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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Wyatt AC0RA, a skilled and dedicated operator (John Geiger)
2. Re: Wyatt AC0RA, a skilled and dedicated operator (Craig Gagner)
3. Re: Wyatt AC0RA, a skilled and dedicated operator
(Clayton Coleman W5PFG)
4. Re: Wyatt AC0RA, a skilled and dedicated operator (Kevin Deane)
5. Re: RK3KKPK? (Andre)
6. Re: RK3KKPK? (Andre)
7. HI4/AJ5C report for Saturday Jan 28th (Bob Herrell)
8. RK3KKPK? (CONNECTED Igates?) (Bob Bruninga )
9. ANS-029 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins (JoAnne Maenpaa)
10. Hawaii Command Station for PCSAT-1 (Bob Bruninga )
11. ARISSat-1 TLM decod tool (Masahiro Arai)
12. Re: ARISSat-1 TLM decod tool (Douglas Quagliana)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:18:27 -0000
From: "John Geiger" <aa5jg@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "Clayton Coleman W5PFG" <kayakfishtx@xxxxx.xxx>, "AMSAT"
<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Wyatt AC0RA, a skilled and dedicated operator
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I have worked Wyatt many times on the FM sats but didn't know he was doing
the SSB sats until recently when I saw his posting looking for Hawaii on AO7
or FO29. Do you know what he is using for a satellite radio on those sats?
73s John AA5JG
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clayton Coleman W5PFG" <kayakfishtx@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "AMSAT" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 4:01 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Wyatt AC0RA, a skilled and dedicated operator
Wyatt Dirks AC0RA is very passionate about his satellite operations.
Having started with a home brew antenna, he has experimented with
several portable station configurations including LPDA?s, commercial
Arrows, and recently added a 13-element M2 beam.
Just today, January 28, he made a 6,941km contact with ON4HF using
AO-7 mode B. While this is several hundred kilometers below the
distance record for mode B contacts, it is important to note that
Wyatt performed this feat completely portable, without a set of
cross-polarized beams, without automated antenna tracking, and more
importantly ? out in the cold Iowa weather.
He?s recently been making contacts with other stations in Europe.
This does not come easily in a portable setting from the mid-USA
states. Many folks who have been around for a long time, who have
?been there and done that,? may not see this as much of an
accomplishment. I assure you if we had satellites capable of greater
distance contacts, Wyatt would be on them pushing the limits of their
capabilities with minimal equipment.
Not only does Wyatt posses the right equipment, he demonstrates skill
and dedication, something uncommon in young men his age just shy of 20
years old. We should encourage operators of this caliber as they will
be our future engineers and friends in the space frontier.
73,
Clayton
W5PFG
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:31:22 -0500
From: "Craig Gagner" <crgagner@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "'AMSAT'" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Wyatt AC0RA, a skilled and dedicated operator
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Great Job Wyatt, I know I have worked Wyatt a number of times and he is an
awesome operator !
Craig
W1MSG
-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of Clayton Coleman W5PFG
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 11:01 AM
To: AMSAT
Subject: [amsat-bb] Wyatt AC0RA, a skilled and dedicated operator
Wyatt Dirks AC0RA is very passionate about his satellite operations.
Having started with a home brew antenna, he has experimented with
several portable station configurations including LPDA's, commercial
Arrows, and recently added a 13-element M2 beam.
Just today, January 28, he made a 6,941km contact with ON4HF using
AO-7 mode B. While this is several hundred kilometers below the
distance record for mode B contacts, it is important to note that
Wyatt performed this feat completely portable, without a set of
cross-polarized beams, without automated antenna tracking, and more
importantly - out in the cold Iowa weather.
He's recently been making contacts with other stations in Europe.
This does not come easily in a portable setting from the mid-USA
states. Many folks who have been around for a long time, who have
"been there and done that," may not see this as much of an
accomplishment. I assure you if we had satellites capable of greater
distance contacts, Wyatt would be on them pushing the limits of their
capabilities with minimal equipment.
Not only does Wyatt posses the right equipment, he demonstrates skill
and dedication, something uncommon in young men his age just shy of 20
years old. We should encourage operators of this caliber as they will
be our future engineers and friends in the space frontier.
