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Today's Topics:
1. New England stations please help (Mervyn Hecht)
2. G=5400 S Scale (Bob- W7LRD)
3. Fwd: Reservations Link (Martha)
4. Re: G=5400 S Scale (Bob- W7LRD)
5. ANS-050 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins (JoAnne Maenpaa)
6. ARISSat-1 GeoReferenced SSTV Images (Joseph Armbruster)
7. Yuma Hamfest report (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK))
8. K7UGA update - Saturday evening (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK))
9. Re: ARISSat-1 GeoReferenced SSTV Images (EMike McCardel)
10. Re: ARISSat-1 GeoReferenced SSTV Images (Joseph Armbruster)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:55:09 -0800
From: Mervyn Hecht <mervynhecht@xxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] New England stations please help
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Is anyone in New England (other than Mass) available for a schedule tomorrow
(Sunday)
on any bird? If so please email me at <mervynhecht@xxxxx.xxx>.
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:19:11 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bob- W7LRD <w7lrd@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] G=5400 S Scale
Message-ID:
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xxxx.xxx>
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anyone want or need a South centered scale for a G-5400?? I think it will
also fit the 5500.? I have a nice metal one I'll never use.? Will mail it
free to the best begger.
73 Bob W7LRD
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:29:04 -0500
From: Martha <martha@xxxxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, Board of Directors <bod@xxxxx.xxx>,
AMSAT Officers <officers@xxxxx.xxx>, Martha <martha591@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Fwd: Reservations Link
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For those people planning to attend Dick Daniels Memorial Service from out
of the area, here is the link for a block of rooms reserved by the family.
Reservations must be made by Tuesday at 4:00 PM.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dick Daniels <dickdaniels@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Date: Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:06 PM
Subject: Fwd: Reservations Link
To: Martha <Martha@xxxxx.xxx>
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Reservations Link Date: Fri,
17 Feb 2012 14:51:25 -0800 From: Lilibeth T. Suico
<lilibeth.suico@xxxxx.xxx> <lilibeth.suico@xxxxx.xxx> To:
<dickdaniels@xxxxxxx.xxx> <dickdaniels@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Daniels,
Here is the booking link for your upcoming group:
* *Please click here*:
Daniels Family Room
Block<http://ichotelsgroup.com/redirect?path=rates&brandCode=HI®ionCode=1&l
ocaleCode=en&GPC=O61&hotelCode=WASFX&_PMID=99801505>
*Instructions for this link are as follows**:*
- *Double-click on the link and it will take you to our reservations
webpage*
- *Select your date of arrival and number of nights*
- *Click on Check Availability*
- *It will give you room choices available within the block*
- *Proceed with reservations*
If your guests experience any problems with our direct group booking
link, there is another way to book their rooms within your group block, as
follows:
- Visit the Holiday Inn Arlington at Ballston website:
www.holidayinn.com/washarlington<https://owad002.intermedia.net/exchweb/bin/re
dir.asp?URL=https://owad002.intermedia.net/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://o
wad002.intermedia.net/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://owad002.intermedia.net
- Enter the dates when you would like to check-in and check-out
- Enter the group code *(O61) *in the Group Code field
Please forward this e-mail to all possible guests. This will allow them to
easily secure their group room reservations online, take advantage of your
special rate, and be identified as part of your group.
Please let the guests know that if they want to arrive earlier or stay
later than the dates you have blocked for the group, they need to contact
us directly, and we will be happy to assist them. They can call
703-243-9808 ext 7107 and ask for Susana, Reservations Manager.
Thank you so much, we truly appreciate your business.
