[amsat-bb] Re: Off to Dayton...
Wish I could go back to Dayton. To many OM problems. Our Club Call K4AMG was my Uncle Bob's, and he was one of the founders of the Dayton Hamvention. Back then his call was W8QDI. Hope some of you guys will be able to attend Carole Perry's (WB2MGP) Instructors and youth Forums. Have a great time. God Bless R W4BUE - Original Message - From: Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) amsat...@wd9ewk.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:47 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Off to Dayton... Hi! I'm flying out of Phoenix tomorrow morning to Indianapolis, and will be in Dayton Thursday evening before the start of the Hamvention for the AMSAT gathering at Tickets Pub. Along with some time working the AMSAT demonstration station outside the arena, I plan on working other passes outside of the Hamvention between Thursday (15 May) morning and midday Monday (19 May) from wherever I happen to be at that time - including some AO-7 (and possibly FO-29) passes where Europe is in the footprint with me. Even if I'm waking up at 0-dark-30 to get outside for those passes. I'm already planning a very early Thursday morning for an AO-7 pass around 0820 UTC +/- to start my operating out there. If you are in Europe and have Dayton in the footprint on a particular pass, please e-mail me directly. I would enjoy the chance to work you, and will be happy to provide contact information to help line up a potential QSO. I did this in 2010, working OZ1MY and 2E1EUB on the same AO-7 pass in SSB from outside Dayton on the EN70/EN80 grid boundary, so I know it is possible with my portable station. I'll try to post updates here on the -BB for my operating, whether at the Hamvention or somewhere else. My @WD9EWK Twitter feed - you can read it at http://twitter.com/WD9EWK if you don't do Twitter yourself - will probably be a great way to see the latest updates, since I know I can send SMS messages to Twitter without an Internet connection from almost anywhere I'll go. I'll have my TH-D72A with me, and run APRS as WD9EWK-9 as I drive. I should start showing up on APRS tomorrow afternoon, which will be visible at http://aprs.fi/WD9EWK-9 if my APRS packets find their way to an Internet gateway (and be the best way to see where I end up on Wednesday evening, before that early AO-7 pass Thursday morning). I will try to upload my QSOs to Logbook of the World daily, and each QSO will have the proper information for my QTH at that time. I have QSL card designs ready to print after I return home next week, and for some locations I've already printed QSL cards. If you work me in the next few days and then see me at Dayton, I'll be happy to write out a QSL card on the spot - or e-mail me the QSO details, and I'll send you a card after I'm back home. If we don't work on a satellite pass in the next few days, I'll be happy to meet you at Dayton. :-) 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ ___ 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] LituanicaSAT-1 Update + Atlas V + ISS
LituanicaSAT-1 Update May 14, 2014 http://amsat-uk.org/2014/05/14/lituanicasat-1-update-may-14-2014/ 434 MHz balloons have a role in STEM Education http://amsat-uk.org/2014/05/11/434-mhz-balloons-have-a-role-in-stem-education/ FUNcube-1 AO-73 satellite SSB signal test http://amsat-uk.org/2014/05/10/funcube-1-ao-73-satellite-signal-test/ Atlas V rocket - Russia Today story - Russia’s deputy PM Dmitry Rogozin said that Moscow is banning Washington from using Russian-made rocket engines http://rt.com/news/158680-russia-usa-rocket-gps/ Daily Telegraph newspaper - Russia to ban US from using Space Station over Ukraine sanctions http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/10828964/Russia-to-ban-US-from-using-Space-Station-over-Ukraine-sanctions.html Trevor M5AKA AMSAT-UK Website http://amsat-uk.org/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/amsatuk 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
[amsat-bb] Dayton weather
http://www.weather.com/weather/5-day/Dayton+OH+USOH0245:1:US Bring a jacket WA4HFN em55 Damon ___ 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] Fieldday planned May 17th
Hi all, Due the good forcast for upcoming weekend. I want to announce that me PD5DJ and Frank PA1FP will be active portable on May the 17th. We are located somewhere in JO32DW, JO32EW, JO32DV or JO32EV.. Active from 9:00 UTC till 16:00 UTC. We will be active on all active satellites at that time. 73 Bjorn de PD5DJ ___ 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: Off to Dayton...
