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Today's Topics:
1. Satellite Access from remote areas (ScottOlitsky@xxx.xxxx
2. Re: Satellite Access from remote areas (nader omer)
3. Kagayaki ??????? (OZ1MY)
4. Re: Kagayaki ??????? WOW (nader omer)
5. Object B (PRISM) BEACON TLM (nader omer)
6. Re: Fw: X-Band Mini deep space network opportunity (Luc Leblanc)
7. AO-16 (Luc Leblanc)
8. Re: Kagayaki ??????? WOW (OZ1MY)
9. PRISM Telemetry Report Address (Colin Hurst)
10. FW: PRISM Telemetry Report Address (Colin Hurst)
11. Re: PRISM over ZL (Alan Cresswell)
12. STARS and KKS-1 over VK (David Giles)
13. Re: Satellite Access from remote areas (Bob Bruninga )
14. Re: Kagayaki ??????? WOW (Masahiro Arai)
15. Re: Kagayaki ??????? WOW (OZ1MY)
16. African sategate ready for help (Satellite Access from remote
areas) (nader omer)
17. Re: Kagayaki ??????? WOW (Mike Rupprecht)
18. Re: AO-16 and a brief update! (Mark L. Hammond)
19. Information on the Icom IC-820H (Ron G. Seiler)
20. [ans] ANS-025 AMSAT Weekly Bulletins (Dee)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:18:01 EST
From: ScottOlitsky@xxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Satellite Access from remote areas
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <ca9.40c760ca.36acd179@xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
I will be climbing Kilimanjaro next month. I have not been on any of the
birds for a few years and back then was mostly FM satellites from remote
locations in the US or South/Central America where I had the ability to reach
the
US.
Are there any options now to use my HT and packet to store and forward a
short message that someone could download when the satellite is over the US or
one that could forward a message through an internet gateway once it is over
Europe? Please feel free to reply to me directly.
Thanks,
Scott
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:27:21 -0800 (PST)
From: nader omer <st2nh@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Satellite Access from remote areas
To: amsat bb bb <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <64658.46586.qm@xxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
HI Scott
Saddly no to much birds on pacsat mode now.
Pacsat need a lot of hardware eg PC.TNC.
?
APRS is a good chose if some satgate around
and?ISS packet is on.
NO-44 is down now .
Kenwood TH-D7A handheld is a good chose
?
73 de? Nader ,st2nh
www.st2nh.com
?
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:31:00 +0100
From: "OZ1MY" <oz1my@xxxxxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Kagayaki ???????
To: "AMSAT-BB" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <000501c97e73$6f4e21a0$6401a8c0@xxxxxx.xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi all,
This may be something else - but here it is.
Just before 2200 UTC I placed my antenna at the direction
corresponding to AOS for OBJECT H.
I set the frequency to 437.380 MHz, USB.
At 2200 UTC I heard a sporatic signal, sometimes
with fast frequency changes.
It was not on all the time, which made it difficult
to make out, what it really was.
7 minutes later at 22:07:30 UTC the frequency had changed to
437.364 MHz.
At 22:08:45 UTC it was at 437.361 MHz. At that time the
doppler of OBJECT H was -8.3 kHz.
Lost it just after that.
It did not sound like STARS or KKS-1.
I had my antenna tracking OBJECT H during the last part
of the time.
Conclusion difficult :-)
73 OZ1MY
Ib
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:51:08 -0800 (PST)
From: nader omer <st2nh@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Kagayaki ??????? WOW
To: amsat bb bb <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <315594.11415.qm@xxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
?
HI OZ1MY
WOW?
I just thinking about the same fast signal? that choped the waterfall
of the hamscope while I track the whole family last pass around 22:00 utc.
?
?I? do not remeber at what frquency?this occur!
It took 5 to 7 second? to cross the all bandwidth of the waterfall .
?
yes it is so strong and yes it had doppler? drift tone!
?
I?thougth it?was a kind of local qrm??
but I had never see a qrm like? this before
for sure it is from the sky
which one ? Kagayaki ??????? may be
?
?
Nader ,st2nh
www.st2nh.com
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:54:47 -0800 (PST)
From: nader omer <st2nh@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Object B (PRISM) BEACON TLM
To: amsat bb bb <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <53362.7004.qm@xxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
?
Object B (PRISM) beacon TLM?.
24/01/2009
23:08 - 23:20??? UTC
?
