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Today's Topics:
1. Re: The USA Lower 48 Worked all 488 Grids non-Award
(Michael McCoy)
2. Re: The USA Lower 48 Worked all 488 Grids non-Award (Loren)
3. ANS-237 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins (E.Mike McCardel)
4. Satellites at Tokyo Ham Fair + Cuba-UK skeds (M5AKA)
5. Questions (Martha)
6. Re: The USA Lower 48 Worked all 488 Grids non-Award
(Adrian Engele)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:39:34 -0400
From: Michael McCoy <kc9elu@xxxxx.xxx>
To: John Papay <FL@xxxxxx.xxx>, amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: The USA Lower 48 Worked all 488 Grids
non-Award
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Way to go John! I can appreciate the time and effort it took to accomplish
your grid goal. I look forward to your continued amateur satellite
operator involvement.
73, Mike KC9ELU
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 7:52 PM, David Palmer KB5WIA <kb5wia@xxxxx.xxx>wrote:
> Congratulations on a spectacular achievement, John!!! Outstanding!
>
> Dave KB5WIA
>
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:08 PM, John Papay <FL@xxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> > Some of the active grid chasers on the birds are aware
> > that KA6SIP just gave me my last USA grid when he operated
> > from CN72 in Oregon. And I thought it might be interesting
> > to look at the stats and how one manages to work and confirm
> > all 488 USA lower 48 States grids.
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 07:28:03 -0700
From: "Loren" <lorenrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: The USA Lower 48 Worked all 488 Grids
non-Award
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John,
BRAVO !
73
Loren
k7cwq
CN94
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 22:39:41 -0400
From: "E.Mike McCardel" <mccardelm@xxxxx.xxx>
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Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS-237 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
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AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-237
The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor-
mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite
Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space
including 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.
The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur
Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it.
Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to:
ans-editor at amsat.org.
In this edition:
* ARISS-EU update on the ISS HamVideo
* AMSAT Mentions and Articles of interest in the Press
* New Booster: Japan space agency unveils new rocket Epsilon
* AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballots Due By September 15th
* Radio Ham VK3FADO Cited in The Age newspaper
* Message In A Bottle
* AMSAT Symposium is Only 10 Weeks Away
* Ham Radio in Space: Ham Radio Payloads Preparing to Launch
* Ham Radio Cubesats Hope for November Launch
* The USA Lower 48 Worked all 488 Grids non-Award
* Cubebug-1 Good News
* ARISS News
* Satellite Shorts From All Over
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-237.01
ANS-237 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 237.01
>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
DATE August 25, 2013
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-237.01
ARISS-EU update on the ISS HamVideo
How a DATV transmitter on S-band is being added to the ARISS
equipment onboard the International Space Station has been related in
an announcement recently circulated and available at
http://www.ariss-eu.org/HamVideo.pdf
The ARISS Ham Video transmitter is presently onboard Columbus. The
transmitter was delivered by Japanese cargo spacecraft HTV-4, which
launched August 4 and docked 5 days later.
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano KF5KDP / IR0ISS reported that the bags
are stored in Columbus. There are two bags: one for the transmitter,
the other for the power, camera and antenna cables.
Installation will be done by US astronaut Michael Hopkins KF5LJG who
has been trained for the commissioning of the Ham Video equipment.
The commissioning is planned later in the year, possibly the end of
October when there are favourable passes over Italy. Indeed, the
tests transmissions for the commissioning of the onboard equipment
will be received by the ground station of the ?Centro di Geodesia
Spaziale? of the Italian Space Agency, located in Matera, Southern
Italy.
We will report in due time on the commissioning procedure which will
involve a series of tests to be performed during 3 or 4 ISS passes.
Possibly, the Ham Video transmitter will transmit continuously
between the commissioning steps offering amateur ground stations the
opportunity to test and tune their receiving equipment. The
transmissions will be performed in automatic mode, without requiring
crew time. The camera, which runs on a battery, will not be used and
the ground stations will receive a black image.
Meanwhile, commissioning is being prepared steadily. The kick-off
meeting took place November 2012 at ESTEC, the European Space
Research and Technology Centre, located in Noordwijk the Netherlands.
Detailed procedures are examined and finalized during weekly
ESA/ARISS teleconferences. A preliminary EST (Experiment Sequence
Test) is planned August 28-29. The test will involve the ARISS ground
station IK1SLD, located in Casale Monferrato in Northern Italy.
IK1SLD, which is an ARISS telebridge station often used for
educational ARISS school contacts on VHF, has been upgraded for S-
band reception. Ham Video manufacturer Kayser Italia has delivered a
1.2 meter dish, a down converter and precision tracking motors, which
are part of the ESA funded equipment. For the EST, the station will
receive a DATV signal from a local low power S-band test transmitter.
