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Today's Topics:
1. LOTW Satellites from the Old Days (Gary "Joe" Mayfield)
2. Triton-1 and Triton-2 to launch late 2012 (Trevor .)
3. Re: LOTW Satellites from the Old Days (Greg D.)
4. EL97 Operation Wrap up 7Jan2012 (John Papay)
5. ANS-008 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins (JoAnne Maenpaa)
6. Update the AMSAT available sats list on "Passes"
page./Celestrak Keps "Amateur" (Tom Schuessler)
7. K2BSA/5 at Nat. Scouting Museum for ARRL Kids Day.
(Tom Schuessler)
8. RS-22 vs UO-22 (Tom Schuessler)
9. Re: LOTW Satellites from the Old Days (i8cvs)
10. Re: LOTW Satellites from the Old Days (i8cvs)
11. Sounds from Space (Matthias Bopp)
12. Re: RS-22 vs UO-22 (Trevor .)
13. Re: LOTW Satellites from the Old Days (Gary "Joe" Mayfield)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 14:36:05 -0600
From: "Gary \"Joe\" Mayfield" <gary_mayfield@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "'AMSAT'" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] LOTW Satellites from the Old Days
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One of my winter projects is to get all of my OSCAR contacts back to 1989 in
LOTW. Unfortunately, my older logs are not available.
What are folks doing about contacts made on RS-10/11? My log book says
RS-10/11 and LOTW wants either RS-10 or RS-11 and I really don't have a way
to tell which? The same conundrum applies to RS-12/13, but it appears I
logged most of them as RS-13 for some reason.
Thanks and 73,
Joe kk0sd
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 20:37:52 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Trevor ." <m5aka@xxxxx.xx.xx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Triton-1 and Triton-2 to launch late 2012
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Triton-1 and Triton 2 will launch with UKube-1 and Delfi n3Xt later this year.
Full Story at
http://www.uk.amsat.org/3434
AMSAT-UK: http://www.uk.amsat.org/
73 Trevor M5AKA
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 17:20:29 -0800
From: "Greg D." <ko6th_greg@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <gary_mayfield@xxxxxxx.xxx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: LOTW Satellites from the Old Days
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Hi Joe,
For RS-10/11, I'd recommend just using RS-10. I don't recall ever hearing
the "11" side of that bird on during the several years that I worked it.
They did a lot of switching around of RS-12 and 13, especially towards the
end of its life, so that one will be harder to select.
Greg KO6TH
> From: gary_mayfield@xxxxxxx.xxx
> To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 14:36:05 -0600
> Subject: [amsat-bb] LOTW Satellites from the Old Days
>
> One of my winter projects is to get all of my OSCAR contacts back to 1989 in
> LOTW. Unfortunately, my older logs are not available.
>
>
>
> What are folks doing about contacts made on RS-10/11? My log book says
> RS-10/11 and LOTW wants either RS-10 or RS-11 and I really don't have a way
> to tell which? The same conundrum applies to RS-12/13, but it appears I
> logged most of them as RS-13 for some reason.
>
>
>
> Thanks and 73,
>
> Joe kk0sd
>
>
>
>
>
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:31:33 -0500
From: John Papay <john@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] EL97 Operation Wrap up 7Jan2012
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The trip down to EL97 was uneventful. The location chosen
was on US1 in Sebastian Florida, Indian River County. 21
stations were worked on the AO-27 1825z pass and 6
more were worked on the low elevation western pass at 2005z.
It was sunny with temps in the low 70's, a very nice day for
a grid expedition.
All contacts have been uploaded to LOTW (using K8YSE) for
those who collect grids electrically. Anyone who needs a
qsl card should send me an email; no qsl card or sase needed.
Equipment used for this operation is what I started with back
in 2006. The radio was a Kenwood V7A mobile (full duplex) with
a strap around my neck, a 7AH UPS battery sitting on the ground,
headphones along with a digital recorder, mic in one hand and
the Arrow Antenna with a MFJ duplexer in the other hand.
