| |
CX2SA > SATDIG 25.02.19 19:43l 991 Lines 30088 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : AMSATBB1483
Read: GUEST
Subj: AMSAT-BB-digest V14 83
Path: IW8PGT<IZ3LSV<IW0QNL<JH4XSY<N3HYM<CX2SA
Sent: 190225/1740Z @:CX2SA.SAL.URY.SOAM #:866 [Salto] FBB7.00e $:AMSATBB1483
From: CX2SA@CX2SA.SAL.URY.SOAM
To : SATDIG@WW
Today's Topics:
1. Upcoming ARISS contact with Huntington High School,
Huntington, TX (n4csitwo@?????????.????
2. AMSAT on HF (skristof@???????.????
3. Re: OSCAR-Locator & Amateur Satellite Report Number 154 (Bob)
4. Re: JY1-SAT Dashboard? (Graham Shirville)
5. Re: OSCAR-Locator & Amateur Satellite Report Number 154
(Wendy and Terry Osborne)
6. Ham Radio Deluxe Version 6.5.0.196 Release Announcement
(Ted Krempa)
7. Re: OSCAR-Locator & Amateur Satellite Report Number 154
(Bob Meyers)
8. Re: OSCAR-Locator & Amateur Satellite Report Number 154
(Les Rayburn)
9. AO-91 demo for students EA4RCT - EB1AO 26 Feb 12:26 UTC
(Felix Paez EA4GQS)
10. QO-100 bare minimum: GPS referenced LNB + IC-402 (read: no
dish, 70cm IF!) (Michael Fletcher)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: 1
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 22:49:08 -0500
From: <n4csitwo@?????????.???>
To: <amsat-bb@?????.???>, <ariss-press@?????.???>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS contact with Huntington High
School, Huntington, TX
Message-ID: <DFA7EB1C5CDC48028366B24A90BC7ED7@???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
An International Space Station school contact has been planned with
participants at Huntington High School, Huntington, TX on 25 Feb. The event
is scheduled to begin at approximately 19:39 UTC. The duration of the
contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be
direct between NA1SS and KI5AJL The contact should be audible over the state
of Texas and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on
the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.
Huntington High School is located in Huntington, Texas which is a small,
rural community located in deep East Texas near Sam Rayburn Lake. There are
493 students in our school. Currently, 10 of these students are involved in
the ARISS program through their teacher Mrs. Peggy Albritton and our mentor,
Mr. Kris Kirkland. Kris, who is a HAM radio enthusiast and a coach/mentor of
our high school robotics team, is the person responsible for bringing the
ARISS program to our school. There are currently 3 Freshman, 3 Sophomores, 3
Juniors and 1 Senior participating.
Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
1. What is the most exciting experience that you have had or discovery you
have made while on the ISS?
2. How does being in space affect blood pressure?
3. What is your favorite movie set in outer space, and which movie do you
feel most accurately portrays what it is like in space?
4. How do you incorporate 3D printers on the ISS and how valuable is it to
the success of the ISS program?
5. How much physical training do you have to do during a space mission and
how do you do this?
6. What do you do for entertainment while in space?
7. What does it feel like wearing a spacesuit and are they custom made to
fit you?
8. How good is the food on the space station and what's your favorite kind?
9. How can astronauts have a shower on board?
10. What type of physical training did you have to do to prepare to be on the
ISS?
11. What advice can you give to students who aspire to follow in your
footsteps?
12. Have you ever tried to pull pranks on each other and, if so, what were
they?
13. If presented with the opportunity, would you like to be involved with
colonizing Mars and how?
14. Is your daily routine regimented to a time zone, or can you sleep, wake,
and work at times you choose?
15. How does being in space affect how you sleep and dream?
16. How do you clean up your messes in space?
17. When and why did you decide to become an astronaut?
18. Are you working on anything that will help make a colony on Mars.
19. How did you feel when you saw planet Earth for the first time?
20. What is the first thing you want to do when you get back on earth?
21. Do the astronauts ever leave time capsules to be found on the ISS in the
distant future?
22. How do you brush your teeth on board the ISS?
23. What do you think should be the focus of the space program over the next
years?
