Greetings to the group
thanks to mile mann for posting the sstv info
I downloaded MMSSTV and connected a simple monoraul patch cable from the
line in jack of the computer to the headphone jack of the HF rig to learn.
I've been monitoring 14.230 all afternoon and learning the program and how
to set the levels etc.
Some phots are noisy or partial from weak signals but this is a great way
to get ready for the space station sstv. I imagine the fm signal will be
much cleaner.
SSTV is easier to set up and use. Thanks to mako for a great program.
Thanks miles for posting info. You might do it again shortly.
tnx, pat n2oeq
P.S. single patch cable is for recieve only! I'll make up transmit cable
tommorow.
Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2006-07-30 21:30 UTC
Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:
ESA Event Patras, Greece, telebridge via WH6PN
Successful Sat 2006-07-29 12:27 UTC at 19 deg (***)
Robinson Elementary, Anderson, Indiana, direct via W9VCF
Wed 2006-08-02 14:16 UTC 47 deg
Watch for IRLP coverage.
City of Ottawa Central Experimental Farm, direct via VE3KID
Fri 2006-08-04 13:27 UTC 25 deg
Teven-Tintenbar Public School, Tintenbar, NSW Australia, direct via VK2ZTY
Fri 2006-08-11 07:32 UTC at 23 deg
Total number of ARISS school contacts is 247. (***)
QSL information may be found at:
http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.htmlhttp://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm#QSL's
ISS callsigns: DP0ISS, NA1SS, RS0ISS
*****************************************************************************
The schedule page has been updated as of 2006-07-30 21:30 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.txt
The successful school list has been updated as of 2006-07-30 21:30 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_correctio…
tf
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
*****************************************************************************
There has been a rumor that the ISS was having direct contacts on the 40
meter band. There is no HF radio equipment on board and available yet. The HF
antenna is mounted. Sometimes WA3NAN will retransmit shuttle audio.
*****************************************************************************
Expedition 13 on orbit
Pavel Vinogradov RV3BS
Jeff Williams KD5TVQ
Expedition 13/14
Thomas Reiter DF4TR
The STS-121 crew has returned to earth. Congratulations to Commander Steven
Lindsey; Pilot Mark Kelly; mission specialists Stephanie Wilson, KD5DZE,
Lisa Nowak, KC5ZTB; Michael Fossum and Piers Sellers. (***)
Expedition 14 crew:
Michael Lopez-Alegria KE5GTK
Sunita Williams, KD5PLB
Mikhail Tyurin, RZ3FT
*****************************************************************************
73,
Charlie Sufana AJ9N
One of the ARISS operation team mentors
*International Space Station Status Report #06-35*
*3 p.m. CDT, Friday, July 28, 2006 *
*Expedition 13 Crew*
The International Space Station's Expedition 13 crew members are a week
away from their first U.S. spacewalk. They spent much of this week
preparing themselves and their gear, and they activated a new laboratory
super deep-freezer.
Astronauts Jeff Williams and Thomas Reiter will leave the station's
Quest airlock hatch at 9:55 a.m. EDT Thursday, Aug. 3, for a spacewalk
that is scheduled for six hours and 20 minutes. Station Commander Pavel
Vinogradov will serve as the spacewalk choreographer from inside the
complex. NASA TV coverage of the spacewalk will begin at 9 a.m. EDT.
Williams and Reiter are both experienced spacewalkers. They will install
a device to measure the electrical field around the station's exterior;
replace a rotary joint motor controller and a computer for the radiator
on the station's truss; deploy two experiments that expose samples of
various materials to space for extended periods; and install various
other hardware on the station. To get ready, the crew prepared
spacesuits and tools, conducted a dry run of egress and ingress
procedures, and moved the station's Canadarm2 robotic arm into position.
The arm's cameras will provide television views of the spacewalk.
This week the crew also began operations of the new Minus Eighty-degree
Laboratory Freezer for ISS. The equipment can reach temperatures as low
as minus 112 degrees Fahrenheit. Provided by the European Space Agency,
the freezer was delivered on shuttle mission STS-121 earlier this month
and is installed in the Destiny laboratory. It has 300 liters of
freezing and storage capacity in four compartments for experiment
samples to preserve them for return to Earth.