Pass recordings (as heard from EN91) are on my website.
Thanks to everyone who worked me and then stood by when others
were calling me. You can't make 21 q's in 7 minutes without a lot
of cooperation from everyone on the bird.
73,
John K8YSE
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 20:05:57 -0600
From: "JoAnne Maenpaa" <k9jkm@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS-008 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
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AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-008
ANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North
America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS reports on the
activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an
active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating
through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites.
Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to:
ans-editor@xxxxx.xxx
In this edition:
* ARISSat-1/KEDR Goes Silent
* FUNcube - Launch Details and Time Frame Finalized
* DNEPR Launch Includes Triton-1 and Triton-2 Amateur Satellites
* FUNcube Dongle Presentation Video
* SKN on OSCAR 2012 Best Fist Nominations Due
* Ham Radio Builder List Begins
* Creation of AMSAT-Francophone
* Budapest University Masat-1 Telemetry Decoder Software Released
* NASA Summer Internships for Students
* Satellite Shorts From All Over
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-008.01
ANS-001 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 008.01
>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
January 8, 2012
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-008.01
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ARISSat-1/KEDR Goes Silent
Reception reports indicate that ARISSat-1/KEDR has stopped trans-
mitting on Wednesday, January 4, 2012. The last full telemetry
captured and reported to the ARISSatTLM web site at 06:02:14 UTC
on January 4 were received from ground stations as the satellite
passed over Japan.
See: http://www.arissattlm.org/live (full telemetry display)
See: http://www.arissattlm.org/mobile (condensed telemetry)
Telemetry reports showed that the temperature aboard ARISSat-1/KEDR
had been rising as atmospheric drag began to affect the satellite.
Final temperatures received via ARISSatTLM reported this data:
IHU 75 ? C / 167.0 ? F
PSU 76 ? C / 168.8 ? F
RF 88 ? C / 190.4 ? F
Control Panel 61 ? C / 141.8 ? F
Experiment 64 ? C / 147.2 ? F
Tracking data from Space Command gave a Predicted Decay Time 0700 GMT
+/- 3 Hours on January 4. Telemetry report narrows the impact time
window to about 4 hours. The predicted decay location is 12.7? S,
354.3? E, an open part of the South Atlantic, well west of Angola.
Send reports to the amsat-bb If you heard the satellite, even briefly,
after 0600 UTC. This will help confirm the actual impact point.
Stations receiving telemetry from ARISSat-1 at any time over the
last few months, please forward all of your .CSV telemetry files
to telemetry AT arissattlm.org.
Konstantin, RN3ZF sent a reception report of his copy of the 0842 UTC
pass that, "the telemetry was absent, voice messages were not legible,
very silent and interrupted. Most likely, I saw last minutes in the
life of the satellite."
Dee, NB2F reported, "Nothing heard from ARISSat-1/KEDR on any fre-
quency during the first USA pass at 16:00 UTC, January 4."
ARISSat-1/KEDR was deployed from the International Space Station on
August 3, 2011 during during EVA-29 on by Cosmonaut/Flight Engineers
Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev.
The satellite carried a student experiment from Kursk State University
in Russia which measured atmospheric density. Students from around the
world provided the voices for the FM voice announcements.
The amateur radio payload aboard ARISSat-1/KEDR achieved many "firsts"
for amateur radio in space:
+ First flight test of AMSAT Software Defined Transponder which trans-
mitted simultaneous:
- FM voice downlink cycling between student messages, spoken
telemetry and SSTV from cameras on the spaceframe.
- 16KHz bandwith linear transponder,
- CW beacon with telemetry and callsigns of radio amateurs noting
their significant contributions to amateur radio in space.
- Robust, forward error corrected 1K rate BPSK downlink with sat-
ellite telemetry and Kursk experiment telemetry.
