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Problems With NK Satellite?
by B J 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/08/asia/north-korea-rocket-launch/ 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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Re: [amsat-bb] IC-9100 AO-85 Telemetry
by Andrew Glasbrenner 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

Have you turned Set menu #57 (9600bps mode) to ON? 73, Drew KO4MA -----Original Message----- >From: Frank Westphal <k6fw1(a)verizon.net> >Sent: Feb 8, 2016 4:25 PM >To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org >Subject: [amsat-bb] IC-9100 AO-85 Telemetry > >I have been unable to copy any telemetry from AO-85. I read that a >cable from Data2 Port of the IC-9100 to the sound card input on a PC was >all that was needed to copy the data. I have wired a cable from pin 4 >9600 bps Data Out of the 9100 to the tip of the sound card input and >from Pin 2 ground of the 9100 to the sleeve of the sound card input. I >have selected the correct sound card from the FOX Telem software and >depress the start button. I have not copied one single packet with this >setup. > >Has anyone been successful using a IC-9100 and a sound card to copy the >data? Any ideas what I could try? > >Thanks for any help. > >73, >Frank >K6FW >_______________________________________________ >Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed >are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. >Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

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Re: [amsat-bb] Chubusat question
by Edson W. R. Pereira 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

Some info has become available on their web page: https://www.frontier.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/chubusat/chubusat_satellite3.ht… https://www.frontier.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/chubusat/Amateur_MSG_REPLY_format.… The protocol uses FEC (Hamming code). The source code for the FEC decoder is on this page: https://www.frontier.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/chubusat/source_code_for_HK_tel… Some fun times with GnuRadio may lie ahead! 73, Edson PY2SDR --- - We humans have the capability to do amazing things if we work together. - Nós seres humanos temos a capacidade de fazer coisas incríveis se trabalharmos juntos. On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 11:29 PM, Mark Lunday <wd4elg(a)triad.rr.com> wrote: > Thanks Andrew. > > How does the "message store and forward" algorithm work in practice? > > Mark Lunday, WD4ELG > Greensboro, NC FM06be > wd4elg(a)arrl.net > http://wd4elg.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >

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Upcoming ARISS contact with Royal Masonic School for Girls, Rickmansworth, UK
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Royal Masonic School for Girls, Rickmansworth, UK on 11 Feb. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 18:09 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between GB1SS and GB1RMS. The contact should be audible over the UK and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. The Royal Masonic School for Girls is an independent girl's day and boarding school in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, with an exceptional, unusual and distinguished history. Founded in 1788 with the purpose of educating the daughters of Freemasons who were unable to support their families, it is one of the oldest girls' schools in the country. We attract girls aged 4-18 from across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire and North London and boarders from all over the world. We also have a Pre School for boys and girls aged 2 to 4. Our ethos is both an inspirational and nurturing and our girls strive to be the very best they can be, academically, morally and creatively. Our public examination results are consistently impressive and each year around 90% of girls leave RMS to take up places at University. Life at RMS is centered on much more than "just" academic success and the School is well known for its exceptional pastoral care, and the wealth of extra-curricular opportunities it offers - including Astronomy as we are one of very few schools in the UK to have our own planetarium and observatory! 1. If you have hiccups in space do you bounce around? 2. I watched your video on water and why it turned into a sphere. Would you get the same reaction with a fizzy drink like lemonade? 3. I'm 7 years old - when I am your age, what do you think space travel will look like? 4. We have heard you had to breathe o2 before your brilliant spacewalk. Are there any precautions you had to take after returning inside the ISS? 5. What was the first word that came into your head when you saw the Earth from Space? 6. What was the hardest thing to adjust to when you arrived at the ISS? 7. Which of your muscles has been affected the most by the zero gravity? 8. Who was your biggest inspiration to travel into space? 9. How is being an astronaut different from being an aquanaut, apart from the sea and the air? 10. What is the best advice that you have been given and wish to pass on to future astronauts before travelling to the ISS?? 11. Your blog says that you are doing research into new space age metals using a levitation furnace. Why is zero gravity better for this type of experiment? 12. Aside from plants, how do you produce oxygen on the ISS? 13. What is the difference between flying a helicopter and being in a rocket going to the ISS? 14. Did your training prepare you for the actual experience of space jet lag given you have said you adjusted so quickly? 15. How is the ISS helping us deal with the challenges of deep space voyages? 16. Is there an 'up' on the space station when conducting a spacewalk for navigational /orientating purposes? 17. What is your favourite experiment that you have carried out in space, and why? 18. What has been the most surprising everyday object on the ISS that you did not expect to find? 19. How often do you see Solar wind? 20. When Chris Hadfield recently visited us he said your guitar skills were good but needed more practice Do you have time to practice the guitar in space? PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES: Sign up for the SAREX maillist at http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/sarex Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status Next planned event(s): TBD ABOUT ARISS Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or informal education venues. With the help of experienced amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with large audiences in a variety of public forums. Before and during these radio contacts, students, teachers, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org, www.amsat.org, and www.arrl.org. Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Chubusat question
by Mark Lunday 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

Under the information for Chubusat 2 it says: <QUOTE> ChubuSat-2 provides the message exchange service. After the on-orbit checkout of the satellite, you can use the service, sending your message with amateur VHF (145.815MHz FSK 1200bps) then your message is written to the on-board memory. Anyone can read your message with amateur UHF (437.1MHz GMSK 9600bps) by sending inquiry message. The uplink/downlink format will be available in this page. <END QUOTE> I understand the 145.815 1200 bps FSK - this is the same as for NO-44, NO-84 and ISS. But what is GMSK 9600? How is that decoded? And how does one request a 'message read' on this cubesat? Mark Lunday, WD4ELG Greensboro, NC FM06be wd4elg(a)arrl.net http://wd4elg.blogspot.com

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-02-09 00:30 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-02-09 00:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Royal Masonic School for Girls, Rickmansworth, UK, direct via GB1RMS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be GB1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-02-11 18:09:02 UTC 89 deg (***) Oasis Academy Brightstowe, Bristol, UK, direct via GB1OAB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be GB1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Fri 2016-02-19 14:23:23 UTC 78 deg UAH Space Hardware Club, Huntsville, Alabama, direct via K4UAH The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN Contact is a go for: Fri 2016-02-19 17:20:14 UTC 72 deg **************************************************************************** ** 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. **************************************************************************** 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: Gaston ON4WF with 121 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 116 Francesco IKØWGF with 116 **************************************************************************** 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 8061 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-02-09 00:30 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 Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1022. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 987. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 46. 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: Arkansas, Delaware, North Dakota, Rhode Island, 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 2016-02-06 20:00 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. 43/44 on orbit Scott Kelly Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF Exp. 45 on orbit Sergey Volkov RU3DIS Exp. 46 on orbit Tim Kopra KE5UDN Timothy Peake KG5BVI Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Re: [amsat-bb] AO-7 & FO-29 Low passes over Spain, big sole over USA
by Juan Antonio 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

The return from the SAT was strong until it was in the 90 deg azimuth, with 0.4deg elevation, because of the polarity change, then I could not copy it. I could copy N4IQV calling me, but we could not end the QSO. If some North/Central/South American station can work my grid IM78 in low elevation passes of AO-07 & FO-29, PSE Let me know for a sked. Juan Antonio EA4CYQ _____________________________________________ De: Juan Antonio [mailto:[email protected]] Enviado el: lunes, 08 de febrero de 2016 18:29 Para: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Asunto: AO-7 Low pass over Spain big sole over USA Hi!, Today Monday at 18:29 UTC I have 0.5 del elevation pass, less than 4 minutes. I would try some new station, I will receive the SAT over 145.940 if the high ground noise level let me receive this OM SAT. Juan Antonio EA4CYQ IM78cx --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electrónico en busca de virus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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IC-9100 AO-85 Telemetry
by Frank Westphal 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

I have been unable to copy any telemetry from AO-85. I read that a cable from Data2 Port of the IC-9100 to the sound card input on a PC was all that was needed to copy the data. I have wired a cable from pin 4 9600 bps Data Out of the 9100 to the tip of the sound card input and from Pin 2 ground of the 9100 to the sleeve of the sound card input. I have selected the correct sound card from the FOX Telem software and depress the start button. I have not copied one single packet with this setup. Has anyone been successful using a IC-9100 and a sound card to copy the data? Any ideas what I could try? Thanks for any help. 73, Frank K6FW

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Re: [amsat-bb] Any experience with low-cost 433MHz transverter from transverters-store?
by Edward R Cole 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Don't know if anyone posted this already but I inquired on another reflector of a ham using the 222 version and he tells me the LO is xtal, so you are looking at a new xtal to shift operating freq upward from 432 to 435. Why I like my DEMI L432-28 25w transverter; the A32 PLL synthesizer has both 404 and 407 MHz programmed in memory requiring only a change in 5-bit program code (five tabs which are selected for grounding). I have a mini-toggle switch that simply changes LO for either 432-434 or 435-437; IF 28-30. PS: I build DEMI kits on contract. 73, Ed - KL7UW http://www.kl7uw.com "Kits made by KL7UW" Dubus Mag business: dubususa(a)gmail.com

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-02-08 20:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-02-08 20:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Royal Masonic School for Girls, Rickmansworth, UK, direct via GB1RMS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be GB1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-02-11 18:11:09 UTC 88 deg Oasis Academy Brightstowe, Bristol, UK, direct via GB1OAB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be GB1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Fri 2016-02-19 14:23:23 UTC 78 deg (***) UAH Space Hardware Club, Huntsville, Alabama, direct via K4UAH The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN Contact is a go for: Fri 2016-02-19 17:20:14 UTC 72 deg (***) **************************************************************************** ** 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. **************************************************************************** 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: Gaston ON4WF with 121 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 116 Francesco IKØWGF with 116 **************************************************************************** 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 8061 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-02-08 20:00 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 Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1022. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 987. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 46. 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: Arkansas, Delaware, North Dakota, Rhode Island, 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 2016-02-06 20:00 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. 43/44 on orbit Scott Kelly Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF Exp. 45 on orbit Sergey Volkov RU3DIS Exp. 46 on orbit Tim Kopra KE5UDN Timothy Peake KG5BVI Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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XW-2 satellites feature in Sat Magazine
by M5AKA 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

The XW-2A to XW-2H satellites feature on page 25 of February issue of the free Sat Magazine publication which can be downloaded from http://www.satmagazine.com/ ARISS contact planned for girls’ school in UK http://amsat-uk.org/2016/02/07/ariss-rms-girls/ The ARISS Principia site is at https://principia.ariss.org/Live/ 73 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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Old Dominion University OPEN HOUSE for local Middle and High Schools
by Rich/wa4bue 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Here is an update for the next K4AMG event at ODU: Event: Engineering Open House Dates: Feb 19 & 20 The Open House is a recruiting event for the school of engineering. Students from 40 Middle and High Schools (400 – 600 students) throughout the Hampton Roads region will be visiting the school to tour the labs and campus, meet the (current ODU) students and faculty, and learn more about education and career opportunities in engineering. K4AMG will be supporting the event by conducting a mini field day event will be on Friday, Feb 19 and by hosting lab stations on Saturday Feb 20th featuring a 15 minute presentation of ham radio topics. The lab topics include: An overview of amateur radio as a learning tool A (light) technical discussion about the science and engineering that support radio communications A youth forum presented by several young radio amateurs KJ4NFL – Emergency and Public Service Communications WX4TVJ and AE4FH – Antennas KJ4EYZ – Cultures and Environmental Considerations for DX-peditions Satellite communications featuring the CUBESAT simulator provided by AMSAT-NA –KW4CR Society of Broadcast Engineers – Richard Dyer speaking on Careers in Broadcast Engineering and Electronics and Wireless Communications At the student luncheon 9 year old Hope Lea, KM4IPF, will be the key note speaker - subject OSCAR Satellite Communications We still have some time slots available. 73 Rich W4BUE BOD K4AMG John LeVous, KW4CR blyndskwerl(a)gmail.com President, K4AMG Memorial Amateur Radio Club __._,_.___

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sat 32 and windows 10 problem
by James Brown 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Howdy I made the mistake of upgrading from win 8 to win 10. Sat 32 worked fine fa week and then crashed. I had to completely reload sat32. After that the rotor tracking went nuts! I am using a g5500 and a st2 tracker. Sometimes the rotor goes to park in both AZ and EL another times AZ is EL is ok and AZ tracks with a 40 degree error! How can I calibrate the g5500/ST2 with win 10? I barley understood how to do it back in XP days. Thanks Jim KI6WJ

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AO-7 Low pass over Spain big sole over USA
by Juan Antonio 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Hi!, Today Monday at 18:29 UTC I have 0.5 del elevation pass, less than 4 minutes. I would try some new station, I will receive the SAT over 145.940 if the high ground noise level let me receive this OM SAT. Juan Antonio EA4CYQ IM78cx --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electrónico en busca de virus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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N9IP/P EL84 NPOTA NP17 Today, 8-Feb-2016
by Clayton Coleman 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Steve, N9IP, will operate FO-29 today only from EL84, The Dry Tortugas National Park (NPOTA NP17.) AOS at 16:41 UTC & 18:21 UTC. Steve plans to operate about 30 KHz above the FO-29 passband center. He is running a single Yaesu FT-817 with low power, operating semi-duplex. If you transmit while he is transmitting, he will not hear you. 73 Clayton W5PFG

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Re: [amsat-bb] Fwd: DPRK Brilliant Star - TLE / 450 MHz
by Armando Mercado 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Hi, Heard nothing on 470.000 MHz for the US evening passes 07 Feb., 2016. Will have to broaden the search and break out the 11-meter equipment ;-) 73, Armando, N8IGJ

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ChubuSat-2/3 TLE update
by Mineo Wakita 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

ChubuSat-2 1 99999U 99999 16043.38029596 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 00009 2 99999 031.0049 311.5958 0015871 289.3826 223.5942 14.99199091006371 ChubuSat-3 1 99999U 99999 16043.38376818 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 00001 2 99999 031.0074 311.5732 0016462 295.7523 235.9943 14.99608280006385 (C)Nagoya University, Tnx. Launch Date: 12 Feb 2016 Launch Time: 08:45-09:30 UTC Launch Site: JAXA Tanegashima Space Center, Japan Satellite Uplink Downlink Beacon Mode Callsign ---------- ------- ---------------- ------- --------------------------- -------- HORYU-4 . 437.375/2400.300 437.375 1k2 AFSK,9k6 GMSK,S_BPSK,CW JG6YBW ChubuSat-2 145.815 437.100 437.100 1k2 AFSK,9k6 GMSK,CW JJ2YPN ChubuSat-3 145.840 437.425 437.425 1k2 AFSK,9k6 GMSK,CW JJ2YPO ---------- ------- ---------------- ------- --------------------------- -------- http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/hory4c23.htm JE9PEL/1 Mineo Wakita

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FUNcube-1 Mode switch
by Graham Shirville 07 Feb '16

07 Feb '16

Hi All, Just to confirm that FUNcube-1 is now switching modes autonomously for the week. The transponder will be active when the spacecraft is in eclipse. Low power telemetry will also be transmitted during these periods. When the spacecraft is in sunlight then high power telemetry will be transmitted. We expect to revert to continuous transponder activity for the weekend from next Friday evening as usual. 73 Graham G3VZV

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Re: [amsat-bb] Fwd: DPRK Brilliant Star - TLE / 450 MHz
by Armando Mercado 07 Feb '16

07 Feb '16

Hi, Listened to the morning passes on 450.000MHz and heard nothing. Will listen to 470.000 MHz this evening to see what comes up. 73 Armando, N8IGJ

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Any experience with low-cost 433MHz transverter from transverters-store?
by Eric Wolak 07 Feb '16

