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Sumbandila blog
by Pieter Kotze 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

For those who would like to keep up with what is happening see the following: http://sumbandilamission.blogspot.com/ Regards ZS1PK/M0PAK -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support.

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HamSat iPhone App
by Bob Cutter 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

An update has just been released and it is very good. The improvements are extensive and useful. 73, Bob KIØG

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Re: FO-29 Operation
by WILLIAMS MICHAEL 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

This is probably the most important email about FO-29. I've high lighted and underlined the most important parts of the message. I looks like FO-29 will not be in full operation until the first part of 2010. At this moment it is only commanded on over Japan as noted in the schedule. With the issue of the batteries, it seems JAMSAT would consider similiar operations as it is now doing when FO-29 enters long periods of darkness in the future. This would possibly allow a longer life for this great bird. Thanks to JE9PEL for this important infornation. Mike (K9QHO) AMSAT 33589 --- On Wed, 9/9/09, WILLIAMS MICHAEL <k9qho6762(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: From: WILLIAMS MICHAEL <k9qho6762(a)sbcglobal.net> Subject: FO-29 Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 11:06 PM Start of FO-29 article:----------------------------------------------------- FO-29 status in 2009 FO-29 launched in August 1996 and has been working 14 years. FO-29 is planning to operate the consecutive use with the analog transponder until the end of August 2009, but it was confirmed that a transponder stopped on August 25. In the later pass, the transponder operation is confirmed when we sent a command of transponder ON from the control station, but we stopped transponder temporarily now. We had the a similar symptom of stopping the transponder in the spring of 2007 . FO-29 is in the "high shade rate period" now. Both of the transponder stop in the spring of 2007 and this time are thought that by this "high shade rate" and by the rise of the internal resistance of the deterioration of the battery and by the influence of the temperature of the battery. The power control system FO-29 (PCU) watches a terminal voltage of the battery and turns off the power supply of the transmitter automatically if it becomes less than the setting voltage. In addition, When FO-29 enters the sunshine area and it recovers to the setting voltage by sun battery power, it is designed to turn on a transmitter automatically. However malfunction occurred for this function in 2007. Because of transmitter was not turned on automatically, We made an operation schedule plan from the summer of 2007 and managed 1-2 times on in a day. This management operation worked well. The electricity income and expenditure restored or it was cured spontaneously.The transponder has been worked without control command from control station from summer of 2008. The power supply circumstances of current FO-29 is almost same situation as stop period spring of 2007, scheduled operation period, the consecutively operative period from the summer of 2008 and it is in a "high shade rate". This transponder off is supposed to be a similar situation as when transponder stopped in the spring of 2007. ***From this , We decided that we make the operation schedule plan, and manage the limit of the operative number of times in one day like last time to keep the electricity income and expenditure untill improve the "shade rate" which is in January, 2010. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks control team JA1COU Yutaka Murata Message: 7 Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:25:03 +0900 From: Mineo Wakita <ei7m-wkt(a)asahi-net.or.jp> Subject: [amsat-bb] FO-29 schedule Sep. and Oct. To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Message-ID: <10CA3077029EECei7m-wkt(a)asahi-net.or.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii FO-29 still has some trouble. Therefore it is examination use for a while only over Japan. We do not yet understand when it recover. There are the reception report from South America and Europe. You may listen to CW with luck over your area. Control station says that you may be listen in Australia, South America, North America, and Europe in particular. Control station says more as follows. The transmitter becomes OFF by UVC automatically in the eclipse. The station confirmed the moment when the transmitter became OFF please inform it of the date and time at the following address. lab (at) jarl.or.jp The below * is a predicted pass that command work take time. And please consent to be a possibility that we cannot turn ON the transponder by the state of the line. ----------------- September, UTC 11 21:37 12 12:21*, 22:26 13 11:30 14 22:23 15 None 16 12:15*, 22:20 17 None 18 12:03*, 22:15 19 11:15, 21:20 20 12:05* 21 12:55*, 22:58 22 10:10, 22:10 23 12:50 24 None 25 10:58, 22:50 26 11:50*, 21:55 27 12:36* 28 21:50 29 12:35*, 22:45 30 11:40*, 21:45 October, UTC 1 12:30*, 22:35 2 11:35, 21:45 3 12:25, 22:28 4 11:28 5 22:25 6 13:08, 21:33 7 12:10, 22:23 8 13:05, 21:35 9 None 10 11:12, 23:08 11 12:05*, 22:12 12 11:08 13 None ----------------- JE9PEL, Mineo Wakita ------------------------------

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Re: All Satellites
by William Leijenaar 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

Hello AMSATs, I agree that APRS can have a higher power transmittter, because of its small amount of time to get the data broadcasted. However the workability with the HT and whipe antenna is only an advantage for the downlink. For the uplink there will be no advantage. Personally I believe that making a satellite easier accessable will also decrease its functional efficiency. This is especially the case for satellites with limited user access, like single channel FM satellites. This also includes APRS. The same issue is valide for a geostationary satellite, with the addition that a geostationary satellite would be overloaded in short time by more and more stronger stations as fixed antennas can be used. Only the uplink power level would be the parameter of "competition". Resulting in a privat chat satellite for only few (high power) users. Satellites for emergency communication sounds very interresting, and personally I believe it can give a great advantage when doing it well. The question is only what will work well in an emergency situation. It will depend on the needs and the availability of equipment in the effected area. I believe that digital communication will be of limited use as you need also a computer, modem, keyboard, screen, software etc besides your radio. Only one thing missing and you will not be "heared". I don't say it is impossible, but to make the system work the ground stations need to be made more easier somehow. Maybe HT APRS in combination with voice to text conversion (and opposite) would be an idea ? Besides the technical difficulty there is also the (human) organising factor. I heared some ideas about an easy to access geostationary satellite with high power downlink. That would be great, but without any communication control it would be like the FM LEOs where everyone talks at the same time and nobody is able to get there message through. It might be solved with a central control centre on a safe place (maybe by the Amateur Radio Emergency Service ?) that has control over the satellite radio and uses it as a remote radio "ear" in space. In this way it is also possible to use one frequency simplex system. Just some ideas, 73 de PE1RAH, William Leijenaar ---

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Symposium Restaurant Locations
by Frank H. Bauer 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

All, I had to go on some unexpected travel out of BWI the past couple of weeks. So I did some reconnaissance and developed a couple of maps that depict restaurants near the hotel and airport. You can retrieve these at the AMSAT Symposium Web Site. Go to the food and drink icon and click on the pdf or ppt file. I also included in this package directions to the G&M Restaurant which is close to the hotel. This restaurant just received the WTOP "Best Crab Cake" award through a survey from the radio station's Baltimore/Washington listeners. This restaurant has good food at reasonable prices. We will be including paper copies of these maps in the symposium registration packet. But wanted to give you a heads up, so you can plan out your meals. And if you haven't registered for the symposium yet, please do so. We are less than 2 weeks away!! 73, Frank, KA3HDO

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W6ZQ's activity from Hawaii tonight
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 27 Sep '09

27 Sep '09

Hi! As "advertised", Ron W6ZQ made another appearance on AO-51 this evening from Kauai. Tonight, he worked from grid BL01, and made contacts with 10 stations and almost completed an 11th QSO on this pass. For the first time during this trip, Ron worked a couple of VE6 stations from Kauai (VE6EGN and VE6ITV). Alaska was also represented; Craig KL4E in Alaska made a QSO with W6ZQ just before Hawaii went out of AO-51's footprint. This was the last time Ron will be on the satellites from Hawaii on this trip, as he will be returning home on Wednesday. Ron - thanks for all your efforts to be on many passes from Kauai, plus the pass from the "big island" last week, during your vacation. Now if we could get someone on AO-7 from out there... 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/

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Re: All Satellites (Alan P. Biddle)
by Mark VandeWettering 27 Sep '09

27 Sep '09

> > At a SmallSat conference I attended on behalf of AMSAT this summer, I was > amused at the casual assumption by a researcher that 50, Five Oh, cubesats > could be launched as part of an upper atmosphere project using ham > frequencies for the downlinks. (They would have a lifetime of only 3-4 > months.) Jan King, W3GEY/VK4GEY, who does coordination of satellite > frequencies, gently but firmly brought them down to earth a bit. > > On the one hand, we get new hams with interests in space communications from > these projects, but on the other we need to prevent the de facto > appropriation of needed frequencies. A fine line to walk. > > Alan > WA4SCA The thing that worries me the most is that the de facto appropriation of our amateur satellite frequencies seems very likely if we continue along a path which keeps us from filling those slots with payloads of our own. All this complaining about cubesats and the use of amateur frequencies for telemetry is kind of pointless if we aren't using those frequencies and have no prospect of using those frequencies in the foreseeable future. It seems to me that coordinating 50 cubesats for four months could be a tractable problem, depending on the precise nature of the signals and their orbital spacing. It's not like there is a huge number of operational amateur satellites that they'd have to avoid. Mark K6HX

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Operation from BOUNTY
by Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 27 Sep '09

27 Sep '09

I'll try to operate the FM sats from BOUNTY, http://tallshipbounty.org, as we sail from Galway to St Petersburg, Florida over the next 6 to 8 weeks. I have my IC-W31 and an Arrow antenna. I've not been on for a long time, so we'll see how it goes. The location of the ship is availabloe from its web site, and I'll be recording the contacts. 73, doug

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Wanted: simple ISS tracking page
by Andrew Rich 27 Sep '09

27 Sep '09

I am looking for a simple tracking display for my sat_status site Ideas ? I see a few but they are surrounded by goobly goop ---------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Rich Airways Technical Officer Grade 4 Surveillance - RADAR ADS-B Amateur Radio Callsign VK4TEC email: vk4tec(a)tech-software.net web: www.tech-software.net

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TLE lottery September 27th
by Mike Rupprecht 27 Sep '09

27 Sep '09

my new assignment from this day onwards BEESAT 1 35934U 09051D 09269.68120117 .00003302 00000-0 81574-3 0 66 2 35934 098.3288 004.3565 0005573 295.8442 064.2169 14.52717731 502 SWISSCUBE 1 35932U 09051B 09269.40698594 .00005218 00000-0 12986-2 0 61 2 35932 098.3356 004.0898 0007064 277.3767 082.6492 14.52117154 454 UWE-2 1 35933U 09051C 09269.33689778 .00007796 00000-0 19109-2 0 76 2 35933 098.3346 004.0205 0004530 289.2313 070.8246 14.52686952 442 ITUPSAT1 1 35935U 09051E 09269.75149288 .00001930 00000-0 48744-3 0 62 2 35935 098.3414 004.4366 0007021 277.0543 082.9840 14.52119405 505 73, Mike DK3WN

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FO-29
by Vincenzo Mone 27 Sep '09

27 Sep '09

Hello, I would like to know if the FO-29 is working or not. Thanks 73 de Enzo IK8OZV EasyLog 5 BetaTester EasyLog PDA BetaTester WinBollet BetaTester D.C.I. CheckPoint Regione Campania Skype: ik8ozv8520 *************************************** ***** GSM +39 338 9749786 ***** ***** SMS +39 338 9749786 ***** ***** FAX +39 328 7244294 ***** *** 2nd e-mail: vimone(a)tin.it *** ***************************************

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Re: All Satellites (Alan P. Biddle)
by Robert Bruninga 27 Sep '09

27 Sep '09

>> And wouldn?t it be a hoot if [these cubesats] >> could put their RX/TX into a bent-pipe packet >> mode, and then we would have amateur radio >> global hand-held text messaging satellite system... >> >> Using some of the 2-way very small micro APRS >> packet systems, a 2 to 5 Watt transponder will >> easily fit... in a small cubesat. >> See www.aprs.org/cubesat-comms.html > > If you could have maybe five or six cubesats > with an FM transponder... [with] a good 15-minute pass > every hour... would work wonders for getting people > interested in satellites again. ... [with a] > dual-band HT and a homebrew Arrow clone The beauty of the APRS packet text-messaging relay cubesat is that it can have a 10 times higher power transmitter compared to an FM voice transponder for the same average power budget. This makes it workable on an HT with just a whip antenna, instead of needing a handheld beam. Plus, each message takes one second instead of 15 for each QSO. So that is why I prefer handheld packet text messaging as a cubesat mission. Ten times the downlink power budget and 15 times the number of contacts per pass. AO51 downlink could be 10 times as strong if the transmitter would just drop when not in use... Bob, WB4APR

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Re: RS-38 or RS-28?
by andy thomas 27 Sep '09

27 Sep '09

All I can do is reproduce the exact text I have received. I'm told convincingly that the cw sent is RS 28 and not 38 but I haven't been listening for it myself. DK3WN's observations are the best that I know of. I understand that DOKA can use two frequencies multiplexed for a higher throughput : see my page on RS-30 at: http://sites.google.com/site/andythomasorg/amateur-satellites/rs-30-yubilei… so I would expect that the two frequencies I have been given are centre frequencies for two ranges, each capable of being chosen from the ground station, depending on local qrm. I imagine that the main ground station is at Moscow state university with a back up at Plis at Kaluga, who invented Doka. Other participating universities within the Russian Federation will also have a DOKA groundstation (which may or may not be compatible), but the main telemetry of the scientific payloads will be on 1.7 GHz, so I don't expect you will hear DOKA if you are outside the footprint of >10 degrees elevation from Moscow (it will be interesting if you do). Worldwide, I expect that the 435 MHz beacon when its frequency settles down is now just a CW beacon of housekeeping data. And it is pretty likely that the cw decode for the beacon is the same as rs-30 on my webpage. 73 de andy g0sfj

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Possible QRP AO-51 from EM96 at 12:03UTC on Sunday AM 9/27
by Mark L. Hammond 27 Sep '09

27 Sep '09

Last minute decision, but I might be able to catch AO-51 portable from my educators conference. If so, I'll be N8MH EM96. 73, -- Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]

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OT Lamps TS-790E
by Vincenzo Mone 27 Sep '09

27 Sep '09

Hi Folks, sorry for the OT message. I am looking for the Blubs lamps and the sitting rubber For my Kenwood TS-790E RTX. Anybody can point me where to find them? Thanks in advance. 73 de Enzo IK8OZV EasyLog 5 BetaTester EasyLog PDA BetaTester WinBollet BetaTester D.C.I. CheckPoint Regione Campania Skype: ik8ozv8520 *************************************** ***** GSM +39 338 9749786 ***** ***** SMS +39 338 9749786 ***** ***** FAX +39 328 7244294 ***** *** 2nd e-mail: vimone(a)tin.it *** ***************************************

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RS-38 or RS-28?
by David Giles 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

Hello All, I'm a bit confused over RS-38 or RS-28. I heard the CW beacon on 435.265 as found by Mike Rupprecht, but did not decode it at the time. Are we looking at two different satellites? A previous report suggested 435.365 and Andy Thomas' report had 435.440 and 435.490. Would these be on only over the control stations? 73 de David VK5DG, who has to wait a while for the next pass.