The decoded signal will be webstreamed to the BATC server. The
British Amateur Television Club offers ARISS free access to their
server. ESA examiners will connect to the BATC server and evaluate
the reception. Test transmissions at IK1SLD will cover the different
frequencies and symbol rates available on the Ham Video transmitter.
Web streaming will take advantage of the special software developed
by Jean Pierre Courjaud, F6DZP. References are available in the
HamVideo.pdf.
When the Ham Video transmitter will become operational, it will be
used for ARISS educational school contacts. Video will be for
downlink only. Uplink will be VHF FM audio. The Ericsson transceiver
onboard Columbus will be used for reception onboard. This cross band
and double mode operation is called Ham TV. Ham Video is the name of
the DATV transmitter.
[ANS thanks Gaston Bertels, ON4WF for the above information]
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AMSAT Mentions and Articles of interest in the Press
+ Amateur Television Quarterly
In the September issue of Amateur Television Quarterly, Gaston
Betels, ON4WF, ARISS-Europe Chairman contributes "The Columbus
Project: A DATV Transmitter for the International Space Station" In
addition to his fine description of the DATV project and ground
station reception and components he cites AMSAT-NA and its volunteers
for funding and building the dual band VHF/UHF antennas on Columbus.
While giving a chronology of the development of Amateur TV onboard
the ISS he writes
"Meanwhile a possibility opened for the installation of VHF/UHF
antennas on Columbus. The Europena Space Agency wanted a VHF antenna
for a specific payload and was interested in the manner ARISS
antennas had been attached to handrails on the Russian service
module. A similar system was adopted for Columbus and, at the same
time, ESA accepted the installation of a dual band VHF/UHF antenna
for ARISS. The antenna project was funded entirely by AMSAT-NA and
volunteers who built the antennas for both the ESA experiment and for
ARISS. The installation was done per EVA, 21 November 2009. Soon an
Ericsson UHF transceiver, which had served in the early ARISS days,
migrated from the REussian to the American segment of the Space
Station and started Packet Radio operation."
The magazine is available via subscription only. Visit their website
www.atvquarterly.com for more information.
[ANS thanks Amateur Television Quarterly for the above information]
+ Monitoring Times
In September's "On the Ham Bands" column, Kirk A. Kleinschnit, NT0Z,
writes "The Highs and Lows of Amateur Satellites". He cites AMSAT on
numerous occasions in the article and includes a picture of Keith
Baker, KB1SF, working AO-51. He references AMSAT as a source of
information as well as describing AMSAT's efforts with the phase 3
birds, Oscar 10 and 13, our current cooperation with Universities and
other entities and cites our website http://www.amsat.org.
+ CQ VHF
The Summer edition of CQ VHF holds several articles related to
satellite and EME. Of particular note are "Add ISS Packet Operation
to Your Satellites Activity" by The AMSAT Journal Editor-in-Chief,
Joanne Maenpaa, K9JKM. This article originally appeared in the
proceedings of the 2012 AMSAT Symposium.
In his "Satellites" column, Keith Pugh, W5IU, writes "Dayton, Ham-
Com, Field Day, ARISS Update, and What's New for Working the Birds."
Needless to say, the article covers a lot of territory and includes
pictures of Tony AA2TX and Wendell W2BFJ, Barry WD4ASW, and Keith
W5IU.
+ QST
Check out pages 46-47 of the September QST for an article, "Decibels
and dBm Demystified" written by AMSAT member and AMSAT Journal
columnist Bob DeVarney, W1ICW.
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New Booster: Japan space agency unveils new rocket Epsilon
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on Tuesday unveiled its new
solid-fuel rocket Epsilon before its launch with a scientific
satellite next week.
Epsilon, a three-stage rocket with 24.4 meter in length, 2.6 meters in
diameter and 91 ton in weight, is to be launched from the state-run
agency's Uchinoura Space Center in southwestern prefecture of
Kagoshima.
The rocket is a successor of the M-5 rocket that was retired in 2006
and is planned to carry a telescope named SPRINT-A, world's first
space telescope for remote observation of planets.
The agency originally scheduled to launch the rocket Thursday but
postponed until next Tuesday due to wrong wiring in communication
equipment.
The original article can be found on-line at:
http://tinyurl.com/New-Japan-Epsilon (Space-Travel.com)
[ANS thanks Space-Travel.com, the Xinhua News Agency, and JAXA for the
above information]
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AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballots Due By September 15th
A reminder that all members in good standing should have received
their ballots. In order for your ballott to be counted, it will need
to be RECEIVED at the AMSAT office by September 15th.
This year we have 8 candidates for 4 voting Board members and 2 non-
voting Alternates. Your vote is especially important this year in
selecting those who will help guide AMSAT-NA. If you have not
submitted your ballot, please review the candidate biography and
position statements you received, as well as the Minutes of the Board
Meeting published in the May/June issue of the AMSAT Journal. Then
make your voice heard by voting.