+ Development and release of the ARISSatTLM software for PC and Mac
platforms enabled amateur stations worldwide with reliable reception
of the BPSK telemetry, CW telemetry, display on the station's com-
puter, and automatic upload of received data via the internet to the
ARISSat engineering team.
+ A new Integrated Housekeeping Unit was developed and successfully
flown.
+ A new Power Management System was developed and successfully
flown.
AMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW noted, ARISSat-1/KEDR marked a
new type of satellite which has captured the attention of the national
space agencies around the world for the unique educational opportunity
we have been able to design, launch, and operate. By designing an edu-
cational mission aligned with NASA's Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Mathematics goals amateur radio operators around the world have
been able enjoy a new satellite in orbit."
ARISSat-1/KEDR Project Manager, Gould Smith, WA4SXM said, "Dozens of
amateur radio volunteers, AMSAT, ARRL, NASA, and Energia teamed up for
this successful mission to bring you the most unique and innovative
amateur radio satellite mission. Congratulations to all who made
ARISSat-1 successful!"
The Official ARISSat-1/KEDR web page: http://www.arissat1.org/
See DK3WN SatBlog for last signal report received by Tetsu san,
JA0CAW in Japan: http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=25125
[ANS thanks the ARISSat-1/KEDR Team for the above information]
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FUNcube - Launch Details and Time Frame Finalized
An agreement has now been reached with ISIS Launch Services BV, who
are based in Delft in the Netherlands, for them to provide a launch
of the FUNcube-1 CubeSat.
It is anticipated that FUNcube-1, which has been created by a team
of volunteer radio amateurs and other specialists over the past two
years, will be launched with a number of other spacecraft from a
DNEPR rocket sometime in the third quarter of 2012. The flight is
planned to take place from the Yasny launch facility which is in
southern Russia near to the Kazakhstan border. The spacecraft needs
to be completed by the end of July 2012, ready for shipping from
the Netherlands to Russia.
The orbit is still to be defined precisely but it is expected to be
nearly circular and approximately sun synchronous. This will ensure
that the spacecraft has the necessary solar illumination and that
it will appear at regular times for educational outreach activities
at schools and colleges.
The FUNcube-1 spacecraft will transmit signals that can be easily
received directly by schools and colleges for educational outreach
purposes. This telemetry will give details of the spacecraft's health
- battery voltages and temperatures and from this it will be possible
to determine its spin rate and attitude by plotting simple graphs.
Additionally, experimental data and messages can be displayed in an
attractive format and provide stimulation and encouragement for stu-
dents to become interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics (STEM) subjects in a unique way.
The target audience for this project is students at both primary and
secondary levels and a simple and cheap "ground station" - actually
it looks just like a USB dongle, for schools to use, has already been
developed.
In addition to providing educational outreach for schools and colleges
around the world, the spacecraft will also provide a U/V linear trans-
ponder for radio amateurs during local "night", at weekends and during
holiday periods.
The IARU amateur satellite frequency coordination panel has announced
new frequencies for the FUNcube-1 satellite to take into account other
payloads on the same launch. The new frequencies are:
FUNcube-1 New Frequencies
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Uplink 435.080 - 435.060 MHz
Downlink 145.960 - 145.980 MHz
Beacon 145.955 MHz CW and BPSK.
The production and testing of the spacecraft itself has already been
funded via a legacy and other sources. It will however really help
the project if radio amateurs and other interested supporters could
contribute something towards the cost of the actual launch itself.
With this in mind a special donation scheme has been setup using the
Virgin Giving charity donation website.
All donations received from UK tax payers can be "Gift Aided" which
will add 20% to the value of your donation.
More information about this exciting project will be made available
over the coming months at the FUNcube website.
Journalist David Meyer interviewed Jim Heck G3WGM for his article on
FUNcube-1. Read the article at: http://tinyurl.com/7nr9sec
(www.zdnet.co.uk)
FUNcube Giving: http://tinyurl.com/funcubegiving/
FUNcube: http://www.funcube.org.uk/
[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and the FUNcube Team for the above information]
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DNEPR Launch Includes Triton-1 and Triton-2 Amateur Satellites
AMSAT-UK reported this week that the same DNEPR launch in the third
quarter of 2012 carrying FUNcube-1 will also have additional amateur
satellite payloads aboard.
