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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Orlando hamcation (Rich/wa4bue)
2. Re: Orlando hamcation (Rich/wa4bue)
3. France (IN94) on AO-07B ( F6GLJ)
4. Upcoming ARISS contact with UAH Space Hardware Club,
Huntsville, Alabama (n4csitwo@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
5. New AO7 Distance Record (Dave Swanson)
6. Re: New AO7 Distance Record (Stefan Wagener)
7. Fw: Fwd: LVB tracker (W2JV)
8. Re: New AO7 Distance Record (Eduardo PY2RN)
9. Re: New AO7 Distance Record (Stephen E. Belter)
10. Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-02-17 03:30 UTC
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:54:25 -0500
From: "Rich/wa4bue" <richard.siff@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Orlando hamcation
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I think the link is Ham world . net
Hope and family will be speaking this weekend at Old Dominion University
Open House for about 400 -600 middle & high school students touring the
engineering department.
Hope is the key note speaker on Saturday.
John KW4CR is coordinating the event.
On Fri. 19th K4AMG will be on the air HF and SATS WX permitting
God Bless
R
W4BUE
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From: jeffory broughton
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 9:32 AM
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Orlando hamcation
I saw the video ,I believe on facebook of Hope making contacts from the
hamfest.i can't find it again.Can some send me a link ?
jeff broughton
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:55:26 -0500
From: "Rich/wa4bue" <richard.siff@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "James Lea - WX4TV" <james@xxxxx.xxx>, "jeffory broughton"
<jefforybroughton@xxxxx.xxx>
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Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Orlando hamcation
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Maybe on K4AMG Face Book too!
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From: James Lea - WX4TV
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 9:47 AM
To: jeffory broughton
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Orlando hamcation
If it is her on SO-50, I've not seen it and would love to see it.
James Lea
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 16, 2016, at 09:32, jeffory broughton <jefforybroughton@xxxxx.xxx>
wrote:
I saw the video ,I believe on facebook of Hope making contacts from the
hamfest.i can't find it again.Can some send me a link ?
jeff broughton
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:32:16 +0100
From: " F6GLJ" <michel-f6glj@xxxxxx.xx>
To: <K4FEG@xxxxx.xxx>, "VE1MAM" <mmorel@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>,
<satdx-bb@xxxxxxxx.xxx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, <lebelb@xxxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] France (IN94) on AO-07B
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Hello.
I?ll be on AO-07 between 18 :00 to 18 :10, very good pass for qso France <>
SA and NA. Only 3? off elevation.
I hope meet you.
73 Qro de F6GLJ
https://www.qrz.com/db/F6GLJ
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:41:30 -0500
From: <n4csitwo@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "Michael Lee" <aa6ml@xxxx.xxx>, "Doug Rehman" <doug@xxxx.xxx>,
<ariss-press@xxxxx.xxx>, "amsat-edu" <amsat-edu@xxxxx.xxx>,
<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS contact with UAH Space Hardware
Club, Huntsville, Alabama
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An International Space Station school contact has been planned with
participants at UAH Space Hardware Club, Huntsville, Alabama on Feb 19 The
event is scheduled to begin at approximately 17:20 UTC. The duration of the
contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be
direct between NA1SS and K4UAH. The contact should be audible over the state
of Alabama 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.
The Space Hardware Club at the University of Alabama in Huntsville is an
engineering club of students that builds balloon payloads, satellites and
rockets outside of their regular classes. The club has been working on this
contact for over a year. After deciding to focus on 8th grade students, we
reached out to Discovery Middle School, Westlawn Middle School, and the
Tennessee Valley Homeschool 4-H group - all from the northern Alabama area.
The students from Westlawn have been part of Project Lead The Way for 2
years now and have been exposed to robotics, modeling, and 3d printing. The
students from the homeschool group all have a passion for STEM, a love of
learning and being challenged, and are bubbling with excitement for this
opportunity of a lifetime. There are two STEM II classes from Discovery
Middle School that routinely rise to the expectations of their accelerated
STEM focused curriculum. By the time of the contact, the students will have
learned about the ISS, the
astronauts and some of the experiments aboard, and amateur radio. All of
the students and club members involved are passionate about this
opportunity, and thank you for your time.