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WAS - Award - Mistake
by K7WIN - Jeff 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

I received my WAS award yesterday. Upon opening it I noticed that it did not indicate "Satellite" and was numbered #53,981. I initially indicated on my application that it was for Satellite by checking the "Satellite" box. What is the WAS Satellite Award supposed to have displayed on the Award and what are the numbers up to? Thank you, Jeff - K7WIN

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ANS-270 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by JoAnne Maenpaa 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-270 ANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS 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. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor(a)amsat.org ********************************************************************** * 2009 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting October 9-11 * * Four Points Sheraton Hotel at the Baltimore Washington Airport * * Details - http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/symposium/2009/index.php * ********************************************************************** In this edition: * Two Weeks and Counting to 2009 AMSAT-NA Space Symposium * ARISSat-1 Structure Drawings Available on AMSAT Web * SumbandilaSat Reaches Orbit - Awaiting Commissioning * Four New University Cubesats in Orbit and Heard on 70cm * College Night on Satellites Coming October 1-2 * Satellite Operators Sought for Shortwave Broadcast Interview * Satellite Shorts From All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-270.01 Two Weeks and Counting to 2009 AMSAT-NA Space Symposium AMSAT News Service Bulletin 270.01 >From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. September 27, 2009 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-270.01 Co-Chairs, Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, and Janet Bauer remind you that the 2009 AMSAT Symposium is rapidly approaching! And we hope you can join us, especially given that there are some low-cost airfares out there for those of us in the US. We have an outstanding venue this year at the Four Points Sheraton at the BWI Airport. Your symposium committee recently did a walk through of this facility. The accommodations and meeting rooms are superb. Frank said, "I do a lot of traveling and I must say that the rooms are absolutely beautiful. You will definitely get a substantial bang for your buck (or Euro, etc.) at this symposium. And planned 40th Anniversary celebratory events will be truly memorable". + Free internet in the rooms and in the conference facility + Free parking + All AMSAT member get free admittance to the 40th Anniversary Party Friday Evening---food, cake, meet 'n greet, eyeball QSOs. + Beautiful flat screen televisions in each room + Great Banquet Speaker--- Martin Collins, Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum Curator, Space History Museum, "Making the Space Age, the First 50 years" + High-Caliber paper presentations on recent Satellite Developments and satellite operations + Poster Session with Satellite, University, and ARISS activities. + An AMSAT 40th anniversary retrospective is included + IARU Satellite Forum + ARISS Operations Team Meeting---ARISS team members and new volunteers are welcome to attend + Great prizes from major ham radio manufacturers Full details are available on-line: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/symposium/2009/index.php The Symposium Schedule and list of presentations has been posted. You can now register online for the 2009 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting: http://www.amsat-na.com/store2/SymposiumReg2009.php Online registration will disappear on October 5th so do not wait too long! Our guest speaker is Dr. Martin Collins from the the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. He will talk on "Making the Space Age: The First Fifty Years". Follow the links from the Symposium page to book your room at the hotel. An 800 number is also available. When booking your room let the operator know that you are with the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation for the special rates. (They don't seem to know about AMSAT.) Please be advised that the cut-off date for the AMSAT block at the Four Points by Sheraton BWI Airport is September 28th. Getting our meeting rooms for free is dependant on the number of room nights we secure. So, PLEASE make your room reservations as soon as possible. Contact Mark Steiner, K3MS (k3ms(a)amsat.org) if you are interested in preparing a poster display. Mark needs the following information by Tuesday, Oct. 6 regarding what you will need for your display: + Square footage of floor space + Number of tables (to be provided by hotel) + If a power drop is needed + Any other special needs [ANS thanks Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, and Janet Bauer for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-270.02 ARISSat-1 Structure Drawings Available on AMSAT Web AMSAT News Service Bulletin 270.02 >From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. September 27, 2009 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-270.02 Drawings of the ARISSat-1 structure are available on the AMSAT web site. Bob Davis, KF4KSS and team have done an outstanding job designing this structure around the existing modules for SuitSat-2. There will be a full scale model of ARISSat-1 at the Symposium as well as working hardware. Bob expects to start cutting metal for the structure next week. [ANS thanks Gould, WA4SXM for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-270.03 SumbandilaSat Reaches Orbit - Awaiting Commissioning AMSAT News Service Bulletin 270.03 >From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. September 27, 2009 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-270.03 South Africa's SumbandilaSat satellite is now in orbit after a successful liftoff aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 16. The main payload is a multi-spectral imager, but the satellite also carries an Amateur Radio component consisting of a 2 meter/70 cm FM repeater. After SumbandilaSat is fully commissioned, the repeater will be activated with an uplink at 145.880 MHz and a downlink at 435.350 MHz; there will also be a voice beacon at 435.300 MHz. The transponder mode will be controlled by a CTCSS tone on the uplink frequency. The CTCSS tone frequencies have yet to be announced. SumbandilaSat was sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology and was built at SunSpace in cooperation with the Stellenbosch University. SumbandilaSat has responded by returning its first telemetry. Testing now involves a period of payload qualification to verify operation of each subsystem. This may require 3 months before the satellite continues with the remainder of its mission and opens for general use. Pieter, ZS1PK/M0PAK provided additional feedback, "Please note that the Amateur payload will probably not be switched on straight after launch. Commissioning is most likely to be performed from Stellenbosch South Africa only. Telemetry will only be heard while in contact with the groundstation and NOT on the amateur frequencies. There are a number of hams involved in the project so rest assured the amateur payload will be supported as soon as practical and safe." [ANS thanks SA-AMSAT, ARRL, and Pieter ZS1PK/M0PAK for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-270.04 Four New University Cubesats in Orbit and Heard on 70cm AMSAT News Service Bulletin 270.04 >From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. September 27, 2009 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-270.04 This week India successfully launched seven satellites on its PSLV-C14 misson. The primary payload was OceanSat-2 but also included six other satellites. Four of the satellites are CubeSats in the ISILaunch01, a cluster launch of the following with downlinks in the 70cm amateur radio band: BEESAT, ITUpSAT1, SwissCube, and UWE-2 NAME CALL BEACON DOWNLINK --------- ------- ------------------- ------------------------------- BEESAT DP0BEE 436.000 MHz 0.1W CW 436.000 MHz 0.5W 4800/9600 GMSK UWE-2 437.385 MHz 0.5W 1200 AFSK 9600 FSK ITUpSAT1 437.325 MHz 0.1W CW 437.325 MHz 1.0W 19200 GFSK SwissCube HB9EG 437.505 MHz 0.1W CW 437.505 MHz 1.0W 1200 FSK BeeSat is a pico satellite project of the Technical University of Berlin. The main objective of BeeSat is the on orbit verification of newly developed micro reaction wheels for pico satellite appli- cations. Their web page is at: http://www.raumfahrttechnik.tu-berlin.de/menue/forschung/projekte/beesat/v-m enue2/news/ The UWE-2 team encourages all radio amateurs to send us the received signals to uwe-2(a)informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de. Their web page is at: http://www7.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/research/space_exploration/projek te/cubesat/uwe-2/ ITUpSAT1 is the first student-made satellite of Turkey. Their web page is at: http://usl.itu.edu.tr/ SwissCube is the first satellite entirely built in Switzerland by students from different universities under the supervision of the Space Center EPFL. More than 180 students participated in the ad- venture from EPFL, from the university of Neuchatel, from the HES-SO (Sion, Yverdon, Fribourg, St-Immer, Le Locle), and from the FHNW (Brugg-Windisch). The main objective is educational and also includes a small telescope which will allow to obtain images of the nightglow, a luminescence phenomena occurring at 100 km of height above the Earth surface. Their web page is at: http://swisscube.epfl.ch/ A replay of the PSLV-C14 launch video can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h69XGgHXMS0&feature=player_embedded#t=16 http://archangelo.net/misc/sat/new/sep09/pslvc14/view.htm Signal reports have been received from amateur radio operators around the world. Recordings of the beacon signals can be heard at: http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~bklofas/PSLV/ 2-Line Keplerian elements user for the satellites can use the following for a starting point: ITUPSAT1 1 35934U 09051D 09266.99498802 .00000364 00000-0 10000-3 0 34 2 35934 098.3432 001.6766 0010433 256.9573 103.1084 14.52588677 111 SWISSCUBE 1 35932U 09051B 09266.92637809 .00000360 00000-0 10000-3 0 33 2 35932 098.3362 001.6263 0006692 285.2589 074.8063 14.52095115 95 BEESAT 1 35933U 09051C 09267.20165191 .00000365 00000-0 10000-3 0 42 2 35933 098.3316 001.8957 0004681 307.1077 052.9887 14.52667744 138 UWE-2 1 35935U 09051E 09267.47761234 .00001929 00000-0 48744-3 0 46 2 35935 098.3417 002.1786 0006949 283.1563 076.8911 14.52112524 176 [ANS thanks the CubeSat teams for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-270.05 College Night on Satellites Coming October 1-2 AMSAT News Service Bulletin 270.05 >From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. September 27, 2009 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-270.05 It's time for another College Satellite night! Expect to hear many Oscar capable NA college club stations on the air Thursday evening Oct. 1st-2nd (NA local times) from 22:00 UTC to 0500 UTC for this special event. College clubs are getting priority on the QRP AO-51 repeater that night (uplink: 145.880 MHz FM. downlink: 435.150 MHz FM). Please work each college station but afford them the ability to take calls and make as many QSOs as possible. Club stations will also be on other birds so make as many contacts if you can, on each bird. We have encouraged college stations to QSL all the stations they work during the event as we (either through AMSAT or a college group) are planning on creating an award for working college club stations on satellite. Make sure to e-mail or call as many hams that you know associated with college ham radio clubs so that they will know about this special event and get on the air - usage and NA-wide involvement is important. While we are focusing on North American activity let me know of interest and participation from other parts of the globe, e-mail Dr. Jay Garlitz, AA4FL off-list at jgarlitz(a)ufl.edu. [ANS thanks Gator ARC Faculty Advisor at UF, Dr. Jay Garlitz, AA4FL for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-270.06 Satellite Operators Sought for Shortwave Broadcast Interview AMSAT News Service Bulletin 270.06 >From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. September 27, 2009 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-270.06 Ted Randall, host of the shortwave broadcast QSO Radio Show, invites satellite operators who are interested in coming on show and talking about your personal experiences in satellite communication. Ted re- quests, "I would like someone who can take an entry level approach in that we have a lot of new and young hams listening. If you could have someone join in me in an informal telephone interview please contact me." The QSO Radio Show is heard on WBCQ 7415 KHz Tuesdays 5-7 PM EDT or 2100-2300 UT; and on WRMI Radio Miami International 9955 KHz Sundays from 1-3 AM EDT or 0500-0700 UTC. Ted's web page is at: http://www.tedrandall.com and you can e-mail Ted Randall at tedrandall(a)kaij.us [ANS thanks Ted Randall for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-270.07 Satellite Shorts From All Over AMSAT News Service Bulletin 270.07 >From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. September 27, 2009 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-270.07 + Hams like science. Follow these links for fun and interesting scientific articles and videos of space: Images from the newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/multimedia/ero/index.html A simulated flyover of Mars using images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Spirit Rover: http://www.universetoday.com/2009/09/23/columbia-hills-flyover-2-0-awesome-m eridiani-panoramas/ A video discussing a mission to the oceans of Jupiter's moon Europa: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/nasa-worlds-space-powers-target s-jupiters-europa-.html Video of the Shuttle piggyback ride back to Florida: http://www.universetoday.com/2009/09/21/spectacular-videos-of-shuttle-piggyb ack-flight/ Video of NASA Wallops Island launch: http://sites.wff.nasa.gov/webcast/ Watch the ARES-1X rocket built in 6 minutes (time lapse) http://www.universetoday.com/2009/09/23/build-the-ares-i-x-in-less-than-six- minutes/ Cassini views of Saturn, its rings, and moons during equinox: http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/cassini_equinox/cassini_equinox_slideshow. html + Congratulations to Omar, XE1AO, for achieving Satellite VUCC #182 and to George, WA5KHB, for confirming 225 Grids for his VUCC! + Henk, PA3GUO has created a video showing the ISS passing over the Netherlands along with sounds and decoded signals of the digital APRS signals at: http://www.vimeo.com/6657880 + A helpful page for configuring your TM-D700 rig for operating with with spacecraft can be found at: http://www.aj3u.com/tm-d700-tips/ + Congratulations to Mark, N8MH on his successful AO-51 demonstration via the QRP repeater to the JARS club. He worked WA4SCA, KB1RVT, KB0RZD, N3TL, AA5UK, KB1PVH, and KD8CAO + Remember to tune in on Thursday evenings, October 1, 15, 29 at 8pm eastern time will be the sessions of the Hudson Valley Satellite net. You can check in via radio if you are in range of the Mt. Beacon ARC repeater on 146.970 (PL 100.0) or via echolink on the N2EYH-L node. + Jan, PE0SAT has copied FO-29 over Europe. He has posted audio and data at: Here is a recording of the CW telemetry and the data below. http://www.ham.vgnet.nl/downloads/FO-29-CW-19-09-2009_2344CEST.mp3 http://www.ham.vgnet.nl/images/FO-29-CW-19-09-2009-2355CEST.jpg + Listen for Paul, 2E1EUB to be active on the satellites from Scotland as 2M1EUB/P starting October 10 for approximately 14 days. Paul will try for as many satellites as possible including AO-7. + Adrian, AA5UK, will be operating again from Ibiza, Spain (IOTA EU-004, Balearic Islands) Grid: JM09tb as: EA6/AA5UK from Oct. 14 - 29th. Satellite activity is planned for the FM and SSB satellites. Adrian will be posting regular satellite schedules via the AMSAT BB. Sked requests are welcome and encouraged; please email him via his email address located at QRZ.com. QSL via home call: Direct, bureau, LOTW or eQSL. + Andrew, VK4TEC operates a satellite status display showing latest data received from ISS, PCSAT, AO-51, with manual entries of addi- tional satellites. See: http://vk4tec.no-ip.org/sat_status/ + Congratulations to Astronaut Tracy Caldwell for passing her amateur radio license exam. She has been issued the callsign, KF5DBF. Caldwell is scheduled to fly with Expedition 23 in April 2010. [ANS thanks everyone 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 additional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. And with that please be on the look out for plumbers who may have a multi-fauceted personality. 73, This week's ANS Editor, JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM K9JKM at amsat dot org

