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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Orbitron Prediction Output - More than three lines?
(Pavel Milanes Costa)
2. Re: Probably FO-29 world distance record; QSO between US and
UK (Robert McGwier)
3. Re: Orbitron Prediction Output - More than three lines?
(John Brier)
4. Cargo Ship (Joe)
5. Re: Cargo Ship (Alan)
6. TAPR/AMSAT Banquet Tickets Must be Purchased by 1800 EDT
Tuesday, May 12th (Alan)
7. Re: Probably FO-29 world distance record; QSO between US and
UK (Pavel Milanes Costa)
8. Re: Cargo Ship (Nico Janssen)
9. AO73 mode change (Jim Heck)
10. Sorry about my Packet (Tom Lubbers K8TL)
11. ANS-130 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins (Lee McLamb)
12. FUNcube-1 Mode change (Graham Shirville)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 20:59:20 -0400
From: Pavel Milanes Costa <co7wt@xxxxxx.xx.xx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Orbitron Prediction Output - More than three
lines?
Message-ID: <554AB8E8.6050800@xxxxxx.xx.xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Give Gpredict a try.
It's a linux soft but on the internet there are Windows versions, This
is the way I doit.
It prints he pass data in about 20 lines (1/3 of a letter sheet) and I
use to draw by hand the polar view below it.
Select the sat, right click, next pass, list view, print.
73
El 06/05/15 a las 01:44, John Brier escibi?:
> 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
> _______________________________________________
> 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.
> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!
> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
>
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 02:52:16 -0700
From: Robert McGwier <rwmcgwier@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "Hector W5CBF/CO6CBF" <kf5yxv@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: amsat bb <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Probably FO-29 world distance record; QSO
between US and UK
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Congratulations Hector. Glad to see you are still enthusiastically enjoying
satellites and sharing that with us.
73s
Bob
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 7:51 AM, 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
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> 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.
> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!
> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
>
--
Bob McGwier
Co-Founder and Technical Director, Federated Wireless, LLC
Research Professor Virginia Tech
Senior Member IEEE, Facebook: N4HYBob, ARS: N4HY
Faculty Advisor Virginia Tech Amateur Radio Assn. (K4KDJ)
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 08:37:37 -0400
From: John Brier <johnbrier@xxxxx.xxx>
To: Pavel Milanes Costa <co7wt@xxxxxx.xx.xx>
Cc: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Orbitron Prediction Output - More than three
lines?
Message-ID:
<CALn0fKPfuh7=xCwT6yEARW7RUpBNkStY6VhUdtTb6k9OjF_wsA@xxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Thank you Tom and Pavel. I actually already installed Sat32PC but found it
hard to setup, and I found an easy setup guide for orbitron on YouTube.
Gpredict I have heard of but not tried. Will look into that too.
Thanks all.
John, KG4AKV, Raleigh, NC, FM05
On May 8, 2015 2:16 AM, "Pavel Milanes Costa" <co7wt@xxxxxx.xx.xx> wrote:
> Give Gpredict a try.
>
> It's a linux soft but on the internet there are Windows versions, This is
> the way I doit.
>
> It prints he pass data in about 20 lines (1/3 of a letter sheet) and I use
> to draw by hand the polar view below it.
>
> Select the sat, right click, next pass, list view, print.
>
> 73
>
> El 06/05/15 a las 01:44, John Brier escibi?:
>
>> 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
>> _______________________________________________
>> 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.
>> 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@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.
> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!
> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
>
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 07:36:45 -0500
From: Joe <nss@xxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Cargo Ship
Message-ID: <554CADDD.7010404@xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
I know somewhat off topic, but does anyone know of a tracking page for
that supply ship that is coming down?
Joe WB9SBD
--
Sig
The Original Rolling Ball Clock
Idle Tyme
Idle-Tyme.com
http://www.idle-tyme.com
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 07:48:17 -0500
From: Alan <wa4sca@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "'Joe'" <nss@xxx.xxx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Cargo Ship
Message-ID: <000101d0898d$41d4e610$c57eb230$@xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
"The Progress M-27M spacecraft ceased to exist at 05:04 Moscow time (0204
GMT) on 8 May 2015. It
entered the atmosphere... over the central part of the Pacific Ocean,"
Roscosmos said in a statement.
73s,
Alan
WA4SCA
<-----Original Message-----
<From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On Behalf Of Joe
<Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 7:37 AM
<To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
<Subject: [amsat-bb] Cargo Ship
<
<I know somewhat off topic, but does anyone know of a tracking page for
<that supply ship that is coming down?
