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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2018-11-09 03:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2018-11-09 03:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Bishop O’Connell High School, Arlington, VA, telebridge via W6SRJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Serena Aunon-Chancellor KG5TMT Contact was successful: Thu 2018-11-08 15:56:28 UTC 51 deg (***) New English School, Jabriya, Kuwait, telebridge via K6DUE The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Serena Aunon-Chancellor KG5TMT Contact is a go for: Tue 2018-11-13 10:08:08 UTC 50 deg If you are interested in applying for an ARISS contact, please go to http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html The information below is from the ARISS webpage: International Space Station Astronauts are Calling CQ ARISS Students ARISS-US program’s education proposal window open Oct. 1 - Nov. 30, 2018 September 25, 2018: ARISS is seeking proposals beginning October 1, 2018 from US schools, museums, science centers and community youth organizations (working individually or together) to host amateur radio contacts with an orbiting crew member aboard the International Space Station (ISS) between July 1 and December 30, 2019. Each year, ARISS provides tens of thousands of students with learning opportunities about space technologies, communications, and much more through the exploration of Amateur Radio and space. ARISS has been pleased of late, to be one of many possibilities of interest to educators during NASA’s A Year of Education on Station, which celebrates an almost 12-month presence of a teacher aboard the ISS. The ARISS program connects students to astronauts on the ISS through a partnership between NASA, the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, the American Radio Relay League, other Amateur Radio global organizations and the worldwide space agencies. The program’s goal is to inspire students to pursue interests and careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and in Amateur Radio. Educators report regularly that student participation in the ARISS program stimulates interest in STEM subjects and STEM careers. One educator wrote, “Many of the middle school students who took part in and attended the ARISS contact have selected science courses in high school as a result of that contact.” Educators are setting up ham radio clubs in schools and learning centers because of students’ interest. ARISS is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate the contact into a well-developed, exciting education plan. Students can learn about satellite communications, wireless technology, science research conducted on the ISS, radio science, and other STEM subjects. Students learn to use Amateur Radio to talk directly to an astronaut and ask their STEM-related questions. ARISS will help educational organizations locate Amateur Radio groups who can assist with equipment for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for students. The proposal window opens October 1, 2018 and the proposal deadline is November 30, 2018. For proposal guidelines and forms and more details, visit: http://www.ariss.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact-in-the-us.html Proposal webinars for guidance and getting questions answered will be offered October 11 and October 23, 2018, both at 8 pm Eastern Time. Advance registration is necessary. To sign up, go to: ariss-proposal-webinar-fall-2018.eventbrite.com/ 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 2018-11-09 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 Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1276. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1220. (***) 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 2018-11-09 03:00 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. 56 on orbit Serena Aunon-Chancellor KG5TMT Alexander Gerst KF5ONO Sergei Propopev **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Tnx PSAT Report
by Hasan al-Basri 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

Pat, Nice! Fm N0AN-10 To CQ Via PSAT*,ARISS* <UI pid=F0 Len=43 >[14:50:57] =4206.15N/09402.30W`73 v. ISS de Hasan N0AN Fm WD9EWK To APK002 Via PSAT*,ARISS* <UI pid=F0 Len=21 >[14:51:11] :N0AN-10 :hi dm43{N 73, N0AN Hasan

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AO-91 or 92 problem receiving
by Burns Fisher 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

I could not find the earlier note about 91 or 92 receive problem, but I just remembered that I had trouble with 91 a few weeks ago and discovered that a network camera that I had observing my antenna was generating a strong signal right on the AO-91 downlink frequency. Ferrites on the CAT5 helped some, but not enough. So until I can examine it more, I power the camera off when I'm working 91. I found it using an HT and just noticed the squelch breaking as I tuned over the frequency. From then on it just used the HT as a probe. Narrowed it down to the network, and then had to do some unplugging to find the actual culprit. 73, Burns WB1FJ

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Making a phasing line for 70cm polarity switch
by Bob Hammond 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

