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Re: [Keps] orb21189.2l.amsat
by Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL 16 Jul '21

16 Jul '21

At 09:32 PM 7/8/2021 -0500, ray.hoad wrote: >SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORB21189.N >2Line Orbital Elements 21189.AMSAT > >HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR AMATEUR SATELLITES IN NASA FORMAT >FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX July 8, 2021 >BID: ORB21189.N A Question, Is there a way we can change the names of some of the satellites listed on the Satellite Status page(www.amsat.org/status) to match the names in the keps distribution? KB7ADL

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2021-07-15 15:30 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2021-07-15 15:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: TBD, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The scheduled astronaut is Pyotr Dubrov Contact is a go for Wed 2021-07-14 20:10 UTC SpaceKids Global, Winter Park, FL, multi-point telebridge via IK1SLD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is go for: Wed 2021-07-21 17:47:21 UTC 51 deg Watch for livestream starting about 15 minutes before AOS at: www.ariotti.com (***) Seinan Gakuin Junior Senior High School, Fukuoka, Japan, direct via 8N6SW The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The scheduled astronaut is Akihiko Hoshide KE5DNI Contact is go for: Thu 2021-07-22 09:14:25 UTC 31 deg The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The latest list of frequencies in use can be found at https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html ######################################################################################################################################## A multi-point telebridge contact means that each student will be on the telebridge from their own home. **************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS is very aware of the impact that COVID-19 is having on schools and the public in general. As such, we may have last minute cancellations or postponements of school contacts. As always, I will try to provide everyone with near-real-time updates. Watch for future COVID-19 related announcements at https://www.ariss.org/ The following schools have now been postponed or cancelled due to COVID-19: Postponed: No new schools Cancelled: No new schools **************************************************************************************************************************************** Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2021-07-15 15:30 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2021-07-15 02:00 UTC. https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at https://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For future proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of Information Webinars, go to www.ariss.org. About ARISS: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Lab and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEAM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or public forms. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts. Applications should be addressed by email to: school.selection.manager(a)ariss-eu.org ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application. Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. For the application, go to: https://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd(a)gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss(a)iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) https://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n(a)amsat.org or aj9n(a)aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8Ø MHz unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting. Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts. If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke(a)sbcglobal.net The HamTV webpage: https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Sergey RV3DR with 153 Francesco IKØWGF with 140 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 140 Gaston ON4WF with 123 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed, and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1460. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1390. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 48. Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: https://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correcti… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 64 on orbit Oleg Novitskiy Pyotr Dubrov Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP SpaceX-Crew 2 on orbit Meghan McArthur (Behnken) Akihiko Hoshide KE5DNI Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Upload Not Showing Up (EM22/32)
by Bob Liddy (K8BL) 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

LoTW Team, I uploaded 12 Satellite QSOs yesterday at 1845Z and the Activity shows they arrived and were accepted. However, there have beenno matches 19 hours later. I tried it a second time and it said the QSOs were duplicates and wereignored. What do you advise? TNX, Bob K8BL

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2021-07-15 02:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2021-07-15 02:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: YOTA 2021, West Chester, OH, telebridge via ZS6JON The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The scheduled astronaut is Akihiko Hoshide KE5DNI Contact was successful: Wed 2021-07-14 15:03:16 UTC 58 deg (***) Congratulations to the YOTA students and Akihiko! (***) TBD, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The scheduled astronaut is Pyotr Dubrov Contact is a go for Wed 2021-07-14 20:10 UTC SpaceKids Global, Winter Park, FL, multi-point telebridge via IK1SLD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS (***) The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is go for: Wed 2021-07-21 17:47:21 UTC 51 deg Seinan Gakuin Junior Senior High School, Fukuoka, Japan, direct via 8N6SW (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The scheduled astronaut is Akihiko Hoshide KE5DNI Contact is go for: Thu 2021-07-22 09:14:25 UTC 31 deg The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The latest list of frequencies in use can be found at https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html ######################################################################################################################################## A multi-point telebridge contact means that each student will be on the telebridge from their own home. **************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS is very aware of the impact that COVID-19 is having on schools and the public in general. As such, we may have last minute cancellations or postponements of school contacts. As always, I will try to provide everyone with near-real-time updates. Watch for future COVID-19 related announcements at https://www.ariss.org/ The following schools have now been postponed or cancelled due to COVID-19: Postponed: No new schools Cancelled: No new schools **************************************************************************************************************************************** Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2021-07-15 02:00 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2021-07-15 02:00 UTC. (***) https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at https://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For future proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of Information Webinars, go to www.ariss.org. About ARISS: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Lab and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEAM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or public forms. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts. Applications should be addressed by email to: school.selection.manager(a)ariss-eu.org ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application. Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. For the application, go to: https://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd(a)gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss(a)iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) https://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n(a)amsat.org or aj9n(a)aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8Ø MHz unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting. Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts. If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke(a)sbcglobal.net The HamTV webpage: https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Sergey RV3DR with 153 Francesco IKØWGF with 140 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 140 Gaston ON4WF with 123 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed, and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1460. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1390. (***) Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 48. Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: https://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correcti… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 64 on orbit Oleg Novitskiy Pyotr Dubrov Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP SpaceX-Crew 2 on orbit Meghan McArthur (Behnken) Akihiko Hoshide KE5DNI Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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EM22/32 Rove Today
by Bob Liddy (K8BL) 14 Jul '21

14 Jul '21

Gridders, Logged the following Calls on CAS4A/B earlier from EM22/32 and they have been uploaded to LoTW (no eQSL for roving). N6AJ, VE1VOX, VE1CWJ, WA2NDV, KC1MMC, XE1HG, KE8RJU, K8YSE, KD4OBQ, KD0ZW, WA4VOC. If error/omission, send me details in an email. 73, Bob K8BL

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Looking for Elmer FN32xs
by Robert Bankston 14 Jul '21

14 Jul '21

I have someone looking to get started on satellites and looking for an Elmer. Anyone near Rindge, NH (FN32xs)? If so, please email me directly, and I will pass along his contact information. 73, Robert Bankston, KE4ALPresidentRadio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT)

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XW-2D and MSK144
by Wilson C 13 Jul '21

13 Jul '21

With XW-2D operating in short 2 second bursts and then being off for around 5 secs, would QRP MSK144 transmissions work if the transmit/receive time is reduced down to 5 secs? I'm aware that digital modes have been tried before and are hazardous to satellite health if the power levels are too high, hence the requirement for low power. It seems a shame to have a satellite up there that is working (kind of) but not utilised . Wil - G6WQN

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Re: Odd issue with CAS-4A & B
by Wilson Convery 13 Jul '21

13 Jul '21

Hi their Frank. I have seen this behaviour on the CAS 4 satellites. I use Gpredict and had to modify the code so that I could retune the transmitter to get the down link where it should be and then re-lock the Tx and Rx frequencies so that I can tune around. I just assumed that either the onboard rx or tx had drifted slightly and this was "normal". 73 Wil - G6WQN

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ARISS News Release No. 21-41
by David Jordan 12 Jul '21

12 Jul '21

ARISS News Release No. 21-41 Dave Jordan, AA4KN ARISS PR aa4kn(a)amsat.org FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE ARISS ContactScheduled for Students at Youth on The Air Camp (YOTA) 2021 West Chester,OH, USA July 12, 2021—AmateurRadio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received scheduleconfirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts. ARISS is the groupthat puts together special amateur radio contacts between students around theglobe and crew members with ham radio licenses on the International Space Station (ISS). This will be a telebridge contact via amateur radio and students will take turnsasking their questions of Akihiko Hoshide, amateur radio call sign KE5DNI. English is the language that will beused during this contact. Both onsite and remote accesswill be provided to the student body at the time of the contact per Covid-19guidelines. The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHZ and may beheard by listeners that are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses thetelebridge station. ARISSteam member John Sygo in Paardekraal, South Africa, call sign ZS6JON will serveas the relay amateur radio station. The ARISS radio contact isscheduled for July 14, 2021 at 11:03 am EDT (WestChester, OH), (15:03 UTC,10:03 am CDT, 9:03 am MDT and 8:03 am PDT). Youth on the Air2021 (YOTA) is a week-long camp (July 11-16) for ham radio operators ages 15-25from across North, Central, and South America, and is held at the Voice ofAmerica Museum in West Chester, OH.The VOA Museum and the West Chester Amateur Radio Club (WC8VOA) is partneringwith this YOTA Region 2 Camp event. They will provide ham radio educationalactivities for camp participants and support the ARISS contact. This camp eventis designed to help licensed students to take ham radio to the next level by providingthem with unique experiences and technologies, and the opportunity to meetother young hams. The camp staff is a collection of experienced ham volunteersfrom across the Americas. Young hams that are staff and some that arevolunteers from local amateur radio clubs will lead activities. These include:kit building, antenna building, transmitter hunting and direction finding,digital modes, and a high-altitude balloon launch. Amateur satellite operation is one of theworkshops provided; others included effective radio communications, localhistory of ham radio, and using amateur radio during emergencies. This ARISScontact is intended to inspire these young hams to learn more about communicationusing amateur satellites and making ARISS radio contacts. The public is invited to watch the live stream at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1LVWge18cxFh0SnHemQ2zQ _____________________________ Astime allows, students will ask these questions: 1.Who are your greatest role models and mentors and why? 2.What is the most interesting thing you have seen from space? 3.What was the biggest challenge you faced in becoming an astronaut, and how didyou overcome it? 4.How often do you or other astronauts man the ISS simplex radio? 5.What are you doing now on the space station that will help future missions tothe Moon and Mars conduct their experiments safely? 6.What is the hardest aspect of space travel that training cannot prepare you for? 7.What are your specific role(s) on the ISS? 8.What is your favorite thing to do in space that can’t be done on earth? 9.What does a typical day look like? 10.What is the most rewarding part about living and working on the ISS? 11.What new space related technology are you most excited for? 12.When did you first learn about ham radio? 13.How are breaches or leaks in the station detected and what are the necessarysteps to contain them? 14.How often do you launch smaller spacecraft into orbit on the space station? 15.Are there many issues for you to fix on a day-to-day basis? ARISS – Celebrating 20 Years of Amateur RadioContinuous Operations on the ISS About ARISS: Amateur Radio on the InternationalSpace Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radiosocieties and the space agencies that support the International Space Station(ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur SatelliteCorporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS NationalLab-Space Station Explorers, and NASA’s Space communications and Navigationprogram. The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science,technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this byorganizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard theISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators,parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied tospace, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org. MediaContact: DaveJordan, AA4KN ARISSPR Likeus on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Search on Amateur Radio on the ISS and@ARISS_status. Checkout ARISS on Youtube.com

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2021-07-12 16:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 12 Jul '21

12 Jul '21

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2021-07-12 16:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: YOTA 2021, West Chester, OH, telebridge via ZS6JON (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The scheduled astronaut is Akihiko Hoshide KE5DNI (***) Contact is go for: Wed 2021-07-14 15:03:16 UTC 58 deg (***) TBD, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The scheduled astronaut is Pyotr Dubrov Contact is a go for Wed 2021-07-14 20:10 UTC SpaceKids Global, Winter Park, FL, multi-point telebridge via IK1SLD (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be TBD The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD (***) Contact is go for: Wed 2021-07-21 17:47:21 UTC 51 deg (***) Seinan Gakuin Junior Senior High School, Fukuoka, Japan, direct via 8N6SW (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The scheduled astronaut is Akihiko Hoshide KE5DNI (***) Contact is go for: Thu 2021-07-22 09:14:25 UTC 31 deg (***) Watch for possible operation mode change sometime after ARRL Field Day. Exact date and time TBD but it will probably be after the week of 2021-07-12 to 2021-07-18. The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The latest list of frequencies in use can be found at https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html ######################################################################################################################################## A multi-point telebridge contact means that each student will be on the telebridge from their own home. **************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS is very aware of the impact that COVID-19 is having on schools and the public in general. As such, we may have last minute cancellations or postponements of school contacts. As always, I will try to provide everyone with near-real-time updates. Watch for future COVID-19 related announcements at https://www.ariss.org/ The following schools have now been postponed or cancelled due to COVID-19: Postponed: No new schools Cancelled: No new schools **************************************************************************************************************************************** Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2021-07-12 16:00 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2021-06-26 16:30 UTC. https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at https://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For future proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of Information Webinars, go to www.ariss.org. About ARISS: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Lab and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEAM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or public forms. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts. Applications should be addressed by email to: school.selection.manager(a)ariss-eu.org ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application. Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. For the application, go to: https://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd(a)gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss(a)iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) https://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n(a)amsat.org or aj9n(a)aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8Ø MHz unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting. Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts. If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke(a)sbcglobal.net The HamTV webpage: https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Sergey RV3DR with 153 Francesco IKØWGF with 140 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 140 Gaston ON4WF with 123 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed, and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1459. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1389. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 48. Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: https://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correcti… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 64 on orbit Oleg Novitskiy Pyotr Dubrov Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP SpaceX-Crew 2 on orbit Meghan McArthur (Behnken) Akihiko Hoshide KE5DNI Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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ANS-192 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by Paul Stoetzer 11 Jul '21

