[amsat-bb] Re: $50sat
Howie, Which is the document in the drop box location which has the details on the uplinking. Is it 20Version20V1_1.pdf 73 Nitin [VU3TYG] From: Howie DeFelice howied...@hotmail.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Friday, 21 February 2014 10:50 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] $50sat The $50sat team is celebrating 90 days in orbit by proposing a technical challenge to all interested amateurs. $50sat is capable of responding to uplink command packets: There are 3 open packets: Test packet - $50SAT responds by sending the RSSI of the received packet in slow FM Morse. Request data packet - the normal data packet is sent. Request RTTY - The RTTY is sent. In addition all received packets result in two copies of the ack packet being sent, that contains the RSSI of the received packet. All the required information to accomplish this is available on the drop box location available through the $50sat web page at www.50dollarsat.info . Anyone that can demonstrate a successful command uplink by submitting a recording of the response packet along with the date, time and location of of the contact will receive aCertificate of Technical Accomplishment signed by all three builders of $50sat. Submissions can be madeto the $50sat email address; 50dollarsat at yahoo.com. This is a significant challenge because there is no magic black box that you can buy to do this. After 90 days of operation, the Kodak KLIC-7002 camera battery that powers the satellite has fallen off about 100mV, but operations still seem normal. We have also programmed a special 5th morse beacon to thank our launch sponsor and mentor prof. Bob Twiggs. Please give a listen for the message TNX KE6QMD on the FM Morse beacon. QSL cards are still available to anyone that posts telemetry, either hand copied CW or RTTY captures, to the 50dollarsat yahoo group. 73 and good luck to all from the $50sat team ___ 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: CAPE-2 over Brazil #1410
Thanks Roland nick -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Roland Zurmely Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 5:20 AM To: AMSAT Subject: [amsat-bb] CAPE-2 over Brazil #1410 Two successful comands: *forcebeac# 1:Fm W5UL-15 To W5UL UI F/C Pid=F0 Len=68 [08:10:47R] +W5UL,CAPE-2,3,OR,201301281914CST,5073mV,01000,3,12C,-1C,ulcape.org# *dump# 1:Fm W5UL-15 To W5UL UI F/C Pid=F0 Len=56 [08:11:18R] W5UL,5424,817,5408,0,5413,0,5413,OR,001,10,1,ulcape.org# 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ GH70un ___ 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: $50sat
Nitin, Yes I presumed it was $50SAT - Eagle2 - Communications - Release Version V1_1.pdf https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l3919wtfiywk2gf/xBCKGTxJ3I/%2450SAT%20-%20Eagle2%20-%20Communications%20-%20Release%20Version%20V1_1.pdf or http://tinyurl.com/50DollarSatCommunicationsV1-1 73 Trevor M5AKA On Friday, 21 February 2014, 8:35, Nitin Muttin vu3...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Howie, Which is the document in the drop box location which has the details on the uplinking. Is it 20Version20V1_1.pdf 73 Nitin [VU3TYG] From: Howie DeFelice howied...@hotmail.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Friday, 21 February 2014 10:50 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] $50sat The $50sat team is celebrating 90 days in orbit by proposing a technical challenge to all interested amateurs. $50sat is capable of responding to uplink command packets: There are 3 open packets: Test packet - $50SAT responds by sending the RSSI of the received packet in slow FM Morse. Request data packet - the normal data packet is sent. Request RTTY - The RTTY is sent. In addition all received packets result in two copies of the ack packet being sent, that contains the RSSI of the received packet. All the required information to accomplish this is available on the drop box location available through the $50sat web page at www.50dollarsat.info . Anyone that can demonstrate a successful command uplink by submitting a recording of the response packet along with the date, time and location of of the contact will receive aCertificate of Technical Accomplishment signed by all three builders of $50sat. Submissions can be madeto the $50sat email address; 50dollarsat at yahoo.com. This is a significant challenge because there is no magic black box that you can buy to do this. After 90 days of operation, the Kodak KLIC-7002 camera battery that powers the satellite has fallen off about 100mV, but operations still seem normal. We have also programmed a special 5th morse beacon to thank our launch sponsor and mentor prof. Bob Twiggs. Please give a listen for the message TNX KE6QMD on the FM Morse beacon. QSL cards are still available to anyone that posts telemetry, either hand copied CW or RTTY captures, to the 50dollarsat yahoo group. 73 and good luck to all from the $50sat team ___ 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 ___ 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: FUNcube Warehouse Upload Ranking Changes