24. What do you want to do as soon as you get back home?
25. How do you draw blood in space for all the experiments requiring that?
26. What is your favorite part about living in space?
PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES:
Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the
International Space Station (ARISS).
To receive our Twitter updates, follow @????????????
Next planned event(s):
TBD
About ARISS:
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative
venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that
support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States,
sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American
Radio Relay League (ARRL), the Center for the Advancement of Science in
Space (CASIS) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts
via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in
classrooms or informal education venues. With the help of experienced
amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with large audiences in a
variety of public forums. Before and during these radio contacts, students,
teachers, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies,
and amateur radio. For more informa
tion, see www.ariss.org, www.amsat.org, and www.arrl.org.
Thank you & 73,
David - AA4KN
---
This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus
------------------------------
Message: 2
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 11:19:50 -0500
From: skristof@???????.???
To: amsat-bb@?????.???
Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT on HF
Message-ID: <ff760c94c44b8ca2a027dafb58245955@???????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
If anyone is looking for QSOs for the AMSAT on HF award I will be on 40
m between 7060 kHz and 7065 kHz CQing in slow CW. Between 1630 UTC and
1700 UTC today (so coming right up).
Steve AI9IN
------------------------------
Message: 3
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 11:46:09 -0500
From: Bob <WB4SON@?????.???>
To: Les Rayburn <les@????????????.???>
Cc: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] OSCAR-Locator & Amateur Satellite Report
Number 154
Message-ID:
<CAPonRZ-6rarR2fdE7hKvJtKj6Bcs4neBPH5O4yrj7L_-jBtBew@????.?????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Hi Les,
I have my Oscar Locator tucked away in a box from a move -- will need to
dig it out. I remember being maybe a half hour away from a pass and
fumbling with the locator to get a better estimate of the time. I finished
with the locator right about when the pass began, so I wasn't the fastest
with it. If I recall, it required a list of equatorial crossing times (one
per day per satellite) that was published in QST. Don't recall if they
sent them via bulletin. But after you saw a list of values, you could
predict future ones fairly well.
Can't imagine using that for 16+ different birds today, but it is fun to
look back when there was only one (or a few). I think mine was for OSCAR
6, and there were later versions that did additional birds.
I only found one reference to using it:
http://amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2016-May/058803.html
If you ever come up with instructions, please share!
73, Bob, WB4SON
On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 6:44 PM Les Rayburn <les@????????????.???> wrote:
> Today?s mail brought me a vintage cardboard ?OSCAR-Locator? purchased on
> QRZ.com. Also included was a back issue of the Amateur Satellite Report
> newsletter, Number 154 from July 27, 1987.
>
> I love collecting items related to the history of amateur satellites. The
> OSCAR-Locator is really neat?I?m digging through back issues of QST now
> trying to learn how to actually use it. Don?t think I?ll be giving up
> SatPC32 anytime soon however.
>
> Remember back even further when hams plotted satellite passes using a
> string and a globe? Remember watching my elmer, Ron Murray WA4IWN (SK) do
> that back in the day.
>
>
> 73,
>
> Les Rayburn, N1LF
> Maylene, AL
> EM63nf
> AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> 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!
> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
>
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 17:40:43 +0000
From: Graham Shirville <graham@?????????.???>
To: skristof@???????.???? amsat-bb@?????.???
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] JY1-SAT Dashboard?
Message-ID: <01b3fac2-9964-828a-1730-9a7b810b463c@?????????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Hi Steve,
I am not sure if you have had other replies but the current
versionV1189, which is available for download here
https://funcubetest2.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/funcube-dashboard-summary-v2.
pdf
, works pretty well.
Further developments are in the works for even better things to come....
73
Graham G3VZV
On 23/02/2019 16:44, skristof@???????.??? wrote:
> Is there an updated version of the JY1-Sat (JO-97) dashboard that works
> better than the original (the one I'm trying to use)?
>
> I'd love to see one that works as well as the dashboards for AO-73 and
> EO-88.
>
> Steve AI9IN
> _______________________________________________
> 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!
> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
------------------------------
Message: 5
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 14:24:57 +1300
From: "Wendy and Terry Osborne" <wandtosborne@?????.???>
To: "Les Rayburn" <les@????????????.???>
Cc: amsat-bb@?????.???