1. What is your favorite experiment that you've done in space?
2. What would you want to add to the ISS?
3. What is your favorite thing about living in space?
4. If someone wants to be an astronaut when they grow up, what should they
be doing now as a kid to prepare?
5. Was it hard to adjust to zero gravity?
6. What everyday task on Earth is the hardest in space?
7. Did you put any ranch on the lettuce grown in space?
8. What do the stars look like from up in space?
9. What happens in a case of an emergency?
10. What is your sleep schedule?
11. What do astronauts do for fun on the ISS?
12. Do you ever feel lonely?
13. When you get back on earth, do you feel different?
14. Do you have trouble telling whether it is night or day?
15. Why did you choose to go to space?
16. Do you feel like your background helped you to become an astronaut?
17. Does micogravity make your body tired or sick?
18. What is the hardest thing about being away from earth for so long?
PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES:
Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the
International Space Station (ARISS).
To receive our Twitter updates, follow @xxxxxxxxxxxx
Next planned event(s):
TBD
ABOUT ARISS
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative
venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that
support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States,
sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American
Radio Relay League (ARRL), and the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration
of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by
organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard
the ISS and students in classrooms or informal education venues. With the
help of experienced amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with
large audiences in a variety of public forums. Before and during these
radio contacts, students, teachers, parents, and communities learn about
space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see
www.ariss.org, www.amsat.org, and www.a
rrl.org.
Thank you & 73,
David - AA4KN
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:14:52 -0600
From: Dave Swanson <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] New AO7 Distance Record
Message-ID: <56C39F5C.2050700@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
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Satellite Friends and Colleagues,
I wanted to share with everyone that on February 10th, at 2009UTC I made
a scheduled contact with Eduardo, PY2RN, using AO-7 Mode B, from
'Shinnal Mountain' just west of Little Rock, Arkansas. My 10 digit grid
locator for the contact was EM34ST20SC, and Eduardo's station is located
at GG66LW77JQ in Vinhedo/SP, Brazil. Using the
http://no.nonsense.ee/qth/map.html website for reference, this equates
to 8030.895 km which we believe to be a new record for AO-7 Mode B. I've
been extremely busy this past week, but I had a few folks request that I
share a little background behind the contact, so here we go.
Back on January 24th, I was on an AO-7(B) pass looking for Gustavo,
PT9BM. While not a record distance, Gustavo's QTH is just shy of 7500km
away from me, so I was up on my mountain, specifically in a spot with
great a great southeastern view of the Horizon. As the bird came into
view, while scanning the passband, I heard Eduardo, PY2RN, calling CQ. I
tried to answer him, but his signal disappeared quickly after that, and
I went ahead and had a great QSO with Gustavo, and didn't think anything
else of it until later that night when I decided to look up the station
I had heard. To my astonishment, Eduardo was 8030km away, which was way
beyond the theoretical range AO-7, even with elevation assistance. I
promptly emailed Eduardo and we both agreed to try and make a contact,
even though the math said it shouldn't be possible.
At this point the random luck that had let me hear Eduardo on the 24th
seemed to elude us. We attempted contacts on the 26th, 28th, and 30th
all to no avail. After recalculating windows, our next shot was on
February 8th. WinListen (from Sat32pc) calculated a 3 second window on
the 8th, followed by 5 seconds on the 10th. The day of the 8th came, and
we prepared for the attempt. Murphy once again seemed to haunt us
though, as we successfully heard the calls and grids of each other, but
strong CW QRM was hitting the bird so hard that the intelligibility was
low and, more importantly, neither of us had a camera running. We
decided to not count the QSO due to these reasons. The good news was
though, we both heard each other (the first time that had happened) and
our frequency coordination was spot on. We knew it could be done, we
just needed a little luck.
