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Today's Topics:
1. hams on ISS (Ted)
2. NASA TV Live Coverage of Atlas Launch Streaming Now
(JoAnne Maenpaa)
3. (no subject) (Mike Forsythe)
4. Re: hams on ISS (Bob- W7LRD)
5. Re: hams on ISS (Personal)
6. Re: hams on ISS (Bill Booth)
7. hams on ISS (Ted)
8. Re: hams on ISS (AJ9N@xxx.xxxx
9. Re: hams on ISS (AJ9N@xxx.xxxx
10. hams on ISS (Ted)
11. QRT all PCSAT transmissions! (Robert Bruninga)
12. Re: hams on ISS (Bill Booth)
13. New poll for new OSCAR (Thomas Frey)
14. Re: hams on ISS (Personal)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:32:49 -0800
From: "Ted" <k7trkradio@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] hams on ISS
Message-ID: <001701cdff42$1df67d30$59e37790$@xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Any hams on the ISS at this time ?
73, Ted, K7TRK
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:17:01 -0600
From: "JoAnne Maenpaa" <k9jkm@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] NASA TV Live Coverage of Atlas Launch Streaming
Now
Message-ID: <002301cdff48$4b54f6c0$e1fee440$@xxx>
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Atlas 5 rocket launching TDRS-K is on NASA TV now.
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv is where to watch if you are near a streaming
device. I'm watching on my Roku box. About an hour to go before
launch.
--
73 de JoAnne K9JKM
k9jkm@xxxxx.xxx
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:04:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Mike Forsythe <sar911@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "lalvarez@xxxxxx.xxxx <lalvarez@xxxxxx.xxx>, "AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxxx
<AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx>, "catphish@xxxxxxx.xxxx <catphish@xxxxxxx.xxx>,
"dean@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx <dean@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>,
"edward.c.rice@xxxxxxxx.xxxx <edward.c.rice@xxxxxxxx.xxx>,
"floridadentrepair@xxxxx.xxxx <floridadentrepair@xxxxx.xxx>,
"garymf@xxx.xxxx <garymf@xxx.xxx>, "Gina.Ashcroft@xxxx.xxxx
<Gina.Ashcroft@xxxx.xxx>
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hi!
http://www.adtpservices.com/components/com_content/mainx.php?blq3y=1wg
Mike Forsythe
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:52:57 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bob- W7LRD <w7lrd@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: Ted <k7trkradio@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: hams on ISS
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I believe they all have ham tickets, however few "real" hams
73 Bob W7LRD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted" <k7trkradio@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 3:32:49 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] hams on ISS
Any hams on the ISS at this time ?
73, Ted, K7TRK
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:30:44 -0600
From: Personal <johnag9d@xxxxx.xxx>
To: Bob- W7LRD <w7lrd@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Cc: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: hams on ISS
Message-ID: <14E86C76-7EF7-412A-9A02-97473D3B1EC2@xxxxx.xxx>
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Remember they don't get paid to sit up there on the radio. Remember too that
ham radio in manned space flight has changed since SAREX and Mir. It's no
longer the back up system it once was. They have iPods and such aboard now.
There is Internet access and a telephone to speak with family. Ham radio is
an off duty activity and that time is at a premium. The primary focus of ham
radio now is education or educational inspiration of s,cool children to
encourage study in science, technology, engineering and math. The space the
equipment fills can always be reassigned as NASA desires.
I'm not sure what the definition of a real ham is but too many times it
seems to be a person stuck in the past, bemoaning the things that used to be
while doing little to push forward although always ready say what should be
done. The real hams aboard ISS while they may not be 30 wpm brass pounders
or members of amsat from back in the good old days of free launches are real
hams because they choose to give some of their free time, they are not
required to, they make the choice to, spend in 10 minute bits with a room
often of hundreds, hope and passion for learning, the desire to explore and
the need, reason and necessity to continue to do so, just as the real hams
of old brought the rest of us kicking and screaming from AM to SSB and beyond.