73,
Clayton
W5PFG
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:39:28 -0600
From: Clayton Coleman W5PFG <kayakfishtx@xxxxx.xxx>
To: John Geiger <aa5jg@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Cc: AMSAT <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Wyatt AC0RA, a skilled and dedicated operator
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Wyatt has been working on a website covering a lot of his work on the
satellites. It has photos and descriptions of some of his gear (his
satellite box is cool):
https://sites.google.com/site/radiostationac0ra/
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 2:18 PM, John Geiger <aa5jg@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> I have worked Wyatt many times on the FM sats but didn't know he was doing
> the SSB sats until recently when I saw his posting looking for Hawaii on AO7
> or FO29. ?Do you know what he is using for a satellite radio on those sats?
>
> 73s John AA5JG
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clayton Coleman W5PFG"
> <kayakfishtx@xxxxx.xxx>
> To: "AMSAT" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 4:01 PM
>
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Wyatt AC0RA, a skilled and dedicated operator
>
>
> Wyatt Dirks AC0RA is very passionate about his satellite operations.
> Having started with a home brew antenna, he has experimented with
> several portable station configurations including LPDA?s, commercial
> Arrows, and recently added a 13-element M2 beam.
>
> Just today, January 28, he made a 6,941km contact with ON4HF using
> AO-7 mode B. ? While this is several hundred kilometers below the
> distance record for mode B contacts, it is important to note that
> Wyatt performed this feat completely portable, without a set of
> cross-polarized beams, without automated antenna tracking, and more
> importantly ? out in the cold Iowa weather.
>
> He?s recently been making contacts with other stations in Europe.
> This does not come easily in a portable setting from the mid-USA
> states. ? ?Many folks who have been around for a long time, who have
> ?been there and done that,? may not see this as much of an
> accomplishment. ? I assure you if we had satellites capable of greater
> distance contacts, Wyatt would be on them pushing the limits of their
> capabilities with minimal equipment.
>
> Not only does Wyatt posses the right equipment, he demonstrates skill
> and dedication, something uncommon in young men his age just shy of 20
> years old. ?We should encourage operators of this caliber as they will
> be our future engineers and friends in the space frontier.
>
> 73,
> Clayton
> W5PFG
>
> _______________________________________________
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:25:25 -0800
From: Kevin Deane <summit496@xxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Wyatt AC0RA, a skilled and dedicated operator
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Ok whats with the third person here is Wyatt dead? I dont think so I talked
to him via email today...
Kevin
KF7MYK
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:39:28 -0600
> From: kayakfishtx@xxxxx.xxx
> To: aa5jg@xxxxxxx.xxx
> CC: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Wyatt AC0RA, a skilled and dedicated operator
>
> Wyatt has been working on a website covering a lot of his work on the
> satellites. It has photos and descriptions of some of his gear (his
> satellite box is cool):
>
> https://sites.google.com/site/radiostationac0ra/
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 2:18 PM, John Geiger <aa5jg@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> > I have worked Wyatt many times on the FM sats but didn't know he was doing
> > the SSB sats until recently when I saw his posting looking for Hawaii on
AO7
> > or FO29. Do you know what he is using for a satellite radio on those
sats?
> >
> > 73s John AA5JG
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clayton Coleman W5PFG"
> > <kayakfishtx@xxxxx.xxx>
> > To: "AMSAT" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 4:01 PM
> >
> > Subject: [amsat-bb] Wyatt AC0RA, a skilled and dedicated operator
> >
> >
> > Wyatt Dirks AC0RA is very passionate about his satellite operations.
> > Having started with a home brew antenna, he has experimented with
> > several portable station configurations including LPDA?s, commercial
> > Arrows, and recently added a 13-element M2 beam.
> >
> > Just today, January 28, he made a 6,941km contact with ON4HF using
> > AO-7 mode B. While this is several hundred kilometers below the
> > distance record for mode B contacts, it is important to note that
> > Wyatt performed this feat completely portable, without a set of
> > cross-polarized beams, without automated antenna tracking, and more
> > importantly ? out in the cold Iowa weather.
> >
> > He?s recently been making contacts with other stations in Europe.
> > This does not come easily in a portable setting from the mid-USA
> > states. Many folks who have been around for a long time, who have
> > ?been there and done that,? may not see this as much of an
> > accomplishment. I assure you if we had satellites capable of greater
> > distance contacts, Wyatt would be on them pushing the limits of their
> > capabilities with minimal equipment.