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Kauai on Ao51
by RONALD CADE 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

I will be on Ao51, grid BL01 Sunday at 3:30 pm Hawaiian time. This will be my last opportunity before leaving for the mainland. 73, w6zq

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Satellite 101 for Chicago area club?
by Greg Beat 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

Members of a Chicago area amateur radio club indicated that they would desire a program on amateur radio satellites. This program would have to be informational and geared toward recently licensed amateurs, with modest financial means for initial satellite usage and interest. A demonstration for this program would be highly desirable. I have already contacted AMSAT Coordinators for the area -- one indicated that he has stepped down from the coordinator role due to present time commitments, while the other never replied to inquiries. The program would be at 8:00 PM in the Chicago western suburbs on Friday, October 16 at 8:00 PM or Friday, November 20th. Interested presenters or speakers should contact: Greg Beat, W9GB at w9gb at arrl dot net. G. Beat AMSAT-NA, AMSAT-UK

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Tatiana-2: RS 38: News just in
by andy thomas 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

Following text just in tonight from Moscow: "our satellite called as RS-38 also Universitetskiy-Tatiana-2 was launched in 17 september 2009 in 19h 55min 12 sec DMT(Decret Moscow Time) from Baikonur cosmodrome launching pad N 31. All onboard systems are working in normal mode. Satellite is stabilisated and orientated properly. We are working ower it. Mass of the satellite 98,2 kg. Power of solar battareys 150 Watts, onboard voltage 27 Volts DC. Downlink central frequences are 435.440 MHz and 435.490 MHz for onboard systems telemetry and 1.708 GHz for scientific telemetry also. I hope that you are well. best wishes and 73" 73 de andy G0SFJ

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objects nunber
by Nick Pugh K5QXJ 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

What is the best guess on the object numbers on the last two group of cube sat launched recently? Thanks nick

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RS-28 CW telemetry
by Mike Rupprecht 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

17:45 UTC strong CW beacon on 435.266 MHz rs28 ubs163 uaba165 uabb165 ibs3 iaba126 iabb126 ispa0 ispb126 taba132 tabb131 tsep135 mcon69 sma138 smb123 mra6 mrb30 rs28 ubs16. uaba179 uabb179 ibs1 iaba123 iabb133 ispa4 ispb129 taba132 tabb131 tsep135 mcon69 sma98 smb85 mra6 mrb30 rs28 ubs165 uaba167 uabb167 ibs3 iaba126 iabb126 ispa0 ispb127 taba132 tabb131 I used NORAD #35869. Total difference in doppler ~1KHz, not sure if this is the right TLE See here: http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=8471 73, Mike DK3WN

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AO-7 help
by Randy 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

Hi all .. I am having trouble working AO-07 .. Could just be newbie syndrome... But I truly Am not sure why I cant.. I have an FT-897D, 13 element 2 meter yagi and a 11 element 432 yagi. I can also effectively use the 2 meter yagi on 432.. Matches well And have used it on repeaters up to 60 miles away on 440.. I use the translation table provided by AMSAT and the books.. Have those programmed into the radio as splits.. LSB 432.XXX up and USB 145.XXX down . ( mode B like this morning ) I can hear PLENTY of QSO's. I cannot make contact with anyone .. I even got a little desperate and pulsed my handheld On the 432 antenna ( like CW dits ) ( harder to id that way LOL ) And tuned the receiver and cannot find my signal .. Tell me its somehting stupid and simple LOL v/r Baffled Randy - N2CUA

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Re: Arrow antenna reconfiguration results - UPDATE
by Mike Ryan 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

I've had my battles with desense. Originally I was going in the direction that the RX antenna was in the envelope of the TX. It made sense and some elmers suggested it. Even at low power (5-10W) and separating antennas by 30 ft it would still de-sense, but not as pronounced (omnidirectional antennas). I fixed it two ways. The biggest poroblem was my linear. To be kind to my FT857 I ran it at low power through a mirage amp to get output up to 35 watts or so max. 90% of my problem was that amp (which I assume was pushing sprurious or harmonics). If I took it offline and ran the FT857 at the same 35W the desense was greatly reduced but not quite gone. The remainder was taken care of by using a second diplexer as a poor mans low pass filter. Just put a dummy load on the side I didnt need. Now the omnis can be close without this problem and I even built a pair of cheap Jpole yagis on the same boom (definately in the same envelope) but no desense. I never got around to trying another amp. I was just delighted to have the problem solved. So there's my story in case it helps someone else consider this possibility instead of spending all the hours chasing it that I had to endure! Mike WB1AAT -----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces(a)amsat.org [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 6:43 PM To: Gary "Joe" Mayfield Cc: 'AMSAT-BB' Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Arrow antenna reconfiguration results - UPDATE as in the texts below, there is something else going on here. That Diplexor can not be all that bad. two reasons. How many db down is the front to side of that antenna? and I can not imaging someone would sell a diplexor that has greater than 20 db of losses. because of the statement that how criticalpolarity was with the original, and now the antenna has to be nearly 90 degrees cross polarized to make it drop out uhh that close to 30 db, at least 20,, something else is going on here

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Road Trip to Georgia (USA)
by w6zkh＠comcast.net 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

Hello All: We've have started out road trip vacation to the state of Georgia, and will be operating a various locations along the way and the return. Have no idea where we will stop, nor what grids, but will be set up for any of the 3 FM bird passes in the late afternoon and mornings. If you hear me on, give me a shout. I QSL 100% via direct or eQSL.cc. Hope to hear the calls working with HT and ELK, 73 de John W6ZKH now in DM65

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Re: All Satellites
by John W Lee 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

I wonder how many of those 50 are able to handle ham radio 2-way contacts ? K6YK On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:09:43 +0000 Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF <nigel(a)ngunn.net> writes: > Here's a list of all (known to me) satellites still in orbit with > some designed in (but not necessarily operational) > amateur band functionality. > > For those that think nothing has been happening recently, there have > been 26 (so far) satellites launched this year, 13 > in 2008 and 11 in 2007. Thats 50 birds in less than the past 3 > years. > > Catalog Number Common Name International > Designator Comments > 1293 OSCAR 3 1965-016F > 6236 OSCAR 6 1972-082B > 7530 OSCAR 7 1974-089B > 10703 OSCAR 8 1978-026B > 14129 OSCAR 10 1983-058B > 14781 OSCAR 11 (UoSAT 2) 1984-021B > 16909 JAS 1 (FUJI 1) 1986-061B > 20437 OSCAR 14 (UoSAT 3) 1990-005B > 20438 OSCAR 15 (UoSAT 4) 1990-005C > 20439 OSCAR 16 (PACSAT) 1990-005D > 20440 OSCAR 17 (DOVE) 1990-005E > 20441 OSCAR 18 (WEBERSAT) 1990-005F > 20442 OSCAR 19 (LUSAT) 1990-005G > 20480 JAS 1B (FUJI 2) 1990-013C > 21039 SL-12 R/B(1) 1990-116B > 21087 INFORMATOR 1 1991-006A > 21089 COSMOS 2123 1991-007A > 21575 OSCAR 22 (UoSAT 5) 1991-050B > 22825 KITSAT B 1993-061C > 22826 POSAT 1 1993-061D > 22828 ITAMSAT 1993-061F > 22829 EYESAT A 1993-061G > 23439 RADIO ROSTO 1994-085A > 24278 JAS 2 1996-046B > 24305 UNAMSAT 1996-052B > 25396 TMSAT 1998-043C > 25397 TECHSAT 1B 1998-043D > 25509 SEDSAT 1 1998-061B > 25520 PAN SAT 1998-064B > 25544 ISS (ZARYA) 1998-067A > 25636 SUNSAT 1999-008C > 25693 OSCAR 36 (UoSAT 12) 1999-021A > 25756 KITSAT 3 1999-029A > 26063 OPAL 2000-004C > 26545 SAUDISAT 1A 2000-057A > 26548 TIUNGSAT 1 2000-057D > 26609 AMSAT OSCAR 40 2000-072B > 26931 PCSAT 2001-043C > 26932 SAPPHIRE 2001-043D > 27605 RUBIN 2 2002-058A > 27607 SAUDISAT 1C 2002-058C > 27842 DTUSAT 2003-031C > 27844 CUTE-1 2003-031E > 27845 QUAKESAT 2003-031F > 27847 CANX-1 2003-031H > 27848 CUBESAT XI-IV 2003-031J > 27939 MOZHAYETS 4 2003-042A > 28375 AMSAT ECHO 2004-025K > 28650 HAMSAT 2005-017B > 28890 BEIJING 1 (TSINGHUA) 2005-043A > 28891 TOPSAT 2005-043B > 28892 UWE-1 2005-043C > 28893 SINAH 1 2005-043D > 28894 SSETI-EXPRESS 2005-043E > 28895 CUBESAT XI-V 2005-043F > 28897 SSETI-EXPRESS DEB 2005-043H > 28898 MOZ.5/SAFIR/RUBIN 5/SL-8 2005-043G > 28941 CUTE 1.7 2006-005C > 29252 GENESIS 1 2006-029A > 29479 HINODE (SOLAR B) 2006-041A > 29655 GENESAT 2006-058C > 29712 PEHUENSAT 1 2007-001D > 31117 EGYPTSAT 1 2007-012A > 31122 CSTB 1 2007-012F > 31126 MAST 2007-012K > 31128 LIBERTAD 1 2007-012M > 31129 CP3 2007-012N > 31130 CAPE 1 2007-012P > 31132 CP4 2007-012Q > 31135 AGILE 2007-013A > 31140 NFIRE 2007-014A > 31789 GENESIS 2 2007-028A > 32781 GIOVE-B 2008-020A > 32783 CARTOSAT 2A 2008-021A > 32784 CANX-6 2008-021B > 32785 CUTE 1.7 & AOD 2 2008-021C > 32786 IMS-1 2008-021D > 32787 COMPASS 1 2008-021E > 32788 AAUSAT CUBESAT 2 2008-021F > 32789 DELFI C3 2008-021G > 32790 CANX-2 2008-021H > 32791 SEEDS 2008-021J > 32792 RUBIN 8/PSLV 2008-021K > 32794 AMOS 3 2008-022A > 32953 YUBILEINY 2008-025A > 33492 GOSAT (IBUKI) 2009-002A > 33493 PRISM (HITOMI) 2009-002B > 33494 SPRITE-SAT (RISING) 2009-002C > 33495 KAGAYAKI 2009-002D > 33496 SOHLA-1 (MAIDO-1) 2009-002E > 33498 STARS (KUKAI) 2009-002G > 33499 KKS-1 (KISEKI) 2009-002H > 33595 EXPRESS AM-44 2009-007A > 34808 ANUSAT 2009-019B > 34941 PROTOSTAR 2 2009-027A > 35002 PHARMASAT 2009-028B > 35003 HAWKSAT 1 2009-028C > 35004 CP6 2009-028D > 35005 AEROCUBE 3 2009-028E > 35008 MERIDIAN 2 2009-029A > 35690 DRAGONSAT 2009-038B > 35693 ANDE POLLUX SPHERE 2009-038E > 35694 ANDE CASTOR SPHERE 2009-038F > 35866 OBJECT B 2009-049B > 35867 FREGAT/IRIS 2009-049C > 35868 OBJECT D 2009-049D > 35869 OBJECT E 2009-049E > 35870 SUMBANDILA 2009-049F > 35871 BLITS 2009-049G > 35931 OCEANSAT 2 2009-051A > 35932 OBJECT B 2009-051B > 35933 OBJECT C 2009-051C > 35934 OBJECT D 2009-051D > 35935 OBJECT E 2009-051E > 35936 RUBIN 9.1/RUBIN 9.2/PSLV 2009-051F > > > > > -- > Nigel A. Gunn, 1865 El Camino Drive, Xenia, OH 45385-1115, USA. > tel +1 937 825 5032 > Amateur Radio G8IFF W8IFF (was KC8NHF), e-mail nigel(a)ngunn.net > www http://www.ngunn.net > Member of ARRL, GQRP #11396, QRPARCI #11644, SOC #548, Flying Pigs > QRP Club International #385, > Dayton ARA #2128, AMSAT-NA LM-1691, AMSAT-UK 0182, > MKARS, ALC, GCARES, XWARN. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > ____________________________________________________________ Wanna lose weight? Weight Loss Programs that work. Click here. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTFoYeubv8jWc2J01x17RB9rxq…

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Re: All Satellites
by G0MRF＠aol.com 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

In a message dated 25/09/2009 22:10:17 GMT Standard Time, m5aka(a)yahoo.co.uk writes: Hi Bill, You're right, the potential is there for a 3U CubeSat that can achieve an apogee > 1400 km. We'd need 1U of that to house the linear transponder but as you say the rest could be used for the propulsion system. As yet, as far as I'm aware, no-one has actually demonstrated a working propulsion mechanism that can fit in 2U but I'm convinced this is possible. The launch costs for a 3U CubeSat into 700 km LEO are well within the reach of the Amateur community, our challenge is to develop a means of raising the apogee. 73 Trevor M5AKA Hi Trevor. There is a propulsion system being developed for cubesats using a hydrazine mono propellant that uses catalytic decomposition to produce a large volume of hot gaseous products. If initial claimed results can be repeated in production, then that unit can be propelled from typical LEO up to 1400km circular or 2000km eliptical. It's based on a 3U structure. It's not MEO, but its a lot more fun than 500km David G0MRF

