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Today's Topics:
1. Dnepr Coverage (EarthLink)
2. Looking for Dnepr Coverage ... (Clint Bradford)
3. Re: Dnepr Coverage (M5AKA)
4. Re: Dnepr Coverage (M5AKA)
5. Dnepr Launch Coverage (Clint Bradford)
6. Re: Dnepr Coverage (Clint Bradford)
7. FunCube Dashboard under Wine? (Greg D)
8. Re: Dnepr Coverage (Stefan Wagener)
9. ANS-321 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins (E.Mike McCardel)
10. FT-736R question (Tom Worthington)
11. FW: FT-736R question (David Beumer)
12. FUNcube-1 launch week has arrived! (Graham Shirville)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 13:21:49 -0800
From: EarthLink <clintbrad4d@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Dnepr Coverage
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I am not giving up ... (Grin) Any know if Kosmotrans (Dniepr company ) or
Roscosmos or Flight today will carry Dnepr launch live?
Sent from my iPod touch.
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 21:31:55 +0000 (GMT)
From: Clint Bradford <clintbradford@xxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Looking for Dnepr Coverage ...
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I am not giving up ... (grin)
Anyone know if?Kosmotrans (Dniepr company ) or Roscosmos or Flight Today?
will cover the Dnepr launch live next week?
If not, I need to check how many frequent flier miles my wife has ...?
Clint Bradford, K6LCS
909-241-7666
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 22:58:48 +0000 (GMT)
From: M5AKA <m5aka@xxxxx.xx.xx>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Dnepr Coverage
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It would be nice to have TV coverage but given that it's a secure military
ICBM base we are talking about I can understand why the military may not be
going out of their way to make TV coverage available.
73 Trevor M5AKA
On Saturday, 16 November 2013, 22:13, EarthLink <clintbrad4d@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
wrote:
I am not giving up ... (Grin)? Any know if Kosmotrans (Dniepr company ) or
Roscosmos or Flight today will carry Dnepr launch live?
Sent from my iPod touch.
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 23:17:38 +0000 (GMT)
From: M5AKA <m5aka@xxxxx.xx.xx>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, "clintbrad4d@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
<clintbrad4d@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Dnepr Coverage
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Some good news. The South African Radio League said the following in this
afternoons News broadcast:
"The launch from Yasny Launch Base in Russia will be streamed live on the
CPUT website."
So I guess, check the CPUT website which used to be at
http://www.cput.ac.za/ although I can't access it at the present time.
73 Trevor M5AKA
On Saturday, 16 November 2013, 22:58, M5AKA <m5aka@xxxxx.xx.xx> wrote:
It would be nice to have TV coverage but given that it's a secure military
ICBM base we are talking about I can understand why the military may not be
going out of their way to make TV coverage available.
73 Trevor M5AKA
On Saturday, 16 November 2013, 22:13, EarthLink <clintbrad4d@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
wrote:
I am not giving up ... (Grin)? Any know if Kosmotrans (Dniepr company ) or
Roscosmos or Flight today will carry Dnepr launch live?
Sent from my iPod touch.
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 18:18:16 -0800
From: Clint Bradford <clintbrad4d@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Dnepr Launch Coverage
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The launch of ZACUBE-1 from Yasny Launch Base in Russia will be streamed
live on
the Cape Peninilla University of Technology Web site on Thursday 21 November.
http://live.cput.ac.za/live.html
http://www.cput.ac.za/academic/faculties/engineering/zacube1
Clint K6LCS
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 18:37:27 -0800
From: Clint Bradford <clintbrad4d@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: M5AKA <m5aka@xxxxx.xx.xx>
Cc: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Dnepr Coverage
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Outstanding news! THANK YOU.
Clint
On Nov 16, 2013, at 3:17 PM, M5AKA wrote:
Some good news. The South African Radio League said the following ...
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 19:24:59 -0800
From: Greg D <ko6th.greg@xxxxx.xxx>
To: Amsat BB <AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] FunCube Dashboard under Wine?
Message-ID: <5288370B.2020709@xxxxx.xxx>
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Hi all,
Before I try, does anyone know if the new FunCube Dashboard software
will run on Linux under Wine? Except under unusual circumstances, the
only windows in the shack are the glass kind...
