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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Roving questions (Bruce)
2. Re: View from the space station question (k6vug@?????????.????
3. Re: View from the space station question (E.Mike McCardel)
4. Re: View from the space station question (k6vug@?????????.????
5. Re: InstantTrack or similar usable on Win 10 (Franklin Antonio)
6. Re: View from the space station question (aj9n@???.????
7. Field Day Submissions (Bruce)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 13:41:30 -0500
From: Bruce <kk5do@?????.???>
To: amsat-bb@?????.???
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Roving questions
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Remember that any grid boundary can be questioned by the ARRL. Yes, a very
good idea to use your smartphone and an app that gives lat/long and take a
screen shot. If you have a standalone gps, take a picture. Just a CYA. As
srated, AMSAT is an honor system and in the 20+ years I have been doing
awards I never had to question someone about a contact. I have asked for
some logs for field day but that is a different animal.
73...bruce
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 4, 2018, at 12:52 PM, Bryan KL7CN <bryan@?????.???> wrote:
As Paul says, it's on the honor system. However, it is not a bad protocol to
take a picture of yourself or your location with the GPS location-stamping
enabled in your phone camera. There was a time when I went to a relatively
exotic location on a cruise ship and operated from the land ashore of the
boat. A picture settled arguments between the suspicious and the pedantic
for Satellite DXCC credit for that operation.
-- bag
Bryan KL7CN/W6
Location: CM98, usually
E-Mail: bryan@?????.???
Telephone/SMS: 408-836-7279
> On Jul 4, 2018, at 09:42, Paul Stoetzer <n8hm@????.???> wrote:
>
> Bob,
>
> Documentation is only required if you operate from a grid line or corner.
> Otherwise, it's all on the honor system.
>
> 73,
>
> Paul, N8HM
>
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 11:42 AM, wa7dxz via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@?????.???>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I plan to go to DM 54 soon, a semi rare grid for satellites
>> How do I prove I was there?Take a picture of me at some site in the grid,
>> or, if I tell amsat I am going there, they believe me?BobWa7dxzDm33
>> Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 21:08:43 +0000 (UTC)
From: "k6vug@?????????.???? <k6vug@?????????.???>
To: "amsat-bb@?????.???? <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Cc: aj9n@???.???
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] View from the space station question
Message-ID: <594729364.2816353.1530738523442@????.?????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
I just got back from watching the parade in our city, wow what a show !
Charlie, it is wonderful to meet you and to get your offer to help us out.?
Yes that would be great start, in all fairness, we'd have to give credit to
the student and their school for their questions.?
Based on my rough calculations it is NOT a daunting task... Here are some
stats I found? ( ref https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt? )?
a) School contacts started in 2000 and there are a total of 1236 sessions to
date
b) Assuming a 10 minute usable time for one pass and one Q/A per minute we
are looking at 12360 interactions?
c) At 1 line of text per question and 3 lines per answer we will be looking
at roughly 12360 times 4 = 50000 lines of text
??? - that is probably less than one day's interaction on this BBS (hi!)?
So, it's no big deal, and it gets better when we look at the following
things working to our benefit -
a) time is on our side, (as long as we K.I.S.S.)
b) questions are submitted in advance (so Charlie AJ9N may already have
those),
c) for the answers that we don't have, the school contact person may be in
Charlie's list, so we can request them for any record of their sessions they
may have,
d) we can request ARISS & NASA admin to let the astronauts, when they return
to Earth, to review our "Almanac" and add any missing answers at their
leisure, and complete the picture.
also,
e) for starters, the Almanac should be a static page, (sorry no RegEx stuff
please)? f) later we may add pictures, cross references, related items
and/or a public comments section, but only as long as the underlying web
platform permits it without increasing our work-load.?
g) this could be hosted as a sub-domain of ARISS or AMSAT websites, thus
isolating one from the other of any design changes or content updates,?
After a lifetime in hi-tech, if there is one thing I have realized is that
WE techies have to pave the road for our future generations, and a nice soft
road for the little minds to wander on. :)?
Initial set of action items I think will be -
1) get sign-off and/or no objections from all stake-holders like AMSAT,
ARISS, NASA, etc.,? (who can help ?)?
2) review what we can get from Charlie's files? (I'll take this one)??
3) work with AMSAT-IT or ARISS-IT teams to figure out the right
implementation style (will need some help here)?
JoAnne, I saw your response, thank you, we'll need all the help we can get !??
