[amsat-bb] Glasgow school students wins ESA CanSat competition

[Trevor .]

Students at Bearsden Academy won the competition against schools from across 
Europe with their 434.250 MHz CanSat. 

It was only launched to an altitude of 1km but should have them a taste of the 
thrill of satellites.

See the story at http://www.uk.amsat.org/7201 

73 Trevor M5AKA
AMSAT-UK http://www.uk.amsat.org/ 


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[amsat-bb] Fold Away Antenna in OSSI Ground Station

[Trevor .]

I liked the fold away yagi antenna in this video of the OSSI ground station.

See http://www.uk.amsat.org/7218 

73 Trevor M5AKA


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[amsat-bb] Orbitron Warning

[K4FEG]

WARNING ORBITRON USERS!
It may be something that I did, I am not sure, But I run Windows 7 
operating system and I downloaded my TLE files from the stoff.pl web 
site and there is no data in the file, it wiped out my existing data and 
the other TLE file sources (celestrak)  do not sync properly with Windows 7.


Orbitron is now not functioning on my Windows 7 based computer.
If one of you nice folks have a solution for me email me direct no need 
to clutter the bulletin board.


Myself and another local ham have verified that it is the combination of 
Windows 7 and the stoff.pl TLE file.


I am going to also email stoff to tell him about this problem.

Be careful out there!

K4FEG
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[amsat-bb] Re: Orbitron Warning

[George and Cheryl Abbott]

Hi All:A similar event happened here while I was using PacSat32.

-Original Message- 
From: K4FEG

Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 4:09 PM
To: amsat-bb@amsat.org ; sebast...@stoff.pl
Subject: [amsat-bb] Orbitron Warning

WARNING ORBITRON USERS!
It may be something that I did, I am not sure, But I run Windows 7
operating system and I downloaded my TLE files from the stoff.pl web
site and there is no data in the file, it wiped out my existing data and
the other TLE file sources (celestrak)  do not sync properly with Windows 7.

Orbitron is now not functioning on my Windows 7 based computer.
If one of you nice folks have a solution for me email me direct no need
to clutter the bulletin board.

Myself and another local ham have verified that it is the combination of
Windows 7 and the stoff.pl TLE file.

I am going to also email stoff to tell him about this problem.

Be careful out there!

K4FEG
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[amsat-bb] Elmer

[Alan Beck]

Looks to me like I need an Elmer.

I am trying to use the least expensive way to do things for now.

Push button of a TS-50 fed by a block downconverter is where I am at now.

I look forward to somebody helping me.

Best 73,

VY2WU
Alan on PEI
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[amsat-bb] Re: HAMSAT Birth Day and Singing once again.

[i8cvs]

Dear Mani VU2WMY and Mr.Parimala Rangan with others,


To day 5 May 2012 VO-52 was working very well for me on orbit 37868
at 18:01 UTC.

The drift in frequency of the Beacon seems to be only less than 3 KHz upper
than nominal and is reducing gradually because probably the transponder is
heating up.

The SSB quality is very good with no distorsion or overloading.Worked four
stations without problems.

We appreciate the timely and immediate corrective actions from
ISRO and AMSAT-India.

TNX

73" de

i8CVS Domenico

- Original Message -
From: "Mani VU2WMY" 
To: "T PARIMALA RANGAN" 
Cc: "i8cvs" ; "Nitin Muttin" ;
; "VUHAMS" ;
; "Amsat - BBs" ;
; ; "Salvatore
Corrente iW0DTK" ; "Salinardi Felice IK4GMH"
; "Roberto Pivetti IZ4BFA" ;
"Paolo Passerini IW2HEU" ; "Malagoli Annibale"
; "IZ8PUQ Alfredo De Santis"
; "IZ8NKY Francesco Speranza" ; "IZ6AVN
Mario IZ6AVN" ; "IZ5FSO Pietro" ;
"IZ4GAC Stefano" ; "iZ4BBH Claudio"
; "IZ0HEL Alessandro Palazzini"
; "IW6OVD Fernando Di Bartolomeo"
; "IV3IBX Ongaro Fulvio"
; "ik8yss Castantino Montella" ;
"IK5TSW Luca" ; "ik1ran Marco" ; "I6VMS
Enzo" ; "I6KGD Gianni" ; "i6IBE IVO
BRUGNERA" ; "i5IAR Umberto Picchi" ;
; "Francesco Grappi iW4DVZ" ; "Ferruccio
Paglia IW1DTU" ; "Eugenio Piluso" ;
"Ettore Gatelli i2EF" ; "antonio gargiulo"
; "IZ7HZR Marcello Mazzeo" 
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: HAMSAT Birth Day and Singing once again.


