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Re: [amsat-bb] Link Budget
by Edward R Cole 07 Nov '15

07 Nov '15

Maybe. Ever heard of Moonbounce (eme)? I have a 16-foot dish (4.9m) which can make 5w very loud on 5-GHz! Compared to a 3-foot dish it is 20Log(16/3) = 14.5 dB more gain (28 times as much signal strength). It moves slow so would not track a LEO at all and only track HEO at the highest part of the orbit where angular rates are slow. It tracks the Moon very nice. I use in on 1296-eme with 125w. 5-GHz eme typically have 50w or more power. Most run TWT's. Some have hundreds of watts! 73, Ed - KL7UW Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 16:22:13 -0500 From: Paul Stoetzer <n8hm(a)arrl.net> To: KA9QJG <KA9QJG(a)comcast.net> Cc: Joe <nss(a)mwt.net>, "amsat-bb(a)amsat.org" <AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Link Budget Message-ID: <CABzOSOoLpP05UzjiE2fHkZ-7pwbH2+eBmcOJJYzc7EB78Da1VA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 The good thing is that high power at 5 GHz is expensive, so I doubt anyone will be running too much more than they have to on P4B! 73, Paul, N8HM 73, Ed - KL7UW http://www.kl7uw.com "Kits made by KL7UW" Dubus Mag business: dubususa(a)gmail.com

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Re: [amsat-bb] Link Budget
by Edward R Cole 07 Nov '15

07 Nov '15

I don't recall exactly but there is geostationary and there geocentric orbits. The orbit that is not zero inclination will trace a figure 8 in the sky but its not a large deviation in position. If 5GHz is being considered for the link, antenna gain may be fairly high but will they have a beamwidth narrower than the angular deviation that the figure 8 makes? How big a dish? 2-foot? 3-foot? Get out your sliderules and calculate the beamwidth (no I will not do it for you). I think the inclination in geotationary is not very high (maybe a few degrees; i.e. <10). The apparent motion would be diurnal so nothing rapid. One could probably use a manual setting for a few hours. Just a guesstimate. 73, Ed - KL7UW From: Burns Fisher <burns(a)fisher.cc> To: Joe <nss(a)mwt.net> Cc: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Link Budget Message-ID: <CABX7KxVtXXFHvm_3_BLd4SKyTDRSpOdYwsA+x+kXJrTNHG0Eew(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 While it appears that you are right about the link budget, one of you arguments holds only *some* water, and that is tracking. GeoSTATIONARY birds would require to tracking, but there are geosynchronous orbits (i.e. 24 hours, but not necessarily 0 inclination and 0 eccentricity) which would move north/south or east/west in the sky over the course of a day. And regarding the moon: Another argument against it is that it is darned hard to land on the moon. Lots more deltaV required. 73, Burns W2BFJ 73, Ed - KL7UW http://www.kl7uw.com "Kits made by KL7UW" Dubus Mag business: dubususa(a)gmail.com

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a big thanks!
by KG4BYN - Ben Harold 07 Nov '15

07 Nov '15

well, i asked and you all came through. SO - thank you! i've got MORE knowledge to get me underway, now, than i did upon a few weeks of hunting around on the internet and just getting more and more confused. fwiw, i'm running windoze 7 on the box in my office and can easily switch from windoze to linux on my notebook in the shack. also, i'm NOT - particularly - "cheap" when it comes to this, but fighting the cancer took its toll not only on ME, but on our pocketbook, as well. anyway, thanks for ALL the info! i'm sure i'll be popping in and out of here, now that you know who i am, as well as my level of "marksmanship" in this endeavor. 73, ben --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Re: [amsat-bb] dumbest questions in the world
by Pedro Converso 07 Nov '15

07 Nov '15

Hello, It is not a dumb question, is what most starting bird chasers' ask. Trying solve this question I made a simple & free one screen application showing at a glance most required information. You can try it at http://amsat.org.ar/pass.htm Will show in your local time what next passes are coming. If you click on a satellite icon, will see azimuth/elevation + graphics, modes, doppler adjusted uplink/downlink frequencies, and a beep alerting coming or leaving satellites. Good luck with your renewed interest on the birds !! Best 73, lu7abf, Pedro Converso

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PSK31 on PSAT-1 (was elbow room)
by Robert Bruninga 07 Nov '15

07 Nov '15

> How about a PSK-31 Cubesat within VHF/UHF? Because the 6000 Hz and 18,000 Hz of Doppler change on VHF and UHF simply cannot be done with PSK31 that requires tuning accuracy of +/- 1 Hz. By using ten meter uplink and FM downlink we eliminate the downlink Doppler and reduce the nominal Uplink Doppler on ten meters to an average around 1 Hz/sec for the lower portions of most passes. Bob, WB4aPR > Not many of us have a 10m dipole… as part of our satellite setup A simple portable fishing pole with an 8’ piece of wire on and another 8 foot counterpoise laying on the ground would make a great ten meter vertical for PSAT-1 PSK31 uplink. (Sorry though, that it takes more than 5 watts due to cramming an HF antenna on a 6” cubesat). Bob, WB4APR *Sent:* Tuesday, November 03, 2015 10:43 PM *Subject:* Re: [amsat-bb] AO-85 Rudeness (elbow room) > I like to see the 10m uplink "arrow" approach :-) > While PSAT-1 is a nice "proof of concept for PSK-31" > in reality it does nothing for the portable operator and > that is what the original post is all about. …. > Using PSK31 is a great idea, the 10m uplink is the real issue > for the non-use of PSAT-1. Should I say "fatal flaw"? > Not many of us have a 10m dipole ready as part of our satellite setup > (stationary or mobile for that matter). > It is time that we move on and promote digital modes on > frequencies that are actually used within the allocated satellite > bands and even better on higher bands where we have allocations > and we don't use them. > How about a PSK-31 Cubesat within VHF/UHF? > ... and leave 10m on the ground where it belongs LOL :-) ------------------------------ On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Robert Bruninga <bruninga(a)usna.edu> wrote: Take a break from the congestion.... come to the wide open multi-user wideband transponder on PSAT-1. Downlink is good on a handheld arrow on 435.350 MHz FM. It should be able to support dozens of simultaneous full duplex QSO's in the PSK31 waterfall. Just pick an empty spot and key your TX solid for the full 8 minutes of the pass on your 10 meter PSK31 uplink 28.121 MHz.. To run fullduplex, just run two copies of your favorite PSK31 software. One receiving the FM downlink and the other transmitting on the SSB uplink. Even better is to run Andy K0SM's TX-only uplink client that pre-adjusts for Doppler so everyone can decode you with no adjustments. http://aprs.org/psat.html Text with everyone all at once. Bob, WB4aPR _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

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Re: [amsat-bb] AO85 vs SO-50
by GW1FKY＠aol.com 07 Nov '15

07 Nov '15

Reference the comments on operating AO-85 by Dani ( M0HXM /EA4GPZ ) and the frequencies that he states that he uses Dani - Typing error I am sure .- You make reference to 436 Mhz but it should be 435 Mhz on the uplink. Regards and good luck. Ken Eaton GW1FKY Amsat -UK Amsat NA

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dumbest questions in the world
by KG4BYN - Ben Harold 07 Nov '15

07 Nov '15

ok, these are, indeed, the dumbest questions for you folks, because i've determined you all ARE the experts. i'm a 60+ year old ham. never worked the birds, but have always been fascinated. yup typical story, right? our local, somewhat, non-existent radio club had someone (not from around here) provide a very brief demonstration one saturday morning in a walmart parking lot - circa 2001. needless to say that was a LONG time ago. most of my hamming has been cw, with a rare ssb qso. i got burned out on 2m/70cm, early on (many years ago), howver...i've got my vhf/gear and antennas updated for some sat work. MY MAJOR PROBLEM is _/where/_ can i find downlink/uplink freqs for the fm birds with transponders. to be honest, i'd be darned happy to just to RECEIVE a cw beacon or even some packet via rig and soundcard. i've weeded through tons of websites, tons of threads on this bb...and am STILL having a difficult time finding the info for what i want. i'm a dinosaur (OLD) and and recovering from extremely severe colon cancer surgery, BUT i'm looking to broaden my horizons/hobby. also a link to a DECENT free tracking program with updating pass predictions would be helpful, too. i have a refurb pc notebook in the shack for this project. yes, i've heard of google, and yes, i've read darned near everything i can find...but the more i read, the more confused this old guys gets. feel free to answer me via private email so as not to clutter this mailing list...which HAS provided great info, but also, sadly, adds to my confusion. at least, i've got the doppler effect problem reasonably figured out. sorry for the long email and stupid questions. i originally wasn't going to send it, but i figured i gotta start someplace. 73! --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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AO 85 operations
by James Brown 07 Nov '15

07 Nov '15

I am confused. is AO85 operational for FM? If so, what freqs. should I program. I will be in death valley the next 7 days and want to try it and so 50. ThanksJim KI6WJ

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Re: [amsat-bb] AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 10, Issue 338
by Miguel Angel Baldonado 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