Thanks,
Greg KO6TH
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 21:25:21 -0600
From: Stefan Wagener <wageners@xxxxx.xxx>
To: Clint Bradford <clintbrad4d@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Cc: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Dnepr Coverage
Message-ID:
<CAKu8kHBX7LtdqVst3bEZBsXcijh0rh0U3ZNWNn2EWYJC1EuTfQ@xxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
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Well,
like they say: "I see it when I believe it" or wait a minute, maybe it is:
"I believe when I see it"
Stefan :-)
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Clint Bradford
<clintbrad4d@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>wrote:
> Outstanding news! THANK YOU.
>
> Clint
>
>
> On Nov 16, 2013, at 3:17 PM, M5AKA wrote:
>
> Some good news. The South African Radio League said the following ...
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 23:46:12 -0500
From: "E.Mike McCardel" <mccardelm@xxxxx.xxx>
To: Amsat - BBs <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS-321 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
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AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-321
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:
* FUNcube-1 Dashboard Software Released
* FUNcube Dashboard/Data Warehouse Registration
* Hector Martinez, CO6CBF/KF5XYV Earns US Technician License
* FUNCube Handbook is Available
* Election Results from AMSAT-India
* ESA Astronaut Luca Parmitano Back Home - Made 231 Random QSO?s
* FUNCube PreLaunch Keps
* Crossband Transponders on AMSAT Argentina November 23 Balloon Flight
* Happy Birthday to AO-7!
* KySat-2 Announces Telemetry Dashboard Software and Tracking Aids
* Symposium Photos for Journal Requested by December 1
* ARISS News
* Satellite Shorts From All Over
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-321.01
ANS-321 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 321.01
>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
DATE November 17, 2013
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-321.01
FUNcube-1 Dashboard Software Released
In advance of the FUNcube-1 launch next week on November 21st at
07:10:11 UTC, this first release of the FUNcube Dashboard User
Interface software is now available for download here:
http://funcube.org.uk/working-documents/funcube-telemetry-dashboard
This software, when used with a FUNcube Dongle or other SSB capable
VHF receiver, will decode and display all the 58 telemetry channels,
all the on-board status flags and also the Fitter messages from the
spacecraft.
The FUNcube Dashboard will also enable users to upload the telemetry
they are receiving to a central Data Warehouse so that others around
the world can see what is happening on board.
A fully illustrated set of installation and operating guidance notes
can also be downloaded from that page.
Additionally we also have some IQ and audio files available here
that can be used for testing.
http://funcube.org.uk/working-documents/telemetry-examples/
Full details of the telemetry format, which has considerable
heritage from AO-40, can be found here.
http://tinyurl.com/ANS321-FuncubeTestFiles
We are very grateful to our software development team for their
efforts in developing the Dashboard and we look forward to your
feedback. Please let us have questions and experiences at the FUNcube
forum at http://forum.funcube.org.uk/viewforum.php?f=3
[ANS thanks Graham G3VZV for the above information]
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FUNcube Dashboard/Data Warehouse Registration
With the release of the FUNcube Dashboard and it's associated
documentation, we have also
released help info on how to register your Dashboard for use with
the Data Warehouse.
Please visit: http://forum.funcube.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18
If you have any follow up questions, please submit them as replies
on the forum so that others can see them.
[ANS thanks Dave G4DPZ for the above information]
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Hector Martinez, CO6CBF/KF5XYV Earns US Technician License
The idea was first conceived during the 30th AMSAT Space Symposium
in Orlando 2012 by Clayton Coleman W5PFG after hearing Hector
Martinez CO6CBF?s desire to operate with his own callsign during his
visit to the United States. There is no reciprocal agreement between
the US and Cuba. At that time he was able toidentify three Volunteer
Examiners but they lacked the testing materials to test Hector at
that time.
Fast forward one year to the 31st AMSAT Space Symposium in Houston.
A few weeks before the Symposium Clayton contacted the AMSAT-BB
asking for AMSAT members who were ARRL or W5YI VEs to contact him in
order to see if we might be able to set up a testing session for
Hector. Clayton received many responses and four ARRL VEs stepped up
to assist the effort. Douglas Phelps K9DLP took the lead as Team
Liaison and brought testing and filing materials with him. Others
joining the team included EMike McCardel KC8YLD, Patrick Stoddard,
WD9EWK, and Jerry Buxton N0JY
Late Thursday evening, rather serendipitously, three of the VEs
happened to find themselves in the same place at the same time.