Quoting Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) who wrote on Tue 2014-05-13 at 20:47: go. I'll have my TH-D72A with me, and run APRS as WD9EWK-9 as I drive. I should start showing up on APRS tomorrow afternoon, which will be visible at http://aprs.fi/WD9EWK-9 if my APRS packets find their way to an Internet gateway (and be the best way to see where I end up on Wednesday evening, before that early AO-7 pass Thursday morning). I will follow the Dayton fun at home, I see there is a special 'Dayton' page at aprs.fi which will be fun to watch in the upcoming days: http://hamvention.aprs.fi/ The page mentions the 2009 hamvention, but the embedded map is updated in real-time. Lots of options for those staying at home and having a little or a lot of time for a peek at the hamvention. I personally don't have SSB-capable equipment at the moment (hoping to change that when budget and time permits). I do hope you manage to make some interesting new contacts with others who do! Koos van den Hout PD4KH -- The Virtual Bookcase, the site about books, book | Koos van den Hout news and reviews http://www.virtualbookcase.com/ | http://idefix.net/ PGP keyid DSS/1024 0xF0D7C263 | IPv6 enabled! ___ 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] HR4310 Section 1261 Status?
Any update on the status of the bill to remove satellites from the US Munitions List? https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr4310#summary It seems like it's been a while since this happened (1.5 years...) Maybe I'm just too hopeful it will be in place in a timely manner? Anyone following it more closely? Bryce KB1LQC ___ 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: Fieldday planned May 17th
Björn, Any chance you guys could try AO-7 a little earlier on Saturday? There is a pass around 0814-0830 UTC over here that could work for a QSO between your grid JO32 and EM79 where I will be this weekend. That is early over here, but I can sleep after the weekend on the flight home. :-) Looks like the distance would be around 6700km between us. You could have a nice shot of working others in the eastern USA and Canada on that pass as well. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK - 38000 feet over Kansas, going to Hamvention http://www.wd9ewk.net/ On Wednesday, May 14, 2014, Björn Pasteuning pd...@quicknet.nl wrote: Hi all, Due the good forcast for upcoming weekend. I want to announce that me PD5DJ and Frank PA1FP will be active portable on May the 17th. We are located somewhere in JO32DW, JO32EW, JO32DV or JO32EV.. Active from 9:00 UTC till 16:00 UTC. We will be active on all active satellites at that time. 73 Bjorn de PD5DJ ___ 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] UHF antenna radiation pattern measurement
All, My students and I are working on a way to rapidly measure the radiation pattern of various UHF antennas. We are using a pair of RFM22s - the transmitter sends magnetometer (azimuth) and accelerometer (elevation) data from a LSM303 along with its output power level. The receiving RFM22 appends the received signal strength value. From there what we want to do is real time plotting on a net book. 2D seems readily achievable through either LabView's polar plots or a number of different Python plotting libraries. However what we'd really like to do is real-time 3D plotting, but we don't know the right toolchain or libraries. We know we can do it in Matlab, but that won't be in real time. Are we on the right track? Has this been done before? Should we settle for a pair of 2D plots, or can real time 3D be done? Is there interest in the community for something like this? If it is, that would place different requirements on us (economical, easy to duplicate, good documentation, open software, etc). 73, NX1U ___ 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] Office Closed
The AMSAT Office will be closed Thursday, May 15th and Friday, May 16th. I will be in Dayton and hope to see you there. -- 73- Martha ___ 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] Driving to Dayton (Voice Alert)
Driving to Dayton: For AMSAT guys, even if you don’t have an APRS radio, set an HT in your car to 144.39 with CTCSS 100 and the speaker will be 100% quiet unless there is an APRS mobile in simplex range, and then you will hear his CQ once a minute. If you hear one, then he is in SIMPLEX range and you can call him on voice and tell him to meet you on 52, If you do have an APRS radio: Don’t forget to keep that Voice Alert volume UP and to CLEAR all the messages in your D700 and D7 mailboxes!!! Nothing more frustrating than to hear your CQ PINGS and then you are not listening for Voice Alert responses and your radio is rejecting messages telling you to wake up! If you don’t know what Voice Alert is, crawl out from under your rock and read this: http://aprs.org/VoiceAlert3.html OR, to make it simple, simply set the APRS side of your radio to CTCSS 100 and keep the data channel volume UP to receive voice alert calls (and pings from nearby mobiles in simplex range). Far more effective at finding a fellow driver than calling CQ on 52 every minute. 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
