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Today's Topics:
1. Psat, BRICKsat,USS Langley Launch Announcement (Robert Bruninga)
2. Orbitron Prediction Output - More than three lines? (John Brier)
3. Probably FO-29 world distance record; QSO between US and UK
(Hector W5CBF/CO6CBF)
4. Re: Psat, BRICKsat, USS Langley Launch Announcement
(correction) (Robert Bruninga)
5. Re: Probably FO-29 world distance record; QSO between US and
UK (Fabiano Moser)
6. Upcoming ARISS contact with Istituto Tecnico Industriale
Statale "Enrico Fermi", Lucca, Italy and Studi di Firenze -
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
(n4csitwo@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
7. Re: Probably FO-29 world distance record; QSO between US and
UK (R.T.Liddy)
8. Satellite Demonstration Passes for Dayton Hamvention (Keith Pugh)
9. Kenpro rotors question (Jerry Ehlers)
10. Montserrat expedition announcement (Jim White)
11. Probably FO-29 world distance record; QSO between US and UK
---follow-up (Hector W5CBF/CO6CBF)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 16:00:55 -0400
From: Robert Bruninga <bruninga@xxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Psat, BRICKsat,USS Langley Launch Announcement
Message-ID: <a13bdcff62efbbe214fd36649f94cc09@xxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
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Subj: Amateur Satellite Launch Notice:
On (or about) 20 May 2014, the next US Naval Academy satellites and Brno
University transponders will be launched on the AFSPC ULA Atlas-5 mission
from the Cape into a 50 something degree orbit. We welcome radio amateurs
worldwide to tune into the downlinks and either IGate packets into the
global APRS-IS system or email to Bruninga@xxxx.xxx. After launch, the next
several orbits will be over USA and Europe.
Operations via PSAT or PSK31 are not authorized until on-orbit checkout is
complete (may take many,many days). Downlinks (one or more packets per
minute):
PSAT: 145.825 MHz 1200 baud AX.25 APRS ?
http://aprs.org/psat.html
BRICsat: 435.975 MHz 9600 baud AX.25 packet telemetry
USS Langley: 435.475 MHz 9600 baud AX.25 packet telemetry
PSK31: 435.350 MHz FM PSK31 telemetry
Further info will be posted when available on the PSAT page above.
Enjoy,
Bob Bruninga, WB4APR - USNA
Jin Kang, KB3UKS ? USNA
Mirek Kasal, OK2AQ - Brno University
Tomas Urbanec, OK2PNQ - Brno University
Petr Vagner, OK2CPV - Brno University
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 01:44:55 -0400
From: John Brier <johnbrier@xxxxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Orbitron Prediction Output - More than three
lines?
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You can select Brief or 3 lines (AOS, MET, LOS) but what I would like
is a line for every minute or two during the pass, maybe selectable.
Also, can I get directions instead of AZM? I haven't gotten used to
that yet. All this would be very helpful to me instead of having to
bring my laptop, which will be hard to see outside anyway. Something I
can just print out, and look at my watch to know where it is, and
where to point, would be more convenient, I think.
PS, I got into SO-50 this morning and this evening, meaning I could
hear myself clearly on the downlink. someone in a Delta grid square
came back to me this morning, but I didn't have the bird well enough
to receive very well and had to apologize for that. This evening I
heard myself multiple times but everyone was trying to work W4T. I got
a good audio recording of the evening pass too. If someone wants it,
let me know. My next attempt at SO-50 will be the Thursday morning
pass and the evening pass too perhaps if I don't get anything in the
morning. I must say, working this bird is very hard with such a low
power signal. It is still very fun, but I am definitely thinking about
a preamp! Hah!
73, KG4AKV, Raleigh, NC, FM05
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 09:51:19 -0500
From: "Hector W5CBF/CO6CBF" <kf5yxv@xxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: 'Peter Atkins' <peterjohng4dol@xxx.xx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Probably FO-29 world distance record; QSO between
US and UK
Message-ID: <000a01d0880c$1d784230$5868c690$@xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hello to all
I am pleased to report that Peter G4DOL and I had another extreme QSO on
FO-29. It is my furthest contact on the birds!
