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HRD rotor settings
by James Brown 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

Just downloaded the HRD 6.5-0-196 revision to satellite tracker.Dont see any visable changes to the program yet! I am using a REC-m/G5500 rotator. What settings needed to make HRD rotator software work? Jim KI6WJ

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-02-26 02:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-02-26 02:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Huntington High School, Huntington, TX, direct via KI5AJL The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact was unsuccessful: Mon 2019-02-25 19:39:52 UTC 25 deg (***) ARISS is attempting to determine what happened and welcomes your SWL reports. (***) Ceip Nuestra Señora Del Carmen, Torre De La Reina, Spain, direct via EG7NSC The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Tue 2019-03-05 09:50:56 UTC 48 deg ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS-US program’s education proposal window should go open in the spring of 2019. 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, click here. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Keigo Komuro, JA1KAB, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) ****************************************************************************** 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? If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke(a)sbcglobal.net **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 135 Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 112 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed, and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2019-02-26 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 Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1292. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1235. 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 **************************************************************************** The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-02-14 16:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 58 on orbit Oleg Konenenko David St-Jacques KG5FYI Anne McClain **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Startin' to come together!
by IAN PARSONS 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

Some of you may recall my 'trials and tribulations' post from last week. This is a follow up of sorts. I'm down in DM37 burning a week of vacation time. Prior to leaving home (CN85), I decided to bring my TH D72 and Arrow II along with me -probably to see if getting out of the urban environment would help things. I had a go at one of the FM birds yesterday but was met with more of the same: inability to hear myself on the DL. Spent a good chunk of time last night (re)reading articles and watching videos on everything from compass basics to smartphone tracking apps -HamSat in my case. Must've paid off, as I finally achieved success today on both AO-91 and SO-50! For the AO-91 pass, I skipped the voice memo app on my iPhone and focused on using HamSat. As a result, I had a MUCH better idea of where to point the antenna -both in terms of az and el- but I'm afraid I've no idea what time I made my two Qs! Later in the day I repeated this approach during the SO-50 pass and again had to estimate the time of the two Qs I made during that pass. But one thing did not change. I still had great difficulty hearing myself on the DL. Actually, let me clarify that just a bit. There was one point during the AO-91 pass when I caught the briefest of blip)s in my headset. You know... not at all unlike what you'd hear on HF when quickly spinning the VFO up or down the band. (In this case, the 'VFO' was me flipping the antenna round trying to account for Doppler). Unfortunately, by the time I flipped it round the other way, I'd finished my transmission! I *think* I heard it a bit better later in the day during the SO-5O pass. It went from sounding 'normal' to sounding as though I were speaking while having a head cold. I dunno, maybe I was expecting something a bit louder. My roots are in HF contesting and DXing (cw and rtty) so maybe that was working against me ;) Observations: 1. There's a LOT to pay attention to during a pass! 2. It's not as easy as John (KG4AKV) makes it look in his videos!! ;) 3. I really need to go the patch cable/splitter route so I can put a voice recorder inline. 4. Even an Arrow II gets heavy after 14 minutes. Gonna have to think about a tripod mount. 73 Ian, K5ZM

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list of sats
by James Brown 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

can anyone provide me a current list of "active" fm and linear sats It seams like a couple of sats such as AO85 and AO73 are gone now? Jim KI6WJ

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list of sats
by Nick Gangsta 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

James, https://www.amsat.org/two-way-satellites/

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-02-25 17:30 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-02-25 17:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Huntington High School, Huntington, TX, direct via KI5AJL The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is TBD Contact is go for: Mon 2019-02-25 19:39:52 UTC 25 deg Ceip Nuestra Señora Del Carmen, Torre De La Reina, Spain, direct via EG7NSC The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI (***) Contact is go for: Tue 2019-03-05 09:50:56 UTC 48 deg (***) ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS-US program’s education proposal window should go open in the spring of 2019. 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, click here. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Keigo Komuro, JA1KAB, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) ****************************************************************************** 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? If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke(a)sbcglobal.net **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 135 Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 112 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed, and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2019-02-25 17:30 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 Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1292. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1235. 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 **************************************************************************** The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-02-14 16:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 58 on orbit Oleg Konenenko David St-Jacques KG5FYI Anne McClain **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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AO-91 demo for students EA4RCT - EB1AO 26 Feb 12:26 UTC
by Felix Paez EA4GQS 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

Dear friends, this Tuesday, February 26 and within the activity 'Picosatellites and radio amateurs by satellite', carried out by the Radioclub of the School of Telecommunications Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, AMSAT EA, in collaboration with that radioclub, will have a talk about amateur radio satellites, their history and how they are operated. Within the space of the talk, there will be a break to try to carry out a demonstration of QSO in a portable way, between us, in Madrid IN80 and José EB1AO in Vigo IN62 at 12:36 UTC, using the satellite AO-91 RadFxSAT. The callsign to be used will be EA4RCT. Please if you are reading this I ask you for priority in the sat pass so we can complete the contact. We wish to have new sat radio-amateurs in the future with this kind of activities! thanks and regards, Felix Paez EA4GQS

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Ham Radio Deluxe Version 6.5.0.196 Release Announcement
by Ted Krempa 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

