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Hitsat Passes
by Vincenzo Mone 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

Hi to the list, I would like to know if the Hitsat is also audible over Europe because Right now 17:30gmt I had a pass but nothing heard. Can I also hear something or it is switched on only when it pass over Japan? Thanks 73 de Enzo IK8OZV EasyLog 5 BetaTester EasyLog PDA BetaTester WinBollet BetaTester D.C.I. CheckPoint Regione Campania Skype: ik8ozv8520 *************************************** ***** GSM +39 338 9749786 ***** ***** SMS +39 338 9749786 ***** ***** FAX +39 328 7244294 ***** *** 2nd e-mail: vimone(a)tin.it *** ***************************************

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HITSAT 1610 UTC
by Mike Rupprecht 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

AOS 1610 UTC Oct 06 (JN49lr) Hit4 c1d1d1e2 Hit1 jr8yjt Hit2 a0701102236 Hit3 354f4f49514a494d Hit4 c0d1d2e2 Hit1 jr8yjt Hit2 a0701142056 Hit3 564a50494e4b4a4d LOS 1619 UTC 73, Mike DK3WN

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AO51 APRS @9600 Bps
by John Ronan 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

Afternoon, I wonder has anyone had any success with APRS at 9k6 on AO51? I was curious to know what the minimum required to receive it is. As PCSAT2 is now removed from the ISS I'm looking to experiment with something else. Regards de John EI7IG

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AMSAT Awards
by Bruce 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

This week, congrats go out to all of the following. We would like to welcome the following to the satellite community. They have made their first satellite contact and are now members of the AMSAT Satellite Communicators Club. Tim Tapio, K4SHF Neven Mrduljas, 9A5YY Richard Wiggin, N1XED Chow Chee Onn, 9M2CCO AMSAT Satellite Communications Achievement Award Amir Findling, K9CHP, #435 William McArthur, KC5ACR, #436 from space Dale Gates, WA4AEJ, #437 Richard Wiggin, N1XED, #438 Karl Doepel, W3AFE, #439 AMSAT Sexagesimal Award William McArthur, KC5ACR, #141 from space South Africa Satellite Communications Achievement Award Dale Gates, WA4AEJ, #US97 Richard Wiggin, N1XED, #US98 Karl, Doepel, W3AFE, #US99 To see all the awards visit http://www.amsat.org or http://www.amsatnet.com Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards ARRL Awards Manager (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on W0KIE Intelsat Americas, T1, 6.8Mhz Also streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com

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Mer Bata
by Robert Davies 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

Has anyone received a password for the Mer Beta .zip? I have sent Kevin an email for it but have not gotten any response,I'm not sure if he has received my email? -- KI4HXT EL97af Robert Davies AMSAT Area Coordinator AMSAT Member#35649 AMSAT President's Club Bronze Sustaining Donor IFC#2880

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HITSAT = OBJECT F (29484U 06041F)
by Mineo Wakita 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

Described in Space-Track as follows: M-5 R/B 1 29480U 06041B 06277.77311167 +.00023018 +23859-5 +21842-3 0 00334 2 29480 098.3223 287.3640 0281218 088.4153 274.9274 15.31021181001811 HITSAT 1 29484U 06041F 06278.88347850 .00031339 24853-5 29081-3 0 141 2 29484 098.3215 288.6125 0281246 084.8000 278.5262 15.31299530 1902 --------------------------------------------- Name: Mineo Wakita / JE9PEL, JAMSAT member Mail: ei7m-wkt(a)asahi-net.or.jp URL : http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/ QTH : Yokohama Japan, GL:pm95tj Date: Oct 6, 2006 ---------------------------------------------

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Arianespace - DIRECTV 9S / OPTUS D1 / LDREX-2 --Next launch
by fr5cy 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

Payloads for the United States, Australia and Japan For its fourth launch of the year Arianespace will boost three satellites into orbit: DIRECTV 9S for American operator DIRECTV, Inc., OPTUS D1 for the Australian operator OPTUS, and the experimental satellite LDREX-2 for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Launch window: GMT: Between 8:56 pm and 9:56 pm on October 12. PARIS: Between 10:56 pm and 11:56 pm on October 12. WASHINGTON: Between 4:56 pm and 5:56 pm on October 12. KOUROU: Between 5:56 pm and 6:56 pm on October 12. TOKYO: Between 5:56 am and 6:56 am on October 13. SYDNEY: Between 6:56 am and 7:56 am on October 13. Follow the launch live on the internet: http://www.videocorner.tv/index.php?langue=en (Starting 15 minutes before lift-off). Video streaming will be available in RealMedia and WindowsMedia formats. Enjoy this beautyful launch video from Kourou Best regards from FR5CY Jean Paul

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Re: S band interference solution
by John Champa 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

