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W5PFG/p in February: DM80, DM70-71, DL79, DL89
by Clayton Coleman W5PFG 16 Jan '19

16 Jan '19

February 10-14, I'll be operating satellites daily in vacation-mode from grid DM80. I will operate a few passes from grids DM70, DM71, DL79, and DL89. Those specific passes will be advertised on Twitter @w5pfg. Remember, you don't need to be a Twitter user to see my feed. Just visit http://www.twitter.com/w5pfg to see my Tweets. 73 Clayton W5PFG

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DM41 and DM42 Rove
by Ruth Willet 16 Jan '19

16 Jan '19

Good evening, I will be traveling with my family to Arizona from January 17th to 21st, 2019! We will be staying in DM42, and I hope to be on various FM birds while we are there. I don’t know the exact passes I’ll be on, but I will try to post before passes if anyone needs the grid. On Friday, January 18th, we will have a Arizona satellite meet up at the Titan Missile Museum! My mom Sharon KM4TVU and me, Patrick WD9EWK, Fernando NP4JV, and possibly Chris K7TAB will be on this Titan Satellite Rove. We plan to operate on the 16:47z AO-92, 17:53z AO-91, and 18:20z AO-92 passes from DM41. We also hope to get on HF using the discone antenna onsite a little later in the day. For those of you who are chasing the AMSAT 50th anniversary awards, you can easily earn your AMSAT on HF 50th Anniversary Award by working us! http://www.titanmissilemuseum.org/ham-radio-operators Hope to hear you on the air! 73, Ruth KM4LAO

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Cross yagi question
by Hans BX2ABT 16 Jan '19

16 Jan '19

Should the elements of a RHCP cross yagi be centered at the boom, or should they be off center so that the middle of the H and V elements cross each other in the middle? My gut feeling says off center, but I'm not sure. I wonder how this influences the SWR. Cheers, Hans BX2ABT

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UWE-4 ?
by cchunter3＠mindspring.com 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

heard nothing this am in western US during: 1754 & 1932 passes. the 1932 pass I mon both freq. I was able to decode 3 previous passes with the new freq. using object 43880 seems to have been working. 73 Christy KB6LTY -------------- Hi Gustavo! I can confirm that - also nothing heard over Europe today (on both frequencies). 73 Mike DK3WN -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] Im Auftrag von Scott Gesendet: 15 January 2019 18:29 An: AMSAT BB Betreff: Re: [amsat-bb] UWE-4 ? Hi Gustavo! I believe that 9k6 telemetry has been reported several times since the frequency change. There are so many satellites clustered together right now that I don't monitor UWE-4 on every pass, so I can't give any first-hand report on its status today - I was tracking others in that group. Personally, I keep hoping to catch the 9k6 packet digipeater active on UWE-4! I already have 5 memory channels programmed "WD9EWK-style" with the appropriate TX & RX frequencies which I'll manually step through during a pass. My TM-V71A calls these "odd-split" channels; I would imagine other radios allow for similar programming. Hope to make some contacts via UWE-4's digipeater if/when it goes active! -Scott, K4KDR ======================= On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 11:51 AM Gustavo Carpignano via AMSAT-BB < amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote: > Hi, > Nothing heard of UWE-4 in 435.600 Mhz over South America. > Any news since the frecuency changed? > 73 Gustavo,LW2DTZ

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UWE-4 ?
by Gustavo Carpignano 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Hi, Nothing heard of UWE-4 in 435.600 Mhz over South America. Any news since the frecuency changed? 73 Gustavo,LW2DTZ

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Re: [amsat-bb] AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 14, Issue 2
by Mr B r a d 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Dan FYIfound I needed to unplug and reconnect the USB cable to the rs232 quad converter after using wsjt-x to get it talking with satpc32 /ts2000 again.also found that one of the ports would never work correctly and after picking the next porteverything started working and many sat qso's 1. Re: Kenwood TS2000 control versus Icom IC9100 (Rolf Krogstad) 2. New Horizons reaches Ultima Thule tonight (Daniel Schultz)> I have been fighting with this TS 2000 keeping my connection with the pc > going. > I am about ready to deep six this thing. > I have gone to a true IO card for the serial connection, Not a USB > converter, changed the speeds to match in the settings in both radio and > pc. tried different ports and things like that and at times it will track > fair and then other times it does not do anything.program NOVA will do a special show about the Ultima Thule encounter on Wednesday evening on your local Public Broadcasting station (in the USA at least). Dan Schultz N8FGV ------------------------------

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Yaesu G-5500 Set
by Vincenzo Mone 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Hello, today I was trying to set the full scale of the Elevation and Azimuth of my Yaesu G-5500 Control box.. For mistake instead to turn the FULL SCALE ADJ pot I have Turned the OUT VOLTAGE ADJ one. Now I am not sure if I have reset it to the right position. Please anybody can tell me how to see if it is positioned in the right position? If I need to re set it again can I do it from the shack also with the antennas mounted Or I need to do it without antennas? If I can do it also with the antenna mounted, Which is the right procedure or is there a tutorial? Thanks Also I do not know if it is normal that when I go to move the elevation from 0°, I see that the needle does not move strait away but after a couple of seconds that I am pressing The elevation button. Is that normal? Thanks once more 73 de Enzo IK8OZV EasyLog 5 BetaTester EasyLog PDA BetaTester WinBollet BetaTester D.C.I. CheckPoint Regione Campania Skype: ik8ozv8520 ********************************* ****** GSM +39 328 7110193 ****** ***** SMS +39 328 7110193 ***** *********************************

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-01-15 07:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-01-15 07:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Ashbury College Junior School, Ottawa, ON, Canada, telebridge via VK5ZAI (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Wed 2019-01-23 19:51:36 UTC 22 deg (***) ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS-US program’s education proposal window open Oct. 1 - Nov. 30, 2018 has now closed. The next 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 108 **************************************************************************** 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 2019-01-15 07:00 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 1286. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1229. 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 2019-01-09 23:30 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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Re: [amsat-bb] Home Satellite Station - Antenna Mounting Question
by Ronald G. Parsons 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Some time ago, when I was in this situation, I put one of the Glen Martin roof top towers on the floor of my attic and had a roofing company put a roof jack in the roof just above the tower. I mounted the azimuth part of a Yaesu 5400 rotor on the shelf of the tower, ran the mast up through the thrust bearing and out through the roof jack, and put the elevation part of the rotor near the top of the mast. The mast was long enough so the antennas cleared the roof sufficiently. Around the mast just above the roof jack I placed an upside-down funnel-like shape of metal to divert any rain water away from the roof jack. Ron W5RKN

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Home Satellite Station - Antenna Mounting Question
by Paul Overn 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Hello, I will be moving to a new QTH, and have the opportunity to set up a nice satellite home station, but I'm running into some issues in finding information: So far I know I want the "M2 Leo Pack antenna system", with a Yaesu 5500 Elv / Az Rotator. This setup will be mounted directly on the roof of my house. At this time a tower install is out. The issue is: What is the best system for mounting this on the roof? Is there a tripod? or will I need to custom make something? Any help would be appreciated. I have contacted M2 and DX engineering, but each tell me to talk to the other, so not much help there. Also, I still need to buy the rotator and antenna system, so if someone know of these for sale, let me know. Thanks!!!! Paul Overn KE0PBR Twitter: @KE0PBR `·.¸¸.·´¯`·.. ><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.. ><((((º>

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