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Today's Topics:
1. SDX works (Andrew Glasbrenner)
2. Heard-ARRISat (Dee)
3. Re: ARISSat 0410z Aug 4 (Sebastian, W4AS)
4. Re: a little perspective (Tom Schuessler)
5. last pass (Philippe Van houte)
6. Is that the 440 antenna? (Clint Bradford)
7. Re: Is that the 440 antenna? (Andrew Glasbrenner)
8. ARISSat over UK - 04.32utc Pass (David Barber)
9. ARISSat-1 (Yanko P. Yankov)
10. Re: ARISSat-1 - Photos from NASA TV (Burns Fisher)
11. ARISSAT-1/Kedr Heard in Florida (Mike Schaffer)
12. Re: SDX works (Andrew Glasbrenner)
13. ARISSat-1 RECEPTION REPORT (abe yukio)
14. ARISSat-1 Reckless deployment (Jason Charles)
15. Re: THE ROUGH TREATMENT OF ARISSAT-1 (relax!) (George Henry)
16. ARISSat-1 reception report (Maurizio IV3RYQ)
17. Re: ARISSat-1 Screen Shots (Alexandru Csete)
18. Re: ARISSat-1 reception report (Peter Goodhall)
19. Nice ARISSat story on local TV (Gould Smith)
20. 0417 UTC pass East Coast (Philip Jenkins)
21. Re: 0417 UTC pass East Coast (Philip Jenkins)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:28:24 -0400
From: Andrew Glasbrenner <glasbrenner@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] SDX works
To: Amsat-BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, WA4SXM@xxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx Monteiro
(aa2tx@xxxxx.xxxxx <aa2tx@xxxxx.xxx>, Lou McFadin <w5did@xxx.xxx>
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I was able to hear myself with as little as 1 watt on the 0425Z pass.
Antennas are a M2 CP42 on RHCP up, and a 10 element horizontal yagi
down. Sounded VERY good, and cycled on and off with the telemetry. I
also managed to grab 2 frames of tlm right after AOS. I have a wav file
of the transponder test.
73, Drew KO4MA
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:29:54 -0400
From: Dee <morsesat@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Heard-ARRISat
To: Amsat BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Good sigs into NJ. Passed south of me and had 4 to 5 second nulls.
Insuficient time to decode anything. Very strong FM downlink.
Good audio copy. Will try to give more reports in am.
Congrats on what we have...
Dee, NB2F
Dee Interdonato
118 Westervelt Place
Lodi, NJ 07644
973-772-8229
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 00:35:45 -0400
From: "Sebastian, W4AS" <w4as@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat 0410z Aug 4
To: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Just heard the "Hi this is ARISSat" message in English, and then in another
language. Very deep fades using my M2 CP antenna (no preamp). The S meter
on my FT-847 peaked at 40 dB over S9, but with rapid fades to zero and then
back on the approach.
Immediately after the other language message, the carrier shut off, only to
come back at the end of the pass, where I heard what appeared to be SSTV,
however I didn't record (again), and even if I had, most probably the
picture wouldn't have been of much use due to the rapid fades.
I was manually moving my antennas, but watching the azimuth and elevation of
the ISS, and with the gain of my antenna, ARISSat at this time appears to
still be following the ISS very closely.
73 de Sebastian, W4AS EL95
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:35:46 -0500
From: "Tom Schuessler" <tjschuessler@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: a little perspective
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Hi all,
I have not posted here for some months, I think since after the April
Gregarine non-event. I expressed skepticism then on whether we would have
an ultimate successful deployment. It is my hope that the new Board of
Directors for AMSAT will look long and hard at this situation and come away
with good lessons learned. We gave up far too much control in the name of
International cooperation I think.
That being said, I do disagree with the ideas presented in post 16 below and
others who belittle the student satellite initiatives as "Squakboxes". As
long as FCC or IARU or ITU or anybody else in the world's regulations about
not using Amateur Radio frequencies for "Pecuniary" gain as it says in Part
97.3 (4) of our FCC rules, (Meaning you cannot make money off of the service
or frequencies), then I have no problem with the use of amateur radio
frequencies to further education and science training. Perhaps more of us
should be volunteering our time working with these educational institutions
developing cubesats and enlighten them on how providing real communications
capabilities to these satellites, not just telemetry, could enhance the
visibility of their projects.
73
Tom Schuessler, N5HYP
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Message: 16
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 03:21:19 +0000
From: Jim Jerzycke <kq6ea@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: a little perspective
To: Bruce Robertson <ve9qrp@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <4E3A102F.5030707@xxxxxxx.xxx>
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I'm sorry, Bruce, but I'm not buying it.
