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W1AW/4 South Carolina on Satellite - 7/16 - 7/22
by Paul Stoetzer 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

Good morning, The W1AW/4 South Carolina schedule has been published and it looks like Art, K4YYL, will be activating W1AW/4 on the satellites. This is the only W1AW portable operation of the week. http://k4ro.net/w1aw-sc/index.php?date=2014-07-16 73, Paul, N8HM

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Re: [amsat-bb] LO78 Lituanicasat-1
by GW1FKY＠aol.com 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

Hi all, Pleased to report that I heard my own downlink on LO-78 over here in the UK (Wales) - Tuesday 15th July 0800 hrs GMT. The signal was quite strong but sadly no response to my CQ. Thanks to the team, pleased to add yet another satellite to my list of op's. but it would be nice to have a confirmed contact before it sadly re-enters. Ken Eaton GW1FKY Amsat -UK Amsat NA

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LO78
by PY5LF 14 Jul '14

14 Jul '14

Excellent signal of LO78 , 17:30 UTC , QSO with PY4ZBZ. 73 PY5LF Luciano Fabricio Curitiba-PR-BR GG54jm http://www.qrz.com/db/PY5LF

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Another Successful Launch For SpaceX
by B J 14 Jul '14

14 Jul '14

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2014/07/14/falcon-9-launches-orbcomm-satellites/ http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/07/spacex-falcon-9-v1-1-orbcomm-og2-mis… 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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Satpc32 on a Mac
by Richard Lawn 14 Jul '14

14 Jul '14

Some of you may have followed my trials and frustrations in trying to get an old XP driven Dell computer to live again. This computer is at a vacation house and I hated to spend money on a new computer. I run eggbeaters and an ft847 there. Here are outcomes, good and bad so far. 1) installed Ubuntu and was confident this would be the solution and it might still, however even the latest version of GPredict is buggy. I suspect the real culprit is Hamlib. 2) I installed Wine in Ubuntu in hopes of getting SatPC32 to run. This nearly worked but a few features didn't. For example I could not switch between modes using SatPC32 and I'm not certain that the CAT frequency adjust is working. Further investigation is required here. 3) I then discovered CrossOver which essentially is a commercial version of Wine for the Mac. Since I never leave home without a Mac laptop I decided to try a CrossOver demo. It took a while and some good "Elmer" support using the terminal program to configure the comm port, but once I solved that problem I found that the MacBook Pro running CrossOver will run SatPC32 perfectly! CrossOver is reasonably priced for your Mac. So that's where I ended up. I've not yet abandoned learning my way around Linux as it's been a good learning experience and I really appreciate the online support I received from fellow hams. 73 Rick W2JAZ

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AMSAT Field Day Summary Sheets due by 11:59PM Central Time Today
by Bruce 14 Jul '14

14 Jul '14

Do not forget to turn in your summary sheets in time so that your group can be counted in AMSAT field day. The final date to turn them in is a lot sooner than the ARRL date. **** ARRL July 29 **** **** AMSAT July 14 **** The Satellite Summary Sheet should be used for submission of the AMSAT Field Day competition and be received by KK5DO (email or postal mail) by 11:59 P.M. Central Time, Monday, July 14, 2014. Attach your stories of field day and some pictures. In the past we have been able to use almost all the pictures sent. 73...bruce -- Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards ARRL Awards Manager (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z 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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Video of MEO Satellite Presentation
by M5AKA 14 Jul '14

14 Jul '14

A video of the Medium Earth Orbit Satellite (MEOSAT) presentation by David Bowman G0MRF given at a previous AMSAT-UK Colloquium can now be seen at http://amsat-uk.org/2014/07/12/meo-and-heo-satellite-orbits/ The AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium takes place on the weekend of July 26-27, 2014 at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, GU2 7XZ, United Kingdom. The event is open to all, further details at http://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/colloquium-2014/ ---- Trevor M5AKA AMSAT-UK Website http://amsat-uk.org/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/amsatuk Twitter https://twitter.com/AMSAT_UK ----

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LO-78 (LituanicaSAT-1) status update
by Vytenis Buzas 14 Jul '14

14 Jul '14

Dear Gentlemen, Transponder is ON, next update in 24 hours. Respectfully, Vytenis B.

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Spacetrack catalog naming of LithunicaSAT-1 (LO-78)
by Kevin M 13 Jul '14

13 Jul '14

Hi all, I was checking an online sat tracker to see about upcoming passes and when I went to the bookmark that I saved, it showed the correct sat number (#39569) and displayed the correct track, but it called it "Skycube" and said it was presently decayed and launched in 1998! I checked a second online site and it said the same thing... the second site sourced the info as coming from the Spacetrack catalog, whatever that is. Not sure how this confusion happened, if anything could be done, if it is already known or if it even matters... but anyone searching those sites for the name 'LithunicaSAT-1' and 'LO-78' will not be able to find the correct tracking. I know it WASN'T this way before as I originally found the correct link by name. I would suggest tracking by number or perhaps look for 'Skycube'. 73, Kevin N4UFO

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Antares Successfully Launched
by B J 13 Jul '14

13 Jul '14

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/july/nasa-cargo-launches-to-space-station-ab… http://www.americaspace.com/?p=63987 http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/07/13/antares-lifts-off-to-iss/ http://www.parabolicarc.com/2014/07/13/antares-launches-cygnus-supply-ship-… http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/space-flight-news/antares-carryies-janice… 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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LO78 Lituanicasat-1
by PY5LF 13 Jul '14

13 Jul '14

Hi Very good signal of LO78 , 17:25 UTC over here , better than ever . 73 PY5LF Luciano Fabricio Curitiba-PR-BR GG54jm http://www.qrz.com/db/PY5LF

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LO-78 Transponder On
by Paul Stoetzer 13 Jul '14

13 Jul '14

LO-78's transponder was reported on during the last pass over North America. I'll be on the next pass at around 1534Z. Hope to hear a few stations! 73, Paul, N8HM

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Re: [amsat-bb] Dnepr Upper Stage Apogee
by Daniel Schultz 13 Jul '14

13 Jul '14

>I noticed that after the last Dnepr launch, it's upper stage was raised >to an apogee of 1454 km, putting it in a 1454 km x 609 km orbit with a >97.9 degree inclination, in order to avoid collision with any of the 37 >satellites it released. >There are, however, no legally binding requirements regarding debris mitigation. International agreement requires that objects in orbits lower than 2000 km must exit that region within 25 years after end of mission. Objects in orbits above 2000 km can remain there for longer than 25 years in a "disposal orbit", but only a few missions have the excess propulsion capacity to reach that orbit. Some US Government missions have disposed of upper stages to a higher orbit to avoid the need to issue a Notice to Airmen concerning the falling debris hazard. At least one polar orbiting weather satellite launch sent the upper stage on an Earth escape trajectory for disposal. It would seem that the Dnepr orbit is still too low to satisfy the international requirement. >In the case of amateur transponder satellites they can be assumed to have an >operation lifetime of 40+ years (think OSCAR-7), as I recall debris mitigation >suggests re-entry within 25 years of the end of mission. For amateur transponder >satellites this might imply 65 years in orbit. NASA is considering a revision to this policy to specify a total lifetime in LEO of no more than 30 years regardless of mission lifetime. Other interesting facts from Scott Hull's July 1 colloquium at NASA Goddard include: 1. There are about 22,000 objects larger than 10 centimeters in the NORAD database, an estimated 500,000 objects between 1 and 10 centimeters which are too small to track, and millions of objects less than one centimeter. The Chinese Fengyun 1C disintegration in 2007 produced about 2850 trackable pieces of debris. The new S-band space fence will be capable of tracking objects larger than 5 centimeters when it becomes operational in 2018. 2. There are about 4000 dead satellites on orbit, and about 1000 active satellites. 3. The debris population has peaks at 750, 900 and 1400 km. You would have to go to Saturn to find a worse debris environment than that of a 750 km Low Earth Orbit. Science missions can be difficult when you live in a minefield. 4. Most spacecraft disintegrations are caused by battery and pressure vessel explosions. Nickel hydrogen batteries are most susceptible to explosion but NiCd and lithium ion batteries can also explode. A lithium ion battery must NEVER be recharged after it has been fully drained. Rocket bodies left in GTO are subject to explosion when the perigee height dips low enough to begin atmospheric heating, which can cause remaining fuel in the tanks to explode. Modern mission design requires that batteries be disconnected from solar arrays and fully discharged and pressure tanks vented to space at the end of the satellite mission. 5. Space is still pretty big. We have been lucky so far. Statistics predict another eight or nine major collisions in the next 40 years with just the current population of debris. 6. The movie "Gravity" did have a science adviser, and they did get a few things right, namely that there were no loud sounds when the debris struck the shuttle, and objects with lower area to mass ratio arrived first. Nevertheless most NASA folks still consider the movie to be a comedy. If you have the DVD there is an additional 20 minute documentary video about orbital debris on the disk. For more information see http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/faqs.html#6 73, Dan Schultz N8FGV

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ao73 sqf file?
by Bob- W7LRD 13 Jul '14

13 Jul '14

what should we be calling AO73 in satpc32 sqf file ao-73 or funcube-1? 73 -the digitally challenged Bob-W7LRD

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ANS-173 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by Joseph Spier 13 Jul '14