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Re: All Satellites
by Mark VandeWettering 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

> Good point. Not everybody is interested in monitoring the one way > downlinks on the majority of these more recent birds. Why is it that > there is no problem getting large numbers of these types of satellites > into orbit, yet good old fashioned two way linear and FM transponder > birds are relatively far and few between? > Regards and 73, > James - ZL4JM/VK5JC Well, after the launch of AO-51 here in the U.S., the AMSAT membership seemed to think that they should concentrate their efforts on a HEO launch. The problem is that there really aren't any viable launch options for HEO satellites. We aren't alone either: P3E is considerably further along than any of the AMSAT-NA projects, and yet has no hint of how it might get boosted to orbit. Cubesats are being launched for one simple reason: people have figured out how to fund low mass sats to low earth orbit. We could probably launch a couple dozen LEO cubesats (or more) for what it would cost to put just one payload into HEO, but nobody seems to really be interested in doing that, since it won't give anyone the DX that they want. I think there have been some interesting developments in micro propulsion technologies, but it is still challenging to get a cubesat in orbit that can serve as a transponder within the weight and space limitations that cubesats have. Perhaps when commercial vehicles like the Falcon 9 begin launching, we'll see a sufficient reduction in payload boosting costs to make raising the money for a HEO satellite with significant mass reasonable. We shall have to see. Mark K6HX

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Sat status - new feature
by Andrew Rich 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

Added a panel display http://vk4tec.no-ip.org/sat_status/ Any other sats that make it onto the APRS_IS let me know and I can add ---------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Rich Airways Technical Officer Grade 4 Surveillance - RADAR ADS-B Amateur Radio Callsign VK4TEC email: vk4tec(a)tech-software.net web: www.tech-software.net

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Out of the office
by Martha 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

I will be out of the office on Monday. -- 73- Martha

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All Satellites
by Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

Here's a list of all (known to me) satellites still in orbit with some designed in (but not necessarily operational) amateur band functionality. For those that think nothing has been happening recently, there have been 26 (so far) satellites launched this year, 13 in 2008 and 11 in 2007. Thats 50 birds in less than the past 3 years. Catalog Number Common Name International Designator Comments 1293 OSCAR 3 1965-016F 6236 OSCAR 6 1972-082B 7530 OSCAR 7 1974-089B 10703 OSCAR 8 1978-026B 14129 OSCAR 10 1983-058B 14781 OSCAR 11 (UoSAT 2) 1984-021B 16909 JAS 1 (FUJI 1) 1986-061B 20437 OSCAR 14 (UoSAT 3) 1990-005B 20438 OSCAR 15 (UoSAT 4) 1990-005C 20439 OSCAR 16 (PACSAT) 1990-005D 20440 OSCAR 17 (DOVE) 1990-005E 20441 OSCAR 18 (WEBERSAT) 1990-005F 20442 OSCAR 19 (LUSAT) 1990-005G 20480 JAS 1B (FUJI 2) 1990-013C 21039 SL-12 R/B(1) 1990-116B 21087 INFORMATOR 1 1991-006A 21089 COSMOS 2123 1991-007A 21575 OSCAR 22 (UoSAT 5) 1991-050B 22825 KITSAT B 1993-061C 22826 POSAT 1 1993-061D 22828 ITAMSAT 1993-061F 22829 EYESAT A 1993-061G 23439 RADIO ROSTO 1994-085A 24278 JAS 2 1996-046B 24305 UNAMSAT 1996-052B 25396 TMSAT 1998-043C 25397 TECHSAT 1B 1998-043D 25509 SEDSAT 1 1998-061B 25520 PAN SAT 1998-064B 25544 ISS (ZARYA) 1998-067A 25636 SUNSAT 1999-008C 25693 OSCAR 36 (UoSAT 12) 1999-021A 25756 KITSAT 3 1999-029A 26063 OPAL 2000-004C 26545 SAUDISAT 1A 2000-057A 26548 TIUNGSAT 1 2000-057D 26609 AMSAT OSCAR 40 2000-072B 26931 PCSAT 2001-043C 26932 SAPPHIRE 2001-043D 27605 RUBIN 2 2002-058A 27607 SAUDISAT 1C 2002-058C 27842 DTUSAT 2003-031C 27844 CUTE-1 2003-031E 27845 QUAKESAT 2003-031F 27847 CANX-1 2003-031H 27848 CUBESAT XI-IV 2003-031J 27939 MOZHAYETS 4 2003-042A 28375 AMSAT ECHO 2004-025K 28650 HAMSAT 2005-017B 28890 BEIJING 1 (TSINGHUA) 2005-043A 28891 TOPSAT 2005-043B 28892 UWE-1 2005-043C 28893 SINAH 1 2005-043D 28894 SSETI-EXPRESS 2005-043E 28895 CUBESAT XI-V 2005-043F 28897 SSETI-EXPRESS DEB 2005-043H 28898 MOZ.5/SAFIR/RUBIN 5/SL-8 2005-043G 28941 CUTE 1.7 2006-005C 29252 GENESIS 1 2006-029A 29479 HINODE (SOLAR B) 2006-041A 29655 GENESAT 2006-058C 29712 PEHUENSAT 1 2007-001D 31117 EGYPTSAT 1 2007-012A 31122 CSTB 1 2007-012F 31126 MAST 2007-012K 31128 LIBERTAD 1 2007-012M 31129 CP3 2007-012N 31130 CAPE 1 2007-012P 31132 CP4 2007-012Q 31135 AGILE 2007-013A 31140 NFIRE 2007-014A 31789 GENESIS 2 2007-028A 32781 GIOVE-B 2008-020A 32783 CARTOSAT 2A 2008-021A 32784 CANX-6 2008-021B 32785 CUTE 1.7 & AOD 2 2008-021C 32786 IMS-1 2008-021D 32787 COMPASS 1 2008-021E 32788 AAUSAT CUBESAT 2 2008-021F 32789 DELFI C3 2008-021G 32790 CANX-2 2008-021H 32791 SEEDS 2008-021J 32792 RUBIN 8/PSLV 2008-021K 32794 AMOS 3 2008-022A 32953 YUBILEINY 2008-025A 33492 GOSAT (IBUKI) 2009-002A 33493 PRISM (HITOMI) 2009-002B 33494 SPRITE-SAT (RISING) 2009-002C 33495 KAGAYAKI 2009-002D 33496 SOHLA-1 (MAIDO-1) 2009-002E 33498 STARS (KUKAI) 2009-002G 33499 KKS-1 (KISEKI) 2009-002H 33595 EXPRESS AM-44 2009-007A 34808 ANUSAT 2009-019B 34941 PROTOSTAR 2 2009-027A 35002 PHARMASAT 2009-028B 35003 HAWKSAT 1 2009-028C 35004 CP6 2009-028D 35005 AEROCUBE 3 2009-028E 35008 MERIDIAN 2 2009-029A 35690 DRAGONSAT 2009-038B 35693 ANDE POLLUX SPHERE 2009-038E 35694 ANDE CASTOR SPHERE 2009-038F 35866 OBJECT B 2009-049B 35867 FREGAT/IRIS 2009-049C 35868 OBJECT D 2009-049D 35869 OBJECT E 2009-049E 35870 SUMBANDILA 2009-049F 35871 BLITS 2009-049G 35931 OCEANSAT 2 2009-051A 35932 OBJECT B 2009-051B 35933 OBJECT C 2009-051C 35934 OBJECT D 2009-051D 35935 OBJECT E 2009-051E 35936 RUBIN 9.1/RUBIN 9.2/PSLV 2009-051F -- Nigel A. Gunn, 1865 El Camino Drive, Xenia, OH 45385-1115, USA. tel +1 937 825 5032 Amateur Radio G8IFF W8IFF (was KC8NHF), e-mail nigel(a)ngunn.net www http://www.ngunn.net Member of ARRL, GQRP #11396, QRPARCI #11644, SOC #548, Flying Pigs QRP Club International #385, Dayton ARA #2128, AMSAT-NA LM-1691, AMSAT-UK 0182, MKARS, ALC, GCARES, XWARN.

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Only Two Weeks Away
by Martha 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

The 2009 AMSAT Symposium and Annual Meeting is only two weeks away. If you haven't registered on-line, please do so as soon as possible. All the information can be found on our website. I need to give the hotel a count for attendees so that they can set up the meeting rooms. In addition, we need to give the caterer a count for dinner. It's our 40th Anniversary - that's something to celebrate! -- 73- Martha

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SwissCube telemetry
by Mike Rupprecht 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

All, 11:06 UTC CW and 1k2 BPSK active , 250 packets decoded hb9eg/1 1 0 3 2 323 325 3 301001 37 Error flags: EPS: OK COM: OK CDMS: OK ADCS: OK Payload: OK Power states: COM: On Beacon: On CDMS: Off ADCS: Off Payload: Off ADS: Off Battery 1 voltage: 4.12 V Battery 2 voltage: 4.16 V Produced current: -X: [375;500[ mA +X: [0;125[ mA -Y: [125;250[ mA +Y: [0;125[ mA -Z: [0;125[ mA +Z: [125;250[ mA Battery 1 temperature: -4°C 1k2 packets e.g.: 2009-09-25 12:15:41.410 UTC: [72 Bytes KISS Frame (without CRC)] ctrl: 3 PID: F0 {UI} 49 Payload Bytes from HB9EG1-1 to HB9EG1: 1 > 08 8C 47 00 08 08 C0 BB 00 0D 10 01 01 00 02 E1 DE 00 18 08 21 > C0 27 41 8E 08 08 C0 BD 00 0D 10 01 07 00 02 E1 DE 00 18 08 41 > C0 27 8A 3A B0 00 2E 1D E8 __________________________________________________________________ 2009-09-25 12:15:43.550 UTC: [274 Bytes KISS Frame (without CRC)] ctrl: 3 PID: F0 {UI} 254 Payload Bytes from HB9EG1-1 to HB9EG1: 1 > 38 8D 1A 00 08 08 C0 BC 00 EE 10 03 19 00 02 CC 04 00 62 FF 21 > FE 05 FA FB 05 02 04 05 F8 02 05 00 00 0A 00 00 0B 07 09 08 41 > FE 07 0A 02 01 0F 04 05 0F 0B 0C 09 03 0A 0E 03 03 11 08 09 61 > 13 0E 0F 0A 07 0D 12 05 05 14 0C 0E 17 10 11 0B 0C 10 14 07 81 > 06 16 0F 11 1A 12 12 0C 0F 12 16 09 08 18 11 14 1C 14 14 0D 101 > 11 13 18 0B 0B 17 0F 15 1B 12 13 0D 0F 12 16 0C 0C 15 0D 14 121 > 19 10 12 0D 0D 11 15 0D 0D 08 07 11 11 05 06 01 08 06 08 0C 141 > 0C FF 00 0A 07 FE FF F8 01 FF FF 0A 0A F8 F8 04 00 F8 F8 F2 161 > FA F8 F8 08 08 F3 F3 FE FA F2 F3 EF F4 F3 F3 05 05 EE EE F9 181 > F4 ED EE EB EE ED EE 02 02 E9 E8 F3 EF E9 EA E9 E9 E9 E9 00 201 > 00 E5 E4 EF EB E5 E5 E6 E5 E5 E5 FC FC ED E5 EC ED EC EE EF 221 > E4 EB ED FC FC F5 EA EE F5 F3 F5 F8 E9 F2 F5 FC FC FC F0 F2 241 > FA F9 FB 00 EE F8 FB B3 13 B0 00 2E 1D F1 See here: http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=8439 73, Mike DK3WN

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New Board
by Clint Bradford 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

Didn't see much excitement about the recent election results here. But you should know we're in capable hands with the following board members in place: Barry Baines, WD4ASW Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA Bill Ress, N6GHZ Alan Biddle, WA4SCA Tony Monteiro, AA2TX (first alternate) In my humble opinion, we're in good hands. These gentlemen should be commended for stepping up and committing themselves (well, "committing" could be interpreted as a psychiatric term ... ) to the cause of promoting AMSAT. Clint Bradford, K6LCS http://www.work-sat.com

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Sat status
by Andrew Rich 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

http://vk4tec.no-ip.org/sat_status/ Working well, capturing ISS PCSAT AO-51 With manual entries as well Cheers ---------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Rich Airways Technical Officer Grade 4 Surveillance - RADAR ADS-B Amateur Radio Callsign VK4TEC email: vk4tec(a)tech-software.net web: www.tech-software.net

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OT: CQWW RTTY
by Jeff Yanko 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

Hi all, I have an OT question about this weekends CQWW RTTY contest. Does one in the US send the 599 03 (Zone) or 599 NV (State) as the exchange? I was reading the rules and I'm a bit confused. Here is what's written: EXCHANGE: RST plus zone (e.g., 59905). US and VE stations also send US state or VE area. Looking forward to the replies! 73, Jeff WB3JFS

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Antenna Polarization
by Patrick Domack 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

I've been meaning to setup some antennas for satellite operation for awhile here. And since I will probably end up doing it this fall/winder I had a question I was wondering about, before I get the antennas completely built connected up. I plan on using a circular polarized antenna, for lhcr and rhcr. Since this setup has two coax that your switch a 1/4wave (if I remember right) to either side to create the two rotations in the antenna. Is there a way I can modify this to feed two radios? so one radio would receive lhcr, and the other rhcr? Or would I be forced to use two antennas to do this? The only idea I have is to use a signal splitter on each of the two antenna halfs before joining them, then join each of those splits into the cr parts. But I'm not sure if there is a better way to do this without as much loss, or if this might cause a backfeed that would defeat the me from getting any signal at all. Maybe there is a good writeup of this on the web somewhere, but I have no clue what the proper terms to google it are, and haven't had any luck. Thanks.

