[amsat-bb] Re: In School ARSSat Demos / lessons

2011-11-21 Thread Roger
Hi Clint... As the husband of a Middle School Math/Science teacher, I could use links to Lesson Plans built around any of the receivable satellites that would help garner interest in these kids during their formative years. With all the emphasis on testing and measurable results in the

[amsat-bb] Re: In School ARSSat Demos / lessons

2011-11-21 Thread Mark L. Hammond
Hi All, While at this moment I can't give my full appeal/rationale, what Roger says below echoes my key point stated during conversations at the recent Symposium; he has hit the nail on the head!! Any of us that are married to K-12 educators (or are themselves one) know this is precisely true:

[amsat-bb] Re: In School ARSSat Demos / lessons

2011-11-21 Thread John Spasojevich
The ARISS archives do not contain lesson plans, only contact statistics and the old applications. ARISS is a partnership between AMSAT, ARRL and the space agencies. In the USA things changed recently as the NASA Education Office took a larger role in school selection and looking for the

[amsat-bb] Re: In School ARSSat Demos / lessons

2011-11-21 Thread John Spasojevich
Mark is exactly right. This is the problem. The typical ham on the street is not going to walk into a school, get an audience with the administrator or a teacher. At least not in the big city. I did it in my sons school in a mid sized district but I was already a known entity from other volunteer

[amsat-bb] Re: SSTV Pictire Successful via ARISSat-1/RadioSKAF-V TRANSPONDER

2011-11-21 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:47:40 -0500 (EST) Bob Bruninga bruni...@usna.edu wrote: ALl the rest you can tell MAYBE that it is some kind of picutre with maybe some text at the top and the bottom, but NONE of them have been readable. Yet, the signals sound like they would make a Q5 599 SSB

[amsat-bb] Re: SSTV Pictire Successful via ARISSat-1/RadioSKAF-V TRANSPONDER

2011-11-21 Thread Bob Bruninga
It's not a sync problem. All the images are properly framed. Just not good images even though the signal strength sounds Q5 to me.. Just enough noise in all of them to be not worth looking at. Ill keep watching... Bob, WB4APR ALl the rest you can tell MAYBE that it is some kind of picutre

[amsat-bb] Re: SSTV Pictire Successful via ARISSat-1/RadioSKAF-V TRANSPONDER

2011-11-21 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:36:14 -0500 Bob Bruninga bruni...@usna.edu wrote: It's not a sync problem. All the images are properly framed. Just not good images even though the signal strength sounds Q5 to me.. Just enough noise in all of them to be not worth looking at. Ill keep watching...

[amsat-bb] ISS Astronauts Land

2011-11-21 Thread B J
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/nov/HQ_11-394_Expedition_29_Landing.html 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL ___ 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