Hello! I agree with Luciano, PY5LF......AO-85 is much more friendly with us! Greetings from GF05 MikeLU3EMB Enviado desde Outlook On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 2:34 PM -0800, <amsat-bb-request(a)amsat.org> wrote: Send AMSAT-BB mailing list submissions to amsat-bb(a)amsat.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to amsat-bb-request(a)amsat.org You can reach the person managing the list at amsat-bb-owner(a)amsat.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of AMSAT-BB digest..." Today's Topics: 1. AO85 Pass (PY5LF) 2. AO-85 FM UV Voice mode received over Bangkok, Thailand (Karn Suwanrat) 3. Re: Open source APRS tracker Kickstarter (skristof(a)etczone.com) 4. Re: FoxTelem Program Java aspect crashes every day now (Robert McGwier) 5. Re: Open source APRS tracker Kickstarter (Proper Path) (Robert Bruninga) 6. Re: Open source APRS tracker Kickstarter (Proper Path) (skristof(a)etczone.com) 7. M2 LEO PACK - FREE SHIPPING CONUS or BEST OFFER (Peter Budnik) 8. Re: AO85 vs SO-50 (GW1FKY(a)aol.com) 9. AO 85 operations (James Brown) 10. Re: AO 85 operations (mvivona(a)yahoo.com) 11. Re: AO 85 operations (R.T.Liddy) 12. Re: AO 85 operations (Kevin Schuchmann) 13. Ao-73/FUNcube mode change (Jim Heck G3WGM) 14. Re: AO 85 operations (mvivona(a)yahoo.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 13:41:46 -0200 From: "PY5LF" <py5lf(a)falautomation.com.br> To: <AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org>, <starcom-bb(a)star-com.net> Subject: [amsat-bb] AO85 Pass Message-ID: <005301d118a9$a65282e0$f2f788a0$(a)falautomation.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi AO85 are very nice to work now ,much more stable. https://youtu.be/I03TQpguEic 73 PY5LF Luciano Fabricio Curitiba-PR-BR GG54jm http://www.qrz.com/db/PY5LF ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 23:19:35 +0700 From: Karn Suwanrat <e20zfd(a)gmail.com> To: AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-85 FM UV Voice mode received over Bangkok, Thailand Message-ID: <CAKhufXtn26TnCsMHeXBKfvnaA-1Hu4Fu_Y6F866xhKW7CRx=zw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMHiHmINIeE I could receive a FM Phone Mode for only a few second toward the end of the pass. So I don't know who was calling. Fox-1A (AO-85) Mode FM (U/V Transponder) Freq. 145.980 MHz Date 2015 NOV 6 Time 1523-1538UTC Max El 72 Rx By E20ZFD Grid OK03gs 73' Karn E20ZFD/AA1AF ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 11:23:09 -0500 From: skristof(a)etczone.com To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Open source APRS tracker Kickstarter Message-ID: <174f353930ba5d91bf3f16e2d30369c3(a)etczone.com> Content-Type: text/plain If I get one of these things, I would like to do it right and not screw up the network. What is a suggested addressing protocol for an APRS balloon? I assume it's posted somewhere, but a quick search of the internet didn't turn up anything obvious to a newbie like me. If these things get popular maybe a set of standards could be posted on the AMSAT and APRS websites. Steve AI9IN On 2015-11-06 10:36, Joe wrote: > with all the new computer capabilities, couldn't a ummm filter or something be made, that if it is a -11 signal. then regardless of what is being sent for hops it is ignored? if above "X" feet? > > Joe WB9SBD > Sig > The Original Rolling Ball Clock > Idle Tyme > Idle-Tyme.com > http://www.idle-tyme.com [1] > On 11/6/2015 9:19 AM, Robert Bruninga wrote: > It looks like it is time to restructure the entire APRS system Hams do a good job of self policing when they know the requirements and proper procedures. APRS hasn't failed in over 22 years. The purpose of this thread is to simply remind people that balloons should use the recommended path for balloons that can cover a million square miles, and not the same path they use for their car locally. Bob, WB4APR -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Doyle Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Open source APRS tracker Kickstarter It looks like it is time to restructure the entire APRS system. Any network that can be brought down by non-compliant clients has a big problem and should be restructured. Trying to police the entire world to make sure no one violates a protocol for a large scale open access network is sure to fail. 73 W9KE Tom Doyle On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Robert Bruninga wrote: The #1 question is what Path this device will use. It is an abomination >> to fly such a tracker on the APRS network with a beacon rate more often than once a minute, *OR* with a path via more than 1 hop. If those limits are not implemented in hardware, these devices could trash the national APRS frequency. Half the balloons we see go up to not adhere to these APRS standards because the operators are clueless to the netwrk constraints and apparently do nothing to research the proper settings.. Bob, WB4APR _______________________________________________ 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 [2] _______________________________________________ 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 [2] Links: ------ [1] http://www.idle-tyme.com [2] http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 10:23:39 -0600 From: Robert McGwier <rwmcgwier(a)gmail.com> To: Jerry Buxton <n0jy(a)amsat.org> Cc: "amsat-bb(a)amsat.org" <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] FoxTelem Program Java aspect crashes every day now Message-ID: <CA+K5gzcHh86k369hU5ReA5aW+NLSkVBZs-ocvqfT+gYn+bRL0Q(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 And you all are doing a fabulous job. The only thing I remind my peers of is that people spend their own money and their valuable free time tapping their toes gleefully anticipating success and participation. I've been amongst the , now reformed, guilty. I don't do the answers as I'm too busy, but I support the need. We need more volunteers who want to support the engineers in this but must be trusted to help and not hinder. Having done this stuff for years, let me admonish users to remember that if you have a critique or question something, please approach it as if the engineer has already considered it and dealt with it and you'll find a willing conversationalist. We're all proud of our work and, no, we don't always get it right. But you can generally assume we've tried really hard to. Don't come into our house and toss the furniture about. You won't find us willing hosts to have you at our table. Respectfully and 73s, Bob N4HY On Wednesday, November 4, 2015, Jerry Buxton <n0jy(a)amsat.org> wrote: > A work in progress, one thing for consideration is that Chris also has > to work with me to provide versions that do Fox-1Cliff/D for our testing > of those as well as providing us the way to reliably get data to and > mine data from the server as we check out AO-85, so his time is > divided. The plus to that is that we are expecting releases before > 1Cliff/D that will provide automatic slow/high speed data switching and > better performance as you all provide feedback to help him learn what > needs tweaking. Testing FoxTelem on the ground with a satellite 3 feet > away or using a recording isn't the real deal of course, so just like > with the performance of Fox-1A AO-85 on orbit there are things to be > learned about real world performance of FoxTelem. > > Remember - it's a hobby. :-) > > Thank you for your support. > > Jerry Buxton, N?JY > > On 11/4/2015 14:55, Bob KD7YZ wrote: > > On 04-Nov-15 1251, Paul Stoetzer wrote: > > . I know, for example, that AC0RA is using an FCD > >> direct to FoxTelem and has submitted 2,703 frames. > > I too am FCDP+ straight to the 2m antenna > > > > As for FoxTelem not being totally hands-off. (A) the "Implementors" > > are/will fix that with the soon-here next release. > > > > (B) they also told me, or all of us, that irrespective of the Java > > crash, data collection goes on; data is stored; next re-start of PGM, > > the data is uploaded. > > > > So I ain't no more gonna worry 'bout it. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org <javascript:;>. 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 > -- Bob McGwier Founder, Federated Wireless, Inc Founder and Technical Advisor, HawkEye 360, Inc Research Professor Virginia Tech Dir. Research: The Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology Senior Member IEEE, Facebook: N4HYBob, ARS: N4HY Faculty Advisor Virginia Tech Amateur Radio Assn. (K4KDJ) Director of AMSAT ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 11:49:22 -0500 From: Robert Bruninga <bruninga(a)usna.edu> To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Open source APRS tracker Kickstarter (Proper Path) Message-ID: <efaeb7a6b27568da622dc4ed754191f9(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 ARGH! You are right. SOmwhere over the last 22 years, the link and page BALLOONS.TXT file is gone. So I just added the path receommendation to the top of our page: http://aprs.org/balloons.html -----Original Message----- > What is a suggested addressing protocol for an APRS balloon? > a quick search of the internet didn't turn up anything obvious to a newbie like me. On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Robert > Bruninga wrote: >> The #1 question is what Path this device will use. It is an abomination >> to fly such a tracker on the APRS network with a beacon rate more >> often than once a minute, *OR* with a path via more than 1 hop. If >> those limits are not implemented in hardware, these devices could >> trash the national APRS frequency. Half the balloons we see go up to >> not adhere to these APRS standards because the operators are clueless >> to the netwrk constraints and apparently do nothing to research the >> proper settings.. Bob, WB4APR ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 12:50:19 -0500 From: skristof(a)etczone.com To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Open source APRS tracker Kickstarter (Proper Path) Message-ID: <5c2f63ab89d751a1e726b41a1afbd965(a)etczone.com> Content-Type: text/plain Perfect! Thank you very much. Steve AI9IN On 2015-11-06 11:49, Robert Bruninga wrote: > ARGH! You are right. SOmwhere over the last 22 years, the link and page > BALLOONS.TXT file is gone. > > So I just added the path receommendation to the top of our page: > http://aprs.org/balloons.html [1] > > -----Original Message----- > >> What is a suggested addressing protocol for an APRS balloon? a quick search of the internet didn't turn up anything obvious to a > > newbie like me. > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Robert > Bruninga wrote: The #1 question is what Path this device will use. It is an abomination >> to fly such a tracker on the APRS network with a beacon rate more often than once a minute, *OR* with a path via more than 1 hop. If those limits are not implemented in hardware, these devices could trash the national APRS frequency. Half the balloons we see go up to not adhere to these APRS standards because the operators are clueless to the netwrk constraints and apparently do nothing to research the proper settings.. Bob, WB4APR _______________________________________________ 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 [2] Links: ------ [1] http://aprs.org/balloons.html [2] http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 13:33:52 -0500 From: "Peter Budnik" <kb1hy2(a)comcast.net> To: "Amsat - BBs" <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Subject: [amsat-bb] M2 LEO PACK - FREE SHIPPING CONUS or BEST OFFER Message-ID: <DB4F1112E07D492E8702D56AF22573B6@PeterPC> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" For Sale the M2 LEO SATELLITE Pack - Includes the 2MCP8A 2 Meter antenna and the 436CP16 70cm antenna and mounting boom. These antennas are like new and have been only up a few months. The antennas are together but can be taken apart for shipping. Have original shipping carton,manuals and lots of spare hardware and element clips. Can all so be picked up locally or can meet 50 miles or so miles to deliver.I do have pictures of them up if needed.Great antennas made many contacts on SO50 and FO29. Price is $400.00 shipped or meet for delivery. 73 Peter,KB1HY 860-713-8820 ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 14:32:04 -0500 From: GW1FKY(a)aol.com To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AO85 vs SO-50 Message-ID: <1ebc72.2147b3d.436e5a34(a)aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Reference the comments on operating AO-85 by Dani ( M0HXM /EA4GPZ ) and the frequencies that he states that he uses Dani - Typing error I am sure .- You make reference to 436 Mhz but it should be 435 Mhz on the uplink. Regards and good luck. Ken Eaton GW1FKY Amsat -UK Amsat NA ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 20:51:58 +0000 (UTC) From: James Brown <jimki6wj(a)sbcglobal.net> To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Subject: [amsat-bb] AO 85 operations Message-ID: <1463096959.974232.1446843118709.JavaMail.yahoo(a)mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I am confused. is AO85 operational for FM? If so, what freqs.? should I program. I will be in death valley the next 7 days? and want to try it and so 50. ThanksJim KI6WJ ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 21:17:32 +0000 (UTC) From: "mvivona(a)yahoo.com" <mvivona(a)yahoo.com> To: James Brown <jimki6wj(a)sbcglobal.net>, AMSAT BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AO 85 operations Message-ID: <398922840.847250.1446844653178.JavaMail.yahoo(a)mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 James, There is a brand new tool on-line. It's called "Google". I know, it's a funny name that probably won't every make it. All you do it type in what you are looking for a magically answers from all over the world pop up. Wow... Here is what Google showed me for "AO-85 Frequencies". http://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/FoxOperatingGuide… it out sometime, it's lots of fun. ?Michael KC4AVA From: James Brown <jimki6wj(a)sbcglobal.net> To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Sent: Friday, November 6, 2015 3:51 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] AO 85 operations I am confused. is AO85 operational for FM? If so, what freqs.? should I program. I will be in death valley the next 7 days? and want to try it and so 50. ThanksJim KI6WJ _______________________________________________ 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 ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 21:50:52 +0000 (UTC) From: "R.T.Liddy" <k8bl(a)ameritech.net> To: "mvivona(a)yahoo.com" <mvivona(a)yahoo.com>, James Brown <jimki6wj(a)sbcglobal.net>, AMSAT BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AO 85 operations Message-ID: <1738206563.1061136.1446846652528.JavaMail.yahoo(a)mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Try this link (without the AMSAT-BB syntax error): http://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/FoxOperatingGuide… GL/73, ? ? Bob ?K8BL From: mvivona--- via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> To: James Brown <jimki6wj(a)sbcglobal.net>; AMSAT BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Sent: Friday, November 6, 2015 4:17 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AO 85 operations James, There is a brand new tool on-line. It's called "Google". I know, it's a funny name that probably won't every make it. All you do it type in what you are looking for a magically answers from all over the world pop up. Wow... Here is what Google showed me for "AO-85 Frequencies". http://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/FoxOperatingGuide… it out sometime, it's lots of fun. ?Michael KC4AVA ? ? ? From: James Brown <jimki6wj(a)sbcglobal.net> To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Sent: Friday, November 6, 2015 3:51 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] AO 85 operations ? I am confused. is AO85 operational for FM? If so, what freqs.? should I program. I will be in death valley the next 7 days? and want to try it and so 50. ThanksJim KI6WJ _______________________________________________ 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 ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 14:05:24 -0800 From: Kevin Schuchmann <WA6FWF(a)comcast.net> To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AO 85 operations Message-ID: <563D2423.6030805(a)comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed You Know Michael for a guy that was complaining about not being able to receive AO-85 telem a few days ago and considering all the help you got from people your reply to James was pretty crappy. When you were having troubles you could have gone out to Google also and actually done some work on your own and found there is more than one way to capture telem. It would have been fine to say the info is easily found on Google and let it drop, but your flippant attitude makes me less likely to help a troll like you in the future. Kevin WA6FWF On 11/6/2015 1:17 PM, mvivona--- via AMSAT-BB wrote: > James, > There is a brand new tool on-line. It's called "Google". I know, it's a funny name that probably won't every make it. > All you do it type in what you are looking for a magically answers from all over the world pop up. Wow... > Here is what Google showed me for "AO-85 Frequencies". > http://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/FoxOperatingGuide… Try it out sometime, it's lots of fun. > Michael KC4AVA > > ------------------------------ Message: 13 Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 22:09:35 -0000 From: "Jim Heck G3WGM" <jimlist(a)zoho.com> To: <amsat-bb(a)AMSAT.Org> Subject: [amsat-bb] Ao-73/FUNcube mode change Message-ID: <C17BF3F10F614669BB7DB137A5CD0270@jimPC2> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Hi Fold, I have just changed AO-73/FUNcube to full time transponder ON mode. As usual, plan it to revert to auto eclipse mode on Sun pm UTC. Enjoy 73s Jim G3WGM ------------------------------ Message: 14 Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 22:31:24 +0000 (UTC) From: "mvivona(a)yahoo.com" <mvivona(a)yahoo.com> To: Kevin Schuchmann <WA6FWF(a)comcast.net>, "amsat-bb(a)amsat.org" <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AO 85 operations Message-ID: <2093595403.869396.1446849084608.JavaMail.yahoo(a)mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 You are so right Kevin, now I feel terrible. ?Michael From: Kevin Schuchmann <WA6FWF(a)comcast.net> To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Sent: Friday, November 6, 2015 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AO 85 operations You Know Michael? for a guy that was complaining about not being able to receive AO-85 telem a few days ago and considering all the help you got from people your reply to James was pretty crappy. When? you were having troubles you could have gone out to Google also and actually done some work on your own and found there is more than one way to capture telem. It would have been fine to say the info is easily found on Google and let it drop, but your flippant attitude makes me less likely to help a troll like you in the future. Kevin WA6FWF On 11/6/2015 1:17 PM, mvivona--- via AMSAT-BB wrote: > James, > There is a brand new tool on-line. It's called "Google". I know, it's a funny name that probably won't every make it. > All you do it type in what you are looking for a magically answers from all over the world pop up. Wow... > Here is what Google showed me for "AO-85 Frequencies". > http://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/FoxOperatingGuide… Try it out sometime, it's lots of fun. >? Michael KC4AVA > >? _______________________________________________ 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 ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ 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 member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb ------------------------------ End of AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 10, Issue 338 *****************************************

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M2 LEO PACK - FREE SHIPPING CONUS or BEST OFFER
by Peter Budnik 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

For Sale the M2 LEO SATELLITE Pack - Includes the 2MCP8A 2 Meter antenna and the 436CP16 70cm antenna and mounting boom. These antennas are like new and have been only up a few months. The antennas are together but can be taken apart for shipping. Have original shipping carton,manuals and lots of spare hardware and element clips. Can all so be picked up locally or can meet 50 miles or so miles to deliver.I do have pictures of them up if needed.Great antennas made many contacts on SO50 and FO29. Price is $400.00 shipped or meet for delivery. 73 Peter,KB1HY 860-713-8820

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Re: [amsat-bb] Open source APRS tracker Kickstarter (Proper Path)
by Robert Bruninga 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

ARGH! You are right. SOmwhere over the last 22 years, the link and page BALLOONS.TXT file is gone. So I just added the path receommendation to the top of our page: http://aprs.org/balloons.html -----Original Message----- > What is a suggested addressing protocol for an APRS balloon? > a quick search of the internet didn't turn up anything obvious to a newbie like me. On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Robert > Bruninga wrote: >> The #1 question is what Path this device will use. It is an abomination >> to fly such a tracker on the APRS network with a beacon rate more >> often than once a minute, *OR* with a path via more than 1 hop. If >> those limits are not implemented in hardware, these devices could >> trash the national APRS frequency. Half the balloons we see go up to >> not adhere to these APRS standards because the operators are clueless >> to the netwrk constraints and apparently do nothing to research the >> proper settings.. Bob, WB4APR

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Re: [amsat-bb] FoxTelem Program Java aspect crashes every day now
by Carlos Picoto 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

Michael, I had the same issue using FoxTelem with Funcube directly. Instead I have HDSDR RF recording from Funcube and feed the recordings to FoxTelem afterwards. Carlos (AD7NP) Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Mvivona via AMSAT-BB Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 8:58 PM To: Dino Papas Cc: AMSAT-BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] FoxTelem Program Java aspect crashes every day now My FoxTelem program never crashes, however it never decodes anything either. I can have a perfect overhead pass and using my FCD+ it sometimes will actually get an eye but never decode anything. The find satellite or Doppler lock is pretty much worthless here. The same setup on AO73 gets solid Doppler locks and decodes packets all the way across the sky. I am always bewildered to hear other users saying they are getting 45 packets or so from AO85. All the rocket science should be out of the way and this part should be pretty straight forward. Michael Vivona Sent from my iPad On Nov 3, 2015, at 5:35 PM, Dino Papas <kl0s(a)cox.net> wrote: As an aside, the FoxTelem program for the Mac requires you to downgrade from the latest Java to V6 - I’d love to work use the app but don’t want to have to replace the latest Java with a lesser less secure version. I know it’s an issue with OS X and am sure the authors would prefer it wasn’t so but w/o some kind of workaround I’m reluctant to mess with it. Dino KL0S > On Nov032015, at 1730 PM, Bob KD7YZ <kd7yz(a)denstarfarm.us> wrote: > > I've reported this to the wily programmers. > > However, I was wondering if others have their FoxTelem monitoring > program crash ... complaining about Java ?? > > > (Java build 1.8.0_65-b17) > > A little annoying now since I leave it monitoring/decoding and let > SatPC32 track. > > I came in both today and yesterday to the window telling me about the > crash and the program needs re-start. > > I didn't have this problem before the last Java mandatory updates .Now I > want a link to be able to roll-back the Win7/64 version I have installed. > > -- > 73, > Bob KD7YZ > www.qrz.com/db/kd7yz > AmSat LM#901 _______________________________________________ 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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Open source APRS tracker Kickstarter
by Steve Kristoff 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

Please consider backing this Kickstarter project. It's an open source APRS tracker for weather balloons. I have no stake in the project other than a pledge and I'd really like to see the project go. Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1250163085/tracksoar-aprs/posts/139752… Steve Kristoff AI9IN skristof(a)etczone.com

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AO-85 FM UV Voice mode received over Bangkok, Thailand
by Karn Suwanrat 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMHiHmINIeE I could receive a FM Phone Mode for only a few second toward the end of the pass. So I don't know who was calling. Fox-1A (AO-85) Mode FM (U/V Transponder) Freq. 145.980 MHz Date 2015 NOV 6 Time 1523-1538UTC Max El 72 Rx By E20ZFD Grid OK03gs 73' Karn E20ZFD/AA1AF

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AO85 Pass
by PY5LF 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

Hi AO85 are very nice to work now ,much more stable. https://youtu.be/I03TQpguEic 73 PY5LF Luciano Fabricio Curitiba-PR-BR GG54jm http://www.qrz.com/db/PY5LF

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BRICSAT-1 recovery challenge
by Robert Bruninga 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