[ANS thanks the AMSAT Office for the above information]
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Radio Ham VK3FADO Cited in The Age newspaper
The Age newspaper reports on Jonathan Oxer VK3FADO who has been
developing the ArduSat CubeSats which carry amateur radio payloads
The article, by Ben Grubb, says for the past 10 months, Jon VK3FADO
has been involved in designing and building two crowd-funded micro-
satellites that will allow anyone to conduct their own space
experiments.
Named ArduSat-1 and ArduSat-X, the low-cost, miniature satellites
are aboard the International Space Station ready to be put into orbit
between October and March 2014.
Read the full article at
http://tinyurl.com/m56pj4n
ArduSat Open Source Ham Radio CubeSats
http://amsat-uk.org/2013/08/09/ardusat-open-source-ham-radio-cubesats/
This article was posted at:
http://tinyurl.com/k7jjvbt
[ANS thanks Southgate for the above information]
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Message In a Bottle
Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP, relates his first random amateur
radio experience aboard the ISS in his blog entry ?Message in a
Bottle?
This excerpt from the blog demonstrates one of the thrills many of
us have or hope to experience.
"I set the radio to the ?random? contacts frequency, and without
knowing what to expect, I put on the headphones. Physically, the
International Space Station was still many kilometres away from the
coastlines of Europe, but our horizon stretches out beneath us for
thousands of kilometres and the various European ground stations
could already see us. My ears were immediately overwhelmed by a
cacophony of unidentifiable sounds and noises, voices, screeching and
white noise. Then suddenly, a voice surfaced above the other sounds;
it was a young man, in my mind barely more than a boy. He was calling
the ISS American radio call sign (NA1SS) and repeating his own call
sign. I was taken aback by the emotion that rose in me as I tried to
reply to the call, using the Italian call sign (IR0ISS). But my
excitement was nothing compared to the sheer astonishment and
disbelief I heard in that voice, thousands of kilometres away.
Speaking English with a beautiful Portuguese accent, the radio
operator on the other side of the signal only managed to say a few
words ? ?I don?t know what to say? This is a dream come true for
me!?
Luca finishes by writing,
"Men, women, young and old, experts and complete beginners ? they
have all wrapped me in a warm blanket of friendship and gratitude,
oblivious to the fact that I?m the one who should be thanking them
for opening up the doors to an experience that began with that young
man in Portugal, and that crossing space and time, reaches the heart
of each and every amateur radio operator even before it reaches their
ears."
Read the entire blog entry at
http://tinyurl.com/lfuejod
The August 19 ARRL news rlease of the blog can be found at
http://tinyurl.com/kzpts4c
[ANS thanks the ANS Editors for the above information]
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AMSAT Symposium is Only 10 Weeks Away
The 2013 AMSAT Space Symposium, hosted by the Johnson Space Center
Amateur Radio Club, promises to be exciting and informative.
This years Symposium will be held in Houston November 1-3 at the The
Beautiful Marriott Hobby Airport Hotel. The Space Symposium will
feature a full array of talks by knowledgeable AMSAT members and
others regarding satellite construction and operation, plus other
space-related subjects.
The AMSAT Annual Meeting, held in conjunction with the Space
Symposium, provides you the opportunity to hear about AMSAT?s future
plans and voice your own thoughts and opinions to AMSAT Board of
Directors members and other AMSAT officials.
For the AMSAT Space Symposium, the Marriott offers:
FREE parking (unusual for a large city hotel)
$94.00 per night room rate
FREE breakfasts, 2 per room per day
FREE WiFi throughout the hotel
FREE Airport Transportation
Make plans NOW to attend the 2013 AMSAT Space Symposium
Hotel reservations can be made by calling 713-943-7979. Visit their
website at http://tinyurl.com/houhh-houston-hobby-airportmar
Ask For The AMSAT Block or Use the Code AMSAMSA when reserving your
room.
The AMSAT 2013 Symposium Registration Form can be found at
http://tinyurl.com/AMSAT-Symposium
On line Symposium Registration is expected to be available in late
August.
[ANS thanks AMSAT Office for the above information]
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Ham Radio in Space: Ham Radio Payloads Preparing to Launch
Two CubeSats carrying SSB/CW and FM voice transponders are scheduled
to be launched into a 600 km orbit during the first half of next
year. That news came during the QB50 Project presentation at the
AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium earlier this summer. The QB50
project team has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with AMSAT-UK,
AMSAT-Francophone and AMSAT-NL to enable two Amateur Radio payloads
to fly on two yet-to-be-named "precursor" CubeSats in advance of the
main mission, to deploy about 40 double satellites. The CubeSat
launch allows for the testing of key satellite and payload
components. In addition, the precursor mission allows for
experimentation and validation of the QB50 operational concept. The
Amateur Radio payloads will become the primary payload of the
spacecraft once all QB50-related experimentation has been concluded.
