[amsat-bb] QRT all PCSAT transmissions!
Please QRT all transmissions to PCsat to save power for COMMANDing. PCSAT (W3ADO-1) is entering its 3 day RECOVERY window this year starting 31 Jan. Today we got logged on for commanding twice, but both times user packets killed the bird. At best PCSAT can usually only save up enough power for 2 or 3 solid packets per pass and we need 3 successfully for command and recover. One user packet in the middle of that and we lose it for the pass. MY fault for not making this announcement earlier. Not their fault. But if you see this email and you are transmitting to PCsat, please QRT for the next several days. Commanding is being done from the East and West coast of the USA and over Germany. WB4APR, Bob USNA Command Station ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
[amsat-bb] New poll for new OSCAR
Hello All After many discussions I launched a poll for a new OSCAR. AMSAT representatives are invited to evaluate this poll. This poll can also be a base for further discussions. If you want a new satellite/OSCAR wich payload/communication mode should it have? o Telemetry Beacon o Packet Radio Mailbox/Digipeater o FM Repeater o Linear Transponder o Educational payload o Other payload/mode After a month I will continue with the two most chosen choices with a new poll until I close the whole run. If you are not a member of the Yahoo Group EU_AMSAT, please visit the web page http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/EU_AMSAT/ and join the group. We also have interesting discussions there. Thank You for your attention. -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen, Best Regards, 73 Thomas Frey, HB9SKA __ Thomas Frey, Holzgasse 2, CH-5242 Birr, Tel. + Fax: 056 444 93 41 http://home.datacomm.ch/th.frey/ ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
[amsat-bb] Re: hams on ISS
As part of my volunteer duties with ARISS, I post the schedule of upcoming ARISS contacts on practically a daily basis. I post to the SAREX BB (sa...@amsat.org mailto:sa...@amsat.org). You can also check the schedule at http://www.issfanclub.com/ and at http://ariss.rac.ca/ (actually http://ariss.rac.ca/upcoming.htm#NextContact and look for the link saying Tentative List of Upcoming School Contacts . You can also go directly to http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf. I guess you miss this part then http://ariss.rac.ca/upcoming.htm That the one that shows the next scheduled contact as December 6, 2012. When I read on AMSAT News the day after another Canadian contact, I wondered how come they were not listed. But then I found 2 others that were upcoming and never shown there either. Thanks for you information I know of a couple more places to look. So I just figured that since Hams were not doing the scheduleing anymore then what was the point of carring on But now I see there still is something in place. Maybe the RAC site can be made to be a little more updated. As a member of that group I will have to ask why. I am still disturbed that a Canadian has time to do pictures and Tweet, but as yet he has not been on the rig. But he has lots of time to do this since he is there for another 5 months . so I wait on as many passes as I can ... One day my QSL will come in. -- Bill Booth VE3NXK Sundridge ON, Canada 79.23.37 W x 45.46.18 N FN05ns Visit my weather WebCam at http://www.almaguin.com/wxcurrent/weather.html Organ and Tissue Donation - The Gift of Life Talk to your family. Your decision can make a difference. ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
[amsat-bb] Re: hams on ISS
Bill Since you are Canadian and there is a Canadian aboard as you point out and he happens to be the station commander maybe you should call the CSA and ask them why he's not on the ham station. ARISS doesn't pay anyone's salary so what can they do about it. 73 John Sent from my iPad On Jan 31, 2013, at 10:53 AM, Bill Booth ve3...@gmail.com wrote: As part of my volunteer duties with ARISS, I post the schedule of upcoming ARISS contacts on practically a daily basis. I post to the SAREX BB (sa...@amsat.org mailto:sa...@amsat.org). You can also check the schedule at http://www.issfanclub.com/ and at http://ariss.rac.ca/ (actually http://ariss.rac.ca/upcoming.htm#NextContact and look for the link saying Tentative List of Upcoming School Contacts . You can also go directly to http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf. I guess you miss this part then http://ariss.rac.ca/upcoming.htm That the one that shows the next scheduled contact as December 6, 2012. When I read on AMSAT News the day after another Canadian contact, I wondered how come they were not listed. But then I found 2 others that were upcoming and never shown there either. Thanks for you information I know of a couple more places to look. So I just figured that since Hams were not doing the scheduleing anymore then what was the point of carring on But now I see there still is something in place. Maybe the RAC site can be made to be a little more updated. As a member of that group I will have to ask why. I am still disturbed that a Canadian has time to do pictures and Tweet, but as yet he has not been on the rig. But he has lots of time to do this since he is there for another 5 months . so I wait on as many passes as I can ... One day my QSL will come in. -- Bill Booth VE3NXK Sundridge ON, Canada 79.23.37 W x 45.46.18 N FN05ns Visit my weather WebCam at http://www.almaguin.com/wxcurrent/weather.html Organ and Tissue Donation - The Gift of Life Talk to your family. Your decision can make a difference. ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
[amsat-bb] Re: hams on ISS