John AG9D
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 30, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Bob- W7LRD <w7lrd@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> I believe they all have ham tickets, however few "real" hams
> 73 Bob W7LRD
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ted" <k7trkradio@xxxxxxx.xxx>
> To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 3:32:49 PM
> Subject: [amsat-bb] hams on ISS
>
> Any hams on the ISS at this time ?
>
>
>
> 73, Ted, K7TRK
>
> _______________________________________________
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:14:16 -0500
From: Bill Booth <ve3nxk@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: hams on ISS
Message-ID: <5109E188.2040400@xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
On 30/01/2013 9:30 PM, Personal wrote:
> Remember they don't get paid to sit up there on the radio. Remember too
that
> ham radio in manned space flight has changed since SAREX and Mir.
> It's no longer the back up system it once was. They have iPods and such
aboard
> now. There is Internet access and a telephone to speak with family.
I don't generally get into these types of verbal banter, but this time I
make an
exception. Right now a Canadian, Chris Hadfield, is onboard and doing a
great job
with pictures and Twitter. I see today that he did a live feed to a school
here
in Ontario. The part that bugs me is there were a few ARISS Ham contact
before
Christmas that did not show up till the day of the contact. The Canadian
RAC site
had no mention of it on their site and still is stuck in November.....
I read a lot of AMSAT/ARRL news letters and I have suddenly realized that
the ham
community is out of it altogether. It would appear that starting this year
NASA
themselves is looking after the contacts. I would have thought that the ham
community would have been in an uproar over this, guess not.
I know that the chances of hearing or contacting the ISS is like winning the
lottery, but I think now it is long gone. I am disappointed that when an
USA or
Russian is onboad you may hear them once or twice. I doubt that you will ever
hear Chris at the mic......... he seems to be caught up in social media.
> I'm not sure what the definition of a real ham is but too many times it
seems
>to be a person stuck in the past, bemoaning the things that used to be
No I do not feel that way, I try all kinds of stuff when I have the time.
Mind
you I see the day when the radio will have an iPhone built in, and we will no
longer need the the communication devices we have now.
Long live the smell of the big tube Collins and Heathkit rigs
Sent from my personal computer.
--
Bill Booth VE3NXK
Sundridge ON, Canada
79.23.37 W x 45.46.18 N
FN05ns
Visit my weather WebCam at http://www.almaguin.com/wxcurrent/weather.html
Organ and Tissue Donation - The Gift of Life
Talk to your family. Your decision can make a difference.
------------------------------
Message: 7
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:59:02 -0800
From: "Ted" <k7trkradio@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "'Personal'" <johnag9d@xxxxx.xxx>, "'Bob- W7LRD'"
<w7lrd@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] hams on ISS
Message-ID: <000701cdff6f$b0b16180$12142480$@xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Jeez, John...thanks for the lecture...I just wanted a shot at a qsl card..
Maybe I'll have better luck contacting the Monkey in the iranian satellite
(the 'ghost' one that was side by side by side with the north korean 'ghost'
satellite)..
Oh well..at least I'll have the memory of watching the first moon landing on
a 13" B&W TV with a bunch of girls that worked at Disneyland, next to the
pool in an apartment complex a few blocks away from Tomorrowland....ah,
those were the days !
73, Ted, K7TRK
(No Code VUCC #226)
p.s. and I don't give a rats ass what they do up there....if they have a ham
license, they can spare a few minutes to play on the radio !!
-----Original Message-----
From: Personal [mailto:johnag9d@xxxxx.xxxx
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 6:31 PM
To: Bob- W7LRD
Cc: Ted; amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: hams on ISS
Remember they don't get paid to sit up there on the radio. Remember too that
ham radio in manned space flight has changed since SAREX and Mir. It's no
longer the back up system it once was. They have iPods and such aboard now.
There is Internet access and a telephone to speak with family. Ham radio is
an off duty activity and that time is at a premium. The primary focus of ham
radio now is education or educational inspiration of s,cool children to
encourage study in science, technology, engineering and math. The space the
equipment fills can always be reassigned as NASA desires.