The AMSAT-F payload for one of the satellites will be an FM voice
relay with VHF uplink and UHF downlink. It will also transmit FX25
telemetry at 9.6 kbit. The AMSAT-NL payload on the other precursor
satellite will incorporate an SDR-based, linear V/U transponder core.
It will provide a telemetry downlink at 1.2 kbit. The QB50 spacecraft
generally will have downlinks in the 435-438 MHz Amateur Satellite
Service allocation, although some are expected to use 2.4 GHz.
Meanwhile, the Baltic nation of Lithuania is hoping that its first
two satellites will be launched later this year from the
International Space Station (ISS). The nanosatellites carrying
Amateur Radio payloads could be among the CubeSats sent by payload
handler NanoRacks LLC to the ISS on the SpaceX CRS-3 mission this
November. The Kaunas University of Technology is developing
LituanicaSAT-1, while the Lithuanian Space Association is working on
LitSat-1.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the historic flight by
Lithuanian pilots Steponas Darius and Stasys Gireenas in the
Lituanica aircraft. On July 15, 1933, they took off from Floyd
Bennett Field in New York and flew across the Atlantic, covering a
distance of 6,411 kilometers in 37 hours and 11 minutes. Tragically
they perished after crashing in Germany, just 650 kilometers from
their destination of Kaunas, Lithuania.
LituanicaSAT-1 will carry a VGA camera, GPS receiver, 9600 bps AX25
FSK telemetry beacon and a 150 mW V/U FM voice transponder. LitSat-1
is planning a U/V linear transponder for SSB/CW communications. --
AMSAT News Service/AMSAT-UK
[ANS thanks AMSAT News Service/AMSAT-UK for the above information]
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Ham Radio Cubesats Hope for November Launch
On Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 14:39 UT Korea?s satellite KOMPSAT-5
launched on a Dnepr from Dombarovsky near Yasny
This marked the first flight of the Dnepr launcher since August 2011
and the successful launch should clear the way for the launch in
November of another Dnepr from Yasny believed to be carrying up to 23
satellites from 13 nations.
Most of the satellites will carry amateur radio payloads and it
should be the largest single deployment of amateur radio satellites
since the ill-fated Dnepr launch of July 26, 2006.
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/july2006/dnepr_failure.htm
The launch had originally been planned for September 2012 but was
postponed while the future of the Dnepr launch program was discussed.
Among the satellites carrying payloads operating in amateur radio
bands that may be on the November launch are:
? UniSat-5 microsat which will deploy Eagle-1, Eagle-2, QB-Scout,
estar-2, Wren and PUCP-SAT-1 which it turn should release a further
satellite Pocket-PUCP
? Delfi-n3Xt
? Triton-1
? Triton-2
? GOMX-1
? FUNcube-1
? UWE-3
? CubeBug-2
? BRITE-PL1
? Humsat-D
? CPUT ZAcube-1
? HinCube
? BeakerSat
? NEE-02 KRYSAOR (910 MHz)
[ANS thanks Southgate ARN for the above information]
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The USA Lower 48 Worked all 488 Grids non-Award
John Papay K8YSE, recently announced, on the AMSAT-BB, that he has
just completed working all 488 grids in the Lower 48 states.
John writes,
"Some of the active grid chasers on the birds are aware that KA6SIP
just gave me my last USA grid when he operated from CN72 in Oregon.
And I thought it might be interesting to look at the stats and how
one manages to work and confirm all 488 USA lower 48 States grids.
"Satellite operators come and go and grids come and go with them. A
grid might have a very active operator in it and then it is off the
air when that person goes away for whatever reason. Interestingly,
about half of the 488 grids that were worked were from those
operating portable, not in the sense of using a radio with batteries,
but in the traditional sense of operating away from their home
station location. Once you have experienced being on the other end
of a small pileup, you will want to do it again. Just ask W7LRD who
tried it recently and is planning another trip."
In his post John goes on to list operators who exited the comfort of
their home station and put a grid on the air.
John further reflects,
"I started with satellites in June 2006 and only had 47USA grids by
August 2008. From August 2008 till Jan 2009 I worked another 109. In
2009 199 were worked. 2010 was 76 and 2011 was 44. Only 4 new grids
were worked in 2012 and 9 were snagged in 2013. Eight of those final
9 grids were handed out by Tom KA6SIP. He heard about the need and
decided to make a grid expedition to put them on the air. He did 7
of them in one trip. Then Bob W7LRD went to the beach in CN77,
operating away from home for the first time. That left CN72. Tom
just got back from Hawaii and quickly made plans to camp out in CN72
and gave me the final grid on AO-7B, 20 August 2013 at 2332z. Then
he put CN71 on the air on 22-23August, also a very rare grid square
but one that I already had. Many others worked him there.