11 Jul '21

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-192 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and information service of AMSAT, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor(a)amsat.org You can sign up for free e-mail delivery of the AMSAT News Service Bulletins via the ANS List; to join this list see: https://mailman.amsat.org/postorius/lists/ans.amsat.org/ In this edition: * AMSAT CubeSatSim First Official Release – v1.0 * AMSAT FoxTelem Version 1.11 Released * AMSAT Pacsat Ground Station Version 0.43 Released * FalconSat-3 Status * Field Day Score Deadline - Friday, July 16th * MIR-SAT1 Gold Award Winners * Long Live PCSAT (NO-44) (and PCSAT-11) * Changes to AMSAT TLE Distribution for July 8, 2021 * ARISS News * Upcoming Satellite Operations * Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events * Satellite Shorts From All Over AMSAT News Service Bulletin 192.01 To: All RADIO AMATEURS From: Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation 712 H Street NE Suite 1653 Washington, DC 20002 DATE 2021 Ju1 11 -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Join the 2021 President's Club! Score your 2" 4-Color Accent Commemorative Coin with Polished Gold Finish, Full Color Certificate and Embroidered "Remove Before Flight" Key Tag By donating today at https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/ You won't want to miss it! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- AMSAT CubeSatSim First Official Release – v1.0 I am very pleased to announce the first software release of the CubeSatSim software v1.0! Along with the first hardware release v1.0 last month, this is an important milestone for this AMSAT educational project. All the CubeSatSim software and hardware is fully open source. The v1.0 release info is available on GitHub here: https://github.com/alanbjohnston/CubeSatSim/releases/tag/v1.0 and the v1.0 hardware info including gerber files is available here: https://github.com/alanbjohnston/CubeSatSim/tree/v1.0/hardware/v1.0 Thanks to Bruce Paige, KK5DO, we have CubeSatSim blank PCB sets and CubeSatSim Raspberry Pi SD cards available on the AMSAT Store. For the moment, they are only available to ship to US addresses. In a post-COVID future, we hope to offer worldwide shipping. The CubeSatSim Raspberry Pi SD Card is a 16 GB micro SD card with Raspberry Pi OS Lite and all the CubeSatSim software installed and configured on it. It is available at the AMSAT Store for $20 https://www.amsat.org/product/amsat-cubesatsim-raspberry-pi-sd-card/ You can also download the image and flash it to your own SD card using these instructions https://github.com/alanbjohnston/CubeSatSim/wiki/2.-Software-Install Here is the readme file for the CubeSatSim software https://cubesatsim.org/download/cubesatsim-readme.pdf With the 3 board sets of blank PCBs, you can order the parts and solder your own CubeSatSim. They are available at the AMSAT Store for $35 https://www.amsat.org/product/amsat-cubesatsim-pcb/ I want to take this opportunity to thank the team that has been working on the CubeSatSim Project including Pat Kilory, N8PK, Jim McLaughlin, KI6ZUM, and David White, WD6DRI. In addition, Chris Thompson, G0KLA/AC2CZ has been instrumental in helping me get the FSK/BPSK transmit code working and has added support for the CubeSatSim to FoxTelem. Yesterday's release of FoxTelem v1.11 has full CubeSatSim support. And of course, thank you to the AMSAT Board of Directors and the AMSAT membership who have supported this project for many years. P.S. AMSAT has CubeSatSim Loaners available to ship to your event or presentation or STEM outreach activity - just contact me if you have an upcoming event. [ANS thanks Alan Johnston, KU2Y, AMSAT Vice President - Educational Relations, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT FoxTelem Version 1.11 Released I am releasing version 1.11 of FoxTelem. This primarily supports new features needed for GOLF-TEE development and the CubeSatSim. If you are using FoxTelem in the lab or classroom then this release should be installed. It also fixes several bugs that will help with live decoding of AO-95. It is not a mandatory upgrade but it is recommended. Specifically it addresses the following: * Fixes a bug where Costas decoding can stop if audio is being monitored * Supports all the latest features needed for the CubeSatSim * Better warnings for tracking and Find Signal errors * Supports all the latest GOLF-TEE layouts * Fixes a bug where strong signals may not be tracked correctly * Supports math expressions in telemetry conversions * Better handles USB device errors You can download FoxTelem here: http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/windows/FoxTelem_1.11g_windows.zip http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/linux/FoxTelem_1.11g_linux.tar.gz http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/mac/FoxTelem_1.11g_mac.tar.gz Feel free to reach out to me with questions or comments. [ANS thanks Chris Thompson, G0KLA/AC2CZ, AMSAT FoxTelem Developer, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT Pacsat Ground Station Version 0.43 Released I'm releasing an update to the Pacsat Ground Station. This version - Parses the MO-112 FailSafe beacons and saves them for analysis. - Fixes a bug where FalconSat-3 telemetry data could not be downloaded from the server - Defaults FalconSat-3 to not check Pacsat File Header checksums. This was annoying for partially downloaded files. You can download it here: https://www.g0kla.com/pacsat/index.php [ANS thanks Chris Thompson, G0KLA/AC2CZ, AMSAT Pacsat Ground Station Developer, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- FalconSat-3 Update I had sufficient WiFi to check out FalconSat-3 thisvaround 1200 UTC 8 July 2021. Thankfully, only the TX had gone off and a reload right now isn't necessary.vIf I can make the time, I'll look over the telemetry logs and see if we had a low voltage trip or something, but not sure. Users---until further notice, please limit the size of your uploaded files to around 10k or less. Just before the bird went silent, numerous large files were being uploaded and downloaded. I cannot say for sure if this is related to the recent issue, but let's call it a hunch. In the meantime, FalconSat-3 is again open for BBS and digipeater use - please limit file upload size to 10K or less. [ANS thanks Mark Hammond, N8MH, AMSAT Director and Command Station, for the above information] +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Need new satellite antennas? Purchase Arrows, Alaskan Arrows, and M2 LEO-Packs from the AMSAT Store. When you purchase through AMSAT, a portion of the proceeds goes towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space. https://amsat.org/product-category/hardware/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Field Day Score Deadline - Friday, July 16th The deadline for submission of AMSAT Field Day scores is 11:59 P.M. Central Time on Friday, July 16, 2021. I am going to be out of town the week of July 12th. I will still try to acknowledge when I get your score in my inbox. It would be nice to get some pictures and a short note about how your Field Day was. I always like to share the stories in the AMSAT Journal article. The submission form is located at https://www.amsat.org/field-day/ [ANS thanks Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Director of Contests and Awards, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- MIR-SAT1 Gold Award Winners On behalf of the Mauritius Amateur Radio Society (MARS) I am pleased to inform you that the MIR-SAT1 Gold Award winners are: WO3T SatNOGS# 2134 / WesternMA Yagi VU2LBW PA5OXW JA6PL KB6LTY 1062-CCERES Ground Station 3B8FA SP7THR-UHF / 2012 EU1XX JH4DHX/3 PY2SDR BX1AD MAUFOX F6HDW W7KKE KC9ELU LU1KCQ VK2PET YC5ABK Congratulations to them all. Now there are 30 Silver Awards at stake, to remind the rules: one must have uploaded at least one full valid MO-112 frame to Satnogs and apply for the award by submitting their participation to MARS (link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCAAKTMtTmARDwrjIE_Coai1WR9b2zUFj… ). Good luck to all for the Silver Award. Thanking all for sending to Satnogs the TLM’s which is really appreciated and really useful to us. [ANS thanks Jean-Marc Momple, 3B8DU, MIR-SAT1 (MO-112) Team, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Long Live PCSAT (NO-44) (and PCSAT-11) Some (current) APRS Amateur Satellite history: CONSTRUCTION: For what it is worth, After 20 years, both PCSAT side A and B transponders (digipeaters) remain semi-operational as the longest running student project satellites in space. Further they were built desk-top style using simple off-the-shelf Kantronics KPC-9612 TNC's and Hamtroncs kit TX/RX boards. All parts are COTS and chips are in sockets. Batteries are AA NiCd's. There are no CPU's on board. All command/control/telemetry is just what is inherent in the TNC's. Only thing we did was replace all electrolytic caps with tantalums. Having no clean room, we just used kem wipes and alcohol to wipe off all the fingerprints and dust before bagging for delivery. NOTE: No one should be so cavalier if their mission is REAL and costing great amounts of expectations and money. Back then it was just a free ride with no expectations other than student involvement. SAFE MODE (NOT): The only thing wrong was stupid thinking on the power budget. As our first satellite, we put on dual A/B systems AND additional 9600 baud DUAL UHF backup link receivers so that we had QUAD backup command RX capabilities in case of failures. The problem was we decided that all systems must come up on power-up in order to have access to all the redundant backup reset and command capabilities if needed and (DUH!), if all was OK, we would turn off the unnecessary backup-UHF receivers and un-crossconnect the transmitters. TOO-COMPLEX LOGON: That is what kills it (on every orbit). If the reason it reset is because of low battery, then the last thing you want is for EVERYTHING to be ON when you are coming into the sun and trying to charge back up. There is not yet enough power to get the command in to command off the unnecessary systems! Further, the commands required a full two-way AX.25 connection requiring 5 packets to exchange the password challenge and password response. All of which fully loaded the cross-connected XMTRs while trying to recover power. NO CPU or OPERATING SYSTEM: PCSAT had no programmable CPU. Just two-dual-port TNCs and 2 VHF XMTrs and 2 VHF RCVRS, and 2 UHF 9600 baud RCVRS. There was nothing in which to put SMART-safe-mode power-up thinking. Hence the fatal flaw to just power up everything and command later... duh... WITH LUCK: But luckily, the orbit occasionally has short eclipses and longer sun side (about 1 hour) which gives it enough time to sometimes have enough power to do a few user digipeats. Though after only a few, that usually kills the battery for the rest of the orbit. We long since gave up trying to go through the entire secret logon process to try to turn off the extra UHF receivers, only to have it last another' 10 minutes or so until the next eclipse and so that is why it just does its thing and sometimes people are successful, or not. MISSION: Side A of PCSAT (AKA W3ADO-1) remains operational on 145.825 digipeating when power permits. Same for side B which has a digipeater with a 144.39 MHz downlink for use over North America which at the time was thought would be useful for communicating *TO* normal 144.39 travelers who may be traveling outside of range of the terrestrial network for a while. TODAY (June 8, 2021), one of our sysops tested the side "B" and confirmed it remains operational. That is why you might occasionally see PCSAT-11 in the APRS logs. Although within the rules at the time of launch, in the last decade, the IARU has officially made notice that operation of satellite downlinks in the old 144.30-144.40 range are no longer authorized. Besides, we never came up with a good use of the side B anyway. (Broadcast an APRS message to all North American mobiles, or special traffic to a specific mobile). Of course, we learned those lessons and had 6 successful followon APRS satellites with only the last two (PSAT and PSAT2) had programmable CPUs (BASIC Stamps). See http://aprs.org/sats.html [ANS thanks Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes to AMSAT TLE Distribution for July 8, 2021 The following satellite has been added to this week's AMSAT TLE Distribution: TUBIN - NORAD Cat ID 48900 (Thanks to Nico Janssen, PA0DLO for the identification.) The following satellite has been deleted from this week's AMSAT TLE Distribution: STAR-Me Mother - NORAD Cat ID 43640 (Decayed June 26, 2021) Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA (OSCAR Number Administrator) announced July 3, 2021 in AMSAT News Service Bulletin ANS-185 that MIR-SAT1 has been designated MIRSAT-OSCAR 112 or MO-112. Thus, MIRSAT1 (NORAD Cat ID 48868) is now shown as MO-112 in this week's TLE distribution. [ANS thanks Ray Hoad, WA5QGD, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager, for the above information] +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ AMSAT's GOLF Program is about getting back to higher orbits, and it all begins with GOLF-TEE – a technology demonstrator for deployable solar panels, propulsion, and attitude control, now manifested for launch on NASA's ELaNa 46 mission. Come along for the ride. The journey will be worth it! https://tinyurl.com/ANS-GOLF +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ ARISS News TBD, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz The scheduled astronaut is Pyotr Dubrov Contact is a go for 2021-07-14 20:10 UTC Watch for possible operation mode change sometime after ARRL Field Day. Exact date and time TBD but it will probably be after the week of 2021-07-12 to 2021-07-18. Current Status of ISS Stations IORS (Kenwood D710GA) – STATUS - ACTIVE. supporting cross band repeater operation (145.990 up [67 Hz tone] /437.800 down MHz). Next mode change to packet operations targeting after Field Day. Supporting USOS scheduled voice contacts, packet and voice repeater ops. Service Module radios: Kenwood D710E – STATUS - Radio usually off. Supporting ROS scheduled voice contacts and SSTV. The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The latest list of frequencies in use can be found at https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html [ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, one of the ARISS operation team mentors, for the above information] +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Want to fly the colors on your own grid expedition? Get your AMSAT car flag and other neat stuff from our Zazzle store! 25% of the purchase price of each product goes towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Upcoming Satellite Operations Quick Hits: VP2V/K3TRM: I will be operating from Tortola, BVI as VP2V/K3TRM on July 4-17, 2021. Activity will be on 40-6M SSB & digital, and satellite. EN57/67: @SeanKutzko KX9X and @Nancy_N9NCY will celebrate Sean’s birthday in the Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula July 15-19. Look for them on FM and SSB satellites, with the possibility of some Parks On The Air activity as well. They will also hit EN57/67 on 7/14&19 on the Yooper Rove. K0JM, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (July 12-14) I’ll be on the north shore of Lake Superior. I hope to get in at least one pass in each of the grids: EN36, EN46, EN47, EN48, EN57 and EN58. But this will be holiday style, so no guarantees. Mostly linears, but some FM perhaps. Major Roves: WY7AA: July 11 DN25 daytime passes July 12 DN27 with a guest Gridmaster hopefully July 13-16 DN28 holiday style July 17 DN38 holiday style July 18 DN47/48 daytime passes July 21-23 DN54 holiday style July 25-27 DN64 holiday style July 30-31 DN63 holiday style July 11 & 18 will all be planned trips just for Sat passes FM and SSB. I will try to publish passes ahead of time on Twitter and QRZ. The remainder of the trip will be camping in remote areas with little to no internet or Twitter. I will get info out as I can, but I won’t be able to setup skeds ahead of time. Lots of POTA activations on Sats and HF as well. Please submit any additions or corrections to Ke0pbr (at) gmail.com [ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT rover page manager, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events AMSAT is pleased to announce that the 39th Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting will be held in late October at the Crowne Plaza Suites: MSP Airport - Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. The Crowne Plaza Suites is conveniently located adjacent to the American Blvd station on the Metro Blue Line, providing easy access to the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, downtown Minneapolis, and the Mall of America. The AMSAT Board of Directors will meet prior to the Symposium. Further details, including final dates, hotel reservation details, tours, and other events will be shared in the coming months. Want to see AMSAT in action or learn more about amateur radio in space? AMSAT Ambassadors provide presentations, demonstrate communicating through amateur satellites, and host information tables at club meetings, hamfests, conventions, maker faires, and other events. AMSAT Ambassador and ARRL registered instructor Clint Bradford, K6LCS, is certainly keeping busy! He reports a long list of completed online presentations. Think a 90-minute lively, informative, and fun “How to Work the Easy Satellites” Zoom presentation would be appropriate for your convention or club? Always includes are overviews of the ARRL, AMSAT, and ARISS … and pre-presentation questions are solicited and welcome. Send Clint an email or call! Clint Bradford K6LCS http://www.work-sat.com 909-999-SATS (7287) Tom Schuessler, N5HYP, has put out a call for assistance for an upcoming event: Hi all, In person events are back! The Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas, TX is this year returning to their in-person “Moon Day” space themed STEM event on July 24th. I have signed up for AMSAT and Amateur Radio in Space as an exhibito, as we have in past years. I will have the AMAT Cubesat Simulator and the Fox Engineering model to show off to the kids attending and will use iPad apps and SatPC32 to show orbits/footprints and such. There even are a couple AO-91 passes during the event. I have already a few volunteers for the event but if you live in the DFW area and enjoy communicating with young people, I would love to hear from you. Event details: Location: Frontiers of Flight Museum, Love Field, Dallas, TX Time: Setup 7:30-9:45AM, Event 10:00AM through 3PM, teardown to follow. Drop me an email, and I will give you more details. 73 Tom Schuessler, N5HYP at amsat.org [ANS thanks the AMSAT Symposium Committee, Tom Schuessler, N5HYP, and Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT Events Page Manager, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts From All Over + Congratulations to Mike McCoy, KC9ELU, on completing the AMSAT GridMaster Award for working and confirming QSOs with all 488 grid squares in the continental United States. Mike is the 32nd recipient of AMSAT's GridMaster Award. More details about the GridMaster Award can be found at https://www.amsat.org/gridmaster/ [Thanks to Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Director of Contests and Awards] + Several new products are available on the AMSAT Zazzle store, including a set of coasters, a watch, a t-shirt featuring the AMSAT round logo, and more. Check out the new items! 25% of the purchase price goes towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space. https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear + All issues of The AMSAT Journal dating back to 2014 are now available to AMSAT members on AMSAT’s new membership portal. The 1969-2013 archive will be added at a later date. All editions of AMSAT’s Symposium Proceedings are also available for members. If you’re a current AMSAT member, get logged on today. If you are not yet a member, consider joining today at https://launch.amsat.org/ + The 2020 edition of AMSAT’s Getting Started with Amateur Satellites is available on the AMSAT store. A perennial favorite, Getting Started is updated every year with the latest amateur satellite information, and is the premier primer of satellite operation. The book is presented in DRM-free PDF format, in full color, and covers all aspects of making your first contacts on a ham radio satellite. The digital download is available for $15 at https://tinyurl.com/2020GettingStarted. The print edition is $30 plus shipping and is available at https://tinyurl.com/GS2020Print --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. President’s Club donations may be made at https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/ Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the student rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Join AMSAT today at https://launch.amsat.org/ 73 and remember to help Keep Amateur Radio in Space, This week’s ANS Editor, Paul Stoetzer, N8HM n8hm at amsat dot org

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Kenwood TH-D74 - For sale
by David Worboys 10 Jul '21

10 Jul '21

A change in direction concerning satellite operations and I have a TH-D74 for sale - thought I would offer it out to the AMSAT community first! Virtually brand new, with box, papers, user manual and all the bits that it comes with - additionally there is the Kenwood h/t fabric case and an aftermarket tri-band Comet HT-224 antenna. I also have an Arrow 146/437 - 10w BP (with duplexer) hand held antenna with Roll-up bag and a 30” tubular style bag for sale. Any interest/offers etc, please email me off list! I will ship at cost and will take PayPal/Apple Pay. Thanks David KG4ZLB

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Odd issue with CAS-4A & B
by wa2ndv＠gmail.com 10 Jul '21

10 Jul '21

I am having issues related to doppler on the uplink for these two sats. Its just started the past few days. While I am tracking the beacon freq and QSO's just fine on receive the required transmit frequency seems to be anywhere from -3 to -1 Khz from published center and it is moving throughout the pass, but does not appear to be in a linear fashion ( this in addition to normal doppler correction being applied during the pass ) This issue is not seen on RS-44 or PO-101. I'm waiting for some good XW passes to test further. Nasabare TLE's are up to date and compare closely to Kelso's TLE's. Anyway, just wondering if anyone else is noticing this ? Thanks 73 Frank WA2NDV FN30

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Re: TH-D72 Programming Files -- RT Systems
by Clint Bradford 10 Jul '21

10 Jul '21

Summarizing ... -Use VFO B for TX -VFO A for RX (it has better sensitivity) -balanced audio all the way to VFO A -open squelch for VFO A -5W transmit -DUPlex On Sent from my iPhone

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TH-D72 Programming Files -- RT Systems
by Les Rayburn 10 Jul '21

10 Jul '21

Very interested in working the APRS satellites using my Kenwood TH-D72, but repeated efforts to correctly program the radio are proving frustrating. Wondering if anyone has a fully programmed TH-D72 that works the APRS birds reliably who might be willing to share their programming file? It’s always easier for me to modify an existing file than to start from scratch. I use both the Kenwood software and the RT Systems (which I much prefer) software to program the rig. Thanks in advance for any assistance. 73, Les Rayburn, N1LF Maylene, AL EM63nf AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member Powered by Mailbutler <https://www.mailbutler.io/?utm_source=watermark&utm_medium=email&utm_campai…>, the email extension that does it all

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FT-818 memory question
by Mark Johns, K0JM 09 Jul '21

09 Jul '21

OK, dumb question: The Yaesu FT-818 specs say it has 200 memories, but when I get to M-020 and click one up, it takes me back to M-001. I have the Groups turned OFF, but I can't get to memory 21 and following. How do I do that??? -- Mark D. Johns, KØJM AMSAT Ambassador & News Service Editor Brooklyn Park, MN USA EN35hd ----------------------------------------------- "Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." ---Mark Twain

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2021-07-09 15:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 09 Jul '21

09 Jul '21

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2021-07-09 15:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: TBD, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The scheduled astronaut is Pyotr Dubrov Contact is a go for 2021-07-14 20:10 UTC Watch for possible operation mode change sometime after ARRL Field Day. Exact date and time TBD but it will probably be after the week of 2021-07-12 to 2021-07-18. The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The latest list of frequencies in use can be found at https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html ######################################################################################################################################## A multi-point telebridge contact means that each student will be on the telebridge from their own home. **************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS is very aware of the impact that COVID-19 is having on schools and the public in general. As such, we may have last minute cancellations or postponements of school contacts. As always, I will try to provide everyone with near-real-time updates. Watch for future COVID-19 related announcements at https://www.ariss.org/ The following schools have now been postponed or cancelled due to COVID-19: Postponed: No new schools Cancelled: No new schools **************************************************************************************************************************************** Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2021-07-09 15:00 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2021-06-26 16:30 UTC. https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at https://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For future proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of Information Webinars, go to www.ariss.org. About ARISS: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Lab and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEAM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or public forms. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts. Applications should be addressed by email to: school.selection.manager(a)ariss-eu.org ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application. Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. For the application, go to: https://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd(a)gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss(a)iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) https://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n(a)amsat.org or aj9n(a)aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8Ø MHz unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting. Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts. If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke(a)sbcglobal.net The HamTV webpage: https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Sergey RV3DR with 153 Francesco IKØWGF with 140 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 140 Gaston ON4WF with 123 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed, and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1459. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1389. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 48. Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: https://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correcti… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 64 on orbit Oleg Novitskiy Pyotr Dubrov Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP SpaceX-Crew 2 on orbit Meghan McArthur (Behnken) Akihiko Hoshide KE5DNI Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Sage By Atrium
by brunokrampz＠gmail.com 09 Jul '21

09 Jul '21

https://www.sage-homes.com.au/

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Sage By Atrium
by brunokrampz＠gmail.com 09 Jul '21

09 Jul '21

Address: 9 Willclock Street, Ardross, Perth, WA 6153 Phone: (08) 6310 8855 Email: enquiries(a)sage-homes.com.au Website: https://www.sage-homes.com.au/ Business Hours: Monday to Friday 8am - 5pm Sage Homes is pleased to offer a complete, start-to-end building partnership that starts with advice on choosing the block of land, and ends with the keys in your hands.