> >
> > Not only does Wyatt posses the right equipment, he demonstrates skill
> > and dedication, something uncommon in young men his age just shy of 20
> > years old. We should encourage operators of this caliber as they will
> > be our future engineers and friends in the space frontier.
> >
> > 73,
> > Clayton
> > W5PFG
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Sent via AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx. Opinions expressed are those of the author.
> > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!
> > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
>
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:31:17 +0100
From: Andre <sats@xxxxxx.xxxxx.xx>
Cc: Amsat - BBs <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: RK3KKPK?
Message-ID: <4F248545.3030206@xxxxxx.xxxxx.xx>
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Op 28-1-2012 2:00, Stefan Wagener schreef:
> Some mysteries are meant to be unsolved........ :-)
>
> Stefan, VE4NSA
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Andre<sats@xxxxxx.xxxxx.xx> wrote:
>> Op 28-1-2012 0:58, Bob Bruninga schreef:
>>
>>> The TOCALL of RK3KPK could also be a Mic-E formatted packet at a
>>> Latitude of 3K 3K.0K in the format DD MM.mmN where message bits
>>> determine if the digit is a digit in the call or a letter. But in my
>>> quick look, I don't see any way that a "K" can appear. The letters P
>>> though Y can appear if the message bits are set. And the letters A
>>> through J can appear if a CUSTOM message is set. But I don't see a way
>>> for K to be set. Though someone may have a glitch in their Mic-E
>>> encoding algorithm. But then since this is a Kantronics, it would not
>>> be generating a Mic-E packet anyway... So, close but no-cigar... Maybe
>>> Lynn who has coded Mic-E more recently than I can see it... Bob, Wb4APR
>> it's not likely to be a mic-e packet because it is not an UI frame but an
UA
>> frame, in this case an ackowladge to a SABM frame or connect request.
>>
>> RK3KPK connected the digi, but that does not solve who RK3KPK is and why he
>> did it.
>>
>> 73 Andre PE1RDW
>>
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:31:47 +0100
From: Andre <sats@xxxxxx.xxxxx.xx>
To: Amsat - BBs <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: RK3KKPK?
Message-ID: <4F248563.3080606@xxxxxx.xxxxx.xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Op 28-1-2012 2:00, Stefan Wagener schreef:
> Some mysteries are meant to be unsolved........ :-)
>
> Stefan, VE4NSA
>
looks like it just got solved, I picked up a message on my packet bbs
from RK3KPK, looks like he is using internet gateways and that might
explain him ending up on 144.390 thinking it was a lap.
R:120128/2111Z10514@xxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xx BPQ1.4.47
R:120128/2052z @xxxxxxx.xx.xxx.xx $:48915-CX2SA
R:120128/2056z @xxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xx $:48915-CX2SA
R:120128/2052z @xxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xx $:48915-CX2SA
R:120128/2053z @xxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xx $:48915-CX2SA
R:120128/2052Z @xxxxxxx.xxxx.xx.xxx.xxxx #:5951 $:48915-CX2SA
R:120128/2049Z320@xxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xx [ALES] FBB7.01.35 alpha $:48915-CX2SA
R:120128/2049Z @xxxxxx.xxx.xxx.xx #:48915 [Salto] FBB7.00e $:48915-CX2SA
From:RK3KPK@xxxxx.xxx.xxx.xx
To : CQ@xx
Greetings to those who reads this message.
I send this message hoping to get acquainted with new
people from the Paket world. I am 59. I work on air since 1971.
My favorite kinds of communication it is the CW and Packet radio.
I work basically CW in the summer - a Packet mode in the winter.
I will be glad to exchange qsl-cards with those to whom it still
interesting.
I wait for your messages on the Packet addressrk3kpk@xxxxx.xxx.xxx.xx
and also on an e-mail the addresslackly@xxxxxx.xx
73! Good luck on air! Best regards from Moscow!
Andy 29JAN2012 00:39MSK
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:05:06 -0400
From: Bob Herrell <bob72601@xxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] HI4/AJ5C report for Saturday Jan 28th
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Good contacts for AO-27 at 1824z were with KI4OTG, CO6CBF, N8MS, AA3JH,
WB0KFC, WA4HFN, N9AMW, N8MH, and AJ4A. Thanks for the contacts guys. 73 de
Bob
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:14:54 -0500 (EST)
From: "Bob Bruninga " <bruninga@xxxx.xxx>
To: "Andre" <sats@xxxxxx.xxxxx.xx>, "Amsat - BBs" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: aprs@xxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] RK3KKPK? (CONNECTED Igates?)
