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Tweet from AMSAT (@AMSAT)
by JoAnne K9JKM 24 Sep '19

24 Sep '19

Seen on Twitter first. Relay to the -bb. AMSAT (@AMSAT) tweeted at 0:56 PM on Tue, Sep 24, 2019: An update on LauncherOne's progress. The second flight of LauncherOne will carry RadFxSat-2 / Fox-1E to orbit. (https://twitter.com/AMSAT/status/1176555939786362880?s=09) Get the official Twitter app at https://twitter.com/download?s=13

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ARISS Contact Colorado University/Northridge Elementary School Successful (US#454)
by Bob 24 Sep '19

24 Sep '19

Just a quick update to let everyone know that the contact today between Astronaut Nick Hague and Northridge Elementary School (Colorado University in Boulder) was a complete success. All 16 student questions were asked and answered. One of the teacher questions was asked and answered before Claudio IK6SLD, who's team did a fantastic job at the ground station, completed the contact. My thanks for Charlie AJ9N who moderated the contact. Colorado University Aerospace, The Boulder Amateur Radio Club (BARC), and the University of Colorado Amateur Radio Club hosted the event and did a wonderful job. The contact began at 17:43 UTC and ended at 17:55 UTC on September 24, 2019 73, Bob, WB4SON ARISS Mentor

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ARISS Contact Colorado University/Northridge Elementary School Successful (US#454)
by Bob 24 Sep '19

24 Sep '19

Just a quick update to let everyone know that the contact today between Astronaut Nick Hague and Northridge Elementary School (Colorado University in Boulder) was a complete success. All 16 student questions were asked and answered. One of the teacher questions was asked and answered before Claudio IK6SLD, who's team did a fantastic job at the ground station, completed the contact. My thanks for Charlie AJ9N who moderated the contact. Colorado University Aerospace, The Boulder Amateur Radio Club (BARC), and the University of Colorado Amateur Radio Club hosted the event and did a wonderful job. The contact began at 17:43 UTC and ended at 17:55 UTC on September 24, 2019 73, Bob, WB4SON ARISS Mentor

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-24 15:30 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 24 Sep '19

24 Sep '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-24 15:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: About Gagarin From Space, Meeting of 30 universities, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, direct via LZ1KDP (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin (***) Contact is go for Tue 2019-09-24 16:10 UTC Sorry gang for the late update for Bulgaria. I am literally getting this sent to me in near real time. (***) University of Colorado Amateur Radio Club and Northridge Elementary School, Boulder, CO, telebridge via IK1SLD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Tue 2019-09-24 17:43:20 UTC 86 deg Watch for livestream starting about 15 minutes before AOS at http://www.ariotti.com UAE school #1 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour Contact is go for Fri 2019-09-27 12:10 UTC Kursk, Russia, direct via TBD (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin (***) Contact is go for Fri 2019-09-27 15:25 UTC (***) UAE school #2 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 11:20 UTC Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via TBD (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin (***) Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 14:35 UTC (***) Sonoma County Main Library, Santa Rosa, CA, telebridge via K6DUE The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-01 19:53:13 UTC 82 deg UAE school #3 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour Contact is go for Wed 2019-10-02 09:45 UTC AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For many years I have on purpose not given the actual hyperlinks; I assume the user would do a copy/paste into their favorite browser. I am now thinking that the browsers have all grown up and most should be able to handle the link. Please let me know you experience any issues. So now you should be able to directly click on the link. (***) 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 2019-09-24 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. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-09-24 03:00 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 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: http://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) http://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. ******************************************************************************* 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 http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? 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: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 120 **************************************************************************** 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 1332. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1275. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correctio… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Telemetry Program for FO-29? Where can I download it?
by Steve Nordahl 24 Sep '19

24 Sep '19

I'm looking to get the required telemetry program for FO-29. Not sure where to get the program at this point. Can someone point me in the right direction. Also since it might be a rather old program, does it still have to be registered and will I get a password? If so who does that come from? Steve NS3L

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CubeSat Simulator/Trainer
by Robert Bankston 24 Sep '19

24 Sep '19

I have been researching the idea of building a CubeSat Simulator we can use in a "classroom" environment, which simulates four modes of amateur satellites: * U/v FM repeater, with doppler effect * VHF APRS digipeater * VHF SSTV transmitter * V/u linear transponder, with doppler effect I think this would be a great tool to use in presentations/demonstration, as well as to allow operators, using their own equipment, to take a "test drive" on all of the amateur radio satellite types currently in orbit. My initial plan is to use a Raspberry Pi and a LimeSDR Mini software defined transceiver, all stuffed inside a 3d printed, 1U Fox satellite. [Alternatively, I could use the RPi as the transmitter and an SDR-RTL dongle as the receiver.] On the software side, I am looking at running GNUradio and Direwolf. The trickiest part will be simulating doppler effect on the UHF receiver (uplink) side for FM and linears. This is all new to me and my only related education comes from what I have been able to find on the internet. If you have any recommendations and/or experience with GNUradio, I could really use the help. 73, Robert Bankston, KE4AL

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-24 03:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-24 03:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: The Children’s Inn at NIH (National Institutes of Health), Bethesda, MD (CASIS#3), telebridge via ON4ISS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact was successful: Mon 2019-09-23 20:08:27 UTC 89 deg (***) Watch for live coverage at: https://childrensinn.org/in-the-news/iss-astronaut-to-talk-to-ill-children-… https://www.facebook.com/TheChildrensInn/ https://twitter.com/NIH Facebook Posts: https://www.facebook.com/99591362449/posts/10157814902862450/?substory_inde… https://www.facebook.com/99591362449/posts/10157817661662450/?substory_inde… Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheChildrensInn/status/1162046525146566656 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6567797227903950848/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6567419538596515840/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/B1MaU0BD7lG/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B1J8V1tAcpL/ School in Bulgaria, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-09-24 16:10 UTC University of Colorado Amateur Radio Club and Northridge Elementary School, Boulder, CO, telebridge via IK1SLD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Tue 2019-09-24 17:43:20 UTC 86 deg Watch for livestream starting about 15 minutes before AOS at http://www.ariotti.com UAE school #1 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour Contact is go for Fri 2019-09-27 12:10 UTC UAE school #2 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 11:20 UTC Sonoma County Main Library, Santa Rosa, CA, telebridge via K6DUE (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV (***) Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-01 19:53:13 UTC 82 deg (***) UAE school #3 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour Contact is go for Wed 2019-10-02 09:45 UTC South-Western State University, Russia, direct via TBD (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin (***) Contact is go for Mon 2019-10-28 14:35 UTC (***) AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For many years I have on purpose not given the actual hyperlinks; I assume the user would do a copy/paste into their favorite browser. I am now thinking that the browsers have all grown up and most should be able to handle the link. Please let me know you experience any issues. So now you should be able to directly click on the link. (***) 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 2019-09-24 03:00 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-09-24 03:00 UTC. (***) http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 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: http://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) http://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. ******************************************************************************* 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 http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? 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: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 120 **************************************************************************** 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 1332. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1275. (***) Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correctio… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Congratulations
by KC9SGV 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

Congratulations to all elected to the AMSAT-NA board. Bernard, KC9SGV Sent from my iPad

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-23 14:30 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-23 14:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: The Children’s Inn at NIH (National Institutes of Health), Bethesda, MD (CASIS#3), telebridge via ON4ISS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Mon 2019-09-23 20:08:27 UTC 89 deg Watch for live coverage at: https://childrensinn.org/in-the-news/iss-astronaut-to-talk-to-ill-children-… https://www.facebook.com/TheChildrensInn/ https://twitter.com/NIH Facebook Posts: https://www.facebook.com/99591362449/posts/10157814902862450/?substory_inde… https://www.facebook.com/99591362449/posts/10157817661662450/?substory_inde… Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheChildrensInn/status/1162046525146566656 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6567797227903950848/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6567419538596515840/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/B1MaU0BD7lG/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B1J8V1tAcpL/ School in Bulgaria, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-09-24 16:10 UTC University of Colorado Amateur Radio Club and Northridge Elementary School, Boulder, CO, telebridge via IK1SLD (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Tue 2019-09-24 17:43:20 UTC 86 deg Watch for livestream starting about 15 minutes before AOS at http://www.ariotti.com UAE school #1 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour (***) Contact is go for Fri 2019-09-27 12:10 UTC UAE school #2 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour (***) Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 11:20 UTC UAE school #3 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour (***) Contact is go for Wed 2019-10-02 09:45 UTC AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For many years I have on purpose not given the actual hyperlinks; I assume the user would do a copy/paste into their favorite browser. I am now thinking that the browsers have all grown up and most should be able to handle the link. Please let me know you experience any issues. So now you should be able to directly click on the link. (***) 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 2019-09-23 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. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-09-21 03:00 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 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: http://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) http://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. ******************************************************************************* 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 http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? 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: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 120 **************************************************************************** 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 1331. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1274. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correctio… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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GNURadio/gr-satellites preliminary install guide on Ubuntu
by Hans BX2ABT 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

Spent the most part of today trying to install GNU Radio and gr-satellites, using a clean install of Kubuntu 19.04 (=Ubuntu with KDE instead of Gnome), which is the latest release. I kind of succeeded. GNU Radio Companion is running and gr-satellites is installed. Most flow graphs don't have missing blocks and compile correctly. The only part that is missing is that when I execute a gr-satellite flow graph there is no Xterm popping up. I added the following lines to .gnuradio/grc.conf, but that didn't make any difference.... [grc] xterm_executable = /usr/bin/xterm Here are the install instructions. I hope they are useful as a reference to someone. ================================================ Steps to install GNURadio and gr-satellites on (K)Ubuntu 19.04 $sudo apt-get install gnuradio --> will install version 3.7.13.4-4build1 plus dependencies $sudo apt-get install gr-osmosdr --> will install the block to access a RTL-SDR stick for testing $sudo apt-get install xterm --> used by GNURadio After installing the things above you should be able to start GNU Radio Companion from menu or command line. Open a sample flow graph, e.g. an FM receiver flow graph you can find online, then compile and execute. If it works: success $sudo apt-get install git --> will install git for cloning git repositories $mkdir src $cd src $git clone https://github.com/daniestevez/gr-satellites.git --> the good stuff $git clone https://github.com/daniestevez/libfec.git --> needed for gr-satellites $cd libfec $./configure $make $sudo make install $cd .. $sudo apt-get install python-pip --> needed to install gr-satellites dependencies $pip2 install construct --> installs this gr-satellites dependency $pip2 install requests --> make sure it has the trailing 's' $sudo apt-get install swig --> installs this gr-satellites dependency $apt-get install cmake --> if not installed already $cd gr-satellites $mkdir build $cd build $cmake .. $make $sudo make install $sudo ldconfig $cd .. $./compile_hierarchical.sh --> blocks needed for certain gr-satellites flow graphs. Don't forget this step and be patient because it will take a while to complete. Now you can start GNU Radio Companion and open a flow graph from the app folder in the source directory of gr-satellites. Compile and execute. If it works start GQRX, activate the UDP audio stream and start decoding telemetry.

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gr-satellites Wiki
by Hans BX2ABT 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

For some reason Daniel's mail about the gr-satellites wiki didn't make it to the mailing list. So let me tell you...... The GitHub entry for gr-satellites (https://github.com/daniestevez/gr-satellites) now has a Wiki where there are instructions on how to install it. For now it features general instructions and detailed instructions on how to set it up on (K)Ubuntu version 19.04. Over the weekend I have tested these instructions on some fresh installs and one old install of version 19.04 and after revisions I am confident they will work for you, too. Please give it a try and if you do encounter problems please post them here on the list. If you don't have an Ubuntu system then please share your notes on how the install goes on your system, so it can be added to the Wiki. Thank you and 73 de Hans BX2ABT

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Upcoming ARISS contact with University of Colorado Amateur Radio Club, Boulder, CO
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at University of Colorado Amateur Radio Club, Boulder, CO on Sept 24. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 17:43 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between OR4ISS and IK1SLD. The contact should be audible over Italy and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. Story: Northridge Elementary School is a STEM focus school within the St. Vrain Valley School District in Longmont, Colorado. 320 students attend our school, and 47 of these students are in fourth grade. At Northridge, every student belongs to every teacher. Our mission statement is, "To meet the academic and behavioral needs of all students using rigorous and high quality instruction while respecting diversity and partnering with parents and the community." Whether in the classroom, the cafeteria, or the hallway, we believe that everyone must work together to ensure that all students achieve high levels and become responsible members of our diverse society. We know that STEM education is only successful if it is accessible for all students, no matter what their background or life circumstances may be. This begins with relationship building between teachers, students, parents, and administration. Our population is very diverse. Therefore, building communication skills through the use of accountable talk and sentence frames is critical to student success. Students who might not otherwise be able to communicate are able to express their ideas and give feedback to their peers, as well as support their claims with evidence from research, grade level texts, or experiment data. The elements of our STEM By Design model, which include integration, 21st century skills, problem solving, personalized learning, and forming connections, are embedded into everything teachers and students do and believe. Students learn through interdisciplinary units that dissolve boundaries across academic subject levels through authentic design challenges. Students engage in inquiry and problem-based activities in order to help master content and practice the elements of STEM by design. We believe in preparing students for careers that do not exist yet through authentic learning opportunities, as well as equitable access to quality learning tools, technology, and resources. Our goal is for students to understand the relevance of their learning in their own lives and in the world so that they feel empowered to explore careers in STEM fields. University of Colorado - Boulder HAM Radio students have been coming to our school to teach 4th grade students about sound waves, GPS, amateur radio, and life on the ISS. We are so excited for this exciting and engaging learning opportunity! Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. What work do you do on the space station? 2. How do you eat and walk in space? 3. How do astronauts return to Earth safely? 4. What is it like to float in space? 5. How do you take a shower? 6. How do you use the bathroom in space? 7. Please explain the science behind sending the ISS into orbit. Can you please explain the escape velocity needed? 8. How do you sleep in space? 9. What does space look like from your view? 10. Does the International Space Station get close to the Sun? 11. What do you do when you get hurt in space? 12. How many days can you stay up in space before you need to return to Earth? 13. Besides Ham Radio, what other ways do you communicate with people on Earth? 14. How long does it take to get to space? 15. How does the space station move? 16. How does gravity affect solids and liquids? 17. How hard was it to get in and out of the spacesuit? 18. How does your body change in space? 19. What does your daily schedule like? 20. What do you do on your time off? PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES: Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status Next planned event(s): TBD 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 (STEM) 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. Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Upcoming ARISS contact with The Children's Inn at NIH (National Institutes of Health), Bethesda, MD
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at The Children's Inn at NIH (National Institutes of Health), Bethesda, MD on Sept. 23. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 20:08 UTC. It is recommended that you start listening approximately 10 minutes before this time. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between OR4ISS and ON4ISS. The contact should be audible over Belgium and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. Watch for live coverage at: https://childrensinn.org/in-the-news/iss-astronaut-to-talk-to-ill-children-… https://www.facebook.com/TheChildrensInn/ https://twitter.com/NIH Story: The Children's Inn at NIH is partnering with the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) and Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) to host Ask an Astronaut: Biomedical Science Edition. The event will give children receiving care at NIH a unique science and technology experience. They will learn about the importance of biomedical research in space, including NCATS' Tissue Chips in Space program, which recently sent five projects to the International Space Station and which some current crew members worked on (thank you!). About The Children's Inn at NIH The Children's Inn is an independent nonprofit that provides "a place like home" to families of children with rare or critical illnesses whose best hope is a clinical research trial at the NIH Clinical Center, the world's largest hospital dedicated to biomedical research. The Inn strives to fully and consistently meet the needs of our families during their children's treatments by providing housing and support services-all at no cost to them-and reducing the burdens of illness through therapeutic, educational and recreational programming. The Ask an Astronaut event at The Inn will be different from ARISS's typical events with students in a classroom setting. The children at The Inn are seriously ill, so the goal will be on having a fun and stimulating experience. Kids can enjoy the wonder of talking with astronauts on the space station, learning what it's like to live in space and work on cool science experiments like Tissue Chips in Space. They also can learn about ham radio and how the astronauts can use it to communicate with other children all around the world. Thank you for taking time to speak with these children. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. What's it like to go up in a rocket ship? 2. How are experiments conducted in space? 3. Are there aliens in space? Do you see foreign creatures? 4. What's the coolest thing you've seen in space? 5. If you get sick in space how do you get medical treatment? 6. What do you do for fun in space? 7. How many times have you been in space? 8. How are body tissues affected by being in space? 9. Heidi, 13: Could being space be helpful to different medical conditions? 10. What medicine do you have to take before you go into space? 11. What advice do you have for someone who wants to become an astronaut? 12. What changes have you seen in your trips to space? 13. How do you prepare food in space? 14. Are your energy levels affected from being in space? 15. What is the weight of the space station? 16. Would you rather live with gravity or without gravity? 17. Does your hair grow faster in space? 18. What books or classes influenced you to be an astronaut? 19. What effects do space have on your sleep? 20. Do you get to FaceTime in space to talk to your family? How often? 21. What time zone is it in space? 22. Does your body change in space? 23. What are some things that you like about being in space? 24. How do you become an astronaut and travel into space? 25. What do you do to prepare for your travel into space? PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES: Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status Next planned event(s): 1. University of Colorado Amateur Radio Club, Boulder, CO, telebridge via IK1SLD. The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Tue 2019-09-24 17:43 UTC Watch for livestream starting about 15 minutes before AOS at www.ariotti.com 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 (STEM) 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. Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-23 03:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 22 Sep '19

