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Possible Delay For Next SpaceX Launch
by B J 17 Dec '15

17 Dec '15

http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/space-exploration-technolog… Today's static firing didn't take place. Falcon 9 might not launch on Saturday. 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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Alpha Spid and SatPC32
by Douglas Phelps 17 Dec '15

17 Dec '15

Does SatPC32 work with the Alpha Spid rotator which has hall effect feedback for rotor position? DougK9DLP

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December 17 Early Morning Launch Web Stream ESA Soyuz Launch
by JoAnne Maenpaa 17 Dec '15

17 Dec '15

ESA has a Soyuz launch to orbit Galileo Full Operational Capability satellites 11 and 12 scheduled during the morning of December 17th, 2015, at exactly: . 06:51:56 a.m., (in Washington, D.C.) Eastern Standard Time . 11:51:56 a.m., (UTC) Webcast coverage begins 20 minutes before launch at http://www.arianespace.tv/ and click on 'Follow the next launch live on the internet' link. -- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm(a)amsat.org

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Fw: PSLV-C29 TeLEOS-1 Launch
by Paulo PV8DX 17 Dec '15

17 Dec '15

Yes. You are correct. Manually it was very bad in the TS 2000. Look, my friend Roland PY4ZBZ http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/athenoxat.htm#a 73 de Paulo PV8DX LABRE/ARRL AMSAT-BR/AMSAT-NA member FJ92pt - VUCC SAT www.labre-rr.org http://amsat-br.org/ Boa Vista-Roraima pv8dx(a)labre-rr.org pv8dx(a)arrl.net -----Mensagem Original----- From: Dr.(Eng.) Giulio MANZONI Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 10:44 PM To: Paulo PV8DX ; amsat-bb Cc: Yesie L. Brama Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] PSLV-C29 TeLEOS-1 Launch thanks Paulo, probably the CW decoding is not complete, voltage should be in the range of 8V as the satellite cannot work at 3V and we confirmed voltages about 8.2V and 8.3V. 73 Giulio -----Original Message----- From: Paulo PV8DX Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 9:12 AM To: amsat-bb ; giulio.manzoni(a)micro-space.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] PSLV-C29 TeLEOS-1 Launch Hi Hearing Morse code (Low sound here) ATX1 M . 3 5V ...... 3 6V In eclipse - 23:50 UTC 16/DEC 73 de Paulo PV8DX LABRE/ARRL AMSAT-BR/AMSAT-NA member FJ92pt - VUCC SAT www.labre-rr.org http://amsat-br.org/ Boa Vista-Roraima pv8dx(a)labre-rr.org pv8dx(a)arrl.net -----Mensagem Original----- From: Mani [VU2WMY/KJ6LRS] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 6:14 AM To: BB, AMSAT ; AMSAT-INDIA ; VUHAMS ; isrohams(a)yahoogroups.com Subject: [amsat-bb] PSLV-C29 TeLEOS-1 Launch Good Wishes and Greetings for the successful launch of PSLV-C29 and TeLEOS-1 Mission. This is PSLV's 32nd flight. PSLV C-29 is a core alone version and will launch Six Satellites of Singapore into a 550 km circular orbit inclined at 15 degrees to the equator. TeLEOS-1 is the primary satellite and the other five satellites Kent Ridge-1, VELOX-C1, VELOX-II, Gallassia and Athanoxat-1 are co-passenger satellites. Launch on 16.12.2015. 12:30 UTC from Satish Dhawan Space Centre [SDSC], Shriharikota So far, 51 satellites from 20 countries have been successfully launched by PSLV. NOTE: Athenoxat-1, a 3U Cubesat has a CW beacon transmitting on 437.485 Mhz Athenoxat-1 seperation from PSLV at 12:51:02 UTC Athenoxat-1 would starting sending CW message 30 minutes after separation. CW message will be “ATX1” on 437.485 MHz every 1 minute and also with an indication of battery voltage. Preliminary TLE for Athenoxat-1 1 12346U 12346U 15350.53544190 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 0003 2 12346 14.9868 209.7101 0004511 307.5625 258.2924 15.05575123 00007 Reception reports are welcome and could be sent to: giulio.manzoni(a)micro-space.org 73 de Mani [VU2WMY/KJ6LRS] Secretary & Station-In-Charge Upagrah Amateur Radio Club VU2URC ISRO Satellite Centre HAL Airport Road, Bangalore-560 017. Phone:(Office)91-80-25082598/25082054/25082192 Mobile: 91-9880 341 456 E-mail ID: wmy(a)isac.gov.in vu2wmy_mani(a)yahoo.com isrohams(a)yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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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NO-84
by KO6TZ Bob 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

A beautiful afternoon on NO-84, just no one to share it with. I don't think I have seen the band conditions better for this satellite. That is the longest string of "99's" I have ever seen in the telemetry. W3ADO-5 beacon B 001 59 23 800 247 +29 W3ADO-5 beacon B 002 93 47 799 246 +29 W3ADO-5 beacon B 003 99 39 800 247 +30 W3ADO-5 beacon B 004 99 47 798 247 +31 W3ADO-5 beacon B 005 99 49 799 248 +31 W3ADO-5 beacon B 006 99 40 798 247 +32 W3ADO-5 beacon B 007 99 45 798 246 +32 W3ADO-5 beacon B 008 99 47 796 247 +32 W3ADO-5 beacon B 009 99 46 795 249 +32 W3ADO-5 beacon B 010 99 48 796 248 +33 W3ADO-5 beacon B 011 99 50 795 246 +33 W3ADO8ë othi l e a W3ADO-5 beacon B 000 37 47 806 243 +30 W3ADO-5 beacon B 001 96 46 796 246 +32 W3ADO-5 beacon B 002 99 45 797 248 +33 W3ADO-5 beacon B 003 99 27 791 247 +33 W3ADO-5 beacon B 004 99 45 793 247 +33 W3ADO-5 beacon B 005 99 37 792 246 +33 W3ADO-5 beacon B 006 99 28 793 246 +34 W3ADO-5 beacon B 007 96 38 792 246 +34 W3ADO-5 beacon B 008 99 26 793 248 +34 W3ADO-5 beacon B 009 75 23 792 247 +34 W3ADO-5 beacon B 010 93 28 791 247 +34 W3ADO-5 beacon B 011 37 33 790 246 +34 Maybe next time. BOB KO6TZ

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FOX-1 SSTV
by Roland Zurmely 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

Hi all, Please see the explanations on the SSTV picture via Satellite Fox-1 here: <http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/fox.htm#g> Please use Google web translate from Portuguese. 73 de Roland.

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Re: [amsat-bb] SatPC32c Problem..........
by Carmen Peca 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

Hi All, I found the problem, the Icom 910H radio baud rate was set to 57600 by default in SaPC32c changed it to 19200 and all is well. Thanks for the responses, great list! Happy Holidays! 73 Carm,WO3T

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SatPC32c Problem..........
by Carmen Peca 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

Hi All, I was wondering if anyone has had any problem with SatPC32c and CAT control. I have been running SatPC32b with the 910H and everything worked perfectly. I upgraded to version "C" and the LVB rotor control works fine but I cannot get the CAT working. I made sure everything worked Ok with Ham Radio Deluxe, and it worked flawlessly changed frequencies and mode with no problems using the same com port. If anyone can point me in the right direction to correct this, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,73 Carm,WO3T

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AO-7
by Gustavo Nicolau 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

Hello to all, gud condictions today for NA via AO7. I'm in QRV. 73 de PT9BM.

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Elk Antenna, Midland CT 890 and Full Duplex
by Felix Paez 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

Hi all, First of all, thanks for your patience. Still learning! Well, until few days ago I have been able to do many contacts throught SO-50 using my Baofeng UV-5R and Elk antenna in half duplex. I wanted to go next step and try Full Duplex so I bought a Midland CT 890 Full Duplex handy (129 eur). I can tell that the Midland receiver seems much better than the Baofeng one. I have been able to work (still half duplex) even when the satellite was a few degrees over the horizon. The Baofeng seems much deaf than the Midland, but this my subjective experience. The measured sensitivities I got from a review are: 0.179 uV (12 dB SINAD) in VHF and 0.205 uv (12 dB SINAD) in UHF but I don’t have the Baofeng values. If somebody has them It would be nice if you share so we can compare. I have checked that the Full Duplex mode works by transmiting with it and at the same time receiving a signal from the Baofeng UV-5R but all this using the whip antenna that comes with the Midland. The problem comes when I connect the Elk antenna to it. If I press the PTT the receiver noise goes to maximum. I tried to make a contact with the SO-50 but I could not hear anything when I pressed the PTT. All was noise. I had to disable the Full Duplex and then I was able to make some nice contacts (EA1JM, CU2ZG…) in half duplex. So my questions are… 1. Is it possible to use a single Log Periodic antenna (only one feed point) as the Elk to work Full Duplex or two antennas are needed? 2. In case that it is possible… Would this improve by using separate receiver and transmitter with a filter that gives a feed point for VHF and another one for UHF? (the Elk antenna only has a feed point) I have to make more tests but at first time, It does not seem possible to use the Midland CT 890 (and maybe other full duplex handys?) with the Elk antenna in Full Duplex… Thanks. Any comments are always welcome Felix EA4GQS

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Re: [amsat-bb] [amsatindia] Telemetry Signals Heard from from Athenoxat-1
by Nitin Muttin 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

Congrats Mani, I could not hear any signals will try next pass 73 Nitin [VU3TYG] From: "'Mani [VU2WMY/KJ6LRS]' wmy(a)isac.gov.in [amsatindia]" <amsatindia(a)yahoogroups.com> To: "BB, AMSAT" <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org>; amsatindia(a)yahoogroups.com; VUHAMS <vuhams(a)yahoogroups.com>; isrohams(a)yahoogroups.com Cc: giulio.manzoni(a)micro-space.org Sent: Wednesday, 16 December 2015 7:54 PM Subject: [amsatindia] Telemetry Signals Heard from from Athenoxat-1 Hello All, Heard strong CW telemetry signals from just launched Athenoxat-1on 437.485 Mhz at 14:09 UTC during its first 22 degrees southern pass over Bangalore, India. But, couldn't decode as it was too fast. Good wishes and greetings from all of us here in India for an early and successful commissioning of all the six satellites from Singapore. 73 deMani [VU2WMY/KJ6LRS] Secretary & Station-In-Charge Upagrah Amateur Radio Club VU2URC ISRO Satellite Centre HAL Airport Road, Bangalore-560 017. 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Telemetry Signals Heard from from Athenoxat-1
by Mani [VU2WMY/KJ6LRS] 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