Shortly thereafter Clayton W5PFG, Patrick WD9EWK and Hector also
happened by. The team immediately went into planning mode to set up
a time and place to conduct the test, preferably early Friday. Then
came the suggestion, why wait, everyone is here, why can't we do it
now? When the team asked Hector if now would be good his immediate
response was, "Yes, yes, NOW!"
The team went to their rooms to collect their credentials and
materials and then convened 15 minutes later in a quiet, well lit
area of the hotel lobby and presented Hector with a copy of the
Technician Exam. Hector took and passed the exam. The next morning
the exam materials and application were forwarded onto the ARRL VEC
by means of US Postal Priority mail which assured delivery by Monday
noon, in hope that his license would be granted before his return on
Wednesday. At shortly before 3pm CST Monday Hector's license cleared
the FCC ULS database and he officially was granted callsign KF5YXV.
We can't laud Maria Somma AB1FM and the folks at the ARRL enough
for their efficiency.
Minutes after all became aware that Hector had been assigned his
callsign, he began working the birds. Clayton reports, "We had a
blast on Monday evening through Wednesday working every satellite
pass available to us. He was as exciting to watch as a kid getting
his license for the first time." Hector adds "Thanks very much for
all your help and the great time! It was very fun to operate for
first time on AO-7 mode B."
Congratulations to Hector and all who participated in this
expression of International Goodwill.
[ANS thanks Clayton W5PFG and EMike KC8YLD for the above information]
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FUNCube Handbook is Available on funcube.org
The FUNCube handbook is now at the funcube.org website.
http://tinyurl.com/ANS321-FUNCubeHandbook
A French and Italian version has also been published
[ANS thanks Richard G3RWL for the above information]
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Election Results from AMSAT-India
The AGBM was held as per schedule and all points as per the agenda
were discussed and closed. Following members have been elected as
office bearers of AMSAT INDIA.
President - Ramesh Ramsubbu, VU2RMS
Vice President - Dr. M.S.Giridhar, VU2MGD
Secretary - Nitin Muttin, VU3TYG
Treasurer- Venkatesh Katta, VU3ICC
Technical Director- M.R. Raghavendra, VU3GTI
Director, Educational Relations - B.A Subramani, VU2WMY
Executive Committee
Somashekhar Kummur- VU3HCJ
Ganesan. N- VU3GEK
Somashekhar- VU3JBA
Dr. Raveendranath P - VU2RVJ
K Balaji- VU3PZA
Air Cmde V.Subramanian - VU2UV
We would like to thank all those members who attended the AGM and
participated actively in the proceedings. We would also like to thank
all those members who wished (by email and phone) us for a
successful AGM.
[ANS thanks Nitin VU3TYG for the above information]
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ESA Astronaut Luca Parmitano Back Home - Made 231 Random QSO?s
11 November 2013 ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, Russian commander
Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg returned to Earth,
landing in the Kazakhstan steppe. Their return flight, landing at
02:49 GMT (03:49 CEWT), was in the same Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft that
flew them to the International Space Station on 29 May.
Luca spent five months on the International Space Station for his
VOLARE mission under a bilateral agreement with the Italian space
agency and NASA. He conducted more than 30 scientific experiments,
performed two spacewalks and operational tasks as well as maintaining
the orbital outpost.
Luca Parmitano has proven to be an enthusiastic and passionate
radioamateur with great availability for ARISS school contacts. When
all questions prepared by the students could not be answered during
the scheduled pass, Luca used to come back whenever possible to
continue the space talk on the following orbit.
In terms of ARISS school contacts performed during a single
expedition, Luca Parmitano is 4th in ranking of the ISS astronauts.
Luca expressed his feelings regarding amateur radio in a message
entitled "Message in a bottle", published on the ESA blog. Luca
Parmitano went beyond his mandate as ISS crew member and HAM operator
for ARISS school contacts, performing many random contacts with hams
on earth.
Francesco De Paolis, IK0WGF served as manager for the IR?ISS
logbook, collecting reports from ISS for most of the random contacts,
totaling 231 QSO?s.
Our thanks to Luca Parmitano who did the effort to log the QSO?s and
to forward the log to earth for almost all random contacts.
All details about IR?ISS random contacts during the "Volare" mission
are available at:
https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000293001
Many thanks also to ARISS Europe School Contacts Manager Francesco
De Paolis IK0WGF for his great work and support.
[ANS thanks Gaston Bertels ON4WF for the above information]
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FUNCube PreLaunch Keps
Here are some provisional pre-launch keps. We may well receive an
updated set nearer to the day of launch but we expect that these
should be good enough for the first few hours/days after launch.