It was a screw-up, plain and simple.
And we can't make lemonade out of it.
At least AO-40 had a usable life for some. This thing is just another squawk
box in space, like all the "student" satellites that are using the Amateur
Radio frequencies for a free downlink.
Jim
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 06:53:27 +0200
From: "Philippe Van houte" <Philippe.Vanhoute@xxxxxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] last pass
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Hi
during the last pass :
38 telemetry frames decoded
38 Kursk frames decoded
Total : 76 frames forwarded
signal : S9 and a lot of QSB
73
Phil
on5pv
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:03:46 -0700
From: Clint Bradford <clintbradford@xxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Is that the 440 antenna?
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Look at your videos again. At 8:07AM PDT (about 17 minutes after hatch
opening),
you can see on the video the ARISSat-1.
The 2M whippy antenna on the right/top of ARISSat-1.
Is that the 440 antenna - bent - on the left/bottom of the satellite?
Still screenshot posted at the bottom of ...
http://web.me.com/clintbradford/k6lcs/EVA29-1.html
Clint Bradford
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:11:45 -0400
From: Andrew Glasbrenner <glasbrenner@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Is that the 440 antenna?
To: Clint Bradford <clintbradford@xxx.xxx>
Cc: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <4E3A2A11.3040004@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
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On 8/4/2011 1:03 AM, Clint Bradford wrote:
> Look at your videos again. At 8:07AM PDT (about 17 minutes after hatch
opening),
> you can see on the video the ARISSat-1.
>
> The 2M whippy antenna on the right/top of ARISSat-1.
>
> Is that the 440 antenna - bent - on the left/bottom of the satellite?
>
>
Pretty sure that is the tether. It's white and long, and the whip should
be gold from the Kapton tape.
73, Drew
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 06:17:11 +0100
From: "David Barber" <david.barber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISSat over UK - 04.32utc Pass
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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UK Pass 04.32utc.
80dg Max elevation this pass, very strong signal received.
3 SSTV images from on-board cameras plus several audio messages received.
Three audio tlm as follows:
MET = 592 minutes
IHU Temp = +26C
Control Panel Temp = +22C
Battery Voltage = 33.88V
Battery Current = +391mA
MET = 595 minutes
IHU Temp = +26C
Control Panel Temp = +22C
Battery Voltage = 34.04V
Battery Current = +378mA
MET = 597 minutes
IHU Temp = +26C
Control Panel Temp = +21C
Battery Voltage = 34.28V
Battery Current = +247mA
Apology - Previous posting for 02.56 pass showed Battery Current as -448mA
it should have been +448mA
Local QRM obliterating the CW/Telemetry frequency.
Tumbling remains consistent at approx 6 seconds.
David
G8OQW
********
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:26:55 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Yanko P. Yankov" <samy_b1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISSat-1
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <f65e5a2c-cbac-43db-aea9-c42539fa2449@xxxx.xxx.xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Hello
Can anyone tell me how to select my dedicated sound card for ARISSat
telemetry tool to work ?
I have 2 sound cards on my computer and I only use my secondary card for
digital communication.
Thank you,
Yanko aka NX9G
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Message: 10
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:56:46 -0400
From: Burns Fisher <burns@xxxxxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 - Photos from NASA TV
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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Thanks to everyone who posted pictures. I think Phil Karn's picture number
9204 is particularly interesting. It almost looks like something coming
out of the collar and bending back and down away from the camera. Any
chance that is an antenna stuck somewhere?
But I'd also like to make a couple comments which are, of course, just as
much speculations as the comments that I'm trying to refute.
First, let's talk about "breaking" the antenna. Well, we don't really know
that. Isn't it flexible like the 2m antenna? I think it was mentioned in
CDR slides. And surely we would want it to be flexible. After all there is
one of these sticking out on each of the two largest flat surfaces. Chances
are good it's going to run into something sometime.
Second, suppose it was simply not installed. I see lots of comments about
"duh, how could you miss it not being there?". I've looked at a lot of
pictures of this bird both pre- and post-launch and a huge percentage of
them are taken at an angle where you can only see one antenna. How would
anyone inherently know what this was supposed to look like? I would also
add that these guys who are on the station for 6 months at a time don't get
to practice procedures in a tank up till a few days before the EVA.
