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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Upcoming Foxes (Re: RadFxSat Launch Vehicle Assembly
(Peter Laws)
2. Re: Upcoming Foxes (Re: RadFxSat Launch Vehicle Assembly (Alan)
3. Re: Upcoming Foxes (Re: RadFxSat Launch Vehicle Assembly
(Jerry Buxton)
4. Re: Upcoming Foxes (Re: RadFxSat Launch Vehicle Assembly
(Peter Laws)
5. special call TM38CDXC (f5gva-1@xxxxxxx.xxx
6. Put your portable AMSAT Field Day Solar panels to work!
(Robert Bruninga)
7. NF measurements (Zach Metzinger)
8. CY9C Update - Planned to be QRV tomorrow (8/24) (Paul Stoetzer)
9. Re: Upcoming Foxes (Re: RadFxSat Launch Vehicle Assembly
(Jerry Buxton)
10. Re: Upcoming ARISS contact with The Children's Museum of
Indianapolis, Indianapolis IN (Daniel Cussen)
11. Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-08-24 02:30 UTC
(AJ9N@xxx.xxxx
12. [Video] Jogging while Listening to the ISS! (Kopernik
reception) (John Brier)
13. Re: Put your portable AMSAT Field Day Solar panels to work!
(Koos van den Hout)
14. Arianespace Launch Webcast Wednesday August 24 (JoAnne Maenpaa)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:36:04 -0500
From: Peter Laws <plaws0@xxxxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Upcoming Foxes (Re: RadFxSat Launch Vehicle
Assembly
Message-ID:
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Updating the list per today's exciting announcement ...
Fox-1A - U/v (FM) - active as AO-85
Fox-1B - U/v (FM) - Launches 2017-01-??
Fox-1Cliff - U/v|L/v (FM) - Launches 2016Q4
Fox-1D - U/v|L/v (FM) - Launches 2016Q4
Fox-1E - V/u (linear) - Launches 2016-12-??
Guess I need to get an antenna for L band now that I have an L-band
transceiver ....
--
Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train!
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:02:02 -0500
From: Alan <wa4sca@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "'Peter Laws'" <plaws0@xxxxx.xxx>, "'AMSAT-BB'"
<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Upcoming Foxes (Re: RadFxSat Launch Vehicle
Assembly
Message-ID: <000201d1fd57$b012cfe0$10386fa0$@xxxxx.xxx>
You listing for Fox-1E is off by a year. Definitely looking forward to
mode-L. It worked very well
on AO-51.
73s,
Alan
WA4SCA
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<From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On Behalf Of Peter Laws
<Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 10:36 AM
<To: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
<Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Upcoming Foxes (Re: RadFxSat Launch Vehicle Assembly
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<Updating the list per today's exciting announcement ...
<
<Fox-1A - U/v (FM) - active as AO-85
<Fox-1B - U/v (FM) - Launches 2017-01-??
<Fox-1Cliff - U/v|L/v (FM) - Launches 2016Q4
<Fox-1D - U/v|L/v (FM) - Launches 2016Q4
<Fox-1E - V/u (linear) - Launches 2016-12-??
<
<
<Guess I need to get an antenna for L band now that I have an L-band
<transceiver ....
<
<
<
<--
<Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train!
<_______________________________________________
<Sent via AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available
<to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions
expressed
<are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of
AMSAT-NA.
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<Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:15:34 -0500
From: Jerry Buxton <n0jy@xxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Upcoming Foxes (Re: RadFxSat Launch Vehicle
Assembly
Message-ID: <0789b57b-eb3b-7302-70cf-43ed0c8f0ccf@xxxxx.xxx>
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Wait a few more hours, we have a meeting with one of our launch
providers and I'll see if I can get permission to provide all y'all an
update on a launch date that I know has changed but we haven't been able
to tell you has changed.
Jerry Buxton, N?JY
On 8/23/2016 10:36, Peter Laws wrote:
> Updating the list per today's exciting announcement ...
>
> Fox-1A - U/v (FM) - active as AO-85
> Fox-1B - U/v (FM) - Launches 2017-01-??
> Fox-1Cliff - U/v|L/v (FM) - Launches 2016Q4
> Fox-1D - U/v|L/v (FM) - Launches 2016Q4
> Fox-1E - V/u (linear) - Launches 2016-12-??