On Tuesday, Russian flight controllers fired thrusters on the Progress
supply ship docked to the aft end of the station to boost the station's
altitude. They raised the complex to an orbit of 219 by 203 statute
miles. The adjustment optimizes conditions for a docking by the Space
Shuttle Atlantis, targeted for a launch window that begins Aug. 27, and
by the station's next crew, Expedition 14, set for launch in
mid-September on a Russian Soyuz rocket. The next station status report
will be issued on Thursday, Aug. 3, following the spacewalk or earlier
if events warrant. For more about the crew's activities and station
sighting opportunities, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
###
ISS Amateur Radio Status: July 28, 2006
SpaceCam1 Slow Scan TV project for ISS, Update
By Miles Mann WF1F,
MAREX-NA News
Manned Amateur Radio Experiment, North American
Division
SpaceCam1 Slow Scan TV project for ISS, Update
During this weeks ARISS meeting with the engineers at
the Russian Space Agency, it was announced that ISS
Expedition 13 Commander Pavel Vinogradov,, may have
some time to start testing Slow Scan TV from the
International Space Station.
http://www.arrl.org/?artid=6627
This testing may be very limited. It is not know when
the Project will be officially opened to the world
wide public. The tentative down link for SSTV will be
on 144.490 FM. The uplink will not be published until
testing has been completed.
SpaceCam1:
The MAREXMG / ARISS SpaceCam1 SSTV System is an
entry-level PC based Slow Scan Television system
designed to be used on board the International Space
Station. This system will support multiple common
SSTV transmission modes. SpaceCam1 has been
specifically designed to be accessible to as many
Amateur Radio stations as possible around the world.
The original proof-of-concept system was built by the
MAREX-NA team and successfully flown on the Russian
Space Station Mir (December 1998 until August 1999).
The proof-of-concept system has proven the ability of
the hardware design and it has taught us how to make
additional improvements for the next generation SSTV
system for ISS.
http://www.marexmg.org/marexmirweb/fileshtml/galleryimagepage1.htm
In January 2001 the SpaceCam1 the ARISS program
accepted project at one of the future Amateur Radio
projects for the International Space Station.
http://www.marexmg.org/
The SpaceCam1 software has been under development
since 1999 and is being created by the SiliconPixels
team managed by Jim Barber (N7CXI).
http://www.barberdsp.com/spmain.htm
The ARISS Hardware Manager Lou McFadin (W5DID) was
assigned the task of building an Audio interface box
for the SpaceCam1 project. The Audio interface box
will allow the audio from a standard Laptop PC to be
plugged into the existing Amateur Radio station on
ISS.
When will SpaceCam1 fly?
In October 2005 the last component needed for
SpaceCam1 arrived on ISS. All of the required Hardware
and software is currently on ISS. The initial big
problem was locating a computer on ISS to use for this
project. All of the existing laptops on ISS were
considered mission critical computers. Recently a
computer was released to Amateur Radio usage, and the
software packages have been loaded.
We are now just waiting for the ISS crew to be giving
permission to start testing the SSTV applications.
SpaceCam1 FAQ:
http://www.marexmg.org/spacecam/spacecam.html
Will I be able to receive images from SpaceCam1?
Yes! SpaceCam1 will transmit and receive images on
amateur radio frequencies, using standard SSTV
formats. Although SpaceCam1 is capable of operating
in several modes, the standard format will be Robot
36. This format offers the best standard compromise
between image quality and transmission time.
In addition to two-way "interactive" operation,
SpaceCam1 provides the following fully automatic
functions:
Transmission from a live camera or disk at specified
intervals
Slide Show" operation from a set of images stored
on the system
SSTV Repeater
What equipment will I need to receive the images?
Radio receiver with an outdoor antenna. The radio
receive will need to be able to receive FM signals in
the Amateur Radio satellite band (ITU 144.000
146.000 MHz)
A PC with SSTV software or a dedicated SSTV scan
converter.
http://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/sstvlinkpage.html
Tracking software (optional, although it helps a lot!)
Take care all and good luck and please be courteous.
73 Miles WF1F MAREX-NA
www.marexmg.org
Until we meet again
DOSVIDANIYA Miles WF1F
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SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468
July 28, 2006
Grey Hautaluoma
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0688
James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
STATUS REPORT: SS06-035
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION STATUS REPORT: SS06-035
The International Space Station's Expedition 13 crew members are a
week away from their first U.S. spacewalk. They spent much of this
week preparing themselves and their gear, and they activated a new
laboratory super deep-freezer.
Astronauts Jeff Williams and Thomas Reiter will leave the station's
Quest airlock hatch at 9:55 a.m. EDT Thursday, Aug. 3, for a
spacewalk that is scheduled for six hours, 20 minutes. Station
Commander Pavel Vinogradov will serve as the spacewalk choreographer
from inside the complex. NASA TV coverage of the spacewalk will begin
at 9 a.m. EDT.
Williams and Reiter are both experienced spacewalkers. They will
install a device to measure the electrical field around the station's
exterior; replace a rotary joint motor controller and a computer for
a radiator on the station's truss; deploy two experiments that expose
samples of various materials to space for extended periods; and
install various other hardware on the station.
To get ready, the crew prepared spacesuits and tools, conducted a dry
run of egress and ingress procedures, and moved the station's
Canadarm2 robotic arm into position. The arm's cameras will provide
television views of the spacewalk.
