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Today's Topics:
1. 9600 Capable Dual-Band Radio? (Scott)
2. FalconSat 3 added to Sat Reporter (Andrew Rich)
3. Re: Falconsat-3 and APRS HT's? (Roy Dean)
4. Re: Falcon sat (Robert Bruninga)
5. Re: Falcon sat (Robert Bruninga)
6. Re: 9600 Capable Dual-Band Radio? (Mike Thompson)
7. AO-85 Experimenter's Wednesday (Andrew Glasbrenner)
8. Re: FalconSat 3 added to Sat Reporter (Robert Bruninga)
9. FalconSat 3 iGate using rPi and pymultimonaprs? (Mike Thompson)
10. Alternative to M2 LEO Pack (Lou Michaels)
11. Re: Falconsat-3 and APRS HT's? (Zach Metzinger)
12. Re: Falconsat-3 and APRS HT's? (reflector ant) (Robert Bruninga)
13. Weekend Rove - Full Schedule (Ken Alexander)
14. Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-10-04 06:00 UTC
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 23:53:48 -0400
From: "Scott" <scott23192@xxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] 9600 Capable Dual-Band Radio?
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Greetings!
With the arrival of FalconSat-3's 9k6 packet capability, I've been looking
at radio options. Perhaps others have, too.
While the Kenwood HT option is great, I would prefer to use my computer.
So, if I understand correctly I need a radio with a data port that is
capable of handling 9600 data.
And, while FalconSat-3 needs me to transmit on 2m, I'm only considering
dual-band radios in anticipation of wanting to transmit 9600 data on 70cm in
the future.
The Yaesu FT-7900R is one of the lowest cost dual-band radios that I've seen
(new) that has a data port that the manual indicates can handle both 1200 &
9600 packets.
By chance has anyone used this radio for 9600 data at any point?
Or if you don't have first-hand experience w/ the FT-7900R, am I correct
that it's a radio that I can transmit a 9600 data stream through from my
computer?
Thanks!
-Scott, K4KDR
Montpelier, VA USA
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 14:09:35 +1000
From: Andrew Rich <vk4tec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: Amsat BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, aprssig <aprssig@xxxx.xxx>,
Australian APRS Users <ozaprs@xxxx.xxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] FalconSat 3 added to Sat Reporter
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Falcon Sat has been added to Sat Reporter
http://59.167.159.165/ <http://59.167.159.165/>
Andrew VK4TEC
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 08:07:58 -0400
From: Roy Dean <royldean@xxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Falconsat-3 and APRS HT's?
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Greg,
You are going to have a very hard time copying Falconsat with
omni/whip antenna's. Yes, it's a strong downlink, but "strong" for
amateur satellites is misleading... It's nowhere near as strong as the
ISS voice radio, for example, which is easily picked up on my scanner
duckie.
It's supposed to be over one watt, but I can pick up AO-85 with a
stronger signal, if that gives you any idea. Also, Falconsat has
some really serious polarity fade, so there's another issue. I can
go from roughly S7 to 'nuttin by rotating my arrow 10?.
--Roy
K3RLD
> Ok, so I must be doing something wrong. I have an RTL-SDR dongle hooked
> to a deep-fringe TV antenna in the attic which is my all-purpose scanner
> setup. I can barely make out the 9600 baud downlink from FalconSat-3 in
> the GQRX Waterfall, seeing a good bit of fading during the pass. At
> best it's a faint bar; mostly not there at all. My D74 hand-held, with
> a Diamond RH-77B whip antenna decodes nothing, assuming there was
> something to decode. Tried this on 3 passes this afternoon. Nada.
> APRS traffic on 145.39, by comparison, shows up really well.
> I thought I read that the satellite had a nice strong downlink.
> 435.103, plus or minus. I've not done much of anything with 9600 baud
> packet, so don't have much experience to draw from. What's wrong?
> Equipment, operating, or expectations?
> Greg KO6TH
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 09:04:13 -0400
From: Robert Bruninga <bruninga@xxxx.xxx>
To: amsat bb <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Falcon sat
Message-ID:
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>
> >Can you please provide me some sample packets.