07 Feb '16

Hi folks, I'm trying to get on the air with the linear transponder satellites, and it looks like I need 70cm SSB capability to really get on the air. My Icom IC-796MkII can do SSB on 2m, but not 70cm, so I'm trying to find an affordable way to get 70cm SSB transmit. Does anybody have experience with these $100 transverter boards from Ukraine? It looks like they're tuned for the weak-signal/SSB end of the band and might require a bit of work to get up to 435MHz for satellites. Is 3-4W enough to be heard? http://www.ebay.com/itm/221871269275

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EL39 Today
by R.T.Liddy 07 Feb '16

07 Feb '16

SAT Gridders, I'll activate EL39 today on FO29 & SO50. FO29 1918Z about 15 KHz up from center. SO50 2116Z Both are very high passes for me here. C U Later, Bob K8BL/5 (Near Port Arthur, TX)

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DPRK Brilliant Star - TLE / 450 MHz
by Robb Hill 07 Feb '16

07 Feb '16

If anyone picks up the what they think could be the DPRK Brilliant Start satellite around 450 MHz or get reports on preliminary TLE's could they please post to the list. Also, any recordings are appreciated. I am in the DC area trying to assess is the launch succeeded and where it was headed. Thanks, Robb KB3RBA

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HP41 program ORBITII
by Todd W. Deckard 07 Feb '16

07 Feb '16

Greetings, does anyone have a printout of R. Jansson’ (WD4FAB) port to the HP41CX of the W0SL program for satellite tracking. i already have the P. Bunnell code from Ham Radio 1981. There are echoes of it on the internet but I cannot find the listing and AMSAT no longer has one. This will not advance the state of the art in space communication but the fact that I can command my arduino antenna rotor project from my 1983 calculator over an IL loop while recording the contacts on a old reel-to-reel would satisfy my hidden luddite tendencies. Todd

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AO7 07/02/2106
by Gustavo Nicolau 07 Feb '16

07 Feb '16

Hi all, gud condictions today via AO7. I'm QRV. 73 Gustavo Nicolau - Sgt Bombeiro Militar. PT9BM. GH40

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Re: [amsat-bb] DPRK Brilliant Star - TLE / 450 MHz
by Armando Mercado 07 Feb '16

07 Feb '16

Hi, This is object 41332, or international # 2016-009A TLE are on Space-Track.org but currently you have to manual search for it. Where did you learn of the downlink frequency? Good luck, Armando, N8IGJ

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ANS-038 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by Lee McLamb 07 Feb '16

07 Feb '16

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-038 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. In this edition: * ChubuSat-2 and ChubuSat-3 Launch Information * AMSAT Dayton Booth Volunteers Needed * Dayton Thursday Dinner and Beverages at Tickets Pub and Eatery * FoxTelem Version 1.03 Released * AMSAT Partners With Ragnorak Industries Cubesat Challenge Team * Announcement of the 8th European CubeSat Symposium, 7-9 Sept 2016 (London) * 2016 NASA Academy SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-038.01 ANS-038 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 038.01 From AMSAT HQ Kensington, MD. February 7, 2016 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-038.01 ChubuSat-2 and ChubuSat-3 Launch Information Nagoya University(NU) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries(MHI) developed 50kg microsatellite ChubuSat-2(NU) and ChubuSat-3(MHI). These satellites have amateur VHF receiver and amateur UHF transmitter, and will be launched on Feb. 12 2016 from Tanegashima, Japan. Komaki Amateur SATCOM Club operates these satellites from Komaki, Japan. After the satellite separation, each satellite will transmit UHF CW beacon message including battery voltage etc. which is very important information for our initial and critical operation. So we are very happy if you receive the CW beacon message and report to us chubusat2(a)frontier.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp In following WEB site, we show the information(frequency, format, TLE, etc.) about ChubuSat-2 and ChubuSat-3. If we have your report, we will show your report in this page. https://www.frontier.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/chubusat/chubusat_satellite2.ht… Both satellite will provide the message exchange service. After the on-orbit checkout of the satellite(maybe one month after launch), you can use this service, sending your message with VHF uplink, then your message is written to the on-board memory. By sending inquiry message, anyone can read your message with UHF downlink. ChubuSat-2 Satellite Uplink: 145.815 MHz FSK 1200bps Downlink: 437.100 MHz GMSK 9600bps ChubuSat-3 Satellite Uplink: 145.840 MHz FSK 1200bps Downlink: 437.425 MHz GMSK 9600bps The uplink/downlink format will be uploaded in above WEB site. We hope you get interested in our satellites, receive beacon messages, and enjoy the message exchange service. Best regards, Yasutaka Narusawa (JR2XEA) [ANS thanks Yasutaka Narusawa, JR2XEA, and the KOMAKI Amateur SATCOM Club for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT Dayton Booth Volunteers Needed Call for Volunteers for the AMSAT Booth at Dayton 2016 The 2016 Dayton Hamvention®, sponsored by the Dayton Amateur Radio Association will be held this year on May 20-22. “Dayton” is the largest hamfest in the United States, and AMSAT will be there again this year. You can assist AMSAT by volunteering to help staff the booth. While there, you will meet other AMSAT members, interact with the satellite designers, builders, and operators, and enjoy all that Dayton has to offer. People are needed to assist with the setup of the booth on Thursday, May 19 (A few people to move the equipment from the storage area leaving the hotel at 9 am, most at the Arena from 11am to 4 pm), to staff the booth Friday (9 am to 6 pm), Saturday (9 am to 5 pm), and Sunday (9 am to 1 pm), and pack up on Sunday (1 pm to 3 pm). If you are leaving late Sunday, or Monday morning, please consider helping transport the display to the storage area on the south side of Dayton. This is normally completed by 5 pm. Most people volunteer for one or more 2 hour shifts in the booth. Please send an e-mail to Steve Belter, N9IP if you are willing to help AMSAT at the Hamvention. Please let Steve know as soon as possible if you¹re available to assist. If you missed the Hamvention the last few years, there were some changes in the Ball Arena, and the AMSAT exhibit was part of that change. We now have a 3 X 3 booth arrangement, with the engineering and software display on one side of the aisle, and the sale area on the opposite side. The booth numbers are now 444-446 and 433-435. We will be very near the old exhibit area, within sight of the ARRL exhibit. [ANS thanks Steve, N9IP, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dayton Thursday Dinner and Beverages at Tickets Pub and Eatery Thursday night, 1800-2000. The annual AMSAT “Dinner at Tickets” party will be held Thursday, May 19, at 1800 EDT at the Tickets Pub & Eatery. Everyone is invited regardless of whether or not they helped with setup or plan to work in the booth. You’ll find a great selection of Greek and American food and excellent company! No program or speaker, just good conversation. Food can be ordered from the menu; drinks (beer, wine, sodas and iced tea) are available at the bar. Come as you are. Bring some friends and have a great time the night before Hamvention®. Tickets Pub and Eatery, 7 W. Main St. Fairborn, OH 45324 (937) 878-9022 [ANS thanks the AMSAT Office for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- FoxTelem Version 1.03 Released This version of FoxTelem uses a new datafile format. While we store our data on the server in an SQL database, we use a flat file database for FoxTelem. A flat file format is nearly optimal for a program that mostly adds new data to the end of a growing list. With that said, we need to be able to load sections of the data into memory for efficient analysis. The new data file format allows that. If you have been downloading data from the server for analysis, you will see that this format is much faster. One major change is the ability to automatically switch between low speed and high speed. This will help unattended stations gather as much telemetry as possible. The "auto" mode actually runs both decoders at the same time, so make sure your computer has enough CPU power to cope. Graphing has been updated to support better analysis of the spacecraft by the AMSAT Operations team and amateur scientists everywhere. This version also contains new features that will be required for Fox-1Cliff and Fox-1D. You can download it here: http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/windows/foxtelem_1.03_windows.zip http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/mac/FoxTelem_1.03_mac.zip http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/linux/foxtelem_1.03_linux.tar.gz [ANS thanks Chris, G0KLA, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT Partners With Ragnorak Industries Cubesat Challenge Team AMSAT is participating in the Cube Quest Challenge as a partner with Ragnarok Industries. Members of the AMSAT - ASCENT team are designing the communications package which will be 5.6 GHz uplink and 10.5 GHz. downlink and will use digital modulation. At the end of the mission, the 6U cubesat will be put into a stable lunar orbit and AMSAT will be able to operate the satellite as a digital regenerative transponder. Many of the details are still in development and the ASCENT team is always looking for U.S. citizen volunteers to help with the design, prototype and testing. There is no guarantee Ragnarok's submission will be accepted by NASA but if it is, this could be an exciting mission for the amateur community that allows amateurs to have an active role in collecting telemetry and range rate data that is crucial to the mission and end up with a satellite that allows EME type communications between relatively small (1-2meter) earth stations. [ANS thanks Howie, AB2S, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement of the 8th European CubeSat Symposium, 7-9 Sept 2016 (London) Dear CubeSat Community, This year the 8th European CubeSat Symposium will take place in the vibrant city of London on September 7th-9th 2016. The Symposium, co-organized by the von Karman Institute (Belgium) and the Knowledge Transfer Network (UK), will be hosted in the premises of the historical buildings of the Imperial College London. In particular the South Kensington Campus is located in the very heart of London only few steps away from Kensington Palace and the Natural History Museum. We have tried to organize this Symposium giving importance to the most relevant topics in the CubeSat world. From Technology Demonstrators and Scientific Missions to the Future Technologies and the Space Exploration with CubeSats. In detail, the Symposium is covering the following topics: - Scientific Instruments/Sensors on CubeSats - Technology Demonstration on CubeSats (e.g. formation flying, IODs) - Micro-g Experiments on CubeSats - Micropropulsion Subsystems - Attitude Determination and Control Subsystem - CubeSat Flight Experience and Lessons Learned - CubeSat Networks and Constellations - Telecommunications, Ground Stations and Ground Station Networks - Orbital Dynamics (e.g. de-orbiting and debris mitigation) - Launchers and Deployers for CubeSats - Future Technologies on CubeSats - Space Exploration Missions with CubeSat (i.e. beyond Earth orbit) Renowned speakers from NASA, ESA and NanoRacks LLC will give an account of their view of the past and future development of CubeSats. If you are interested in contributing to this event, please submit your abstract before May 31st 2016. Registrations and abstract submission will be opened from March 1st 2016. For more information on the venue, registration, deadlines, abstract guidelines, sponsorship and exhibitors, please visit the symposium website www.cubesatsymposium.eu As in the previous years the Symposium is open to the all CubeSat community around the World, so please feel free to disseminate this information further. See you there! Best Regards Davide Masutti on behalf the Organising Committee [ANS thanks Davide Masutti for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2016 NASA Academy The 2016 NASA Academy is being offered at three locations: NASA's Ames Research Center in California, NASA's Glenn Research Center in Ohio, and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. Applications are being solicited for this 10-week summer experience for college students with emphasis on immersive and integrated multidisciplinary exposure and training. Activities include laboratory research, a group project, lectures, meetings with experts and administrators, visits to NASA centers and space-related industries, and technical presentations. Students learn how NASA and its centers operate, gain experience in world-class laboratories, and participate in leadership development and team-building activities. Applicants must be U.S. citizens (including citizens of the U.S. territories Puerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands and Northern Marianas) majoring in a STEM discipline. The applicants must be undergraduate or graduate students enrolled full-time in accredited universities and colleges in the U.S. and its territories. Students may apply to any of the NASA Academy opportunities by following these steps: 1. Log into the NASA One Stop Shopping Initiative, or OSSI, site at https://intern.nasa.gov. 2. Register and set up an account. 3. Select the "Search Opportunities" tab at the top bar. 4. Select "NASA Center(s) of Interest" under "NASA Center/Facility." 5. Enter "Academy" in the "Keywords" block at the bottom of the screen. 6. Click the "Search" button at the very bottom of screen; a list of Academy Opportunities will then be displayed. 7. Click on the "View" icon in the first column under "Action" to read about the Opportunity of interest, followed by comments on additional instructions for completing the application, including two requested essays. The deadline for receipt of NASA Academy application(s) and associated documents is Feb. 16, 2016. Please direct questions about NASA Academy to NASA-Academy-Application(a)mail.nasa.gov. [ANS thanks the NASA Education Express Message -- Feb. 4, 2016 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. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu- dent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership information. 73, This week's ANS Editor, Lee McLamb, KU4OS ku4os at amsat dot org

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-02-06 20:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 06 Feb '16

06 Feb '16

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-02-06 20:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: "Gesmundo Moro Fiore" Secondary School, Terlizzi, Italy, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact was successful: Sat 2016-02-06 09:09:01 UTC 40 deg (***) Royal Masonic School for Girls, Rickmansworth, UK, direct via GB1RMS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be GB1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-02-11 18:11:09 UTC 88 deg **************************************************************************** ** 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. **************************************************************************** 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: Gaston ON4WF with 121 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 116 Francesco IKØWGF with 116 (***) **************************************************************************** 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 8061 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-02-06 20:00 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 Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1022. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 987. (***) Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 46. 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: Arkansas, Delaware, North Dakota, Rhode Island, 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 2016-02-06 20:00 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. 43/44 on orbit Scott Kelly Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF Exp. 45 on orbit Sergey Volkov RU3DIS Exp. 46 on orbit Tim Kopra KE5UDN Timothy Peake KG5BVI Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Fox telemetry
by Mike Seguin 06 Feb '16

06 Feb '16

I just hooked up my FT-847 9k6 output to the Fox Telemetry decoder vers 1.03 There was a decent pass over VT just now and I see 82 decodes. My question is: in the settings screen, I didn't have 'upload to server' checked so nothing uploaded. Is it possible to send that data after the pass? (I now have 'upload to server' checked) Mike -- 73, Mike, N1JEZ "A closed mouth gathers no feet"

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Grid activation
by Ronnan Werneck 06 Feb '16

06 Feb '16

Hi everybody, I'll be active in the rare grid GH52dx (farm QTH) on most satellites from today until next wednesday. Try to find me specially on AO-07 and FO-29. 73 Ron PP2RON P.S. Internet access there is very limited. --- Este email foi escaneado pelo Avast antivírus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Horyu-4 digi-singer
by Masahiro Arai 06 Feb '16

06 Feb '16

You can listen Horyu-4 digi-singer on the facebook. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Horyu-4-Arc-Event-Generator-andInvestigation… The music looks like college song of Kyushu Institute of Technology. Masa JN1GKZ

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FoxTelem Version 1.03 released
by Chris Thompson 06 Feb '16

06 Feb '16

This version of FoxTelem uses a new datafile format. While we store our data on the server in an SQL database, we use a flat file database for FoxTelem. A flat file format is nearly optimal for a program that mostly adds new data to the end of a growing list. With that said, we need to be able to load sections of the data into memory for efficient analysis. The new data file format allows that. If you have been downloading data from the server for analysis, you will see that this format is much faster. One major change is the ability to automatically switch between low speed and high speed. This will help unattended stations gather as much telemetry as possible. The "auto" mode actually runs both decoders at the same time, so make sure your computer has enough CPU power to cope. Graphing has been updated to support better analysis of the spacecraft by the AMSAT Operations team and amateur scientists everywhere. This version also contains new features that will be required for Fox-1Cliff and Fox-1D. You can download it here: http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/windows/foxtelem_1.03_windows.zip http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/mac/FoxTelem_1.03_mac.zip http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/linux/foxtelem_1.03_linux.tar.gz Version 1.03 Changes * Support larger volumes of data with much better speed in a segmented database * Auto detect high speed vs low speed telemetry * Allow the user to swap IQ channels in IQ mode * Allow graphs to be plotted as points (without lines) * Plot more labels on horizontal axis when many resets plotted and fixed some graph formatting issues * Graph formatting parameters are saved to config and reloaded when FoxTelem is restarted * When reset button pressed on graphs the average period is reset too * Swapped min/max values for solar panel temp on 1A * Fox-1A Solar panel voltage was (incorrectly) using the MPPT conversion * Fixed bug where HighSpeed Frames were unnecessarily held in the queue until the pass was finished * Cap max RSSI in the lookup table at -140dB to avoid spurious readings * Interpolate the middle of two samples for first difference calculation, for more accurate TCA calculation * Add SAFE mode bit to the Computer panel so that it can be graphed * Fixed bug where Radiation Graphs did not open at start up * Fixed bug where T0 file could be corrupted if URL returned bogus data * Fixed bug where FoxTelem gave many error messages but did not quit if the log dir was not writable * Skip NULL values for some measurements. Don't plot continuous labels to left of vertical axis. * MEMS diagnostic values are now in dps (vs Volts) * Fixed bug where radiation data could not be saved to CSV files * Fixed bug where FindSignal failed to lock if Track Doppler was not checked It also provides Support for Fox-1Cliff and Fox-1D: * Display HERCI High Speed frames on the Herci Tab * Display HERCI Housekeeping frames * Support the Fox-1D low res camera format * Implemented MPPT panel temperature conversion using Cubic fit * Sort camera images by reset and uptime not picture counter * Save position of the HERCI HS tab horizontal divider * Allow the user to specify the number of thumb nails to display on the camera tab * Display converted HERCI Housekeeping data -- Chris E. Thompson chrisethompson(a)gmail.com g0kla(a)arrl.net

