May 2020 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

DOSAAF-85 transponder activation
by Blinov Igor 01 May '20

01 May '20

Good day! Satellite DOSAAF-85 turn on transponder (linear, inverting) on for testing purposes. UPLink 145965KHz +/-30 KHz DOWNLink 435640KHz +/-30 KHz BEACON 435605KHz TLE: 1 44909U 19096E 20120.96346743 +.00000010 +00000-0 +00000-0 0 9999 2 44909 082.5239 027.5343 0217449 340.2089 019.0669 12.79706663015985 Try it! -- 73! Igor, RW3XL

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Call for Nominations, 2020 AMSAT Board of Directors Election
by Brennan Price 01 May '20

01 May '20

AMSAT solicits nominations for the 2020 AMSAT Board of Directors election, to be held in the third quarter of the year. The seats of the following three incumbent Directors expire in 2020 and will be filled by this year's election: Tom Clark, K3IO; Mark Hammond, N8MH; and Bruce Paige, KK5DO. Further, up to two Alternate Directors may be elected for one-year terms. A valid nomination for Director must be written and requires either one Member Society or five current individual members in good standing to nominate an AMSAT member. Written nominations, with the nominee’s name, call sign, and contact information, as well as the nominators' names, call signs, and contact information, should be sent to the AMSAT Secretary: Brennan Price, N4QX 300 Locust St SE, Unit E Vienna VA 22180-4869 brennanprice(a)verizon.net A copy should be sent to AMSAT Manager, Martha Saragovitz, at martha(a)amsat.org. The AMSAT bylaws require that the nomination be written and in the form specified by the Secretary. In light of the ongoing pandemic and the resulting closure of the physical office, the Secretary has elected to accept written nomination materials in electronic form, including e-mail or electronic image of a paper document. Fax transmissions cannot be accepted due to the closure of the office. No matter what means are used, petitions MUST be received by the Secretary no later than June 15th. The Secretary will verify the qualifications of candidates and nominating members or Member Societies as petitions are received, and will notify candidates whether their nominations are in order by the end of June. 73, Brennan Price, N4QX Secretary, AMSAT

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Address conflice SatPC32
by Jim White 01 May '20

01 May '20

Need a little IT help here.. I have a PC running WSJT-X full time in WSPR mode. When I start SatPC32 on that same computer it kills the uploading of spots from WSJT-X. It appears they both use 127.0.0.1. WSJT-X apparently uses that address for Internet connections. SatPC32 appears to use the same address between it and the rotor controller program (sort of guessing on that one). So the question is how to change one or the other. Perhaps it's easy to change SatPC32? To be clear, I need to run both programs at the same time full time. Thanks in advance. Jim jim(a)coloradosatellite.com wd0e(a)amsat.org

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Online Space Workshop #OSW2020 this weekend
by M5AKA 01 May '20

01 May '20

The Online Space Workshop #OSW2020 takes place this weekend May 2-3 https://amsat-uk.org/2020/05/01/online-space-workshop-may-2-3/ First Guatemalan satellite deployed from the ISS https://amsat-uk.org/2020/04/30/guatemala-quetzal-1-cubesat/ DOSAAF-85 (RS-44) amateur radio transponder activated https://amsat-uk.org/2020/04/30/dosaaf-85-rs-44-amateur-radio-transponder-a… Trevor M5AKA---- AMSAT-UK http://amsat-uk.org/ Twitter https://twitter.com/AmsatUK Facebook https://facebook.com/AmsatUK YouTube https://youtube.com/AmsatUK ----

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VUCC Awards-Endorsements for April 2020
by Ronald Parsons 01 May '20

01 May '20

VUCC Awards-Endorsements for April 2020 Here are the endorsements and new VUCC Satellite Awards issued by the ARRL for the period April 1, 2020 through May 1, 2020. Congratulations to all those who made the list this month! CALL Apr May KO4MA 1750 1753 K7TAB 531 600 AE5B 442 450 ND0C 301 346 N4DCW 201 300 KC9UQR 252 275 WA9JBQ 225 250 W4DTA 217 240 WI6K New 200 S57NML 126 179 DL4ZAB 150 172 KS1G 134 170 YO2CMI 100 168 KE0WPA 108 152 ZS5LEE New 105 VE3CGA New 100 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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ANS-122 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - New AMSAT Membership Portal Launched, March/April 2020 Edition of The AMSAT Journal Now Available
by Paul Stoetzer 01 May '20