If anyone has 9600 baud satellite capability and is looking for a challenge, you could be successful in recovering BRICSAT (NO83). BRICSAT simply has a negative power budget. When it wakes up, it should be possible to get in the command to tell it to turn off unnecessary loads and then let it achieve full recovery. As is, it wakes up, sends a few feeble 20 second packets and dies again. Bricsat has another excellent PSK31 transpodner on it too. You can detect BRICSAT when it awakes by the 20 second packet on the downlink OR by the occasional PSK31 beacon on 435.350 MHz (+/- Doppler). Do not be confused by PSAT which also has a PSK31 tranpsonder on the same frequency. But they have different audio tones for the beacon. > Downlink: 437.975 MHz, 9600 baud > Uplink: 145.825 MHz, 9600 baud > Latest “guess” at the TLE (not sure if this is BRICSat) > 1 90722U 15294.38156592 +.00051032 +00000-0 +11686-2 0 0166 > 2 90722 054.9895 030.6075 0226665 199.3544 159.8861 15.1979213102332 The commands are simple keyboard dumb terminal commands. If you think you want to take on this challenge, contact us. Bob Bruninga, WB4aPR Jin Kang, KB3UKS US Naval Academy

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Satellite APRS Double hop
by Sil 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

Hi, This afternoon both PSAT and the ISS were visible from my location at the same time and likely close enough to each other that a "double hop" was probably possible. I am not sure what the best path to use would be to do this. Any suggestions? It would be fun to make an QSO into Western Australia this way. Sil

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AO-85 vs SO-50 for newbies with modest equipment
by Felix Paez 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

Hi everybody from Spain, first of all, thanks for your patience. I am a new HAM since October 2014 and I have just begun with satellites some months ago... I want to add the point of view of a newbie to sat operation like me to the list, specially for people that could be beginning like me. First of all, as a newbie, I only have a Baofeng UV-5R (half duplex) and an Elk Antenna. I think this could be the very first beginning equipment for everybody (this is only 30 eur + 200 eur = 230 eur). I use ISS detector for tracking (it is better for me than Amsat Droid Free because it has a compass, so the track is really easy). When a SAT is going to pass near my QTH I go down to a park after walking 15 mins and there I connect the Elk to the Baofeng. With this, it has been very easy for me making contacts in SO-50 including not very high passes. Why? Because when I hear people I know I can work them. When I hear somebody calling, I am sure that when I press the PTT i will be in the SAT. Hearing people gives you a lot of information in SO-50. This is not the same when I try AO-85. I hear people all the time, but that does not guarantee me they will hear me. Maybe I am 5 Khz down or maybe I am 5 Khz up and because I am working half duplex, I can't check it. I have to wait for silences and try other freq. I haven't been able yet to make a contact in AO-85. The conclusion for me is that it is easy to work V/U FM satellites in half duplex and it is complicated in U/V at least for people beginning like me. I tell this because I have read in the AO-85 document all the advantages that U/V mode has but I don't know if that compensates the added difficult it has for people working with modest half duplex equipment. So this does not seem an entry satellite to begin with... This is a just beginner comment on the SAT. I am sure in next passes I will be able to make some contacts with some luck (I am going to buy a Midland CT-890 full duplex HT too). I want to congrat the AO-85 team for their work. It is indeed a great sat! :) but I wanted to share my thought about if it is not better to have and V/U repeater than an U/V one. Thanks everybody. I am learning a lot with this list. Felix - EA4GQS

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PARC presentation on Phase 4B
by Robert McGwier 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

Last night W5NYV, KA9Q, KB5MU, KF6WTN made a presentation to the Palomar Amateur Radio Club about Phase 4B. Project member KA6OYD was in attendance. I was sorry I could not be there but I enjoyed this live streaming. You can enjoy it and learn from it on youtube. https://youtu.be/-pjsS4OLg8w -- Bob McGwier Founder, Federated Wireless, Inc Founder and Technical Advisor, HawkEye 360, Inc Research Professor Virginia Tech Dir. Research: The Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology Senior Member IEEE, Facebook: N4HYBob, ARS: N4HY Faculty Advisor Virginia Tech Amateur Radio Assn. (K4KDJ) Director of AMSAT

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Colorado Amateur Satellite net Begins in 1 hour
by Skyler F 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '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* 449.875 (-) 103.5 (the Rocky Mountain Radio League repeater on Eldorado 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) 449.625 (-) 141.3 ( WØKU Lookout Mountain) Possibly here, not for sure yet 147.450 SIMPLEX (Aurora, CO) 446.275 (-) 100.0 Galena St. Local repeater at my house, giving a whoppin 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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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-11-05 23:30 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-11-05 23:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Dragonskolan, Umeå, Sweden, telebridge via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact was not successful: Thu 2015-11-05 10:35:17 UTC 28 deg Kjell was unable to participate due to his workload. ARISS will attempt to reschedule. (***) BORG Monsbergergasse, Graz, Austria, direct via OEØARISS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for: Mon 2015-11-09 09:42:15 UTC 49 deg Ste. Genevieve du Bois Catholic Elementary School, Warson Woods, Missouri, direct via NØKBA The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS The contact is a go for: Thu 2015-11-12 16:25:16 UTC 55 deg **************************************************************************** ** >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 114 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 112 **************************************************************************** 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 2015-11-05 23:30 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1006. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 971. 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 2015-11-04 23:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 43/44 on orbit Scott Kelly Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF Exp. 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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Lost at Symposium
by EMike McCardel 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

I can't seem to locate my Arrow Antenna. I last remember having it when I checked out on Sunday. The Arrow is in the purple cloth wrap case I purchased with it. My call sign might be sharpies to the shaft. The hotel is checking lost and found and have yet to find it. Also left behind was an ARISS poster. I would like to recover the Arrow and will gladly pay for postage. Thanks, EMike EMike McCardel, KC8YLD VP for Educational Relations AMSAT-NA Sent from my iPhone

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2015 AMSAT-NA Symposium Proceedings
by Bruce 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

We have the 2015 AMSAT-NA Symposium Proceedings, all 436 pages, available at the AMSAT online store. Unfortunately, due to the weight of this very large proceeding, it can only be mailed in the United States. There is a limited supply and once they are gone, they are gone. Here is a direct link to the page in the store. http://store.amsat.org/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=33&products_id=135 73...bruce -- Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards AMSAT Board Alternate 2015-2016 ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0200z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT* Also live streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News http://www.arrl.org AMSAT on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/amsat

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Fox-1 decoder
by Tom Worthington 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

It does not crash for me. Running under Windows 10. But is only seems to record about half the packets I decode. 73 and Aloha de NH6Y

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-11-04 23:30 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-11-04 23:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Eleanor Palmer School, London, United Kingdom, telebridge via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact was successful: Wed 2015-11-04 09:51:39 UTC 44 deg (***) Dragonskolan, Umeå, Sweden, telebridge via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for: Thu 2015-11-05 10:35:17 UTC 28 deg BORG Monsbergergasse, Graz, Austria, direct via OEØARISS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for: Mon 2015-11-09 09:42:15 UTC 49 deg Ste. Genevieve du Bois Catholic Elementary School, Warson Woods, Missouri, direct via NØKBA (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS The contact is a go for: Thu 2015-11-12 16:25:16 UTC 55 deg **************************************************************************** ** >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 114 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 112 **************************************************************************** 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 2015-11-04 23:30 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1006. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 971. (***) 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 2015-11-04 23:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 43/44 on orbit Scott Kelly Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF Exp. 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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WD9EWK @ Tucson Hamfest (Marana AZ), 7 November 2015
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

Hi! I will have an AMSAT table at the Tucson Hamfest on Saturday, 7 November 2015, in Marana AZ. The hamfest is at the Marana Middle School, along the eastbound I-10 frontage road at Grier Road, southeast of I-10 exit 236. The hamfest is in grid DM42jk, approximately 25 miles/40km northwest of downtown Tucson. More information about the hamfest is available at: http://www.tucsonhamradio.com/tucson-hamfest/221-tucson-hamfest-2015 During the hamfest, WD9EWK will be on the air for demonstrations of amateur satellite operating. Please call WD9EWK if you hear me on any passes, and be a part of the demonstrations. After the hamfest, all QSOs will be uploaded to Logbook of the World. If you would like to receive a QSL card for QSOs made with WD9EWK at this hamfest, please e-mail me directly with the QSO details. If you are in my log, I will be happy to send you a QSL card. There is no need to first send me a QSL card or SASE to get my card. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK

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Re: [amsat-bb] AO-85 Rudeness (elbow room)
by Robert Bruninga 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

> I too have noticed some serious SAT-HOGs having a QSO, > which prevented me from making an HT-ARROW portable OP contact. Take a break from the congestion.... come to the wide open multi-user wideband transponder on PSAT-1. Downlink is good on a handheld arrow on 435.350 MHz FM. It should be able to support dozens of simultaneous full duplex QSO's in the PSK31 waterfall. Just pick an empty spot and key your TX solid for the full 8 minutes of the pass on your 10 meter PSK31 uplink 28.121 MHz.. To run fullduplex, just run two copies of your favorite PSK31 software. One receiving the FM downlink and the other transmitting on the SSB uplink. Even better is to run Andy K0SM's TX-only uplink client that pre-adjusts for Doppler so everyone can decode you with no adjustments. http://aprs.org/psat.html Text with everyone all at once. Bob, WB4aPR

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AO-85 last evening
by jeffory broughton 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

I heard ,full quieting ,at AOS, Wyatt AC0RA identify at .4 degrees.He heard my Reply at .5 Degrees both with crystal clear audio.We were both using 20 watts.Amazing! jeff broughton

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FS M2 LEO PACK
by Peter Budnik 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

For Sale the M2 LEO SATELLITE Pack - Includes the 2MCP8A 2 Meter antenna and the 436CP16 70cm antenna and mounting boom. These antennas are like new and have been only up a few months. The antennas are together but can be taken apart for shipping. Have original shipping carton,manuals and lots of spare hardware and element clips. Can all so be picked up locally or can meet 50 miles or so miles to deliver.I do have pictures of them up if needed.Great antennas made many contacts on SO50 and FO29. Price is $400.00 + shipping or meet for delivery. 73 Peter,KB1HY 860-713-8820

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FoxTelem Program Java aspect crashes every day now
by Bob KD7YZ 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

I've reported this to the wily programmers. However, I was wondering if others have their FoxTelem monitoring program crash ... complaining about Java ?? (Java build 1.8.0_65-b17) A little annoying now since I leave it monitoring/decoding and let SatPC32 track. I came in both today and yesterday to the window telling me about the crash and the program needs re-start. I didn't have this problem before the last Java mandatory updates .Now I want a link to be able to roll-back the Win7/64 version I have installed. -- 73, Bob KD7YZ www.qrz.com/db/kd7yz AmSat LM#901

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-11-04 07:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-11-04 07:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Special request contact: ITU World Radio Communication Conference 2015 WRC-15, Geneva, Switzerland, direct via 4U1WRC (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS (***) The scheduled astronauts are Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS, Kimiya Yui KG5BPH, and a Cosmonaut (if possible) (***) Contact was successful for: 2015-11-03 11:47 UTC 60 deg (***) Congratulations to the ITU conference attendees! (***) Eleanor Palmer School, London, United Kingdom, telebridge via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1S The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for: Wed 2015-11-04 09:51:39 UTC 44 deg Dragonskolan, Umeå, Sweden, telebridge via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for: Thu 2015-11-05 10:35:17 UTC 28 deg BORG Monsbergergasse, Graz, Austria, direct via OEØARISS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for: Mon 2015-11-09 09:42:15 UTC 49 deg Ste. Genevieve du Bois Catholic Elementary School, Warson Woods, Missouri, direct via NØBKA The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS The contact is a go for: Thu 2015-11-12 16:25:16 UTC 55 deg **************************************************************************** ** Interested in hosting an ARISS contact? The window is now open from 2015-09-01 to 2015-11-01. These proposals will be for school contacts during the second half of 2016. Go to http://www.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact or http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html for full details. To help organizations in preparing their proposals, the ARISS Program Coordinator will offer hour-long online information sessions. These are designed to provide more information regarding US ARISS contacts and the proposal process and offer an opportunity to ask questions. While attending an online information session is not required, it is strongly encouraged. These will be offered Thursday, September 17, at 2000 UTC; Tuesday, September 22, at 2000 UTC, and Wednesday, September 30, at 2300 UTC. Advance registration is necessary. Email ARISS (ariss(a)arrl.org) to sign up for an information session. **************************************************************************** ** >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 114 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 112 **************************************************************************** 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 2015-11-04 07:00 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 1005. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 970. 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 2015-10-30 05:00 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 43/44 on orbit Scott Kelly Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF Exp. 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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Hawaiian launch failure
by Mineo Wakita 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

Launched at 03:45 UTC, Nov 4, 2015 But the mission has failed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsMegDZ_VFQ http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/51104hwi.png http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/11/03/ors-4-mission-status-center/ JE9PEL, Mineo Wakita

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TLEs for Hawaiian launch
by Dave Webb KB1PVH 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

Are there any updated TLEs for the launch that just happened in Hawaii? Dave-KB1PVH Sent from my Samsung S4

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AO-85 Rudeness (elbow room) Finding HF PSK31 ops?
by Robert Bruninga 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

Is there a good HF reflector for PSK31 people? Maybe its just that satellite folks do not do HF PSK31 and HF PSK31 operators don't know about sateliltes? Bob, WB4APR -----Original Message----- From: prstoetzer(a)gmail.com [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Stoetzer Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 5:42 PM To: Robert Bruninga Cc: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AO-85 Rudeness (elbow room) Bob, It is a shame it's not more popular. I have listened to the downlink and it's a good signal. My apartment QTH makes it very difficult to set up to use it, but most hams with a full home satellite station should be able to use it very easily. Maybe an award for working several different stations on it would help increase the popularity? 73, Paul, N8HM On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Robert Bruninga <bruninga(a)usna.edu> wrote: >> I too have noticed some serious SAT-HOGs having a QSO, which >> prevented me from making an HT-ARROW portable OP contact. > > Take a break from the congestion.... come to the wide open multi-user > wideband transponder on PSAT-1. Downlink is good on a handheld arrow > on > 435.350 MHz FM. It should be able to support dozens of simultaneous > full duplex QSO's in the PSK31 waterfall. > > Just pick an empty spot and key your TX solid for the full 8 minutes > of the pass on your 10 meter PSK31 uplink 28.121 MHz.. > > To run fullduplex, just run two copies of your favorite PSK31 > software. One receiving the FM downlink and the other transmitting on > the SSB uplink. Even better is to run Andy K0SM's TX-only uplink > client that pre-adjusts for Doppler so everyone can decode you with no > adjustments. > > http://aprs.org/psat.html > > Text with everyone all at once. > > Bob, WB4aPR > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. > Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the > official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

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Re FoxTelem Program Java aspect crashes every day now
by David G0MRF 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

Hi Yes, 1.01 crashes here every day, probably with the same message. But to be fair, the only thing it stops doing, is sending data to the server. Everything else carries on as normal without loss of data. You appear to be able to shut it down, then restart, after which it sends all the data to the server in a few seconds. I can live with that. 73 David G0MRF -----Original Message----- From: Bob KD7YZ <kd7yz(a)denstarfarm.us> To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Sent: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 22:30 Subject: [amsat-bb] FoxTelem Program Java aspect crashes every day now I've reported this to the wily programmers. However, I was wondering if others have their FoxTelem monitoring program crash ... complaining about Java ?? (Java build 1.8.0_65-b17) A little annoying now since I leave it monitoring/decoding and let SatPC32 track. I came in both today and yesterday to the window telling me about the crash and the program needs re-start. I didn't have this problem before the last Java mandatory updates .Now I want a link to be able to roll-back the Win7/64 version I have installed. -- 73, Bob KD7YZ www.qrz.com/db/kd7yz AmSat LM#901 _______________________________________________ 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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ARISS Contact Audio - Thursday
by John Spasojevich 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

