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Today's Topics:
1. EM97 Activation (John KI4RO)
2. New Distribution of Core Concepts Survey (Brandon Shirley)
3. Info needed "European 145 and 435 MHz Diplexer and Dual Band
Filter (Model: DCI-145-435-DX-DB)" (EC4TR Luis)
4. Re: Info needed "European 145 and 435 MHz Diplexer and Dual
Band Filter (Model: DCI-145-435-DX-DB)" (Eric Knaps, ON4HF)
5. Re: Info needed "European 145 and 435 MHz Diplexer and Dual
Band Filter (Model: DCI-145-435-DX-DB)" (Paul Stoetzer)
6. Re: Info needed "European 145 and 435 MHz Diplexer and
DualBand Filter (Model: DCI-145-435-DX-DB)" (Clayton W5PFG)
7. Re: request for info on North American grids active via
satellite in 2015 (Bryan KL7CN)
8. Re: Info needed "European 145 and 435 MHz Diplexer and Dual
Band Filter (Model: DCI-145-435-DX-DB)" (Douglas Phelps)
9. Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-01-06 08:00 UTC
(AJ9N@xxx.xxxx
10. Christmas present arrived! (Jeff A. Boyd)
11. Upcoming ARISS contact with Sandringham School, St. Albans,
Hertfordshire, UK (n4csitwo@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
12. Re: Solar powered mobile satellite operations (Lizeth Norman)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 10:58:10 -0500
From: John KI4RO <johnki4ro@xxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] EM97 Activation
Message-ID:
<CA+-NL438=QCXF3dc=Prv5oDraGhZ0Vgv_ekQUY2O8j+YHaEadQ@xxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
N8IUP has asked if I can activate EM97. I will be doing that on Saturday,
9 Jan on SO 50 @ 2044Z. It will be my first time trying to activate
another grid square so please be gentle hi hi
--
73
John KI4RO
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 19:45:07 +0000
From: Brandon Shirley <Brandon.Shirley@xxx.xxx.xxx>
To: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, "cubesat@xxxxxxx.xxxx
<cubesat@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] New Distribution of Core Concepts Survey
Message-ID: <f8de12d30da34d6a96681204f44a5765@xx.xxxxx.xxx.xxx>
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To whom it may concern,
Dr. Stephen Clyde & Brandon Shirley in the Department of Computer Science at
Utah State University are conducting a set of surveys as part of Brandon's
PhD research to find out more about software development practices and
attitudes in the space industry.
You have received this email because of your interest in or involvement with
the space industry. We greatly need your participation. We are asking that
anyone that has insight into in software development that relates to space
industry participate in this survey. The beginning of the survey has
background questions that will give context to your responses.
The survey set is currently made of six surveys, listed below, that will be
distributed over the course of a few months. You have a chance at receiving
a gift card for participating in this survey as well as a chance at
receiving a gift card for your overall participation in the entire survey
set. There will be seven drawings for gift cards: one drawing for each
survey and one overall drawing for the survey set. For each survey-specific
drawing, two participants in that survey will be selected at random to
receive a $25 gift card. For the overall drawing, two participants from the
pool of all participants of any survey will be selected to receive a $200
gift card. At the end of this survey, you will be redirected to a webpage
that asks for an email address. You must enter a valid email address to be
considered for this surveys drawing or the overall survey set drawing.
Each survey stands on its own: opting to not participate in one survey does
not exclude you in any way from participating in any subsequent surveys.
Likewise, participating in one survey does not obligate you to participate
in any subsequent surveys. The surveys are as follows and will be
distributed in the following order:
1) SISDPA : Core Concepts
2) SISDPA : Development Preferences
3) SISDPA : Open Systems Architecture and Modularity
4) SISDPA : Security
5) SISDPA : Reuse, Interoperability, Portability, Code Complexity
6) SISDPA : Network
You can you use the link below to access the Core Concepts survey.
We greatly need your participation and your responses to the surveys will
make a meaningful contribution to this research while allowing you an
opportunity to reflect on you current software development practices and how
these practices affect the projects on which you have and will work. This
survey set will be used to determine the path of future research, as well as
increase the body of knowledge that relates to software development
practices and attitudes in the space industry.
You can access the Core Concepts survey of the Space Industry Software
Development Practices and Attitudes survey set using the following link:
https://usu.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8jp3RTKGUExYpQF
You can copy and paste the following URL into your address bar.
