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Today's Topics:
1. Rising Price of Flights to the ISS (M5AKA)
2. Re: Rising Price of Flights to the ISS (B J)
3. satellite metallic cross boom (Lizeth Norman)
4. Re: satellite metallic cross boom (Stephen E. Belter)
5. Re: TechEdSat decay (Nico Janssen)
6. ESTcube-1 launch 0206 GMT May 4 (M5AKA)
7. SATPC32 plays nicely now (James Luhn)
8. Virgin Galactic To Raise Prices (B J)
9. Re: Path to HEO (M5AKA)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 22:40:06 +0100 (BST)
From: M5AKA <m5aka@xxxxx.xx.xx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Rising Price of Flights to the ISS
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New price for flights to the ISS will be $71 million per person from 2017.
Current price paid by NASA is $55.8 million per person and that is due to
rise to $62.75 million next year, a year or so ago they were paying $51
million, see
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/asd_05_01_2013_p01-02
-575108.xml
73 Trevor M5AKA
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 22:33:08 +0000
From: B J <va6bmj@xxxxx.xxx>
To: M5AKA <m5aka@xxxxx.xx.xx>
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Rising Price of Flights to the ISS
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On 5/2/13, M5AKA <m5aka@xxxxx.xx.xx> wrote:
> New price for flights to the ISS will be $71 million per person from 2017.
>
> Current price paid by NASA is $55.8 million per person and that is due to
> rise to $62.75 million next year, a year or so ago they were paying $51
> million, see
>
>
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/asd_05_01_2013_p01-02
-575108.xml
>
Virgin Galactic might raise its prices, too:
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2013/04/29/reserve-your-spaceshiptwo-seat-now-big-
price-increase-coming-soon/
http://www.newspacejournal.com/2013/05/01/is-virgin-galactic-raising-its-ticke
t-price/
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 20:18:54 -0500
From: Lizeth Norman <normanlizeth@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "<,amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxxxxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] satellite metallic cross boom
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Hi all,
Am down in Peru working on the club station. The antennas are mounted on a
metallic cross boom. The antennas are carbon copies of each other in terms
of position. I read on the internet that one should be rotated 45 degrees.
Is this an old wives tale? I can fix the problem as one of the antennas
will partially down to rehab it.
Thanks,
Norm n3ykf
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 22:33:50 -0400
From: "Stephen E. Belter" <seb@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: Lizeth Norman <normanlizeth@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: satellite metallic cross boom
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Norm,
I'm assuming you're talking about circularly polarized antennas.
The short answer is yes, you can use a metallic cross boom if you:
(1) mount both antennas in an X orientation to the boom, *and*
(2) avoid having the cross boom 0.5-wavelength, 1.0-wavelength, etc. away
from the driven element.
The full article written by Kent Britain (of cheap-yagi fame) is on Howard
Long's (of LVB Tracker and FUNcube dongle fame) web site:
http://www.g6lvb.com/fibermetalboom.htm
Good luck with your project; have a great trip!
73, Steve N9IP
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Steve Belter, seb@xxxxxx.xxx
On 5/2/13 9:18 PM, "Lizeth Norman" <normanlizeth@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>Hi all,
>Am down in Peru working on the club station. The antennas are mounted on a
>metallic cross boom. The antennas are carbon copies of each other in terms
>of position. I read on the internet that one should be rotated 45 degrees.
>
>Is this an old wives tale? I can fix the problem as one of the antennas
>will partially down to rehab it.
>
>Thanks,
>Norm n3ykf
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 11:33:49 +0200
From: Nico Janssen <hamsat@xxxxxx.xx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: TechEdSat decay
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The decay of TechEdSat is now to be expected in the evening
of May 4 (UTC).
The satellite is still transmitting.
73,
Nico PA0DLO
On 2013-04-24 21:52, Nico Janssen wrote:
>
> TechEdSat appears to be quite sensitive to changes in the density
> of the upper atmosphere. Small changes in solar activity have a
> large influence on the expected decay date of this satellite.
> The decay of TechEdSat is now likely to occur sometime in the
> first 6 or 7 days of May.
>
> 73,
> Nico PA0DLO
>
>
> On 2013-04-06 18:43, Nico Janssen wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Cubesat TechEdSat (38854, 1998-067CQ) may be expected to burn up
>> in the Earth's atmosphere around April 25.
>>
>> 73,
>> Nico PA0DLO
>>
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 12:30:35 +0100 (BST)
From: M5AKA <m5aka@xxxxx.xx.xx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] ESTcube-1 launch 0206 GMT May 4
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Tonight, Saturday, May 4 at 02:06 GMT Vega's second flight, Vega VV02, will
launch from Kourou carrying ESA's Proba-V, VNREDSat-1 and ESTCube-1.
Live streaming of the launch starts at 01:45 GMT.
http://spaceinvideos.esa.int/esalive
437.250 MHz ? CW beacon, callsign ES5E/S
437.505 MHz ? 9600 bps AX.25 telemetry, callsign ES5E-11
ESTcube-1
http://amsat-uk.org/2013/04/20/estcube-1-estonias-first-cubesat/
73 Trevor M5AKA
AMSAT-UK website http://amsat-uk.org/
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 10:46:59 -0500
From: James Luhn <luhn@xx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] SATPC32 plays nicely now
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As suggested by several here on the AMSAT mailing list, I removed the
USB adapter in my LVB Tracker and inserted a MAX232 chip into the
appropriate socket. I am using a Utek UT-880 USB to serial adapter with
a Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 running XP Professional. It appears that
everything is working now with no lockup failures. Before these changes,
I simply could not track a complete satellite pass without the program
stopping. I have been tracking the moon for hours with no problems
noted. Now to test this arrangement with my Mac! Before making this
change, MacDoppler worked perfectly. I hope it will continue. My next
step is to fine tune the control of my IC-910 using SATPC32.
As they say, "I was all dressed up with no place to go" late last night
on FO-29. My LVB Tracker was working great with SATPC32, I had my
IC-910 running about 20 watts, I could hear myself 59 on the downlink,
there simply was no one on. Oh well, there will be many more orbits in
which to play.
73,
-james
W5AOO
......getting more and more excited about Dayton!!!!
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 17:34:21 +0000
From: B J <va6bmj@xxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Virgin Galactic To Raise Prices
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http://www.newspacejournal.com/2013/05/03/virgin-confirms-plans-to-raise-ticke
t-prices/
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 18:56:10 +0100 (BST)
From: M5AKA <m5aka@xxxxx.xx.xx>
To: Amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Path to HEO
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Can't remember if the links on the work of N1BCD were posted earlier:
Video of presentation at
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/22959312/highlight/267762
Slides
http://icubesat.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/icubesat-org-2012-c-1-1-_presentat
ion_brandon_201205231623.pdf
IARU Coordination
http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/formal_detail.php?serialnum=305
73 Trevor M5AKA
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