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Today's Topics:
1. 9700 scope (James Brown)
2. Fwd: Re: 9700 scope (Mark L. Hammond)
3. Android app now using the new Status API (Heimir Thor Sverrisson)
4. Re: API for satellite status now being tested. (LU9CBL)
5. ANS-012 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for January 12
(JoAnne K9JKM)
6. JSON API for Satellite Prediction? (Bob)
7. Re: JSON API for Satellite Prediction? (Don KB2YSI)
8. Re: JSON API for Satellite Prediction? (Heimir Thor Sverrisson)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 19:15:04 +0000 (UTC)
From: James Brown <ki6wj@?????.???>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Subject: [amsat-bb] 9700 scope
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I want to thank all for the presentation and setup procedure for the ic9700
scope...Well Done!!
being computer illiterate it was perfect for me.
I tried to download today's revision of sat 32 and was blocked with a red
slash thru the dk1... site. I have never experienced this before and will
assume something at the site.
My scope is all "red"? changing the reference level and filter does not
change the colors.Any suggestions.I will try another day to update sat 32 to
todays revision.
ThanksJim KI6WJ
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 14:37:17 -0500
From: "Mark L. Hammond" <marklhammond@?????.???>
To: "AMSAT-BB" <AMSAT-BB@?????.???>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Fwd: Re: 9700 scope
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>Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 14:37:00 -0500
>To: James Brown <ki6wj@?????.???>
>From: "Mark L. Hammond" <marklhammond@?????.???>
>Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] 9700 scope
>Bcc: ?\_AMSAT
>
>Great, Jim. Stefan's VE4SW document is super helpful for sure. The scope
is a nice addition, thanks again to Erich DK1TB! You can change the colors
if you'll click the Setup button (top, left area) of the spectrum window.
You'll see the various options...
>
>73,
>
>Mark N8MH
>
>At 07:15 PM 1/11/2020 +0000, you wrote:
>>I want to thank all for the presentation and setup procedure for the
ic9700 scope...Well Done!! being computer illiterate it was perfect for me.
I tried to download today's revision of sat 32 and was blocked with a red
slash thru the dk1... site. I have never experienced this before and will
assume something at the site. My scope is all "red"? changing the reference
level and filter does not change the colors.Any suggestions.I will try
another day to update sat 32 to todays revision. ThanksJim KI6WJ
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 14:46:15 -0700
From: Heimir Thor Sverrisson <heimir.sverrisson@?????.???>
To: amsat-bb@?????.???
Subject: [amsat-bb] Android app now using the new Status API
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Hi all,
Last year I wrote an app to help me operate LEO satellites and in December
I decided to make it available in the Google Play Store. The app has
information on the satellites I've found interesting, including the radio
transponders and beacons on board, in addition to the Keps, that I fetch
automatically on occasion over the Internet.
In order to plan activity, the app will show a list of passes coming up for
your QTH in the next 18 hours. Once you select a bird you are interested in
you will get an Overview Page for it. From there you can select a link
taking you to a web page about it, you can also see its Location in real
time and its trajectory for the next hour. All passes for this satellite
for the next 48 hours are also available from the Overview Page.
>From the overview page you can also select Status Reports, that will
display a list based on the Status API that I helped Joe KM1P to set up
earlier this week.
Finally if you select a Beacon or Transponder from the overview page you
will land on the Aiming View that uses the built in sensors of the phone to
point at where in the sky the satellite is in real-time. This view also
shows the Uplink and Downlink frequencies with the Doppler shift included.
I use this view with my phone mounted on a tripod behind the reflectors on
my Arrow beam in portable operations.
I would really appreciate any and all feedback on the app and thanks for
making this hobby even more interesting.
Heimir W1ANT
P.S. The app called 'W1ANT Satellite Tracker' is available for free here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.coolprimes.sattrack
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 20:59:53 -0300
From: LU9CBL <lu9cbl@?????.???>
To: amsat-bb@?????.???
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] API for satellite status now being tested.