22 Sep '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-23 03:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: The Children’s Inn at NIH (National Institutes of Health), Bethesda, MD (CASIS#3), telebridge via ON4ISS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Mon 2019-09-23 20:08:27 UTC 89 deg Watch for live coverage at: https://childrensinn.org/in-the-news/iss-astronaut-to-talk-to-ill-children-… https://www.facebook.com/TheChildrensInn/ https://twitter.com/NIH Facebook Posts: https://www.facebook.com/99591362449/posts/10157814902862450/?substory_inde… https://www.facebook.com/99591362449/posts/10157817661662450/?substory_inde… Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheChildrensInn/status/1162046525146566656 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6567797227903950848/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6567419538596515840/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/B1MaU0BD7lG/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B1J8V1tAcpL/ School in Bulgaria, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-09-24 16:10 UTC University of Colorado Amateur Radio Club, Boulder, CO, telebridge via IK1SLD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Tue 2019-09-24 17:43:20 UTC 86 deg Watch for livestream starting about 15 minutes before AOS at http://www.ariotti.com UAE school #1 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Fri 2019-09-27 12:10 UTC UAE school #2 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 11:20 UTC UAE school #3 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Wed 2019-10-02 09:45 UTC AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For many years I have on purpose not given the actual hyperlinks; I assume the user would do a copy/paste into their favorite browser. I am now thinking that the browsers have all grown up and most should be able to handle the link. Please let me know you experience any issues. So now you should be able to directly click on the link. (***) 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 2019-09-23 03:00 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-09-21 03:00 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 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: http://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) http://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. ******************************************************************************* 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 http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? 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: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 120 **************************************************************************** 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 1331. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1274. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correctio… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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AMSAT @ Payson AZ swap meet (5 October 2019)
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 22 Sep '19

22 Sep '19

Hi! AMSAT will be at the Tonto Amateur Radio Association's swap meet on the morning of Saturday, 5 October 2019. The swap meet will be at Rumsey Park, west of the intersection of Arizona routes 87 and 260 in Payson, Arizona (northeast of the Phoenix area). A map of the swap meet site is available at: https://goo.gl/maps/LGxfuJcf4GG2 The hamfest officially starts at 9am (1600 UTC). WD9EWK will be on the satellites during the swap meet, demonstrating satellite operating. If you hear WD9EWK on a pass on the morning of the 5th, please call and be a part of a demonstration. The swap meet site is in grid DM44, in Arizona's Gila County. QSOs made during the swap meet will be uploaded to Logbook of the World, and QSL cards are available on request (please e-mail me directly with the QSO details). Thanks, and 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK or http://twitter.com/WD9EWK

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Satellite Presentations in CA, IN, and WA
by Clint Bradford 22 Sep '19

22 Sep '19

ARRL instructor Clint Bradford, K6LCS, will be giving his "Working Amateur Satellites With Your HT” presentation at the following clubs and hamfest in the next few weeks. ALL are welcome to attend! -Maple Valley (WA) Amateur Radio Club Saturday, September 28, 2019 - 10AM Fire Station #81 near SR169 & SR18 22225 SE 231st Street Maple Valley, WA 98038. Talk-in 146.54 MHz simplex. Please see their Web site at http://www.kc7key.org/ <http://www.kc7key.org/> for more information. -San Diego HamFest 2019 Saturday, October 5, 2019 - 9:00AM Lakeside Rodeo Grounds at 12584 Mapleview Street, Lakeside CA. Talk-in 146.550 MHz simplex. Please visit the ‘fest’s Web site at http://www.sdhamfest.org <http://www.sdhamfest.org/> -IRC - Indianapolis Radio Club November 8, 2019 - 7:30PM Ivy Tech Community College, 2535 N. Capitol Ave. - Room IFC 101 (near downtown Indianapolis) Talk-in Yaesu Fusion 146.07+ (or analog with 88.5 tone) Web site is http://www.indyradioclub.org/ <http://www.indyradioclub.org/> -From the IRC club president: "Thank YOU for doing this presentation, Clint. BTW, YOU are the one that got me going in satellites and now W9IVY has an IC-9700 with a satellite array on the roof … all the students have HTs and this year we are making satellite antennas so they can make contacts with their HTs from home." If you’d like to preprogram your radios for the satellite passes during the San Diego HamFest, Clint has a frequency list (and tutorial) posted on his satellite Web site at: http://www.work-sat.com <http://www.work-sat.com/> He always welcomes questions before his presentations. Leave him a voice- mail at (909) 999-SATS or send email to: k6lcs(a)ham-sat.info <mailto:[email protected]> /end/

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Emirates build sepcial radio downlink for saturday qso
by andy thomas 22 Sep '19

22 Sep '19

It's reported at:https://menafn.com/1099033297/UAE-Mohammed-bin-Rashid-Space-CentreEmirat… and MBRSC, Emirates Foundation organise live sessions from ISS that: "On Saturday, 28 September, at 2pm one session will be held to answer questions through a radio station that was recently built at MBRSC's headquarters" | | | | | | | | | | | MBRSC, Emirates Foundation organise live sessions from ISS MBRSC has given the online community a chance to direct questions to Hazzaa AlMansoori through the hashtag #AskH... | | | 2pm Emirati time is 10 am UTC by my calculation. It's not clear to me what system that qso will be on! 73 de andy g0sfj

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share a room
by Nick Pugh 22 Sep '19

22 Sep '19

I am registered at the conference hotell for the symposium Thursday throught Sunday and would like to share a room any takers ? Please email me off list Nick K5QXJ Cell 337 258 2527 Helping UL become a world Class Engineering and Educational School Disagree I Learn

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AO-07 Popularity?
by James Pierce 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

I’ve put out calls a number of times on AO-07 as it passes over Australia and while I hear my own single back clearly I’ve never had a reply. I guess I’m curious if there is a calling protocol I’m missing, or a particular part of the passband etc? As a higher altitude bird with great coverage it would seems logical to me that it would be popular? Am I missing something? James.

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IO-86 added to APRS satellite page
by Robert Bruninga 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

I just added IO-86 to my APRS Satellite page: http://aprs.org/sats.html Its telemetry is in standard APRS format and users should also show up on the user link page on FINDU. With a 5W output this should be the strongest APRS satellite on 145.825 MHz. Did I get all the links right? But you have to be below 30 deg latitude to ever be in the footprint. But if you were on the equatior you would get 14 passes a day every 110 minutes all day long!! Are there any other APRS digipeating satellites that I have overlooked? It looks like a standard APRS digipeater, but I don’t see the usual generic ARISS or APRSAT digipeat aliases... So I guess this means you have to user the YB0X-1 callsign to digipeat? Bob, Wb4APR

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Update: Emirati astronaut radio link time
by andy thomas 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

According to the image just published at MBR Space Centre (@MBRSpaceCentre) | Twitter : A Radio call from the ISS to the audeince at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre is on Saturday 28.09.19 between 1400-1530 Emirati time (which I think is 1000-1230 utc) this is down as a Radio call; all others are down as Video (times are given). Registration : https://mbrsc.ae/astronauts/#AstroAbout There's no reference to ham radio in this image, might well be using a different circuit. Would be useful to predict ground tracks at these times. Evidently a lot of space <>ground radio activity by the Emirati astronaut. | | | | | | | | | | | MBR Space Centre (@MBRSpaceCentre) | Twitter The latest Tweets from MBR Space Centre (@MBRSpaceCentre). The Official Twitter Feed of The Mohammed Bin Rashid ... | | | 73 de andy g0sfj

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-21 03:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 20 Sep '19

20 Sep '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-21 03:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Boys and Girls Club, Ft. Meade, MD., telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact was successful: Fri 2019-09-20 19:58:23 UTC 54 deg (***) School in Bulgaria, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-09-24 16:10 UTC UAE school #1 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Fri 2019-09-27 12:10 UTC UAE school #2 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 11:20 UTC UAE school #3 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Wed 2019-10-02 09:45 UTC The Children’s Inn at NIH (National Institutes of Health), Bethesda, MD (CASIS#3), telebridge via ON4ISS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Mon 2019-09-23 20:08:27 UTC 89 deg Watch for live coverage at: https://childrensinn.org/in-the-news/iss-astronaut-to-talk-to-ill-children-… https://www.facebook.com/TheChildrensInn/ https://twitter.com/NIH Facebook Posts: https://www.facebook.com/99591362449/posts/10157814902862450/?substory_inde… https://www.facebook.com/99591362449/posts/10157817661662450/?substory_inde… Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheChildrensInn/status/1162046525146566656 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6567797227903950848/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6567419538596515840/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/B1MaU0BD7lG/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B1J8V1tAcpL/ University of Colorado Amateur Radio Club, Boulder, CO, telebridge via IK1SLD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Tue 2019-09-24 17:43:20 UTC 86 deg Watch for livestream starting about 15 minutes before AOS at www.ariotti.com (***) AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For many years I have on purpose not given the actual hyperlinks; I assume the user would do a copy/paste into their favorite browser. I am now thinking that the browsers have all grown up and most should be able to handle the link. Please let me know you experience any issues. So now you should be able to directly click on the link. (***) 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 2019-09-21 03:00 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-09-21 03:00 UTC. (***) http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 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: http://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) http://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. ******************************************************************************* 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 http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? 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: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 120 **************************************************************************** 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 1331. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1274. (***) Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correctio… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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N6O/mm Rove to DM02 Sunday Sept 22nd
by Ron Bondy 20 Sep '19

20 Sep '19

Alex N7AGF and Ron AD0DX will be activating DM02 this Sunday Sept 22nd on FM and linear satellites. The AMSAT community really rallied behind this and the entire $2500 cost of the 24 hour charter was covered by donations - thanks to everyone that donated. All the details for the rove can be found on our N6O page at QRZ.COM. Our first pass is planned to be AO-91 at 12:30am PAC / 0730z this Sunday Sept 22nd. We will be active until around 12 noon PAC / 1900z on Sunday. We will be using N6O/mm on the air and logging in LOTW as N6O/mm. We plan to make as many linear and FM passes as possible to hand out this grid to everyone interested. We will probably skip low western passes. Alex has a Garmin InReach and will tweet passes, so watch his twitter feed @N7AGF. Thanks again for all the support to cover the cost of the boat charter. The weather looks great for the weekend and we are excited to be activating DM02. 73 Ron AD0DX and Alex N7AGF

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ANS-263 Special Bulletin - 2019 Election Results
by JoAnne K9JKM 20 Sep '19

20 Sep '19

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN ANS-263.01 In this Special Bulletin: * 2019 AMSAT Board of Directors Election Results SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-263.01 ANS-263 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin 263.01 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE September 20, 2019 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-263.01 2019 AMSAT Board of Directors Election Results As a result of the 2019 Board of Directors Election, Jerry Buxton, N0JY; Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA; Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK; and Michelle Thompson, W5NYV; will serve on the board for two years. The First Alternate is Brennan Price, N4QX. The Second Alternate is Howard (Howie) Defelice, AB2S. Both will serve for a term of one year. The results of the voting with 1,052 ballots cast (892 electronic + 160 paper) are as follows: 675 votes ... Michelle Thompson, W5NYV 585 votes ... Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK 526 votes ... Jerry Buxton, N0JY 515 votes ... Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA 480 votes ... Brennan Price, N4QX 435 votes ... Howard (Howie) Defelice, AB2S 399 votes ... Paul Stoetzer, N8HM 366 votes ... Jeff Johns, WE4B These results submitted September 20, 2019 by Clayton Coleman, W5PFG AMSAT Secretary /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers life memberships, and sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the student rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership information. 73 and Remember to help keep Amateur Radio in space, This week's ANS Contributing Editor, JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM k9jkm at amsat dot org

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Re: [amsat-bb] [ans] ANS-263 Special Bulletin - 2019 Election Results
by Bruce 20 Sep '19

20 Sep '19

Congratulations to all those that ran and thank you for offering your time as an unpaid volunteer to be on the board. For those that won a seat on the board and a seat as an alternate, I look forward to working with you. 73...bruce On 9/20/2019 8:58 AM, JoAnne K9JKM via ANS wrote: > > AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN > ANS-263.01 > > In this Special Bulletin: > > * 2019 AMSAT Board of Directors Election Results > > SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-263.01 > ANS-263 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin > > AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin 263.01 > From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. > DATE September 20, 2019 > To All RADIO AMATEURS > BID: $ANS-263.01 > > 2019 AMSAT Board of Directors Election Results > > As a result of the 2019 Board of Directors Election, Jerry Buxton, N0JY; > Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA; Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK; and Michelle > Thompson, W5NYV; will serve on the board for two years. > > The First Alternate is Brennan Price, N4QX. The Second Alternate is > Howard (Howie) Defelice, AB2S. Both will serve for a term of one year. > > The results of the voting with 1,052 ballots cast (892 electronic + 160 > paper) are as follows: > > 675 votes ... Michelle Thompson, W5NYV > 585 votes ... Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK > 526 votes ... Jerry Buxton, N0JY > 515 votes ... Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA > 480 votes ... Brennan Price, N4QX > 435 votes ... Howard (Howie) Defelice, AB2S > 399 votes ... Paul Stoetzer, N8HM > 366 votes ... Jeff Johns, WE4B > > These results submitted September 20, 2019 by > Clayton Coleman, W5PFG > AMSAT Secretary > > /EX > > In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers life memberships, > and sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to > receive additional benefits. Application forms are available from > the AMSAT Office. > > Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership > at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students > enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the student > rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. > Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership > information. > > 73 and Remember to help keep Amateur Radio in space, > This week's ANS Contributing Editor, > JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM > k9jkm at amsat dot org > > _______________________________________________ > Via the ANS mailing list courtesy of AMSAT-NA > https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/ans -- Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards AMSAT Board Member 2016-2020 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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Emirati astronaut al-mansoori's QSO times confirmed
by andy thomas 20 Sep '19