We plan to send out one reminder email a week until the survey closes. The
duration of the survey will be two to three weeks. You will receive the
reminder email regardless of where or not you have participated in a survey.
The subject of the email will read "Reminder Email..." for these weekly
reminders, and "New Distribution..." at the start of a new survey.
See
http://brandon.bluezone.usu.edu/Files/LOISpaceSoftwareAttitudes_Final.pdf
for the Letter of Intent (LOI) that explains your role as a participant
should you choose to participate. If you have questions please direct them
to Brandon Shirley, via email b.l.s@xxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx the LOI lists
additional contact information.
Once the survey set is closed, we will analyze the data, and generate
results. We will seek publication of these results in a conference or journal.
This is a legitimate request for you participation, if you have any
questions about the validity of this email you may refer to the Letter of
Intent, contact Brandon Shirley, via email b.l.s@xxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx or Utah
State University's Internal Review Board administrator at (435) 797 - 0567
or email irb@xxx.xxx.
Note that the Core Concepts Survey was previously distributed. If you
participated in the survey already then please visit the survey link and you
will be given the opportunity to provide your email for entry into the Core
Concepts Survey drawing as well as the overall survey set drawing.
V/R,
Brandon Shirley
Mobile: 435.994.9165
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 20:53:24 +0100
From: EC4TR Luis <ec4tr.luis@xxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx satdx-bb@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Info needed "European 145 and 435 MHz Diplexer and
Dual Band Filter (Model: DCI-145-435-DX-DB)"
Message-ID: <568C1F34.7030407@xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Hi all
One guy, is selling this filter,
http://www.dci.ca/?Section=Products&SubSection=Amateur
I am thinking in the possibility of using it for desensing problem with
FO-29.
I`m pretty sure it would work fine, but the question is, would it pass
dc power for feeding the preamp?
Somebody knows it?
I asked them via email, but not answer.
73 Luis
EC4TR
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 21:01:23 +0100
From: "Eric Knaps, ON4HF" <on4hf@xxxxxxx.xx>
To: EC4TR Luis <ec4tr.luis@xxxxx.xxx>, amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx
satdx-bb@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Info needed "European 145 and 435 MHz Diplexer
and Dual Band Filter (Model: DCI-145-435-DX-DB)"
Message-ID: <568C2113.5020104@xxxxxxx.xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Hello Luis.
If you put the filter between preamp and antenna then your preamp gets
his DC power.
I have done it here that way.
I use a Diamond MX-72A filter and no more desensing here anymore.
https://twitter.com/ON4HF/status/660425903869206529
73, Eric.
Amateur radio station ON4HF
Satellite manager UBA
Member Amsat-NA #39595
Member Amsat-UK
Member Amsat-ON
http://www.on4hf.be
Op 5/01/2016 om 20:53 schreef EC4TR Luis:
> Hi all
> One guy, is selling this filter,
> http://www.dci.ca/?Section=Products&SubSection=Amateur
> I am thinking in the possibility of using it for desensing problem
> with FO-29.
> I`m pretty sure it would work fine, but the question is, would it pass
> dc power for feeding the preamp?
> Somebody knows it?
> I asked them via email, but not answer.
> 73 Luis
> EC4TR
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 15:01:41 -0500
From: Paul Stoetzer <n8hm@xxxx.xxx>
To: EC4TR Luis <ec4tr.luis@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, satdx-bb
<satdx-bb@xxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Info needed "European 145 and 435 MHz Diplexer
and Dual Band Filter (Model: DCI-145-435-DX-DB)"
Message-ID:
<CABzOSOoUC122Rc9cDQtwSnZQuVAPERsRN4agCJoyzCA7Yuke-Q@xxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Luis,
A cheaper diplexer would suffice. That looks like it has very strong out of
band rejection, but for a simple desense problem. you don't need anything
too fancy.
You would put the diplexer between the 70cm antenna and preamp, so there is
no need to pass DC through the diplexer.
See here:
http://ww2.amsat.org/?page_id=2136
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:53 PM, EC4TR Luis <ec4tr.luis@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> Hi all
> One guy, is selling this filter,
> http://www.dci.ca/?Section=Products&SubSection=Amateur
> I am thinking in the possibility of using it for desensing problem with
> FO-29.
> I`m pretty sure it would work fine, but the question is, would it pass dc
> power for feeding the preamp?
> Somebody knows it?
> I asked them via email, but not answer.