> Dear Mr.Parimala Rangan and others,
>
> We all at Upagrah Amateur Radio Club (VU2URC) ISRO Satellite Centre,
> wish 'HAMSAT-VO-52' a very Happy Birthday. Our good wishes and
> greetings for a healthy and long life to 'HAMSAT VO-52'.
>
> We appreciate the timely and immediate corrective actions from
> everyone connected with this wonderful project. Our good wishes and
> greetings to the entire HAMSAT project team on this great great day.
>
> 73 de
>
> Mani, VU2WMY
> Secretary & Station-In-Charge
> Upagrah Amateur Radio Club VU2URC
> ISRO Satellite Centre
> HAL Airport Road, Bangalore-560 017.
> Phone:(O)91-80-25082054/2598/2192
> Mobile:  91-80-98803 41456
> E-mail ID: w...@isac.gov.in
> vu2wmy_m...@yahoo.com
> isroh...@yahoo.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Quoting T PARIMALA RANGAN :
>
> > Dear HAMS,
> >
> > Today is HAMSAT's Birthday and completed 7-years of service.
> > Transponder-2 (Dutch) was switched ON today, 0230 UT / 5 May 2012.
> > Sorry for the break.
> >
> > We would appreciate your feedback.
> >
> > Thanks for your communication.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > T PARIMALARANGAN
> > Operations Director
> > HAMSAT
> >
> > ISTRAC/ISRO
> > Ph:  080 - 2202 9011 (O)
> >080 - 2535 0132 (R)
> >0 - 9480333563 (M)
> >080 - 2202 9062 (F)
> >
> > --
> >
> > From: i8cvs [domenico.i8...@tin.it]
> > Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 9:01 AM
> > To: Nitin Muttin; pe1...@yahoo.com; T PARIMALA RANGAN; VUHAMS;
> > amsatin...@yahoogroups.com; Amsat - BBs; Mani VU2WMY
> > Cc: stefano.castrio...@tiscali.it; Salvatore Corrente iW0DTK;
> > Salinardi Felice IK4GMH; Roberto Pivetti IZ4BFA; Paolo Passerini
> > IW2HEU; Malagoli Annibale; IZ8PUQ Alfredo De Santis; IZ8NKY
> > Francesco Speranza; IZ6AVN Mario IZ6AVN; IZ5FSO Pietro; IZ4GAC
> > Stefano; iZ4BBH Claudio; IZ0HEL Alessandro Palazzini; IW6OVD
> > Fernando Di Bartolomeo; IV3IBX Ongaro Fulvio; ik8yss Castantino
> > Montella; IK5TSW Luca; ik1ran Marco; I6VMS Enzo; I6KGD Gianni; i6IBE
> > IVO BRUGNERA; i5IAR Umberto Picchi; gi...@tiscali.it; Francesco
> > Grappi iW4DVZ; Ferruccio Paglia IW1DTU; Eugenio Piluso; Ettore
> > Gatelli i2EF; antonio gargiulo; IZ7HZR Marcello Mazzeo
> > Subject: Dutch Transponder on-baord HAMSAT VO-52 not heard
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Beacon and transponder of VO-52 were not heard over Europe on day
> > 4 May 2012 during the ascending orbit 37853 at 17:44 UTC and it was
> > in full Sun light.
> >
> > Yesterday 3 May VO-52 was not heard over South America by PY5LF
> > and over USA by K5OE as well not heard over Europe by IW6OVD
> >
> > Please let us know what is going on.
> >
> > TNX
> >
> > 73" de
> >
> > i8CVS Domenico

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[amsat-bb] Re: HAMSAT Birth Day and Singing once again.

[Mani VU2WMY]

Dear Mr.Parimala Rangan and others,

We all at Upagrah Amateur Radio Club (VU2URC) ISRO Satellite Centre,  
wish 'HAMSAT-VO-52' a very Happy Birthday. Our good wishes and  
greetings for a healthy and long life to 'HAMSAT VO-52'.


We appreciate the timely and immediate corrective actions from  
everyone connected with this wonderful project. Our good wishes and  
greetings to the entire HAMSAT project team on this great great day.


73 de

Mani, VU2WMY
Secretary & Station-In-Charge
Upagrah Amateur Radio Club VU2URC
ISRO Satellite Centre
HAL Airport Road, Bangalore-560 017.
Phone:(O)91-80-25082054/2598/2192
Mobile:  91-80-98803 41456
E-mail ID: w...@isac.gov.in
   vu2wmy_m...@yahoo.com
   isroh...@yahoo.com








Quoting T PARIMALA RANGAN :


Dear HAMS,

Today is HAMSAT's Birthday and completed 7-years of service.
Transponder-2 (Dutch) was switched ON today, 0230 UT / 5 May 2012.
Sorry for the break.

We would appreciate your feedback.

Thanks for your communication.