I'm not sure what the definition of a real ham is but too many times it
seems to be a person stuck in the past, bemoaning the things that used to be
while doing little to push forward although always ready say what should be
done. The real hams aboard ISS while they may not be 30 wpm brass pounders
or members of amsat from back in the good old days of free launches are real
hams because they choose to give some of their free time, they are not
required to, they make the choice to, spend in 10 minute bits with a room
often of hundreds, hope and passion for learning, the desire to explore and
the need, reason and necessity to continue to do so, just as the real hams
of old brought the rest of us kicking and screaming from AM to SSB and
beyond.
John AG9D
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 30, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Bob- W7LRD <w7lrd@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> I believe they all have ham tickets, however few "real" hams
> 73 Bob W7LRD
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ted" <k7trkradio@xxxxxxx.xxx>
> To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 3:32:49 PM
> Subject: [amsat-bb] hams on ISS
>
> Any hams on the ISS at this time ?
>
>
>
> 73, Ted, K7TRK
>
> _______________________________________________
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:23:31 -0500 (EST)
From: AJ9N@xxx.xxx
To: k7trkradio@xxxxxxx.xxxx amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: hams on ISS
Message-ID: <3b6e.576720ba.3e3b59d3@xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Here is the present group of folks on board the ISS.
Exp. 33/34
Oleg Novitskiy
Kevin Ford KF5GPP
Evgeny Tarelkin
Exp. 34/35
Chris Hadfield KC5RNJ/VA3OOG
Roman Romanenko
Tom Marshburn KE5HOC
73,
Charlie AJ9N
One of the ARISS mentors
In a message dated 1/30/2013 3:52:44 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
k7trkradio@xxxxxxx.xxx writes:
Any hams on the ISS at this time ?
73, Ted, K7TRK
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:06:32 -0500 (EST)
From: AJ9N@xxx.xxx
To: ve3nxk@xxxxx.xxxx amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: hams on ISS
Message-ID: <4233.4eaeea51.3e3b63e8@xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Hi all
As part of my volunteer duties with ARISS, I post the schedule of upcoming
ARISS contacts on practically a daily basis. I post to the SAREX BB
(_sarex@xxxxx.xxxx (mailto:sarex@xxxxx.xxxx ). You can also check the
schedule
at _http://www.issfanclub.com/_ (http://www.issfanclub.com/) and at
_http://ariss.rac.ca/_ (http://ariss.rac.ca/) (actually
_http://ariss.rac.ca/upcoming.htm#NextContact_
(http://ariss.rac.ca/upcoming.htm#NextContact) and
look for the link saying Tentative List of Upcoming School Contacts . You
can also go directly to _http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf_
(http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf) .
In spite of what some may think as to how up to date the schedule is, as
soon as I get updates on the schedule and success of a contact, I usually
have updates posted in less than a day. There are times when we get the
locked down time from the ISS planners for a contact almost at the last minute
so my heads up might be very short. Unfortunately we sometimes find out
about the Russian contacts after the fact and thus I am unable to give
everyone a heads up. Usually we at ARISS get the scheduled date and time
about 10
to 14 days in advance but we warn all schools that we may get told with
less than 36 hours. We have also been aborted with less than 10 minutes to
go before a contact.
We are often asked about when the crew is going to make a general contact.
We simply do not know. The crew is super busy and when they do get free
time, they have many things they can do. We can suggest that they get on
the radios; we can never demand. So ham radio may or may not be in their
game plan for that day. By the way, all of the ARISS school contacts
actually take place during a scheduled off time for the crewmember. That
means
they either gave up some free time or their day gets extended.
73,
Charlie AJ9N
One of the ARISS mentors
In a message dated 1/30/2013 7:30:56 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
ve3nxk@xxxxx.xxx writes:
On 30/01/2013 9:30 PM, Personal wrote:
> Remember they don't get paid to sit up there on the radio. Remember too
that
> ham radio in manned space flight has changed since SAREX and Mir.
> It's no longer the back up system it once was. They have iPods and such
aboard
> now. There is Internet access and a telephone to speak with family.