13 Jul '14

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-173 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: * 2014 Candidates for the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Announced * Russian Dnepr rocket lofts record haul of 37 satellites * Amateur Radio Role on Space Station Featured at ISS Research and Development Conference * Successful launch of amateur radio satellite payloads * Dnepr Launch for D-STAR Satellite * FUNcube-3 payload launch information * Upcoming AMSAT Events * ARISS News * Satellite Shorts From All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-173.01 ANS-173 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 173.01 >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE June 22, 2014 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-173.01 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014 Candidates for the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Announced The 2014 candidates, in alphabetical order by last names are: Jerry Buxton, N0JY Tom Clark, K3IO Steve Coy, K8UD Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA Frank Griffin, K4FEG Bryan Klofas, KF6ZEO Lou McFadin, W5DID JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM Normally there would be 3 full Board seats open this year, plus 2 alternates. However, with the passing of Tony Monteiro, AA2TX (SK), there will be an additional full Board seat open to fill the remaining year of his term. This means that the top three recipients of votes will have two-year terms, the fourth most vote recipient will serve as full member for one year, and the fifth and sixth highest vote recipients will serve as first and second alternate respectively. Ballots will be mailed to the AMSAT-NA membership by 15 JUL 2014 and must be received at the AMSAT office by 15 SEP 2014 in order to be counted. Those sent outside North America will go by air mail. If you have not received your ballot package in a reasonable time for your QTH, please contact the AMSAT office. Returned ballots should be sent as promptly as possible, and those from outside North American preferably by air mail. Election of board members is both an obligation as well as an opportunity by our membership to help shape the future direction of AMSAT. Please take the time to review the candidate statements that will accompany the ballot and determine who you wish to see on the Board. You have the option to vote for up to four candidates. [ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Russian Dnepr rocket lofts record haul of 37 satellites A Russian Dnepr rocket launched a record-breaking thirty-seven satellites on Friday morning local time, deploying a cluster of spacecraft for scientific research and commercial operation. The mission departed on schedule from Dombarovsky in Southern Russia at 01:11 local time (19:11 UTC on Thursday). Dnepr Record Breaker: With thirty-seven satellites aboard the Dnepr, Friday’s launch saw the record for most spacecraft launched by a single rocket broken for the fourth time in less than a year. The previous record was set at 34 by January’s Antares launch with Orbital Sciences’ first CRS mission to the International Space Station. Thirty-three of the satellites werre deployed directly by the Dnepr – as opposed to being released by other payloads or transported to the International Space Station for later deployment – which is also a new record. That record had previously been held by an American Minotaur launch which occurred last year. Deimos-2, KazEOSat-2 and Hodoyoshi-3 and 4 were the main payloads for what was the twentieth Dnepr launch. Z3Built by South Korea’s SATREC Initiative for Deimos Imaging of Spain, the Deimos-2 satellite follows on from the smaller Deimos-1 which launched in 2009. Based around the SI-300 bus, Deimos-2 has a mass of around 300 kilograms (660 lb). It will be used for high-resolution Earth imaging; it’s EOS-D imager is capable of producing pictures at resolutions as high as 0.75 metres (2.5 feet). KazEOSat-2, which was previously known as the Medium Resolution Earth Observation Satellite, or DZZ-MH, will be operated by Kazakhstan Gharysh Sapary, the main contractor to the space programme of Kazakhstan. Built by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited of the United Kingdom, KazEOSat-2 is based upon the SSTL-150+ satellite bus and carries a camera which can image the Earth at resolutions of up to 6.5 metres. The 185 kilogram (408 lb) satellite will complement the larger and higher-resolution KazEOSat-1, which was launched by Europe’s Vega rocket in April. The University of Tokyo’s Hodoyoshi-3 and 4 are prototype remote sensing satellites. With masses of 60 and 66 kilograms (132 and 145 lb) respectively, Hodoyoshi-3 carries two cameras with resolutions of 40 and 200 metres (131 and 656 feet), while Hodoyoshi-4 is equipped with a single, more powerful, instrument providing a resolution of 6 metres (20 ft) per pixel. The spacecraft are also equipped for further technology demonstration, and store-and-forward communications. The other payloads on the Dnepr include AprizeSat-9 and 10, which will be used for commercial communications. The ownership of these satellites is not entirely clear; they were built by SpaceQuest, who will operate them for the early phases of their missions. Once operational, the two twelve kilogram satellites may be transferred to exactEarth or retained for operation by SpaceQuest. They are the eleventh and twelfth satellites in a series which was originally named LatinSat. BRITE-Toronto and BRITE-Montreal, also known as BRITE-CA 1 and 2, are the fourth and fifth members of the six-satellite Bright Star Target Explorer (BRITE) constellation, a joint venture between Canada’s Universities of Toronto and Montreal, Austria’s University of Vienna and the Polish Academy of Sciences. The two satellites launched on Friday form the Canadian part of the constellation, although the University of Toronto were responsible for designing all six satellites and manufacturing most of them. The final BRITE satellite, Poland’s Heweliusz, is scheduled to be launched atop a Chang Zheng 4B rocket from China later this year. The BRITE programme is aimed at studying variations in the amount of light coming from the brightest stars visible from Earth. The Canadian satellites are identical apart from the filters used in their telescopes; Toronto’s satellite will use a red filter to study the lower-energy end of the spectrum, while Montreal’s will study light with shorter wavelengths using a blue filter. BugSat-1, which will be operated by Argentina’s Satellogic S.A, is a 22 kilogram technology demonstrator. Intended to demonstrate a medium-resolution camera in addition to UHF and C-band communications systems, the satellite will be made available for amateur radio users at the end of its primary mission. Saudi Arabia’s SaudiSat-4 spacecraft will be used to study whether a phenomenon called the photoelectric effect, which causes metals to emit electrons when exposed to ultraviolet radiation, can be use to cancel out electrical charges which build up in satellite components over time. The 100-kilogram (220 lb) satellite was built by the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in association with NASA’s Ames Research Center. TabletSat-Aurora was developed by Russian company Sputnix. A 25 kilogram (55 lb) spacecraft, the satellite will be used to test the TabletSat-2U-EO bus upon which it is based. In addition, the spacecraft will observe the Earth, returning images with a resolution of up to 15 metres (49 feet). The UniSat-6 satellite, of Rome’s La Sapienza University, is a technology demonstration mission which follows on from last year’s UniSat-5 mission. Like UniSat-5, UniSat-6 carries CubeSat dispensers however it lacks the PocketQube deployers flown on the previous mission. Four CubeSats are expected to be deployed from UniSat-6 at a later date. AeroCube-6 is an American technology demonstration satellite which will be operated by The Aerospace Corporation. Intended to test a new CubeSat bus, it is a single-unit satellite with sides of 10 centimetres (3.9 in), which will collect data on radiation levels in low Earth orbit. It is joined by Lemur-1, a prototype Earth-imaging satellite for NanoSatisfi Incorporated, also of the United States. The three-unit CubeSat carries visible-light and infrared imagers, however its primary objective is to demonstrate how the satellite bus functions under operational conditions. A three-unit CubeSat, TigriSat, is the first satellite to be launched for Iraq. Built for the country’s Ministry of Science and Technology by Iraqi students working at the La Sapienza University in Rome, TigriSat will be used to monitor dust storms in Iraq. Iraq previously claimed to have launched a satellite in 1989, however this was discredited after footage of the rocket exploding during first stage flight surfaced. Analysts have also determined that it was unlikely to have been an orbital launch attempt in any case. Antelsat, the fourth satellite to be deployed from UniSat-6, will be Uruguay’s first spacecraft. It is a two-unit CubeSat, which will be used for amateur radio, Earth observation and to advance Uruguayan satellite technology. In addition to the CubeSats aboard UniSat-6, twenty-one more will be deployed from the Dnepr itself. DTUSat-2 is a Danish satellite being launched for the Danmarks Tekniske Universitet. It will be used to aid studies of bird migration by relaying data from GPS trackers attached to the birds. Duchifat-1 is a single-unit CubeSat which will be operated by Israel’s Herzliya Science Centre. The spacecraft has served as an educational project and once in orbit will be used to test location determination, with the satellite returning data on its calculated position to be plotted onto maps on the ground. Eleven Flock-1c spacecraft will be launched for Planet Labs’ Flock constellation. Earth imaging spacecraft, each three-unit CubeSat is equipped with cameras capable of producing photographs at resolutions of up to three metres. Following four technology demonstration missions using Dove satellites, the first twenty-eight Flock-1 spacecraft were carried into orbit by January’s Cygnus mission, for subsequent deployment from the ISS. Twenty-eight more satellites will be launched aboard the next Cygnus mission, currently scheduled for July. NanoSatC-Br 1, a single-unit Brazilian spacecraft, is based on a kit purchased from ISIS. The spacecraft carries a magnetometer to study the South Atlantic Anomaly, an area where the Van Allen belts are unusually close to the Earth’s surface exposing satellites to greater radiation levels than would otherwise be expected at those altitudes. The Platform for Attitude Control Experiments (PACE) CubeSat will be used by Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University to test an attitude control system, returning data on how the satellite’s orientation changes as it attempts to manoeuvre. By studying its performance, the satellite’s operators hope to be able to develop better attitude control systems for small satellites. Perseus-M 1 and 2 are the first six-unit CubeSats to launch, with dimensions of 30 by 20 by 10 centimetres (12 by 8 by 4 in). The satellites will be operated by Russia’s Dauria Aerospace, having been constructed by Dauria’s American subsidiary Canopus Systems. Each spacecraft carries an AIS receiver intended to collect data on the position and status of ships at sea. Ukraine’s PolyITAN-1 will be operated by the country’s National Technical University. Itis intended to demonstrate that Ukraine can conduct a CubeSat mission and study the performance of the satellite’s single-unit bus in orbit. POPSAT-HIP-1 will test attitude control and imaging systems for Singapore’s Microspace Limited. It is a three-unit CubeSat. The last two CubeSats, QB50P1 and QB50P2, form part of the QB50 programme which aims to launch and operate a constellation of fifty small satellites for scientific research. These two demonstration satellites will be operated by Belgium’s von Karman Institute with contributions from other institutions. QB50P1 carries an Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer, an attitude control experiment, a thermocouple to monitor the spacecraft’s temperature and FUNCube-3, an amateur radio payload for the Dutch branch of AMSAT. QB50P2 carries the same attitude control system and thermocouple, combining them with a French amateur radio system and the FIPEX experiment for the Technical University of Dresden, which will study the oxygen flux in the satellite’s environment. Converted from the R-36 missile, the Dnepr is a three-stage rocket which incorporates the two stages of the R-36MUTTH, with the missile’s post-boost module converted to act as a third stage and satellite dispenser. The R-36 originally served as an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering an 18 megaton nuclear warhead, although later versions were equipped to carry up to ten Multiple Independently- Targetable Reentry Vehicles (MIRVs), each armed with a nuclear device. Another variant, the R-36O, was designed to place its warhead into orbit, and then deorbit it onto a target anywhere in the world. This was subsequently banned under an international treaty in 1979. The Dnepr made its first launch in April 1999, when it deployed Britain’s UoSAT-12. Among the other payloads it has launched on previous missions are the two Genesis demonstrators for Bigelow Aerospace. Launched in 2006 and 2007, these prototype inflatable space station modules paved the way for the work Bigelow is now doing on inflatable space habitats and an experimental module for the International Space Station. Friday’s launch marked the Dnepr’s twentieth flight, with only one of its previous missions ending in failure. That came in July 2006, when a first stage hydraulic failure brought down a cluster launch which had been carrying eighteen satellites. The Dnepr launched from a silo at Site 370/13 of Russia’s Dombarovsky launch site. The first stage did not ignite until the missile is clear of the silo, with ejection being accomplished by means of a gas generator at the aft of the vehicle which separated shortly after ejection is complete. The first stage was powered by four RD-263 engines, while an RD-0255 powers the second stage and an RD-869 powered the third. The payloads were enclosed within a Gas Dynamic Shield, which protected them from the exhaust of the third stage, in addition to a regular payload fairing. This shielding is necessary because, due to its missile heritage, the third stage flies backwards with the payloads mounted on the same side as its engine nozzles. Spacecraft separation occurred while the stage was still firing, with the satellites ejecting from the back of the rocket. Once separation was complete, the stage continued to burn to remove itself from the operational orbit. The Dnepr launch was the thirty-fourth orbital launch of 2014, and the first to make use of a Dnepr. The Dnepr’s next launch is scheduled for no earlier than August, with five satellites including Japan’s Hodoyoshi-1 and Asnaro-1. Russia’s next launch, in early July, will see a Proton-M orbit a Luch communications satellite. This will be a return-to-flight mission for the Proton, which suffered its ninth failure in ten years in May. [ANS thanks AMSAT-NA, AMSAT-UK, & the NASA Spaceflight.com for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Amateur Radio Role on Space Station Featured at ISS Research and Development Conference Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) will have a prominent place at the third annual ISS Research and Development Conference this week. The conference, organized by American Astronautical Society (AAS) in cooperation with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space and NASA, takes place June 17-19 in Chicago. ARISS International Chairman and AMSAT Vice President for Human Spaceflight Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, will be the lead presenter for a program compiled by members of the ARISS US team — which includes ARISS International Secretary and ARRL Delegate Rosalie White, K1STO, ARRL Education Services Manager Debra Johnson, K1DMJ, and E. Mike McCardel, KC8YLD, of AMSAT. “ARISS — Inspiring and Educating Youth through Direct Connections with the ISS Crew” focuses on ARISS and its role in education. ARISS is the first and longest continuously running educational outreach program involving the International Space Station. The first ARISS school contact took place in late 2000, and nearly 900 such Amateur Radio contacts have taken place since then. ARISS functions with participation from the ARRL, NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), the Russian Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS), CNES, JAXA, CSA and AMSAT. It allows students, as part of a science and technology curriculum, to speak with a member of the ISS crew and ask questions about life in space or other space-related topics. ARISS conducts about 100 such school contacts per year, each about 10 minutes long — the time of a typical ISS pass — with students in the US and around the world. Preparation for the ARISS experience motivates both students and teachers to further their educations. Educators involved in an ARISS event can learn about electronics and wireless technology through the hands-on training provided in an ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology session — several are held each year. In similar fashion, youngsters preparing for a contact with an ISS crew member may learn about radio waves, space technology, science experiments onboard the ISS, geography, and the space environment. Some 15,000 students are touched directly by an ARISS contact each year, and many more become aware the program and its benefits either directly or via news media coverage resulting from an event. The ARISS presentation at this week’s AAS conference will provide some historical background on the ARISS program, describe the international volunteer team responsible for making program a success, and provide an overview of the process for schools to apply for an ARISS school contact. It will also explain how the ARISS team, partnered with NASA Education Office’s Teaching from Space program to engage schools and students. And it will describe some of the educational outcomes from ARISS, including data and feedback from schools, students, and organizations. In addition to inspiring an interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curricula and careers, ARISS offers an opportunity for Amateur Radio experimentation and for evaluating new technologies. Today the ISS is only very rarely without an Amateur Radio licensee onboard, and the complement of Amateur Radio equipment on the ISS has expanded considerably since the early days of the ARISS program. While the initial hand-held VHF and UHF transceivers remain in use, mobile-type transceivers have been installed since, the ISS has slow-scan TV and digital capabilities, and, more recently, the ARISS program completed the commissioning of digital Amateur Radio television equipment to transmit video from space in conjunction with ARISS school contacts. That effort remain under development. The emphasis of the overall AAS conference is on ISS research and development — Discoveries in Microgravity Science; Discoveries in Space Science, Earth Science, Engineering and Education; Applications Benefitting Earth; Applications Enabling Technology and Exploration; and Opportunities. [ANS thanks AMSAT-BB, ARISS, & the ARRL for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Successful launch of amateur radio satellite payloads On Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 19:11:11 UT a Dnepr rocket was launched from Dombarovsky near Yasny in the Russian Federation carrying 37 satellites, 12 of which had amateur radio payloads. Among the amateur radio payloads are a SSB/CW linear transponder, FM voice transponder, D-STAR Parrot Repeater and three Packet Radio Digipeaters. In total 33 satellites were deployed, the remaining four, Tigrisat, Lemur 1, ANTELSat and AeroCube 6, are being carried by the microsatellite UniSat-6 and should be deployed on Friday, June 20. In the hours immediately after launch signals were reported from POPSAT, QB50p1, QB50p2, UniSat-6, BugSat-1, NanosatC-BR1, Duchifat-1 and TabletSat-Aurora. The two QB50 precursor Cubesats on the launch carry amateur radio transponders. They were deployed at 19:32 UT and CW signals from both were received shortly after by Andre Van Deventer ZS2BK in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Brian Best ZS5SB also reported receiving QB50p1. Richard Dailey N8UX in Kentucky, USA made use of the Southampton University Wireless Society (SUWS) WebSDR to receive the QB50P2 beacon when the satellite was in range of the UK. The details of the initial 145 MHz CW transmission format for both QB50p1, and its near twin QB50p2, is at http://www.isispace.nl/HAM/qb50p.html QB50p1 carries the FUNcube-3 400 mW inverting linear 435/145 MHz transponder provided by AMSAT-NL. • 145.815 MHz BPSK telemetry • FUNcube inverting 400 mW SSB/CW transponder - 435.035-435.065 MHz Uplink LSB - 145.935-145.965 MHz Downlink USB QB50p2 carries a 435/145 MHz FM transponder and FX25 data transmitter from AMSAT-F. • 145.880 MHz BPSK telemetry • 145.840 MHz 9600 bps FSK FX25 It is expected that both these transponder payloads will be activated after the science missions have been completed. QB50 precursor amateur radio operator page http://www.isispace.nl/HAM/qb50p.html There were 37 satellites and a 2U Mass Dummy on the launch, frequencies at http://r4uab.ru/?p=6393 For a short description of each of the satellites see http://www.zarya.info/Calendar.php#Dnepr Article about the launch and payloads http://www.spaceflight101.com/dnepr-launch-updates—2014-cluster- launch.html Southampton University Wireless Society WebSDR http://websdr.suws.org.uk/ [ANS thanks the AMSAT-UK for the above information] -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dnepr Launch for D-STAR Satellite The D-STAR satellite TabletSat-Aurora launched with 11 other satellites carrying amateur radio payloads from Dombarovsky near Yasny on Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 19:11:11 UT. It carries a D-STAR Parrot (Store and Forward) Repeater running 0.8 watts of GMSK on 437.050 MHz (+/- 10 kHz) to a whip antenna. It can store up to 8 seconds of voice message. There are two other transceivers on the satellite that operate on 435.550 MHz and 436.100 MHz. Their power can be varied by command from the ground station between 0.8 and 2.0 watts and it is understood they will be used for command and control and transmit GMSK telemetry data. There is also a downlink on 8192 MHz. Dmitry Pashkov R4UAB reports the D-STAR repeater could become operational in early July. It is understood that when the D-STAR repeater is active the telemetry transmitters will be inactive. Description of TabletSat-Aurora in Google English http://tinyurl.com/TabletSat-Aurora-Description A description of the satellites amateur radio capability is at https://www.facebook.com/SPUTNIX.ltd/photos/a.336584396454237.77484.2 93701294075881/569763353136339/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SPUTNIX.ltd/ There are 37 satellites and a 2U Mass Dummy on the launch and it is thought a dozen of them are carrying amateur radio payloads. A list of frequencies is at http://r4uab.ru/?p=6393 For a short description of each of the satellites see http://www.zarya.info/Calendar.php#Dnepr Article about the launch and payloads http://www.spaceflight101.com/dnepr-launch-updates—2014-cluster- launch.html [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- FUNcube-3 payload launch information The FUNcube team anticipate that the Dnepr launch of the amateur radio FUNcube-3 payload on the QB50p1 CubeSat will take place as previously stated. This Thursday is the day! To be precise, lift off is expected to take place from Yasny on June 19, 2014 at 19:11:11 UT and the deployment of the various payloads will take place over the Indian Ocean in a similar fashion to the launch of FUNcube-1 last November. Pre-launch Keplerian elements / Two-Line Elements (TLEs) can be seen below. The details of the initial 145 MHz CW transmission format for both QB50p1, and its near twin QB50p2, is at http://www.isispace.nl/HAM/qb50p.html QB50p1 carries an inverting linear UV transponder with 400 mW output provided by AMSAT-NL and which is similar to that on FUNcube-1. • 145.815 MHz BPSK telemetry • FUNcube inverting 400 mW SSB/CW transponder - 435.035-435.065 MHz Uplink LSB - 145.935-145.965 MHz Downlink USB QB50p2 carries an UV FM transponder and FX25 data transmitter from AMSAT-F. It is expected that these payloads will be activated after the science missions have been completed. • 145.880 MHz BPSK telemetry • 145.840 MHz 9600 bps FSK FX25 AMSAT-UK will be monitoring the launch event and watching for signal reports on the #cubesat IRC channel throughout the evening. A web client is available at http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#cubesat QB50 precursor amateur radio operator page http://www.isispace.nl/HAM/qb50p.html There are 37 satellites and a 2U Mass Dummy on the launch, frequencies at http://r4uab.ru/?p=6393 For a short description of each of the satellites see http://www.zarya.info/Calendar.php#Dnepr Article about the launch and payloads http://www.spaceflight101.com/dnepr-launch-updates—2014-cluster- launch.html Preliminary orbital information: Launch Time: 19:11:11 UT Separation of Platform A: 19:27:07 UT Separation of QB50p1: 19:32:07 UT Separation of QB50p2: 19:32:27 UT 1st pass over Delft/VKI: 20:46:46 UT QB50p_PRELAUNCHKEPS 1 00362U 00362A 14170.81049769 .00000000 00000-0 10000-4 0 7 2 00362 97.9897 66.2289 0012982 291.8733 244.3145 14.85013404 03 FUNcube website http://www.funcube.org.uk/ FUNcube Yahoo Group http://amsat-uk.org/funcube/yahoo-group/ FUNcube Forum http://forum.funcube.org.uk/ [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming 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). Thursday through Sunday, 17-20 July 2014 – ARRL Centennial Convention in Hartford CT. AMSAT will host a day-long Satellite Workshop on Thursday, and have a booth at the convention along with an AMSAT Forum and demonstrations throughout the convention. Friday through Sunday, 12-14 September 2014 – ARRL Southwestern Division Convention 2014 in San Diego CA (north of the city center, near Montgomery Field airport & I-805/CA-163 interchange) – AMSAT will have a booth at this convention, there will be on-air demonstrations using satellites throughout the convention, and a presentation on amateur satellites and AMSAT [ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS News Upcoming Contacts as of 2014-06-16 Focus Camps in Sterrenlab, Italy and European Space Center, Transinne, Belgium are scheduled for a joint telebridge contact via IK1SLD on Fri 2014-06-20 18:36:47 UTC 46 deg. (more information below) The questions will be asked alternately by participants of the Focus Camp in Italy and by participants of the Mission X Closing Event at the Euro Space Center in Belgium. Focus Camp, Candriai, Italy The radio contact with the ISS will take place during the Focus Campus, a science summer camp addressed to children aged 8 to 13 organized by Focus Junior - the most popular science magazine for children in Italy - and Sterrenlab, the camp organizer. During the week children will participate to science laboratories, learn about science topics and challenge themselves to design and build experiments and machines. The Focus Campus in Candriai (Trento) focuses on tinkering and DIY activities ("Una scienza da creare" - "A science to create"). Children will also have the opportunity to do sport in the morning, play with their friends and visit the alpine nature surrounding the camp premises. Euro Space Center, Redu, Belgium About 150 youngsters from all over Europe celebrate the International Closing Event for Mission X 2014 at the Euro Space Center in Belgium. “Mission X train like an astronaut” is an international education project that encourages children to take part in a challenge, adopting a life style reflecting astronaut training. The Closing Event offers participants the opportunity to meet astronauts and trainers, to experience the training simulators for astronauts, to simulate a Shuttle mission and to build a rocket. The telebridge contact with Euro Space Center was a success. - 14 questions answered by Alex Gerst - audience 70 - signals 5.9 in the middle of the pass The landline with Candriai Focus Camp was still down. Students at Ufa University, Ufa, Russia are planning a direct contact for Sat 2014-06-21 14:45 UTC. No additional information has been provided. A direct contact with students at Gymnasium Markt Indersdorf, Markt Indersdorf, Bavaria, Germany, via DN4OD is planned for Thu 2014- 06-26 12:08:49 UTC 66 deg. The contact is expected to be conducted in German. The grammar school/high school of Markt Indersdorf (Gymnasium Markt Indersdorf GMI, Germany) began operations in the school year of 2001/2002. In 2007 the first students graduated successfully with the certificate qualifying them to go to university (Abitur). Currently, about 90 teachers instruct approximately 1,100 pupils aged 10 to 19, about 250 of them are in the qualification phase (years/grades 11 and 12). The GMI offers the choice between two faculties, the linguistic and scientific-technological one. Approximately 75 percent of the pupils decide for the latter. The pupils obtain an education in science from the 5th year/grade on, the subject Physics is taught from year/grade 8 on for both faculties, in the scientific-technological profile additional hours for more in-depth education are mandatory. In years/grades 11 and 12, the pupils have the choice between Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Experience has shown that about 30 to 40 per school year decide to take Physics. About half of them vote for Astrophysics in the 12th year/grade. From 5th year/grade on, all pupils study English as their first foreign language. The ISS Project The pupils are divided for this project into different groups that are each responsible for one of the following activities: • Technology: Installation, commissioning and maintenance of the antenna system respectively the radio station as well as all the necessary hardware and software • Planning and monitoring: Organization of the overall sequence of events, initiation of a school's competition to select the questions to the astronauts, organization of rehearsals • Presentation and documentation: Design of the facilities in question, elaboration of exhibitions and wall papers, construction of a model of the ISS, photo, audio and video documentation • Public Relations (local and trans-regional): Press, TV, radio and website. Pupils of all ages should participate in selecting the questions to the astronauts. The examination of questionnaires of other schools which already made contact with the ISS should secure the creation of uncommon and interesting questions that are not asked in every interview. At the event in question - depending on the date and time - a large number, if possible, of the school family should be present in the assembly hall, for example, to attend a live broadcast from the radio room. Successful Contacts A direct contact with Slavic Nations Ham Radio Conference, Sochi, Russia was successful Thu 2014-06-12 15:40 UTC. [ANS thanks ARISS for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts from All Over Subject: [amsat-bb] NanosatC-BR1 Hi The first Brazilian cubesat are working well. Video; http://youtu.be/FZdiZMX9rcI Preliminary TLE: NANOSATC-BR1 1 00362U 00362A 14170.81049769 .00000000 00000-0 10000-4 0 7 2 00362 97.9897 66.2289 0012982 291.8733 244.3145 14.85013404 03 Doppler for SatPC32: NANOSATC-BR1,145868.0,,USB,,,,TLM Thank you PY5LF Luciano Fabricio Curitiba-PR-BR GG54jm http://www.qrz.com/db/PY5LF [ANS thanks Luciano, PY5LF & the AMSAT-BB 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

