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

WX sat software
by Philip Jenkins 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

I got this email from a guy I met at the Charlotte Hamfest. I know extremely little about receiving WX sats, so I told him I'd pass it on the AMSAT BB. Email him directly if you like.... avampato(a)comporium.net There is one correction to the email below. He actually meant NOAA 19, not 21. *Philip,* *Remember we met at the Charlotte Ham fest. What I wanted to know is what software is used to demodulate and display NOAA 21 Sat images. I receive a strong signal when the sat is overhead. I watched the utube videos, but they didn't help.* *Thanks,* *Joe Avampato* *W8DKR* Philip N4HF

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Tuning above 435.360 MHz when working AO-92 U/V??
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

Hi! A couple of weeks ago, when I started using my old Icom IC-W32A on the FM satellites again, I saw that I was having to tune up to 435.365 MHz on the AO-92 U/V uplink to get through near my LOS. I didn't think much about it then, since the radio is at least 15 years old. It worked, even with the additional tuning step, and did a decent job on AO-91 and AO-92 (U/V). It's one of the later W32A models, with a 7-digit serial number that doesn't include any capabilities to receive at 800 MHz, and doesn't work SO-50 full-duplex. I was on AO-92 U/V earlier this week using my TH-D72 HT. On one pass Monday morning, I found that I had to tune up to 435.365 MHz near the end of a pass to get through the satellite. This was the first time I could recall having to do this with my TH-D72. I asked about this on Twitter and the QRZ satellite forum; a few others have noticed the same thing. I am now finding that when I work AO-92 U/V, I don't stay on 435.340 MHz very long. Maybe a minute or so, about the same amount of time I have been on 435.365 MHz before LOS. I spend a similar amount of time on the other 4 tuning steps for AO-92 U/V (435.345 through 435.360 MHz). Once I saw this, it is not a big deal to be prepared to use a 6th tuning step on my radios. This is a relatively new thing, as I wasn't having to tune above 435.360 MHz a year ago - or even 3-4 months ago - when working AO-92 U/V. For those using HTs or FM mobile radios to work AO-92 U/V, does anyone else find they are having to transmit above 435.360 MHz late in those passes to get through? If you're using something like an IC-910 or IC-9100, where are your radios ending up when working AO-92 U/V? Or an alternative question... what are you using as the nominal uplink frequency for AO-92 U/V? Thanks, and 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK or http://twitter.com/WD9EWK

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JAMSAT Phase 4 Ground and Space meetup
by Michelle Thompson 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

I’ll be speaking and doing demonstrations at JAMSAT Symposium this weekend. If any one is there, and wants to meet up, please let me know! Focus is on how we use GNU Radio on Phase 4 Ground and why it’s such a great tool for amateur radio experimentation. We are on deck on Sunday. Work on broadband microwave digital system GEO and ground stations for North America continues and has made some big steps forward lately. Read about recent activities at https://openresearch.institute, or in AMSAT-NA Journal when they have space. -Michelle W5NYV -- -Michelle W5NYV "Potestatem obscuri lateris nescis."

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Re: [amsat-bb] Shoppinglist
by Roy Dean 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

Hans, I was going to recommend the same RTL-SDR.com filters, with the caveat that you cannot transmit through them. This shouldn't be a problem if you are using an arrow (just be sure to not TX on the antenna it's connected to), though? (somebody can correct me if I am wrong). I will say that I researched band reject filters a while ago that can take significant power, and they are REALLY expensive (like $100 and up). I own one of these cheap RTL-SDR.com FM filters and it does work (although I've never used it for sat ops). --Roy K3RLD > I doubt these can take more than a few Watts. I want something you can > use for higher power. Thanks for the link, though.

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Hawaii contact
by Douglas Tabor 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

Looking for a Hawaii station for an AO-7 contact from RE66 - should be situated around the 28th of March at a place where I should have a slightly negative horizon. Appears to be 2 short passes a day. Any takers from Hawaii? 73, Doug Douglas Tabor, N6UA dtabor52(a)gmail.com

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CM94 this past weekend
by Bob Keating 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

Just a note to all whom I had QSOs with this past weekend... I am in the process of uploading all contacts to LoTW and should be done by tomorrow. Not sure if it makes a difference, but my call sign is showing up as N6REK/P on my logged QSOs. Thanks to everyone who responded to me. 73, Bob N6REK

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cubesats with Seismic data payload
by shakeel -ur-rehman 12 Mar '19

12 Mar '19

Hi all I am looking for any advice or information through which I can receive satellite telemtry related to seismic data . any one who have received such satellite payload using amateur satellite ground station ,please provide the name of satellite and receiving satellite ground station specification . I have found Twinsat-1N nanosatellite mission flown on QB50 project but it was unsuccessful mission. looking for information about satellite with seismic data payload whether nano/cubesat which are currently in orbit and whose satellite pass can be received. Thanks and regards shakeel

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Renewal of Orbital Data Request for TLE Redistribution by AMSAT NA for 2019-2020 Completed
by Ray Hoad 12 Mar '19

12 Mar '19

I am pleased to announce that AMSAT-NA's request to re-distribute TLE elements from Space-Track website has been approved for the period April 1, 2019 to April 1, 2020. Our ODR (Orbital Data Request) to distribute the Space-Track TLEs was approved by Air Force 18 SPCS on March 8, 2019. Thanks to Air Force 18 SPCS, Perry Klein, W3PK and Joe Fitzgerald, KM1P for their help in this yearly process. We are "good to go" for another year. Ray Hoad WA5QGD AMSAT-NA Orbital Elements Manager

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-03-12 02:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 12 Mar '19

12 Mar '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-03-12 02:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: North Point School for Boys, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, telebridge via IK1SLD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Wed 2019-03-20 20:16:09 UTC 86 deg Watch for live stream starting about 10-15 minutes before AOS at: www.ariotti.com (***) 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 2019-03-12 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 1293. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1236. 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 2019-03-05 16:00 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 **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-03-11 16:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 11 Mar '19

11 Mar '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-03-11 16:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: North Point School for Boys, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, telebridge via IK1SLD (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS (***) The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Wed 2019-03-20 20:16:09 UTC 86 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 2019-03-11 16:00 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 1293. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1236. 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 2019-03-05 16:00 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 **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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