors (thanks, Will), Yaesu GS-232A/B, and HyGain DCU. We have un-validated changes for the M2 rotor family (feedback from M2 users welcome). In the Satellite Tracking, we've fixed about half the things in the bug list for this application. I'm excited to begin trying it out with life satellite QSOs. In Logbook, we resolved several rig control issues where mode was not tracked when clicking on spots. You can now save column widths in the DX Cluster. More performance enhancements were completed. We made changes to enhance the security of Ham Radio Deluxe. We now conform to the direct connection specifications for QRZ XML lookups. The full release notes can be found here: https://ReleaseNotes.HamRadioDeluxe.com Question you may have: Even if you're not interested in the 188 improvements made to Ham Radio Deluxe over the last 38 days, why should you go ahead and install this version? The answer is easy. This version is the most stable version of Ham Radio Deluxe ever produced. How do we know this? The number of errors collected by Microsoft on Ham Radio Deluxe have fallen to a number that is so low it's (what I call) "statistically insignificant." IMPORTANT: All those who have purchased Ham Radio Deluxe at any time in the past should download and install this version in order to benefit from all bug fixes. You are entitled to them. Our clients who are covered by an active Software Maintenance and Support period are entitled to Feature Enhancements. What's coming next? In speaking with our developers, they tell me that the things that were causing errors or crashes have been eliminated (as far as we are able to measure). Now, we're getting down into some more complicated defects that - don't cause errors - but where the software is not doing what it was intended to do. And "now that the errors are out of the way, we can more clearly see where the software isn't doing what it is supposed to in some cases." That said - we've got a known error that we found during this sprint that has to do with the way the callsign lookup sources are populating the ALE. We've fixed a few of these things. But we know that the lat/long & heading and distance for the rotor in the ALE is not correct. We're working on this now. (It's apparently been broken for a while and we didn't want to hold this release while we fix it, because there are so many valuable fixes already complete and tested.) But we'll be rewriting the callsign lookup logic soon. We'll be adding some features into Logbook that eliminate some data entry errors that cause problems with these records when they're uploaded to LOTW. We're working on updating Satellite Tracking for a few radios that are not completely functional. We'll need to be able to log the sub-band (TX) VFO, which is a long-standing request. We'll push forward on any Rotator and Satellite Tracking problems that come up. But more than half of them have been eliminated with this release. [Editorial Note: Lots of folks are asking us when we'll support the IC-9700. That's a great question. As most of you know, it's not available in the USA right now. Dealers are taking orders. We're in the same line to receive one that you're all in. Once they're available, we'll need about six weeks with the radio to get it included in Ham Radio Deluxe. We're expecting to receive a loaner TS-890 soon.] We'll be working on the panadapter display (so-called "waterfall") for ICOM radios. Then we'll begin working on supporting the panadapter display for other radios that have supportable capabilities. Please watch these newsletters for updates. Pass these updates along to your friends and club members. Newsletters will also be posted on our website's blog at: https://www.HamRadioDeluxe.com/blog Thank you es 73 de Mike, WA9PIE HRD Software, LLC We appreciate the opportunity to serve you. The Ham Radio Deluxe Team... 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JY1-SAT Dashboard?
by skristof＠etczone.com 24 Feb '19

24 Feb '19

Is there an updated version of the JY1-Sat (JO-97) dashboard that works better than the original (the one I'm trying to use)? I'd love to see one that works as well as the dashboards for AO-73 and EO-88. Steve AI9IN

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AMSAT on HF
by skristof＠etczone.com 24 Feb '19

24 Feb '19

If anyone is looking for QSOs for the AMSAT on HF award I will be on 40 m between 7060 kHz and 7065 kHz CQing in slow CW. Between 1630 UTC and 1700 UTC today (so coming right up). Steve AI9IN

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Upcoming ARISS contact with Huntington High School, Huntington, TX
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 24 Feb '19

24 Feb '19

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Huntington High School, Huntington, TX on 25 Feb. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 19:39 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between NA1SS and KI5AJL The contact should be audible over the state of Texas and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. Huntington High School is located in Huntington, Texas which is a small, rural community located in deep East Texas near Sam Rayburn Lake. There are 493 students in our school. Currently, 10 of these students are involved in the ARISS program through their teacher Mrs. Peggy Albritton and our mentor, Mr. Kris Kirkland. Kris, who is a HAM radio enthusiast and a coach/mentor of our high school robotics team, is the person responsible for bringing the ARISS program to our school. There are currently 3 Freshman, 3 Sophomores, 3 Juniors and 1 Senior participating. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. What is the most exciting experience that you have had or discovery you have made while on the ISS? 2. How does being in space affect blood pressure? 3. What is your favorite movie set in outer space, and which movie do you feel most accurately portrays what it is like in space? 4. How do you incorporate 3D printers on the ISS and how valuable is it to the success of the ISS program? 5. How much physical training do you have to do during a space mission and how do you do this? 6. What do you do for entertainment while in space? 7. What does it feel like wearing a spacesuit and are they custom made to fit you? 8. How good is the food on the space station and what's your favorite kind? 9. How can astronauts have a shower on board? 10. What type of physical training did you have to do to prepare to be on the ISS? 11. What advice can you give to students who aspire to follow in your footsteps? 12. Have you ever tried to pull pranks on each other and, if so, what were they? 13. If presented with the opportunity, would you like to be involved with colonizing Mars and how? 14. Is your daily routine regimented to a time zone, or can you sleep, wake, and work at times you choose? 15. How does being in space affect how you sleep and dream? 16. How do you clean up your messes in space? 17. When and why did you decide to become an astronaut? 18. Are you working on anything that will help make a colony on Mars. 19. How did you feel when you saw planet Earth for the first time? 20. What is the first thing you want to do when you get back on earth? 21. Do the astronauts ever leave time capsules to be found on the ISS in the distant future? 22. How do you brush your teeth on board the ISS? 23. What do you think should be the focus of the space program over the next years? 24. What do you want to do as soon as you get back home? 25. How do you draw blood in space for all the experiments requiring that? 26. What is your favorite part about living in space? PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES: Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status Next planned event(s): TBD About ARISS: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or informal education venues. With the help of experienced amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with large audiences in a variety of public forums. Before and during these radio contacts, students, teachers, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org, www.amsat.org, and www.arrl.org. Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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AMSAT Awards
by Bruce 23 Feb '19

23 Feb '19

You know, one of the really cool things about receiving an AMSAT award in the mail is the certificate inside. However, what is even cooler is the envelope. Yes, the envelope. My wife has purchased stamps for years and years. I use those stamps on the envelopes I mail. None of those little white labels from the post office. Some stamps are from the 70's, 80's and 90's. She is still purchasing so when the older ones are gone which should be in about 5 years or more, I will be starting on newer ones from the 2000's. Today's mailing included 32 cent stamps featuring the roaring 20's which came out in 1995, 1996, 1997 time frame. Is it time for you to apply for an AMSAT award or to add to your stamp collection :-) 73...bruce -- Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards AMSAT Board Member 2016-2020 ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT* Also live streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News http://www.arrl.org AMSAT on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/amsat

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2nd QO-100 in 3B8
by Jean Marc Momple 23 Feb '19

23 Feb '19

Dear All, Just to share. My younger brother Patrice (3B8FA) won the race for first 3B8 operation on QO-100, however was able to correct a few issues with my Tx antenna and made it today, worked 5 countries today, therefore 2 station in 3B8 active and another OM getting ready. Really a nice bird particularly when you are in an island in the middle of the ocean and HF at its lowest, congratulations again to the project team which gave us such a good toy. 73 Jean Marc (3B8DU)

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