Back on October 2013, Peter and I had a very nice contact between EL92sd,
Cienfuegos, Cuba and IO80so, Weymouth area, UK. It was a 7286 km contact and
probably the first contact between UK and Cuba on FO-29!
Peter and I desired to try again on FO-29, this time between EM21hs, Texas,
US and his habitual spot in IO80so. We were able to complete a very nice CW
contact on the 92319 orbit of FO-29. Peter had just 0.1 degree as maxim
elevation while I had 0.8 during the 80 seconds mutual window. As before,
Peter did all the hard work by driving until his habitual spot at a
cliff-top and setting up his "portable satellite station" (19 elements
Yagi for 435MHz and 10 elements Yagi for 2m both with horizontal
polarization). FO-29 was sounding really good on these orbits. It was a
solid 559 satellite contact, we were very impressed.
We made the calculations using our 10 digit grid squares at
http://no.nonsense.ee/qth/map.html The distance between the stations was
7537.799 km (4683.77 mi). To my knowledge, the longest distance archived on
FO-29 until now had been 7,533.685 km between Frank, K4FEG and Erich, DK1TB.
http://www.qrz.com/db/k4feg It appears that an even longer distance is
achievable. It has been reported that FO-29 has a "theoretical maximum
range" of 7502 km, but I guess that at least 7600km is doable. We will try
to break our own record!
This contact was possible thanks to the great feature implemented on SatPC32
V12.8b. There is an option of seeing the frequency you are at the satellite
receiver at any time during a pass. It allows the operators to tune the
right frequencies and attempt a contact without having to search for each
other.
We have some pictures, recording and GPS screen shoots. I will try to post
everything online. I will be happy to email everything, also.
Thanks very much to Peter for his persistence, effort and all the fun!
73!
Hector, W5CBF/CO6CBF
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 11:46:07 -0400
From: Robert Bruninga <bruninga@xxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Psat, BRICKsat, USS Langley Launch
Announcement (correction)
Message-ID: <199a75361c94badd04e53c1f2b298230@xxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Corrections (year and Freqs):
Subj: Amateur Satellite Launch Notice:
On (or about) 20 May 2015, the next US Naval Academy satellites and Brno
University transponders will be launched on the AFSPC ULA Atlas-5 mission
from the Cape into a 50 something degree orbit. We welcome radio amateurs
worldwide to tune into the downlinks and either IGate packets into the
global APRS-IS system or email to Bruninga@xxxx.xxx. After launch, the next
several orbits will be over USA and Europe.
Operations via PSAT or PSK31 are not authorized until on-orbit checkout is
complete (may take many,many days). Downlinks (one or more packets per
minute):
PSAT: 145.825 MHz 1200 baud AX.25 APRS ?
http://aprs.org/psat.html
BRICsat: 437.975 MHz 9600 baud AX.25 packet telemetry
USS Langley: 437.475 MHz 9600 baud AX.25 packet telemetry
PSK31: 435.350 MHz FM PSK31 telemetry
Further info will be posted when available on the PSAT page above.
Enjoy,
Bob Bruninga, WB4APR - USNA
Jin Kang, KB3UKS ? USNA
Mirek Kasal, OK2AQ - Brno University
Tomas Urbanec, OK2PNQ - Brno University
Petr Vagner, OK2CPV - Brno University
------------------------------
Message: 5
Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 18:18:57 +0100
From: Fabiano Moser <fabianomoser@xxxxx.xxx>
To: Hector W5CBF/CO6CBF <kf5yxv@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: "<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, Peter Atkins
<peterjohng4dol@xxx.xx.xx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Probably FO-29 world distance record; QSO
between US and UK
Message-ID: <B9751350-94AE-4846-97E7-867A6D7CF14E@xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Greetings to both!
73 CT7ABD
Fabiano Moser.
Enviado do meu iPhone
> On 06 May 2015, at 15:51, Hector W5CBF/CO6CBF <kf5yxv@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>
> Hello to all
>
> I am pleased to report that Peter G4DOL and I had another extreme QSO on
> FO-29. It is my furthest contact on the birds!