Hello All, Heard strong CW telemetry signals from just launched Athenoxat-1on 437.485 Mhz at 14:09 UTC during its first 22 degrees southern pass over Bangalore, India. But, couldn't decode as it was too fast. Good wishes and greetings from all of us here in India for an early and successful commissioning of all the six satellites from Singapore. 73 de Mani [VU2WMY/KJ6LRS] Secretary & Station-In-Charge Upagrah Amateur Radio Club VU2URC ISRO Satellite Centre HAL Airport Road, Bangalore-560 017. Phone:(Office)91-80-25082598/25082054/25082192 Mobile: 91-9880 341 456 E-mail ID: wmy(a)isac.gov.in vu2wmy_mani(a)yahoo.com isrohams(a)yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [amsat-bb] Help needed please
by Aayush Yadav 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

Hello all, Currently we are planning to transmit 1 Watt signal from the satellite but due to vswr losses, the transmitted power is around 100 mW. This is due to the antenna's S11 loss being around -1 rather than -10. This is for the VHF band for which we are using an antenna 17 cm long, thus such high loss. The length can not be increased much and so is the case with the electronics(power amplifier) as we are restricted by other constraints. We would love to hear some of your suggestions so as to how can we still increase the transmission power meeting all these requirements. And if not, what can be done on the Ground-Station to improve the reception. Are there satellites available which transmit such low power and still can be received? Any Help would be appreciated. Thanking you, Aayush Yadav Team Pratham. On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Nitin Muttin <vu3tyg(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: > Hi Aayush, > > As discussed please consider the below points. > > 1. Fine tune your antennas in the satellite sub band on VHF and UHF. VHF - > 145.800Mhz - 146.000 Mhz. UHF 435-438 Mhz. > > 2. Replace the RG -58 Cable with Heliax or LMR 400 Cable. > > 3. Move the pre amp (LNA) to the mast closer to the antenna. > > 4. Refer http://www.dk3wn.info/satellites.shtml for the list of > satellites , modes and frequencies. > > 5. For some satellites you can use sound card based software TNC like > http://uz7.ho.ua/packetradio.htm for AX25. > > 73 > Nitin [VU3TYG] > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Aayush Yadav <aayushyadav825(a)gmail.com> > *To:* Nitin Muttin <vu3tyg(a)yahoo.co.in> > *Cc:* Mani VU2 WMY <wmy(a)isac.gov.in>; Somashekar S. <vu3jba(a)gmail.com> > *Sent:* Saturday, 5 December 2015 2:27 PM > *Subject:* Re: Help needed please > > Hello sir, > As discussed over the phone, could you please provide me with the various > satellites to track, information regarding softwares and the cables. > Thank you sir, > > Yours sincerely, > Aayush > Team pratham > > > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Nitin Muttin <vu3tyg(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: > > Hi Aayush, > > Sure, we can discuss on Saturday after 11AM. I can be reached on > 9880018675. > > 73 > Nitin [VU3TYG] > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Aayush Yadav <aayushyadav825(a)gmail.com> > *To:* Nitin Muttin <vu3tyg(a)yahoo.co.in> > *Cc:* Mani VU2 WMY <wmy(a)isac.gov.in>; Somashekar S. <vu3jba(a)gmail.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, 1 December 2015 3:40 PM > > *Subject:* Re: [amsat-bb] Help needed please > > Hi Nitin, > I was wondering if you were free this week, we would really appreciate the > help. > > Thanking you, > > Regards, > Aayush Yadav > Team Pratham. > > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Nitin Muttin <vu3tyg(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: > > Sure Aayush we can discuss this next week over a phone call. This week we > have a tight schedule to the HAMFEST 2015 in Rajkot. > > 73 > Nitin [VU3TYG] > Secretary, AMSAT INDIA > www.amsatindia.org > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Aayush Yadav <aayushyadav825(a)gmail.com> > *To:* Nitin Muttin <vu3tyg(a)yahoo.co.in> > *Sent:* Tuesday, 24 November 2015 7:37 PM > > *Subject:* Re: [amsat-bb] Help needed please > > Hello Nitin, > > We would love to have your help on the same. If you have any advice on how > we should continue our work we really welcome the suggestions. Thanks a lot > for your reply. > If you could help us in improving our sensitivity, as currently we get > around -110 dbm noise at the antenna but as per our calculations the power > of the signal we need to recieve would be of an order of -150 dbm. > > 73 > Aayush Yadav. > Team Pratham. > > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Nitin Muttin <vu3tyg(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: > > Thanks Burns for the pointers. > > @Aayush, I can help you with information so that you are able to > successfully receive and decode telemetry. > > 73 > Nitin [VU3TYG] > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Burns Fisher <burns(a)fisher.cc> > *To:* Aayush Yadav <aayushyadav825(a)gmail.com> > *Cc:* "amsat-bb(a)amsat.org" <AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org> > *Sent:* Tuesday, 24 November 2015 1:28 AM > *Subject:* Re: [amsat-bb] Help needed please > > Hello Aayush, > > Starting out with very strong signals is probably a good idea even though > you can probably get any satellite > that you wish with a good ground station. Start out with AO-85 for FM > reception and AO-73 for SSB > reception. AO-73 is especially strong during local day time during > Mon-Friday (UTC). There is not > transponder turned on then, so all the power goes into the telemetry. > > Both of these can be received with an HT (handheld with a simple antenna) > so you are very likely to receive > them on any station you have and optimize from there. > > I would also suggest that you might find local colleagues in AMSAT-India > who would be able to tell you > things of local interest (what parts are available where, for example). > > 73, > > Burns W2BFJ > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Aayush Yadav <aayushyadav825(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > As a part of a student satellite project from India, I have a few > questions > > regarding how can i improve my reception of data on the ground station. > We > > have a TS2000 and have designed a few yagi antennas for uhf and vhf > band. I > > would like to know some satellites on which we can practice receiving any > > signal. We are totally new to this system and have practiced some failed > > attempts of the same. Further, we would really appreciate If anyone could > > help on how we can increase our reception power. Any other help or advice > > would also be appreciated. Thank you. > > > > Aayush Yadav, > > Team Pratham, > > IIT Bombay. > > _______________________________________________ > > 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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Special Membership Offer for Fox-1A launch on October 8, 2015
by Andrew Glasbrenner 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

>From http://www.amsat.org/?p=4591 AMSAT’s Fox-1A is set to launch as part of the GRACE (Government Rideshare Advanced Concepts Experiment) auxillary payload on the NROL-55 mission October 8, 2015 from Vandenburg AFB on an Atlas V vehicle. More details will be released when made available from our launch provider. NRO has released this factsheet about the mission: http://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/GRACE_CubeSat_Fac… General information on Fox-1A is available in the downloadable AMSAT Fox Operating Guide http://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/FoxOperatingGuide… FoxTelem software for decoding and submitting telemetry has been made available for download at http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=4532 . As part of the preparations for the launch and activation of this new satellite, AMSAT is making our “Getting Started With The Amateur Satellites” book available for a limited time as a download with any paid new or renewal membership purchased via the AMSAT Store. This offer is only available with purchases completed online, and for only a limited time. A perennial favorite, Getting Started is updated every year with the latest amateur satellite information, and is the premier primer of satellite operation. The 132 page book is presented in PDF format, in full color, and covers all aspects of making your first contacts on a ham radio satellite. Please take advantage of this offer today by visiting the AMSAT store (http://store.amsat.org/catalog/) and selecting any membership option. While there, check out our other items, including the M2 LEOpack antenna system, AMSAT shirts, hats, and other swag. Thank you, and see you soon on Fox-1A! 73, Drew KO4MA AMSAT VP Operations

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Improve Orbital-decay predictions
by Luc Leblanc 15 Dec '15

15 Dec '15

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/goddard/plunging-into-the-ionosphere-sate… mprove-orbital-decay-predictions Luc Leblanc VE2DWE

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Tim Peake ISS School Contacts Announced
by M5AKA 15 Dec '15

15 Dec '15

ARISS have announced details of the first of the school amateur radio contacts with UK astronaut Tim Peake KG5BVI. Tim will be using the special International Space Station (ISS) call sign GB1SS during his near 6 month mission. http://amsat-uk.org/2015/12/15/tim-peake-iss-school-contacts-announced/ 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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W1Q - FO29 1620z Last Day
by Sean K. 15 Dec '15

15 Dec '15

I'll be on as W1Q on the 1620z pass of FO29. Receive 435.840 MHz. Sean Kutzko Amateur Radio KX9X

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LoTW
by Mike Seguin 15 Dec '15

15 Dec '15

Howdy, I getting the satellite station (AO-40 class) back in shape after being off for quite a while. Made a dozen contacts today on 4 different birds while testing. What logging program are folks using now for satellite that supports LoTW? Mike -- 73, Mike, N1JEZ AMSAT 29,649 "A closed mouth gathers no feet"

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Re: [amsat-bb] bit of help here
by Wayne Estes 15 Dec '15

15 Dec '15

John wrote: Not being a computer person I seem to have a problem. Have a copy of satpc32 but will i load it into the cd drive it just sits there. What is the secret to get it to load onto the computer? Wayne W9AE replies: Your computer must have device security so tight that CD autorun files are ignored. In Windows Explorer, navigate to the CD drive and double-click on Setup.exe. Wayne Estes Oakland, Oregon, USA, CN83ik

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thx NO-84 qso
by Nicholas Mahr KE8AKW 15 Dec '15

15 Dec '15

Looks like i'll have to get on to work KC4LE as I have been off NO-84 for a 2 weeks now, lets see who else I can find. I believe I already worked you W6IHG, No-84 is a fun bird to work indeed. KE8AKW, Nick

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tnx NO-84 qso
by Jerry Pixton 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

Peter, Thanks for the psk31 qso at 1926Z 14Dec2015 on NO-84 Attached is a waterfall of us. I am the peak around 1800 Hz and your trace is at 2140 Hz. You can see the residual shift, left over after doppler correction, on my signal. KC4LE's signal can be seen in the lower part next to mine. Again thanks for the activity Jerry, W6IHG -- ----------------------------------------------- Dr. Jerry R. Pixton, PIXOS Designs http://www.shentel.net/pixosdesigns/RadioTuner/ jpixton(a)shentel.net -----------------------------------------------

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UT1FG
by Michael A. Foster 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

Hello all, Worked UT1fq on FO-29 19:02Z El 87 Thanks, Michael – n8iup

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NO-84...operator error?
by Mark Lunday 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

Again I tried to send through AO-84. I was on 28120 with a tone of 1.5 kHz. I saw nothing on the 435.35 downlink. At all. The 1932 UTC was good enough that I should have seen something. I was also not able to send a packet through on 145.825. How wide is the passband for PSK on the uplink? Mark Lunday, WD4ELG Greensboro, NC FM06be wd4elg(a)arrl.net http://wd4elg.blogspot.com

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HAM RADIO UNIVERSITY- 2016
by W2JV 13 Dec '15

13 Dec '15

Hello, For those of us don’t have plans for January 10th, 2016, worry no more you can be part of our 17th year at Ham Radio University. What is HRU? "A day of education to share ideas, experiences,knowledge and fellowship among Amateur Radio operators". For more information visit, http://hamradiouniversity.org/ I will be doing a forum on “How to operate Duplex, on the Amateur Satellites with a budget that most of us can afford. 73 Peter W2JV

