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In this edition:

* 2014 Candidates for the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Announced
* Russian Dnepr rocket lofts record haul of 37 satellites
* Amateur Radio Role on Space Station Featured at ISS Research and
Development Conference
* Successful launch of amateur radio satellite payloads
* Dnepr Launch for D-STAR Satellite
* FUNcube-3 payload launch information
* Upcoming AMSAT Events
* ARISS News
* Satellite Shorts From All Over


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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 173.01
>From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.
DATE June 22, 2014
To All RADIO AMATEURS
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2014 Candidates for the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Announced


The 2014 candidates, in alphabetical order by last names are:

Jerry Buxton, N0JY
Tom Clark, K3IO
Steve Coy, K8UD
Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA
Frank Griffin, K4FEG
Bryan Klofas, KF6ZEO
Lou McFadin, W5DID
JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM

Normally there would be 3 full Board seats open this year, plus 2
alternates. However, with the passing of Tony Monteiro, AA2TX (SK),
there will be an additional full Board seat open to fill the
remaining year of his term. This means that the top three recipients
of votes will have two-year terms, the fourth most vote recipient
will serve as full member for one year, and the fifth and sixth
highest vote recipients will serve as first and second alternate
respectively.

Ballots will be mailed to the AMSAT-NA membership by 15 JUL 2014 and
must be received at the AMSAT office by 15 SEP 2014 in order to be
counted. Those sent outside North America will go by air mail.
If you have not received your ballot package in a reasonable time
for your QTH, please contact the AMSAT office. Returned ballots
should be sent as promptly as possible, and those from outside North
American preferably by air mail.

Election of board members is both an obligation as well as an
opportunity by our membership to help shape the future direction of
AMSAT. Please take the time to review the candidate statements that
will accompany the ballot and determine who you wish to see on the
Board. You have the option to vote for up to four candidates.


[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]


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Russian Dnepr rocket lofts record haul of 37 satellites


A Russian Dnepr rocket launched a record-breaking thirty-seven
satellites on Friday morning local time, deploying a cluster of
spacecraft for scientific research and commercial operation. The
mission departed on schedule from Dombarovsky in Southern Russia at
01:11 local time (19:11 UTC on Thursday).


Dnepr Record Breaker:
With thirty-seven satellites aboard the Dnepr, Friday’s launch saw
the record for most spacecraft launched by a single rocket broken for
the fourth time in less than a year.

The previous record was set at 34 by January’s Antares launch with
Orbital Sciences’ first CRS mission to the International Space
Station.

Thirty-three of the satellites werre deployed directly by the Dnepr
– as opposed to being released by other payloads or transported to
the International Space Station for later deployment – which is also
a new record. That record had previously been held by an American
Minotaur launch which occurred last year.

Deimos-2, KazEOSat-2 and Hodoyoshi-3 and 4 were the main payloads
for what was the twentieth Dnepr launch.

Z3Built by South Korea’s SATREC Initiative for Deimos Imaging of
Spain, the Deimos-2 satellite follows on from the smaller Deimos-1
which launched in 2009.

Based around the SI-300 bus, Deimos-2 has a mass of around 300
kilograms (660 lb). It will be used for high-resolution Earth
imaging; it’s EOS-D imager is capable of producing pictures at
resolutions as high as 0.75 metres (2.5 feet).

KazEOSat-2, which was previously known as the Medium Resolution
Earth Observation Satellite, or DZZ-MH, will be operated by
Kazakhstan Gharysh Sapary, the main contractor to the space programme
of Kazakhstan.
Built by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited of the
United Kingdom, KazEOSat-2 is based upon the SSTL-150+ satellite bus
and carries a camera which can image the Earth at resolutions of up
to 6.5 metres.

The 185 kilogram (408 lb) satellite will complement the larger and
higher-reso

[amsat-bb] DIGEST readers

[John Becker]

Please guys edit you digest reply to only what you are replying to.
Those of us that live in the rural area only have 3 ways of getting email

1. dial up - only good to 1 mile or so from the phone company office.
2. satellite - fast but has a daily limit. once that limit is reach either
must pay more or the download speed is slowed way down.

Option 3 is to block offenders. and I have not problem doing so.
Your choice.