Satellite: FUNCUBE-1
Catalog number: 99991
Epoch time: 13325.309563080
Element set: 1
Inclination: 97.7956 deg
RA of node: 38.2570 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0059925
Arg of perigee: 198.5190 deg
Mean anomaly: 336.5388 deg
Mean motion: 14.77841394 rev/day
Decay rate: 0.00000106
Epoch rev: 1
FUNCUBE-1
1 99991U 00000 13325.30956308 .00000106 00000-0 10000-3 0 00010
2 99991 097.7956 038.2570 0059925 198.5190 336.5388 14.77841394000015
The particular method of deployment used by this Dnepr launch
vehicle means that the dispersion of all the objects may be somewhat
more rapid than we are commonly used to, so this may help the experts
determine which object is which.
FUNcube-1 will initially be transmitting only about 30 mW of output
power, this is its "Safe Mode", so a steerable yagi will greatly help
reception.
Telemetry will be transmitted from the spacecraft on 145.935 MHz.
When the spacecraft is eventually transmitting data in its normal
"Educational Mode" the signal is expected to be about 10dB louder.
To stay up-to-date with what has happening with the FUNcube project
and, in particular, with the FUNcube-1 spacecraft please visit
www.funcube.org.uk You can register for automatic email notifications
of all the updates by clicking on the "follow this blog" tab towards
the bottom right hand corner of the front page.
[ANS thanks Graham G3VZV for the above information]
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Crossband Transponders on AMSAT Argentina November 23 Balloon Flight
AMSAT Argentina says they plan to fly a high altitude balloon on
November 23 at approximately 1200 EST from Victorica, La Pampa,
Argentina (36.234304S, 65.40298W Grid: FF73HS). This flight will
carry launch experiments for the AMSAT Argentina LUSEX satellite.
The Betty III Payload includes:
+ FM Voice Transponder
Uplink: 435.950 MHz 123Hz CTCSS),
Downlink: 145.950 MHz
+ CW and APRS Beacon on 144.930/145.950 MHz
+ SSTV R-36 pictures live on 145.950 MHz.
The Mafalda Payload includes:
+ Linear Mode A Transponder for Multiple simultaneous users CW,
PSK, JT, RTTY, Hell, etc.
Uplink: 28.226 MHz USB
Downlink: 145.850 MHz FM
+ PSK31 Beacon on 28.227 MHz
The flight can also be tracked via aprs.fi - search for the LU7AA-11
callsign.
[ANS thanks AMSAT Argentina for the above information]
[ANS thanks for the above information]
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Happy Birthday to AO-7!
Launched on 11/15/1974 from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Continued congratulations to all those involved in the design,
building, launch, and operations of this satellite. It's an amazing
achievement that, other than the batteries, most of the circuitry
continues to function normally 39 years after launch. Here's to
hopefully many more years of service to the amateur community!
For more information about the lead-up to and the launch of AO-7, as
well as the first years of operation, see the 1974-1981 AMSAT
Newsletters on KA9Q's website:
http://www.ka9q.net/AMSAT-Newsletter-1974.pdf
http://www.ka9q.net/newsletters.html
N4HY has a wonderful gallery of photos from the construction and
launch of AO-7 on his Smugmug page:
http://n4hy.smugmug.com/AMSAT/AMSAT-Oscar-7
[ANS thanks Paul Stoetzer, N8HM for the above information]
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KySat-2 Announces Telemetry Dashboard Software and Tracking Aids
The KySat-2 CubeSat launch is scheduled as part of the ORS-3/ELaNa-4
mission on November 19 from Wallops Island, VA. The Kentucky
Space Team request that Amateur Radio stations track and help in the
collection of telemetry data.
To help track KySat-2, a web page has been setup to assist radio
amateurs. To help decode packets from KySat-2, software for radio
amateurs to download and install is available at:
http://ssl.engineering.uky.edu/amateur-radio-operators/
Initially, the software will support receive-only operation, but
after spacecraft checkout, it is intended that the software will
also support limited commanding.