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Fw: FOX-1A SSTV
by Paulo PV8DX 13 Dec '15

13 Dec '15

Hi Roland Great job! You got Fox... It was very good. 73 de Paulo PV8DX LABRE/ARRL AMSAT-BR/AMSAT-NA member FJ92pt - VUCC SAT www.labre-rr.org http://amsat-br.org/ Boa Vista-Roraima pv8dx(a)labre-rr.org pv8dx(a)arrl.net -----Mensagem Original----- From: Roland Zurmely via AMSAT-BB Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2015 5:06 PM To: AMSAT Subject: [amsat-bb] FOX-1A SSTV SSTV picture from FOX-1A AO-85 received on orbit #962 over Brazil: <http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/fox.htm#f> 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ _______________________________________________ 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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FOX-1A SSTV
by Roland Zurmely 13 Dec '15

13 Dec '15

SSTV picture from FOX-1A AO-85 received on orbit #962 over Brazil: <http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/fox.htm#f> 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ

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bit of help here
by John Becker 13 Dec '15

13 Dec '15

Not being a computer person I seem to have a problem. Have a copy of satpc32 but will i load it into the cd drive it just sits there. What is the secret to get it to load onto the computer? John

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FUNcube-1 Operations
by Graham Shirville 13 Dec '15

13 Dec '15

Hi All, We can confirm that FC1 is now back in autonomous mode for the week – we plan to switch back to amateur mode on Friday 18th evening for the duration of holiday period – until Sunday January 3rd next year! best 73 Graham G3VZV

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ANS-347 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by Joseph Spier 13 Dec '15

13 Dec '15

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-347 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: * Upcoming ARISS Commemorative SSTV Event mid to late December * STMSat-1 has made it to the Space Station * ATVQ Magazine Documents Mir SSTV History * Commemorative ANZAC Operations Include Satellite Activation * UK students to have direct contact with astronaut Tim Peake during Principia mission * NASA TV to cover launch of Tim Peake KG5BVI * WRC-15: Amateur Bands Unsuitable for Non-Amateur Satellites * AMSAT Events * ARISS News * Satellite Shorts From All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-347.01 ANS-347 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 347.01 >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE December 13, 2015 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-347.01 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming ARISS Commemorative SSTV Event mid to late December On November 13, 2000 the crew conducted their first ham radio contacts on ISS and on December 21, 2000 ARISS conducted their first school contact with the Burbank School in Burbank, Illinois. An SSTV commemoration of these historic events is tentatively planned for mid to late December. It is possible that the transmission mode will be P120 instead of the P180 mode used in the past. This would allow for more pictures to be transmitted per pass. More information at http://www.ariss.org/ when available [ANS thanks ARISS & Trevor, M5AKA for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- STMSat-1 has made it to the ISS Cygnus cargo vessel carrying STMSat-1 has made it to the space station! At 6:19am Wednesday morning, the Space Station robotic arm grasped the ORB-4 cargo element and mated it to the ISS. The ISS will be it's home until on or about February 15th. On or about that day, the STMSat-1 will be launched with other CubeSats via a pea pod ejector and launched into low earth orbit. At that point, the timer starts for the programmed deployment of the antennas, the solar array, and the earth observation camera. Godspeed STMSat-1. Please open the link below for additional information on the events of the day. http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/12/09/u-s-resupply-of-space-station- successfully-resumes/ http://jewelbots.tumblr.com/post/134465599599/how-did-400-grade-school- students-built-a [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK & Spaceflightnow.com for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ATVQ Magazine Documents Mir SSTV History December 12 marked the 17th anniversary of the beginning of the MIR SSTV Station which was active in sending pictures over a period of about 2 years and 4 months. For those interested in this historical event and would like more background information, the Spring, 2015 issue of the Amateur Television Quarterly Magazine (ATVQ), has an article, "How Did Mir SSTV come into Existence?" Back issue copies of ATVQ and cyber copies of the article are available on-line at http://www.atvquarterly.com/ or by contacting ATVQ via e-mail at WA6SVT(a)aol.com. [ANS thanks Farrell Winder, W8ZCF, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Commemorative ANZAC Operations Include Satellite Activation The ANZAC 100 program has entered its "last hurrah" phase, with plenty of on air action now as ANZAC-suffixed callsigns commemorate the departure from Gallipoli on December 20, 1915. The multi-mode event by VI3ANZAC is in full swing, headed by Tony Hambling VK3VTH. In honor of the Royal Australian Navy Bridge Train, a large team lead by Mike Charteris VK4QS is being heard through VI4ANZAC. In the west VI6ANZAC organized by Chris Grice VK6PII has members of the Ham College. The major operations are this weekend at the RAAF Museum Bull Creek in the Cobra Helicopter display, and next weekend at the Ham College new shack in a scout hall. Chris VK6PII advises that VI6ANZAC will be on HF using SSB and sometimes CW, and plans to activate an FM satellite as well. While VI8ANZAC is now on air, and is to finish at the Charles Darwin National Park with Stuie VK8NSB and Rowan VK8RD, heard on HF using SSB & CW. More details of each of these events are on the WIA website, wia.org.au On next week's broadcast we will conclude with the special closing address from the WIA President, Phil Wait VK2ASD. That is expected to talk about the significance of the ANZAC legend, and the highly successful WIA ANZAC 100 program that began with pre-cursors at Queenscliff, Darwin and Albany. These have been 50 events in the past eight months, joined by commemorative callsigns in Turkey and Belgium. Now the ANZAC-suffixed callsigns "last hurrah" on air until December 20, are working the world. [ANS thanks the VK1WIA-news from the Wireless Institute of Australia for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- UK students to have direct contact with astronaut Tim Peake during Principia mission Working with the UK Space Agency, ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) is giving a number of UK schools the opportunity to speak directly to Tim Peake, the first British ESA astronaut, during his mission on board the International Space Station (ISS). This will enable live interaction between pupils and Tim and is anticipated to be one of the highlights of the Principia STEM outreach program. During his 6 month mission to the ISS, starting in December 2015, Tim will be undertaking a wide range of science experiments, some of which have been designed by students from around the UK. Additionally he has committed to take part in a large range of educational outreach activities with schools and colleges around the country. Jeremy Curtis, Head of Education at the UK Space Agency, said: “Both Tim’s space mission and amateur radio have the power to inspire young people and encourage them into STEM subjects. By bringing them together we can boost their reach and give young people around the UK the chance to be involved in a space mission and a hands-on project that will teach them new skills.” The pre-arranged schools contacts will take place between January and April 2016 and students will be able to put a number of questions directly to Tim using amateur radio VHF and UHF radio equipment specially installed at the school for the occasion. The 3.8 meter dish owned by Satellite Applications Catapult is being loaned to the project to track the ISS and will ensure real time video will be available during the schools’ contacts scheduled for early next year. The dish is almost in the shadow of the 29 meter dish “Arthur” built in 1962 to receive the first transatlantic television signals from the Telstar-1 spacecraft. For Tim Peake’s mission, the ARISS team of licensed UK Radio Amateurs is planning a world first by also receiving live video from the ISS during the contact. Using the HamTV transmitter, which has recently been commissioned on board the ISS, Tim will be the first astronaut to use this equipment during a two way schools contact. As well as building a vehicle based receive system, which will be installed at the school on the day of the contact, the team recently visited Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall to commission a dish to receive the 2.4 GHz HamTV transmissions from the ISS. During the contact at the schools the ARISS team will be providing information displays on the ISS position and have webcams showing both the local and Goonhilly dishes as they track the ISS. The hosting schools will be organizing presentations and displays before and after the contact and the ARISS team will be providing a live web cast of all the day’s events including the actual contact with Tim Peake. The live event webcast will be hosted by the British Amateur Television Club (BATC) on their web streaming service at https://principia.ariss.org/live/ The ARISS program is designed to maximize the impact of the Principia Mission outreach activities. It will directly engage students with media and communication technologies with the goal of inspiring them to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. UK Space Agency Principia site https://principia.org.uk/ School Shortlist for Tim Peake Space Station Contact http://amsat-uk.org/2015/07/14/school-shortlist-tim-peake-iss/ NASA TV to cover launch of Tim Peake KG5BVI http://amsat-uk.org/2015/12/08/nasa-tv-to-cover-launch-of-tim-peake-kg5bvi/ [ANS thanks UK Space Agency, ARISS, & AMSAT-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- NASA TV to cover launch of Tim Peake KG5BVI The next three crew members bound for the International Space Station are set to launch on Tuesday, December 15. NASA Television will provide full coverage of the launch beginning at 10:00 UT. UK astronaut Tim Peake KG5BVI, along with Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP and Tim Kopra KE5UDN, will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:03 UT (5:03 p.m. Baikonur time) for a six-month stay on the orbital complex. The three will travel in a Soyuz spacecraft, rendezvous with the space station and dock to the Rassvet module at 17:24 UT NASA TV coverage of docking will begin at 16:45 UT. The hatches between the Soyuz and space station will be opened at about 19:25 UT, and the newly arrived crew members will be greeted by Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA and Flight Engineers Sergey Volkov RU3DIS and Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF of Roscosmos. NASA TV coverage of the hatch opening will begin at 19:00 UT. Kelly and Kornienko will return in March 2016 with Volkov after spending a year on the station collecting valuable biomedical data that will improve our understanding of the effects of long duration space travel and aid in NASA’s journey to Mars. Together, the Expedition 46 crew members will continue the several hundred experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science currently underway and scheduled to take place aboard humanity’s only orbiting laboratory. For the full schedule of prelaunch, launch and docking coverage, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv Follow Tim Peake KG5BVI on Twitter at https://twitter.com/astro_timpeake Follow the space station crew members on Instagram and Twitter at: http://instagram.com/iss and http://www.twitter.com/Space_Station [ANS thanks NASA, ARISS, & AMSAT-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- WRC-15: Amateur Bands Unsuitable for Non-Amateur Satellites The World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) held in Geneva during November 2015 has recommended an agenda for the next WRC, to be held in 2019, to the Council of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). One of the agenda items is of particular interest to the small-satellite community. Agenda item 1.7 for WRC-19 reads: “to study the spectrum needs for telemetry, tracking and command in the space operation service for non-GSO satellites with short duration missions, to assess the suitability of existing allocations to the space operation service and, if necessary, to consider new allocations, in accordance with Resolution COM6/19 (WRC-15).” Resolution COM6/19, which eventually will be given a new number, specifies the frequency ranges that may be considered for possible new allocations. They are 150.05-174 MHz and 400.15-420 MHz. One of the factors that the conference considered in deciding on these particular frequency ranges was “that some non-amateur satellites have used frequencies for telemetry, tracking and command in the frequency bands 144-146 MHz and 435-438 MHz which are allocated to the amateur-satellite service, and that such use is not in accordance with Nos. 1.56 and 1.57.” Those two provisions of the ITU Radio Regulations define the amateur and amateur- satellite services respectively. The International Amateur Radio Union welcomed the exclusion from consideration of all existing frequency allocations to the amateur and amateur- satellite services. IARU President Tim Ellam, VE6SH, observed: “This is an excellent result for the amateur services and clearly shows that non-amateur satellite constructors need to consider spectrum other than the very limited and congested segments that are available for amateur satellites at 144 MHz and 435 MHz.” [ANS thanks IARU, ARRL, & AMSAT-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT Events Information about AMSAT activities at other important events around the country. Examples of these events are radio club meetings where AMSAT Area Coordinators give presentations, demonstrations of working amateur satellites, and hamfests with an AMSAT presence (a table with AMSAT literature and merchandise, sometimes also with presentations, forums, and/or demonstrations). *Saturday, 9 January 2016 – Thunderbird Hamfest 2016 in Phoenix AZ *Friday and Saturday, 19-20 February 2016 – Yuma Hamfest and 2016 ARRL Southwest Division Convention in Yuma AZ *Saturday and Sunday, 12-13 March 2016 – ScienceCity science fair, on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson AZ *Saturday, 19 March 2016 – Scottsdale Amateur Radio Club Spring Hamfest 2016 in Scottsdale AZ *Saturday, 26 March 2016 – Tucson Spring Hamfest in Tucson AZ [ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS News Successful Contacts * A direct contact via 8N2YAYOI with students at Yayoi Elementary School, Yatomi, Japan was successful Fri 2015-12-04 09:25:46 UTC 57 deg. Astronaut Kimiya Yui KG5BPH and answered 14 questions prepared by students. Watch a video of the contact which was conducted in Japanese at http://www.ariss.jp/yatomi/8n2yayoi.wmv * The telebridge contact with students at Dragonskolan, Umeå, Sweden was rescheduled via LU1CGB for Fri 2015-12-04 10:15:01 UTC 72 deg. Astronaut Kjell Lindgren, KO5MOS was able to answer 17 prepared questions for students. The contact was recorded by the school. View it on the school website at: http://www.skola.umea.se/dragonskolan Dragonskolan is one of the biggest upper secondary schools in Sweden and is located in central Umeå. Currently hosting 1820 students aged 16-19 and 300 staff; it has recently been renovated to meet modern needs in a stimulating learning environment. At Dragonskolan, we have an ethos where we believe we can offer our students three meaningful and enjoyable years. Our core values are “open and bright”, referring not only to the physical surroundings but also to the social climate. Dragonskolan is the biggest meeting place for young people in Umeå, A wide range of 3 year programs, college preparatory and vocational, are offered here, ranging from natural science to humanities and technological science. At the core of the school is the Dragonskolan Technology Center where everything is taught from industrial welding technology to electronics, automation, computer science, CAD and much more. With its close ties to the industry, the school keeps in pace with the latest industrial technology ensuring the students get the best education available within their chosen field. * A direct contact with students at an event titled, “the development of Gagarin from Space”, was sponsored by the Polytechnic Professional Councils of the City of Grozny, Russia on Sat 2015-12-05 16:25 UTC. The cosmonaut for the contact was Sergey Volkov RU3DIS. * A telebridge contact via LU1CGB with students at Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski Junior High School, Swietajno, Poland, was successful Tue 2015-12-08 08:19:31 UTC 62 deg. Astronaut Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS answered 14 questions prepared by students. An audio recording may be heard at: http://www.ariss.org/news.html Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski Junior High School in Swietajno, attended by approximately 170 pupils (aged 13-15), is situated in a picturesque Land of a Thousand Lakes in Szczytno County (Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in the northeastern part of Poland. The school consists of seven forms and it employs twenty well-qualified teachers. Mazurian Amateur Radio Club SP4YWM has been established here and it functions with the number of seventeen school members (among which there are three primary school pupils and one pre-school girl, all from Swietajno). In preparation for the amateur radio contact with the ISS, the students with the guidance of their teachers improved their English, got familiar with the life and work on the ISS. They had a great opportunity to learn everyday English in order to ask an astronaut questions during the ISS contact as well as the specialized language of science to visit space agencies pages. The students learned geography with the use of modern technologies and photographed the Earth from the camera on board the ISS (EarthKAM). The school cooperated with the Olsztyn Planetarium to organize an observation. The planetarium visited Swietajno to accompany one of the school events. Consequently, the Astronomical Mobile Laboratory called Astrolabium was at the school’s disposal. Last year the ARISS participants from Swietajno attended the 4th Polish-Wide Conference of Contributors and Sympathisers in ARISS held in the central part of Poland, where they focused on interesting topics concerning the ISS and learned how other Polish schools had prepared for ARISS contacts in the past. The pupils also performed an experiment in the near space as a part of the miniSAT project. They sent peas, bubble wrap and a watch to near space to the altitude of about 30 000 meters above the Earth. The conditions differ significantly between near space and the surface of the Earth: the pressure is much smaller, UV radiation is higher and the temperature is below zero degrees Celsius. People from all over Poland, including the pupils from Swietajno, took part in it. The balloon used in the event was marked “CP26”. The experiment in the near space was possible thanks to ham radio operators and other volunteers from a non-governmental organization called Copernicus Project Foundation (near Torun, Poland). Their two flagship projects are MiniSAT and Near Space Program in Poland and they have organized above 30 balloon flies to the near space since 2005. In March 2013 the school started public relations activities connected with the ham radio contact between an astronaut on the International Space Station and the students from Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski School. An official inauguration of the ARISS program in Swietajno had been prepared. TVP Olsztyn, Radio Olsztyn and other local mass media were present there and took part in an inaugural lecture on ARISS. As a continuation of EarthKAM program an exhibition of the photographs taken by the students was organized during the inauguration. Before that, Swietajno primary school pupils (between the ages of 5 and 12) had been invited to participate in the preparations to the ARISS contact. As a result, some of them are going to ask the astronaut their questions, together with their older friends from the junior high school. Upcoming Contacts >From 2015-12-20 to 2016-01-04, there will be no US Operational Segment (USOS) hams on board ISS. So any schools contacts during this period will be conducted by the ARISS Russia team. Watch http://www.ariss.org/upcoming-contacts.html for information about upcoming contacts as they are scheduled. [ANS thanks ARISS, and Charlie, AJ9N for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Satellite Shorts From All Over * SpaceX to launch rocket Dec 19, six months after blast SpaceX on Thursday announced plans to launch its Falcon 9 on December 19, its first mission since a massive explosion after liftoff destroyed the rocket and its space station cargo six months ago. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that the company is preparing for a static fire -- an engine test on the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida -- on December 16, followed by "launch about three days later." The Falcon rocket will carry 11 satellites for the US company Orbcomm into low- Earth orbit, a company spokesman said. The spokesman did not say when SpaceX planned to begin sending cargo to the International Space Station again. SpaceX's only competitor in the commercial resupply industry is Orbital ATK, which also suffered a major setback when its Antares rocket exploded after launching from Wallops Island, Virginia in October 2014. Orbital ATK launched on Sunday its unmanned Cygnus cargo ship to the ISS, this time aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket while it upgrades the Antares, which previously used a reconditioned Ukrainian rocket engine. The Falcon 9 exploded on June 28, just over two minutes after launching from Cape Canaveral with its Dragon cargo ship loaded with supplies for the astronauts living in space. Musk said the blast was due to a faulty strut. The accident was a blow to the California-based company, which was the first commercial outfit to send a cargo craft to space under a $1.6 billion contract with NASA. The Falcon 9 rocket that is scheduled to fly December 19 is a new version that is 30 percent more powerful and designed to improve the controlled landing of the rocket's first stage, a mission that SpaceX has been attempting to refine in the hope of one day making rockets as reusable as airplanes. SpaceX has tried multiple times to land its rocket upright on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean, without success. For this next launch, SpaceX said it plans to attempt a touchdown on land for the first time. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, an Internet entrepreneur who like Musk also owns a rocket company, announced on November 24 that he had successfully landed his New Shepard rocket after a suborbital flight. While Bezos touted the achievement, Musk and other experts pointed out that it would have been much easier to control the landing of a rocket that flies lower in altitude than the first stage of the Falcon 9. Once rockets do become reusable, analysts say the practice will save millions of dollars in equipment and launch costs. see http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/SpaceX_to_launch_rocket_Dec_19_six_months_ after_blast_999.html [ANS thanks SpaceDaily.com 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, Joe Spier, K6WAO k6wao at amsat dot org

