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Upcoming ARISS contact with Ulluriaq School, Kangiqsualujjuaq, QC, Canada
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Ulluriaq School, Kangiqsualujjuaq, QC, Canada on 28 Mar. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 16:14 UTC. It is recommended that you start listening approximately 10 minutes before this time.The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and LU8YY. The contact should be audible over Argentina 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. Kangiqsualujjuaq is an Inuit village located on the east coast of Ungava Bay located 950 miles northeast of Montreal. Kangiqsualujjuaq is pronounced "kan-JIK-soo-an-oo-joo-ak" and means "very large Bay". Industries in Kangiqsualujjuaq include hunting of caribou, seal and beluga whale, Arctic char fishing, and the production of Inuit art. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. Where do you sleep? 2. What happens when you sneeze in zero gravity? 3. How do you use the bathroom in space? 4. Is the internet the same as on earth? Is there WIFI on the space station? 5. How do you communicate with your families? 6. How long does it take to get to the space station and is it the same on the way back to earth? 7. What do you do if you have an emergency and need to go to the doctor? 8. How long can humans stay in space and what is the longest stay so far? 9. What kind of food do you eat in space? 10. Other than Earth, which planet do you think humans could live on and why? 11. Have you ever floated outside the space station? What is it like? 12. How do you control the space station when you're sleeping? 13. Do astronauts get paid like everyone else? 14. How do you wash yourself each day on the space station? 15. What types of research are you personally involved with? 16. Did you want to be an astronaut when you were young? 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): 1. 58th Hamilton Scout Group, Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, direct via VE3DC. The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Sat 2019-04-06 18:31 UTC 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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Thank you
by David Bartholomew 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

I find it amazing that satellite VUCC has been around so many years, and yet less than 500 of them have been earned! I think there are two major reasons for the latest great increase in them: 1) We are very fortunate to have more active satellites at this time than ever before. 2) Logbook of the World makes it fast and easy to get your confirmations and to apply. As for me, I applied for my first VUCC earlier this month and hope to get my certificate very soon. 73 Dave AD7DB

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Satellite Cheat Sheet
by Chris Pohlad-Thomas 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

Does anyone have a PDF of the laminated satellite cheat sheet that comes with your new member packet for AMSAT? I don't seem to be able to find my packet. -- Chris Pohlad-Thomas

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AmazonSmile for AMSAT!
by Zach Metzinger 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

All, If you shop with Amazon, remember to use smile.amazon.com and select AMSAT as your charity. > This is your quarterly AmazonSmile donation notification. Your > charity, Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, recently received a > quarterly donation of $428.76 thanks to customers shopping at > smile.amazon.com. > > To date, AmazonSmile has donated a total of: $3,615.82 to Radio > Amateur Satellite Corporation --- Zach N0ZGO

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Road trip to DM52/62 & DM61/62 grid lines on Friday (29 March 2019)
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

Hi! I will make a quick trip to New Mexico to activate some grids on Friday, 29 March 2019. My plans are to work the midday AO-91 passes from the DM52/DM62 grid boundary west of Deming. Later in the afternoon, I plan to work a couple of SO-50 passes from the DM61/DM62 grid boundary south of Deming. Both of these locations are in New Mexico's Luna County. In between the AO-91 and SO-50 passes, I will work other passes from one of these grid boundaries. I may skip the morning AO-92 passes, depending on where I am when those passes come up. I will drive over 300 miles/500km to get to the Deming area Friday morning. I won't stay in that area into the evening, as I need to get to Tucson in the evening, before a hamfest there on Saturday (30 March) morning. During the day, I will use my @WD9EWK Twitter account to post updates. For those who don't use Twitter, my tweets are readable in a web browser at: http://twitter.com/WD9EWK APRS coverage should be pretty good in that area. I use WD9EWK-9 as my call sign for APRS when on the road, and my track should be visible at: http://aprs.fi/WD9EWK-9 All contacts made from this New Mexico trip will be uploaded to Logbook of the World. If you would like a QSL card for a contact with WD9EWK in New Mexico, please e-mail me directly with the QSO details. There's no need to first send me your QSL card or an SASE to get my card. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK or http://twitter.com/WD9EWK

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Diplexer, Arrow ant, 2 handhelds question
by skristof＠etczone.com 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

Today, on the SO-50 pass, I tried using the Arrow diplexer (duplexer?) to enable full-duplex using two handhelds. As most on this forum know, if you use two handhelds with the Arrow antenna, the third harmonic of the 2m uplink will desense the 70cm handheld, so you can't hear yourself. So, I hooked up what is normally the antenna end of the diplexer to the 2m uplink radio and the 2m radio end of the diplexer to the 2m part of the Arrow antenna. My hope was that this would suppress the third harmonic of the 2m uplink enough so that it wouldn't desense the 70cm handheld. The 70cm radio end of the diplexer was left unconnected. It didn't seem to work. I made contacts but I still didn't hear myself on 70cm. Just wondering if anyone else has tried this and what results you got. Steve AI9IN EM79ji

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Rocket Lab launch delayed until Wednesday UTC.
by Wendy and Terry Osborne 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

High winds for tomorrow at launch site (27 KM/Hr). Launch delayed until Wednesday UTC (Thursday NZDT). See: https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/1110348953986297856 73, Terry Osborne ZL2BAC

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SO-50 timer resets every 10 mins even if in use
by John Brier 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

This came up on Twitter recently. [1] When I first started using SO-50 I assumed once the transponder was turned on with the 74.4 Hz tone it would stay on as long as it was being used (people are uplinking with a 67 HZ tone), but in fact it turns off every 10 minutes regardless of activity. If you ever hear it go silent in the middle of a busy pass try sending a 74.4 hz tone to reset the timer/turn the transponder back on. 73, John Brier KG4AKV 1) https://twitter.com/AA5PK/status/1109642144887853056

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-03-25 20:30 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-03-25 20:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: About Gagarin From Space, Khabarovsk Institute of Infocommunications (KhIKI SibSUTI), Khabarovsk, Russia, direct via RZØCWD (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Oleg Konenenko Contact is a go for 2019-03-26 10:45 UTC Ulluriaq School, Kangiqsualujjuaq, QC, Canada, via LU8YY The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Thu 2019-03-28 16:14:54 UTC 47 deg 58th Hamilton Scout Group, Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, direct via VE3DC The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Sat 2019-04-06 18:31:06 UTC 38 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, go to: http://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd(a)gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss(a)iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) http://www.jarl.org/ (***) ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) http://www.jarl.org/ ****************************************************************************** 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 2019-03-25 20:30 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 1294. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1237. 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 2019-03-21 03:00 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. 58 on orbit Oleg Konenenko David St-Jacques KG5FYI Anne McClain Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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New APRS sat on PSLV?
by Roy Dean 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

According to a post on the SatNogs community forum, the April 1st PSLV launch will contain an APRS payload (to remained fixed to the upper stage of the rocket). Anybody know of anything about it? --Roy K3RLD

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