Luc, OK, you're right. Some folks can't handle ridicule, so I will try to be more tutorial and less shaming. But it never stops amazing me how folks in a technical wireless avocation such Amateur Radio can have such an extremely narrow focus in wireless! For example, hand a standard satellite telephone to the average Ham, even an AMSAT member, and ask him to make one phone call, just one. Or give them a Linksys 802.11g Access Point (AP) from Radio Shack and ask them to set up a small wireless local area network (WLAN). Or this one: Hand them a old laptop PC and ask them to upgrade it to a WiFi wireless client and then go down to their local coffee shop and surf the Internet. Please keep in mind, these are ALL common consumer wireless devices! And our lovely test subjects are all supposedly sophisticated wireless licensed RADIO amateurs. But chances are excellent they would NOT HAVE A CLUE how to do any of these common consumer wireless tasks. They left their wireless curiosity on the door step somewhere and got super specialized. Opps...there is that ridicule tone again. Got to stop that! (HI) Why am I rambling on like this? Because the result of all this is that satellite Hams can send a signal on a 50k mile round trip to some bird they helped design (remotely) and build (remotely) themselves, but they can NOT figure out how to manage a $60 unlicensed wireless device their neighbor bought at Best Buy. So they spend hours on this reflector lamenting the potential loss of a cherished Mode S instead applying just a tiny little bit of traditional Amateur Radio ingenuity and tracking down and dealing with the low power device(s) in their own neighborhood. However, there is one saving grace. The WiFi users are no better, buth then they don't claim to some kind of wireless guru. They will come to me because their AP is running slow. They suspect interference. I will tell them about free NetStumbler software. Load it and tell me what you see. Next day. They return and say they saw that all three of the other neighbors and themselves are all on the device's default radio channel 6! So I advise them to go back into their AP configuration software and change their AP channel to 11. The next day...miracle! The slow problem went away! Amazing! Well, Hams can do the same thing! Chances are if they use NetStumbler to look at their neighborhood they will see the following frequency channel distribution of devices: 90% on channel 6 (most common WiFi default channel) -- NO problem. Ignore these. 5% on channel 11 -- NO problem, that's not even in the Ham Band. Ignore these. 10% on channel 1 -- Ahh! Those are the problem! They must be gently persuaded to go to some channel above 1. That may solve your problem. Better yet, ask them to move to some channel above 6. That way they are starting to get out of the Ham band entirely. That 10% on channel 1 may amount to only 1 or 2 WiFi users in your entire neighborhood. A little TVI-type PR in reverse and a little TLC and the problem is solved! How's that Luc? A little more encouraging? Vy 73, John - K8OCL AMSAT Life Member 1069 >From: Luc Leblanc VE2DWE <lucleblanc6(a)videotron.ca> >To: AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org >Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: S band interference solution >Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:08:49 -0400 > >On 5 Oct 2006 at 8:21, John Champa wrote: > > > I really do get bored reading about all these threats to Mode S from >WiFi, > > etc. > > > > > > For a bunch of supposedly sophisticated wireless guys, you sure don't >know > > beans about > > consumer grade wireless devices. That includes our wonderfully >dedicated > > but pessimistic AMSAT satellite engineers! > >I agree... but it sometimes very hard to convince and ridicule may prove >too much for some readers >but it can be of some help for some stubborn minds who are not pessimistic >but unrealistic. > > > >"-" >The medium is the message...The content is the audience...;) > >Luc Leblanc VE2DWE >WAC basic,CW,Phone,Satellite >Skype VE2DWE >www.qsl.net/ve2dwe >_______________________________________________ >Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

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Sunlit or not.
by john hackett 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

Hi All, As Mak SV1BSX and Luc VE2DWE have both pointed out, AO-7 *was* in sunlight at 09:58 today and it was La2qaa being stupid! - (my words) - that was the reason for the confusion - by looking at the *groundtrack* and not at the eclipse information as he should have done. Obviously, La2qaa doesn't know his arse from his elbow at that time in the morning. Having said that, I received a *lot* of mails and the interesting thing is that according to SV1BSX that particular orbit was 45920, according to KT2Q it was 45922 and according to the AO-7 resource page it was 45926. I don't think I'm the only one who had his knickers in a twist Like GM1SXX - (the "sensible" half of the act) - says, it all comes down to the idiosyncracies of the algrothym of the tracking program used. I apologise for any inconvenience, false hope, dementure or any other ailments arising from my post. 73 John. <la2qaa(a)amsat.org>

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HITSAT - Object F not J (Correction DK3WN)
by Colin Hurst 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

Further to my previous post, where I inadvertently quoted Object J, it is more likely Object F, as pointed out by Mike DK3WN. On inspection the set I have been using is indeed Object F. Cannot understand how I transposed them, maybe another Senior's Moment. Apologies for any inconvenience. Colin VK5HI.

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