>
> Back on October 2013, Peter and I had a very nice contact between EL92sd,
> Cienfuegos, Cuba and IO80so, Weymouth area, UK. It was a 7286 km contact and
> probably the first contact between UK and Cuba on FO-29!
>
> Peter and I desired to try again on FO-29, this time between EM21hs, Texas,
> US and his habitual spot in IO80so. We were able to complete a very nice CW
> contact on the 92319 orbit of FO-29. Peter had just 0.1 degree as maxim
> elevation while I had 0.8 during the 80 seconds mutual window. As before,
> Peter did all the hard work by driving until his habitual spot at a
> cliff-top and setting up his "portable satellite station" (19 elements
> Yagi for 435MHz and 10 elements Yagi for 2m both with horizontal
> polarization). FO-29 was sounding really good on these orbits. It was a
> solid 559 satellite contact, we were very impressed.
>
> We made the calculations using our 10 digit grid squares at
> http://no.nonsense.ee/qth/map.html The distance between the stations was
> 7537.799 km (4683.77 mi). To my knowledge, the longest distance archived on
> FO-29 until now had been 7,533.685 km between Frank, K4FEG and Erich, DK1TB.
> http://www.qrz.com/db/k4feg It appears that an even longer distance is
> achievable. It has been reported that FO-29 has a "theoretical maximum
> range" of 7502 km, but I guess that at least 7600km is doable. We will try
> to break our own record!
>
> This contact was possible thanks to the great feature implemented on SatPC32
> V12.8b. There is an option of seeing the frequency you are at the satellite
> receiver at any time during a pass. It allows the operators to tune the
> right frequencies and attempt a contact without having to search for each
> other.
>
> We have some pictures, recording and GPS screen shoots. I will try to post
> everything online. I will be happy to email everything, also.
>
> Thanks very much to Peter for his persistence, effort and all the fun!
>
> 73!
>
> Hector, W5CBF/CO6CBF
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> 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.
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 13:34:33 -0400
From: <n4csitwo@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, "amsat-edu" <amsat-edu@xxxxx.xxx>,
<sarex@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS contact with Istituto Tecnico
Industriale Statale "Enrico Fermi", Lucca, Italy and Studi di Firenze
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Message-ID: <F15E73BF84634DFF81DC59FA043C3730@xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
An International Space Station school contact has been planned with
participants at Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale "Enrico Fermi", Lucca,
Italy, direct via IQ5LU and Studi di Firenze - Dipartimento di Fisica e
Astronomia, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy on 09 May. The event is scheduled to
begin at approximately 09:52 UTC. It is recommended that you start listening
approximately 10 minutes before this time. The duration of the contact is
approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The event will be direct between the
ISS using call sign IR0ISS and ground stations IQ5PO (who will initiate the
contact) and IQ5LU (who will end the contact). The contact should be audible
over Italy and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in
on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in
Italian.
Presentation Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale "Enrico Fermi":
State Technical Industrial Institute is named to Enrico Fermi and is located
in Lucca, Northern Tuscany. 5 years courses in Mechanics, Electrotechnology,
Electronics, Information and Communication Technology with several
laboratories. About 700 students aged 15-19.
They had an Amateur Radio Club with the callsign IK5YOI (license expired).
Presentation Universit? degli Studi di Firenze - Dipartimento di Fisica e
Astronomia:
In the Scientific Campus ("Polo Scientifico") of the University of Florence
activities for secondary school's students are organized by OpenLab.
OpenLab, which has been active since 2002, is the service of education and
communication of the University of Florence and it is dedicated to science
popularization in different areas (physics, chemistry, biology .). OpenLab
includes interactive laboratories, conferences, stages, visits to research
laboratories. For Physics we have more than 1000 students every year
(primary and secondary school).
Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
I = Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale "Enrico Fermi"
U = Universit? degli Studi di Firenze
1U. Quali sensazioni si provano durante la fase di lancio?
2I. Quale sistema operativo ? utilizzato sui computer della ISS? Perch?
questa scelta?
3U. Dopo quanto tempo si ? abituata all' assenza di gravit??