"There is no award for working all 488 grids on satellites as there
is for six meters (FFMA). The ARRL awards committee has looked at it
and will implement it if someone on the Board of Directors brings it
up for a vote and it passes. Hopefully that will happen soon.
Having that type of award gives everyone something to work for. It
promotes grid expeditions and interest in working through the
satellites. If we all contact our ARRL Director, it might just
happen.
"There may be others who have already worked all 488 grids on
satellites. K6YK might be one of them. I know there are several
others who are getting close. It is not any easy thing to accomplish
even if you operate every day. It is something you can work towards
over the years.
"I want to thank everyone that made satellite contacts with me that
ultimately led to working all 488. Many went out of their way to put
on a grid. Over half of the grids worked were from grid expeditions!
If you haven't experienced operating away from home, please consider
it. With new operators showing up on the birds every day, there is
always a need for an uncommon grid. And you will have a lot of fun
doing it! Just ask anyone on my list."
John's original post, including the list of those who worked him
portable, can be found in the bulletin board archives
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/amsat-bb/48hour/msg98283.html
Congratulations on your accomplishment, John!
[ANS thanks JohnK8YSE for the above information]
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Cubebug-1 Good News
The satellite launched April this year known as Capitan Beto, is
recovering from its balance of energy that caused its transmitter to
be turned off for several days.
The recovery was achieved after one of the AMSAT-LU stations in
coordination and in conjunction with Satellogic team, sent a command
to reconfigure onboard software that turned off attitude control
circuits feeding magnetorquers this last weekend .
Telemetry text mode command taken before change can be seen at
http://www.amsat.org.ar/images/cubebug130818.txt .
Operation was done using RTL dongle, connected directly to antenna,
using HDSDR recording software as IF mode only, that helped not to
record big amount of data from Orbitron connected to DDE, also
automatically compensating Doppler, see
http://www.amsat.org.ar/images/cubebug130818.jpg
which at top shows command sent and satellite response below.
After reset, Cubebug-1 went to 'mission state', batteries showing
adequate level of charge.
Good reports were received from several amateurs from different
parts of the globe.
This activity was performed as part of the agreement of mutual
collaboration that Satellogic & Amsat-LU signed in July 2013.
The satellite transmits at 1200 bps AFSK, on 437.438 KHz,
broadcasting packets every 30 seconds, signal is low requiring
directional antenna and preamp for adequate reception.
Cubebug-1 telemetry information can be found at
http://1.cubebug.org/coms/telemetry
It is hoped that the packet radio digipeater, that is onboard
Cubebug-1, will be activated for amateur radio use after its primary
mission objectives have been met.
[ANS thanks AMSAT-LU for the above information]
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ARISS News
Successful Contacts
+ A Successful contact was made between Epet No. 2, Gral. Pico,
Argentina and Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP, using callsign NA1SS.
The contact began 2013-08-06 11:48 UTC and lasted about nine and a
half minutes. Contact was telebridged via LU8YY. IK?WGF and IK?USO
served as ARISS mentors.
+ A Successful contact was made between Ecole Primaire Pasteur,
Fleurance, France and Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP, using
callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2013-08-07 11:01 UTC and lasted
about nine and a half minutes. Contact was telebridged via LU1CGB.
IN3GHZ and F6ICS served as ARISS mentors.
+ A Successful contact was made between 14th World Scout Moot Canada
2013, Camp Awacamenj Mino, Ottawa-Gatineau, Quebec, Canada and
Astronaut Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP, using callsign IR?ISS.
The contact began 2013-08-12 18:46 UTC and lasted about nine and a
half minutes. Contact was telebridged via IK1SLD. VE3TBD served as
ARISS mentor.
+ A Successful contact was made between Centro Educativo No9 Dr.
Juan Lleren, Villa Mercedes, Argentina and Astronaut Luca Parmitano,
KF5KDP, using callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2013-08-14 16:42 UTC
and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was direct via
LU8YY/Q. IK?WGF and IK?USO served as ARISS mentors.
+ A Successful contact was made between North-Western Regions
Obesstvennoj The Cosmonautics Federation Of Russia, Russia and
Cosmonuat Pavel Vinogradov, RV3BS, using callsign RS?ISS. The contact
began 2013-08-17 16:25 UTC and lasted about nine and a half minutes.
Contact was direct via RA1AJN. RV3DR served as ARISS mentor.
+ A Successful contact was made between Facultad de Ingenier?a y
Ciencias Econ?mico-Sociales, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Villa
Mercedes, Argentina and Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP, using
callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2013-08-19 14:14:35 UTC and
lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was direct via LU8YY/Q.
IK?WGF and IK?USO served as ARISS mentors.