Message-ID: <201201290114.021911@xxx.xxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> looks like it just got solved, I picked up a message
> on my packet bbs from RK3KPK, looks like he is using
> internet gateways and that might explain him ending
> up on 144.390 thinking it was a lap.
Very interesting. I have forgotten so much about regular packet!!! SO
somehow there was a wormhole from regular packet to 144.39 in Southern
California?
Come to think about it, have I been asleep? Why couldnt we have an IGate
system on 145.01 all over the USA linked into an IGATE system so that
everyone's TNC was only a one-hop CONNECT away from any other TNC in the
world?
We could call it APRS-CONNECT on 145.01 (if it has not been taken over by a
DX cluster)...
Bob, WB4APR
>R:120128/2111Z10514@xxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xx BPQ1.4.47
>R:120128/2052z @xxxxxxx.xx.xxx.xx $:48915-CX2SA
>R:120128/2056z @xxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xx $:48915-CX2SA
>R:120128/2052z @xxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xx $:48915-CX2SA
>R:120128/2053z @xxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xx $:48915-CX2SA
>R:120128/2052Z @xxxxxxx.xxxx.xx.xxx.xxxx #:5951 $:48915-CX2SA
>R:120128/2049Z320@xxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xx [ALES] FBB7.01.35 alpha $:48915-CX2SA
>R:120128/2049Z @xxxxxx.xxx.xxx.xx #:48915 [Salto] FBB7.00e $:48915-CX2SA
>
>From:RK3KPK@xxxxx.xxx.xxx.xx
>To : CQ@xx
>
>Greetings to those who reads this message.
>I send this message hoping to get acquainted with new
>people from the Paket world. I am 59. I work on air since 1971.
>My favorite kinds of communication it is the CW and Packet radio.
>I work basically CW in the summer - a Packet mode in the winter.
>I will be glad to exchange qsl-cards with those to whom it still
>interesting.
>I wait for your messages on the Packet addressrk3kpk@xxxxx.xxx.xxx.xx
>and also on an e-mail the addresslackly@xxxxxx.xx
>73! Good luck on air! Best regards from Moscow!
>Andy 29JAN2012 00:39MSK
>
>
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:28:00 -0600
From: "JoAnne Maenpaa" <k9jkm@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS-029 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
Message-ID: <002301ccde2d$9ed2a000$dc77e000$@xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-029
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:
* January 30 Announcement Date for NASA ELaNa CubeSat Launch Initiative
* ARISSat-1/KEDR Legacy Lives on in the DK3WN SatBlog
* Fifty Years: OSCAR-1 Celebration Continues
* Chibis-M RS-39 Deployed - Signals Heard Intermittently
* VEGA Preparations Proceeding Toward February 9 Launch
* Opportunity for Citizen Scientists: Globe At Night Project
* Last Call for SKN on OSCAR 2012 Best Fist Nominations
* SumbandilaSat SO67 Reported Beyond Repair
* Satellite Shorts From All Over
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-029.01
ANS-029 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 029.01
>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
January 29, 2012
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-029.01
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January 30 Announcement Date for NASA ELaNa CubeSat Launch Initiative
AMSAT-NA is waiting to hear whether our proposal to include the
Fox-1 cubesat in NASA's "Educational Launch of NanoSat" (ELaNa)
program has been accepted. NASA selects projects that they deem
to have merit in support of their strategic and educational goals.
Projects that are selected will be able to enter into a collabora-
tion agreement where NASA will cover the integration and launch
costs of the satellite.
AMSAT, working with ARRL, highlighted the educational merit of the
project including the incorporation of Fox-1 into the ARRL Teacher
Institute seminars. ARRL also provided a letter of support for the
project that was a key component of our proposal.
The Clay Center for Science and Technology at the Dexter and South-
field schools in Brookline, MA, also provided a letter of support
that was an important part of our proposal. The Clay Center noted
that they use AMSAT satellites such as ARISSat-1 in their educa-
tional activities for K-12 students and that they look forward to
making use of Fox-1.