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AO-85
by Steve Kristoff 05 Feb '16

05 Feb '16

I decided to try receiving and decoding the AO-85 Data Under Voice telemetry, but it's not working. I suspect it's because my radio is filtering out the frequencies below 200 HZ. So, what are folks doing to get this telemetry? If you want to just point me to an old thread on the forum or a file on the AMSAT site, I'm OK with that. Steve Kristoff AI9IN skristof(a)etczone.com

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LVB Trackers
by Bruce 05 Feb '16

05 Feb '16

If you are looking for an LVB tracker, now is your time to purchase one at the AMSAT online store. There are 4 that were just placed in inventory. These are the complete units, nothing to build, that is already done for you. Here is the direct link if you are in a hurry http://store.amsat.org/catalog/index.php?cPath=1_25 Want to navigate on your own, http://www.amsat.org 73...bruce -- Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards AMSAT Board Alternate 2015-2016 ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0200z 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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Colorado Amateur Satellite net Begins in 1 hour
by Skyler F 05 Feb '16

05 Feb '16

This is a reminder that the Colorado Amateur Satellite net will begin in 1 hour from now (7PM mountain time Thursday). 6PM Pacific 7PM Mountain 8PM Central 9PM Eastern Please visit us on *AMSATNET.INFO <http://amsatnet.info/>* *IRLP* 9870, the Denver Reflector *ALLSTAR LINK* 40764, direct hookup to the repeater here. 41715, KC9ZHV hub at a data center if I am out of bandwidth. More info on AllStar - amsatnet.info/#node *ECHOLINK* *AMSAT* unless there is an ARISS contact, then go direct to KD0WHB-L *LOCAL RF* 449.625 (-) 141.3 ( WØKU Lookout Mountain) 447.225 (-) 141.3 (The STEM school repeater we set up) 447.850 (-) 141.3 (ACØKQ's repeater where he lives on TOP of saddleback mountain) 147.450 SIMPLEX (Aurora, CO) 446.275 (-) 100.0 Galena St. Local repeater at my house, giving a whopping 5 blocks of great coverage *REMOTE RF* Your Repeater here!, Email me if you want to link in or me to link your echolink or allstar repeater in automatically (no automatic IRLP linking supported) Skyler Fennell amsatnet.info KDØWHB electricity440(a)gmail.com

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Who's representing AMSAT at RARSfest in Raleigh, NC?
by John Brier 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

I noticed AMSAT is listed as one of the exhibitors at the Raleigh Amateur Radio Society's hamfest. I'm curious who will be representing and what the plans are, especially if any demos are planned, because I'll probably go. http://www.rars.org/rarsfest/ John, KG4AKV, in Raleigh

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Suitable transceivers for Earth-Moon communication? And a question about allocations
by Tomas Härdin 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

Hi (attempt #3 at sending this mail. maybe this list doesn't allow attachments?) Tomas SA2TMS here. I am involved in a group that's trying to put together a scientific probe that will hitch a ride to the moon, courtesy of PTscientists (one of the Lunar XPrize teams) [1,2]. One of my major concerns is how get a reliable backup link going for running operations during the lunar night. The lander acts as downlink relay during the lunar day, but is not available during the night (and likely not after the night either). Hence the need for a secondary link. Throughput requirements are quite modest, as little as 10-100 bits/s may be acceptable. There is an average of around 800 mW of electrical power available. The geometry is somewhere between a 4U and 5U CubeSat. I have two questions for this list, assuming it's the right place to ask them: 1) What are some transceivers that may be suitable for this problem? I have found some candidates, but I'm interested in hearing more suggestions. The path loss is obviously quite significant (197 dB on 70cm). Choice of band(s) comes down to possible antenna geometries. 2m is a bit on the low side for a dipole to fit (it'd have to fold). 70cm is OK. At 23cm and above patch antennas start to become feasible (a huge plus). 2) Where do I go to apply for frequency allocations in the amateur satellite bands? Some sources say IARU, some say AMSAT. Others indicate I should talk to my national agencies (PTS, SSA). That's all for now. If you have any questions, ask :) /Tomas [1] http://scube.se [2] http://ptscientists.com/

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-02-04 20:30 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-02-04 20:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Christ The King School, Rutland, Vermont, telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN Contact was successful: Thu 2016-02-04 18:28:16 UTC 88 deg (***) "Gesmundo Moro Fiore" Secondary School, Terlizzi, Italy, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Sat 2016-02-06 09:09:01 UTC 40 deg Royal Masonic School for Girls, Rickmansworth, UK, direct via GB1RMS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be GB1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-02-11 18:11:09 UTC 88 deg **************************************************************************** ** 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. **************************************************************************** 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: Gaston ON4WF with 121 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 116 Francesco IKØWGF with 115 **************************************************************************** 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 8061 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-02-04 20:30 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 Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1021. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 986. (***) Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 46. 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: Arkansas, Delaware, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, 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 2016-02-04 20:30 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. 43/44 on orbit Scott Kelly Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF Exp. 45 on orbit Sergey Volkov RU3DIS Exp. 46 on orbit Tim Kopra KE5UDN Timothy Peake KG5BVI Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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All UK ARISS shortlisted schools now scheduled + Tim Peake KG5BVI update
by M5AKA 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

All UK ARISS shortlisted schools are now scheduled http://amsat-uk.org/2016/02/03/all-uk-ariss-shortlisted-schools-are-now-sch… Primary (Elementary) school students tune in to Tim Peake http://amsat-uk.org/2016/02/02/primary-school-students-tune-in-to-tim-peake/ An Unlikely Pair of Satellites http://amsat-uk.org/2016/01/30/an-unlikely-pair-of-satellites/ Sandringham School presentation http://amsat-uk.org/2016/01/28/sandringham-school-presentation/ The 3rd RSGB Tim Peake amateur radio school update is available at http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=acc8d476eba710615541e5667&id=ec64c462e1… AMSAT-BR (AMSAT Brazil) is celebrating its first anniversary on Friday, February 5 - Activity session and Diploma https://www.facebook.com/amsatuk/posts/1001504376559278 73 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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13 CubeSats Make the Grade for NASA SLS Mission
by Eric Rosenberg 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

>From ViaSat Magazine: ----------------- [Via Satellite 02-03-2016] NASA has selected 13 CubeSats to test new technology on the first flight of the agency’s upcoming rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), set to pave the way for deep space exploration. Launching in 2018, the new rocket aims to first propel an unmanned Orion spacecraft beyond the moon and into deep space, with NASA’s sights set on a journey to Mars. The small satellite secondary payloads will fly on SLS’ Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) to carry out science and technology investigations in deep space and, hopefully, set the course for future human exploration into deep space. “Exploration Mission-1 will be a proving ground mission, whose goal is to demonstrate the integrated performance of SLS and Orion before we put crews on it for the first crewed flight. Because of the robust capability of the Space Launch System, we have a unique opportunity to transport small spacecraft and technology experiments onboard the very same mission,” said Todd May, Marshall Space Flight Center director, during a press event held at the center in Huntsville, Ala., to announce the small satellite fleet selection on Feb. 3. According to NASA’s website, the CubeSats will be deployed following the Orion capsule’s separation from the upper stage. Once Orion is a safe distance away, a spring mechanism will eject each payload from dispensers on the Orion stage adapter. Following deployment, the transmitters on the CubeSats will turn on, and ground stations will listen for their beacons to determine the functionality of these small satellites. Bill Hill, deputy associate administrator of Exploration Systems Development at NASA Headquarters, noted that the organization began looking at 11 payloads before deciding that there were sufficient resources to launch 13 CubeSats. Of the 13, NASA announced seven of the missions. NASA’s Science Mission Directorate selected and spoke to the first two publically announced missions, including, CuSP, a mission described by Michael Seablom, chief technologist for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, as a “space weather station” that aims to measure particles and magnetic fields in space, and further understand the particles’ roles in geothermal storms. It also looks to test practicality for a network of stations to monitor space weather. The solar activity that causes space weather can impact both space exploration missions and satellites for telecommunications and remote sensing. Seablom also spoke to the LunaH-Map mission, which will map hydrogen that exists within craters, on the plains and in other permanently shadowed regions at the Moon’s south pole. “Because of the investments we’ve made in technology, this mission, which will carry a neutron spectrometer, and also an imager, will give us unprecedented horizontal resolution of the distribution of hydrogen. Roughly seven-and-a-half kilometers per pixel is what we’re expecting,” said Seablom. The CubeSat will also feature an advanced propulsion system with about 12 miniature thrusters to provide attitude control and enable the CubeSat to make more than 140 orbits over its planned 60-day lifecycle. NASA also selected two payloads through the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP). These two missions include Skyfire, a Lockheed Martin Space Systems-designed CubeSat, to perform a flyby of the Moon and collect infrared sensor data to enhance knowledge of the lunar surface, and the Lunar IceCube mission from Morehead State University, which will search for water ice and other resources at a low orbit of only 62 miles above the surface of the Moon. NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate selected three payloads for the Orion mission: the Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) Scout mission, built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which will perform reconnaissance of an asteroid, take pictures and observe its position in space; the BioSentinel mission, which plans to use yeast to detect, measure and compare the impact of deep-space radiation on living organisms over long durations in deep space; and Lunar Flashlight, a mission that plans to look for ice deposits and identify locations where resources may be extracted from the lunar surface. Further CubeSats have yet to be chosen, but NASA will determine three additional payloads through the organization’s Cube Quest Challenge, a contest designed to “foster innovations in small spacecraft propulsion and communications techniques,” NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman explained. As part of the challenge currently taking place, CubeSat builders will compete for a chance to launch their spacecraft on the SLS mission. NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate will select and announce the winning payloads in 2017. Furthermore, NASA has reserved room for three payloads from international partners. According to Hill, NASA is in advanced discussions surrounding which international missions will be selected to fly onboard the SLS, and the organization will announce the payloads at a later date. “All the data from these missions and these experiments will be used to help us on our journey to Mars,” said May. NASA is designing SLS EM-1 to have a minimum lift of 77 tons, powered by twin boosters and four RS-25 engines, which are currently undergoing testing. In 2015 the agency saw the completion of multiple engine tests preparing the SLS for launch, including a major rocket booster test for which the agency is preparing for a follow up in May, according to Hill. “The space launch system, Orion and the ground systems that support both pre-launch and recovery are making great progress,” he said.

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Upcoming ARISS contact with "Gesmundo Moro Fiore" Secondary School, Terlizzi, Italy
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at "Gesmundo Moro Fiore" Secondary School, Terlizzi, Italy on 06 Feb. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 09:09 UTC. It is recommended that you start listening approximately 10 minutes before this time.The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and LU1CGB. The contact should be audible over Argentina and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. ''Gesmundo - Moro - Fiore '' is a secondary school formed of two different buildings in the suburb area of Terlizzi. The new school was born this school year from the fusion of two schools. What is more, in the last few years some foreign citizens are coming to live in Terlizzi, so the school is having new needs and is facing different realities from the East Europe to the Mediterranean Africa. There are laboratories ICT, Technology, Art, Conference room , Library. Multimedia room and big spaces outside with wonderful gardens. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. How was born your passion in the space exploration? 2. In which module of the space station are you now? What's around you now? 3. How was the space station built? 4. What experiments are you doing on board the ISS? 5. Have you performed a spacewalk? 6. What amusing activities do you do on the ISS? 7. What are the tasks for ISS crew on board the space station? 8. Can you send us a photo of you greetings us from Cupola? 9. Can you see the biggest cities on Earth from the ISS? 10. It's true that the solar energy is the biggest power source on ISS? 11. What's temperature is on board and outside the ISS? 12. What are the benefits to do the experiments in zero gravity? 13. Do you have flowers on ISS? If YES, can you describe it? 14. How do you face medical problems by one ISS crew member? 15. What will you do to re-adapt when you come back to earth? 16. What do you miss of Earth life on board the ISS? 17. Do you like drinking the coffee on ISS? 18. How do you feel after seeing 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets in a very short time? 19. How you perceive on the ISS the astronomical distances of the planets? 20. How do you communicate with your family on earth? 21. How do you spend the free time on ISS? PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES: Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status Next planned event(s): 1. Royal Masonic School for Girls, Rickmansworth, UK, direct via GB1RMS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be GB1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Thu, Feb 11, 2016 18:11 UTC ABOUT ARISS Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or informal education venues. With the help of experienced amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with large audiences in a variety of public forums. Before and during these radio contacts, students, teachers, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org, www.amsat.org, and www.arrl.org. Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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AMSAT-BR Commemorative Event
by Edson W. R. Pereira 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

Hello AMSATers! AMSAT-BR (AMSAT Brazil) will be celebrating its first anniversary tomorrow February 5th. To commemorate the event we are promoting QSO's over amateur satellites and will be distributing diplomas in electronic format to stations that confirm their QSO's. The rules are as follows: Event Start: 05/02/2016 00:00:00 UTC Event End: 07/02/2016 23:59:59 UTC CQ Format: CQ AMSAT-BR de <callsign> Example of a QSO: CQ AMSAT-BR de PY2UEP PY2UEP de PW8PM FH99 PW8PM de PY2UEP GG57 PY2UEP de PW8PM QSL 73 Log Format: Date/Time (UTC), Sat, Mode, DX Call, QTH Locator Example: 06/02/2016 15:35, AO-73, USB, PY2UEP, GG57 Email address to send logs: ano1(a)amsat-br.org Logs can be send in plain text. 73, Edson PY2SDR LABRE/AMSAT-BR http://amsat-br.org/ --- - We humans have the capability to do amazing things if we work together. - Nós seres humanos temos a capacidade de fazer coisas incríveis se trabalharmos juntos.