+ A Successful contact was made between Festive event Berkan,
Ile de La R?union and Cosmonuat Pavel Vinogradov, RV3BS, using
callsign RS?ISS. The contact began 2013-08-19 21:31 and
lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was direct via
FR1GZ. ON4WF and RV3DR served as ARISS mentors.
Upcoming ARISS Contacts
+ Youth Forum near the Black Sea, via TBD
Contact is a go for 2013-08-26 15:30 UTC
+ Amicale Space Camp organized by Sterrenlab for children of the
European Patent Office/NL, Leiden, The Netherlands (Summer Space
Camp, Noordwijk, Netherlands), Netherlands, via PA3GUO
Contact is a go for: Wed 2013-08-28 13:49:07 UTC
+ Gwalior Glory High School, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India,
telebridge via IK1SLD
Contact is a go for: Sat 2013-08-31 11:22:58 UTC
[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana AJ9N and ARISS for the above information]
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Satellite Shorts From All Over
+ Captain Yuri, UT1FG/mm is back at sea, he picked up his ship in
Santos, Brazil, which is very far south in Brazil (GG66) and out
of all satellite range for North America and he is headed SOUTH!
Next port is in Uruguay, even further SOUTH! He apparently did not
have WiFi access while in Santos, Brazil, but friends expect that
Captain Yuri will contact one of them as soon as he can to give
us some updates on where his next ports will be. (Frank, K4FEG on
starcomm-bb)
+ DUBUS issue 4/2012 is available as free sample in PDF format (16MB)
here: http://bit.ly/14tWuOf
DUBUS is a quartlery published magazine for technique and DX on
VHF/UHF/SHF covering all bands from 6m to light. More information is
available on www.DUBUS.org (Southgate)
Source: Joe ,DL8HCZ/CT1HZE
+ Ham Technology: The Radio Documentation Project Manuals for China
Built Radio Gear
If you own a China built hand-held and have questions that the
manual does not answer, there's now a new source of information.
Calling itself the Radio Documentation Project, this website plans
to provide high quality and in-depth open source documentation user
manuals for mainland-China built handheld two-way radios.
Its first completed work is a PDF file containing a well documented
manual for the popular Baofeng UV-5R dual bander. The instructions
are clearand distinct. Best of all it is available as a free
download at tinyurl.com/new-uv5r-booklet. (Southgate)
Source: Amateur Radio NewslineT Report 1879 - August 16 2013
+ This past week arising out of Australia's ACMA reason for not
continuing the high power trial for radio amateurs was an observed
lack of understanding of operator's obligations with regard to
Electromagnetic Magnetic Radiation. As part of the emphasis on
education regarding Electromagnetic Magnetic Radiation, the Wireless
Institute of Australia (WIA) posted a web page, "Amateur Radio And
Electromagnetic Radiation Issues" at:
http://www.wia.org.au/members/technical/emr/
Topics on the WIA web include:
* What is EMR ?
* Understanding Electromagnetic Radiation Compliance for Amateur
Radio Stations
* Compliance
* File For Download - VK3UM EMRCalc Ver 7.07
Where the specifics apply to Australia the information on this web
page provide a common sense tutorial for amateur radio operators
worldwide. The VK3UM EMRCalc is a fascinating software tool allowing
you experiment with transmitted power levels, antenna height, and
antenna gain.
Source: Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA)
+ APRS has standardized an ID series for amateur Oscar spacecraft.
APOxxx.
At the request of Juan Carlos, LU9DO, AMSAT-LU wanted a series of
APRS designators for uniquely identifying AMSAT APRS applications.
He suggested those beginning with the letter O for OSCARS.
ALL APRS applications include this identifier in their packets so
that the source of APRS data can be known. See the list
http://aprs.org/aprs11/tocalls.txt
Source: Bob, WB4aPR via AMSAT-BB
+ Help Requested for Cleaning up Old Mac Applications
As part of moving features to the new AMSAT.ORG site, we are
cleaning out old programs which are no longer used or useful.
Alan, WA4SCA, would appreciate Mac users looking at the old
programs and letting him know which ones are still useful,
or not.
http://tinyurl.com/ANS237-AMSAT-web-archive
The old archive WILL be available, but we want to clean out the
dead wood for current programs.
Hopefully with a refreshed site we will also have new programs
available.
Source: Alan, WA4SCA, via AMSAT-BB
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President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining
donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi-
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Office.
Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership
at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students
enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu-
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Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership
information.