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Hi Joe! the API will be permit to upload data too??? or only download
the info that the stations load from the webpage???.
Thanks
Mati LU9CBL
El 10/01/2020 a las 10:25 a. m., Joseph B. Fitzgerald via AMSAT-BB escribi?:
> Thanks to the efforts of Heimir, W1ANT, an API has been added to retrieve
satellite status data as used in the amsat.org/status page. Send a query
like : amsat.org/status/api/v1/sat_info.php?name=AO-91&hours=24 and you
will get the last 24 hours of reports for AO-91 in JSON format. The hours
parameter is optional, if you omit it you will get the last 96 hours of
reports. The name of the satellite must match the string shown on
amsat.org/status , i.e AO-91 works, but AO-92 does not ... use AO-92_L/v or
AO-92_U/v instead.
>
> This API is not stable yet ... we are still working on the time, and it
seems a query for the list of available satellites is in order. For the
moment, all reports show half past the hour that they were in.
>
>
> de KM1P Joe
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 18:03:18 -0600
From: JoAnne K9JKM <k9jkm@???????.???>
To: "amsat-bb@?????.???? <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS-012 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for
January 12
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AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-012
The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor-
mation service of AMSAT, 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 commun-
icating 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.
You can sign up for free e-mail delivery of the AMSAT News Service
Bulletins via the ANS List; to join this list see:
http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/ans
In this edition:
* Virgin Orbit Plans Flight Test of LauncherOne Rocket in February
* AMSAT Awards Update
* AMSAT at Cowtown Hamfest - Ft. Worth - January 17-18
* JARL Announces FO-29 Activation Schedule
* CAMSAT Says CAS-6 Activation for Amateur Use has been Delayed
* Telemetry Dashboard Available for SMOG-P and ATL PocketQubes
* MIT Radio Society W1MX January Lecture Series on ?Everything Radio?
* AMSAT-DL Announces a New QO-100 DownConverter V3d
* AMSAT South Africa Space Symposium 2020 First Call for Papers
* Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule
* Upcoming Satellite Operations
* Satellite Shorts From All Over
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-012.01
ANS-012 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 012.01
From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.
DATE January 12, 2020
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-012.01
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If you missed the live HamTalkLive podcast featuring Paul Stoetzer,
N8HM, AMSAT Executive VP on January 9 you can listen on demand any-
time at hamtalklive.com; or a podcast version on nearly all podcast
sites a few minutes after the live show is over including Apple Pod-
casts, Stitcher, Google Play, SoundCloud, and iHeart Podcasts; and
it's also available on YouTube. A replay is also broadcast on WTWW
5085 AM on Saturday nights at approximately 6:30 pm Eastern. Look
for Episode 195 - AMSAT 50th Anniversary Recap 09 Jan
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Virgin Orbit Plans Flight Test of LauncherOne Rocket in February
Virgin Orbit, AMSAT's launch for RadFxSat-2/Fox-1E, has announced
they expect to have their first test launch of LauncherOne, their
airborne-launched rocket, sometime in the second half of February.
The LauncherOne rocket is carried on the VO 747 Cosmic Girl aircraft.
If this first test flight is successful RadFxSat-2/Fox-1E is planned
for launch on the second flight of LauncherOne during 1Q 2020 on the
ELaNa XX mission.
RadFxSat-2/Fox-1E
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Uplink:???? 145.860 MHz - 145.890 MHz LSB/CW
Downlink:?? 435.790 MHz - 435.760 MHz USB/CW (inverting)
Telemetry:? 435.750 MHz 1K2 bps BPSK
Investigate the excitement at: https://virginorbit.com/ - and -
https://twitter.com/Virgin_Orbit/status/1214605925228482560
[ANS thanks Virgin Orbit for the above information]
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AMSAT Awards Update
Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Director Contests and Awards, reported, "Now
that 2019 is behind us, I thought I would catch up with the awards
issued the last half of the year."