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Getting SatPC32 and new IC-9100 to talk over USB
by Shawn Reed 13 Dec '15

13 Dec '15

Hi SAT fans, Just replaced a 910H with a new 9100 Icom. Trying to get the rig to talk to SatPC32 over the USB connection ( Doppler control). Looks like I have some comms going to the radio, but the freqs and modes are sometimes correct, sometimes not even close. I changed the address in SatPC32 to $7c for the 9100, loaded the UART bridge driver for the VCP, set the port and SatPC for hardware handshaking and RTS on. Running Vista on a core 2 duo machine. Any thoughts or hints are greatly appreciated. Thanks es 73 de Shawn, N1HOQ

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No joy with no-84
by Mark Lunday 13 Dec '15

13 Dec '15

PSK31 50 watts into a vertical, 28120 kHz, sending at 1200 Hz tone. Nothing heard on 435.350 or +/- 5 Khz. Mark Lunday, WD4ELG Greensboro, NC FM06be wd4elg(a)arrl.net http://wd4elg.blogspot.com

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17th MIR SSTV
by Farrell Winder 12 Dec '15

12 Dec '15

Today, December 12 marks the 17th anniversary of the beginning of the MIR SSTV Station which was active in sending pictures over a period of about 2 years and 4 months. Hundreds of excellent and exciting pictures were received worldwide. For those interested in this historical event and background, the publication Amateur Television Quarterly (ATVQ) Spring 2015 issue has an article “How Did Mir SSTV come into Existence?” Back issue copies of ATVQ and cyber copies of the article are available via WA6SVT(a)aol.com. See also ATVQ web address, www.ATVQuarterly.com. 73, Farrell Winder, W8ZCF

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-12-12 03:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 12 Dec '15

12 Dec '15

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-12-12 03:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: TBD **************************************************************************** ** >From 2015-12-20 to 2016-01-04, there will be no US Operational Segment (USOS) hams on board ISS. So any schools contacts during this period will be conducted by the ARISS Russia team. **************************************************************************** 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 114 **************************************************************************** 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 2015-12-12 03:00 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 1015. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 980. 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 2015-12-09 07:30 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. 44 on orbit Oleg Kononenko RN3DX Kimiya Yui KG5BPH Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Exp. 45 on orbit Sergey Volkov RU3DIS **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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W1Q - SO50 pass 0228z
by Sean K. 12 Dec '15

