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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Tampabay Hamfest Dec 4, 2010 (Pedro A. Perez)
2. Fwd: video of Ham operations on ISS (wa4hfn@xxxxxxx.xxxx
3. 1st IAA Conference on University Satellites Missions and
Cubesat Conference Sponsorships and Accommodation
(Group of Astrodynamics)
4. Help urgently needed with FASTRAC reception reports
(Alan P. Biddle)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:44:23 +0100
From: "Pedro A. Perez" <eb4dka@xxxxxxxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Tampabay Hamfest Dec 4, 2010
To: "Andrew Glasbrenner" <glasbrenner@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>, "Amsat-BB"
<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Hi Drew and all,
We did something similar with the CJU about two years ago in our local
radioclub Francisco de Orellana.
Photos:
http://www.eb4dka.laserenadigital.com/Imagenes/tallercju1.JPG
http://www.eb4dka.laserenadigital.com/Imagenes/tallercju2.JPG
http://www.eb4dka.laserenadigital.com/Imagenes/tallercju3.JPG
An article about this event can be found in the May/June 2009 issue of AMSAT
Journal.
You will be amazed with this little antenna!
Best 73s from Spain.
Pedro EB4DKA
http://eb4dka.laserenadigital.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Glasbrenner" <glasbrenner@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "Amsat-BB" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>; <amsat-florida@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 4:29 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Tampabay Hamfest Dec 4, 2010
> Hi y'all,
>
> AMSAT will have a booth at the Tampabay Hamfest coming up on December
> 4th in Palmetto, Florida. We also will be doing 90 minutes of
> presentations on satellites and ARISS during a forum on Saturday. Please
> come by to pick up the latest AMSAT gear, learn about ARISSat-1, FOX,
> and other projects, make a donation, or join or renew your AMSAT
> membership.
>
> This year I am going to try something new. For each donation of $25 or
> more, or each membership or renewal, I will personally provide the parts
> and help assembling an antenna for operating the satellites. We will be
> building a version of the CJU antenna in the booth, which is a small but
> very effective antenna to use with an HT to copy the Mode J satellites.
> Using the CJU and an HT, and the 2m radio in your car, the Mode J
> satellites are easy to use. Email me ahead of time for details or to
> RSVP for this offer.
>
> Please forward to any interested parties or lists.
>
> 73, Drew KO4MA
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:40:39 +0000 (UTC)
From: wa4hfn@xxxxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Fwd: video of Ham operations on ISS
To: AMSAT <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "Tom" <wa5kub@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "Rick - WA4NVM" <wa4nvm@xxxxxxx.xxx>, "Damon WA4HFN"
<wa4hfn@xxxxxxx.xxx>, "AJ4AT" <aj4at@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 10:32:15 PM
Subject: video of Ham operations on ISS
here is a video Col doug did yesterday. it give a quick tour of the space
station and then he demostrates the ham radio and shows how many calls he
gets and how hard it is to pick them out.
http://buzzroom.nasa.gov/multimedia/videos/696/
--
Check out my website at http://tmedlin.com
and my live video site for hamfests at http://wa5kub.com
Senior Member of the I.E.E.E
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:59:12 +0100
From: Group of Astrodynamics <gauss.group@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] 1st IAA Conference on University Satellites
Missions and Cubesat Conference Sponsorships and Accommodation
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
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Dear all,
we are pleased to announce that ESA has kindly offered ten scholarships for
students who will present a paper at the 1st IAA Conference on University
Satellites Missions and Cubesat Conference next January. You can find the
information at the following link:
ESA
scholarships<http://www.gaussteam.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl
e&id=111&Itemid=214>
<http://www.gaussteam.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=111&Ite
mid=214>Furthermore,
we have reached an agreement with two hotels for the accommodation of the
participants. You can find all the information at the following link:
Accommodation<http://www.gaussteam.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=artic
le&id=109&Itemid=211>
We hope that this will encourage students in participating to the
Conference.
Best regard
--
Gruppo di Astrodinamica Universit? degli Studi Sapienza
Via Salaria, 851
00138 Roma
website: www.gaussteam.com
tel. 0039 06 88346436
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:18:44 -0600
From: "Alan P. Biddle" <APBIDDLE@xxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Help urgently needed with FASTRAC reception
reports
To: "AMSAT-BB" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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All,
The FASTRAC folks are having problems with communicating with their birds,
and can use some help with telemetry submissions. They are looking for
either packet decodes or received audio. There is a submission area on the
basic web site mentioned below. I suspect that data sent to the project
manager, sebastian_munoz@xxxx.xxxxxx.xxx would be acceptable as well.