*Very Important:** Please, be sure to forward this email, not copy and
paste the link, since this will disable it.*
**
*Best regards,*
*Lilibeth Suico*
*Sales Manager *
*Holiday Inn Arlington at Ballston*
*4610 N. Fairfax Dr.*
*Arlington, VA 22203*
*Hotel Line: 703-243-9800*
*Direct Line: 703-243-9808 ext. 7113*
*Fax. 703-243-0103*
*Email: **lilibeth.suico@xxxxx.xxxx <lilibeth.suico@xxxxx.xxx>
*visit our website at -*
*www.holidayinn.com/washarlington*<http://www.holidayinn.com/washarlington>
--
73- Martha
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:57:28 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bob- W7LRD <w7lrd@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: G=5400 S Scale
Message-ID:
<443158357.1351773.1329616648583.JavaMail.root@xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xxxx.xxxx
xxx.xxx>
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scale has been given away
73 Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob- W7LRD" <w7lrd@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 3:19:11 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] G=5400 S Scale
anyone want or need a South centered scale for a G-5400?? I think it will
also fit the 5500.? I have a nice metal one I'll never use.? Will mail it
free to the best begger.
73 Bob W7LRD
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:40:34 -0600
From: "JoAnne Maenpaa" <k9jkm@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "'AMSAT BB'" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS-050 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
Message-ID: <002201cceeaf$db565f20$92031d60$@xxx>
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AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-050
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:
* NASA Press Release for 3rd Round of Cubesat Space Mission Candidates
* Dick Daniels (W4PUJ) - SK, 1932 - 2012
* AMSAT Awards Announcement & New Postal Rates Notice
* AMSAT Preparations for Dayton Hamvention 2012
* Vega Launch Success - Cubesats Heard
* MASAT-1 Designated MagyarSat-OSCAR-72 (MO-72)
* Satellite Shorts From All Over
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-050.01
ANS-050 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 050.01
>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
February 19, 2012
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-050.01
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NASA Press Release for 3rd Round of Cubesat Space Mission Candidates
On February 14, 2012 NASA issued a press release officially listing
AMSAT-NA and all of the other 32 small satellites selected to fly in
2013 and 2014 as auxiliary payloads.
The proposed CubeSats come from universities across the country, the
Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, NASA field centers and Depart-
ment of Defense organizations.
After launch, the satellites will conduct technology demonstrations,
educational research or science missions. The selected spacecraft
are eligible for flight after final negotiations and an opportunity
for flight becomes available. The satellites come from the following
organizations:
-- Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
-- Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson AFB
-- California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
-- Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
-- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
-- Montana State University, Bozeman
-- Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif. (2 CubeSats)
-- NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
-- NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
-- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in partnership with the
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (2 CubeSats)
-- NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Fla.
-- The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, Silver Spring, Md.
-- Saint Louis University, St. Louis
-- Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Mont.
-- Space and Missile Defense Command, Huntsville, Ala. (2 CubeSats)
-- Taylor University, Upland, Ind.
-- University of Alabama, Huntsville
-- University of California, Berkeley
-- University of Colorado, Boulder (2 CubeSats)
-- University of Hawaii, Manoa (3 CubeSats)
-- University of Illinois, Urbana (2 CubeSats)
-- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
-- University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, N.D.
-- University of Texas, Austin
-- US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo.
-- Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg
Thirty-two CubeSat missions have been selected for launch in the
previous two rounds of the CubeSat Launch Initiative. Eight CubeSat
missions have been launched (including five selected via the CubeSat
Launch Initiative) to date via the agency's Launch Services Program
Educational Launch of Nanosatellite, or ELaNa, program.
The full text of the NASA Press Release can be read on-line at:
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/feb/HQ_12-050_CubeSats.html
SpaceDaily.com published a related story at:
http://tinyurl.com/Cubesats
For additional information on NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative
program, visit: http://go.usa.gov/Qbf
Please make your donation to AMSAT's Fox-1 Fund at:
http://www.amsat.org
[ANS thanks NASA for the above information]
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Dick Daniels (W4PUJ) - SK, 1932 - 2012
By Jan A. King W3GEY/VK4GEY
One of AMSAT's most important, admired and well loved members, Dick
Daniels, W4PUJ, ex WA4DGU, died on February 14, 2012. He lost his
battle with lung cancer, diagnosed only at Christmas time 2011. Dick
achieved so much working for AMSAT that it is virtually impossible to
enumerate his individual accomplishments. And we cannot overestimate
the importance of his sustained support. Dick was many things to us
but, among them he was our record keeper, photographic recorder, and
the de facto AMSAT historian. So, his loss also represents the loss
of many memories of the things we did and the places we've gone as
an organization, which simply can't be recorded or kept except in
a mind. So, our loss is huge! The records of our earlier spacecraft
developments, starting with Australis-OSCAR-5 and continuing to pre-
sent, amount to over 6,000 individual (non-duplicate) 35 mm slides.