>
>
> Guess I need to get an antenna for L band now that I have an L-band
> transceiver ....
>
>
>
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:20:31 -0500
From: Peter Laws <plaws0@xxxxx.xxx>
To: APBIDDLE@xxxxxxx.xxx
Cc: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Upcoming Foxes (Re: RadFxSat Launch Vehicle
Assembly
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On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Alan <wa4sca@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> You listing for Fox-1E is off by a year.
D'Oh!
Fox-1A - U/v (FM) - active as AO-85
Fox-1B - U/v (FM) - Launches 2017-01-??
Fox-1Cliff - U/v|L/v (FM) - Launches 2016Q4
Fox-1D - U/v|L/v (FM) - Launches 2016Q4
Fox-1E - V/u (linear) - Launches 2017-12-??
Look, 1990 is only 10 years ago, so leave me alone. :-D
--
Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train!
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:24:13 +0200
From: <f5gva-1@xxxxxxx.xx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: alain@xxxxx.xxx frank F4AJQ <f4ajq@xxxxxxx.xx>, f1ngp@xxxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] special call TM38CDXC
Message-ID: <077D912F912843938D70F5B231FC0026@xxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi all
>From 3 to 25 September 2016, I activate the special call TM38CDXC for 38 th
Convention of Clipperton DX Club.
QRV AO-07 in mode B, FO-29, SO-50, AO-73, AO-85, and satellites XW
The activation will be done on my free time.
Activation will take place since my QRA (JN18IT) and the club radio F6KOP
(JN18PN)
I hope to contact you
The QSL will be sent automatically by the bureau.
73, good DX
Claude F5GVA
Satellite amateur radio station
http://f5gva.pagesperso-orange.fr/
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 12:38:38 -0400
From: Robert Bruninga <bruninga@xxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Put your portable AMSAT Field Day Solar panels to
work!
Message-ID: <98de4cc126b4b994338755e846c4cfdb@xxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
If you have spare solar panels, put them on the air!
I finally connected the extra solar panels on my junk hauling Van not only
for the very rare (1%) use in providing power at Ham Field events, but more
importantly for capturing the extra 500W (99% of the time) into my house.
http://aprs.org/Energy/solar/boat/VanPanels509xX.jpg
Once you have a Solar NET-METER account, then every solar panel you have lying
around can contribute to your daily energy needs. This includes panels on
my van (shown), or on an RV if you have one. In the photo above, you can
see my 6? cube Ham radio Comm shelter (trailer) overgrown with vines, but
it is operational and ready to go. The other panel you see is going on its
roof. See shelter photo on: http://aprs.org/FD-Prius-Power.html
This way, you can justify buying large panels for these other vehicles
because now they are contributing 100% 0f the time, not just the 1% of the
time you might be using the actual vehicle.
Large 250W panels are now under $200 from sunelec.com (sales)
Connect them to a 500W or so Chinese grid-tie inverter (under $150 on Ebay).
But again, this only works if you have a net meter account OR if you
generate less power than the absolute minimum that your house draws at ANY
TIME during the day. If your meter goes backwards (without a net meter) it
will still count UPWARDS and you will pay the utility for the excess you
gave them.
The economics of solar comes from net metering and 24/7/365 production. If
you have to store your energy in a battery, the battery costs will be
2/3rds of your investment.
Just using solar panels to trickle charge backup batteries has no economic
value. The solar panels are producing nothing when the batteries are
full. And you are wasting your solar investment. But hooked to grid tie,
you get full retail value for every watt you produce.
Thus, my recommendation (if you haven?t gone solar already) is to contract
for the SMALLEST Solar system you can get estimates for. When they are
done, you are official, permitted, inspected and certified and have a net
meter. From then on, ANY extra solar you feed to your grid-tie gets retail
value to you 24/7/365.
Solar is here to stay and amortized, costs less than half the utility. See
http://aprs.org/solar-now.html
Its perfect for Ham Radio support.
