ANS-254 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14
AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN ANS-254.01
In this Special Bulletin:
* AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-254.01 ANS-254 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin 254.01
From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.
DATE September 11, 2018 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-254.01
AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14
AMSAT Vice-President of Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA says that the camera on AO-92 is planned to be used to try to image Hurricane Florence during North American east coast passes on Thursday, September 13, and Friday, September 14.
AO-92 will not be in its U/V FM voice transponder operation during these passes. Ground stations should standby and not attempt to access AO-92 during this time. Voice operation will be available later during these days.
The high speed image data will be transmitted on the 145.880 MHz downlink.
The image can be captured, decoded, and uploaded to the Fox-1 data warehouse using the FoxTelem v.1.06 software available from AMSAT: http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/windows http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/mac http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/linux
[ANS thanks AMSAT Vice-President of Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA 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, JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM k9jkm at amsat dot org
We'll be trying to get things up and running to support this at VT!
Our ground station is basically down at the moment for upgrades (has been for a while, manual operation only on site, no arm chair remote stuff at the moment or full up automation yet hi hi!, but we're slowly working on that!). We're not sure how bad things will get on those days in SW VA weather wise. Myself and a colleague (and hopefully a student or two) are planning to MacGyver a few things to support these passes manually from the site to collect as much high speed data as we can weather permitting! Plan B is a separate setup that may be more 'expeditious' using personal gear, but again....not sure how bad the weather might get.....
We'll do our best! And we heavily encourage others to participate, this could look really cool! (is this the proof of concept of a satellite arm of SKYWARN....that could be neat....?)
73s,
-Zach, KJ4QLP
Research Associate Aerospace Systems Lab Ted & Karyn Hume Center for National Security & Technology Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Work Phone: 540-231-4174 Cell Phone: 540-808-6305
On 9/11/2018 2:29 PM, JoAnne Maenpaa wrote:
AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN ANS-254.01
In this Special Bulletin:
- AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-254.01 ANS-254 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin 254.01 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE September 11, 2018 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-254.01
AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14
AMSAT Vice-President of Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA says that the camera on AO-92 is planned to be used to try to image Hurricane Florence during North American east coast passes on Thursday, September 13, and Friday, September 14.
AO-92 will not be in its U/V FM voice transponder operation during these passes. Ground stations should standby and not attempt to access AO-92 during this time. Voice operation will be available later during these days.
The high speed image data will be transmitted on the 145.880 MHz downlink.
The image can be captured, decoded, and uploaded to the Fox-1 data warehouse using the FoxTelem v.1.06 software available from AMSAT: http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/windows http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/mac http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/linux
[ANS thanks AMSAT Vice-President of Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA 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, JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM k9jkm at amsat dot org
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9/13 1514Z and 9/14 1453Z for sure, others to be determined.
73, Drew KO4MA
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [email protected] On Behalf Of Zach Leffke Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 6:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ANS-254 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14
Can anyone from the OPS team comment on the specific passes they are planning to activate the camera on for Thurs/Fri? I'm assuming we aren't attempting anything in the wee hours when its darker. My guesses are listed below with the date and the rough AOS time (for VT) in UTC:
20180913, 15:11:00 UTC (this one looks like best chance for success with a descending pass right along the coast.) 20180913, 16:47:00 UTC (also descending, but with ground track mainly through center of North America, might get lucky with a 'side shot') 20180914, 14:51:00 UTC (also looks really good with descending pass along the coast) 20180914, 16:25:00 UTC (also mostly over central NA, but a bit shifted to the East, maybe a chance of a better 'side shot')
I'm trying to get some students out to the Tracking Station to help out, but want to send them confirmed times for the events so they can deconflict with their class schedules (I might also be missing some meetings for this).
If someone from OPS can confirm (or correct) those times that would be great.
Thanks in advance!
-Zach, KJ4QLP
Research Associate Aerospace Systems Lab Ted & Karyn Hume Center for National Security & Technology Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Work Phone: 540-231-4174 Cell Phone: 540-808-6305
On 9/11/2018 4:57 PM, Zach Leffke wrote:
We'll be trying to get things up and running to support this at VT!
Our ground station is basically down at the moment for upgrades (has been for a while, manual operation only on site, no arm chair remote stuff at the moment or full up automation yet hi hi!, but we're slowly working on that!). We're not sure how bad things will get on those days in SW VA weather wise. Myself and a colleague (and hopefully a student or two) are planning to MacGyver a few things to support these passes manually from the site to collect as much high speed data as we can weather permitting! Plan B is a separate setup that may be more 'expeditious' using personal gear, but again....not sure how bad the weather might get.....
We'll do our best! And we heavily encourage others to participate, this could look really cool! (is this the proof of concept of a satellite arm of SKYWARN....that could be neat....?)