These have since been digitized. These were all kept and maintained
by him. Many of the photos were his own.
Dick was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on May 19, 1932. He received a BBA
degree from the University of Cincinnati in Business Management in
1956 and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton Graduate
School in 1957. He joined NASA HQ in 1961 where he remained until his
retirement in 1994. Dick became a licensed radio amateur in 1959. He
was involved with the formation of AMSAT in 1970 and served on the
AMSAT Board of Directors from 1992 to 2003.
Dick was one of the initial AMSAT members and was Life Member 11. His
first major contribution to amateur radio was his work to obtain per-
mission from the NASA Administrator (then James Fletcher) and the
NOAA Administrator (then Jack Townsend) for the launch of Australis-
OSCAR-5. It was Dick who pushed our AMSAT letter proposal for the
launch of AO-5 through the NASA and NOAA systems. Dick was also heav-
ily involved in our efforts to license AO5 with the FCC. That was a
much bigger deal back in 1970 than it is today. Few will appreciate
the resistance we had within the system from the TIROS project office
at NASA/GSFC and what had to be done to overcome it. Few will also
remember the support we had from places we didn't expect, but, with
Dick's help and all of us pushing - we were in "business" - the
"business" of building satellites for free.
Dick became AMSAT-NA's primary mechanical designer and technician,
having helped design and then assemble just about every spacecraft
structure we launched starting with AMSAT-OSCAR-6. At the beginning
of the Phase-3 era it became clear that AMSAT needed to go into the
propulsion business if we were going to get to higher orbits and
Dick took on the role of chief propulsion expert, in addition to
his mechanical technician duties. Dick and I installed the Thiokol
solid propellant kick motor into the ill-fated Phase-3A satellite
once it arrived in French Guiana and it was Dick, working with MBB
who loaded the bi-propellant fuels (UDMH or AZ-50 and N2O4) on-board
AO-10, AO-13 and AO-40 (all very dangerous compounds). Even though
the rocket motor each time was pure German technology, Dick was the
one we all trusted to handle the exacting task of propellant loading.
He also developed, assembled and tested all of the PFAs (propellant
flow assembly) units that controlled the fuel flow and pressurization
of each of the propulsion systems. He also contributed significantly
to their design details. The utilization of real, high performance
propulsion systems on small satellites is still something no other
small satellite organization other than AMSAT has successfully
achieved. Few have even attempted to follow in our footsteps. We've
had our difficulties with rocket motors (and what organization that
has tried to use them has not?) but, at least AO-13 was perfect. No
pce to fire our solid rocket motor.
Dick constructed the AO-6 2M/10M repeater (or transponder) designed
by Perry Klein (W3PK) and Karl Meinzer (DJ4ZC). He also constructed
the follow-on unit flown on AO-7. He assembled major portions of the
receiver units forming both the command system and packet communica-
tions system developed by Tom Clark (W3IWI) for the four Microsat
spacecraft launched in 1990. Dick assembled so much hardware that if
you were to look at each individual sub-assembly that he built or
worked on - as they exist in our master photo set - and you viewed
each slide for 10 seconds, it would take over an hour to view all
of them! That is a lot of space flight hardware.