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Long Live PCSAT (NO44) (and PCSAT-11)
by Robert Bruninga 08 Jul '21

08 Jul '21

Some (current) APRS Amateur Satellite history: CONSTRUCTION: For what it is worth, After 20 years, both PCSAT side A and B transponders (digipeaters) remain semi-operational as the longest running student project satellites in space.. Further they were built desk-top style using simple off-the-shelf Kantronics KPC-9612 TNC's and Hamtroncs kit TX/RX boards. All parts are.COTS and chips are in sockets. Batteries are AA NiCd's. There are no CPU's on board. All command/control/telemetry is just what is inherent in the TNC's. Only thing we did was replace all electrolytic caps with tantilums. Having no clean room, we just used kem wipes and alcohol to wipe off all the fingerprints and dust before bagging for delivery. NOTE: No one should be so cavalier if their mission is REAL and costing great amounts of expectations and money. Back then it was just a free ride with no expectations other than student involvement. SAFE MODE (NOT): The only thing wrong was stupid thinking on the power budget. As our first satellite, we put on dual A/B systems AND additional 9600 baud DUAL UHF backup link receivers so that we had QUAD backup command RX capabilities in case of failures. The problem was we decided that all systems must come up on power-up in order to have access to all the redundant backup reset and command capabilities if needed and (DUH!), if all was OK, we would turn off the unnecessary backup-UHF receivers and un-crossconnect the transmitters. TOO-COMPLEX LOGGON: That is what kills it (on every orbit). If the reason it reset is because of low battery, then the last thing you want is for EVERYTHING to be ON when you are coming into the sun and trying to charge back up. There is not yet enough power to get the command in to command off the unnecewssary systems! Further, the commands required a full two-way AX.25 connection requiring 5 packets to exchange the password challenge and password response. All of which fully loaded the cross-connected XMTRs while trying to recover. power. NO CPU or OPERATING SYSTEM: PCSAT had no programmable CPU. Just two-dual-port TNCs and 2 VHF XMTrs and 2 VHF RCVRS, and 2 UHF 9600 baud RCVRS. There was nothing in which to put SMART-safe-mode power-up thinkinng. Hence the fatal flaw to just power up everything and command later... duh... WITH LUCK: But luckily, the orbit occasionally has short eclipses and longer sun side (about 1 hour) which gives it enough time to sometimes have enough power to do a few user digipeats. Though after only a few, that usually kills the battery for the rest of the orbit.. We long since gave up trying to go through the entire secret logon process to try to turn off the extra UHF receivers, only to have it last another' 10 minutes or so until the next eclipse. and so that is why it just does its thing and sometimes people are successful, or not. MISSION: Side A of PCSAT (AKA W3ADO-1) remains operational on 145.825 digipeating when power permits. Same for side B which has a digipeater with a 144.39 MHz downlink for use over North America which at the time was thought would be useful for communicating *TO* normal 144.39 travelers who may be traveling outside of range of the terrestrial network for a while. TODAY, one of our sysops tested the side "B" and confirmed it remains operational. That is why you might occasionally see PCSAT-11 in the APRS logs. Although within the rules at the time of launch, in the last decade, the IARU has officially made notice that operation of satellite downlinks in the old 144.30-144.40 are no longer authorized. Besides, we never came up with a good use of the side B anyway. (Broqdcast an APRS message to all North American mobiles, or special traffic to a specific mobile). Of course, we learned those lessons and had 6 successful followon APRS satellites with only the last two (PSAT and PSAT2) had programmable CPUs. (Basic Stamps). See http://aprs.org/sats.html Bob, WB4APR On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 9:54 AM McKinley Henson <ke4azz> (PcsaT sysop) wrote: > > I was able to digi off PCSAT-11 this morning, but no Igates picked it up… > I have to turn my Igate off, otherwise it makes the network dump the packet > picked up by others… tried filtering but it still dumps. > > Fm KE4AZZ To APRS Via PCSAT-11* <UI pid=F0 Len=36 >[08:44:42] > =2702.06N/08209.93W` KE4AZZ EL87 > > Fm KE4AZZ To APRS Via PCSAT-11* <UI pid=F0 Len=36 >[08:44:47] > =2702.06N/08209.93W` KE4AZZ EL87 > > Fm KE4AZZ To APRS Via PCSAT-11* <UI pid=F0 Len=36 >[08:44:52] > > 73 > McKinley Henson > KE4AZZ

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Falconsat-3 again open (users please read)
by Mark L. Hammond 08 Jul '21

08 Jul '21

Hello Folks, I had sufficient wifi to check out Falconsat-3 this morning around 1200utc 8 July 2021. Thankfully, only the TX had gone off and a reload right now isn't necessary. If I can make the time, I'll look over the telemetry logs and see if we had a low voltage trip or something, but not sure. Users---until further notice, please limit the size of your uploaded files to around 10k or less. Just before the bird went silent, numerous large files were being uploaded and downloaded. I cannot say for sure if this is related to the recent issue, but let's call it a hunch. In the meantime, Falconsat-3 is again open for BBS and digipeater use-please limit file upload size to 10k or less. 73, Mark L. Hammond [N8MH] AMSAT Director and Command Station

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AMSAT CubeSatSim First Official Release v1.0
by Alan Johnston 08 Jul '21

08 Jul '21

I am very pleased to announce the first software release of the CubeSatSim software v1.0! Along with the first hardware release v1.0 last month, this is an important milestone for this AMSAT educational project. All the CubeSatSim software and hardware is fully open source. The v1.0 release info is available on GitHub here: https://github.com/alanbjohnston/CubeSatSim/releases/tag/v1.0 and the v1.0 hardware info including gerber files is available here: https://github.com/alanbjohnston/CubeSatSim/tree/v1.0/hardware/v1.0 Thanks to Bruce Paige, KK5DO, we have CubeSatSim blank PCB sets and CubeSatSim Raspberry Pi SD cards available on the AMSAT Store. For the moment, they are only available to ship to US addresses. In a post-COVID future, we hope to offer worldwide shipping. The CubeSatSim Raspberry Pi SD Card is a 16 GB micro SD card with Raspberry Pi OS Lite and all the CubeSatSim software installed and configured on it. It is available at the AMSAT Store for $20 https://www.amsat.org/product/amsat-cubesatsim-raspberry-pi-sd-card/ You can also download the image and flash it to your own SD card using these instructions https://github.com/alanbjohnston/CubeSatSim/wiki/2.-Software-Install Here is the readme file for the CubeSatSim software https://cubesatsim.org/download/cubesatsim-readme.pdf With the 3 board sets of blank PCBs, you can order the parts and solder your own CubeSatSim. They are available at the AMSAT Store for $35 https://www.amsat.org/product/amsat-cubesatsim-pcb/ I want to take this opportunity to thank the team that has been working on the CubeSatSim Project including Pat Kilory, N8PK, Jim McLaughlin, KI6ZUM, and David White, WD6DRI. In addition, Chris Thompson, G0KLA/AC2CZ has been instrumental in helping me get the FSK/BPSK transmit code working and has added support for the CubeSatSim to FoxTelem. Yesterday's release of FoxTelem v1.11 has full CubeSatSim support. And of course, thank you to the AMSAT Board of Directors and the AMSAT membership who have supported this project for many years. 73, Alan KU2Y AMSAT Vice President for Educational Relations P.S. AMSAT has CubeSatSim Loaners available to ship to your event or presentation or STEM outreach activity - just contact me if you have an upcoming event.

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K2H on sats
by John Brier 08 Jul '21

08 Jul '21

Hi, KC1DKY is the only K2H sat op and he is FM only and has been very busy. It's possible he will be able to work some passes tonight after he gets off work. Please don't email him for info. He has already gotten lots of emails. Next year hopefully we will have more ops. Good luck and hope everyone had fun. We do have at least a couple clean sweeps on sats which is great! 73, John Brier KG4AKV

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FoxTelem Version 1.11
by Chris Thompson 07 Jul '21

07 Jul '21

I am releasing version 1.11 of FoxTelem. This primarily supports new features needed for GOLF-T development and the CubeSat Simulator. If you are using FoxTelem in the lab or classroom then this release should be installed. It also fixes several bugs that will help with live decoding of AO-95. It is not a mandatory upgrade but it is recommended. Specifically it addresses the following: * Fixes a bug where Costas decoding can stop if audio is being monitored * Supports all the latest features needed for the CubeSatSimulator * Better warnings for tracking and Find Signal errors * Supports all the latest GOLF-T layouts * Fixes a bug where strong signals may not be tracked correctly * Supports math expressions in telemetry conversions * Better handles USB device errors You can download FoxTelem here: http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/windows/FoxTelem_1.11g_windows.zip http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/linux/FoxTelem_1.11g_linux.tar.gz http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/mac/FoxTelem_1.11g_mac.tar.gz Feel free to reach out to me with questions or comments. 73 Chris G0KLA / AC2CZ -- Chris E. Thompson chrisethompson(a)gmail.com g0kla(a)arrl.net

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Field Day Results
by Bruce 07 Jul '21

07 Jul '21

Ahhh, I caught you trying to get a peak at the Field Day results. No they are not ready yet. You have until 11:59 P.M. Central Time on Friday, July 16, 2021 to turn in your Field Day scores. I am going to be out of town the week of July 12th. I will still try to acknowledge when I get your score in my inbox. It would be nice to get some pictures and a short note about how your field day was. I always like to share the stories in the AMSAT Journal article. 73...bruce -- Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards AMSAT Board Member 2016-2022 ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT* Also live streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News http://www.arrl.org AMSAT on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/amsat

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volunteers needed for space themed event in Dallas
by tjschuessler＠verizon.net 07 Jul '21

07 Jul '21

Hi all, In person events are back! The Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas, TX is this year returning to their in-person "Moon Day" space themed STEM event on July 24th. I have signed up for AMSAT and Amateur Radio in Space as an exhibito, as we have in past years. I will have the AMAT Cubesat Simulator and the Fox Engineering model to show off to the kids attending and will use iPad apps and SatPC32 to show orbits/footprints and such. There even are a couple AO-91 passes during the event. I have already a few volunteers for the event but if you live in the DFW area and enjoy communicating with young people, I would love to hear from you. Evet details: Location, Frontiers of Flight Museum, Love Field, Dallas, TX Time, Setup 7:30-9:45AM, Event 10:00AM through 3PM, teardown to follow. Drop me an email off list, and I will give you more details. 73 Tom Schuessler, N5HYP at amsat.org

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13 Colonies
by Jeff Parsons 06 Jul '21

06 Jul '21

Many thanks to all the volunteers who took the time to put all 13 colonies on the air via satellite. Your efforts are greatly appreciated! 73 Jeff VE3KY Sent from Mail for Windows 10

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DE K2E 13 Colonies rove
by jeff griffin 06 Jul '21

06 Jul '21

Here's the passes I'm planning on working tomorrow on my Delaware trip.... 06.07.2021 SO-50 11:14 11:27 65 324 - 157 06.07.2021 AO-91 12:16 12:30 34 192 - 340 06.07.2021 RS-44 12:56 13:15 83 186 - 008 06.07.2021 CAS-4A 13:15 13:25 22 208 - 077 06.07.2021 CAS-4B 13:30 13:41 26 213 - 074 if an official K2E QSL card is desired... https://www.qrz.com/db/k2e If you want a card from me as KB2M, K2E, or KB2M/K2E just send me a SASE to my NJ address... Jeff Griffin 55 Freedom Rd Sewell NJ 08080 73 Jeff kb2m

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AMSAT Live OSCAR Satellite Status Page maintenance complete
by Joseph B. Fitzgerald 06 Jul '21

06 Jul '21

The AMSAT Live OSCAR Satellite Status Page has undergone a bit of maintenance and was temporarily redirected. This maintenance is now complete, be sure your browsers point to: https://www.amsat.org/status/ -Joe Fitzgerald KM1P

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MIR-SAT1 Platinum Award winners -MIR-SAT1 news
by Jean Marc Momple 06 Jul '21

06 Jul '21

Dear All, This is to inform you that the winners of MIR-SAT1 Awards are: S59ZM PY4ZBZ K4OZS N6RFM G8AFC DK3WN N8MH JA0CAW PU7ORD 3B8GL Congratulations to them. Their certificate has been sent by MARS a few minutes ago. To note that the award criteria is based on following: First that one received telemetry of MIR-SAT1 and second the participation form on the MARS WEB has been submitted. There are a few who successfully received MIR-SAT1 telemetry (even before the winners above) and uploaded same to Satnogs but have not submitted the participation form. They are still eligible for the Gold Award if they request same by filing their application on URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCAAKTMtTmARDwrjIE_Coai1WR9b2zUFj… Good luck for the Gold Award. Thanking you all for uploading telemetry on Satnogs, we is really appreciated as we are in testing phase presently. 73 Jean Marc (3B8DU)

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EM67
by Bob Liddy (K8BL) 06 Jul '21

06 Jul '21

Gridders, Logged the following Stations from EM67 today on CAS4A/B. LMK if I botched or missed ur Call in an e-mail with the data and I'll re-check my recording. KQ4DO,WA4VOC,N3DWB,VE1VOX,VE!CWJ,KE8FZT,KX9X,N9NCY,W4ALF,WB4NCT. 73, Bob K8BL

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Anyone else having problems with the AMSAT-bb list digest?
by Mike Herr 05 Jul '21

05 Jul '21

Anyone else having problems with the amsat-bb list digest?, i.e. the digest is truncated (I suspect by google) and the lack of message numbers in the text makes it difficult to find specific messages -- Mike Herr WA6ARA DM-15dp

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MIR-SAT1 (MO112) Object ID
by Jean Marc Momple 05 Jul '21

05 Jul '21

Dear All, Please note that Object ID for MIR-SAT1 is 48868 and that you need to change from the temporary one to be able to upload TLM to Satnogns. For PacSat Ground Station (from Chris) please go to Spacecraft>Mir-Sat-1> Norad Id and enter 48868 73 Jean Marc (3B8DU)

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Falconsat-3 down again
by hans＠bx2abt.com 05 Jul '21

05 Jul '21

Falconsat-3 went down again around 16UTC on July 4, according to SATNOG records. Mark (N8MH) is on holiday, so this time it will really take a few weeks to bring the bird back. Let's hope it stays in good shape till then. 73 de Hans BX2ABT.com

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Pacsat Ground station Version 0.43
by Chris Thompson 04 Jul '21

04 Jul '21

I'm releasing an update to the Pacsat Ground Station. This version - Parses the Mir-Sat-1 FailSafe beacons and saves them for analysis. - Fixes a bug where FalconSat-3 telemetry data could not be downloaded from the server - Defaults FalconSat-3 to not check Pacsat File Header checksums. This was annoying for partially downloaded files. You can download it here: https://www.g0kla.com/pacsat/index.php -- Chris E. Thompson chrisethompson(a)gmail.com g0kla(a)arrl.net

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Returning to Satellite Operating
by w0hv 04 Jul '21

04 Jul '21

I've been away from satellite ops for a long time. I want to start up again but need information. What birds are currently operational? My primary interest is voice/CW but some of the digital modes are intriguing. What software packages are available free or at least cheaply for Windows 10? I used to use SatScape but that stopped working after a Windows upgrade. Any recommendations are welcome! 73 de W0HV, Jim in Raymore, MO

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Fwd: AT Golden Packet Event 17 July needs help in SW VA
by Robert Bruninga 04 Jul '21

04 Jul '21

An APRS Rover needed 17 July! We just had a cancellation of the operator at Comer's Rock leaving the 2000 mile long packet chain broken in SW Virginia. Comers ROck is a driveup location (plus 50 yard walkup to the lookout with excellent 360 degree views). It is about 15 miles SW of Wythville, VA. See site details: http://aprs.org/hamtrails/comers-rock.html The event attempts to exchange 9600 Baud APRS packets along the entire length of the Appalachain Mountain range from Maine to GA using 14 temporarydrive-up packet digipeaters (Kenwood D7XX radios). The event lasts about 4 hours from 1100 to 1500. Using the factory installed 9600 baud APRS radios miniimizes operational and setup risk for such a one-time event. See overall information on this annual event: http://aprs.org/at-golden-packet.html Let me know if you can help! Bob, WB4APR

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Re: Satellite Presentation for YOUR Club
by Clint Bradford 04 Jul '21

04 Jul '21

>> … I have been seeing your emails on the presentations. Just curious if any of them have been recorded and available for people to view? YES - Several conventions and clubs have recorded the sessions! But I recommend you don’t view them. (grin) I am quite proud of each and every one off the 125+ shows I have presented. But the “problem” with a recording is that it is “outdated” soon. For example, some of the info provided regarding the ISS last week is now “dated” … I have truly never given the same presentation twice. They are each unique to their audiences. BUT - I have a Web site that is maintained often: http://www.work-sdat.com <http://www.work-sdat.com/> Many have found it useful for “getting started” working the easy satellites. And there’s references for those desiring to work the SSB birds. HERE COMES THE PITCH: Think an informative and fun “getting started” sat session would be of interest to YOUR club? Let’s do it! Clint Bradford K6LCS AMSAT Ambassador, ARRL instructor 909-999-SATS - voicemail

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ANS-185 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by Mark Johns, K0JM 04 Jul '21