>
Here is what I copied on my D710G in packet mode using PuTTY:
I didnt see any user digipeated packets. But the "d:1" in the LSTAT
packets show the digi is on.
It also looks like KO4MA was logged in.
Bob, WB4APR
PFS3-11>PBLIST:PB: Empty.
PFS3-11>PBLIST:PB: Empty.
PFS3-11>PBLIST:PB: KO4MA\D
PFS3-1>LSTAT:I P:0x13A8 o:0 l:26062 f:26092, d:1 st:6 e:d3
PCTRL-8>PCTRL-8:CTRL: mode=9 torq0 elog=1 alog=0
PFS3-11>PBLIST:PB: Empty.
PFS3-11>PBLIST:PB: KO4MA\D
PFS3-11>PBLIST:PB: KO4MA\D
PCTRL-8>PCTRL-8:CTRL: mode=9 torq0 elog=1 alog=0
PFS3-11>PBLIST:PB: KO4MA\D
PFS3-1>TIME-1:PHT: uptime is 703/10:46:07. Time is Mon Oct 02 15:54:36 2017
PFS3-1>LSTAT:I P:0x13A8 o:0 l:26062 f:26092, d:1 st:6 e:d5
PFS3-11>PBLIST:PB: Empty.
PCTRL-8>PCTRL-8:CTRL: mode=9 torq0 elog=1 alog=0
PFS3-11>PBLIST:PB: Empty.
PFS3-11>PBLIST:PB: KO4MA\D
PFS3-1>TLMS-1:C0:BD C1:00 C2:F1 C3:50 C4:F1 C5:03
PFS3-1>TLMC-1:CL:0
PFS3-1>USAFA-1:Thank you Air Force--AMSAT NA
PFS3-1>BCR-1:BCR:bv=1360 bi=123 sens=55 top=1360 low=0 t1=576 t2=1157
sv=1692 si=426
PFS3-1>TIME-1:PHT: uptime is 703/10:46:19. Time is Mon Oct 02 15:54:48 2017
PFS3-1>LSTAT:I P:0x13A8 o:0 l:26062 f:26092, d:1 st:6 e:d6
PFS3-11>PBLIST:PB: N8MH\D
PFS3-11>PBLIST:PB: Empty.
PCTRL-8>PCTRL-8:CTRL: mode=9 torq0 elog=1 alog=0
PFS3-11>PBLIST:PB: KO4MA\D
PFS3-11>PBLIST:PB: N8MH\D
PFS3-11>PBLIST:PB: Empty.
PFS3-1>TIME-1:PHT: uptime is 703/10:46:28. Time is Mon Oct 02 15:54:57 2017
PFS3-1>LSTAT:I P:0x13A8 o:0 l:26062 f:26092, d:1 st:6 e:d7
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 09:14:21 -0400
From: Robert Bruninga <bruninga@xxxx.xxx>
To: amsat bb <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Falcon sat
Message-ID:
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>
> > Anyone igating falconsat ?
Since the BBS packets use a different PID I don't think you can see them
through a normal IGate and it would flood the APRS-IS..
I think someone already suggested a separate server just for FALCONSAT BBS
traffic.
THen someone could write a web page dashboard that looks just like any
ground station running PACSAT protocol, but since it would have inputs from
every ground station in the world, it would always collect mostly complete
files and anyone coiuld get them via the web page.
I think we should not let people POST to the FALCONSAT file system from the
web, just too much chance for abuse. But we should have an online mirror
of the FALCONSAT BBS traffic and files.
ANyone?
Bob, WB4APR
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:06:41 +0000
From: Mike Thompson <zryder94@xxxxx.xxx>
To: Scott <scott23192@xxxxx.xxx>, amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] 9600 Capable Dual-Band Radio?
Message-ID:
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How would a Yaesu VX-8D do with FalconSat-3?
On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 10:53 PM Scott <scott23192@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> With the arrival of FalconSat-3's 9k6 packet capability, I've been looking
> at radio options. Perhaps others have, too.
>
> While the Kenwood HT option is great, I would prefer to use my computer.
> So, if I understand correctly I need a radio with a data port that is
> capable of handling 9600 data.