Finally, on February 10th, we got a bit of a break. We had already
determined that 5 seconds was simply not enough time to do a proper "QSL
thanks for the grid, have a great day" type of chat, so we both agreed
to simply repeat 'your call / my call / grid / report' rapidly, much in
the same way a digital or contest contact is made. At 2009UTC, both
stations cleanly heard the others call and grid, completing the
contact. It was extremely rapid, and very weak, but clear. Eduardo's
side of the QSO turned out way better than mine did, and he has uploaded
a recording of it to youtube here: https://youtu.be/pTGSlaY7K7A
After all my work towards low-elevation contacts from mountain-tops, I
think this is approaching the limits of what can be done on AO-7. This
was by far the hardest sked I've ever attempted, and with the contact
window measured in mere seconds, it leaves absolutely no room for error.
Had I not heard Eduardo's call at random on the attempt with Gustavo, I
doubt I would have even pursued this as something that was possible.
That said, wow.. what a rush
Big thanks to Eduardo, PY2RN, for humoring my obsession with making
ultra long-distance QSOs on the birds, and for sticking with it until we
finally made it work. Good DX my friend. Also thanks to Gustavo (PT9BM)
for persuading me to point my arrow to the South, and Drew (KO4MA) for
acting as a spotter during one of the passes to see just how far apart
we were from each other. Appreciate it guys.
If anyone has any questions or comments, I'm happy to field them. Until
then, catch you on the birds! 73!
-Dave, KG5CCI
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:24:03 -0600
From: Stefan Wagener <wageners@xxxxx.xxx>
To: Dave Swanson <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Cc: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] New AO7 Distance Record
Message-ID:
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Very nice Dave and Eduardo!
Congratulations and thank you for the info.
73, Stefan, VE4NSA
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Dave Swanson <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
wrote:
> Satellite Friends and Colleagues,
>
> I wanted to share with everyone that on February 10th, at 2009UTC I made a
> scheduled contact with Eduardo, PY2RN, using AO-7 Mode B, from 'Shinnal
> Mountain' just west of Little Rock, Arkansas. My 10 digit grid locator for
> the contact was EM34ST20SC, and Eduardo's station is located at GG66LW77JQ
> in Vinhedo/SP, Brazil. Using the http://no.nonsense.ee/qth/map.html
> website for reference, this equates to 8030.895 km which we believe to be a
> new record for AO-7 Mode B. I've been extremely busy this past week, but I
> had a few folks request that I share a little background behind the
> contact, so here we go.
>
> Back on January 24th, I was on an AO-7(B) pass looking for Gustavo, PT9BM.
> While not a record distance, Gustavo's QTH is just shy of 7500km away from
> me, so I was up on my mountain, specifically in a spot with great a great
> southeastern view of the Horizon. As the bird came into view, while
> scanning the passband, I heard Eduardo, PY2RN, calling CQ. I tried to
> answer him, but his signal disappeared quickly after that, and I went ahead
> and had a great QSO with Gustavo, and didn't think anything else of it
> until later that night when I decided to look up the station I had heard.
> To my astonishment, Eduardo was 8030km away, which was way beyond the
> theoretical range AO-7, even with elevation assistance. I promptly emailed
> Eduardo and we both agreed to try and make a contact, even though the math
> said it shouldn't be possible.
>
> At this point the random luck that had let me hear Eduardo on the 24th
> seemed to elude us. We attempted contacts on the 26th, 28th, and 30th all
> to no avail. After recalculating windows, our next shot was on February
> 8th. WinListen (from Sat32pc) calculated a 3 second window on the 8th,
> followed by 5 seconds on the 10th. The day of the 8th came, and we prepared
> for the attempt. Murphy once again seemed to haunt us though, as we
> successfully heard the calls and grids of each other, but strong CW QRM was
> hitting the bird so hard that the intelligibility was low and, more
> importantly, neither of us had a camera running. We decided to not count
> the QSO due to these reasons. The good news was though, we both heard each
> other (the first time that had happened) and our frequency coordination was
> spot on. We knew it could be done, we just needed a little luck.