Hello ..This is an issue that is no doubt way out of my pay grade. I loosely used the term real hams with regard to amateur operations on the ISS. We all know what the term implies, if you don't then that is another issue. I believe they are required to have a amateur ticket. That does not give them the burning in the belly to get WAS, VUCC etc etc. Yes they are short on time, so are all of us, and look at the time we make to do that radio thing. I had a short QSO many years ago with the ISS, still recall it vividly. I do not expect any changes, and have long given up on a QSO up there. I do get a kick out of watching the ISS go over and watch my sat array track them. You can not teach real ham, it is either there or it's not. 73 Bob W7LRD Seattle - Original Message - From: Ted k7trkra...@charter.net To: a...@aol.com, ve3...@gmail.com, amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 11:02:50 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] hams on ISS Charlie, thanks for all your efforts on this... And of course, the priority should be the School program 73, Ted K7TRK -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of a...@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 10:07 PM To: ve3...@gmail.com; amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: hams on ISS Hi all As part of my volunteer duties with ARISS, I post the schedule of upcoming ARISS contacts on practically a daily basis. I post to the SAREX BB (_sarex@AMSAT.ORG_ (mailto:sa...@amsat.org) ). You can also check the schedule at _http://www.issfanclub.com/_ (http://www.issfanclub.com/) and at _http://ariss.rac.ca/_ (http://ariss.rac.ca/) (actually _http://ariss.rac.ca/upcoming.htm#NextContact_ (http://ariss.rac.ca/upcoming.htm#NextContact) and look for the link saying Tentative List of Upcoming School Contacts . You can also go directly to _http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf_ (http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf) . In spite of what some may think as to how up to date the schedule is, as soon as I get updates on the schedule and success of a contact, I usually have updates posted in less than a day. There are times when we get the locked down time from the ISS planners for a contact almost at the last minute so my heads up might be very short. Unfortunately we sometimes find out about the Russian contacts after the fact and thus I am unable to give everyone a heads up. Usually we at ARISS get the scheduled date and time about 10 to 14 days in advance but we warn all schools that we may get told with less than 36 hours. We have also been aborted with less than 10 minutes to go before a contact. We are often asked about when the crew is going to make a general contact. We simply do not know. The crew is super busy and when they do get free time, they have many things they can do. We can suggest that they get on the radios; we can never demand. So ham radio may or may not be in their game plan for that day. By the way, all of the ARISS school contacts actually take place during a scheduled off time for the crewmember. That means they either gave up some free time or their day gets extended. 73, Charlie AJ9N One of the ARISS mentors In a message dated 1/30/2013 7:30:56 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, ve3...@gmail.com writes: On 30/01/2013 9:30 PM, Personal wrote: Remember they don't get paid to sit up there on the radio. Remember too that ham radio in manned space flight has changed since SAREX and Mir. It's no longer the back up system it once was. They have iPods and such aboard now. There is Internet access and a telephone to speak with family. I don't generally get into these types of verbal banter, but this time I make an exception. Right now a Canadian, Chris Hadfield, is onboard and doing a great job with pictures and Twitter. I see today that he did a live feed to a school here in Ontario. The part that bugs me is there were a few ARISS Ham contact before Christmas that did not show up till the day of the contact. The Canadian RAC site had no mention of it on their site and still is stuck in November. I read a lot of AMSAT/ARRL news letters and I have suddenly realized that the ham community is out of it altogether. It would appear that starting this year NASA themselves is looking after the contacts. I would have thought that the ham community would have been in an uproar over this, guess not. I know that the chances of hearing or contacting the ISS is like winning the lottery, but I think now it is long gone. I am disappointed that when an USA or Russian is onboad you may hear them once or twice. I doubt that you will ever hear Chris at the mic. he seems to be caught up in social media. I'm not sure what the definition of a real ham is but too many times it seems to be a person stuck in the past, bemoaning the things that used to be No I do not feel
[amsat-bb] HudsonValleySatcomGroupLast net
Tonight Jan31@8PM Eastern will be the last Hudson Valley Satcom Group Net @ 8 PM Eastern on Echolink N2EYH-L and the MtBeacon Repeater 146.970 pl 100. Sad to say this will be our last net. After five and onehalf years and some 159 Nets this is it for now. If and when we get more birds up there we may start the net again. I want to thank all of you who participated on the Nets. So please join us tonight jan31 for our Net and share your satellite expertise with us. Hope to hear you there. 73 Gary WA2AQH/Tom KC2DTQ ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
[amsat-bb] Re: New poll for new OSCAR