Triton-1
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Comprising of a 3U CubeSat, the Triton-1 mission is a radio science
mission which aims to test an experimental advanced AIS (Automatic
Identification System) receiver.
Telemetry decoding software will be made available which will allow
radio amateur operators to listen to periodic downlink broadcasts
containing housekeeping telemetry, payload telemetry as well as re-
ceived AIS messages. Telemetry downlinks will be 9k6 RC-BPSK on VHF
(145MHz).
The satellite also includes two similar secondary amateur radio pay-
loads, being two single channel mode U/V (435-145MHz) FM to DSB
transponders.
After the Triton-1 three month science mission is complete plans are
to have the satellite continue in the Amateur Satellite Service for
as long as possible.
The following downlink frequencies have been coordinated for Triton-1:
Main Downlink 145.815 MHz
Backup Downlink 145.860 MHz
Uplink frequencies will be announced by the project team once the
satellite becomes available for amateur operations.
Triton-2
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Comprising of a 3U CubeSat, the Triton-2 mission is a radio science
mission which aims to test an experimental advanced AIS (Automatic
Identification System) receiver.
Telemetry decoding software will be made available which will allow
radio amateur operators to listen to periodic downlink broadcasts
containing housekeeping telemetry, payload telemetry as well as re-
ceived AIS messages. Telemetry downlinks will be 9k6 RC-BPSK on VHF
(145MHz) and 38k4 RC-BPSK on S Band (2400MHz).
After the Triton-2 three month science mission is complete plans are
to have the satellite continue in the Amateur Satellite Service for
as long as possible. The satellite includes two secondary amateur
radio payloads:
+ A single channel mode U/V (435-145 MHz) FM to DSB transponder.
+ A single channel mode U/S (435-2400 MHz) FM to FM transponder.
Downlink frequency details will be published shortly. Uplink fre-
quencies will be announced by the project team once the satellite
becomes available for amateur operations. Power budget permitting,
both payloads may be switched on at the same time.
In addition to Funcube, Triton-1, and Triton-2 this DNEPR rocket will
launch UKube-1, Delfi n3Xt (also carrying a linear amateur U/V linear
transponder), Trio-Cinema 1 & 2 and other spacecraft using frequencies
in the amateur satellite service.
AMSAT-UK published the story at: http://www.uk.amsat.org/3434
[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]
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FUNcube Dongle Presentation Video
The AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle is a VHF/UHF (64-1700 MHz) Software Def-
ined Radio (SDR) on a USB Dongle. Howard Long G6VLB traveled from
London to the 2011 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC)
in Baltimore to address the group on this project. He details the
trials and tribulations behind designing and manufacturing what
turned out to be an extremely popular product.
The primary aim of the FUNcube Dongle is to interest young students
in science, satellites and radio. The FUNcube itself is a satellite
that will be launched specifically to be monitored by all those
dongles that have been sold.
Watch 2011 DCC ? FUNcube Dongle:
http://www.uk.amsat.org/2012/01/02/funcube-dongle-presentation-video/
[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]
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SKN on OSCAR 2012 Best Fist Nominations Due
Many thanks to all who participated in AMSAT's Straight Key Night on
OSCAR 2012. If you have not already done so, please take a moment to
nominate someone you worked for Best Fist. Remember, your nominee
need not have the best fist of those you heard, only of those you
worked. Send your nomination to w2rs@xxxxx.xxx.
This year's event is dedicated to the memory of Don Brown, W1JSM, who
passed away in 2011, aged 90. Don was a longtime, enthusiastic VHF/UHF
and satellite operator, and one of our most frequent Best Fist winners.
Those nominated will be recognized in an ANS bulletin in early Feb-
ruary, and in The AMSAT Journal.