>
> And, while FalconSat-3 needs me to transmit on 2m, I'm only considering
> dual-band radios in anticipation of wanting to transmit 9600 data on 70cm
> in the future.
>
> The Yaesu FT-7900R is one of the lowest cost dual-band radios that I've
> seen (new) that has a data port that the manual indicates can handle both
> 1200 & 9600 packets.
>
> By chance has anyone used this radio for 9600 data at any point?
>
> Or if you don't have first-hand experience w/ the FT-7900R, am I correct
> that it's a radio that I can transmit a 9600 data stream through from my
> computer?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Scott, K4KDR
> Montpelier, VA USA
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 10:10:08 -0400
From: "Andrew Glasbrenner" <glasbrenner@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-85 Experimenter's Wednesday
Message-ID: <00f801d33c51$519d30b0$f4d79210$@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Just a reminder that Experimenter's Wednesday begins at 0000UTC tonight on
AO-85. Please participate by sending and receiving slow scan television
(SSTV) images via the Robot 36 mode.
More information at:
https://www.amsat.org/return-of-experimenters-wednesday-to-ao-85/
73, Drew KO4MA
AMSAT VP Operations
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 11:10:27 -0400
From: Robert Bruninga <bruninga@xxxx.xxx>
To: Andrew Rich <vk4tec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Cc: aprssig <aprssig@xxxx.xxx>, Amsat BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>,
Australian APRS Users <ozaprs@xxxx.xxx.xx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] FalconSat 3 added to Sat Reporter
Message-ID:
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>
> > Falcon Sat has been added to Sat Reporter
> > http://59.167.159.165/ <http://59.167.159.165/>
>
Looks good, but it does not capture packets VIA PSAT. Remember, it does
callsign-insertion instead of callsign substitution. So, unlike the ISS
that substitutes its call as in RS0ISS* and marks it has been digipeated,
PSAT preserves the upolink alias and INSERTS its call before it. So to
find PSAT digipeated packets you need to select all packets that show
PSAT,ARISS*. Though you don't really need to match the PSAT part just
match the ARISS*
>
> Andrew VK4TEC
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 11:37:38 -0500
From: Mike Thompson <zryder94@xxxxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] FalconSat 3 iGate using rPi and pymultimonaprs?
Message-ID:
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
I am running a terrestrial APRS iGate from my house using a Comet GP-15
tri-band vertical.
RF is fed into an RTL-SDR, connected to my raspberry pi. I am currently
using pymultimonaprs to make this all happen, and in Marco Kubon's tutorial
(http://www.kubonweb.de/?tag=rtl-sdr) he says it's possible to catch the
ISS APRS frames by changing the RTL section of the config file.
Does anyone know if I can add in a 3rd frequency to capture FalconSat3
packets?
Does this look reasonable?
proc_src = subprocess.Popen(
['rtl_fm', '-f',
str(int(self.config['rtl']['freq'] * 1e6)), '-f', '145825000', '-f',
'435103000', '-s', '22050',
'-p%s' %
str(self.config['rtl']['ppm']), '-g', str(self.config['rtl']['gain']),
'-l', '10',
'-E', 'offset' if
self.config['rtl'].get('offset_tuning', False) else 'none',
'-d',
str(self.config['rtl'].get('device_index', 0)), '-'],
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=open('/dev/null')
Thanks!
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 12:44:03 -0400
From: Lou Michaels <w2lmm.qsl@xxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Alternative to M2 LEO Pack
Message-ID:
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Greetings,
After an 18 month hiatus, I got the bug to put the satellite station back
up. I have all the equipment in house (g5500 rotor, antennas, radio,
interface, and cables) and can have this up and running in an afternoon -
possibly this weekend.
Now as most of you are probably aware, the LEO pack contains a 4x4 on VHF
and an 8x8 on UHF.
What if I wanted a bit more, meaning what might be the next step up in
terms of a VHF and UHF circular polarized yagi?
I'm also working with a 3ele 6m yagi under the elevation rotor, but I'm not
opposed to pulling that down to make room for center-mounted booms.
