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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Ft 817 Low power mystery solved ! (Matthew Stevens)
2. AMSAT Symposium (Clint Bradford)
3. AMSAT Symposium (Clint Bradford)
4. Re: AMSAT Symposium (Stephen E. Belter)
5. Keep Amateur Radio in Space (Jeff Davis)
6. Great White North Grid Expedition Update (k.alexander)
7. CAS-2T & HO68 Beacon Report (John Papay)
8. AO-7 eclipses return (Andrew Glasbrenner)
9. BY70-1 145/436 Transponder CubeSat launch Dec 26 (M5AKA)
10. Re: CAS-2T & HO68 Beacon Report (Clayton W5PFG)
11. AMSAT Symposium (pablomiel70@xxxxx.xxxx
12. AMSAT Symposium (Clint Bradford)
13. AO-73/FUNcube-1 (Jim Heck)
14. Re: CAS-2T & HO68 Beacon Report (Jean-Pierre Godet)
15. Smile (Bruce)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 16:47:12 -0500
From: Matthew Stevens <matthew@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: jeffory broughton <jefforybroughton@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Ft 817 Low power mystery solved !
Message-ID: <0CD3D71F-4250-414E-A26C-6A9D0AA7ADCD@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
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Well that's an easy fix! :)
- Matthew KK4FEM
Sent from my iPhone
> On Nov 24, 2016, at 16:29, jeffory broughton <jefforybroughton@xxxxx.xxx>
wrote:
>
> There are two ribbon cables on the main unit. A 50 pin at the front from
> the front panel and a much smaller one at the rear feeding the P.A. I
> unplugged and then reseated them ,problem fixed.
> Vhf high = 4.2 watts and UHF = 4.8 watts
> Out on INTERNAL battery !
> Jeff WB8RJY
>
> jeff broughton
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 09:23:32 -0800
From: Clint Bradford <clintbradford@xxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium
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Good point, Pedro!
But I believe an entity suffering from financial problems would want the
largest-possible attendance at what has traditionally been an exchange of
important and pertinent information.
Clint
Sent from an iOS device.
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 14:09:01 -0800
From: Clint Bradford <clintbradford@xxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium
Message-ID: <9F0863DD-1B49-48DA-B91B-8ED10CD292B2@xxx.xxx>
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Good point, Pedro!
>
> But I believe an entity suffering from financial problems would want the
largest-possible attendance at what has traditionally been an exchange of
important and pertinent information.
>
> Clint
>
> Sent from an iOS device.
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 02:09:59 +0000
From: "Stephen E. Belter" <seb@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: Clint Bradford <clintbradford@xxx.xxx>, AMSAT-BB
<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium
Message-ID: <D45D048F.79BF1%seb@xxxxxx.xxx>
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When the Symposium cruise was proposed, part of the attraction was that
the venue was family friendly, likely resulting in a larger turnout than
other potential sites.
It was an experiment. We wouldn?t know without trying it. We had
volunteers to host the Symposium and the board was willing to try the
experiment. I applaud them for doing so.
AMSAT had a good turnout and those that went enjoyed the exchange of
important and pertinent information. Much of that information will be
shared in the Proceedings, in the Journal, and on social media.
Will the Symposium in 2017 be a cruise again? Probably not, but the 2016
Symposium was a success by most measures.
73, Steve N9IP
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On 11/24/16, 12:23 PM, "AMSAT-BB on behalf of Clint Bradford"
<amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx on behalf of clintbradford@xxx.xxx> wrote:
>Good point, Pedro!
>
>But I believe an entity suffering from financial problems would want the
>largest-possible attendance at what has traditionally been an exchange of
>important and pertinent information.
>
>Clint
>
>Sent from an iOS device.
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 11:12:35 -0500
From: Jeff Davis <ke9v@xxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Keep Amateur Radio in Space
Message-ID: <2515373F-090F-4E45-92DD-D320AAA4A62F@xxx.xxx>
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Congratulations to AMSAT on it?s recent successful Symposium!
While looking through the slide presentation, I noticed the comment about
the AMSAT Journal being a ?major membership benefit?. I agree that the value
of the publication is high, but it's much more than simply a member benefit.
The AMSAT Journal should be available to anyone who wants it, with or
without membership ? as a digital download subscription for $20-$25 a year.
The opportunity to find 5000 space enthusiasts willing to invest that amount
in a highly specialized publication seems considerably better than finding
3400 new full paying members - at least over the next 12 months.