An Advanced Satellite Orbit Tracking Tool to visualize KySat-2's
orbit in real-time can be viewed at: http://k2asot.engr.uky.edu/
For more information on general information on KySat-2, visit:
http://kysat2.engr.uky.edu/ and http://kentuckyspace.com/
[ANS thanks the KySat-2 Team at Kentucky Space for the above
information]
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Symposium Photos for Journal Requested by December 1
AMSAT Journal Editor JoAnne Maenpaa K9JKM would appreciate receiving
selected photos, or a link to your on-line albums for photos from the
2013 AMSAT Symposium and Annual General Meeting.
With the November/December Journal in-progress it is time to begin
planning for full coverage of the Symposium, Banquet, and tour of the
Johnson Space Center in the January/February 2014 AMSAT Journal.
Please send you photos and/or link information to me by December 1.
Submit to
k9jmk at amsat dot org
[ANS thanks JoAnne K9JKM for the above information]
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ARISS News
+ A Successful contact was made between Rancho Romero Elementary
School Alamo, CA USA and Astronaut Michael S. Hopkins KF5LJG using
callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2013-11-13 19:44 UTC and lasted
about nine and a half minutes. Contact was direct via KJ6TWN. ARISS
Mentor was W6MU.
A detailed write-up of this contact was reported in the November 13
San Jose Mercury News
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24517762/headline
+ A Successful contact was made between Cradle of Aviation Museum
Garden City, NY USA and Astronaut Luca Parmitano KF5KDP using
callsign IR?ISS. The contact began 2013-11-04 14:24 UTC and lasted
about nine and a half minutes. Contact was telebridged via IK1SLD.
ARISS Mentors were W2CYK and KB9UPS.
+ A Successful contact was made between Warren County Technical
School Washington, NJ USA and Astronaut Luca Parmitano KF5KDP using
callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2013-11-04 14:08 UTC and lasted
about nine and a half minutes. Contact was direct via KC2WT. ARISS
Mentor was AA4KN.
Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule
Salisbury Middle Schools, Salisbury, New Brunswick, Canada,
telebridge via W6SRJ
Contact is a go for: Wed 2013-11-20 17:18:42 UTC
ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored
over 100 schools:
Gaston ON4WF with 112
Francesco IK?WGF with 100
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 869.
Each school counts as 1 event.
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 848.
Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot.
Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 46.
A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in
the file.
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf
[ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above
information]
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Satellite Shorts From All Over
+ Radio Amateurs Launch Fun In A Cube (Satellite)
Satnews Publishers has just carried a story "AMSAT UK, AMSAT-NL +
ISIS BV?Radio Amateurs Launch Fun In A Cube (Satellite)"
http://www.satnews.com/story.php?number=474690875
[ANS thanks Jill Durfee and Satnews.com for the above information]
+ KUDOS, KU4OS
ANS-293 was Lee McLamb's KU4OS 100th issue that he has edited
since Dec 2007.
Congratulations, Lee!
[ANS thanks ANS Editors for the above information]
+ ARRL Kids Day is always the first Sunday of January and the third
Saturday of June, from 1800UTC ? 2359 UTC. This is an excellent
opportunity to demonstrate working satellites and a chance to give
kids some hands on experience. This is especially true with the
launch of FUNCube and other satellites next week.
[ANS thanks Sean Kutzko, KX9X for the above information]
+ 2014 Year in Space Calendars Now Available
The Year In Space in cooperation with The Planetary Society has
published their 2014 edition calandar of YearInSpace. More
information can be found at
http://www.yearinspace.com/
They also maintain a free weekly online calendar at
http://www.yearinspace.com/the-week-in-space.html
In addition is a free weekly email newsletter available for
subscription.
http://www.yearinspace.com/weekly-e-mail.html
[ANS thanks Steve Cariddi, Publisher for the above information]
+ Indian Gujarat Video
Claudio Ariotti, IK1SLD recently received a link from India about
the ARISS contact (November 14, 2012) between Sunita Williams KD5PLB
and Gujarat Council of Science City - Ahmedabad - Gujarat.
This is the youtube link:
http://youtu.be/Dz7Sto3zXWg
[ANS thanks Claudio IK1SLD for the above information]
+ Minotaur-1 mass CubeSat launch November 19
The launch window for KySat-2 and over a dozen other CubeSats from
Wallops Island opens November 19, see
http://amsat-uk.org/2013/11/12/kysat-2-in-november-cubesat-launch/
[ANS thanks Trevor M5AKA for the above information]
+ Czech Statocaching APRS ham radio balloon
http://tinyurl.com/ANS321-czech-statocaching
[ANS thanks Trevor M5AKA for the above information]
+ Frequencies for the 37 satellites carrying amateur radio payloads
expected to be deployed in the next 10 days
http://tinyurl.com/ANS321-NovCubeDeployments
[ANS thanks Trevor M5AKA for the above information]
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Message: 10
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 19:37:36 -1000
From: "Tom Worthington" <worth@xxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] FT-736R question
Message-ID: <000301cee357$1f55ce20$5e016a60$@xxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
I am testing an FT-736R with the intention of selling it for the estate of a
SK here on Maui.