I'm asking because, while I'm leaning back towards satellites, I'd like to
retain at least some ability to work terrestrial. The 4x4 CP on 2m ssb
certainly seems like a step down from what I'm working with now (7x7 xPol
yagi) - I'm not looking for parity, just a slight improvement over a 4x4.
As always thanks for your insights and wisdom in advance. See on you on the
birds real soon.
Cheers,
Lou
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Message: 11
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 13:15:55 -0500
From: Zach Metzinger <zmetzing@xxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Falconsat-3 and APRS HT's?
Message-ID: <fac78dce-d038-d9f0-761f-938f77d2dd93@xxxxx.xxx>
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On 10/03/17 07:07, Roy Dean wrote:
> Greg,
>
> You are going to have a very hard time copying Falconsat with
> omni/whip antenna's. Yes, it's a strong downlink, but "strong" for
> amateur satellites is misleading... It's nowhere near as strong as the
> ISS voice radio, for example, which is easily picked up on my scanner
> duckie.
>
> It's supposed to be over one watt, but I can pick up AO-85 with a
> stronger signal, if that gives you any idea. Also, Falconsat has
> some really serious polarity fade, so there's another issue. I can
> go from roughly S7 to 'nuttin by rotating my arrow 10?.
While polarization is still an issue, you might try a square-corner
reflector as a starter antenna:
http://www.qsl.net/ve3rgw/corner.html
Of course, you'll want to upgrade it with a rotator to track the
satellite, but aiming it by hand should work fine. Keep the coax loss
low, or, for both NF improvement and to make up for coax loss, add a LNA
right at the antenna.
If you want some historical background on this type of antenna, take a
look at this oldie:
http://www.arrl.org/files/file/History/History%20of%20QST%20Volume%201%20-%20T
echnology/QS11-40-Kraus.pdf
--- Zach
N0ZGO
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Message: 12
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 17:08:49 -0400
From: Robert Bruninga <bruninga@xxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Falconsat-3 and APRS HT's? (reflector ant)
Message-ID: <6427696b3feb1a08a7f6deec38d019c8@xxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
The June 2004 QST cover photo shows a few of us holding a piece of rabbit
fence bent into a parabola about 2' wide by 1' high with the HT held at the
focal point. It makes a great gain antenna and is trivial to build. The
HT's rubber duck is at the focal point so there is no coax.
This is fine for voice satellites, but not so practical for data satelites
which need a laptop and TNC and cables.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.qrz.com/h/kb9sxh/cover_shot_QST_bmp.jpg
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On Behalf Of Zach
Metzinger
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2017 2:16 PM
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Falconsat-3 and APRS HT's?
On 10/03/17 07:07, Roy Dean wrote:
> Greg,
>
> You are going to have a very hard time copying Falconsat with
> omni/whip antenna's. Yes, it's a strong downlink, but "strong" for
> amateur satellites is misleading... It's nowhere near as strong as the
> ISS voice radio, for example, which is easily picked up on my scanner
> duckie.
>
> It's supposed to be over one watt, but I can pick up AO-85 with a
> stronger signal, if that gives you any idea. Also, Falconsat has
> some really serious polarity fade, so there's another issue. I can
> go from roughly S7 to 'nuttin by rotating my arrow 10?.
While polarization is still an issue, you might try a square-corner
reflector as a starter antenna:
http://www.qsl.net/ve3rgw/corner.html
Of course, you'll want to upgrade it with a rotator to track the satellite,
but aiming it by hand should work fine. Keep the coax loss low, or, for both
NF improvement and to make up for coax loss, add a LNA right at the antenna.
If you want some historical background on this type of antenna, take a look
at this oldie:
http://www.arrl.org/files/file/History/History%20of%20QST%20Volume%201%20-%20T
echnology/QS11-40-Kraus.pdf
--- Zach
N0ZGO
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Message: 13
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 22:01:21 -0400
From: Ken Alexander <k.alexander@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Weekend Rove - Full Schedule
Message-ID: <12fb4f52-a5b6-bd1b-b824-2632fc9c2f22@xxxxxx.xxx>
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Hi All,
Following is the full schedule for this weekend. Pretty ambitious, so
don't be too upset if I have miscalculated travel times and show up
late. Precision is not one of my specialties!