<
<Joe WB9SBD
<--
<Sig
<The Original Rolling Ball Clock
<Idle Tyme
<Idle-Tyme.com
<http://www.idle-tyme.com
<_______________________________________________
<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.
<Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!
<Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 07:49:21 -0500
From: Alan <wa4sca@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "AMSAT-BB" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, "SAREX-BB" <SAREX@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: 'TAPR APRS Mailing List' <aprssig@xxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] TAPR/AMSAT Banquet Tickets Must be Purchased by
1800 EDT Tuesday, May 12th
Message-ID: <000201d0898d$682f51b0$388df510$@xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
All,
The speaker at the 2015 TAPR/AMSAT Banquet will be Michael Ossmann, AD0NR,
on "Adventures of a Hacker
Turned Ham." Tickets ($35 each) MUST be purchased online in advance at the
AMSAT Store
http://store.amsat.org/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=38&products_id=88
no later than 1800 EDT (2300 UTC) Tuesday, May 12th. Tickets will not be
sold at the Hamvention or at
the banquet door. Tickets purchased online may be picked up at the AMSAT
booth (433-435, 444-446) by
Friday afternoon.
More information on the speaker, menu, and location may be found at
http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=190.
73s,
Alan
WA4SCA
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 00:41:56 -0400
From: Pavel Milanes Costa <co7wt@xxxxxx.xx.xx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Probably FO-29 world distance record; QSO
between US and UK
Message-ID: <554C3E94.8090800@xxxxxx.xx.xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Felicidades Hector !!!
73 desde Cuba.
El 06/05/15 a las 10:51, Hector W5CBF/CO6CBF escibi?:
> 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.
> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!
> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
>
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 15:12:07 +0200
From: Nico Janssen <hamsat@xxxxxx.xx>
To: APBIDDLE@xxxxxxx.xxxx 'Joe' <nss@xxx.xxx>, amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Cargo Ship
Message-ID: <554CB627.4010704@xxxxxx.xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Actually it re-entered at 02:20 UTC +/- 1 minute on May 8.
For the full story, see this page:
http://www.spaceflight101.com/progress-m-27m-re-entry.html
73,
Nico PA0DLO
On 2015-05-08 14:48, Alan wrote:
> "The Progress M-27M spacecraft ceased to exist at 05:04 Moscow time (0204
GMT) on 8 May 2015. It
> entered the atmosphere... over the central part of the Pacific Ocean,"
Roscosmos said in a statement.
>
> 73s,
>
> Alan
> WA4SCA
>
>
> <-----Original Message-----
> <From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On Behalf Of Joe
> <Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 7:37 AM
> <To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
> <Subject: [amsat-bb] Cargo Ship
> <
> <I know somewhat off topic, but does anyone know of a tracking page for
> <that supply ship that is coming down?
> <
> <Joe WB9SBD
> <--
> <Sig
> <The Original Rolling Ball Clock
> <Idle Tyme
> <Idle-Tyme.com
> <http://www.idle-tyme.com
> <_______________________________________________
> <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.
> <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@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.
> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!
> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
>
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 09 May 2015 10:12:31 +0100
From: Jim Heck <jimlist@xxxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] AO73 mode change
Message-ID: <554DCF7F.6000206@xxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Hi All,
Just to advise that FUNcube-1 AO73 has just (at approx 1010UTC) been
commanded into continuous amateur mode. We expect to change it back to
autonomous mode on Sunday pm.
Apols for no mode change last evening, due to command station
unavailability.
Have FUN!
73
Jim G3WGM
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Message: 10
Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 08:57:59 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
From: Tom Lubbers K8TL <k8tl@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Sorry about my Packet
Message-ID:
<25977906.1431176279622.JavaMail.root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Due to inattention on my part I was transmitting packets on several orbits
of SO-50. The good news is the number of operators who were able to
determine what was going on and inform me of it.
Sorry for the QRM
Tom K8TL
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Message: 11
Date: Sat, 09 May 2015 22:58:52 -0400
From: Lee McLamb <ku4os@xxx.xx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS-130 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
Message-ID: <554EC96C.9000200@xxx.xx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-130
The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor-
mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite
Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space
including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur
Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building,
launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio
satellites.
The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur
Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it.
Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to:
ans-editor at amsat.org.