As to the Apollo 13 mentality: This was not life or death. The guys inside
the station were limited as to where they could go. Surely they could not
pass something out through the airlock even if they could move around. And
does anyone remember on Apollo 12 (I think), one of the astronauts kicked a
TV camera cable so we had no live TV after the first few hours. Should I
mention a certain cap not removed from a certain Oscar on the pad at KSC?
That was not the Russians. Working in space is HARD. Mistakes are EASY.
Here's my completely speculative hypothesis: You'll recall that the AMSAT
rep who went to Russia (Lou?) with the bird had to return before it was at
Star City because of a combo of a short visa and long customs hold. Thus he
never got to work in person with bird AND the Russian guy working up
procedures, tests, etc. On top of that, the various tests from within the
ISS were added. All that could add up to procedures being written and
changed somewhat blindly. I'll bet some checklist somewhere neglected to
mention the 70cm, and in the process of stowing and unstowing and connecting
to and disconnecting from the external antenna the 70cm was never (re)
attached.
Yes, I'm disappointed. Yes there should be a root cause analysis. But as
before, we have to wait till the details are in. Speculations are fun;
throwing blame around is not (to me at least).
73, Burns W2BFJ
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Message: 11
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 21:31:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mike Schaffer <daetsort@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISSAT-1/Kedr Heard in Florida
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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ARISSat-1/Kedr heard in voice on 145.950 FM at 0420 UTC at 30deg elevation
towards southeast with moderate fades?with a?3db average RF strength.
Mike Schaffer/KA3JAW
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Message: 12
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:26:55 -0400
From: Andrew Glasbrenner <glasbrenner@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: SDX works
To: Amsat-BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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On 8/4/2011 12:28 AM, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
> I was able to hear myself with as little as 1 watt on the 0425Z pass.
> Antennas are a M2 CP42 on RHCP up, and a 10 element horizontal yagi
> down. Sounded VERY good, and cycled on and off with the telemetry. I
> also managed to grab 2 frames of tlm right after AOS. I have a wav file
> of the transponder test.
>
> 73, Drew KO4MA
>
Video, well, audio with a picture, here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AFyZNAbOeA
73, Drew KO4MA
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Message: 13
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 09:37:49 +0900
From: "abe yukio" <fb6y-ab@xxxxxxxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISSat-1 RECEPTION REPORT
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <AE66F3D3B8C34C34AC8269EE1CC438CC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp"
RECEPTION REPORT
Dear Sir,
I am pleased to inform you that I have listened to your radio broadcast.
The details of reception report is as follows.
I hope this report will be of some value to you.
Station: ARISSat-1
Frequency: 145.950MHz
Modulation Mode:FM
Languages:?English
Date Heard(UTC):Aug.3,2011
Time Heard(UTC): 2237UTC??
Reception Quality?
S?Strength????3?
I?Interference???5?
N?Noise???2?
P?Propagation Disturbance???2?
O?Overall Merit???2
Receiver Using: YAESU FT817?
Antenna Using: Log-periodic dipole array
Programme Detailes:
"Hi.This is ARISSat-1.Radio Satellite.RS01S."(Female voice announcement.)
Comments:
If it correspondence with your programme, would you please give me
your QSL card.
Sincerely yours,
Name?Yukio Abe
Call sign:JH1EAF
e-mail address:?fb6y-ab@xxxxxxxxx.xx.xx
Address?5-45-5 Asagaya-kita,Suginami-ku,TOKYO. JAPAN?
Age?51
Occupation:Illustrator
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Message: 14
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 18:22:17 -0500
From: Jason Charles <jasontcharles@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISSat-1 Reckless deployment
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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I second and third that this was a reckless deployment. They even lost a
wing nut during the laser communication installation! The tone was oh well,
it's gone now.
Blog post with video of the final deployment and a few pictures of damage:
http://www.n4jtc.com/?p=60
73
N4JTC
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Message: 15
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:52:30 -0500
From: "George Henry" <ka3hsw@xxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: THE ROUGH TREATMENT OF ARISSAT-1 (relax!)
To: "amsat bb" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <C13E891B12D547F582C32871422FE8FA@xxxxxxx>
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That would be because the 437.55 signal was the ISS radio cross-banding
ARISSat-1's 2 meter signal, not the satellite's 70cm TX ...
George, KA3HSW
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Kuitula" <ka8qcu@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "Bob Bruninga" <bruninga@xxxx.xxx>; "'amsat-bb'" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 6:10 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: THE ROUGH TREATMENT OF ARISSAT-1 (relax!)