The completed proposal, at 159 total pages, required a significant
effort that was all done by volunteers. NASA will select from all
of the submissions and announce the winning projects by January 30,
2012.
[ANS thanks the Fox-1 Project Team for the above information]
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ARISSat-1/KEDR Legacy Lives on in the DK3WN SatBlog
Tune your browser to http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=25476 to enjoy a
unique ARISSat-1 sound archive on-line.
Thanks to Mike Rupprecht, DK3WN, ARISSat-1's identifier message,
"Hi this is ARISSat-1 Amateur Radio Satellite RS01S", has been re-
corded and archived on the web. The DK3WN SatBlog has posted the
ID, the female voice spoken telemetry, male voice spoken telemetry.
Also, 25 audio files of the messages by children of countries around
the world transmitted by ARISSat-1 along with the translated sentence
are included. The "secret word" appears in the last of the message of
each country.
ARISSat-1's international greetings are in Japanese, Bengali, Flemish,
Chinese, Dutch, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (South America), Spanish
(Puerto Rico), Afrikaans, Portuguese, French, English (UK), English
(Canada), English (USA), German, Swedish, Catalonian, Nepalese,
Russian, and Hebrew. The message is displayed in its native tongue
and an English translation.
[ANS thanks Mike Rupprecht, DK3WN and Mineo Wakita, JE9PEL for the
above information]
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Fifty Years: OSCAR-1 Celebration Continues
The ARRL has posted a new, highly informative article on how the
world's first Amateur Radio satellite, OSCAR-1, came to be designed,
built and launched.
The ARRL's Space Communication web page has an English translation
of, "OSCAR-1 Launched 50 Years Ago", written by Andreas Bilsing,
DL2LUX. This article was first published in the German magazine Funk-
amateur. It is reprinted with their permission. OSCAR-1 was launched
just over 50 years ago, on December 12, 1961.
See the ARRL Space Communication web page at:
http://www.arrl.org/space-communication
A direct link the the article in English is:
http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/Bilsing.pdf
Andreas lives in Leipzig, Germany. He is a member of AMSAT-DL and
has written articles in the AMSAT-DL Journal and Funkamateur. He also
wrote the first German Summits on the Air (SOTA) manual. His other
interests include home brewing, qrp, digimodes and satellites.
Licensed since 1975 at age 16 he has held prior calls of DM4MTG,
DM2FAG, Y26AG, and Y23AM. He holds degrees in energy process engin-
eering and automation which is applies to his work in an engineering
company as project manager in natural gas, responsible for instrum-
entation of gas plants, pipelines and underground gas storage.
Andreas says the view from his shack includes Leipzig's St. Thomas
church where the famous composer J. S. Bach worked.
The AMSAT 2011 Space Symposium in San Jose, California featured Lance
Ginner, K6GSJ, one of the OSCAR-1 developers as our banquet speaker.
Lance's talk can be viewed at: http://youtu.be/EWSCCZY1FgQ.
MilSatMagazine.com mentions OSCAR-1 in an article about early U.S.
Recon Satellites in the October 2011 issue:
http://www.milsatmagazine.com/2011/MSM_Oct_2011.pdf
OSCAR-1 rode to orbit with the Discoverer-36 satellite.
A copy of the OSCAR 1 slides used at AMSAT's display during Space
Day at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. can
be downloaded from AMSAT-NA at:
http://tinyurl.com/OSCAR-1-Presentation (pdf ~5MB)
[ANS thanks the ARRL, AMSAT, Andreas Bilsing DL2LUX and amsat-bb
for the above information]
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Chibis-M RS-39 Deployed - Signals Heard Intermittently
The Chibis-M satellite, RS-39, was deployed from the Progress M-13M
cargo ship into a 500 km orbit on January 24, as planned. RS-39 has
CW beacons on 435.315 and 435.215 MHz.
The RS-39 team requested support from amateur radio operators for
any initial reception reports of Chibis-M as its first orbits were
outside of the range of the satellite's control stations. Reception
reports are being received by e-mail to:
amateur-rs39@xxxxxx.xxxxxx.xx. Each report will be confirmed by a
special QSL card.
Shortly after RS-39 was deployed reception reports posted on amsat-bb
said strong signals initially were heard in India (VU3TYG, VU2WMY),
United States (KB1PVH), Australia (VK5DG), Argentina (LU4EOU), and
central Europe (Jakub Hruska).
