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

AO73 FUNcube-1
by Graham Shirville 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Hi All, I am pleased to confirm that AO73 is now in amateur mode for the weekend with the transponder active and available for use. Please enjoy! 73 Graham - G3VZV

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Re: [amsat-bb] VUCC Awards-Endorsements for February 2019
by Ronald G. Parsons 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Here are the endorsements and new VUCC Satellite Awards issued by the ARRL for the period February 1, 2019 through March 1, 2019. Congratulations to all those who made the list this month! Lots of new Not-in-my-home-grid awards this month. CALL 01Feb 01Mar WC7V 1199 1200 AA5PK 1049 1055 WD9EWK 525 537 NS3L 375 400 AF5CC 351 381 AE5B 342 368 KE8FZT 275 301 W7JSD 257 279 K9UO 202 225 WB7VUF 107 206 N2NL New 179 N1PEB 125 138 WD9EWK(DM22)108 131 W5PFG(DM80) New 125 WD9EWK(DM31)New 110 W5PFG(DM95) 100 109 TI2VLM New 106 W5PFG(DM93) New 105 KS1G New 102 PU4JOE New 101 W1OH New 101 If you find errors or omissions. please contact me off-list at <mycall>@<mycall>.com and I'll revise the announcement. This list was developed by comparing the ARRL .pdf listings for The two months. It's a visual comparison so omissions are possible. Apologies if your call was not mentioned. Thanks to all those who are roving to grids that are rarely on the birds. They are doing most of the work! Ron W5RKN

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-03-01 16:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-03-01 16:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: 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 2019-03-01 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 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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ACTIVE BIRDS,
by Joe 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

I know this site, http://www.amsat.org/status/ Is there anyplace I can get a current listing of all the active and usable Birds currently operational? I was very active in these things back in the years of Oscar 6,7, the Russian Birds, etc. I plan on getting back on, and also make it a club project. Give a presentation and get some others interested also. Joe WB9SBD -- Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com

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LVB TRACKER
by Nicholas Mahr KE8AKW 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

AMSAT should consider making and selling those all year around once again. I wouldn't mind buying one myself here in the near distant future as I refurbish my sat station. I'm sure they do sell a good amount of them especially around Dayton. Hopefully we see more in stock soon as they are a very nice piece of equipment to have! Nick, KE8AKW

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QO-100 bare minimum: GPS referenced LNB + IC-402 (read: no dish, 70cm IF!)
by Michael Fletcher 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7KwssbYMKY /Michael, oh2aue

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LVB TRACKER
by Rick Hardin 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

Hello, We need 2 LVB Tracker interfaces, does anyone have 1 or 2 that they can sell ? Thank you Rick kb4bsa rick(a)rickhardinjr.com Sent from Mail for Windows 10

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OSCAR-Locators and Satellab
by na2x＠yahoo.com 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

The details of the original OSCAR-Locator was first described by it's creator, Kay Deskur, K2ZRO (SK), in an article in the 73 magazine issue dated July 1975. K2ZRO called it "Satellab". Since the 73 magazine is now in the public domain, electronic issues are available on the web. Look for the July 1975 issue at: https://mikeyancey.com/73mag/index.php This 73 magazine article was reprinted in the March 1976 AMSAT Newsletter. It's available on Phil Karn's web site at: http://www.ka9q.net/newsletters.html For production quantities of the device, now called OSCAR-Locator, I think AMSAT might have made some. I say this because the version I have (which is of very good quality) has K2ZRO printed on it and AMSAT's name and address. Later, The ARRL also sold their version. The ARRL printed updated ground tracks in QST for any new satellites that were launched. OSCAR-Locators and Satellab all basically worked the same.

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