Well said Bob. Even if the 70 CM antenna was still rolled up, I still had a
much stronger signal on the 400 MHZ band than on 2M, when they were doing
the test earlier this week. Enjoy the bird and get your kids to listen when
it comes by. That's the point. So everyone take a breath and have some fun
with ARISSAT-1.
73 de Doug KA8QCU
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Message: 16
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 05:51:39 +0200
From: "Maurizio IV3RYQ" <maurizio_iv3ryq@xxxxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISSat-1 reception report
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <D389B4E1F30B4224BF3987CF1C718110@xxxxxx>
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Hi, here telemetry data heard over Europe
04 aug at 03.00-03.08 utc.
' 73 Maurizio IV3RYQ
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Message: 17
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 01:14:16 +0200
From: Alexandru Csete <oz9aec@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 Screen Shots
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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Maybe they will put it on their youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision
If not, we can ask them do so.
73
Alex OZ9AEC
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Clint Bradford
<clintbrad4d@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> What a day! And reception reports are already coming in!
>
> I apologize for the links that non-Mac folks' systems wouldn't allow entry
or didn't like the "tinyurl" forwarder ...
> something about long filenames and symbols in the filenames.
>
> ANYWAY - Here'a about 60 screenshots taken from the deployment ...
>
> http://gallery.me.com/clintbradford#100271
>
> I also have "both" video sessions:
>
> -The first - the first 30+ minutes of EVA29 ... nice footage, but
deployment delayed, of course.
>
> -The second - the deployment, but no video from ISS nor astronauts'
helmets during actual deployment -
> just audio and static screens during the physical deployment. (But I'll
wager that the Russian Federal
> Space Administration will have some great photos and/or video of it on
their site soon ... (grin).)
>
> If you are seriously interested in either .flv movie file, please
privately email me. They're just under
> 300MB each ... so I'll post them somewhere for you to download.
>
> Clint Bradford
> clintbradford@xxx.xxx
> 909-241-7666?- cell, PDT
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Message: 18
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 01:09:29 +0100
From: Peter Goodhall <peter@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 reception report
To: John Heath <g7hia@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Cc: Amsat <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID:
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Hi John
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 12:52 AM, John Heath <g7hia@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> 0048 UTC? South West of England? IO82ej
> Strong SSTV signal heard but not decoded.
> Satellite at 5 degrees elevation.
I managed to get a SSTV image decoded at 5 degrees EL but lots of
noise due to Oxford University buildings being in the way.
http://www.m3php.com/arissat/201108032348.jpg
Using a IC-910, 5element 2m beam + G-5500 rotator tracking the ISS.
73
--
Peter Goodhall, 2E0SQL
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Message: 19
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 21:19:42 -0400
From: Gould Smith <wa4sxm@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Nice ARISSat story on local TV
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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A local TV station, WBIR produced a nice story about ARISSat launch today
and its potential for STEM education.
View at
http://www.wbir.com/news/article/178784/2/STEM-education-reaches-new-heights
73,
Gould
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Message: 20
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 00:31:39 -0400
From: Philip Jenkins <wythe25@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] 0417 UTC pass East Coast
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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AOS was 0417, LOS 8.5 minutes later...only 13 degrees elevation for me in
EM85tm/tn. Didn't hear anything until 0422 and then only for about 1 minute;
not sure if it was BPSK or SSTV. Although signal was plenty strong, signal
cut out at times, probably due to satellite tumbling. Antenna is the
quad-band vertical Comet mounted on the car.
The next pass is in about 90 minutes @ 45 degrees elevation. If a 13 deg
pass sounded like that, I'm sure the 45 degree one will wake me up! :-)
Philip N4HF (near Asheville, NC)
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Message: 21
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 00:40:32 -0400
From: Philip Jenkins <wythe25@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: 0417 UTC pass East Coast
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID:
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I should have added that it is quite mountainous here, and I'm in a valley,
so I was rather surprised that I heard this pass at all (although it is open
somewhat to the east where I live, which is the direction the satellite
passed through).
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Philip Jenkins <wythe25@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> AOS was 0417, LOS 8.5 minutes later...only 13 degrees elevation for me in
> EM85tm/tn. Didn't hear anything until 0422 and then only for about 1 minute;
> not sure if it was BPSK or SSTV. Although signal was plenty strong, signal
> cut out at times, probably due to satellite tumbling. Antenna is the
> quad-band vertical Comet mounted on the car.
>
> The next pass is in about 90 minutes @ 45 degrees elevation. If a 13 deg
> pass sounded like that, I'm sure the 45 degree one will wake me up! :-)
>
> Philip N4HF (near Asheville, NC)
>
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