John
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Re: [amsat-bb] DIGEST readers

[Glen Zook]

Unfortunately, a while back, Yahoo changed how multiple messages about the same 
subject (even to different reflectors - those are "bundled" into a single 
message) are handled and, when a reply to any of those messages is sent, all of 
the attached messages cannot be deleted!  At least I have not found a way!

The only way all the replies can be "deleted" is to actually retype the 
pertinent data into a completely new message and then type the response.  This 
takes a LOT of time and, to be blunt, is not worth the effort because a very 
few persons have download problems.  I know that this seems crass.  However, 
such is one of the "facts of life" of the "modern" Internet.
 
Glen, K9STH


Website:  http://k9sth.com


On Sunday, June 22, 2014 10:55 AM, John Becker  wrote:
 


Please guys edit you digest reply to only what you are replying to.
Those of us that live in the rural area only have 3 ways of getting email

1. dial up - only good to 1 mile or so from the phone company office.
2. satellite - fast but has a daily limit. once that limit is reach either
must pay more or the download speed is slowed way down.

Option 3 is to block offenders. and I have not problem doing so.
Your choice.

John
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Re: [amsat-bb] CAT control for TX and RX - [SOLVED]

[Stu2]

I installed SatPC32 and was able to make things work with the DVB dongle
(RX) and TS-2K (TX). I configured the HDSDR as 'radio1' and the TS2K as
'radio2'. However, SatPC32 tries to put the TS-2K into satellite mode
and my rig sends a '?' The frequencies aren't changed to the right
bands. The instructions say to make sure the TS2K is radio 1 and that
radio 2 is set to 'none', but this is for using the TS2K in satellite
mode, not as stand alone, single band TX.

To solve the problem, I selected 'Kenwood' and 'TS-790' for both radio 1
and radio 2. Uncheck 'Autom. RX/TX Changed' and 'Satellite mode'. Now,
SatPC32 corrects both the HDSDR instance and TS2K for Doppler. You can
also change the RX frequency (Tune) in HDSDR and have the TS2K follow.

Barring any overload/interference issues, this looks like a really good
set up for FD. Not only is it operational effective, but there are lots
of visuals for visitors. I've always had the computer controlled rotor
wow factor, but the SDR waterfall is really cool.

Thanks for the help and hope to work you during Field Day.

73's
Stu2
W7IY
(W4IY Field Day -9A VA)
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[amsat-bb] Fodtrack Serial rotor controller on HamLib

[Greg D]

Hi folks,

So all this talk about Gpredict got me to look at updating my own setup, 
which pre-dated the modern Gpredict capabilites.  But being so archaic, 
I need some help connecting the dots...


I have Gpredict / Hamlib talking to my Yaesu FT-736R radio for Doppler 
tracking just fine, but the rotor is a problem.  My controller is 
home-brewed, and emulates the subset of the "Yaesu serial protocol" as 
output from the original DOS version of FODTrack.  The syntax is the 
letter "W" followed by the Azimuth, a space, the Elevation, and 
terminated with a carriage return (hex 0d).  Both the Az and El are 
whole decimal integers.  When I moved to Linux and Predict (the ncurses 
version) in 2002, I modified the software to copy that same syntax, and 
all was fine.


Tab forward over a decade to my question:  What model "Yaesu controller" 
was FODTrack thinking it was talking to?  I need to find an equivalent 
model for Hamlib's rotctl daemon, and none of the choices seem to 
match.  They all seem to want to talk to a single rotor (Az or El, not 
both).  Is there an equivalent model, Yaesu or otherwise, that accepts 
"Waaa eee\n" for Az + El positioning?


Thanks,

Greg  KO6TH

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[amsat-bb] 64 bit tracking software?

[w...@sbcglobal.net]

Getting ready for Field Day, I tried to fire up good, old, reliable Predict on 
my nice new laptop with Windows 8.1 with 64 bit processing.  I was sad to see a 
message saying it wouldn't run because it's a 32 bit program.  

I've previously had Satscape, at least until Win7.  

So, what freeware software can I look at set up and install quickly, and 
without a steep learning curve?

Oh, and please!  No rants about Windows and how I should switch to Linux.  Not 
gonna happen.


Jim Reicher, W0HV


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[amsat-bb] I heard on6/22/14

[Richard Elverum SR .]