Nitin, VU3TYG posted a short video of receiving RS-39 at his QTH:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4db7uToltI
On later orbits VKFAK reported the telemetry showed a drop in voltage
aboard RS-39 to 2.8 volts in USUN telemetry field. At this time a re-
port from VU2WMY said the CW signal was only heard briefly at AOS.
RS-39 was not heard on a morning pass on January 25 over North Amer-
ca from a report by W1MSG.
Google translation of http://chibis.cosmos.ru/ reports that the con-
trol station switched off RS-39 after initial testing was completed
on the fourth orbit to save battery power. When testing resumes plans
included calibration of the magnetometer, calibration of solar sen-
sors, and testing the three-axis attitude determination algorithm
using the magnetometer and sun sensor. Later postings from the con-
trol station show they are switching RS-39 on and off at various
times.
Mike Rupprecht DK3WN has made available software to decode the RS-39
telemetry. A description of the program is posted by AMSAT-UK at:
http://www.uk.amsat.org/4029. This page includes links to download
the software. Mike has created telemetry decoder software for several
satellites. These can be found DK3WN satellite software page:
http://tinyurl.com/DK3WN-Sat-Software (in Google English).
Amateur stations tracking RS-39 reported that elements associated
International launch number 11062C, catalog 38051 correlated with
RS-39. Other stations reported success using the tracking elements
for the Progress M-13M cargo ship, however the orbits between RS-39
and Progress were beginning to separate.
Web tracking of Chibis-M, RS-39 can found at this page:
http://chibis.cosmos.ru/cyclogr/prepare1/google/index.html
Keplerian elements can be found by clicking the two small gears
icon in the upper left corner of the map; then select Satellites
from the menu that pops up; then select RS-39.
A video from Roscosmos showing the RS-39 deploymnet from the Pro-
gress M-13M cargo ship an be found here:
http://www.roscosmos.ru/main.php?id=216
[ANS thanks the reporting stations for their signal reports and the
above information]
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VEGA Preparations Proceeding Toward February 9 Launch
Space-Travel.com published an article reporting that final checkout
of Europe's new Vega launcher has been completed marking another
milestone towards its February 9 maiden flight from Europe's Space-
port in Kourou, French Guiana.
All four stages have undergone final acceptance, including the test-
ing of the avionics, guidance, telemetry, propulsion, separation
pyrotechnics and safety systems. These steps culminated on 13 Jan-
uary with Vega's 'synthesis control checks', where all systems were
put into launch mode for the vehicle's final acceptance. This in-
cluded pressurizing the AVUM propulsion systems that actuate the
thruster valves. The rocket's elements were switched on from the
control bench to simulate the launch countdown. The onboard soft-
ware then took over and simulated the different stages of a flight.
The interfaces between the vehicle and the control bench were also
tested. The test review confirmed that everything ran as expected
and that the launcher is ready for flight.
Vega is designed to launch payload masses ranging from 300 kg to
2500 kg, depending on the type and altitude of the orbit required
by the customers. The benchmark is for 1500 kg into a 700 km
altitude polar orbit.
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Vega/
http://tinyurl.com/vega-update (space-travel.com)
+ Xatcobeo (a collaboration of the University of Vigo and INTA,
Spain) to demonstrate software-defined radio and solar panel
deployment.
+ Robusta (University of Montpellier 2, France) to test and evaluate
radiation effects (low dose rate) on bipolar transistor electronic
components.
+ e-st@x (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) to demonstration of an
active 3-axis Attitude Determination and Control system including
an inertial measurement unit.
+ Goliat (University of Bucharest, Romania) to provide imaging of
the Earth surface using a digital camera and in-situ measurement
of radiation dose and micrometeoroid flux.
+ PW-Sat (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) to test a deploy-
able atmospheric drag augmentation device for de-orbiting CubeSats.
PW-Sat carries an FM to DSB amateur radio transponder with an FM
input on 435.020 MHz and DSB output on 145.900 MHz.
+ MaSat-1 (Budapest University of Technology and Economics): to dem-
onstrate various spacecraft avionics, including a power condition-
ing system, transceiver and on-board data handling.
+ UniCubeSat GG - (University of Rome): The UNICubeSat mission goal
is the in situ measurement of atmospheric density. Downlink fre-
quencies are 437.305 MHz or 437.345 MHz 9k6 FSK.