73s,
-Zach, KJ4QLP
Research Associate Aerospace Systems Lab Ted & Karyn Hume Center for National Security & Technology Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Work Phone: 540-231-4174 Cell Phone: 540-808-6305
On 9/11/2018 2:29 PM, JoAnne Maenpaa wrote:
AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN ANS-254.01
In this Special Bulletin:
- AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-254.01 ANS-254 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin 254.01 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE September 11, 2018 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-254.01
AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14
AMSAT Vice-President of Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA says that the camera on AO-92 is planned to be used to try to image Hurricane Florence during North American east coast passes on Thursday, September 13, and Friday, September 14.
AO-92 will not be in its U/V FM voice transponder operation during these passes. Ground stations should standby and not attempt to access AO-92 during this time. Voice operation will be available later during these days.
The high speed image data will be transmitted on the 145.880 MHz downlink.
The image can be captured, decoded, and uploaded to the Fox-1 data warehouse using the FoxTelem v.1.06 software available from AMSAT: http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/windows http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/mac http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/linux
[ANS thanks AMSAT Vice-President of Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA 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, JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM k9jkm at amsat dot org
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Awesome Thanks!
-Zach, KJ4QLP
(P.S. Sorry for the jacked up time stamp of my last email........something is up with my computer clock and the NTP service on my work network.....figured out a quick fix, IT guys are on it for a long term fix.......)
Research Associate Aerospace Systems Lab Ted & Karyn Hume Center for National Security & Technology Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Work Phone: 540-231-4174 Cell Phone: 540-808-6305
On 9/12/2018 3:00 PM, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
9/13 1514Z and 9/14 1453Z for sure, others to be determined.
73, Drew KO4MA
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [email protected] On Behalf Of Zach Leffke Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 6:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ANS-254 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14
Can anyone from the OPS team comment on the specific passes they are planning to activate the camera on for Thurs/Fri? I'm assuming we aren't attempting anything in the wee hours when its darker. My guesses are listed below with the date and the rough AOS time (for VT) in UTC:
20180913, 15:11:00 UTC (this one looks like best chance for success with a descending pass right along the coast.) 20180913, 16:47:00 UTC (also descending, but with ground track mainly through center of North America, might get lucky with a 'side shot') 20180914, 14:51:00 UTC (also looks really good with descending pass along the coast) 20180914, 16:25:00 UTC (also mostly over central NA, but a bit shifted to the East, maybe a chance of a better 'side shot')
I'm trying to get some students out to the Tracking Station to help out, but want to send them confirmed times for the events so they can deconflict with their class schedules (I might also be missing some meetings for this).
If someone from OPS can confirm (or correct) those times that would be great.
Thanks in advance!
-Zach, KJ4QLP
Research Associate Aerospace Systems Lab Ted & Karyn Hume Center for National Security & Technology Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Work Phone: 540-231-4174 Cell Phone: 540-808-6305
On 9/11/2018 4:57 PM, Zach Leffke wrote:
We'll be trying to get things up and running to support this at VT!
Our ground station is basically down at the moment for upgrades (has been for a while, manual operation only on site, no arm chair remote stuff at the moment or full up automation yet hi hi!, but we're slowly working on that!). We're not sure how bad things will get on those days in SW VA weather wise. Myself and a colleague (and hopefully a student or two) are planning to MacGyver a few things to support these passes manually from the site to collect as much high speed data as we can weather permitting! Plan B is a separate setup that may be more 'expeditious' using personal gear, but again....not sure how bad the weather might get.....
We'll do our best! And we heavily encourage others to participate, this could look really cool! (is this the proof of concept of a satellite arm of SKYWARN....that could be neat....?)
73s,
-Zach, KJ4QLP
Research Associate Aerospace Systems Lab Ted & Karyn Hume Center for National Security & Technology Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Work Phone: 540-231-4174 Cell Phone: 540-808-6305
On 9/11/2018 2:29 PM, JoAnne Maenpaa wrote:
AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN ANS-254.01
In this Special Bulletin:
- AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-254.01 ANS-254 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin 254.01 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE September 11, 2018 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-254.01
AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14
AMSAT Vice-President of Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA says that the camera on AO-92 is planned to be used to try to image Hurricane Florence during North American east coast passes on Thursday, September 13, and Friday, September 14.
AO-92 will not be in its U/V FM voice transponder operation during these passes. Ground stations should standby and not attempt to access AO-92 during this time. Voice operation will be available later during these days.
The high speed image data will be transmitted on the 145.880 MHz downlink.