Regards,

T PARIMALARANGAN
Operations Director
HAMSAT

ISTRAC/ISRO
Ph:  080 - 2202 9011 (O)
   080 - 2535 0132 (R)
   0 - 9480333563 (M)
   080 - 2202 9062 (F)

--

From: i8cvs [domenico.i8...@tin.it]
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 9:01 AM
To: Nitin Muttin; pe1...@yahoo.com; T PARIMALA RANGAN; VUHAMS;  
amsatin...@yahoogroups.com; Amsat - BBs; Mani VU2WMY
Cc: stefano.castrio...@tiscali.it; Salvatore Corrente iW0DTK;  
Salinardi Felice IK4GMH; Roberto Pivetti IZ4BFA; Paolo Passerini  
IW2HEU; Malagoli Annibale; IZ8PUQ Alfredo De Santis; IZ8NKY  
Francesco Speranza; IZ6AVN Mario IZ6AVN; IZ5FSO Pietro; IZ4GAC  
Stefano; iZ4BBH Claudio; IZ0HEL Alessandro Palazzini; IW6OVD  
Fernando Di Bartolomeo; IV3IBX Ongaro Fulvio; ik8yss Castantino  
Montella; IK5TSW Luca; ik1ran Marco; I6VMS Enzo; I6KGD Gianni; i6IBE  
IVO BRUGNERA; i5IAR Umberto Picchi; gi...@tiscali.it; Francesco  
Grappi iW4DVZ; Ferruccio Paglia IW1DTU; Eugenio Piluso; Ettore  
Gatelli i2EF; antonio gargiulo; IZ7HZR Marcello Mazzeo

Subject: Dutch Transponder on-baord HAMSAT VO-52 not heard

Hi All,

Beacon and transponder of VO-52 were not heard over Europe on day
4 May 2012 during the ascending orbit 37853 at 17:44 UTC and it was
in full Sun light.

Yesterday 3 May VO-52 was not heard over South America by PY5LF
and over USA by K5OE as well not heard over Europe by IW6OVD

Please let us know what is going on.

TNX

73" de

i8CVS Domenico

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[amsat-bb] Re: Orbitron Warning DO NOT UPDATE KEPS!!!!!

[Floyd Rodgers]

Oh swell. It also works for Xp users as well. *It is not limited to Win7.
I would suggest not doing kep updates until this gets resolved!!
*All the txt files for keps updates are still here but have not much 
useable data within and all have timestamps of when the last update was 
done. Possibly a formatting issue with celestrak since that is the 
source I update from. Is anyone using stoff.pl or space-trak and seeing 
similar problems?


On 5/6/2012 3:09 PM, K4FEG wrote:

WARNING ORBITRON USERS!
It may be something that I did, I am not sure, But I run Windows 7 
operating system and I downloaded my TLE files from the stoff.pl web 
site and there is no data in the file, it wiped out my existing data 
and the other TLE file sources (celestrak)  do not sync properly with 
Windows 7.


Orbitron is now not functioning on my Windows 7 based computer.
If one of you nice folks have a solution for me email me direct no 
need to clutter the bulletin board.


Myself and another local ham have verified that it is the combination 
of Windows 7 and the stoff.pl TLE file.


I am going to also email stoff to tell him about this problem.

Be careful out there!

K4FEG
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[amsat-bb] Re: Orbitron Warning DO NOT UPDATE KEPS!!!!!

[Larry Teran]

I just updated my TLE from Orbitron site as usual and is working properly I
have been using Orbitron on WIN7 more then a year ago with no problem.
73's Larry KI6YAA

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Floyd Rodgers  wrote:

> Oh swell. It also works for Xp users as well. *It is not limited to Win7.
> I would suggest not doing kep updates until this gets resolved!!
> *All the txt files for keps updates are still here but have not much
> useable data within and all have timestamps of when the last update was
> done. Possibly a formatting issue with celestrak since that is the source I
> update from. Is anyone using stoff.pl or space-trak and seeing similar
> problems?
>
> On 5/6/2012 3:09 PM, K4FEG wrote:
>
>> WARNING ORBITRON USERS!
>> It may be something that I did, I am not sure, But I run Windows 7
>> operating system and I downloaded my TLE files from the stoff.pl web
>> site and there is no data in the file, it wiped out my existing data and
>> the other TLE file sources (celestrak)  do not sync properly with Windows 7.
>>
>> Orbitron is now not functioning on my Windows 7 based computer.
>> If one of you nice folks have a solution for me email me direct no need
>> to clutter the bulletin board.
>>
>> Myself and another local ham have verified that it is the combination of
>> Windows 7 and the stoff.pl TLE file.
>>
>> I am going to also email stoff to tell him about this problem.
>>
>> Be careful out there!
>>
>> K4FEG
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