I don't generally get into these types of verbal banter, but this time I
make an
exception. Right now a Canadian, Chris Hadfield, is onboard and doing a
great job
with pictures and Twitter. I see today that he did a live feed to a
school here
in Ontario. The part that bugs me is there were a few ARISS Ham contact
before
Christmas that did not show up till the day of the contact. The Canadian
RAC site
had no mention of it on their site and still is stuck in November.....
I read a lot of AMSAT/ARRL news letters and I have suddenly realized that
the ham
community is out of it altogether. It would appear that starting this
year NASA
themselves is looking after the contacts. I would have thought that the
ham
community would have been in an uproar over this, guess not.
I know that the chances of hearing or contacting the ISS is like winning
the
lottery, but I think now it is long gone. I am disappointed that when an
USA or
Russian is onboad you may hear them once or twice. I doubt that you will
ever
hear Chris at the mic......... he seems to be caught up in social media.
> I'm not sure what the definition of a real ham is but too many times it
seems
>to be a person stuck in the past, bemoaning the things that used to be
No I do not feel that way, I try all kinds of stuff when I have the time.
Mind
you I see the day when the radio will have an iPhone built in, and we will
no
longer need the the communication devices we have now.
Long live the smell of the big tube Collins and Heathkit rigs
Sent from my personal computer.
--
Bill Booth VE3NXK
Sundridge ON, Canada
79.23.37 W x 45.46.18 N
FN05ns
Visit my weather WebCam at http://www.almaguin.com/wxcurrent/weather.html
Organ and Tissue Donation - The Gift of Life
Talk to your family. Your decision can make a difference.
_______________________________________________
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: 10
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:02:50 -0800
From: "Ted" <k7trkradio@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <AJ9N@xxx.xxx>, <ve3nxk@xxxxx.xxx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] hams on ISS
Message-ID: <000301cdff80$fc296340$f47c29c0$@xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Charlie, thanks for all your efforts on this...
And of course, the priority should be the School program
73, Ted
K7TRK
-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of AJ9N@xxx.xxx
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 10:07 PM
To: ve3nxk@xxxxx.xxxx amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: hams on ISS
Hi all
As part of my volunteer duties with ARISS, I post the schedule of upcoming
ARISS contacts on practically a daily basis. I post to the SAREX BB
(_sarex@xxxxx.xxxx (mailto:sarex@xxxxx.xxxx ). You can also check the
schedule at _http://www.issfanclub.com/_ (http://www.issfanclub.com/) and
at
_http://ariss.rac.ca/_ (http://ariss.rac.ca/) (actually
_http://ariss.rac.ca/upcoming.htm#NextContact_
(http://ariss.rac.ca/upcoming.htm#NextContact) and
look for the link saying Tentative List of Upcoming School Contacts . You
can also go directly to
_http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf_
(http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf) .
In spite of what some may think as to how up to date the schedule is, as
soon as I get updates on the schedule and success of a contact, I usually
have updates posted in less than a day. There are times when we get the
locked down time from the ISS planners for a contact almost at the last
minute so my heads up might be very short. Unfortunately we sometimes find
out about the Russian contacts after the fact and thus I am unable to give
everyone a heads up. Usually we at ARISS get the scheduled date and time
about 10 to 14 days in advance but we warn all schools that we may get told
with less than 36 hours. We have also been aborted with less than 10
minutes to go before a contact.
We are often asked about when the crew is going to make a general contact.
We simply do not know. The crew is super busy and when they do get free
time, they have many things they can do. We can suggest that they get on
the radios; we can never demand. So ham radio may or may not be in their
game plan for that day. By the way, all of the ARISS school contacts
actually take place during a scheduled off time for the crewmember. That
means they either gave up some free time or their day gets extended.
73,
Charlie AJ9N
One of the ARISS mentors
In a message dated 1/30/2013 7:30:56 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
ve3nxk@xxxxx.xxx writes:
On 30/01/2013 9:30 PM, Personal wrote:
> Remember they don't get paid to sit up there on the radio. Remember
> too
that
> ham radio in manned space flight has changed since SAREX and Mir.