In this edition:
* Deadline for 2015 TAPR/AMSAT Banquet ticket is Tuesday, May 12th at
1800 EDT
* AMSAT at Dayton Hamvention 2015
* Work Fox-1A at Dayton
* Top 10 Reasons to Come to Dayton
* 7th European CubeSat Symposium
* ISS Ham Video transmitter now transmitting
* NASA Hosts Media Call on Draft Solicitation for New Class of Launch
Services
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-130.01
ANS-130 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 130.01
From AMSAT HQ Kensington, MD.
May 10, 2015
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-130.01
Deadline for 2015 TAPR/AMSAT Banquet ticket is Tuesday, May 12th at 1800 EDT
The speaker at the 2015 TAPR/AMSAT Banquet will be Michael Ossmann,
AD0NR, on
"Adventures of a Hacker Turned Ham." Tickets ($35 each) MUST be
purchased online
in advance at the AMSAT Store no later than 1800 EDT (2300 UTC) Tuesday, May
12th. Tickets will not be sold at the Hamvention or at the door.
Tickets purchased online may be collected at the AMSAT booth (433-435,
444-446).
More information may be found at http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=190.
[ANS thanks Alan, WA4SCA, for the above information]
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AMSAT at Dayton Hamvention 2015
The AMSAT theme for this year is "Year of The Fox", as we expect to launch
both Fox-1A and Fox-1C in 2015 and we're announcing the plans for Fox-1D and
Fox-1E.
The AMSAT booth is in the same location inside the Ball Arena as last year,
in booths 433-435 and 444-446. The Tracking Software Demos (433) and
Engineering & Education (434-435) are across the aisle from the Beginner's
Corner (444) and Membership, Books & Shirts (445-446). The closest entrance
to the AMSAT booth is the Ball Arena entrance (Door 1) at the southeast
corner of the building. The satellite QSO demonstrations will be outside
across from the entrance to the Ball Arena.
AMSAT Forum
-----------
The AMSAT forum will be Saturday morning from 11:15 a.m. through 1:30 p.m.
in Forum Room 5, close to the AMSAT booth. See the commercial vendor layout
map in the Hamvention program or the Hamvention website for the location of
Forum Room 5 (same as the last few years).
The following speakers will be presenting at the AMSAT Forum:
+ Moderator: Alan Biddle, WA4SCA
+ "AMSAT Status Report." Barry Baines, WD4ASW, AMSAT-NA President,
will highlight recent activities within AMSAT and discuss some
of the challenges, accomplishments, and exciting projects of the
organization.
+ "ARISS Report 2015" Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, AMSAT-NA Vice President
for Human Spaceflight, will discuss ARISS development & operations
on the International Space Station.
+ "AMSAT-NA Fox Satellite Program." Jerry Buxton, N0JY, AMSAT-NA
Engineering Vice President, will discuss the upcoming launches
of four Fox spacecraft and exciting new engineering developments.
+ "AMSAT Satellite Operations." Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, AMSAT-NA
Operations Vice President, will discuss current satellites, as
well as those planned for launch in the next year.
+ "AMSAT's Skunk Works." Tom Clark, K3IO, AMSAT-NA President
Emeritus, will discuss some innovative R&D items for future
spacecraft.
+ "Amateur Satellites, Education, and You!" EMike McCardel, KC8YLD,
AMSAT-NA Educational Relations Vice President, will discuss the
resources and equipment which supports the educational goals of
AMSAT-NA.
On-the-air Satellite Demonstrations
-----------------------------------
Keith Pugh, W5IU and other volunteers will be conducting satellite
demonstrations during the Hamvention. They will be demonstrating satellite
operation using a manual station to work all the currently available FM
satellites and SSB satellites. Hamvention has provided us a nice fenced area
right outside the Ball Arena entrance in which to do our satellite
demonstrations. A schedule of satellite passes for the Hamvention will be
available in the Beginner's Corner and in the demonstration area.
[ANS thanks the AMSAT Dayton Hamvention Posse for the above information]
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Work Fox-1A at Dayton
Bring your HT to Dayton Hamvention, you can work each other on the Fox-1
engineering unit repeater at the AMSAT Engineering Booth!
Uplink: 435.180 MHz FM, CTCSS 67.0 Hz
Downlink: 145.980 MHz FM ? Doppler (which should be minimal)
[ANS thanks Jerry Buxton, N0JY, AMSAT VP Engineering, for the above
information]
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Top 10 Reasons to Come to Dayton
10. Rub shoulders with 25,000 of your best friends at the largest hamfest
in the United States, including nearly all of the AMSAT Directors and
senior officers.