?
pr0 000324a5a420a5a4
pr1 0000a51db1b00100
pr2 0000086756000000
pr3 00000085400200
pr4 0037700022a0500
pr5 005a0009858c75
pr6 06b6b6c6636500
pr7 007b7c7a7b606000
pr8 000800000000097540
pr9 3f5nfi3f4itt40403f3f40403f403f
pra 2469953
prb 0250420090000
prc//www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
prd-nanosatsopen new world-nakasuka
?
?
Nader , st2nh
www.st2nh.com
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:50:14 -0500
From: Luc Leblanc <lucleblanc6@xxxxxxxxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Fw: X-Band Mini deep space network opportunity
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <497A9E06.28835.44ED9F4@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
On 23 Jan 2009 at 22:22, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
> >From another list:
>
. Anyone with a 10-meter dish antenna and a suitable receiver can
> > pick up the signals.
Anyone!!!
"-"
Luc Leblanc VE2DWE
Skype VE2DWE
www.qsl.net/ve2dwe
WAC BASIC CW PHONE SATELLITE
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:52:44 -0500
From: Luc Leblanc <lucleblanc6@xxxxxxxxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-16
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <497B556C.12991.138F32C@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
hi
I was testing for an issue with my VHF sat beam after a complete overhaul of
all the hardware above the azimuth rotor and i plug a dual
band magnet mount antenna on a metal file cabinet in my basement and just when
AO-16 was near TCA i was able to make 2 QSO with a Q5 uplink
signal. I was running about 50W.
He's probably the most sensitive on the actual fleet.
The pipe bending twist is still running great.
I think N8MH was one of the 2 QSO?
"-"
Luc Leblanc VE2DWE
Skype VE2DWE
www.qsl.net/ve2dwe
WAC BASIC CW PHONE SATELLITE
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:08:55 +0100
From: "OZ1MY" <oz1my@xxxxxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Kagayaki ??????? WOW
To: <st2nh@xxxxx.xxx>, "amsat bb bb" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <000601c97e81$1d1b9e40$6401a8c0@xxxxxx.xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi Nader,
Thanks for the answer. I do not have
a waterfall display - but that would be a good
idea.
The signal may also be some unstability or spurious
signal from the transmitter of one of the other satellites.
It was there again here during the last pass like I described
it in the first e-mail.
73 OZ1MY
Ib
----- Original Message -----
From: "nader omer" <st2nh@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "amsat bb bb" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 11:51 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Kagayaki ??????? WOW
HI OZ1MY
WOW
I just thinking about the same fast signal that choped the waterfall
of the hamscope while I track the whole family last pass around 22:00 utc.
I do not remeber at what frquency this occur!
It took 5 to 7 second to cross the all bandwidth of the waterfall .
yes it is so strong and yes it had doppler drift tone!
I thougth it was a kind of local qrm??
but I had never see a qrm like this before
for sure it is from the sky
which one ? Kagayaki ??????? may be
Nader ,st2nh
www.st2nh.com
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:38:08 +1030
From: "Colin Hurst" <cjhurst@xxxxxxx.xxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] PRISM Telemetry Report Address
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <INEGKIBIIECPIBBDGHLEGEOFDNAA.cjhurst@xxxxxxx.xxx.xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Does anyone have an address to forward telemetry reports.
I have scanned the PRISM site but cannot find forwarding address.
Thanks.
Colin VK5HI
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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:53:26 +1030
From: "Colin Hurst" <cjhurst@xxxxxxx.xxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] FW: PRISM Telemetry Report Address
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <INEGKIBIIECPIBBDGHLEIEOGDNAA.cjhurst@xxxxxxx.xxx.xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Found it on Ralph Wallio's site.
prism-report@xxxxx.x.xxxxxxx.xx.xx
Colin VK5HI
-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Hurst [mailto:cjhurst@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Sent: Sunday, 25 January 2009 10:38
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: PRISM Telemetry Report Address
Does anyone have an address to forward telemetry reports.
I have scanned the PRISM site but cannot find forwarding address.
Thanks.
Colin VK5HI
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Message: 11
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:14:56 -0000
From: "Alan Cresswell" <alancresswell@xxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: PRISM over ZL
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <3CCBC955584D434483E9044BB9648F8D@xxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Solid signals from PRISM. LOS to the South (sea horizon) was almost two
minutes later than predicted using the latest TLE's. (Other 70cm spacecraft
e.g. AO-51 always conform to the predict LOS)
The following PRISM data was recorded over ZL at 0021 UT, Orbit number 27.