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K4AMG.org
by Rich/wa4bue 12 Jul '14

12 Jul '14

Just before field day the club worked with a CUB SCOUT DAY CAMP on Space day. Pictures are located in our July news letter at K4AMG.org. Our site does not make MACAPHEE happy but it is clean. We hosted over 130 CUBS. Also thank you everyone for your suggestions. Rich W4BUE

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VO-52 Status
by Paul Stoetzer 12 Jul '14

12 Jul '14

Any word on VO-52? Looks like it hasn't been heard from at all today. I last listened for VO-52 a couple of days ago. I had trouble getting into the transponder due to a very high noise floor, which I thought might have been local, though I could hear AO-7 which was passing by at the same time. Also, the beacon was found about 3 kHz higher than normal. I'll try to listen for the next pass at 2224Z, but I operate outside and a storm is on it's way. 73, Paul, N8HM

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Sprout sstv
by andy thomas 12 Jul '14

12 Jul '14

Sprout was on SSTV today as previously announced on their website. I copied sstv in Scottie-1 at 1248 utc on 437.6. However, the signal seemed to be very weak. I wonder if anybody else received the satellite, and iof so, and comments about signal strength? I could see the signal in SDR-sharp but could not adequately decode the picture. After several attempts at replay with various flters I could read only"SSTV", "CQ" and parts of the callsign. 73 de andy g0sfj

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Not a peep from LituanicaSAT-1
by Rick Walter 12 Jul '14

12 Jul '14

I did not hear LO-78 on this 15:32-15:41Z pass just now. Rick - WB3CSY Sent from Rick's iPad2

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test
by Michel F6GLJ 12 Jul '14

12 Jul '14

73 qro from Michel F6GLJ

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France (IN94) on SAT
by Michel F6GLJ 12 Jul '14

12 Jul '14

Hello Everybody. I will be on sat for good passes for QSO France > NA, and I hope meet you : AO-07B (if it is on.) 16:03 -> 16:14 UTC AO-07B (if it is on.) 17:51 -> 18:05 UTC FO-29 19:15 -> 19:28 UTC 73 qro from Michel F6GLJ

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France (IN94) on SAT
by Michel F6GLJ 12 Jul '14

12 Jul '14

Hello Everybody. I will be on sat for good passes for QSO France > NA, and I hope meet you : AO-07B (if it is on.) 16:03 -> 16:14 UTC AO-07B (if it is on.) 17:51 -> 18:05 UTC FO-29 19:15 -> 19:28 UTC 73 qro from Michel F6GLJ

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LO-78 FM Transponder
by Paul Stoetzer 11 Jul '14

11 Jul '14

A couple of hours ago, this was posted on the LituanicaSAT-1 Facebook page: "LituanicaSAT-1 decays in a couple of weeks. Transponder always-on and no more other experiments?" (https://www.facebook.com/Lituanicasat1) I'm not sure if that means that the transponder has already been turned on or will soon be turned on for the remaining life of the satellite, but it's worth it to check it out. Current decay prediction is July 24th: http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?cat=157 Remember to use fresh keps, preferably from CelesTrak as they are updated daily. 73, Paul, N8HM

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UK CubeSail satellite hopes for December launch
by M5AKA 11 Jul '14

11 Jul '14

Surrey Space Centre – UK CubeSail Satellite hopes to launch December 2014 http://amsat-uk.org/2014/07/11/ssc-cubesail-satellite/ Amateur Radio Society Receives Award http://amsat-uk.org/2014/07/11/ham-radio-society-receives-award/ Chelmsford landing planned for SSDV Balloons http://amsat-uk.org/2014/07/11/chelmsford-landing-planned-for-epping-ssdv-b… A collection of UKube-1 CubeSat videos can be seen at http://amsat-uk.org/2014/07/08/ukube-1-signals-received/ The AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium takes place on the weekend of July 26-27, 2014 at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, GU2 7XZ, United Kingdom. The event is open to all, further details at http://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/colloquium-2014/ ---- Trevor M5AKA AMSAT-UK Website http://amsat-uk.org/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/amsatuk Twitter https://twitter.com/AMSAT_UK ----

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ISEE-3 Propulsion System Malfunction
by B J 11 Jul '14

11 Jul '14

http://spacecollege.org/isee3/isee-3-status-report-9-july-2014-afternoon.ht… http://www.americaspace.com/?p=63937 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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Another Weather Delay For Antares/Cygnus
by B J 11 Jul '14

11 Jul '14

http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/07/11/weather-delays-antares-launch-aga… http://www.parabolicarc.com/2014/07/11/cygnus-launch-delayed-sunday/ http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/commercial-space-space-flight-mi… http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/news/orbital-postpones-orb-2-launch-to-sun… 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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Seeking volunteers for cooperative data reconstruction from weak signals transmitted by a deep0space craft “DESPATCH”
by Akihiro Kubota 11 Jul '14

11 Jul '14

Dear AMSAT members, Hello. the ARTSAT Project is going to launch a deep-space sculpture/spacecraft DESPACH this December. This is the first edition of the public announcement of call for receivers of cooperative reception from deep-space. https://www.dropbox.com/s/u96t1ywz97deki5/despatch_abstract_en_ver1.0.pdf If you have any comments and suggestions. Please contact us freely. Thanks in advance. All the best, ARTSAT Project Team info(a)artsat.jp http://artsat.jp

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UKube-1
by PY5LF 11 Jul '14

11 Jul '14

Hi Heard UKube-1 on the first pass over Brazil ; http://youtu.be/eMAcwgeI6eE All information about found on the Mike`s DK3WN website . 73 PY5LF Luciano Fabricio Curitiba-PR-BR GG54jm http://www.qrz.com/db/PY5LF

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ARRL Centennial QSO Party W1AW Portable Satellite Operations - Halfway Point
by Paul Stoetzer 11 Jul '14

11 Jul '14

Good evening, This week marks the halfway point and a break in the W1AW portable calendar for the 2014 World Radiosport Team Championships coming up this weekend during the IARU HF World Championship. As this is the halfway point, I wanted to compile some statistics on satellite operations during this event. All of this data comes from the W1AW logs as uploaded to LoTW and reported on the Centennial QSO Party Leaderboard ( https://centennial-qp.arrl.org/index.php ). The QSO statistics reflect unique callsigns worked on any satellite, not total number of separate QSOs. If you work W1AW/x during a week on AO-7 Mode A, AO-7 Mode B, AO-73, FO-29, VO-52, and ISS Packet, you still only get credit for 1 QSO towards the Centennial QSO Party points challenge. Satellite participation has not been great. Of the 55 operations that have taken place so far, only 18 have reported making any satellite QSOs (WI and UT from this past week are not yet uploaded, but I do not believe they had any activity and have marked them at 0 for now). A total of 780 unique QSOs have been made. The leading operation at this point is W1AW/9 in Illinois the week of June 25th with 122 unique callsigns worked by AA9LC. There are still lots of opportunities to have the chance to use the W1AW callsign on the satellites coming up during the second half of the year. If your state still has a week assigned, be sure to contact your state's coordinator ( http://www.arrl.org/files/file/On%20the%20Air/W1AW_2014_sked.pdf ) and sign up to be the satellite operator. Lots of big states with plenty of satellite operators have not appeared on the satellites! I personally look forward to my opportunity to activate W1AW/3 from the District of Columbia in October. Wisconsin, New York, Utah, Minnesota, and Nebraska are the only states that have had both of their weeks pass at this point. We ease back into the W1AW operations with South Carolina next week. I hope this table comes out OK in most email readers: Call State Week Of Sat QSOs W1AW/9 IL 6/25 122 W1AW/7 AZ 3/12 101 W1AW/5 LA 6/4 75 W1AW/1 MA 4/9 61 W1AW/7 ID 3/5 58 W1AW/5 MS 4/16 49 W1AW/4 VA 4/9 49 W1AW/0 CO 5/21 49 W1AW/2 NY 1/22 40 W1AW/2 NY 5/21 38 W1AW/3 MD 6/25 31 W1AW/0 MN 6/11 29 W1AW/0 MN 1/29 22 W1AW/8 MI 2/19 20 W1AW/KL7 AK 6/18 15 W1AW/0 MO 5/28 8 W1AW/2 NJ 4/23 7 W1AW/KH6 HI 2/5 6 W1AW/KP4 PR 4/9 0 W1AW/KH2 GU 3/19 0 W1AW/KG4 KG4 2/22 0 W1AW/9 WI 2/12 0 W1AW/8 OH 3/12 0 W1AW/8 WV 1/1 0 W1AW/7 MT 6/18 0 W1AW/7 WY 5/28 0 W1AW/7 NV 4/30 0 W1AW/7 OR 4/2 0 W1AW/7 WA 2/26 0 W1AW/7 UT 1/8 0 W1AW/6 CA 2/12 0 W1AW/5 AR 6/11 0 W1AW/5 NM 3/19 0 W1AW/5 TX 1/29 0 W1AW/5 OK 1/22 0 W1AW/4 AL 6/4 0 W1AW/4 TN 3/19 0 W1AW/4 KY 3/5 0 W1AW/4 FL 2/19 0 W1AW/4 GA 2/5 0 W1AW/4 SC 1/8 0 W1AW/4 NC 1/1 0 W1AW/3 PA 4/2 0 W1AW/3 DE 1/15 0 W1AW/1 CT 4/30 0 W1AW/1 NH 4/23 0 W1AW/1 VT 3/26 0 W1AW/0 SD 5/14 0 W1AW/0 NE 5/7 0 W1AW/0 ND 4/16 0 W1AW/0 IA 3/26 0 W1AW/0 KS 2/26 0 W1AW/0 NE 1/15 0 W1AW/9 WI 7/2 0 W1AW/7 UT 7/2 0 Total 780 73, Paul Stoetzer, N8HM Washington, DC (FM18lv)

