This has been asked many times. Instead of reiterating the reasons why one
is not currently being worked on (at least by AMSAT-NA) I'll like you to an
email that was on this list last week from Brent, KB1LQD, that AMSAT-UK
picked up:
http://amsat-uk.org/2013/09/02/amateur-radio-cubesat-to-heo/
The AMSAT-DL presentation at the AMSAT-UK meeting was that their goverment
decided not to fund their HEO project and they are still looking for a
source of money. AMSAT-NA and AMSAT-UK are concentrating on LEO projects
that they can pay for via members and alliances with universities and
On a side note but still relevant, support the advancement of space vehicle
technology and cheaper access to space! I hate to sound biased the
commercial space industry is taking off (no pun intended) and the more
commercial competition there is and less Cost-Plus contracts the better.
The price
The pot on the elevation rotator has gone open. Does any on the list have a
good replacement part and where to buy it.
Thanks
nick ARS K5QXJ EM30xa 30.1N 92.1W
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On 09/04/2013 02:26 AM, Brenton Salmi wrote:
Let's put it in another possible context:
Create an extremely dense and reliable LEO platform in cube-sat form that
weigh's a fraction of AO-40's weight using today's high-density
components/systems and create a reliable and feature rich HEO
From: Gus
The only problem with this, is that certain components can't be
miniaturized. Example: Antennas. And HEO satellites need more
sophisticated antennas.
Trueand the antenna system used on Aeneas showed how you can have a deployable
2400 MHz dish on a CubeSat. See pic at bottom of
For NEE-01 Pegasus, the status says Reported possible collision with space
junk and for the other two, the status says On orbit. The operational
satellites have a status of operational, but, yes, it's probably
confusing to list them under the heading of operational satellites.
Perhaps a new part
I do not believe the single FM contact per satellite rule has helped. I
propose we try something else -- we have a powerful east coast station
(W1AW) and a powerful west coast station (K6KPH). The only FM satellite
contacts that count will be with either station. They will not work
duplicates.
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Hi Paul,
... those 3 satellites are definitely not operational anymore.
73 Mike
DK3WN
Paul Stoetzer n...@arrl.net hat am 4. September 2013 um 12:08 geschrieben:
For NEE-01 Pegasus, the status says Reported possible collision with space
junk and for the other two, the status says On
I received this image at LOS low pass.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15578145/SSTV/Hist1.bmp
with this antennas:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/1185421_4711135556367_1395608873_n.jpg
Hope to decode better in other passes.
73 Fabiano CT7ABD
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013
It appears they simply skipped F
As the increment is .03454 MHz, F would be 28.17369 MHz.
73 Glenn AA5PK
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From: John Fickes
To: Glenn AA5PK
Cc: AMSAT BB ; Star-Com BB ; SAARC List
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb]
This is pretty cool, I'll be in there sending,
Does it have to be Hi Hi Hi Hi etc.? or something that can be heard
better? I remember during my EME days the easiest thing to hear was the
O O O report
--- --- --- --- the three dashes stood out far more above the
noise floor than
The AMSAT FUNcube team are delighted to be able to announce that the FUNcube-1
CubeSat has now completed all its final testing and been placed into its launch
POD.
This work was completed during a three day programme at the premises of ISIS BV
in Delft in the Netherlands and was finished, on
Truly.
However, to include operators with modest shacks, you need to allow
operation on modes A, B and/or J. A satellite operating on 24.0 GHz
won't be of interest to the average ham. Not until the average ham has
24.0 GHz capable antennas, feedlines, amplifiers, transceivers, etc, in
his
Great work gentlemen, I'm looking forward to your launch!
73,
Jerry
N0JY
On 9/4/2013 11:52 AM, Graham Shirville wrote:
The AMSAT FUNcube team are delighted to be able to announce that the FUNcube-1
CubeSat has now completed all its final testing and been placed into its launch
POD.
This
Correct, there is a happy medium that must be met in frequency/ease of use.