Publishing the Journal electronically would save ALL of the current printing
and distribution costs and potentially add enough subscribers who aren't
members today to shore up the expected shortfall in 2017.
And those who subscribe become prime candidates to eventually become
full-freight members.
Besides, there must be some who have been members in the past who, for
whatever reason, can no longer afford to renew their membership. What good
does it do us to cut them off from all contact with the organization? Why
make it all or none? If they can?t afford full-membership or don?t see the
value at full-price ? why not at least keep them engaged for half price ? by
sending them bits instead of atoms?
New membership should always include the excellent ?Getting Started With
Amateur Satellites? book since it provides the basic framework for good
amateur practice on the satellites. It?s value is also high and could become
the ?major membership benefit? ? in addition to a digital subscription to
the Journal.
?Keeping Amateur Radio in Space? is a BIG mission that will require new
members, new income streams, and new ideas to figure out how to accomplish
it, and it occurs to me that while this won?t be at all ?easy?, at least
this part of the adventure isn?t rocket science. :-)
73, Jeff KE9V
AMSAT #28350
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 12:47:11 -0500
From: "k.alexander" <k.alexander@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Great White North Grid Expedition Update
Message-ID: <l7a5ak4m9m59tmxeq3enpo9n.1480095131474@xxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx>
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A collision closed the highway to FN07 yesterday and I was forced to
overnight in FN06. ?I did make it to FN07 a short time ago and my next hotel
reservation for tonight is in Val-d'Or QC (FN18). ?Not only am I behind
schedule, but there don't appear to be enough good passes to make it worth
staying in FN07 this afternoon.?
I'm going to drive straight to Val-d'Or after lunch and check in early.
?This gives me time to work out a schedule for Saturday and post it this
evening.
I will be on the following passes from FN18 this evening:
2207 ? XW-2C2304 ? XW-2A2342 ? XW-2A
The plan for today was to activate EN97, FN07, EN98 and FN08. ?I will take
an extra day and cover as many as of these as I can on Sunday.
73,
KenVE3HLS?
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 13:26:08 -0500
From: John Papay <john@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] CAS-2T & HO68 Beacon Report
Message-ID: <20161125182619.F2FFD8D9E@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
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Some are reporting hearing the beacon of
CAS-2T, however, I had not been hearing it
for the past few days. Yesterday I set it on
the Beacon Frequency and waited without tuning
around. Sure enough it was eventually heard,
but not in a continuous stream. It would send
"CE" and then go silent for a while. Then it
would send "CASS" and go silent, maybe for a minute
or two before sending "CE" again. No response on
the voice repeater frequency. In the past it had
stuttered when activated.
The HO-68 beacon was heard on frequency sending the
data but often times it would stop sending in the middle
of the data group. It would go off for some time and then
come back sending a few characters before going off again.
The beacon frequency has been absolutely stable
for years. Frequency settings have not been changed here
for years and it is always right there every time.
73,
John K8YSE/7
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 14:23:41 -0500
From: "Andrew Glasbrenner" <glasbrenner@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: ans-editor@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-7 eclipses return
Message-ID: <0e6201d24751$6e988ca0$4bc9a5e0$@xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
The AMSAT satellite status page at http://www.amsat.org/status/ indicates
that as of the morning of 11/25/2016, AO-7 is once again entering eclipse
each orbit. This means that the 24 Hour mode change timer is interrupted
each orbit, and the satellite will be found primarily in Mode U/v (aka Mode
B).
As the satellite is powered solely by the now 42 year-old solar panels, it
is very sensitive to strong uplink signals, particularly CW. Users should
closely monitor their downlink for excessive chirp, warbling or "FM'ing" and
reduce power as necessary. More information including frequencies can be
found at http://ww2.amsat.org/?page_id=1031
73, Drew KO4MA
AMSAT VP Operations
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 19:25:37 +0000 (UTC)
From: M5AKA <m5aka@xxxxx.xx.xx>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] BY70-1 145/436 Transponder CubeSat launch Dec 26
Message-ID: <1621939334.1002223.1480101937706@xxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
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BY70-1 is a 2U CubeSat with 145.935 to 436.200 MHz transponder planned
launch December 26?