This week the crew also began operations of the new Minus
Eighty-degree Laboratory Freezer for ISS. The equipment can reach
temperatures as low as minus 112 degrees Fahrenheit. Provided by the
European Space Agency, the freezer was delivered on shuttle mission
STS-121 earlier this month and is installed in the Destiny
laboratory. It has 300 liters (about 79 gallons) of freezing and
storage capacity in four compartments for experiment samples to
preserve them for return to Earth.
On Tuesday, Russian flight controllers fired thrusters on the Progress
supply ship docked to the aft end of the station to boost the
station's altitude. They raised the complex to an orbit of 219 by 203
statute miles. The adjustment optimizes conditions for a docking by
the Space Shuttle Atlantis, targeted for a launch window that begins
Aug. 27, and by the station's next crew, Expedition 14, set for
launch in mid-September on a Russian Soyuz rocket.
The next station status report will be issued on Thursday, Aug. 3
after the spacewalk. For more information about the crew's activities
and station sighting opportunities, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
-end-
Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2006-07-28 01:45 UTC
Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:
ESA Event Patras, Greece, telebridge via WH6PN
Sat 2006-07-29 12:27 UTC at 19 deg
See details below for web coverage.
Robinson Elementary, Anderson, Indiana, direct via W9VCF
Wed 2006-08-02 14:16 UTC 47 deg
Watch for IRLP coverage.
City of Ottawa Central Experimental Farm, direct via VE3KID
Fri 2006-08-04 13:27 UTC 25 deg
Teven-Tintenbar Public School, Tintenbar, NSW Australia, direct via VK2ZTY
Fri 2006-08-11 07:32 UTC at 23 deg (***)
Total number of ARISS school contacts is 246.
QSL information may be found at:
http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.htmlhttp://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm#QSL's
ISS callsigns: DP0ISS, NA1SS, RS0ISS
*****************************************************************************
The schedule page has been updated as of 2006-07-28 01:45 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.txt
The successful school list has been updated as of 2006-06-13 23:00 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_correctio…
tf
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
*****************************************************************************
There has been a rumor that the ISS was having direct contacts on the 40
meter band. There is no HF radio equipment on board and available yet. The HF
antenna is mounted. Sometimes WA3NAN will retransmit shuttle audio.
*****************************************************************************
Expedition 13 on orbit
Pavel Vinogradov RV3BS
Jeff Williams KD5TVQ
Expedition 13/14
Thomas Reiter DF4TR
The STS-121 crew has returned to earth. Congratulations to Commander Steven
Lindsey; Pilot Mark Kelly; mission specialists Stephanie Wilson, KD5DZE,
Lisa Nowak, KC5ZTB; Michael Fossum and Piers Sellers. (***)
Expedition 14 crew:
Michael Lopez-Alegria KE5GTK
Sunita Williams, KD5PLB
Mikhail Tyurin, RZ3FT
*****************************************************************************
73,
Charlie Sufana AJ9N
One of the ARISS operation team mentors
ARRL Web site wrote:
> SB SPACE @ ARL $ARLS005
> ARLS005 Massive CubeSat launch fails
>
> ZCZC AS05
> QST de W1AW
> Space Bulletin 005 ARLS005
> >From ARRL Headquarters
> Newington, CT July 27, 2006
> To all radio amateurs
>
> SB SPACE ARL ARLS005
> ARLS005 Massive CubeSat launch fails
>
> An attempt to launch 15 CubeSats from 11 universities and one
> private company failed July 26. Fourteen of the CubeSats, now lost,
> carried Amateur Radio transmit-only payloads.
>
> The Dnepr-1LV rocket lifted off from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in
> Kazakhstan at 1943 UTC on July 26. Space Launch Report cites payload
> users as reporting that the mission went awry sometime after
> first-stage separation. An Interfax, report said an emergency
> shutdown of the rocket's main engine initiated 86 seconds after
> launch, shortly before the first stage would have completed its
> burn. Gazeta.kz reported the vehicle fell to Earth almost 190 km
> from the launch site.
>
> Originally set for June 28, the launch had been postponed until July
> 26. The CubeSat project was a collaboration between California
> Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo and Stanford
> University's Space Systems Development Laboratory. All of the
> CubeSats were designed and built by students at various universities
> in the US and elsewhere in the world.
>
> Thirteen of the satellites were to have downlinks in the Amateur
> Radio satellite allocation between 435 and 438 MHz, and one was to
> operate on 145.980 MHz. None of the spacecraft carried a
> transponder. Transmitter power outputs ranged from 10 mW to 2 W.
>
> According to Satellite Launch Report, the original Dnepr launcher
> was replaced by a different one in June after a problem was detected
> in the original vehicle's digital flight control system. The Dnepr
> vehicle is a repurposed SS-18 "Satan" three-stage intercontinental
> ballistic missile.
> NNNN
> /EX
>
>
>
>