04 Jul '21

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-185 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and information service of AMSAT, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor(a)amsat.org You can sign up for free e-mail delivery of the AMSAT News Service Bulletins via the ANS List; to join this list see: https://mailman.amsat.org/postorius/lists/ans.amsat.org/ In this edition: * "Clean Sweep" on Satellites Possible in 2021 13 Colonies Event * MIR-SAT1 Designated as MIRSAT-OSCAR 112 (MO-112) * Youth on the Air Camp 2021 to be On the Satellites * The AMSAT-SA Space Symposium on 10 July * VUCC Awards-Endorsements for July 1, 2021 * Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for June 30, 2021 * NASA to Air Departure of SpaceX Cargo Dragon from Space Station * ARISS News * Upcoming Satellite Operations * Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events * Satellite Shorts From All Over ANS-185 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 185 To: All RADIO AMATEURS From: Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation 712 H Street NE, Suite 1653 Washington, DC 20002 DATE 2021 July 4 "Clean Sweep" on Satellites Possible in 2021 13 Colonies Event The 2021 edition of the annual 13 Colonies special event is July 1, 2021-1300 UTC to July 8, 2021-0400 UTC. This year, a "clean sweep" (working stations in all 13 states that were the original 13 U.S. Colonies) is possible via satellite! Yes, one or more stations in each state have volunteered to be active on the satellites this year. More info on 13 Colonies is at http://www.13colonies.us/ including information on the exchange, logging, individual state QSLs, and certificates. DXsummit is recommended for spotting, and many of the satellite ops are active on Twitter and self-spot there as well. The special event stations will identify with special calls as follows: K2A - New York K2B - Virginia K2C - Rhode Island K2D - Connecticut K2E - Delaware K2F - Maryland K2G - Georgia K2H - Massachutsets K2I - New Jersey K2J - North Carolina K2K - New Hampshire K2L - South Carolina K2M - Pennsylvania WM3PEN - Philadelphia bonus station GB13COL - Great Britain bonus station TM13COL - France bonus station [ANS thanks Steve Greene, KS1G (one of the K2B/Virginia activators) for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- MIR-SAT1 Designated as MIRSAT-OSCAR 112 (MO-112) On June 22, 2021, MIR-SAT1 was deployed from the International Space Station by JAXA. MIR-SAT1 is a project of the Mauritius Research and Innovation Council and carries a digipeater and camera experiment. Further information is available at https://spacemauritius.com. At the request of the Mauritius Research and Innovation Council, AMSAT hereby designates MIR-SAT1 as MIRSAT-OSCAR 112 (MO-112). We congratulate the owners and operators, thank them for their contribution to the amateur satellite community, and wish them a long mission and continued success on this and future projects. ANS thanks Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, AMSAT VP Operations / OSCAR Number Administrator, for the above information. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Join the 2021 President's Club! Score your 2" 4-Color Accent Commemorative Coin. This gold finished coin comes with Full Color Certificate and Embroidered "Remove Before Flight" Key Tag Donate today at https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/ You won't want to miss it! +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Youth on the Air Camp 2021 to be On the Satellites The first Youth on the Air (YOTA) camp for young radio amateurs in North, Central, and South America begins on July 11 in West Chester, Ohio. Among other activities, campers will be operating special event station W8Y from both the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting in West Chester Township and from the camp hotel. The camp will run until July 16. "We are at 23 campers," said Camp Director Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. "We are very excited to finally bring this program to the Americas. Our young people are bringing an incredible lineup of hands-on sessions for their peers. We hope this pilot gives us the information we need to replicate this camp over multiple locations for years to come. We also hope this brings a more robust community of young hams into amateur radio." The long-awaited summer camp for up to 30 hams aged 15 through 25 had been set to take place in June 2020, but it had to be rescheduled until summer 2021 because of COVID-19 pandemic concerns. The camp for young hams in the Americas took its cue from the summer Youngsters on the Air camps held for the past few years in various IARU Region 1 countries. W8Y will be on the air as campers complete projects, between sessions, and during free time. Dedicated operating times on HF will be Monday, July 12, 0100 - 0330 UTC; Tuesday, July 13, 0000 - 0330 UTC and 1800 - 2130 UTC. Dedicated satellite station operating times will be Thursday, July 15, 1400 - 1700 UTC, and Friday, July 16, 1500 - 1700 UTC. An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact is currently set for either Wednesday, July 14, at 1503 UTC, or KM4BUN operates as K8O during YOTA Month 2020. Thursday, July 15, at 1416 UTC. It will be streamed live on the Youth on the Air YouTube channel. The camp opening observance on Sunday, July 11, 2100 - 2230 UTC, will feature keynote speaker Tim Duffy, K3LR. The hour-long closing ceremony on Friday, July 16, will get under way at 1700 UTC. The YouTube channel will also feature a daily video highlighting the activities of the previous day. ARRL and The Yasme Foundation donated project kits for the campers. X Tronics provided temperature-controlled soldering stations. The brochure on the Youth on the Air website includes more details about the camp. For additional information, contact Camp Director Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. [ANS thanks ARRL for the above information] +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Need new satellite antennas? Purchase Arrows, Alaskan Arrows, and M2 LEO-Packs from the AMSAT Store. When you purchase through AMSAT, a portion of the proceeds goes towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space. https://amsat.org/product-category/hardware/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ The AMSAT-SA Space Symposium on 10 July The programme for the 2021 AMSAT SA Space Symposium has been published on the SARL and AMSAT SA websites. Attendance for AMSAT SA and SARL members is free. There is a small charge for non-members. The symposium will be held on the BlueJeans platform starting at 08:00 UTC on Saturday 10 July 2021. The keynote address will be delivered by Val Munsami, the CEO of the South African National Space Agency. Dr Gary Immelman ZS6YI will talk about a novel way to get going on QO-100, amateur radios first geostationary satellite. Dr Pierre Cilliers will talk about space weather activities at SANSA in Hermanus, Dr Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF, lead of the HAMSci in the USA will present a paper entitled "The Ionosphere from your Backyard", Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP and Anton Janovsky, ZR6AIC will review the development of AfriCUBE and Burns Fisher, WB1FJ of AMSAT NA will talk about Raspberry Pi in my shack, a push-button user interface". More details about the presentation will be released in the coming week. Keep an eye on http://www.amsatsa.org.za/ [ANS thanks Southgate ARC for the above information] +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ AMSAT's GOLF Program is about getting back to higher orbits, and it all begins with GOLF-TEE – a technology demonstrator for deployable solar panels, propulsion, and attitude control. Come along for the ride. The journey will be worth it! https://tinyurl.com/ANS-GOLF +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ VUCC Awards-Endorsements for July 1, 2021 Here are the endorsements and new VUCC Satellite Awards issued by the ARRL for the period June 1, 2021 through July 1, 2021. Congratulations to all those who made the list this month! Congratulations to Christy KB6LTY on achieving the AMSAT GridMaster! CALL June July K8YSE/7 842 872 KK5DO 781 793 NS3L 695 697 WD9EWK (DM43) 650 655 N9IP 635 640 PS8ET 550 600 VE6WK 404 512 VE1VOX 400 507 KF6JOQ 453 503 WB7VUF 404 455 W8LR 425 453 AK8CW DM37 425 451 KS1G 427 451 K5TA 400 450 KC7JPC New 399 VE4MM New 350 VE1CWJ New 335 KN2K 253 300 N7ZO 275 300 AB1OC 267 285 EA2AA 251 280 N8URE (FM19) 263 279 KK4CF 100 200 K3HPA 150 176 RA3DNC 142 156 N8MR 115 154 KC1MMC New 150 N1KM New 150 VE3KY 128 150 WA7HQD 149 150 WD9EWK (DM54) 125 145 KC2JED New 132 DL1DUO New 130 HC2FG New 130 WD9EWK (DM45) 106 127 DF2PI New 116 N2VAJ New 103 KE7RTB New 100 If you find errors or omissions. please contact me off-list at <mycall>@<mycall>.com and I'll revise the announcement. This list was developed by comparing the ARRL .pdf listings for the two months. It's a visual comparison so omissions are possible. Apologies if your call was not mentioned. Thanks to all those who are roving to grids that are rarely on the birds. They are doing a lot of the work! [ANS thanks Ron Parsons, W5RKN, for the above information] +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Want to fly the colors on your own grid expedition? Get your AMSAT car flag and other neat stuff from our Zazzle store! 25% of the purchase price of each product goes towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for June 30, 2021 MIR-SAT1 (Mauritian Infra-Red Satellite 1) was launched from the Japanese ISS Kibo module at 10:55 UTC on 6-22-2021. MIR-SAT1 has been identified as NORAD Cat ID 48868 as per Pierros Papadeas, SV1QVE and Nico Janssen, PA0DLO. The current TLE for MIR-SAT1 per Space-Track are as follows: MIR-SAT1 1 48868U 98067SP 21179.69602259 .00013025 00000-0 23878-3 0 9995 2 48868 51.6439 285.7711 0003006 182.6608 177.4342 15.49640979 1031 [ANS thanks Ray Hoad, WA5QGD, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- NASA to Air Departure of SpaceX Cargo Dragon from Space Station NASA’s SpaceX Dragon cargo freighter, loaded with approximately 5,000 pounds of scientific experiments and other cargo from the International Space Station, will depart Tuesday, July 6, bound for a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean Thursday, July 8, completing the company’s 22nd commercial resupply services mission for NASA. Live coverage of the departure will begin at 14:45z Tuesday, July 6, on NASA Television, the agency’s website, and the NASA app. NASA will not provide coverage of the splashdown. Ground controllers at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, will command Dragon to undock from the space-facing port on the station’s Harmony module at 15:00z, with NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough monitoring aboard the station. The cargo craft will physically separate from the station five minutes later before firing its thrusters to move a safe distance away prior to a deorbit burn that will begin its re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere. Dragon is expected to make its parachute-assisted splashdown around 04:00z Thursday, July 8. Splashing down off the coast of Florida enables quick transportation of the science aboard the capsule to NASA’s Space Station Processing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and back into the hands of the researchers. This shorter transportation time frame allows researchers to collect data with minimal sample exposure to gravity. Dragon launched June 3 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy, arriving at the station a little less than 16 hours later. The spacecraft delivered more than 7,300 pounds of research investigations, crew supplies, and vehicle hardware to the orbiting outpost. Dragon’s external cargo “trunk” carried six new ISS Roll-Out Solar Arrays (iROSAs), two of which Expedition 65 crew members Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet, an ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut, installed during three spacewalks June 16, 20, and 25. Some of the scientific investigations Dragon will return to Earth include: * Lyophilization-2 examines how gravity affects freeze-dried materials and could result in improved freeze-drying processes for pharmaceutical and other industries. Freeze-drying also has potential use for long-term storage of medications and other resources on future exploration missions. * Molecular Muscle Experiment-2 tests a series of drugs to see whether they can improve health in space, possibly leading to new therapeutic targets for examination on Earth. * Oral Biofilms in Space studies how gravity affects the structure, composition, and activity of oral bacteria in the presence of common oral care agents. Findings could support development of novel treatments to fight oral diseases such as cavities, gingivitis, and periodontitis. Learn more about SpaceX missions for NASA at: https://www.nasa.gov/spacex [ANS thanks NASA for the above information] -------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS NEWS Amateurs and others around the world may listen in on contacts between amateurs operating in schools and allowing students to interact with astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station. The downlink frequency on which to listen is 145.800 MHz worldwide. Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2021-07-01 04:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: TBD, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz The scheduled cosmotronaut is Pyotr Dubrov Contact is a go for 2021-07-14 20:10 UTC Watch for possible operation mode change sometime after ARRL Field Day. Exact date and time TBD but it will probably be after the week of 2021-07-12 to 2021-07-18. The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The latest list of frequencies in use can be found at https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html [ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, one of the ARISS operation team mentors for the above information] +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ AMSAT, along with our ARISS partners, is developing an amateur radio package, including two-way communication capability, to be carried on-board Gateway in lunar orbit. Support AMSAT's projects today at https://www.amsat.org/donate/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Upcoming Satellite Operations Upcoming Roves: Quick Hits: WY7AA: FI will be in FN02 starting 6/6 for a few weeks. Operating Sats. holiday style. If you need FN01, FN02, FN03, FN12 please let me know and we can try to set something up. FN01,03, and 12 will likely each be one day roves. FM and SSB ND0C and KE0WPA: In June @kylee_ke0wpa and I, along with our resident photojournalist (Mom/Amy), will be taking a family excursion to the southwest and working some sats as time permits. Here are the less commonly worked grids from which we plan to operate. We will hit other grids too. DM67 6/15 – 6/17, DM56 6/18, DM45 6/19, DN63 7/2, DN64 7/2 & 7/3 N5LEX: CN98 last week of June. VP2V/K3TRM: I will be operating from Tortola, British Virgin Islands as VP2V/K3TRM on July 4-17, 2021. Activity will be on 40-6M SSB & digital, and satellite. DM62: K5TA, tentatively planning for DM62 ~9-July, when there are are several good passes mid-day, making it a doable day-trip. EN57/67: @SeanKutzko KX9X and @Nancy_N9NCY will celebrate Sean’s birthday in the Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula July 15-19. Look for them on FM and SSB satellites, with the possibility of some Parks On The Air activity as well. Major Roves: WA7AA: July 6-7 DN43 with a daytime rove to DN42/43/52/53 corner on 7/7 July 10 DN24 daytime passes July 11 DN25 daytime passes July 12 DN27 with a guest Gridmaster hopefully July 13-16 DN28 holiday style July 17 DN38 holiday style July 18 DN47/48 daytime passes July 21-23 DN54 holiday style July 25-27 DN64 holiday style July 30-31 DN63 holiday style July 7, 10, 11, 18 will all be planned trips just for Sat passes FM and SSB. I will try to publish passes ahead of time on Twitter and QRZ. The remainder of the trip will be camping in remote areas with little to no internet or Twitter. I will get info out as I can, but I won’t be able to setup skeds ahead of time. Lots of POTA activations on Sats and HF as well. Please submit any additions or corrections to Ke0pbr (at) gmail.com [ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT rover page manager, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events Want to see AMSAT in action or learn more about amateur radio in space? AMSAT Ambassadors provide presentations, demonstrate communicating through amateur satellites, and host information tables at club meetings, hamfests, conventions, maker faires, and other events. AMSAT Ambassador and ARRL registered instructor Clint Bradford, K6LCS, is certainly keeping busy! He reports a long list of completed online presentations. Think a 90-minute lively, informative, and fun “How to Work the Easy Satellites” Zoom presentation would be appropriate for your convention or club? Always includes are overviews of the ARRL, AMSAT, and ARISS … and pre-presentation questions are solicited and welcome. Send Clint an email or call! Clint Bradford K6LCS http://www.work-sat.com 909-999-SATS (7287) [ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT Events page manager, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts From All Over + AMSAT is pleased to announce that the 39th Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting will be held in late October at the Crowne Plaza Suites: MSP Airport - Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. The Crowne Plaza Suites is conveniently located adjacent to the American Blvd station on the Metro Blue Line, providing easy access to the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, downtown Minneapolis, and the Mall of America. The AMSAT Board of Directors will meet prior to the Symposium. Further details, including final dates, hotel reservation details, tours, and other events will be shared in the coming months. (ANS thanks the 2021 Symposium Committee for the above information) + D-Orbit, a European launch services company, has announced that they have launched the first "amateur" satellite from the nation of Kuwait. The launch was carried out on June 30 by a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The satellite, named “QMR-KWT” means “Moon of Kuwait”, translated from Arabic, appears to have been built commercially. It will transmit 9600 bps GMSK, as well as Morse ID of LZ0KWT, and a recording of the Kuwait National Anthem on 436.5 MHz. There is no record of international frequency coordination with the IARU. More information at https://www.orbitalspace.org/qmr-kwt (ANS thanks D-Orbit for the above information) + On the same June 30 SpaceX launch, which carried a total of 88 small satellites into orbit, was Painani-II, a 3U cubesat built by the University of the Mexican Army and Air Force. It will transmit telemetry, images, and AX25 packet on IARU-coordinated frequencies of 437.475 and 2410.300 MHz. (ANS thanks Spaceflight.com and IARU for the above information) + The ANS search engines have turned up myriad references to amateur satellites across the news media this week. Small town papers around the country picked up news releases from ham groups who were anxious to get the media contact bonus points added to their Field Day logs. It appears that many of these releases mention satellites for the "cool factor," even when no satellite operation actually took place. Misinformation was abundant in the published articles. But as they say, any publicity is good publicity! (ANS thanks Mark Johns, K0JM, for the above information) + The Mauritius Amateur Radio Society (MARS) is still anxious for telemetry reports from the MIR-SAT 1 satellite launched on June 22. MIR-SAT 1 transmits on 436.925 MHz and decoders are available for download at https://github.com/daniestevez/gr-satellites/blob/master/python/telemetry/m… (Thanks to Daniel Estevez, EA4GPZ) or https://www.g0kla.com/pacsat/index.php (Thanks to Chris Thompson, AC2CZ). All received data should be uploaded to Satnogs.org, and award certificates may be received in exchange by applying to https://bit.ly/3qKyb0Q (ANS thanks Jean Marc Momple, 3B8DU, for the above information) + The first three "taikonauts" (as Chinese astronauts are often known) aboard China's Tiangong space station are enjoying a menu of more than 120 dishes. Meals include shredded pork in garlic sauce, kung pao chicken, black pepper beef, pickled cabbage and many more. The foods are usually solid, boneless, in small pieces and selected to meet the astronauts' personal tastes. CCTV also reports that astronauts use condiments such as pork sauce and Sichuan pepper sauce to help adjust to the temporary loss of sense of taste experienced in microgravity. The space agency also boasted that the station is equipped with a microwave oven, so that the crew can enjoy their food hot. (ANS thanks space.com for the above information) + Wally Funk, age 82, a pilot with more than 19,600 flight hours and best known as one of the "Mercury 13" group of women who passed NASA astronaut medical exams in the 1960s, will be on the first crewed New Shepard flight July 20, along with billionaire Jeff Bezos. NASA made no effort to fly the Mercury 13 women, and did not formally select any female astronauts until Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in June 1983. Funk will now be the oldest person yet to fly into space. (ANS thanks Spacenews.com for the above information) --------------------------------------------------------------------- /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Store. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the student rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Contact info [at] amsat.org for additional student membership information. 73 and Remember to help keep amateur radio in space, This week's ANS Editor, Mark Johns, K0JM k0jm at amsat dot org

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List of sat ops for 13 Colonies Special Event
by John Brier 03 Jul '21

03 Jul '21

We lost the original K2L / South Carolina op but thanks to K4YYL Art Balz we now have all 13 states available on sats again! http://sats.wikidot.com/13-colonies-special-event-satellite-operators Colony call State satop call satop name satop 2 call satop 2 name K2A New York W2JV Peter Portanova K2B Virginia KS1G Stephan Greene N7IVV Brad Risk K2C Rhode Island N1KM Mark Dieterich K2D Connecticut NU1U Ant Lefebvre KC1MEB Bean Lefebvre K2E Delaware KB2M Jeff Griffin Sr K2F Maryland N3CAL Calvin Spreitzer K2G Georgia K4RGK Daryl Young K2H Massachusetts KC1DKY Nicholas Mollo K2I New Jersey WO2T Al Rossi KB2M Jeff Griffin Sr K2J North Carolina KG4AKV John Brier K2K New Hampshire AB1OC Fred Kemmerer K2L South Carolina K4YYL Art Balz K2M Pennsylvania K3STL John Hoffman We may also have bonus station WM3PEN on sats as well but I haven't confirmed it. Someone saw them on DXSummit. http://www.13colonies.us/ 73, John Brier KG4AKV

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ii3mv
by 73 Bob W7LRD 03 Jul '21

03 Jul '21

While looking around for RS44 I heard the ii3mv Max Valeir beacon. Is this of any use to us? 73 Bob W7LRD

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2021-07-03 17:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 03 Jul '21

03 Jul '21

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2021-07-03 17:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: TBD, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The scheduled astronaut is Pyotr Dubrov Contact is a go for 2021-07-14 20:10 UTC Watch for possible operation mode change sometime after ARRL Field Day. Exact date and time TBD but it will probably be after the week of 2021-07-12 to 2021-07-18. The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The latest list of frequencies in use can be found at https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html ######################################################################################################################################## A multi-point telebridge contact means that each student will be on the telebridge from their own home. **************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS is very aware of the impact that COVID-19 is having on schools and the public in general. As such, we may have last minute cancellations or postponements of school contacts. As always, I will try to provide everyone with near-real-time updates. Watch for future COVID-19 related announcements at https://www.ariss.org/ The following schools have now been postponed or cancelled due to COVID-19: Postponed: No new schools Cancelled: No new schools **************************************************************************************************************************************** Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2021-07-03 17:00 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2021-06-26 16:30 UTC. https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at https://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For future proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of Information Webinars, go to www.ariss.org. About ARISS: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Lab and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEAM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or public forms. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts. Applications should be addressed by email to: school.selection.manager(a)ariss-eu.org ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application. Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. For the application, go to: https://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd(a)gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss(a)iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) https://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n(a)amsat.org or aj9n(a)aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8Ø MHz unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting. Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts. If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke(a)sbcglobal.net The HamTV webpage: https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Sergey RV3DR with 153 Francesco IKØWGF with 140 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 140 Gaston ON4WF with 123 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed, and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1459. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1389. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 48. Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: https://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correcti… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 64 on orbit Oleg Novitskiy Pyotr Dubrov Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP SpaceX-Crew 2 on orbit Meghan McArthur (Behnken) Akihiko Hoshide KE5DNI Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Fox Telemetry Server will be offline again today for maintenance
by Chris Thompson 03 Jul '21

03 Jul '21

The Fox Telemetry Server will be offline again today for maintenance. Telemetry will queue in FoxTelem and be sent when the server is available. You can safely stop and restart FoxTelem if needed. The telemetry is saved in a queue file on disk. 73 Chris -- Chris E. Thompson chrisethompson(a)gmail.com g0kla(a)arrl.net

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MIR-SAT 1 News
by Jean Marc Momple 03 Jul '21

03 Jul '21

Dear All, 1) The bird has been stabilized, gyro and battery now stable. On behalf of the thanking all of you who sent TLM to Satnogns which made our tasks easier. 2) The Gold Award winners will be published soon, only a few applications needed to reach the targeted number of 20 and many have uploaded data to Satnogns but have not applied for same on https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCAAKTMtTmARDwrjIE_Coai1WR9b2zUFj…. please do so if you wish to get one. First come first served, the results will be published as soon as we reach 20 eligible stations. 3) We still have many test to carry and will keep you posted, but the hardest part is over now as the bird stabilized. 73 Jean Marc (3B8DU)

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Thd72a
by Douglas Matthies 03 Jul '21

03 Jul '21

I have a thd72a with HH Mike programmed for FM sats if interested please contact me Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>

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ISS Dopplers Still Off
by crohtun 02 Jul '21

02 Jul '21

So… using nasabare for 7/2 didn’t help. The ISS was still about 10kHz above where SatPC32 was tuning the IC 9700. Had to enable the VFO and manually tune up to it and then follow it back down the band. Also still getting good signals after supposed LOS, down to -5 to -8 degrees. Had SatSat in front of me on the iPad watching the ISS az, el, range, altitude and Doppler at 100MHz, AOS/LOS times. It was all very close to what SatPC32 was displaying. Yet SatPC32 did not put the rig where the ISS links were. Only seems to affect ISS as far as I can tell. I really don’t get it. Ray Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS

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Fox Telemetry server will be offline for maintenance
by Chris Thompson 02 Jul '21