AMSAT Satellite Communicators Award for making their first satellite QSO
+ Daniel Rahn, K8EC
+ Bernd Peters, KB7AK
+ Shane Hale, KE5HSS
+ Benny Chandra, YD0SPU
+ Martin Lipert, OK1UM
+ Helene Charbonneau, VE2AQM
+ Spiro Andy Loizos, VE2LZS
+ Stelios Alex Loizos, VA2LZS
+ Souly Loizos, VE2FFS
+ Adam Warrix, KD9NRT
+ Steffen Gross, DM3CW
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AMSAT Communications Achievement Award
+ Jonathan Zylstra, KL2DN #620
+ Robert Bankston, KE4AL #621
+ Sloan Davis, KN4GQB #622
+ Walter Mercado Vazquez, KP4T #623
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AMSAT Sexagesimal Satellite Communications Achievement Award
+ Robert Bankston, KE4AL #184
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AMSAT Century Club Award
+ Robert Bankston, KE4AL #54
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AMSAT South Africa Satellite Communications Achievement Award
+ Jonathan Zylstra, KL2DN #US222
+ Robert Bankston, KE4AL #US223
+ Sloan Davis, KN4GQB #US224
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AMSAT Robert W. Barbee Jr., W4AMI Award (1,000-4,000)
+ Ron Parsons, W5RKN upgrade to 4000
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AMSAT Robert W. Barbee Jr., W4AMI Award 5,000
+ Adrian Liggins, VA3NNA #35
+ Ron Parsons, W5RKN #36
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AMSAT Rover Award
+ #043 N7EGY
+ #044 CU2ZG
+ #045 K9EI
+ #046 KR5Z
+ #047 N4DCW
+ #048 KC9VGG
+ #049 W3ZM/9 (OP KC9VGG)
+ #050 W5PFG
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The next batch of AMSAT 50th Anniversary Satellite Friends of 50
awards are hot off the presses. Congratulations to:
+ BH4IWK
+ F4HVO
+ K0CFI
+ KC9VGG
+ VE2FFS
+ WP4T
Visit https://www.amsat.org/amsat-50th-anniversary-awards-program/
To see all the awards visit http://www.amsat.org and click on
Services then Awards.
[ANS thanks Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Director Contests and
?Awards, for the above information]
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AMSAT at Cowtown Hamfest - Ft. Worth - January 17-18
AMSAT will be represented at the 2020 Cowtown Hamfest in Fort Worth,
TX on January 17 and 18 with a table, demos and presentations. If you
live in the North Texas area, this is a great event, well attended
and lots of vendors. Please put it on your calendar. Info posted at
http://www.cowtownhamfest.com/
AMSAT Ambassador Tom Schuessler, N5HYP, says he has openings to staff
the table, do the demos and assist with the presentations.
The Cowtown amateur Radio Club was a home for our dearly beloved and
SK, Keith Pugh, W5IU.? The organizers offered AMSAT a no charge table
space in the market area so a big thank you to them is in order.
Tom hopes you can plan to be a part of this fine event. If you can
assist in any way for AMSAT, please drop Tom an email at:
N5HYP@????.???
Keep an eye on https://www.amsat.org/other-events/ for updates on
coming AMSAT events.
[ANS thanks AMSAT Ambassador Tom Schuessler, N5HYP, for the above
?information]
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??? Need new satellite antennas? Purchase Arrows, Alaskan Arrows,
?? and M2 LEO-Packs from the AMSAT Store. When you purchase through
????????? AMSAT, a portion of the proceeds goes towards
???????????????? Keeping Amateur Radio in Space.