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CAPE-2 over Brazil : Gretchen said hello PY4ZBZ !
by Roland Zurmely 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

Successful "Send Text to Speech" command on orbit #3571 ! http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/cape.htm#s Satélite CAPE Satélite CAPE-2 = LO-75 por PY4ZBZ em 28-11-2013 rev. 10-07-2014 Recepção do primeiro beacon em AX25. Primeira execução de comandos co... View on www.qsl.net Preview by Yahoo http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/C2gret.wav 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ GH70un

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IEEE Conference on Wireless for Space (neitherlands) seeks papers (APRS?)
by Robert Bruninga 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

If anyone in Europe wants to submit a paper on APRS and other AX.25 satellite relay, this conference might be a good match. We like to think of the 145.825 AMSATs as a continuum of remote-data access for student experiments and remote data access… ------------------------- IEEE Conference on Wireless for Space & Extreme Environments Seeks Papers WASHINGTON (9 July 2014) -- Organizers of the International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE) are seeking papers and posters that address solutions to the significant challenges of wireless sensing and communication in space (and extreme environments). http://sites.ieee.org/wisee/ The submission deadline is 1 August. Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: * Low-power active wireless sensors, systems & networks * Passive wireless sensors, systems & networks * RFID devices & systems * Protocols & architectures for delay & disruption-tolerant networking * Network architectures, middleware integration & data management * Cognitive radio networks * Localization & tracking over wireless links * Antenna design, smart antennas, beam forming & multiple-antenna techniques * Propagation modelling for planetary surfaces & complex multipath environments * Wireless & cyber security * Optical communication systems * Availability, certification & spaceflight qualification for wireless devices & systems * Integrated vehicle systems For more information and to submit a paper or poster, see http://sites.ieee.org/wisee/call-for-papers/. WiSEE 2014 will be held at the European Space Agency’s European Space and Technology Research Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, 30-31 October 2014. The event will bring together investigators from international space agencies, including ESA, the Canadian Space Agency and NASA, along with aerospace and space defense industries and academic researchers, in an effort to understand and solve emerging problems facing wireless sensing and communication during spaceflight and in extreme environments such as planetary surfaces, space vehicles and space habitats. Background The many challenges faced in space sensing and communication are extremely diverse and overlap significantly with those found in extreme environments on earth. These environments pose significant challenges for radio frequency and optical wireless sensing and communication and will require the application of a broad range of technologies to generate reliable and cost-effective solutions. Although specific challenges vary significantly from one environment to another, many of the solutions offered by sensing, communication and statistical signal processing technologies can be applied in multiple environments. IEEE-USA serves the public good and promotes the careers and public policy interests of more than 200,000 engineering, computing and technology professionals who are U.S. members of IEEE. Web: www.ieeeusa.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/ieeeusa Twitter: www.twitter.com/ieeeusa Benefits of IEEE membership: www.ieee.org/join Contact: Chris McManes IEEE-USA Public Relations Manager 202-530-8356 c.mcmanes(a)ieee.org

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CAPE-2 over Brazil #3556
by Roland Zurmely 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

18:53 W5UL-15>W5UL>UI,C,F0: +W5UL,CAPE-2,15,GR,201301281945CST,5236mV,01000,15,23C,17C,ulcape.org# 18:54 W5UL-15>W5UL>UI,C,F0: +W5UL,CAPE-2,16,GR,201301281946CST,5200mV,01000,16,23C,18C,ulcape.org# 18:56 W5UL-15>W5UL>UI,C,F0: +W5UL,CAPE-2,17,GR,201301281948CST,5121mV,01000,17,22C,19C,ulcape.org# 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ GH70un

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ISEE-3/ICE recovery efforts: telemetry display LIVE on www.amsat-dl.org
by Achim Vollhardt 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Dear all, we try once more to guide ISEE-3 back to planet Earth and fire the thrusters for a trajectory bound for a moon swing by on August 10th. Uplink commands will be sent by the Arecibo radio observatory and the downlink is handled by the Bochum observatory and AMSAT-DL. Check out our TLM live display: www.amsat-dl.org and our twitter feed: @amsatdl and @ISEE3Reboot wish us luck! 73s Achim, DH2VA

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UKube-1
by Glenn Miller - AA5PK 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Again, strong CW telemetry from UKube-1 during 1515Z pass. Glenn AA5PK DM91 in Texas

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DSTAR BIRD?
by wa4hfn＠comcast.net 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Is there any info on the D Star satellite that was launched ? Wa4hfn Damon EM55 www.starcommgroup.org

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myflydream for LEO?
by Bill (W1PA) 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Anyone aware of any projects to adapt this technology to LEO tracking? Bill W1PA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGQ-tLxafdM

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Re: [amsat-bb] UKube-1 keps?
by Graham Shirville 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Hi Ken, My apologies - it is a bit early here ..please ignore my previous email....actually I think UKube-1 could be any of the objects C, D, G or H but NOT J These four are still pretty close together...all tlm is still very welcome cheers Graham -----Original Message----- From: Graham Shirville Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 7:18 AM To: Ken Swaggart ; AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] UKube-1 keps? Hi ken, Best guess at the moment are either 2014-037F or 2014-037J but they are very close to each other. thanks Graham G3VZV -----Original Message----- From: Ken Swaggart Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 4:40 AM To: AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] UKube-1 keps? What keps are being used for UKube-1? Ken, W7KKE -----Original Message----- From: Glenn Miller - AA5PK Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 20:34 To: PY5LF ; AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org ; starcom-bb-bounces(a)star-com.net Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] UKube-1 Solid copy of UKube-1 CW telemetry on 0328Z pass over Texas. Strong signal. Glenn AA5PK _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

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UKube-1 heard
by Tim Bosma 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Very strong CW signal heard on 145.840 from UKcube-1 on the 03:23 UTC pass over North America this evening. Congratulations to the UK folks! 73 Tim w6mu CM88qj

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UKube-1 launch first signals
by Graham Shirville 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

AMSAT-UK has congratulated the UKube-1 team on the successful launch and deployment of the spacecraft earlier today. Signals have already been heard from both transmitters in many countries and the UKube team has asked that all stations continue to monitor the downlinks and where possible to forward their reports as follows: CW beacons on 145.840MHz to operations(a)funcube.org.uk and steve.greenland(a)clyde-space.com FUNcube telemetry on 145.915 MHz - your existing dashboard will not display properly(except for the Fitter Messages!) but it WILL be forwarding it to the Warehouse correctly and the data will be very useful for the team. The first stations to receive the FUNcube telemetry during the initial orbit were: DK3WN OO1A F-60429 G0PGL G4GUO PB1DTF M0LTC Further information on the UKube-1 spacecraft can be found here http://funcube.org.uk/news/ best 73 Graham G3VZV

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UKube-1 Launches Today
by M5AKA 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

UKube-1 carries a 435/145 MHz linear transponder and a beacon for reception in schools. UKube-1 - Soyuz 2-1B - Meteor-M #2 Launch Updates http://www.spaceflight101.com/soyuz-2-1b---meteor-m-2-launch-updates.html Video of Soyuz-2 rocket preparation for today's launch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J28ltlHD5xw UKube-1 launch available to view from 2hrs before here: http://www.roscosmos.ru/317/ or here: http://tv-tsenki.com/live.php For updates on the launch status check the #cubesat channel at http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#cubesat enter name in Nickname: #cubesat in Channels: and the displayed number in the Captcha field, then click on Connect. UKube-1 Launch Information http://amsat-uk.org/2014/07/03/ukube-1-launch-information/ PhD Student Receives FUNcube Dongle SDR http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/eece/news/UK-cubesat-forum-workshop.aspx There will be a presentation on the FUNcube-2 sub-system which is carried by UKube-1 at the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium which will be held on July 26-27, 2014 at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, GU2 7XZ, United Kingdom. The event is open to all, further details at http://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/colloquium-2014/ ---- Trevor M5AKA AMSAT-UK Website http://amsat-uk.org/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/amsatuk Twitter https://twitter.com/AMSAT_UK ----

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New Smallsat Launch Service
by B J 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/07/08/another-smallsat-launch-venture-e…

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Antares Launch Rescheduled
by B J 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2014/07/08/antares-launch-postponed/ http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/07/08/orbital-resets-cygnus-launch-to-f… 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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ARTSAT1: INVADER will try to send Cosmic Poem
by ji1izr/Masahiro Sanada 07 Jul '14

07 Jul '14

Dear all, The ARTSAT Project team scheduled to send Cosmic Poem over Europe and North Am erica. Please refer to the Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1450646185187636/permalink/1457939504458304/ The announcement is: ***begin of the referred*** Schedule for the first and second performances in this weekend! The First Performance, Europe and North Africa 2014-06-28 07:26 (UTC) June 28 2014, 09:26 (CEST) over San Sebastian (Spain) Covered major cities: London, Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Dublin, Copenhagen, Wars aw, Marrakesh, Tunis The Second Performance, East/Central USA and East Canada 2014-06-28 21:26 (UTC) June 28 2014, 17:26 (EDT) over Ohio (USA) Covered major cities: New York, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, Miami, Houston, K ansas City * the schedule is subject to change. ***end of the referred*** You can hear the sample of the poem here: http://artsat.jp/en/cosmic-poem-draft-2 de ji1izr/Masahiro ********************************** Masahiro Sanada de ji1izr Hiratsuka-city Kanagawa,Japan ji1izr_1975(a)nifty.com ji1izr(a)jarl.com ji1izr(a)jamsat.or.jp web: http://ji1izr.atnifty.com/ blog: http://ji1izr.air-nifty.com/ **********************************

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SatPC32 via Wine on Ubuntu
by Richard Lawn 06 Jul '14

06 Jul '14

Some of you may have been following my attempts to continue to use a vacation house P4 that had been running XP (still is but its painful to watch and wait). I've been trying to familiarize myself with Linux using Ubunbtu. I got FlDigi to work fine and WSJTX as well as a good log program called CQrlog. I got stumped though with my satellite operation. I tried with helpd to get GPredict running but it (or Hamlib) was still buggy on the FT947 even with the latest version. I then, with help, installed Wine and dowloaded my favorite program - SatPC32. To my surprise it works....almost. I don't seem to have Frequency adjustment at the radio by using the CAT controls in the software. I also can't change the mode to CW through the software. Is anyone using SatPC32 on a Linux platform? If so I'd like to connect tap your brain. 73 and hope to see you on the birds from my portable location at FN21 Rick W2JAZ

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AO7 B-A
by PY5LF 06 Jul '14

06 Jul '14

Hi AO7 start on mode B then at 21:43 UTC change tom mode A , going to NA. 73 PY5LF Luciano Fabricio Curitiba-PR-BR GG54jm http://www.qrz.com/db/PY5LF

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CAPE-2 over Brazil
by Roland Zurmely 06 Jul '14

06 Jul '14

19:35 W5UL-15>W5UL>UI,C,F0: +W5UL,CAPE-2,4,GR,201301281948CST,5091mV,01005,4,29C,24C,ulcape.org# 19:37 W5UL-15>W5UL>UI,C,F0: W5UL,5208,899,5184,6,5202,58,5202,GR,001,46,25,ulcape.org# http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/cape.htm#r Satélite CAPE Satélite CAPE-2 = LO-75 por PY4ZBZ em 28-11-2013 rev. 06-07-2014 Recepção do primeiro beacon em AX25. Primeira execução de comandos co... View on www.qsl.net Preview by Yahoo 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ GH70un

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Lituanicasat-1 Working Well
by fl＠papays.com 06 Jul '14

06 Jul '14

Lituanicasat-1 was on for the 1755utc pass over Ohio today. N1PCE was the only station heard and worked. It's at 310km now so it won't be up for much longer. Work it while you can. The next pass starts for EN91 at 1928utc and goes through the middle of the US. The footprint is not very big but if you are in it, you'll be able to work it. It fades as it spins but the rate is fairly fast so you can easily make qso's on it. Make sure you have the latest keps as they are changing rapidly as the bird slows down. LITUANICASAT-1 1 39569U 98067EN 14186.49377965 .00413101 00000-0 13237-2 0 3882 2 39569 51.6393 352.4578 0004635 267.8164 186.1070 15.89402291 19933 145.95 up and 435175.5 down 67Hz PL. 73, John K8YSE

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az-el rotor repair
by Tim Goodrich 06 Jul '14

06 Jul '14

Hi All, I have a Yaesu G5400b controller with a kenpro az/el rotor. From my understanding, yaesu was taken over by kenpro and the parts inside the az/el rotor are the same as in a yaesu 5400 setup. Anyway, my rotor is in need of repair and it seems there is a shortage of people who do these repairs, not to mention have parts on hand to make the repairs (apparently replacement parts from yaesu seem to be in short supply). Can anyone recommend a technician for this who might have the parts? Thanks, Tim K6TW

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W5PFG/P DM80 SO-50
by Clayton Coleman 06 Jul '14