20 Sep '19

According to Gulf News, which publishes the UAE's MBRSpaceCentre's official schedule, the ham radio sessions for Emirati astronaut Hazza al-Mansoori are as follows: Day 1, September 26 (Thursday): - HAM Radio: 11.33pm-11.42pm Emirati time The next space/ground contacts will be on Sunday 29th at 2.40pm to 2.57pm. Two more sessions are scheduled on Monday 30th and Tuesday 31st at 4.14pm-4.34pm. It's not clear whether or not these will be on ham radio as on these Gulf News report that "The calls will last for roughly 17 to 20 minutes each" which I don't think is possible with a normal pass. No other detals are given yet. I have not checked the orbital precession times but they are likely to be in the same timeframe within the astronaut's schedule as I previously reported, and will reflect the AOS and pass time over the UAE. So one definite QSO time and three possibles. Full story at: https://gulfnews.com/uae/science/uae-in-space-have-questions-for-hazza-on-t… 73 de andy g0sfj

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AMSAT 50th Award
by Brad Smith 19 Sep '19

19 Sep '19

I received my certificate and it is beautiful. Thank you, Bruce and the AMSAT people for the work you put into this project. It is an honor to have this certificate. Brad KC9UQR

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-19 06:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 19 Sep '19

19 Sep '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-19 06:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Templestowe College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, telebridge via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact was successful: Wed 2019-09-18 08:06:32 UTC 42 deg (***) Watch for live stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QalYOnHURYk Watch VK6MJ handle the contact: https://batc.org.uk/live/vk6mj Boys and Girls Club, Ft. Meade, MD., telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Fri 2019-09-20 19:58:23 UTC 54 deg School in Bulgaria, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-09-24 16:10 UTC UAE school #1 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Fri 2019-09-27 12:10 UTC UAE school #2 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 11:20 UTC UAE school #3 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Wed 2019-10-02 09:45 UTC (***) The Children’s Inn at NIH (National Institutes of Health), Bethesda, MD (CASIS#3), telebridge via ON4ISS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Mon 2019-09-23 20:08:27 UTC 89 deg Watch for live coverage at: https://childrensinn.org/in-the-news/iss-astronaut-to-talk-to-ill-children-… https://www.facebook.com/TheChildrensInn/ https://twitter.com/NIH Facebook Posts: https://www.facebook.com/99591362449/posts/10157814902862450/?substory_inde… https://www.facebook.com/99591362449/posts/10157817661662450/?substory_inde… Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheChildrensInn/status/1162046525146566656 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6567797227903950848/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6567419538596515840/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/B1MaU0BD7lG/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B1J8V1tAcpL/ University of Colorado Amateur Radio Club, Boulder, CO, telebridge via IK1SLD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Tue 2019-09-24 17:43:20 UTC 86 deg Watch for livestream starting about 15 minutes before AOS at www.ariotti.com (***) AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For many years I have on purpose not given the actual hyperlinks; I assume the user would do a copy/paste into their favorite browser. I am now thinking that the browsers have all grown up and most should be able to handle the link. Please let me know you experience any issues. So now you should be able to directly click on the link. (***) 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 2019-09-19 06:00 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-09-19 04:00 UTC. (***) http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 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: http://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) http://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. ******************************************************************************* 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 http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? 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: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 120 **************************************************************************** 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 1330. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1273. (***) Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correctio… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Full Duplex
by RG 18 Sep '19

18 Sep '19

So half duplex I think was luck as i tried several times and no more contacts.Had three confirmed QSO's.Iknow full duplex is the way to go.Without having to get another antenna and more coaxial I wanted to see if I can hear the SSB birds on my OCF dipole that I finally have up, Well it's partially up.I can hear them but with a bit of reduction in signal whick makes sense plus it's RG8U.What I was wondering,Can I get it so that I hear myself to set up where I am on the downlink then leave as is,or do I need constantly be adjusting the downlink?Maybe when I get the dipole higher it will help,part of one leg is near the ground but the 45ft leg is pretty good.Other thing is,I have an Icom R10 and plan on getting some good preamps for the satelllite bands,Do you thing the radio is sensitive enough to work well with them?Thanks for your help.Rich marzo7088(a)yahoo.com

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W3ZM and LoTW
by skristof＠etczone.com 18 Sep '19

18 Sep '19

When submitting to LoTW a QSO with a W3ZM station should I just submit it as W3ZM or with the call area appended (e.g. W3ZM/2)? Steve AI9IN

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-18 04:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 18 Sep '19

18 Sep '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-18 04:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Templestowe College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, telebridge via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Wed 2019-09-18 08:06:32 UTC 42 deg Watch for live stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QalYOnHURYk Watch VK6MJ handle the contact: https://batc.org.uk/live/vk6mj Boys and Girls Club, Ft. Meade, MD., telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Fri 2019-09-20 19:58:23 UTC 54 deg School in Bulgaria, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-09-24 16:10 UTC UAE school #1 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Fri 2019-09-27 12:10 UTC UAE school #2 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 11:20 UTC UAE school #3 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Wed 2019-10-02 09:45 UTC (***) The Children’s Inn at NIH (National Institutes of Health), Bethesda, MD (CASIS#3), telebridge via ON4ISS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Mon 2019-09-23 20:08:27 UTC 89 deg Watch for live coverage at: https://childrensinn.org/in-the-news/iss-astronaut-to-talk-to-ill-children-… https://www.facebook.com/TheChildrensInn/ https://twitter.com/NIH Facebook Posts: https://www.facebook.com/99591362449/posts/10157814902862450/?substory_inde… https://www.facebook.com/99591362449/posts/10157817661662450/?substory_inde… Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheChildrensInn/status/1162046525146566656 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6567797227903950848/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6567419538596515840/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/B1MaU0BD7lG/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B1J8V1tAcpL/ University of Colorado Amateur Radio Club, Boulder, CO, telebridge via IK1SLD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Tue 2019-09-24 17:43:20 UTC 86 deg AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For many years I have on purpose not given the actual hyperlinks; I assume the user would do a copy/paste into their favorite browser. I am now thinking that the browsers have all grown up and most should be able to handle the link. Please let me know you experience any issues. So now you should be able to directly click on the link. (***) 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 2019-09-18 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. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-09-03 17:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 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: http://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) http://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. ******************************************************************************* 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 http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? 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: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 120 **************************************************************************** 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 1329. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1272. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correctio… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Upcoming ARISS contact with Boys and Girls Club, Ft. Meade, MD - CORRECTED RELEASE
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 17 Sep '19

17 Sep '19

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS RELEASE REPLACES THE INITIAL FT. MEADE, MD. CONTACT RELEASE SENT AT 01:57 UTC ON 9-18-2019. THE CONTACT DATE ON THE INITIAL RELEASE WAS INCORRECT. An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Boys and Girls Club, Ft. Meade, MD on 20 Sept. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 19:58 UTC. It is recommended that you start listening approximately 10 minutes before this time. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and VK4KHZ. The contact should be audible over portions of Australia and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. Story: The Fort Meade, Maryland Middle School / Teen (MST) Program provides an after-school and summer camp program for youth ages 11 to 18 (grades 6 - 12). The program has 174 enrolled members and 50 - 60 youth attend on any given day. Half of the youth that attend are from military families, and most of the other half have parents who work in DoD in some capacity. The MST Program encourages middle school and high school teenagers to be the best that they can be by challenging them through various means. It provides a safe and supervised environment for youth engagement. Youth are provided internet access, snacks, homework help, game systems, a basketball court, music equipment, pool table, and ping-pong table. Through a generous grant from Raytheon through the Boys and Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), the program recently constructed a state of the art STEM center known as the Center of Innovation (COI), which incorporates training for MST Program staff, STEM events throughout the year, and a newly remodeled room with new STEM equipment for pushing the envelope in STEM experiences. Youth are now offered activities such as CAD, 3D printing and carving, and building circuits, to name a few. With the implementation of the COI, engineers and technologists of Raytheon, as well as government agencies such as DISA and NSA, consistently volunteer their time to offer STEM activities to youth. The program welcomes volunteers and the broader perspective that they bring. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. Do you have any customs for greeting arriving astronauts? 2. Do you feel trapped by not being able to go outside whenever you want? 3. Can you see the whole earth from up there? 4. How does it feel to sleep in space? 5. Is the experience of being on the ISS worth being gone for so long? 6. How old do you have to be to go into space? 7. What are your roles? 8. What is your favorite type of work on the ISS? 9. What is the most interesting experiment you're doing on the ISS? 10. What kinds of things do you build with your 3D printers? 11. When you return to earth, do you feel completely different? 12. What do you eat, and how do you store your food? 13. What is your favorite space food? 14. Can you all participate in space walks? 15. Do you feel lost or disoriented when space-walking? 16. As a team, how do you resolve your differences? 17. What's the view like up there? 18. What happens when you get sick? 19. How long have you been up there? 20. Are you ready to come back home? 21. What do you do when you're onboard? 22. What do you do for fun? 23. How do you solve your problems when they arise? 24. What is it like to live and work in space? PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES: Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status Next planned event(s): 1. School in Bulgaria, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-09-24 16:10 UTC 2. UAE school #1 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Fri 2019-09-27 12:10 UTC 3. UAE school #2 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 11:20 UTC 4. UAE school #3 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-10-01 TBD UTC 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 (STEM) 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. Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Upcoming ARISS contact with Boys and Girls Club, Ft. Meade, MD
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 17 Sep '19

17 Sep '19

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Boys and Girls Club, Ft. Meade, MD on 18 Sept. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 19:58 UTC. It is recommended that you start listening approximately 10 minutes before this time. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and VK4KHZ. The contact should be audible over portions of Australia and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. Story: The Fort Meade, Maryland Middle School / Teen (MST) Program provides an after-school and summer camp program for youth ages 11 to 18 (grades 6 - 12). The program has 174 enrolled members and 50 - 60 youth attend on any given day. Half of the youth that attend are from military families, and most of the other half have parents who work in DoD in some capacity. The MST Program encourages middle school and high school teenagers to be the best that they can be by challenging them through various means. It provides a safe and supervised environment for youth engagement. Youth are provided internet access, snacks, homework help, game systems, a basketball court, music equipment, pool table, and ping-pong table. Through a generous grant from Raytheon through the Boys and Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), the program recently constructed a state of the art STEM center known as the Center of Innovation (COI), which incorporates training for MST Program staff, STEM events throughout the year, and a newly remodeled room with new STEM equipment for pushing the envelope in STEM experiences. Youth are now offered activities such as CAD, 3D printing and carving, and building circuits, to name a few. With the implementation of the COI, engineers and technologists of Raytheon, as well as government agencies such as DISA and NSA, consistently volunteer their time to offer STEM activities to youth. The program welcomes volunteers and the broader perspective that they bring. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. Do you have any customs for greeting arriving astronauts? 2. Do you feel trapped by not being able to go outside whenever you want? 3. Can you see the whole earth from up there? 4. How does it feel to sleep in space? 5. Is the experience of being on the ISS worth being gone for so long? 6. How old do you have to be to go into space? 7. What are your roles? 8. What is your favorite type of work on the ISS? 9. What is the most interesting experiment you're doing on the ISS? 10. What kinds of things do you build with your 3D printers? 11. When you return to earth, do you feel completely different? 12. What do you eat, and how do you store your food? 13. What is your favorite space food? 14. Can you all participate in space walks? 15. Do you feel lost or disoriented when space-walking? 16. As a team, how do you resolve your differences? 17. What's the view like up there? 18. What happens when you get sick? 19. How long have you been up there? 20. Are you ready to come back home? 21. What do you do when you're onboard? 22. What do you do for fun? 23. How do you solve your problems when they arise? 24. What is it like to live and work in space? PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES: Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status Next planned event(s): 1. School in Bulgaria, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-09-24 16:10 UTC 2. UAE school #1 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Fri 2019-09-27 12:10 UTC 3. UAE school #2 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 11:20 UTC 4. UAE school #3 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-10-01 TBD UTC 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 (STEM) 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. Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Hackaday article on the Lunar Gateway.
by Hans BX2ABT 17 Sep '19

17 Sep '19

Saw an article on Hackaday.com about hams and the Lunar Gateway. Might be an interesting, even though it's not very in-dept. https://hackaday.com/2019/09/16/hams-in-space-gearing-up-for-the-lunar-gate… 73 de Hans

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How to tame gr-satellites?
by Hans BX2ABT 17 Sep '19

17 Sep '19

I was going to write a rant about gr-satellites, but then again that would only help me release some of my chagrin and not help met get going, so instead the question in the general interes of this list...... "How can mere mortals start to get going with gr-satellites?" Been a Linux end-user for 20 years now, so I know my way around, although I can not claim to be an expert. Usually with a quick search online I can find enough info to get going or solve a problem. Even the odd alteration in some source code is not something I am strange to, although a programmer I am not. And then there is GNU Radio.......which almost seems like it comes from another planet. Installing it, no problem with the package manager. I even had success with PyBOMBS, until that wasn't updated anymore. But then, once you get past the basics installation trouble start with OOT modules, dependencies that can't be met, and flow graphs that won't compile. My biggest gripe is that documentation is very minimalist and often tells you how, not why, which doesn't help you in understanding the troubles that you ran into. gr-satellites is a good example of that, because Daniel writes these bare bones flow graphs and then what? There is no view-able output, not many hints on what blocks do, or how to implement them if they are missing. In short, it seems you first need a four year university course in GNU Radio and Python before you can start using it. That seems silly and a waste of resources, because even I can see the potential of GNU Radio/gr-satellites, especially with this new Taurus-1 sat with Codec-2 transponder around. So if you please, share your experience in how beginners can set up and use gr-satellites. What are necessary steps? What are pitfalls to avoid? And please also the "why", not only the "what". I guess that apart from me others will also be grateful for this. On my shack computer I run the latest Kubuntu version with GNU Radio 3.7.13.4 and I guess that is a reasonable starting point because of the popularity of Ubuntu and because it is Debian based. Although since a lot of GNU Radio needs to be compiled by hand is probably won't matter that much. Reading the above it still does sound a bit like a rant, but it was not written as such, believe me. Cheers for the replies and 73 de Hans

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Taurus-1 FM/Codec2 Voice Repeater Active
by Scott 17 Sep '19

17 Sep '19

The FM / Codec2 voice repeater on Taurus-1 went "live" today (17-Sept-2019) with 2 passes available to stations on the U.S. East Coast. W2RTV posted a video of the entire pass as seen from his station at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge9mSscTZYg The spacecraft is clearly spinning at a high rate; my receive audio wasn't nearly as good as Rocco's, but he's got a vastly superior antenna setup, so that never hurts. The repeater's uplink is normal FM on 145.820 MHz w/ a 67 Hz CTCSS tone. High power is definitely not needed but adjusting for uplink doppler can help extend your range. The downlink is a Codec2 digital stream at 9600 BPSK which you receive as USB on 435.840 MHz. That gets you in the ballpark, anyway. Once downlink packets are observed, center your 15k-wide USB window on the packets and doppler track from there. The digital voice stream (as well as telemetry) decodes with a flowgraph in GNU Radio. The original telemetry decoder for Taurus-1 was produced by EA4GPZ and is located at https://github.com/daniestevez/gr-satellites Several of us have added to Dani's flowgraph to provide audio output now that the repeater is active. That hybrid flowgraph can be found at: https://www.qsl.net/k/k4kdr//grc/taurus1-k4kdr-telem+audio-v1.grc Note that both the original decoder from Dani as well as the hybrid voice/telemetry flowgraph expect UDP audio input such as from GQRX. Here is a Tweet I posted after my first contact on the repeater today with a screen shot which pretty clearly shows how the spacecraft is spinning: https://twitter.com/scott23192/status/1174001658419994624 This repeater seems to work extremely well and should be way better if the spin rate reduces over time. Hope to hear more people on! -Scott, K4KDR