ESA CubeSats delivered for first Vega flight news web page:
http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Education/SEM3L0WWVUG_0.html
ESA Education - CubeSats
http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Education/SEM3N03MDAF_0.html
A picture of ALMASat-1 and the six CubeSats is posted at AMSAT-UK:
http://tinyurl.com/c8o73zw (uk.amsat.org)
Mineo Wakita, JE9PEL provides complete coverage of the Vega launch
on his 'ESA CubeSats Update' web pages. You'll find an overview of
each of the satellite missions, frequencies, modulation/protocols,
and links to the developers home web pages posted at:
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/esa9cubf.htm
[ANS thanks Space-Travel.com, ESA, JE9PEL for the above information]
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Opportunity for Citizen Scientists: Globe At Night Project
The GLOBE at Night program is an international campaign to raise
public awareness of the impact of light pollution by inviting citi-
zen scientists to measure their night sky brightness and to submit
their observations to a website from a computer or smart phone.
The GLOBE at Night campaign has run for two weeks each winter/spring
for the last six years. People in 115 countries have contributed 66,000
measurements, making GLOBE at Night one of the most successful light
pollution awareness campaigns.
See http://www.globeatnight.org/ for details.
In 2012 there remain three opportunities to participate in GLOBE at
Night: February 12-21, March 13-22, April 11-20.
This project consists of five Easy Star-Hunting Steps:
1) Find your latitude and longitude.
2) Find Orion, Leo or Crux by going outside more than an hour
after sunset (about 8-10pm local time).
3) Match your nighttime sky to one of our magnitude charts.
4) Report your observation.
5) Compare your observation to thousands around the world.
Teacher Activity Packets and Family Activity Packets are available
from the website.
[ANS thanks the Globe At Night project for the above information]
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Last Call for SKN on OSCAR 2012 Best Fist Nominations
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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SumbandilaSat SO67 Reported Beyond Repair
The Southern Africa SA AMSAT web page (http://www.amsatsa.org.za/)
lists the current status of SumbandilaSat SO67 as, "No service all
activities suspended; Beacon is not operational."
AMSAT-UK has published the news from South African Defence Web pages
(http://www.defenceweb.co.za) in an article titled, "SumbandilaSat
beyond repair", South Africa's second satellite, SumbandilaSat, is
no longer fulfilling its main purpose due to technical problems and
is essentially beyond repair, its maker SunSpace says.
SunSpace, told defenceWeb that although contact can still be made
with the satellite, it cannot capture images and is thus "not ful-
filling its main purpose".
He said that chances of repairing the satellite are virtually zero
and that SunSpace has moved on to other projects.
SumbandilaSat was damaged during a solar storm in the June last
year. The power supply to SumbandilaSat's onboard computer stopped
working and the satellite stopped sending back images.
According to DefenceWeb, South Africa's Department of Science and
Technology (DST) is planning to launch a constellation of satellites
similar to SumbandilaSat in the next 10 to 15 years. One of these
will be SumbandilaSat 2, which will be larger and more reliable than
its predecessor. Funding for SumbandilaSat 2 will be sought during
the next financial year, starting April 1. Development will take
about four years. The image processing methods and mission control
systems pioneered on SumbandilaSat will be used on future satellites.
The news item at AMSAT-UK can be found at:
http://www.uk.amsat.org/4076
The news at DefenceWeb can be found at:
http://tinyurl.com/defenceweb (defenceweb.co.za)
Southern Africa SA-AMSAT web page at:
http://www.amsatsa.org.za/
[ANS thanks SA-AMSAT, AMSAT-UK, and DefenceWeb.co.za for the above
information]
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Satellite Shorts From All Over
+ Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK has posted videos of his station and oper-
ting tips about working the non-FM satellites with two radios.
VO-52 with Yaesu FT-817ND transmitter, as my Kenwood TH-F6A
receiver, Elk Antennas handheld 2m/70cm log periodic for antenna:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpLw3stcxWY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Og1P2fjmTs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K10RiIEyjfE
AO-27 pass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0IdEPsajkU
FO-29 pass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP80fVF9Lek
+ Watch a time-lapse video taken from the ISS as it passed above cen-
tral Africa, Madagascar and the southern Indian Ocean. The night
time flyover shows numerous lightning storms and the thin band of
our atmosphere, with a layer of airglow above, set against a stun-
ning backdrop of the Milky Way and a barely-visible Comet Lovejoy,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GxH3Pnknhps
+ Richard Garriot has released a documentary of his trip to space.