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Presentation Feedback
by Clint Bradford 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

I gave my presentation to a club back on September 3. They'll remain nameless - it doesn't matter who they were. At times during the show, I felt like Rodney Dangerfield - it was a rough crowd. I know my timing was a little "off" due to my wife's recovering from an emergency medical problem. But we did work AO-51 from the parking lot right before the meeting ... I had my club-specific trivia questions all prepared ... the presentation SHOULD have gone well ... Well, I just chalked it up to the law o' averages. I mean, Give the presentation, say, ten times, and there'll be one group that isn't as receptive as they should be (grin). I forgot about that night - until I received the email reprinted below last night. I am almost ashamed to post this. In my mind, I thought I had somehow failed the group. This post is not to glorify me and what I am doing - I mean it to be a "keep working at spreading the gospel of AMSAT" to all of us - no matter what silly little setbacks may occur. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Hello Clint Thanks for the great AMSAT presentation at our club on 3 Sept. 09. And the demonstration of tracking and working an amateur satellite was very spectacular. The members are still talking about it. I hope you continue to give this lecture to various groups, it is one of the most viable ones that I have seen. I made a dvd of your lecture and finally got it completed. Graphics on the top thanks to my son Eddie, our resident computer graphics person. I would like to send you a copy and was wondering if you were ok in QRZ at : 5085 Trail Canyon Drive, Mira Loma, Ca. 91752-1685 ? If this is ok, then i will mail it to you. Thanks again. /s/ (club board member) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Clint, K6LCS 909-241-7666 http://www.work-sat.com

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Re: [sarex] Re: SSTV planned for Sept 24 and 25
by Jeffrey Koehler 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

good evening all: I had a 87 degree pass here in Syracuse, FN13 a minute ago. No ISS heard, unfortunately. beautiful pass outside under mostly clear skies. Orbitron says magnitude -2.0. I never get tired of watching the ISS fly over my house. Good night all, 73 jeff WB2SYK Syracuse FN13xc --- On Thu, 9/24/09, David Barber <david.barber(a)dbelectronics.co.uk> wrote: > From: David Barber <david.barber(a)dbelectronics.co.uk> > Subject: [sarex] Re: SSTV planned for Sept 24 and 25 > To: "'SAREX'" <sarex(a)AMSAT.Org> > Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009, 9:11 AM > ISS SSTV is active. > > Two pictures received during 13.00utc UK Pass. > > Freq. 145.800MHz > > Robot 36 format. > > David > G8OQW > > -----Original Message----- > From: sarex-bounces(a)AMSAT.Org > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of > Ransom, Kenneth G. (JSC-OC)[BARRIOS TECHNOLOGY] > Sent: 24 September 2009 13:00 > To: SAREX > Subject: [sarex] SSTV planned for Sept 24 and 25 > > Sergey Samburov reports that the MAI-75 experiment will be > activate on Sept > 24 and 25 from about 1000-1600 UTC. The expected mode is > Robot 36 and images > should be transmitted on 145.80 MHz. > > Good luck to all in capturing some Earth views. > > Kenneth - N5VHO > > > ---- > Sent via sarex(a)amsat.org. > Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT member? Join now to support the amateur > satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/sarex > > ---- > Sent via sarex(a)amsat.org. > Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT member? Join now to support the amateur > satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/sarex >

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2 Cubes sat Keps
by Randy 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Whats the Keps for these 2 ? > ITUpsAT1 is on 437.325 MHz CW > > UWE-2 is on 437.385 MHz, 1200 bps Ax.25 packet Randy - N2CUA Thanks

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Symposium
by Peter 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Are there to be any live webcams during proceedings please? Peter G0BHP A/UK

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NA1ISS on SSTV
by Andrew Rich 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

---------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Rich Airways Technical Officer Grade 4 Surveillance - RADAR ADS-B Amateur Radio Callsign VK4TEC email: vk4tec(a)tech-software.net web: www.tech-software.net

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keps
by Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

OBJECT B 1 35866U 09049B 09267.76020534 .00000178 00000-0 10000-3 0 93 2 35866 098.8007 317.9269 0004133 060.3718 299.7853 14.22295747 1002 FREGAT/IRIS 1 35867U 09049C 09267.69394093 .00002263 00000-0 10000-3 0 198 2 35867 097.3746 317.6403 0008464 263.5757 096.4296 15.22710586 1068 OBJECT D 1 35868U 09049D 09267.83160977 .00000177 00000-0 10000-3 0 87 2 35868 098.8002 317.9921 0005081 049.3513 310.8105 14.22084474 1016 OBJECT E 1 35869U 09049E 09267.76177426 .00000176 00000-0 10000-3 0 86 2 35869 098.7994 317.9179 0005335 062.0519 298.1173 14.21977659 1008 SUMBANDILA 1 35870U 09049F 09267.78307389 .00002270 00000-0 10000-3 0 136 2 35870 097.3732 317.7200 0009971 269.7680 220.7453 15.22799899 1072 BLITS 1 35871U 09049G 09266.63701220 .00000174 00000-0 10000-3 0 32 2 35871 098.7988 316.7964 0004515 058.7014 301.4616 14.21537025 237 -- Nigel A. Gunn, 1865 El Camino Drive, Xenia, OH 45385-1115, USA. tel +1 937 825 5032 Amateur Radio G8IFF W8IFF (was KC8NHF), e-mail nigel(a)ngunn.net www http://www.ngunn.net Member of ARRL, GQRP #11396, QRPARCI #11644, SOC #548, Flying Pigs QRP Club International #385, Dayton ARA #2128, AMSAT-NA LM-1691, AMSAT-UK 0182, MKARS, ALC, GCARES, XWARN.

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UWE-2 decoded
by Mike Rupprecht 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

20:50 UTC 437.505 MHz 1k2 AFSK one packet decoded :-) 2009-09-23 20:50:52.910 UTC: [52 Bytes KISS Frame (without CRC)] ctrl: 3 PID: F0 {UI} 33 Payload Bytes from DP0UWF to DD0UWE-9: 1 > 53 01 1E F0 05 F0 07 F0 1F F0 0D F0 05 F4 3B F3 AD FD F0 FD 21 > C2 F4 02 F2 3C F2 7B 01 01 02 1E 01 22 73, Mike DK3WN

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North America - ISS Next Pass School QSO Scheduled
by JoAnne Maenpaa 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Hi everyone, Here is short notice for those you lucky enough to be near your radio. The next ISS pass over the USA will be a school contact so tune in on 145.800. Cedarview Middle School, Ottawa, ON, Canada, direct via VE3TBD Contact is a go for Thu 2009-09-24 19:07:56 UTC 51 deg My Nova screen shows the flight path as going from Baja California to Newfoundland so this is a nice mid-continent pass! -- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm(a)amsat.org Editor, AMSAT News Service Copy Editor, AMSAT Journal

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Re: CW beacon Heard
by John Mock KD6PAG 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

> Just heard a CW beacon on 437.385 with Doppler. It was 56-57. I was > looking for the cubesats just launched by PSLV. As per the estimated > TLEs, those Sats were within my AOS at 08.03 Z with 10 degree (W) > elevation . Any confirmation on this ? I also heard something like this, pretty weak and fairly brief, from CM88 at the same (uncorrected) frequency. If i had not seen the previous report, i would not have posted anything. I was not able to hear SumbandilaSat, but i can't say that's at all conclusive. -- KD6PAG

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Arrow antenna reconfiguration results
by Jeff Yanko 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Hi all, After being off the air for about a month, I recently made some changes to the satellite setup. I upgraded from the TH-D7A(G) HT to the TM-D710A mobile dual bander. Yes, a bit bulkier, but worth its weight. Anyhow, I know many sat operators use the Arrow antenna setup, like what I've been using the past 7 or so months with great results. However, I've always known that the diplexer that comes with the unit is reather lossy. From some reports I've read as much as 2.65dB of loss. That's almost half of whats being received or transmitted being thrown away. When I layed out the new portable setup I made it an issue to "lose" the diplexer and put one in line that would perform better. I purchased the Comet CF-416. It's loss is about .26dB. A considerably less amount by far and if needed in other applications it can handle more power than the 10 watts alotted for the Arrow's diplexer. I also bought some good quality RG-58 coax, only 6 feet in length, for both 145 and 440, so there isn't much loss from this. About .6dB according to the data sheet. After the assembly and installation was complete, on air usage was next. AO-27 had a fairly decent pass to the east of the QTH with a max elevation of 24 degrees. I've remembered how the passes sounded previously at this elevation so I could get a mental comparison. As the bird's timer turned the digital transmission on I noticed one thing immediately, the signal was clearer and no hiss. The analog timer swtiched on and the voices became copiable. The signal appeared to be a bit stronger than the old setup with the Arrow antenna but the most remarkable improvement was from the time I started to receive the signal to near LOS, it never once dropped out! It almost appeared as though I changed my linear antenna to a CP with a preamp. I figured this is too good to be true. I then decided to test it with AO-51 and see how well that bodes. I noticed I was copying the signal closer to the horizon than the previous set up and again the same results with no drop outs, except for the one time the house blocked the signal for about 20 seconds. So if anybody is considering improving their current Arrow antenna, please do so by getting a better diplexer. They are not expensive, $40 to $60, and of course some decent coax, short runs are better but give yourself enough slack so you don't cut yourself short! See you on the birds! 73, Jeff WB3JFS Las Vegas, NV DM26

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Some successful experiment and beep-sats
by William Leijenaar 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Hi AMSATs, I like to share with you some news about my succesfull experiments with my tinny transponder. I managed it to work with 23cm as input frequency :) The changes are minor, just a few components to be changed and the input filter needs to be changed. I have to do some more testing but all looks very well for having an mode-LU linear transponder. I just heared about another launch with several "beep"-sats on it. When checking the Satellite Status List on the AMSAT-NA website, you need to search very well to find any satellite which has an uplink frequency. As active AMSAT operator I already deleted most of the kepler lines in the kepler list, as these are all "beep" sats which I can not use. Lucky thing is that I not have much time to be active on satellites, but every once in a while when I check the satellite list my face gets more and more :( In the past we had a few satellites, but they were very usefull (to AMSAT hams)... Now we have many satellites, but only few are usefull (to AMSAT hams)... Now up to my next project... a credit-card size Mode-B FM transponder :o) 73 de William, PE1RAH ---

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BL02 on Ao51
by RONALD CADE 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Aloha I will be operating from bl02 this afternoon at 4:50 Hawaii time, west coast 7:50pm. This is a 11 degrees pass lasting about 11 minutes. W6ZQ/KH6

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Cubesats heard
by Mike Rupprecht 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

ITUpSat 12:54 UTC 30 deg pass - spread CW signal itupsat hr ta1ks itupsat hr ta1ks SwissCube 12:47 UTC hb9eg/1 - at4 - uvu4vue - vttutvtvb - hb9eg/1 BeeSat - 12:56 UTC strong 4k8 GMSK signals till LOS See here: <http://www.dk3wn.info/p/> http://www.dk3wn.info/p/ 73, Mike DK3WN

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College Satellite night Thursday October 1st
by Dr. Jay Garlitz 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

It's time for another College Satellite night! Expect to hear many Oscar capable NA college club stations on the air Thursday evening Oct. 1st-2nd (NA local times) from 22:00 UTC to 0500 UTC for this special event. College clubs are getting priority on the QRP AO-51 repeater that night (uplink: 145.880 MHz FM. downlink: 435.150 MHz FM). Please work each college station but afford them the ability to take calls and make as many QSOs as possible. Club stations will also be on other birds so make as many contacts if you can, on each bird. We have encouraged college stations to QSL all the stations they work during the event as we (either through AMSAT or a college group) are planning on creating an award for working college club stations on satellite. Make sure to e-mail or call as many hams that you know associated with college ham radio clubs so that they will know about this special event and get on the air.usage and NA-wide involvement is important. While we are focusing on North American activity let me know of interest and participation from other parts of the globe, e-mail me off-list at <mailto:[email protected]> jgarlitz(a)ufl.edu. 73, Dr. Jay Garlitz, AA4FL Gator ARC Faculty Advisor at UF <http://www.gatorradio.org/> www.gatorradio.org

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SwissCube
by PY2ZX 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Hello, Very good copy of SwissCube over Brazil on orbit # 12. Another signal was also loud but I did not identify. Here the audios of these receptions and video of the PSLV-C14 launch: http://archangelo.net/misc/sat/new/sep09/pslvc14/view.htm Flavio PY2ZX

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http://oscar.dcarr.org/ Site
by Danny Casier 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

What is going on with the http://oscar.dcarr.org/ site? 73 Dan ON5UE

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Re: Status SumbandilaSat
by Rodney Waln 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

hi, now another source had changed things completely and listing it as SUMBANDILA 1 35870U 09049F 09266.79835424 .00002270 00000-0 10000-3 0 110 2 35870 097.3734 316.7536 0009970 273.6366 222.0670 15.22797757 929 from AMSAT-SA SUMBA2 1 35867U 09049C 09262.83922800 .00002262 00000-0 10000-3 0 90 2 35867 097.3749 312.8740 0008567 282.8306 122.0522 15.22695743 323 any one hear becons or signals to confurm? frequency? i guess we will have to see what they use on commissioning? thanks Rodney kc0zhf

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Digital sats
by Andrew Rich 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

I have a question regarding digital birds. What space objects can I pick up with a TNC, and what birds do I need a special modem for ? Some that come to mind, that I can use a TNC for are + ISS 1200 Baud AFSK + PCSAT 1200 Baud AFSK Is the aim to have birds launch that obey + AX25 encoded packets + 1200 or 9600

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keps
by Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