> It's no longer the back up system it once was. They have iPods and
> such
aboard
> now. There is Internet access and a telephone to speak with family.
I don't generally get into these types of verbal banter, but this time I
make an exception. Right now a Canadian, Chris Hadfield, is onboard and
doing a great job with pictures and Twitter. I see today that he did a
live feed to a school here in Ontario. The part that bugs me is there were
a few ARISS Ham contact before
Christmas that did not show up till the day of the contact. The Canadian
RAC site
had no mention of it on their site and still is stuck in November.....
I read a lot of AMSAT/ARRL news letters and I have suddenly realized that
the ham community is out of it altogether. It would appear that starting
this year NASA themselves is looking after the contacts. I would have
thought that the ham community would have been in an uproar over this, guess
not.
I know that the chances of hearing or contacting the ISS is like winning
the lottery, but I think now it is long gone. I am disappointed that when
an USA or Russian is onboad you may hear them once or twice. I doubt that
you will ever hear Chris at the mic......... he seems to be caught up in
social media.
> I'm not sure what the definition of a real ham is but too many times
> it
seems
>to be a person stuck in the past, bemoaning the things that used to be
No I do not feel that way, I try all kinds of stuff when I have the time.
Mind
you I see the day when the radio will have an iPhone built in, and we will
no longer need the the communication devices we have now.
Long live the smell of the big tube Collins and Heathkit rigs
Sent from my personal computer.
--
Bill Booth VE3NXK
Sundridge ON, Canada
79.23.37 W x 45.46.18 N
FN05ns
Visit my weather WebCam at http://www.almaguin.com/wxcurrent/weather.html
Organ and Tissue Donation - The Gift of Life Talk to your family. Your
decision can make a difference.
_______________________________________________
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: 11
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:52:49 -0500
From: Robert Bruninga <bruninga@xxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Cc: aprssig@xxxx.xxxx aprs@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] QRT all PCSAT transmissions!
Message-ID: <18191b9542a6125d1c17d3c6c98d40bd@xxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Please QRT all transmissions to PCsat to save power for COMMANDing.
PCSAT (W3ADO-1) is entering its 3 day RECOVERY window this year starting 31
Jan.
Today we got logged on for commanding twice, but both times user packets
killed the bird.
At best PCSAT can usually only save up enough power for 2 or 3 solid
packets per pass and we need 3 successfully for command and recover. One
user packet in the middle of that and we lose it for the pass.
MY fault for not making this announcement earlier. Not their fault. But
if you see this email and you are transmitting to PCsat, please QRT for the
next several days.
Commanding is being done from the East and West coast of the USA and over
Germany.
WB4APR, Bob
USNA Command Station
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Message: 12
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:53:50 -0500
From: Bill Booth <ve3nxk@xxxxx.xxx>
To: AJ9N@xxx.xxxx "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: hams on ISS
Message-ID: <510AA19E.3020609@xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> As part of my volunteer duties with ARISS, I post the schedule of
> upcoming ARISS contacts on practically a daily basis. I post to the
> SAREX BB (sarex@xxxxx.xxx <mailto:sarex@xxxxx.xxx>). You can also check
> the schedule at http://www.issfanclub.com/ and at http://ariss.rac.ca/
> (actually http://ariss.rac.ca/upcoming.htm#NextContact and look for the
> link saying Tentative List of Upcoming School Contacts . You can also go
> directly to http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf.
I guess you miss this part then ........
http://ariss.rac.ca/upcoming.htm
That the one that shows the next scheduled contact as December 6, 2012.
When I read on AMSAT News the day after another Canadian contact, I wondered
how
come they were not listed. But then I found 2 others that were upcoming and
never
shown there either. Thanks for you information I know of a couple more
places to
look. So I just figured that since Hams were not doing the scheduleing
anymore
then what was the point of carring on....
But now I see there still is something in place. Maybe the RAC site can be
made
to be a little more updated. As a member of that group I will have to ask
why.