12 Dec '15

Hi all- Will be on as W1Q from FN31 for the 0228z SO50 pass. Special event to celebrate 100 years of QST magazine. QSL via WJ1B. Info on QRZ.com Sean Kutzko Amateur Radio KX9X

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SatPC32 question
by Mark Lunday 12 Dec '15

12 Dec '15

I downloaded the trial version, but I cannot see a RADIO menu as described in the HELP file that will allow me to select the radio type and COM port. Mark Lunday, WD4ELG Greensboro, NC FM06be wd4elg(a)arrl.net http://wd4elg.blogspot.com

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The APRS Satellite Downlinks web page (corrected!)
by Robert Bruninga 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

ALL, To get the downlinks from all the APRS satellites (except the ISS) use: http://pcsat.findu.com For ISS use http://ariss.net Do not use the "pcsat.aprs.org" which does not show user packets. I've been linking to the wrong one for months or years and couldn't understand why I was not seeing user digipeated packets half the time. Reason is complicated, but FINDU has two servers and so you had a 50/50 chance of getting the right page. I've got to change DOZENS of web pages to replace the pcsat.aprs.org links with pcsat.findu.com links. Bob, WB4APR

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Football Tracking today
by Robert Bruninga 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

It’s not exactly LEO orbit, but you can track the annual running of the A/N game football from Annapolis to Phily starting at noon. http://aprs.fi/usna* USNA-1 will always be with the ball while -2,-3,-4 will be shuttling runners. The 8W Byonics MicrotrackTT4’s are set to use Proportional-Pathing so that close in, (simplex/direct) they are updated at a known 1 minute rate making rendezvous practical, while the first digi hop is only once every 2 minutes. And then there is only a regional 2 hop packet once every 4 minutes. This keeps the 144.39 MHz channel loading down an order of magnitude while still providing close in 1 minute special event tracking quality. And, knowing the rate is always one minute direct, 2 minutes via one digi and 4 minutes regional, makes it easy to know when packets are missing and how best to anticipate the nice DeadReckoning header as displayed on APRS.FI . Bob, WB4APR

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FUNcube-1 operations this weekend
by Graham Shirville 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

Hi All, Just to confirm that FUNcube-1 is in amateur mode (transponder on and low power tlm active) now continuously until Sunday evening UTC as usual. Have fun and enjoy the transponder. 73 Graham G3VZV

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W1Q on FO-29 today
by Sean K. 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

Hi all- I will be on today's FO-29 passes as Special Event Station W1Q, celebrating 100 years of QST magazine. Activity will b from W1HQ, the ARRL employee club station. Listen for me about 10kc down from the center of the passband. QSL via WJ1B. More info on the W1Q QRZ page. Sean Kutzko Amateur Radio KX9X

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KL7CN/W6 CM98 QRV AO-73 0416z TONIGHT
by Bryan KL7CN 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

Will be on AO-73 tonight at 0416z from CM98. See you there! -- bag Bryan KL7CN/W6

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SatPC32 issues
by Burns Fisher 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

I've been using SatPC32 for several years, and have not seen this problem until recently. I'm wondering if anyone else has? After running for several hours or maybe a day or 2, SatPC32 just stops. It is marked "not responding" and it does not refresh the screen when it is exposed. I can not see that it is doing anything. The companion rotor control program appears to be running, but of course when I kill SatPC32 with CTL/ALT/DEL it keeps running, so I also have to kill it manually. First, I'm running this all on a PC with a 4-core Intel I5 processor at 3.something GHz, so power should not be a problem. The unusual thing (slightly) is that the system is "headless". It has a graphics processor, but there is no monitor on it. I use Remote Desktop to access it. That should not make any difference but... On this PC, I am running SatPC32 which is driving an AMSAT rotor controller via a USB serial port, a TS2000 (often not turned on) via a built in serial port, and SDR# via DDE. FoxTelem is running and listening to SDR# via virtual audio cable. Sometimes the AO73 app is also running, but not always. If anyone has suggestions as to how to debug this (what info to collect and send, other stuff to try, etc) I'd be happy to give it a try. Thanks and 73, Burns Fisher W2BFJ

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Re: [amsat-bb] Akatsuki's First Pictures Of Venus
by Edward R Cole 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

Impressive science being done these days -come a long way since my involvement with MA-10 in 1974 Venus flyby and boost to Mercury (working at DSS-14). Amazing "Save" by the Akatsuki Team - congrats! 73, Ed - KL7UW Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 22:03:38 +0000 From: B J <va6bmj(a)gmail.com> To: amsat-bb <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Subject: [amsat-bb] Akatsuki's First Pictures Of Venus Message-ID: <CAP7QzkODMpBOKi4z5PwS9ED3C7BvhE73e_R5=WZBSRDnuNLHQQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/12/09/akatsuki-probe-relays-its-first-images… 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL 73, Ed - KL7UW http://www.kl7uw.com "Kits made by KL7UW" Dubus Mag business: dubususa(a)gmail.com

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Colorado Amateur Satellite net Begins in 1 hour
by Skyler F 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

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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Can someone interpret this APRS packet for me?
by Mark Lunday 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

Fm r0VSp-8 To x-1 Via -3 <REJ R3 [DAMA]>[21:26:21] Mark Lunday, WD4ELG Greensboro, NC FM06be wd4elg(a)arrl.net http://wd4elg.blogspot.com

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Re: [amsat-bb] AO-73 Lack of transponder activity
by J. Boyd (JR2TTS) 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 15:40:39 -0700, "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)" <amsat-bb(a)wd9ewk.net> wrote: > AO-73's transponder normally operates when the satellite is > not in sunlight, and whenever the AO-73 command stations > turn the transponder on all the time (usually during the > weekends and some holidays). Perfect, since that's usually the only time I have free time to operate in the first place! > here on the AMSAT-BB list and also on the @FUNcubeUK Twitter > feed: > > https://twitter.com/FUNcubeUK Followed. > As W5PFG mentioned, this is an easy satellite to work with > portable stations. I regularly work it with an FT-817ND for > the uplink, and the downlink is handled either with another > FT-817ND or my SDRplay SDR receiver with an 8-inch Windows > 10 tablet running HDSDR. At times on high passes, I can cut > my transmitter power down from 5W to 500mW and still have a > readable signal through the transponder. The uplink frequency > you use will probably change from pass to pass, which is why > the recommendations of using manual control when working this > satellite are good. Since this satellite has a sensitive > uplink receiver, it shouldn't be hard to line yourself up on > the transponder. I have an old ICOM IC-706 for the uplink, a Yaesu FT-857D for the downlink, and a laptop controlling both via CAT. I'm currently only manually tracking with an Arrow but I figure that will be enough for a start. Thanks for the tips, will report back when I've made an attempt. 73 -- 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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AO-73 Lack of transponder activity
by Jack Colson 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

On the mid-evening passes the last two nights the transponder has been on but no activity. I am hearing my uplink fairly well. 73, Jack, W3TMZ

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Akatsuki's First Pictures Of Venus
by B J 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/12/09/akatsuki-probe-relays-its-first-images… 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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Cygnus Arrives At ISS
by B J 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

http://spacenews.com/cygnus-reaches-the-space-station/ http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/12/slayton-cygnus-station-rendezvous/ http://www.parabolicarc.com/2015/12/09/cygnus-cargo-ship-arrives-space-stat… http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/iss/cygnus-arrives-international… http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/news/orbital-atks-oa-4-cygnus-cargo-module… http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/12/09/u-s-resupply-of-space-station-successf… 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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Tracker Boxes
by Martha 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

I have 6 tracker boxes left (out of 10). If you are interested in one, please call the office at 301-822-4376 between 10 - 6:00 PM ET. -- 73- Martha

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PSAT digipeater is on (or will be)
by Robert Bruninga 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

DK3WN notes that PSAT is in full sun and should have enough power for the next week to support both the PSK31 transponder and APRS digipeating. The APRS digipeater supports the aliases of ARISS and APRSAT so the same settings for ISS should work for PSAT. At this writing, the digi is still off, but will be on as soon as one of the command stations hits it. For background: http://aprs.org/psat.html To see if it has switched from PSAT-1 (no digi) to PSAT callsign see http://pcsat.aprs.org Bob, WB4APR

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1120am (L) Pass AO-85
by Timothy A. Holmes 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

GOOD morning all: Hope you are all well and having a great christmas holiday. I just listened on the 1120L pass of AO85 here in EN91 -- while I didnt hear voices, I could hear a drop in noise which said to me that I was near the carrier frequency or something -- SInce I havent messed with satellites in at least 10 years, I thought that was a pretty good start -- I have somewhere a plan for a tape measure antenna that should work for sats, I just need to dig through my files and find it, I am thinking about setting it up to work from a tripod, and I have 2 HT's which should work to start with until I can afford a duplexer for my IC706. That being said, I hope you all have a great MERRY Christmas and hope to hear you more on the birds TIM W8TAH EN91ae

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Operating from DM44 on Friday 12/11/15
by Fernando Ramirez 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

Good evening! I'll be staying overnight in Payson, AZ (DM44) next Friday 12/11. I am planning to work the following SO50 passes during the night: 0226 utc - max elv 5.6° 0403 utc - max elv 74.3° 0545 utc - max elv 14.2 Will try that 5° pass to the east, although, I'm not very familiar with the local topography. Follow my Twitter account @NP4JV for updates. 73 Fernando Ramírez-Ferrer NP4JV

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Why is my location packet not showing on the PCSAT reporter, but it is on findu.com map?
by Mark Lunday 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

No report shown: http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/pcsat.cgi?absolute=1 Report that I sent to ISS during the 09 DEC 0400 UTC pass http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=wd4elg: Email message that I sent via ISS: Test email ---------------------------------------- Date : 2015-12-09 04:00:46 UTC From : WD4ELG To : wd4elg(a)triad.rr.com IGATE : N0AGI-1 ---------------------------------------- Mark Lunday, WD4ELG Greensboro, NC FM06be wd4elg(a)arrl.net http://wd4elg.blogspot.com

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Does the UHF packet freq 437.55, active on ISS?
by Mark Lunday 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

Mark Lunday, WD4ELG Greensboro, NC FM06be wd4elg(a)arrl.net http://wd4elg.blogspot.com

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Question about packet decodes
by Mark Lunday 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

I left the receiver on today while I was away. I captured some packets on 145.825! I need some help identifying the source meaning of the packet: >From PSAT-1, what is APOFF telling me? When the received packet is CQ via PSAT, ARISS, which satellite is it PSAT or iSS? What are these destinations? Special callsigns? Fm N3FCX To S9UT2R Fm K1WY To TQTU7U Fm K0KOC-7 To 3Y2S1Y Fm KB1CHU To APEG02 What is the meaning of this packet? Fm r0VSp-8 To x-1 Via -3 <REJ R3 [DAMA]>[21:26:21] Mark Lunday, WD4ELG Greensboro, NC FM06be wd4elg(a)arrl.net http://wd4elg.blogspot.com