I would like to know how to make a 1/2 wave phasing line for my Gulf Alpha 70cm polarity switch. I've lost the original one while moving. I understand that using a SWR meter is how it's done but I'm not sure of the details. Is there a better way? I'd appreciate some help. Bob WL7CQX

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Bhutan-1 and uiTMSAT-1
by Hasan al-Basri 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

I see beacons from these two aprs digipeating sats, but I am unsure what the Via field is to be used in order for packets to be digipeated. For PSAT and ISS, I use ARISS and it works fine. I don't see a similar response from either of these other two birds. I'm a bit uneasy about using a generic field like WIDE1-1. BTW: *Is there a generic via path I can use that will encompass (work for), both the ARISS birds and these two birds from Bhutan and Maylaysia?* It would be nice, while puttering around the shack, and all of a sudden hearing packet activity on 145.825, to be able to jump on the keyboard and begin packeting without having to alter the Via path. Data captured from yesterday: Fm BIRDBT To APTT4 Via WIDE1-1 <UI pid=F0 Len=50 >[01:15:59] HELLO! THIS IS APRS-DIGIPEATER OF BHUTAN-1 CUBESAT Fm BIRDMY To APTT4 Via WIDE1-1 <UI pid=F0 Len=50 >[01:22:09] HELLO! THIS IS APRS-DIGIPEATER OF UiTMSAT-1 CUBESAT I didn't see any digipeated packets from anyone from either of these two sats. Perhaps their digipeaters are not active? (I did read on-line that at least one of them was supposed to be active, but it was old news and I've been out of the loop) Setup: UISS/UT7HO (Soundmodem) > Kenwood G-707 > Arrow J-Pole @ 15' (Rx and Tx) . This station is on 24x7 monitoring, and tx's when I have time. N0AN-10 Direwolf (Win10) > VBAudio > SDRPlay RSP2 > M2 Eggbeater @ 7' (Rx only Igate) . This station (N0AN-6) is active only when I'm not using the Eggbeater and SDRC Console/SDRPlay RSP2 for other satellite activities. Any advice would be most welcome. 73, N0AN Hasan

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1746 AO91 satellite demo - November 8th
by Ruth Willet 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

Good morning, I will be doing a satellite demo for the Kettering University Amateur Radio Club today, November 8th, during the 1746z AO91 pass. I will be operating under my callsign, KM4LAO, from EN83. I hope to work some of you! 73, Ruth Willet KM4LAO Kettering University Amateur Radio Club President

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9100 PAT panadapter board
by kb2mjeff＠att.net 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

Has anyone installed the 9100 PAT V panadapter board described here... https://kd2c.com/pat-v-9100 If so have you installed it with the newly documented higher gain tap points for VHF and UHF.... https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/539f6433-783a-448b-b978-2cb9dd19e2d3/downl… When Dave KD2C came out with the original board with the low gain tap point I found that it wasn’t acceptable for satellite use. Now I see he has higher gain tap points for UHF and VHF. In a few days, after L/V Sunday I’m going to open up my 9100 and redo the tap points. 73 Jeff kb2m --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com

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XW2 satellites
by Eli Caul 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Hi folks - I've had great luck on AO-91, AO-92, SO-50 using an FM HT and the Arrow antenna. However, I've never been able to hear any of the XW satellites, and I'm seeing them as active on the AMSAT status page. XW2-C just went by 500 miles away at decent elevation and not a peep. I'm concerned that I'm reading the frequency chart wrong, or ? - Could someone please send me a sample setup for one of them so I can be sure I'm interpreting everything correctly? Any assistance much appreciated! 73 de KK6ZHZ, - Eli Caul Director of Customer Care Sonic.net, Inc. 707-237-6201 Direct 707-521-0131 Faxline

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Award sstv 27 october 2018 ISS
by Quirino Gezzi 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Why I don't receive my award? Quirino Gezzi IK6FFL

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DIWATA 2B
by Frank G 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Hello all, Has anyone heard this new sat beacon ? I get only a few daytime passes a day here on the east coast and have not been at the rig during those passes. 73 Frank WA2NDV

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