[amsat-bb] QB50 precursor satellites receive OSCAR numbers
Hi All, The QB50 precursor satellites, launched on 19th of June 2014, are in good health and still being commissioned.These satellites are part of a risk-reduction program for the QB50 main mission. Read all about QB50 on the project website at https://qb50.eu/ These satellites are also carrying amateur radio transponders: - QB50p1 carries the FUNcube-3 transponder system by AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL - QB50p2 carries an FM transponder by AMSAT-Francophone I am grateful to be able to announce that these two CubeSat Satellites have been awarded OSCAR numbers by AMSAT-NA: QB50p1 shall be known as European OSCAR 79 or EO-79, and QB50p2 shall be known as European OSCAR 80 or EO-80. Thank you AMSAT-NA! The transponders are expected to be switched on after the main mission, which lasts about 6 months depending on progress made. Details about sending in reports and decoding the beacons can be found on the ISIS Ham page at http://isispace.nl/HAM/qb50p.html Mike DK3WN has kindly made and published a decoder at his website: http://www.dk3wn.info/software.shtml based on the published formats. Thanks all for your support and reports, they are much appreciated! Kind Regards, Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG AMSAT-NL QB50p 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
Re: [amsat-bb] QB50 precursor satellites receive OSCAR numbers
Hi, Congratulations to all concerned with the projects and welcome to the growing list of success stories in our world of amateur radio. The signals from both satellites are being heard at my QTH hear in South Wales -UK just using an Elk antenna. I must download the software that Mike has so kindly once again put time and effort into assist with decoding. Thanks again. Ken Eaton GW1FKY Amsat -UK Amsat NA ___ 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] GTO opportunity
Hi All, I know that this subject is a very “old chestnut” but I came across this website earlier today http://spaceflightservices.com/ You can see, perhaps for the first time?, a list of opportunities and pricing structures. I have been pondering : Whether a 3U CubeSat to GTO could be funded by the community Whether it would have enough power for attitude control and a sufficiently powerful transponder Whether it could have deployable antennas as well as solar panels? Combined? and, of course, lots more questions come to mind. This could make the subject of an interesting debate/discussion at the upcoming AMSAT-UK Colloquium at the end of the month? I am looking forward to it already! best 73 Graham G3VZV ___ 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
Re: [amsat-bb] GTO opportunity
Graham, Dan Schultz, N8FGV, gave a presentation at the AMSAT Symposium last year entitled Cubesats in HEO - A Challenging Mission for AMSAT. A copy of the presentation is located here: http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~bklofas/Presentations/AMSAT-NA_Symposium2013/Schultz_CubeSats_in_HEO.pdf 73, Paul, N8HM On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Graham Shirville g.shirvi...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi All, I know that this subject is a very “old chestnut” but I came across this website earlier today http://spaceflightservices.com/ You can see, perhaps for the first time?, a list of opportunities and pricing structures. I have been pondering : Whether a 3U CubeSat to GTO could be funded by the community Whether it would have enough power for attitude control and a sufficiently powerful transponder Whether it could have deployable antennas as well as solar panels? Combined? and, of course, lots more questions come to mind. This could make the subject of an interesting debate/discussion at the upcoming AMSAT-UK Colloquium at the end of the month? I am looking forward to it already! best 73 Graham G3VZV ___ 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] Last Call for Digital Communications Conference Papers
July 14 is the deadline to submit papers for the proceedings of 2014 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conferencehttp://www.tapr.org/dcc, September 5 - 7, in Austin, Texas. You do not have to attend the conference to have your paper included in the proceedings. Your paper on any technical topic relevant to amateur digital communications will be published as submitted and you will retain all rights. Please e-mail your submission no later than July 14 to Maty Weinberg, KB1EIB, ARRL Production Coordinator, at m...@arrl.org. Send text files and images separately and do not attach Zip files. Total of attachments cannot exceed 5 Mbytes per message. ___ 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
Re: [amsat-bb] GTO opportunity
At the Satellite2014 conference in Washington D.C. this year I floated an idea past a couple of the major GEO satellite operators for a hosted payload that consisted of a 1.2 GHz receiver package that used the low end of an existing C band global beam transponder (3.4 GHz.) as the downlink. I didn't get laughed at or dismissed and even got indications that maybe this could be done with a one time fee. That said, I think the success of many of the very small satellites, like $50sat, demonstrates that with a distributed team collectively working to a well defined mission a Cubesat HEO is possible. - Howie, AB2S From: g.shirvi...@btinternet.com To: n...@arrl.net Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 12:19:35 +0100 CC: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] GTO opportunity Many thanks Paul, I will have a good look at it! 73 Graham -Original Message- From: Paul Stoetzer Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 11:45 AM To: Graham Shirville Cc: AMSAT BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] GTO opportunity Graham, Dan Schultz, N8FGV, gave a presentation at the AMSAT Symposium last year entitled Cubesats in HEO - A Challenging Mission for AMSAT. A copy of the presentation is located here: http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~bklofas/Presentations/AMSAT-NA_Symposium2013/Schultz_CubeSats_in_HEO.pdf 73, Paul, N8HM On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Graham Shirville g.shirvi...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi All, I know that this subject is a very “old chestnut” but I came across this website earlier today http://spaceflightservices.com/ You can see, perhaps for the first time?, a list of opportunities and pricing structures. I have been pondering : Whether a 3U CubeSat to GTO could be funded by the community Whether it would have enough power for attitude control and a sufficiently powerful transponder Whether it could have deployable antennas as well as solar panels? Combined? and, of course, lots more questions come to mind. This could make the subject of an interesting debate/discussion at the upcoming AMSAT-UK Colloquium at the end of the month? I am looking forward to it already! best 73 Graham G3VZV ___ 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] Field Day ISS passes
Does any one have an audio copy of the ISS passes on Saturday for the east coast about doing it re? I know that someone from AZ recorded the passes there but I didn't think about doing it here. I hope that someone did. Thanks Richie Odd Carb-Hormone Trick 1 EASY tip to increase fat-burning, lower blood sugar decrease fat storage http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/53b46e5357476e525875st01vuc ___ 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
Re: [amsat-bb] Field Day ISS passes
I rested a digital recorder on the speaker of a handheld to get about 4 minutes of ISS audio on 6/29 near 2141Z. The recording picks up my vain attempts to get attention, which also desensed the receiver at times, so it's not clean, but it's better than nothing. These are the acknowledgments I can hear (with a tiny amount of guesswork). N1MA K1-W K3SMD 3A KW2O -C1ANE W1CPS N1WW KC1AMT KW3DN --HMM KB1WKI --EE KB2ZPB --MY 73, Scott N1AIA On Jul 2, 2014, at 4:39 PM, richardfis...@juno.com wrote: Does any one have an audio copy of the ISS passes on Saturday for the east coast about doing it re? I know that someone from AZ recorded the passes there but I didn't think about doing it here. I hope that someone ___ 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