Please join us in listening to the ISS contact with participants at *Dragonskolan, Umeå, Sweden* on Thursday November 5th. AOS is anticipated at 10:35 UTC The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and VK6MJ in Australia. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. Audio from this contact will be fed into the: EchoLink *AMSAT* (101377) IRLP Node 9010 Discovery Reflector Streaming Audio at: https://sites.google.com/site/arissaudio/ Audio on Echolink & web stream is generally transmitted around 20 minutes prior to the contact taking place so that you can hear some of the preparation that occurs. IRLP will begin just prior to the ground station call to the ISS. ** Contact times are approximate. If the ISS executes a reboost or other manoeuvre, the AOS (Acquisition Of Signal) time may alter by a few minutes ** 73, John-AG9D ARISS Audio Distribution Team

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AO-85 Rudeness
by Dale Kubichek 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

As I've noted on my YGroup ---- I too have noticed some serious SAT-HOGs having a QSO, which prevented me from making an HT-ARROW portable OP contact. (if in doubt I DVR my pass attempt) My pass attempt was inundated with an AZ-Guru chatting with a 5-land power boy, so it's not just 6-land - it is an ALL USA 'ETIQUETTE' problem. I'm hoping this is all due to the newness and excitement of having a good loud FM SAT up again. In a month from now you will see a fall off of OPs as the holidays consume many, snow-birds flock, and the effort to setup a pass will wain on many. I know I'll not be trying any portable HT-ARROW OPs when it gets windy below freezing outside. And Fox1C will soon fly helping to take some of the HAM load too. I'm cooling my heels on portable AO-85 OPs letting things settle. But IF needed I'll start listing time/date of observed/DVR SAT-HOGs w/.mp3 on my YGroup for all to enjoy - not. Best regards, Dale Kubichek, MS-EET, N6JSX/8 Sidney, OH 45365 EN70vh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HAM-SATs Message: 15 Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 22:49:08 +0000 (UTC) From: Tim Crawford <tcarchcape(a)yahoo.com> To: "amsat-bb(a)amsat.org" <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-85 Rudeness + Freq Suggestions Message-ID: <250488839.920094.1446504548129.JavaMail.yahoo(a)mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Made it out for my 5th attempt at an exchange on AO-85. However, it was most disappointing in as much as a Ham in Southern California dominated the bird for a full 7 minutes of my pass; if the ham had been whipping out contacts I would not be objecting.? Instead, this ham was busy being Mr. Chatty and I think had no more than two separate conversions.? Discussions included some radio talk but also expanded out into promotion of a ham fest and discussion of mutual friends. While I have not worked birds since 2012, I know that this type of behavior was frowned upon back then and for good reason.? When we go to the trouble to get our equipment into a location where we have a good clear line of sight and then only a limited window folks need to move along with just an exchange of call sign and maybe throw in the grid square if traffic permits. This was not my first experience with this single ham hogging the time. 73 Tim CrawfordKE7TAC

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Status of XW-2E
by Red Willoughby 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

Has anyone heard any news about why XW-2E is off the air and its prognosis? Red KC4LE

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ISS Link-Up with ITU WRC-15 + London School ARISS Contact Nov 4
by M5AKA 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

ISS Astronauts Link-Up with ITU WRC-15 in Geneva http://amsat-uk.org/2015/11/03/iss-astronauts-link-up-itu-wrc-15/ Radio amateurs to help London children talk to ISS Wed Nov 4. Listen on Web and Echolink http://amsat-uk.org/2015/10/31/radio-amateurs-help-london-children-talk-to-… Young people build antennas at Goonhilly http://amsat-uk.org/2015/10/28/young-people-build-antennas-at-goonhilly/ Ofcom issue new UK amateur radio licence guidelines http://www.essexham.co.uk/news/ofcom-updated-amateur-licence-guidance.html 73 Trevor M5AKA ---- AMSAT-UK http://amsat-uk.org/ Twitter https://twitter.com/AmsatUK Facebook https://facebook.com/AmsatUK YouTube https://youtube.com/AmsatUK ----

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Upcoming ARISS contact with Dragonskolan, Umeå, Sweden
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Dragonskolan, Umeå, Sweden on 05 Nov. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 10:35 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 VK6MJ. The contact should be audible over portions of Australia and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. 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. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. How would you describe the smell in space? 2. Is going to space what you expected it to be? 3. How dark is it dark in space? 4. Have you ever fantasized about seeing an alien life form? 5. Do you have access to internet and social media on the space station? 6. What is the first thing you want to do when you get back home? 7. What is the annual salary as an astronaut? 8. When are humans expected to go to Mars? 9. How does one feel in size aboard the space station? 10. If a person is in the middle of a room in aboard the space station without reaching the walls. How would that person move from that position without throwing something in the opposite direction? 11. Where does the oxygen come from? 12. How has your vision of life changed from being in space? 13. Which time is correct in space? 14. How do you take a shower in low gravity? 15. Do you ever get tired of each other on the space station? 16. Don't you miss your family and friends? 17. Do you think people get another view on our problems on earth after a trip to space? 18. What does it feel like to sleep in space? 19. Was it worth all the training to go to space? 20. What is the best experience you have had so far going to space? PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES: Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status Next planned event(s): 1. BORG Monsbergergasse, Graz, Austria, direct via OEØARISS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for: Mon 2015-11-09 09:42:15 UTC 2. Ste. Genevieve du Bois Catholic Elementary School, Warson Woods, Missouri, direct via NØBKA The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS The contact is a go for: Thu 2015-11-12 16:25:16 UTC ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the volunteer support and leadership from AMSAT and IARU societies around the world with the ISS space agencies partners: NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA. ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and learning. Further information on the ARISS program is available 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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My Rudeness and Freq post
by Tim Crawford 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

A a great big thank you to everyone who replied to this topic,especially, a few special folks who took a great deal of time to replyoff list to me. All help was and is very much appreciated. A great community to be a member of! 73 Tim CrawfordKE7TAC

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ORS4 / PrintSat launch
by Jim White 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

The ORS4 mission carrying 13 small satellites appears to be a go for this evening US time. See the spaceflightnow.com lead story. One of the cubesats is PrintSat which has a 3D printed structure and will measure the performance of that material over a three year mission. PrintSat is an experimental satellite with a downlink at 437.325 MHz. It will initially beacon every 1 minute with three packets of telemetry data. The modulation is 9600 bps GMSK and the packets are AX.25. The output power is about 1.4W into a whip so it should be pretty easy to hear. We do not have a general use telemetry decoder but we would very much appreciate reports of reception of the beacon. If you hear it please send a report to jim(a)coloradosatellite.com Jim wd0e(a)amsat.org jim(a)coloradosatellite.com

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Re: [amsat-bb] Ao85 rudeness
by W3MAT . 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

Start your uplink at 435.165 st AOS and work up to 435.175 or .180 at LOS. Hope this helps. I've worked it both wide and narrow. W3MAT *Made it out for my 5th attempt at an exchange on AO-85. However, it was most disappointing in as much as a Ham in Southern California dominated the bird for a full 7 minutes of my pass; if the ham had been whipping out contacts I would not be objecting. Instead, this ham was busy being Mr. Chatty and I think had no more than two separate conversions. Discussions included some radio talk but also expanded out into promotion of a ham fest and discussion of mutual friends. While I have not worked birds since 2012, I know that this type of behavior was frowned upon back then and for good reason. When we go to the trouble to get our equipment into a location where we have a good clear line of sight and then only a limited window folks need to move along with just an exchange of call sign and maybe throw in the grid square if traffic permits. This was not my first experience with this single ham hogging the time. I am still without a contact and trying to figure out uplink freq. Today, I took another hand held down with the downlink freq dialed in. The only two of my uplink attempts that caused a squawk out of the second radio was when I was on 435.175 (not narrow band) just past the Max El, which was also just after the disappearance, at last, of Mr. Chatty. Frankly, I am not sure when I will bother again; not worth the time and effort when I have to waste so much of the time with a Mr. Chatty hogging time, while still trying to dial everything in. On the other hand, I do welcome any uplink suggestions RE both frequency and whether or not going with narrow band that anyone might have; previously, the only input I received was from a ham in Hi (thank you). 73 Tim CrawfordKE7TAC*

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Ao85 rudeness
by jeffory broughton 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

There is a lot of good reading on the Internet regarding proper operating procedures on satellite and article's on satellite ETIQUITE. Why not pass that along to him.couldnt hurt. jeff broughton

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AO-85 Rudeness + Freq Suggestions
by Tim Crawford 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

Made it out for my 5th attempt at an exchange on AO-85. However, it was most disappointing in as much as a Ham in Southern California dominated the bird for a full 7 minutes of my pass; if the ham had been whipping out contacts I would not be objecting. Instead, this ham was busy being Mr. Chatty and I think had no more than two separate conversions. Discussions included some radio talk but also expanded out into promotion of a ham fest and discussion of mutual friends. While I have not worked birds since 2012, I know that this type of behavior was frowned upon back then and for good reason. When we go to the trouble to get our equipment into a location where we have a good clear line of sight and then only a limited window folks need to move along with just an exchange of call sign and maybe throw in the grid square if traffic permits. This was not my first experience with this single ham hogging the time. I am still without a contact and trying to figure out uplink freq. Today, I took another hand held down with the downlink freq dialed in. The only two of my uplink attempts that caused a squawk out of the second radio was when I was on 435.175 (not narrow band) just past the Max El, which was also just after the disappearance, at last, of Mr. Chatty. Frankly, I am not sure when I will bother again; not worth the time and effort when I have to waste so much of the time with a Mr. Chatty hogging time, while still trying to dial everything in. On the other hand, I do welcome any uplink suggestions RE both frequency and whether or not going with narrow band that anyone might have; previously, the only input I received was from a ham in Hi (thank you). 73 Tim CrawfordKE7TAC

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Cushcraft A270-10 center mount?:
by John Geiger 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

I have a Cushcraft A270-10S dualband VHF/UHF yagi, and it uses a rear mount as it comes from the factory. It would really work better for me if I center mounted it instead. I am running it horizontally polarized, so the mast material won't matter. Has anyone tried this? If so, does it work ok? I called Cushcraft Tech Support about this and their tech thought that it should work, but he didn't inspire a huge amount of confidence in me. 73 John AF5CC

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-11-02 19:30 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-11-02 19:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Eleanor Palmer School, London, United Kingdom, telebridge via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1S The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for: Wed 2015-11-04 09:51:39 UTC 44 deg Dragonskolan, Umeå, Sweden, telebridge via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for: Thu 2015-11-05 10:35:17 UTC 28 deg BORG Monsbergergasse, Graz, Austria, direct via OEØARISS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS (***) Contact is a go for: Mon 2015-11-09 09:42:15 UTC 49 deg (***) Ste. Genevieve du Bois Catholic Elementary School, Warson Woods, Missouri, direct via NØBKA (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS (***) The contact is a go for: Thu 2015-11-12 16:25:16 UTC 55 deg (***) **************************************************************************** ** Interested in hosting an ARISS contact? The window is now open from 2015-09-01 to 2015-11-01. These proposals will be for school contacts during the second half of 2016. Go to http://www.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact or http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html for full details. To help organizations in preparing their proposals, the ARISS Program Coordinator will offer hour-long online information sessions. These are designed to provide more information regarding US ARISS contacts and the proposal process and offer an opportunity to ask questions. While attending an online information session is not required, it is strongly encouraged. These will be offered Thursday, September 17, at 2000 UTC; Tuesday, September 22, at 2000 UTC, and Wednesday, September 30, at 2300 UTC. Advance registration is necessary. Email ARISS (ariss(a)arrl.org) to sign up for an information session. **************************************************************************** ** >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 114 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 112 **************************************************************************** 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 2015-11-02 19:30 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1005. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 970. 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 2015-10-30 05:00 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 43/44 on orbit Scott Kelly Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF Exp. 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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Great AO-85 pass East Coast US @ 1808 GMT 2-Nov-2015
by Scott 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

Just a killer pass of AO-85 up the East Coast today. It was in slow-speed / transponder mode the entire time and I was able to decode 47 telemetry packets - a personal best. Imagine how well I would have done if I didn't look like an intoxicated girl throwing a baseball left-handed the way I wave the Arrow antenna around! Got to improve my form, but at least living in the country nobody sees me. Heard a number of people making contacts as well and the audio was extremely clear! -Scott, K4KDR Montpelier, VA USA

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Pass.htm now w/dopplers & new sats
by Pedro Converso 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

Updated http://amsat.org.ar/pass.htm shows now Sat freqs with dopplers. EO-79/80 & IO-86 Sats added & displayed for your location & local time. Comments/Suggestions welcome. 73, lu7abf, Pedro Converso

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Senior moment
by Ed Cunningham 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

Got all set up for AO-50's 1500 Z pass over Arizona this morning. Made several contacts with 6, 7, 8, and 9 area call signs. Went in the house, pulled my recorder out of my pocket (I use an ear mike under my headphone) and found that I forgot to turn it on. They were all good contacts but, unfortunately, none will make into LoTW. I'll have to write myself a note and stick it on the radio to remind me to turn it on. Hopefully we'll meet again, my personal life gets in the way of my radio life so I am not always available for the passes and right now I only have FM so I'm limited there also. 73, Ed, N7EC

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PV8DX in GJ03
by Paul Stoetzer 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

Just a reminder that PV8DX is in GJ03 until tomorrow afternoon if you need the grid. He says he hasn't had any customers yet. 73, Paul, N8HM

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Re: [amsat-bb] Anyone using HalloKepler
by Michael R. Lengruesser 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

Hi Enzo, the problem: Space Track and other gov.agencies are not providing Sat keps launched with gov. and mil. ops until there's no collision with the actual mission and no conclusions on the position of the main satellites are given. For example, the catalogue number 40967 (AO-85 / FOX 1 A) is listed at Space Track, but there is no data accessible. vy 73´s de Michael R. Lengruesser, DD5ER AMSAT-DL e.V. -- International Satellites for Communication, Science and Education -- mlengruesser(a)amsat-dl.org http:/www.amsat-dl.org Am 01.11.2015 um 14:41 schrieb Vincenzo Mone: > Hi Folks, > is there anyone using HalloKepler of DB3DH. > Since there has been lauunched new satellites, i cannot update the > keplerians > With this program as it does not recognize their Catalog Number. > Any help? > Thanks > > 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 *** > ********************************* > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Anyone using HalloKepler
by Vincenzo Mone 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

Hi Folks, is there anyone using HalloKepler of DB3DH. Since there has been lauunched new satellites, i cannot update the keplerians With this program as it does not recognize their Catalog Number. Any help? Thanks 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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Using a preamp on VHF
by jeffory broughton 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

For those of u who are using a very hot VHF receiver like the Ic 910,mine specs at .11 for 20db,I found the ARR preamp mast mount model to have too much gain. I replaced the 78l05 with a 78l033and realigned for best noise figure. I never used the preamp because of this problem.Now when I switch the preamp on and turn the ic 910 ATT on, I can Dig a noisy signal out of the dirt like never before. Marginal copy way down below 1 degree becomes 59 .amazing. Jeff WB8RJY jeff broughton

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Satellite aprs packet capture.
by Sil 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