Dick loved space flight, he loved the challenge represented by the
amateur satellite program and he loved working with our many friends
around the world. Together we accomplished something that will take
years before others reproduce. More importantly, with Dick's huge
support we actually created a new industry. Few lives can claim to
have done that. The Small Satellite Industry is very alive and well
and, as a sector of all space commerce it is now the fastest growing
area. If Dick had not made his contributions, AMSAT would have had a
very different history but, because of him and others who worked so
hard to get things started, AMSAT is at the root of all of today's
small satellite technology. This is a fact, not wishful thinking.
Dick also loved nature and the outdoors. We spent many happy times
hiking in the mountains of Virginia, using the "famous" Daniels
"cabin" as a base camp. We had great times chasing butterflies and
watching sea turtles in French Guiana. Dick has a wonderful family
and even though AMSAT took a significant fraction of his free time
his daughter Kathy and his son Robert are proud of his accomplish-
ments. Like all AMSAT "widows" Jackie supported Dicks "hobby" with
enthusiasm and never complained about her time alone when Dick was
integrating AMSAT spacecraft on the night shift (sometimes at home
and sometimes with me at the AMSAT lab). His family will miss him
terribly as he was not just an average father and husband.
Dick spent a lot of time working on the gantry level of many launch
vehicles, installing AMSAT spacecraft on Delta and Ariane launchers
and, as a NASA-HQ employee, he built more space flight hardware in
his basement than anyone working for NASA in Washington, D.C. ever
even saw in a lifetime. He loved life and he made his count. And he
made a huge difference to the outcome of our hobby and our belief
in what an individual can do in space.
So, we've lost someone that meant a lot to us all and someone who
will be impossible to replace. History may repeat itself but, it
will be a long time before someone like Dick Daniels, with his uni-
que set of skills comes our way again. So, W4PUJeally! An amazing LIFE!
Jan A. King, W3GEY/VK4GEY
A memorial service will be held for Dick Daniels, W4PUJ on Saturday,
February 25 at 1:00PM at Little Falls Presbyterian Church, 6025 Little
Falls Rd, Arlington VA 22207. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests
a contribution to: Capital Caring, 950 N Glebe Rd #500, Arlington VA
22203. This is the organization that provided hospice care for Dick.
Donations in memory of Dick can also be made on-line:
http://www.capitalcaring.org/donate-online
E-mail messages of condolence sent to martha@xxxxx.xxx will be given
to Dick's family.
For those planning to attend Dick Daniels Memorial Service from out
of the Washington DC area, a block of rooms has been reserved by the
family. Reservations must be made by Tuesday at 4:00 PM EST. Go to:
http://tinyurl.com/Daniels-AMSAT (Holiday Inn)
[ANS thanks Jan King, W3GEY/VK4GEY for the above information]
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AMSAT Awards Announcement & New Postal Rates Notice
AMSAT Director Contests and Awards, Bruce Paige, KK5DO says congrat-
ulations are in order for our latest AMSAT Awards recipients.
The following have entered into the Satellite Communicators Club for
making their first satellite QSO:
+ Ben Jacobs, KC9ROI
The following have earned the AMSAT Communications Achievement Award:
+ Hector Luis Martinez Sis, CO6CBF, #547
+ I Made Sudarsana SE, YB9AY, #548
The following have earned the South Africa Satellite Communications
Achievement Award:
+ Hector Luis Martinez Sis, CO6CBF, #US178
The following have earned their Robert W. Barbee, Jr. W4AMI Award:
+ Hector Luis Martinez Sis, CO6CBF #76
+ Jim Adams, K0BAM upgrade to 2,000
The following have earned their Robert W. Barbee, Jr. W4AMI 5000
Award:
+ Mariusz Kocot SQ9MES, #29
To see all the awards visit http://www.amsat.org or
http://www.amsatnet.com
Postage Rate Increase Drives New Cost of Awards:
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The AMSAT Awards web page (http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/awards/)
will be updated with the new postage rate information. Please note
that new U.S. Postage rates in effect January, 2012 now require en-
velopes with stiffeners in them (as AMSAT Awards are packaged) to
be sent as first class small packages. Postage is now $2.00 within
the U.S. and $5.00 for overseas.