02 Jul '21

The Fox Telemetry server will be offline for maintenance. Telemetry from AO-95 will be stored locally by FoxTelem until the server is available. 73 Chris G0KLA / AC2CZ -- Chris E. Thompson chrisethompson(a)gmail.com g0kla(a)arrl.net

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VUCC Awards-Endorsements for July 1 2021
by Ronald Parsons 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

Here are the endorsements and new VUCC Satellite Awards issued by the ARRL for the period June 1, 2021 through July 1, 2021. Congratulations to all those who made the list this month! Congratulations to Christy KB6LTY on achieving the AMSAT GridMaster CALL June July K8YSE/7 842 872 KK5DO 781 793 NS3L 695 697 WD9EWK (DM43) 650 655 N9IP 635 640 PS8ET 550 600 VE6WK 404 512 VE1VOX 400 507 KF6JOQ 453 503 WB7VUF 404 455 W8LR 425 453 AK8CW DM37 425 451 KS1G 427 451 K5TA 400 450 KC7JPC New 399 VE4MM New 350 VE1CWJ New 335 KN2K 253 300 N7ZO 275 300 AB1OC 267 285 EA2AA 251 280 N8URE (FM19) 263 279 KK4CF 100 200 K3HPA 150 176 RA3DNC 142 156 N8MR 115 154 KC1MMC New 150 N1KM New 150 VE3KY 128 150 WA7HQD 149 150 WD9EWK (DM54) 125 145 KC2JED New 132 DL1DUO New 130 HC2FG New 130 WD9EWK (DM45) 106 127 DF2PI New 116 N2VAJ New 103 KE7RTB New 100 If you find errors or omissions. please contact me off-list at <mycall>@<mycall>.com and I'll revise the announcement. This list was developed by comparing the ARRL .pdf listings for the two months. It's a visual comparison so omissions are possible. Apologies if your call was not mentioned. Thanks to all those who are roving to grids that are rarely on the birds. They are doing a lot of the work! Ron W5RKN

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ISS Dopplers
by crohtun 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

My SatPC32 Doppler control is way off and I can’t figure out why. Seems to affect only the ISS. As it approaches, the incoming signal is almost 10kHz high — about where it would be with no Doppler adjustment at all. My Doppler.sqf line readsISS,437800,145990,FM,FM,NOR,0,0,Cross band repeaterand keps are current from nasa.all. I also notice that SatPC32 is off on predicting LOS. I was still copying signals 59 well after LOS had supposedly occurred.???????? RayKN2K Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2021-07-01 04:30 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2021-07-01 04:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: TBD, Russia, direct via TBD (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS (***) The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The scheduled astronaut is Pyotr Dubrov (***) Contact is a go for 2021-07-14 20:10 UTC (***) Watch for possible operation mode change sometime after ARRL Field Day. Exact date and time TBD but it will probably be after the week of 2021-07-12 to 2021-07-18. The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The latest list of frequencies in use can be found at https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html ######################################################################################################################################## A multi-point telebridge contact means that each student will be on the telebridge from their own home. **************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS is very aware of the impact that COVID-19 is having on schools and the public in general. As such, we may have last minute cancellations or postponements of school contacts. As always, I will try to provide everyone with near-real-time updates. Watch for future COVID-19 related announcements at https://www.ariss.org/ The following schools have now been postponed or cancelled due to COVID-19: Postponed: No new schools Cancelled: No new schools **************************************************************************************************************************************** Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2021-07-01 04:30 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2021-06-26 16:30 UTC. https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at https://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For future proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of Information Webinars, go to www.ariss.org. About ARISS: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Lab and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEAM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or public forms. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts. Applications should be addressed by email to: school.selection.manager(a)ariss-eu.org ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application. Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. For the application, go to: https://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd(a)gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss(a)iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) https://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n(a)amsat.org or aj9n(a)aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8Ø MHz unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting. Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts. If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke(a)sbcglobal.net The HamTV webpage: https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Sergey RV3DR with 153 Francesco IKØWGF with 140 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 140 Gaston ON4WF with 123 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed, and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1459. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1389. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 48. Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: https://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correcti… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 64 on orbit Oleg Novitskiy Pyotr Dubrov Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP SpaceX-Crew 2 on orbit Meghan McArthur (Behnken) Akihiko Hoshide KE5DNI Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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13 Colonies Special Event
by Peter 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

W2JV will represent NY State as K2A, if there are rover operations active I will only make two contacts and stand aside. If you are a rover station, if you can, please let me know your call. I will be active on all our satellites, thank you. SPECIAL SATELLITE EVENT 13 COLONIES: http://www.13colonies.us/ This year the organizers have secured all 13 states to participate, we can now claim a “clean sweep” on Satellite 2021 Event Dates / July 1 (9AM Eastern) to July 7 (Midnight Eastern) (July 1, 2021-1300 UTC to July 8, 2021-0400 UTC) YOU DO NOT NEED ALL 13 COLONIES TO GET THE CERTIFICATE YOU DO NOT NEED TO GET THE 2 BONUS STATIONS FOR A CLEAN SWEEP 73 Peter W2JV

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Falconsat-3
by ea6tc＠outlook.com 30 Jun '21

30 Jun '21

Dear Friends: The bird Falconsat-3 is Dead? can't hear telemetry. Best regards EA6TC & K6WTC Joan Morante P.O. Box 111 – Son Ferriol 07198 Palma de Mallorca – Balearic Is. SPAIN

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Satellite Presentation for YOUR Club
by Clint Bradford 30 Jun '21

30 Jun '21

"I really enjoyed Clint’s presentation last night. The fact that he had taken the time to research and know something about his audience and welcomed interaction made it very informative and enjoyable. This was a refreshing change from many canned YouTube presentations I’ve tried to watch, which were poorly done, fuzzy video or muddy audio, or a badly prepared presenter stumbling his way through, with any valuable info lost along the way. Thanks for hooking this one up.” Think a 90-minute informative and FUN Zoom presentation on getting started working the ham satellites would be appropriate for your club? "Thank you for the very informative presentation ... You have convinced me to try working satellites!” Well, no “arm-twisting” occurs (g). Dates currently lined up for New Hampshire and Central California. Let me know if YOUR club may be interested! Clint Bradford K6LCS AMSAT Ambassador; ARRL instructor http://www.work-sat.com Email: clintbradford AT mac DOT com (909) 999-SATS (7287) - voicemail/message

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MIR-SAT 1 Awards
by Jean Marc Momple 30 Jun '21

30 Jun '21

Dear All, Just to motivate you to send the data collected from MIR-SAT 1 to Satnogs which does help us a lot in the testing phase. 10 Platinum Awards have already beed issued by MARS fo the first 10 OM’s to have send MIR-SAt 1 TLM to Satnogs and applied for the diploma on https://mars3b8.wordpress.com/news/. Over 12 OM’s are already eligible for the 20 Gold Award, so only 8 left. The certificates will be issued as soon as 20 winners identified. Many have uploaded data to Satnogs but have not applied for the award on link of above mentioned WEB page which is https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCAAKTMtTmARDwrjIE_Coai1WR9b2zUFj… it is still time to do it. Good luck to all and thanks for your support. 73 Jean Marc (3B8DU)

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MIR-SAT1 identified as object 48868 - nasabare.txt updated
by Joseph B. Fitzgerald 30 Jun '21

30 Jun '21

From Jean Marc (3B8DU) "Yesterday , after Space-Track published the TLE for both objects 48867 & 48868 I track both (having 2 tracking stations at the QTH) and is was quite obvious that 48868 was MIR-SAT 1. Reconfirmed today during 2 passes, having the chance here to be in the same footprint than the command station and that the bird is axing most of the time its easier, the doppler and point match 100% 48868. " The following are the current TLE: MIR-SAT1 1 48868U 98067SP 21179.69602259 .00013025 00000-0 23878-3 0 9995 2 48868 51.6439 285.7711 0003006 182.6608 177.4342 15.49640979 1031 http://www.amsat.org/tle/current/nasabare.txt has been updated de KM1P Joe

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Re: Article on switching polarization by I8CVS
by Bill Acito 30 Jun '21

30 Jun '21

I’m getting broken links. b Bill ACITO | W1PA

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Article on switching polarization by I8CVS
by Alex Sutherland VA3ASE 30 Jun '21

30 Jun '21

I'm looking for an old AMSAT Journal article by Domenico Marini I8CVS titled"Switching Four Polarizations on a 70cm Crossed Yagi." I looked up Domenico to ask directly but learned he is a silent key. If anyone could send me a PDF, or guide me to where I might find an archive it would be greatly appreciated.Also interested in any feedback on mounting yagis in an X-configuration and using horizontal polarity for VHF contesting plus other polarities for satellites. Minikits offers a kit to do the switching, apparently inspired by Domenico's design.73,Alex Sutherland VA3ASE

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13 Colonies on Satellite
by Stephan Greene 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

The 2021 edition of the annual 13 Colonies special event is July 1, 2021-1300 UTC to July 8, 2021-0400 UTC. This year, a "clean sweep" (working stations in all 13 states that were the original 13 US Colonies) is possible via satellite! Yes, one or more stations in each state have volunteered to be active on the satellites this year. More info on 13 Colonies is at http://www.13colonies.us/ , including information on the exchange, logging, individual state QSLs, and certificates. DXsummit is recommended for spotting, and many of the satellite ops are active on Twitter and self-spot there as well. 73 Steve KS1G (one of the K2B/Virginia activators)

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Falconsat-3 reloaded, back in business 27 June 2021
by Mark Hammond 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

Hi Folks, Falconsat-3 seems to be good shape, and the reloading of the software went "better than expected." As of 1750utc 27 June 2021, it's back in business and open for use. The digitpeater function is turned ON, so that should be working again, too. Users of Pacsat Ground Station (PSGS) should consider "directory archiving to 0 headers" as a quick trick to clear out the old directory information. After a crash and reload like this, the files start over again at the beginning (like file number 100). Also, you might see your station requesting files that no longer exist. That should eventually clear itself, but you may need to manually tell PSGS to not download the old files you had queued up to get before the crash. The bird was last reloaded like 3.5 years ago! That's an amazing record of stability from an impressive bird. Tilt of the hat to Jim White WD0E who created it... It was an expensive bird when the Air Force developed it, as I recall, and you can see that sometimes you get what you pay for ;) Sorry it wasn't ready for Field Day weekend...just couldn't pull that off. 73, -- Mark L. Hammond [N8MH] AMSAT Director and Command Station

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MIR-SAT1 in failsafe mode
by Jean Marc Momple 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

Dear All, This is to inform you that MIR-SAT1 is in failsafe mode presently, thus TLM decoding not possible, commands will be send tonight to put it back on. 73 Jean Marc (3B8DU)

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SDR Satellite Dongle
by Kees Van Oosbree 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

Hello, Are there any SDR dongles that will do full-duplex on transmit from a radio right next to it? I have a Nesdr SDR, but it desenses with the linear birds and FM birds alike. Thanks! 73 de W0AAE

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Congratulations
by Clint Bradford 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

Congratulations and THANK YOU to these four gentlemen who are willing to devote parts of their lives to the betterment of this aspect of our hobby. > Joseph Armbruster, KJ4JIO > Robert Bankston, KE4AL > Jerry Buxton, N0JY > Zach Metzinger, N0ZGO The real bummer is that there are no campaigns - hence no bumper stickers to create at VistaPrint nor campaign slogans to create … (grin) Clint Bradford K6LCS

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Re: Elections
by Clint Bradford 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

That simple sentence alters nothing at all regarding campaigns or anything else in the bylaws. It merely says if ONE candidate for a position exists, they’re declared elected by acclamation. Clint k6LCS > On Jun 27, 2021, at 4:17 PM, David Hold <davidhold(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > then there is no chance of a write in campaign….. keep the election…. fair > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 6:16 PM Clint Bradford via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Dear bylaws committee: > > A suggestion for the next revision … > > ARTICLE 2, Section 2 - > > ADD: > > If the list of nominees consists of no more than one nominee > for any office or position to be elected, the presiding officer > shall declare that nominee elected by acclamation. >

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Re: Elections
by Clint Bradford 27 Jun '21

27 Jun '21

Dear bylaws committee: A suggestion for the next revision … ARTICLE 2, Section 2 - ADD: If the list of nominees consists of no more than one nominee for any office or position to be elected, the presiding officer shall declare that nominee elected by acclamation. Clint Bradford K6LCS

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Elections
by Clint Bradford 27 Jun '21

27 Jun '21

"As four seats on the Board of Directors are up for election this year, all four candidates will be seated on the Board when the voting period concludes on September 15, 2021." Does that say what I think it says? These four are in - no matter the results of voting? If so, is there anything in the bylaws to declare them board members by acclamation - and save any costs associates with running the voting process? Clint K6LCS Sent from my iPhone

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Satellites Likely to be Active on Field Day
by Paul Stoetzer 27 Jun '21

27 Jun '21

Good morning, I have just posted a summary of the satellites likely to be active on Field Day at https://www.amsat.org/satellites-likely-to-be-active-on-field-day-2021/ Please let me know if there are any errors or omissions. 73, Paul, N8HM

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ANS-178 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for June 27
by Mark Johns, K0JM 27 Jun '21