>
> Finally, on February 10th, we got a bit of a break. We had already
> determined that 5 seconds was simply not enough time to do a proper "QSL
> thanks for the grid, have a great day" type of chat, so we both agreed to
> simply repeat 'your call / my call / grid / report' rapidly, much in the
> same way a digital or contest contact is made. At 2009UTC, both stations
> cleanly heard the others call and grid, completing the contact. It was
> extremely rapid, and very weak, but clear. Eduardo's side of the QSO
> turned out way better than mine did, and he has uploaded a recording of it
> to youtube here: https://youtu.be/pTGSlaY7K7A
>
> After all my work towards low-elevation contacts from mountain-tops, I
> think this is approaching the limits of what can be done on AO-7. This was
> by far the hardest sked I've ever attempted, and with the contact window
> measured in mere seconds, it leaves absolutely no room for error. Had I not
> heard Eduardo's call at random on the attempt with Gustavo, I doubt I would
> have even pursued this as something that was possible. That said, wow..
> what a rush
>
> Big thanks to Eduardo, PY2RN, for humoring my obsession with making ultra
> long-distance QSOs on the birds, and for sticking with it until we finally
> made it work. Good DX my friend. Also thanks to Gustavo (PT9BM) for
> persuading me to point my arrow to the South, and Drew (KO4MA) for acting
> as a spotter during one of the passes to see just how far apart we were
> from each other. Appreciate it guys.
>
> If anyone has any questions or comments, I'm happy to field them. Until
> then, catch you on the birds! 73!
>
> -Dave, KG5CCI
> _______________________________________________
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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: 7
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:30:03 -0500
From: "W2JV" <PeteW2JV@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Fw: Fwd: LVB tracker
Message-ID: <FA573863D2E24482AF2C393812B296C5@xxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
The Great South Bay, Amateur Radio Club, of which I?m a member wants to put
together a satellite station.
They have an existing home made AZ EL power unit which works. They are
looking into interfacing an LVB tracker with it.
and need to know what voltage level input is required for the feedback loop.
The unit currently puts out 0-6.25vdc corresponding to 0-360 AZ and 0-180
EL. Looking at the G5500 schematic they go through an opamp arrangement but
do not provide any voltage levels.
If anyone can the club with some info I'd sure appreciate it.
Thanks,
W2JV Peter
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 01:46:14 +0000 (UTC)
From: Eduardo PY2RN <py2rn@xxxx.xxx>
To: Dave Swanson <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>, "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx
<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] New AO7 Distance Record
Message-ID:
<871553990.5662074.1455673574782.JavaMail.yahoo@xxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Thanks Dave for the QSO and well done with all the persistence.
It is always good to double check even when everything is saying that it
wouldn't be possible, even the computer shouting "satellite is not visible!"
over your signal :o)
73s
Eduardo? PY2RN
From: Dave Swanson <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 8:14 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] New AO7 Distance Record
Satellite Friends and Colleagues,
I wanted to share with everyone that on February 10th, at 2009UTC I made
a scheduled contact with Eduardo, PY2RN, using AO-7 Mode B, from?
'Shinnal Mountain' just west of Little Rock, Arkansas.? My 10 digit grid
locator for the contact was EM34ST20SC, and Eduardo's station is located
at GG66LW77JQ in Vinhedo/SP, Brazil.? Using the
http://no.nonsense.ee/qth/map.html website for reference, this equates
to 8030.895 km which we believe to be a new record for AO-7 Mode B. I've
been extremely busy this past week, but I had a few folks request that I
share a little background behind the contact, so here we go.
Back on January 24th, I was on an AO-7(B) pass looking for Gustavo,
PT9BM. While not a record distance, Gustavo's QTH is just shy of 7500km
away from me, so I was up on my mountain, specifically in a spot with
great a great southeastern view of the Horizon. As the bird came into
view, while scanning the passband, I heard Eduardo, PY2RN, calling CQ. I
tried to answer him, but his signal disappeared quickly after that, and
I went ahead and had a great QSO with Gustavo, and didn't think anything
else of it until later that night when I decided to look up the station
I had heard. To my astonishment, Eduardo was 8030km away, which was way
beyond the theoretical range AO-7, even with elevation assistance. I
promptly emailed Eduardo and we both agreed to try and make a contact,
even though the math said it shouldn't be possible.