[ANS thanks AMSAT Director Contests and Awards, Bruce Paige, KK5DO
for the above information]
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AMSAT Preparations for Dayton Hamvention 2012
AMSAT Vice-President of User Services, Gould Smith, WA4SXM says that
planning is underway and the AMSAT Dayton team is busy preparing for
our presence at the Hamvention, May 18-20, 2012.
AMSAT will be found in the same booths (444-449) in Ball Arena, right
across from the ARRL area and just inside the door from the Satel-
lite Demonstration area. Plan to visit all of the AMSAT activities!
+ AMSAT satellite prototypes
+ AMSAT Thursday Night Get-together
+ AMSAT Forum planned for Saturday morning
+ AMSAT/TAPR Banquet
AMSAT reserves a block of hotel rooms with priority given for those
volunteering to work in the AMSAT booth for multiple 2 hour shifts
during the Hamvention. More information will be released when this
is finalized.
Additional information via ANS and the AMSAT web site Dayton area
will be updated soon. Keep an eye on:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/hamvention/2012/Dayton.php
[ANS thanks Gould Smith, WA4SXM for the above information]
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Vega Launch Success - Cubesats Heard
The European Space Agency Vega first flight was launched successfully
on Monday, February 13 at 1000 UTC from the ESA Spaceport at Kourou
in French Guiana. A YouTube video playback of the launch can be seen
at: http://tinyurl.com/Vega-Launch
Following the launch signals had been reported from AlmaSat-1, Goliat,
Masat-1, PW-Sat, UniCubeSat and XaTcobeo by amateur radio operators
around the world.
Details of the satellite radio frequency and modulation type have
been published on the web, see:
http://www.amsat.org
http://www.uk.amsat.org/4657
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/e1200 bps FM (no reception report)
+ UniCubeSat 437.305 MHz 9600 bps FSK
+ XaTcobeo 437.365 MHz FFSK with AX.25
AMSAT-Francophone has posted a windows and linux version of a tele-
metry decoder for the French student ROBUSTA amateur satellite at:
http://www.amsat-f.org/site/spip.php?article24
When PW-Sat has finished its primary scientific mission it will be
reconfigured as a 435/145 MHz FM to DSB transponder for general
amateur radio communications. The FM to Double Sideband transponder
was first pioneered by amateurs on the satellite AO-16.
The Masat-1 satellite team have made available software to decode
their 437.345 MHz GFSK telemetry data via a PC sound card. The soft-
ware can be downloaded from:
http://cubesat.bme.hu/en/foldi-allomas/kliens-szoftver/
XaTcobeo got a mention on Spanish TV news, see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdVt8P1gzfY (in Spanish)
[ANS thanks the Vega Cubesat Teams, AMSAT-UK, and radio amateurs
worldwide for the above information]
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MASAT-1 Designated MagyarSat-OSCAR-72 (MO-72)
OSCAR Number Administrator Bill Tynan, W3XO reports, "Congratula-
tions on the successful launch of the MaSat-1 Cubesat that the team
at Budapest University of Technology and Economics have been respon-
sible for designing, building and testing. Since you have met all
of the requirements for being issued an OSCAR number, including
coordination through IARU and requesting an OSCAR number, I, under
authority vested in me by the President of AMSAT-NA, do hereby name
MaSat-1 as MagyarSat-OSCAR-72 or MO-72."
Bill concludes, "I, and all at AMSAT-NA wish MagyarSat-OSCAR-72 great
success in fulfilling all of its mission objectives."
[ANS thanks OSCAR Number Administrator Bill Tynan, W3XO for the
above information]
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Satellite Shorts From All Over
+ Congratulations to John Papay K8YSE for reaching 1006 confirmed
grids for his satellite VUCC award!