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Antenna Rotor and yagi Antenna selection
by shakeel -ur-rehman 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

We are in process of development of Student Satellite Ground station for amateur satellite. we need to select rotor and antenna s for amateur satellite ground station. we initially worked that we need 17db gain for our polarized antennas for this purpose we need to have stacking of antennas in order to achieve the desired gain in UHF and VHF band. can anyone know from where we can purchase antennas having 1.VHF band (144 – 146 MHz) gain 17 dBi transmit and in for receive 17 dBi in UHF band polarization Circular 2. we narrow down two rotors from yaesu a) G5600 and b) G2800 rotor which will be separately required elevation and azimuth. Now the specific queires are Question 1:we dont know where to find antennas of 17dbs. or we need 3 antenna in stacking mode having accumulated gain of 17db. Question 2: we dont how how to finalize rotor. we have ICOM 9100 and we are currently tracking satellite manually. Question 3: how to calculate that these rotor will be sufficient for the load of our antennas.or the g5600 will be enough for stacking of three antenna's load. any help much appreciated Kind regards shakeel

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Severe UHF Satellite inerference found!
by Robert Bruninga 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

Our satellite ground station has been jammed for about a week with 60 dB over pulse (spread spectrum) Looks and sounds just like Wifi but from below 420 to above 460 MHz. Yestereday we built up a portable USB receiver and attenuator and began measurements. Went everywhere in the building and outside. Could be heard 40 dB over everywhere in the building. But darned if the signal wasn’t always just a bit stronger right at the Ground station console. Switched from omni to a hand held beam. Still signal seemed strongest right at the console. Turned off everything one by one. No change. Completely disconnected antenna, attenuator and cable but signal was still S9 into the portable receiver (AOR AR5000) and good enough for sniffing. Still strongest right on the console. BINGO! It was an FRS walkie talkie, not used in years, that someone had pulled out of its charger (it was dead) and re-inserted a few days ago. As the dead FRS slowly attempted to charge up, somehow its processor must have gone wild trying to power up and that was it! Remember, nothing electronics anymore has a real OFF switch. Just a processor that is always ON to sense the switch. When I pulled the radio from the charger, the noise instantly stopped and nothing we can do can recreate that one-in-a-million condition. And the FRS radio is still dead. But we can finally hear the noise floor again on the UHF band. Bob, WB4APR

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K2BSA/5 satellite demo for Scouts this coming Saturday.
by Tom Schuessler 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

Hi all, I will be doing another Radio Merit Badge workshop class at the National Scouting Museum in Irving, TX, EM12 this coming Saturday, February 6th. As is my normal practice, I will be including in the activities, an AMSAT satellite pass. This time around, we will be attempting to use AO-85 on what for us will be a 1713Z AOS, 73 degree Max Elevation pass. We will be using K2BSA/5 so please listen for/call us and lets show these 13 Scouts the fun and excitement of Amateur Radio in space. You can also find us on HF, probably 20 meters around 14.290 especially between 1900Z-2000Z and 2115Z-2230Z. Looking forward to hearing you on the birds/bands. 73 Tom Schuessler 2713 Lake Gardens Drive Irving, Texas 75060 972-986-7456 214-403-1464 (Cell) n5hyp(a)arrl.net

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Easy question
by skristof＠etczone.com 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

Sorry for this most basic question, but if I want to receive the telemetry from AO-85, do I listen on FM or USB? Steve AI9IN

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Where's the "how to contact an area coordinator lin"?
by Jim Sanford 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

Thanks! Jim wb4gcs(a)amsat.org --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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XW2 CAMSAT CW
by Rob Quinlan 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

Hello, I manage to grab what appears to be the XW-2 CAMSAT CW beacon. Time UTC: 23:07 Date: 2016-02-03 Frequincy: I think it was 146.660 Mhz Mode: CW with AFC enabled Decoded: SEEESE DFH XW2 XW2 AAA RTT RUR RRI RUI TMT R6I RM4 RRI TTT RKI TIT VN N TTT TTT URT TTT TTI TTT TTT U4K VTT CAMSAT IE ES SIIR EIII UI R6I RM4 RRI TTT RKI TIT VDR TTT TTT ANT TTT TTI TTT TTT U4K VTT CAMSAT CAMSAT E<AS>J1SE DFH XW2 XW2 AAA RTT RUR SI*ESIUT CAMSAT IIBJ1SB DFH XW2 NTW? AE I'm guessing that this is the XW2 CAMSAT beacon? Radio: SDRplay Antenna: Diamond D130j discone Location: Beamsville, Ontario, Canada Do you send out some sort of QSL conformation card? I don't know since I never done this before.

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QST satellite antenna article
by Andrew Glasbrenner 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

I'm looking for a very specific set of plans I remember seeing in QST and am having difficulty finding it this morning. The design placed the HT antenna at the location of the driven element, eliminating the need for feedline. I understand this is a compromise antenna, but there is an unusual circumstance requiring it temporarily. Any links would be appreciated. 73, Drew KO4MA Sent from my iPhone

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HORYU-4, ChubuSat-2/3 Frequency and Mode
by Mineo Wakita 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

Launch Date: 12 Feb 2016 Launch Time: 08:45-09:30 UTC Launch Site: JAXA Tanegashima Space Center, Japan Satellite Uplink Downlink Beacon Mode Callsign ---------- ------- ---------------- ------- --------------------------- -------- HORYU-4 . 437.375/2400.300 437.375 1k2 AFSK,9k6 GMSK,S_BPSK,CW ChubuSat-2 145.815 437.100 . 1k2 AFSK,9k6 GMSK,CW JJ2YPN ChubuSat-3 145.840 437.425 . 1k2 AFSK,9k6 GMSK,CW JJ2YPO ---------- ------- ---------------- ------- --------------------------- -------- http://kitsat.ele.kyutech.ac.jp/horyu4WEB/horyu4.html http://www.frontier.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/chubusat/chubusat_satellite2.html http://www.frontier.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/chubusat/chubusat_satellite3.html http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/hory4c23.htm JE9PEL, Mineo Wakita

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satpc set up
by Bob- W7LRD 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

I am trying to set up satpc32 on a new lap top. I can not get beyond the "must be administrator" . Vulcan computer win 10. advice please. 73 Bob W7LRD

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FT847 for sale
by Richard Lawn 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

I'm going to be listing my 847 on QTH.COM and thought I'd give my satellite friends a heads up first. I'm the original owner. No extras but in excellent condition. Includes mic, power cord, original manual and box. I'll also throw in a null modem cable for PC connection. I'm now using a Flex 5000 for satellites or ic9100/flex6300 combo so I no longer need this radio. I'd like to get $875 plus the cost of shipping. Photos available on request. If interested contact me off list please. 73 Rick, W2JAZ -- Sent from Gmail Mobile

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ChubuSat-2 and ChubuSat-3 launch information
by Yasutaka Naru sawa (JR2XEA) 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

Dear all AMSAT-BB members, My Name is Yasutaka Narusawa, member of KOMAKI Amateur SATCOM Club. Nagoya University(NU) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries(MHI) developed 50kg microsatellite ChubuSat-2(NU) and ChubuSat-3(MHI). These satellites have amateur VHF receiver and amateur UHF transmitter, and will be launched on Feb. 12 2016 from Tanegashima, Japan. Komaki Amateur SATCOM Club operates these satellites from Komaki, Japan. After the satellite separation, each satellite will transmit UHF CW beacon message including battery voltage etc. which is very important information for our initial and critical operation. So we are very happy if you receive the CW beacon message and report to us (chubusat2(a)frontier.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp, chubusat3(a)frontier.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp). In following WEB site, we show the information(frequency, format, TLE, etc.) about ChubuSat-2 and ChubuSat-3. If we have your report, we will show your report in this page. https://www.frontier.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/chubusat/chubusat_satellite2.ht… https://www.frontier.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/chubusat/chubusat_satellite3.ht… Overmore, both satellite will provide the message exchange service. After the on-orbit checkout of the satellite(maybe one month after launch), you can use this service, sending your message with VHF uplink, then your message is written to the on-board memory. By sending inquiry message, anyone can read your message with UHF downlink. The uplink/downlink format will be uploaded in above WEB site. We hope you get interested in our satellites, receive beacon messages, and enjoy the message exchange service. Best regards, Yasutaka Narusawa (JR2XEA)

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Help XE1AO get his satellite WAS award via LOTW!
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Hi! Omar XE1AO, a long-time satellite operator in central Mexico, tweeted yesterday that he is interested in making contact with stations in 7 states to finally have all 50 states confirmed via Logbook of the World. The last 7 states he needs are: Kansas Maine New Jersey New York Rhode Island Washington West Virginia Omar is in grid DK89df, if that helps in making calculations on possible passes that he can work. His e-mail address on QRZ is good, so you can contact him directly if you are able to help him get his satellite WAS award. He is also on Twitter as @XE1AO, but his Twitter feed is not open to the public. He's received a few suggestions to get a couple of these states taken care of, so hopefully he can finally reach that goal. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK

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SatPC32 Question
by Rupert Hamblin 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Hi All, I have quick SatPC32 question.... I have my system almost complete now, SatPC32 is correctly controlling the frequency & rotator positioning - all good..!! However, in the auxiliary file Doppler.sqf, where there are multiple frequency entries for a satellite ie, AO-73, how do I select a different frequency for that satellite, when I select that satellite..? Regards RH / G0TKZ

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How to Genso Certified Ground Station
by shakeel -ur-rehman 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Hi ALL We are in process of development of Student Satellite Ground station for amateur satellite. we come to know that the GENSO standard . the link for GENSO is as follows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Educational_Network_for_Satellite_Oper… We tried to find the requirements and know the process how we can make our ground station GENSO complaint. Anyone who know the requirement and process. Please help. how we can proceed. Thanks in advance Shakeel

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Upcoming ARISS contact with Christ The King School, Rutland, Vermont
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Christ The King School, Rutland, Vermont on 4 Feb. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 18:28 UTC. It is recommended that you start listening approximately 10 minutes before this time. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and VK4KHZ. The contact should be audible over Australia and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. Christ The King School is a PK-8 Catholic school in the city of Rutland, VT. The school has a population of 150 students and 17 teachers. Since 1886, Christ The King School (CKS) has dedicated itself to the principles of Catholic education, with academic excellence and community service being the hallmarks of our school. CKS is committed to incorporating technology in the classroom, with every class now having interactive white boards and internet access, middle school students each having access to a chrome book, and the school having a fully equipped computer lab. In 2015, the school received the Innovations in Catholic Education National Award for its implementation of exemplary, innovation programs to improve the teaching and learning of their students, faculty, and staff. Three of our students were chosen to be participants in the NASA Girls and NASA Boys summer program in 2014 and 2015. One of our retired school volunteers is a former Goddard Spaceflight Center Education Specialist and current Vermont Solar System Ambassador who helps insure that the students are able to take advantage of all the wonderful educational resources and opportunities available to them through the various NASA Education Programs. Our mission is to promote our Catholic faith through instruction, prayer, and service to others, assist our parents in their role as primary educators, and create a student-centered program in a structured academic environment that nurtures the development of the whole child. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. Do stars, sun and moon look different in outer space? 2. What technological benefits have been developed due to work on the I.S.S? 3. How do you mentally prepare for going into space knowing all the risks? 4. What experiments are you currently conducting on the I.S.S.? 5. How were you chosen to be an astronaut? 6. What physical training do you perform to prepare for spaceflight? 7. What were your 1st thoughts when you first boarded the I.S.S.? 8. When did you start getting interested in becoming an astronaut? 9. What are some risks you encounter on the I.S.S.? 10. How long does it take to reach the I.S.S.? 11. Are you currently eating food grown on the I.S.S. Garden Experiment? 12. What advice would you give to a middle school student interested in becoming an astronaut? 13. What motivates astronauts to go into space and what do you hope to learn? 14. Do your sleep patterns change in space? 15. Are there any activities on the ISS you can do that mimic gravity? 16. What is the most exciting experience you have had on the I.S.S.? 17. How do you maintain your physical condition while in space? 18. What kind of things do you do with your free time? 19. Do you worry about space junk hitting the ISS? 20. How many days have you been in space, and do you ever get bored? PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES: Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status Next planned event(s): 1. Gesmundo Moro Fiore" Secondary School, Terlizzi, Italy, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Sat Feb. 6, 2016 09:09 UTC 2. Royal Masonic School for Girls, Rickmansworth, UK, direct via GB1RMS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be GB1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Thu Feb. 11, 2016 18:11 UTC ABOUT ARISS Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or informal education venues. With the help of experienced amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with large audiences in a variety of public forums. Before and during these radio contacts, students, teachers, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org, www.amsat.org, and www.arrl.org. Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Fw: important message
by Jerry Clement 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Hello! New message, please read <http://test.sibelayakkabicilik.com.tr/wild.php?b> Jerry Clement

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ARISS Audio for Thursday Contact
by John Spasojevich 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Please join us in listening to the ISS contact with participants at Christ The King School, Rutland, Vermont, USA on Thursday 4 FEB 2016 AOS is anticipated at 18:28 UTC The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and VK5KHZ in Australia. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. Audio from this contact will be fed into the: EchoLink *AMSAT* (101377) Server IRLP Node 9010 Discovery Reflector Streaming Audio at: https://sites.google.com/site/arissaudio/ Audio on Echolink & web stream is generally transmitted around 20 minutes prior to the contact taking place so that you can hear some of the preparation that occurs. IRLP will begin just prior to the ground station call to the ISS. Breaks on Echolink and IRLP are done manually approximately every third question, connected repeaters may time out. ** Contact times are approximate. If the ISS executes a reboost or other manoeuvre, the AOS (Acquisition Of Signal) time may alter by a few minutes ** 73, John - AG9D ARISS Audio Distribution

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-02-01 19:30 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-02-01 19:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Christ The King School, Rutland, Vermont, telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-02-04 18:28:16 UTC 88 deg "Gesmundo Moro Fiore" Secondary School, Terlizzi, Italy, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Sat 2016-02-06 09:09:01 UTC 40 deg Royal Masonic School for Girls, Rickmansworth, UK, direct via GB1RMS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be GB1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-02-11 18:11:09 UTC 88 deg (***) **************************************************************************** ** 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. **************************************************************************** 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: Gaston ON4WF with 121 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 116 Francesco IKØWGF with 115 **************************************************************************** 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 8061 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-02-01 19:30 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 Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1020. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 985. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 46. 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: Arkansas, Delaware, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, 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 2016-01-31 04:30 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. 43/44 on orbit Scott Kelly Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF Exp. 45 on orbit Sergey Volkov RU3DIS Exp. 46 on orbit Tim Kopra KE5UDN Timothy Peake KG5BVI Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Reminder Email for Development Preferences Survey (PhD Research)
by Brandon Shirley 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

To whom it may concern, I'm Brandon Shirley, I am conducting these surveys for my PhD research at Utah State University. I really need your participation. There is a chance to win some gift cards. Please see below for more information and the link to take the survey. The survey should only take about 10 minutes. Reading this wordy email will probably take more time than actually taking the survey. Thanks. *** This is a reminder email for the Development Preferences Survey. Please note that the Background section of the survey is the same for all surveys, it establishes your background while allowing the results to remain anonymous. *** Dr. Stephen Clyde & Brandon Shirley in the Department of Computer Science at Utah State University are conducting a set of surveys as part of Brandon's PhD research to find out more about software development practices and attitudes in the space industry. You have received this email because of your interest in or involvement with the space industry. We greatly need your participation. We are asking that anyone that has insight into in software development that relates to space industry participate in this survey. The beginning of the survey has background questions that will give context to your responses. The survey set is currently made of six surveys, listed below, that will be distributed over the course of a few months. You have a chance at receiving a gift card for participating in this survey as well as a chance at receiving a gift card for your overall participation in the entire survey set. There will be seven drawings for gift cards: one drawing for each survey and one overall drawing for the survey set. For each survey-specific drawing, two participants in that survey will be selected at random to receive a $25 gift card. For the overall drawing, two participants from the pool of all participants of any survey will be selected to receive a $200 gift card. At the end of this survey, you will be redirected to a webpage that asks for an email address. You must enter a valid email address to be considered for this surveys drawing or the overall survey set drawing. Each survey stands on its own: opting to not participate in one survey does not exclude you in any way from participating in any subsequent surveys. Likewise, participating in one survey does not obligate you to participate in any subsequent surveys. The surveys are as follows and will be distributed in the following order: SISDPA : Core Concepts SISDPA : Development Preferences <========= We are here ========= SISDPA : Open Systems Architecture and Modularity SISDPA : Security SISDPA : Reuse, Interoperability, Portability, Code Complexity SISDPA : Network You can you use the link below to access the Development Preferences survey. We greatly need your participation and your responses to the surveys will make a meaningful contribution to this research while allowing you an opportunity to reflect on you current software development practices and how these practices affect the projects on which you have and will work. This survey set will be used to determine the path of future research, as well as increase the body of knowledge that relates to software development practices and attitudes in the space industry. You can access the Development Preferences survey of the Space Industry Software Development Practices and Attitudes survey set using the following link: https://usu.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3XgKdvBZTEVC7n7 You can also copy and paste the above URL into your address bar if you prefer not to click on the link. We plan to send out one reminder email a week until the survey closes. The duration of the survey will be two to three weeks. You will receive the reminder email regardless of where or not you have participated in a survey. The subject of the email will read "Reminder Email..." for these weekly reminders, and "New Distribution..." at the start of a new survey. See http://brandon.bluezone.usu.edu/Files/LOISpaceSoftwareAttitudes_Final.pdf for the Letter of Intent (LOI) that explains your role as a participant should you choose to participate. If you have questions please direct them to Brandon Shirley, via email b.l.s(a)aggiemail.usu.edu, the LOI lists additional contact information. Once the survey set is closed, we will analyze the data, and generate results. We will seek publication of these results in a conference or journal. This is a legitimate request for you participation, if you have any questions about the validity of this email you may refer to the Letter of Intent, contact Brandon Shirley, via email b.l.s(a)aggiemail.usu.edu, or Utah State University's Internal Review Board administrator at (435) 797 - 0567 or email irb(a)usu.edu. V/R, Brandon Shirley, MS b.l.s(a)aggiemail.usu.edu Please note that if you are also a member of one of the other mailing lists we are using to distribute these surveys then you may receive multiple notices and reminders about the different surveys. We do not have access to the member listings for the different mailing lists. We appreciate your understanding.