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AO-85
by Kevin Deane 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

Ok so I heard myself and tried with N8RO and FVV but didn't hear myself after that and heard all them other guys just fine.... Was anyone else hearing me at all or do I just suck? Kevin KF7MYK

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NO-84, what is the secret?
by Mark Lunday 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

I heard APRS on the 144 MHz band. But I did not hear any PSK31 on the downlink. I did not try to transmit. 1. What's the secret to receiving PSK31 on FM? I never tried that before. 2. Transmit says 28.120 kHz +2 kHz SSB uplink. Can someone please translate that into USB DIAL and software tone? If it is 28120 USB and 2 kHz tone, most SSB rigs attenuate the audio at that level. Mark Lunday, WD4ELG Greensboro, NC FM06be wd4elg(a)arrl.net http://wd4elg.blogspot.com

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XW-2F Transponder OFF
by Pedro Sousa 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

Hi all, The pass over HM77fr around 20:10 UTC showed XW-2F with CW beacon and telemetry on, but the transponder was off. Adjusted my TS-2000 XIT between -20 to +20kHz. Nowhere to be found. Hope it's not another case like XW-2E. 73 de Pedro CU2ZG --- Este e-mail foi verificado em termos de vírus pelo software antivírus Avast. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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AMSAT LVB Tracker
by Rupert Hamblin 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

Hi Guys, I have recently acquired the Yaesu G-5500 rotator to install & build a satelite station. My query was this; I'm thinking of buying the LVB Tracker via AMSAT, to connect to the Yaesu indoor AZ/EL controller - can anyone on the forum confirm if / what external cables / cabling are supplied with the LVB tracker to connect it to the Yaesu indoor unit ? Many thanks for your help here... Regards RH / G0TKZ

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Portable ops today near Amarillo, TX
by Clayton Coleman 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

Upcoming W5PFG/P ops today: AO-85 18:52 & FO-29 19:15 UTC from DM84/85 SO-50 04:27 UTC from DM85/95 I'll try to squeeze in DM94 to fulfill a request but don't have a plan yet. I'll be near DM86/96 tomorrow. Best to follow on Twitter @w5pfg 73 Clayton W5PFG

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Antenna Rotator Alternative
by Scott 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

Greetings! Rotators are great, but I've been thinking about a lower-cost and more portable alternative. My method is not better - just different. After carefully monitoring comments from others here and elsewhere online, tonight all the pieces came together and the scheme actually worked even better than I expected. And I wasn't even in a particularly good location! Basically, I used a couple of the dual-band Arrow antennas that many people already have. I wrote up the details with a couple of pictures on a little 1 1/2 page PDF that you can read at the following URL if something like this interests you. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31460496/ham/non-rotator-antenna-rotato… 73! -Scott, K4KDR Montpelier, VA USA

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AMSAT-NA Web request
by Dale Kubichek 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

AMSAT WebMaster, Can you add a posting 'date' to ALL articles & SAT info so we may judge how old/new this data/info is? Even in the various pull-downs downs there is no indication of the last update to this page allowing us to judge how good the information maybe. Thanks Best regards, Dale Kubichek, MS-EET, N6JSX/8 Sidney, OH 45365 EN70vh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HAM-SATs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RDF-USA

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Tracker Boxes
by Martha 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

I have 7 LVB tracker boxes in stock. The cost is $200 plus $20 shipping. If you are interested, call me at 301-822-4376. -- 73- Martha

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LVB Tracker for sale, New
by Andrew Glasbrenner 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

Hi all, I've completely switched to using the Alfa Spid rotors, which have internal PC interfaces. I have two LVB trackers I would like to sell, except I can't find one of them! The one I did find is new in the wrapper. I did open the front of the wrapping up to check if it was the green or blue display. I think it's the blue one. I purchased this two or three Daytons ago as a spare and it has resided in an equipment cabinet since then. $200 shipped in the US only please. Paypal is fine. Email me if you'd like it. 73, Drew KO4MA

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08 December HM77/HM58
by Pedro Sousa 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

Hi all, Here's my activity for today (holiday in Portugal). On some of them CU7BC on HM58 will be active. (Starting time: SAT: most affected area) 13:56 FO-29 (Europe) 14:27 AO-7 (Europe) 15:40 AO-85 (USA/Canada) 16:16 AO-7 (Europe) 17:30 FO-29 (USA/Canada) 17:48 XW-2F (Europe) 18:10 AO-7 (USA/Canada) 20:56 XW-2F (USA/Canada) 21:09 AO-73 (Europe) 73 de Pedro CU2ZG HM77fr --- Este e-mail foi verificado em termos de vírus pelo software antivírus Avast. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [amsat-bb] NO-84, what is the secret?
by W M Willoughby 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

Lots of good info in your post, Jerry! Relative to transmitting continuously in order to keep the transponder turned on, I have this suggestion: rather then everyone transmitting continuously, we could take turns in order to give our transmitters a break. For instance, if you see a long signal in the waterfall you should assume that station is about to stop transmitting and you should begin transmitting before he stops to keep the transponder turned on. This even works with just two users on the bird. I have practiced this and I am sure my transmitter thanks me for that since I must use 90W to be solidly into the satellite. I am using just a Windom (wire) antenna, so no EIRP gain. 73, Red KC4LE

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Satellite antennas for sale
by Glenn Miller - AA5PK 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

I have for sale a Cushcraft A144-10T 10-element "VHF Twist Beam" and a A432-20T 20-element "UHF Twist Beam." Included are phase/delay lines for optional circular polarization as well as the assembly/owner's manual. Contact me off the BB for details. 73 Glenn AA5PK DM91

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How to decode New Satellites
by Vincenzo Mone 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

Hi to the list, please I would like to know as I own the Funcube Dongle Pro Plus, which programs I need to decode the new satellites like GOMX-3, TW-1A, TW-1B, TW-1C, XW-2A, XW-2B, XW-2C, XW-2D, XW-2E, XW-2F, DCBB AND NUDT-PhoneSat? Any help will be really appreciated. Thanks in Advance 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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American satellite started transmitting 46 years after being abandoned in 1967
by John Brier 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2015/10/23/american-satellite-started-transm… Not sure if this has been covered here before, but a good article nonetheless. John, KG4AKV

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Launch Opportunity in Summer 2016 for Cubesats
by Robert Bruninga 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

There is a cubesat launch opportunity on a Russian Dnepr rocket going in summer 2016 going to ~500 km Sun Synchronus orbit with some extra slots for cubesats (1Us all the way up to 12Us). If interested, please contact Abe Bonnema at A.R.Bonnema(a)isispace.nl with details of your mission. Of course don't bother the poor man unless you can pay for it... Just thought I'd pass it along. Bob, WB4APR

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AO-85
by Kevin Deane 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

Hello I just tried at 20:15 ish heard a couple stations VA7JV? Anyway I could not hear myself on the downlink. I was using 435.172?? What is the exact uplink? I have two radios and two antennas real full duplex... :) Thanks for any help. Kevin KF7MYK

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Re: [amsat-bb] Superstition Superfest @ Mesa AZ on 5 December - report
by Fernando Ramirez 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

Congratulations on another successful event. Thank you for what you do for our hobby and the advancement of satellite communications. The passion you demonstrate towards it, is an encouragement to newcomers like me. And like me, there are a lot of operators that are grateful for the knowledge you share and the support you provide. Keep up the good work! 73 de NP4JV Fernando in DM41

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AO-85 Uplink
by Greg 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

Having a little trouble getting into the bird. I noted that the uplink is 435.180 with a 67.0 tone. However, I read that due to temperature variations the uplink is closer to 435.172. Tried the 180 w/out luck. Any suggestions on the successful uplink frequency? Tested the 435 antenna on receive and having no problem hearing in that band, so I am assuming I am missing the bird frequency on my uplink. Thanks Greg N3MVF

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Superstition Superfest @ Mesa AZ on 5 December - report
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

Hi! Saturday at the Superstition Amateur Radio Club's Superstition Superfest hamfest in Mesa, Arizona (an east-side suburb of Phoenix) was an enjoyable day. Unlike most hamfests around Arizona that typically wrap up by midday, this hamfest actually had buyers and sellers sticking around until the official end of the event (2pm, 2100 UTC). With the great weather on Saturday here in the Phoenix area, it wasn't hard to spend the morning and the early afternoon at the hamfest. As with most hamfests here, the official start time for the Superstition Superfest was 7am (1400 UTC). I was out there a couple of hours before that, and there were several sellers and a few buyers walking around even at that hour. By being there so early, I was able to try an AO-85 pass just after 5.15am (1215 UTC). I heard someone else accessing the satellite for most of the pass, then worked one station in Minnesota near my LOS. Since this was about 90 minutes before sunrise, I had no problems seeing the screen on my 8-inch Windows 10 tablet, and I used my SDRplay SDR receiver for the AO-85 downlink. I was able to upload 19 telemetry frames from that pass, in addition to making one contact through the FM transponder. As the hamfest officially started, the crowds came by and asked a lot of questions about satellites. It helps to have so many satellites launched in the past couple of months, including AO-85, to talk about. I had passes of XW-2F, SO-50, and AO-73 throughout the morning for demonstrations, to give a nice mix of FM and SSB satellite operating. I also had the pleasure of seeing a couple of satellite operators: Steve W5IEM visiting from Kentucky, and Ed N7EC - a local ham who has been on the FM satellites from DM33 north of Phoenix lately. By midday, with crowds still hanging around the hamfest, I decided to stick around for early-afternoon FO-29 and AO-85 passes. The two AO-85 passes, around 1915 and 2055 UTC, were the first two passes I had tried with just my Icom IC-2820H 2m/70cm FM mobile radio without an SDR receiver for the downlink. It worked fine, but I have been spoiled by the SDR receiver and software. Being able to make my own audio filtering with HDSDR, and the FM AFC function to track the downlink from AOS to LOS, work so well for AO-85. FO-29 around 2015 UTC, with a coast-to-coast footprint, was just as much fun. A local ham had been making videos while I worked FO-29 and the last AO-85 pass, and I hope to have details on where those might be online in a couple of days. I worked 8 different passes from the hamfest - three on AO-85, 2 on SO-50, and one each on 3 transponder satellites (AO-73, FO-29, XW-2F), logging a total of 38 contacts on those passes. Thanks to everyone who called WD9EWK and helped with these demonstrations! My log from Saturday is now in the Logbook of the World, and I am happy to send out QSL cards on request (please e-mail me directly with QSO details, so I can verify that against my log). This hamfest will probably be the last event for 2015 where I am attending and representing AMSAT, the 19th event where I have done this during the year. Of the 19 events, 15 were at locations around Arizona, and 4 others were in southern California. With the launch of AMSAT's first Fox-1 satellite (AO-85), plus other amateur satellites including the September launch of the Chinese XW-2 satellites along with LilacSat-2 and others, as well as the upcoming projects. I'll pick up with attending hamfests around Arizona in the new year with the Thunderbird Hamfest in Phoenix on the second Saturday of next month (9 January 2016). Hamfests that I, and other AMSAT Area Coordinators will be attending, are listed at: http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=218 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK

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Akatsuki's Second Try To Orbit Venus Successful
by B J 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2015/12/07/akatsuki-enters-orbit-venus/ http://news.sciencemag.org/asia/2015/12/japanese-probe-succeeds-second-try-… 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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Re: [amsat-bb] How to digipeat via APRS using satellites
by Richard Tejera 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

Mark, Tx to NO-44 on 145.825, essentially simplex. Digipeat on APRS using W3ADO-3 as the path. Rick Tejera K7TEJ Saguaro Astronomy Club www.SaguaroAstro.org Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club www.w7tbc.org On December 6, 2015, at 17:07, Mark Lunday <wd4elg(a)triad.rr.com> wrote: NO-84 has a downlink for packet, but no uplink. NO-44 has uplink and downlink, as does ISS and DUCHIFAT. I see the instructions for sending a packet to DUCHIFAT. How do I send and what format for NO-44 and ISS? And if NO-84 has no uplink, how can I generate a packet and get it through NO-84? What are the limits for characters? The format? The settings (I don't want to use the wrong setting like WIDE-3). 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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Found more good info: How to digipeat via APRS using satellites
by Mark Lunday 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

Every time I ask a question, after searching for the answer, I am able to find it as soon as I post. LOL. Typical. Sorry, folks. Thanks again to Bob WB4APR, a prolific writer and excellent explainer. http://www.aprs.org/iss-faq.html Mark Lunday, WD4ELG Greensboro, NC FM06be wd4elg(a)arrl.net http://wd4elg.blogspot.com

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How to digipeat via APRS using satellites
by Mark Lunday 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

NO-84 has a downlink for packet, but no uplink. NO-44 has uplink and downlink, as does ISS and DUCHIFAT. I see the instructions for sending a packet to DUCHIFAT. How do I send and what format for NO-44 and ISS? And if NO-84 has no uplink, how can I generate a packet and get it through NO-84? What are the limits for characters? The format? The settings (I don't want to use the wrong setting like WIDE-3). Mark Lunday, WD4ELG Greensboro, NC FM06be wd4elg(a)arrl.net http://wd4elg.blogspot.com

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Found an excellent tutorial: Question about receiving/decoding satellite packet/APRS with MixW
by Mark Lunday 06 Dec '15

06 Dec '15

http://st2nh-blogger.blogspot.com/2013/11/satellite-psk.html Mark Lunday, WD4ELG Greensboro, NC FM06be wd4elg(a)arrl.net http://wd4elg.blogspot.com

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Question about receiving/decoding satellite packet/APRS with MixW
by Mark Lunday 06 Dec '15

06 Dec '15

What tone should I set the receiving icon for? Mark Lunday, WD4ELG Greensboro, NC FM06be wd4elg(a)arrl.net http://wd4elg.blogspot.com

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XW-2E back on
by Pedro Sousa 06 Dec '15

06 Dec '15

Hi all, I saw on AMSAT's status page that PU2RAS heard telemetry from XW-2E and OY9CMC reported it active. So I gave it a try. Yes, it's there. Weak signal but readable. Here's the recording I've made, where you can hear shouting my whistle while adjusting XIT. Speaking of which is a bit off than what it used to be. My original sheets showed it at around +0.8kHz. Today it was at +1.2kHz. http://plus2.dutrasousa.name/XW2E06DEC20151915.mp3 Both CW beacon and telemetry appear to be offline though. 73 de Pedro CU2ZG --- Este e-mail foi verificado em termos de vírus pelo software antivírus Avast. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Cygnus On Its Way
by B J 06 Dec '15

06 Dec '15

The launch was smooth and the spacecraft just separated from the booster. 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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ANS-340 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by Lee McLamb 06 Dec '15

06 Dec '15

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-340 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: * AMSAT Ground Terminal Development Expands to Texas * AMSAT SKN on OSCAR 2016 In Memory of W2BXA * Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-12-02 20:30 UTC * WRC-15 Satellite News * Cubesat by an Elementary School Will be Aboard the Orbital-ATK Cygnus Launch * 73 on 73 Award Recipients SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-340.01 ANS-340 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 340.01 From AMSAT HQ Kensington, MD. December 6, 2015 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-340.01 AMSAT Ground Terminal Development Expands to Texas Hardware consisting of Ettus Research USRP X300 SDR, USRP B210 SDR, UBX40 USRP Daughterboard, GPDSO Kits, and antennas have been ordered from National Instruments Corp. for delivery to Bill Reed NX5R in Dallas TX to equip a second community for development of the AMSAT Ground Terminals. These terminals will be used for the Phase 4B and other digital/microwave satellites being developed by AMSAT and in partnership with Virginia Tech. Michelle Thompson W5NYV has been leading the effort in the San Diego CA area, which started up when the P4B project was announced earlier this year. Amateur radio operators in the Southern California area from AMSAT, Palomar Amateur Radio Club, and the San Diego Microwave Society have been implementing a terrestrial system to mimic the ground and space segments of a digital satellite communications link and developing code and hardware techniques for use in the P4B and future HEO opportunities that AMSAT is pursuing. Expanding the system to the Dallas area will allow more collaboration, development, and testing by AMSAT and North Texas Microwave Society amateurs with San Diego and other regions. The investment in equipment and community building will increase the number and quality of ideas in developing this next generation system of amateur radio satellite communications. Another development system is being planned for the east coast. AMSAT is actively recruiting individuals and groups that want to work together to establish increased regional technical activity in support of satellite service goals. Rick Hambly W2GPS has campaigned for the creation of this very type of activity on the east coast for many years. Successful east-coast expansion will add even more variability and expertise to the project. By involving amateurs who have expertise in both microwave and digital communications and in varying terrain and conditions, as well as including people with various backgrounds and experience, AMSAT plans to produce a ground terminal that will be useful with a variety of next generation satellites including Phase 4B, Phase 3E, the Heimdallr Lunar Cube Quest CubeSat, and an AMSAT developed HEO CubeSat. These are all projects currently being pursued by the AMSAT Engineering and ASCENT (Advanced Satellite Communications and Exploration of New Technology) Teams. “The development of a ground terminal along with satellite projects is part of a plan to offer a way for amateurs to buy, build, or access ideas to develop their own ground terminals which will be useful for many future AMSAT satellite mission for years to come” said AMSAT-NA Vice President of Engineering Jerry Buxton, N0JY. “The concept of common uplink (5 GHz) and downlink (10 GHz) frequencies with software defined transponders allows many different experimentation and communications opportunities ranging from simple texting to voice, streaming video, data exchange, and reliable EMCOMM access in remote areas, with bandwidths to support many satellites and users.” If you are interested in supporting the effort please visit http://ww2.amsat.org/?page_id=1121 to submit a request. While those who live in the San Diego, Dallas, or Maryland areas may find it easier to participate, volunteers from other areas are welcome to join and contribute remotely. [ANS thanks Jerry, NØJY, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT SKN on OSCAR 2016 In Memory of W2BXA You are cordially invited to participate in Straight Key Night on OSCAR 2016, sponsored by AMSAT for all radio amateurs throughout the world. Operate CW through any amateur satellite from 0001 through 2400 UTC on 1 January 2016, using a manual, non-electronic key. Note that bugs are now allowed, as they are in similar ARRL and SKCC events. There is no need to send in a log, but please nominate someone you worked for Best Fist. Your nominee need not have the best fist of those you heard, just of those you worked. Send your nomination to w2rs(a)amsat.org.. A list of those nominated will be published in early February. This year’s event is being held in memory of Ben Stevenson, W2BXA (1914-2011). Licensed since 1929, Ben was one of the world’s top DXers on both HF and satellites. He led the DXCC Honor Roll for many years, and among his many awards were Satellite DXCC No. 1 and post-war Worked All Zones No. 1. Founding president of the North Jersey DX Association, Ben shared his knowledge and enthusiasm with one and all. [ANS thanks Ray, W2RS, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-12-02 20:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Nanasawa Kibounooka Elementary School, Atsugi, Japan, direct via 8N1NKSG The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kimiya Yui KG5BPH Contact was successful: Wed 2015-12-02 09:33:51 UTC 61 deg Yayoi Elementary School, Yatomi, Japan, direct via 8N2YAYOI The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kimiya Yui KG5BPH Contact is a go for: Fri 2015-12-04 09:25:46 UTC 57 deg Dragonskolan, Umeå, Sweden, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for: Fri 2015-12-04 10:15:01 UTC 72 deg Ingushetia, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Sergey Volkov RU3DIS Contact is a go for: Sat 2015-12-05 16:25 UTC Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski Junior High School, Swietajno, Poland, telebridge via LU1CGB The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for: Tue 2015-12-08 08:19:31 UTC 62 deg [ANS thanks Charlie, AJ9N, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- WRC-15 Satellite News In his report for Day 16 of the WRC-15 conference Colin Thomas G3PSM says: Discussions took place on suggested frequency bands for possible new or an upgrade of existing allocations to the space operations service within the frequency ranges 150.05-174 MHz, 400.15-420 MHz [and 420-450 MHz] for short duration satellites. This potential future agenda item is an attempt to overcome the problem of non-amateur nano- and pico-satellites using the amateur service bands. No decision was reached and the document has been passed to plenary for decision. More reports about WRC-15 activities can be found at http://rsgb.org/main/blog/category/news/special-focus/wrc-15/ [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information --------------------------------------------------------------------- Cubesat by an Elementary School Will be Aboard the Orbital-ATK Cygnus Launch NASA will enable the deployment of three small research satellites, or CubeSats, selected through the CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) for two universities and one primary school as part of the ninth installment of the Educational Launch of Nanosatellite (ELaNa) missions. Full story at this URL: http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/ELaNa_IX_mission_launches_first_cubesat_b… by_elementary_school_students_999.html [ANS thanks SpaceDaily for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 73 on 73 Award Recipients Paul Stoetzer N8HM reports more awards have been issued for contacts made via the AO-73 (FUNcube-1) amateur radio satellite. The 73 on 73 Award aims to promote activity on AO-73. The requirements are straight-forward: 1. Work 73 unique stations on AO-73. 2. Contacts must be made on or after September 1, 2014. 3. There are no geographic restrictions on your operating location. The latest recipients are: 20. David D’Aliesio IW0HLG – 31 May 2015 21. Kiyosi Hasegawa JA3FWT – 22 June 2015 22. Mariusz Kocot SQ9MES – 28 June 2015 23. Hector Luis Martinez W5CBF – 12 July 2015 24. George K. Carr II WA5KBH – 17 July 2015 25. Michel Ribot F6GLJ – 18 July 2015 26. Paul Stoetzer N8HM – 21 July 2015 27. Jeffrey Lamb NX9B – 2 August 2015 28. Imre Füzi HA1SE – 13 September 2015 29. Herman Blom PB0AHX – 1 November 2015 30. Joseba Andoni Barrio – 22 November 2015 Full information on how to apply is at http://amsat-uk.org/funcube/73-on-73-award/ [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK 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 with Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski Junior High School, Swietajno, Poland
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 06 Dec '15