Charlie, if you like you can send me a link to your shareable files for
action item (2), thank you !??
Today we are looking at the experiences of the ISS crew, in a few years it
may be settlers on the Moon or even Mars.?
73!Umeshk6vug
On Wednesday, July 4, 2018, 9:48:41 AM PDT, <aj9n@???.???> wrote:
Hi all,
I am the ARISS Op who keeps track of everything, posts the first public
domain info, and who maintains the private ARISS stuff.? So I have just
about everything I think people are looking for. except for the crew
replies.? For those, one would need to get a copy of the video or audio that
was recorded by the school.? Some of us ARISS mentors get a copy from the
school, sometimes we don't.? For some schools, they are barely able to have
a contact, so it is debatable if they also have recording equipment.
I have zero time (I average 2 to 3 hours every day maintaining all of the
ARISS stuff) to crank out a list of the questions asked but if someone wants
to look at what the schools were going to ask, then I can provide that.? Now
that I retired for the second time, maybe I will have time to get back on HF
or the satellites.? I don't even remember when I was on HF last.
I am willing to zip file what are really the files that I post to AMSAT-BB
(which makes them in the public domain) and put to DropBox or email them
directly; they are my working copies that have a date and time stamp as part
of the file name.? Someone could go into each file and retrieve the
questions that were to be asked.? As has been stated by someone, not all get
answered.? And often times there are a few extra questions that get asked on
the fly which would not be in my lists.? Fortunately, we do eventually get
the questions from Russia but often times that is after the fact, so they
may not be in the announcements.
My rough math on the number is somewhere close to 26000 ARISS questions.
Comments?
73,Charlie Sufana AJ9NOne of the ARISS mentors
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 17:25:28 -0400
From: "E.Mike McCardel" <mccardelm@?????.???>
To: "k6vug@?????????.???? <k6vug@?????????.???>
Cc: "amsat-bb@?????.???? <amsat-bb@?????.???>, aj9n@???.???
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] View from the space station question
Message-ID: <D5DBDEA2-7119-40E0-8B65-EAC6FFC7A2A4@?????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Remember that contact people at schools can be quite mobile. The move on,
quit teaching, retire, some die. What happens to answers is an unknown. Even
for questions at the first 7 contacts don?t have them listed in the database.
I?m not saying not to try but this is daunting. As Frank Bauer points out
it?s something in the queue and had been discussed.
I suggest that we would start compiling the questions. Divide them up by
year and distribute them to volunteers. Start with some type of agreement on
the format of a data base. And start copying and pasting. A plan to recover
answers could be developed as we work forward. Working backwards may result
in faster dividends. I suggest that some questions will be redundant enough
that we weed out like and similar questions and fit them with the best
answer (read this as authentic and correct even if responded at a different
time).
In some respects it will be similar to genealogy research, there will be
dead ends that might be fillable with collaborative data.
Just considering the time to find read and the copy and paste data collected
over the past 18 years is daunting and not for faint of heart or those with
short attention spans. Can it be done? Sure. But we?ll need to be persistent
and patient.
73
EMike
EMike McCardel, AA8EM
Rotating Editor AMSAT News Service
Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 4, 2018, at 5:08 PM, "k6vug@?????????.???? <k6vug@?????????.???>
wrote:
>
> I just got back from watching the parade in our city, wow what a show !
>
> Charlie, it is wonderful to meet you and to get your offer to help us out.
Yes that would be great start, in all fairness, we'd have to give credit to
the student and their school for their questions.
>
> Based on my rough calculations it is NOT a daunting task... Here are some
stats I found ( ref https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt )
> a) School contacts started in 2000 and there are a total of 1236 sessions
to date
> b) Assuming a 10 minute usable time for one pass and one Q/A per minute we
are looking at 12360 interactions
> c) At 1 line of text per question and 3 lines per answer we will be
looking at roughly 12360 times 4 = 50000 lines of text
> - that is probably less than one day's interaction on this BBS (hi!)
>
> So, it's no big deal, and it gets better when we look at the following
things working to our benefit -
> a) time is on our side, (as long as we K.I.S.S.)
> b) questions are submitted in advance (so Charlie AJ9N may already have
those),
> c) for the answers that we don't have, the school contact person may be in
Charlie's list, so we can request them for any record of their sessions they
may have,
> d) we can request ARISS & NASA admin to let the astronauts, when they
return to Earth, to review our "Almanac" and add any missing answers at
their leisure, and complete the picture.