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JARL Announces FO-29 Activation Schedule
Due to battery problems FO-29 has been largely inactive - usually
activated over Japan while in range of the command station. Akira
Kaneko, JA1OGZ, FO-29 Command Station has posted an activation
schedule for additional access:
FO-29 Transponder Active (UTC)
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1/12 05:05- 17:00
1/13 04:10- 05:55
1/18 04:50- 06:35
1/19 03:55- 05:40
1/26 04:30- 06:15
2/1? 06:00-
2/2? 06:50-
2/8? 04:50-15:00
2/9? 03:55-15:50
2/11 03:50-05:35
2/23 03:20-05:05
2/24 04:10-5:55-14:20
3/1? 04:00-05:40-15:55
3/2? 04:45-14:55
FO-29
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Uplink:?? 145.900 - 146.000 MHz LSB/CW
Downlink: 435.900 - 435.800 MHz USB/CW (inverting)
Beacon:?? 435.795 MHz
[ANS thanks Akira Kaneko, JA1OGZ, FO-29 Command Station for the above
?information]
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CAMSAT Says CAS-6 Activation for Amateur Use has been Delayed
01/07/2020 - via ARRL
Chinese Amateur Satellite Group (CAMSAT) CEO Alan Kung, BA1DU, tells
ARRL that some problems with the precise attitude determination of
the newly launched CAS-6 amateur radio satellite have delayed deploy-
ment of the antennas. The satellite was to have been put into service
within 3 days.
?If the V/UHF antennas are deployed now, additional torque may affect
determination of the satellite attitude,? Kung said. ?Engineers need
to modify and upload the software, which will take some time.? He
said that taking into consideration the upcoming long Chinese New
Year holiday, the test work is planned to be completed sometime in
late February or early March. At that time, VHF/UHF antennas will
be deployed, and the amateur radio payload will be available for use.
Kung points out that the satellite?s CW beacon has been turned on,
although the antenna has not yet been deployed. ?If you have a ?big
ear,? you may be able to receive weak signal leaked from an undeploy-
ed antenna on 145.910 MHz,? he said. ?A polyimide cover on the anten-
na chassis can help to leak some RF signal.?
CAS-6 launched successfully on December 20, piggybacked on a TIANQIN-1
technology test satellite. The microsatellite will be known as
CAS-6/TIANQIN-1, and the call sign is BJ1SO. The primary launch pay-
load was the China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite, CBERS-4A.
CAS-6 is in a sun-synchronous orbit with an apogee of 390 miles. It
carries a U/V linear transponder, with a downlink of 145.925, 20 kHz
passband (inverted) and an uplink of 435.28 MHz. The CW telemetry
beacon is on 145.910 MHz, while 4k9 baud GMSK telemetry will be trans-
mitted on 145.890 MHz.
[ANS thanks CAMSAT and the ARRL for the above information]
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Telemetry Dashboard Available for SMOG-P and ATL PocketQubes
The SMOG-P and ATL PocketQube team at the Budapest University of Tech-
nology and Economics has released additional information about their
satellites recently launched by RocketLab from New Zealand.
SMOG-P digital downlink:? 437.150 MHz
ATL??? digital downlink:? 437.175 MHz
More information on both satellites is posted at: http://gnd.bme.hu
SMOG-P (MO-105) is a 1p PocketQube (5x5x5 cm, 250 grams), a fully re-
dundant tiny satellite with an actual scientific payload: a flying
spectrum analyzer. It measures the scattered RF energy over the UHF
band (specifically, in the digital terrestrial TV band) that can be
detected in space.
ATL-1 (MO-106) is a larger 2p PocketQube featuring the same spectrum
analyzer experiment.
Both satellites transmit almost identical telemetry data. In addition
to basic CW telemetry carrying callsign, battery voltage and tempera-
ture, there is digital telemetry with variable data rate and coding
scheme. Most frequently, modulation is 1250 or 5000 bps GMSK. The data
is encoded either by the well-known "AO-40" FEC, or a shorter, pro-
prietary variant of it, but they can also use a more powerful, state-
of-art repeat-accumulate (RA) coding scheme.