[ANS thanks Ray Soifer, W2RS for the above information]
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Ham Radio Builder List Begins
If you are currently a ham radio builder, or interested in becoming
one, the Hamradio-builder mailing list has been created with you in
mind.
Diane Bruce, VA3DB says of the list, "A recent look at some old 73
Magazines brought to mind the simple projects this magazine produced.
So my thought was to do something similar, but meant for the web in-
stead of dead tree. I am not talking a full fledged magazine, but a
website where we can put simple beginner type articles, with copious
photos and good instructions. We hope it will become a bit like Maker
Magazine but for the radio amateur."
A few of us have written and edited amateur radio articles. She is
proposing for the moment that we clean up or write a few articles
suitable for beginners to start the content for this community.
List members have already proposed topics on homebrew test equipment,
and antennas. Amateur satellite operators have skill and many ideas,
construction projects, and techniques to get beginners on-the-air at
VHF, UHF, and microwave frequencies.
The project is just getting started. If you are interested in joining
this community you can sign up for the list at:
http://diana.db.net/mailman/listinfo/hamradio-builder
[ANS thanks Diane Bruce, VA3DB for the above information]
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Creation of AMSAT-Francophone
A new amateur radio satellite organization, AMSAT-Francophone, was
formed in December, 2011.
Following the disappearance of AMSAT-France a few months ago, some of
the members who originally created AMSAT-France 16 years ago, thought
it was still necessary to have a structure for the French amateur
space activities and have created AMSAT-Francophone.
Among its aims are:
+ Development of amateur satellites, technology and systems useful
for the construction and / or use of amateur satellites
+ Participation in national and international collaborations on
non-commercial projects in space,
The AMSAT-Francophone website in Google English is at:
http://tinyurl.com/AMSAT-Francophone - or in French -
at: http://www.amsat-f.org/
[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]
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Budapest University Masat-1 Telemetry Decoder Software Released
Dr. Bandi Gschwindt HA5WH, Project Director of the Masat-1 CubeSat,
the first Hungarian satellite, built in Hungary by students at the
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, reports that their
satellite is expected to be launched on the Vega maiden flight in
early February. Masat-1's website is at:
http://cubesat.bme.hu/?lang=en
They are looking for hams to help with the reception of telemetry
data on 437.345 MHz at 625/1250 bps baud rate GFSK, especially in
the first two weeks after launch. Call sign is HA5MASAT. The ama-
teur radio webpage is at:
http://cubesat.bme.hu/radioamatoroknek/?lang=en
You can register on that page. Telemetry decoder software can be
downloaded at http://cubesat.bme.hu/kliens_szoftver/?lang=en
Planned orbit will be 300/1500 km, inclination 70deg. and launch
will be by ESA from Kourou.
[ANS thanks Dr. Bandi Gschwindt, HA5WH and Perry Klein, W3PK for
the above information]
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NASA Summer Internships for Students
NASA is accepting applications for summer internship positions among
several NASA Centers around the country. Applications for summer in-
ternships will be accepted until 2/1/2012.
Students can view opportunities and apply for them all in one place.
To start, the prospective student should go to:
http://intern.nasa.gov/ then Student Opportunities tab then select
Internships which will bring you to the OSSI:SOLAR page describing
the program.
Using the Search Tab on the OSSI:SOLAR page selecting Goddard in
Maryland, Internship, Summer 2012, Engineering - Electrical Eng.,
or Engineering - Computer Eng., and a keyword search using "PICetSat"
reveals an opportunity titled "PICetSat Module Development" which
will develop a high-altitude balloon experiment module and related
ground station components. This internship is open for Junior, Sen-
ior, and Masters level students. A description of this particular
internship opportunity can be found at:
http://simsat.net/Internship-PICetSatModuleDevelopment-PKilroy.pdf
as sponsored by Pat Kilroy, N8PK, an AMSAT member and engineer at
NASA in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The application process must be completed at the NASA intern web
site. Students do not specify a specific internship program when
they submit an application. The NASA Education community will de-
termine which internship programs you are eligible for according
to the information you provide in your application.