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] OSCAR-Locator & Amateur Satellite Report
Number 154
Message-ID: <C91AD46E9A694AEB87D34BD8B84EBF66@??????????>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8";
reply-type=original
Hi Les,
The Oscar locator and how it works was described in much detail in "The
Satellite Experimenter's Handbook".
This was published by ARRL. You may be able to find a copy around some
where.
It still has a lot of useful information in it even if the satellites
referred to are long gone.
I made up several Oscar-Locators in the early 80s and used them a lot.
I found them the other day when I was having a shack clean out.
To use them you require an "Equatorial Crossing time and longitude" (EQX).
Bob McGwier's (N4HY) Quiktrak program gives these but I haven't checked any
modern programs.
I have a set of instructions but they are based on my Southern Hemisphere
version so would need to be adapted
for use in the Northern Hemisphere.
It would be an interesting exercise to make one for the ISS as an
educational tool versus looking up an app on a smart phone.
73,
Terry Osborne ZL2BAC
-----Original Message-----
From: Les Rayburn
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2019 12:42 PM
To: AMSAT BB
Subject: [amsat-bb] OSCAR-Locator & Amateur Satellite Report Number 154
Today?s mail brought me a vintage cardboard ?OSCAR-Locator? purchased on
QRZ.com. Also included was a back issue of the Amateur Satellite Report
newsletter, Number 154 from July 27, 1987.
I love collecting items related to the history of amateur satellites. The
OSCAR-Locator is really neat?I?m digging through back issues of QST now
trying to learn how to actually use it. Don?t think I?ll be giving up
SatPC32 anytime soon however.
Remember back even further when hams plotted satellite passes using a string
and a globe? Remember watching my elmer, Ron Murray WA4IWN (SK) do that back
in the day.
73,
Les Rayburn, N1LF
Maylene, AL
EM63nf
AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member
_______________________________________________
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!
Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
------------------------------
Message: 6
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 16:23:54 -0800
From: "Ted Krempa" <k7trkradio@???????.???>
To: "AMSAT BB" <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Ham Radio Deluxe Version 6.5.0.196 Release
Announcement
Message-ID: <000001d4cca0$64587760$2d096620$@???????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Posting on behalf of Mike, WA9PIE.
Looks like several updates to the Satellite portion.
73, Ted
K7TRK
From: Ham Radio Deluxe Newsletter [mailto:newsletter@??????????????.????
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2019 2:23 PM
To: k7trkradio@???????.???
Subject: Ham Radio Deluxe Version 6.5.0.196 Release Announcement
Ham Radio Deluxe Release Announcement
Email not displaying correctly?
<https://sg-mktg.com/MTU1MTA0NjgyOHxqNWlleXA2eGdtcUVxUDhDUWdRUmxpQm5CT0MzYktNT
kE4Tk44eEVrY1A3WXNEUUZoMjFxNXI5UHhwM2Y3UllmOXBZNVE5MXYxWGZJVWVIZjk5TjV1WFRzRXl
1a25nYjJHSWM2akQ2YnBjcnZjbFNrYzZMa1VUMy1NZUd1MUQ1bGQwbXYwQ0RnMmdlMEtfbm50QkxRa
mJGc2dYUVYzaTBBUFMtN0d4Q2NMOUpjc0FDMldmVTMtLVhwcEQ5SjNmRHNmcndIWFk1WlpwUk81TjV
TdU93M0hpVzVLb1NNMDF3YmRxbTlOdVNvem4wb2JKNFp0blRKM0ZTM1h5RGFHS0JpcHZla3w7z7v_A
LnBpAmGwT46UX_gM_jGxBPgBXU8f-thtn0JcA==> View it in your browser.
Ham Radio Deluxe
Ham Radio Deluxe v6.5.0.196 Released
The 6.5.0.196 version of Ham Radio Deluxe is now available for download.
This is the second release of 2019. Please download it from the Download
pages on our website at:
www.HamRadioDeluxe.com
This may be a longer release announcement, because there's a ton going on
here. I would encourage you to read this note in its entirety.