Some practical information about receiving the telemetry:
A GUI telemetry receiver is available for Windows and Linux (soon for
OS X as well), and a command line receiver can also be used (Linux
only). Both can be downloaded from: https://gnd.bme.hu:8080/index
The programs are able to submit the received packets to the central
telemetry data base. This requires a quick registration, the login
credentials can be used with either of the decoders. There are some
issues with the GUI software that hopefully will be resolved within
a few days. These decoders assume either a USB receiver connected
through the sound card or an rtl-sdr receiver.
Thanks to Daniel Estevez, EA4GPZ, a high quality, full decoder and
packet uploader is also available for GNU Radio 3.8 within the out-
of-tree module gr-satellites. For uploading to the received packets,
it uses the same login as the "official" programs do:
https://github.com/daniestevez/gr-satellites/tree/maint-3.8
This decoder can unleash the full potential of the RA FEC. You'll
need to put an FM demodulator in front of the flowgraph.
The team is looking forward to seeing many submissions on the "Leader-
board" from around the world: https://gnd.bme.hu:8080/leaderboard
Having many receiving stations around the globe could greatly improve
the global picture the spectrum analyzer payload can offer.
[ANS thanks the PocketQube team at the Budapest University of Tech-
?nology and Economics for the above information]
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MIT Radio Society W1MX January Lecture Series on ?Everything Radio?
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radio Society (W1MX) and
the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science are
hosting a lecture series in January that may answer? some of your
questions about such topics as radar techniques, interferometry,
imaging, and radio astronomy, to antenna design and? modern chip-
scale RF devices. No prior experience with radio is necessary, and
all are welcome.
All lectures will take place in the Green Building ? MIT?s tallest
academic building. Sessions will be live streamed and archived for
later viewing. The lectures have already kicked off on January 10
?with ?The Next Generation of Weather Radar.? Other topics include
?Lightning Interferometry? (January 13); ?Radio Noises from the Sky?
(January 15); ?EDGES:? Measuring the Early Universe? (January 22);
?Antennas? (January 24), and ?Chip-Scale THz Circuits and Sensors?
(January 29). Lectures begin at 5? PM ET and conclude at 7 PM.
MIT has posted details at: http://w1mx.mit.edu/iap/2020/
[ANS thanks the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the above
?information]
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AMSAT-DL Announces a New QO-100 DownConverter V3d
The first version of the AMSAT-DL down converter was built in early
2019, enabling many stations to become active on QO-100 for the first
time. Since then, a lot of operating experience and new insights have
been gained, which have flowed into the new board V3d.
The AMSAT-DL DownConverter V3d is a completely new development. It
offers important functions for all QO-100 stations, no matter if you
work with VHF/UHF, HF transceiver, or an SDR. This new board can be
used as a central frequency converter assembly for your QO-100 sta-
tion providing stable clocks for all components meaning that addi-
tional external GPS modules are not required.
The specification for the AMSAT-DL DownConverter V3d includes:
+ Centralized clock generation with GPS or OCXO
+ Reference clock for the PLL in the LNB
+ Reference clock for a transmit mixer
+ Reference clock for an SDR
+ Short-circuit proof LNB phantom power
+ Connection for a dual LNB (for simultaneous NB and WB reception)
+ Downward mixing of the NB transponder into an amateur band
? (UHF/VHF or HF)
+ OLED display for displaying the operating status and the station
? coordinates
The full specification and list of features is posted at:
https://amsat-dl.org/der-neue-amsat-dl-qo-100-downconverter-v3d
and you can order your unit at: https://shop.amsat-dl.org/
[ANS thanks AMSAT-DL for the above information]
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????????? The digital download version of the 2019 edition of
???? Getting Started with Amateur Satellites is now available as a
??????? DRM-free PDF from the AMSAT Store.? Get yours today!
?????????? https://tinyurl.com/ANS-237-Getting-Started
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AMSAT South Africa Space Symposium 2020 First Call for Papers
Papers are invited for presentation at the conference and publi-
cation on the web. Please send your synopsis by 28 February 2020
in a word document of no more than 300 words to:
admin@???????.???.??. Please tell us if you will be available to
present your paper at the conference ... speakers attend free.