Some passes start minutes after the previously listed pass. I find I
usually run through everyone in the first few minutes, so if an equally
favourable (or better) pass happens soon after then I'll move on to the
next one.
Note that I added FN65 early Sunday morning. I received a request for
FN68, which is about the same distance out of my way. However, FN65 is
an easy drive down the Trans Canada Highway, where FN68 is a drive
across new Brunswick (moose country) on a secondary road. In addition,
that part of the province is mountainous and I could spend hours just
trying to find a place to set up. I went for FN65.
I'm tired. I hope I got my dates and times right. I've been know to
mess this up before! Please have a look to make sure that I have
included you and your region and if not then please let me know and
we'll try to work something else out.
== Friday Oct 6 in FN35/36 ==
2100 AO-85
2130 XW-2C
2224 SO-50
2305 XW-2C
2349 FO-29 CQ Europe!
0007 XW-2F CQ West Coast!
0038 XW-2A
0127 AO-73
== Saturday Oct 7 in FN56/57 ==
1308 XW-2F
1311 AO-73
1329 XW-2A
1334 FO-29
1421 SO-50
1426 AO-7 CQ Europe!
1448 AO-73
1526 FO-29 CQ West Coast!
1602 SO-50
1612 AO-7 CQ Europe!
== Saturday Oct 7 in FN57/67 ==
2111 UKUBE-1 CQ West Coast!
2125 AO-85
2151 AO-7 CQ West Coast!
2215 XW-2F
2249 SO-50
2307 AO-85 CQ West Coast!
== Sunday Oct 8 in FN65/66 ==
0009 AO-73
0030 SO-50 CQ West Coast!
0037 FO-29 CQ Europe!
0147 AO-73 CQ West Coast!
0222 FO-29
== Sunday Oct 8 in FN47 ==
1426 FO-29
1446 SO-50
1507 AO-73 CQ West Coast!
73! Hope to work you this weekend!
Ken
VE3HLS
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Message: 14
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 01:17:20 -0400
From: AJ9N@xxx.xxx
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-10-04
06:00 UTC
Message-ID: <3626b6.79ae72e6.4705c8e0@xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-10-04 06:00 UTC
Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:
Kugluktuk High School, Kugluktuk Nunavut, Canada, telebridge via IK1SLD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be IR?ISS
The scheduled astronaut is Paolo Nespoli IZ?JPA
Contact was successful: Tue 2017-10-03 15:32:57 UTC 30 deg (***)
****************************************************************************
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careers. Ninety-two percent of educators who have participated in
the program have indicated that ARISS provided ideas for encourag-
ing student exploration, discussion, and participation, and 78
percent said that ARISS was effective in stimulating student
interest in STEM.
ARISS is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers
of participants and integrate the contact into a well-developed
education plan. Students can learn about satellite communications,
wireless technology, science research conducted on the space
station, what it is like to work in space, radio science, and any
related STEM subject. 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 this once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity for students.
The proposal deadline for 2018 contacts is November 15, 2017.
The ARISS website has additional details on expectations, proposal
guidelines, and the proposal form. See:
http://www.ariss.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact-in-the-us.html
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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@xxxxx.xxx or aj9n@xxx.xxx.
Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8? MHz.
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All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted.
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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.
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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@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
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ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100
schools:
Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 124
Gaston ON4WF with 123
Francesco IK?WGF with 119
Sergey RV3DR with 100
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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 2017-10-04 06:00 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 1162. (***)
Each school counts as 1 event.
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1121. (***)
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:
Arkansas, Delaware, South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern
Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands.
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QSL information may be found at:
http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html
ISS callsigns: DP?ISS, IR?ISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RS?ISS
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The successful school list has been updated as of 2017-10-04 06:00 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
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Exp. 52 on orbit
Randy Bresnik
Paolo Nespoli IZ?JPA
Sergey Ryazanskiy
Exp. 53 on orbit
Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP
Alexander Misurkin
Joe Acaba KE5DAR
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73,
Charlie Sufana AJ9N
One of the ARISS operation team mentors
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