06 Jul '14

I'm wrapping up my west Texas grid operations on the satellites. Last chance for DM80 on SO-50 is at 0026 UTC coming up for those who aren't on SSB. I was just on FO-29 and will likely work the next one. 73 Clayton W5PFG

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ANS-187 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by E.Mike McCardel 05 Jul '14

05 Jul '14

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-187 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: * OSCAR Numbers Assigned for CubeSats QB50p1 and QB50p2 * Reception of the One Millionth Packet from FUNcube-1 * WD9EWK - 2014 Field Day Report * AMSAT Field Day Satellite Contact Summary Sheet Due July 14 * ISS Contacts makes 2014 ARRL Field Day, One to Remember! * Satellite Operation From Saint Pierre and Miquelon * UKube-1 Launch Information * ESA Competition! Remote Sensing with Multiple Cooperative Nanosats * ARISS News * Satellite Shorts From All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-187.01 ANS-187 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 187.01 >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE July 06, 2014 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-187.01 OSCAR Numbers Assigned for CubeSats QB50p1 and QB50p2 In an email to Mr. Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG, AMSAT-NL and Mr. Jeroen Rotteveel, ISIS CEO, OSCAR Number Administrator William A. (Bill) Tynan, W3XO, announced, "I have received your request for OSCAR Numbers for CubeSats QB50p1 and QB50p2 and from everything I can determine these spacecraft meet all of the requirements necessary to receive OSCAR numbers. "Therefore, by the authority vested in me by the AMSAT-NA President, I hereby confer the designation European OSCAR 79 to CubeSats QB50p1 and European OSCAR 80 to CubeSat CubeSats QB50p2. These designations can, of course, for convenience be shortened to EO-79 and EO-80. I, and the entire amateur satellite community, hope for successful missions for both EO-79 and EO-80 and congratulate AMSAT-NL and the ISIS team as well as all who contributed to these new Amateur Radio satellites for their success in building, testing and launching these new OSCARs." [ANS Thanks Bill W3XO and AMSAT-NA for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Reception of the One Millionth Packet from FUNcube-1 Many stations have been receiving the telemetry transmitted by FUNcube-1, which has now been in orbit for 221 days. The spacecraft, which has been operating nominally since launch, is providing on- board health and science data for the many schools and colleges who are already participating in the project around the world. Since launch, data has been received by more than 650 stations around the world and today our online Data Warehouse received its one millionth packet of information. The Warehouse is now storing more than 256MB of telemetry which is available for educational and research use. We have been successful in capturing almost 25% of all the telemetry transmitted including almost all of the Whole Orbit Data. This success is a great tribute to our designers of the Flight software, the Dashboard programme and the matching Data Warehouse. We are also immensely grateful to all the schools, colleges, radio amateurs and other listeners who are providing this data and want to encourage everyone to continue to listen to FUNcube-1 and to upload the data to the Warehouse. This will help enable the project to continue to provide a complete and current data set for analysis. We would, of course, also love to have additional receiving stations in the FUNcube Ground Station Network. This applies especially to anyone near the poles or who is located on an island in the middle of ocean. Their involvement would help us improve our rate of data capture still further. Our records show that there were three stations who actually managed to upload the same one millionth packet to the Warehouse today. They are G0EID, OM3BC and DL3SER. If they could contact "operations at funcube.org.uk" we will arrange them to send them a small prize to honour their contribution to the project. [ANS thanks Graham G3VZV for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- WD9EWK - 2014 Field Day Report Even though I only worked the radios for a few hours on Saturday, the 2014 Field Day was another fun time to be on the radio. I had two objectives for this weekend - try to make a QSO with NA1SS, and try a new radio on HF - which I was able to do. I was on some satellite passes, making a couple of QSOs, which I'll submit to both ARRL and AMSAT. Knowing that the ISS would be passing by within minutes of the start of Field Day, I was set up in my back yard for that. I used my normal FM satellite setup (IC-2820H, Elk log periodic), with the power cranked down to 5W to fall in the 1B QRP classification I normally operate for Field Day, and was ready to go. About 5 minutes into the pass, and after hearing other stations' calls from NA1SS, I heard my call coming from there. Within seconds, I was getting e-mails, SMS messages, and tweets from friends who also heard that. A nice way to start Field Day! I listened to the rest of the pass, and recorded it. I was on the next ISS pass at 1952 UTC, hoping to hear anything from the ISS on 70cm (around 437.550 MHz) while recording the 145.800 MHz downlink. Lots of activity on 2m just like the earlier pass, but nothing up on 70cm. Did anyone hear anything from the ISS on 70cm during Field Day? A few hours later, with more shade in the back yard, I broke out the HF setup. An FT-897D with autotuner and its internal battery packs, set to 5W transmit power, and a Buddipole portable dipole with its mast and tripod. Before I started on the satellites in late 2005, I used to do a lot of portable HF operating, so it took no time to get the antenna up and the radio ready to go. Although I heard Field Day activity on most HF bands (10m was surprisingly quiet in the late afternoon), I ended up working 15m and 6m SSB to get a few QSOs. I tried to work FO-29 during a western pass around sunset, but could not get through with my normal SSB satellite setup - two FT-817NDs, Elk log periodic. Lots of activity, with some who sounded like they may have been overpowering the transponder a bit. Around 0400 UTC, 9pm for me in Arizona, there was a western SO-50 pass where I was able to break through with my IC-2820H at 5W and Elk log periodic. Lots of twisting the antenna around, trying to keep up with the satellite and hear myself on the downlink. I made two QSOs there - one that counted for QSO points and the satellite QSO bonus with VA7VW, and the other was to respond to W6KA calling me. I did not score the second QSO. I heard two other stations calling me, but could not get back to them and complete those QSOs with so many stations trying to get through. Some were not using PL tones on the SO-50 uplink, which only made the situation worse. I also wanted to make an SSB satellite QSO, so I tried AO-73 about an hour later, at 0500 UTC. A high pass for me, I was able to make a QSO with W5MSQ before another strong station overpowered the transponder. I was using my two FT-817NDs and Elk log periodic for the SSB pass, staying with my normal SSB satellite configuration instead of getting the FT-897D set up for SSB operation. This was the last QSO in my Field Day log. I have already sent off my QSL request for the NA1SS QSO. Since I recorded the audio from those two passes, I made slideshow videos of them. The first pass, or the 1815-1822 UTC portion I could hear, can be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QC3l6NplbM I removed the first couple of minutes of my recording, since it only had my calls to NA1SS, and one unreadable response from NA1SS. By the way, did anyone else record this ISS pass? Especially if you are on the west coast? If so, please e-mail me directly. My slideshow video of the later ISS pass (1953-1957 UTC) is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxsIzal68VM This was a shallow pass here, with maximum elevation of only 8 degrees, so this was a bit shorter than the earlier recording and slideshow video. I had the audio recorder sitting near the IC-2820H for the first pass, so it could pick up the speaker audio and my voice. For the later pass, I had a patch cable running between the speaker jack on the TH-D72A HT and the mic jack on the recorder, since I was not planning to work the later pass on 2m. I had my Elk log periodic antenna routed through a diplexer, so the 2m side was going to the HT and the 70cm side to the IC-2820H, in the hopes of working NA1SS on 70cm and recording the audio on 145.800 MHz. Another summary of my Field Day activity, including some photos, can be seen at: http://www.arrl.org/soapbox/view/8943 I'm hoping to get out of town for next year's Field Day, which is what I normally do. It is fun to work with a portable setup, but it would be better if the outside temperature was not as hot as it was in Phoenix on Saturday afternoon (108F/42C at one point, in the shade of my back yard!). [ANS thanks Patrick WD9EWK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT Field Day Satellite Contact Summary Sheet Due July 14 AMSAT Director Contests and Awards, Bruce Paige, KK5DO says do not forget to turn in your summary sheets in time so that your group can be counted in AMSAT field day. The final date to send them in is July 14. The Satellite Summary Sheet can be found in the AMSAT Field Day Rules document available in PDF format on the AMSAT web: http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=216 Attach your stories of field day and some pictures. In the past we have been able to use almost all the pictures sent. Send your submission to Bruce, KK5DO, by e-mail or postal mail. Your Summary Sheet must be received by 11:59 P.M. CDT, Monday, July 14, 2014. The preferred method for submitting your log is via e-mail to kk5do at amsat dot org or kk5do at arrl dot net. You will receive an email back(within one or two days) from Bruce when he receives your email submission. If you do not receive a confirmation message, then he has not received your submission. Try sending it again or send it to Bruce's other email address. You may also use the postal service but give plenty of time for your results to arrive by the submission date. If mailing your submission, the address is: Bruce Paige, KK5DO Director of Awards and Contests PO Box 310 Alief, TX 77411-0310 [ANS thanks AMSAT Director Contests and Awards, Bruce Paige, KK5DO for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ISS Contacts makes 2014 ARRL Field Day, One to Remember! One of the highlights of this year's ARRL Field Day was a myriad of voice contacts offered up by the International Space Station (ISS). Through the efforts of crew member Reid Wiseman, many anxious ham radio operators had the experience, perhaps for the first time, of speaking with an astronaut orbiting Earth on board the ISS. After an announcement on Tuesday, June 24, of possible voice contacts from the ISS during the upcoming weekend, many Field Day stations across the U.S. set up tracking equipment, radios and antennas, vying for a brief chat with an orbiting astronaut. Through various social media outlets, hams were able to track where ISS voice transmissions were being received and in most cases, which Field Day stations had made contact. One group that was fortunate enough to connect with the ISS were The Boy Scouts of Raymore, MO, Troop 32. Ham operator, Jim Reicher comments ... " I bet the boys could be heard up in orbit even without a radio when Reid answered our call!" Field Day is held annually during the 4th weekend of June and is sponsored by the American Radio Relay League or ARRL. The main purpose of Field Day is to allow ham radio operators a chance to practice their emergency response capabilities and serves as a contest for Field Day stations to contact as many other Field Day stations as possible within a designated 24 hour period. [ANS thanks ARISS-I and Dave AA4KN for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Operation From Saint Pierre and Miquelon Eric, KV1J, returns to Insel Miquelon (NA-032, DIFO FP-002 WLOTA 1417, Grid GN17) from July 5th to the 15th to operate as FP/KV1J. QRV on 160-6m in SSB, RTTY, and some CW. He plans to follow the MUF on the bands and pay particular attention to 6m. Depending on the weather he also plans to operate via satellites. Eric also plans to participate in the DL-DX RTTY Contest (July 5/6) and the IARU contest. QSL via KV1J, LoTW, eQSL. http://www.kv1j.com/fp/July14.html [ANS Thanks DX Newsletter for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- UKube-1 Launch Information UKube-1, the UK Space Agency's first CubeSat, carries a set of FUNcube boards with a linear transponder and educational beacon. The launch is scheduled from Pad 31/6 at Baikonur in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at 15:58:28 UT and to be deployed from the final stage of the Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat-M launch vehicle at 18:32:42 UT. The UKube-1 Operations Team has just issued their Launch Briefing. This is accompanied by a spreadsheet showing the anticipated UK passes for the first orbits together with a worksheet showing the telemetry equations. These documents can be downloaded at http://funcube.org.uk/news/ UKube-1 carries a number of experiments and payloads and also the FUNcube-2 transponder and telemetry sub-system. This is intended to support the current, very successful, operations of FUNcube-1 and to provide an even better operational capability for schools and colleges to use for hands on educational outreach around the world. Further details of the educational outreach opportunities are available here http://funcube.org.uk/education-outreach/ When the FUNcube-2 sub-system is activated, the 1k2 BPSK telemetry will be downlinked on 145.915 MHz in the same way as already happens with FUNcube-1. A new FUNcube-2 Dashboard UI will be released shortly. This will integrate directly with the existing FUNcube Central Data Warehouse and existing usernames and authorisation codes can be re-used. When the transponder is activated, the downlink passband will be 145.930 to 145.950 MHz and the uplink passband will be 435.080 to 435.060 MHz. It is anticipated that the FUNcube sub-system may be tested for short periods during the next few weeks depending upon how the LEOP plan progresses. AMSAT-UK personnel will be supporting the UKube-1 operations team at Chilbolton during the immediate post launch period and will be ensuring that regular status reports are made available via the #cubesat IRC channel. A web client is available at http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#cubesat AMSAT-UK and their colleagues at AMSAT-NL, are delighted that UKube- 1 is carrying this FUNcube sub-system and wishes every success to the UKube Operations Team and to all the many contributors to the project. There will be a presentation on the satellite's amateur radio payload at the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium being held at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, GU2 7XZ on July 26-27, the event is open to all, further details at http://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/colloquium-2014/ UKube-1 frequencies: * 145.840 MHz Telemetry downlink * 145.915 MHz FUNcube subsystem beacon * 400 mW inverting linear transponder for SSB and CW - 435.080 -435.060 MHz Uplink - 145.930 -145.950 MHz Downlink * 2401.0 MHz S Band Downlink * 437.425-437.525 MHz UKSEDS myPocketQub Downlink Follow Helen Walker ?@SheAstronomer and Steve Greenland @strickengremlin for up-to-date information on the UKube-1 launch. FUNcube website http://www.funcube.org.uk/ FUNcube Yahoo Group http://amsat-uk.org/funcube/yahoo-group/ FUNcube Forum http://forum.funcube.org.uk/ Like AMSAT-UK on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AMSATUK Data Warehouse - Telemetry Archive http://warehouse.funcube.org.uk/ Dashboard App - Telemetry Decoder http://funcube.org.uk/working-documents/funcube-telemetry-dashboard/ [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ESA Competition! Remote Sensing with Multiple Cooperative Nanosats #1 - Land: To measure land characteristics over a wide spectral range/resolution at a high spatial resolution on timescales that are relevant to changes in the observables. #2 - Atmospheric Chemistry: To measure NO2 content in the troposphere with high temporal resolution over the diurnal cycle. #3 -Weather: To measure tropospheric properties (e.g. temperature, pressure, humidity, winds) on rapidly evolving timescales to support forecasting of severe weather events Proposals must be a joint submission by both academic/research and industry institutions with a budget of 100K Euros for submission on the 1 August 2014. Helen Harrison at the Satellite Applications Catapult are looking for partners and if interested, email: Helen dot Harrison at sa dot catapult dot org dot uk for further information. [ANS thanks U.K. Cubesat Forum for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS News + A Successful contact was made between Gymnasium Markt Indersdorf, Markt Indersdorf, Bavaria, Germany and Astronaut Alexander Gerst KF5ONO using callsign DPØISS. The contact began 2014-06-28 12:08 UTC and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was direct via DN4OD. ARISS Mentor was Peter IN3GHZ. + A Successful contact was made between DLR Project Lab, Neustrelitz, Germany and Astronaut Alexander Gerst KF5ONO using callsign DPØISS. The contact began 2014-07-02 12:05:13 UTC and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was direct via DL1BLV. ARISS Mentor was Francesco IKØWGF. Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule DLR School Lab, Braunschweig, Germany, direct via DH1ALF Contact is a go for: Fri 2014-07-11 09:37:47 UTC The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is one of Europe's largest and most modern research institutions. Here is where the aircraft of the future are being developed and pilots trained, rocket engines tested and images of distant planets analyzed. In addition, over 7,700 DLR staff members are investigating next-generation high-speed trains, environmentally responsible methods of generating energy, and much more ... DLR_School_Lab in Braunschweig investigates many topics related to transportation: whether on the road, rails, or in the air. In various experiments, school classes can acquaint themselves with the research topics being studied at the science institutes at DLR Braunschweig. German is the language expected to be used in the contact. ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Gaston ON4WF with 117 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 102 Francesco IKØWGF with 102 [ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts From All Over + Reid Wiseman KF5LKT Wins Twitter Award NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman KF5LKT has been putting on a social media clinic since arriving at the International Space Station May 29. His Twitter following has rocketed from less than 37,000 when the month started to 126,000 today. There's a good reason for that, just check out his best tweets from June: http://tinyurl.com/ANS-187-Twitter [ANS thanks The Washington Post for the above information] + Last Call for Digital Communications Conference Papers July 14 is the deadline to submit papers for the proceedings of 2014 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference<http://www.tapr.org/dcc>, September 5 - 7, in Austin, Texas. You do not have to attend the conference to have your paper included in the proceedings. Your paper on any technical topic relevant to amateur digital communications will be published as submitted and you will retain all rights. Please e-mail your submission no later than July 14 to Maty Weinberg, KB1EIB, ARRL Production Coordinator, at maty(a)arrl.org. Send text files and images separately and do not attach Zip files. Total of attachments cannot exceed 5 Mbytes per message. [ANS Thanks Steve Ford WB8IMY for the above information] + Spot the Space Station Looking at You Spot the Station is a joint project by NASA, Esri, the Canadian Centre of Geographic Sciences and Alexander Gerst and crewmate Reid Wiseman. The locations and images will be collected throughout their mission until Alexander, Reid and commander Maxim Suraev return to Earth in November. Find out where the Station is and enjoy the same views as the astronauts by visiting ESA's Space Station tracker. The orbital outpost flies over the planet between latitudes 52+ N/S, reaching from the tip of South America to the UK. You are invited to share the view by taking a picture as the astronauts streak through the night sky. It is not difficult. Keep your camera steady on a tripod and make sure your exposure time is more than 30 seconds. If all goes well, you should capture a white streak that is the Station flying at 23 times the speed of sound. For the complete story visit: http://tinyurl.com/ANS-187-SpotStation [ANS Thanks Space-Travel.com for the above information] + World Space Week 2014 "The (UN) General Assembly declares 4 to 10 October World Space Week to celebrate each year at the international level the contributions of space science and technology to the betterment of the human condition" Space: Guiding Your Way World Space Week 2014 will be all about satellite navigation. In this decade we see the number of satellite navigation systems grow from one (GPS) to many (Galileo, Glonass, Beidou). At the same time we see the number of applications for humanity rapidly increase too. The relevance of positioning, navigation and timing from space is much larger than many think. 2014 is a great year to highlight these applications and benefits by choosing it as the central theme for World Space Week. We aim to inspire as many event organizers as last year with this new theme. We are working with our partners in the space and space applications industry to help us collect education and other material for events. Please keep an eye on this website for more news soon. http://www.worldspaceweek.org/wsw/index.php [ANS Thanks World Space Week for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi- tional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu- dent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership information. 73, This week's ANS Editor, EMike McCardel, KC8YLD kc8yld at amsat dot org