OK, look what this mornings launch has brought!!!! METEOR-M 1 35865U 09049A 09266.00323756 .00000176 00000-0 10000-3 0 76 2 35865 098.8004 316.1656 0003476 067.7453 292.4070 14.21825238 750 OBJECT B 1 35866U 09049B 09264.66487042 +.00000178 +00000-0 +10000-3 0 00090 2 35866 098.8018 314.8382 0004210 068.3988 291.7637 14.22295239000567 FREGAT/IRIS 1 35867U 09049C 09265.41739588 .00002263 00000-0 10000-3 0 176 2 35867 097.3746 315.4051 0008482 273.0438 215.5580 15.22704583 716 OBJECT D 1 35868U 09049D 09265.43940506 .00000177 00000-0 10000-3 0 63 2 35868 098.8009 315.6061 0005085 055.6014 304.5630 14.22083867 672 OBJECT E 1 35869U 09049E 09266.14339662 .00000176 00000-0 10000-3 0 78 2 35869 098.7999 316.3042 0005431 066.8861 293.2888 14.21977776 776 SUMBANDILA 1 35870U 09049F 09266.19788419 .00002269 00000-0 10000-3 0 90 2 35870 097.3735 316.1642 0010079 276.3165 169.6899 15.22795828 837 OBJECT G 1 35871U 09049G 09265.58122617 .00000174 00000-0 10000-3 0 21 2 35871 098.8000 315.7440 0005563 052.1646 308.0103 14.21536584 80 SL-4 R/B 1 35872U 09049H 09263.43249120 .31159888 35761-5 18689-3 0 178 2 35872 098.8050 314.7119 0006656 268.2084 222.6333 16.54567232 446 NIMIQ 5 1 35873U 09050A 09264.47059077 -.00000135 +00000-0 +10000-3 0 00052 2 35873 004.4433 294.8579 2167851 359.9780 000.3548 01.34434691000073 No Common Name Found No Record BREEZE-M DEB (TANK) 1 35875U 09050C 09261.47132024 -.00000009 00000-0 00000+0 0 16 2 35875 049.3166 295.3579 5999242 356.0530 001.4302 03.85048789 25 COSMOS 192 DEB 1 35876U 67116C 09265.90852780 .00380546 00000-0 57031-1 0 52 2 35876 074.0436 089.9297 0131057 048.3162 312.9119 14.66838029 3118 COSMOS 192 DEB 1 35877U 67116D 09262.96295204 .05704868 00000-0 70396-1 0 15 2 35877 074.3897 094.7400 0136641 085.7055 306.6361 15.45942677 2451 COSMOS 192 DEB 1 35878U 67116E 09265.55201046 .00233319 00000-0 50860-1 0 23 2 35878 074.2061 091.5883 0064862 126.8474 234.0669 14.55058298 3252 No Common Name Found 1 35879U 93036ATS 09265.05959825 .00011035 00000-0 44234-3 0 12 2 35879 074.0582 284.8249 0247279 109.5827 253.1279 15.01257899 18881 No Common Name Found 1 35880U 93036ATT 09265.05659263 .00002261 00000-0 16155-3 0 19 2 35880 074.0512 293.8010 0233461 120.6508 241.6284 14.85727313 26252 No Common Name Found 1 35881U 93036ATU 09264.23691720 .00000028 00000-0 29407-4 0 17 2 35881 074.1961 351.1281 0091226 032.2740 328.4383 14.06730591 28191 No Common Name Found 1 35882U 93036ATV 09265.04106334 .00008393 00000-0 37750-3 0 12 2 35882 074.0553 286.4649 0247428 124.5239 237.9580 14.97862855 18642 No Common Name Found 1 35883U 93036ATW 09265.49426819 .00000048 00000-0 21768-4 0 17 2 35883 074.0291 321.9055 0094465 100.1275 261.0497 14.42469479 14971 No Common Name Found 1 35884U 93036ATX 09264.58235828 .00000458 00000-0 28286-3 0 11 2 35884 074.0082 349.9801 0162524 033.4763 327.6540 14.01752559 19287 No Common Name Found 1 35885U 93036ATY 09264.84981258 .00000040 00000-0 24844-4 0 10 2 35885 074.0287 330.9214 0026043 040.3663 319.9448 14.30938810 15616 No Common Name Found 1 35886U 93036ATZ 09265.44687837 .00001092 00000-0 22500-3 0 18 2 35886 074.0155 311.2511 0107346 137.4686 223.4947 14.58199881 19616 No Common Name Found 1 35887U 93036AUA 09265.83377630 .00000829 00000-0 45580-3 0 20 2 35887 073.9802 342.4823 0128628 026.8671 334.0797 14.09124881 12155 No Common Name Found 1 35888U 93036AUB 09264.48583470 .00000103 00000-0 36385-4 0 10 2 35888 074.0386 322.0407 0060484 130.5807 230.0650 14.45418568 4721 No Common Name Found 1 35889U 93036AUC 09265.47619992 .00000897 00000-0 17031-3 0 16 2 35889 074.0658 310.6886 0132705 120.0451 241.3958 14.60220243 4491 No Common Name Found 1 35890U 93036AUD 09265.53579411 .00000615 00000-0 27216-3 0 10 2 35890 073.9529 333.5522 0092986 312.1802 047.1468 14.23058363 4230 No Common Name Found 1 35891U 93036AUE 09265.45780470 .00000324 00000-0 52994-4 0 10 2 35891 074.0080 304.6261 0157976 129.6711 231.8500 14.67354617 5098 No Common Name Found 1 35892U 93036AUF 09265.40675697 .00018266 00000-0 80020-3 0 14 2 35892 074.0941 285.2660 0226580 135.1483 226.8498 15.01777096 4861 No Common Name Found 1 35893U 93036AUG 09265.53355925 .00000539 00000-0 22071-3 0 14 2 35893 073.6708 326.0603 0093061 302.5911 056.6322 14.27555596 4255 No Common Name Found 1 35894U 93036AUH 09265.74806030 .00002941 00000-0 30755-3 0 24 2 35894 074.0038 296.8757 0185133 133.6915 227.9630 14.78284206 4540 No Common Name Found 1 35895U 93036AUJ 09265.93101793 -.00000072 00000-0 -35116-4 0 22 2 35895 074.0549 359.2324 0242153 021.7303 339.3904 13.84365782 3980 No Common Name Found 1 35896U 93036AUK 09265.50829234 .00001239 00000-0 33581-3 0 19 2 35896 073.9721 317.5105 0050502 157.4841 202.8966 14.48003598 21688 No Common Name Found 1 35897U 93036AUL 09265.44841871 .00000476 00000-0 59392-4 0 15 2 35897 073.9733 298.9594 0182102 148.4160 212.7995 14.74619073 10604 No Common Name Found 1 35898U 93036AUM 09265.45560234 .00000301 00000-0 58565-4 0 16 2 35898 074.0084 308.6511 0141374 123.8185 237.6540 14.61544262 10081 No Common Name Found 1 35899U 93036AUN 09264.47989842 .00002103 00000-0 43177-3 0 12 2 35899 074.0263 313.3338 0095689 151.7371 208.9059 14.58454216 3763 -- Nigel A. Gunn, 1865 El Camino Drive, Xenia, OH 45385-1115, USA. tel +1 937 825 5032 Amateur Radio G8IFF W8IFF (was KC8NHF), e-mail nigel(a)ngunn.net www http://www.ngunn.net Member of ARRL, GQRP #11396, QRPARCI #11644, SOC #548, Flying Pigs QRP Club International #385, Dayton ARA #2128, AMSAT-NA LM-1691, AMSAT-UK 0182, MKARS, ALC, GCARES, XWARN.

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contest??
by w7lrd＠comcast.net 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Just a thought coming from the North West. There are lots of short VHF/UHF sprint type contests. They may only last a few hours. Have "we" considered a similar sprint type contest where the exchange would be your grid square and your AMSAT member number. No AMSAT number? Maybe you should get one. Most of the exchanges on AO-51 are contest like already. The winning prize would be a attaboy. Going back in my corner now. 73 Bob W7LRD

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VUCC Award XE1AO and WA5KBH
by John Papay 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Congratulations to Omar, XE1AO, for achieving Satellite VUCC #182 and to George, WA5KHB, for confirming 225 Grids for his VUCC! Both are recognized in the October, 2009, issue of QST on page 94. Also Jerry, VE6AB, is shown with his "CJU" antenna on page 76. Plans for this simple antenna were in February QST. This antenna is also used by Rob, KD4ZGW/M, our over-the-road truck driver, who has handed out many rare grids during his travels across the United States. If you are just getting into satellites and are not hearing the birds very well, the CJU antenna may be just the ticket to making your first contact. 73, John K8YSE

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Need help selling KPC-9612 Plus 512K
by Peter Sils 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

I am in need of help trying to sell my Kantronics KPC-9612 Plus with 512K. I did not receive any interest asking $295 shipped. Is my price too high? I would truly appreciate any insight and direction. TNX in advance! 73 Peter KD0AA

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ITUpSat1 and SwissCube Frequencies
by Jason Anderson 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

We've had some requests to share our listening setup for the satellites we heard. SwissCube-1: 437.505 BeeSat: 436.000 UWE-2: 437.385 ITUpSat1: 437.325 We were doing manual Doppler correction and searching around the above frequencies. We used the TLE's found in the Sept 22nd posting on ISIS's blog http://blog.isilaunch.com/ although I believe they now have objects numbers from Norad which might be more accurate. Happy Tracking. - Jason Anderson, KI6GIV

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Re: KB9BIT from DM86 and DM87 summary
by John Papay 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Tom, Thanks for thinking about us grid chasers when planning your star gazing trip. It takes some effort to do it and it is much appreciated. Sorry about the speeding ticket. We will be waiting to hear about your next trip! 73, John K8YSE

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reduced price
by Jerry 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Hi: I still have my ST-1 Tracker by AEA for sale. I have all the cables software, books, and Other documentation. I will sell it all for $75.00 or offer plus shipping. The other thing I have is the Pakratt 232 The model is PK -232 MBX with books . cables And other documentation for $75.00

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ITUpSat1 and SwissCube Heard
by Jason Anderson 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

We here at Cal Poly and SRI just listened to our first pass from the recent PSLV launch and heard both ITUpSat1 and SwissCube. Our beacon recordings can be found at http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~bklofas/PSLV/ We're still on the watch and looking for clear UWE-2 and BeeSat signals. Congrats to everyone associated with the PSLV launch! - Jason Anderson, KI6GIV

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Coming Soon: 2009 AMSAT Symposium--40th AMSAT Anniversary Celebration
by Frank H. Bauer 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

All, A reminder that the Symposium is quickly approaching!! Don't miss the outstanding papers, camaraderie, and 40th anniversary celebration. And Edgar Allan Poe's 200th birthday celebration in "Charm City", Baltimore, Maryland. Both Airtran and Southwest have very cheap airfares available that end on Sept 24. This will probably be your last chance for cheap airfares. Example airfares include (One way): Albany, Columbus, Detroit, Hartford $49, Houston $94, Dallas $99 and many many more. The 4 Points Sheraton is an outstanding venue for this year's Symposium. If you haven't looked, the agenda for the symposium and a list of papers are on the AMSAT Web site. So..make your reservations, call Martha, get on the web and get cracking!! See you all in Baltimore. 73, Frank Bauer, KA3HDO and Janet Bauer, Symposium Co-Chairs

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Weak CW Copied
by David Barber 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Weak CW heard centred on 437.325MHz and 437.505MHz over UK between 11.10utc & 11.16utc. David G8OQW

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ISILaunch01 status update - September 23 12:00 UTC - All satellites heard!
by Wouter Jan Ubbels 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Hi all, another short update on ISILaunch01, all four satellites have been heard! Help in assigning the correct TLE to each satellite is still appreciated! best 73 on behalf of the ISILaunch01 team, Wouter Jan Ubbels PE4WJ

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PACCOMM PSK-1 for sale
by Gustavo Carpignano 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Hi, I saw this item on eBay and thought you might be interested: PACCOMM PSK-1 AMSAT SATELLITE MODEM (#110435722809) 73 Gustavo. Yahoo! Cocina Encontra las mejores recetas con Yahoo! Cocina. http://ar.mujer.yahoo.com/cocina/

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CW beacon Heard
by Mani VU2WMY 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Hi, Just heard a CW beacon on 437.385 with Doppler. It was 56-57. I was looking for the cubesats just launched by PSLV. As per the estimated TLEs, those Sats were within my AOS at 08.03 Z with 10 degree (W) elevation . Any confirmation on this ? Mani, VU2WMY Secretary & Station-In-Charge Upagrah Amateur Radio Club VU2URC ISRO Satellite Centre Airport Road, Bangalore-560 017. Phone:(O)91-80-2508 2054/2192/2537 Mobile: 91-80-98803 41456 E-mail ID: wmy(a)isac.gov.in vu2wmy_mani(a)yahoo.com isrohams(a)yahoo.com

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ISILaunch01 Status update - September 23 08:30 UTC first satellites heard!
by Wouter Jan Ubbels 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Hi all, please find an update on the ISILaunch01 below: 1. Directly after the launch the orbit took the satellites directly over the western part of the United States. Thanks to efforts by CalPoly and SRI, the teams have been able to confirm that at least two of the four satellites are transmitting beacon data. The two satellites that have been heard are SwissCube and ITUpSAT1, which could be identified by their CW beacon. We continue to wait for the first passes over the groundstations of the teams in Europe, which should occur around 09:30 UTC. best 73 on behalf of an excited ISILaunch01 team! Wouter Jan Ubbels PE4WJ

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Ao51 from South Point, Hawai'i, BK28
by RONALD CADE 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Aloha, Thanks to all of you that showed up on the satellite and made my trip down to the most southern tip of the Hawaiian Island group worthwhile. My last QSO was with KL7XJ which is the most difficult due to Mauna Loa volcano blocking that direction. I'll be back on Kauai Thursday, anyone need BL01 or 02, email me and I'll try to get on during my last week on the island. 73, Ron

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ISILaunch01 Status update - September 23 06:45 UTC Launch Successful!
by Wouter Jan Ubbels 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Hi all, please find an update on the ISILaunch01 below: 1. Launch has been successful, the PSLV-C14 has put all satellites including the four cubesats into orbit. Separation of the four CubeSats was confirmed exactly on time. 2. Launch has been exactly on time so the estimated TLE on http://blog.isilaunch.com/ are still valid, at this moment a pass over the Western US is coming up, so any help in listening for beacons is appreciated! best 73 on behalf of the ISILaunch01 team, Wouter Jan Ubbels PE4WJ