> 73 Luis
> EC4TR
> _______________________________________________
> Sent via AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available
> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions
> expressed
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 14:07:57 -0600
From: Clayton W5PFG <w5pfg@xxxxx.xxx>
To: EC4TR Luis <ec4tr.luis@xxxxx.xxx>, amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Info needed "European 145 and 435 MHz Diplexer
and DualBand Filter (Model: DCI-145-435-DX-DB)"
Message-ID: <568C229D.4040609@xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
A common model used in the US to eliminate desense is the Comet
CF-4160N. I'm not sure of its European availability but they are
inexpensive enough a US dealer should be able to send it to you for
reasonable shipping. I have sent DCV through mine to power preamps in
the past.
73
Clayton
W5PFG
On 1/5/2016 13:53, EC4TR Luis wrote:
> Hi all
> One guy, is selling this filter,
> http://www.dci.ca/?Section=Products&SubSection=Amateur
> I am thinking in the possibility of using it for desensing problem with
> FO-29.
> I`m pretty sure it would work fine, but the question is, would it pass
> dc power for feeding the preamp?
> Somebody knows it?
> I asked them via email, but not answer.
> 73 Luis
> EC4TR
> _______________________________________________
> 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!
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>
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 12:47:27 -0800
From: Bryan KL7CN <bryan@xxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxxx.xxx
Cc: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] request for info on North American grids
active via satellite in 2015
Message-ID: <3305BD9F-C611-4356-A83D-3C4CBEBF8791@xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Please expand my list by one:
CM88
DM13
DM05
DM06
CN80
CN84
CN74
CN75
A very exotic grid, but not really. ;)
-- bag
Bryan KL7CN/W6
On Dec 27, 2015, at 14:59, Bryan Green <bryan@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
CM88
DM05
DM06
CN80
CN84
CN74
CN75
Home Grid: CM98
Sent from my iPhone
> On Dec 26, 2015, at 19:03, Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)
<amsat-bb@xxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to put together some data to illustrate how many grids around
> North America (including Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean) that
> have been active on the satellites in 2015. I asked for this information
> on Twitter earlier today, and I'll make the same request here. If you have
> operated from grids away from home, please send me the list of grids you
> have worked from. Please include your home grid in the list. I would like
> to make a map of grids that were available via satellite during 2015, and
> possibly scribble an article for the AMSAT Journal as well.
>
> Besides my own activity in 2015, I have lists from the following stations:
>
> AA5PK
> KA4H
> KX9X
> N8HM
> NP4JV
> W5PFG
>
> I will generate a map based on all submissions I receive, and probably
> some other maps based on the lists I receive from other stations. Even if
> your list is nothing more than one other grid besides your home grid,
> every submission is appreciated.
>
> I am hoping to have this information by 15 January 2016, so I can then make
> the maps and write that article about which grids have been on the air
> during 2015 before getting too far into 2016.
>
> Thanks in advance, and 73!
>
>
>
>
>
> Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
> http://www.wd9ewk.net/
> Twitter: @xxxxxx
> _______________________________________________
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expressed
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_______________________________________________
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expressed
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AMSAT-NA.
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 00:40:05 +0000 (UTC)
From: Douglas Phelps <dphelps1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: EC4TR Luis <ec4tr.luis@xxxxx.xxx>, "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx
<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, "satdx-bb@xxxxxxxx.xxxx <satdx-bb@xxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Info needed "European 145 and 435 MHz Diplexer
and Dual Band Filter (Model: DCI-145-435-DX-DB)"
Message-ID:
<1659180146.522081.1452040805973.JavaMail.yahoo@xxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
The cavity filter will not pass DC.
From: EC4TR Luis <ec4tr.luis@xxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx satdx-bb@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 1:53 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Info needed "European 145 and 435 MHz Diplexer and Dual
Band Filter (Model: DCI-145-435-DX-DB)"
Hi all
One guy, is selling this filter,
http://www.dci.ca/?Section=Products&SubSection=Amateur
I am thinking in the possibility of using it for desensing problem with
FO-29.
I`m pretty sure it would work fine, but the question is, would it pass
dc power for feeding the preamp?
Somebody knows it?
I asked them via email, but not answer.