+ Joseph Armbruster, KJ4JIO is working on an analysis of ARISSat-1
keplerian element data. He has posted his initial graphic plots
of the data at: http://tinyurl.com/KJ4JIO-Analysis
Joe plans to extend this analysis in the future to include correl-
ation of orbit with temperature, eclipses, etc.
+ ARISS news is available on Twitter. The ARISS twitter account
ARISS_status has just surpassed the 1000 followers mark.
See: http://twitter.com/ARISS_status
+ Special John Glenn ARISS Contact with Perth, Australia to cele-
brate the 50th Anniversary of "The City of Lights" will carried
live via internet streaming, Monday, February 20 at 10:23 UTC:
- EchoLink *AMSAT* (101377) and *JK1ZRW* (277208) servers
- IRLP Node 9010 Discovery Reflector
+ AMSAT-DL received a certificate of appreciation from Japan's
UNITEC-1 flight to Venus together with AKATSUKI (Venus Climate
Orbiter): http://tinyurl.com/UNITEC-Award (amsat.org).
+ Reminder that the QSL Manager for the K7UGA Barry Goldwater
Special Event stations sponsored by CADXA is Bob Davies, K7BHM
(qrz.com) with an SASE. A video showing K7UGA satellite operation
has been posted by Patrick WD9EWK at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=790OQThYtX0
+ Yuri, UT1FG/MM has been making satellite contacts in range of North
America. John, K8YSE has prepared an excellent "working Yuri" pri-
mer for those trying to make a contact with UT1FG/MM:
http://www.papays.com/sat/general.html (scroll down about 1/4 way
down the web page).
+ AMSAT Keeper of the Keps, Ray Hoad, WA5QGD says that SumbandilaSat
(SO-67, Cat# 35870) has been added back into the Keplerian Element
set distribution in light of published plans of recovery of SO-67
for amateur radio operation.
+ The 2012 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting dates have been
set for Oct 26-28, 2012 at the Holiday Inn Orlando Airport. More
details as they become available.
+ NASA and the American Physical Society have entered into a part-
nership to share unique videos from the International Space Station
with students, educators and science fans around the world. NASA
astronaut Don Pettit will use everyday objects from Earth to demon-
strate physics through the "Science off the Sphere" video series.
Watch the first video at http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/sots/
(NASA Education Express)
+ Astronaut Nicole Stott posted an image of Egypt on her Twitter
account: http://tinyurl.com/pyramids-from-ISS. If you can spot the
Great Pyramids at Giza in this small image, you've pretty good eye-
sight! Click the image for a larger version of the image if can't
find them. (UniverseToday.com)
+ DX News Reports say that Gabon, TR, will be activated by Sebastien,
F4EIH, who will be in Gabon for at least three years starting on
1 February. He plans to operate SSB, PSK31 and JT65 on the HF and
VHF (EME and Satellite) bands. (425 DX News)
+ Enjoy the view out the window aboard the ISS as you fly over the
US East Coast at night: http://tinyurl.com/ISS-Over-EastCoast. At
the end of the video you can click on the icons to fly over other
places. (UniverseToday.com)
+ Cornell/JA/MIT are organizing the 1st Interplanetary CubeSat Work-
shop. The conference will be held at the end of May this year at
MIT. Abstracts are now being accepted for technical talks. The
event website describing keynote speakers, program details and
other information can be accessed at: http://www.iCubeSat.org
+ Historical Note: 26 years ago on February 19, 1986 the Mir Space
Station was launched. It was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996.
It was deorbited on March 21, 2001.
[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 additional benefits.
Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. And, with that,
please keep in mind the size of the universe: Light from the sun takes
8 minutes to reach you. When you look at the Andromeda galaxy the light
you are seeing took 2.3 million years to reach you. If the sun were the
size of a dot on an ordinary-sized letter 'i', then the nearest star
would be 10 miles away.