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France (IN94) on AO-07
by F6GLJ 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hello everybody. I'll be on AO-07 between 17: 55 and 18:06, very good pass for qso France SA and France NA. I hope meet you 73 Qro de F6GLJ https://www.qrz.com/db/F6GLJ

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Listening to Russian EVAs
by John Brier 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Anyone going to try and listen to Wednesday's EVA? http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-television-to-air-russian-spacewalk They start at 8:10 a.m. Eastern for a 5.5 hour EVA and the only pass I have is at 16:43 so I won't be able to hear anything, which I've never even tried, but I'm learning about it by reviewing the following URLs: http://issfanclub.com/voice-reports-noham "Good reception in Sweden on 143.625, 130.167, and 121.750 during docking." http://issfanclub.com/node/40396 http://issfanclub.com/frequencies https://soundcloud.com/liamcarbin/russian-eva-37-27-12-13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6qnhrSDjC8 73, John KG4AKV

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AO-7
by Gustavo Nicolau 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hello to all, gud window to NA today after 19:40 utc. Look to SA, 73 de PTBM.

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EUROPEANS SCHEDULES FOR 6W8CK
by afesan＠gmail.com 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hi all, I´m making the ***EUROPEAN*** list for possible schedules with 6W8CK, Conrad, in Senegal. So,EUROPEAN stations, can send me an email to see the possibilties. Today, 1th February the first list with ONLY European stations were sent,and checked by 6W8CK to try it. It was accepted. USA stations lists are taken by Frank, K4FEG and I believe, Paul N8HM. I will not take lists for USA stations. Read carefully the paragraph where a simulation pass between your grid and Conrad`s gridsquare IK14MH must be done for you, (the interested statio) and the send me the Satellite-Day-Hour UTC proposal .. Second: If your proposal is approved, I´ll sent back an email confirming it to you.Conrad says YOU MAKE THE CALL..you CALL and he will be listening trying to catch you. You can send me several passes proposals in order to try the QSO ..But when QSO is done.. DON¨T TRY AGAIN . Please, understand that there are more stations waiting for scheds and few days. Thanks for your patience. I must attend my daily work and in free time I´m behind the PC writing to all. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conrad, 6W8CK , will be in Senegal until mid-February 2016. He will try to be active on CW near 145.930 on AO-7 and 435.830 on FO-29 during the afternoons, but may also be available on late night / early morning passes for skeds. Conrad is using a Yaesu FT-736R and an Elk antenna mounted up 5 meter above ground. He does occasionally lose power, so keep this in mind if you do not hear him on a particular pass. QSL only via the DARC bureau to his home call, DF7OL. He may also return to Senegal from November 2016 - February 2017. Sometimes , he can take some private schedules .If you want an schedule with him,make a simulation of a satellite pass ( AO-7,FO-29) between your Gridsquare and the Conrad gridsquare : IK14MH . Then choose what you consider is the best one opportunity of QSO. Write the satellite-day-hour UTC you consider it´s the best option for the QSO and send it to me. Send it to: ea1iw(a)amsat.org ea1iw(a)ure.es Then I will forward your QSO proposal to Conrad and he can decide if possible. If It´s OK, I´ll send you back again an email confirming the sched with Conrad. That´s all ! 73,s¡ Antonio (EA1IW)

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RE; SatPC32 CAT control and HDSDR via VSPE (Tom Schuessler)
by Tom Schuessler 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Thanks to the response from the group. The V+ setting worked fine. I knew I was missing something. The CAT control via the Virtual Serial Port Emulation software is a bit finicky and sometimes may take 5 or 10 seconds to update SatPC32 as Doppler changes, Then it will seem to catch up and be pretty current. Oh well. I think though it will work for what I need. Thanks to all. Tom Schuessler 2713 Lake Gardens Drive Irving, Texas 75060 972-986-7456 214-403-1464 (Cell) n5hyp(a)arrl.net

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Video: My Very First ISS Reception from January 2014
by John Brier 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBbKLYiIvD0 If you liked this video, please subscribe to my YouTube channel, Space Comms: https://youtube.com/c/SpaceComms1 It was two years ago this month that I first received the International Space Station. To commemorate that reception I decided to re-edit the original video I made of it which has received over 13,000 views to date. It was because of that video's popularity that I decided to keep making videos and ultimately, to create the Space Comms channel. Since it's always exciting to receive the ISS, I still do it today, and one day I'll make contact too! Thanks everyone for watching my videos and good luck with all your radio adventures! 73, John Brier, KG4AKV

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2.4 Ghz?
by Bob- W7LRD 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

Does anyone know if there will be a S band DL on any future satellites. Are there any current sats that have S band DL for telemetry? 73 Bob W7LRD Seattle

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XE2AT from DL42/DL43 line on SO-50 tonight, 0100 UTC
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

Hi! After working from the DL52/DL53 line on the south end of the Baja California peninsula this morning, Alvaro XE2AT plans to work the 0100 UTC SO-50 pass tonight (5pm Pacific time) from the DL42/DL43 grid boundary. This is northwest of Cabo San Lucas, near the southern tip of the peninsula. SO-50 will be over the eastern Pacific Ocean during this pass, meaning the footprint won't make it all the way to the Mississippi River. DL43 has been on the satellites in past years, thanks to Bernardo XE2HWB (worked satellites in the past, also active in VHF/UHF/microwave contests from up and down the Baja California peninsula), but not recently. DL42 is almost entirely wet, except for the small bit of land in the northeast corner of the grid - similar to grid CM86 at Santa Cruz in northern California. XE2AT mentioned earlier this morning that he plans to use LOTW to confirm these contacts, along with the contacts he made earlier this morning. He's also good at answering QSL requests mailed to his PO box in Aguascalientes, although the Mexican postal system is not the most reliable. Good luck, and 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK

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XE2AT (and also KX9X/5) on 1440 UTC SO-50 pass this morning...
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

Hi! It was nice to hear XE2AT on SO-50 during the 1440 UTC pass this morning. It has been almost 5 years since I logged a satellite QSO with Alvaro, and he used to be among the most prolific of Mexican satellite operators who worked from different grids in that country. In fact, Alvaro (as XE2YVW, his original call sign) was my first satellite contact back in 2000, via SO-35. I'm glad his encounter with the police last night didn't leave him without gear for this morning. I heard Alvaro tell Clayton W5PFG that was "working on more". I hope he is, as it will be nice to hear more grids on the air from Mexico once again. XE2AT, and initially as XE2YVW, has put many Mexican grids on the satellites over many years. The 1440 UTC SO-50 pass came up from the southwest, and went directly over Arizona. I was happy to work XE2AT early in the pass, once the satellite cleared a house and some trees to my southwest. After I worked him, I heard XE2AT acknowledge 7 other stations with their full call signs - KC7MG, XE1AO, AA5PK, W5PFG, NP4JV, W5CBF, and XE2BHL. I heard Alvaro try to answer one station twice with partial call signs after working XE2BHL, a different partial call each time. Unfortunately, I did not hear XE2AT after the midpoint of the pass here, which meant he wasn't able to work stations for the last 4 to 5 minutes he would have had on that pass. I also heard Sean KX9X/5 working from the Vicksburg Military Park in Mississippi. Thanks for picking me up, Sean! In the last few minutes I had on that pass, I heard Sean get several stations for his log. It will be nice to see another NPOTA site show up in LOTW. :-) XE2AT has used LOTW in the past, although I have never received an LOTW QSL from him for any of our satellite QSOs. Omar XE1AO said that Alvaro can confirm QSOs via LOTW, so it will be nice if these grids show up in there. I know XE2AT has been good answering my QSL requests sent to his PO box over the years, and I'll mail Alvaro a QSL card with SASE. If anyone else wants to send XE2AT a QSL card with an SASE, I have lots of Mexican postage stamps. Please e-mail me directly, or send me a direct message in Twitter, and I can get some stamps out to you. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK

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SatPC32 CAT control and HDSDR via VSPE
by Tom Schuessler 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

Hello all, Not having a good satellite capable radio (Yet) but wanting to dabble deeper in to our world of satellite communications, I have been experimenting with CAT control of the SDR program HDSDR via the CAT interface from SatPC32 through the Virtual Serial Port Emulator (VSPE). VSPE has an option to create a serial port "Pair" of ports. In this case, you have to assign one port of the pair to SatPC32 and in HDSDR's CAT to HDSDR options, you match the baud rate in HDSDR and SatPC32 but assign the other half of the pair. Cool thing is it allows HDSDR tuning to affect the frequency listed in it's downlink window while continue to track Doppler shift adjustments provided from SatPC32. This is pretty cool. Well I have an interesting question which may relate as much to the way SatPC32's CAT control window works as much as it relates to this Virtual serial port thing. The above mentioned ability to tune SatPC323 from HDSDR works wonderfully on Linear transponder (LSB/USB) modes but not the same on FM modes like Lilacsat-2, SO-50 and AO-85. In these cases, shifting the frequency on HDSDR does NOT change the SatPC32 display and in a few seconds, HDSDR snaps back to the CAT controlled frequency. Now the difference of course in SatPC32 CAT adjustment window is the inability to shift and store the changes in frequency, or even just shift them in FM mode like one can do with Linear sat frequencies. Am I missing something here or is this just a built in feature of SatPC323 that I will need to work around by providing more appropriate Doppler.SQF setups that work for me as opposed to somebody else? Anybody who has played with this please drop me a note or share your experiences via the list so more people can lear. Thanks, Tom Schuessler 2713 Lake Gardens Drive Irving, Texas 75060 972-986-7456 214-403-1464 (Cell) n5hyp(a)arrl.net

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RX and decoding 1K2 BPSK Satellites
by Vincenzo Mone 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

Please anybody can tell me which program to use to catch and decode the 1k2BPSK Satellites trough SDRSharp? Thanks Enzo 73's de Enzo IK8OZV EasyLog 5 BetaTester EasyLog PDA BetaTester WinBollet BetaTester D.C.I. CheckPoint Regione Campania Skype: ik8ozv8520 ********************************** ******* GSM +39 328 7110193 ******* ****** SMS +39 328 7110193 ****** *** 2nd e-mail: vimone(a)tin.it *** *********************************