Bob, WB4APR
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:25:46 -0500
From: Zach Metzinger <zmetzing@xxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] NF measurements
Message-ID: <20160823182546.GC21098@xxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Hello all,
I'd like to find someone in the DFW area who has access to or know
someone who has a HP 8970? I lack the facilities to do NF measurements
on a 2m LNA I've built, and I'd like to see how close I got to predicted.
(A spectrum analyzer + ENR head + NF personality would also work)
Thanks,
--- Zach
N0ZGO
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 15:22:18 -0400
From: Paul Stoetzer <n8hm@xxxx.xxx>
To: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] CY9C Update - Planned to be QRV tomorrow (8/24)
Message-ID:
<CABzOSOo_p9k1hSwHQE5mQSDmaQp=0ZgmkzWSeT2CMDaYDnCUzw@xxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>From @xxxxx on Twitter: "Sats will be tomorrow, wind is too fierce
currently. Antennas built today."
73,
Paul, N8HM
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 15:06:45 -0500
From: Jerry Buxton <n0jy@xxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Upcoming Foxes (Re: RadFxSat Launch Vehicle
Assembly
Message-ID: <12ff6d3e-598c-40b6-f83b-74a7f9b10273@xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
Sorry, can't update yet.
Jerry Buxton, N?JY
On 8/23/2016 11:15, Jerry Buxton wrote:
> Wait a few more hours, we have a meeting with one of our launch
> providers and I'll see if I can get permission to provide all y'all an
> update on a launch date that I know has changed but we haven't been able
> to tell you has changed.
>
> Jerry Buxton, N?JY
>
> On 8/23/2016 10:36, Peter Laws wrote:
>> Updating the list per today's exciting announcement ...
>>
>> Fox-1A - U/v (FM) - active as AO-85
>> Fox-1B - U/v (FM) - Launches 2017-01-??
>> Fox-1Cliff - U/v|L/v (FM) - Launches 2016Q4
>> Fox-1D - U/v|L/v (FM) - Launches 2016Q4
>> Fox-1E - V/u (linear) - Launches 2016-12-??
>>
>>
>> Guess I need to get an antenna for L band now that I have an L-band
>> transceiver ....
>>
>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
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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: 10
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:01:38 +0100
From: Daniel Cussen <dan@xxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS contact with The Children's
Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis IN
Message-ID:
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Video recording from this successful event here:
https://www.facebook.com/childrensmuseum/videos/10154541185588701/
On 22/08/2016, n4csitwo@xxxxxxxxx.xxx <n4csitwo@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> An International Space Station school contact has been planned with
> participants at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis IN on 23
> Aug. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 15:09 UTC. The
> duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The
> contact will be direct between NA1SS and N9DR. The contact should be audible
> over portions of the mid U.S. 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.
>
>
>
>
>
> Founded in 1925, the Children's Museum of Indianapolis creates immersive,
> interdisciplinary experiences that promote inquiry-based family learning
> across the arts, sciences, and humanities. The museum is a 473,000 square
> foot, five-level facility that houses 11 permanent exhibit galleries, two
> traveling exhibit spaces, a children's theater, a planetarium, a public
> library, a preschool, and a collection of more than 115,000 artifacts and
> objects. Most recently, the Children's Museum opened Beyond Spaceship Earth,
> and immersive exhibit focused on human space travel. Beyond Spaceship
> Earth features three components: a recreation of portions of the inside of
> the International Space Station (ISS); a one-of-a-kind, immersive space
> object experience called the Schaefer Planetarium & Space Object Theater;
> and an Astronaut Wall of Fame, which will pay tribute to more than 30
> astronauts with ties to Indiana.
>
>
>
> Hosting more than one million visitors each year, the museum has received
> numerous accolades, including being named one of the top 3 science centers
> in the country by Family Fun magazine. The museum has been ranked as the
> number one children's museum by Forbes.com. Through a variety of free and
> discounted admission programs for underserved populations, as well as its
> community outreach efforts targeting local neighborhood residents and urban
> public schools, the Museum ensures that its visitor population is diverse.
>
>
>
>
>
> Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
>
>
>
> 1. How do astronauts get the water they need?
>
> 2. What experiments are you conducting on the ISS?
>
> 3. Do you have any free time while on the ISS and if so, what do you do?
>
> 4. How many personal items do you bring with you to outer space and what
>
> types of items do you bring?
