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Today's Topics:
1. Re: DM19 Activated Aug 17 (Rodney Waln)
2. Re: AO-27 (John W Lee)
3. Re: SO-50 (Bill Dzurilla)
4. New Blog Post :!: AMSAT @ Huntsville Hamfest (Alan Sieg WB5RMG)
5. FREE Satellite Tracker for iPhone 3G S (Fabiano Moser)
6. Project Suggestons for ISS (MM)
7. AMSAT Office closed today (Gould Smith)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:20:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rodney Waln <kc0zhf@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: DM19 Activated Aug 17
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i worked him also, and thanks for the new grid and makeing the trip out to the
middle of
no were "AKA I will activate grid DM19 (smack in the middle of NV)"
made my day,
Rodney
kc0zhf
?
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:12:07 -0800
From: John W Lee <k6yk@xxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-27
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I actually thought it was one of the easiest ones to hit.
Are you transmitting on 145.850 ?
73
John, K6YK
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:56:26 -0600 Jerry Felts <nr5ajerry@xxxxx.xxx>
writes:
> Am I doing something wrong or is AO-27 just very hard to hit with a
> FT-60R handheld, and ELK ant? I have no problems hearing it but
> working it is another thing!!
>
> --
> Jerry - NR5A - South Dakota
> http://nr5abikeblog.blogspot.com/
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:02:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Dzurilla <billdz.geo@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: SO-50
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One other important thing to remember about SO-50. Unlike AO-51 and AO-27, it
does not transmit a carrier. You won't hear any noise unless someone is
transmitting. You can't just wave your antenna around and peak for maximum on
a carrier. So unless you are running full duplex and can hear your own
signal, in times of low activity you don't know if you are getting into the
bird.
Although SO-50 is not as strong as the other birds, you can work it easily
with an HT and an Elk or Arrow handheld antenna.
73, Bill NZ5N
> SO-50 is difficult to work for two reasons, in my opinion:
>
>
> 1 - Its power level is a nominal 250 milliwatts (.25 watt).
>
>
> 2 - It is transmitting that quarter-watt into a 0-gain
> quarter-wave vertical mounted on one corner of the
> satellite.
>
> This truly is the QRPp space-radio station! There is a very
> good chance that you are doing nothing wrong. I encourage
> you, however, to try working a pass without Doppler control.
> Let your ears guide you for the Doppler tuning, based on the
> relative noise level as the pass unfolds, and park your
> uplink at 145.850.
>
> The very best of luck. Please let us know how you progress.
>
>
> 73,
>
> Tim - N3Tl
> Athens, Ga. - EM84ha
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:16:39 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Alan Sieg WB5RMG" <wb5rmg@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] New Blog Post :!: AMSAT @ Huntsville Hamfest
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New Blog Post :!:
http://wb5rmg.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/amsat-huntsville-hamfest/
/;^)
--
# Alan Sieg, WB5RMG since 1976
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# wb5rmg<at>amsat<dot>org AMSAT#20554
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:54:00 +0100
From: Fabiano Moser <fabianomoser@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] FREE Satellite Tracker for iPhone 3G S
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Hello,
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Download from AppStore links:
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=8
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Fabiano Moser CR7/PY5RX
ARISS-PORTUGAL (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station)
Representative at Teleconference and Portugal Telebridge Coordinator.
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:47:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: MM <ka1rrw@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Project Suggestons for ISS
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Hello Frank and all.
>From Miles Mann WF1F
Project Ideas:
I would like to tank Frank Bauer for reminding me to publish this part of the
memo.
I have several project ides for ISS Amateur Radio projects posted on my web
page. The ARISS team has shown little or no interested in these suggestions.
Please review the projects and if you think your club or university has the
energy to produce one of these projects thane you have my permission to down
load the project idea, delete my name and put your name on the project and
then submit the project.
Who should you submit them too?
Good question. Start with the ARISS representative for your country.
Or you can try to locate the Educational department for your Space Agency.
All projects require time to build and get approvals. It?s not like it was in
the Mir days. During the Mir Space Station projects, Dave Larsen and I
designed and few 4 projects to the Mir space station. The longest it required
from Theory to Switch-on from Mir for any project was 15 months.
With ISS it does take longer. The average time is (ouch) 4-7 years.
The ISS laptop project required 9 years.
The SpaceCam1 project, from Beta software demo to switch on was 7 years.
Some parts of ARISS work great.
I want to separate the work done by the ARISS volunteers that have been
working so hard to make the School schedule such a success. I know how hard
it is to manage the school schedules. The MarexMG team scheduled more than 50
school schedules around the world for the Russian space Station Mir. I
personally installed my Amateur Radio hardware at 10+ schools in the New
England Area for School to Mir radio links.
The ARISS volunteers have also done excellent work in preparing, Training,
licensing the ISS crews and ISS Flight Participants. Every missing to ISS has
1 or more licensed Amateur Radio operators to meet International Rule, etc.
The ARISS volunteers around the world that have been working on these areas
have been doing an excellent Job. And I want to make your job easier by
giving the ISS crew more reliable hardware in the last 5-6 years remaining of
the International Space station.
My complaint is with the way the whole Project Selection Use, Hardware
Development, Testing and In-flight maintenance team has performed over the
past 13 years. The ARISS Hardware team does not just need to be tweaked, it
needs to be overhauled.
My goal here is to encourage NASA, ESA and Russian Space Agency to completely
review the current ARISS hardware Selection, Testing and in-flight maintenance
program and recommend changes.
We need to choose project that will reach large audiences and are easy to
maintain.
The projects need to be user friendly for the ISS crews (little or no
training).
Remote control the projects when feasible.
Have a back log of projects ready to fly when payload space becomes available.
We need to take advantage of the Existing, Installed antennas on ISS that are
available for Amateur Radio access.
Were you aware that we have approximately 14 Antennas mounted on the exterior
hull of the International space Station?
There are 7 existing coax hull feed-thoughts on ISS. Each of these cables is
attached to 1 or more antennas that can be used for educational Amateur Radio
projects.
Only 1 of these cables is currently being used for an Amateur Radio project
(Kenwood TM-D700). The other 6 cables are waiting for you to think of and
deliver a new Amateur Radio project that would provide some educational
benefit to the world. Put you thinking caps on, Schools and University are
welcome to provide ideas.
After 13 years of Development and 10 years of ISS flight, we do not have much
to show for our effort (except for your success in scheduling almost 50
schools per year, good job).
If you had asked me 13 years ago during the creation of ARISS (Houston August
1996) that today we would only have 1 Lame Packet Radio station on ISS, I
would have said ?that?s crazy. We will have half dozen systems up and
running?.
We have 5-6 years left of ISS. We need to make the best of what little time
we have left. Everyone needs to work harder, better and faster. I would hate
to see those remaining 11 unused antennas go to waste when ISS burns up.
http://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/futureprojects.html
?Let?s Light this candle? Alan B. Shepard
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:13:35 -0400
From: "Gould Smith" <gouldsmi@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Office closed today
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The AMSAT Office will be closed today due to the loss of the power transformer
that supplies the building.
73,
Gould
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