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ANS-031 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by E.Mike McCardel 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-031 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. In this edition: * Weekly engineering report for Phase 4 radio project from AMSAT * Write About Satellites, Space and Radio! * UFO Researcher To Launch CubeSat To Search For E.T. Close To Home * Pair of Satellites ejected from ISS for In-Space Navigation Exercise * LilacSat-2 FM Transponder * 6W8CK on Satellite * IARU Paper: APRS Harmonization and removal of OSCAR sub-band * ISS Orbit Boosted Ahead of March Crew Swap - Check Your Elements * ARISS News * Satellite Shorts From All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-031.01 ANS-031 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 031.01 >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. [MONTH DAY, YEAR] To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-031.01 Weekly engineering report for Phase 4 radio project from AMSAT The Phase 4 Ground weekly report focuses on the current modulation schemes. We're looking at DVB-S2X to receive, and OQPSK to transmit. Repository for documents and software can be found: https://github.com/phase4ground We have nearly 50 volunteers on the mailing list and activity across the country. We're working hard to make a wonderful radio for AMSAT and terrestrial microwave, and we appreciate your support, feedback, comments, and critique. DVB-S2 stands for Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite - Second Generation. There is a recent extension to this standard, called DVB- S2X, that has very low SNR capabilities and a lot of other goodies. The geo project, ascent, and eventually the high earth orbit project, are expected to transmit using DVB-S2X. This is the foundation of our common air interface. DVB-S2X specifies the modulation and coding for our received signal. There are five major landmarks. One, an input stream adapter. Input streams can be packetized or continuous, from single or multiple sources. This is helpful! Two, forward error correction. Our type is low density parity check codes concatenated with BCH codes. What does this mean? A concatenated code is one that combines two different coding schemes. In coding theory, there's a fundamental problem in that finding a really great code that has very low probability of error usually means that the block length has to go up, and the decoding is more and more complex. When you use two codes together that each have particular strengths, they balance each other out. You can get exponentially decreasing error probabilities, but you only have to pay a polynomially increasing cost in terms of code block length. This may seem complicated, but just remember concatenation is codes doing teamwork, and the standard that we're using is bad ass. Our inner low density parity check code can achieve extremely low error rates near channel capacity. This means, it's about as good as you can get. The outer BCH codes are used to correct sporadic errors made by the LDPC decoder, and to trick it out so that we don't have enormous block lengths and stuff like that. Three, we have a wide range of code rates. The code rate is expressed as a fraction. The top number is how many uncoded bits go in. The bottom number is how many coded bits come out. We have four constellations. This is the the type of transformation from bits to symbols. We have great choices here, and DVB-S2X provides additional choices. Four, there is a variety of spectral shaping available to us in DVB- S2. This is a really neat thing. You can change the pulse shape of a transmitted waveform in order to make it better suited for the radio environment it's expecting to be traveling through. Usually this means making it fit into a bandwidth better. You don't get something for nothing, though, so being too aggressive with the pulse shaping shows up in other aspects. Our particular shaping is different levels of raised-cosign filtering. DVB-S2X provides additional levels of shaping. Five, this standard lets us learn and develop with something very much like cognitive radio. As you can see, there are a lot of choices for coding and modulation. We can specify a fixed coding and modulation. This is called CCM for constant coding and modulation. In the past, people like us looked at a link, designed for the worst case solution, and used coding and modulation that would cover almost all the bases. DVB-S2 has CCM, but it also specifies something called variable coding and modulation, or VCM. The coding and modulation can be changed on a frame-by-frame basis in response to different station types or changes in the channel. In addition to that, there is something called adaptive coding and modulation, or ACM, where modulation and coding automagically adapts. This can happen on a frame by frame basis. DVB-S2 has things called annexes. In annex M, there's a specification for something we've already talked about wanting to do. We want to map the transmitted services or station streams into time slices and then recover information without having to demodulate the entire signal. DVB-S2 follows the usual flow of having input data coded up to remove unnecessary redundancy, which is called source coding, and then it is put into one of two different stream types. Because DVB-S2 is designed for MPEG streams, it has a lot of mechanisms for MPEG data types, and I believe that this is the transport stream path in the drawing. We aren't going to use MPEG, so we fall into the generic stream category. The functional blocks of DVB-S2 include these things in trapezoids. Mode adaptation, which starts to build up the data frames by constructing the right header to go with the data. Stream adaptation, which adds in the right amount of padding and scrambling. Forward error correction, which produces coded frames that are of one of two sizes. Mapping to constellations, which is the modulation. Finally, there is physical layer framing. An open question is how minimal of a station can be supported? Driving it down as low as possible is going to be fun and challenging. What we are anticipating is that the space teams will obtain an implementation of a DVB-S2X transmitter. Talks are already underway for this. Phase 4 ground is going to engineer the various DVB-S2X receivers. Standards documents are already in the repository and work is beginning. Get off the bench and hit the books! So let's talk a bit about some changes in the uplink for phase 4 radios. We were MSK, or minimum shift keying, but we are now OQPSK, or offset quadrature phase shift keying. That is what the payload team is currently designing for. Like MSK, Offset QPSK has no more than a 90 degree phase shift at a time. This is good. In order to create this, you begin with a QPSK signal, where you take two data bits at a time. These two binary data bits make four distinct values. Each of these values are mapped onto four transmit phase shifts. For offset QPSK, the odd and even bits coming into the modulator have a timing offset, of one bit period. Hence the name. That means the in-phase and quadrature signals, the I and the Q, never change at the same time. The power spectral density of QPSK and Offset QPSK is the same. The shift in time doesn't effect that. Uplink experiments are beginning. We started putting together Team HackRF, which will investigate the use of HackRF SDRs as one of the phase 4 radio recipes. Lots of other experiments to work out other recipes for amateurs to experiment need to happen too. If you have a set of hardware and you want to work in parallel, then speak up. The USRPs will get into the act ASAP, some people have BladeRFs, and so on. Review the weekly report at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0CMv0pJHgY&feature=share [ANS thanks Michelle W5NYV for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Write About Satellites, Space and Radio! The AMSAT Journal is seeking interesting articles about amateur radio satellites, space and radio – topics that feed the passion of AMSAT members. Whether the focus is working the birds, new products, building a new piece of equipment or an entire station, writing software, training or doing demos, or anything else related to amateur radio in space, please consider sharing your experience and expertise with other AMSAT members by writing for the Journal. Desired article length (rough guidelines): Short articles – 800-1400 words Longer articles – 2000-2500 words Find out more about writer’s guidelines here. Photos, diagrams or other images always help illustrate your points or projects. If you are interested in seeing your byline in The AMSAT Journal and sharing what you’ve learned with other members, email us at journal(a)amsat.org. [ANS thanks Joseph KB6IGK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- UFO Researcher To Launch CubeSat To Search For E.T. Close To Home An engineer turned UFO researcher is hoping to launch a low-earth orbit CubeSat to search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Canadian Dave Cote has assembled a seven-person team to design, fund, build and launch the project that he hopes will provide some answers about the origins of recent unidentified object sightings across the globe. “We have had astronauts, military personnel, police officers and the former Defence Minister of Canada come forward stating that extraterrestrial UFOs are real, and that we are being visited,” says Cote. “How can this be ignored and brushed off as nonsense?” Concerned that the public isn’t getting straight answers, the group has turned to crowdsourcing the project on Kickstarter. Measuring roughly the size of a shoebox, CubeSats can pack a lot of science equipment into a small space. They have also made satellite deployment much more affordable, in some cases costing less than the price of a lower-end automobile. Sites like CubeSatShop.com have taken much of the complexity out of ordering needed components. Cote says they’re a “go for launch” already but are looking for more funding so they can pack it with as much science equipment as possible. They aim to include image, infrared, electromagnetic, and radiation sensors. This would give them the capability of not only verifying visual data, but also correlating it with other events such as electromagnetic and radioactive fluctuations. The team plans to measure ionized radiation with a scintillation counter and two cameras will capture a near 360-degree view around the CubeSat. They plan to remove the infrared filters on the cameras to cover more of the visual range. Cote hopes to use amateur radio frequencies to transmit the data back to earth and a worldwide network of ham volunteers to receive it. “We are planning to use the ham frequencies to send data down from the CubeSat to earth in hex or datafax protocol,” says Cote. “From what we understand, we should be able to send a 100kB packet every few minutes and this will enable us to send image thumbnails from space, along with some basic EM data.” While the details of the transmissions have yet to be determined, Cote hopes to assemble a worldwide team of hams willing to receive and log whatever data the satellite captures. “We need help from the ham community, in capturing the data and relaying it to our site,” he says. “There will be a 15-minute window for download from the CubeSat, and then another volunteer would be needed for the next 15-minute time window.” Cote is cautiously optimistic that the satellite will provide corroboration of UFO reports from eyewitnesses on Earth. But even if the satellite doesn’t capture evidence of faraway visitors, he’s hopeful that it will record interesting natural phenomenon like meteors and solar flares. “We can only hope that those who would like to know the truth will step forward and help,” he says. To learn more about the project or to volunteer, visit their KickStarter page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1889966504/cubesat-for-disclosure [ANS thanks Matt W1MST and AmateurRadio.com for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Pair of Satellites ejected from ISS for In-Space Navigation Exercise A package of two satellites was ejected from the International Space Station on Friday to begin a mission dedicated to a demonstration of autonomous navigation, rendezvous and docking technology. The second LONESTAR mission is comprised of two satellites built by two American Universities to undertake a demonstration of communication cross links, data exchange, GPS-based navigation, relative navigation, stationkeeping and data transmission to the ground. LONESTAR stands for "Low Earth Orbiting Navigation Experiment for Spacecraft Testing Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking" and includes four missions flown over a period of years in a cost-effective technology development program with the goal of mastering autonomous rendezvous and docking. The second LONESTAR mission consists of the AggieSat4 satellite built at Texas A&M and BEVO-2 built by students at the University of Texas. The smaller BEVO-2 satellite is facilitated within a deployer on the AggieSat4 spacecraft to be released once the two have flown well clear of the International Space Station. The two satellites, already packaged, were sent to the Space Station aboard the Cygnus OA-4 mission. Launching satellites to ISS for deployment has the advantage of allowing the satellites to be launched well-packaged to avoid damage and providing the opportunity of an inspection in space to check for any damage encountered during launch before committing them to flight. Given the size of the AggieSat4 satellite, the deployment conducted on Friday made use of the SSIKLOPS deployment mechanism, going by the full name "Space Station Integrated Kinetic Launcher for Orbital Payload Systems." SSIKLOPS can be used to deploy larger satellites of different shapes up to a mass of 110 Kilograms. It is a flat structure that includes grapple fixtures for the robotic arms of the Space Station and a single grapple fixture for the satellite that is to be deployed. The fixture includes clamps and springs for the deployment of the satellite. Overall, the structure is 127 by 61 by 7.6 centimeters in size. It also includes interfaces for the slide table of the JEM Airlock. SSIKLOPS first saw action in 2014 when deploying the SpinSat spacecraft and spent most of its time in storage aboard ISS, awaiting the deployment of future satellites. Final preparations for Friday's deployment were made on Wednesday when ISS Astronauts Scott Kelly and Tim Peake installed the SSIKLOPS deployer on the Slide Table of the Kibo module's airlock followed by the installation of the Small Fine Arm (SFA) Plate on the deployer and the attachment of the LONESTAR satellite package. The slide table was then retracted and the airlock sealed off for depressurization on Thursday. The outer hatch of the airlock was opened and a careful ground- controlled operation started to retrieve the SSIKLOPS deployer and hand it from the Small Fine Arm to the Japanese Robotic Arm that was then positioned for the deployment to ensure the satellite departed to the correct direction, ruling out any possibility of re-contact with ISS on subsequent orbits. Release was triggered just before 16:00 UTC on Friday and the LONESTAR package slowly floated away from ISS, embarking on its mission that will last as long as the satellites can remain in orbit, typically between six and twelve months. Drifting away from the Space Station, LONESTAR showed slight body rates on all three axes as it slowly faded into the distance. The Mission Team confirmed they were happy with the observed body rates and declared the deployment a success. Congratulations were exchanged between the different teams involved in the deployment - NASA's Mission Control, the JAXA Control Center in Japan, Payload Controllers in Huntsville and the payload's operators in Texas. The spacecraft was programmed to power-up automatically ten minutes after release, perform a health check and start transmitting telemetry. Acquisition of signal was expected later on Friday to begin a multi-day checkout campaign ahead of the satellite conducting its de-tumble maneuver to enter a three-axis stabilized attitude setting up for the deployment of BEVO-2. The AggieSat4 satellite, developed and manufactured at Texas A&M University, has a mass of approximately 55 Kilograms and measures 75 x 75 x 35 centimeters in size. The satellite hosts body-mounted solar panels for power generation and is equipped with a three-axis attitude determination and control system with an actuation accuracy of two degrees, making use of reaction wheels and magnetic torquers. The Electrical Power System hosts two battery packs delivering an operational voltage of 34 V and a capacity of 95 Watt-hours. AggieSat4 hosts two low-data-rate (LDR) radios, a high-data-rate (HDR) radio, a crosslink radio for short-range communication with the Bevo-2 satellite, and a DRAGON GPS Payload. AggieSat4 will be tasked with completing a number of mission objectives: demonstrating three-axis stabilization, the collection of GPS data, recording video of the release of BEVO-2 with a 2MP camera, computing and crosslinking relative navigation data based on relative GPS measurements and tracking BEVO-2 based on these navigation solutions. The 4.2-Kilogram BEVO-2 satellite uses the 3U CubeSat Form Factor, 10 x 10 x 34 centimeters, employing an ISIPOD for deployment from AggieSat4. The satellite features 24 solar cells installed on its external panels to deliver power to 6 batteries operating at a voltage of 7.4 V. BEVO-2 has four deployable radio antennas and GPS patch antennas. Attitude determination is accomplished with gyroscopes, magnetometers, a star tracker and sun sensor while attitude actuation employs reaction wheels and magnetic torquers. To connect with AggieSat4 for the exchange of navigation data, the spacecraft hosts a crosslink radio unit while communications with the ground make use of a UHF/VHF terminal for data downlink and command uplink. The satellite is outfitted with a cold gas thruster module holding 90 grams of Dupont R-236fa refrigerant stored at pressure to be released for maneuvers of the satellite for stationkeeping and rendezvous exercises with AggieSat4. As the second of four LONESTAR missions, AggieSat4 and BEVO-2 build on the success of the previous mission in 2009 as part of a program outlined to make successive progress towards the ultimate goal of achieving an autonomous rendezvous and docking of two satellites. The autonomy aspect of LONESTAR is of particular importance for future missions to distant targets where communication delays require spacecraft to act autonomously. [ANS thanks spaceflight101.com for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- LilacSat-2 FM Transponder Paul Stoetzer reports: "I have noticed that LilacSat-2's FM transponder has been on nearly continuously for the past four days They may be keeping it active continuously during the holiday period in China. It's worth checking out if you haven't worked it yet. It's got a good signal and can be easier to track than SO-50 because the carrier stays active for a period when not receiving signals. The downlink antenna also uses circular polarization, so there is less fading when using linear antennas than on SO-50. Uplink: 144.350 MHz FM (No PL) Downlink: 437.200 MHz FM Keep in mind that this uplink frequency is not within the normal 145.800 - 146.000 MHz satellite subband on two meters, though this frequency is within the 144.300 - 144.500 MHz "New OSCAR subband" in the ARRL band plan and is allocated to the Amateur Satellite Service (as is the entirety of 144 - 146 MHz). On passes over the United States, quite a few packet signals can be heard through the transponder. If you use LoTW, the satellite name to use when uploading QSOs is 'CAS-3H.' [ANS thanks Paul N8HM for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 6W8CK on Satellite Conrad, 6W8CK, will be active on satellites from IK14 near Mbour, Senegal until mid-February. He does not wish to publish his private email, but is interested in skeds with North American stations who are in range. If you are interested in setting up a sked, please look up your mutual windows and email me. I will contact Conrad with a list of operators and mutual windows. He will try to be active on CW near 145.930 on AO-7 and 435.830 on FO-29 during the afternoons, but may also be available on late night / early morning passes for skeds. Conrad is using a Yaesu FT-736R and an Elk antenna mounted up 5 meter above ground. He does occasionally lose power, so keep this in mind if you do not hear him on a particular pass. QSL only via the DARC bureau to his home call, DF7OL. He may also return to Senegal from November 2016 - February 2017. [ANS thanks Paul, N8HM for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- IARU Paper: APRS Harmonization and removal of OSCAR sub-band IARU Region 1 has released the papers for the Interim Meeting to be held in Vienna April 15-17, 2016. Among the papers for the C5 VHF/UHF/Microwave Committee is one on harmonizing APRS. VIE16_C5_41_1.pdf – 144 /435 MHz APRS Harmonisation The paper covers global band planning considerations and among the recommendations says: Emphasise that spaceborne APRS must be confined to globally coordinated amateur satellite sub bands. Therefore items that are ambiguous and generate confusion in national band plans such as ‘Space communications’ and ‘New Oscar Sub band’ should be removed as soon as possible in all Regions in accordance with IARU-AC and Satellite Coordination guidance It is believed that ‘New Oscar Sub band’ refers to the USA’s ARRL 144 MHz band plan and ‘Space communications’ to the Australian WIA 144 MHz band plan. These band plans, as well as those for some other countries, show 144.300 – 144.500 MHz as being for Amateur Satellite use. Direct link for C5 VHF/UHF/Microwave Papers http://tinyurl.com/ANS031-Microwave Links for all committee papers and email addresses of Committee Chairs are at http://tinyurl.com/ANS031-IARU ARRL 144 MHz Band Plan http://www.arrl.org/band-plan WIA 144 MHz Band Plan http://tinyurl.com/ANS031-APRS [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ISS Orbit Boosted Ahead of March Crew Swap - Check Your Elements The International Space Station raised its orbit Wednesday afternoon before a pair of crews swap places and a cargo ship arrives in March. One-year crew members Scott Kelly of NASA and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos are set to return home March 1 along with Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov. Then, Expedition 47 will begin and three new crew members will arrive March 19. New supplies are scheduled to be delivered to the crew March 31 aboard a Progress 63 cargo craft. The orbiting Expedition 46 crew was back at work Tuesday on a series of life science and physics experiments to benefit life on Earth and crews living in space. Commander Scott Kelly explored maximizing the effects of exercise in space while British astronaut Tim Peake studied how living in space affects using touch-based technologies, repairing sensitive equipment and a variety of other tasks. NASA astronaut Tim Kopra researched how materials burn in space. Two cosmonauts resized their Russian Orlan spacesuits today, checked them for leaks and set up hardware before next week’s maintenance spacewalk. Flight Engineers Sergey Volkov and Yuri Malenchenko will work outside Feb. 3 in their Orlan suits to install hardware and science experiments on the orbital lab’s Russian segment. [ANS thanks blogs.nasa,gov for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS News + A Successful contact was made between Brihaspati Vidyasadan, Kathmandu, Nepal and Astronaut Timothy Peake KG5BVI using Callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2016-01-20 08:37 UTC and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was telebridge via VK5ZAI. ARISS Mentor was 7M3TJZ. This event represents the 984th ARISS contact. A YouTube video of the evnt can be seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25gCS1JTPxA Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-01-27 Christ The King School, Rutland, Vermont, telebridge via VK4KHZ) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS. The scheduled astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-02-04 18:28:16 UTC "Gesmundo Moro Fiore" Secondary School, Terlizzi, Italy, telebridge via LU1CGB. The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS. The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI. Contact is a go for: Sat 2016-02-06 09:09:01 UTC [ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts From All Over + Congrats to Steve Kristoff, AI9IN, for having worked 5 hams in the EM55 grid. To earn 5 in EM55 award #59, please check out http://www.starcommgroup.org for the awards offered. [ANS thanks Damon Runion, WA4HFN, for the above information] + The Colorado Amateur Satellite Net is held 7PM mountain time on Thursdays 6PM Pacific. 7PM Mountain, 8PM Central, 9PM Eastern For more information visit http://www.amsatnet.info/ [ANS thanks Skyler KD0WHB for the above information] + The Jan/Feb issue of The AMSAT Journal is off to the printer. [ANS thanks Joseph KB6IGK 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. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu- dent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership information. 73, This week's ANS Editor, EMike McCardel, AA8EM (former KC8YLD) kc8yld at amsat dot org