73 Luis
EC4TR
_______________________________________________
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: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 04:13:17 -0500
From: AJ9N@xxx.xxx
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-01-06
08:00 UTC
Message-ID: <379fc8.58287a98.43be34ac@xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-01-06 08:00 UTC
Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:
Frederick W. Harnett Middle School, Blackstone, Massachusetts, telebridge
via K6DUE
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS
The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI
Contact was successful: Tue 2016-01-05 17:42:06 UTC 81 deg (***)
Sandringham School, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, UK, direct via GB1SAN
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be GB1SS
The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI
Contact is a go for: Fri 2016-01-08 08:47:47 UTC 83 deg
Scuola Secondaria di Primo Grado ?Benedetto Croce?, Civate, Italy,
telebridge via VK5ZAI
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS
The scheduled astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN
Contact is a go for: Wed 2016-01-13 11:35:44 UTC 33 deg
****************************************************************************
**
ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts.
ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send
your reports to aj9n@xxxxx.xxx or aj9n@xxx.xxx.
****************************************************************************
Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and
not being able to get in. That has now been changed to
http://www.ariss.org/
Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site.
****************************************************************************
Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS?
If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete
details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video.
http://www.ariss-eu.org/
If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to
provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
****************************************************************************
ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100
schools:
Gaston ON4WF with 121
Francesco IK?WGF with 115
Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 114
****************************************************************************
The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date
webpages were removed and new ones have been added. If there are
additional
ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know.
Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own
orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed
time.
All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8061 date
and
time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-01-06 08:00 UTC.
(***)
Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and
questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and
instructions for any contact that may be streamed live.
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1016. (***)
Each school counts as 1 event.
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 981. (***)
Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot.
Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 46.
A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the
file.
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf
Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact:
Arkansas, Delaware, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont,
Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin
Islands.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
QSL information may be found at:
http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html
ISS callsigns: DP?ISS, IR?ISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RS?ISS
****************************************************************************
The successful school list has been updated as of 2016-01-06 08:00 UTC.
(***)
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf
Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing
Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction
.rtf
Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC.
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf
Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts
https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415
****************************************************************************
Exp. 43/44 on orbit
Scott Kelly
Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF
Exp. 45 on orbit
Sergey Volkov RU3DIS
Exp. 46 on orbit
Tim Kopra KE5UDN
Timothy Peake KG5BVI
Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP
****************************************************************************
73,
Charlie Sufana AJ9N
One of the ARISS operation team mentors
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Message: 10
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 23:22:52 +0900
From: "Jeff A. Boyd" <the2belo@xxx.xxxxxxx.xx.xx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Christmas present arrived!
Message-ID: <20160106232252.45DA.63087B45@xxx.xxxxxxx.xx.xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
My AMSAT membership package finally arrived today. Thanks to Martha for all
the hard work! (And no thanks to the USPS for taking eleventillion years to
get it here.)
The laminated frequency guide card alone is worth the price, since I can
never keep track of inverting SSB transponder
frequencies in my head (the ham equivalent of not being able to tell left
from right) so this removes all the guesswork.
Also, my member number, 39693, is a palindrome.
--
J. Boyd, JR2TTS/NI3B
the2belo@xxx.xxxxxxx.xx.xx
http://www.flickr.com/photos/the2belo/
http://www.qrz.com/db/JR2TTS
Twitter: @xxxxxxxx
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Message: 11
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 11:27:00 -0500
From: <n4csitwo@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <ariss-press@xxxxx.xxx>, "amsat-edu" <amsat-edu@xxxxx.xxx>,
<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS contact with Sandringham School,
St. Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
Message-ID: <C3802D5B8B1241D48595B4BF958DB368@xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
An International Space Station school contact has been planned with
participants at Sandringham School, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, UK on 08 Jan.
The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 08:47 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 contact will be direct between GB1SS and GB1SAN. The contact should be
audible over portions of the UK 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.
Sandringham School is a high performing coeducational non-selective and
non-denominational secondary school, consistently graded Outstanding by
Ofsted and being in the top 100 highest performing non-selective schools in
England for the past 3 years.
The school is a specialist science college, arts college and leading edge
provider. It is also designated as one of the first 'World Class Schools' in
the country. The school operates a significant amount of community and
outreach activities, is an Initial Teacher Training provider and runs a
Teaching School Alliance for Hertfordshire. Sandringham is also a "Gifted
and Talented" lead school and International School, with significant
international activities taking place throughout the year. The school also
coordinates National Initiatives with the Education Endowment Foundation and
has a significant reputation in the country for delivering outstanding
comprehensive education.
The total number of students on roll is 1300 and expanding, with children
from age 11 - 19, including a very large and academic sixth form. The
catchment area is local, serving the needs of St. Albans and Wheathampstead
although sixth form students join the school from further away if they meet
the entrance criteria.