> also,
> e) for starters, the Almanac should be a static page, (sorry no RegEx
stuff please) f) later we may add pictures, cross references, related items
and/or a public comments section, but only as long as the underlying web
platform permits it without increasing our work-load.
> g) this could be hosted as a sub-domain of ARISS or AMSAT websites, thus
isolating one from the other of any design changes or content updates,
>
> After a lifetime in hi-tech, if there is one thing I have realized is that
WE techies have to pave the road for our future generations, and a nice soft
road for the little minds to wander on. :)
>
> Initial set of action items I think will be -
> 1) get sign-off and/or no objections from all stake-holders like AMSAT,
ARISS, NASA, etc., (who can help ?)
> 2) review what we can get from Charlie's files (I'll take this one)
> 3) work with AMSAT-IT or ARISS-IT teams to figure out the right
implementation style (will need some help here)
>
> JoAnne, I saw your response, thank you, we'll need all the help we can get !
> Charlie, if you like you can send me a link to your shareable files for
action item (2), thank you !
>
> Today we are looking at the experiences of the ISS crew, in a few years it
may be settlers on the Moon or even Mars.
>
>
> 73!Umeshk6vug
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, July 4, 2018, 9:48:41 AM PDT, <aj9n@???.???> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I am the ARISS Op who keeps track of everything, posts the first public
domain info, and who maintains the private ARISS stuff. So I have just
about everything I think people are looking for. except for the crew
replies. For those, one would need to get a copy of the video or audio that
was recorded by the school. Some of us ARISS mentors get a copy from the
school, sometimes we don't. For some schools, they are barely able to have
a contact, so it is debatable if they also have recording equipment.
> I have zero time (I average 2 to 3 hours every day maintaining all of the
ARISS stuff) to crank out a list of the questions asked but if someone wants
to look at what the schools were going to ask, then I can provide that. Now
that I retired for the second time, maybe I will have time to get back on HF
or the satellites. I don't even remember when I was on HF last.
> I am willing to zip file what are really the files that I post to AMSAT-BB
(which makes them in the public domain) and put to DropBox or email them
directly; they are my working copies that have a date and time stamp as part
of the file name. Someone could go into each file and retrieve the
questions that were to be asked. As has been stated by someone, not all get
answered. And often times there are a few extra questions that get asked on
the fly which would not be in my lists. Fortunately, we do eventually get
the questions from Russia but often times that is after the fact, so they
may not be in the announcements.
> My rough math on the number is somewhere close to 26000 ARISS questions.
> Comments?
> 73,Charlie Sufana AJ9NOne of the ARISS mentors
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sent via AMSAT-BB@?????.???. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available
> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions
expressed
> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of
AMSAT-NA.
> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 21:32:22 +0000 (UTC)
From: "k6vug@?????????.???? <k6vug@?????????.???>
To: aj9n@???.???? John Brier <johnbrier@?????.???>
Cc: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@?????.???>, Ted <k7trkradio@???????.???>, EMike
McCardel <mccardelm@?????.???>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] View from the space station question
Message-ID: <565277266.2827716.1530739942441@????.?????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Duly noted John, I'm sure the upstream data scientists would like that.
This kind of data mining may be possible from the historical data pool,
however if the children do look at the Almanac, they may (repeat may)
choose not ask the same questions.
Good thought !
73!
Umesh?
k6vug?
On Wednesday, July 4, 2018, 10:16:04 AM PDT, John Brier
<johnbrier@?????.???> wrote:
I'm no expert but it seems like this would be a good candidate for a
software program of some kind. Statistical analysis/categorization?
Artificial intelligence or machine learning? You could use a regular
expression just to find the amount of questions that mentioned
"bathroom" or other related words :-)
73, John Brier KG4AKV
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 12:48 PM, aj9n--- via AMSAT-BB
<amsat-bb@?????.???> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am the ARISS Op who keeps track of everything, posts the first public
domain info, and who maintains the private ARISS stuff.? So I have just
about everything I think people are looking for. except for the crew
replies.? For those, one would need to get a copy of the video or audio that
was recorded by the school.? Some of us ARISS mentors get a copy from the
school, sometimes we don't.? For some schools, they are barely able to have
a contact, so it is debatable if they also have recording equipment.