4I. Ci sono mai state collisioni con detriti orbitali?
5U. Come reagiscono le piante alla vita sulla stazione? Come vengono curate?
6I. Quando hai deciso di fare l'astronauta? Perch??
7U. In che modo ti curi quando ti ammali?
8I. in cosa consiste la manutenzione della stazione?
9U. Sulla Stazione Spaziale Internazionale sono presenti dispositivi che
sfruttano le correzioni relativistiche dello spazio e del tempo, simili
ai nostri GPS?
10I. quando dormi sogni?
11U. Qual ? stato il momento pi? difficile o la paura pi? grande affrontata
durante l'addestramento?
12I. E' difficile per una donna diventare astronauta?
13U. Sulla ISS ci sono correnti parassite indotte dalle variazioni del campo
magnetico terrestre sulla stazione stessa?
14I. Chi e che cosa ti manca di pi? della tua vita quotidiana?
15U. Che tipo di esperimenti fate? Qual ? il loro fine?
16I. Quali studi ti hanno condotto alla carriera di astronauta?
17U. Come avviene l'ossigenazione della stazione spaziale?
18I: Da astronauta, pensi ci possano essere forme di vita extraterrestri?
19U. Qual ? la sua paura pi? grande sull' ISS?
20I. cosa comporta dal punto di vista fisico e mentale vivere sulla ISS?
21U. In cosa consiste il vostro lavoro? Qual ? la tua funzione all'interno
della stazione spaziale?
22I. Qual ? la tua giornata tipo come astronauta?
23U. Cosa si prova a vedere la terra, l'alba, il tramonto e l'universo dallo
spazio?
24I. Come si vedono i pianeti del sistema solare dalla ISS?
25U. Credi che sia giusto spendere tanti soldi per le missioni spaziali
nonostante tutte le situazioni di povert? presenti sul nostro pianeta?
26I. Quali effetti ha l'assenza di forza di gravit? sul corpo umano?
Translation:
1) How do you feel during the launch?
2) Which operating system is used on the computers of the iss? Why this
choice?
3) How soon you got used to the absence of gravity?
4) Have collisions with orbital debris ever happened?
5) How plants react to the station life conditions? How are they cared?
6) When did you decide to be an astronaut? Why?
7) How do you take care of yourself when you get sick?
8) How is made the maintenance of the station?
9) Are there, on the ISS, devices that use the relativistic corrections of
space and time, like our GPS devices do?
10) when sleeping, do you dream?
11) Which was the hardest time or the biggest fear faced during training?
12) Is it difficult for a woman to be an astronaut?
13) Are there, on the ISS, eddy currents induced by changes in the Earth's
magnetic field on the station itself?
14) Who and what do you miss more about your daily life?
15) What kind of experiments are you doing? What is their purpose?
16) Which schools did you attend to become an astronaut?
17) How is carried out the oxygenation of the space station?
18) As an astronaut, do you think extraterrestrial life forms exist?
19) What is your deepest fear on the ISS?
20) What entails in terms of physical and mental life on the ISS ?
21) In what consists the crew job? What is your role inside the space
station?
22) How is your typical day as an astronaut?
23) How it feels to see the earth, sunrise, sunset and the universe from
space?
24) How do you see our solar system's planets from the ISS?
25) Do you think it is right to spend so much money for space missions
despite all situations of poverty on our planet?
26) Which effects has the absence of gravity on human body?
PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES:
Sign up for the SAREX maillist at
http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/sarex
Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the
International Space Station (ARISS).
To receive our Twitter updates, follow @xxxxxxxxxxxx
Next planned event(s):
TBD
ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the
volunteer support and leadership from AMSAT and IARU societies around the
world with the ISS space agencies partners: NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA,
CNES, JAXA, and CSA.
ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of
Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board the
International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first
hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters'
interest in science, technology, and learning. Further information on the
ARISS program is available on the website http://www.ariss.org/
Thank you & 73,
David - AA4KN
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 18:17:11 +0000 (UTC)
From: "R.T.Liddy" <k8bl@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Probably FO-29 world distance record; QSO
between US and UK
Message-ID:
<10681557.1652993.1430936231864.JavaMail.yahoo@xxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Hector,
Felicidades !! Excelente contacto y reporte !!! 73, Bob K8BL
From: Hector W5CBF/CO6CBF <kf5yxv@xxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Cc: 'Peter Atkins' <peterjohng4dol@xxx.xx.xx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 10:51 AM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Probably FO-29 world distance record; QSO between US
and UK
Hello to all
I am pleased to report that Peter G4DOL and I had another extreme QSO on
FO-29.? It is my furthest contact on the birds!
Back on October 2013, Peter and I had a very nice contact between EL92sd,
Cienfuegos, Cuba and IO80so, Weymouth area, UK. It was a 7286 km contact and
probably the first contact between UK and Cuba on FO-29!
Peter and I desired to try again on FO-29, this time between EM21hs, Texas,
US and his habitual spot in? IO80so. We were able to complete a very nice CW
contact on the 92319 orbit of FO-29. Peter had just 0.1 degree as maxim
elevation while I had 0.8 during the 80 seconds mutual window.? As before,
Peter did all the hard work by driving until his habitual spot at a
cliff-top and? setting up his "portable satellite station"? (19 elements
Yagi for 435MHz and 10 elements Yagi for 2m both with? horizontal
polarization). FO-29 was sounding really good on these orbits. It was a
solid 559 satellite contact, we were very impressed.
We made the calculations using our 10 digit grid squares at
http://no.nonsense.ee/qth/map.html The distance between the stations was
7537.799 km (4683.77 mi). To my knowledge,? the longest distance archived on
FO-29 until now had been 7,533.685 km between Frank, K4FEG and Erich, DK1TB.
http://www.qrz.com/db/k4feg It appears that an even longer distance is
achievable. It has been reported that FO-29 has a "theoretical maximum
range" of 7502 km, but I guess that at least 7600km is doable. We will try
to break our own record!
This contact was possible thanks to the great feature implemented on SatPC32
V12.8b. There is an option of seeing the frequency you are at the satellite
receiver at any time during a pass. It allows the operators to tune the
right frequencies and attempt a contact without having to search for each
other.
We have some pictures, recording and GPS screen shoots. I will try to post
everything online. I will be happy to email everything, also.
Thanks very much to Peter for his persistence, effort and all the fun!
73!
Hector, W5CBF/CO6CBF
_______________________________________________
Sent via AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx. 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.
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 14:22:17 -0500
From: "Keith Pugh" <w5iu@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Satellite Demonstration Passes for Dayton
Hamvention
Message-ID: <000e01d088fb$22fa6b30$68ef4190$@xxxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
An Amateur Radio Satellite Demonstration Station will again be active at
Dayton Hamvention this year on 15-17 May. I have included the planned
schedule of passes below. Times are in UTC - you can convert it to your own
time zone. I have also included this as a text file in case there are
formatting problems.
We plan to work as many of these passes as possible. Our station is
outdoors so weather can give us problems and we only have a limited number
of operators so - we will work as many as possible. I might also note that
we do have obstructions due to vehicles in the parking lot and parts of the
Hara Arena buildings from about 300 deg. through North and on around to
about 70 deg. The plan only includes passes with peak elevations above 10
deg. Lower elevations of any of the passes may be obstructed - be patient.
73 - Keith, W5IU
AMSAT DAYTON HAMVENTION DEMOS - 2015
TZ = UTC
N 39.820328 W 84.255224 ELEV. 296 M
MIN PEAK ELEV. = 10 DEG
GRID = EM79ut
* = Listen Only Pass - Telemetry, Doppler, Ant. Perf, etc.