In this release of Ham Radio Deluxe, there are 97 individual updates to the
software (plus 4 duplicates, 102 total). By application, there are 26 in
Logbook, 33 in Rig Control, 23 in Rotator, 13 in Satellite Tracking, and 7
in other areas (DM-780, setup, etc). Two developers simultaneously
contributed to this work.
We resolved the three issues that were reported with the 6.5.0.813 release -
SAMCD error, installer doesn't complete and left HRD partially installed,
and we restored the 3rd party serial port capability.
In Rig Control, there are updates for the Yaesu FT-875D, FT-891, FT-897,
FT-920, FT-1000MP, FTDX-1200, and FTDX-3000; updates for the ICOM IC-7300,
IC-7610, and IC-7700; and for the Kenwood TS-990.
In the Rotator application, we have validated changes for the Portable
Rotation rotors (thanks, Will), Yaesu GS-232A/B, and HyGain DCU. We have
un-validated changes for the M2 rotor family (feedback from M2 users welcome).
In the Satellite Tracking, we've fixed about half the things in the bug list
for this application. I'm excited to begin trying it out with life
satellite QSOs.
In Logbook, we resolved several rig control issues where mode was not
tracked when clicking on spots. You can now save column widths in the DX
Cluster. More performance enhancements were completed.
We made changes to enhance the security of Ham Radio Deluxe. We now conform
to the direct connection specifications for QRZ XML lookups.
The full release notes can be found here:
https://ReleaseNotes.HamRadioDeluxe.com
Question you may have: Even if you're not interested in the 188 improvements
made to Ham Radio Deluxe over the last 38 days, why should you go ahead and
install this version? The answer is easy. This version is the most stable
version of Ham Radio Deluxe ever produced. How do we know this? The number
of errors collected by Microsoft on Ham Radio Deluxe have fallen to a number
that is so low it's (what I call) "statistically insignificant."
IMPORTANT: All those who have purchased Ham Radio Deluxe at any time in the
past should download and install this version in order to benefit from all
bug fixes. You are entitled to them. Our clients who are covered by an
active Software Maintenance and Support period are entitled to Feature
Enhancements.
What's coming next?
In speaking with our developers, they tell me that the things that were
causing errors or crashes have been eliminated (as far as we are able to
measure). Now, we're getting down into some more complicated defects that -
don't cause errors - but where the software is not doing what it was
intended to do. And "now that the errors are out of the way, we can more
clearly see where the software isn't doing what it is supposed to in some
cases."
That said - we've got a known error that we found during this sprint that
has to do with the way the callsign lookup sources are populating the ALE.
We've fixed a few of these things. But we know that the lat/long & heading
and distance for the rotor in the ALE is not correct. We're working on this
now. (It's apparently been broken for a while and we didn't want to hold
this release while we fix it, because there are so many valuable fixes
already complete and tested.) But we'll be rewriting the callsign lookup
logic soon.
We'll be adding some features into Logbook that eliminate some data entry
errors that cause problems with these records when they're uploaded to LOTW.
We're working on updating Satellite Tracking for a few radios that are not
completely functional. We'll need to be able to log the sub-band (TX) VFO,
which is a long-standing request.
We'll push forward on any Rotator and Satellite Tracking problems that come
up. But more than half of them have been eliminated with this release.
[Editorial Note: Lots of folks are asking us when we'll support the IC-9700.
That's a great question. As most of you know, it's not available in the
USA right now. Dealers are taking orders. We're in the same line to
receive one that you're all in. Once they're available, we'll need about
six weeks with the radio to get it included in Ham Radio Deluxe. We're
expecting to receive a loaner TS-890 soon.]
We'll be working on the panadapter display (so-called "waterfall") for ICOM
radios. Then we'll begin working on supporting the panadapter display for
other radios that have supportable capabilities.
Please watch these newsletters for updates. Pass these updates along to your
friends and club members.
Newsletters will also be posted on our website's blog at:
https://www.HamRadioDeluxe.com/blog
Thank you es 73 de Mike, WA9PIE
HRD Software, LLC
We appreciate the opportunity to serve you.
The Ham Radio Deluxe Team...