73,
This week's ANS Editor,
JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM
K9JKM at amsat dot org
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:18:11 -0500
From: Joseph Armbruster <josepharmbruster@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx BB" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISSat-1 GeoReferenced SSTV Images
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Hi Everyone,
I spent some time plotting the ARISSat-1 SSTV images geo-spatially. Let me
know what you think!
http://libjoe.blogspot.com/2012/02/arissat-1-sstv-images-geo-referenced.html
Joseph Armbruster
KJ4JIO
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:45:45 -0800 (PST)
From: "Patrick STODDARD \(WD9EWK/VA7EWK\)" <amsat-bb@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Yuma Hamfest report
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Hi!
The Yuma Hamfest wrapped up this evening, after a full day with lots
of people wandering around the Yuma County Fairgrounds site. This
year's hamfest is also the 2012 ARRL Southwestern Division Convention,
which brought more people in. The AMSAT table saw lots of traffic,
especially with the model of the Fox-1 satellite on display along
with flyers about the Fox project and getting started on the FM birds.
The AMSAT table was inside the main hall, next to the large ARRL table.
With all the people coming by the table, I did not work any passes in
the morning. I was able to do one afternoon demonstration, on an AO-27
pass just after 2000 UTC. Thanks, as always, for all the QSOs! Please
note that I am *not* the QSL manager for K7UGA satellite activity, but
direct the QSL requests with SASE to K7BHM.
One of the planned events for this hamfest was the launch of a high-
altitude balloon carrying (among other payloads) an APRS transmitter
and a 2m/70cm cross-band FM repeater. Due to uncooperative winds
predicted for Yuma, which could have blown the balloon onto one of
two military bombing ranges to the north or east of Yuma, or possibly
south across the USA/Mexico border, the launch was moved north to the
town of Quartzsite AZ. Instead of the crowds seeing the launch in
person, a live video link was established from Quartzsite to a large
screen in the main exhibit hall. Once the balloon was no longer
visible on the video link, the exhibit hall switched over to showing
a web site plotting the path of the satellite using APRS data.
After the balloon was up to about 20000 feet/6100m, I could hear the
70cm downlink from the repeater. This repeater is essentially like
SO-50 - 2m uplink with PL tone, 70cm downlink - but without having to
deal with Doppler. I made a quick QSO through the repeater using my
TH-D72A HT and a long duckie antenna from the AMSAT table in the main
hall. After seeing that I was able to hear and be heard through that
repeater, I changed antennas to my Elk log periodic, and proceeded to
make a few more QSOs. These additional QSOs were made using the K7UGA
call sign I have been using this week on the satellites, an added bonus
for those around Arizona and a couple of hams outside the exhibit hall
at the hamfest. The fact that I could hear, and work, the balloon's
cross-band repeater surprised many in the main hall. Especially with
the HT.
After the balloon's approximately 2 1/2-hour flight, it crash-landed
in the desert north of Interstate 10 between Quartzsite and Phoenix.
As the recovery team drove up to the area where the balloon was
laying, the crowds in the main hall were treated to another live
video feed. We were able to see them find the balloon on the ground.
Over the two days at Yuma, I (as K7UGA) worked 5 different satellite
passes along with the repeater on the balloon this morning. Thanks
again to the Yuma Amateur Radio Hamfest Organization - an actual non-
profit corporation set up just to host this annual event. They had
several drawings throughout the event - door prizes, a prize for
simply registering for the hamfest, other prizes given out during the
barbecue this evening, and 16 prizes in the grand prize drawing after
the barbecue.
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK (and one of the K7UGA satellite operators)
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:11:21 -0800 (PST)
From: "Patrick STODDARD \(WD9EWK/VA7EWK\)" <amsat-bb@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] K7UGA update - Saturday evening
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Hi!
As I just posted in another -BB message, I operated as K7UGA on one
AO-27 pass this afternoon from the Yuma hamfest. This brought my
QSO count as K7UGA on the satellites this week to 111.