No 93..must try harder must try harder. -Original Message- From: David Johnson d...@thejohnsonsonline.net To: Andrew Glasbrenner glasbren...@mindspring.com; Amsat - BBs amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 21:43 Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: FUNcube Warehouse Upload Ranking Changes Hi, Oooh, that sound like a challenge for another train journey :-) Thanks Drew. 73 - Dave On 20/02/2014 21:32, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote: #22 likes it. I think it'd be neat to compare the rankings to latitude as well. My station has run almost full time collecting telemetry since launch, and I continue to slide down the list. I'm not upset or even bothered by it, but it illustrates how much more access time a high latitude station gets on a polar orbit as compared to say, a 28.3 degree latitude location. Competition has probably doubled the participation in this endeavor, which only helps the project. Plus, if it doesn't hurt anyone, why even care? Much better things to get tweaked about. 73, Drew KO4MA -Original Message- From: David Johnson d...@thejohnsonsonline.net Sent: Feb 20, 2014 4:10 PM To: Bill Bordy, NJ1H n...@comcast.net, Amsat - BBs amsat-bb@amsat.org, eu_am...@yahoogroups.co.uk Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: FUNcube Warehouse Upload Ranking Changes Hi, It took 40 minutes to write the code of the train on the way to work this morning and was an interesting challenge and the Google Analytics spiked as soon as I released and and announced it. So I'm happy with it, as are the the FUNcube team. One of those asking for it, is part of the team. 73 Dave, G4DPZ FUNcube Warehouse Developer On 20/02/2014 19:57, Bill Bordy, NJ1H wrote: I need to do a sanity check of my reaction to the below. I took a deep breath and waited awhile before sending this email Am I the only one wondering why any user felt the need to have a column showing rankings added? 73, Bill NJ1H On 2/20/2014 11:40 AM, David A B Johnson wrote: Hi, At the request of several users we have added another column to the page which enumerates the position in the ranking as well as the number of uploads. http://warehouse.funcube.org.uk/ranking.html?satelliteId=2 Current range is 1 – 536 73 Dave, G4DPZ FUNcube Team Member ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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] CAPE-2 over Brazil #1425
Three successful comands: 10:38 W5ULW5UL-15UI,C,F0: *clock201402210738CST# 10:38 W5UL-15W5ULUI,C,F0: *ACK# 10:38 W5ULW5UL-15UI,C,F0: *forcebeac# 10:38 W5UL-15W5ULUI,C,F0: +W5UL,CAPE-2,7,GR,201402210738CST,5762mV,01003,7,15C,-2C,ulcape.org# 10:38 W5ULW5UL-15UI,C,F0: *dump# 10:38 W5UL-15W5ULUI,C,F0: W5UL,5559,827,5543,3,5543,49,5543,GR,001,13,-1,ulcape.org# Please see here: http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/cape.htm#n 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ GH70un ___ 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] DoD release Electromagnetic Spectrum Strategy
On Thursday, February 20, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced the release of its Electromagnetic Spectrum Strategy (EMS) to increase available spectrum in order to meet growing demand from the commercial wireless industry. The strategy follows the release of a memorandum issued in 2010 by President Obama titled “Unleashing the Wireless Broadband Revolution,” which requires 500 MHz of spectrum be made available for commercial use by 2020. Amateur UHF and Microwave spectrum is shared with DoD. The release of 500 MHz may result in more intensive use by the DoD of the remaining spectrum. DoD Electromagnetic Spectrum Strategy document http://www.defense.gov/news/dodspectrumstrategy.pdf DoD Announcement http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=16547 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] Satellite demos - Sunday morning at the Vienna Wireless Winterfest
Good morning, KS1G and I will conduct satellite demonstrations at the Vienna Wireless Winterfest in Annandale, Virginia on Sunday morning. We will be on the following two passes: VO-52 - 1228Z - 1240Z FO-29 - 1347Z - 1404Z I will be calling CQ about 5 kHz +/- above center. Please give us a call if you hear us! We will also be conducting an AMSAT forum immediately following the FO-29 pass. After the forum, we will demonstrate decoding telemetry from FUNcube-1. More information regarding the hamfest can be found here: http://www.viennawireless.org/winterfest.php 73, Paul Stoetzer, N8HM ___ 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: Satellite demos - Sunday morning at the Vienna WirelessWinterfest
Nice event planned. The K4AMG Sat Com Station will be down as we are working antennas at Radio ridge in Dinwiddie County, VA. If you all do a preset up on Saturday we could work you. God Bless Rich W4BUE / K4AMG ___ 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: $50sat