Hi, A while ago, I asked about ways to improve my delivery of capture satellite APRS packets. I didn't explain myself well, so I am making a second attempt. It is perfectly possible that I misunderstand how this should work, or that I am doing something wrong. I have a spare machine that has Windows and UIView installed on it and I have been using that as an Sgate. My Internet connection was not lost at all during this pass. Shown below is a typical example of what I see. UIView shows this packet (below) as gated to the Net (cut and pasted from the "Traffic gated from RF to the Internet" window) . 2015-Nov-01 06:42:14 PSAT-1>APOFF,ARISS,ZL2CIA,I: s#023381,0z290,ajFLCGLBGgkFnIFJLHJjFnBECMGNfFlkEmLF This is from the Findu site: 20151101064809 : W3ADO-1]BEACON,SGATE,qAR,UA0SNV-1:T#010,089,072,075,104,215,11111111,0001,1 20151101055630 : PSAT-1]APOFF,ARISS,qAS,EA6XQ:s#023352,0z290,JlAOJAIlApgAnNBNMBNkAnjAoMBLNCOeAjlA 20151101055629 : PSAT-1]APOFF,ARISS,qAS,EA6XQ:!05 . S\127 . WS120/999/W3ADO s#023352,0z290 20151101053751 : PSAT-1]APOFF,TCPIP*,qAS,N0AN:T#098,806,071,919,873,771,00011100 I would expect my gated packet to appear on the APRS-IS at 20151101064214 (give or take a few seconds). I would have thought it would be shown between the two records at 20151101055630 and 20151101064809 No other captured packet beat mine to the APRS-IS. In fact there are no packets at all from ZL or VK stations who would have been in the satellite footprint shown (none, as I write). I looks to me as though the packet didn't make it to the APRS-IS. If any other station also gated packets during this pass (which seems likely), then those didn't make it either. Is there anything I can change or alter at my end to improved the chance of captured and gated packets making it to the APRS-IS? Sil

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Hearing my FM signal on AO-85 about 3 seconds later.
by Bob KD7YZ 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

This is fun, Was it the late '60s ? LDE's ?(Long Delayed Echoes) Used to be guys talking about them and a few articles in CQ I think. Anyway, was just giving out my callsign and heard it about 3 seconds later on the passband. I am taking a WAG gee and saying it's due to the digital processing up there? Still, it's fun and funny. Or, wait. That spook-asteroid is passing by now. Asteroid-Bounce. Hmmm. she's farther out than the moon so 3 or 4 seconds might be right. mmmmm, just maybe .... Can I QSL myself and have it count for some rare VUCC grid? -- 73, Bob KD7YZ www.qrz.com/db/kd7yz AmSat LM#901

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6m for Sats ? + ISS + SSETI Express
by M5AKA 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

Proposed 50-54 MHz Agenda Item for WRC-19 http://amsat-uk.org/2015/10/30/50-54-mhz-agenda-item-wrc-19/ Fort Worth students talk to ISS http://amsat-uk.org/2015/10/30/fort-worth-students-talk-to-iss/ Tim Peake KG5BVI and the ISS Astro Pi’s http://amsat-uk.org/2015/10/30/tim-peake-kg5bvi-iss-astro-pis/ The Hunt for SSETI Express In October five intrepid radio amateurs ventured into the Arctic in an attempt to detect 400-800 THz radiation from the satellite SSETI Express (XO-53). Tenth Anniversary of SSETI Express (XO-53) Launch http://amsat-uk.org/2015/10/27/tenth-anniversary-of-xo-53-launch/ The full SSETI Express Phase E 400-800 THz Downlink Report http://amsat-uk.org/2015/10/29/the-hunt-for-xo53/ 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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ANS-305 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by Joseph Spier 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-305 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: * Super Strypi (SPARK) Launch Planned for November 2, 2015 * Duchifat 1 status update * UKube-1 CubeSat Completes Mission * Fort Worth students talk to ISS * Tim Peake KG5BVI and the ISS Astro Pi’s * Radio amateurs to help London children talk to ISS * AMSAT Events * ARISS News SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-305.01 ANS-305 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 305.01 >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE November 1, 2015 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-305.01 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Super Strypi (SPARK) Launch Planned for November 1, 2015 The following satellites are planned to be launched on 2, Nov 2015. Argus, EDSN, HawaiiSat-1, ORS-Squared, PrintSat, STACEM, STU-1, Supernova-Beta Site is Pacific Missile Range - Kokole Point, Kauai, Hawaii Satellite Downlink Beacon Mode ---------------------- ----------------- ------- ------------ Argus 2403.000-2403.400 437.290 1200bps AFSK EDSN 2401.200-2431.200 437.100 1200bps AFSK HawaiiSat1 (HiakaSat1) 145.9805 437.2705 9600bps GFSK ORS-Squared 437.325 . 9600bps GMSK PrintSat 437.325 . 9600bps GMSK STACEM . . ? STU-1 2402.000-2445.000 436.360 9600bps GMSK Supernova-Beta 437.570 . 1200bps AFSK ---------------------- ----------------- ------- ------------ HawaiiSat-1 1 99999U 00000 15306.00000000 .00002809 00000-0 69295-4 0 00007 2 99999 094.6040 077.7732 0056131 182.2912 079.1822 15.38919159000464 http://spaceflight101.com/spacerockets/spark-super-strypi/ http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/sparksat.htm http://www.cubesat.org [ANS thanks Mineo Wakita, JE9PEL for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Duchifat 1 status update We're happy to report that the satellite is still operational and doing very well. We've already received 20 stations using Duchifat 1, and all said stations are displayed on our map at www.h-space-lab.org . QSL cards are on their way, and a few have already been received. It's a fantastic experience to be heard by the satellite, get immediate digipeating response from it, and later see your position on the map on the website, after a successful dump at our GS from the satellite. If you try to contact it and encounter any difficulty, please don't hesitate to write to us at 4X4HSC(a)gmail.com It's all very fun. We also hope people can share their experiences here. 73, and good luck. [ANS thanks the Herzliya Science Center team posting on the AMSAT=BB for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- UKube-1 CubeSat Completes Mission UKube-1, the UK Space Agency’s first national spacecraft, has now completed its nominal mission following over 14 months of operations. Discussion is underway with AMSAT-UK about the possibility of taking over UKube-1 operations to continue its educational and outreach activities. Launched in July 2014, UKube-1 is a technology demonstration mission with a broad set of objectives aimed at attracting and training future generations of engineers, encouraging collaboration across sectors and institutions, fast tracking space technology development and engaging with students. As a 3 unit CubeSat (30x30x10cm), flying 4 main payloads, with all the key subsystems of much larger satellites, UKube-1 remains one of the most advanced CubeSats ever built. Despite some technical challenges in orbit, the mission has achieved a range of milestones including: • delivery into the correct planned orbit (around 650km, sun-synchronous) • successful deployment of solar panels and antenna • good battery health • slow spin rate measured • uplink and downlink capabilities checked, including Large Data Transfer, downlink at 3 speeds, and redundant communications mode • all core payloads commissioned and data collected for each • on-board camera technology successfully tested • data downlinked from multiple ground stations across the globe UKube-1 has also helped maintain the UK’s leading position in the CubeSat sector. Participation in the mission placed Clyde Space in an excellent position to capitalize on the fast growing global nanosatellite market. The company has experienced 100% year on year growth, both in turnover and employees, as a direct result from involvement in UKube-1, and is firmly established as a global leader. Mark McCrum, Bright Ascension Ltd, said: “UKube-1 provided us with an invaluable opportunity to gain flight heritage for our software technology and to get deeply involved in the operation of a complex CubeSat mission. It gave a huge boost to our credibility as a space software provider and has been instrumental in winning further work.” Craig Clark, CEO Clyde Space Ltd, said: “UKube-1 represents a pivotal achievement in the development and growth of Clyde Space. The project moved the company from being a spacecraft subsystems supplier to providing full missions for our customers. To give some context to the extent that Ukube-1 has had to our business, Clyde Space has more than quadrupled in size in the last 3 years and there are currently over 60 CubeSats planned through production here in Glasgow over the next 18 months. The return on investment for Ukube-1 in terms of jobs and export sales for the UK has been outstanding and is a great example of industry and the UK Space Agency working together to put the UK at the forefront of global space technology.” Professor Andrew Holland, Open University, added: “Involvement in the UKube-1 mission, though our C3D instrument, has had a positive effect on our research and technology program within the Space Instrumentation Group at the Open University, as well as a positive effect on our technology partners in the project; XCAM Ltd and e2v Ltd. The project has helped the OU to build a new strand of instrument development within the group, raised awareness of the CubeSat platform as a potential vehicle to accelerate the development of scientific space instrumentation, and has provided early in- orbit-demonstration of technologies. The mission introduced us to new academic and industrial collaborators operating in the space sector and supported the career development of the young engineers and scientists working on the project.” STFC’s RAL Space provided the Ground Station for the mission at Chilbolton Observatory in Hampshire UK, and UKube-1 operations were commanded from there. Mission Manager Dr Helen Walker said: “It has been a very exciting time, made possible only with the great support from all the teams involved.” Although the Agency-supported mission phase has ended, discussion is underway with AMSAT-UK about the possibility of taking over UKube-1 operations to continue its educational and outreach activities until the satellite orbit naturally degrades. More information about UKube-1 can be found in the missions section of the UK Space Agency website https://www.gov.uk/government/case-studies/ukube-1 Source https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ukube-1-completes-mission UKube-1 carries a set of AMSAT-UK FUNcube boards which provide an educational beacon for use by schools and a linear transponder for amateur radio communications. UKube-1 nominal frequencies: • 145.840 MHz Telemetry downlink • 145.915 MHz FUNcube subsystem beacon • 400 mW inverting SSB/CW linear transponder – 435.080-435.060 MHz Uplink – 145.930-145.950 MHz Downlink [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fort Worth students talk to ISS Students at Daggett Montessori School in Fort Worth used amateur radio to talk to astronaut Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS, aboard the International Space Station. Before the contact Cowtown Amateur Radio Club member Keith Pugh W5IU explained to the students how they are able to talk to the ISS. The contact, which took place on Thursday, October 29, gave the students the opportunity to ask questions about life in space. The Star-Telegram newspaper reports Grace Jordan, a seventh-grader, wondered about the effects of microgravity on food digestion. Kjell used the amateur radio station in the ESA ISS Columbus module callsign NA1SS, while the students used the station K5COW set up by Cowtown Amateur Radio Club in the school auditorium. Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) lets students worldwide experience the excitement of talking directly with crew members of the International Space Station, inspiring them to pursue interests in careers in science, technology, engineering and math, and engaging them with radio science technology through amateur radio. Watch Daggett Montessori MS Talk to Space Station 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uzIBucg2SE Read the Star-Telegram story at http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort- worth/article41837055.html ARISS http://ariss.org/ [ANS thanks ARISS and AMSAT-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Peake KG5BVI and the ISS Astro Pi’s AMSAT-UK members are leading on the Amateur Radio on the ISS (ARISS) Schools contacts program for the upcoming Tim Peake Principia mission to the ISS. A number of high profile school contacts are planned to be carried out and this activity is being coordinated with the UK Space Agency as part of the overall Principia Educational Outreach program. Two specially augmented Raspberry Pi’s called Astro Pi‘s are planned to fly on an Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus cargo freighter to the ISS in early December. They will be used by UK astronaut Tim Peake KG5BVI during his Principia mission on the Space Station which is expected to commence in mid-December. The Astro Pi’s are planned to run experimental Python programs written by young people in schools across the country; the results will be returned back to Earth at the end of the mission. ARISS/AMSAT-UK members are actively involved in discussions with the UK Space Agency, ESA, the Raspberry Pi Foundation and others to establish the feasibility of re-purposing one of the Astro Pi units, either within or post Tim Peake’s mission, to provide an alternative video source for the amateur radio HamTV transmitter in the ISS Columbus module. Additional discussions are ongoing with all parties for joint educational activities into the future with the Astro Pi units being networked and potentially enhancing the capability of the amateur radio station on board Columbus. The main mission of HamTV is to perform contacts between the astronauts on the ISS and school students, not only by voice as now, but also by unidirectional video from the ISS to the ground. ARISS has been working with Goonhilly and hope to provide a video download facility via one of their large dishes for the schools contacts as well as attempting to receive the video at each school as part of the contact. Principia mission http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Principia School Shortlist for Tim Peake Space Station Contact http://amsat-uk.org/2015/07/14/school-shortlist-tim-peake-iss/ HamTV http://amsat-uk.org/satellites/hamtv-on-the-iss/ Astro Pi http://astro-pi.org/ Twitter https://twitter.com/astro_pi [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Radio amateurs to help London children talk to ISS On Wednesday, November 4 pupils at the Eleanor Palmer Primary School in Camden, London should have the opportunity to speak to an astronaut in space thanks to an Amateur Radio Telebridge link via Australia. The audio will be streamed via the web and Echolink. An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Eleanor Palmer School, London, United Kingdom on Wednesday, November 4. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 09:51 GMT. 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 astronaut Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS, using the callsign NA1SS from the amateur radio station in the ISS Columbus module, and Martin Diggens VK6MJ in Western Australia. The contact should be audible over portions of Australia and adjacent areas. Interested participants are invited to listen in on the 145.800 MHz FM downlink. Audio from this contact will be available via the amateur radio Echolink system on node *AMSAT* (101377) and via the IRLP Node 9010 Discovery Reflector. Streaming Audio will be able on the web at https://sites.google.com/site/arissaudio/ Audio on Echolink and web stream is generally started around 20 minutes prior to the contact taking place so that you can hear some of the preparation that occurs. IRLP will begin just prior to the ground station call to the ISS. Contact times are approximate. If the ISS executes a reboost or other manoeuvre, the AOS (Acquisition Of Signal) time may alter by a few minutes Eleanor Palmer Primary School, a non-selective community school, is located in central London in the United Kingdom. London is an exciting and dynamic capital city and its schools are the best in the country, attributed to the social and ethnic diversity, excellent local leadership and the quality of teaching. Eleanor Palmer is a relatively small school of around 220 pupils with single classes of 30 children per year. The youngest pupils are 3 years old and the oldest 11 years old. Due to the central London location it is a highly diverse and inclusive school with staff and children from many different backgrounds. The pupils achieve highly as judged by national benchmarks. One of the core aims of the school is to inspire in all pupils a love of learning and the desire to continue to learn and they therefore seek to provide a rich and broad curriculum opening minds and creating opportunities. The school hope that their contact with the ISS will inspire pupils to go on to learn more about space through the study of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. What have you seen that is more beautiful than earth? 2. Who or what inspired you to choose this job? 3. Does being in space make you feel differently about earth? 4. What can you learn from the ISS that you cannot learn on earth? 5. Will normal people who are not astronauts be able to visit space in the ISS one day? 6. How do you sleep? 7. Is it quiet up there in the ISS? 8. When you get back to earth, do you have to re-train your muscles? 9. Can you call home? 10. Do you all have to be scientists? 11. What do you think is the most important things children should know about space? 12. What time zone do you use? 13. Do you have plants on the ISS? 14. What has been your favourite experiment? 15. How does your brain respond to micro gravity? 16. How do you wash your clothes? 17. If you cry in space, with laughter, what happens to your tears? 18. What do you want to do when you come back to earth? 19. How do you get enough oxygen? 20. Is it more scary taking off from earth or returning to earth? 21. What is your energy source on the ISS? 22. What does it feel like to be in space? 23. Is it always dark in space? Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) lets students worldwide experience the excitement of talking directly with crew members of the International Space Station, inspiring them to pursue interests in careers in science, technology, engineering and math, and engaging them with radio science technology through amateur radio. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ A telebridge contact, where a dedicated ARISS amateur radio ground station, located somewhere in the world, establishes the radio link with the ISS. Voice communications between the students and the astronauts are then patched over regular telephone lines. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ARISS%20Telebridge%20Guidelines.doc What is Amateur Radio ? http://www.essexham.co.uk/what-is-amateur-radio Eleanor Palmer Primary School http://www.eleanorpalmer.camden.sch.uk/news/countdown-to-iss-link-up/ Twitter @eleanorpalmersc [ANS thanks ARISS and 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, 7 November 2015 – Oro Valley Amateur Radio Club Hamfest in Marana AZ *Saturday and Sunday, 7-8 November 2015 – Stone Mountain Hamfest and ARRL Georgia Section Convention in Lawrenceville GA *Monday, 16 November 2015 – Tri-City Amateur Radio Association meeting in Goodyear AZ *Saturday, 5 December 2015 – Superstition Superfest 2015 in Mesa AZ [ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS News Successful Contacts * A direct contact via K5COW with students at Daggett Montessori School K-8, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, was successful Thu 2015-10-29 14:12:56 UTC 31 deg. Astronaut Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS responded to 10 questions from students. Watch a video recording of the contact at http://youtu.be/CIsWPZ3TbWU Daggett Montessori, a “School of Choice” within the Fort Worth Independent School District, was created thirty years ago and was one of the first public school Montessori programs in the nation. Based on the highly successful Montessori methodology and philosophy, Daggett Montessori has approximately 500 students, all selected through a blind lottery system. We are a Title I school, with close to 60% of our students economically disadvantaged. As a kindergarten through eighth grade program, we provide a safe, nurturing environment that focuses on long term relationships among staff, students, and parents. Our parents are actively involved in every aspect of school life. Maria Montessori was the first woman to graduate from medical school in Italy so science is an area of particular focus in the Montessori curriculum. She designed many of the lessons to instill a sense of awe about the natural world. Our parents are very involved in every aspect of school at Daggett Montessori. Of particular interest is our greenhouse with an aquaponics system in which we raise various herbs and vegetables. We also have multiple raised beds in which the children grow vegetables. Our parents provide gardening lessons on a weekly basis. Our students were very excited to learn that lettuce is being grown on the ISS! * A direct contact via K8UTT with students at Dearborn Public Schools, Dearborn, Michigan, USA was successful Tue 2015-10-27 16:01:59 UTC 57 deg. Dearborn Public Schools is a public school district that serves a community in suburban Detroit, MI. This school district is part of a growing, vibrant area built upon quality education for nearly 19,600 students. Dearborn also has a unique feature added to this growing, vibrant area. It is home to the largest Arabic-speaking population outside of the Middle East. One out of every two students learns English as a second language. These qualities help to form Dearborn Public Schools into the exceptional and diverse community of learners it is today! Mary Varady, STEM Coordinator for the District has been working with local Amateur Radio operators for almost a year to arrange the contact with the International Space Station. In the spring of 2015, Dearborn Public Schools Media Tech Specialist Gordon Scannell, an Amateur Radio operator, presented the details of the program to district teachers. Varady has been working with principals to provide lessons and other activities tied to the event. Scannell, along with other Amateur Radio volunteers have spent countless hours arranging the technical details for Tuesday’s event including such activities as installing a large temporary antenna on the roof of the Berry Center. Students will be able to ask questions of the ISS crew during their scheduled time. Varady received more than 2,000 questions from students across the district and then had the daunting task of narrowing them down to only the best. In total, 18 students in grades first through eighth had their questions selected. In addition, students across the district will be able to tune in and watch as the students gathered in the lecture hall talk with the crew of the International Space Station. However, an ARISS contact encompasses more than just students asking questions with the ISS crewmember. Additional components include student activities such as class lessons about space research, the International Space Station, and radio technology. The ARISS contact is a “hands on” real world application of the science, technology, engineering and math being taught in the classroom. * A direct contact via RA1AJN between cosmonaut Sergey Volkov RU3DIS and students at "About Gagarin From Space: Ham Radio Session with the Members of Cosmonautics Federation and Students" in St Petersburg, Russia, was successful on 2015-10-27 11:35 UTC. * A direct contact via W8ISS with students at West Michigan Aviation Academy, Grand Rapids, MI, USA, was successful Fri 2015-10-23 17:58:48 UTC 49 deg. Astronaut Kimiya Yui, KG5BPH answered 20 questions for students. Local TV news stations reported on the event: http://www.wzzm13.com/videos/news/local/2015/10/23/students-talk-to-astrona… aboard-space-station/74486064/ http://woodtv.com/2015/10/23/w-mi-students-chat-with-astronauts-aboard-iss/ http://fox17online.com/2015/10/23/local-students-talk-to-an-astronaut-in-sp… Listen to an audio recording of the contact at http://www.k8tb.org/W8ISS%20Edited.mp3 The West Michigan Aviation Academy is a tuition-free public charter high school founded by Dick DeVos upon encouragement from wife, Betsy. Stemming from their passion for both education and aviation, the school opened its doors in the fall of 2010 and is located on the grounds of the Gerald R. Ford International Airport. Like other high schools, our curriculum includes core subjects. But as an aviation-themed high school the curriculum at WMAA is designed for students who have a passion for aviation and/or an interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. (STEM) The Aviation program includes training for the Private Pilot certificate in the student's senior year. The school owns our own Cessna 172 that is provided at direct operating costs to the students. Although they must pay for the flight training the total cost is much lower than renting at the local flight school and ground instruction is provided for as part of their elective classes. Currently we have 11 students in the program and hope to have 18 by the time of the contact. We also try to get the kids out around the airport to experience the many different job opportunities available in aviation. The Robotics program includes FIRST robotics programs and many of our competitors are taking both engineering and aviation classes. Our engineering program provides for instruction in aerospace, robotics and electronic fields. We try to closely alley the Aviation and Engineering departments. * A direct contact via 8NØSDF with students at Saku Children’s Science Dome for the Future, Saku City, Japan, was successful Thu 2015-10-22 09:52:21 UTC 54 deg. The interview with astronaut Kimiya Yui, KG5BPH was conducted in Japanese. Yui answered 10 questions for students. Watch a video of the interview at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl6fkE14Rrw The Saku Children’s Science Dome for the Future is a science museum that was founded in 2001. It has a variety of exhibits on earth science, space, biotechnology, the environment and more. Some of the attractions that gain the attention of the children are a life-size model of a dinosaur, a 170 seat planetarium and a “mercury” display model presented by NASA. The center is located near the birth place of Mr. Kimiya Yui. Mr. Yui himself has visited the center several times. The name of the center has the word “children’s” in it, yet all ages can learn from the Saku Children’s Science Dome for the Future. * A direct contact via RA1AJN between cosmonaut Sergey Volkov RU3DIS and students at "About Gagarin From Space: Ham Radio Session with the Members of Cosmonautics Federation and Students" in St. Petersburg, Russia, was successful on 2015-10-20 14:30 UTC. Upcoming Contacts * Eleanor Palmer School, London, United Kingdom, telebridge via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1S The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for: Wed 2015-11-04 09:51:39 UTC 44 deg * Dragonskolan, Umeå, Sweden, telebridge via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for: Thu 2015-11-05 10:35:17 UTC 28 deg 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- /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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AO85: interesting results
by Ed K9EK 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

