Transit of Venus Special Event, 6 June 2012: For the 7th time in Human history and last time this century, Venus will pass in front of the sun on 6 June 2012. See web page: http://aprs.org/VenusTransit2012.html
Preliminary APRS Report:
There were 9 overall observation sites that checked in on APRS via the CQ VENUS (CQSRVR). These were identified:
Kyoto Japan - JH1IBN-7 (WB4APR) Kyoto U. Observatory, sunny! Canberra, AU - VK1NUT-8 - Mt Stromolo - cold,windy Australia - VK2AGC-2 Canada - VE6DSF Arizona, USA - K7TEJ-7 Italy - LA1TPA-7 Honolulu, HI - NH7WN Lexington, KY - W5IEM cloudy Arizona? - KD7ZWV Unknown? - KA2DDO
No one mentioned any HF contacts. We made one local contact on 10 meters, but were only running 5 W PEP.
The fact that both our Japan and Australian stations got good photos throughout, we should be able to reduce the data and repeat the original measurement of the size of the solar system! Though we expect the students might stretch out the data reduction over the next semester rather than zipping it out now over summer break!
Thanks to EVERYONE who participated. It shows the worldwide APRS connectivity potential. THough apparently our IGate in Japan was only 1 way, and we did not realize we were getting out until we got to the internet later and saw the traffic on the APRS-IS.
Lets get those Igates 2-way where legal!!
Bob, WB4APR
2012-06-03 08:54:13 UTC: VK1NUT-8>CQSRVR: cq venus testing from Canberra AU vk1nut-8 2012-06-03 14:16:21 UTC: CQSRVR>VE6DSF: Active group: VENUS with 2 members 2012-06-04 22:15:04 UTC: JH1IBN-7>CQSRVR: CQ venus bob in japan 2012-06-05 10:35:16 UTC: VK1NUT>CQSRVR: CQ VENUS TESTING 2012-06-05 16:46:55 UTC: K7TEJ-7>CQSRVR: CQ VENUS Rick K7TEJ test from Arizona 2012-06-05 19:14:40 UTC: LA1TPA-7>CQSRVR: cq venus 2012-06-05 19:30:54 UTC: NH7WN>CQSRVR: CQ VENUS; de NH7WN Preparing for 2309Z AOS 2012-06-05 20:51:40 UTC: JH1IBN-7>CQSRVR: cq venus my IGate may be 1 way? Seeing no SRVR resp 2012-06-05 21:27:37 UTC: VK1NUT-8>CQSRVR: CQ VENUS _ON SITE GETTING SET UP_MT STROMLO CANBERRA AU 2012-06-05 21:58:52 UTC: VK1NUT-8>CQSRVR: cq venus testing Canberra AU, any acks? 2012-06-05 22:19:01 UTC: JH1IBN-7>CQSRVR: CQ venus bob in japan 1st at 2211z 2012-06-05 22:26:49 UTC: VK1NUT-8>CQSRVR: cq venus Canberra 2012-06-05 22:41:09 UTC: W5IEM-5>CQSRVR: CQ VENUS Intermittent cloud coverage over Lexington, KY 2012-06-05 22:44:49 UTC: K7TEJ-7>CQSRVR: CQ VENUS de K7TEJ DM33vq 1st ctc 2208UT, 2nd 2012-06-05 22:51:10 UTC: NH7WN>CQSRVR: CQ VENUS; Vesus visible HNL. Very clear. 222730UTC; PHOTO 2012-06-05 23:29:32 UTC: W5IEM-5>CQSRVR: CQ VENUS Still too many clouds in Lexington,KY to see much. 2012-06-05 23:36:36 UTC: JH1IBN-7>CQSRVR: CQ venus bob in japan 2nd at 2230z 2012-06-05 23:37:37 UTC: NH7WN>CQSRVR: CQ VENUS: Honolulu-Venus very distinct- No moons? 2330Z PHOTO 2012-06-05 23:46:36 UTC: KD7ZWV-7>CQSRVR: CQ VENUS 2012-06-05 23:48:57 UTC: VK1NUT-8>CQSRVR: CQ VENUS ALL GOOD HERE IN cANBERRA,VERY WINDY 2012-06-05 23:54:34 UTC: K7TEJ-9>CQSRVR: CQ VENUS DE Rick K7TEJ DM33vq 1st cntc 2208ut 2nd cntc 2223ut 73 2012-06-06 00:32:00 UTC: KA2DDO>CQSRVR: CQ VENUS 2012-06-06 00:44:47 UTC: NH7WN>CQSRVR: CQ VENUS: Aloha- Home photo avail. fm [email protected] 2012-06-06 01:24:37 UTC: JH1IBN-7>CQSRVR: CQ venus bob in japan excellent wx! at 0125z 2012-06-06 01:30:45 UTC: NH7WN>CQSRVR: CQ VENUS: About 1/2 way thru; Some clouds in Hono 2012-06-06 01:41:16 UTC: NH7WN>CQSRVR: CQ VENUS: Revelation- Venus has no moons hihi; Thinking Jupiter. 2012-06-06 02:00:25 UTC: JH1IBN-7>CQSRVR: CQ venus bob in japan blue sky! at 0201z 2012-06-06 02:51:29 UTC: VK1NUT-8>CQSRVR: cq venus test from cbr 2012-06-06 03:06:39 UTC: NH7WN>CQSRVR: CQ VENUS: QRT/ Last photo 0255Z: Sun going behind ridge 2012-06-06 04:31:12 UTC: VK1NUT-8>CQSRVR: cq venus site is packing up. cheers Glenn 2012-06-06 04:33:28 UTC: JH1IBN-7>CQSRVR: CQ venus bob in japan 3rd contact 0430z 2012-06-06 05:13:32 UTC: JH1IBN-7>CQSRVR: CQ venus bob in japan 4th contact 0446z! 2012-06-06 06:21:31 UTC: JH1IBN-7>CQSRVR: CQ venus bob in japan event over sk 0620z! 2012-06-06 07:14:55 UTC: CQSRVR>LA1TPA-7: Removed fromVENUS 2012-06-06 10:35:58 UTC: CQSRVR>VK2AGC-2: Removed fromVENUS 2012-06-06 11:29:58 UTC: CQSRVR>W5IEM-5: Removed fromVENUS 2012-06-06 11:46:58 UTC: CQSRVR>KD7ZWV-7: Removed fromVENUS 2012-06-06 13:01:07 UTC: CQSRVR>DF8LS-10: Active group: VENUS with 2 members 2012-06-06 18:21:33 UTC: CQSRVR>JH1IBN-7: VENUSClosed
40 Meters - 7180 KHz 20 Meters - 14240 KHz 17 Meters - 18140 KHz 15 Meters - 21240 KHz 12 Meters - 24940 KHz 10 Meters - 28340 KHz