[ANS thanks NASA for the above information]
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Satellite Shorts From All Over
+ ARISS volunteer Dave Jordan, AA4KN will give a presentation on the
ARISS program during the Kings Point Amateur Radio Club (KPARC)
monthly meeting on January 9 at 2 pm ET. The club is located in
Sun City Center, Florida.
+ AMSAT area coordinator Clint Bradford, K6LCS, will be presenting
his 'Working Amateur Satellites With Your HT' session at the Gwin-
nett Amateur Radio Society's TechFest 2012 on January 14, 2012.
ALL are welcome to attend!
Saturday, January 14, 2012 - 11AM EST
Gwinnett Medical Resource Center
655 Duluth Highway (GA120)
Lawrenceville GA 30046
Event Web site: http://tinyurl.com/GARS-2012
Attendees should download Clint's four-page tutorial and radio
programming data from: http://www.work-sat.com
+ The AO-27 web page is back: http://www.ao27.org/AO27/index.shtml
+ Links to an entire series of videos, "When We Left Earth" posted by
Space Documentaries, covering most of the NASA missions begins at
this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu6UrXEhbzY&feature=related
+ All 20 videos from the 3-day TAPR Digital Communications Conference
in September 2011, held in Baltimore have been posted on-line. They
are all on the web, full length, and in high definition! All are
available to watch at http://www.ARVN.TV and at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/TAPRDigitalVideo
The videos are free to watch, but they were not free to make. ARVN
is asking viewers to make a contribution, anything from $1.50 up
(details on their web page).
+ The Gridmapper feature on QRZ.com allows you to see the grid square
on a Google map of the station you are looking up. A six character
square is outlined. (John, K8YSE)
+ The January issue of Sat Magazine includes Cubesat coverage about
RAIKO, FITSAT-1, WE WISH, PRIME, the Vega CubeSats, QB50 and the
AMSAT-India 435/145MHz Linear Transponder. Download your copy of
Sat Magazine at http://www.satmagazine.com/2012/SM_Jan_2012.pdf
(Trevor M5AKA)
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In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the
President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors
to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits.
Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. And with that,
please keep in mind you can remember the value of Pi (3.1415926) by
counting each word's letters in "May I have a large container of
coffee?" The billionth digit of Pi is 9 but we don't have a sentence
that long.
73,
This week's ANS Editor,
JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM
K9JKM at amsat dot org
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:55:31 -0600
From: "Tom Schuessler" <tjschuessler@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Update the AMSAT available sats list on "Passes"
page./Celestrak Keps "Amateur"
Message-ID: <001301cccdb9$5de20880$19a61980$@xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
A suggestion for the AMSAT.ORG web site pass prediction page. Please add
some of the newer cubesats. It would be helpful if the sats that are listed
as active on the status page were also reflected on the passes page.
Additional interesting note. ARISSAT-1 (Radioscaf-B) still shows on the
"amateur" Keps that download to SatPC32. I know they come from Celestrak,
but who sets up the list and order? Here is another place those new
cubesats should be listed as well. This especially since some of them have
OSCAR numbers.
Thanks much.
73, Tom, N5HYP
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:59:47 -0600
From: "Tom Schuessler" <tjschuessler@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] K2BSA/5 at Nat. Scouting Museum for ARRL Kids Day.
Message-ID: <001401cccdb9$f6c03fe0$e440bfa0$@xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Again a reminder that K2BSA/5 will be active on 1937Z and 2117Z AO-27 passes
January 8th from the National Scouting Museum in Irving, TX, EM12. ARRL
Kids Day is Sunday afternoon. Give us a call.
Tom Schuessler
N5HYP
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:10:01 -0600
From: "Tom Schuessler" <tjschuessler@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] RS-22 vs UO-22
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I am just full of questions tonight.