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Re: [amsat-bb] How to tame gr-satellites?
by John Zaruba 17 Sep '19

17 Sep '19

I completely agree with Hans’ point, but to put it more succinctly: Don’t give me a fish, teach me how to fish. It would be excellent to have a series of YouTube videos ( or a series of Journal articles)to follow to learn the ins-and-outs of gr-satellites. 73, John K2ZA Sent from my iPhone

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-17 04:30 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 17 Sep '19

17 Sep '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-17 04:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Templestowe College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, telebridge via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Wed 2019-09-18 08:06:32 UTC 42 deg Watch for live stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QalYOnHURYk Watch VK6MJ handle the contact: https://batc.org.uk/live/vk6mj (***) Boys and Girls Club, Ft. Meade, MD., telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Fri 2019-09-20 19:58:23 UTC 54 deg School in Bulgaria, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-09-24 16:10 UTC UAE school #1 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Fri 2019-09-27 12:10 UTC UAE school #2 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 11:20 UTC UAE school #3 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-10-01 TBD UTC The Children’s Inn at NIH (National Institutes of Health), Bethesda, MD (CASIS#3), telebridge via ON4ISS (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV (***) Contact is go for: Mon 2019-09-23 20:08:27 UTC 89 deg (***) Watch for live coverage at: https://childrensinn.org/in-the-news/iss-astronaut-to-talk-to-ill-children-… https://www.facebook.com/TheChildrensInn/ https://twitter.com/NIH Facebook Posts: https://www.facebook.com/99591362449/posts/10157814902862450/?substory_inde… https://www.facebook.com/99591362449/posts/10157817661662450/?substory_inde… Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheChildrensInn/status/1162046525146566656 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6567797227903950848/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6567419538596515840/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/B1MaU0BD7lG/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B1J8V1tAcpL/ University of Colorado Amateur Radio Club, Boulder, CO, telebridge via IK1SLD (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV (***) Contact is go for: Tue 2019-09-24 17:43:20 UTC 86 deg (***) AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For many years I have on purpose not given the actual hyperlinks; I assume the user would do a copy/paste into their favorite browser. I am now thinking that the browsers have all grown up and most should be able to handle the link. Please let me know you experience any issues. So now you should be able to directly click on the link. (***) 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 2019-09-17 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. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-09-03 17:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 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: http://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) http://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. ******************************************************************************* 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 http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? 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: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 120 **************************************************************************** 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 1329. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1272. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correctio… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Upcoming ARISS contact with Templestowe College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Templestowe College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 18 Sept. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 08:06 UTC. It is recommended that you start listening approximately 10 minutes before this time. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and VK6MJ. The contact should be audible over portions of Australia and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. Teacher leading the activities: Neil Metcalfe, Physics and Mathematics teacher and life-long Apollo mission fan; being old enough to remember the moon landings and the drama of Apollo 13. My favourite astronaut is Jim Lovell (sorry to everybody else - you're all awesome) Templestowe College (TC) is located in south-east Melbourne, Australia. It is a school of about 1100 students that is breaking new ground in education, with a major numbers of the subjects and activities being student lead. TC students do not wear uniforms and call their teachers by their first name. We have a "one voice" policy whereby teachers and students have an equal voice in how the school is run and operated. "Yes" is our default answer. We have a school farm on a suburban site and do all our own animal husbandry with students taking the leading role with teacher supervision. The ISS hook-up will be compered by the students; lead up activities including, chemical rocket launches, air/water rockets launches (with the adjoining junior school), astronaut selection tests and a space movie night will be organised and lead by the students. The hook-up will have week-long build up with cross the curriculum activities, discussions and debates being brought into most subject areas. TC was nominated and shortlisted for Australian Government School of the Year in 2019. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. What is the most interesting thing you've seen in space or from ISS?? 2. How do you stay healthy and what happens if you are sick? 3. Do you have free time, if so, what do you do with it? 4. Are there any permanent effects of being in space for a long time? 5. If a family or personal emergency occurs, are you allowed to go home? 6. What interesting experiments do you perform on the ISS? 7. What does it feel like bring back on earth after a long time in space? 8. Are there international space laws and censorship laws that govern people on ISS? 9. How much fuel do you use maneuvering the ISS around space debris? 10. Do astronauts ever feel isolated, and if so, how do they cope with that? 11. How does your family feel about you being on ISS and what support do they get? 12. What is the hardest thing you do on the ISS? 13. What kind of personal items are you allowed to bring? 14. Do you have access to medicine and/or doctors? 15. What do you do when you feel fed up or annoyed with each other? 16. What kind of training did you have to be qualified to go to the space station? 17. What made you want to become astronaut? Was it a lifelong dream, or did it just happen to be? 18. Are you put in isolation before going into space and coming back to earth, if so, how long? 19. What is your daily routine on the ISS? 20. How do you cope with the stress of take-off and being away from earth? PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES: Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status Next planned event(s): 1. Boys and Girls Club, Ft. Meade, MD., telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Fri 2019-09-20 19:58:23 UTC 2. School in Bulgaria, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-09-24 16:10 UTC 3. UAE school #1 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Fri 2019-09-27 12:10 UTC 4. UAE school #2 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 11:20 UTC 5. UAE school #3 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-10-01 TBD UTC 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 (STEM) 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. Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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AMSAT 50th Award
by Corlissbs 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

(For the "50TH ANNIVERSARY AMSAT SATELLITE FRIENDS OF 50 AWARD" do the contacts have to be 50 different individuals (i.e. 50 different callsigns) or just a contact with anybody on 50 different days (could be a QSO with the same person on 50 different days)? ) I asked AMSAT that question and never received an answer. So, I sent in list of days with the same people. That makes sense to me, because it is a different day. But I never received my award either. Brad Smith KC9UQR Sent from Brad’s iPad

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Re: [amsat-bb] How to tame gr-satellites?
by Hans BX2ABT 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

No no no no no no no no no, that is exactly not what I meant and want at all. There should be more "somebodies" who know and understand this, not one or two who solve problems for the majority of mere mortals. Processing RF with computers is already a big thing and it's becoming even bigger. Nobody will understand every aspect of it, but everybody should at least understand enough to solve or mitigate problems. Amateur radio is as much about enjoying communication as it is about enriching your knowledge. The more knowledge there is the easier it becomes to solve problems. Hope you can appreciate my point of view. Cheers, Hans. On 09/16/2019 11:01 PM, Doug Phelps wrote: > Suggestion. how about if somebody who knows what they're doing set it > up on a raspberry pi and then others can just copy the SD card and be off. > > > Sent from ProtonMail mobile > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > On Sep 16, 2019, 9:52 AM, Paul Stoetzer via AMSAT-BB < > amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> wrote: > > > It took me about 6 hours of work to get gr-satellites going on my > Fedora > handheld computer I used for portable LO-90 operations (and hope > to use for > portable Taurus-1 ops soon as well). I have some Linux > familiarity, but, > yes you do end up running into wrong versions of dependencies and > missing > dependencies and having to look up a lot of things to get things > working. > > Until recently, I would have suggested that Arch or Manjaro make > it really > easy to run gr-satellites because it's a very simple process to > build it > from the Arch User Repository. I was able to get it running on an Arch > laptop in about 20 minutes. Unfortunately, gr-satellites does not > work with > GNU Radio 3.8 yet and Arch and Manjaro both ship GNU Radio 3.8 by > default, > so I can't really suggest that as an "easy solution" any more. > > gr-satellites is a great tool and Dani deserves a lot of credit > for the > work he has done to support so many different satellites. What > would be > great is for someone to develop a method to make it simple to > package for > various distributions and a good front-end for using it. That > would not be > an easy task, but it would go a long way towards making it > friendly for > less experienced Linux users. > > 73, > > Paul, N8HM > > On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 10:35 AM Hans BX2ABT via AMSAT-BB < > amsat-bb(a)amsat.org <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > I was going to write a rant about gr-satellites, but then again that > > would only help me release some of my chagrin and not help met get > > going, so instead the question in the general interes of this > list...... > > > > "How can mere mortals start to get going with gr-satellites?" > > > > Been a Linux end-user for 20 years now, so I know my way around, > > although I can not claim to be an expert. Usually with a quick > search > > online I can find enough info to get going or solve a problem. > Even the > > odd alteration in some source code is not something I am strange to, > > although a programmer I am not. And then there is GNU > Radio.......which > > almost seems like it comes from another planet. Installing it, no > > problem with the package manager. I even had success with > PyBOMBS, until > > that wasn't updated anymore. But then, once you get past the basics > > installation trouble start with OOT modules, dependencies that > can't be > > met, and flow graphs that won't compile. My biggest gripe is that > > documentation is very minimalist and often tells you how, not > why, which > > doesn't help you in understanding the troubles that you ran into. > > gr-satellites is a good example of that, because Daniel writes these > > bare bones flow graphs and then what? There is no view-able > output, not > > many hints on what blocks do, or how to implement them if they > are missing. > > > > In short, it seems you first need a four year university course > in GNU > > Radio and Python before you can start using it. That seems silly > and a > > waste of resources, because even I can see the potential of GNU > > Radio/gr-satellites, especially with this new Taurus-1 sat with > Codec-2 > > transponder around. > > > > So if you please, share your experience in how beginners can set > up and > > use gr-satellites. What are necessary steps? What are pitfalls > to avoid? > > And please also the "why", not only the "what". I guess that > apart from > > me others will also be grateful for this. > > > > On my shack computer I run the latest Kubuntu version with GNU Radio > > 3.7.13.4 <http://3.7.13.4> and I guess that is a reasonable > starting point because of the > > popularity of Ubuntu and because it is Debian based. Although > since a > > lot of GNU Radio needs to be compiled by hand is probably won't > matter > > that much. > > > > Reading the above it still does sound a bit like a rant, but it > was not > > written as such, believe me. Cheers for the replies and 73 de Hans > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org <mailto:[email protected]>. > AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring > membership. Opinions > > expressed > > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official > views of > > AMSAT-NA. > > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur > satellite program! > > Subscription settings: > https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org <mailto:[email protected]>. AMSAT-NA > makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. > Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official > views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite > program! > Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >

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FOX TELEMETRY SERVER will be down for maintenance
by Chris Thompson 15 Sep '19

15 Sep '19

I am going to take the FOX telemetry server down to work on upgrades needed to support future spacecraft. I'm not sure how long it will take. I am hoping to complete this evening US time. Telemetry will queue at FoxTelem and be sent once the server is back up and running. Let me know if you have any questions. 73 Chris -- Chris E. Thompson chrisethompson(a)gmail.com g0kla(a)arrl.net

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Efforts to raise the Indian moon lander, Vikram by DSN X-band.
by KC9SGV 15 Sep '19

15 Sep '19

Here is a 25 min RStv YouTube video about the Lunar lander, Vikram, and the DSN efforts to revive it, after it reportedly crashed and is lost on the moon surface. Note the alleged NASA involvement. Reports elsewhere are that Vikram has been found. Sunshine onto Vikram will cease by September 24th with corresponding solar power loss. Interestingly, the uplink is in the X band, with orders of magnitude stronger signals than what hams, for example, can produce. https://youtu.be/XaU3ADq7_2o Bernard, KC9SGV Sent from my iPad

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UISS
by George Henry 15 Sep '19

15 Sep '19

Can't seem to connect to the UISS download site today. Anybody know of a *safe* alternative download site? George, KA3HSW

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AMPRNet
by Francis Geraci 15 Sep '19

15 Sep '19

Anyone using AMPERNet for Packet radio on satellites ? Would a 44.#.#.# IP address be compatible ? It does "tunnel". W1FXX

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-15 02:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 14 Sep '19

14 Sep '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-15 02:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Templestowe College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, telebridge via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Wed 2019-09-18 08:06:32 UTC 42 deg Watch for live stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QalYOnHURYk (***) Boys and Girls Club, Ft. Meade, MD., telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Fri 2019-09-20 19:58:23 UTC 54 deg School in Bulgaria, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-09-24 16:10 UTC UAE school #1 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Fri 2019-09-27 12:10 UTC UAE school #2 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 11:20 UTC UAE school #3 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-10-01 TBD UTC AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For many years I have on purpose not given the actual hyperlinks; I assume the user would do a copy/paste into their favorite browser. I am now thinking that the browsers have all grown up and most should be able to handle the link. Please let me know you experience any issues. So now you should be able to directly click on the link. (***) 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 2019-09-15 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. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-09-03 17:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 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: http://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) http://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. ******************************************************************************* 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 http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? 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: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 120 **************************************************************************** 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 1329. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1272. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correctio… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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ANS-258 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by Mark D. Johns 14 Sep '19