The image can be captured, decoded, and uploaded to the Fox-1 data warehouse using the FoxTelem v.1.06 software available from AMSAT: http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/windows http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/mac http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/linux
[ANS thanks AMSAT Vice-President of Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA 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, JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM k9jkm at amsat dot org
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Can anyone from the OPS team comment on the specific passes they are planning to activate the camera on for Thurs/Fri? I'm assuming we aren't attempting anything in the wee hours when its darker. My guesses are listed below with the date and the rough AOS time (for VT) in UTC:
20180913, 15:11:00 UTC (this one looks like best chance for success with a descending pass right along the coast.) 20180913, 16:47:00 UTC (also descending, but with ground track mainly through center of North America, might get lucky with a 'side shot') 20180914, 14:51:00 UTC (also looks really good with descending pass along the coast) 20180914, 16:25:00 UTC (also mostly over central NA, but a bit shifted to the East, maybe a chance of a better 'side shot')
I'm trying to get some students out to the Tracking Station to help out, but want to send them confirmed times for the events so they can deconflict with their class schedules (I might also be missing some meetings for this).
If someone from OPS can confirm (or correct) those times that would be great.
Thanks in advance!
-Zach, KJ4QLP
Research Associate Aerospace Systems Lab Ted & Karyn Hume Center for National Security & Technology Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Work Phone: 540-231-4174 Cell Phone: 540-808-6305
On 9/11/2018 4:57 PM, Zach Leffke wrote:
We'll be trying to get things up and running to support this at VT!
Our ground station is basically down at the moment for upgrades (has been for a while, manual operation only on site, no arm chair remote stuff at the moment or full up automation yet hi hi!, but we're slowly working on that!). We're not sure how bad things will get on those days in SW VA weather wise. Myself and a colleague (and hopefully a student or two) are planning to MacGyver a few things to support these passes manually from the site to collect as much high speed data as we can weather permitting! Plan B is a separate setup that may be more 'expeditious' using personal gear, but again....not sure how bad the weather might get.....
We'll do our best! And we heavily encourage others to participate, this could look really cool! (is this the proof of concept of a satellite arm of SKYWARN....that could be neat....?)
73s,
-Zach, KJ4QLP
Research Associate Aerospace Systems Lab Ted & Karyn Hume Center for National Security & Technology Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Work Phone: 540-231-4174 Cell Phone: 540-808-6305
On 9/11/2018 2:29 PM, JoAnne Maenpaa wrote:
AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN ANS-254.01
In this Special Bulletin:
- AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-254.01 ANS-254 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin 254.01 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE September 11, 2018 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-254.01
AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14
AMSAT Vice-President of Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA says that the camera on AO-92 is planned to be used to try to image Hurricane Florence during North American east coast passes on Thursday, September 13, and Friday, September 14.
AO-92 will not be in its U/V FM voice transponder operation during these passes. Ground stations should standby and not attempt to access AO-92 during this time. Voice operation will be available later during these days.
The high speed image data will be transmitted on the 145.880 MHz downlink.
The image can be captured, decoded, and uploaded to the Fox-1 data warehouse using the FoxTelem v.1.06 software available from AMSAT: http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/windows http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/mac http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/linux
[ANS thanks AMSAT Vice-President of Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA 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, JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM k9jkm at amsat dot org
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Hi Everyone,
I would like to remind you and to reiterate the description of how we produce the AO-92 images seen on the Fox telemetry web pages. http://www.amsat.org/tlm/leaderboard.php?id=0&db=FOXDB
In contrast to the images or partial images you may receive and see on your FoxTelem display, the web page image is produced from the data received by the server from the many stations who may be capturing the pass with FoxTelem. That literally means the more the merrier, and even if you only see as little as one scan line on your FoxTelem image that line will be sent to the server to be "stitched together" with all other image data that others capture. Your line may be the only capture of that line and just what is needed to complete the whole image. While the single line or incomplete image on your display may seem insignificant or be disappointing, you are contributing to the opportunity to have the entire image available on the web. That is significant, and counting on several stations to receive the components of a full image is part of the design of FoxTelem.
Of course to make this work in the end, you must have the Decoder Options "Upload to Server" checked in your FoxTelem settings. That setting plus the participation of many stations, no matter how much or how little data they might individually receive, is what can make full images available for all to see on the website.
Thank you for participating in the science the Fox-1 satellites deliver, and enjoy the birds!
Jerry Buxton, NØJY
On 9/11/2018 13:29, JoAnne Maenpaa wrote:
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-254.01 ANS-254 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin 254.01
From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.
DATE September 11, 2018 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-254.01
AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14
AMSAT Vice-President of Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA says that the camera on AO-92 is planned to be used to try to image Hurricane Florence during North American east coast passes on Thursday, September 13, and Friday, September 14.
AO-92 will not be in its U/V FM voice transponder operation during these passes. Ground stations should standby and not attempt to access AO-92 during this time. Voice operation will be available later during these days.
The high speed image data will be transmitted on the 145.880 MHz downlink.
The image can be captured, decoded, and uploaded to the Fox-1 data warehouse using the FoxTelem v.1.06 software available from AMSAT: http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/windows http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/mac http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/linux
[ANS thanks AMSAT Vice-President of Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA for the above information]
/EX
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Zach Leffke