PR0000325A5A420A5A5
PR10000A51DF5B90700
PR200090B1217000000
PR30000000000000002
PR4003A6C00302B0500
PR50059000086888C77
PR6005E605D60625E00
PR70058585858626200
PR8000000000000000000000000
PR93F3F403F4040403F3F40403F403F3F3F
PRA00026B0B53
PRB025042000000000000
Alan
ZL2BX
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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:36:41 +1030
From: David Giles <vk5dg@xxxx.xxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] STARS and KKS-1 over VK
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <497BE551.8080502@xxxx.xxx.xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Hello All,
Managed to hear the STARS mothership on 437.305 CW. Spent most of the
pass listening to KKS-1 repeating the same message. Both sending good
sounding signals.
73 de David VK5DG
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Message: 13
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:08:49 -0500 (EST)
From: "Bob Bruninga " <bruninga@xxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Satellite Access from remote areas
To: ScottOlitsky@xxx.xxxx amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <20090125000849.AIT01571@xxx.xxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> I will be climbing Kilimanjaro next month.
> Are there any options now to use my HT
> and packet to store and forward a
> short message that someone could download
> when the satellite is over the US or
> one that could forward a message through
> an internet gateway once it is over
> Europe? Please feel free to reply to me directly.
If the ISS is in packet mode and is in view of both Tanzania and Europe at the
same time, it will work. PCSAT returns to full sun in Feb, and we may be able
to get a full recovery though for the full sun period last month in Dec, we
failed a recovery for the first time.
Also PCSAT has a store and forward system for APRS packets where someone in a
remote area of the world can send a packet and his packet will be repeated as
a beacon around the world once every few minutes just for this application.
But we never really used this feature since the only place where APRS users
are, there are also IGates.
Bob, Wb4APR
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Message: 14
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:06:30 +0900
From: Masahiro Arai <m-arai@x.xxxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Kagayaki ??????? WOW
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <200901251006.AA02576@xxxx.x.xxxxx.xx.xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Ib and Nader, thank you for the report. I forwarded them to the
Kagayaki command station.
The command station still cannot hear any signal from Kagayaki and
cannot make a communication with the sat.
Please keep on watching Kagayaki.
Masa JN1GKZ
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Message: 15
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:48:33 +0100
From: "OZ1MY" <oz1my@xxxxxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Kagayaki ??????? WOW
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, "Masahiro Arai" <m-arai@x.xxxxx.xx.xx>
Message-ID: <000401c97ee2$d9ed8360$6401a8c0@xxxxxx.xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi Masa,
It is just a speculation.
I did not hear anything of the "fun" signal
on the pass with AOS for OBJECT H at 11:21:40 UTC
here from Copenhagen.
It would be nice if you could get the OBJECT or catalog number
from the other groups in Japan which they use for the satellites,
we can not hear. It would help in identifying which one
is Kagayaki.
So far I think that:
PRISM is OBJECT B (sure)
STARS is OBJECT G (99% sure)
KKS-1 is OBJECT H (99% sure)
Please forward my congratulations to all the groups.
73 OZ1MY
Ib
----- Original Message -----
From: "Masahiro Arai" <m-arai@x.xxxxx.xx.xx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 11:06 AM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Kagayaki ??????? WOW
> Ib and Nader, thank you for the report. I forwarded them to the
> Kagayaki command station.
> The command station still cannot hear any signal from Kagayaki and
> cannot make a communication with the sat.
>
> Please keep on watching Kagayaki.
>
>
> Masa JN1GKZ
>
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Message: 16
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:55:42 -0800 (PST)
From: nader omer <st2nh@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] African sategate ready for help (Satellite Access
from remote areas)
To: amsat bb bb <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <271177.82409.qm@xxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
?
Hi Scott
?
If the ISS packet mode?is on?during your climbing Kilimanjaro next month
I wll put my satgate?on air?.Grid ?KK65GP.
http://www.st2nh.com/internationalspacestation-iss
?
and for sure there? are?many?stations at South Africa read for help too.
?
Scott if your backbag permit to?take??an arrow antenna?,pse ?give?us a?
new?dxcc??:-)
?
?
73
Nader , ?st2nh
www.st2nh.com
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Message: 17
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:59:19 +0100
From: "Mike Rupprecht" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Kagayaki ??????? WOW
To: "'OZ1MY'" <oz1my@xxxxxx.xx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, "'Masahiro
Arai'" <m-arai@x.xxxxx.xx.xx>
Message-ID: <001c01c97eec$bc98c540$35ca4fc0$@xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi Ib,
I agree with you. The newest TLE are much better (day 025). Tracked
automatically with these new keps the PRISM (#33493) pass without any
problems.