>
> I have zero time (I average 2 to 3 hours every day maintaining all of the
ARISS stuff) to crank out a list of the questions asked but if someone wants
to look at what the schools were going to ask, then I can provide that.? Now
that I retired for the second time, maybe I will have time to get back on HF
or the satellites.? I don't even remember when I was on HF last.
>
> I am willing to zip file what are really the files that I post to AMSAT-BB
(which makes them in the public domain) and put to DropBox or email them
directly; they are my working copies that have a date and time stamp as part
of the file name.? Someone could go into each file and retrieve the
questions that were to be asked.? As has been stated by someone, not all get
answered.? And often times there are a few extra questions that get asked on
the fly which would not be in my lists.? Fortunately, we do eventually get
the questions from Russia but often times that is after the fact, so they
may not be in the announcements.
>
> My rough math on the number is somewhere close to 26000 ARISS questions.
>
> Comments?
>
> 73,
> Charlie Sufana AJ9N
> One of the ARISS mentors
>
>
> In a message dated 7/4/2018 4:29:58 AM Pacific Standard Time,
mccardelm@?????.??? writes:
>
>
>? Umesh, I like your idea. Assuming you are referring to questions asked
during ARISS contacts. I would estimate that over 20,000 questions have been
asked over the years and this doesn?t include SAREX contacts. Questions
could possibly be reproduced in that questions are written out and submitted
in advance of the contact. Remember though, not all questions are answered
by end of contact. I believe ARISS Ops maintain an historical archive of the
documentation of each contact including questions (not sure about Russian
contacts). The downside is that the same is not true about the answers. The
answers are off the cuff by the astronauts. So unless one could get a
recording of the contacts or a transcript that may have been reported, it
would be difficult to reconstruct the full conversations over the years.
Where as most contacts have been recorded in some form there is not a
central repository for them. Many recordings would have been done by the
school or individuals associated wit
h the contacts. Gathering these would be a rather daunting task. I have
always wanted to parse through the information to discover the most asked
questions, or class the questions into categories. For example I have
noticed there are many what?s it like or how?s it different to live in space
questions. Many ask questions about the astronauts contingency if things go
wrong. What do you miss most about earth or home. Another is how do you
prepare or what classes should I take or what path should I take to become
an astronaut. I also am curious about similar questions asked different
astronauts that receive conflicting answers (or an astronaut conflicting
him/herself during different contacts.) 73, EMike EMike McCardel, AA8EM
Rotating Editor AMSAT News Service Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 4, 2018, at
12:01 AM, "k6vug@?????????.???? <k6vug@?????????.???> wrote: > > > Thank you
Ted, this is a great question since we all have one time or another wondered
how things are from up there ! > >
On a side note, I have been wondering about an "Almanac" page on the
website that would list all the questions that have ever been asked and
their answers from the ISS crew. Credits would be given to the first
person/child asking the question, and for every crew member answering the
question. If different answers were given for any said question, it would
just add that much more flavor. There would be no need for any heavy lifting
work as in sorting or grouping these, since it would be easy to search for
words/terms on the web page. Maybe it would lead to some very interesting
S.T.E.M. discussions. > > Happy 4th !! > > Umesh > k6vug > > > > > On
Tuesday, July 3, 2018, 6:54:48 PM PDT, Ted Krempa <k7trkradio@???????.???>
wrote: > > Good article and response, Umesh !! > > Happy Independence Day to
all !! > > 73, Ted > K7TRK > > -----Original Message----- > From: AMSAT-BB
[mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@?????.???? On Behalf Of k6vug@?????????.??? > Sent:
Tuesday, July 3, 2018 6:51 PM > To: am
sat-bb@?????.???? Mike Hoblinski > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] View from the
space station question > > Here is something discussion about it... >
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-see-New-Years-Eve-fireworks-from-outer
-space > Umeshk6vug > > > > On Tuesday, July 3, 2018, 6:33:22 PM PDT, Mike
Hoblinski <hobergenix@?????.???> wrote: > > I watching the news about all
the 4th of July celebrations planned across the USA and maybe > during New
Years celebration if the astronauts aboard the space station can see any
indication of fireworks. > > Mike > N6IMF > > >
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 21:41:48 +0000
From: Franklin Antonio <antonio@???.????????.???>
To: "tjschuessler@???????.???? <tjschuessler@???????.???>, 'AMSAT BB'
<amsat-bb@?????.???>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] InstantTrack or similar usable on Win 10
Message-ID: <1530740508686.63187@???.????????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
I have run InstantTrack under Win10. I just installed DOSBOX, and ran it
there, if I remember correctly.