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Dnepr Upper Stage Apogee
by Paul Stoetzer 05 Jul '14

05 Jul '14

Good morning, I noticed that after the last Dnepr launch, it's upper stage was raised to an apogee of 1454 km, putting it in a 1454 km x 609 km orbit with a 97.9 degree inclination, in order to avoid collision with any of the 37 satellites it released. Would it be possible for a future amateur satellite to be deployed AFTER the Dnepr completes it's final burn to take advantage of that high apogee? This would provide service similar to FO-29 with opportunities for intercontinental communications every few months. 73, Paul, N8HM

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Re: [amsat-bb] FUNcube Data Warehouse
by Graham Shirville 05 Jul '14

05 Jul '14

Hi All, Just an update to say that the Warehouse has recovered its senses and seems to be operating normally. Those who look at the data carefully will notice some erroneous numbers in some of the min/max fields. These will be cleared when it does its next weekly update – for instance the battery did not actually reach 16 volts...at least we don't believe that it did! thanks and 73 Graham G3VZV From: Graham Shirville Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2014 10:18 AM To: AMSAT BB Subject: FUNcube Data Warehouse Hi All, It appears that our Data Warehouse has decided to take a holiday and is not presently updating the web pages correctly. I believe that it is continuing to accept telemetry in from listening stations so please keep the data flowing. The spacecraft itself seems fine! thanks Graham G3VZV

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sat grid trip to EM60
by Ken Holland 05 Jul '14

05 Jul '14

I will be vacationing in EM60 during the week of July 28 thru Aug 1st. If anyone needs this grid, I will be available to sked a contact on SO-50 or LO-78 only. I will be taking my 5w ht and arrow antenna. Reply here and I will write down the call signs and post closer to that week. Ken Holland KC9TTR

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Re: [amsat-bb] second call for NA1SS audio from last weekend
by Clint Bradford 05 Jul '14

05 Jul '14

>> ... K6LCS - you posted an audio clip where you recreated your NA1SS QSO. Did you record the NA1SS audio? Just the time my contact on a voice recorder app on my iPod touch ... http://work-sat.com/ISS-062814.html Clint

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FUNcube Data Warehouse
by Graham Shirville 05 Jul '14

05 Jul '14

Hi All, It appears that our Data Warehouse has decided to take a holiday and is not presently updating the web pages correctly. I believe that it is continuing to accept telemetry in from listening stations so please keep the data flowing. The spacecraft itself seems fine! thanks Graham G3VZV

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second call for NA1SS audio from last weekend
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 05 Jul '14

05 Jul '14

Hi! First of all, thanks to everyone who has already sent me audio from ISS passes during Field Day last weekend. I am still looking to compile more audio, especially from stations in the center of the US. I have some audio from stations on both coasts, but would like to plug in the gap in the middle of the country, to be able to make a recording covering the complete transit of the ISS across North America. I'm also missing much of the second ISS pass Saturday afternoon, after the station moved away from the west coast. K6LCS - you posted an audio clip where you recreated your NA1SS QSO. Did you record the NA1SS audio? If not, where did you get your audio? Your posts and web site don't indicate where you got the NA1SS audio from. That source could be helpful in my efforts. Thanks again, and 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/

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Ubuntu, GPredict and Wine
by Richard Lawn 05 Jul '14

05 Jul '14

A number of you have tried to help this Linux novice over recent weeks. I did successfully get HamLib, FlDigi and CQrLog all to run and talk to my FT847 using CAT. My attempts to get GPredict to work well though have failed even after compiling and installing the most recent version t A number of you have tried to help this Linux novice over recent weeks. I did successfully get HamLib, FlDigi and CQrLog all to run and talk to my FT847 using CAT. My attempts to get GPredict to work well though have failed even after compiling and installing the most recent version that addresses the earlier FT847 bugs. It now works, talking to the CAT port on my radio however the software locks up while trying to track a satellite pass. I'm thinking as some feared this old Pentium III may just not have enough horse power! I then tried Wine, thinking I might run it from within Ubuntu to then run theSatPC32.exe. I guess I don't know the correct language to fine the path and call up this exe from my Windows partition. Anyone have any suggestions in this regard? Thanks to all, I've learned a lot but may have to face the music and find a more modern computer. 73 Rick W2JAZ

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DX-1 Appeal to radio hams from Dauria Aerospace
by M5AKA 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

Thanks to PE0SAT for spotting the Dauria Aerospace post. http://amsat-uk.org/2014/07/04/dx-1-appeal-to-radio-hams-from-dauria-aerosp… ---- Trevor M5AKA AMSAT-UK Website http://amsat-uk.org/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/amsatuk Twitter https://twitter.com/AMSAT_UK ----

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Hotel Bookings for International Space Colloquium
by M5AKA 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

The AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium takes place July 25-27, 2014 at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, GU2 7XZ, United Kingdom. If you wish to books rooms for the Friday or Saturday nights it is recommended you do so ASAP since room availability is now limited. The presentations will cover a number of amateur satellites which carry transponders including LituanicaSAT-1 (LO-78), KLETSkous, Fox-1 and FUNcubes 1 (AO-73), 2, 3 (EO-79) and 4. The return of the NASA spacecraft ISEE-3 (ICE) has caught the attention of the media recently with the attempts by volunteers to receive and command the spacecraft. There will be ISEE-3 presentations by two members of the AMSAT-DL Bochum team. Further details at http://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/colloquium-2014/ ---- Trevor M5AKA AMSAT-UK Website http://amsat-uk.org/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/amsatuk Twitter https://twitter.com/AMSAT_UK ----

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W1AW/9 - IL QSL requests
by Grant Zehr 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

Again thanks to everyone who called to work W1AW/9 - IL last week it was great fun! QSL requests for all the W1AW portable operations go directly to ARRL. The easiest way to get your confirmation is via Logbook of the World (LOTW). I have submitted my log file to the local coordinator and all the Illinois files should all go to ARRL soon. I checked to be sure each file had the PROP_MODE set to "Satellite" and that each file had a valid ARRL specified SAT_NAME. So if your upload to LOTW has these elements, you should get credit for a satellite QSO. ISS packet QSO's were logged as 2m band, PKT mode, and ARISS satellite. The other satellites are self-explanatory. If you have any questions about how the W1AW/9 - IL log was submitted contact me. I can't change call signs, but I can answer questions about the structure of my log file so our LOTW entries match up and you get credit for your QSO. 73, Grant Zehr AA9LC (W1AW/9 - IL - satellite operation)

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New Launch Date For Antares/Cygnus
by B J 03 Jul '14

03 Jul '14

http://www.americaspace.com/?p=63638 http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/news/orbital-announces-new-launch-date-for… http://www.parabolicarc.com/2014/07/03/antares-launch-rescheduled-july-11/ 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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UKube-1 Launch information
by Graham Shirville 03 Jul '14

03 Jul '14

UKube-1 is scheduled to launch from Pad 31/6 at Baikonur on Tuesday afternoon. July 8th 2014 @ 15:58:28 UTC and to be deployed from the final stage of the Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat-M launch vehicle at 18:32:42 UTC. The UKube-1 Operations Team has just issued their Launch Briefing. This is accompanied by a spreadsheet showing the anticipated UK passes for the first orbits together with a worksheet showing the telemetry equations. These documents can be downloaded at http://funcube.org.uk/news/ UKube-1 carries a number of experiments and payloads and also the FUNcube-2 transponder and telemetry sub-system. This is intended to support the current, very successful, operations of FUNcube-1 and to provide an even better operational capability for schools and colleges to use for hands on educational outreach around the world. Further details of the educational outreach opportunities are available here http://funcube.org.uk/education-outreach/ When the FUNcube-2 sub-system is activated, the 1k2 BPSK telemetry will be downlinked on 145.915 MHz in the same way as already happens with FUNcube-1. A new FUNcube-2 Dashboard UI will be released shortly. This will integrate directly with the existing FUNcube Central Data Warehouse and existing usernames and authorisation codes can be re-used. When the transponder is activated, the downlink passband will be 145.930 to 145.950 MHz and the uplink passband will be 435.080 to 435.060 MHz. It is anticipated that the FUNcube sub-system may be tested for short periods during the next few weeks depending upon how the LEOP plan progresses. AMSAT-UK personnel will be supporting the UKube-1 operations team at Chilbolton during the immediate post launch period and will be ensuring that regular status reports are made available via IRC and other channels. AMSAT UK and their colleagues at AMSAT-NL, are delighted that UKube-1 is carrying this FUNcube sub-system and wishes every success to the UKube Operations Team and to all the many contributors to the project. 73 Graham G3VZV

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Office Closed
by Martha 03 Jul '14

03 Jul '14

The AMSAT Office will be closed from Friday July 4th - Friday, July 11th. Time for the beach! -- 73- Martha

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Field Day ISS passes
by richardfisher＠juno.com 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

Does any one have an audio copy of the ISS passes on Saturday for the east coast about doing it re? I know that someone from AZ recorded the passes there but I didn't think about doing it here. I hope that someone did. Thanks Richie ____________________________________________________________ Odd Carb-Hormone Trick 1 EASY tip to increase fat-burning, lower blood sugar & decrease fat storage http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/53b46e5357476e525875st01vuc

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GTO opportunity
by Graham Shirville 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

Hi All, I know that this subject is a very “old chestnut” but I came across this website earlier today http://spaceflightservices.com/ You can see, perhaps for the first time?, a list of opportunities and pricing structures. I have been pondering : Whether a 3U CubeSat to GTO could be funded by the community Whether it would have enough power for attitude control and a sufficiently powerful transponder Whether it could have deployable antennas as well as solar panels? Combined? and, of course, lots more questions come to mind. This could make the subject of an interesting debate/discussion at the upcoming AMSAT-UK Colloquium at the end of the month? I am looking forward to it already! best 73 Graham G3VZV

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Last Call for Digital Communications Conference Papers
by Ford, Steve, WB8IMY 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

July 14 is the deadline to submit papers for the proceedings of 2014 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference<http://www.tapr.org/dcc>, September 5 - 7, in Austin, Texas. You do not have to attend the conference to have your paper included in the proceedings. Your paper on any technical topic relevant to amateur digital communications will be published as submitted and you will retain all rights. Please e-mail your submission no later than July 14 to Maty Weinberg, KB1EIB, ARRL Production Coordinator, at maty(a)arrl.org. Send text files and images separately and do not attach Zip files. Total of attachments cannot exceed 5 Mbytes per message.

