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Re: [amsat-bb] [aprssig] AMSAT Plans?
by Greg D 29 Jun '19

29 Jun '19

Peter Laws N5UWY wrote: > It's hard to tell because AMSAT-NA's web presence is ... sub-optimal I believe it was reported recently that there is, in fact, a lot of stuff going on in the background, but because of non-disclosure restrictions, they can't talk about it. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on this. It is, unfortunately, part of why space is hard. Greg KO6TH

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Rocket Lab Launch now streaming
by Wendy and Terry Osborne 29 Jun '19

29 Jun '19

https://www.rocketlabusa.com/live-stream/ 73, Terry Osborne ZL2BAC

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-06-29 02:30 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 28 Jun '19

28 Jun '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-06-29 02:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Traverse Area District Library, Traverse City, MI, direct via W8TCM The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact was successful: Fri 2019-06-28 14:02:16 UTC 25 deg (***) Watch for live stream at https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCVyQOrBooJxzLFNGiyz9i2w Santa Barbara Public Library, Santa Barbara, CA, direct via K6TZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Wed 2019-07-03 17:54:19 UTC 49 deg Exp. 58 back on earth (***) Congratulations to the crew for a job well done! (***) Oleg Konenenko David St-Jacques KG5FYI Anne McClain 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 2019-06-29 02:30 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 The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-06-29 02:30 UTC. (***) http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) 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) https://srr.ru/ ****************************************************************************** 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? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting. Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts. 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 The HamTV webpage: https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ **************************************************************************** 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 118 **************************************************************************** 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. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1320. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1263. 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 **************************************************************************** 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 Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 58 back on earth (***) Congratulations to the crew for a job well done! (***) 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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PSAT-2 SSTV and PSK31
by Roland Zurmely 28 Jun '19

28 Jun '19

2 new SSTV pictures and PSK31 decoded: <https://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/psat2.htm> 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ

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able to receive beacon telemetry transmissions from the JAISAT-1 satellite.
by Tanan Rangseeprom 28 Jun '19

28 Jun '19

Dear AMSAT Member. We would like to inform AMSAT members that they should be able to receive beacon telemetry transmissions from the JAISAT-1 satellite amateur radio of Thailand by Radio Amateur Society of Thailand (RAST). for detail with picture to install all satellites to fairing of rocket see detail as link: https://www.roscosmos.ru/26486/ and https://www.roscosmos.ru/26491/ and video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klXEGKKTlFs) and animation video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcUhJMU4mHA&t=10s Which is scheduled for launching on July 5, 2019 by a Soyuz 2.1 rocket at 05.41 UTC together with the Meteor M N2-2 satellite and along with a total of 34 satellites from 12 countries. There is a telemetry beacon with a downlink on 435.325 MHz in accordance with the details from the IARU satellite co-ordinator according to the following link: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=521 The telemetry signal formet is 4k8 GMSK Mobitex (CMX990 Mobitex Format) as is detailed in the link below: http://www.d-star.one/downloads/D-Star%20ONE%20telemetry%20frame%20format.p… Example of signals in same this format can be found with the the reception of signals from the D-STAR ONE Sparrow and D-STAR ONE iSAT satellite http://dk3wn.info/blog/satelliten/d-star-one/ on the frequency of 435.70 MHz with YouTube videos that at the following links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAjPOJDbHdA and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm_NS3Prz9U This is from the following link that you can download for decode: http://uz7.ho.ua/packetradio.htm and http://www.dk3wn.info/files/dstar_one.zip All amateur radio operators capable of receiving signals from the JAISAT-1 satellite are invited to send the data by email to jaisatonetele(a)gmail.com and the Radio Amateur Society of Thailand will have a SWL card to confirm reception to everyone. Sincerely and with respect. 73 de Tanan Rangseeprom, HS1JAN Project Manager of JAISAT-1

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TLE Elements for PSAT2
by Robert Bruninga 27 Jun '19