________________________________________
From: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb-bounces@?????.???> on behalf of
tjschuessler@???????.??? <tjschuessler@???????.???>
Sent: Wednesday, July 4, 2018 11:46 AM
To: 'AMSAT BB'
Subject: [amsat-bb] InstantTrack or similar usable on Win 10
I was wanting to describe to some folks I am doing a satellite demonstration
for next week, about how some satellites have stable sun-synchronous orbits
while others process earlier each day. The old DOS program, InstantTrack,
that most likely will not work under the Windows 10/64 bit world had a nice
display of this behavior, Are there any recommendations for a more modern
application that will do the same type of thing? If you are not familiar
with what I am talking about, look at page SO-3 in the current "Getting
Started." book from AMSAT (As well as on earlier pages) to see what I am
looking for. A web search shows that it should be in the AMSAT software
archives but the page link for that particular software is broken. It is a
nice planning utility, especially for birds that do change times each day.
Tom Schuessler, N5HYP
EM12ms
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 17:57:20 -0400
From: aj9n@???.???
To: k6vug@?????????.???? johnbrier@?????.???
Cc: amsat-bb@?????.???? k7trkradio@???????.???? mccardelm@?????.???
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] View from the space station question
Message-ID: <164674cc0bd-c95-9881@?????????????.???.???????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Hi all,
?
Frank Bauer just sent an email a little while ago.? There is something very
seriously in the works that ARISS is doing.? It has been in the works for
some time.? I have a feeling it involves much much more than what some of
you have suggested; we will see.? So in the meantime, I suggest everyone
slow down a bit and ARISS will let you know what happens next.? Frank was
pretty clear in what exactly he could tell everyone at this point in time.?
So let ARISS do its job.? (Seems like a job anyway since I have already put
2 hours in on ARISS today.? I think today is a holiday.? Hi!)
?
I think you have to realize that the kids come up with the questions,
irregardless of any almanac.? So if we see the same question 1000 times,
then we see the same question 1000 times.? It is their question, not from
ARISS, not from AMSAT.? It is theirs.? It is their question and hopefully a
response directly to them that they are wanting to get directly from the
astronaut who calls them by name (by the way, ARISS does not publish any
student names in the public domain because of privacy concerns).? What a
thrill.
?
Thanks for the interest in ARISS.? When I was ARISS contact #1 back in
December 2000, we really were not sure how much interest there would be.? We
thought it might be pretty big but we never knew.? It seems to that there is
a little bit of interest.?
?
73,
Charlie AJ9N
One of the ARISS mentors
?
In a message dated 7/4/2018 2:32:43 PM Pacific Standard Time,
k6vug@?????????.??? writes:
?
?
Duly noted John, I'm sure the upstream data scientists would like that.
This kind of data mining may be possible from the historical data pool,
however if the children do look at the Almanac, they may (repeat may)
choose not ask the same questions.
?
Good thought !
?
73!
Umesh?
k6vug?
?
?
?
On Wednesday, July 4, 2018, 10:16:04 AM PDT, John Brier
<johnbrier@?????.???> wrote:
?
?
I'm no expert but it seems like this would be a good candidate for a
software program of some kind. Statistical analysis/categorization?
Artificial intelligence or machine learning? You could use a regular
expression just to find the amount of questions that mentioned
"bathroom" or other related words :-)
73, John Brier KG4AKV
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 12:48 PM, aj9n--- via AMSAT-BB
<amsat-bb@?????.???> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am the ARISS Op who keeps track of everything, posts the first public
domain info, and who maintains the private ARISS stuff.? So I have just
about everything I think people are looking for. except for the crew
replies.? For those, one would need to get a copy of the video or audio that
was recorded by the school.? Some of us ARISS mentors get a copy from the
school, sometimes we don't.? For some schools, they are barely able to have
a contact, so it is debatable if they also have recording equipment.
>
> I have zero time (I average 2 to 3 hours every day maintaining all of the
ARISS stuff) to crank out a list of the questions asked but if someone wants
to look at what the schools were going to ask, then I can provide that.? Now
that I retired for the second time, maybe I will have time to get back on HF
or the satellites.? I don't even remember when I was on HF last.