Alan
WA4SCA
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I don't know if you are aware but last Friday Nov. 19, we launched the
FASTRAC satellites (Emma and Sara Lily) from Kodiak, Al. At this point we
have been able to determine that both of them are beaconing and that they
are talking to each other from our own station and with the help of HAMs all
over the world. We have been able to decode Emma's communications but
unfortunately we have not been able to decode Sara Lily's as her signal
seems to be weaker and because of this we have also not been able to command
them. I was wondering if you could distribute this information to the
roadrunner's microwave group to see if anybody in the group would be willing
to help us track them to see if we can decode Sara Lily's signal since it is
weeaker and we have had no luck yet.
If you are willing to help, we would really appreciate it. To do so I would
recommend that you first try to hear FASTRAC-2's (Emma's) beacon which is on
145.825 MHz and then switch to see if you can listen for FASTRAC-1's (Sara
Lily's) beacon which is on 437.345. Both beacons will be at 1200 baud and
they occur every three minutes. You might also be able to hear the girls
talking to each other at 9600 baud. The type of beacon that you should get
if you are able to decode it, should look something like this:
FAST2>BEACON/1: <UI>:
F21001408113319.373080 +6378137.00 , +0.00 +0.00 +0.00000
+0.00000 +0.0000345283286 024 028 026 040 039
If you are not setup to receive packets, then if you could send us an audio
file we can try to decode them on our end. This morning (Nov 23), we heard
FAST2's (Emma's) beacons at ~5:56:55, ~5:59:55, and ~6:02:55 AM CST which
might be useful to you as this might help you hunt her signal down since she
beacons every 3 minutes.
The most up to date TLE's that we have of them so far are:
FASTRAC (Both Emma and Sara Lily, as they are currently stacked together)
1 90025U 0 10326.95261036 -.00000933 +00000-0 -12581-3 0 00099
2 90025 071.9695 133.8796 0018803 303.0010 056.9360 14.76366919000426
But please check our website where we post the most up to date TLEs
(http://fastrac.ae.utexas.edu/for_radio_operators/users/phpBB3/predictedorbi
t.php) to make sure you have the most updated version of them.
Paul and Ray,
I don't know if you are aware but last Friday Nov. 19, we launched the
FASTRAC satellites (Emma and Sara Lily) from Kodiak, Al. At this point we
have been able to determine that both of them are beaconing and that they
are talking to each other from our own station and with the help of HAMs all
over the world. We have been able to decode Emma's communications but
unfortunately we have not been able to decode Sara Lily's as her signal
seems to be weaker and because of this we have also not been able to command
them. I was wondering if you could distribute this information to the
roadrunner's microwave group to see if anybody in the group would be willing
to help us track them to see if we can decode Sara Lily's signal since it is
weeaker and we have had no luck yet.
If you are willing to help, we would really appreciate it. To do so I would
recommend that you first try to hear FASTRAC-2's (Emma's) beacon which is on
145.825 MHz and then switch to see if you can listen for FASTRAC-1's (Sara
Lily's) beacon which is on 437.345. Both beacons will be at 1200 baud and
they occur every three minutes. You might also be able to hear the girls
talking to each other at 9600 baud. The type of beacon that you should get
if you are able to decode it, should look something like this:
FAST2>BEACON/1: <UI>:
F21001408113319.373080 +6378137.00 , +0.00 +0.00 +0.00000
+0.00000 +0.0000345283286 024 028 026 040 039
If you are not setup to receive packets, then if you could send us an audio
file we can try to decode them on our end. This morning (Nov 23), we heard
FAST2's (Emma's) beacons at ~5:56:55, ~5:59:55, and ~6:02:55 AM CST which
might be useful to you as this might help you hunt her signal down since she
beacons every 3 minutes.
The most up to date TLE's that we have of them so far are:
FASTRAC (Both Emma and Sara Lily, as they are currently stacked together)
1 90025U 0 10326.95261036 -.00000933 +00000-0 -12581-3 0 00099
2 90025 071.9695 133.8796 0018803 303.0010 056.9360 14.76366919000426
But please check our website where we post the most up to date TLEs
(http://fastrac.ae.utexas.edu/for_radio_operators/users/phpBB3/predictedorbi
t.php) to make sure you have the most updated version of them.
If you would like more information on our satellites you can visit
(http://fastrac.ae.utexas.edu/index.php) or you can just let me know and I
will be more than happy to reply. We really appreciate your help and if you
have any other questions please do not hesitate to let us know. Thanks a
lot, 73,
Sebastian Mu?oz (KE5FKV)
FASTRAC Student Program Manager
p.s: I have cc'd Dr. Glenn Lightsey, the FASTRAC Principal Investigaor, and
Tom Campbell and Shaun Stewart who have been leading the effort to help us
contact our satellites from the JSC Amateur Radio Club Station (W5RRR).
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