I am still disturbed that a Canadian has time to do pictures and Tweet, but
as yet
he has not been on the rig. But he has lots of time to do this since he is
there
for another 5 months ..... so I wait on as many passes as I can .......
One day my QSL will come in.
--
Bill Booth VE3NXK
Sundridge ON, Canada
79.23.37 W x 45.46.18 N
FN05ns
Visit my weather WebCam at http://www.almaguin.com/wxcurrent/weather.html
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Message: 13
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:55:21 +0100
From: Thomas Frey <th.frey@xxxxxxx.xx>
To: EU_AMSAT@xxxxxxxxxxx.xx.xxx Amsat - BBs <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>,
AMSAT - Forum <Forum@xxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] New poll for new OSCAR
Message-ID: <510AA1F8.7090804@xxxxxxx.xx>
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Hello All
After many discussions I launched a poll for a new OSCAR. AMSAT
representatives are invited to evaluate this poll. This poll can
also be a base for further discussions.
> If you want a new satellite/OSCAR wich payload/communication mode should
it have?
>
>
> o Telemetry Beacon
> o Packet Radio Mailbox/Digipeater
> o FM Repeater
> o Linear Transponder
> o Educational payload
> o Other payload/mode
>
After a month I will continue with the two most chosen choices with
a new poll until I close the whole run.
If you are not a member of the Yahoo Group EU_AMSAT, please visit the
web page http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/EU_AMSAT/ and join the
group. We also have interesting discussions there.
Thank You for your attention.
--
Mit freundlichen Gr?ssen, Best Regards, 73
Thomas Frey, HB9SKA
______________________________________________________________________
Thomas Frey, Holzgasse 2, CH-5242 Birr, Tel. + Fax: 056 444 93 41
http://home.datacomm.ch/th.frey/
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Message: 14
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:24:55 -0600
From: Personal <johnag9d@xxxxx.xxx>
To: Bill Booth <ve3nxk@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: hams on ISS
Message-ID: <D9443C39-55F8-43DB-871B-033AAA1C4749@xxxxx.xxx>
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Bill
Since you are Canadian and there is a Canadian aboard as you point out and
he happens to be the station commander maybe you should call the CSA and ask
them why he's not on the ham station. ARISS doesn't pay anyone's salary so
what can they do about it.
73
John
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 31, 2013, at 10:53 AM, Bill Booth <ve3nxk@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>> As part of my volunteer duties with ARISS, I post the schedule of
>> upcoming ARISS contacts on practically a daily basis. I post to the
>> SAREX BB (sarex@xxxxx.xxx <mailto:sarex@xxxxx.xxx>). You can also check
>> the schedule at http://www.issfanclub.com/ and at http://ariss.rac.ca/
>> (actually http://ariss.rac.ca/upcoming.htm#NextContact and look for the
>> link saying Tentative List of Upcoming School Contacts . You can also go
>> directly to http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf.
>
> I guess you miss this part then ........
>
> http://ariss.rac.ca/upcoming.htm
>
> That the one that shows the next scheduled contact as December 6, 2012.
>
> When I read on AMSAT News the day after another Canadian contact, I
wondered how come they were not listed. But then I found 2 others that were
upcoming and never shown there either. Thanks for you information I know of
a couple more places to look. So I just figured that since Hams were not
doing the scheduleing anymore then what was the point of carring on....
>
> But now I see there still is something in place. Maybe the RAC site can
be made to be a little more updated. As a member of that group I will have
to ask why.
>
> I am still disturbed that a Canadian has time to do pictures and Tweet,
but as yet he has not been on the rig. But he has lots of time to do this
since he is there for another 5 months ..... so I wait on as many passes as
I can .......
>
> One day my QSL will come in.
>
>
> --
> Bill Booth VE3NXK
> Sundridge ON, Canada
> 79.23.37 W x 45.46.18 N
> FN05ns
>
> Visit my weather WebCam at http://www.almaguin.com/wxcurrent/weather.html
>
> Organ and Tissue Donation - The Gift of Life
> Talk to your family. Your decision can make a difference.
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