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sstv
by McGrane 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

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.

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2006-07-30 21:30 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 30 Jul '06

30 Jul '06

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.html http://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

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(no subject)
by Dieter Haffner 30 Jul '06

30 Jul '06

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ISS STATUS REPORT #06-35
by Arthur Rowe 29 Jul '06

29 Jul '06

*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 ###

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SSTV Ready for limited Testing
by MM 29 Jul '06

29 Jul '06

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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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EXP 13 STATUS REPORT #SSO6-35
by Arthur Rowe 29 Jul '06

29 Jul '06

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-

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2006-07-28 01:45 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

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.html http://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

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Re: ARLS005 Massive CubeSat launch fails
by Arthur Rowe 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

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 > > > >

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test message
by Brian Kantor 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

test - no replies please

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