>
> 5. Do you have plants on the ISS and if so, how do you grow them. What
>
> type of food do you eat?
>
> 6. How does lack of gravity affect the body?
>
> 7. I know you have astronauts from different countries. How do you
>
> communicate with each other?
>
> 8. What do you do with all of your trash while you are in space?
>
> 9. How long do you train before you are ready for a mission?
>
> 10. What is it like to sleep in space?
>
> 11. What is it like to do an EVA?
>
> 12. What is the most difficult task for you to do in space?
>
> 13. What happens if you need spare parts to fix something on the space
>
> station.
>
> 14. What happens to your body while you are in space?
>
> 15. What is the biggest lesson you have learned while being in space?
>
> 16. Without the ability to get fresh air into the space station, what does
>
>
> the ISS smell like?
>
> 17. What advice would you give to kids who want to be an astronaut?
>
> 18. What is your least favorite thing to do in space and why?
>
> 19. What is your favorite part of being an astronaut on the ISS?
>
> 20. What is your favorite food on the ISS?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 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), the Center for the Advancement of Science in
> Space (CASIS) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
> The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology,
> engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts
> via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in
> classrooms or informal education venues. With the help of experienced
> amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with large audiences in a
> variety of public forums. Before and during these radio contacts, students,
> teachers, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies,
> and amateur radio. For more
> information, see www.ariss.org, www.amsat.org, and www.arrl.org.
>
>
>
> Thank you & 73,
>
> David - AA4KN
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> expressed
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Message: 11
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:03:51 -0400
From: AJ9N@xxx.xxx
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Cc: dweeks@xxxx.xxx.xx.xxx dmoon@xxxx.xxx.xx.xxx wv9o@xxxxxxx.xxxx
davidd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx dstief@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
knkfire@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx stan_mucha@xxxxx.xxxx markabalog@xxx.xxxx
w9uvi@xxxx.xxxx mrcicchetti@xx.xxxx ae9p@xxxx.xxxx
beckyw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx Jennifer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
rkerrigan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx perosky@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
ka4deb@xxxx.xxxx k9byt@xxxxxxx.xxxx pmotl@xxx.xxxx
srothenberg@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx.xxx mark@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
kerry0464@xxxxxxx.xxxx ke9tc@xxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxxx
Jennifer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxxx
dmeier@xxxxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-08-24
02:30 UTC
Message-ID: <75079.7ee968b5.44ee6897@xxx.xxx>
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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-08-24 02:30 UTC
Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis IN, direct via N9DR
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS
The scheduled astronaut is Kate Rubins KG5FYJ
Contact was successful: Tue 2016-08-23 15:09:15 UTC 42 deg (***)
Lewis and Clark National Historic Park, Astoria, OR, direct via KF7TCG
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS
The scheduled astronaut is Takuya Onishi KF5LKS (***)
Contact is a go for: Sat 2016-09-03 18:21:03 UTC 42 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.
Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8? MHz.
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***
All ARISS contacts are made via the Ericsson radio unless otherwise noted.
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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 121
Francesco IK?WGF with 117
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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 8601 date
and
time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-08-24 02:30 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 1081. (***)
Each school counts as 1 event.
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1046. (***)
Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot.
Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47.
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, South Dakota, 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
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The successful school list has been updated as of 2016-08-24 02:30 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. 47 on orbit
Jeff Williams KD5TVQ
Oleg Skripochka RN3FU
Aleksey Ovchinin
Exp. 48 on orbit
Anatoly Ivanishin
Kate Rubins KG5FYJ
Takuya Onishi KF5LKS
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73,
Charlie Sufana AJ9N
One of the ARISS operation team mentors
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Message: 12
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 06:11:14 -0400
From: John Brier <johnbrier@xxxxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] [Video] Jogging while Listening to the ISS!
(Kopernik reception)
Message-ID:
<CALn0fKP+UsgdVvfNXZ1Y65R7pq4Qkd5UWn6UHV8jxH65R4-uMg@xxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
https://youtu.be/vpnCQ3-Xai0
I wasn't really able to listen to the ISS while jogging, but this
video does include both jogging and the ISS.