The AMSAT Sat status page has an RS-22 and the Celestrak keps in SatPC32 has
UO-22. Are they the same satellite?
Tom Schuessler
N5HYP
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 07:34:32 +0100
From: "i8cvs" <domenico.i8cvs@xxx.xx>
To: "Gary \"Joe\" Mayfield" <gary_mayfield@xxxxxxx.xxx>, "'AMSAT'"
<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: LOTW Satellites from the Old Days
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary "Joe" Mayfield" <gary_mayfield@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "'AMSAT'" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 9:36 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] LOTW Satellites from the Old Days
> One of my winter projects is to get all of my OSCAR contacts back to 1989
> in LOTW. Unfortunately, my older logs are not available.
>
> What are folks doing about contacts made on RS-10/11? My log book says
> RS-10/11 and LOTW wants either RS-10 or RS-11 and I really don't have a
> way to tell which? The same conundrum applies to RS-12/13, but it appears
> I logged most of them as RS-13 for some reason.
>
> Thanks and 73,
>
> Joe kk0sd
Hi Joe,
Beginning from OSCAR-6 up to AO40 I have all my QSO recorded on
a professional tape recorder REVOX A77 using 1/4" tape winded in many
and many big coils each 10.63 " in diameter and so I can enjoy to hear time
to time the voice of my old satellite friends and as well the CW ROBOT
of the RS satellites.Before to start any QSO I mention on tape the name of
the satellite the orbit numbar and the date, just for record along with the
log on paper.
73" de
i8CVS Domenico
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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 09:46:23 +0100
From: "i8cvs" <domenico.i8cvs@xxx.xx>
To: "AMSAT-BB" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, "Bob- W7LRD" <w7lrd@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: LOTW Satellites from the Old Days
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Hi Bob, W7LRD
Yes ! I remember, we worked on AO40 I belive in Mode-U/S particularly when
the satellite was very low over the horizon for both of us. I will check on
my tape recorder and as soon i will find a QSO with you I will made for you
a WAV file
I send this email to you as well via AMSAT-BB because your provider
@xxxxxxx.xxx very often rejects all emails coming from my provider @xxx.xx
and so probably it will be a problem to send you a WAV flle ! If you have
another email address please let me know.
Best 73" de
i8CVS Domenico
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob- W7LRD
To: i8cvs
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: LOTW Satellites from the Old Days
Hi Domenico..Just wondering...did we every work on AO-40?
73 Bob W7LRD
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From: "i8cvs" <domenico.i8cvs@xxx.xx>
To: "Gary \"Joe\" Mayfield" <gary_mayfield@xxxxxxx.xxx>, "AMSAT"
<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 7, 2012 10:34:32 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: LOTW Satellites from the Old Days
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary "Joe" Mayfield" <gary_mayfield@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "'AMSAT'" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 9:36 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] LOTW Satellites from the Old Days
> One of my winter projects is to get all of my OSCAR contacts back to 1989
> in LOTW. Unfortunately, my older logs are not available.
>
> What are folks doing about contacts made on RS-10/11? My log book says
> RS-10/11 and LOTW wants either RS-10 or RS-11 and I really don't have a
> way to tell which? The same conundrum applies to RS-12/13, but it appears
> I logged most of them as RS-13 for some reason.
>
> Thanks and 73,
>
> Joe kk0sd
Hi Joe,
Beginning from OSCAR-6 up to AO40 I have all my QSO recorded on
a professional tape recorder REVOX A77 using 1/4" tape winded in many
and many big coils each 10.63 " in diameter and so I can enjoy to hear time
to time the voice of my old satellite friends and as well the CW ROBOT
of the RS satellites.Before to start any QSO I mention on tape the name of
the satellite the orbit numbar and the date, just for record along with the
log on paper.