27 Jun '21

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-178 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and information service of AMSAT, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor(a)amsat.org You can sign up for free e-mail delivery of the AMSAT News Service Bulletins via the ANS List; to join this list see: https://mailman.amsat.org/postorius/lists/ans.amsat.org/ In this edition: * AMSAT Announces Candidates for 2021 Board of Directors Election * 39th Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting Announced * MIR-SAT1 released into orbit from the ISS on June 22, 2021 * MIR-SAT1 Platinum Award Winners * ARRL Field Day: Active satellites listing * FO-29 operation schedule for July 2021 (UTC) * Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for June 24, 2021 * ARISS News * Upcoming Satellite Operations * Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events * Satellite Shorts From All Over ANS-178 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 178.01 To: All RADIO AMATEURS From: Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation 712 H Street NE Suite 1653 Washington, DC 20002 DATE 2021 June 27 AMSAT Announces Candidates for 2021 Board of Directors Election The nomination period for the 2021 Board of Directors Election ended on June 15, 2021. The following candidates have been duly nominated: Joseph Armbruster, KJ4JIO Robert Bankston, KE4AL Jerry Buxton, N0JY Zach Metzinger, N0ZGO To comply with AMSAT's Bylaws, an election will be held via AMSAT's Wild Apricot membership system. Instructions for voting will be emailed by July 15, 2021 to all members who are in good standing as of July 1, 2021. As four seats on the Board of Directors are up for election this year, all four candidates will be seated on the Board when the voting period concludes on September 15, 2021. To ensure that they receive their voting instructions, members should make sure their current email address is up to date in AMSAT's records. Members should log into the AMSAT Membership Portal at https://launch.amsat.org/ and check their account for their current email address. If a member has moved or changed their email address, they are encouraged to update their contact information at this time. (Note: If they have not already done so, members can instantly create their membership account at that same page so they can inspect their record. A membership account is not the same as an AMSAT Store account.) [ANS thanks Jeff Davis, KE9V, AMSAT Secretary for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 39th Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting Announced AMSAT is pleased to announce that the 39th Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting will be held in late October at the Crowne Plaza Suites: MSP Airport - Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. The Crowne Plaza Suites is conveniently located adjacent to the American Blvd station on the Metro Blue Line, providing easy access to the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, downtown Minneapolis, and the Mall of America. The AMSAT Board of Directors will meet prior to the Symposium. Further details, including final dates, hotel reservation details, tours, and other events will be shared in the coming months. [ANS thanks the 2021 Symposium Committee for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- MIR-SAT1 released into orbit from the ISS on June 22, 2021 From Jean Marc Momple, 3B8DU: "Deployment of MIR-SAT1 into orbit from the ISS on June 22, 2021 at 10:55 UTC was broadcast live on JAXA Youtube channel starting at 10:35 UTC (14:35hrs local time). URL: A video clip is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqXMy3NDZn0 Awards are offered by the Mauritius Amateur Society (MARS) see URL: https://mars3b8.wordpress.com/news/ good luck and good hunt. Daniel Estévez, EA4GPZ, adds: For those interested in decoding this satellite, I have put up a short video in collaboration with UNOOSA showing how to use gr-satellites and GQRX to decode MIR-SAT1: https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/access2space4all/index.html https://spacemauritius.com/ Chris Thompson G0KLA/AC2CZ adds: "I have released an updated version of the Pacsat Ground station which now does a better job displaying the decoded beacons from Mir-Sat-1. It also fixes several small bugs in the conversions and in decodes. This also fixes a bug that impacts FalconSat-3 file downloads in some cases. Download it from here: https://www.g0kla.com/pacsat/index.php" Let me know any issues or problems you see. Please continue to download telemetry for Mir-Sat-1 during their commissioning period. All telemetry is sent to SatNogs assuming you check "Send Server Telemetry" on the File. You can see that your Mir-Sat-1 telemetry was uploaded here: https://dashboard.satnogs.org/d/TaZh29gnz/mir-sat1?orgId=1&refresh=30s" A post launch comment by Jean Marc: "We got a superb media coverage in 3B8 and FR on TV about MIR-SAT1 promoting amateur radio role and contribution to the project. I confirm that MIR-SAT1 is alive and TLM has been received by many stations, the firsts being by US stations, I also decoded well the TLM with Chris PsatGroundstation V0.41b which was successfully uploaded to Satnogs. I wish to thanks all who sent me personal messages or through Twitter that they received the first MIR-SAT1 signals, it was a great joy to have confirmation that the birds was alive. I also wish to thanks many HAMs to have supported the project from its initial stage, just to name a few which have been instrumental to make it happen, namely Chris Thompson, AC2CZ, Daniel Estevez, EA4GPZ, Graham Shirville, G3VZV, Hans Blondel-Timmerman, PB2T, Pierros Papadeas, SV1QVE, and Patrick Dohmen, DL4PD, of Satnogs, but also many others worldwide and 3B8 peers who contributed in one way or another to make it happen. I confirm that for the moment MIR-SAT1 is on TLM mode only and will keep all posted about progress. As a personal note, today is a great day for me, just a childhood dream becoming true inspired by Neil Armstrong little step and well before obtaining my HAM licence at the age of 16 and making my firsts satellite QSO on AO-07/AO—08 in 1980, thus enjoying the champagne right now writing. He adds: "1) Thanks to all to who captured the signals of MIR-SAT1 and uploaded data to Satnogs DB, this is really useful to the MIR-SAT1 team. 2) 10 successful participants for the Platinum Award have been selected for having successfully uploaded at least a valid frame to Satnogs DB and applied for same, certificates will be issued and announcement of the winners will be published soon. 3) However, many have uploaded data to Satnogs but have not applied for the Award, they can still do so for the Gold certificate and their past upload data still valid, it a first come first serve game. 4) The telemetry frequency which was 4 minutes actually made it harder to decode particularly on low elevation, it is just a coincidence that it was set to 50 seconds for testing purposes when the Gold Award opens today (Platinum closed today). 5) The satellite is in good health and commissioning tests are being performed presently by the MIR-SAT1 team. 6) Digipeater and image broadcast activation date not yet decided as 5) above must be completed successfully and also having some more data about power available for same. Will keep you informed" ANS thanks Jean Marc Momple, 3B8DU, Daniel Estévez, EA4GPZ, and Chris Thompson G0KLA/AC2CZ for the above information] +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Join the 2021 President's Club! Score your 2" 4-Color Accent Commemorative Coin. This gold finished coin comes with Full Color Certificate and Embroidered "Remove Before Flight" Key Tag Donate today at https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/ You won't want to miss it! +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ MIR-SAT1 Platinum Award Winners Winners of MIR-SAT1 Awards are: S59ZM PY4ZBZ K4OZS N6RFM G8AFC DK3WN N8MH JA0CAW PU7ORD 3B8GL Congratulations to them. Their certificate has been sent by MARS a few minutes ago. To note that the award criteria is based on following: First that one received telemetry of MIR-SAT1 and second the participation form on the MARS WEB has been submitted. There are a few who successfully received MIR-SAT1 telemetry (even before the winners above) and uploaded same to Satnogs but have not submitted the participation form. They are still eligible for the Gold Award if they request same by filing their application on URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCAAKTMtTmARDwrjIE_Coai1WR9b2zUFj… Good luck for the Gold Award. ANS thanks Jean Marc Momple, 3B8DU, for the above information] +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ AMSAT's GOLF Program is about getting back to higher orbits, and it all begins with GOLF-TEE – a technology demonstrator for deployable solar panels, propulsion, and attitude control. Come along for the ride. The journey will be worth it! https://tinyurl.com/ANS-GOLF +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ ARRL Field Day: Active satellites listing Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, has posted a list of the satellites likely to be active on Field Day at: https://www.amsat.org/satellites-likely-to-be-active-on-field-day-2021/ ARRL Field Day stations are reminded that only one satellite contact is admissable for the satellite "bonus" of 100 points. To assist as many stations as possible in their effort to make a contact, please make just a single contact and go to other modes. Please remember that satellites AO-7 and AO-91 HAVE POWER LIMITATIONS and should be accessed with care. Please note the limitations in the posted page and use those as operation guidelines. Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, adds: "APRS operators, please note any errors on the operational status of APRS satellites as shown on this page: http://aprs.org/sats.html I just updated it, so it will be a good resource for APRS satellites for Field Day" [ANS thanks Paul Stoetzer, AMSAT Executive Vice President, N8HM, and Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- FO-29 operation schedule for July 2021 (UTC) Hideo Kambayashi, JH3XCU has posted the July operational schedule for FO-29 on the JARL website: July 3rd 00:06- 10:20- 4th 00:55- 13:00- 10th 00:41- 10:57- 23:46- 11th 11:48- 13:32- 17th 01:15- 13:17- 18th 00:20- 12:23- 24th 00:05- 10:20- 23:12- 25th 12:58- 31st 00:39- 10:50- 23:44- Aug. 1st 11:48- Source: https://www.jarl.org/Japanese/3_Fuji/fuji3-202106.htm [ANS thanks Hideo Kambayashi, JH3XCU, for the above information] +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Need new satellite antennas? Purchase Arrows, Alaskan Arrows, and M2 LEO-Packs from the AMSAT Store. When you purchase through AMSAT, a portion of the proceeds goes towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space. https://amsat.org/product-category/hardware/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for June 24, 2021 The following satellite was deployed from ISS on 6-14-2021 and has been added to this week's AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution: MIR-SAT1 (Mauritian Infra-Red Satellite 1) was launched from the Japanese ISS Kibo module at 10:55 UTC on 6-22-2021. The NORAD Cat ID has not yet been determined. However, SatNOGS generated keps can be found on the Libre Space Community web site at: https://bit.ly/3vWRqF6 TLE (KEPS) have been updated and are available on the AMSAT website at: https://www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-resources/ [ANS thanks Ray Hoad, WA5QGD, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager, for the above information] +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Want to fly the colors on your own grid expedition? Get your AMSAT car flag and other neat stuff from our Zazzle store! 25% of the purchase price of each product goes towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ ARISS NEWS: Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of June 27, 2021 No new sessions have been announced for the coming week. However the session for Ecole publique de Bellême in Bellême, Pôle scolaire Igé/Le Gué de la Chaine in Belforêt en Perche, and Ecole de Nocé in Perche en Nocé, was rescheduled for June 26, 2021 at 11:25 am CEST (Bellême, France) (9:25 am UTC, 5:25 am EDT, 4:25 am CDT, 3:25 am MDT, 2:25 am PDT). Three schools in France will participate in this ARISS contact: Ecole de Nocé, Pôle scolaire Igé/Le Gué de la Chaine and Ecole publique de Bellême. These are rural schools about 90 miles west of Paris and will involve about 360 students, age 6 – 15 years old. The schools have partnered with the amateur radio club (callsign F4KLQ) in preparation for this contact. Student-members of the ham club receive training from the adult members who have knowledge in the fields of radio, aeronautical, and the space sciences. Ham radio workshops include the topics: Orne Sky Sat, the Yaourtocom 2000, SSTV, Morse code, radio communication, and radio directional finding. [ANS thanks Dave Jordan, AA4KN, ARISS PR for the above information] +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ AMSAT, along with our ARISS partners, is developing an amateur radio package, including two-way communication capability, to be carried on-board Gateway in lunar orbit. Support AMSAT's projects today at https://www.amsat.org/donate/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Upcoming Satellite Operations Quick Hits: WY7AA: I will be in FN02 starting 6/6 for a few weeks. Operating Sats. holiday style. If you need FN01, FN02, FN03, FN12 please let me know and we can try to set something up. FN01,03, and 12 will likely each be one day roves. FM and SSB EA4M: : Hi guys later in June I’ll be in IN73 on holidays, probably for a week or so, I will try some birds stay tuned on tweeter for schedules. ND0C and KE0WPA: In June @kylee_ke0wpa and I, along with our resident photojournalist (Mom/Amy), will be taking a family excursion to the southwest and working some sats as time permits. Here are the less commonly worked grids from which we plan to operate. We will hit other grids too. DN63 7/2, DN64 7/2 & 7/3 WA5RR: I’m looking at doing a rove in DL98 with an overnight stay in Eagle Pass, TX around the last week in June. Details to follow. VP2V/K3TRM: I will be operating from Tortola, BVI as VP2V/K3TRM on July 4-17, 2021. Activity will be on 40-6M SSB & digital, and satellite. N5LEX: CN98 last week of June. DM62: K5TA, I’m tentatively planning for DM62 ~9-July, when there are are several good passes mid-day, making it a doable day-trip for me…. EN57/67: @SeanKutzko KX9X and @Nancy_N9NCY will celebrate Sean’s birthday in the Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula July 15-19. Look for them on FM and SSB satellites, with the possibility of some Parks On The Air activity as well. [ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT rover page manager for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events Satellites on Field Day: Seth Kutzko, KX9X, made an outstanding presentation to the RATPAC group on Satellites and Field Day. The session was held on Thursday May 27 during a weekly RATPAC meeting. Seth presented more than just a "how to", his tips and tricks were very valuable for new entrants and his cautions were particularly well taken. This presentation is a must for any Field Day group that is contemplating chasing the 100-point bonus. Dan Marler, K7REX has made the presentation, documents, and the video available: To View Video: https://vimeo.com/556034517 To Download Video: https://vimeo.com/user107547861/download/556034517/954b837d38 To Retrieve Documents: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cktvhfz1lhvv8hr/AADzoAi0HiGccLLG6IdnY24Aa?dl=0Ra… AMSAT Ambassador Clint Bradford K6CLS is planning the following presentations: Conejo Valley (CA) - October 21 Think a 90-minute lively, informative, and fun “How to Work the Easy Satellites” Zoom presentation would be appropriate for your convention or club? Always includes are overviews of the ARRL, AMSAT, and ARISS … and pre-presentation questions are solicited and welcome. Send Clint an email or call! Clint Bradford K6LCS, http://www.work-sat.com. Tel:909-999-SATS (7287) [ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT Events page manager, AMSAT Italia, Dan Marler, K7REX RATPAC Leader and ARRL Idaho Section Manager, and Clint Bradford, K6CLS AMSAT Ambassador for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts From All Over + A number of questions have been asked about the operation status of Falconsat-3. Mark Hammond N8MH reports: "I suspect that FS-3 has just "crashed" and needs some attention. Usually that involves getting it back to a primitive level of operation and testing, and then reloading all of the spacecraft's software. So, it'll take some time. But I really do think we can recover it. Last reload was over 3.5 years ago! It takes a lot of preparation and sometimes multiple attempts to get all software loaded and running. Keep the hope :). Probably a couple weeks. [ANS thanks Mark Hammond, N8MH, AMSAT Director and Command Station for the above information] + Tiangong has a crew, and China has a vision. Shenzhou-12 launched three Chinese astronauts on a Long March-2F from the Gobi Desert and ferried them to Tiangong (here’s a video of the docking). This means there are now two long-duration crewed habitats in Earth orbit for the first time since the 1970s when Skylab and Salyut stations both hosted humans on-orbit (Mir’s last crew departed just a few months before Expedition-1 arrived at the ISS). The three astronauts are slated to stay in the new station’s Tianhe core module for up to three months, breaking China’s 30-day record set during their last crewed spaceflight five years ago. [ANS thanks the Orbital Index for the above information] + A history of US research, development, and production of solar photovoltaic cells, which was driven by space applications early on. “In 1958, the U.S. Navy bolted solar panels to Vanguard 1, the second American satellite in space.” A commentary: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/06/why-the-us-doesnt-reall… [ANS thanks the Orbital Index for the above information] + CubeSat developments: Some interesting work in the CubeSat arena is documented at several links. Here are some discussions of: Deployable mirrors: https://bit.ly/2TZNrdT Wooden satellite construction: http://n.pr/2T3UqCd Flexible tapemeasure antennas: https://bit.ly/3wSSmvH [ANS thanks the Orbital Index for the above information] + A reminder for ARRL/AMSAT Field Day: JAMSAT has posted the FO-99 operating schedule for June at https://www.jamsat.or.jp/?p=1438 (ANS thanks JAMSAT for the above information) + Congratulations to Christy Hunter, KB6LTY, on working and confirming her 488th grid square in the continental United States. Christy worked John Brier, KG4AKV, operating portable in FM25 for the last grid she needed on June 11th. Christy is the 31st recipient of AMSAT's GridMaster Award. More details about the GridMaster Award can be found at https://www.amsat.org/gridmaster/ [Thanks to Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Director of Contests and Awards] + Congratulations to Jim Clary, ND9M. Jim is the 57th recipient of the AMSAT Rover Award. Jim applied for and received this award after working from numerous wet grids during his recent journey on the USNS Sgt. William R. Button through the Panama Canal to Saipan. More details about the AMSAT Rover Award can be found at https://www.amsat.org/amsat-rover-award/ [Thanks to Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Director of Contests and Awards] + A new distance record has been claimed on TO-108. F4DXV completed a QSO with A65GC on 18-Jun-2021 at 08:55 UTC, covering a distance of 5,298.6 km. Also, a new distance record has also been claimed on the ISS crossband repeater. G0ABI worked VE1PK on 29-May-2020. This transatlantic QSO covered a distance of 4,403 km. All claimed satellite distance records can be found at https://amsat.org/satellite-distance-records/ [Thanks to Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, AMSAT Executive Vice President] --------------------------------------------------------------------- /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 Store. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the student rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Contact info [at] amsat.org for additional student membership information. 73 and Remember to help keep amateur radio in space, This week's ANS Editor, Jack Spitznagel, KD4IZ kd4iz at frawg dot org

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Re Mails
by Jean Marc Momple 26 Jun '21

26 Jun '21

Dear All, I did not received any mail from the BB today, seems strange. If anyone get this mail please reply so that I understand what is the issue. 73 Jean Marc

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2021-06-26 16:30 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 26 Jun '21

26 Jun '21

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2021-06-26 16:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Ecole publique de Bellême, Bellême, France, Pôle scolaire Igé/Le Gué de la Chaine, Belforêt en Perche, France, and Ecole de Nocé, Perche en Nocé, France multi-point telebridge via IK1SLD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be FXØISS The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 437.525 MHz The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact was successful: Sat 2021-06-26 09:25:32 UTC 85 deg (***) Congratulations to the Ecole publique de Bellême, Pôle scolaire Igé/Le Gué de la Chaine, and Ecole de Nocé students and Thomas! (***) Starting about 15 minutes before AOS, watch livestream at: www.ariotti.com Watch for possible operation mode change sometime after ARRL Field Day. Exact date and time TBD but it will probably be after the week of 2021-07-12 to 2021-07-18. (***) The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The latest list of frequencies in use can be found at https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html ######################################################################################################################################## A multi-point telebridge contact means that each student will be on the telebridge from their own home. **************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS is very aware of the impact that COVID-19 is having on schools and the public in general. As such, we may have last minute cancellations or postponements of school contacts. As always, I will try to provide everyone with near-real-time updates. Watch for future COVID-19 related announcements at https://www.ariss.org/ The following schools have now been postponed or cancelled due to COVID-19: Postponed: No new schools Cancelled: No new schools **************************************************************************************************************************************** Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2021-06-26 16:30 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2021-06-26 16:30 UTC. (***) https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at https://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For future proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of Information Webinars, go to www.ariss.org. About ARISS: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Lab and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEAM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or public forms. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts. Applications should be addressed by email to: school.selection.manager(a)ariss-eu.org ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application. Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. For the application, go to: https://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd(a)gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss(a)iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) https://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n(a)amsat.org or aj9n(a)aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8Ø MHz unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting. Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts. If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke(a)sbcglobal.net The HamTV webpage: https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Sergey RV3DR with 153 Francesco IKØWGF with 140 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 140 Gaston ON4WF with 123 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed, and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1459. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1389. (***) Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 48. Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: https://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correcti… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 64 on orbit Oleg Novitskiy Pyotr Dubrov Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP SpaceX-Crew 2 on orbit Meghan McArthur (Behnken) Akihiko Hoshide KE5DNI Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Satellite radios for sale
by John Geiger 25 Jun '21

25 Jun '21

I have a couple of full duplex, satellite radios I am selling, if anyone on the AMSAT list might be looking for a spare or an upgrade. Here is what I have available: An Icom 910H 2m/70cm SSB/CW/FM satellite radio in very good condition. This model does 100 watts on 2 meters and 75 watts on 70cm, dual receive so you can listen to both bands at once, full duplex for the satellites, has a built in CW keyer, CTCSS encode and decode, and many other features. It is a great radio for higher power on our main VHF and UHF bands, and also for satellite work and comes in a compact package easy to take mobile and portable as well. It comes with the Icom hand mic and a very short power cord with powerpole connectors on it. I am asking $750 plus shipping _______________________________________________________________________________ A Yaesu FT847 HF/6m/2m/70cm all mode transceiver in very good condition. This model does 100 watts on HF and 6 meters, and 50 watts on 2m and 70cm. It also does full duplex for satellite operations and has a built in CW keyer, tone encode, speech processor, DSP noise reduction, bandpass filtering, and notch filtering, and many other features. It is a nice compact size for taking mobile and portable also. It comes with a photocopy of the manual, the hand mic, and a very short power cord with powerpole connectors on it. It also has the original box and a CAT serial cable with it. It does CAT communications both ways and the power button works fine on it also. I am asking $700 plus shipping _________________________________________________________________________________ I can take paypal/check/MO. 73 John AF5CC

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FO-29 operation schedule for July 2021
by JH3XCU 25 Jun '21

25 Jun '21

FO-29 operation schedule for July 2021 (UTC) July 3rd 00:06- 10:20- 4th 00:55- 13:00- 10th 00:41- 10:57- 23:46- 11th 11:48- 13:32- 17th 01:15- 13:17- 18th 00:20- 12:23- 24th 00:05- 10:20- 23:12- 25th 12:58- 31st 00:39- 10:50- 23:44- Aug. 1st 11:48- Source: https://www.jarl.org/Japanese/3_Fuji/fuji3-202106.htm 73, Hideo - JH3XCU.

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ARISS News Release No. 21-40
by David Jordan 24 Jun '21

24 Jun '21

ARISS News Release No.21-40 Dave Jordan, AA4KN ARISS PR aa4kn(a)amsat.org FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE ARISSContact is Scheduled with Students in France at Ecole publique de Bellême in Bellême, Pôlescolaire Igé/Le Gué de la Chaine in Belforêt en Perche, and Ecole de Nocé in Percheen Nocé June24, 2021—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has receivedschedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts. ARISS is thegroup that puts together special amateur radio contacts between students aroundthe globe and crew members with ham radio licenses on the International Space Station (ISS). This will be a Multipoint Telebridge Contact via Amateur Radio between the ISS and students fromthree schools in France. Students will take turns asking their questions of ISSAstronaut Thomas Pesquet, amateur radio call sign KG5FYG, during theARISS radio contact. French is the language expected to be used during thecontact. The downlink frequency forthis contact is 437.525 MHZ and may be heard by listeners that arewithin the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the ARISS radio telebridgestation. The ARISS team in Casale Monferrato, Italy willuse call sign IK1SLD to serve as the ARISS relay amateur radio ground station.Each student asking a question on the ARISS radio will be conferenced in fromhome or social-distanced at school. TheARISS radio contact is scheduled for June 26, 2021 at 11:25 am CEST (Bellême,France) (9:25 am UTC, 5:25 am EDT, 4:25 am CDT, 3:25am MDT, 2:25 am PDT). Threeschools in France will participate in this ARISS contact: Ecole de Nocé, Pôlescolaire Igé/Le Gué de la Chaine and Ecole publique de Bellême. These are ruralschools about 90 miles west of Paris and will involve about 360 students, age 6– 15 years old. The schools have partnered with the amateur radio club(callsign F4KLQ) in preparation for this contact. Student-members of the hamclub receive training from the adult members who have knowledge in the fieldsof radio, aeronautical, and the space sciences. Ham radio workshops include thetopics: Orne Sky Sat, the Yaourtocom 2000, SSTV, Morse code, radiocommunication, and radio directional finding. Starting about 15 minutesbefore AOS, watch livestream at: www.ariotti.com _______________________________ Astime allows, students will ask these questions: 1.Que faites-vous comme expérience en ce moment? 2.Quand vous étiez dans l’ISS lors de votre première mission, vous êtes-vous ditque vous y retourneriez un jour? 3.Comment se passe un ravitaillement? 4.Comment vit-on loin de sa famille? 5.Comment avez-vous réagi lorsque vous avez appris que vous retourniez dans l’ISSpour la deuxième fois? 6.Quelle place y a-t-il pour l'écologie lorsque l'on part dans l'espace? 7.Qu’aimez-vous le plus dans le fait d’aller dans l’espace? 8.Votre préparation a-t-elle été différente pour cette deuxième mission? 9.Est-ce que c'est d'avoir parlé à un astronaute lorsque vous étiez petit quivous a donné envie de devenir astronaute à votre tour? 10.Combien de temps mettez-vous à vous habituer à l’impesanteur? 11.Dans l’ISS, avez-vous déjà ressenti le besoin de redescendre sur Terre? 12.Avez-vous déjà croisé des astéroïdes et comment les éviter? 13.Accepteriez-vous de donner votre nom à notre école? 14.Lorsque vous êtes dans l’ISS, qu’est-ce qui vous manque le plus? 15.Est-ce que l'impesanteur est dangereux pour le corps si on y reste troplongtemps? 16.Avez-vous déjà été en danger pendant une de vos missions? 17.Qu’est-ce qui est le plus difficile à vivre dans l’ISS? 18.Relèverez-vous le défi de jouer aux dés lors de cette mission? Translation 1.What experiments are you working on currently? 2.When you were in the ISS on your first mission, did you think you would ever goback there? 3.What is refueling about? How does it work? 4.How is it to live away from your family? 5.What was your reaction when you were told you were returning to the ISS? 6.Is ecology something you take into account when you go into space? 7.What do you like the most about going in space? 8.Was the preparation different for this second mission? 9.Did talking to an astronaut when you were young inspire you to become anastronaut yourself? 10.How many times do you take to get used to the zero gravity / weightlessness? 11.In the ISS, have you ever felt the need to come back down to Earth? 12.Did you ever come across asteroids and what would you do to avoid them? 13.Would you agree to give your name to our school? 14.What do you miss most when you're in the ISS? 15.Does weightlessness impact your body in a dangerous way if you stay in thiscondition for too long? 16.Have you ever been in danger during a mission? 17.What's the hardest thing to live with in the ISS? 18.Will you accept the challenge of playing dice while you're on this mission? ARISS– Celebrating 20 Years of Amateur Radio Continuous Operations on the ISS About ARISS: AmateurRadio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture ofinternational amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support theInternational Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the RadioAmateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL),the ISS National Lab-Space Station Explorers, and NASA’s Space communicationsand Navigation program. The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration ofscience, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS doesthis by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew membersaboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students,educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activitiestied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, seewww.ariss.org . MediaContact: DaveJordan, AA4KN ARISSPR Likeus on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Search on Amateur Radio on the ISS and@ARISS_status.