14 Sep '19

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-258 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor at amsat.org. You can sign up for free e-mail delivery of the AMSAT News Service Bulletins via the ANS List; to join this list see: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/ans In this edition: * Request For Cooperation in Receiving FO-29 (Fuji 3) * NO-104 Camera Will be 'Live' This Week * Chinese Taurus-1 Amateur Satellite Launched * Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) Awards Grant to ARISS * IARU Region 3 Approves New 15m Satellite Allocation * Improvements to the AMSAT Live OSCAR Satellite Status Page * Volunteer Opportunity - AMSAT Looking for Graphics Designer * Nine US Schools Moved Forward in ARISS Selection Process * AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium, October 12-13 * Final Steps Taken Toward ELaNa 25 Amateur Satellite Launch * AMSAT Academy at the Albuquerque Duke City Hamfest * Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule * DM02 Satellite Expedition Sunday, September 22 - N6O/MM * Upcoming Satellite Operations * Satellite Shorts From All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-258.01 ANS-258 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 258.01 >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE 2019-Sept-15 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-258.01 Request for cooperation in receiving Fuji 3 (FO-29) The amateur satellite “Fuji 3” has been unable to confirm the opera- tion of CW telemetry and heterodyne repeaters after 21:45 (UTC) on July 9, 2019, but is more unstable than yesterday. However, while con- firming the operation of CW telemetry and heterodyne repeaters, we con- tinue to test for stable operation. Therefore, those who can receive CW telemetry of Fuji No. 3 (FO-29) will try to start with a command during the next pass through Japan, so please report the reception report to the following address. (Time of pass through Japan) 2019/09/14 06:40 16:45 (UTC) 2019/09/15 05:40 17:35 (UTC) [Send email address of received report] oper(a)jarl.org We ask for your cooperation in collecting information on Fuji 3 of many users. JARL Secretariat Member Section “Fuji 3” Telemetry --------------------------------------------------------------------- NO-104 Camera Will be 'Live' This Week Controllers for NO-104 (PSAT-2) announced on September 13 that they have commanded the camera to take a picture and store it into memory every 10 minutes. This mode should last for 7 days or at least to next commanding session on Monday. The transmitting counter, which selects a picture for downlink, is not sychronized with the camera, so there is an uncertain delay between ac- quiring a picture and its transmission, up to a maximum of 64 minutes. Every picture will be downlinked just once so every reception counts. The downlink is not operating during eclipse. Further info on https://github.com/alpov/PSAT-2/blob/master/README.md [ANS thanks Ales Povalac, OK2ALP, and Tomas Urbanec, OK2PNQ, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Chinese Taurus-1 Amateur Satellite Launched BG2BHC reported on Twitter that Taurus-1 launched on Thursday, Sept. 12 on the CZ-4B launch from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. Taurus-1 carries an FM to Codec2 repeater that operates using the same protocol as LO-90 (LilacSat-1) and can use the same software (after frequencies are changed). FM uplink is on 145.820 MHz, downlink on 436.760 MHz, and the telemetry downlink is on 435.840 MHz. CelesTrak currently has three objects from the launch cataloged out of an expected four. The currently cataloged objects are 2019-059A, 2019-059B, and 2019-059D. TLEs can be found at https://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/tle-new.txt Nico Janssen, PA0DLO, reports that Doppler measurements suggest that Taurus 1 is object 44530 (2019-059C), and the actual measured telemetry downlink frequency: 435.8387 MHz. TLEs can be found at https://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/tle-new.txt For more information about this unique analog uplink, digital downlink system, see the AMSAT Journal article / Symposium paper about LO-90 at https://tinyurl.com/y6jzoful [ANS thanks Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, adn Nico Janssen, PA0DLO, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) Awards Grant to ARISS Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) has awarded a very generous grant to ARISS for the Next Generation radio system. ARDC is the owner and manager of the Internet network known as the AMPRNet. In June of 2019, ARDC initiated a philanthropic endeavor to provide monetary grants to organizations, groups, projects, and scholarships which have significant potential to advance the state of the art of Amateur Radio, and digital communications in general. The ARISS Next Generation radio system (or Inter Operable Radio System - IORS) will support easier radio mode transition, to enable new, exciting capabilities for hams, students and the general public including: +New amateur radio communication and experimentation capabilities, including an enhanced voice repeater and updated digital packet radio (APRS) capabilities. +Slow Scan TV (picture up and downlinks) in both the US and Russian segments of ISS. +New multi-voltage power supply will support present and future radio capabilities and allow wireless experiments to be conducted. In July, the Inter Operable Radio System successfully completed a battery of stressful tests required as part of the final certification of the hardware for launch to and operation on the International Space Station. Final assembly of the flight safety certification in preparation for launch is now underway and ARISS is working towards launch ready status by the end of the year. For more information on the award please see: https://www.ampr.org/g2019-09-01a/ To contribute to ARISS and the IORS please see: https://www.ariss.org/donate.html ARISS and AMSAT thank ARDC for their generosity in supporting this important project. [ANS thanks ARISS, the AMSAT office, and ARDC for the above informa- tion.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Symposium Papers Due September 23rd! Final copies of papers must be submitted by September 23rd for inclusion in the printed proceedings. Abstracts and papers should be sent to Dan Schultz at n8fgv(at)amsat.org +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- IARU Region 3 Approves New 15m Satellite Allocation The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) - Region 3 (Asia-Pacific Region) Directors meeting was held in Tokyo September 2-3. A modified interim Region 3 bandplan was approved which included an Amateur-Sat- ellite Service allocation in the 15m band. The modified interim Region 3 bandplan proposed by the Region 3 Bandplan Committee was approved. A notable change was addition of a satellite portion in 15m Band as agreed at the last Region 3 Conference. The interim IARU Region 3 band- plan is available at: https://tinyurl.com/y637aw47 A complete report of the Region 3 Directors meeting may be found at: https://amsat-uk.org/2019/09/12/iaru-r3-bandplan/ [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ AMSAT and ARISS are currently supporting a FundRazr campaign to raise $150,000 for critical radio infrastructure upgrades on ISS. The upgrades are necessary to enable students to continue to talk to astronauts in space via Amateur Radio. We have reached a great milestone with $33,580 raised or about 22% towards our goal. This would not have been possible without your outstanding generosity!! For more information and to DONATE TODAY visit: https://fundrazr.com/arissnextgen?ref=ab_e7Htwa_ab_47IcJ9 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Improvements to the AMSAT Live OSCAR Satellite Status Page Thanks to the efforts of new member Ed Little, KN6DBC, improvements have been made to www.amsat.org/status<http://www.amsat.org/status>, specifically, some filtering of the "Your Callsign" field has been added in an effort to reject the occasional nonsense report. The entry must look like a callsign, for example it must have at least one digit, it must not end with a digit etc. As a bonus, the "Your Grid Square" field has been added. Separate en- tries are now preferred instead of workarounds like KM1P-FN42. AMSAT maintains this page to give a single global reference point for all users in the Amateur Satellite Service to show the most up-to-date status of all satellites as actually reported in real time by users around the world. Please help others and keep it current every time you access a bird. [ANS thanks Joe Fitzgerald, KM1P, 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/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Volunteer Opportunity - AMSAT Looking for Graphics Designer AMSAT has a need for a volunteer graphics designer to occasionally assist with page layout of our in-house advertising panels for the AMSAT Journal. The Journal uses Adobe InDesign software to publish but our software can import and place PDF and JPG formatted pages that you create with the graphics tools of your choice. If you can fill this need contact Robert Bankston, KE4AL, AMSAT VP-User Services at ke4al (at) amsat.org. [ANS thanks AMSAT for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Nine US Schools Moved Forward in ARISS Selection Process The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has ann- ounced the schools/host organizations selected for amateur radio con- tacts with the ISS during the first half of 2020. A total of 9 of the submitted proposals during the recent proposal window have been accept- ed to move forward in the processes of planning to host a scheduled amateur radio contact with crew on the ISS. The primary goal of the ARISS program is to engage young people in Science, Technology, Engin- eering, Arts and Math (STEAM) activities and raise their awareness of space communications, radio communications, space exploration, and re- lated areas of study and career possibilities. The ARISS program anticipates that NASA will be able to provide sched- uling opportunities for the 9 US host organizations during the January to June 2020 time period. They are now at work completing an acceptable equipment plan that demonstrates their ability to execute the ham radio contact. Once their equipment plan is approved by the ARISS Technical Mentors, the final selected schools/organizations will be scheduled as their availability and flexibility match up with the scheduling oppor- tunities offered by NASA. The schools and host organizations are: Celia Hays Elementary School, Rockwall, Texas Golden Gate Middle School, Naples, Fla. J.P. McConnell Middle School, Loganville, Ga. Kittredge Magnet School, Atlanta, Ga. Maple Dale Elementary School, Cincinnati, Ohio Monroe Carrell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tenn. Oakwood School, Morgan Hill, Calif. Ramona Lutheran School, Ramona, Calif. River Ridge High School, New Port Richey, Fla. Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooper- ative 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, engin- eering, 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. [ANS thanks ARISS for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium, October 12-13 The AMSAT-UK Colloquium, incorporated into the RSGB Convention, will take place October 12-13 at the Kents Hill Park Conference Centre, Timbold Drive, Milton Keynes, MK7 6BZ. A webstream of the Colloquium talks will be available at https://batc.org.uk/live/ Booking for the RSGB Convention which includes the AMSAT-UK Colloquium is at https://rsgb.org/main/about-us/rsgb-convention/ The weekend event attracts an international audience that ranges from those involved in building and operating Amateur Radio satellites to beginners who wish to find out more about this fascinating branch of the hobby. Included will be a roundup of a number of new live and potential space- craft projects that are under investigation and/or development, plus all the usual networking opportunities, the gala dinner, auction and raffle. Travel Information http://kentshillpark.com/how-to-find-us The full schedule for both the AMSAT-UK Colloquium and RSGB Convention talks is at https://rsgb.org/main/about-us/rsgb-convention/ [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Steps Taken Toward ELaNa 25 Amateur Satellite Launch The upcoming NASA Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) mission 25 is scheduled to boost several new satellites carrying amateur radio into space this fall. The launch will carry more than a dozen cubesats to the ISS for deploy- ment, including two satellites of particular interest to amateurs: TJREVERB - Thomas Jefferson High School, Alexandria, Va. will carry a 145.825 MHz APRS digipeater. Information on TJREVERB may be found at https://activities.tjhsst.edu/cubesat/index.php HuskySat – University of Washington, Seattle will be boosted into a higher, 500km orbit via the Cygnus external deployment device, and will carry a V/U linear transponder provided in cooperation with AMSAT. The HuskySat web page is https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/huskysatellitelab/huskysat-1 Although launch schedules and manifests are always subject to change, other satellites announced for the ELaNa 25 launch that have secured IARU coordination for amateur frequencies are: Argus – St. Louis University, Mo. (437 MHz telemetry) AzTechSat-1 – NASA Ames Research Center, Calif. (437 MHz telemetry) CySat – Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (436 MHz telemetry) Phoenix – Arizona State University, Tempe (437 & 2400 MHz telemetry) RadSat-U – Montana State University, Bozeman (437 MHz telemetry) SPOC - University of Georgia, Athens (437 & 2400 MHz telemetry) SwampSat II - University of Florida, Gainesville (437 & 2400 MHz telemetry) [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ 2019 marks AMSAT’s 50th Anniversary of Keeping Amateur Radio in Space. To help celebrate, we are sponsoring the AMSAT 50th Anniversary Awards Program. Full details are available at https://www.amsat.org/amsat-50th-anniversary-awards-program/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT Academy at the Albuquerque Duke City Hamfest AMSAT® Academy 2.0, which builds on last year's day-long course to in- clude: guidance on how to set up a portable satellite ground station; guidance on how to join a growing network of stations that capture, record, and submit amateur-radio satellite telemetry to a central re- pository; and practical tips for breaking the ice with local schools in order to fold amateur-radio satellite and Amateur Radio in the In- ternational Space Station (ARISS) activities into STEM education ef- forts. This year's AMSAT® Academy instructors include Robert Bankston, KE4AL, vice-president, User Services, Amateur Radio Amateur Satellite Corpor- ation (AMSAT), Ron Bondy, AD0DX, an AMSAT® Ambassador, and long-time satellite enthusiasts Dan Eggert, AC9E, and Bill Ripley, KY5Q, an em- bedded-systems architect. The course fee is $30, and includes break- fast and a copy of the organization's "Getting Started with Amateur Satellites." Info about the hamfest is http://www.dukecityhamfest.org. Specific info on the AMSAT Academy is at: http://www.dukecityhamfest.org/amsat-academy . [ANS thanks Bill Ripley, KY5Q, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule Templestowe College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, telebridge via VK6MJ. The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS. The sched- uled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV. Contact is go for: Wednesday, 18 September, 2019 at 08:06:32 UTC 42 deg Boys and Girls Club, Ft. Meade, MD., telebridge via VK4KHZ. The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS. The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV. Contact is go for: Friday, 20 September, 2019 at 19:58:23 UTC 54 deg School in Bulgaria, direct via TBD. The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS. The scheduled astronaut is TBD. Contact is go for Tuesday, 24 September at 16:10 UTC. [ANS thanks ARISS team member Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- DM02 Satellite Expedition Sunday, September 22 - N6O/MM Alex, N7AGF, and Ron, AD0DX, are planning to activate DM02 on Sunday, September 22, 2019 on FM and Linear satellites. It's a 5 or 6 hour boat trip to anchor off San Clemente Island. We will be on the water for 22 hours and operating around 10 hours beginning around 3:00 AM PDT (1000Z) on Sunday, September 22 The cost of the boat is $2500 and we would appreciate contributions to help offset this cost. In the 24 hours after posting to Twitter we have received around $1300 which Alex and I are very thankful for. The island has Verizon and AT&T and Alex has a Garmin InReach so we should be able to tweet passes. The plan is to make as many passes as possible once we start operating around 3:00 AM PDT. We may skip some of the low western passes. We will be using N6O/mm and we have a qrz.com page with all the details: https://www.qrz.com/db/N6O If you need the grid please give us a call! Of course this is dependent on the weather, but the captain says it has been a good September so far. If you are able to contribute financially we really appreciate the help to offset some of our costs. Details to contribute are on the N6O QRZ.com webpage. [ANS thanks Ron, AD0DX, and Alex, N7AGF, for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Satellite Operations EN54/EN64 September 13-15 Brad Smith, KC9UQR, will be active on AO-91 and AO-92 while traveling this weekend in Wisconsin. DN11/DN12 + DN03 September 17, 2019 Casey, KI7UNJ is heading to the DN11/DN12 line, September 17th. Look for him on SO-50, AO-92, and AO-91, between 1657z and 1812z. On the way back, Casey will make a quick stop in DN03 to catch te 2043z PO-101 pass. Watch Casey’s Twitter feed for further updates https://twitter.com/KI7UNJ DM02/mm (need we say more) September 22, 2019 Ron, AD0DX, and Alex, N7AGF, are chartering a boat to the ultra-rare DM02 grid square. They will use the special event call sign November 6 Ocean/Maritime Mobile. Expected window of operation is from 1000z to 1900z, Sunday, September 22nd. More information is available on QRZ https://www.qrz.com/db/N6O to include how you can help support this monumental operation. Ron and Alex are expected to have cellular service out there, so keep an eye on their Twitter feeds https://twitter.com/ad0dx and https://twitter.com/N7AGF FP, ST. PIERRE & MIQUELON (GN17) September 24 to October 8, 2019 Eric, KV1J, will once again be oper ating from the Island of Miquelon (NA-032, DIFO FP-002 WLOTA 1417, Grid GN17) as FP/KV1J between Septem- ber 24th and October 8th. This is his 13th trip to the island. Activi- ty will be on 160-6 meters (no 60M – not author ized) using CW, SSB, RTTY, FT8 (but primarily SSB, RTTY and FT8) and the satellites. He will generally be on the highest frequency band that is open (favoring 12/10m). He will be active in the CQWW DX RTTY Contest (September 28- 29th). ADDED NOTE: Eric will usually try to be on as many Satellite passes as he can when the WX is good, generally favoring the FO-29, XW-2x, AO-7, and possibly the FM birds. Eric states, “Equipment is two FT-817s and an Arrow dual band yagi. I’ll favor the SSB birds usually higher in the passband, but will also try FM if they do not get too busy. Satellite logging is by paper so may not get loaded to LoTW until the week after I return to the USA.” Weekends may be limited since he will be concentrating on the low(er) bands and contests. QSL via KV1J, direct or by the Bureau. Also eQSL, ClubLog and LoTW. For more details and updates, check out his Web page at: http://www.kv1j.com/fp/Sep19.html Remember to check out W3ZM On the Road for additional upcoming activations! https://www.amsat.org/events/was-w3zm/ [ANS thanks Robert Bankston, KE4AL, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts From All Over + The AMSAT-LU WSPR Picoballoon on 14.0956 USB released August 31 is about to complete its first circumnavigation of the globe after tra- veling 33,000 km in 12 days. AMSAT-LU appreciate any WSPR stations that help to receive it, AMSAT-LU will recognize with a certificate to stations that capture its 25 mW beacon. Also the APRS PicoBalloon (145.825 via Sat 1W) will be returning to South America. Full story with links at https://tinyurl.com/y5xkbrbr (ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information) + For Flashback Friday, AMSAT released disk images of Bob McGwier, N4HY's QUIKTRAK for both the Commodore 64 and Apple II to provide a fun look back at the state-of-the art in satellite tracking in the mid-1980s. Check them out at https://tinyurl.com/ANS-258-FBF + The Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory at the University of Hawaii has applied to the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) for frequency coordination for the amateur radio payloads aboard its Neutron-1 spacecraft. The amateur payload will provide a V/U FM voice repeater for amateur and educational purposes. Proposed are 1k2-9k6 AX telem- etry and FM voice UHF downlink and a VHF FM uplink. The Neutron-1 website is: https://www.hsfl.hawaii.edu/web/neutron1/ (ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information) + Japan called off a planned cargo ship launch to the International Space Station on September 10 after a fire erupted on the launch platform for the mission's rocket. (ANS thanks Space.com for the above information) + The Dayton Amateur Radio Association (DARA) has signed a 5-year agreement to keep Dayton Hamvention® at the Greene County Expo Cen- ter. The agreement was announced on September 9. (ANS thanks ARRL for the above information) + After years of construction, China’s new radio telescope is in ac- tion. The telescope, called FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spher- ical Radio Telescope) has double the collecting power of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, which has a 305 meter dish. Until now, Arecibo was the world’s largest radio dish of its type. (ANS thanks Universe Today for the above information) * The College of Engineering at Villanova University has published a very nice feature story about the University's involvement with ham satellites. The article, titled, "They May be Building Nanosatel- lites, but there’s Nothing Small about Villanova’s CubeSat Club," may be found at: https://tinyurl.com/yytj6vsj + An article by Karl-Heinz Krawczyk, DL1GKK, describes how to install amateur radio software on the Raspberry Pi to provide the popular data modes, SSTV, satellite tracking, SDR, rig control and logbook. The English language article is available on the site of Indonesia's national amateur radio society ORARI: https://tinyurl.com/y4gb82hb (ANS thanks Southgate ARC for the above information) + An interesting article on Satellite collisions has been published this week in SatNews Daily: https://tinyurl.com/yyk3f2q2 (ANS thanks Christy Hunter, KB6LTY, for the above information) + Help AMSAT return to Greater Orbits with Larger Footprints with ex- citing technologies like attitude determination and control, and software-defined transponders utilizing microwave bands. Consider a one-time or recurring donation today: https://tinyurl.com/y5kupb55 --------------------------------------------------------------------- /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi- tional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu- dent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership information. 73 and Remember to help keep amateur radio in space, This week's ANS Editor, K0JM at amsat dot org