Note on just copying AO85 on the 1845Z pass (in high speed mode): Normal method of copying telemetry is with FCD+ fed by a 2M splitter that also feeds a TS700 2M transceiver. Works. Tried something different: Instead of having the FCD listening on 2M, I had it listening to the 10.7MHz IF output tap of the TS700. Then I tuned the TS700 strictly for best eye pattern. It worked; the lower right counter added 63 packets in half of a pass (a million trees and a great big hill to the north here). Most packets ever. Now the strange parts. The TS700 was tuned to 145.964. A bit lower than expected. (I normally hear audio at 145.980). And the best eye pattern was obtained (without automatic signal tracking) with the two peaks of the telemetry offset half the passband to the right of FoxTelem's centerline indicator. Seems odd, or am I missing something? BTW FoxTelem is an astounding piece of software. Wow. Ed K9EK EM69xd

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AO-85 in Data Mode over EU
by Jerry Buxton 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

We just commanded AO-85 into Data Mode which is the high speed telemetry and hopefully it will still be in that mode 15 minutes from now when it comes into view over Europe. Please switch your FoxTelem to high speed on the Input tab to capture what you can before she switches back to Transponder Mode. Thanks, from the Fox Team! -- Jerry Buxton, NØJY

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ARR preamp modification
by jeffory broughton 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

For those of u who are using a very hot VHF receiver like the Ic 910, mine specs at .11 uv for 20 db, I found the ARR mast mount to have too much gain. I replaced the 78l05 with a 78l033 and realigned to reduce overall gain and noise figure. I never used the preamp because of this problem.Now when I switch the preamp on and turn the ATT on, I can Dig a noisy signal out of the dirt like never before. Marginal copy way down below 1 degree becomes 59 .amazing. WB8RJY JEFF jeff broughton

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2E
by jeffory broughton 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

No transponder or beacon this morning from 2E on the 12:06 utc pass. jeff broughton

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2E
by jeffory broughton 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

Now that's kinda scary. I will try to listen later. jeff broughton

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WD9EWK on the next 3 AO-85 passes tonight...
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

Hi! Now that the weekend is here, I plan on trying the next 3 AO-85 passes from my back yard, and (for the latest pass) possibly the front yard. The middle of the 3 passes is almost directly overhead, and the latest pass - just before 0800 UTC - appears to cover Hawaii and parts of the southwestern USA. If anyone can be on AO-85 from Hawaii for that late pass (around 2200 local time in Hawaii), I will be happy to try working you from here in Arizona. The pass around 0800 UTC is up to 10 degrees maximum elevation on this end, but that should be sufficient if I operate from my west-facing driveway instead of my east-facing back yard. I'll have my SDR setup receiving all 3 passes, but may have the SDRplay on my VHF crossed dipole for the middle of the 3 passes. I plan on trying an HT with my Elk for that pass, and will have the SDRplay on the omnidirectional antenna running to collect telemetry and (hopefully) my signals from the HT through AO-85. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK

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SatPC32 and M2
by Jim White 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

Anyone successfully using SatPC32 to drive M2 rotors, the RC2800PX control boxes? Here both SatPC32 and SuM will move the AZ but not the EL.

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Audio Coverage of Wednesdays ARISS Contact
by John Spasojevich 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

Please join us in listening to the ISS contact with participants at the Eleanor Palmer School, London, United Kingdom on Wednesday November 4th. AOS is anticipated at 09:51 UTC The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and VK6MJ in Western Australia. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. Audio from this contact will be fed into the: EchoLink *AMSAT* (101377) IRLP Node 9010 Discovery Reflector Streaming Audio at: https://sites.google.com/site/arissaudio/ Audio on Echolink & web stream is generally started around 20 minutes prior to the contact taking place so that you can hear some of the preparation that occurs. IRLP will begin just prior to the ground station call to the ISS. ** Contact times are approximate. If the ISS executes a reboost or other manoeuvre, the AOS (Acquisition Of Signal) time may alter by a few minutes ** 73, John - AG9D ARISS Audio Distribution Team

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Re: [amsat-bb] No TLM on AO-85 during 20:15 UTC pass.
by Jerry Buxton 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

We will announce when AO-85 is commissioned and turned over to Operations for scheduled use. Meantime due to travel and work, it has been a little hit and miss on testing this week. Nothing has been said yet about any scheduled testing because it has been a matter of whether our people are home to test and if the satellite is in view of enough of us to gather data. I expect that we'll just continue that at least for tonight, so the satellite will be available but might just disappear into Data or Safe Mode during a U.S. pass... :-) If we go into Data Mode all who recognize that and can switch to and gather the high speed telemetry with FoxTelem are appreciated. Jerry Buxton, NØJY On 10/30/2015 16:04, Dave Remnant wrote: > Thanks Jerry > > Also received reply from Kevin > > I know you guys are still commissioning so I guess notice of changes will be > rare, if at all. > > Do you plan on some form of notice when commissioning over? > > Thanks to you and all the team. > > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jerry Buxton > Sent: 30 October 2015 20:52 > To: Dave Remnant > Cc: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] No TLM on AO-85 during 20:15 UTC pass. > > Hi Dave, > > We commanded into Data Mode during that pass, so what you heard was the high > speed telemetry data and when you hear that again you can decode by > switching FoxTelem to high speed on the input tab. > AO-85 will switch back to Transponder Mode automatically after 15 minutes in > Data Mode. > > Jerry > N0JY > > On Oct 30, 2015 3:35 PM, Dave Remnant <dave.remnant(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: >> The TLM was making some strange noises and the "eye" was distorted and >> I received no packets from AO-85 >> >> >> >> I could hear the transponder fine, but switching between the >> transponder audio and the TLM shows the difference. >> >> >> >> I have video of this if any of the team are interested. >> >> >> >> Was this planned or is it something I may have done inadvertently? >> >> >> >> 73 de Dave M0SAT >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. >> Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the > official views of AMSAT-NA. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >> > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all > interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official > views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > >

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Re: [amsat-bb] No TLM on AO-85 during 20:15 UTC pass.
by Jerry Buxton 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

Hi Dave, We commanded into Data Mode during that pass, so what you heard was the high speed telemetry data and when you hear that again you can decode by switching FoxTelem to high speed on the input tab. AO-85 will switch back to Transponder Mode automatically after 15 minutes in Data Mode. Jerry N0JY On Oct 30, 2015 3:35 PM, Dave Remnant <dave.remnant(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: > > The TLM was making some strange noises and the "eye" was distorted and I > received no packets from AO-85 > > > > I could hear the transponder fine, but switching between the transponder > audio and the TLM shows the difference. > > > > I have video of this if any of the team are interested. > > > > Was this planned or is it something I may have done inadvertently? > > > > 73 de Dave M0SAT > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >

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Re: [amsat-bb] No TLM on AO-85 during 20:15 UTC pass.
by Kevin Schuchmann 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

it was switched to high speed mode, if you switched over the eye would have come back and you would have gotten packets Kevin wa6fwf On 10/30/2015 1:35 PM, Dave Remnant wrote: > The TLM was making some strange noises and the "eye" was distorted and I > received no packets from AO-85 > > > > I could hear the transponder fine, but switching between the transponder > audio and the TLM shows the difference. > > > > I have video of this if any of the team are interested. > > > > Was this planned or is it something I may have done inadvertently? > > > > 73 de Dave M0SAT > > _______________________________________________ > 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 TLM on AO-85 during 20:15 UTC pass.
by Dave Remnant 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

The TLM was making some strange noises and the "eye" was distorted and I received no packets from AO-85 I could hear the transponder fine, but switching between the transponder audio and the TLM shows the difference. I have video of this if any of the team are interested. Was this planned or is it something I may have done inadvertently? 73 de Dave M0SAT

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AO-85 frequencies
by Tom Worthington 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

I seem to get the best quality echo audio if I transmit on 435170 (at the satellite). The downlink doesn't seem to make much difference either for the audio or the telemetry decode but I use 145978 (at the satellite). I have not had a QSO but there are no others in Hawaii active now so I have only a short window to the western US. 73, Tom, NH6Y (BL10ts)