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Re: [amsat-bb] QB50 precursor satellites receive OSCAR numbers
by GW1FKY＠aol.com 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

Hi, Congratulations to all concerned with the projects and welcome to the growing list of success stories in our world of "amateur radio". The signals from both satellites are being heard at my QTH hear in South Wales -UK just using an "Elk" antenna. I must download the software that Mike has so kindly once again put time and effort into assist with decoding. Thanks again. Ken Eaton GW1FKY Amsat -UK Amsat NA

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QB50 precursor satellites receive OSCAR numbers
by Wouter Weggelaar 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

Hi All, The QB50 precursor satellites, launched on 19th of June 2014, are in good health and still being commissioned.These satellites are part of a risk-reduction program for the QB50 main mission. Read all about QB50 on the project website at https://qb50.eu/ These satellites are also carrying amateur radio transponders: - QB50p1 carries the FUNcube-3 transponder system by AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL - QB50p2 carries an FM transponder by AMSAT-Francophone I am grateful to be able to announce that these two CubeSat Satellites have been awarded OSCAR numbers by AMSAT-NA: QB50p1 shall be known as European OSCAR 79 or EO-79, and QB50p2 shall be known as European OSCAR 80 or EO-80. Thank you AMSAT-NA! The transponders are expected to be switched on after the main mission, which lasts about 6 months depending on progress made. Details about sending in reports and decoding the beacons can be found on the ISIS Ham page at http://isispace.nl/HAM/qb50p.html Mike DK3WN has kindly made and published a decoder at his website: http://www.dk3wn.info/software.shtml based on the published formats. Thanks all for your support and reports, they are much appreciated! Kind Regards, Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG AMSAT-NL QB50p team

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Any other audio from NA1SS passes on Saturday?
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

Hi! Did anyone in the central or eastern parts of the USA record the NA1SS passes on Saturday afternoon? I have my recordings which I used for my slideshow videos I posted on YouTube, but they do not cover the other contacts that took place as the ISS moved away from me during each pass. I am interested in trying to piece together a longer recording, possibly covering the time the ISS was passing over North America during each pass. I did this many years ago for an ISS pass over North America, piecing together a couple of recordings covering a pass down the Pacific coastline of the USA and Mexico, and would like to try to do that again for the Field Day passes. If you have any recordings, please e-mail them directly to me. If the recordings are too large for e-mail, please contact me so we can make arrangements to transfer the files in some other manner. Thanks in advance, and 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/

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13 Colonies on satellites- NOT PARTICIPATING
by Dave Webb KB1PVH 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

I just want to clarify that the decision was made and posted here that we are not taking part in the 13 Colonies special event this year due to lack of state stations. We could only muster up just over half the states and felt that it would be better to have all or nothing this year. Dave-KB1PVH Sent from my Verizon Wireless Droid RAZR

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Stacking of dissimilar antennas
by Nitin Muttin 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

Friends, Need some help. I am planning to stack two 2 meter Cross Yagi and two 70 cms cross yagi on a H frame. Can some one guide me on the horizontal and vertical stacking distances that I need to maintained. I have some information for example from http://www.directivesystems.com/STACKING.htm but confused what should be the final configuration. 73 Nitin [VU3TYG]

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W1AW/9 satellite operations
by Grant Zehr 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

Thanks to everyone who called W1AW/9 - IL and helped make the week a success for us here in Illinois. QSO's were made via AO-7, FO-29, SO-50, VO-52, and the ISS packet repeater. So far I have logged only 2 QSO's on the ISS packet repeater (an exchange where the packet is clearly directed to my call and confirmed). Stations worked via ISS were KA1OLE and KO0A. If you feel you made a valid 2-way contact with W1AW/9 via ISS packet, but are not listed here, send me your capture file in the next couple days. I will compare it to mine and make any corrections needed. There are still a few more passes available this afternoon.so hope to see you on the birds! W1AW/9 -IL (op. Grant AA9LC)

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Astronaut wins June Twitter award - beautiful!!
by Arthur Feller 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/07/01/39-reminders-… 73, art….. W4ART Arlington VA http://afeller.us

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AMSAT FD 2014 debrief
by Bill (W1PA) 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

Using a modest set-up, I was able to give our local club (W1BIM) their bonus satellite contact on FO-29 Saturday afternoon (thanks to the team at W1AW/3). It was on the third pass attempt. I ran a FT-847 barefoot with an 11 ele yagi on 436 and a 3 ele yagi on 2m. I ran SatPC32 with the custom exe I got from Erich to address my older FT847's unidirectional CAT. Ran out of the hatch of my Subaru, armstrong rotor on a camera tripod. I have a lot of experience on the FM birds, but due to the lack of a home station very little on the transponder birds, at least not since AO-40. A couple of questions: For each satellite, once I dial in the correct VFO offset in SatPC (using the +/- keys), does the value stay the same pass to pass, or does it change on each pass? When I tried to run the ISS passes (2m up and down), the 2nd VFO on the FT-847 came up "reset" in the rig display when SatPC pushed the frequencies over -- is that a rig issue or SatPC issue I need to discuss with Erich? I had a script print out that I generated from NOVA as a back-up to SatPC32. I found in comparing it that it did not show all available passes -- if passes overlap in the NOVA scripting output, does it have a preference and drop one of them? SO-50 was pretty much non-usable except for passes over the ocean. No surprise. When in the right mode, I could hear AO-7 no problem , but it would switch itself off or change modes 1/3 way through the passes. On VU-52 and FO-29, signals would start strong and then dive... I assume this is the same thing I saw from my AO-40 days on FD... as the bandpass fills with stations, the available downlink output must be shared by everyone, so the overall signals from the birds drop off significantly... is that correct? Obviously, under "normal" conditions, it does not take much to work the linear birds... a quick search of "Amsat demo" on You Tube will demonstrate that for you -- small linear yagi's, a 2nd person on the tripod, a couple of FT817's barefoot, and no PC. FD is, of course, a different animal. I'd like to find out, off line, what folks were running set-up remote (not home stations). You don't have to post here; please send it to me direct (my call at hotmail dot com) In particular: 2M: TX power, antenna type and polarization, # of elements, RX pre-amp (y/n) 70CM: TX power, antenna type and polarization, # of elements, RX pre-amp (y/n) Single radio, or 2 radios? PC control of rotor? (y/n) PC control of rig? (y/n) What was your goal: Give bonus points to FD effort, or full AMSAT FD? If folks are interested I will summarize and repost, but I will not post any individual station info. We had great weather in New England, and a great FD outing. After making the needed QSO, I had a few more failed attempts on subsequent passes where I had trouble finding myself. Spent the rest of the weekend on 20CW, and trying to conjure up an opening on 6M. Bill W1PA (W1BIM 6A WMA)

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Re: [amsat-bb] Working the ISS
by Clint Bradford 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

Yes - It was one of Christy's kids that made a contact Saturday! I already forwarded to her the instructions for obtaining a QSL card from the contact. I just found it amusing that of the first three or so contacts on that pass, one was made with a mobile rig at high power, and you and I chose 5W or less to accomplish the exact same thing ... Long live workin' the birds with low power! Clint K6LCS

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Re: [amsat-bb] WD9EWK Working the ISS
by Clint Bradford 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

WD9EWK>> ... used my IC-2820H, Elk log periodic, with the power cranked down to 5W ... What? FIVE WATTS?!?! You power hog ... (grin) Just for the heck of it, I tried with an HT turned down to TWO Watts, and a tape measure beam ... and got right through! http://work-sat.com/ISS-062814.html I believe a Boy Scout from Victorville got in there at the beginning, too ... THEN the pile-up began! What a marvelous achievement - courtesy of ARISS and NASA. Clint K6LCS

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Heard VO-52 conversation on FO-29
by Paul Stoetzer 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Good evening, I realized shortly before the last FO-29 pass that both FO-29's and VO-52's AOS were seconds apart on the east coast of the United States, so I decided to scan the upper half of the passband in LSB to see if I could hear any signals. I heard a weak CW signal and also a conversation. Unfortunately, I could not copy any callsigns, but I clearly heard a voice saying "73" as my dial read 435.902 MHz LSB about halfway through the FO-29 pass. Cool to hear! I know I've heard the AO-73 beacon via FO-29 before, but never a conversation from another satellite. 73, Paul, N8HM

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LO-78 and Invader
by Rick Walter 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Monday, June 30, 2014 Nothing heard from LO-78 on the 20:04-20:13z pass here in FN10. Invader was on 437.325 with CW beacon. No celestial poem on 437.200 on the 20:21-20:31z pass. Rick - WB3CSY Sent from Rick's iPhone 5 "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" - Albert Einstein

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WD9EWK - 2014 Field Day
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Hi! Even though I only worked the radios for a few hours on Saturday, the 2014 Field Day was another fun time to be on the radio. I had two objectives for this weekend - try to make a QSO with NA1SS, and try a new radio on HF - which I was able to do. I was on some satellite passes, making a couple of QSOs, which I'll submit to both ARRL and AMSAT. Knowing that the ISS would be passing by within minutes of the start of Field Day, I was set up in my back yard for that. I used my normal FM satellite setup (IC-2820H, Elk log periodic), with the power cranked down to 5W to fall in the 1B QRP classification I normally operate for Field Day, and was ready to go. About 5 minutes into the pass, and after hearing other stations' calls from NA1SS, I heard my call coming from there. Within seconds, I was getting e-mails, SMS messages, and tweets from friends who also heard that. A nice way to start Field Day! I listened to the rest of the pass, and recorded it. I was on the next ISS pass at 1952 UTC, hoping to hear anything from the ISS on 70cm (around 437.550 MHz) while recording the 145.800 MHz downlink. Lots of activity on 2m just like the earlier pass, but nothing up on 70cm. Did anyone hear anything from the ISS on 70cm during Field Day? A few hours later, with more shade in the back yard, I broke out the HF setup. An FT-897D with autotuner and its internal battery packs, set to 5W transmit power, and a Buddipole portable dipole with its mast and tripod. Before I started on the satellites in late 2005, I used to do a lot of portable HF operating, so it took no time to get the antenna up and the radio ready to go. Although I heard Field Day activity on most HF bands (10m was surprisingly quiet in the late afternoon), I ended up working 15m and 6m SSB to get a few QSOs. I tried to work FO-29 during a western pass around sunset, but could not get through with my normal SSB satellite setup - two FT-817NDs, Elk log periodic. Lots of activity, with some who sounded like they may have been overpowering the transponder a bit. Around 0400 UTC, 9pm for me in Arizona, there was a western SO-50 pass where I was able to break through with my IC-2820H at 5W and Elk log periodic. Lots of twisting the antenna around, trying to keep up with the satellite and hear myself on the downlink. I made two QSOs there - one that counted for QSO points and the satellite QSO bonus with VA7VW, and the other was to respond to W6KA calling me. I did not score the second QSO. I heard two other stations calling me, but could not get back to them and complete those QSOs with so many stations trying to get through. Some were not using PL tones on the SO-50 uplink, which only made the situation worse. I also wanted to make an SSB satellite QSO, so I tried AO-73 about an hour later, at 0500 UTC. A high pass for me, I was able to make a QSO with W5MSQ before another strong station overpowered the transponder. I was using my two FT-817NDs and Elk log periodic for the SSB pass, staying with my normal SSB satellite configuration instead of getting the FT-897D set up for SSB operation. This was the last QSO in my Field Day log. I have already sent off my QSL request for the NA1SS QSO. Since I recorded the audio from those two passes, I made slideshow videos of them. The first pass, or the 1815-1822 UTC portion I could hear, is on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QC3l6NplbM I removed the first couple of minutes of my recording, since it only had my calls to NA1SS, and one unreadable response from NA1SS. By the way, did anyone else record this ISS pass? Especially if you are on the west coast? If so, please e-mail me directly. My slideshow video of the later ISS pass (1953-1957 UTC) is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxsIzal68VM This was a shallow pass here, with maximum elevation of only 8 degrees, so this was a bit shorter than the earlier recording and slideshow video. I had the audio recorder sitting near the IC-2820H for the first pass, so it could pick up the speaker audio and my voice. For the later pass, I had a patch cable running between the speaker jack on the TH-D72A HT and the mic jack on the recorder, since I was not planning to work the later pass on 2m. I had my Elk log periodic antenna routed through a diplexer, so the 2m side was going to the HT and the 70cm side to the IC-2820H, in the hopes of working NA1SS on 70cm and recording the audio on 145.800 MHz. Another summary of my Field Day activity, including some photos, can be seen at: http://www.arrl.org/soapbox/view/8943 I'm hoping to get out of town for next year's Field Day, which is what I normally do. It is fun to work with a portable setup, but it would be better if the outside temperature was not as hot as it was in Phoenix on Saturday afternoon (108F/42C at one point, in the shade of my back yard!). Until next time... 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/

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AO-73 issue
by James Brown 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

need help with SAT32pc ver. B and C! In selecting AO-73 I get and error "select the correct receive frequency". How do I correct this? I am not sure how to set up new satellites. I see the salellite list in Doppler sqf. but not sure how to get it set in the cat file? Could someone clarify the steps needed? Thanks Jim KI6WJ

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LO-78 Decay Date
by Paul Stoetzer 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

I noticed that AMSAT-UK and the ARRL have both published posts that state that LO-78 will decay by the end of this week. That's probably based in part by information I posted on the BB from satflare.com, which predicts decay on July 2nd (http://www.satflare.com/track.asp?q=39571#TOP) However, the keps they are using appear to be incorrect. They are showing an altitude of just 226 km. Celestrak keps are showing an altitude of 317 km. Interestingly, the map view of the satellite's current position appears to be correct. SATVIEW's decay predictions seem to be based on the 317 km current altitude and show a predicted reentry of August 5th. (http://www.satview.org/decay.php) I think SATVIEW's prediction is more accurate. Anyone else have any input? 73, Paul, N8HM

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Reception of the One Millionth Packet from FUNcube-1
by Graham Shirville 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Many stations have been receiving the telemetry transmitted by FUNcube-1, which has now been in orbit for 221 days. The spacecraft, which has been operating nominally since launch, is providing on-board health and science data for the many schools and colleges who are already participating in the project around the world. Since launch, data has been received by more than 650 stations around the world and today our online Data Warehouse received its one millionth packet of information. The Warehouse is now storing more than 256MB of telemetry which is available for educational and research use. We have been successful in capturing almost 25% of all the telemetry transmitted including almost all of the Whole Orbit Data. This success is a great tribute to our designers of the Flight software, the Dashboard programme and the matching Data Warehouse. We are also immensely grateful to all the schools, colleges, radio amateurs and other listeners who are providing this data and want to encourage everyone to continue to listen to FUNcube-1 and to upload the data to the Warehouse. This will help enable the project to continue to provide a complete and current data set for analysis. We would, of course, also love to have additional receiving stations in the FUNcube Ground Station Network. This applies especially to anyone near the poles or who is located on an island in the middle of ocean. Their involvement would help us improve our rate of data capture still further. Our records show that there were three stations who actually managed to upload the same one millionth packet to the Warehouse today. They are G0EID, OM3BC and DL3SER. If they could contact “operations at funcube.org.uk” we will arrange them to send them a small prize to honour their contribution to the project. best 73 Graham G3VZV

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field day results - due date
by Bruce 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