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AMSAT @ Tucson AZ hamfest - 28 September 2019
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 14 Sep '19

14 Sep '19

Hi! AMSAT will be at the Tucson Autumn Hamfest, hosted by the Radio Society of Tucson, on the morning of Saturday, 28 September 2019. The hamfest will be behind the Target store on Old Spanish Trail in Tucson AZ, northeast of the intersection of 22nd Street and Harrison Road. The hamfest officially starts at 7am (1400 UTC). More information about the hamfest is available from the Radio Society of Tucson's web site: https://k7rst.org/ A hamfest flyer is available at: https://k7rst.org/media/hamfest.pdf WD9EWK will be on the satellites during the hamfest, demonstrating satellite operating. If you hear WD9EWK on a pass on the morning of the 28th, please call and be a part of a demonstration. The hamfest site is in grid DM42, in Arizona's Pima County. Please note that the Target store will obstruct the view of the sky to the south, unless the satellites are rather high in the sky in that direction. QSOs made during the hamfest will be uploaded to Logbook of the World, and QSL cards are available on request (please e-mail me directly with the QSO details). Thanks, and 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK or http://twitter.com/WD9EWK

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XW-2C Appears to be Failing
by Hasan al-Basri 14 Sep '19

14 Sep '19

Based on others' reports and my observations this morning, 2C has a bad problem. I could see the passband popping on for about 1/2 second and then going quiet for maybe 15 seconds, repeatedly. When it was on, it was rx'ing and transmitting properly. I timed one of my voice transmissions to coincide with the "poppiing on" for 1/2 second and hear my voice quite clearly. This was at about 11:40z this morning. 73, N0AN Hasan

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-13 22:30 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-13 22:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Templestowe College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, telebridge via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Wed 2019-09-18 08:06:32 UTC 42 deg Boys and Girls Club, Ft. Meade, MD., telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Fri 2019-09-20 19:58:23 UTC 54 deg School in Bulgaria, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-09-24 16:10 UTC UAE school #1 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Fri 2019-09-27 12:10 UTC UAE school #2 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 11:20 UTC UAE school #3 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-10-01 TBD UTC AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For many years I have on purpose not given the actual hyperlinks; I assume the user would do a copy/paste into their favorite browser. I am now thinking that the browsers have all grown up and most should be able to handle the link. Please let me know you experience any issues. So now you should be able to directly click on the link. (***) 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 2019-09-13 22:30 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-09-03 17:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 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: http://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) http://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. ******************************************************************************* 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 http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? 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: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 120 **************************************************************************** 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 1329. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1272. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correctio… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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PSAT2 camera 'live'
by Tomáš Urbanec 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

Hello all! As camera and downlink on 435.354MHz operates smoothly, we have commanded the camera to take picture and store it into memory every 10minutes, this mode should last from now for 7 days or at least to next commanding session on Monday. The transmitting counter, which selects picture for downlink is not sychronized with the camera, so there is uncertain delay between acquiring a picture and its transmission of max. 64minutes. Every picture will be downlinked just once so every reception counts. Of course downlink is not operating during eclipse. Further info on https://github.com/alpov/PSAT-2/blob/master/README.md Enjoy the experimenting! Ales OK2ALP and Tomas OK2PNQ

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ANS-256 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) Awards Generous Grant to ARISS
by Paul Stoetzer 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN ANS-256 In this Special Bulletin: * Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) Awards Generous Grant to ARISS SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-256.01 ANS-256 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin 256.01 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD DATE September 13, 2019 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-256.01 Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) Awards Generous Grant to ARISS Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) has awarded a very generous grant to ARISS for the Next Generation radio system. ARDC is the owner and manager of the Internet network known as the AMPRNet. In June of 2019, ARDC initiated a philanthropic endeavor to provide monetary grants to organizations, groups, projects, and scholarships which have significant potential to advance the state of the art of Amateur Radio, and digital communications in general. The ARISS Next Generation radio system (or Inter Operable Radio System - IORS) will support easier radio mode transition, to enable new, exciting capabilities for hams, students and the general public including: +New amateur radio communication and experimentation capabilities, including an enhanced voice repeater and updated digital packet radio (APRS) capabilities. +Slow Scan TV (picture up and downlinks) in both the US and Russian segments of ISS. +New multi-voltage power supply will support present and future radio capabilities and allow wireless experiments to be conducted. In July, the Inter Operable Radio System successfully completed a battery of stressful tests required as part of the final certification of the hardware for launch to and operation on the International Space Station. Final assembly of the flight safety certification in preparation for launch is now underway and ARISS is working towards launch ready status by the end of the year. For more information on the award please see: https://www.ampr.org/g2019-09-01a/ To contribute to ARISS and the IORS please see: https://www.ariss.org/donate.html ARISS and AMSAT thank ARDC for their generosity in supporting this important project. [ANS thanks ARISS, the AMSAT office, and ARDC for the above information.] /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers life memberships, and sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the student rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership information. 73 and Remember to help keep Amateur Radio in space, This week's ANS Contributing Editor, Paul Stoetzer, N8HM n8hm at amsat dot org

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-13 15:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-13 15:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Templestowe College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, telebridge via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Wed 2019-09-18 08:06:32 UTC 42 deg Boys and Girls Club, Ft. Meade, MD., telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Fri 2019-09-20 19:58:23 UTC 54 deg School in Bulgaria, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-09-24 16:10 UTC AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For many years I have on purpose not given the actual hyperlinks; I assume the user would do a copy/paste into their favorite browser. I am now thinking that the browsers have all grown up and most should be able to handle the link. Please let me know you experience any issues. So now you should be able to directly click on the link. (***) 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 2019-09-13 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. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-09-03 17:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 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: http://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) http://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. ******************************************************************************* 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 http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? 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: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 120 **************************************************************************** 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 1329. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1272. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correctio… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Re: [amsat-bb] ANS-256 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) Awards Generous Grant to ARISS
by Roy Dean 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

> > * Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) Awards Generous Grant to > ARISS To the ARISS team, congratulations! This is great news! Is the Grant amount public knowledge? Fundrazer doesn't seem to indicate (although I wouldn't expect it there, anyway). --Roy K3RLD

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DN 11/12 and DN03 2019-09-17 - KI7UNJ
by KI7UNJ Tucker 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

In a crazy dash to try and get 50/R before 1-year mark on birds (at 43 now) I'm headed out for another rove! TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 17TH DN11/12 SO-50 - 1657Z AO-92 - 1757Z AO-91 - 1812Z Then a quick stop in DN03 to make a few white spots turn green. PO-101 - 2043Z Track me here: https://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=11&kml=http%3A%2F%2Fbadgerflix.duckdns.org%2… **Link above includes gridlines, Chances are APRS will be spotty whereI'm headed** Updates, Pictures, live updates on logging, and maybe even a live stream will be at: https://twitter.com/ki7unj All LOGS will be updated to LOTW on return from the trip (tuesday night). -- Casey Tucker KI7UNJ https://twitter.com/KI7UNJ https://www.qrz.com/db/KI7UNJ http://bit.do/ki7unj <https://www.google.com/url?q=http://bit.do/ki7unj&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=…>

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Taurus-1 FM to Codec2 Repeater Satellite Launched
by Paul Stoetzer 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

BG2BHC reported on Twitter that Taurus-1 launched today on the CZ-4B launch from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. Taurus-1 carries an FM to Codec2 repeater that operates using the same protocol as LO-90 (LilacSat-1) and can use the same software (after frequencies are changed). The uplink is 145.840 MHz up and the downlink is 436.760 MHz. CelesTrak currently has three objects from the launch cataloged out of an expected four. Two objects are in a circular orbit that seem unlikely for a CubeSat given international orbital debris stations (750 km x 730 km). The third cataloged object, Object D is a more likely candidate in a 738 km x 453 km orbit with an inclination of 98.7 degrees. The currently cataloged objects are 2019-059A, 2019-059B, and 2019-059D. TLEs can be found at https://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/tle-new.txt For more information about this unique analog uplink, digital downlink system, see my AMSAT Journal article / Symposium paper about LO-90 at https://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/N8HM_LilacSat_LO…. 73, Paul. N8HM

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AO-7 Mode A transponder question
by Alan 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

The Mode B transponder has, due to varying noise and sensitivity, some documented "sweet spots." Mode A, while not as popular, does get some use. Are there any observed equivalent frequencies? 73, Alan WA4SCA ----------------------------------- Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. George Orwell

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Re: [amsat-bb] NOVA and Windows 10
by Adrian Engele 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Greg, Point well taken but for my situation you are wrong. When I open the file in Notepad it looks just fine. But when I try to import it into Nova it does not like it. It gives me an error.I am just passing this along if it happens to others. This happens on the six computers that I own.The only way, again for my situation, to fix that, is to open the file in Wordpad, Downgrade to a smaller font size, then re-save the file, then import back to Nova. This works perfectly every time I do it. So issue. Feel free to open the file in Wordpad and you will see the lines are broken and need to be adjusted. I just tested this at work. End of topic. Let's move on. Adrian AA5UK On Thursday, September 12, 2019, 1:47:07 PM CDT, Greg D <ko6th.greg(a)gmail.com> wrote: One really shouldn't be using wordpad, but rather notepad. This needs to be a simple text file, and any "formatting" such as font size and so forth will likely mess things up. That changing the font size made a difference is evidence of this. A simple text file has no font, and no size. Greg KO6TH Adrian Engele via AMSAT-BB wrote: I concur with JoAnne's write-up. In my case, and this applies to all my laptops, I have had to open nasabare.txt in Wordpad and change the font size so all lines are on single lines and not split up.Only then did Nova import the nasabare.txt correctly without complaining. Not sure if anybody else had the same issues, just passing it along. Love Nova for the excellent graphics. Reading through the manual to learn all that is under the hood is a must! 73, Adrian AA5UK On Thursday, September 12, 2019, 11:28:46 AM CDT, JoAnne K9JKM via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> wrote: > Instead of downloading nasa.all and editing it, you can download nasabare.txt instead. The latter is exactly the same as nasa.all with the edits being suggested. That way you just need to rename, and not edit. Nova also downloads KEPS files from the internet without needing to create/edit a file. In the Nova main window click on Kep. Elements Internet Update Configure Download In the configure window that opens: Fill in 'Download To:' with where you want to store the download on your local machine. (I just put it on my Desktop) Fill in Remote URL: www.amsat.org Remote files: Click on the 'Edit the file list' icon to the right of the data window. When the file list opens uncheck all of the existing options since those files don't seem useful to retrieving amsat keps. Then you might need to use either Add, or Replace to enter amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasabare.txt Then save the changes with the Nova OK buttons in the layers of these menus you just negotiated through. Try the Kep. Elements -> Internet Update -> Start Download I've found that Nova running in true windows OS fashion may require to stop/restart the program so don't be surprised. -- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm(a)amsat.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. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

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Re: [amsat-bb] NOVA and Windows 10
by Wendy and Terry Osborne 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Hi Scott, Let's get Nova running first. The satellites are out of date because it's loading the Kep file from when the program was written. To update the Keps, save the page from here: https://www.amsat.org/tle/current/nasa.all. Save this as a text file to somewhere useful like the desk top. This will give you a file called nasa.all.txt. Nova is a bit picky about the format of the Kep files. To get this correct: Rename this to remove the first dot and all (nasa.txt). Open the file (Notepad) and delete the packet header up to the blank line above AO7. The remove the /EX from the end of the file and save the modified file. >From the Kep. Elements menu, select "Disk file update" and "Manual update from file" This should bring up a screen "Update Keplerian Elements" . Click on "Update" and you should then be able to navigate to nasa.txt. (Change the drop down box from DATA Files to Text files). That should update the satellites for you. If you go into "Views", "Configure the current view" and select the "Observers" tab, you will see a "Set up Observers" button. Select this and you should be able to set your location. Let me know if this works OK. 73, Terry ZL2BAC -----Original Message----- From: Scott Millick Sent: Monday, September 09, 2019 4:23 PM To: Wendy and Terry Osborne Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Nova with Windows 10 Problem I have I can get it running but the satellites are out of date Having a lot of problems with satpc I got it running but no matter set for observer (I live in Illinois USA) it puts me in California and jave yet to figure it out I am just looking to display my choice of satellites and when they hit my footprint show it to me. When I had my satitllite antennas I use it to control my Yaesu rotors thanks At 09:49 PM 9/8/2019, you wrote: >Hi Folks, Following a query from Scott on this bb, I like Nova and so I >decided that I would investigate. I managed to install Windows 10 on my old >Toshiba laptop. I found that it didn't like big capacity USB sticks >(again). NOVA: See: https://www.nlsa.com/ If I installed Nova from the >setup.exe, the program would run quite happily. I then tried installing the >patch.exe and got this error message. â€œException ERegistryException in >module NfW32.exe at 0007B3EA. Failed to set data for â€. â€ Deleting and >reinstalling setup.exe with the repair option, fixed the error and it now >runs OK. This may help other people who have had this problem, see: >https://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2018-April/067601.html 73, Terry >Osborne ZL2BAC _______________________________________________ Sent via >AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all >interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions >expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official >views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur >satellite program! Subscription settings: >https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > >--- >This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. >https://www.avg.com

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The Whistler and Whisperer
by Brad Smith 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Today, 9/12/2019, on the 16:26 UTC pass of AO-92 and the 16:36 pass of AO-91, the guy was back whistling and whispering into the mic. He has been active for a couple of weeks. I wonder if he used to work the SSB birds and is trying the FM birds with the same method of trying to find himself on full duplex, like he did on the SSB birds? At first I thought someone had the VOX turned on, but now I don't think he can hear himself. If anyone knows who he is, I think any of us would be willing to help him. At least, I would. So, sir, if you are reading this, please contact KC9UQR and lets talk. Brad KC9UQR, Franklin, WI

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ELANA 25 CUBESAT DEPLOYMENT
by cchunter3＠mindspring.com 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Some interesting cubesats as described in the IARU coordination pages. the next cubesat deployment from the ISS (Oct 2019): Experimenting with Emergency Comms linking - AzTechSat-1 – NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=661 APRS packet digi (145.825) TJREVERB – Thomas Jefferson High School, Alexandria, Virginia; http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=603 this group also includes the HuskeySat, and the Neutron-1 already posted. five of these cubesats cant find IARU coordination. all 15 listed at the ELana site: https://www.nasa.gov/content/upcoming-elana-cubesat-launches 73 Christy KB6LTY