On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:06:39 +0100, Robert Bruninga bruni...@usna.edu wrote: Instead of asking what do we want, maybe a more useful poll might be what can you build us? Just an aside. wink Bob, Wb4APR Wel that is easy too, you can grab a off the shelf cubesat from from one of the shops including the power system and put a pe1ruh space proven linear transponder in it. now the next question would be funding and flying and that gets us back to what do the funding people want. -- 73 Andre PE1RDW ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
[amsat-bb] Re: New poll for new OSCAR
Well said Bob. I'll add one more thing: All of these options are available in existing projects that need our support. 73, Drew KO4MA -Original Message- From: Robert Bruninga bruni...@usna.edu Sent: Jan 31, 2013 1:06 PM To: eu_am...@yahoogroups.co.uk, Amsat - BBs amsat-bb@amsat.org, AMSAT - Forum fo...@amsat-dl.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: New poll for new OSCAR That is easy!. The answer is of course ALL OF THE ABOVE. The hard part is what can get built by whom. And who is in the best position to FUND it and get it launched. And then all the polls in the world mean nothing against what -that-person or entity wants or needs. And that is what drives what we get. Instead of asking what do we want, maybe a more useful poll might be what can you build us? Just an aside. wink Bob, Wb4APR -Original Message- If you want a new satellite/OSCAR wich payload/communication mode should it have? o Telemetry Beacon o Packet Radio Mailbox/Digipeater o FM Repeater o Linear Transponder o Educational payload o Other payload/mode ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
[amsat-bb] ISS Shadow-Beacon Experiment 145.825 MHz Feb 1-3
See http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=12418 Timetable at http://www.terranimpact.com/site/space/fun.doc 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
[amsat-bb] The Verge: A Crowdfunding Revolution Ignites the Next Space Race
The Verge reports how ordinary people are funding a new wave of rocket and satellite missions. The video features Zac Manchester KD2BHC from the Kicksat project, Peter Platzer of ArduSat and Rouslan Dimitrov of SkyCube. There is also a report on Copenhagen Suborbitals who are building a rocket to carry a human to the edge of space and back. Watch the video and read the story at http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/31/3929342/the-stars-on-a-shoestring-amateurs-ignite-grassroots-space-race 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
[amsat-bb] CubeSats on Arirang TV
Korean TV station Arirang broadcast this English language news item about CubeSats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfZRDS6-D-o 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
[amsat-bb] Re: CubeSats on Arirang TV
The more eagle-eyed amongst us have spotted that about 9 seconds into this video it includes shots of the FUNcube-1 engineering model stack, with a antenna deployment simulator attached to it, obviously taken recently but I have absolutely no idea how they came by it:) 73 Graham G3VZV -Original Message- From: Trevor . Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 10:03 PM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] CubeSats on Arirang TV Korean TV station Arirang broadcast this English language news item about CubeSats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfZRDS6-D-o 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
[amsat-bb] Re: QRT all PCSAT transmissions!
On 31/01/13 15:52, Robert Bruninga wrote: PCSAT (W3ADO-1) is entering its 3 day RECOVERY window this year starting 31 Jan. Good luck guys ;-) -- Gordonjcp MM0YEQ ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
[amsat-bb] Hams on ISS
I'm replying to a recent post about an Canadian Astronaut not being a ham. I have seen posted somewhere I believe the AMSAT website that Amateur radio is a guest on the ISS. Its up to the individual astronaut if they want to become a ham. Personally I'm grateful there is a ham radio station on board the ISS. If one astronaut chooses not to operate that means more time for another to operate. 73's Mike/N8GBU ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
[amsat-bb] seeking a source for 93 ohm coax RG62
Belden 9268 or equivalent..need just four feet of it for an eggbeater antenna project; prefer it to have a solderable shield. Thank you, Robin E. Midgett Electronics Technician Vanderbilt University Mechanical Engineering 406-C Olin Hall 2400 Highland Avenue Nashville, TN 37212-2010 615-322-5836 phone 615-343-6687 FAX ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
[amsat-bb] Re: seeking a source for 93 ohm coax RG62
I have a 500' roll. Send me an SASE to my callbook address and note to remind me how much you need. If you feel so compelled, drop a donation in the Fox paypal widget on my QRZ page. This is an open offer to all. I'll send reasonable amounts if you send an SASE with sufficient postage. 73, Drew KO4MA -Original Message- From: Robin Midgett robin.midg...@vanderbilt.edu Sent: Jan 31, 2013 6:51 PM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] seeking a source for 93 ohm coax RG62 Belden 9268 or equivalent..need just four feet of it for an eggbeater antenna project; prefer it to have a solderable shield. Thank you, Robin E. Midgett Electronics Technician Vanderbilt University Mechanical Engineering 406-C Olin Hall 2400 Highland Avenue Nashville, TN 37212-2010 615-322-5836 phone 615-343-6687 FAX ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
[amsat-bb] Re: New poll... (PSK31 xponder)
Not to ask the obvious, but is the general cubesat community aware? A simple message to the cubesat lists may be fruitful. 73, Drew KO4MA Sent from my iPhone On Jan 31, 2013, at 6:36 PM, Robert Bruninga bruni...@usna.edu wrote: All we need is someone to fly it. Bob, WB4APR ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