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Re: ISIlaunch01 Status update September 22 19:00 UTC
by Nitin Muttin [VU3TYG] 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

Great launch of the satellites by the PSLV launch vehicle from India. 73's Nitin VU3TYG --------- Original Message -------- From: Mani VU2WMY <wmy(a)isac.gov.in> To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ISIlaunch01 Status update September 22 19:00 UTC Date: 09/22/09 09:46 AM" > Wishing PSLV C14 a great launch and all the seven spacecrafts a great > success. Watching closely all the activities from ISAC Bangalore. > Good luck to you and to your team, Wouter! > > 73 de > > Mani, VU2WMY > Secretary & Station-In-Charge > Upagrah Amateur Radio Club VU2URC > ISRO Satellite Centre > Airport Road, Bangalore-560 017. > Phone:(O)91-80-2508 2054/2192/2537 > Mobile: 91-80-98803 41456 > E-mail ID: wmy(a)isac.gov.in > vu2wmy_mani(a)yahoo.com > isrohams(a)yahoo.com > > > Quoting G0MRF(a)aol.com: > > > > > The UWE2 site does not seem to be available. > > > > But the Swisscube team have some nice detail _http://swisscube.epfl.ch/_ > > (http://swisscube.epfl.ch/) > > > > 7 hours and counting. > > > > Good luck Wouter / ISIS > > > > David > > > > > > > > In a message dated 22/09/2009 19:50:46 GMT Standard Time, > > w.j.ubbels(a)isispace.nl writes: > > > > Hi all, > > > > please find an update regarding the upcoming ISILaunch01 on board PSLV-C14 > > below > > > > 1. All is good to go now, PSLV-C14 with ISILaunch01, a cluster launch of > > the > > following CubeSats: > > > > -BEESAT > > -ITUpSAT1 > > -SwissCube > > -UWE-2 > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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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need mike for Yaesu F-t530
by Scott Smith 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

Hi folks, i need a speaker mic for my FT530. The original one gave up. As the unit is now discontinued.... is there any other makes or models that will work with the FT530?, any help will be appeciated. 73 de VE6ITV Scott

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Re: ISIlaunch01 Status update September 22 19:00 UTC
by G0MRF＠aol.com 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

The UWE2 site does not seem to be available. But the Swisscube team have some nice detail _http://swisscube.epfl.ch/_ (http://swisscube.epfl.ch/) 7 hours and counting. Good luck Wouter / ISIS David In a message dated 22/09/2009 19:50:46 GMT Standard Time, w.j.ubbels(a)isispace.nl writes: Hi all, please find an update regarding the upcoming ISILaunch01 on board PSLV-C14 below 1. All is good to go now, PSLV-C14 with ISILaunch01, a cluster launch of the following CubeSats: -BEESAT -ITUpSAT1 -SwissCube -UWE-2

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KB9BIT from DM86 and DM87 summary
by Tom Laskowski 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

Hello all, I just returned from my trip to DM86/87 and wanted to post a short bit of info about my adventures. The main purpose for my trip was to attend the Okie-Tex Star Party just outside the tiny town of Kenton, OK in the far west part of the OK Panhandle. At night I planned to do lots of stargazing from this incredibly dark location and during the day I wanted to work as many satellite passes as I could. Kenton, with a population of about 23, is located in grid square DM86 and is just a few miles south of the OK-CO border and about 1 1/2 miles east of the OK-NM border. (Kenton is the only town in Oklahoma on Mountain Time). I also planned to make a few trips to the DM86/87 grid boundary to activate that rare grid. On my way out west I had a planned stop Thursday night, 9/10, at Wilson State Park in Kansas, Grid EM08. I had pass predictions for SO-50 and AO-51 but only ended up making 5 QSOs from this location on SO-50, as I was unaware that AO-51 had not been operating. These QSOs were from N38° 55.452' W98° 29.523' On Friday night, 9/11, I ended up staying just outside my final destination near Kenton at Black Mesa State Park in DM86 where I worked one pass of SO-50 and made 7 QSOs. These QSOs were from N36° 50.587' W102° 52.942' On Saturday morning, 9/12, I arrived at Camp Billy Joe where the star party was held at N36° 53.904' W102° 57.073' All of my contacts from DM86, except the state park QSOs, were made from this location. My satellite operating was mostly confined to mid-morning to early evening passes. I had to work around the star party activities, meals and my sleep schedule. During the 8 days I was here I made 44 QSOs on AO-51, SO-50 and AO-27 from DM86. For my DM86/87 operating I had to travel only about 8 miles north to the CO-OK border. My location was just about 500 feet east of the point where the states of New Mexico, Oklahoma and Colorado have their common border. I hoped to operate from this common border where there is a granite obelisk marking the tri-state point, but the coordinates of this point are N37° 00.012' W103° 00.139' thus it seemed to be located just north of the true grid boundary. I ended up working all DM86/87 contacts from exactly N37° 00.000' W103° 00.000' This point was easy enough to find, fortunately, because someone had created a small marker made from a pile of rocks to mark this convergence point. I set my GPS on this rock pile and let it average for about 10 minutes to confirm that I was standing on the exact grid boundary. To the best of my knowledge this point is smack dab on the Colorado-Oklahoma state line, or possibly just over the border in Colorado. (Google maps show this as being in Colorado, but it's pretty close to the true border, nonetheless). The DM86/87 site was accessible from the star party by driving north on an unmarked but paved road just outside the entrance to the camp, around the east side of Black Mesa (the highest point in Oklahoma) then north to the Colorado border. At the border the pavement ends and continues north into Colorado as a dirt road. At this point I needed to head west about a mile down another dirt road, which leads to the tri-state marker. My operating location was just about 50 feet north of this dirt road in the middle of an open field full of cactus, Yucca and sunflowers. I made two trips to DM86/87. Both were chosen to coincide with simultaneous AO-51 and SO-50 passes that were both high elevation passes and not far apart in time. I ended up making a total of 34 QSOs from the two trips to the DM86/87 grid boundary. It was a very fun experience hearing station after station calling me, sort of a mini pileup! I was very surprised how well I could hear SO-50 even down near the horizon. From home I usually can't hear SO-50 until it's at least 30 degrees above the horizon in the clear from the trees and buildings. On the first SO-50 pass I worked from DM86/87 I could hear Patrick WD9EWK calling me very weakly but perfectly readable. This was a few minutes before the Heavens-Above AOS prediction. The satellite was at less than 10 degrees elevation at the time! I ended up with exactly 90 QSOs total from all three locations for the week. I have not tallied up how many different stations or grids I worked on my trip yet. The Black Mesa area is a very beautiful and remote region. My DM86/87 QSOs were especially memorable because they took place near sunset which really added to the experience and beauty of the area. I plan to use some of the photos I took for making up the QSL cards. As for QSLs, I have received a number of nice emails and had a pile of snail mail requests waiting for me when I got home. I'll get QSLs out ASAP, hopefully within a few weeks. If you need a card just send me an email or you can send a direct request to my QRZ address. No SASE needed. The only downsides of the whole trip was the speeding ticket I received in Keyes, OK, having one of my van's windows completely shattered by a rock that fell out of a dump truck on I-80 near Des Moines, Iowa on my way home, having only three clear nights out of eight at the star party and driving 2300 miles round trip. On the plus side, one of the emails I received thanked me for the new grids and stated, "You've made my day." Well, that email made my day too and made the whole trip all worth it. 73, Tom -- KB9BIT

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keps
by Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

METEOR-M 1 35865U 09049A 09264.66617459 .00000176 00000-0 10000-3 0 61 2 35865 098.8010 314.8326 0003553 071.4378 288.7185 14.21824773 567 OBJECT B 1 35866U 09049B 09265.08696135 .00000178 00000-0 10000-3 0 70 2 35866 098.8018 315.2595 0004151 067.9183 292.2422 14.22295207 624 OBJECT C 1 35867U 09049C 09265.14656966 .00002262 00000-0 10000-3 0 162 2 35867 097.3747 315.1390 0008570 273.9779 170.9818 15.22703750 673 OBJECT D 1 35868U 09049D 09263.68043127 +.00000177 +00000-0 +10000-3 0 00061 2 35868 098.8011 313.8514 0005222 059.4870 300.6822 14.22083657000423 OBJECT E 1 35869U 09049E 09265.08793246 .00000176 00000-0 10000-3 0 61 2 35869 098.7998 315.2516 0005481 069.7398 290.4329 14.21977706 627 FREGAT/IRIS 1 35870U 09049F 09264.80225469 .00002269 00000-0 10000-3 0 75 2 35870 097.3736 314.7944 0010162 281.9080 078.0998 15.22791106 623 -- Nigel A. Gunn, 1865 El Camino Drive, Xenia, OH 45385-1115, USA. tel +1 937 825 5032 Amateur Radio G8IFF W8IFF (was KC8NHF), e-mail nigel(a)ngunn.net www http://www.ngunn.net Member of ARRL, GQRP #11396, QRPARCI #11644, SOC #548, Flying Pigs QRP Club International #385, Dayton ARA #2128, AMSAT-NA LM-1691, AMSAT-UK 0182, MKARS, ALC, GCARES, XWARN.

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SwissCube preliminary TLEs
by HB9TUH 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

Hello, You can use this preliminary TLE's to peak the beacon data from SwissCube satellite. More information's & tools on http://swisscube-live.ch & http://swisscube.epfl.ch . First pass is on West coast (LE) at 07:10 UTC but low elevation & short time. TLE's ----- ISILaunch01 SwissCube 1 99996U 09999S 09266.27831065 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 00017 2 99996 098.2862 000.8438 0005852 035.1139 179.1923 14.51386990000002 73 Martial HB9TUH

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ISIlaunch01 Status update September 22 19:00 UTC
by Wouter Jan Ubbels 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

Hi all, please find an update regarding the upcoming ISILaunch01 on board PSLV-C14 below 1. All is good to go now, PSLV-C14 with ISILaunch01, a cluster launch of the following CubeSats: -BEESAT -ITUpSAT1 -SwissCube -UWE-2 is scheduled to launch at 06:21 UTC from Sriharikota, India. The launch window is 15 minutes. 2. For all latest info and TLE's for each satellite, please refer to the ISIlaunch blog at http://blog.isilaunch.com/ 3. For frequency info visit http://www.isispace.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80&Itemid=… and the websites of the satellite teams. 4. We will be monitoring the AMSAT-BB, as well as the #cubesat IRC channel for reception reports. All help in listening for beacons and assigning the correct TLE to each satellite is highly appreciated! best 73 on behalf of the ISILaunch01 team, Wouter Jan Ubbels PE4WJ

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Re: Young Satellite Operator
by Daniel "Nick" Kucij 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

Hi, Wes, KP4WES; is the youngest ham in a family of hams. His father Walter, WP4T; his mother Carmen, WP3PJ; and his 13 year old brother, Walner, WP4NYS; are all active on the satellites. They can often be heard at the beginning of the afternoon, AO-27 passes coming up from the south. 73 Nick KB1RVT

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Hotel For 2009 AMSAT Symposium
by Martha 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

Please be advised that the cut-off date for the AMSAT block at the Four Points by Sheraton BWI Airport is September 28th. Getting our meeting rooms for free is dependant on the number of room nights we secure. So, PLEASE make your room reservations as soon as possible. For more information on the meeting, go to the AMSAT website and click on the box 2009 AMSAT Symposium on the left-hand side. -- 73- Martha

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BEESAT keps
by Mike Rupprecht 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

All, Here are the initial TLE for BEESAT-1 BEESAT 1 99998U 09999Q 09266.27807917 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 00018 2 99998 098.3002 000.8533 0002378 350.5091 222.5822 14.50491512000005 Launch time: September 23, 2009 at 06:21 UTC from Sriharikota (PSLV-C14). Beacon frequency: 436.000 MHz Modulation: 4k8 GMSK CW Beacon every 40 sec: DP0BEE 73, Mike DK3WN

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Way to Go, Patrick!
by Clint Bradford 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

>> ... Thanks to the 14 stations ... Great job. I mentioned I was using only one Watt just for you ... to try to impress your group! >> ... Clint ... seems to have a never-ending lineup of demonstrations ... It's funny. A month will go by with just one presentation ... but I have had NINE demos/presentations in a five or six week period right now. SO MANY that I registered a new URL ... http://www.work-sat.com ... which just redirects to my ham site. But it looks good in the handouts (grin). New for me is the EchoLink presentations. What fun! I get to be a DJ for an hour. I have pared down my 150+ slides to about 50, saved the presentation as a .pdf, and offer it to the EchoLink audience - so that those online can follow along with the show. The first one was well-received. And the next EchoLink session is on October 8 (EchoLink “SCARS” Node 96140 5:30PM PDT). >> ... Even though the demonstration came before, and not after, the presentation I gave to the club - it all worked out very well ... It's one thing to talk to folks and tell 'em that you CAN do this ... But a GREAT "teaser" to get those few that show up early to actually DO IT with you beforehand - and use those folks during your presentation to "validate" what your slideshow shows! Again, excellent work, Patrick! Clint Bradford, K6LCS - http://www.work-sat.com

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Icom W32A for sale
by David - KG4ZLB 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

Icom W32A dual band, full duplex h/t, comes complete with stock antenna, battery and wall charger. Battery holds full charge, no sign of wear. Some wear on the top row of buttons but otherwise in perfect condition, screen unscratched (its been kept in the case) full 5w output in "Hi" position. Extras: Icom speaker mic Icom Leatherette case Icom AA battery box Icom CP12L cigarette lighter charger No original manual but I can print a copy and include it. $275 including shipping to anywhere in the lower 48. -- David KG4ZLB www.kg4zlb.com

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thanks for contacts during WD9EWK demo tonight!
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

Hi! Thanks to the 14 stations in the western parts of the USA and Canada for making contacts with WD9EWK during my demonstration for the Tri-City Amateur Radio Association in Goodyear, Arizona, on AO-51 tonight. A special thank-you goes out to Rick WA4NVM - sorry we could not hook up and complete a QSO, which could have been the 15th during the demonstration. You were the easternmost station I heard on that pass, and I did mention that to the crowd during the demo. Clint K6LCS, who seems to have a never-ending lineup of demonstrations on various weeknights around southern California, took time to drop in on the pass and say hello to the group. Thanks! With you and other experienced satellite operators showing up, that helps make a good impression on those who have had little or no exposure to satellite operating before tonight. Even though the demonstration came before, and not after, the presentation I gave to the club - it all worked out very well. The club moved its meeting location to this spot in grid DM33tk, which looked out over an open field to the west. The club also requested that members show up an hour or so earlier than the normal starting time for their monthly meetings, to take in the satellite demonstration. Their flexibility to accomodate an AO-51 demonstration is great, and thanks also have to go to AMSAT's AO-51 Operations Group for ensuring a V/U FM voice repeater would be available for this evening. After the meeting and presentation, I followed several members to a post-meeting gathering at a nearby restaurant. I stayed there for an hour or so, until the gathering began to break up. It was a fun time to keep chatting with the club members about satellite operating and other radio-related topics. Time for bed... 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/

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W6ZQ from "big island" of Hawaii via AO-51, Tuesday evening
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

Hi! I talked with Ron W6ZQ this evening, and he said he is now on the "big island" of Hawaii. He has a decent pass of AO-51 tomorrow (Tuesday) evening that covers the US west coast starting around 4.30pm Hawaii time (7.30pm Pacific time, or 0230 UTC Wednesday). He is not sure which grid he will be operating from, so you'll have to find out tomorrow evening. As Ron's vacation is nearing its end, this will probably be his only time on the radio from the island of Hawaii on this trip. Whatever grid he comes on from, it is probably not a grid heard very much on the mainland. Good luck to all who try to work W6ZQ tomorrow evening. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/

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For Sale Kantronics 9612 Plus w/ 512K
by Peter Sils 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

I have for sale a like new Kantronics 9612 Plus V8.2 with 512K and manual. $295 shipped Cont. U.S. PSE contact KD0AA at Yahoo.Com. TNX!