9. Find out how to organize a contact with the astronauts on the
International Space Station for your local school or youth group from our
Education and ARISS experts.
8. Pickup the latest AMSAT golf shirts, T-shirts, and hats. Get your copy
of the updated "Amateur Satellite Frequency Guide" (laminated frequency
chart) and Gould Smith's just revised "Getting Started with Amateur
Satellites" (book). We'll also have assembled wide-band preamps that are
great for portable operation.
7. See the latest equipment from Icom, Yaesu, Kenwood, Flex, Alinco, M2,
Arrow, and many other manufacturers of amateur radio equipment and
accessories. Take advantage of discounted pricing you won't find anywhere
else.
6. See demonstrations of SatPC32 and MacDoppler satellite tracking
software, and get your operational questions answered. Meet Don Agro,
author of MacDoppler (Friday & Saturday, 2-3 p.m.). See a demonstration
of the LVB Tracker, a computer interface to the Yaesu azimuth-elevation
rotors. Talk with Mike Young, who has built more LVB Trackers than anyone
else. Assembled LVB Trackers will be available.
5. Hear the latest on the *five* Fox satellites, the geosynchronous
rideshare opportunity, the International Space Station, other current and
future satellites, Education news, and an AMSAT update at the AMSAT Forum
Saturday, from 11:15 to 1:30.
4. Get one-on-one guidance on setting up your satellite station and making
contacts at our "Beginner's Corner". Witness live demonstrations of
contacts through satellites AO-7, FO-29, SO-50, AO-73, and the Fox-1C
engineering model using handheld antennas.
3. Bring your dual-band HT and listen (on 2m FM) to the Fox-1A engineering
model, and transmit through the model on 70cm. Meet and interact with
some of the Engineering Team members working on the Fox-1 satellites.
2. Get satellite station and operating tips from some of the best
satellite operators in the country, including John Papay K8YSE (1,405
grids confirmed), Doug Papay KD8CAO (1,045 grids), Drew Glasbrenner KO4MA
(1,036 grids), Paul Stoetzer (444 grids), and Keith Pugh W5IU (ARISS
Mentor).
1. Receive special premiums when you join or renew your AMSAT membership
at Dayton, including an updated "Amateur Satellite Frequency Guide"
(laminated frequency chart), an AMSAT pen/stylus, and special pricing on
the SatPC32 satellite tracking software.
[ANS thanks Steve, N9IP, for the above information]
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7th European CubeSat Symposium
7th European CubeSat Symposium that will take place at Li?ge (Belgium)
on 9-11
September 2015. The Symposium is co-organized by the von Karman
Institute and
the University of Liege (Space Structures and Systems Laboratory). As in the
previous years, the Symposium is open to all CubeSat community around
the World.
For more information and deadlines, please visit the symposium website
www.cubesatsymposium.eu
Please remember to submit your abstract before the 15th June 2015.
If you are a student, please apply for the sponsorship before that date.
The Symposium will be followed by a short course in astrodynamics
organized by
the University of Li?ge (more information at this link).
[ANS thanks Dr. Masutti for the above information]
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ISS Ham Video transmitter now transmitting
Friday May 1st, 2015 the Ham Video transmitter on board the Columbus
module of the International Space Station was powered on and started
transmitting in "Blank Transmission" (BT) mode.
In this mode, the transmitter is operated without camera. The digital
TV signal is fully formatted, but the content of the video is black
and the content of the audio is at zero level. From a technical
perspective, the BT signal is all that is needed for testing and fine
tuning ground stations.
The European network of chained ground stations is presently nearly
complete. Six ground stations span the continent in "X" formation.
For each ascending pass over Europe, four stations provide about ten
minutes of solid copy and the same is true for descending passes:
- Ascending passes: Lisbon (Portugal ==> Poitiers (France) ==>
Casale Monferrato (North Italy ==> Kolo (Poland)
- Descending passes : Cork (Ireland) ==> Poitiers (France) ==>
Casale Monferrato (North Italy ==> Matera (South Italy.
The chained ground stations are streaming the digital video to the
BATC server (British Amateur Television Club). BATC set up a
multiviewer page, accessible at:
http://www.batc.tv/iss/
The page shows all six streams from the chained ground stations. Each
view can be maximized to full screen and the audio of each stream can
be set to level or muted.