The Symposium date is July 18, 2020 at the Premier Hotel Midrand.
The theme this year is "Amateur Radio in Space ? exploring VHF,
UHF and Microwaves". Watch http://www.amsatsa.org.za/ for the
latest information.
[ANS thanks AMSAT SA for the above information]
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?? AMSAT, along with our ARISS partners, is developing an amateur
?? radio package, including two-way communication capability, to
???????? be carried on-board Gateway in lunar orbit.
? Support AMSAT's projects today at https://www.amsat.org/donate/
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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule
Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:
+ Sayama Mizutomi Community Center, Sayama, Japan, direct via 8J1SS
? The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS
? The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP
? Contact is go: Mon 2020-01-13 11:58:07
[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, and David Jordan, AA4KN, ARISS opera-
tion team members, for the above information]
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????????? Purchase AMSAT Gear on our Zazzle storefront.
???????? 25% of the purchase price of each product goes
?????????? towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space
???????????? https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear
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Upcoming Satellite Operations
Satellite Shorts
+ January 17-19 EM17 KN6DBC? AO-91 & AO-92 night passes (@???????
New Orleans, LA (EL49, EL58, EM59, EM40, EM50, EM60)
??? January 14 ? February 1, 2020. Adam, KC3OBS, will be roving
??? EM40, EM50, EL49, EL59, January 14th ? Feb 1. In between,
??? Adam will be EL58, January 18th or 19th depending on weather,
??? and in EM60 January 29. Adam will announce passes and updates
??? on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sparky_husky
Lucas Gusher Special Event (EM20) January 11-12, 2020
??? The Beaumont Amateur Radio Club will be operating using the call-
??? sign K5S on various HF bands including as many CAS-4A, CAS-4B,
??? AO-91, AO-92 passes that we can. SO-50 and XW-2A also possible.
??? More information about K5S can be found on qrz.com.
Labrador (GO11 +) January 19-27, 2020
??? Chris VE3FU, Dave VE9CB, and Frank VO1HP will be active as VO2AC
??? in the 2020 CQ160 CW contest, January 24-26, from Point Armour
??? Lighthouse, in Labrador. If time permits before the contest, they
??? may be active on FM satellites from GO11 as VO2AC or VO2AAA.
??? Depending on weather and timing of passes, you might catch them on
??? FM satellites as they make their way from FO93 to GO-11, passing
??? through FO92, GO02, GO13, GO12, and GO22 along the way, but no
??? promises. They will also make the reverse trek on January 27.
Brennan Price, M/N4QX, will be active from grid square IO91 *as work
??? permits* January 20-24. QSL *exclusively* via Logbook of the World.
Montserrat, January 26 to February 2
??? Mel, W8MV, will be working the FM satellites using the callsign
??? VP2MCV. He will then be operating from Antigua from February 2 to
??? February 9. Mel is still waiting for the license so it is not yet
??? known what the callsign will be from Antigua. QSL via LoTW.
Isla Perez, Mexico - EL52dj February 11-17
??? Members of Radio Club Puebla DX will be active as 6F3A from Isla
??? Perez (grid EL52dj), Mexico, between February 11-17. The operators
??? mentioned are Patricia/XE1SPM (Team Leader), Ismael/XE1AY, Rey/
??? XE1SRD and Ricardo/XE1SY. Activity will be on 80/40/20/17/15/12/
??? 10/6 meters, and include the ARRL DX CW Contest (February 15-16).