LU7AA 17:44 utc
437.440
9k6
Kiss format
Over Colorado
USA
?tita
KB0VBZ Richard
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[amsat-bb] [Info] FOTOS _ Field Day _ 2014

[ARVM]

  FOTOS

  Field  Day  _  2014

In:



  http://www.arvm.org/fd14.html





  a...@arvm.org



A.R.V. M.





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Re: [amsat-bb] Fodtrack Serial rotor controller on HamLib

[Jim Jerzycke]

I would suspect it's using the Yaesu GS-232 protocol.

Jim  KQ6EA


On 06/22/2014 06:08 PM, Greg D wrote:

Hi folks,

So all this talk about Gpredict got me to look at updating my own 
setup, which pre-dated the modern Gpredict capabilites.  But being so 
archaic, I need some help connecting the dots...


I have Gpredict / Hamlib talking to my Yaesu FT-736R radio for Doppler 
tracking just fine, but the rotor is a problem.  My controller is 
home-brewed, and emulates the subset of the "Yaesu serial protocol" as 
output from the original DOS version of FODTrack.  The syntax is the 
letter "W" followed by the Azimuth, a space, the Elevation, and 
terminated with a carriage return (hex 0d).  Both the Az and El are 
whole decimal integers.  When I moved to Linux and Predict (the 
ncurses version) in 2002, I modified the software to copy that same 
syntax, and all was fine.


Tab forward over a decade to my question:  What model "Yaesu 
controller" was FODTrack thinking it was talking to?  I need to find 
an equivalent model for Hamlib's rotctl daemon, and none of the 
choices seem to match.  They all seem to want to talk to a single 
rotor (Az or El, not both).  Is there an equivalent model, Yaesu or 
otherwise, that accepts "Waaa eee\n" for Az + El positioning?


Thanks,

Greg  KO6TH

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Re: [amsat-bb] Fodtrack Serial rotor controller on HamLib

[Greg D]

Ok, some progress.  I went back to my modifications to predict to see 
what exactly I had done, and one of the mods was to set the serial port 
stop bits to 2.  I recall now that the Basic Stamp that drives my 
controller logic isn't fast enough to parse the serial stream with only one.


Setting -C stop_bits=2 on the command line brought the rotor to life!

Now the next problem...  I notice that Gpredict freezes while tracking 
is running.  No GUI updates, though the tracking (both rig and rotor) 
keeps going.  The rest of the system is fine, nowever, and top doesn't 
show anything stuck in a spin loop.  Disengaging the rotor control 
(which takes a long time sometimes) brings things back.  Feels like a 
timeout is at fault.


I took a capture of the traffic on the serial port, and it appears that 
the program is polling the controller for its position (command C2).  My 
controller doesn't support that command, so that's probably what's 
hanging things up.  Poking around I find -C timeout=1 Ha! Now we're 
looking good...


Final runstring:  rotctld -r /dev/ttyS3 -s 9600 -m 603 -C stop_bits=2 -C 
timeout=1


Thanks again,

Greg  KO6TH


Jim Jerzycke wrote:

I would suspect it's using the Yaesu GS-232 protocol.

Jim  KQ6EA


On 06/22/2014 06:08 PM, Greg D wrote:

Hi folks,

So all this talk about Gpredict got me to look at updating my own 
setup, which pre-dated the modern Gpredict capabilites.  But being so 
archaic, I need some help connecting the dots...


I have Gpredict / Hamlib talking to my Yaesu FT-736R radio for 
Doppler tracking just fine, but the rotor is a problem.  My 
controller is home-brewed, and emulates the subset of the "Yaesu 
serial protocol" as output from the original DOS version of 
FODTrack.  The syntax is the letter "W" followed by the Azimuth, a 
space, the Elevation, and terminated with a carriage return (hex 
0d).  Both the Az and El are whole decimal integers.  When I moved to 
Linux and Predict (the ncurses version) in 2002, I modified the 
software to copy that same syntax, and all was fine.


Tab forward over a decade to my question:  What model "Yaesu 
controller" was FODTrack thinking it was talking to?  I need to find 
an equivalent model for Hamlib's rotctl daemon, and none of the 
choices seem to match.  They all seem to want to talk to a single 
rotor (Az or El, not both).  Is there an equivalent model, Yaesu or 
otherwise, that accepts "Waaa eee\n" for Az + El positioning?


Thanks,

Greg  KO6TH

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