>
> I am willing to zip file what are really the files that I post to AMSAT-BB
(which makes them in the public domain) and put to DropBox or email them
directly; they are my working copies that have a date and time stamp as part
of the file name.? Someone could go into each file and retrieve the
questions that were to be asked.? As has been stated by someone, not all get
answered.? And often times there are a few extra questions that get asked on
the fly which would not be in my lists.? Fortunately, we do eventually get
the questions from Russia but often times that is after the fact, so they
may not be in the announcements.
>
> My rough math on the number is somewhere close to 26000 ARISS questions.
>
> Comments?
>
> 73,
> Charlie Sufana AJ9N
> One of the ARISS mentors
>
>
> In a message dated 7/4/2018 4:29:58 AM Pacific Standard Time,
mccardelm@?????.??? writes:
>
>
>? Umesh, I like your idea. Assuming you are referring to questions asked
during ARISS contacts. I would estimate that over 20,000 questions have been
asked over the years and this doesn?t include SAREX contacts. Questions
could possibly be reproduced in that questions are written out and submitted
in advance of the contact. Remember though, not all questions are answered
by end of contact. I believe ARISS Ops maintain an historical archive of the
documentation of each contact including questions (not sure about Russian
contacts). The downside is that the same is not true about the answers. The
answers are off the cuff by the astronauts. So unless one could get a
recording of the contacts or a transcript that may have been reported, it
would be difficult to reconstruct the full conversations over the years.
Where as most contacts have been recorded in some form there is not a
central repository for them. Many recordings would have been done by the
school or individuals associated wit
h the contacts. Gathering these would be a rather daunting task. I have
always wanted to parse through the information to discover the most asked
questions, or class the questions into categories. For example I have
noticed there are many what?s it like or how?s it different to live in space
questions. Many ask questions about the astronauts contingency if things go
wrong. What do you miss most about earth or home. Another is how do you
prepare or what classes should I take or what path should I take to become
an astronaut. I also am curious about similar questions asked different
astronauts that receive conflicting answers (or an astronaut conflicting
him/herself during different contacts.) 73, EMike EMike McCardel, AA8EM
Rotating Editor AMSAT News Service Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 4, 2018, at
12:01 AM, "k6vug@?????????.???? <k6vug@?????????.???> wrote: > > > Thank you
Ted, this is a great question since we all have one time or another wondered
how things are from up there ! > >
On a side note, I have been wondering about an "Almanac" page on the
website that would list all the questions that have ever been asked and
their answers from the ISS crew. Credits would be given to the first
person/child asking the question, and for every crew member answering the
question. If different answers were given for any said question, it would
just add that much more flavor. There would be no need for any heavy lifting
work as in sorting or grouping these, since it would be easy to search for
words/terms on the web page. Maybe it would lead to some very interesting
S.T.E.M. discussions. > > Happy 4th !! > > Umesh > k6vug > > > > > On
Tuesday, July 3, 2018, 6:54:48 PM PDT, Ted Krempa <k7trkradio@???????.???>
wrote: > > Good article and response, Umesh !! > > Happy Independence Day to
all !! > > 73, Ted > K7TRK > > -----Original Message----- > From: AMSAT-BB
[mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@?????.???? On Behalf Of k6vug@?????????.??? > Sent:
Tuesday, July 3, 2018 6:51 PM > To: am
sat-bb@?????.???? Mike Hoblinski > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] View from the
space station question > > Here is something discussion about it... >
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-see-New-Years-Eve-fireworks-from-outer
-space > Umeshk6vug > > > > On Tuesday, July 3, 2018, 6:33:22 PM PDT, Mike
Hoblinski <hobergenix@?????.???> wrote: > > I watching the news about all
the 4th of July celebrations planned across the USA and maybe > during New
Years celebration if the astronauts aboard the space station can see any
indication of fireworks. > > Mike > N6IMF > > >
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Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 17:34:43 -0500
From: Bruce <kk5do@????.???>
To: "amsat-bb@?????.???? <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Field Day Submissions
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Time is drawing near. If your group has not submitted your results for
Field Day, Monday, July 9, 2018 at 11:59 PM Central Time is the
deadline. This is earlier than the due date for the ARRL.
When I receive your submission, I WILL send you a reply stating I have
them. If you do not receive the reply, send them again. Try
kk5do@????.??? or kk5do@?????.???
Pictures and short stories of your Field Day adventure is always welcome.
We had a record number of satellites in use for this Field Day and I am
hoping a record number of reporting stations with a record number of
QSO's and points.
73...bruce
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