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MIR-SAT1 news
by Jean Marc Momple 24 Jun '21

24 Jun '21

Dear All, 1) Thanks to all to who captured the signals of MIR-SAT1 and uploaded data to Satnogs DB, this is really useful to the MIR-SAT1 team. 2) 10 successful participants for the Platinum Award have been selected for having successfully uploaded at least a valid frame to Satnogs DB and applied for same, certificates will be issued and announcement of the winners will be published soon. 3) However, many have uploaded data to Satnogs but have not applied for the Award, they can still do so for the Gold certificate and their past upload data still valid, it a first come first serve game. 4) The telemetry frequency which was 4 minutes actually made it harder to decode particularly on low elevation, it is just a coincidence that it was set to 50 seconds for testing purposes when the Gold Award opens today (Platinum closed today). 5) The satellite is in good health and commissioning tests are being performed presently by the MIR-SAT1 team. 6) Digipeater and image broadcast activation date not yet decided as 5) above must be completed successfully and also having some more data about power available for same. Will keep you informed 73 Jean Marc (3B8DU)

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2021-06-24 14:30 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 24 Jun '21

24 Jun '21

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2021-06-24 14:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Ecole publique de Bellême, Bellême, France, Pôle scolaire Igé/Le Gué de la Chaine, Belforêt en Perche, France, and Ecole de Nocé, Perche en Nocé, France multi-point telebridge via IK1SLD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be FXØISS The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 437.525 MHz The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is go for: Sat 2021-06-26 09:25:32 UTC 85 deg Starting about 15 minutes before AOS, watch livestream at: www.ariotti.com (***) Watch for possible operation mode change sometime after ARRL Field Day. Exact date and time TBD. The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The latest list of frequencies in use can be found at https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html ######################################################################################################################################## A multi-point telebridge contact means that each student will be on the telebridge from their own home. **************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS is very aware of the impact that COVID-19 is having on schools and the public in general. As such, we may have last minute cancellations or postponements of school contacts. As always, I will try to provide everyone with near-real-time updates. Watch for future COVID-19 related announcements at https://www.ariss.org/ The following schools have now been postponed or cancelled due to COVID-19: Postponed: No new schools Cancelled: No new schools **************************************************************************************************************************************** Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2021-06-24 14:30 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2021-06-17 19:00 UTC. https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at https://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For future proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of Information Webinars, go to www.ariss.org. About ARISS: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Lab and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEAM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or public forms. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts. Applications should be addressed by email to: school.selection.manager(a)ariss-eu.org ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application. Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. For the application, go to: https://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd(a)gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss(a)iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) https://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n(a)amsat.org or aj9n(a)aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8Ø MHz unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting. Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts. If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke(a)sbcglobal.net The HamTV webpage: https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Sergey RV3DR with 153 Francesco IKØWGF with 140 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 140 Gaston ON4WF with 123 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed, and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1456. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1388. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 48. Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: https://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correcti… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 64 on orbit Oleg Novitskiy Pyotr Dubrov Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP SpaceX-Crew 2 on orbit Meghan McArthur (Behnken) Akihiko Hoshide KE5DNI Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Re: MARS MIR-SAT1 Keps?
by Mike Lucas 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

I’ve looked at a myriad of resources and found everything & anything on MIR-SAT1 EXCEPT some Keps. They don’t seem to be posted on the typical sources under that name, is there some other Object Name I should be looking for? Regards, Mike N7ASZ From: Jean Marc Momple <jean.marc.momple(a)gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2021 2:28 AM To: AMSAT <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Subject: [AMSAT-BB] MARS MIR-SAT1 Award - Platinum Awards to be issued soon. Dear all, To ensure that you obtain your certificate timely: 1) See the Mauritius Amateur Radio Society (MARS) page URL: https://mars3b8.wordpress.com/news/ for more information. 2) Please make sure that you fill the participation form, the link is on same page: URL <https://forms.gle/2WxDSJTkJmSZQNgB9> https://forms.gle/TDiZ22kj8nAaXqUH9 3) In order to make verification easier and faster please fill the participation’s just after forwarding at least one complete frame to Satnogs. 4) Certificates for the Platinum Awards will be issued after the first 10 eligible winners count reached, the race is on as a few participants already eligible. Also in the AMSAT PacSat Ground Station decoder do not forget to “tick” the “Send Server Telemetry” under File>Settings. Good luck to all. 73 Jean Marc (3B8DU)

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Re: Satellites Likely to be Active on Field Day
by Tom Schuessler 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

What does anybody think about the published activation times for FO 29 for field day weekend? Is that a possibility? Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 23, 2021, at 12:04, Paul Stoetzer <n8hm(a)arrl.net> wrote: > > Thanks to Scott, N1AIA, for pointing out that FO-99 should be active for Eastern North America on the Saturday evening passes. I have added it to the list and included a link to the schedule. > > 73, > > Paul, N8HM > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 11:30 AM Paul Stoetzer <n8hm(a)arrl.net> wrote: >> Good morning, >> >> I have just posted a summary of the satellites likely to be active on Field Day at https://www.amsat.org/satellites-likely-to-be-active-on-field-day-2021/ >> >> Please let me know if there are any errors or omissions. >> >> 73, >> >> Paul, N8HM > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Acceptable Use and Privacy Policies available at https://www.amsat.org/about-amsat/ > > View archives of this mailing list at > https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to amsat-bb-leave(a)amsat.org > Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at https://mailman.amsat.org

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MARS MIR-SAT1 Award - Platinum Awards to be issued soon.
by Jean Marc Momple 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

Dear all, To ensure that you obtain your certificate timely: 1) See the Mauritius Amateur Radio Society (MARS) page URL: https://mars3b8.wordpress.com/news/ for more information. 2) Please make sure that you fill the participation form, the link is on same page: URL https://forms.gle/TDiZ22kj8nAaXqUH9 <https://forms.gle/2WxDSJTkJmSZQNgB9> 3) In order to make verification easier and faster please fill the participation’s just after forwarding at least one complete frame to Satnogs. 4) Certificates for the Platinum Awards will be issued after the first 10 eligible winners count reached, the race is on as a few participants already eligible. Also in the AMSAT PacSat Ground Station decoder do not forget to “tick” the “Send Server Telemetry” under File>Settings. Good luck to all. 73 Jean Marc (3B8DU)

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PacsatGround station Version 0.42
by Chris Thompson 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

I have released an updated version of the Pacsat Ground station which now does a better job displaying the decoded beacons from Mir-Sat-1. It also fixes several small bugs in the conversions and in decodes. This also fixes a bug that impacts FalconSat-3 file downloads in some cases. Download it from here: https://www.g0kla.com/pacsat/index.php Let me know any issues or problems you see. Please continue to download telemetry for Mir-Sat-1 during their commissioning period. All telemetry is sent to SatNogs assuming you check "Send Server Telemetry" on the File > Settings tab. You can see that your Mir-Sat-1 telemetry was uploaded here: https://dashboard.satnogs.org/d/TaZh29gnz/mir-sat1?orgId=1&refresh=30s 73 Chris G0KLA / AC2CZ -- Chris E. Thompson chrisethompson(a)gmail.com g0kla(a)arrl.net

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PSAT2 APRS-to-Voice (A2V)
by Robert Bruninga 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

> I have my I gate up this eve and picked up several digipeats’s from > stations using PSAT2 & PSAT… none made it into the aprs system… > I have noticed also when my gate is off most of the stations don’t > make it then also… > > I think I’m the only one using A2V because the only bulletins are > TX’d shortly after I use it then it goes back to sleep until the next > time I use it…. > > McKinley Henson - KE4AZZ I guess APRS-to-Voice is a new mode and people are just not used to using it. Its really easy as described on the PSAT2 page: http://aprs.org/psat2.html Bob > > > 73 > >

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Nasabare Keps for SatPC32 not functioning
by Richard Lawn 22 Jun '21

22 Jun '21

For some reason the URL for downloading keps in nasabare format from AMSAT website is failing using the update Keps function in SatPC32. Did I miss something and has the address been changed or is the site down? 73 Rick, W2JAZ

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Mir-Sat-1 Deployment from ISS Tuesday Morning
by Chris Thompson 22 Jun '21

22 Jun '21

Mir-Sat-1 will be deployed from the ISS Tuesday at 10.55 UTC by JAXA. This satellite will support an AX25 digipeter and images broadcast with the pacsat protocol. The images will be taken by its camera and stored in the onboard file system. Amateur stations will be able to request the directory of files and request the broadcast of images using a suitable ground station. Many thanks to Jean Marc and the amateurs on Mauritius for collaborating and getting Amateur Radio included on this mission. I have updated the Pacsat ground station to support Mir-Sat-1. See my post here: https://www.g0kla.com/workbench/2021-06-18.php. If you use a GNU Radio tool chain then Dani has updated gr-satellites to support Mir-Sat-1. SatNogs is adding Mir-Sat-1 to its decoders and will also store the received telemetry. If you come up with your own decoder then please forward to SatNogs. Use the ISS Keps initially to track it. There is an award for the first telemetry. Feel free to ask any questions. 73 Chris -- Chris E. Thompson chrisethompson(a)gmail.com g0kla(a)arrl.net

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The requested URL not foung
by James Jipping 22 Jun '21

22 Jun '21

Good Morning: I tried to access the FoxTelem Leaderboard and get this error message: Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) Server at www.amsat.org Port 80 Does anybody know what has happened?? Thanke Jim Jipping, W8MRR AMSAT #5512

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Satellite on 427.025 sending callsign OM9XPA
by Graham c 22 Jun '21

22 Jun '21

I was tuning around on 70cm this morning looking for satellites and found a signal on 437.025MHz sending callsign OM9XPA plus a short burst of digital signal. Time was around 2021-06-1230utc. I thought it might be GRBAlpha but that one was not in range at the time. Can't put my finger on which one it might be. Ideas? cheers, Graham ve3gtc FN25ig ( Eastern Ontario )

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SDR# and ISS pics?
by Steve Kristoff 21 Jun '21

21 Jun '21

Is anyone out there successfully using an RTL-SDR with SDR#, a virtual cable, and MMSSTV to receive the pictures from ISS? If so, can you please share your settings with me or point me to a tutorial or something. I can see the signal coming in strong on SDR# and I can see that it's not static noise on MMSSTV, but it's not a coherent photo. I'm getting offset lines of color. For some reason, MMSSTV isn't getting the sync signals (that's a guess on my part). What am I missing? Steve AI9IN Oldenburg IN Grid EM79ji

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MIR-SAT1 Live from the ISS tomorrow
by Jean Marc Momple 21 Jun '21

21 Jun '21

Dear All, FYI Deployment of MIR-SAT1 into orbit from the ISS on June 22, 2021 at 10:55 UTC will be broadcasted live on JAXA Youtube channel starting at 10:35 UTC (14:35hrs local time). URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqXMy3NDZn0 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqXMy3NDZn0> Please send me a tweet @3b8du or mail to this forum if you receive its signal as it would be really greet to have an early feedback if the bird is alive asap. Also Awards are offered by the Mauritius Amateur Society (MARS) see URL: https://mars3b8.wordpress.com/news/ good luck and good hunt. 73 Jean Marc (3B8DU)

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URL Change for nasabare
by Clint Bradford 21 Jun '21

21 Jun '21

Is this URL change "permanent?" http://lansing182.amsat.org/tle/current/nasabare.txt Sent from my iPhone

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Falconsat-3
by Jean Marc Momple 21 Jun '21

21 Jun '21

Dear All, Is anyone getting TLM from Falconsat-3 or at least its carrier? 4 OM’s here did not receive its transmission (not even carrier) over last 3 passes. 73 Jean Marc (3B8DU)

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New member portal
by Jim Sanford 20 Jun '21

20 Jun '21

OK, so some time back I received something about the new online portal. Finally got a chance to create an account. Visited launch.amsat.org. Cliked LOGIN button. Clicked Forgot password link. Entered my email address -- there was no code to enter and no place to enter a code. Verified that I'm not a robot. Entered my email address. received error message that my email was not found. repeat Repeat give up What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Jim wb4gcs(a)amsat.org -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Portions of www.amsat.org temporarily unavailable.
by Joseph B. Fitzgerald 20 Jun '21

20 Jun '21

Maintenance activity this weekend has cause some services on www.amsat.org to malfunction including pass predictions, telemetry access and ARISS Ops. We expect these issues to be sorted out over the next 72 hours. Thank you all for your patience while www.amsat.org gets comfortable in its new home in Dallas TX. -Joe Fitzgerald for the AMSAT IT team.

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status of a few satellites for FD
by tjschuessler＠verizon.net 20 Jun '21

20 Jun '21

Hi all, It has been a few months since I last was on Linear satellite passes. With FD coming up, I need a little catch up on some status issues. The AMSAT Satellite Status page is helpful, but does have some limitations. Ray Hoad, WA5QGD and I were talking about this last Sunday, and I said I would ask. SO.. AO-73; Is it in full time transponder mode, or switching at eclipse, or data mode only? EO-88; Is it still on Eclipse passes for transponder? I think so. AO-7; I believe it is experiencing eclipses so should be in mode B, unless an operator with too much power flips it. XW-2C and XW-2D; Are these still working in the 2 second on, 5 second off mode, or has there been some improvement to one of them or the other? CAS 6/TO-108; I know our Linear transponder chart says it is intermittent (Like the two XW's above), but did I not read that it's transponder is staying on for longer now? JO-97, FO-99; Any operational status yet? And who knows about Lilacsat-2's schedule????? My read of activation times for FO-29 seemed to indicate that for FD weekend, the controllers would try and activate it on northward (Ascending) passes over Japan, which might make it available for us as it comes descending over the pole in our overnight passes. Does that sound right? OF COURSE, NO USING AO-91 ON ELCIPSE PASSES (OUR OVERNIGHT PASSES). Any other interesting status updates? Thanks for your comments. They will be helpful to all. 73, Tom, N5HYP

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ANS-171 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for June 20, 2021
by n1uw＠gokarns.com 20 Jun '21