[amsat-bb] Re: Dayton Weather
I thought it was mandatory to have at least one rain storm at each Dayton HamVention ... Sure seems like it ... (grin) Clint K6LCS ___ 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] SimpleSat Look Down
Recently there was a problem with my SimpleSat Look Down program that was related to a Bing Maps licensing issue. A few people contacted me about it and sorry to say I did not keep a list of their email addresses. I have resolved the problem with Microsoft and my license to use Bing Maps should not expire. I also added code to better deal with the vagaries of Tle web data lists. The new version 1.26 is available. http://www.tomdoyle.org/simplesatlookdown tnx 73 W9KE Tom Doyle ___ 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: Dayton Weather
Last time I went it SNOWED!!! Joe wb9sbd Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 5/14/2014 3:34 PM, Clint Bradford wrote: I thought it was mandatory to have at least one rain storm at each Dayton HamVention ... Sure seems like it ... (grin) Clint K6LCS ___ 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 Boffins: VR2Space and STRaND-1/2 CubeSats
Dr. Aaron Knoll and Dr. Christopher Bridges M0GKK from the Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey talk to Space Boffins’s Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham about the exciting VR2Space project (Virtual Reality High Altitute Balloon). They also briefly discuss the STRaND-1 (437.568 MHz) CubeSat and the upcoming STRaND-2 CubeSat, see http://amsat-uk.org/2014/05/14/space-boffins-vr2space-and-strand-12-cubesats/ Trevor M5AKA AMSAT-UK Website http://amsat-uk.org/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/amsatuk 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
[amsat-bb] Spam via amsat.org reflector
Like most people here I have an email address on amsat.org that automatically relays to my primary email address. I get a **lot** of spam via this path; a quick check shows that fully 96 out of 244 recent spam messages (as classified by Gmail) received at my primary email address had been addressed to, and relayed via, k...@amsat.org. I'm tempted to just ask that my forwarding alias be turned off, but I have found this service handy myself in reaching other AMSAT members so I hesitate to do this. Would there be interest (and would it be possible) to modify the amsat.org email service to, instead of forwarding the mail, return a simple canned message saying that amsat.org member so-and-so can be reached directly at your canonical email here? This could be implemented with the existing vacation reminder service, which most UNIX-based email systems provide. When enabled, it returns a reminder to the first message from each distinct sender and optionally declines to deliver the original message. This does create the risk that spammers will merely harvest our email addresses from the bounce notices. But most spammers don't even provide a valid reply address, much less look at anything it gets. But just in case, you could spell it out in one of the usual obfuscated ways that require a human to interpret it. E.g., the forwarding notice could give my primary email address as karn (at) ka9q (dot) nXXet, remove the two 'XX's. Ideas? --Phil ___ 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: Spam via amsat.org reflector
I receive all sorts of JUNK in Russian and Chinese characters via the a...@amsat.org and jour...@amsat.org (in addition to k9...@amsat.org) alias e-mail addresses. So far no suitable solution has been revealed. So I keep the DELETE key armed and ready to fire. AMSAT is in the process of moving e-mail to a new server vs. our 15 year old server so perhaps relief is on the way! -- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9...@amsat.org Editor, AMSAT Journal -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Phil Karn Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 16:53 To: amsat-bb@amsat.org; kb...@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Spam via amsat.org reflector Like most people here I have an email address on amsat.org that automatically relays to my primary email address. ___ 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