Presently, active stations stream technical data provided by the
software developed by Jean Pierre Courjaud F6DZP. Several data are
most interesting to observe:
- the "constellations", which visualize the QPSK (quaternary PSK)
modulated signal
- the digital Signal/Noise ratio = MER (dB) (Modulation Error Ratio)
- the control LEDs that change from red to green on decoding the
digital signal.
The Ham Video transmitter frequency is 2395MHz and the symbol rate is
2.0Ms/sec.
More information is available at:
http://www.ariss-eu.org/columbus.htm
The Ham Video transmitter will stay on as long as on board operations
permit. When the ground stations will be operating reliably, the Ham
Video transmitter will be used to enhance ARISS school contacts.
Uplink will remain VHF audio only. This operational mode is dubbed
ARISS Ham TV.
[ANS thanks Gaston, ON4WF, for the above information]
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NASA Hosts Media Call on Draft Solicitation for New Class of Launch Services
NASA's Launch Services Program has issued a draft Request for Proposal
(RFP) for
a new Venture Class Launch Services (VCLS), which would be commercial launch
services for small satellites and experiments on science missions using a
smaller than currently available class of rockets.
NASA Logo
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Monday, May 11 to
discuss
this strategic initiative, the RFP and the expectation for this class of
launch
services.
At present, launch opportunities for small satellites -- often called
CubeSats
or nanosatellites -- and small science missions are mostly limited to
ride-share
type arrangements, flying only when space is available on NASA and other
launches. The Launch Services Program seeks to develop alternatives to this
approach and help foster other launch services dedicated to transporting
smaller
payloads into orbit. The services acquired through such a contract will
constitute the smallest class of launch services used by NASA.
Participants in the media briefing are:
Mark Wiese, chief, Flight Projects Branch, Launch Services Program
Business
Office, NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Garrett Skrobot, mission manager, Educational Launch of Nanosatellites
(ELaNa), Launch Services Program, NASA's Kennedy Space Center
This solicitation, and resulting contract or contracts, is intended to
demonstrate a dedicated launch capability for smaller payloads that NASA
anticipates it will require on a recurring basis for future science and
CubeSat
missions. CubeSats already are used in markets, such as imagery
collection and
analysis. In the future, CubeSat capabilities will include abilities,
such as
ship and aircraft tracking, improved weather prediction, and broader
Internet
coverage.
NASA intends to award one or more firm fixed-price VCLS contracts to
accommodate
132 pounds (60 kilograms) of CubeSats a single launch or two launches
carrying
66 pounds (30 kilograms) each. The launch provider will determine the launch
location and date, but the launch must occur by April 15, 2018.
To listen to the media teleconference, call 321-867-1220, 321-867-1240 or
321-867-1260 or listen online at:
http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio
Media may participate in the briefing by calling the Kennedy Space
Center news
center at 321-867-2468 within 15 minutes prior to the start of Monday's
teleconference to obtain a passcode for voice access.
The draft RFP is open for written questions and comments from industry
entities
until Wednesday, May 20. The final RFP, if issued, is anticipated to be
released
in June. The draft RFP may be accessed at:
http://go.nasa.gov/1KMTeDR
For more information about NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/home/CubeSats_initiative.html
NASA's Launch Services Program is focused on assuring the availability
of long-
term launch services for NASA while also promoting the continued
evolution of
the U.S. commercial space launch market. The capability anticipated to
meet the
requirement for a smaller launch vehicle represents an emerging category of
launch services.
For more information about NASA's Launch Services Program, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/index.html
[ANS thanks NASA for the above information]
In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the
President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining
donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi-
tional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT
Office.
Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership
at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students
enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu-
dent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status.
Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership
information.
73,
This week's ANS Editor,
Lee McLamb, KU4OS
ku4os at amsat dot org
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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 21:39:27 +0100
From: "Graham Shirville" <g.shirville@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "AMSAT BB" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, <funcube@xxxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] FUNcube-1 Mode change
Message-ID: <8806D468F0ED47F580F667A9B25E3150@xxxxxxx.xxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Hi All,
Just to report that FUNcube-1 was switched back to autonomous mode around
20:25 UTC this evening.
We have received a request to provide an extended period of continuous
amateur mode this coming weekend from Friday morning 15th May until Sunday
evening 17th May. This will support AMSAT transponder operations during the
whole of the Dayton Hamvention event.
Unless we hear that this change will interfere with any planned schools
activities during Friday 15th we will arrange for the transponder to switch
on during the first suitable pass over EU on Friday morning.
73
Graham ? G3VZV
for the FUNcube Ops Team
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