20 Jun '21

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-171 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and information service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to ans-editor at amsat dot org. In this edition: * AMSAT Announces Candidates for 2021 Board of Directors Election * ARISS Slow Scan Television Event set for June 21-26, 2021 * PSAT2 Improved Coverage Is Here (Updated) * MIR-SAT1 Schedule for Deployment from the ISS * The IARU Participating in the CEPT Working Groups * Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events * Upcoming Satellite Operations * ARISS News * Satellite Shorts from All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-171.01 ANS-171 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 171.01 From AMSAT HQ PO Box 27, Washington, DC 20044-0027 June 20, 2021 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-171.01 AMSAT Announces Candidates for 2021 Board of Directors Election The nomination period for the 2021 Board of Directors Election ended on June 15, 2021. The following candidates have been duly nominated: Joseph Armbruster, KJ4JIO Robert Bankston, KE4AL Jerry Buxton, N0JY Zach Metzinger, N0ZGO To comply with AMSAT's Bylaws, an election will be held via AMSAT's Wild Apricot membership system. Instructions for voting will be emailed by July 15, 2021 to all members who are in good standing as of July 1, 2021. As four seats on the Board of Directors are up for election this year, all four candidates will be seated on the Board when the voting period concludes on September 15, 2021. To ensure that they receive their voting instructions, members should make sure their current email address is up to date in AMSAT's records. Members should log into the AMSAT Membership Portal at https://launch.amsat.org/ and check their account for their current email address. If a member has moved or changed their email address, they are encouraged to update their contact information at this time. (Note: If they have not already done so, members can instantly create their membership account at that same page so they can inspect their record. A membership account is not the same as an AMSAT Store account.) [ANS thanks Jeff Davis, KE9V, AMSAT Secretary for the above information] -------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS Slow Scan Television Event set for June 21-26, 2021 ARISS reports there will be an “Amateur Radio on Shuttle, MIR and ISS” Slow Scan TV (SSTV) event from June 21-26, 2021. Transmissions from the International Space Station will be on 145.800 MHz FM using the PD120 format. The ARISS team will be transmitting SSTV images continuously from June 21 until June 26. The images will be related to some of the Amateur Radio activities that have occurred on the Space Shuttle, MIR space station and the International Space Station. The scheduled start and stop times are: Monday, June 21 – Setup is scheduled to begin at 09:40 UTC (transmissions should start a little later). Saturday, June 26 – Transmissions are scheduled to end by 18:30 UTC. The signal should be receivable on a handheld with a 1/4 wave whip. If your rig has selectable FM filters try the wider filter for 25 kHz channel spacing. Those that recently missed the opportunity during the limited period of MAI transmissions should have numerous chances over the six day period to capture many, if not all 12, of the images. Check the ARISS SSTV blog for the latest information at http://ariss-sstv.blogspot.com/. Pass predictions for the ISS pass times are available at https://www.amsat.org/track/. Useful SSTV info and links https://amsat-uk.org/beginners/iss-sstv/ [ANS thanks AMSAT UK for the above information.] -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Join the 2021 President's Club! Score your 2" 4-Color Accent Commemorative Coin with Polished Gold Finish, Full Color Certificate and Embroidered "Remove Before Flight" Key Tag By donating today at https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/ You won't want to miss it! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- PSAT2 Improved Coverage Is Here (Updated) Bob Bruninga, WB4APR reports, WPSAT2 (NO-104) has been in a great operating period from June 10-22, 2021 in the northern hemisphere due to its highly elliptical orbit. Passes have been in the evening but moving earlier each day. Conversely, for the two weeks following, it will be low on the horizon for northern hemisphere mid-latitudes stations and favor the southern hemisphere. "Normally its low inclination orbit (28 degrees) favors lower latitude locations. But the elliptical orbit assures that there are times, two weeks out of every month, when the elevation angle rises as much as 20 degrees to bring higher latitude stations into the footprint. "PSAT2 has been enabled for APRS on 145.825 and it should be 4 times stronger (+6 dB) than PSAT. PSAT2 requires your radio to be in narrow band mode. "Also it has the APRS-to-Voice enabled for your enjoyment. See http://aprs.org/psat2.html for how to use the A2V feature. "Also enabled is the PSAT (NO84) digipeating. And its HF to UHF transponder is always on for PSK31. See http://aprs.org/psat.html for further information. [ANS thanks Bob Bruninga, WB4APR for the above information] +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Need new satellite antennas? Purchase Arrows, Alaskan Arrows, and M2 LEO-Packs from the AMSAT Store. When you purchase through AMSAT, a portion of the proceeds goes towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space. https://amsat.org/product-category/hardware/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ MIR-SAT1 Scheduled for Deployment from the ISS Jean Marc Momple, 3B8DU reports it now official that MIR-SAT1, the first Mauritius Amateur Radio 3B8 satellite, will be deployed from the ISS on June 22, 2021 at 10:55 UTC. The deployment will be made using the robotic arm on the Japanese Experiment Module nicknamed Kibo. MIR-SAT1 is a 1U CubeSat mission with the following objectives: 1. Verify the performance of the on-board subsystems by receiving telemetry from the satellite and establish communication to and from the satellite (command and control). 2. Collect images of Mauritius and the Mauritian EEZ for capacity, building, experiment and research. 3. Experimental communication with other islands via the satellite (for scientific and/or emergency purposes), through a Radio Amateur digipeater payload. 4. V/U 9600bps GMSK digipeater may be open for Radio Amateur communication worldwide when the satellite not used for all above. Further details can be found at https://spacemauritius.com. Experimental decoders are already available: + AMSAT Pacsat Ground Station Software by Chris Thompson, G0KLA/AC2CZ is a decoder for the PacSat protocol, designed for FalconSat-3 now with support for Mir-Sat1. More information and the download is available at: https://www.g0kla.com/pacsat/index.php. + GR-Satellites by Daniel Estévez, EA4GPZ is a collection of GNU Radio decoders. More information and the download is available at: https://github.com/daniestevez/gr-satellites/blob/master/python/telemetry/m…. These decoder will be used by local schools and Universities to capture the signals from the bird and hopefully create inspiration for our 3B8 youngsters to space science and STEM per AMSAT Ambassador program goals. Jean Marc remarks, "It is so great to have the support of above experts. I wish to put on record my appreciation for the all the advice they provided to the 3B8 team and their fully unconditional support in the Ham spirit of brotherhood. 'Grand merci Chris et Dani.' Without you we ham's will not have a clue about what is the status of the bird." In addition, the Mauritius Amateur Radio Society (MARS) is creating special awards open to all participating Hams/SWL's worldwide. These awards will be issued to those decoding MIR-SAT1 telemetry and forwarding same to SatNOGS. - A Platinum award will be issued to the first 10 ground station applying for MIR-SAT1 Award after having forwarded the telemetry to SatNOGS. - A Gold award will be issued to the next 20 ground station applying for MIR-SAT1 Award after having forwarded the telemetry to SatNOGS. - A Silver award will be issued to the next 30 ground station applying for MIR-SAT1 Award after having forwarded the telemetry to SatNOGS. - A Bronze award will be issued to the next 50 ground station applying for MIR-SAT1 Award after having forwarded the telemetry to SatNOGS. Complete information on the awards program can be found at https://mars3b8.wordpress.com/2021/06/19/mir-sat1-special-award/. [ANS thanks Jean Marc Momple, 3B8DU for the above information.] +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ AMSAT's GOLF Program is about getting back to higher orbits, and it all begins with GOLF-TEE - a technology demonstrator for deployable solar panels, propulsion, and attitude control, now manifested for launch on NASA's ELaNa 46 mission. Come along for the ride. The journey will be worth it! https://tinyurl.com/ANS-GOLF +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ The IARU Participating in the CEPT Working Groups IARU volunteers have been participating in the CEPT FM and SE Working Groups looking after the Amateur Radio and Amateur Satellite Service interests. CEPT WG-SE #88 took place during April and WG-FM #99 took place at the end of May. The report from the IARU Region 1 site says: WG-FM’s project teams tackle a wide range of civil spectrum applications and are developing important regulatory deliverables relating to wireless power transfer and the 23cm band RNSS coexistence topic amongst other things. Work on both these topics is ongoing. The CEPT Radio Amateur Forum Group (RAFG) is hosted by WG-FM and is chaired by the IARU for the time being. Its main task is maintenance of the CEPT Recommendations TR61-01 and TR61-02. A proposal to merge the activities of the RAFG into project team FM58 (Maritime) has been made but the final decision has been held over until the next WG-FM meeting. The RAFG was tasked at this meeting with a new work item to consider the feasibility of developing an electronic database of CEPT wide amateur licensing documentation. This was supported by six administrations. https://cept.org/ecc/groups/ecc/wg-fm/fm-radio-amateur-fg/client/introducti… In WG-SE technical spectrum sharing studies are taking place covering; • Wireless power transfer including consideration of electric vehicle charging (WPT- EV). • UWB radiodetermination in 116 – 250 GHz. • Vehicular radar systems in 77 – 81 GHz. • Security Scanners in the range 60 – 90 GHz. • 23cm band RNSS coexistence (related to the WRC item and reported in detail elsewhere) https://www.iaru.org/spectrum/iaru-and-itu/wrc-23/agenda-item-9-1-topic-b/ Amateur service frequency bands are within the scope of all these studies and fall under the remit of the IARU R1 SRLC https://www.iaru-r1.org/about-us/committees-and-working-groups/srlc/ A summary report of the WG-SE meeting is at https://www.iaru-r1.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/CEPT-WGSE88-April-2021-r… The WG-FM meeting is at https://www.iaru-r1.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/WGFM-99-May2021-Report.p… Working Group FM Meeting 99 documents https://cept.org/ecc/groups/ecc/wg-fm/client/meeting-documents/?flid=28918 [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information.] -------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Satellite Operations EM72, June 21-25, 2021 N4DCW be there all week. Operating vacation style, but DM him if you need a sked. He’ll have a decent Eastern horizon for those on the other side of the Atlantic. IN73, Later June EA4M will be in IN73 on holidays, probably for a week or so. He will try some birds. Check Twitter for schedules. DL98, Last week in June WA5RR is looking at doing a rove in DL98 with an overnight stay in Eagle Pass, TX. Details to follow. CN98, Last week of June N5LEX DN63, July 2, 2021; DN64, July 3, 2021 ND0C and KE0WPA along with their resident photojournalist (Mom/Amy) will be taking a family excursion to the southwest and working some sats as time permits. Among the less commonly worked grids from which they plan to operate are DN63 7/2, DN64 7/2 & 7/3. Check @kylee_ke0wpa for info. Tortola, BVI, July 4-17, 2021 VP2V/K3TRM will be operating from Tortola, BVI on 40-6M SSB & digital, and satellite. DM62, ~July 9, 2021 K5TA is tentatively planning when there are several good passes mid-day, making it a doable day-trip for him. [ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR for the above information.] +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Want to fly the colors on your own grid expedition? Get your AMSAT car flag and other neat stuff from our Zazzle store! 25% of the purchase price of each product goes towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ ARISS News + Completed Contacts Gagarin From Space. Performing a radio amateur session with school children in the city of Great Ustyug, Velikiy Ustyug, Russia, direct via UB1QBM. The ISS callsign was RSØISS. The downlink frequency was 145.800 MHz. The astronaut was Oleg Novitskiy Contact was successful on Saturday, June 12, 2021 at 09:15 UTC. Collège Albert Camus, La Norville, France and Université Paris-Saclay, Saint-Aubin, France multi-point telebridge via ON4ISS. The ISS callsign was FXØISS. The downlink frequency was 145.800 MHz. The astronaut was Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG. Contact was successful on Thursday, June 17, 2021 at 11:40:45 UTC. + Upcoming Contacts Ecole publique de Bellême, Bellême, France, Pôle scolaire Igé/Le Gué de la Chaine, Belforêt en Perche, France, and Ecole de Nocé, Perche en Nocé, France, multi-point telebridge via ON4ISS. The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be FXØISS. The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 437.525 MHz. The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG. Contact is go for: Friday, June 25, 2021 at 08:34:42 UTC. A multi-point telebridge contact means that each student will be on the telebridge from their own home. + Current Status of ISS Stations IORS (Kenwood TM-D710GA) - STATUS - ACTIVE. supporting cross band repeater operation (145.990 up [67 Hz tone] /437.800 down MHz). Next mode change to packet operations targeting after Field Day. Supporting USOS scheduled voice contacts, packet and voice repeater ops. Service Module radios: Kenwood TM-D710E - STATUS - Radio usually off. Supporting ROS scheduled voice contacts and SSTV. Watch for possible operation mode change sometime after ARRL Field Day. Exact date and time TBD. The latest information on the operation mode can be found at: https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html [ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N for the above information.] -------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts from All Over + AMSAT Receives $403 from AmazonSmile AMSAT has received its quarterly notification from AmazonSmile that it has made a charitable donation to the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, in the amount of $403.32 as a result of qualifying purchases made by its members who have selected AMSAT. Thanks to AMSAT shoppers at smile.amazon.com, their everyday purchases have generated $7,097.98 in donations to the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation so far. [ANS thanks AmazonSmile for the above information.] * Where are the Women in STEM? Do you have a young lady in the family who is looking for ways to get involved in the world of science? When it comes to science influencers, Emily Calandrelli is a household name for a new generation of space enthusiasts. If you have kids, you may know her from “Emily’s Wonder Lab” on Netflix, which brought DIY science experiments into viewers’ homes during the pandemic lockdown. She’s also the long-running host of “Xploration Outer Space,” and a speaker and the author of the Ada Lace children’s book series. While Emily’s communication style is fun and accessible, she has a rigorous science and engineering background underpinning her work, with two master’s degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Check out Emily's website, The Space Gal at http://www.thespacegal.com/women-in-stem for ideas on how to engage your youngster in the adventures of space. [ANS thanks Via Satellite for the above information.] + Fly the SpaceX ISS Docking Simulator! "Now arriving at Docking Port #1..." Think you have "all the right stuff"? The SpaceX ISS Docking Simulator lets you try your hand at safely docking your Dragon space capsule to the ISS. In fact, they say it is the exact same interface that astronauts use on the job. Be sure to check the instructions tab for a quick overview of how the controls work. It's fun! Test your piloting skills at https://iss-sim.spacex.com/. [ANS thanks SPACEX for the above information.] + Chinese Astronauts Enter Tiangong Space Station for First Time Three Chinese astronauts floated into the country’s new Tiangong space station Thursday, becoming the first people to board China’s outpost in orbit after a successful launch from a military base in the Gobi Desert to start a three-month mission. The three astronauts will spend the next three months testing systems on-board the station, three times longer than any previous Chinese human spaceflight mission. In total, China has now launched 12 astronauts into orbit on seven crewed Shenzhou missions since 2003. Read the complete story at https://tinyurl.com/ANS-171-Tiangong. [ANS thanks Spaceflight Now for the above information.] -------------------------------------------------------------------- Not an AMSAT member? Join now at https://launch.amsat.org/ 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. President's Club donations may be made at https://tinyurl.com/ANS-PresClub. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half-time status shall be eligible for the student rate for a maximum of six post-secondary years in this status. Contact info at the amsat dot org for additional student membership information. 73, This week's ANS Editor, Frank Karnauskas, N1UW n1uw at amsat dot org Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. To unsubscribe or change your subscription settings see https://www.amsat.org/mailing-list-faq/.

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Delaware on sats Sunday June 20th
by John Brier 19 Jun '21

19 Jun '21

Hi, I am travelling south from Philadelphia to Virginia tomorrow and I see at least one person needs Delaware. I will stop there and do RS-44 @ 18:09z centered around 435.620 MHz and SO-50 @ 18:37z. I'll be in grid FM29. Check my Twitter account for updates: https://twitter.com/SpaceComms1 73, John Brier KG4AKV

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Fwd: Bob's EV and SOlar obsession in Baltimore Sun
by Robert Bruninga 19 Jun '21

19 Jun '21

For Field operations for FD or roving, you might find interesting the column by Dan Rodericks of the Baltimore Sun where he mentions my field power from the car for Ham radio (and Big Screen TV's).. https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks… It covers my obsession of EV's, solar and emergency power. Bob >

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IC-R30, DE QSO
by Wes Baden 19 Jun '21

19 Jun '21

Thinking about it I’m skeptical, but I’m still wondering if anyone has tried using the IC-R30 as a small, portable receiver for use with either linear or FM sats. Its claimed sensitivity is in the 0.3 microvolt range, so I am curious if, with a 6dB or so handheld yagi, it would have good enough ears for receiving downlink signals. Still looking for a DE QSO, by the way. I’m always happy to pass out FN54/Maine if anyone needs it. Wes NA1ME

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Logging Program Suggestions
by James Jipping 19 Jun '21

19 Jun '21

Good Evening: THANK YOU to all who responded to my request for a logging program suggestion. The response was, as usual, great. It looks like DXKeeper is the one for me. YEP! The learning curve is a bit steep and there is a lot to configure, but I'm on my way. It sure is slick to only have enter the call and the SatPC323 DDE and DXKeeper takes care of all the rest. I notice one thing missing, it does not log to QRZ, unless I'm missing something. LoTW gets the info just fine. SO, THANKS, again Jim JIpping, W8MRR AMSAT #5512

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2021-06-18 23:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 18 Jun '21

18 Jun '21

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2021-06-18 23:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Ecole publique de Bellême, Bellême, France, Pôle scolaire Igé/Le Gué de la Chaine, Belforêt en Perche, France, and Ecole de Nocé, Perche en Nocé, France multi-point telebridge via IK1SLD (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be FXØISS The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 437.525 MHz The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is go for: Sat 2021-06-26 09:25:32 UTC 85 deg (***) Watch for possible operation mode change sometime after ARRL Field Day. Exact date and time TBD. The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The latest list of frequencies in use can be found at https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html ######################################################################################################################################## A multi-point telebridge contact means that each student will be on the telebridge from their own home. **************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS is very aware of the impact that COVID-19 is having on schools and the public in general. As such, we may have last minute cancellations or postponements of school contacts. As always, I will try to provide everyone with near-real-time updates. Watch for future COVID-19 related announcements at https://www.ariss.org/ The following schools have now been postponed or cancelled due to COVID-19: Postponed: No new schools Cancelled: No new schools **************************************************************************************************************************************** Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2021-06-18 23:00 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2021-06-17 19:00 UTC. https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at https://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For future proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of Information Webinars, go to www.ariss.org. About ARISS: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Lab and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEAM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or public forms. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts. Applications should be addressed by email to: school.selection.manager(a)ariss-eu.org ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application. Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. For the application, go to: https://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd(a)gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss(a)iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) https://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n(a)amsat.org or aj9n(a)aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8Ø MHz unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting. Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts. If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke(a)sbcglobal.net The HamTV webpage: https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Sergey RV3DR with 153 Francesco IKØWGF with 140 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 140 Gaston ON4WF with 123 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed, and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1456. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1388. (***) Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 48. Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: https://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correcti… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 64 on orbit Oleg Novitskiy Pyotr Dubrov Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP SpaceX-Crew 2 on orbit Meghan McArthur (Behnken) Akihiko Hoshide KE5DNI Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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logging program suggestions
by James Jipping 18 Jun '21

18 Jun '21

Good Morning: Well, I starting to get back on the birds and realize I need to use LoTW and, maybe QRZ. So, I need an easy to use logging program to generate the proper file for automatic transfer to LoTW/QRZ.. Maybe it could interface with SatPC32 to get satellite, frequency, mode, etc info (I hate typing). Everything is on paper right now from way back to the beginning 100' and 100's and 100's of QSO's. I do not want to go there. Fun to look at though. Any suggestions?? Thank you. Jim Jipping, W8MRR AMSAT # 5512

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2021-06-17 19:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 17 Jun '21

17 Jun '21

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2021-06-17 19:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Collège Albert Camus, La Norville, France and Université Paris-Saclay, Saint-Aubin, France multi-point telebridge via ON4ISS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be FXØISS The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact was successful: Thu 2021-06-17 11:40:45 UTC 84 deg (***) Congratulations to the Collège Albert Camus and Université Paris-Saclay students and Thomas! (***) Watch for livestream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04k4RGNxlgU Ecole publique de Bellême, Bellême, France, Pôle scolaire Igé/Le Gué de la Chaine, Belforêt en Perche, France, and Ecole de Nocé, Perche en Nocé, France multi-point telebridge via ON4ISS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be FXØISS The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 437.525 MHz The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Contact is go for: Fri 2021-06-25 08:34:42 UTC 84 deg Watch for possible operation mode change sometime after ARRL Field Day. Exact date and time TBD. (***) The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html The latest list of frequencies in use can be found at https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html ######################################################################################################################################## A multi-point telebridge contact means that each student will be on the telebridge from their own home. **************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS is very aware of the impact that COVID-19 is having on schools and the public in general. As such, we may have last minute cancellations or postponements of school contacts. As always, I will try to provide everyone with near-real-time updates. Watch for future COVID-19 related announcements at https://www.ariss.org/ The following schools have now been postponed or cancelled due to COVID-19: Postponed: No new schools Cancelled: No new schools **************************************************************************************************************************************** Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2021-06-17 19:00 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2021-06-17 19:00 UTC. (***) https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at https://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For future proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of Information Webinars, go to www.ariss.org. About ARISS: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Lab and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEAM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or public forms. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts. Applications should be addressed by email to: school.selection.manager(a)ariss-eu.org ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application. Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. For the application, go to: https://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd(a)gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss(a)iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) https://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n(a)amsat.org or aj9n(a)aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8Ø MHz unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting. Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts. If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke(a)sbcglobal.net The HamTV webpage: https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Sergey RV3DR with 153 Francesco IKØWGF with 140 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 140 Gaston ON4WF with 123 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed, and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1456. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1388. (***) Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 48. Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: https://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correcti… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 64 on orbit Oleg Novitskiy Pyotr Dubrov Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP SpaceX-Crew 2 on orbit Meghan McArthur (Behnken) Akihiko Hoshide KE5DNI Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Sat Shows
by Clint Bradford 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

Thanks to the Wellesley Amateur Radio Society in Massachusetts - we had a great time last night! - - - - - - - - - - - Clint, THANK YOU very much for an incredible discussion last night! You had a terrific mix of facts, fun, and trivia! I enjoyed playing your game - and learned quite a lot ! - - - - - - - - - - - Think a lively and informative "Getting Started Working Satellites" may be appropriate for your club? Let's set a Zoom date! Clint Bradford K6LCS AMSAT Ambassador, ARRL instructor Work-Sat.com 909-999-SATS (7287) Sent from my iPhone

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FS: FT-736R
by Ed Cole 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

I bought a new IC9700 so excess to my station is a FT-736R: 144 & 432 all-mode CW/SSB/FM/packet capable radio. Better than 25w output on both bands. Expandable to 50, 222, 1296 with separate plug-in modules (not supplied). Comes with optional CTCSS tone board, two hand mics, ac cord, and manual. Internal AC-powered PS is operational. $550.00 plus shipping via US Priority Mail to US/CA. PayPal or check. This is a fine old radio with super sensitive receiver. Still used by many for eme as well as general VHF/UHF, and Satellite capable radio. Ed Cole-KL7UW <kl7uw(a)acsalaska.net> or 907-776-5829

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