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Upcoming ARISS contact with Eleanor Palmer School, London, United Kingdom
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Eleanor Palmer School, London, United Kingdom on 04 Nov. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 09:51 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 VK6MJ. The contact should be audible over portions of Australia and adjacent areas. Interested participants are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. Eleanor Palmer Primary School, a non-selective community school, is located in central London in the United Kingdom. London is an exciting and dynamic capital city and its schools are the best in the country, attributed to the social and ethnic diversity, excellent local leadership and the quality of teaching. Eleanor Palmer is a relatively small school of around 220 pupils with single classes of 30 children per year. Our youngest pupils are 3 years old and our oldest 11 years old. Due to our central London location we are a highly diverse and inclusive school with staff and children from many different backgrounds. Our pupils achieve highly as judged by national benchmarks. One of our core aims as a school is to inspire in all pupils a love of learning and the desire to continue to learn and we therefore seek to provide a rich and broad curriculum opening minds and creating opportunities. We hope that our contact with the ISS will inspire pupils to go on to learn more about space through the study of science, technology, engineering and math. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. What have you seen that is more beautiful than earth? 2. Who or what inspired you to choose this job? 3. Does being in space make you feel differently about earth? 4. What can you learn from the ISS that you cannot learn on earth? 5. Will normal people who are not astronauts be able to visit space in the ISS one day? 6. How do you sleep? 7. Is it quiet up there in the ISS? 8. When you get back to earth, do you have to re-train your muscles? 9. Can you call home? 10. Do you all have to be scientists? 11. What do you think is the most important things children should know about space? 12. What time zone do you use? 13. Do you have plants on the ISS? 14. What has been your favourite experiment? 15. How does your brain respond to micro gravity? 16. How do you wash your clothes? 17. If you cry in space, with laughter, what happens to your tears? 18. What do you want to do when you come back to earth? 19. How do you get enough oxygen? 20. Is it more scary taking off from earth or returning to earth? 21. What is your energy source on the ISS? 22. What does it feel like to be in space? 23. Is it always dark in space? PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES: Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status Next planned event(s): 1. Dragonskolan, Umeå, Sweden, telebridge via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for: Thu Nov. 5, 2015, 10:35 UTC ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the volunteer support and leadership from AMSAT and IARU societies around the world with the ISS space agencies partners: NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA. ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and learning. Further information on the ARISS program is available on the website http://www.ariss.org/ Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Re: [amsat-bb] InstantTrack on Win10?
by Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

At 01:36 PM 10/30/2015 +0000, Ed K9EK <e.krome(a)comcast.net> wrote: >Here is the odd question of the month: Has anyone found a way to run the >ancient tracking program InstantTrack on a Win10 machine? Win10 gives a >bunch of run compatibility and screen options all the way back to Win95; >none work. The Troubleshooter says it should run on XP. Same old "can't >run on this PC" response. Before I am advised to get out of the stoneage, >I do run SatPc32, HRD and Orbitron. Just that IT has some stuff that I >like. And, on XP, it is fast. > >Thanks! > >Ed K9EK Glad to see there are still a few IT die hards out here. Can't help you on the OS, but I'm just chiming in to say IT is the only tracking program I use. Might try out PcSat32 down the road, but I haven't heard if that works with SASI tracker rotor controller. KB7ADL

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FW: InstantTrack on Win10?
by KERRY LA*DUKE 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

From: kladuke1144(a)msn.com To: apbiddle(a)mailaps.org Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] InstantTrack on Win10? Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 08:14:08 -0600 Ed, VMware player allows you to install an older version on a windows 10 machine. I use it with windows xp to run programs that are no longer compatible with newer versions of windows. http://1download.io/v4/vmware-player-7.1.2/?adid=9919829952&qs=vmware%20pla… 73 WC7V Kerry > From: wa4sca(a)gmail.com > To: e.krome(a)comcast.net; amsat-bb(a)amsat.org > Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 09:01:40 -0500 > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] InstantTrack on Win10? > > Ed, > > Take a look at DosBox, a program to allow old DOS programs to run on newer version of Windows: > > http://www.dosbox.com/ > > I have used it on WIN7 and WIN8 to run ITrack in full screen mode, not WIN10 which I don't have yet, > but it would be worth a try. If you do, let us know. Like you, I enjoy getting ITrack out, mostly > for nostalgia. > > 73s, > > Alan > WA4SCA > > > <-----Original Message----- > <From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed K9EK > <Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 8:36 AM > <To: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> > <Subject: [amsat-bb] InstantTrack on Win10? > < > <Here is the odd question of the month: Has anyone found a way to run the ancient tracking program > <InstantTrack on a Win10 machine? Win10 gives a bunch of run compatibility and screen options all the > <way back to Win95; none work. The Troubleshooter says it should run on XP. Same old "can't run on > <this PC" response. Before I am advised to get out of the stoneage, I do run SatPc32, HRD and > Orbitron. > <Just that IT has some stuff that I like. And, on XP, it is fast. > < > <Thanks! > < > <Ed K9EK > <EM69xd > <_______________________________________________ > <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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InstantTrack on Win10?
by Ed K9EK 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

Here is the odd question of the month: Has anyone found a way to run the ancient tracking program InstantTrack on a Win10 machine? Win10 gives a bunch of run compatibility and screen options all the way back to Win95; none work. The Troubleshooter says it should run on XP. Same old "can't run on this PC" response. Before I am advised to get out of the stoneage, I do run SatPc32, HRD and Orbitron. Just that IT has some stuff that I like. And, on XP, it is fast. Thanks! Ed K9EK EM69xd

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XW-2E & XW-2F on 30-October ~1400 UTC
by Clayton Coleman 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

I didn't hear XW-2E's CW beacon and was unable to activate the transponder at 13:56 UTC. However, XW-2F's CW beacon was strong and I made contact with several stations at 14:15 UTC. 73 Clayton W5PFG

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-10-30 05:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-10-30 05:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Daggett Montessori School K-8, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, direct via K5COW The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact was successful: Thu 2015-10-29 14:12:56 UTC 31 deg Eleanor Palmer School, London, United Kingdom, telebridge via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1S The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for: Wed 2015-11-04 09:51:39 UTC 44 deg Dragonskolan, Umeå, Sweden, telebridge via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for: Thu 2015-11-05 10:35:17 UTC 28 deg **************************************************************************** ** Interested in hosting an ARISS contact? The window is now open from 2015-09-01 to 2015-11-01. These proposals will be for school contacts during the second half of 2016. Go to http://www.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact or http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html for full details. To help organizations in preparing their proposals, the ARISS Program Coordinator will offer hour-long online information sessions. These are designed to provide more information regarding US ARISS contacts and the proposal process and offer an opportunity to ask questions. While attending an online information session is not required, it is strongly encouraged. These will be offered Thursday, September 17, at 2000 UTC; Tuesday, September 22, at 2000 UTC, and Wednesday, September 30, at 2300 UTC. Advance registration is necessary. Email ARISS (ariss(a)arrl.org) to sign up for an information session. **************************************************************************** ** >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 114 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 112 **************************************************************************** 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 2015-10-30 05:00 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 1005. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 970. (***) 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 2015-10-30 05:00 UTC. (***) http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 43/44 on orbit Scott Kelly Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF Exp. 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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AO-85 Uplink Frequencies??
by Tim Crawford 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

Do we have a conscientious yet on the spread of the uplink frequencies for AO-85? Today (29th) at the ~ 2300 UT pass over me on the coast of NW Oregon I could hear two stations WA6DNR (CM87) and WB9AWX (DM04) and it is quite possible, after listing to the recording it sounded like WB9AWX (~23:02) may have come back to my call but no idea at that moment what freq I may have been on (as I was running up and down from 435.165-435.180 at that point) and at that time the bird would have been close to Max EI for myself and probably getting closer to LOS for WB. So, after four tries I am less than certain if I am getting into the bird and before the 5th trip would very much like some input on what the uplink freq's seem to be running for folks that are being successful from AOS to LOS. >From what I am reading, I may be handicapped with my HT-60 (Arrow antenna) but willing to keep trying for awhile as it has been a long wait for this one. Thanks for all suggestions! And, by the way, thanks to the FOX team for all their previous and current hard work.... either way it goes I do appreciate the effort. Tim R CrawfordKE7TAC CN85atArch Cape, OR

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Colorado Amateur Satellite net Begins in 1 hour
by Skyler F 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '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* 449.875 (-) 103.5 (the Rocky Mountain Radio League repeater on Eldorado 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) 449.625 (-) 141.3 ( WØKU Lookout Mountain) Possibly here, not for sure yet 147.450 SIMPLEX (Aurora, CO) 446.275 (-) 100.0 Galena St. Local repeater at my house, giving a whoppin 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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Dagget Montessori ARISS reception report
by John Brier 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

In Raleigh, NC I picked up Kjell in the middle of his answer to question 4. Kjell got through answering question 10 but after that there was a longer than normal break and then Kjell said goodbye and signed off. The end of that last transmission was at 10:24:04 Eastern, I believe that's 14:24:04 UTC. I was surprised he lost them that early because I had their pass ending at 10:26:06 Eastern (14:26:06 UTC). I was using keps downloaded last night from Celestrak in Orbitron. Forth Worth: Time Satellite Azm Elv Mag Range S.Azm S.Elv -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015-10-29 10:15:32 ISS 207.1 0.0 2.7 2356 119.0 17.0 2015-10-29 10:20:49 ISS 130.6 33.5 0.2 684 119.9 17.9 2015-10-29 10:26:06 ISS 54.7 0.0 3.0 2363 120.8 18.9 Normally the ARISS passes are below 20 degrees for me and this time it was a 42 degree pass so I picked up the Columbus module stronger than ever before. At least S9 signal at one point and the audio was cleaner than normal with no hiss. Raleigh: Time Satellite Azm Elv Mag Range S.Azm S.Elv -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015-10-29 10:19:01 ISS 241.3 0.0 2.8 2358 135.2 28.0 2015-10-29 10:20:20 ISS 244.7 5.0 2.3 1823 135.5 28.2 2015-10-29 10:24:24 ISS 322.9 42.7 -0.1 574 136.4 28.8 2015-10-29 10:28:27 ISS 40.1 5.1 2.4 1823 137.4 29.3 2015-10-29 10:29:48 ISS 43.7 0.0 3.0 2370 137.7 29.5 I have audio/video of all this and I'll probably make a video out of it for YouTube. John, KG4AKV

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Orbitron and Google Chrome
by W3MAT . 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

It seems I have an issue running Orbitron and Chrome simultaneously. My laptop runs on Windows Vista (I know, there's the first problem, right), I also run a second monitor, and I am running the latest version of Orbitron. If I try and browse the web on the laptop monitor with Orbitron running on my second screen, the computer will inevitably lock up after a few minutes of browsing. Has anyone else ran into a similar problem and what was the solution, if any? For now, I start Orbitron, run TLE updates, then save the predictions to a file, exit Orbitron, then keep open the predictions in Notepad. Thanks Loon W3MAT

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4U70UN confirmations?
by Grant Zehr 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

I saw that 4U70UN logs have been uploaded to Clublog. Has anyone seen their satellite QSO posted there? My contact is not there or in LOTW yet. I suspect that it's just a matter of getting the satellite data formatted correctly. I'm sure there is no need to panic.yet. Grant Zehr AA9LC

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Super Strypi (SPARK) Launch
by Mineo Wakita 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

The following satellites are planned to be launched on 1 or 2, Nov 2015. Argus, EDSN, HawaiiSat-1, ORS-Squared, PrintSat, STACEM, STU-1, Supernova-Beta Site is Pacific Missile Range - Kokole Point, Kauai, Hawaii Satellite Downlink Beacon Mode ---------------------- ----------------- ------- ------------ Argus 2403.000-2403.400 437.290 1200bps AFSK EDSN 2401.200-2431.200 437.100 1200bps AFSK HawaiiSat1 (HiakaSat1) 145.9805 437.2705 9600bps GFSK ORS-Squared 437.325 . 9600bps GMSK PrintSat 437.325 . 9600bps GMSK STACEM . . ? STU-1 2402.000-2445.000 436.360 9600bps GMSK Supernova-Beta 437.570 . 1200bps AFSK ---------------------- ----------------- ------- ------------ HawaiiSat-1 1 99999U 00000 15306.00000000 .00002809 00000-0 69295-4 0 00007 2 99999 094.6040 077.7732 0056131 182.2912 079.1822 15.38919159000464 http://spaceflight101.com/spacerockets/spark-super-strypi/ http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/sparksat.htm JE9PEL, Mineo Wakita

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PSAT-1 AX25 Packets
by AL Lyday 28 Oct '15

28 Oct '15

Hello,, I received a few Packet AX25 1200bd on aprx 145.825 today , And I cant seem to find this one of the LIST. Can anyone tell me whats this Birds main name is so I can put into my Tracking software.. TNX 1:Fm PSAT-1 To APOFF Via ARISS <UI pid=F0 Len=34 >[09:32:08] T#891,813,347,926,757,823,00011100 1:Fm PSAT-1 To APOFF Via ARISS <UI pid=F0 Len=52 >[09:32:10] s#019657,0z290,HDEjaGdgGFgFIGEdIFiGGifFFgEHEI0IJiIG

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Re: [amsat-bb] 200' RADAR Blimp CANCEL
by Robert Bruninga 28 Oct '15

28 Oct '15

Nevermind, CANCEL… Its back on the grouind in Bloomsburg, PA Bob, WB4APR *From:* Robert Bruninga [mailto:[email protected]] *Sent:* Wednesday, October 28, 2015 4:14 PM *To:* amsat-bb(a)amsat.org *Subject:* 200' RADAR Blimp broke loose fm MD! Just minutes ago, it has been reported that the 200’ radar blimp tethered in Northern Maryland has broken loose. It does NOT have APRS on it, but we need people in MD and PA to look up in the sky for it and user your APRS to send DF bearing lines so we can track it. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/aerostat-blimp-owned-army-untether… I have not had time to VERIFY this, but am throwing it out there anyway. This is what APRS is desiged to do. Just enter y our bearing line in a DF packet and we can all see the plot on APRS. Bob, WB4APR

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200' RADAR Blimp broke loose fm MD!
by Robert Bruninga 28 Oct '15

28 Oct '15

Just minutes ago, it has been reported that the 200’ radar blimp tethered in Northern Maryland has broken loose. It does NOT have APRS on it, but we need people in MD and PA to look up in the sky for it and user your APRS to send DF bearing lines so we can track it. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/aerostat-blimp-owned-army-untether… I have not had time to VERIFY this, but am throwing it out there anyway. This is what APRS is desiged to do. Just enter y our bearing line in a DF packet and we can all see the plot on APRS. Bob, WB4APR

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Re: [amsat-bb] New Duplexer and AO-85
by W3MAT . 28 Oct '15

28 Oct '15

Yes, Thanks to Jerry for taking time from your day to type a reply and answer questions. I certainly didn't intend my message from early this morning to sound harsh, and I apologize if I came off that way. Like others, I spent quite a deal of time researching the new Fox-1 satellite and after watching the video posted on AMSATS "Meet The Fox Project", around the 7:53 mark is where it is stated that operators with hand held equipment would be able to work this new satellite. So, I was quite eager and anxious to have something else circling the globe other than just SO-50 for us FM'ers, as I do not have the proper equipment to work the linear birds. I don't have to rehash the issues that came along and I found that working this new bird with hand held equipment was not as easy as it was presented in the video, and yes, I did become a bit frustrated ... kind of like getting that new train for Christmas and finding that you don't have a locomotive to pull the train. So if I stepped on toes, I am truly sorry. I will sit back, be patient, and let this be a learning experience, since from the time I entered into the amateur radio satellite arena, there were already working FM birds in place, two of those which have since "passed away". This is my first experience of having a new FM bird launched into space and I admit, I was expecting it to work as well as what is already up there. This is truly a learning experience for the people who turned the first screw right down to those of us who eagerly watch our tracking data and step outside to wave an antenna at the sky (while getting peculiar looks from our neighbors). My hats off to all those who are involved with the Fox project, and I do look forward to the future Fox satellites. Take care and have a great day. Loon