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Nova with Windows 10
by Wendy and Terry Osborne 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Hi Folks, Following a query from Scott on this bb, I like Nova and so I decided that I would investigate. I managed to install Windows 10 on my old Toshiba laptop. I found that it didn't like big capacity USB sticks (again). NOVA: See: https://www.nlsa.com/ If I installed Nova from the setup.exe, the program would run quite happily. I then tried installing the patch.exe and got this error message. “Exception ERegistryException in module NfW32.exe at 0007B3EA. Failed to set data for ”. ” Deleting and reinstalling setup.exe with the repair option, fixed the error and it now runs OK. This may help other people who have had this problem, see: https://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2018-April/067601.html 73, Terry Osborne ZL2BAC

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PicoBalloons return to South America
by Amsat Argentina 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

The WSPR Picoballoon (14,095.6 USB) released on Aug-31 is about to complete its 1st orbit after traveling 33,000 Km. in 12 days. Trajectory at http://lu7aa.org.ar/wspr.asp (slow access but with lot of information) +Info: http://amsat.org.ar?f=buoy We appreciate activating WSPR that will help to receive it, AMSAT-LU will recognize with a certificate to stations that capture its 25 mW. WSPR program at http://amsat.org.ar/wspr.exe Also the APRS PicoBallon (145,825 via Sat 1W) http://aprs.fi?call=lu7aa-11 will be returning this Friday to S.America. 73, LU7AA, AMSAT Argentina

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Re: [amsat-bb] Improvements to the AMSAT Live OSCAR Satellite Status Page
by Mike Diehl 11 Sep '19

11 Sep '19

My plan was to volunteer to develop a mobile app, the status page isn’t the easiest to use on a phone. There are also other features that could be incorporated like automatic grid field population, alerts on status changes (think AO-7 mode flip), etc. Web development is one of my weaknesses but I’ll do it if I have to. 73, Mike Diehl W8LID/VE6LID > On Sep 11, 2019, at 15:10, JoAnne Maenpaa via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> wrote: >

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Re: [amsat-bb] Improvements to the AMSAT Live OSCAR Satellite Status Page
by Joseph B. Fitzgerald 11 Sep '19

11 Sep '19

> Any chance we can get some way to get the list of satellites as well as the current status data in JSON? Many things are possible with enough volunteer labor! I will contact you off list to work out details. de KM1P Joe

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ARISS News Release No. 19-15
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 11 Sep '19

11 Sep '19

ARISS News Release No. 19-15 Dave Jordan, AA4KN ARISS PR aa4kn(a)amsat.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9 US Schools Moved Forward in ARISS Selection Process September 10, 2019 -Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is pleased to announce the schools/host organizations selected for the first half of 2020. A total of 9 of the submitted proposals during the recent proposal window have been accepted to move forward in the processes of planning to host a scheduled amateur radio contact with crew on the ISS. The primary goal of the ARISS program is to engage young people in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) activities and raise their awareness of space communications, radio communications, space exploration, and related areas of study and career possibilities. The ARISS program anticipates that NASA will be able to provide scheduling opportunities for the 9 US host organizations during the January to June 2020 time period. They are now at work completing an acceptable equipment plan that demonstrates their ability to execute the ham radio contact. Once their equipment plan is approved by the ARISS Technical Mentors, the final selected schools/organizations will be scheduled as their availability and flexibility match up with the scheduling opportunities offered by NASA. The schools and host organizations are: Celia Hays Elementary School Rockwall TX Golden Gate Middle School Naples FL J.P. McConnell Middle School Loganville GA Kittredge Magnet School Atlanta GA Maple Dale Elementary School Cincinnati OH Monroe Carrell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt Nashville TN Oakwood School Morgan Hill CA Ramona Lutheran School Ramona CA River Ridge High School New Port Richey FL 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. Media Contact: Dave Jordan, AA4KN ARISS PR --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Re: [amsat-bb] Improvements to the AMSAT Live OSCAR Satellite Status Page
by Mike Diehl 11 Sep '19

11 Sep '19

> On Sep 11, 2019, at 15:10, JoAnne Maenpaa via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> wrote: >

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Re: [amsat-bb] Improvements to the AMSAT Live OSCAR Satellite Status Page
by JoAnne Maenpaa 11 Sep '19

11 Sep '19

Mike wrote: > Any chance we can get some way to get the list of satellites as well as the > current status data in JSON? This would make it a whole lot easier to > develop our own interfaces and would also reduce overhead without having to > transfer the entire page. I'm sure there is an opening for a JSON volunteer if you're up to it. -- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm(a)amsat.org

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-11 15:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 11 Sep '19

11 Sep '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-11 15:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Templestowe College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, telebridge via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Wed 2019-09-18 08:06:32 UTC 42 deg Boys and Girls Club, Ft. Meade, MD., telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV (***) Contact is go for: Fri 2019-09-20 19:58:23 UTC 54 deg School in Bulgaria, direct via TBD (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS (***) The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for Tue 2019-09-24 16:10 UTC (***) AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For many years I have on purpose not given the actual hyperlinks; I assume the user would do a copy/paste into their favorite browser. I am now thinking that the browsers have all grown up and most should be able to handle the link. Please let me know you experience any issues. So now you should be able to directly click on the link. (***) 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 2019-09-11 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. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-09-03 17:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 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: http://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) http://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. ******************************************************************************* 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 http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? 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: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 120 **************************************************************************** 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 1329. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1272. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correctio… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Improvements to the AMSAT Live OSCAR Satellite Status Page
by Joseph B. Fitzgerald 10 Sep '19

10 Sep '19

Thanks to the efforts of new member Ed, KN6DBC, improvements have been made to www.amsat.org/status<http://www.amsat.org/status>, specifically, some filtering of the "Your Callsign" field has been added in an effort to reject the occasional nonsense report. The entry must look like a callsign, for example it must have at least one digit, it must not end with a digit etc. As a bonus, the"Your Grid Square" field has been added. Separate entries are now preferred instead of workarounds like KM1P-FN42. AMSAT maintains this page to give a single global reference point for all users in the Amateur Satellite Service to show the most up-to-date status of all satellites as actually reported in real time by users around the world. Please help others and keep it current every time you access a bird. 73 de KM1P Joe

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Roving
by Corlissbs 10 Sep '19

10 Sep '19

I will be traveling in EN54 and EN64 on Sept. 13th, 14th and 15th and will try to work passes of AO-91 and AO-92. Brad KC9UQR Sent from Brad’s iPad

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-10 02:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-10 02:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Templestowe College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, telebridge via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Wed 2019-09-18 08:06:32 UTC 42 deg Boys and Girls Club, Ft. Meade, MD., telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV (***) Contact is go for: Fri 2019-09-20 19:58:23 UTC 54 deg AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For many years I have on purpose not given the actual hyperlinks; I assume the user would do a copy/paste into their favorite browser. I am now thinking that the browsers have all grown up and most should be able to handle the link. Please let me know you experience any issues. So now you should be able to directly click on the link. (***) 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 2019-09-10 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. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-09-03 17:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 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: http://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) http://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. ******************************************************************************* 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 http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? 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: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 120 **************************************************************************** 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 1329. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1272. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correctio… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Working grid EN54
by Dan Eggert 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

Hi all, I will be working all daytime passes on the FM voice satellites in Wisconsin at grid location EN54 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, September 10th, 11th and 12th. As long as the weather cooperates! I hope to hear you then. Dan - AC9E Sent from my iPad

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Telecon Sans Frontiers
by Daniel Schultz 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

This web site was forwarded by the Goddard Amateur Radio Club mail reflector. The group "Telecon Sans Frontiers" (Telecom Without Borders) is providing emergency satellite communications to the Bahamas. No mention of anyone using amateur radio or amateur radio satellites to support this. Discuss..... https://www.tsfi.org/en/our-missions/fields-of-interventions/disaster-respo… Dan Schultz N8FGV

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-09 19:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-09 19:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Templestowe College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, telebridge via VK6MJ (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV (***) Contact is go for: Wed 2019-09-18 08:06:32 UTC 42 deg (***) Boys and Girls Club, Ft. Meade, MD., telebridge via VK4KHZ (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Drew Morgan KI5AAA (***) Contact is go for: Fri 2019-09-20 19:58:23 UTC 54 deg (***) AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For many years I have on purpose not given the actual hyperlinks; I assume the user would do a copy/paste into their favorite browser. I am now thinking that the browsers have all grown up and most should be able to handle the link. Please let me know you experience any issues. So now you should be able to directly click on the link. (***) 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 2019-09-09 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. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-09-03 17:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 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: http://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) http://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. ******************************************************************************* 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 http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? 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: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 120 **************************************************************************** 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 1329. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1272. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correctio… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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rotor computer interface
by Mike Seguin 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

What are folks using now to control a G5400B rotor system with SatPC32? I have my trusty SatTracker 688 from WA8SME, but that is no longer available. -- 73, Mike, N1JEZ "A closed mouth gathers no feet"

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IC-706 with SatPC32
by jeff griffin 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

I'm working with an author of a logging program. What he is trying to do is integrate his logging program with SatPC32. One of his test radio's that he is using is an old first edition IC-706. He is having a problem getting his copy of SatPC32 to work with the IC-706. I'm pretty sure that the original 706 will work but honestly have never have done it myself, or seen it done. I can take a educated guess myself, but I would li9ke to hear from someone who actually has done this setup. Did anyone on one here do this? If so can they send me the SatPC32 radio setup info, and any pertinent 706 menu items that have to be set? Thanks in advance. 73 Jeff kb2m

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Re: [amsat-bb] How to digipeat? (one digi call)
by Robert Bruninga 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

Slight correction: > UNPROTO CQ VIA <satellite-callsign> such as CQ VIA ARISS, RS0ISS, PSAT, LU7AA-1, etc. Can be confusing. The digipeater path <satellite callsign> should only have one callsign in it. Either the desired digipeating satellite's call, or the generic ARISS or APRSAT. There is no value to putting in more than one, it only makes the packet longer and will never get executed. * *Unless you are trying for a LIVE -dual HOP experiment. Then both satellites have to be in view and you must get the sequence in the right order as to which one is closer. Etc. The probability is so low, it is not worth burdening the 99.999% of your packets with two hops when 0.0001 might be successful. So far, in 4 years I have still not seen a single successful dual hop. Bob -----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb-bounces(a)amsat.org> On Behalf Of JoAnne Maenpaa via AMSAT-BB Sent: Sunday, September 8, 2019 10:55 AM To: 'AMSAT-BB' <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] How to digipeat? I thought I'd toss out a few more hints to help folks trying to figure out how to get UISS to speak satellite packet. This is pretty much UISS specific detail. Make sure you have your station setup the way Scott and Hans have discussed. Setup your TNC with the MYCALL command. When you setup UISS the call sign you enter during setup will be your MYCALL parameter. Most of 145.825 MHz digipeater satellites use the AX.25 UI protocol You setup this protocol with the command: UNPROTO CQ VIA <satellite-callsign> such as CQ VIA ARISS, RS0ISS, PSAT, LU7AA-1, etc. You can enter these parameters in UISS in the top-left of the screen in the "To" and "Via" windows. Set "To:" as CQ and "Via" as the call sign of the satellite you are working. In the UISS 'Tx Text' window (the top text windows) enter: =Lat/Long-Message-to-digipeat -or- in my case near Chicago I use: =4211.29N/08827.08W-Greetings :-) You need the = and - in your message string. The dash displays your icon as the house on the map. To transmit your packet to the satellite click on the UISS Text/Data button and this should then trigger your transmitter. Folks use vari- ous combinations of PTT controls or VOX to trigger their transmitter - use whatever works for you. The shorter your message the better chance you have of getting digi- peated if lots of stations are causing packet collisions. Additional terrestrial packet routes such as WIDE1-1, WIDE2-1, etc. are not useful for space digipeating. Your target is the APRS satel- lite on 145.825 not the terrestrials on 144.390. The satellite digi- peats to us earthlings (and the SatGates) listening on 145.825. You aren't trying to tell every APRS station on 144.390 within hundreds of miles where you are driving. Adding all the WIDE strings also has the effect of making your packet longer, decreasing your success of getting digipeated on a busy pass. A lot of UISS setups document using AGWPE for your packet modem. This is a tried and true packet engine. Many of found that the UZ7HO soft- ware packet modem gives better performance especially when receiving. Your software packet modem will expect to receive the entire packet transmission with no errors - the correct checksum for it to be dis- played on your computer. Often you hear "good sounding" packets but if you aren't receiving the whole kahuna with correct checksum you won't get the message displayed. The same generally applies to the SatGate stations listening to the activity and gating it on to the web. The UISS program will require settings to be changed to operate with UZ7HO Soundmodem: In UISS top menu select Setup -> UISS -> LAN Click 'Enable LAN Mode' In LAN setup click on 'Enable LAN Mode' Host 127.0.0.1 AGWPort 8000 UISS may ask you to restart, go ahead and restart UISS. For normal operation start the UZ7HO Soundmodem first. Then start UISS. When both programs are running UISS will show it has connected with the Soundmodem: Connected to server 127.0.0.1 Port1 with Soundcard Ch: A; -- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm(a)amsat.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. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

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How to digipeat?
by Hans BX2ABT 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

Hello all, Apparently my mail about BugSat-1 raised some interest into that bird's digipeater. But that still leaves me with the following question (and I hope I don't sound too obtuse): how do you digipeat? I've tried to understand it by googling it over the past year or so, but I still don't get it much. Most tutorials explain about setting it up, but with HTs. I am running a home station only, with the rig connected to a PC. From what I understand you need to use the program UISS then. I got as far as this: I installed UISS (under Wine) and got it connected to Direwolf. Right now I can work the Falconsat-3 BBS using PacSat Ground Station and while running that program I see the same messages that Direwolf displays also appearing in UISS. So far, so good, but then what? I press either F5, F6, or F7, but nothing happens. Yes, my rig burps out some data for a split second, but I can't find myself back on APRS.fi. So what am I doing wrong? Any parameters to adjust? Or are digipeats not stored for the next iGate to put it on the internet? Again, I hope I don't sound too witless, but I've never really understood APRS, apart from terrestrial position reporting and even that was kind of hard with all the paths and whatnot. Hope you nice people on this list can drop some pointers. 73 de Hans P.S. I've got some nasty local interference on 145.825 MHz and that makes receiving the ISS and other birds almost impossible. I was lucky to get two frames in from IO-86 the other day, because that was due south, with the QRM coming from the north-east. Getting a signal up shouldn't be much of a problem, though.