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-01-31 04:30 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-01-31 04:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: PSU. Wittayanusorn School, Kho Hong District, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand, direct via E29AJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact was successful: Sat 2016-01-30 11:06:23 UTC 63 deg (***) Christ The King School, Rutland, Vermont, telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-02-04 18:28:16 UTC 88 deg "Gesmundo Moro Fiore" Secondary School, Terlizzi, Italy, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Sat 2016-02-06 09:09:01 UTC 40 deg **************************************************************************** ** 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. **************************************************************************** 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: Gaston ON4WF with 121 Francesco IKØWGF with 115 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 116 (***) **************************************************************************** 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 8061 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-01-31 04:30 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 Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1020. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 985. (***) Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 46. 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: Arkansas, Delaware, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, 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 2016-01-31 04:30 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. 43/44 on orbit Scott Kelly Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF Exp. 45 on orbit Sergey Volkov RU3DIS Exp. 46 on orbit Tim Kopra KE5UDN Timothy Peake KG5BVI Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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XE2AT from DL52/DL53, SO-50 @ 0035 UTC Sunday (1935 EST/1635 PST today!)
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

Hi! Thanks to Omar XE1AO for the news that Alvaro XE2AT, a long- time roving satellite operator in Mexico, will be on from the DL52/DL53 grid boundary in Baja California Sur (southern part of Baja California peninsula) for the 0035 UTC SO-50 pass this afternon/evening. Omar did not mention any other details. Good luck, and 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK

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Video: My First SO-50 Contact in Months, From North Carolina to Arizona with NP4JV, Celebrating his VUCC Award Application
by John Brier 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

My First SO-50 Contact in Months, From North Carolina to Arizona with NP4JV, Celebrating his VUCC Award Application https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sODDuXNZ-k If you liked this video, please subscribe to my YouTube channel, Space Comms: https://youtube.com/c/SpaceComms1 73, John KG4AKV, in Raleigh North Carolina FM05

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6W8CK on Satellite
by Paul Stoetzer 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

Good afternoon, Conrad, 6W8CK, will be active on satellites from IK14 near Mbour, Senegal until mid-February. He does not wish to publish his private email, but is interested in skeds with North American stations who are in range. If you are interested in setting up a sked, please look up your mutual windows and email me. I will contact Conrad with a list of operators and mutual windows. He will try to be active on CW near 145.930 on AO-7 and 435.830 on FO-29 during the afternoons, but may also be available on late night / early morning passes for skeds. Conrad is using a Yaesu FT-736R and an Elk antenna mounted up 5 meter above ground. He does occasionally lose power, so keep this in mind if you do not hear him on a particular pass. QSL only via the DARC bureau to his home call, DF7OL. He may also return to Senegal from November 2016 - February 2017. 73, Paul, N8HM

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18.00 UTC today 30/01/16, nice pass Brazil-Caribean-East USA and Spain
by Juan Antonio 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

I will have 6 deg elevation, if the OM AO-07 is in mode B, I will be there to do new and old stations. Juan Antonio EA4CYQ --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electrónico en busca de virus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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CQ FO-29 and AO-7
by Eduardo Erlemann 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

Good passes today between South America - C&CA - US East on FO-29 and AO-7I will be QRV on both. FO-29 center of transponder, AO-7 around 145.955 73 Ed, PY2RNGG66LW

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Latest TQSL on Ubuntu
by John KI4RO 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

Well, I'm not much of an expert on Linux/Ubuntu and hoping for some help here; ARRL hasn't been much help yet. I got TQSL out of the Ubuntu Software Center; it downloaded and installed just fine. I was under the impression that, having installed it that way, updates would be installed as they became available but apparently that is not the case. I've gone to the site and downloaded the appropriate tar.gz file and unpacked it but I don't know what to do with it now. I've tried the make command and such as specified on other sites but they don't seem able to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated! 73 John KI4RO

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Re: [amsat-bb] Antennas for Satellite & EME
by Edward R Cole 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

Rich, Progressing to eme from satellite is not uncommon for folks looking for further challenges. But antenna requirements for eme are considerably different than for eme: 1. Obviously eme signals are much weaker thus require more sensitive (lower noise figure) receivers, larger antennas, and much more transmit power. Frequency and time requirements are higher especially if doing digital modes. 2. Antenna tracking speed is greatly reduced for eme; swinging a large eme array fast enough to track satellites might present additional challenges. 3. 2m-eme is much easier now days since it has almost completely gone to digital mode (WSJT10-JT65B). This helps running smaller antennas and less power due to 10-dB sensitivity advantage over CW. 4. A single large yagi and 1kW will work 2m-eme fairly well using JT65B. 5. Power requirement is best understood as EIRP (effective isotropic radiated power). EIRP = Po x gain ratio, where one calculates the gain ratio by taking gain = 10^(G/10), G = gain in dBi. e.g. a 15 element yagi on 28-foot boom G might be 17 dBi, g = 50 if Po = 1000w, EIRP = 1000x50 =50kW 6. My opinion of minimum 2m-eme requirements is EIRP = 12kW 7. A standard 2m-eme array has 20-dBi gain; 432 it becomes 24-26 dBi; 1296 30-dBi with those gains one is in the maintime for doing eme. You can work some of the bigger eme stations if you have smaller arrays than that. 8. yagis work well on 144 & 432 but a dish is better for 1296. four 10-element yagis on 144, eight 8-element yagis on 432, and a ten foot dish on 1296 will produce these gains. 9. I recommend you try 2m-eme first. There is a steep learning curve and 2m is easier to achieve eme with off shelf equipment. But be prepared to construct parts of the system. 10. Az-el tracking is assumed for eme. Satellite az-el rotators are not strong enough to take the loading of a good sized eme array. 11. What I have for 144-eme: 4x M2 2mXP20 (21.3 dBi) + 1300w (8877 amplifier); 0.1 dB NF preamps, DEMI transverter to K3 running on 28-MHz. I ran for several years with 150w linear amp (100w at antenna array). 12. What I have for 1296-eme: 16-foot dish with 35 dBi gain, special circular polarity feed, HB az-el tracking, 0.32 dB NF preamp, 125w Guess this will give you a start. 73, Ed - KL7uW ---------------- From: Richard Lawn <rjlawn(a)gmail.com> To: Amsat BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Subject: [amsat-bb] Antennas for Satellite & EME Message-ID: <CADQmrTGP-YME_CKUi=0TjbPx6s5WY30DNujEn6jhMcT=orA54g(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I've never devoted much time to VHF/UHF operation aside from satellite operation and now in retirement I'm thinking of exploring this new dimension. Since I don't have a lot of space for really long boom yagis and separate installations for satellite and EME operation I'm looking for an antenna system that would do double duty. I'd be interested in any suggestion the group might have in terms of antennas that would work well for both activities as I could replace my current M2 yagis with something else for 2/435 and maybe 1.2 ghz. TNX 73 RIck, W2JAZ 73, Ed - KL7UW http://www.kl7uw.com "Kits made by KL7UW" Dubus Mag business: dubususa(a)gmail.com

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Re: [amsat-bb] AggieSat Beacon Information
by Richard Tejera 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

Ah, didn't realize it just deployed. Makes sense now why I can't find it. Thanks &73 Rick Tejera K7TEJ Saguaro Astronomy Club www.SaguaroAstro.org Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club www.w7tbc.org On January 29, 2016, at 16:53, Dave Webb KB1PVH <kb1pvh(a)gmail.com> wrote: Rick, I would use the ISS keps for now since it was tossed out this afternoon. Dave-KB1PVH Sent from my Samsung S4 On Jan 29, 2016 6:50 PM, "Rick Tejera" <saguaroastro(a)cox.net> wrote: Trying to find the keps for this. Do you know where I can find them? Didn't see them in nasabare.txt Rick Tejera (K7TEJ) Saguaro Astronomy Club www.saguaroastro.org Thunderbird Radio Club www.w7tbc.org 623-572-0713 623-203-4121 (cell) SaguaroAstro(a)cox.net -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dexter Becklund Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 7:52 AM To: Andrew Glasbrenner Cc: Andrew Tucker; Reed, Helen L; AMSAT-bb(a)amsat.org; Adelin Destain Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AggieSat Beacon Information Howdy, here's a dropbox link to the beacon data https://www.dropbox.com/s/y6zg9npdmx4m196/beacon.csv?dl=0 On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Andrew Glasbrenner < glasbrenner(a)mindspring.com> wrote: > Hi Dexter, > > Thanks for the information. Attachments are scrubbed from the list, so > maybe a URL to a copy would be useful. Good luck with the deployment! > > 73, Drew KO4MA > AMSAT Twitter jockey > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jan 29, 2016, at 9:11 AM, Dexter Becklund <dbecklund(a)tamu.edu> wrote: > > > > Howdy and thanks for the Twitter mention! > > > > Here's the information about our beacon: > > Our callsign is WH2XGN, we will be beaconing state of health data once > > every 60 seconds. The broadcast frequency is 436.25 MHz at 9600 Baud. The > > radio hardware is a Kenwood TH-D72A ( > > http://www.kenwood.com/usa/com/amateur/th-d72a/spec.html). If anyone is > > interested in getting a packet breakdown like the one pictured or sending > > any data they receive from the satellite, contact Adelin Destain at > > adestain(a)tamu.edu > > > > And detailed breakdown of our state of health packet is attached to this > > email! > > > > Thanks for your help, > > Dexter Becklund > > AggieSat4 Ops Team Lead > > AggieSat Laboratory > > _______________________________________________ > > Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. > Opinions expressed > > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite > program! > > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

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Re: [amsat-bb] AggieSat Beacon Information
by Rick Tejera 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Trying to find the keps for this. Do you know where I can find them? Didn't see them in nasabare.txt Rick Tejera (K7TEJ) Saguaro Astronomy Club www.saguaroastro.org Thunderbird Radio Club www.w7tbc.org 623-572-0713 623-203-4121 (cell) SaguaroAstro(a)cox.net -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dexter Becklund Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 7:52 AM To: Andrew Glasbrenner Cc: Andrew Tucker; Reed, Helen L; AMSAT-bb(a)amsat.org; Adelin Destain Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AggieSat Beacon Information Howdy, here's a dropbox link to the beacon data https://www.dropbox.com/s/y6zg9npdmx4m196/beacon.csv?dl=0 On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Andrew Glasbrenner < glasbrenner(a)mindspring.com> wrote: > Hi Dexter, > > Thanks for the information. Attachments are scrubbed from the list, so > maybe a URL to a copy would be useful. Good luck with the deployment! > > 73, Drew KO4MA > AMSAT Twitter jockey > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jan 29, 2016, at 9:11 AM, Dexter Becklund <dbecklund(a)tamu.edu> wrote: > > > > Howdy and thanks for the Twitter mention! > > > > Here's the information about our beacon: > > Our callsign is WH2XGN, we will be beaconing state of health data once > > every 60 seconds. The broadcast frequency is 436.25 MHz at 9600 Baud. The > > radio hardware is a Kenwood TH-D72A ( > > http://www.kenwood.com/usa/com/amateur/th-d72a/spec.html). If anyone is > > interested in getting a packet breakdown like the one pictured or sending > > any data they receive from the satellite, contact Adelin Destain at > > adestain(a)tamu.edu > > > > And detailed breakdown of our state of health packet is attached to this > > email! > > > > Thanks for your help, > > Dexter Becklund > > AggieSat4 Ops Team Lead > > AggieSat Laboratory > > _______________________________________________ > > Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. > Opinions expressed > > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite > program! > > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

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Upcoming ARISS contact with PSU. Wittayanusorn School, Kho Hong District, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

PLEASE NOTE: There has been a correction to question #14 from our previous press release posting. An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at PSU. Wittayanusorn School, Kho Hong District, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand on 30 Jan. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 11:06 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between OR4ISS and E29AJ. The contact should be audible over Thailand and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. PSU. Wittayanusorn School, established in 2005, is a Prince of Songkla University affiliated private high school in Hatyai, Songkhla Province, Thailand. The school serves approximately 1,200 students in 7th to 12th grade. The school's identity colors are blue and grey. The blue represents sustainability and grey stands for wisdom. The school motto is "wisdom brings lasting success and happiness". The guiding principle is "our soul is for the benefit of mankind". The desired characteristics of our students are "SMART+" which are referred to scientific mind, good manner, aesthetic appreciation, responsibility and reliability, teamwork, and +global citizenship. Green education is our school's uniqueness which focuses on education for sustainable development. PSU. Wittayanusorn School is dedicated to create an exceptional teaching and learning environment in which morality is emphasized, science and mathematics concepts are embedded. The school curriculum is designed to maximize each student's potential for critical thinking, intellectual curiosity, community involvement, and responsible leadership. Additionally, the school has been selected by the Ministry of Science and Technology to be one of the first four regional schools of the country to host a special three-year science classroom program for high school level, grades 10 to 12, according to the proactive human resources development project to upgrade the science and technology capability of the country. The selection of students with high ability in mathematics and science for the science classroom program is carried out by the Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology and closely collaborated with Prince of Songkla University. Each student who passes the selection will be entitled to a scholarship from grade 10 onwards, and subjected to certain additional criteria, he/she will be eligible for a scholarship until he/she can complete his/her education up to a doctoral degree level. PSU Wittayanusorn School was accredited with the score 97.02% by the Office of National Education Standards and Quality Assessment on May 26, 2015. 1. Is there any microorganism in outer space and what kind are they? 2. How do you clean up yourself, and how often? 3.: How can you contact your family who live on Earth? 4. What is the most important qualification that astronaut should have? 5. What is your mission at ISS? 6. How do you save water? 7. For you, what is the hardest problem in the space? 8. How do you wash your clothes during you stay in space? 9. What were your preparations before going to space? 10. If the Earth ceases to be habitable for human beings, which planet could be humanity's next home? 11. How do you deal with human waste in the space? 12. What do we have to study if we want to be an astronaut? 13. If you get a knife cut, what would the wound be like and how to heal the wound? 14. What happens if you cut yourself? 15. Have you ever seen any strange stuff or phenomena in outer space such as UFO and how does it look? 16. How does the new 7 Wonders of the World look from the ISS? 17. Is it possible to celebrate your birthday in the ISS, and what happens when you blow the candles? What does the candle flame look like and why? 18. What are the differences between seeing the stars from the Earth and seeing them from the space station? PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES: Sign up for the SAREX maillist at http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/sarex Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status Next planned event(s): 1. Christ The King School, Rutland, Vermont, telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-02-04 18:28:16 UTC 88 deg 2 . "Gesmundo Moro Fiore" Secondary School, Terlizzi, Italy, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Sat 2016-02-06 09:09:01 UTC 40 deg ABOUT ARISS Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or informal education venues. With the help of experienced amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with large audiences in a variety of public forums. Before and during these radio contacts, students, teachers, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org, www.amsat.org, and www.arrl.org. Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-01-29 16:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-01-29 16:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: PSU. Wittayanusorn School, Kho Hong District, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand, direct via E29AJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Sat 2016-01-30 11:06:23 UTC 63 deg Christ The King School, Rutland, Vermont, telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-02-04 18:28:16 UTC 88 deg "Gesmundo Moro Fiore" Secondary School, Terlizzi, Italy, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Sat 2016-02-06 09:09:01 UTC 40 deg **************************************************************************** ** 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. **************************************************************************** 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: Gaston ON4WF with 121 Francesco IKØWGF with 115 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 115 **************************************************************************** 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 8061 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-01-29 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 Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1019. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 984. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 46. 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: Arkansas, Delaware, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, 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 2016-01-20 23:30 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. 43/44 on orbit Scott Kelly Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF Exp. 45 on orbit Sergey Volkov RU3DIS Exp. 46 on orbit Tim Kopra KE5UDN Timothy Peake KG5BVI Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Antennas for Satellite & EME
by Richard Lawn 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