01 May '20

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN ANS-122 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor at amsat.org. You can sign up for free e-mail delivery of the AMSAT News Service Bulletins via the ANS List; to join this list see: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/ans In this edition: * New AMSAT Membership Portal Launched, March/April 2020 Edition of The AMSAT Journal Now Available SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-122 ANS-122 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin AMSAT News Service Bulletin 122.01 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE May 1, 2020 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-122.01 New AMSAT Membership Portal Launched, March/April 2020 Edition of The AMSAT Journal Now Available Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the closure of the AMSAT office, the March/April 2020 edition of The AMSAT Journal will not be printed and mailed to members. Instead, a full-color PDF is being made available on the AMSAT website. The issue can be downloaded below: https://tinyurl.com/ANS-MarAprJournal This issue includes detailed information about AMSAT's new online membership portal, now active at https://launch.amsat.org. AMSAT members are encouraged to review this article, which includes detailed instructions on accessing your membership account. Stay tuned for more features, including members-only content coming soon. Articles in the March/April 2020 edition of The AMSAT Journal: * Apogee View - Clayton Coleman, W5PFG * Engineering Update - Jerry Buxton, N0JY * Treasurer's Report - Robert Bankston, KE4AL * AMSAT's New Member and Event Portal - Robert Bankston, KE4AL * amsatLink — Proposed Wireless Communications Network - Robert Bankston, KE4AL * Educational Relations Update - Alan Johnston, KU2Y * A New Design for the AMSAT CubeSat Simulator - Alan Johnston, KU2Y; Jim McLaughlin, KI6ZUM; David White, WD6DRI; Pat Kilroy, N8PK * For Beginners — Amateur Radio Satellite Primer IV - Keith Baker, KB1SF/VA3KSF * PSAT 1U — A Low-Cost, EasyBuild 1U CubeSat - George Downey, Robert Bruninga, WB4APR * Gridmaster Heat Map - Paul Overn, KE0PBR [ANS thanks the AMSAT office for the above information] /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi- tional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. 73 and Remember to help Keep Amateur Radio in Space, This week's ANS Contributing Editor, Paul Stoetzer, N8HM n8hm at amsat dot org

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Re: [amsat-bb] S100 bus, history
by Gregory Beat 01 May '20

01 May '20

S-100 bus , new designs, and restorations are alive and well. Over the past two years, a number of 1970s microcomputer pioneers have passed — including Paul Allen (cancer) and Bill Godbout (Paradise/Camp Fire). John Monahan hosts the S100 Computers web site. http://www.s100computers.com/ On April 29, John released the newest S100computers board, FPGA 80286 SBC http://www.s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/FPGA%2080286%20SBC/80286%2… Orders are currently being taken for this board (show interest immediately, if you desire to participate). Google Groups has the discussion forum: S100Computers greg, w9gb == Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:44:01 -0700 From: "Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-717-1197" <dougfaunt(a)gmail.com> To: Paul Stoetzer <n8hm(a)arrl.net> Cc: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] S100 bus, history Thanks. That's actually far more than I recall. I was doing LSI-11 stuff at the time, and wasn't impressed by the S100 bus. 73, doug On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 8:16 PM Paul Stoetzer <n8hm(a)arrl.net> wrote: > > That?s the link to the whole issue. Here?s a direct link to the article. > https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-09/page/n183 > > 73, > Paul, N8HM

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S100 bus, history
by Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-717-1197 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

Back in the day, there was an Amsat project to make a ham oriented S100 bus board. I think it had a RTTY interface, and some other things. Does anyone recall more details? 73, Doug

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RS-33 SQF
by 73 Bob W7LRD 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

Where can find SQF file for RS-44? 73 Bob W7LRD

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