??? QSL via XE1SY. ADDED NOTE: Ismael, XE1AY, reports that he doing
??? CW and the satellites, and will also TX from EL50 and XE1AY/mm
??? from EL51. (Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin #1446)
Big Bend National Park (DL88)? March 16-17, 2020
??? Ron AD0DX, Doug N6UA, and Josh W3ARD will operate from Big Bend
??? National Park to put grid DL88 on the air.? Details will be added
??? here, as they come available, but you are more than welcome to
??? keep an eye on their individual Twitter feeds:
??? https://twitter.com/ad0dx, https://twitter.com/dtabor, and
??? https://twitter.com/W3ARDstroke5
Please submit any additions or corrections to ke4al (at) amsat.org
[ANS thanks Robert Bankston, KE4AL, AMSAT VP User Services for
?the above information]
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Satellite Shorts From All Over
+ Need help getting your Icom IC-9700 working with SatPC32? Check
? out this guide written by Stefan Wagener, VE4SW posted on at:
? http://www.amsat.org --> Satellite Info --> Station and Operating
? Hints --> "The new Icom IC-9700 is a great satellite radio ..."
? document is at the bottom of the page. The direct URL to the PDF
? document is: https://tinyurl.com/ANS-012-IC9700-SatPC32
+ NASA's Texas Space Grant Consortium announced the summer program
? for STEM Educators (grades 5-12), LiftOff 2020: Moon to Mars, a
? weeklong professional development training for teachers, June 21-26,
? 2020. The application deadline is March 2, 2020. Workshops include
? learning experiences by incorporating a space science theme support-
? ed by NASA missions. Teacher participants are provided with infor-
? mation and experiences through speakers, hands-on activities and
? field investigations that promote space science and enrichment
? activities for themselves and others. Visit the program website
? at: http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/liftoff/
+ A new distance record has been set on the PO-101 (Diwata2H) FM
? transponder. F4DXV worked R9LR on 08-Jan-2020 at 22:57 UTC for
? a distance of 4,542 km. More posted at:
? https://twitter.com/PRStoetzer/status/1215441267976523777
? https://www.amsat.org/satellite-distance-records/
+ The AMSAT-DL radome to house their QO-100 antenna made it to Ant-
? arctica and is installed on top of Neumayer-Station III. Further
? work will be needed to be install it permanently. The station is
? also waiting for the AMSAT-UK FUNcube relay to arrive, pending wea-
? ther conditions for flying there. See the photo posted by HB9HCF:
? https://twitter.com/pa3weg/status/1215642731336404995
+ A tweet from @??????????? reports that AMSAT Spain is signed up to
? fly on Alba Cluster 3. The Spanish satellite is a 1.5p PocketQube
? called Hades which is a satellite for amateur communications imple-
? menting a Bent-Pipe type repeater and with Store & Forward capabil-
? ities. See:
? https://twitter.com/AlbaOrbital/status/1214932730045194240
+ AMSAT-EA (Vocal?a de Satellites de URE) has registered with IARU
? and the Spanish administration their G?NESIS-L and G?NESIS-N sat-
? ellites for launch in mid-2020. An introduction to the project:
? https://www.ure.es/satelites-genesis-de-amsat-ea/ - and -
? https://twitter.com/ure_es/status/1214911584927133701
http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=698
http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=699
+ A 3-axis rotor based on the Celestron NexStar telescope mount with
? hamlib and rotctl drivers is demonstrated at:
? https://youtu.be/Avp1ROEkgeA -and- https://youtu.be/BDTjnJm41mc
+ Stuart Thomas, KB1HQS, author of the ARRL book, "Portable Operating
? for Amateur Radio", describes construction of a Hiking Pole Yagi
? Antenna for Extreme Environments" on his web page:
https://kb1hqs.com/2019/12/26/ultralight-hiking-pole-yagi-antenna/
+ Amateur radio talks featured at the popular DEF CON 27 event in
? Las Vegas during August 8-11, 2019. Watch Mark KR6ZY - Hunting tape
? measure yagis and offset attenuators - DEF CON 27 Ham Radio Village:
? https://youtu.be/KGQDQZT9lRQ - and - feast on the videos of hundreds
? of additional DEF CON talks posted at:
? https://www.youtube.com/user/DEFCONConference/videos
? (via Southgate)
+ In April 2020, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope will celebrate
? 30 years since its launch. ESA/Hubble has produced a commemorative
? calendar of the telescope?s Hidden Gems that is now available for
? everyone to use and enjoy. See:
? https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic2001/
+ Opensource.com has published 12 open source resources for kids and
? young adults to learn from open source technology:
? https://opensource.com/article/19/12/kids-students-education
+ Did you ever dream of being a NASA astronaut? This spring, NASA once
? again will be accepting applications for New Astronauts! Stay tuned
? to http://nasa.gov/astronauts for upcoming information on how you
? can explore places like the Moon and Mars.