See the trailer at http://firstrunfeatures.com/intheaters.html
His web site is http://firstrunfeatures.com/manonamission/
+ The article on the FUNcube satellite has now appeared in the
printed publication Electronics Weekly (Jan. 25-31). For details
of how to download a PDF of the article see:
http://www.uk.amsat.org/4006
+ The ARISS monthly teleconference was held on Tuesday, January 17.
Topics of discussion included the ITU notification of ARISS fre-
quencies, an update on the Columbus module and a status report on
ARISSat-1. Minutes have been posted:
http://ariss.rac.ca/arisstel2012-01-17.htm
+ Yuri, UT1FG/MM, has been reported on the DX boards (Jan. 11-Jan. 18)
to be back at sea, traveling across the Atlantic Ocean activating
"Wet Grids". This may be a chance to work him via satellite if you
find him within range.
+ Students working on the Aalto-1 CubeSat have released a 4 minute
video showing a visualization of the launch and deployment of the
satellite, see: http://www.uk.amsat.org/3883
[ANS thanks everyone for the above information]
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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 addi-
tional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT
Office. And with that, please keep in mind the planet Neptune was
discovered more than 150 years ago in 1846, and since then it still
has to complete an orbit around the Sun, as one Neptune year equals
to 165 Earth years.
73,
This week's ANS Editor,
JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM
K9JKM at amsat dot org
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Message: 10
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:03:53 -0500 (EST)
From: "Bob Bruninga " <bruninga@xxxx.xxx>
To: aprssig@xxxx.xxx
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Hawaii Command Station for PCSAT-1
Message-ID: <201201290303.021917@xxx.xxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
We are again in need of a quality PCSAT command station in Hawaii.
This is for our Arctic Buoy experiment at the North pole! (off Barrow
Alaska). The problem is that the ISS digipeater only gets gets 1.5 degree
above the Horizon in Barrow. Probably won't work.
Fortunately, PCSAT-1 overflies the Arctic area 5 times a day listening on
145.825.
Unfortunately, the Buoy is set to digi via ARISS and will not digi via
PCSAT-1 unless the PCSAT-1 alias is commanded to match the ISS alias of
ARISS. This is a fundamental design of PCSAT, but when we set the ARISS
digipeater alias, it only lasts until the next eclipse 30 minutes later, and
so this command will have to be sent from Hawaii on EVERY pass where we want
to check on the health of the Buoy. So we also need to train a Hawaii
command station.
This will -not- be a daily task. Just occasionally when time permits to
allow us to get back one health-packet from the Buoy every now and then.
If there is anyone fully conversant with conventional packet and Kantronics
remote-logon and remote control of a KPC TNC, and is interested in this
project, let us know.
Bob, Wb4APR
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Message: 11
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:10:07 +0900
From: Masahiro Arai <m-arai@x.xxxxx.xx.xx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISSat-1 TLM decod tool
Message-ID: <201201290310.AA00751@xxxxx.x.xxxxx.xx.xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Is there any tool to display ARISSat-1 telemetry date form CSV files
and binaly files on ARISSat Telemetry Archives which are decoded by
ARISSatTLM?
Thank you for you help
73
Masa JN1GKZ
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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Douglas Quagliana <dquagliana@xxx.xxx>
To: m-arai@x.xxxxx.xx.xxx amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 TLM decod tool
Message-ID: <8CEAC5A107BA598-1E00-B6B8@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hi Masa,
The binary files on the AMSAT FTP site today are the RAW (not decoded)
telemetry files.
We will have the decoded ARISSat-1 telemetry available as decoded CSV files
on the
AMSAT FTP site soon.
Douglas KA2UPW/5
-----Original Message-----
From: Masahiro Arai <m-arai@x.xxxxx.xx.xx>
To: amsat-bb <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Sat, Jan 28, 2012 10:47 pm
Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISSat-1 TLM decod tool
Is there any tool to display ARISSat-1 telemetry date form CSV files
and binaly files on ARISSat Telemetry Archives which are decoded by
ARISSatTLM?
Thank you for you help
73
Masa JN1GKZ
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