HRD Software, LLC
Also visit our sites at:
Website:
www.HamRadioDeluxe.com
Support for Software Maintenance & Support Customers:
https://Support.HamRadioDeluxe.com
Peer Support Forums:
https://Forums.HamRadioDeluxe.com
YouTube Channel:
www.YouTube.com/HamRadioDeluxe
HRD Software, LLC
4261 E University Dr Ste 30-183
Prosper, TX 75078-9152
Unsubscribe | Update Preferences
------------------------------
Message: 7
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 20:47:50 -0600
From: Bob Meyers <meyersb@???????.???>
To: Wendy and Terry Osborne <wandtosborne@?????.???>
Cc: amsat-bb@?????.???? Les Rayburn <les@????????????.???>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] OSCAR-Locator & Amateur Satellite Report
Number 154
Message-ID: <25D4670B-5D90-4DCE-9451-078FC2574585@???????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
I just was digging through my ham shack and there was my original
Oscarlocator, first revision, 12-76. I also found a publication from the
ARRL, "Getting to know Oscar from the ground up" published in 1977. It
describes how to use the Oscarlocator. All you needed was the EQX,
equator-crossing information that was provided by the W1AW bulletins and you
could predict AOS and LOS for Oscar 6 or 7. Pretty neat stuff at the time.
Bob
WA8FXQ
> On Feb 24, 2019, at 7:24 PM, Wendy and Terry Osborne
<wandtosborne@?????.???> wrote:
>
> Hi Les,
>
> The Oscar locator and how it works was described in much detail in "The
Satellite Experimenter's Handbook".
> This was published by ARRL. You may be able to find a copy around some
where.
> It still has a lot of useful information in it even if the satellites
referred to are long gone.
> I made up several Oscar-Locators in the early 80s and used them a lot.
> I found them the other day when I was having a shack clean out.
>
> To use them you require an "Equatorial Crossing time and longitude" (EQX).
> Bob McGwier's (N4HY) Quiktrak program gives these but I haven't checked
any modern programs.
>
> I have a set of instructions but they are based on my Southern Hemisphere
version so would need to be adapted
> for use in the Northern Hemisphere.
>
> It would be an interesting exercise to make one for the ISS as an
educational tool versus looking up an app on a smart phone.
>
> 73,
> Terry Osborne ZL2BAC
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Les Rayburn
> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2019 12:42 PM
> To: AMSAT BB
> Subject: [amsat-bb] OSCAR-Locator & Amateur Satellite Report Number 154
>
> Today?s mail brought me a vintage cardboard ?OSCAR-Locator? purchased on
QRZ.com. Also included was a back issue of the Amateur Satellite Report
newsletter, Number 154 from July 27, 1987.
>
> I love collecting items related to the history of amateur satellites. The
OSCAR-Locator is really neat?I?m digging through back issues of QST now
trying to learn how to actually use it. Don?t think I?ll be giving up
SatPC32 anytime soon however.
>
> Remember back even further when hams plotted satellite passes using a
string and a globe? Remember watching my elmer, Ron Murray WA4IWN (SK) do
that back in the day.
>
>
> 73,
>
> Les Rayburn, N1LF
> Maylene, AL
> EM63nf
> AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> 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!
> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
> _______________________________________________
> 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!
> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
------------------------------
Message: 8
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 00:15:24 -0600
From: Les Rayburn <les@????????????.???>
To: Bob Meyers <meyersb@???????.???>
Cc: amsat-bb@?????.???
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] OSCAR-Locator & Amateur Satellite Report
Number 154
Message-ID: <96C99DFF-D4A2-447D-8C43-44A802076388@????????????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Bob,
What a wonderful re-discovery. Any chance you could scan that ARRL
publication? I?ve searched Amazon and Ebay since getting your e-mail, but no
joy. I?d love to add it to my collection of vintage amateur satellite items.
Neat stuff indeed!
73,
Les Rayburn, N1LF
Maylene, AL
EM63nf
AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member
> On Feb 24, 2019, at 8:47 PM, Bob Meyers <meyersb@???????.???> wrote:
>
> I just was digging through my ham shack and there was my original
Oscarlocator, first revision, 12-76. I also found a publication from the
ARRL, "Getting to know Oscar from the ground up" published in 1977. It
describes how to use the Oscarlocator. All you needed was the EQX,
equator-crossing information that was provided by the W1AW bulletins and you
could predict AOS and LOS for Oscar 6 or 7. Pretty neat stuff at the time.