We have over 100 teachers in the school including specialist teachers of
computing science and three female physics teachers all of whom have a
specialist interest in space and astronomy. In addition, the headeacher is a
very active radio amateur who is extremely supportive of this contact.
Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows
1. What do you think Isaac Newton would say if he knew that the name of your
mission was based on his book?
2. If you had a liquid hydrocarbon in space would the intermolecular forces
be strong enough to hold it in a ball of liquid?
3. How are rapid cooling of liquid metals performed in the EML experiment?
4. The EML is being used to study alloy structure and formation. What are
the benefits of using space as a scientific platform?
5. What would happen to a helium balloon aboard the ISS?
6. With the EXPOSE-R2 experiment, are you able to predict if any samples
will be able to survive outside in space?
7. What's the most exciting thing that's happened to you so far on the ISS?
8. With your view of earth, is there one thing which stands out visually?
9. We hear that you are planning on driving the Mars Rover from space, how
does that work?
10. Does gravity affect time and aging?
11. If you could visit any planet in the solar system (which isn't gas),
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14. Is the sun more powerful in space?
15. Did you want to be an astronaut when you were a boy and is it like you
thought it would be?
16. As you are communicating with us, do you get the chance to communicate
with your family?
17. If you could send any message out into space what would it be?
18. What do you think the hardest adjustment in coming back down to Earth
will be?
19. What is the most amazing thing you have seen in space?
20. Where do you stand on the theory of a multiverse existence and do you
think it is possible to find any evidence for or against this in space?
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 11:37:34 -0500
From: Lizeth Norman <normanlizeth@xxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat bb <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Solar powered mobile satellite operations
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Ya got most of reality. Missed a whole bunch of life lessons learned
by living it! Will be happy to fill in the details. You buy dinner, I
cover the tip, chain restaurants are out.
The paradigm shift occurred and is now reachable by Joe Average.
Take the Auto-Train four times yearly, continuing to upstate NY. This
will be the last trip powered by gasoline. Two other individuals are
using my model. A physical chemist and an MD. Good company for a
grunt.
Our Leaf would make it. Too long charging, though.
If you want to send me a personal message, my email works. I even
check the spam box.
On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Robert Bruninga <bruninga@xxxx.xxx> wrote:
> Here are a few more solar factoids (for your mobile satellite operations):
>
> The solar panel area to fully power the average American commuter car (EV)
> for the average 12,000 miles per year is about 150 sqft (a 3 kW array)
>
> Amazingly, the area of a typical car parking space is also about 150 sqft.
>
> So all one needs to do is cover their car parking space with solar panels
> and have free local transportation energy for LIFE. And amazingly enough,
> each car in America has at least 5 parking spaces for it. One at home, one
> on the street, one at work, one at church, one at shopping and sports
> venus, etc... so all you need is just one to be covered in solar panels
> and we have carbon free local transportation (12,000 miles a year for free
> and for l life).
>
> See: http://insideevs.com/design-relationship-between-electric-cars-solar/
>
> In addition, The supply chain from the roof of the carport (also providing
> shade to the car below it) is about 30 feet and is over 85% efficient, and
> you own it and no one can take it away or change the costs on you at any
> time.
>
> Compare this to the 8000 mile supply chain from oil well to your gas tank,
> where there are dozens of risky greedy players in the middle and where only
> 20% of the energy actually gets to your car.
>
> So it is no coincidence that now almost every car manufacturer is seeing
> the light and is now building an EV (there are over 30 on the market
> now*). They may not be advertising them because they make higher profit
> margins on selling gas cars to gullible buyers, but they are positioning
> themselves for when consumers wake up and also see the light for their
> local transportation needs.
>
> BMW has already said that all of their cars will be electric (or hybrid)
> within 10 years.
>
> For your mobile satellite station, however, this does not say to cover the
> roof of your car with solar (unless it is a flat RV or van) because the
> mobile satellite station is only in use about an hour a day while the
> parking SPACE with SOLAR panels is operating sun-up-to-sun-down and flat
> panels cost only 10% of ones that can bend a little. Plus the full
> dimensions of a "parking space" is actually more than 10 times the surface
> area of the small center portion of the roof of a car. So the cost
> effectiveness of solar on the car is about 10% of 10% or about 1% the
> effectiveness of having them on your car port.
>
> Besides, keeping the roof clear for antennas is more important anyway.
>
> * http://evadc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/EVInfoSheet-20150101.pdf
>
> Bob, Wb4APR
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