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FM scanner for downlink?
by James Hickox 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

Hello All, I am looking for a scanner that I could use with a Hamtronics preamp as a downlink. The scanner should be able to step in 1 KHZ steps or less, receive on FM and maybe be used in the 137 MHZ range for WX sats. Portability and price are a MAJOR consideration. Let me know if anyone else is using such an item and the make/cost. Thanks and 73, James Hickox, AA5AO EM02

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Re: POLLUX
by Randy 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

Perhaps we could try some EPE ?? Earth-Pollux-Earth Randy Message: 2 Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:01:59 +0000 From: Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF <nigel(a)ngunn.net> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: POLLUX To: andy thomas <andythomasmail(a)yahoo.co.uk> Cc: amsat <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Message-ID: <4AB79567.80307(a)ngunn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed I guess now that the battery is exhausted, you'll have to blast it with your laser and do the ranging experiments, it's main mission objective. andy thomas wrote: > I haven't heard Pollux for a week now and I see that's the same on DK3WN's satblog. Is there any statement from the ande team?

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keps
by Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

METEOR-M 1 35865U 09049A 09262.90688002 +.00000176 +00000-0 +10000-3 0 00080 2 35865 098.8008 313.0781 0003592 078.1595 281.9966 14.21823599000318 OBJECT B 1 35866U 09049B 09263.67999104 .00000178 00000-0 10000-3 0 64 2 35866 098.8018 313.8552 0004251 071.3961 288.7678 14.22295165 429 OBJECT C 1 35867U 09049C 09263.84045757 .00002262 00000-0 10000-3 0 123 2 35867 097.3749 313.8569 0008584 278.8598 210.9485 15.22698590 474 OBJECT D 1 35868U 09049D 09262.90648254 +.00000177 +00000-0 +10000-3 0 00078 2 35868 098.8011 313.0790 0005233 061.2715 298.8958 14.22083002000312 OBJECT E 1 35869U 09049E 09263.68064780 .00000176 00000-0 10000-3 0 58 2 35869 098.7999 313.8478 0005450 073.6420 286.5336 14.21977798 428 FREGAT/IRIS 1 35870U 09049F 09263.68516416 .00002269 00000-0 10000-3 0 64 2 35870 097.3738 313.6979 0010241 286.6515 073.3553 15.22787556 454 -- Nigel A. Gunn, 1865 El Camino Drive, Xenia, OH 45385-1115, USA. tel +1 937 825 5032 Amateur Radio G8IFF W8IFF (was KC8NHF), e-mail nigel(a)ngunn.net www http://www.ngunn.net Member of ARRL, GQRP #11396, QRPARCI #11644, SOC #548, Flying Pigs QRP Club International #385, Dayton ARA #2128, AMSAT-NA LM-1691, AMSAT-UK 0182, MKARS, ALC, GCARES, XWARN.

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20 September EM88/98 West Virginia Operation
by John Papay 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

Thanks to everyone who worked me from the EM88/EM98. This was a very interesting trip to a very out of the way place in West Virginia. West Virginia is very hilly/mountainous and finding a place where there is a road with a view on a grid line is not an easy task. Google Earth helps but you just don't know until you get there if it's going to work out. Fortunately the views were fine and WD9EWK was able to work me easily from Arizona. The road trip of over 450 miles began around 9:45am Eastern and I got there about 40 minutes before the first AO-27 pass at 1841z. Sassafras is not on the official West Virginia State map but it is on Google. My Garmin GPS routed me on a one lane dirt road for about 6 miles and fortunately I never confronted a vehicle. The road where the operation took place was paved and there was a lane next to a cornfield about 40' or so from the 82 degree line so I could park safely. It was a short walk over to the line to operate. It was raining on the first pass so a poncho kept the radio and me fairly dry. The antenna and microphone were exposed to the elements but the rain had no adverse effect on them. The rest of the passes were rain free. Several cars stopped; one person was curious, the other two wanted directions! One lady was looking for a church and said she had been driving around in circles trying to find it. I passed one on the way in and directed her to it but I'm not sure if it was the one she intended to visit. APRS looked pretty good at the grid boundary as I was getting digi'd. Unfortunately it must have taken more than three hops to find a gateway since only a few packets made it to the aprs servers. The ISS digi was off so the radio that I prepared for that purpose didn't get any packets through on 145.825. Here's one that did make it through from where I was parked (close to the line but not on it). 2009-09-20 22:15:56 UTC: K8YSE-8>APHH2,WIDE1-1,KE8NK-3,KB8CVP-7*,WIDE2,qAR,KA3PPH:=3855.94N/08159.99Wk170/000 Here's a packet from West Virginia when I was almost there that went all the way to Cleveland before being gated by home station, K8YSE! 2009-09-20 17:52:53 UTC: K8YSE-8>APHH2,WIDE1-1,K8GPS-10*,WIDE2-1,qAR,K8YSE:=3852.47N/08154.67Wk332/036 There was essentially no cellphone coverage from this area. Ham radio can really serve a purpose there for emergency communications. A total of 52 contacts were made on the 2 passes each of AO-27, SO-50 and AO-51. The only real problem (which is getting worse) was from simplex operations that take place on or around 145.85 during an SO-50 pass. The extra power from the Kenwood V7A that I used helped me get through. As always I used the Arrow antenna and a 7AH UPS battery to power the radio. Using headphones and a digital recorder made operating a snap. Full duplex tells you right away if you're in the bird or not. There were 42 unique callsigns worked; best DX was YY6IEA. KE5GDB, Young Ham of the Year, was also in the log from EL29. I left after the 2322Z SO-50 pass since it was sunset in Sassafras. It got dark quickly and driving the back roads can get a little tricky. I was at home around 11:30 pm eastern. QSL cards are at the printer and will be sent to everyone who made it into my log. No return card is necessary. Don't bother sending an SASE. The card design is already on my qrz.com web page. Operating from grids away from your home QTH takes some effort but you will have fun doing it. I would encourage everyone to look at the possibilities around your QTH and plan an operation. Once you have it all figured out you will be confident that you can go anywhere and operate successfully. Thanks to all of you who already do this so that we can all work something new. And finally a special thanks to my son, KD8CAO, for being there on every pass and watching the radar for approaching weather. 73, John K8YSE

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Status SumbandilaSat
by Rodney Waln 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

Changed according the AMSAT-SA site they are now claiming object C 1 35867U 09049C 09263.84045757 .00002262 00000-0 10000-3 0 123 2 35867 97.3749 313.8569 0008584 278.8598 210.9485 15.22698590 474 http://www.amsatsa.org.za/index.htm Rodney kc0zhf

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Re: for sale
by Jerry 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

Hi : Thank you everyone that had an interest in the pre amps. They have been sold I will reduce the prices on the 440 amps The TE I will sell for $175.00 And the Mirage for $150.00 These are both 440- 100 watt amps The TE has a built in pre amp though Jerry w0sat -----Original Message----- From: Jerry [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 7:00 PM To: 'amsat-bb(a)amsat.org' Subject: for sale Hi : I have a Mirage 440 100 watt amp for sale And TE systems 440 100 watt amp for sale I also have a Landwehr 2 meter pre amp And a Landwehr 440 pre amp for sale Please contact me off line if interested W0sat(a)msn.com Jerry w0sat

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AMSAT Symposium poster sessions and commercial vendor displays
by Mark Steiner 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

Along with all the other exciting happenings at the AMSAT 40th Anniversary Symposium (being held October 9 - 11 at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel at the Baltimore Washington Airport), we'll have a room set up for poster displays and commercial vendor tables. Take advantage of this opportunity to show the rest of the amateur radio satellite community what you are doing in our exciting hobby. The poster session will be open for display to the public as follows: Friday, Oct. 9: 2:30 - 5 PM Saturday, Oct. 10: 8 - 11:45 AM 1 - 3:30 PM Set-up is from 1:30 - 2:30 PM on Friday and tear-down is 5 - 6 PM on Saturday. I need to know the following by Tuesday, Oct. 6 regarding what you will need for your display: Square footage of floor space # of tables (to be provided by hotel) If a power drop is needed Any other special needs Please email me at k3ms(a)amsat.org. Also, please pass this information along to anyone you think may be interested in providing a display or commercial table. Additional information and registration is available online at http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/symposium/2009/index.php Thanks, and see you at the Symposium soon! Mark Steiner, K3MS

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Symposium Schedule
by Martha 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

The schedule for the 2009 AMSAT Meeting is now on the website. The agenda for the BOD meeting along with the list of presentations will be added soon. Go to the website and click on the Symposium box on the left hand side of the page. That will take you to the information. -- 73- Martha

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Young Satellite Operator
by David Gendle 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

Greetings! Over the past few days I have heard a weak signal of a young voice in the background of a couple passes. However because of the noise and "normal chaos" :-) during the passes I was not able to make contact or get any specific information. Today on the AO-27 pass at 1809 I heard the call again and after a couple tries I was able to make contact with KP4WES. Wes is a nine year old who is a great operator that I believe is running handheld in Puerto Rico. The details are few because of the noisy conditions. On any of the future passes keep your ears open for a young voice in the background - I'm sure Wes would be very happy to make a contact and possibly receive a QSL confirming the QSO. Thanks! 73, Dave - K4DLG

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Fw: [ncecg] Ham equipment for sale
by Mr Jeffrey L Ross 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

----- Original Message ----- From: Doran Ditlow WA8EOW To: Mr Jeffrey L Ross Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 11:25 AM Subject: Fw: [ncecg] Ham equipment for sale Jeff, here is a bunch of stuff I am trying to get rid of, are you interested in anything? Also several 110v ac power strips, various brands and sizes. Prices on everything negotiable. 73, Doran ----- Original Message ----- From: Doran Ditlow WA8EOW To: ncecg(a)tdats.net Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 11:45 AM Subject: [ncecg] Ham equipment for sale KLM 2m-16lbx 2m beam, has 28ft boom, gain 14.5db. A long antenna in good condition. KLM 143-150-14C 2m Yagi beam. Gain 11 dbdc (gain referred to dipole, circular polarized) This is a circular polarized antenna designed for satellite communications. It has 7 elements horizontal and 7 elements vertical on same boom. It can be used for either vertical or horizontal polarization by removing one set of elements. The boom length is 12'-9". Twenty foot tall guyed tubular mast, has small tripod for bottom to mount into. Has several sections which telescope into each other. About right size to mount big tv antenna on or 2m beam or vertical. Make an offer for either antenna to wa8eow(a)arrl.net Stuff from n8acl estate..................... Radioshack 7A6 speaker-microphone for Radioshack HTX-202 HT, new. Will work with some other HT's, Icom, maybe others. Has plug with two pins, one small, one larger to plug into ht. Has clip on back of mike to clip on your lapel. Radioshack 11A99 external speaker for mobile or base radio. Eight ohms, 5 watts, has mono 1/8" plug. Like new but missing mounting bracket. Realistic Pro-2022 scanner. Uhf-Vhf seems to work well. Will not receive trunked radio systems. Programmable, has most of local fire, ems etc. channels programmed. Holds up to 200 channels. Several crystal type scanners, all seem to work ok but won't receive trunked systems and need one crystal for each channel you want to receive. Cheap. Several power strips, multiple outlets on each with on-off switch. Forty foot high, ten foot sections, Rohn 45G antenna tower. This is a fairly large tower, 14 inches on each side, triangular, has a house bracket. Top of tower has a flat plate on it. Tower needs to be guyed if very large antenna is to be put on it, like HF beam. There is another section which has a tube in the top so rotator can be put below top of tower and mast extends up through this tube. Rest of tower looks very good but this top section has quite a bit of surface rust. Tower is standing, if you can take it down the price will be lower. Ten foot tripod for mounting antenna on roof. Anybody interested in any of this stuff contact wa8eow(a)arrl.net or call 231-834-5218. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.89/2360 - Release Date: 09/10/09 11:29:00

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Status SumbandilaSat ?
by PE0SAT 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

Is there a website with the status of SumbandilaSat? As far as I know the launch was good, but after that haven't heard anything? PE0SAT

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POLLUX
by andy thomas 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

I haven't heard Pollux for a week now and I see that's the same on DK3WN's satblog. Is there any statement from the ande team? 73 de andy g0sfj

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RS-28
by Randy 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

Which File on space-track does it fall in ? Randy - N2CUA

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