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ANS-251 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by Paul Stoetzer 07 Sep '19

07 Sep '19

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-251 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 Board of Directors Election Ballots Due September 15 * 2019 AMSAT Space Symposium Preliminary Schedule Now Available * 2019 AMSAT Symposium Early-Bird Registration Ends September 15 * DM02 Satellite Expedition Sunday, September 22 - N6O/MM * VUCC Awards & Endorsements for August 2019 * How to Support AMSAT * Upcoming Satellite Operations * Satellite Shorts from All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-251.01 ANS-251 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 251.01 >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. September 8, 2019 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-251.01 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Don't miss the 50th Anniversary AMSAT Space Symposium October 18-20 in Arlington, VA. https://www.amsat.org/amsat-symposium/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT Board of Directors Election Ballots Due September 15 Votes must be received no later than Sunday, September 15, 2019 in order to be counted in the 2019 AMSAT Board of Directors Election. AMSAT members should have received ballots by mail. Members who have not yet received their ballot must contact ElectionBuddy via email to amsat(a)electionbuddy.com [ANS thanks AMSAT for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2019 AMSAT Space Symposium Preliminary Schedule Now Available A preliminary schedule of events for the 2019 AMSAT Space Symposium has been posted to the AMSAT website. It can be accessed at https://www.amsat.org/symposium-schedule/ [ANS thanks the 2019 AMSAT Symposium Team for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2019 AMSAT Symposium Early-Bird Registration Ends September 15 An early-bird registration rate for the 37th Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and General Meeting, Friday through Sunday, October 18-20, 2019, in Arlington, Virginia, is available through September 15, 2019 per the following schedule: Early Registration Through September 15, 2019 ......... $60 Registration September 16, 2019 – October 11, 2019 .... $65 Registration at the Door .............................. $70 You can complete your registration on-line via the AMSAT Store: https://www.amsat.org/product-category/amsat-symposium/ This year, all registrants will receive a digital copy of the Proceed- ings on a thumb drive. Attendees may purchase a hard copy for $25.00. Non-attendees may put their name on a waiting list for a hard copy, if there are any left over. The digital version of the Proceedings will be made available on the online store shortly after the Symposium concludes. Student Registration is 50% off and does not include the Proceedings. [ANS thanks the 2019 AMSAT Symposium Team for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Symposium Papers Due September 23rd! Final copies of papers must be submitted by September 23rd for inclusion in the printed proceedings. Abstracts and papers should be sent to Dan Schultz at n8fgv(at)amsat.org +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- DM02 Satellite Expedition Sunday, September 22 - N6O/MM Alex, N7AGF, and Ron, AD0DX, are planning to activate DM02 on Sunday, September 22, 2019 on FM and Linear satellites. It's a 5 or 6 hour boat trip to anchor off San Clemente Island. We will be on the water for 22 hours and operating around 10 hours beginning around 3:00 AM PDT (1000Z) on Sunday, September 22 The cost of the boat is $2500 and we would appreciate contributions to help offset this cost. In the 24 hours after posting to Twitter we have received around $1300 which Alex and I are very thankful for. The island has Verizon and AT&T and Alex has a Garmin InReach so we should be able to tweet passes. The plan is to make as many passes as possible once we start operating around 3:00 AM PDT. We may skip some of the low western passes. We will be using N6O/mm and we have a qrz.com page with all the details: https://www.qrz.com/db/N6O If you need the grid please give us a call! Of course this is dependent on the weather, but the captain says it has been a good September so far. If you are able to contribute financially we really appreciate the help to offset some of our costs. Details to contribute are on the N6O QRZ.com webpage. [ANS thanks Ron, AD0DX, and Alex, N7AGF, for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ 2019 marks AMSAT’s 50th Anniversary of Keeping Amateur Radio in Space. To help celebrate, we are sponsoring the AMSAT 50th Anniversary Awards Program. Full details are available at https://www.amsat.org/amsat-50th-anniversary-awards-program/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- VUCC Awards & Endorsements for August 2019 Here are the endorsements and new VUCC Satellite Awards issued by the ARRL for the period August 1, 2019 through September 1, 2019. Congrat- ulations to all those who made the list this month! CALL 01Aug 01Sep K8YSE 1884 1926 KO4MA 1673 1694 WA4NVM 1536 1544 N8RO 1068 1070 K8TL 982 1012 N6UK 626 675 N9IP 625 635 KE4AL 556 602 NS3L 505 526 W7QL 401 451 K9UO 425 450 PV8DX 360 373 AC9E 300 352 AD0HJ 282 300 PS8ET 275 274 N7EGY 200 250 W0NBC 106 137 KC9UQR 113 132 AI9IN 100 125 N7AME 100 125 N4QX 100 106 AA0MZ New 102 KI0G New 102 DL4ZAB New 101 KD8RTT New 101 WD9EWK (DM54) New 101 W7BMD 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 most of the work! [ANS thanks Ron Parsons, W5RKN, for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Purchase AMSAT gear on our Zazzle storefront. 25% of the purchase price of each product goes towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Support AMSAT AMSAT relies on the support of our members and the amateur radio community to Keep Amateur Radio in Space. How can you help? * Join AMSAT Both you and AMSAT will benefit when you join. 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Search for "Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation" https://smile.amazon.com/ref=smi_ext_twt_dshb_smi * Volunteer for AMSAT AMSAT relies on volunteers for nearly all of our activities. If you have an idea for how to help, please let us know, Details on volunteering can be found at https://www.amsat.org/volunteer-for-amsat/ [ANS thanks the AMSAT office for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ AMSAT and ARISS are currently supporting a FundRazr campaign to raise $150,000 for critical radio infrastructure upgrades on ISS. The upgrades are necessary to enable students to continue to talk to astronauts in space via Amateur Radio. We have reached a great milestone with $33,580 raised or about 17% towards our goal. This would not have been possible without your outstanding generosity!! For more information and to DONATE TODAY visit: https://fundrazr.com/arissnextgen?ref=ab_e7Htwa_ab_47IcJ9 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Satellite Operations +Canyon Tour (DM35, DM36, DM37, DM45, DM46) September 7-16, 2019 RJ, WY7AA, will be traveling from WY to Vegas and then off to the Grand Canyon and Bryce Canyon and back to Vegas. He will certainly be activating DM35,36,37,45, and 46, and who knows what else he will throw in on his way there and back. Watch RJ’s Twitter feed for details. https://twitter.com/WY7AA +AM1SAT (All Grids in Spain) September 9-15, 2019 AMSAT-EA will be transmitting its special call AM1SAT via all active satellites from September 9th to September 15th as part of the V RadioHam Fair IberRadio 2019 activities. IberRadio is the biggest event for the ham community in Southwest Europe and will open doors September 14th and 15th . Learn more about IberRadio at http://www.iberradio.es. AM1SAT call sign will be active from a minimum of 14 different grids during that time to help satellite operators to collect as much EA locators as possible. As part of this activity and in order to promote the participation, AMSAT-EA is sponsoring the AM1SAT Special Award in two categories: SILVER and GOLD More info available at https://www.amsat-ea.org/ +DN11/DN12 + DN03 - September 17, 2019 Casey, KI7UNJ, is heading to the DN11/DN12 line, September 17th. Look for him on SO-50, AO-92, and AO-91, between 1657z and 1812z. On the way back, Casey will make a quick stop in DN03 to catch the 2043z PO-101 pass. Watch Casey’s Twitter feed for further updates https://twitter.com/KI7UNJ +DM02 - September 22, 2019 Ron, AD0DX, and Alex, N7AGF, are chartering a boat to the ultra-rare DM02 grid square. They will use the special event call sign November 6 Ocean/Maritime Mobile. Expected window of operation is from 1000z to 1900z, Sunday, September 22nd. More information is available on QRZ https://www.qrz.com/db/N6O to include how you can help support this monumental operation. Ron and Alex are expected to have cellular service out there, so keep an eye on their Twitter feeds https://twitter.com/ad0dx and https://twitter.com/N7AGF Remember to check out W3ZM On the Road for additional upcoming activations! https://www.amsat.org/events/was-w3zm/ [ANS thanks Robert Bankston, KE4AL, 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/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts from All Over +AMSAT Argentina reports that the digipeater on BugSat-1 / Tita is active at 9K6 AFSK, call=LU7AA, also a ?DX? command should give stations heard. Passes & Frequencies at http://amsat.org.ar/pass?satx=tita Pwr is 2W. (Via LU7AA, AMSAT Argentina) +A Japanese cargo spacecraft loaded with more than four tons of supplies,spare parts and experiment hardware is scheduled to launch from theTanegashima Space Center in southern Japan to the Inter- national Space Station at 5:33 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 10 (6:33 a.m. Sept. 11 in Japan). Live coverage of the launch and capture will air on NASA Television and the agency’s website. (Via NASA, https://tinyurl.com/ANS-251-NASA) +Having trouble uploading satellite QSOs to ARRL's Logboook of the World? See AMSAT's guide at https://tinyurl.com/ANS-251-LoTW +Looking for information about satellite frequencies or operating status? The AMSAT website has you covered! https://www.amsat.org/two-way-satellites/ +It's going to be an exciting fall for Amateur Radio in Space! The 50th Anniversary Space Symposium will take place in October and the launches of both RadFxSat-2 / Fox-1E and HuskySat-1 carrying an AMSAT V/u transponder are expected to occur. --------------------------------------------------------------------- /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT office. 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 Martha at the AMSAT office for additional student membership information. 73, This week's ANS Editor, Paul Stoetzer, N8HM n8hm at amsat dot org

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BugSat-1 (Tita) and its digipeater
by Amsat Argentina 07 Sep '19

07 Sep '19

Hello Hans, Thanks for decoding TITA Tlm. Tita digi is active at 9K6 AFSK, call=LU7AA, also a ?DX? command should give stations heard. Passes & Frequencies at http://amsat.org.ar/pass?satx=tita Pwr is 2W. Good Luck ! 73, LU7AA, AMSAT Argentina http://amsat.org.ar

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simple 70cm/2M dipole/SATPC32
by RG 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

I was wondering if anyone has plans for a simple 2M/70CM wire dipole.I want something easy that will hold up outdoors.It would be for receive only for full duplex.If wire dipoles are out as I dont see them, a simple one from easy to make materials.The wire would be easy as the install is easier for me.Also I can't seem to get my ICoM 706 to work on SATPC32 for TX only.Works fine when set to same address for TX/RX.Thanks Rich marzo7088(a)yahoo.com

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Re: [amsat-bb] BugSat-1 (Tita) and its digipeater
by Amsat Argentina 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Hello Hans, Thanks for decoding TITA Tlm. Tita digi is active at 9K6 AFSK, call=LU7AA, also a ?DX? command should give stations heard. Passes & Frequencies at http://amsat.org.ar/pass?satx=tita Pwr is 2W. Good Luck ! 73, LU7AA, AMSAT Argentina http://amsat.org.ar

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Bugsat-1 / Tita object number?
by k.swaggart＠charter.net 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

What is BugSat-1 (Tita) object number? Can't find it in the AMSAT kep file. Tnx, Ken, W7KKE

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Re: [amsat-bb] BugSat-1 (Tita) and its digipeater
by Amsat Argentina 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Hello Hans, Thanks for decoding TITA Tlm. Tita digi is active at 9K6 AFSK, call=LU7AA, also a ?DX? command should give stations heard. Passes & Frequencies at http://amsat.org.ar/pass?satx=tita Pwr is 2W. Good Luck ! 73, LU7AA, AMSAT Argentina http://amsat.org.ar

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DM02 Satellite Expedition Sunday Sept 22 - N6O/mm
by Ron Bondy 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Alex N7AGF and Ron AD0DX are planning to activate DM02 on Sunday Sept 22, 2019 on FM and Linear satellites. It's a 5 or 6 hour boat trip to anchor off San Clemente Island. We will be on the water for 22 hours and operating around 10 hoursbeginning around 3AM Pacific (1000z) Sunday sept 22nd. The cost of the boat is $2500 and we would appreciate contributions to help offset this cost. In the 24 hours after posting to Twitter we have received around $1300 which Alex and I are very thankful for. The island has Verizon and AT&T and Alex has a Garmin InReach so we should be able to tweet passes. The plan is to make as many passes as possible once we start operating around 3am PAC. We may skip some of the low western passes. We will be using N6O/mm and we have a qrz.com page with all the details: N6O Callsign Page | | | | | | | | | | | N6O Callsign Page N6O personal biography | | | If you need the grid please give us a call! Of course this is dependent on the weather, but the captain says it has been a good Sept so far. If you are able to contribute financially we really appreciate the help to offset some of our costs. Details to contribute are on the N6O qrz.com webpage. Thanks and 73, Ron AD0DX (and Alex N7AGF)

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BugSat-1 (Tita) and its digipeater
by Hans BX2ABT 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

I was successful in decoding some telemetry frames from BugSat-1 (Tita) today. I've googled this bird, but not much information apart from the lauch in 2014. There was mention about a digipeater on board, but no mention if it was ever turned on or if it malfunctioned. Does anybody remember anything about this sat and its aftermath after launch? 73 de Hans BX2ABT

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ICOM IC821H
by alex weimer 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

If interested please contact me via EMAIL for the IC821H Thanks JACK KC7MG

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-06 14:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-06 14:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13 The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) For many years I have on purpose not given the actual hyperlinks; I assume the user would do a copy/paste into their favorite browser. I am now thinking that the browsers have all grown up and most should be able to handle the link. Please let me know you experience any issues. So now you should be able to directly click on the link. (***) 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 2019-09-06 14:00 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-09-03 17:30 UTC. (***) http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at http://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 http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 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: http://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) http://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. ******************************************************************************* 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 http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? 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: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136 Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 120 **************************************************************************** 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 1329. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1272. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correctio… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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ICOM IC821H
by alex weimer 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

I have my IC821H for sale . Excellent Satellite radio in excellent condition. Very clean and fully functional. If anyone is interested contact me via mail. Thanks you JACK KC7MG

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MFJ-1708B-SDRS
by Don KB2YSI 05 Sep '19

05 Sep '19

I'm sure someone has used one of these, what do you think about it?

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Moon Colony -> APRS Digipeater
by Robert MacHale 05 Sep '19

05 Sep '19

ARISS has plans to place a radio on the Moon Base. Now Silicon Valley is getting involved with Lunar Colonies. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-05/the-silicon-valley-heavy… I'd love to see an APRS Digipeater on the Moon. 73 Robert MacHale. KE6BLR Ham Radio License. http://spaceCommunicator.club/aprs . Supporting Boy Scout Merit Badges in Radio, Robotics, and Space Exploration

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AO-92
by Bob Cutter 05 Sep '19

05 Sep '19

There seemed to be an unusual number of Alligators on this morning. 72, Bob KI0G Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

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SATPC32 with 2 radios
by RG 05 Sep '19

05 Sep '19

Hello, I'm trying to run an Icom706 and an Icom R10 with SATPC32.So far the only thing that works is the R10.The 706 will respond to mode changes(CW to SSB,FM etc.).But it won't track the program and the program doesn't respond when I change frequencies.When I change satellites the 706 will change to the right frequency but then it won't track the frequencies on the program.I believe I have everything right.To clearify,My 706 works fine when the address are set to TX and RX, it just doesn't work when set to TX.I should note.I haven't connect both radios together,but was trying each separately. Thanks in advance.Richmarzo7088(a)yahoo.com

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Re: [amsat-bb] LOTW
by Roy Dean 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

Rx and Tx bands are enough to get the QSL. --Roy K3RLD > Hello all, I have never seen it mentioned that it is not required to > enter the exact freq for tx or rec on sats, It saves time and hassle! > Just thought I would put that out here. 73, Talk to you on the sats. > Tom. n6nug, DM12

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disregard PCsat issue
by RG 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

My apologizes,Please disregard my post on SATPC32 about not responding to mode changes.73Rich marzo7088(a)yahoo.com

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SATPC32
by RG 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

I changed my settings on SATPC32 to track uplink only,But it still keeps tracking both the uplink and downlink.I've tried restarting the program with no luck.Any suggestions?ThanksRich marzo7088(a)yahoo.com

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LoTW
by Ronald G. Parsons 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

The rules for matching QSOs for a QSL can be complicated – a little more so for satellite QSOs. These links should help: https://lotw.arrl.org/lotw-help/satellite-qsos/ https://lotw.arrl.org/lotw-help/submitting-qsos/ https://lotw.arrl.org/lotw-help/key-concepts/ Ron W5RKN

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Re: [amsat-bb] LOTW
by Roy Dean 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

Oops, before responding, I thought you were asking a question. Upon reading my response, I see you were pointing out exactly what I stated. Sorry about that! --Roy K3RLD > Rx and Tx bands are enough to get the QSL. --Roy > > K3RLD >* Hello all, I have never seen it mentioned that it is not > required to *>* enter the exact freq for tx or rec on sats, It saves time > and hassle! *>* Just thought I would put that out here. 73, Talk to you > on the sats. *>* Tom. n6nug, DM12*

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LOTW
by tom 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

Hello all, I have never seen it mentioned that it is not required to enter the exact freq for tx or rec on sats, It saves time and hassle! Just thought I would put that out here. 73, Talk to you on the sats. Tom. n6nug, DM12.

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