2016?http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/formal_detail.php?serialnum=531
Radio ham awarded space achievement honour
https://amsat-uk.org/2016/11/25/radio-ham-awarded-space-achievement-honour/
Lunar Amateur Radio Satellites DSLWP-A1/A2
https://amsat-uk.org/2016/11/18/lunar-amateur-radio-satellites-dslwp-a1a2/
FUNcube-1 / AO73 celebrates 3 years in space
https://amsat-uk.org/2016/11/21/funcube-1-ao73-celebrates-3-years-in-space/
EO79 FUNcube-3 transponder commences regular operation
https://amsat-uk.org/2016/11/10/eo79-funcube-3-transponder-commences-regular-o
peration/
The book Getting Started with Amateur Satellites 2016 is now in stock at the
AMSAT-UK shop
https://amsat-uk.org/2016/06/27/getting-started-with-amateur-satellites-2016/
73 Trevor M5AKA
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Message: 10
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 13:20:51 -0600
From: Clayton W5PFG <w5pfg@xxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] CAS-2T & HO68 Beacon Report
Message-ID: <c80d0f31-ba6a-8281-ed3f-3d8c9aa45108@xxxxx.xxx>
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My assumption is that people listening for the CAS-2T beacon have not
been patient the last few days. It is not continuously transmitting as
it was after launch. There is a very long pause between transmissions
(several minutes.) I copied the same series of letters as K8YSE/7 yesterday.
There might be some confusion on reporting satellite operational status
on the AMSAT OSCAR Status Page (http://www.amsat.org/status.)
"Not Heard" can be subjective. Either the transponder was not heard or
the beacon was not heard. My opinion is to only use "Not Heard" when you
have tried the transponder and telemetry/beacon frequencies. Only if you
do not hear either one should you report "Not Heard."
73
Clayton
W5PFG
On 11/25/2016 12:26, John Papay wrote:
> Some are reporting hearing the beacon of
> CAS-2T, however, I had not been hearing it
> for the past few days. Yesterday I set it on
> the Beacon Frequency and waited without tuning
> around. Sure enough it was eventually heard,
> but not in a continuous stream. It would send
> "CE" and then go silent for a while. Then it
> would send "CASS" and go silent, maybe for a minute
> or two before sending "CE" again. No response on
> the voice repeater frequency. In the past it had
> stuttered when activated.
>
> The HO-68 beacon was heard on frequency sending the
> data but often times it would stop sending in the middle
> of the data group. It would go off for some time and then
> come back sending a few characters before going off again.
> The beacon frequency has been absolutely stable
> for years. Frequency settings have not been changed here
> for years and it is always right there every time.
>
> 73,
> John K8YSE/7
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Message: 11
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:56:13 +0000 (UTC)
From: <pablomiel70@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium
Message-ID: <1266499870.420114.1480107373572@xxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Clint Bragford K6LCS,
Your posts amount to an epic fail. When AMSAT announced their 2016 symposium
would be on a ship, you immediately tried to sink it. You were shot down by
numerous, well respected individuals who have something you haven't got --
humility. When's the last time you attended a symposium? Ummm, never??
http://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2016-January/056856.html?http://www.am
sat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2016-January/056858.htmlhttp://www.amsat.org/piperm
ail/amsat-bb/2016-January/056859.html
You have no idea what a symposium costs AMSAT. The meeting space, tea,
coffee, etc. didn't cost AMSAT a dime on the cruise ship. Just because you
don't like W5PFG, don't take it out on AMSAT. Your idiotic posts clearly
demonstrate you can't tell the difference between a general meeting slide
deck and the symposium event. You just have a bone to pick because someone
out-did you, again. I like how you decided to bring the conversation to your
personal domain (Yahoo Work-Scat) rather than publicly discuss on AMSAT's
message forum, the AMSAT-BB. Petty and weak!?
While we are at it, why do you even care about AMSAT? A few months ago, you
threatened them with legal action if they didn't "reign in" one of their
most dedicated volunteers. That man, WD9EWK, happens to be one of the most
generous and outspoken educators in the satellite community. You are not a
team player and frankly I don't see why AMSAT didn't strip you of your "Area
Coordinator" title sooner!
Nobody cares about the "kudos" and "thank you" emails you supposedly get via
email. Most of the time, you are talking to yourself on the self-promoting
forum threads you scatter across the web. Intelligent people pick up on your
silly auctions as a PR trick to get more website hits.
Today you're promoting barbed wire antennas again on another forum. How
silly? Barbed wire is not an effective material for constructing antennas.
Because one guy did it as a novelty, you act like it should work for
everyone in every situation.
Face it, your advice sucks. Your frequency chart (which was wrong for a long
time, BTW) is basically your one trick pony.?