At this point the random luck that had let me hear Eduardo on the 24th
seemed to elude us. We attempted contacts on the 26th, 28th, and 30th
all to no avail. After recalculating windows, our next shot was on
February 8th. WinListen (from Sat32pc) calculated a 3 second window on
the 8th, followed by 5 seconds on the 10th. The day of the 8th came, and
we prepared for the attempt. Murphy once again seemed to haunt us
though, as we successfully heard the calls and grids of each other, but
strong CW QRM was hitting the bird so hard that the intelligibility was
low and, more importantly, neither of us had a camera running. We
decided to not count the QSO due to these reasons. The good news was
though, we both heard each other (the first time that had happened) and
our frequency coordination was spot on. We knew it could be done, we
just needed a little luck.
Finally, on February 10th, we got a bit of a break. We had already
determined that 5 seconds was simply not enough time to do a proper "QSL
thanks for the grid, have a great day" type of chat, so we both agreed
to simply repeat 'your call / my call / grid / report' rapidly, much in
the same way a digital or contest contact is made. At 2009UTC, both
stations cleanly heard the others call and grid, completing the
contact.? It was extremely rapid, and very weak, but clear.? Eduardo's
side of the QSO turned out way better than mine did, and he has uploaded
a recording of it to youtube here: https://youtu.be/pTGSlaY7K7A
After all my work towards low-elevation contacts from mountain-tops, I
think this is approaching the limits of what can be done on AO-7. This
was by far the hardest sked I've ever attempted, and with the contact
window measured in mere seconds, it leaves absolutely no room for error.
Had I not heard Eduardo's call at random on the attempt with Gustavo, I
doubt I would have even pursued this as something that was possible.
That said, wow.. what a rush
Big thanks to Eduardo, PY2RN, for humoring my obsession with making
ultra long-distance QSOs on the birds, and for sticking with it until we
finally made it work. Good DX my friend. Also thanks to Gustavo (PT9BM)
for persuading me to point my arrow to the South, and Drew (KO4MA) for
acting as a spotter during one of the passes to see just how far apart
we were from each other. Appreciate it guys.
If anyone has any questions or comments, I'm happy to field them. Until
then, catch you on the birds! 73!
-Dave, KG5CCI
_______________________________________________
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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: 9
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 02:44:43 +0000
From: "Stephen E. Belter" <seb@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: Eduardo PY2RN <py2rn@xxxx.xxx>, Dave Swanson
<dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>, "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] New AO7 Distance Record
Message-ID: <D2E94831.5D11E%seb@xxxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Gentlemen:
Congratulations!
Would you describe your stations? Radios, antennas, coax, preamps,
software?
Thanks!
73, Steve N9IP
--
Steve Belter, seb@xxxxxx.xxx
On 2/16/16, 8:46 PM, "AMSAT-BB on behalf of Eduardo PY2RN"
<amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx on behalf of py2rn@xxxx.xxx> wrote:
>Thanks Dave for the QSO and well done with all the persistence.
>
>It is always good to double check even when everything is saying that it
>wouldn't be possible, even the computer shouting "satellite is not
>visible!" over your signal :o)
>73s
>Eduardo PY2RN
>
> From: Dave Swanson <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
> To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
> Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 8:14 PM
> Subject: [amsat-bb] New AO7 Distance Record
>
>Satellite Friends and Colleagues,
>
>I wanted to share with everyone that on February 10th, at 2009UTC I made
>a scheduled contact with Eduardo, PY2RN, using AO-7 Mode B, from
>'Shinnal Mountain' just west of Little Rock, Arkansas. My 10 digit grid
>locator for the contact was EM34ST20SC, and Eduardo's station is located
>at GG66LW77JQ in Vinhedo/SP, Brazil. Using the
>http://no.nonsense.ee/qth/map.html website for reference, this equates
>to 8030.895 km which we believe to be a new record for AO-7 Mode B. I've
>been extremely busy this past week, but I had a few folks request that I
>share a little background behind the contact, so here we go.
>
>Back on January 24th, I was on an AO-7(B) pass looking for Gustavo,
>PT9BM. While not a record distance, Gustavo's QTH is just shy of 7500km
>away from me, so I was up on my mountain, specifically in a spot with
>great a great southeastern view of the Horizon. As the bird came into
>view, while scanning the passband, I heard Eduardo, PY2RN, calling CQ. I
>tried to answer him, but his signal disappeared quickly after that, and
>I went ahead and had a great QSO with Gustavo, and didn't think anything
>else of it until later that night when I decided to look up the station
>I had heard. To my astonishment, Eduardo was 8030km away, which was way
>beyond the theoretical range AO-7, even with elevation assistance. I
>promptly emailed Eduardo and we both agreed to try and make a contact,
>even though the math said it shouldn't be possible.