73, Mike
-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
Von: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx Im
Auftrag von OZ1MY
Gesendet: Sonntag, 25. Januar 2009 12:49
An: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx Masahiro Arai
Betreff: [amsat-bb] Re: Kagayaki ??????? WOW
Hi Masa,
It is just a speculation.
I did not hear anything of the "fun" signal
on the pass with AOS for OBJECT H at 11:21:40 UTC
here from Copenhagen.
It would be nice if you could get the OBJECT or catalog number
from the other groups in Japan which they use for the satellites,
we can not hear. It would help in identifying which one
is Kagayaki.
So far I think that:
PRISM is OBJECT B (sure)
STARS is OBJECT G (99% sure)
KKS-1 is OBJECT H (99% sure)
Please forward my congratulations to all the groups.
73 OZ1MY
Ib
----- Original Message -----
From: "Masahiro Arai" <m-arai@x.xxxxx.xx.xx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 11:06 AM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Kagayaki ??????? WOW
> Ib and Nader, thank you for the report. I forwarded them to the
> Kagayaki command station.
> The command station still cannot hear any signal from Kagayaki and
> cannot make a communication with the sat.
>
> Please keep on watching Kagayaki.
>
>
> Masa JN1GKZ
>
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Message: 18
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:04:59 -0500
From: "Mark L. Hammond" <marklhammond@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-16 and a brief update!
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID:
<5d8cecfe0901250504n7270fb4i84691ff384af2702@xxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Hi Luc!
Indeed, I was one of your contacts on that pass. I think that is our
first QSO, glad to have it occur on AO-16 :) Thank you for the
contact!
AO-16 receivers remain very sensitive and the DSB downlink is easy to
hear (at 1.8 watts, mind you ;) ). "We" should really consider using
the FM uplink/SSB downlink on future missions. It is an effective
mode.
In the last week AO-16 has been shutting down even during a single
pass (meaning, the uptime is shorter). Telemetry shows the internal
temperatures are now around 15-16 deg C, so it continues to cool down.
Along with the cooler temps come more frequent restarts of the bird.
This is expected.
I continue to command it ON when I can, which is usually in the
afternoon passes over the east coast of the US. I can't make every
pass, but I catch the ones I can...
73,
Mark N8MH
AO-16 Command Station
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Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-16
From: Luc Leblanc <lucleblanc6@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:52:44 -0500
Priority: normal
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
hi
I was testing for an issue with my VHF sat beam after a complete overhaul of
all the hardware above the azimuth rotor and i plug a dual
band magnet mount antenna on a metal file cabinet in my basement and just when
AO-16 was near TCA i was able to make 2 QSO with a Q5 uplink
signal. I was running about 50W.
He's probably the most sensitive on the actual fleet.
The pipe bending twist is still running great.
I think N8MH was one of the 2 QSO?
"-"
Luc Leblanc VE2DWE
Skype VE2DWE
www.qsl.net/ve2dwe
WAC BASIC CW PHONE SATELLITE
--
Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]
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Message: 19
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:31:01 -0800
From: "Ron G. Seiler" <rgseiler@xxxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Information on the Icom IC-820H
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <C9ED501F4FA7428D9553C553D862E510@xxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hello all,
I have an envelope of printed information on the the Icom IC-820H consisting
of:
- a May 1994 Satellite Operator newsletter with a review by Bob Meyers W1XT
- a reprint of the September-October 1994 Satellite Times magazine test
- a print of James Miller G3RUH's 11 Nov 1994 review
- a copy of the March 1995 product review from QST
- a photocopy of the original Icom brochure
- prints of mods for QRP, MARS, 9600 baud PACSAT, expanded RF and cross band
repeat (I never tried these so you would use at your own risk)
If this is of any use to anyone, please email me at va7vw@xxxxx.xxx and I
will mail it to you.
73,
Ron VA7VW
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Message: 20
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:38:21 -0500
From: Dee <morsesat@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] [ans] ANS-025 AMSAT Weekly Bulletins
To: AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <497C876D.6030703@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
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Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to:
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In this edition:
* GOSAT + Six SatPals Successfully Launched By Japan
* SKN Best Fist Winners
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GOSAT + Six SatPals Successfully Launched By Japan
JAXA GOSAT launch site Japan has launched a satellite whose focus will
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The small satellites with Amateur Radio capabilities launched with this
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SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-025.02
SKN Best Fist Winners
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 025.02
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
January 25, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-025.02
Many thanks to all who participated in AMSAT's Straight Key Night on
OSCAR 2009. Thanks in large part to the popularity of AO-51, we have a
record 24 Best Fist winners this year. Participation outside North
America was especially high, especially in Asia, a trend which we hope
will continue.