73" de
i8CVS Domenico
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Message: 11
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 09:55:59 +0100
From: "Matthias Bopp" <matthias.bopp@xxx.xx>
To: "'AMSAT'" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Sounds from Space
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Dear Amsat-friends,
I would like to draw your attention to a collection of audio recordings
which might me of interest to you too:
The "Sounds from Space" collection on www.dd1us.de is a collection which has
also a section dedicated to recordings of amateur radio satellite signals.
Please have a look at it. The idea is to give older radio amateurs the
chance, to listen to signals of satellites which are already gone and the
might have worked in the past, and to younger people interested in ham
radio, to get them more excited in satellite communication.
In spite of the fact that the collection now gets close to 1000 recordings I
am still missing recordings from some amateur radio satellites. If anyone of
you would be willing to contribute recordings to these satellite I highly
appreciate it. I have and will always give full credit to the source of the
recordings. Please have a look in your older tapes and recordings !
Here is a list of the most wanted missing satellites:
Amsat Oscar 8
RS-1
RS-2
ISKRA-1
RS-3
RS-4
RS-5
RS-6
RS-8
ISKRA-3
Fuji-OSCAR-12
UOSAT OSCAR 15
WEBER OSCAR 18
UOSAT OSCAR 22
POSAT OSCAR 28
TMSAT OSCAR 31
PANSAT OSCAR 34
UOSAT OSCAR 36
ASUSAT OSCAR 37
WEBER OSCAR 39
SAUDI OSCAR 42
STARSHINE OSCAR 43
MYSAT OSCAR 46
KAGAYAKI (SORUNSAT-1)
ANUSAT
BEVO-1
WASEDA-SAT2
StudSAT
In case you have no own recordings but know someone, who might have, please
pass this request to him.
Many thanks for your help.
Best 55 & 73 de
Matthias DD1US
www.dd1us.de
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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 11:51:45 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Trevor ." <m5aka@xxxxx.xx.xx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx Tom Schuessler <tjschuessler@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: RS-22 vs UO-22
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--- On Sun, 8/1/12, Tom Schuessler <tjschuessler@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> I am just full of questions tonight.
>
> The AMSAT Sat status page has an RS-22 and the Celestrak
> keps in SatPC32 has
> UO-22.? Are they the same satellite?
No different satellites:
UO-22 built at Univeristy of Surrey in the UK, launched 1991
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/sat_summary/uo22.php
RS-22 built in the Russian Federation, launched 2003
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=76
73 Trevor M5AKA
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Message: 13
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 08:07:44 -0600
From: "Gary \"Joe\" Mayfield" <gary_mayfield@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "'AMSAT'" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: LOTW Satellites from the Old Days
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Domenico,
The recordings sound neat.
I would have not known at the time of the QSO if I were talking on RS-10 or
RS-11. As you know they were multiple satellites, but physically connected
together as one orbiting object, they may have even had only one power bus.
73,
Joe kk0sd
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Behalf Of i8cvs
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 12:35 AM
To: Gary "Joe" Mayfield; 'AMSAT'
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: LOTW Satellites from the Old Days
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary "Joe" Mayfield" <gary_mayfield@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "'AMSAT'" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 9:36 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] LOTW Satellites from the Old Days
> One of my winter projects is to get all of my OSCAR contacts back to 1989
> in LOTW. Unfortunately, my older logs are not available.
>
> What are folks doing about contacts made on RS-10/11? My log book says
> RS-10/11 and LOTW wants either RS-10 or RS-11 and I really don't have a
> way to tell which? The same conundrum applies to RS-12/13, but it appears
> I logged most of them as RS-13 for some reason.
>
> Thanks and 73,
>
> Joe kk0sd
Hi Joe,
Beginning from OSCAR-6 up to AO40 I have all my QSO recorded on
a professional tape recorder REVOX A77 using 1/4" tape winded in many
and many big coils each 10.63 " in diameter and so I can enjoy to hear time
to time the voice of my old satellite friends and as well the CW ROBOT
of the RS satellites.Before to start any QSO I mention on tape the name of
the satellite the orbit numbar and the date, just for record along with the
log on paper.
73" de
i8CVS Domenico
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