73,
This week's ANS Editor,
EMike McCardel, KC8YLD
kc8yld at amsat dot org
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 15:38:48 +0100 (BST)
From: M5AKA <m5aka@xxxxx.xx.xx>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Satellites at Tokyo Ham Fair + Cuba-UK skeds
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Satellites at Tokyo JARL Ham Fair
http://amsat-uk.org/2013/08/25/ham-radio-satellites-at-tokyo-ham-fair/
Also on the AMSAT-UK website:
Hector CO6CBF is looking for stations in UK to try contacts on the amateur
radio satellite FO-29, see
http://amsat-uk.org/2013/08/24/uk-stations-wanted-fo-29-cuba/
IARU-R1 release new VHF Handbook
http://amsat-uk.org/2013/08/23/iaru-r1-release-new-vhf-handbook/
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73 Trevor M5AKA
AMSAT-UK website http://amsat-uk.org/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/AMSAT-UK/208113275898396
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 12:35:17 -0400
From: Martha <martha@xxxxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Questions
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Would one of you answer this
Martha, can you give me an idea of when in the day the Symposium will
open? My son in law is in college and we both want to attend but not drive
2 cars to Houston. And about when on Sunday does it close?
On another matter, I attach 2 pictures of practice blocks of woodcarvings
on basswood. Remember this is a practice run......I would be willing to
carve and donate a wooden quilt of 4 squares, framed in basswood for an
auction or raffle at the Symposium to raise a few dollars for Fox. Let me
know what you think. The piece would be 9 in x 9 in. You will note on the
two practice boards one side stained darker than the other. I was
practicing to see which I liked. Also, if you want it, how detailed do you
think I need to be? (How much room for artistic liberty?) For instance with
the lines in the solar cells? That is very difficult to cut in a 3.5 in
square. I also carved in the wood for the sides o Oscar 1, not knowing if
that was flush or not---and the carving does give it a sense of dimension.
I tried to present 4 of our satellites. It might be that AO7 will take up 2
blocks.
I intend to do a bit of carving in the frame as well.
In my head, it looks good. I hope as well in reality.
Please understand that all I have done so far is the practice boards.
If you decline, that is ok, too. You likely will want to discuss with
others.
Please let me know about this project, but more immediately about the
tentative Friday schedule so we can plan.
After about 24 years of membership this will be my first Symposium here,
though when I was G0WEW I attended 2 in the UK and I think was a member of
both AMSAT-NA and AMSAT-UK.
73
George Carr
WA5KBH
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 11:05:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Adrian Engele <aa5uk@xxxxx.xxx>
To: John Papay <FL@xxxxxx.xxx>, "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx
<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: The USA Lower 48 Worked all 488 Grids
non-Award
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John,
Congratulations on a job well done!
What a great recap of your journey over these many years to complete this
achievement. I know it took hundreds of hours, patience, more patience and
lots of effort to get there. I am sure the journey to this achievement was a
tremendously satisfying experience that only few people will ever know.
Hope you are doing well. I have not been much on the air due to family
issues and other personal issues.
Best regards,? Adrian AA5UK
>________________________________
> From: John Papay <FL@xxxxxx.xxx>
>To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
>Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 1:08 AM
>Subject: [amsat-bb] The USA Lower 48 Worked all 488 Grids non-Award
>
>
>Some of the active grid chasers on the birds are aware
>that KA6SIP just gave me my last USA grid when he operated
>from CN72 in Oregon.? And I thought it might be interesting
>to look at the stats and how one manages to work and confirm
>all 488 USA lower 48 States grids.
>
>Satellite operators come and go and grids come and go with them.
>A grid might have a very active operator in it and then it is
>off the air when that person goes away for whatever reason.
>Interestingly, about half of the 488 grids that were worked were
>from those operating portable, not in the sense of using a radio
>with batteries, but in the traditional sense of operating away from
>their home station location.? Once you have experienced being on the
>other end of a small pileup, you will want to do it again.? Just ask
>W7LRD who tried it recently and is planning another trip.? Here is
>a list of operators who exited the comfort of their home station and
>put a grid on the air.? The callsign is followed by the number of new
>grids they gave me towards the goal of working all 488.? Others may have
>been worked but these totals represent the first time a new grid was
>confirmed.
>
>ND9M 54
>WD9EWK 27
>WC7V 19
>KD4ZGW 16
>KB0RZD 10
>KC0YBM 9
>AA5CK 8
>KA6SIP 8
>KD8COQ 8
>N5ZNL 7
>W6GMT 7
>N0JE 6
>N2SPI 6
>WA4NVM 5
>KB5WIA 4
>KB9BIT 4
>KC0ZHF 4
>KK0SD 4
>AA5PK 3
>K7CWQ 3
>UT1FG 3
>W6ZKH 3
>WA6ARA 3
>WA7HQD 3
>WA8SME 3
>AC0ZA 2
>AJ9K 2
>K0BAM 2
>K7DRA 2
>K7TRK 2
>KA0RID 2
>KC2LRC 2
>KE7DOV 2
>N3TL 2
>N5AFV 2
>
>Jim, ND9M, is a seasoned grid expeditioner.? Along with working
>satellites he is also active on the county hunters nets.? Most of
>his activity was between 2009 and 2011.? He was also active from a
>cargo ship and gave out the very rare DM02.? Jim would travel for
>months at a time and worked from a few hundred grids.? Most of that
>operating was done on FM birds rather than linear ones.? It was
>great to have many daily fm passes when AO-27 and AO-51 were active.