Posting on behalf of Mike, WA9PIE. Looks like several updates to the Satellite portion. 73, Ted K7TRK From: Ham Radio Deluxe Newsletter [mailto:newsletter@hrdsoftwarellc.com] Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2019 2:23 PM To: k7trkradio(a)charter.net Subject: Ham Radio Deluxe Version 6.5.0.196 Release Announcement Ham Radio Deluxe Release Announcement Email not displaying correctly? <https://sg-mktg.com/MTU1MTA0NjgyOHxqNWlleXA2eGdtcUVxUDhDUWdRUmxpQm5CT0MzYkt…> View it in your browser. Ham Radio Deluxe Ham Radio Deluxe v6.5.0.196 Released The 6.5.0.196 version of Ham Radio Deluxe is now available for download. This is the second release of 2019. Please download it from the Download pages on our website at: www.HamRadioDeluxe.com This may be a longer release announcement, because there's a ton going on here. I would encourage you to read this note in its entirety. In this release of Ham Radio Deluxe, there are 97 individual updates to the software (plus 4 duplicates, 102 total). By application, there are 26 in Logbook, 33 in Rig Control, 23 in Rotator, 13 in Satellite Tracking, and 7 in other areas (DM-780, setup, etc). Two developers simultaneously contributed to this work. We resolved the three issues that were reported with the 6.5.0.813 release - SAMCD error, installer doesn't complete and left HRD partially installed, and we restored the 3rd party serial port capability. In Rig Control, there are updates for the Yaesu FT-875D, FT-891, FT-897, FT-920, FT-1000MP, FTDX-1200, and FTDX-3000; updates for the ICOM IC-7300, IC-7610, and IC-7700; and for the Kenwood TS-990. In the Rotator application, we have validated changes for the Portable Rotation rotors (thanks, Will), Yaesu GS-232A/B, and HyGain DCU. We have un-validated changes for the M2 rotor family (feedback from M2 users welcome). In the Satellite Tracking, we've fixed about half the things in the bug list for this application. I'm excited to begin trying it out with life satellite QSOs. In Logbook, we resolved several rig control issues where mode was not tracked when clicking on spots. You can now save column widths in the DX Cluster. More performance enhancements were completed. We made changes to enhance the security of Ham Radio Deluxe. We now conform to the direct connection specifications for QRZ XML lookups. The full release notes can be found here: https://ReleaseNotes.HamRadioDeluxe.com Question you may have: Even if you're not interested in the 188 improvements made to Ham Radio Deluxe over the last 38 days, why should you go ahead and install this version? The answer is easy. This version is the most stable version of Ham Radio Deluxe ever produced. How do we know this? The number of errors collected by Microsoft on Ham Radio Deluxe have fallen to a number that is so low it's (what I call) "statistically insignificant." IMPORTANT: All those who have purchased Ham Radio Deluxe at any time in the past should download and install this version in order to benefit from all bug fixes. You are entitled to them. Our clients who are covered by an active Software Maintenance and Support period are entitled to Feature Enhancements. What's coming next? In speaking with our developers, they tell me that the things that were causing errors or crashes have been eliminated (as far as we are able to measure). Now, we're getting down into some more complicated defects that - don't cause errors - but where the software is not doing what it was intended to do. And "now that the errors are out of the way, we can more clearly see where the software isn't doing what it is supposed to in some cases." That said - we've got a known error that we found during this sprint that has to do with the way the callsign lookup sources are populating the ALE. We've fixed a few of these things. But we know that the lat/long & heading and distance for the rotor in the ALE is not correct. We're working on this now. (It's apparently been broken for a while and we didn't want to hold this release while we fix it, because there are so many valuable fixes already complete and tested.) But we'll be rewriting the callsign lookup logic soon. We'll be adding some features into Logbook that eliminate some data entry errors that cause problems with these records when they're uploaded to LOTW. We're working on updating Satellite Tracking for a few radios that are not completely functional. We'll need to be able to log the sub-band (TX) VFO, which is a long-standing request. We'll push forward on any Rotator and Satellite Tracking problems that come up. But more than half of them have been eliminated with this release. [Editorial Note: Lots of folks are asking us when we'll support the IC-9700. That's a great question. As most of you know, it's not available in the USA right now. Dealers are taking orders. We're in the same line to receive one that you're all in. Once they're available, we'll need about six weeks with the radio to get it included in Ham Radio Deluxe. We're expecting to receive a loaner TS-890 soon.] We'll be working on the panadapter display (so-called "waterfall") for ICOM radios. Then we'll begin working on supporting the panadapter display for other radios that have supportable capabilities. Please watch these newsletters for updates. Pass these updates along to your friends and club members. Newsletters will also be posted on our website's blog at: https://www.HamRadioDeluxe.com/blog Thank you es 73 de Mike, WA9PIE HRD Software, LLC We appreciate the opportunity to serve you. The Ham Radio Deluxe Team... 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JY1-SAT Dashboard?
by skristof＠etczone.com 24 Feb '19

24 Feb '19

Is there an updated version of the JY1-Sat (JO-97) dashboard that works better than the original (the one I'm trying to use)? I'd love to see one that works as well as the dashboards for AO-73 and EO-88. Steve AI9IN

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AMSAT on HF
by skristof＠etczone.com 24 Feb '19

24 Feb '19

If anyone is looking for QSOs for the AMSAT on HF award I will be on 40 m between 7060 kHz and 7065 kHz CQing in slow CW. Between 1630 UTC and 1700 UTC today (so coming right up). Steve AI9IN

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