I saw a lot of great posts to the BB regarding field day. Now, do not forget to turn in your summary sheets in time so that your group can be counted in AMSAT field day. The final date to turn them in is a lot sooner than the ARRL date. **** ARRL July 29 **** **** AMSAT July 14 **** The Satellite Summary Sheet should be used for submission of the AMSAT Field Day competition and be received by KK5DO (email or postal mail) by 11:59 P.M. CDT, Monday, July 14, 2014. Attach your stories of field day and some pictures. In the past we have been able to use almost all the pictures sent. 73...bruce -- Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards ARRL Awards Manager (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z 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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Wanted: AMSAT-UK Colloquium paper from 1993 or 1994
by Douglas Quagliana 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

I am looking for a battery paper by Carlos Lovett-Linares from the 1993 or 1994 AMSAT-UK Colloquium. Does anyone have a copy? Thanks and 73, Douglas KA2UPW/5

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Boy Scouts & ISS Contact
by w0hv＠sbcglobal.net 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

The Boy Scouts of Raymore Troop 32 at W0HV contacted NA1SS on the 2nd FD pass and I bet the boys could be heard up in orbit even without radio when Reid answered our call! Jim Reicher, W0HV Raymore, MO

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RES: Lituanicasat-1
by PY5LF 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Hi Ted Yes , you`re right , LO78 , sorry . We had another pass , 1:00 UTC , very low for me , only 6 degrees , but good enough to made a QSO with LW3DRH , Luis. Thank you , 73 PY5LF Luciano Fabricio Curitiba-PR-BR GG54jm http://www.qrz.com/db/PY5LF -----Mensagem original----- De: Ted [mailto:[email protected]] Enviada em: domingo, 29 de junho de 2014 21:03 Para: 'PY5LF' Assunto: RE: [amsat-bb] Lituanicasat-1 Hi Luciano, Is this sat LO78 now, for sure? Thank you and Happy Sunday 73, Ted K7TRK -----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces(a)amsat.org [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of PY5LF Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 4:43 PM To: AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org; starcom-bb-bounces(a)star-com.net Subject: [amsat-bb] Lituanicasat-1 Hi We had a good pass of Lituanicasat-1 a few minutes ago , transponder on , nice signal , nobody there , only me calling. 73 PY5LF Luciano Fabricio Curitiba-PR-BR GG54jm http://www.qrz.com/db/PY5LF _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

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Re: [amsat-bb] Just Spoke to the ISS
by Tim Bosma 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Congrats to Stefan and Clint on the ISS Field Day contacts! I heard Reid make a couple of contacts, but was too busy trying to make the CAT control in SatPC32 work with my 24 year old IC-970H. It works now although with some irritating limitations on the CAT side. The rotor control side works fine. Rather than wasting several hours, I should have just plugged it into my MacBookPro and fired up MacDoppler. It took all of 5 minutes to get up and running with full CAT control and then make a Field Day contact on AO-73. So on to the next “challenge” … My AO-16 era LL Grace DSP-93 isn’t quite current anymore. Any recommendations on current equipment and/or software to decode 1k2 BPSK telemetry, and 9600 FSK etc. ?? 73 Tim w6mu On Jun 28, 2014, at 11:38 PM, amsat-bb-request(a)amsat.org wrote: > > Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 15:07:58 -0500 > From: Stefan Wagener <wageners(a)gmail.com> > To: Fabiano Moser <fabianomoser(a)gmail.com> > Cc: Clint Bradford <clintbrad4d(a)earthlink.net>, amsat-bb > <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Just Spoke to the ISS > Message-ID: > <CAKu8kHA4NriVXwivL2v27aYRPk4vWtNyQVzNbLEod18fx4=iBw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Yes, ISS (Reid Wiseman) was active again on the last past (2 min ago). He > is getting a workout :-) and is doing a fantastic job managing the calls. > > Thanks Reid and NASA, that was a special gift for field day. > > Stefan, VE4NSA > > > On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Fabiano Moser <fabianomoser(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Clint Bradford <clintbrad4d(a)earthlink.net >>> >> wrote: >> >>> Two Watts ? handheld radio ? tape measure Yagi ? Just spoke to the ISS >>> 11:16AM PDT! >>> >>> Clint K6LCS >>> >>> ---------------------------------- >>> Clint Bradford, K6LCS >>> http://www.clintbradford.com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >>> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite >> program! >>> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >> > >

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Lituanicasat-1
by PY5LF 29 Jun '14

29 Jun '14

Hi We had a good pass of Lituanicasat-1 a few minutes ago , transponder on , nice signal , nobody there , only me calling. 73 PY5LF Luciano Fabricio Curitiba-PR-BR GG54jm http://www.qrz.com/db/PY5LF

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Re: [amsat-bb] CubeSats launch Monday June 30
by Mineo Wakita 29 Jun '14

29 Jun '14

Space debris may delay PSLV-C23 launch by three minutes (04:19 -> 04:22 UTC). PSLV-CA (PSLV-C23), 30 Jun 2014, 04:22 UTC, Satish Dhawan (Sriharikota) SC, India AISat Pre_TLE 1 99999U 14181.19275139 .00002113 00000-0 33433-3 0 00006 2 99999 098.2323 247.5862 0007918 245.5244 324.5393 14.72359916000016 Downlink CW beacon Mode -------- ---------------- ----------- ------------------- AISat . 437.250/511 CW CanX-4/5 437.365/2407.650 . 32Kbps-256Kbps BPSK VELOX-P 145.980 . 1k2AFSK,9k6BPSK -------- ---------------- ----------- ------------------- http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/pslv23sa.htm http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/sats2014.htm#pslv JE9PEL, Mineo Wakita

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ISS Will Send You QSL Card!
by Clint Bradford 29 Jun '14

29 Jun '14

YES - The ISS will send you a QSL card for verified contacts! Submit your request (QSL card, or typed report) and include ... -the date -the time in UTC -frequency and mode (voice, packet, or SSTV) Include a large self-addressed, stamped envelope with sufficient postage. For US contacts, submit this to ... ARRL HEADQUARTERS ARISS QSL 225 Main Street Newington CT 06111-1494 Clint K6LCS PS - Mini-writeup of yesterday's ISS contact: http://work-sat.com/ISS-062814.html PPS - For non-US contacts, please refer to: http://www.arrl.org/frequently-asked-questions

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FD 2014 de K4AMG
by Rich/wa4bue 29 Jun '14

29 Jun '14

Thank you for the FD QSOs to all we worked. 13 QSOs on FO 29 1 QSO VO 52 There were great passes on AO 7 but that is when we had our program problems. K4AMG was the GOTA Station for the Chesapeake Amateur Radio Service, W4CAR Hope everyone had a great FD. R W4BUE

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KENPRO ROTORS Going KRAZY - SOS
by Rich/wa4bue 29 Jun '14

29 Jun '14

Guys, I think we have a GHOST haunting our OSCAR antenna system We use a KENPRO AZL ROTOR with AMSAT Tracker Interface Box, SATPAC program, and HP computer. This happened at the beginning of the passes on VO 52 and FO 29, but not on AO 7 which we did not even hear. The AZ rotor just took off spinning. Shutting the rotor control box off and resetting the program corrected the problem each time. The reset also included parking the rotor. Has anyone had these GHOSTS before? Happy FD 2 U Rich W4BUE

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LO-78 is ON
by Hector, CO6CBF 29 Jun '14

29 Jun '14

Hello to all I just tried a contact for my FD record on the 1335z LO-78 pass. The bird was sounding very good but no one was there during all the pass. I will be on the next 1505z pass. Catch you on the birds! 73! Hector, CO6CBF 1E DX

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CubeSats launch Monday June 30
by M5AKA 29 Jun '14

29 Jun '14

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the PSLV-C23 CubeSat launch on Monday, June 30. http://zeenews.india.com/news/space/isro-s-pslv-c23-pm-narendra-modi-to-att… The IARU Satellite Frequency Cooordination Panel pages list these frequencies for the CubeSats: AISat 437.250 MHz Velox 145.980 MHz ---- Trevor M5AKA AMSAT-UK Website http://amsat-uk.org/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/amsatuk Twitter https://twitter.com/AMSAT_UK ----

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LituanicaSAT-1 talk at International Space Colloquium
by M5AKA 29 Jun '14

29 Jun '14

There will be a presentation on the LituanicaSAT-1 CubeSat by Gintautas Sulskus at 12pm BST (1100 GMT) on Saturday, July 26 at the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium which takes place at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, GU2 7XZ. The event is open to all, admittance £10 per day, further details at http://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/colloquium-2014/ ---- Trevor M5AKA AMSAT-UK Website http://amsat-uk.org/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/amsatuk Twitter https://twitter.com/AMSAT_UK ----

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IC-821 tone
by Floyd Rodgers 29 Jun '14

29 Jun '14

Trying to enable tone on the radio in satellite mode. Can this radio do tone on sat mode on the uplink?

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ANS-180 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by Lee McLamb 29 Jun '14

29 Jun '14

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-180 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor at amsat.org. In this edition: * AMSAT Symposium Events and Tours * W5PFG/P Activating DL79/DL89 Grids * Send Your Name to the Asteroid Bennu! * ARISS News SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-180.01 ANS-159 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 180.01 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. June 30, 2014 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-180.01 AMSAT Symposium Events and Tours The AMSAT Symposium committee had a meeting this past weekend and made some decisions on tours that will be held in conjunction with the symposium. Note that we will have two events scheduled Sunday morning (October 12)--the Area Coordinators Breakfast and the ARISS Operations Team Meeting. Similar to last year's symposium, two opportunities for tours are planned for the 2014 Space Symposium: 1) On Sunday October 12 (Afternoon), several Small Group/Light Rail tours are being planned. Symposium participants can choose one of the following tours: Baltimore Inner Harbor Tour (including the Aquarium), the B&O Railroad Museum, Edgar Allen Poe House or the National Electronics Museum 2) On Columbus Day, Monday October 13 we will take a bus to the Washington Dulles airport area to tour the Udvar Hazy Air and Space Museum. Udvar Hazy is a phenomenal museum with hundreds of aircraft and spacecraft, including the Space Shuttle Discovery, SR-71, Enola Gay, and many others. The plan is to leave the hotel at 9 am and return around 4 pm. In order to get maximum benefit from all the holiday weekend events, the symposium committee suggests that symposium participants consider scheduling their airline flights for no earlier than 6 pm on Monday October 13. [ANS thanks the AMSAT Symposium Committee, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- W5PFG/P Activating DL79/DL89 Grids Clayton, W5PFG, has announced that he will be in the Big Bend area of Texas next week. He will operate satellite passes as his schedule allows. June 29 - Small potential for very late evening passes from DL89 June 30 thru July 1 - Random passes from DL79/89 July 2 - Potential morning passes from DL89, evening from DM80 July 3 - Morning passes from DM80, some evening passes from DM70 July 4 - Random passes from DM80 There will be no visit to DL88jx on this trip. [ANS thanks Clayton, W5PFG, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Send Your Name to the Asteroid Bennu! NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names to be etched on a microchip aboard a spacecraft headed to the asteroid Bennu in 2016. The "Messages to Bennu!" microchip will travel to the asteroid aboard the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, spacecraft. The robotic mission will spend more than two years at the asteroid, which has a width of approximately 1,760 feet (500 meters). The spacecraft will collect a sample of Bennu's surface and return it to Earth in a sample return capsule. The deadline to submit names online is Sept. 30, 2014. Participants who submit their names to the "Messages to Bennu!" campaign will be able to print a certificate of appreciation to document their involvement. For more information and to submit your name, visit http://planetary.org/bennu. Participants who "follow" or "like" the mission on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/OSIRISREx) will receive updates on the location of their names in space from launch time until the asteroid samples return to Earth in 2023. Facebook fans also will receive mission progress and late-breaking news through regular status updates. For more information about the OSIRIS-REx mission, visit http://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex and http://osiris-rex.lpl.arizona.edu. Questions about this opportunity should be directed to tps(a)planetary.org. [ANS thanks NASA Education Express Message -- June 12, 2014 for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS News Scheduled contacts and events: Ufa University, Ufa, Russia, direct via TBD Contact was successful Sat 2014-06-21 14:45 UTC (***) An ARISS contact is planned Wednesday July 2, 2014 at 12:05:13 UTC, which is 14:05:13 CEST. ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst KF5ONO will answer questions from students at DLR Project Lab, Neustrelitz, Germany. Signals from the ISS will be audible over Europe on 145.800 FM. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is one of Europe's largest and most modern research institutions. Here is where the aircraft of the future are being developed and pilots trained, rocket engines tested and images of distant planets analyzed. In addition, over 7,700 DLR staff members are investigating next-generation high-speed trains, environmentally responsible methods of generating energy, and much more ... DLR_School_Lab Neustrelitz was opened in September 2011 at DLR in Neustrelitz in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Here is where the data from various satellites are received by means of large antennas, and subsequently processed. The student lab is available for visits of one or several days by school classes from this most northerly German state and further afield. The contact will be conducted in German. ARISS is requesting listener reports for the above contact. Due to issues with the Kenwood radio that are not fully understood at present, the Ericsson radio is going to be used for these contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n at amsat.org or aj9n at aol.com. **************************************************************************** From 2014-11-10 to 2014-12-07, ARISS will be going into a period of no contacts as there will be no hams onboard. **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Gaston ON4WF with 117 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 102 Francesco IKØWGF with 101 **************************************************************************** Expedition 39/40 on orbit Steve Swanson Aleksander Skvortsov Oleg Artemyev Expedition 40/41 on orbit Maxim Suraev Gregory Wiseman KF5LKT Alexander Gerst KF5ONO ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries. ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers onboard 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. [ANS thanks 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, Lee McLamb, KU4OS ku4os at amsat dot org

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FT 847 help
by Ted 29 Jun '14

29 Jun '14

Did a full reset on the radio but must have lost a setting. I am able to CAT connect w/HRD. Set the baud rate to match radio/HRD/Satpc32. In HRD, I can trigger SAT but the radio is not reading the frequencies (check boxes are checked). In SATPC32, I am not able to trigger the SAT function. (baud rate matches radio) All was well in the past. I think I am missing something on the radio side. Cable connections all tight Any help appreciated Ted K7TRK

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Re: [amsat-bb] Just Spoke to the ISS
by Daniel Schultz 28 Jun '14

28 Jun '14

The Goddard Space Flight Center club station WA3NAN just completed a voice contact with NA1SS on the space station on the 21:36 UTC pass. Bob McCown N3IYI was the control operator. Reid Wiseman said "Goddard, that's just down the road from where I grew up.". Dan Schultz N8FGV

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Fw: Field Day 2014
by Peter Portanova 28 Jun '14

28 Jun '14

Hello, I’m hoping to be writing an article about FD and the activity on the Amateur Satellites. It would be helpful, to the story, if the stations operating provided me with the call sign you will be using along with your operating class and ARRL section. I will be on all the available satellites using the call W2GSB, 5A, NLI and W2TOB for the GOTA contacts. Good Luck, Have Fun and talk up AMSAT, thank you. 73’s Peter W2JV

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