Please Subscribe:
https://www.youtube.com/c/SpaceComms1?sub_confirmation=1
This was inspired by Casey Neistat's vlogging style. If you haven't
watched any of his videos, check em out.
This is my reception of Astronaut Jeff Williams talking with summer
camp students at the Kopernik Observatory and Science Center in
Vestal, New York on Thursday, August 18th, 2016. I received this in
Raleigh, North Carolina on top of an old landfill turned into a park.
Last week?s video (My First SO-50 Contact! And 18 QSL Cards from 2000!):
https://youtu.be/S2lHDKqTYXg
Questions:
1. We are building robots here at camp, what sort of robots do you
use and how do they help you?
2. Has anything broken on the Space Station and how did you fix it?
3. What interest or activities did you have when you were young that
helped you in qualifying for your current position?
4. How long have you been at the space station?
5. How long did it take you to get used to being in microgravity and
what are some effects from microgravity you have noticed?
6. Do you have Internet up in the space?
7. What's the weather like in space?
8. How do you sleep without floating all over?
9. What did you have to study in school to become an astronaut?
10. Do you have children? If so how do you communicate with them when
you are away?
11. Are you working on any research or science projects on the Space Station?
12. I heard training to be an astronaut can be very difficult. What
was the toughest aspect of training in your opinion?
13. Have you ever seen a UFO?
14. What do you eat when you are in space? How do you pack food to
take into space? Does it all need to be freeze dried like astronaut
ice cream?
15. What do you and the other astronauts do for fun during your downtime?
16. At what age did you first become interested in space?
17. What languages do you speak?
18. What is your day like in space?
19. (Something about the upcoming space walk)
73, John Brier KG4AKV
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Message: 13
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 14:04:35 +0200
From: Koos van den Hout <koos@xxxxxx.xxxxxx.xx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Put your portable AMSAT Field Day Solar panels
to work!
Message-ID: <20160824120435.GA661@xxxxxx.xxxxxx.xx>
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Somewhat unrelated to amsat-bb, but I will add my two cents.
Quoting Robert Bruninga who wrote on Tue 2016-08-23 at 12:38:
> Connect them to a 500W or so Chinese grid-tie inverter (under $150 on Ebay).
>From what I hear from other amateurs in the Netherlands it's a real problem
to find inverters that don't mess up the HF bands. Electronic inverters
cause noise signals which the long wires to the panels will put on the air.
> But again, this only works if you have a net meter account
In the Netherlands the 'old' electric meters are Ferraris meters which just
run backwards when more power is returned.
New meters are 'smart' (electronic) meters which count delivered and
returned power separately. The good thing (compared to the US) is that
Dutch smart meters only use licensed GPRS or CDMA frequencies to
communicate with the electricity company, not powerline communications or
amateur frequencies.
At the moment in the Netherlands the power returned can be crossed away
against power used from the grid and the excess returned will get payment
at feed-in tariff.
In my own situation we do not have a lot of roof space for solar panels,
but a solar panel is high on the wishlist for tent camping trips since this
makes our choice of campings easier while still charging phones / radio
battery.
Koos
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Koos van den Hout PGP keyid 0xF0D7C263 via keyservers
Weather maps from free sources at
http://idefix.net/ http://weather.idefix.net/
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Message: 14
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 07:53:33 -0500
From: "JoAnne Maenpaa" <k9jkm@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Arianespace Launch Webcast Wednesday August 24
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Big rocket launches send a thrill up my leg and one is scheduled for today,
August 24, when Arianespace flight VA232 will orbit the Intelsat 33e and
Intelsat 36 satellites. A webcast will be available 15 minutes prior to
launch:
http://www.arianespace.com/ (then click "Live this Launch")
Arianespace says liftoff is planned on Wednesday, August 24, 2016 as early
as possible within the following launch window:
. Between 06:55 p.m. and 07:40 p.m., Kourou time
. Between 05:55 p.m. and 06:40 p.m., Washington D.C. time
. Between 09:55 p.m. and 10:40 p.m., Universal Time (UTC)
. Between 11:55 p.m. and 12:40 a.m., Paris time.
Tune in and watch the giant rumble in the Amazon jungle!
--
73 de JoAnne K9JKM
k9jkm@xxxxx.xxx
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