I have it running with PCSat32 and it tracks frequency as expected and I
have successfully heard myself on FO-29, AO-7 and VO-52, however I am unable
to tune the radio manually.
Am I doing something wrong, is it a problem with the CAT interface, or is
this not possible?
I would appreciate any help.
73 and Aloha, Tom, NH6Y (BL10ts)
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Message: 11
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 23:30:53 -0700
From: "David Beumer" <dave@xxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] FW: FT-736R question
Message-ID: <000b01cee35e$9112ea50$b338bef0$@xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Tom
The FT-736 does not have ability for CAT to read it's frequency only set it.
SATPC32 needs this feature to allow manual tuning.
73's Dave W0DHB
-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of Tom Worthington
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 10:38 PM
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] FT-736R question
I am testing an FT-736R with the intention of selling it for the estate of a
SK here on Maui.
I have it running with PCSat32 and it tracks frequency as expected and I
have successfully heard myself on FO-29, AO-7 and VO-52, however I am unable
to tune the radio manually.
Am I doing something wrong, is it a problem with the CAT interface, or is
this not possible?
I would appreciate any help.
73 and Aloha, Tom, NH6Y (BL10ts)
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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 08:10:09 -0000
From: "Graham Shirville" <g.shirville@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "AMSAT BB" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] FUNcube-1 launch week has arrived!
Message-ID: <6F55D3AD5C3A4D9B8954F24DFF1EDC57@xxxxxxx.xxxxx>
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Well it has finally arrived. Little did we think, back in 2009 that we would
not be launching FUNcube-1 until late 2013 but, at last, we are almost there.
The past four years have been spent trying to find a suitable launch
opportunity, dealing with many legal and administrative issues, in addition
to finalising the technical requirements for the spacecraft. We also then
had to convert those requirements and ideas into reality.
The core FUNcube team comprises of just about a dozen of us ? radio amateurs
from the UK and the Netherlands together with software specialists from both
countries. A few of us even have skills in both the analogue and digital
domains!
We have met on numerous occasions for ?face to face? meetings over weekends
and held weekly Skype chats almost every Sunday evening. We have had highs
and lows along the way but the end result ? FUNcube-1 our tiny spacecraft,
is now sitting in an ISIPOD on the launch vehicle ready to take its chances
in space on Thursday. Many hours of evaluation and verification testing of
both the Flight Model and also the earlier Engineering Model have been
undertaken, so we are as confident as we can be that we have done the best
job possible.
This mission could not have been carried forward without the efforts of the
team members but neither could it have been completed without the tremendous
support that it has received from individual radio amateurs and others and
other AMSAT groups around the world.
Thursday November 21st 2013 is our launch day and most of the team will be
assembled at the National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park to man a monitoring
station for at least the first two days following the launch.The first
signals from FUNcube-1 should be heard in Southern Africa and then in Hawaii
and then Alaska. After that, we hope to hear signals in the UK on a very low
pass to the east around 08:50 UTC.
We are very grateful to the RSGB for their support in allowing the use the
NRC facilities which should be perfect for this operation.
http://www.nationalradiocentre.com/ Although it is not large enough to be
able issue an open invitation to everyone to join us on the day, we will be
trying to do our best to keep everyone in touch with what is happening.
We will be setting up a webstream from the NRC using the services of the
BATC.tv server http://www.batc.tv/ch_live.php?ch=3 This should be available
from around 07:00 UTC on Thursday and will keep running for as long as we
have something to show. As well as shackcam views it will also have a
breaking news ?tickertape? and some videos created during the development of
the spacecraft.
Additionally we will maintain a presence on the #cubesat IRC channel which
can be easily accessed by a web client from here: http://webchat.freenode.net/
Of course our own www.funcube.org.uk website will also be kept up to date as
possible and updates will be provided here on AMSAT-BB.
So all we ask everyone to do now is to, download the FUNcube Dashboard, read
the guidance notes, register with the Data Warehouse and hang on for an
interesting Thursday. Oh and keep your fingers crossed.
Very many thanks for your support!
73
Team FUNcube
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