+ The Signal Path presents, "Tutorial on Theory, Characterization &
? Measurement Techniques of Phase Noise" in a video posted at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOHjFtw0sgo&feature=youtu.be
+ If phase noise doesn't keep you up at night you've probably found
? yourself wondering why do mirrors flip left & right but not up and
? down? A video giving you the answer that this has to do with specu-
? lar reflection, mirrors being like windows into another world like
? alternate universes, just with in and out flipped! There's your
? answer! Have a good night after you watch at:
? https://youtu.be/1t4dOPxKgrY
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Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership
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73 and remember to behave and to help keep amateur radio in space,
This week's ANS Editor,
JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM
k9jkm at amsat dot org
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 19:43:17 -0500
From: Bob <WB4SON@?????.???>
To: AMSAT-BB <AMSAT-BB@?????.???>
Subject: [amsat-bb] JSON API for Satellite Prediction?
Message-ID:
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I think Heimir's (W1ANT) work on the JSON Satellite Status API is
fantastic! Nothing like rewarding hard work with another request...
How about a JSON Next Orbit API? Query would include the satellite name
and a grid location. Response would be the time of the next pass
information (AOS/Time/Az, Max El/Time/Az, LOS/Time/Az).
That would make a small IoT gizmo pretty darned simple to implement and
remind us when satellites will be overhead
73, Bob, WB4SON
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 20:41:39 -0500
From: Don KB2YSI <kb2ysi@?????.???>
To: Bob <WB4SON@?????.???>
Cc: AMSAT-BB <AMSAT-BB@?????.???>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] JSON API for Satellite Prediction?
Message-ID:
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I do not see it on the list, but I would have thought that the
https://wiki.satnogs.org/Satnogs_DB would have the needed information to
make a 'next pass', since they schedule pass recordings...
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 20:04 Bob via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@?????.???> wrote:
> I think Heimir's (W1ANT) work on the JSON Satellite Status API is
> fantastic! Nothing like rewarding hard work with another request...
>
> How about a JSON Next Orbit API? Query would include the satellite name
> and a grid location. Response would be the time of the next pass
> information (AOS/Time/Az, Max El/Time/Az, LOS/Time/Az).
>
> That would make a small IoT gizmo pretty darned simple to implement and
> remind us when satellites will be overhead
>
> 73, Bob, WB4SON
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 18:47:11 -0700
From: Heimir Thor Sverrisson <heimir.sverrisson@?????.???>
To: Bob <WB4SON@?????.???>
Cc: AMSAT-BB <AMSAT-BB@?????.???>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] JSON API for Satellite Prediction?
Message-ID:
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Hi Bob,
Your idea is very interesting. Let me think about it.
I happen to have all the code needed already written in Java for my Android
app.
It's only a question of prioritization of the limited resource which is my
free time :-)
Heimir W1ANT
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 6:03 PM Bob via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@?????.???> wrote:
> I think Heimir's (W1ANT) work on the JSON Satellite Status API is
> fantastic! Nothing like rewarding hard work with another request...
>
> How about a JSON Next Orbit API? Query would include the satellite name
> and a grid location. Response would be the time of the next pass
> information (AOS/Time/Az, Max El/Time/Az, LOS/Time/Az).
>
> That would make a small IoT gizmo pretty darned simple to implement and
> remind us when satellites will be overhead
>
> 73, Bob, WB4SON
> _______________________________________________
> Sent via AMSAT-BB@?????.???. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available
> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions
> expressed
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> AMSAT-NA.
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