Any videos of you working a satellite on YouTube demonstrate your novice
skill level.
I'm thankful this season that you are not a professional educator in any
school system.
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Message: 12
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 10:48:43 -0800
From: Clint Bradford <clintbradford@xxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium
Message-ID: <E24641BD-B021-4542-AEDF-ED2598AD0F5B@xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
STEVE>> ? Will the Symposium in 2017 be a cruise again? Probably not, but
the 2016
Symposium was a success by most measures ?
Which brings us to survival - I am anxious to hear from AMSAT-NA a ?game
plan? for
survival. Several points were made at the Symposium. I want to hear from our
AMSAT-NA
how they want mere individuals to promote and assist - that was my last
sentence in a post
earlier this week -
Who has some ?promotional? ideas that individuals can immediately embrace?
There has to be some grant money out there ?
Clint K6LCS
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Message: 13
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:39:13 -0000
From: "Jim Heck" <jim@xxxxxx.xx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-73/FUNcube-1
Message-ID: <A2B30F3B80EA42E990B811737E03BF33@xxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi Folks,
Just say that I have just switched AO-73/FUNcube-1 to full time amateur
(transponder ON) mode. Plan as usual is to switch back to auto mode on
Sunday pm UTC.
Enjoy and have a gr8 weekend.
73s Jim G3WGM
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Message: 14
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:55:40 +0000
From: Jean-Pierre Godet <godetj@xxxxxxx.xx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] CAS-2T & HO68 Beacon Report
Message-ID: <5bdd0f6b-97ee-4b36-646f-921badc55e19@xxxxxxx.xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Hi John, all !
The last pass I listen to CAS-2T was on November 13th. I will try
again tomorrow morning.
About Xiwang-1 HO-68, just after the recent post of BA1DU I tried in
vain and I gave up. Your mail gives me hope again and I tried around
1625 UTC, a not too good pass of orbit nr 33385 in western Europe and,
against all expectations, Xiwang-1 was partially alive, sending few
characters between long periods of silence. The signal was significantly
weaker than in the past, but it's a real pleasure to hear again the old
bird.
For comparison, this is a record of the last time I heard Xiwang-1:
http://f5yg.pagesperso-orange.fr/incoming/HOPE-1_orb27606_13sep2015.mp3
And now the one of this evening pass, orbit 33385:
http://f5yg.pagesperso-orange.fr/incoming/HOPE-1_orb33385_25nov2016.mp3
at 19:25:25 UTC "BJ1SA XW XW AAA TTT", then at 19:26:40 "BJ1SA XW XW".
It was at night, so I will try again tomorrow morning with hope, the
solar panels illuminated, to receive a full telemetry string.
Best 73 !
Jean-Pierre F5YG
On 25/11/2016 18:26, John Papay wrote:
> Some are reporting hearing the beacon of
> CAS-2T, however, I had not been hearing it
> for the past few days. Yesterday I set it on
> the Beacon Frequency and waited without tuning
> around. Sure enough it was eventually heard,
> but not in a continuous stream. It would send
> "CE" and then go silent for a while. Then it
> would send "CASS" and go silent, maybe for a minute
> or two before sending "CE" again. No response on
> the voice repeater frequency. In the past it had
> stuttered when activated.
>
> The HO-68 beacon was heard on frequency sending the
> data but often times it would stop sending in the middle
> of the data group. It would go off for some time and then
> come back sending a few characters before going off again.
> The beacon frequency has been absolutely stable
> for years. Frequency settings have not been changed here
> for years and it is always right there every time.
>
> 73,
> John K8YSE/7
>
>
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Message: 15
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 16:14:37 -0600
From: Bruce <kk5do@xxxx.xxx>
To: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Smile
Message-ID: <6c90c77b-3b14-b6fd-83a2-222949238e28@xxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
This holiday season is upon us and Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Green
Monday are all great opportunities for you to Smile. Yes, when you make
a purchase at amazon, make sure you go to http://www.smile.amazon.com
and select AMSAT as your charity of choice. A portion of you purchase
will be donated to AMSAT by Amazon.
You can do all your surfing on amazon.com, before you go to your cart
simply change your URL to smile.amazon.com, your cart will remain intact
and you can make your purchase there.
As always, AMSAT thanks you for your donation and consideration.
73...bruce
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AMSAT Director Contests and Awards
AMSAT Board Member 2016-2018
AMSAT Board Alternate 2015-2016
ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE
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