27 Jun '19

I've been using object 44348 but PSAT2 is arriving maybe 2 or 3 minutes earler Steve Dimse guesses 44357 below SATNOGS guesses 44354 or 44355 and thinks they see BRICSAT2 9600 bd on 437.600 Bob -----Original Message----- From: aprssig <aprssig-bounces(a)lists.tapr.org> On Behalf Of Steve Dimse Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2019 10:54 PM To: Max Harper via aprssig <aprssig(a)lists.tapr.org> Subject: Re: [aprssig] Designation for PSAT2 > On Jun 25, 2019, at 8:33 AM, Max Harper via aprssig <aprssig(a)lists.tapr.org> wrote: > > Yes, the keplerian elements or TLE is what I'm looking for. I didn't know that AMSAT assigned the numbers like NO-84 so I'll just have to wait for them to assign a designation to PSAT2. > The Falcon Heavy launch was designated 19-036 in NORAD elements, and there were more than 20 satellites from that one launch (designated by a final letter). Watching when IGates receive the beacons, my wild-ass guess is PSAT2 is 19-036U, but it could be R, S, or T, those are still pretty close together. Here is the latest TLE for 19036U 1 44357U 19036U 19178.41227610 .00060436 00000-0 94415-3 0 9996 2 44357 28.5325 187.1376 0389997 127.0282 350.5130 14.97361557 296 NORAD is releasing new keps for these several times a day as they refine them, so even if this is the right bird expect these to be worthless in a couple days. Steve K4HG _______________________________________________ aprssig mailing list aprssig(a)lists.tapr.org http://lists.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig_lists.tapr.org

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Rocket Lab launch scrubbed for today (again)
by Wendy and Terry Osborne 27 Jun '19

27 Jun '19

See: https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/1144327947798454272 Better luck tomorrow. 73, Terry Osborne ZL2BAC

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Satpc32
by Bruce 27 Jun '19

27 Jun '19

I bought a Yaesu G5500 to use during field day this year, we got tired of the arm strong rotor. This is the first time I have used SATPC32 for anything more than AOS-LOS predictions. I still moved the rotor by hand. Have not been able to get the Yaesu cable built to have the LVB tracker control the rotor. May work on that for next year. Used the ICOM IC-9100 and a laptop this year. It worked great to set the frequency for the FM satellites but was horrible for any SSB satellite. I can find myself with the computer turned off. When I tried to use Satpc32, it would jump to somewhere in the passband and no matter how i tried to adjust the radio to find myself, satpc32 had a mind of its own. So, never made an SSB contact. Of course it is more fun to do this during field day with everyone watching. So what is the secret for making Satpc32 see where you have found the sweet spot on the up and down link when you click CAT control instead of doing what it wants? I would have thought it would read the settings from the radio and go from there. After all, it takes me a few seconds to find myself and really easier to adjust for Doppler manually. I wanted to give the automated feature a go for those watching. 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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PSAT2 simple tracking for wilderness mobiles
by Robert Bruninga 27 Jun '19

27 Jun '19

You don't need no stinkin' computer... I updated my Mobile LEO tracking site to show graphically how PSAT2 orbit works. http://aprs.org/MobileLEOtracking.html Easy to remember. 5 minutes later per day, but a new orbit an hour and a half earlier every other day. (This is approximate... time will tell... might change as we see the effect of the elliptical orbit) If you are in the wilderness, just monitor 145.825 and when you hear PSAT2, then you can easily guess all orbits in the future... Bob, WB4APR -----Original Message----- From: Robert Bruninga <bruninga(a)usna.edu> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2019 12:13 PM To: 'amsat bb' <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Cc: Robert Bruninga <bruninga(a)usna.edu>; 'Steve Dimse' <sdimse(a)gmail.com> Subject: PSAT2 is coming to Northern Latitudes!! PSAT2 is coming to the Northern hemisphere! After reviewing the orbit, it is somewhat time synchronous, meaning each orbit time (at mid northern latitudes) is just 5 minutes later each night. But then a NEW earlier orbit appears 90 minutes earlier every other day. So, by the 4th of july, one week from now, PSAT2 first pass will be as early as 4 PM local time... (in the Northern Hemisphere mid latitudes) And the Apogee moves rapidly, In just two weeks, Apogee will be over the northern hemisphere giving higher latitudes much better access. At launch it was the middle of the night and perigee was in the Northern hemisphere making it only visible for lower latitudes. So things will improve for Northern Hemisphere .... (and then two weeks get worse, etc)... 24 Hour telemetry plots (links to FINDU.COM) are now available on the http://aprs.org/psat2.html page. Bob, WB4APR

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AO-85 update
by Andrew Glasbrenner 27 Jun '19

27 Jun '19

At about 2105UTC today I disabled the auto Safe mode function on AO-85, and turned the transponder on. After verifying it would drop with inactivity, a few QSOs were made before LOS. Currently, the battery voltage is very low and it looks like we have a cell about to give up the ghost. Please do not use the satellite while it is in eclipse, even if you hear it OK. We are not sure what will be usable if and when this cell fails completely. In the meantime, reports to -bb are welcome and helpful. Thanks and 73, Drew KO4MA AMSAT VP Operations

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