>HO-68 and SO-67 were in the mix for a while too.? 54 new grids came
>from Jim and he tops the list.
>
>Most everyone knows Patrick WD9EWK.? He has done a lot of traveling
>both in the US and Canada and he gave me 27 new grids.? He was very
>active on the birds until recently.? He was an alternate on the AMSAT
>Board of Directors and was recently appointed to oversee the AMSAT
>Area Coordinator program.? He virtually has no home station and most
>all local contacts were made from a park near his apartment in Phoenix.
>He knows how to do it and he is a meticulous planner.
>
>Next on the list is Kerry WC7V.? He lives in sparsely populated Montana
>and travels around by car and in his light aircraft.? He went to many
>grids at my request and made a lot of us very happy by operating from
>many rare locations.? He is in slot number 3 with 19 grids.
>
>Next on the list is Rob KD4ZGW/m.? Rob drove an 18 wheeler and we all
>heard him on a satellite one day.? He didn't know his grid square but
>he knew his milepost on the interstate.? From there we had the grid
>square.? Rob went on to improve his mobile station and activated over
>100 grid squares.? He is no longer driving on long hauls and has not
>been active for some time.? He is fourth on the list with 16 grids.
>
>The next three are very special because they all became new operators
>during the quest to work all 488.? Gail KB0RZD is very active today,
>usually operating with a handie-talkie.? He went to 10 grids around him
>and sent some photo qsl cards that were just outstanding.? KC0YBM operated
>from his home location for a long time before I realized he was very
>close to other grids.? Chris didn't have portable equipment so I suggested
>he look into an AC inverter for the car.? He did just that and soon he
>was operating portable from some new grids.? This speaks to the ham radio
>culture that you find a way to operate with what you have.? Chris continues
>to be active and hands out grids in the US and Canada.? And then there
>is Ted, AA5CK. He has operated in grids around his home qth as well as
>some rare ones in New Mexico.? He lives in EM04, not far from EM05 where
>I made my first grid expedition contact with KD8CAO from EM05 in front of
>the White Dog Ranch on old Route 66.? I remember Ted's first sat contact.
>
>There are a few very special operators that can't be left out.? My son,
>KD8CAO, provided 8 new grids for his dad.? He knows how to operate
>portable and gives out the grids when he travels.? Then there was
>Richard N2SPI.? I asked him about some grids in Maine that hadn't been
>on and he took the challenge and drove to all of them, getting back to
>his dad's place during the first snow of the season.? Dave KB5WIA made
>quite the trip by backpacking into CM79.? It took two trips to transport
>the equipment into the grid.? He has a video of it on youtube.
>
>I started with satellites in June 2006 and only had 47 USA grids by August
>2008.? From August 2008 till Jan 2009 I worked another 109.? In 2009 199
>were worked.? 2010 was 76 and 2011 was 44.? Only 4 new grids were worked
>in 2012 and 9 were snagged in 2013.? Eight of those final 9 grids were
>handed out by Tom KA6SIP.? He heard about the need and decided to make a
>grid expedition to put them on the air.? He did 7 of them in one trip.
>Then Bob W7LRD went to the beach in CN77, operating away from home for
>the first time.? That left CN72.? Tom just got back from Hawaii and quickly
>made plans to camp out in CN72 and gave me the final grid on AO-7B, 20 August
>2013 at 2332z.? Then he put CN71 on the air on 22-23August, also a very
>rare grid square but one that I already had.? Many others worked him there.
>
>There is no award for working all 488 grids on satellites as there is
>for six meters (FFMA).? The ARRL awards committee has looked at it and will
>implement it if someone on the Board of Directors brings it up for a vote
>and it passes.? Hopefully that will happen soon.? Having that type of award
>gives everyone something to work for.? It promotes grid expeditions and
>interest in working through the satellites.? If we all contact our
>ARRL Director, it might just happen.
>
>There may be others who have already worked all 488 grids on satellites.
>K6YK might be one of them.? I know there are several others who are
>getting close.? It is not any easy thing to accomplish even if you operate
>every day.? It is something you can work towards over the years.
>
>I want to thank everyone that made satellite contacts with me that ultimately
>led to working all 488.? Many went out of their way to put on a grid.? Over
>half of the grids worked were from grid expeditions!? If you haven't
>experienced
>operating away from home, please consider it.? With new operators showing up
>on the birds every day, there is always a need for an uncommon grid.? And you
>will have a lot of fun doing it!? Just ask anyone on my list.
>
>73,
>John K8YSE
>
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