>
>At this point the random luck that had let me hear Eduardo on the 24th
>seemed to elude us. We attempted contacts on the 26th, 28th, and 30th
>all to no avail. After recalculating windows, our next shot was on
>February 8th. WinListen (from Sat32pc) calculated a 3 second window on
>the 8th, followed by 5 seconds on the 10th. The day of the 8th came, and
>we prepared for the attempt. Murphy once again seemed to haunt us
>though, as we successfully heard the calls and grids of each other, but
>strong CW QRM was hitting the bird so hard that the intelligibility was
>low and, more importantly, neither of us had a camera running. We
>decided to not count the QSO due to these reasons. The good news was
>though, we both heard each other (the first time that had happened) and
>our frequency coordination was spot on. We knew it could be done, we
>just needed a little luck.
>
>Finally, on February 10th, we got a bit of a break. We had already
>determined that 5 seconds was simply not enough time to do a proper "QSL
>thanks for the grid, have a great day" type of chat, so we both agreed
>to simply repeat 'your call / my call / grid / report' rapidly, much in
>the same way a digital or contest contact is made. At 2009UTC, both
>stations cleanly heard the others call and grid, completing the
>contact. It was extremely rapid, and very weak, but clear. Eduardo's
>side of the QSO turned out way better than mine did, and he has uploaded
>a recording of it to youtube here: https://youtu.be/pTGSlaY7K7A
>
>After all my work towards low-elevation contacts from mountain-tops, I
>think this is approaching the limits of what can be done on AO-7. This
>was by far the hardest sked I've ever attempted, and with the contact
>window measured in mere seconds, it leaves absolutely no room for error.
>Had I not heard Eduardo's call at random on the attempt with Gustavo, I
>doubt I would have even pursued this as something that was possible.
>That said, wow.. what a rush
>
>Big thanks to Eduardo, PY2RN, for humoring my obsession with making
>ultra long-distance QSOs on the birds, and for sticking with it until we
>finally made it work. Good DX my friend. Also thanks to Gustavo (PT9BM)
>for persuading me to point my arrow to the South, and Drew (KO4MA) for
>acting as a spotter during one of the passes to see just how far apart
>we were from each other. Appreciate it guys.
>
>If anyone has any questions or comments, I'm happy to field them. Until
>then, catch you on the birds! 73!
>
>-Dave, KG5CCI
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 22:37:21 -0500
From: AJ9N@xxx.xxx
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-02-17
03:30 UTC
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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-02-17 03:30 UTC
Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:
Oasis Academy Brightstowe, Bristol, UK, direct via GB1OAB
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be GB1SS
The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI
Contact is a go for: Fri 2016-02-19 14:23:23 UTC 78 deg
UAH Space Hardware Club, Huntsville, Alabama, direct via K4UAH
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS
The scheduled astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN
Contact is a go for: Fri 2016-02-19 17:20:14 UTC 72 deg
Istituto Sobrero, Casale Monferrato, Italy, direct via IK1SLD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS
The scheduled astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN
Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-02-25 09:10:55 UTC 40 deg (***)
Norwich Schools, Norwich/East Anglia, UK, direct via GB2CNS
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be GB1SS
The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI
Contact is a go for: Fri 2016-02-26 14:43:39 UTC 29 deg (***)
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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.
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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.
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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
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ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100
schools:
Gaston ON4WF with 121
Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 116
Francesco IK?WGF with 116
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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 2016-02-17 03:30 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 1023.
Each school counts as 1 event.
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 988.
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.
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The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact:
Arkansas, Delaware, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota,
Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin
Islands.
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QSL information may be found at:
http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html
ISS callsigns: DP?ISS, IR?ISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RS?ISS
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The successful school list has been updated as of 2016-02-12 05:00 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
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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
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73,
Charlie Sufana AJ9N
One of the ARISS operation team mentors
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