WinAos QTH: -84.3/39.8 T#: 13648 Sat.: 7 [Standard]
----------------------------------------------------------
Day Objects AOS (U) LOS Period maxEl AZ
----------------------------------------------------------
15.05.2015 ISS 12:15 12:22 07 11 308 - 056
15.05.2015 AO-07 12:41 12:55 14 11 359 - 271
15.05.2015 SO-50 13:31 13:40 09 10 280 - 018
15.05.2015 ISS 13:52 14:00 08 15 319 - 084
15.05.2015 HO-68 * 14:01 14:20 19 52 020 - 182
15.05.2015 AO-73 14:27 14:36 09 13 039 - 147
15.05.2015 ISS 15:28 15:37 09 66 309 - 123
15.05.2015 HO-68 * 15:50 16:07 17 30 003 - 230
15.05.2015 MO-76 * 15:58 16:08 10 32 026 - 174
15.05.2015 AO-73 16:02 16:14 12 54 007 - 205
15.05.2015 ISS 17:05 17:12 07 12 283 - 174
15.05.2015 MO-76 * 17:33 17:42 09 17 349 - 229
15.05.2015 AO-07 18:05 18:19 14 10 084 - 357
15.05.2015 SO-50 18:39 18:51 12 17 340 - 104
15.05.2015 FO-29 19:52 20:09 17 41 141 - 355
15.05.2015 AO-07 19:53 20:12 19 46 137 - 349
15.05.2015 SO-50 20:20 20:33 13 77 326 - 153
16.05.2015 SO-50 12:14 12:26 12 26 245 - 024
16.05.2015 ISS 12:58 13:06 08 13 312 - 071
16.05.2015 HO-68 * 13:45 14:03 18 40 024 - 175
16.05.2015 ISS 14:35 14:44 09 37 313 - 110
16.05.2015 AO-73 14:46 14:57 11 21 028 - 161
16.05.2015 HO-68 * 15:33 15:50 17 39 005 - 223
16.05.2015 MO-76 * 15:54 16:04 10 29 027 - 172
16.05.2015 ISS 16:12 16:20 08 23 292 - 156
16.05.2015 AO-73 16:22 16:34 12 32 002 - 216
16.05.2015 MO-76 * 17:28 17:38 10 19 355 - 227
16.05.2015 AO-07 18:55 19:13 18 21 110 - 352
16.05.2015 FO-29 18:59 19:13 14 17 114 - 005
16.05.2015 SO-50 19:05 19:18 13 33 336 - 125
16.05.2015 FO-29 20:41 21:00 19 84 165 - 347
16.05.2015 AO-07 20:45 21:06 21 87 161 - 344
16.05.2015 SO-50 20:46 20:58 12 31 316 - 175
17.05.2015 ISS 12:06 12:13 07 11 313 - 062
17.05.2015 AO-07 12:34 12:49 15 12 360 - 266
17.05.2015 SO-50 12:41 12:52 11 13 266 - 021
17.05.2015 HO-68 * 13:28 13:46 18 30 027 - 168
17.05.2015 ISS 13:43 13:51 08 23 318 - 097
17.05.2015 AO-73 15:06 15:18 12 34 022 - 174
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 14:37:25 -0500
From: Jerry Ehlers <w0sat2@xxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Kenpro rotors question
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Hi: I have a rotor motor for Azimuth that looks like a 5400B .
The model number on it says 7501-002
When I went to Google it wouldn,t cross.
It looks like a KR 400 or 600 control might work on it
Is anyone familiar with this model or seen one ??????
This looks like the rotors I have used like the 800 and 1000 Yaesu
and 5400B.
Jerry w0sat
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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 16:26:35 -0600
From: Jim White <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, Andrew Ow
<Andrew.Ow@xxx.xxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Montserrat expedition announcement
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N0KV, W0ZA, W0ETT, and WD0E will be operating from Gingerbread Hill, St.
Peters, Montserrat (VP2M) (grid square FK86) from June 10^th to June
19^th .Operation will be on 80-6 meters (SSB/CW/RTTY) with participation
in the June VHF contest on 6 and 2 meters and some satellite operation
by WD0E.
The two primary radios will be Elecraft K3?s with 500 watt
amplifiers.Antennas include a Mosley Classic 33 on 10/15/20, a folding
hexbeam by Folding Antennas (Germany) on 20-10 meters, verticals on 30
and 40 meters, a dipole on 75-80 meters, and an M2 5 element 6 meter
beam.We will run 500 watts on 6M SSB/CW and FSK441.A 6 meter beacon is
planned and will be on 50.102 when the station is not manned, and
receive will be active between beacon transmissions to listen for calls.