06 Dec '15

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski Junior High School, Swietajno, Poland on 08 Dec. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 08:19 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. Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski Junior High School in Swietajno, attended by approximately 170 pupils (aged 13-15), is situated in a picturesque Land of a Thousand Lakes in Szczytno County (Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in the northeastern part of Poland). The school consists of seven forms and it employs twenty well-qualified teachers. Mazurian Amateur Radio Club SP4YWM has been established here and it functions with the number of seventeen school members (among which there are three primary school pupils and one pre-school girl, all from Swietajno). In preparations for the amateur radio contact with the ISS, the students with the guidance of their teachers improved their English, got familiar with the life and work on the ISS. They had a great opportunity to learn everyday English in order to ask an astronaut questions during the ISS contact as well as the specialized language of science to visit space agencies pages. The students learned geography with the use of modern technologies and photographed the Earth from the board of the ISS (EarthKAM). The school cooperated with the Olsztyn Planetarium to organize an observation. The planetarium visited Swietajno to accompany one of the school events. Consequently, the Astronomical Mobile Laboratory called Astrolabium was at the school's disposal. Last year the ARISS participants from Swietajno attended the 4th Polish-Wide Conference of Contributors and Sympathisers in ARISS held in the central part of Poland, where they focused on interesting topics concerning the ISS and learned how other Polish schools had prepared for ARISS contacts in the past. The pupils also performed an experiment in the near space as a part of the miniSAT project. They sent peas, bubble wrap and a watch to the near space to the altitude of about 30 000 meters above the Earth. The conditions differ significantly between the near space and the surface of the Earth: the pressure is much smaller, UV radiation is higher and the temperature is below zero degrees Celsius. People from all over Poland, including the pupils from Swietajno, took part in it. The balloon used in the event was marked "CP26". The experiment in the near space was possible thanks to HAM radio operators and other volunteers from a non-governmental organization called Copernicus Project Foundation (near Torun, Poland). Their two flagship projects are MiniSAT and Near Space Program in Poland and they have organized above 30 balloon flies to the near space since 2005. In March 2013 the school started public relations activities connected with the HAM radio contact between an astronaut on the International Space Station and the students from Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski School. An official inauguration of the ARISS program in Swietajno had been prepared. TVP Olsztyn, Radio Olsztyn and other local mass media were present there and took part in an inaugural lecture on ARISS. As a continuation of EarthKAM program an exhibition of the photographs taken by the students was organized during the inauguration. Before that, Swietajno primary school pupils (between the ages of 5 and 12) had been invited to participate in the preparations to the ARISS contact. As a result, some of them are going to ask the astronaut their questions, together with their older friends from the junior high school. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. Can you eat ice cream on the ISS? 2. How often do you observe the Earth and try to find your house? 3. How long can an astronaut stay on the ISS? 4. How old must be a person to become an astronaut? 5. Can you stop or change the direction of the ISS flight? 6. How do you spend your free time in space? 7. What time zone is used on the International Space Station? 8. Do you sometimes have a party on the ISS? 9. Can an astronaut catch a cold or flu on the ISS? 10. What was your most difficult task in space? 11. What is the most impressive thing you've seen from space? 12. Can you see New Year's Eve fireworks from space? 13. How long does it take to get from Earth to the space station? 14. What do you miss most from Earth you don't have in space? 15. Do you do the laundry on the ISS to clean your clothes? 16. Have you ever seen any unidentified flying objects? 17. Can you take your pet to the International Space Station? 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): TBD 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 visit the ARISS website at 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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Sunday from En82 and En83
by jeffory broughton 06 Dec '15

06 Dec '15

We are still on schedule to be parked on those two grids for 7 hours from 9 am to 4 pm EST.on Ao73,Ao85,Fo29,Ao7. WB8RJY.JEFF jeff broughton

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Inmarsat L-Band Sample IQ File?
by Scott 05 Dec '15

05 Dec '15

I sure hope this isn't too far off-topic, but I would imagine that a lot of Amsat people enjoy other satellite activities as well. I've searched but have not found any sample IQ .wav files of L-Band InmarSat data streams. It sure would be helpful to know what I'm looking for when I scan around the 1.5 GHz area. I'm also quite anxious to test the new JAERO software but of course you need a signal (live or recorded) to see anything decoded. If anyone has a URL for sample Inmarsat files, I sure would appreciate it. Thanks! -Scott, K4KDR Montpelier, VA USA

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Next Cygnus Launch Attempt Rescheduled For Tomorrow
by B J 05 Dec '15

05 Dec '15

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/12/cygnus-return-atlas-v-launch/ http://www.parabolicarc.com/2015/12/05/atlas-cygnus-launch-reset-sunday/ 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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What is the tone for AO-85? I can't locate that anywhere
by Mark Lunday 05 Dec '15

05 Dec '15

Mark Lunday, WD4ELG Greensboro, NC FM06be wd4elg(a)arrl.net http://wd4elg.blogspot.com

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Re: [amsat-bb] Another Rotor Design - Great Fun, Easy to Build and Very Cheap
by Thomas Doyle 05 Dec '15

05 Dec '15

Thanks Phil, It is an updated version of a table top rotor I did several years ago. http://www.tomdoyle.org/satellite/SatTrackerIPoint.html The idea was to have a pointer that would point at the satellite so I knew where to point a hand-held Elk. It worked fine. This one is smaller and of course works with SatPC32. The steppers are too good a deal to pass up. To keep the size and cost down they designed a stepper with a high step angle of 5.625 degrees. They are geared down 64:1. Amazing amount of torque for such a little motor. Five of them with ULN-2003 driver boards for $16. I believe they could turn fairly large bread slicer capacitors and a rotary inductor as used in antenna tuners. A homebrew mechanical automatic antenna tuner would be an interesting project. http://www.amazon.com/USPRO%C2%AE-Stepper-28BYJ-48-4-Phase-ULN2003/dp/B00JB… 73 W9KE tom... On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 10:43 PM, Phil <phil_lor(a)bigpond.com> wrote: > On 05/12/15 02:31, Thomas Doyle wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> http://www.tomdoyle.org/3dPrinterRotor-1 >> > > That's really cleaver Tom. I imagine that the rotator would only handle > the lightest of aerials. > > -- > Regards, > Phil > _______________________________________________ > 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 from my computer. tom ...

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by Gregory Beat 05 Dec '15

05 Dec '15

** Another Rotor Design - Great Fun, Easy to Build and Very Cheap ** What is a Stepper Motor? https://learn.adafruit.com/all-about-stepper-motors That Stepper Motor used by Thomas Doyle, W9KE http://www.tomdoyle.org/3dPrinterRotor-1/3DPrinterRotor-1.html can also be found at Adafruit (NYC) in either 5 or 12 Volt models. Holding Torque @ 12VDC: 250 gram-force*cm, 25 N*mm/ 3.5 oz-force*in The 12 Volt version of this same stepper motor used by W9KE can be found in the Icom IC-746 automatic tuner sub-assembly. http://www.adafruit.com/products/918 Mr. Carlson's Lab on YouTube Paul Carlson, VE7ZWZ Troubleshooting the Icom IC-746 (repairing that stepper motor) He notes that the "rotor" is a weak point in this stepper motor design. http://youtu.be/UdY6RhNOCWg === You can also use larger stepper motors, such as a NEMA 17 (also sold at Adafruit) Holding torque per phase: 2 Kg*cm, 20 N*cm/ 28 oz*in http://www.adafruit.com/product/324 w9gb Sent from iPad Air

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Another Rotor Design - Great Fun, Easy to Build and Very Cheap
by Thomas Doyle 05 Dec '15

05 Dec '15

Hi, http://www.tomdoyle.org/3dPrinterRotor-1 73 W9KE Tom Doyle

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Next Launch Attempt For Cygnus
by B J 05 Dec '15

05 Dec '15

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2015/12/04/atlas-launch-cygnus-rescheduled-satu… 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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APRS mode on IO-86 Satellite
by Suryono Adisoemarta 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

This weekend IO-86 (LAPAN A2/ORARI) will be on APRS mode on the following passes: Saturday : 02.40 - 04.45 (1 orbit) Sunday: 03.02 - 05.00 (1 orbit) Freq: 145.825 MHz Path: YBSAT Next week we plan to activate voice repeater followed by APRS. 73 de Yono - YD0NXX Sent from my iPhone 5s

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Cygnus Launch Scrubbed
by B J 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

The weather was unfavourable. The next attempt will be made tomorrow but there's reportedly only a 30% of good conditions. 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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Another Scrub For Cygnus
by B J 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

Today the reason was ground wind speeds being just above acceptable limits. 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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Portable from EN 82 & EN 83
by jeffory broughton 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

This Sunday I will be operating 6 passes from the EN 82 & EN 83 line.From 9 am to 4 pm.My buddy John will be operating some of them under my call to get his feet wet! Just made a 2 hour trip to get the landowners permission ,whew! WB8RJY.JEFF jeff broughton

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WD9EWK @ Mesa AZ hamfest on Saturday (5 December 2015)
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

Hi! Just a reminder that I will have an AMSAT booth at the Superstition Amateur Radio Club's Superfest hamfest on Saturday (5 December) morning. This hamfest is at the Mesa Community College, along the east side of Dobson Road between Southern Avenue and the US-60 freeway in Mesa, Arizona. The hamfest officially opens at 7am, but I'm sure there will be people at the hamfest site an hour or two before that. It officially ends at 2pm. More information about the hamfest is available at: http://superstitionsuperfest.org/ WD9EWK will work various satellite passes from approximately 6am (1300 UTC) until either the crowd at the hamfest disappears, or the official end of the hamfest at 2pm (2100 UTC). Please call WD9EWK and be part of the on-air demonstrations. After the hamfest, my log will be uploaded to Logbook of the World, and QSL cards will be available on request (please e-mail me directly with the QSO details). The hamfest site is in grid DM43. Thanks in advance, and 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK

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More On Cygnus Launch Scrub
by B J 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/12/cygnus-return-atlas-v-launch/ http://www.parabolicarc.com/2015/12/03/atlas-cygnus-launch-scrubbed-resched… http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/orbital-sciences-corp/rain-… http://spacenews.com/weather-postpones-atlas-launch-of-cygnus-cargo-spacecr… http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/news/next-u-s-cargo-spacecraft-ready-to-la… 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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Colorado Amateur Satellite net Begins in 1 hour
by Skyler F 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

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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DM83
by John Geiger 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

Was someone portable in DM83 on the 15.35UTC pass of SO50? 73 John AF5CC

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