Yes Nitin, that is the one. The RFM22B datasheet will also be useful. - Howie AB2S Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:25:59 +0800 From: vu3...@yahoo.co.in Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] $50sat To: howied...@hotmail.com; amsat-bb@amsat.org Howie, Which is the document in the drop box location which has the details on the uplinking. Is it 20Version20V1_1.pdf 73 Nitin [VU3TYG] From: Howie DeFelice howied...@hotmail.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Friday, 21 February 2014 10:50 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] $50sat The $50sat team is celebrating 90 days in orbit by proposing a technical challenge to all interested amateurs. $50sat is capable of responding to uplink command packets: There are 3 open packets: Test packet - $50SAT responds by sending the RSSI of the received packet in slow FM Morse. Request data packet - the normal data packet is sent. Request RTTY - The RTTY is sent. In addition all received packets result in two copies of the ack packet being sent, that contains the RSSI of the received packet. All the required information to accomplish this is available on the drop box location available through the $50sat web page at www.50dollarsat.info . Anyone that can demonstrate a successful command uplink by submitting a recording of the response packet along with the date, time and location of of the contact will receive aCertificate of Technical Accomplishment signed by all three builders of $50sat. Submissions can be madeto the $50sat email address; 50dollarsat at yahoo.com. This is a significant challenge because there is no magic black box that you can buy to do this. After 90 days of operation, the Kodak KLIC-7002 camera battery that powers the satellite has fallen off about 100mV, but operations still seem normal. We have also programmed a special 5th morse beacon to thank our launch sponsor and mentor prof. Bob Twiggs. Please give a listen for the message TNX KE6QMD on the FM Morse beacon. QSL cards are still available to anyone that posts telemetry, either hand copied CW or RTTY captures, to the 50dollarsat yahoo group. 73 and good luck to all from the $50sat team ___ 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: $50sat
Thanks Howie and Trevor. 73 Nitin [VU3TYG] From: Howie DeFelice howied...@hotmail.com To: Nitin Muttin vu3...@yahoo.co.in; amsat-bb@amsat.org amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Friday, 21 February 2014 8:02 PM Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] $50sat Yes Nitin, that is the one. The RFM22B datasheet will also be useful. - Howie AB2S Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:25:59 +0800 From: vu3...@yahoo.co.in Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] $50sat To: howied...@hotmail.com; amsat-bb@amsat.org Howie, Which is the document in the drop box location which has the details on the uplinking. Is it 20Version20V1_1.pdf 73 Nitin [VU3TYG] From: Howie DeFelice howied...@hotmail.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Friday, 21 February 2014 10:50 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] $50sat The $50sat team is celebrating 90 days in orbit by proposing a technical challenge to all interested amateurs. $50sat is capable of responding to uplink command packets: There are 3 open packets: Test packet - $50SAT responds by sending the RSSI of the received packet in slow FM Morse. Request data packet - the normal data packet is sent. Request RTTY - The RTTY is sent. In addition all received packets result in two copies of the ack packet being sent, that contains the RSSI of the received packet. All the required information to accomplish this is available on the drop box location available through the $50sat web page at www.50dollarsat.info . Anyone that can demonstrate a successful command uplink by submitting a recording of the response packet along with the date, time and location of of the contact will receive aCertificate of Technical Accomplishment signed by all three builders of $50sat. Submissions can be madeto the $50sat email address; 50dollarsat at yahoo.com. This is a significant challenge because there is no magic black box that you can buy to do this. After 90 days of operation, the Kodak KLIC-7002 camera battery that powers the satellite has fallen off about 100mV, but operations still seem normal. We have also programmed a special 5th morse beacon to thank our launch sponsor and mentor prof. Bob Twiggs. Please give a listen for the message TNX KE6QMD on the FM Morse beacon. QSL cards are still available to anyone that posts telemetry, either hand copied CW or RTTY captures, to the 50dollarsat yahoo group. 73 and good luck to all from the $50sat team ___ 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] Space inventions for free*
*offer available to ESA member states and Canada only. Looks a bit like ITAR in reverse. However I wonder if there are any eligible organisations in AMSAT-lands who might want this technology? http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Technology/TTP2/Highlights/Space_inventions_for_free 73 de andy G0SFJ ___ 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 CubeSats prepared for deployment
NASA reports that on Thursday, February 20, 2014, International Space Station (ISS) astronaut Koichi Wakata KC5ZTA worked in the Japanese Kibo laboratory to prepare the second batch of NanoRacks CubeSats for their deployment beginning next Tuesday, see http://amsat-uk.org/2014/02/21/amateur-radio-cubesats-prepared-for-deployment/ Students at Marquette University Spacecraft Engineering are building a CubeSat and were featured on WISN 12 TV News YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM2YzP8auYQ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MUSpacecraft 73 Trevor M5AKA AMSAT-UK Website http://amsat-uk.org/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/AMSAT-UK/208113275898396 Twitter https://twitter.com/AMSAT_UK ___ 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