The following amateurs each received at least one Best Fist nomination
from someone they worked:
AA5PK, I6IBE, JA1COU, JA0CAW, JE4QGF, JG5WLV, JM1LRA, JN1UEP/4, JO3MQY,
JR0EFE, K8DID, K9QHO, K0RJS, KN4OK, N3TL, N4ZQ, N5AFV, N7EQF, W6ASL,
WA6ARA, WA8HOK, WA8SME, 9A5YY, 9M6YBG
See you next year!
73,
Ray W2RS
[ANS thanks Ray Soifer, W2RS, for the
above information]
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-025.03
Latest AMSAT Awards
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 025.03
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
January 25, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-025.03
We are starting the New Year with a new U.S. President and a few new
award recipients. A couple of these awards were issued at the end of 2008.
We would like to welcome the following to the satellite community. They
have made their first satellite contact and are now members of the AMSAT
Satellite Communicators Club.
Gail McDaniel, KB0RZD
Thomas Lepley, KX3TL
The following have earned the AMSAT Satellite Communications Achievement
Award.
Ivo Brungera, I6IBE, #476
Clayton Freund, WB5TOI, #477
Gail McDaniel, KB0RZD, #478
Joe Seibert, AL1F, #479
The following have earned the AMSAT South Africa Satellite Communications
Achievement Award.
Ivo Brugnera, I6IBE, #US128
Gail McDaniel, KB0RZD, #US129
To see all the awards visit http://www.amsat.org or
http://www.amsatnet.com
Bruce Paige, KK5DO
AMSAT Director Contests and Awards
[ANS thanks Bruce, KK5DO, for the above information]
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ARISS Status - 19 January 2009
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 025.04
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
January 25, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-025.04
1. Upcoming School Contacts
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa, Canada was successful
via Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
(ARISS) contact on Tuesday, January 20 at 18:06 UTC via telebridge
station ON4ISS in Belgium. A space club has been formed at the hospital
and those children participating in the club have learned about the ISS
via videos, the internet and guest speakers. They learned to use
correct radio protocol and have tracked and plotted the course of the
ISS. They have also created artwork displayed during the contact.
Media coverage of the event was a success.
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has
been scheduled for Castor Valley Elementary School in Greely, Ontario,
Canada on Tuesday, January 27 at 19:30 UTC. A space club has been formed
at the school for grades 1-8. Students from this group will ask
questions of the astronaut. Students have learned about the ISS via
video, internet and through guest speakers. They have been taught the
correct radio protocol and have tracked and plotted the course of the
ISS. All classes have taken part in space projects and activities.
Media, members of the community, the school board and other dignitaries
have been invited to attend.
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has
been scheduled with CERAM EAI in Sophia Antipolis, Alpes Maritimes,
France. The contact will take place on Thursday, January 29 at 14:54 UTC
via telebridge station VK4KHZ in Australia. CERAM University conducts
research projects in aviation, engineering and IT. Amateur radio
communication has been introduced to students to prepare for the
contact. Newspaper and television coverage is anticipated and webcast
retransmission is possible.
Ecole & Coll?ge Jean XXIII, a private primary & secondary school in
Pamiers, France, will experience an Amateur Radio on the International
Space Station (ARISS) contact on Friday, January 30 at approximately
13:08 UTC. Five hundred students, ages 3 to 15 years old, attend the
school. Students in the third cycle classes (3rd - 5th grades) and those
in their second year of secondary school have studied radio
communications. Radio operators from "l'Institut de D?veloppement des
Radiocommunications par l'Enseignement" (IDRE) have introduced radio
technology to the children. Topics covered included remote command use,
introduction to Morse code, ham radio phone contact, distress beacon
search, electronic kits, and different ham radio station possibilities.
This ARISS activity has been incorporated into the educational subjects
of Astronomy, History of Space Exploration, Geography and Writing.
2. Richard Garriott Debrief
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program
debriefing session was held with spaceflight participant Richard
Garriott, W5KWQ, on Tuesday, January 13. Richard gave a status on the
ISS Ham equipment onboard the ISS and provided valuable feedback on
ARISS operations.
3. Cosmonaut Training Status
Cosmonaut Dmitri Kondratiev received training on the Amateur Radio on
the International Space Station (ARISS) equipment. He is scheduled to
fly on Expedition 20. Photos of the training session are available on
the Energia Web site. See:
http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss20/photo_01-14.html
[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI, for the above information]
In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the
President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors
to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits.
Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office.
73,
This week's ANS Editor,
Dee Interdonato, NB2F
nb2f at amsat dot org
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