The primary call sign for the operation will be VP2MKV, and VP2MTT will
probably be used on 6 meters.Near 24 hour operation is planned.Logs will
be uploaded to LOTW soon after the group returns to the US.Paper QSL?s
via N0KV, direct or via the bureau.US addressees send SASE; addressees
outside the US send SASE plus $2 US for return postage. Use of Club Log
has not been finalized at this time.Additional information will be
posted under VP2MKV on QRZ.com.
Satellite operation:
VP2MKV will operate FO-29 only on selected passes.We will attempt the
long hops to the edges of coverage if the equipment performs well at low
elevations and obstructions allow.We will attempt to post passes we plan
to work 24 hours in advance on amsat-bb.The uplink frequency will be
145.925 and we will tune our downlink for stations calling. The location
is 16.776924N 62.214474W in grid FK86vs.Equipment is an ICOM 910H and
Arrow antenna.Uplink power will be about 20W.Stations are asked to work
us only once on the satellite.If we respond with your call you are in
the log.
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Message: 11
Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 22:39:00 -0500
From: "Hector W5CBF/CO6CBF" <kf5yxv@xxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: 'Peter Atkins' <peterjohng4dol@xxx.xx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Probably FO-29 world distance record; QSO between
US and UK ---follow-up
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Hi to all
Just a quick follow-up on my earlier message about my QSO with Peter, G4DOL
on FO-29.
I received an email from Frank, K4FEG; He let me know He misprinted the
distance of his contact in his QRZ web page. The correct distance of his
contact is 7,538.685 km. He already fixed it in his web page.
My contact with Peter is 886 m down their mark. You can see a couple of
pictures and listen to the recording at
http://amsat-uk.org/2015/05/06/uk-texas-extreme-dx-contact/
73!
Hector, W5CBF/CO6CBF
-----Mensaje original-----
De: Hector W5CBF/CO6CBF [mailto:kf5yxv@xxxxx.xxxx
Enviado el: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 9:51 AM
Para: 'amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx
CC: 'Peter Atkins'
Asunto: Probably FO-29 world distance record; QSO between US and UK
Importancia: Alta
Hello to all
I am pleased to report that Peter G4DOL and I had another extreme QSO on
FO-29. It is my furthest contact on the birds!
Back on October 2013, Peter and I had a very nice contact between EL92sd,
Cienfuegos, Cuba and IO80so, Weymouth area, UK. It was a 7286 km contact and
probably the first contact between UK and Cuba on FO-29!
Peter and I desired to try again on FO-29, this time between EM21hs, Texas,
US and his habitual spot in IO80so. We were able to complete a very nice CW
contact on the 92319 orbit of FO-29. Peter had just 0.1 degree as maxim
elevation while I had 0.8 during the 80 seconds mutual window. As before,
Peter did all the hard work by driving until his habitual spot at a
cliff-top and setting up his "portable satellite station" (19 elements
Yagi for 435MHz and 10 elements Yagi for 2m both with horizontal
polarization). FO-29 was sounding really good on these orbits. It was a
solid 559 satellite contact, we were very impressed.
We made the calculations using our 10 digit grid squares at
http://no.nonsense.ee/qth/map.html The distance between the stations was
7537.799 km (4683.77 mi). To my knowledge, the longest distance archived on
FO-29 until now had been 7,533.685 km between Frank, K4FEG and Erich, DK1TB.
http://www.qrz.com/db/k4feg It appears that an even longer distance is
achievable. It has been reported that FO-29 has a "theoretical maximum
range" of 7502 km, but I guess that at least 7600km is doable. We will try
to break our own record!
This contact was possible thanks to the great feature implemented on SatPC32
V12.8b. There is an option of seeing the frequency you are at the satellite
receiver at any time during a pass. It allows the operators to tune the
right frequencies and attempt a contact without having to search for each
other.
We have some pictures, recording and GPS screen shoots. I will try to post
everything online. I will be happy to email everything, also.
Thanks very much to Peter for his persistence, effort and all the fun!
73!
Hector, W5CBF/CO6CBF
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