>
> Bob
> WA8FXQ
>
>> On Feb 24, 2019, at 7:24 PM, Wendy and Terry Osborne
<wandtosborne@?????.??? <mailto:wandtosborne@?????.???>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Les,
>>
>> The Oscar locator and how it works was described in much detail in "The
Satellite Experimenter's Handbook".
>> This was published by ARRL. You may be able to find a copy around some
where.
>> It still has a lot of useful information in it even if the satellites
referred to are long gone.
>> I made up several Oscar-Locators in the early 80s and used them a lot.
>> I found them the other day when I was having a shack clean out.
>>
>> To use them you require an "Equatorial Crossing time and longitude" (EQX).
>> Bob McGwier's (N4HY) Quiktrak program gives these but I haven't checked
any modern programs.
>>
>> I have a set of instructions but they are based on my Southern Hemisphere
version so would need to be adapted
>> for use in the Northern Hemisphere.
>>
>> It would be an interesting exercise to make one for the ISS as an
educational tool versus looking up an app on a smart phone.
>>
>> 73,
>> Terry Osborne ZL2BAC
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Les Rayburn
>> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2019 12:42 PM
>> To: AMSAT BB
>> Subject: [amsat-bb] OSCAR-Locator & Amateur Satellite Report Number 154
>>
>> Today?s mail brought me a vintage cardboard ?OSCAR-Locator? purchased on
QRZ.com <http://qrz.com/>. Also included was a back issue of the Amateur
Satellite Report newsletter, Number 154 from July 27, 1987.
>>
>> I love collecting items related to the history of amateur satellites. The
OSCAR-Locator is really neat?I?m digging through back issues of QST now
trying to learn how to actually use it. Don?t think I?ll be giving up
SatPC32 anytime soon however.
>>
>> Remember back even further when hams plotted satellite passes using a
string and a globe? Remember watching my elmer, Ron Murray WA4IWN (SK) do
that back in the day.
>>
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Les Rayburn, N1LF
>> Maylene, AL
>> EM63nf
>> AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Sent via AMSAT-BB@?????.??? <mailto: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!
>> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
<http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Sent via AMSAT-BB@?????.??? <mailto: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!
>> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
<http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb>
>
>
------------------------------
Message: 9
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 15:11:10 +0100
From: Felix Paez EA4GQS <ea4gqs@?????.???>
To: amsat-bb@?????.???
Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-91 demo for students EA4RCT - EB1AO 26 Feb
12:26 UTC
Message-ID:
<CAGfY+e0HGcTuq8L3v1dvEnGGMd8qK+uBRLo-aKWMSQEHS_o=Ng@????.?????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Dear friends,
this Tuesday, February 26 and within the activity 'Picosatellites and radio
amateurs by satellite', carried out by the Radioclub of the School of
Telecommunications Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Madrid,
AMSAT EA, in collaboration with that radioclub, will have a talk about
amateur radio satellites, their history and how they are operated.
Within the space of the talk, there will be a break to try to carry out a
demonstration of QSO in a portable way, between us, in Madrid IN80 and Jos?
EB1AO in Vigo IN62 at 12:36 UTC, using the satellite AO-91 RadFxSAT.
The callsign to
be used will be EA4RCT.
Please if you are reading this I ask you for priority in the sat pass so we
can complete the contact. We wish to have new sat radio-amateurs in the
future with this kind of activities!
thanks and regards,
Felix Paez EA4GQS
------------------------------
Message: 10
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 08:01:07 +0200
From: Michael Fletcher <oh2aue@????????.??>
To: amsat-bb@?????.???
Subject: [amsat-bb] QO-100 bare minimum: GPS referenced LNB + IC-402
(read: no dish, 70cm IF!)
Message-ID: <623a6827-be1d-d16c-5cdf-5db027103288@????????.??>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7KwssbYMKY
/Michael, oh2aue
------------------------------
Subject: Digest Footer
_______________________________________________
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 member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!
http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
------------------------------
End of AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 14, Issue 83
****************************************
Read previous mail | Read next mail
| |