Over the past day or so, you may have heard another voice on the
FM satellites and VO-52 as K7UGA. You would have been hearing Tom
NQ7R. Tom used to work satellites many years ago, and is starting
to try them again. Tom was operating from his home in central
Arizona, in grid DM42.
I will work one more pass from here in Yuma to wrap up my K7UGA
activity. I will be on the VO-52 pass at 1536-1549 UTC (an eastern
pass with maximum elevation of 71 degrees). After this pass, I
am planning to have lunch with a bunch of friends in this area,
before driving home in the mid-afternoon.
It's been fun to operate using the former call of a famous ham
this week, trying to extend the Central Arizona DX Association's
Arizona statehood centennial commemoration to the satellites.
In the brief QSOs on the FM birds, and some of the longer chats
on the SSB birds, I've heard some comments from people who worked
Barry Goldwater on HF - amateur bands, or the MARS frequencies -
in the past. I never had the chance to work Barry on the radio,
but it has been fun to hear them.
If you wish to receive a K7UGA QSL card, please send your QSL
request with an SASE to the K7UGA QSL manager, Bob K7BHM. You
can see the K7UGA card at: http://www.qrz.com/db/k7uga
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:49:53 -0500
From: EMike McCardel <mccardelm@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx BB" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 GeoReferenced SSTV Images
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Joe,
I've been following your project with keen interest. This is really keen
stuff. Now, looking forward, two thoughts come to mind. One, how to adapt
this to lesson plans that can be easily adapted to classroom work. Two, how
to apply the same techniques, perhaps in real, or near real time, to Fox.
And of course these lead to a third, aligning the Fox data relative to the
classroom as near to when it's happening as possible to build interest and
educate at the same time.
This just might be the forward edge, with our educational mission, that we
missed with ARISSat-1.
EMike
EMike McCardel, KC8YLD
ARRL Ohio Section Affiliated Club Coordinator
AMSAT-Edu Moderator
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 18, 2012, at 23:18, Joseph Armbruster <josepharmbruster@xxxxx.xxx>
wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I spent some time plotting the ARISSat-1 SSTV images geo-spatially. Let
me know what you think!
>
> http://libjoe.blogspot.com/2012/02/arissat-1-sstv-images-geo-referenced.html
>
> Joseph Armbruster
> KJ4JIO
> _______________________________________________
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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:31:08 -0500
From: Joseph Armbruster <josepharmbruster@xxxxx.xxx>
To: EMike McCardel <mccardelm@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx BB" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 GeoReferenced SSTV Images
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EMike,
My code and processing scripts push through all of the data in a couple of
seconds. And that's processing ALL of it.
So it would be reasonably trivial to do all of this in realtime and have
maps with plots available with telemetry overlays / etc.
Now that I have all the "hard work" done, there are lots of places we can go
with this.
I am going to make a web-interface with all of this stuff, so that others
can browse through it.
Joseph Armbruster
On Feb 19, 2012, at 9:49 AM, EMike McCardel wrote:
> Joe,
>
> I've been following your project with keen interest. This is really keen
stuff. Now, looking forward, two thoughts come to mind. One, how to adapt
this to lesson plans that can be easily adapted to classroom work. Two, how
to apply the same techniques, perhaps in real, or near real time, to Fox.
And of course these lead to a third, aligning the Fox data relative to the
classroom as near to when it's happening as possible to build interest and
educate at the same time.
> This just might be the forward edge, with our educational mission, that we
missed with ARISSat-1.
>
> EMike
>
> EMike McCardel, KC8YLD
> ARRL Ohio Section Affiliated Club Coordinator
> AMSAT-Edu Moderator
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Feb 18,
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I spent some time plotting the ARISSat-1 SSTV images geo-spatially. Let
me know what you think!
>>
>>
http://libjoe.blogspot.com/2012/02/arissat-1-sstv-images-geo-referenced.html
>>
>> Joseph Armbruster
>> KJ4JIO
>> _______________________________________________
>> 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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