I've never devoted much time to VHF/UHF operation aside from satellite operation and now in retirement I'm thinking of exploring this new dimension. Since I don't have a lot of space for really long boom yagis and separate installations for satellite and EME operation I'm looking for an antenna system that would do double duty. I'd be interested in any suggestion the group might have in terms of antennas that would work well for both activities as I could replace my current M2 yagis with something else for 2/435 and maybe 1.2 ghz. TNX 73 RIck, W2JAZ

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AggieSat Beacon Information
by Dexter Becklund 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Howdy and thanks for the Twitter mention! Here's the information about our beacon: Our callsign is WH2XGN, we will be beaconing state of health data once every 60 seconds. The broadcast frequency is 436.25 MHz at 9600 Baud. The radio hardware is a Kenwood TH-D72A ( http://www.kenwood.com/usa/com/amateur/th-d72a/spec.html). If anyone is interested in getting a packet breakdown like the one pictured or sending any data they receive from the satellite, contact Adelin Destain at adestain(a)tamu.edu And detailed breakdown of our state of health packet is attached to this email! Thanks for your help, Dexter Becklund AggieSat4 Ops Team Lead AggieSat Laboratory

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Upcoming ARISS contact with PSU. Wittayanusorn School, Kho Hong District, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at PSU. Wittayanusorn School, Kho Hong District, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand on 30 Jan. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 11:06 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between OR4ISS and E29AJ. The contact should be audible over Thailand and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. PSU. Wittayanusorn School, established in 2005, is a Prince of Songkla University affiliated private high school in Hatyai, Songkhla Province, Thailand. The school serves approximately 1,200 students in 7th to 12th grade. The school's identity colors are blue and grey. The blue represents sustainability and grey stands for wisdom. The school motto is "wisdom brings lasting success and happiness". The guiding principle is "our soul is for the benefit of mankind". The desired characteristics of our students are "SMART+" which are referred to scientific mind, good manner, aesthetic appreciation, responsibility and reliability, teamwork, and +global citizenship. Green education is our school's uniqueness which focuses on education for sustainable development. PSU. Wittayanusorn School is dedicated to create an exceptional teaching and learning environment in which morality is emphasized, science and mathematics concepts are embedded. The school curriculum is designed to maximize each student's potential for critical thinking, intellectual curiosity, community involvement, and responsible leadership. Additionally, the school has been selected by the Ministry of Science and Technology to be one of the first four regional schools of the country to host a special three-year science classroom program for high school level, grades 10 to 12, according to the proactive human resources development project to upgrade the science and technology capability of the country. The selection of students with high ability in mathematics and science for the science classroom program is carried out by the Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology and closely collaborated with Prince of Songkla University. Each student who passes the selection will be entitled to a scholarship from grade 10 onwards, and subjected to certain additional criteria, he/she will be eligible for a scholarship until he/she can complete his/her education up to a doctoral degree level. PSU Wittayanusorn School was accredited with the score 97.02% by the Office of National Education Standards and Quality Assessment on May 26, 2015. 1. Is there any microorganism in outer space and what kind are they? 2. How do you clean up yourself, and how often? 3.: How can you contact your family who live on Earth? 4. What is the most important qualification that astronaut should have? 5. What is your mission at ISS? 6. How do you save water? 7. For you, what is the hardest problem in the space? 8. How do you wash your clothes during you stay in space? 9. What were your preparations before going to space? 10. If the Earth ceases to be habitable for human beings, which planet could be humanity's next home? 11. How do you deal with human waste in the space? 12. What do we have to study if we want to be an astronaut? 13. If you get a knife cut, what would the wound be like and how to heal the wound? 14. What happens if female astronauts get their period while living in outer space? 15. Have you ever seen any strange stuff or phenomena in outer space such as UFO and how does it look? 16. How does the new 7 Wonders of the World look from the ISS? 17. Is it possible to celebrate your birthday in the ISS, and what happens when you blow the candles? What does the candle flame look like and why? 18. What are the differences between seeing the stars from the Earth and seeing them from the space station? PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES: Sign up for the SAREX maillist at http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/sarex Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status Next planned event(s): 1. Christ The King School, Rutland, Vermont, telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-02-04 18:28:16 UTC 88 deg 2 . "Gesmundo Moro Fiore" Secondary School, Terlizzi, Italy, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Sat 2016-02-06 09:09:01 UTC 40 deg ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the volunteer support and leadership from AMSAT and IARU societies around the world with the ISS space agencies partners: NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA. ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and learning. Further information on the ARISS program is available on the website http://www.ariss.org/ Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Re: [amsat-bb] VUCC Application Submitted
by Fernando Ramirez 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Still limited to FM, that might change someday :-). Good thing I've learn how to work AO-85 with just a Chinese handheld! Thanks John! On Jan 28, 2016 9:51 PM, "John Geiger" <af5cc2(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Congrats Fernando! I am happy that I was able to give you EM04 towards > your VUCC. The sats are a blast and have the best ham operators on them! > Did you do all of your grids on FM? > > 73 John AF5CC > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:26 PM, Fernando Ramirez < > framirezferrer(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Good evening everyone! >> >> I wanted to share my excitement with all of you! >> >> After three months and 8 days operating the FM satellites, I have received >> confirmation of my 100th grid from KG5CCI. I have submitted my application >> with hopes of receiving my VUCC award in the near future. >> >> Even though I was licensed 23 years ago, I have never had so much fun. >> Knowing that I'm talking through a flying repeater hundred of miles away, >> fascinates me. >> >> 98% percent of my confirmed grids were worked on SO-50. Two unique grids >> worked on AO-85. This, using a 4 watts handheld, an Arrow antenna and some >> luck. >> >> Confirming one hundred grids will sound minuscule to some, but thinking >> that I was trying to hear a ham radio satellite on a rubber ducky some >> months ago, is something I feel very proud of. >> >> I would like to thank all the operators I have worked during this time. A >> special thank you to N6UA, WD9EWK, W5PFG, KC5CCI, N8HM, KA4H, KO4MA and >> KI4RO for all the support, the advice, the grids and above everything else >> for the patience. >> >> To AMSAT-NA my best wishes and support! >> >> Take care everyone and catch you on the birds! >> >> 73 >> Fernando, NP4JV >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. >> Opinions expressed >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of >> AMSAT-NA. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >> > >

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VUCC Application Submitted
by Fernando Ramirez 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Good evening everyone! I wanted to share my excitement with all of you! After three months and 8 days operating the FM satellites, I have received confirmation of my 100th grid from KG5CCI. I have submitted my application with hopes of receiving my VUCC award in the near future. Even though I was licensed 23 years ago, I have never had so much fun. Knowing that I'm talking through a flying repeater hundred of miles away, fascinates me. 98% percent of my confirmed grids were worked on SO-50. Two unique grids worked on AO-85. This, using a 4 watts handheld, an Arrow antenna and some luck. Confirming one hundred grids will sound minuscule to some, but thinking that I was trying to hear a ham radio satellite on a rubber ducky some months ago, is something I feel very proud of. I would like to thank all the operators I have worked during this time. A special thank you to N6UA, WD9EWK, W5PFG, KC5CCI, N8HM, KA4H, KO4MA and KI4RO for all the support, the advice, the grids and above everything else for the patience. To AMSAT-NA my best wishes and support! Take care everyone and catch you on the birds! 73 Fernando, NP4JV

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Ic7100 SatPC32 control
by Richard Lawn 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Anyone know if this newer icom radio is compatible with satpc32? Rick,W2JAZ -- Sent from Gmail Mobile

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Re: [amsat-bb] Ic7100 SatPC32 control
by Glenn Miller - AA5PK 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Oops. Read it as IC-7000 versus IC-7100. Wine will do that to you :-) -----Original Message----- From: Glenn Miller - AA5PK Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 9:13 PM To: Richard Lawn ; Amsat BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Ic7100 SatPC32 control The IC-7000 is one of the Radio Setup menu picks, so I assume the answer is yes. I've never tried to control my IC-700 with SatPC32, however. Glenn / AA5PK -----Original Message----- From: Richard Lawn Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 8:42 PM To: Amsat BB Subject: [amsat-bb] Ic7100 SatPC32 control Anyone know if this newer icom radio is compatible with satpc32? Rick,W2JAZ

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Colorado Amateur Satellite net Begins in 1 hour
by Skyler F 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

This is a reminder that the Colorado Amateur Satellite net will begin in 1 hour from now (7PM mountain time Thursday). 6PM Pacific 7PM Mountain 8PM Central 9PM Eastern Please visit us on *AMSATNET.INFO <http://amsatnet.info/>* *IRLP* 9870, the Denver Reflector *ALLSTAR LINK* 40764, direct hookup to the repeater here. 41715, KC9ZHV hub at a data center if I am out of bandwidth. More info on AllStar - amsatnet.info/#node *ECHOLINK* *AMSAT* unless there is an ARISS contact, then go direct to KD0WHB-L *LOCAL RF* 449.625 (-) 141.3 ( WØKU Lookout Mountain) 447.225 (-) 141.3 (The STEM school repeater we set up) 447.850 (-) 141.3 (ACØKQ's repeater where he lives on TOP of saddleback mountain) 147.450 SIMPLEX (Aurora, CO) 446.275 (-) 100.0 Galena St. Local repeater at my house, giving a whopping 5 blocks of great coverage *REMOTE RF* Your Repeater here!, Email me if you want to link in or me to link your echolink or allstar repeater in automatically (no automatic IRLP linking supported) Skyler Fennell amsatnet.info KDØWHB electricity440(a)gmail.com

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Aggiesat4 and BEVO-2 ready for deployment
by Masahiro Arai 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Tim and Scott set Aggiesat4 and BEVO-2 on Kibo module airlock. See the ISS On-Orbit Status 27th Jan. http://spaceref.com/international-space-station/nasa-international-space-st… 73 Masa JN1GKZ Tokyo Japan

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Happy birthday, Mr. Yagi
by J. Boyd (JR2TTS) 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Just pointing out that today is the 130th birthday of Hidetsugu Yagi, co-inventor of the Yagi-Uda antenna. 2016 is the 90th anniversary of the antenna's patent being granted, a technology which revolutionized radio communication and played a large part in making our endeavors as amateur radio operators more global in scope. It's also one of the main reasons we're all able to work satellites. Google Japan (http://www.google.co.jp/) has made it today's Google doodle: http://i.imgur.com/loS5b4U.jpg For some reason I felt very excited about this, as if we all got on the news :) -- J. Boyd, JR2TTS/NI3B the2belo(a)msd.biglobe.ne.jp http://www.flickr.com/photos/the2belo/ http://www.qrz.com/db/JR2TTS Twitter: @Minus2_C

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-01-27 21:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-01-27 21:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: PSU. Wittayanusorn School, Kho Hong District, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand, direct via E29AJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Sat 2016-01-30 11:06:23 UTC 63 deg Christ The King School, Rutland, Vermont, telebridge via VK4KHZ (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN (***) Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-02-04 18:28:16 UTC 88 deg (***) "Gesmundo Moro Fiore" Secondary School, Terlizzi, Italy, telebridge via LU1CGB (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI (***) Contact is a go for: Sat 2016-02-06 09:09:01 UTC 40 deg (***) **************************************************************************** ** 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. **************************************************************************** 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: Gaston ON4WF with 121 Francesco IKØWGF with 115 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 115 **************************************************************************** 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 8061 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-01-27 21:00 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 Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1019. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 984. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 46. 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: Arkansas, Delaware, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, 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 2016-01-20 23:30 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. 43/44 on orbit Scott Kelly Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF Exp. 45 on orbit Sergey Volkov RU3DIS Exp. 46 on orbit Tim Kopra KE5UDN Timothy Peake KG5BVI Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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APRS Harmonization and removal of OSCAR sub-band
by M5AKA 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

IARU R1 Paper: APRS Harmonization and removal of OSCAR sub-band http://amsat-uk.org/2016/01/27/iaru-paper-aprs-harmonisation/ ISS Satellite Deployment Jan 29 http://amsat-uk.org/2016/01/27/iss-satellite-deployment/ Chelmsford Talk: Amateur Radio Satellites - with emphasis on beginners http://amsat-uk.org/2016/01/24/chelmsford-talk-amateur-radio-satellites/ Video of Tim Peake ham radio contact with Sandringham School http://amsat-uk.org/2016/01/09/video-tim-peake-sandringham/ Local newspaper reports reception of Tim Peake on ISS http://amsat-uk.org/2016/01/13/local-paper-tim-peake-iss/ Amateur radio village at EMF 2016 Guildford http://amsat-uk.org/2016/01/13/amateur-radio-village-at-emf-2016/ 73 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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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-01-27 01:30 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-01-27 01:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: PSU. Wittayanusorn School, Kho Hong District, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand, direct via E29AJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI (***) Contact is a go for: Sat 2016-01-30 11:06:23 UTC 63 deg **************************************************************************** ** 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. **************************************************************************** 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: Gaston ON4WF with 121 Francesco IKØWGF with 115 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 115 **************************************************************************** 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 8061 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-01-27 01:30 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 Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1019. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 984. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 46. 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: Arkansas, Delaware, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, 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 2016-01-20 23:30 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. 43/44 on orbit Scott Kelly Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF Exp. 45 on orbit Sergey Volkov RU3DIS Exp. 46 on orbit Tim Kopra KE5UDN Timothy Peake KG5BVI Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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18:15 UTC AO-07 will be 3deg elev over Spain, great sole over USA
by Juan Antonio 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

I will be waiting USA stations, GL Juan Antonio EA4CYQ --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electrónico en busca de virus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Arrow antenna wanted
by Henk Coens 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

Hi there I am looking for a used Arrow 10WBP antenna with built in diplexer, to activate some wet squares starting in March . If anyone ,wants to get rid of his old Arrow antenna for a reasonable price, Just drop me a mail via on4auc(a)gmail.com 73s Henk ON4AUC sat op for PI4DHV

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Re: [amsat-bb] Ettus B210
by Edward R Cole 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

Initially, I was concerned that they would be class-C amps but do show saturation level so perhaps they are biased for linear. Input requirement is +13 dBm (20mw) which should not be a problem with many transverters. I just installed a mmic amp to drive a S-AV36. MAV11 is +15 dBm (31mw) for 5mw drive. Still testing so will know soon if 31mw is adequate drive for full output. Most of the RF modules perform better than spec indicates (take less drive). At $480 I can see I am charging too little for the 2M80 amp ($369). RFBay Inc. appears to be addressing the commercial market vs ham radio. If one is adverse to building their own this might be a solution. 20w is certainly adequate for satellite work if decent antennas are used. My DEMI L432-28 outputs 25w but that will be reduced by time it reaches the antenna. On 2m my KX3-2M outputs 2.5w which will drive a 25w linear or a 60w class-C amp (for FM). I think I would follow up building the W6PQL boards, if I had the skill, tools, and determination. 73, Ed - KL7UW --------------- From: Juan Jose Sanchez Denis <jsdenis(a)gmail.com> To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Ettus B210 Message-ID: <1453759810.7928.2.camel@jj-laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" What do you think about these amps? http://www.rfbayinc.com/subcategory_product.php?cPath=58 The HPA-155 and HPA 480 73 de Juan EB2FVT 73, Ed - KL7UW http://www.kl7uw.com "Kits made by KL7UW" Dubus Mag business: dubususa(a)gmail.com

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