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Breaking news: JLENS blimp drifting free
by Martin Davidoff 28 Oct '15

28 Oct '15

At about 1:40 pm EDT it was reported that the JLENS blimp normally tethered at Aberdeen Proving Ground (NE of Baltimore) has broken free and is drifting.. May be of interest for experiments involving radio tracking by nearby radio amateurs. K2ubc

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(no subject)
by jeffory broughton 28 Oct '15

28 Oct '15

Jerry: On behalf of all who read the Amsat BB, Thanks for taking time to answer Loons questions.I am sure many more operators had the same ones.Your reply Sure answered a LOT of questions.Also thanks for all of your countless hours researching and solving problems which will insure the next generation of fox satellites will even better as we learn from this one. On behalf of all of us satellite operators, A big thank you! WB8RJY jeff broughton

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New Duplexer and AO-85
by W3MAT . 28 Oct '15

28 Oct '15

I received my duplexer through UPS yesterday and just gave it try on the 03:20 UTC pass of AO-85. It seems to be performing well, and I did make contacts with K3NG and AD2KA. I had, and continue to have, extreme difficulty with getting into AO-85 with just the HT's and Arrow antenna, and thought maybe it was because 2 meter receive and 435 up are 90 degrees to each other on the antenna's boom. I have had success working AO-85 with the Elk antenna and the Icom 2800 (transmits wide only), but *only* with the radios maximum 20 watts output on UHF, and even then it can be very difficult. I thought using the duplexer, HT's with *narrow* band, and the Elk antenna may be the ticket. I thought wrong. This was just as bad, or as difficult, as trying to get in with the Arrow antenna. In my opinion, AO-85 is certainly not every hand held radio and Arrow antenna operators easy to work satellite, like posted on a YouTube video prior to its launch. I'm not a big fan of the U/V set up for those of us that work hand held set ups. First it was very difficult to find the correct uplink frequencies in its early stages, and now that they have been posted and corrected in radio programming, its still difficult to know just when to switch for doppler, especially when its almost impossible to get into in the first place. I don't have multi element, circular polarized antennas mounted on an azimuth/elevation rotor connected to computer driven tracking and radio control software constantly adjusting frequency, azimuth, and elevation, nor am I capable of transmitting 50 watts of power on the uplink. I use simple, low power equipment (normally only 5 watts) capable of no more than 20 watts of power (Icom 2800). AO-85's FM performance certainly does not compete with the current SO-50, or the now gone AO-51 and AO-27 birds (rest their souls). Have a good night, W3MAT

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Web suggestion
by Dale Kubichek 28 Oct '15

28 Oct '15

AMSAT, Does AMSAT HQ/Server location sport Egg-Beater antennas or an auto-tracking SAT setup. Has AMSAT considered streaming FM SAT RX over the web when a SAT flies over AMSAT (priority given to AO's) ? I'm sure it would be interesting to all, assist newbie learning curve, allow verification of tracking program setup, and give first hand training of what that SAT sounds like as well as real-time HAM OPs on that SAT. Web audio streaming would only happens when a SAT is view-able (otherwise teh stream could play an AMSAT voice ad). Just an idea. Best regards, Dale Kubichek, MS-EET, N6JSX 937-726-6677 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HAM-SATs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RDF-USA

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Re: [amsat-bb] Possible ISS School Contact Experiment (Maryland report)
by Robert Bruninga 28 Oct '15

28 Oct '15

Both of my school-contact monitoring tests with the arrow were useless. Both days the 200' tethered JLENS Blimp was aloft radiating megawatts of radar direct Line of Sight to my operating position. Although the radar pings are at 143 and 149 MHz with peaks +70dB above the noise, they do get into all of our Ham VHF radios as a raised noise floor. Just open any radio squelch on any frequency in the 2m band and you will hear it. So even when the astronauts were 7 bars on the radio, the audio had significant noise from the radar superimposed. So my report is a null report. Bob, Wb4APR -----Original Message----- From: Robert Bruninga [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 6:06 PM Subject: RE: Possible ISS School Contact Experiment idea? (Thurs) > An ISS school contact… in Michigan on 22 Oct. This is a great time for those skilled portable "arrow" operators to get data on using fixed vertical arrow beam antennas for ISS voice at or near the horizon. The test will show if well placed fixed tripod "arrow class" antennas at AOS and LOS and a central turnstyle could possibly make it easier than a full AZ/EL Oscar class antenna at the school. See the concept paper at http://aprs.org/aos-los-test.html If your QTH is west of a school contact, then you should test your LOS horizon. If your QTH is east of the school, then you should test your AOS horizon. This is because we want to make sure we are getting voice quality data AT the horizon while the ISS crew is actually speaking. The desired data is a minute-by-minute log throughout the pass of ISS signal quality (noting nulls or fades) without moving or adjusting the antenna. Your receiver should be right near the antenna (no coax loss). Just orient the beam vertically with an up tilt of 15 degrees. Then aim it at a fixed Azimuth that is half way between AOS (or LOS) and when the ISS rises above (or drops below) 30 degrees elevation to cover the first (or last) portions of the pass. Leave your antenna fixed throughout the pass. We need to know how well the squelch on your radio eliminates the weak signal when the ISS is outside your particular fixed beam too. In a real scenario of this full technique, above 30 degrees the ISS is 3 times closer and 10 dB stronger and would be heard fine on a central omni antenna. But that is not part of your horizon performance test. So be sure to choose a good low horizon *and* the horizon you share with the School contact so that there is ISS audio during your particular horizon crossing (AOS or LOS). An audio recording would make it easier to prepare the log after the pass or you can just make checks or X's every 5 seconds on a piece of paper and summarize it later. Do NOT run open squelch. Set the squelch for normal ham radio operation to silence the radio when the signal would be unintelligible anyway, since we would not want unintelligible noise from one receiver to distract from good audio from the possible others.. If this concept works, then the idea would be to bring in all three receiver speakers (left-to-right) into the auditorium operating position to give equal weight to each receiver but also give a sense of the passage of the ISS. If this test shows any promise, it could not only eliminate all the complexities of long crossed yagis, AZ/EL rotators, big masts and active tracking, but also completely eliminate the problem of long runs of coax from the school gymnasium to the antennas. The coax is eliminated by placing 50W mobile rigs (capable of cross band repeat) at each of the possible three antennas and operating them remotely via 3 UHF HT's indoors on-stage (coupled into the sound system). So, if you are in range of an ISS school contact, and you have an arrow on a tripod at your QTH, you could collect data on a horizon transition to see if this idea is a possibility. Again, YOU ARE RECEIVE ONLY. Your test is *independent* of the actual school contact, you are just taking your own receive data wherever you are of how well a FIXED arrow on a tripod can hear the ISS at low elevations. Be sure to find a place with a good horizon at AOS(or LOS) to set your antenna. If we learn that there will be any significant fades or loss of signal, then this idea fails... But if it works, then the two arrows, tripods, three crossband-repeating mobile rigs and three UHF HT's could be made into a suitcase GOKIT to standardize some school contacts with a lot less work. Just an idea Bob, WB4APR US Naval Academy

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-10-28 06:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 28 Oct '15

28 Oct '15

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-10-28 06:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: About Gagarin From Space. Ham Radio Session With The Members Of Cosmonautics Federation And Students From St Petersburg, Russia, direct via RA1AJN (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Sergey Volkov RU3DIS (***) Contact was successful 2015-10-20 14:30 UTC (***) About Gagarin From Space. Ham Radio Session With The Members Of Cosmonautics Federation And Students From St Petersburg, Russia, direct via RA1AJN (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Sergey Volkov RU3DIS (***) Contact was successful 2015-10-27 11:35 UTC (***) Dearborn Public Schools, Dearborn, Michigan, USA, direct via K8UTT The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact was successful for Option #3: Tue 2015-10-27 16:01:59 UTC 57 deg (***) Watch for a live video stream that should start about 15:00 UTC: http://www.dearbornschools.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbhrQiZ62LE Daggett Montessori School K-8, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, direct via K5COW The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for: Thu 2015-10-29 14:12:56 UTC 31 deg Eleanor Palmer School, London, United Kingdom, telebridge via VK6MJ (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS (***) Contact is a go for: Wed 2015-11-04 09:51:39 UTC 44 deg (***) Dragonskolan, Umeå, Sweden, telebridge via VK6MJ (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for: Thu 2015-11-05 10:35:17 UTC 28 deg (***) **************************************************************************** ** Interested in hosting an ARISS contact? The window is now open from 2015-09-01 to 2015-11-01. These proposals will be for school contacts during the second half of 2016. Go to http://www.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact or http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html for full details. To help organizations in preparing their proposals, the ARISS Program Coordinator will offer hour-long online information sessions. These are designed to provide more information regarding US ARISS contacts and the proposal process and offer an opportunity to ask questions. While attending an online information session is not required, it is strongly encouraged. These will be offered Thursday, September 17, at 2000 UTC; Tuesday, September 22, at 2000 UTC, and Wednesday, September 30, at 2300 UTC. Advance registration is necessary. Email ARISS (ariss(a)arrl.org) to sign up for an information session. ********************* ********************************************************* >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 114 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 112 **************************************************************************** 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 2015-10-28 06:00 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 1004. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 969. (***) 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 2015-10-28 06:00 UTC. (***) http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 43/44 on orbit Scott Kelly Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF Exp. 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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AO-85 Telemetry Upload Tax
by David G0MRF 28 Oct '15

28 Oct '15

Hi all. Over the past 24 hours I've monitored the telemetry frames received on my PC against the total shown on the server. - http://www.amsat.org/tlm/ It seems I'm being taxed at 35% on my telemetry 'earnings' Server total at 08:00 UTC start of 24hr period 2418 Total received in 24 hrs from FOX-TLM 634 Total displayed on sever at 08:00 UTC today after 24hrs 2827 Correct total should be. 2418 + 634 = 3052 - So 225 frames missing So, is this a feature of the V1.01 Foxtelem or is there an issue with the routing to, or processing at the server as the loading from users increases. Either way, that's a lot of lost data. Many thanks David G0MRF

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Upcoming ARISS contact with Daggett Montessori School K-8, Fort Worth, Texas
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 28 Oct '15

28 Oct '15

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Daggett Montessori School K-8, Fort Worth, Texas on 29 Oct. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 14:12 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 direct between NA1SS and K5COW. The contact should be audible the mid U.S, 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. Daggett Montessori, a "School of Choice" within the Fort Worth Independent School District, was created thirty years ago and was one of the first public school Montessori programs in the nation. Based on the highly successful Montessori methodology and philosophy, Daggett Montessori has approximately 500 students, all selected through a blind lottery system. We are a Title I school, with close to 60% of our students economically disadvantaged. As a kindergarten through eighth grade program, we provide a safe, nurturing environment that focuses on long term relationships among staff, students, and parents. Our parents are actively involved in every aspect of school life. Maria Montessori was the first woman to graduate from medical school in Italy so science is an area of particular focus in the Montessori curriculum. She designed many of the lessons to instill a sense of awe about the natural world. Our parents are very involved in every aspect of school at Daggett Montessori. Of particular interest is our greenhouse with an aquaponics system in which we raise various herbs and vegetables. We also have multiple raised beds in which the children grow vegetables. Our parents provide gardening lessons on a weekly basis. Our students were very excited to learn that lettuce is being grown on the ISS! Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows 1. How did you feel when you first looked back at Earth? 2. What is your favorite experiment so far in the mission and what did you learn from it? 3. I saw on Twitter that you grew lettuce in space. At our school, we have an aquaponics system that we grow lettuce in. How did you grow yours and what did it taste like? 4. How does the lack of gravity affect your blood flow? 5. At what age did you decide to become an astronaut and what inspired you to do so? 6. On Earth, we see one sunrise and one sunset a day. How does it change your sleep-wake cycle when you see a sunrise or sunset every 45 minutes? 7. Are there any mechanical or electrical changes in your equipment from Earth's gravity to microgravity? For example, results from the SoRGE. 8. When you miss your family, what do you do to feel comforted? 9. If someone has a critical medical emergency, such as appendicitis, what would you do? 10. How does microgravity affect your digestive system? For example, does your food float to the top of your stomach? 11. We read that being in space a long time can have negative effects on your body. How do you feel about this? 12. How does the ISS protect itself from radiation or debris in your orbital path? 13. What do astronauts do when they are not on a space mission? 14. When you go into space, does it change your beliefs about other life forms? Why or why not? 15. We have read that the environment of space smells like hot metal and burnt meat, and that the food is dry. Does the environment affect your sense of smell and taste? 16. Allergies are a huge problem on Earth. Are allergies a problem on the ISS? Why or why not? 17. When a new crew comes in, has there ever been a communicable infection that spread to the crew in space? If not, do you have any concerns about that? 18. Are there any differences in growing your plants in microgravity? For example, do they photosynthesize or grow the same? 19. What does NASA do to protect the astronauts from viruses and diseases? 20. Can you break bones in space? If so, what do you do about it while you're in space? 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 is available on the website http://www.ariss.org/ Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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NO-84
by KO6TZ Bob 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

The 10m band was exceptionally quiet ( S-2 noise), this morning during the 15:39u pass. As a result, PSK-31 copy thru NO-84 was "As Advertised". The copy was almost flawless except for a very few errors due to fade from satellite rotation. Too bad no one else was around. KO6TZ BOB

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UKSA announces UKube-1 (FUNcube-2) has completed mission
by M5AKA 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

UKube-1 (FUNcube-2) CubeSat Completes Mission http://amsat-uk.org/2015/10/27/ukube-1-completes-mission/ Radiocommunication Assembly opens in Geneva http://amsat-uk.org/2015/10/26/radiocommunication-assembly-in-geneva/ University of Southampton CubeSat Program http://amsat-uk.org/2015/10/24/university-of-southampton-cubesat-program/ 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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4U70UN
by Mike Seguin 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

On behalf of the 4U70UN team, I'd like to thank the satellite community for all the contacts we made as we activated the UN on satellite. The operation was challenging due to constraints on operating time, RF interference at times and blockage due the "Urban Jungle" environment we were in. In addition to satellite and VHF/UHF terrestrial operation, there were 4 HF stations operating with full legal limit within our ~ 200' operating radius. Logs are being process now. Some pictures of the operation have been posted online. Google dxworld dot net Again, TNX! from the 4U70UN team. -- 73, Mike, N1JEZ "A closed mouth gathers no feet"

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AO85, 20:01 UC
by Burns Fisher 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

Loon, I was the W2, although I'm in 1-land. I also heard you and N0JY. I have 50 watts but it is into a Lindenblad, so a lot of power going out to the horizon, less when it is straight overhead. You sounded reasonably clear to me and N0JY was very clear. Burns W2BFJ From: Loon - W3MAT <w3mat03(a)gmail.com> To: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Cc: Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 16:54:25 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] AO85, 20:01 UC Over FN10 at 85 degrees. Heard N0JY and a "2" station but couldn't make out the call. For a high pass it was very noisy and I found it difficult to get into, even at 20 watts. I think I'd rather have a 30-45 degree pass. W3MAT

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AO85, 20:01 UC
by Loon - W3MAT 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

Over FN10 at 85 degrees. Heard N0JY and a "2" station but couldn't make out the call. For a high pass it was very noisy and I found it difficult to get into, even at 20 watts. I think I'd rather have a 30-45 degree pass. W3MAT

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