This argument does not neglect the need for additional improvements on
ground station capabilities. What's to stop the improvement of making
accessing higher frequencies easier for the average ham operator? Putting
some
I received my Confirmations for Yuri's 1912/13 voyage today. That puts my
confirmed total well over 800
Tom K8TL
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Congrats!
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:54 AM, n0jy n...@n0jy.org wrote:
Great work gentlemen, I'm looking forward to your launch!
73,
Jerry
N0JY
On 9/4/2013 11:52 AM, Graham Shirville wrote:
The AMSAT FUNcube team are delighted to be able to announce that the
FUNcube-1 CubeSat has now
A HEO satellite with a 10 GHz downlink would be tons of fun. We've been
using these along with surplus DSS dishes using a Funcube as an IF to
create really cheap 10 GHz receivers that work well!
Simon Brown, creator of the original Ham Radio Deluxe software has been busy
with his SDR software.
The latest console release 30th August, v2.1, build 1494 now has support for
satellites, doppler shift is integrated, along with DDE rotator control,
link to software here:-
Hi Michael,
I would not say that AMSAT has abandoned HEO. Rather, launch
opportunities that exist now are being utilized. Would you rather sit
dormant and let all existing birds fail or re-enter while waiting for an
HEO opportunity?
And AMSAT is just learning to build cubesats. For
Yea but increasing frequency helps with that. With directional antennas the
satellite would need attitude control which would benefit greatly from
miniaturization. For the most part, miniaturization would come from
incorporating systems on chips. Most op amps and microcontrollers are much
I reached out to JPL to ask what the desired frequency for this
experiment would be if your amateur callsign ended in the letter F.
Here's the response:
/Hi Les- What a strange thing for us to leave out! The omission will be
corrected in our next update of the page this week.
In the updated
Congrats to the FUNcube Team !
Great job.
Gaston - ON4WF
At 18:52 04/09/2013, Graham Shirville wrote:
The AMSAT FUNcube team are delighted to be able
to announce that the FUNcube-1 CubeSat has now
completed all its final testing and been placed
into its launch POD. This work was completed
On 9/4/2013 12:43 PM, Gus wrote:
Truly.
However, to include operators with modest shacks, you need to allow
operation on modes A, B and/or J. A satellite operating on 24.0 GHz
won't be of interest to the average ham. Not until the average ham
has 24.0 GHz capable antennas, feedlines,
As long as AMSAT-NA needs to concentrate on 1U/3U/6U Cubesats for the
immediatee future, I would really like to see the pursuit of linear
transponders on them instead of single-channel FM repeaters. The way I see
it, launch opportunities are so rare that we ought to fly the most capable
AO-40 premature death
Sob-sob Boo-hoo
I want, I want, I want.
(amateurish, I know)
73
Clayton
W5PFG
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I don't fault AMSAT one bit for building LEO cubesats. They are facing
the reality of no HEO launches and there's nothing wrong with that. We
have to have something up there or this whole branch of the hobby will
die. I'm a bit disappointed that they chose to make Fox-1 yet another
flying
On 9/4/2013 6:53 PM, tosca...@umn.edu wrote:
As long as AMSAT-NA needs to concentrate on 1U/3U/6U Cubesats for the
immediatee future, I would really like to see the pursuit of linear
transponders on them instead of single-channel FM repeaters. The way I
see it, launch opportunities are so rare
The Fox Phase 2 satellites are supposed to carry software defined
transponders like the one on ARISSat-1. They will be able to accommodate
any mode we can dream of. Assuming all of the currently scheduled launches
go well and what we have continues to function, we'll have several linear
I would not say that AMSAT has abandoned HEO. Rather, launch
opportunities that exist now are being utilized. Would you rather sit
dormant and let all existing birds fail or re-enter while waiting for an
HEO opportunity?
And AMSAT is just learning to build cubesats. For AMSAT-NA, Fox-1 is
Fantastic job Fabiano CT7ABD.
Elmer's Wanted, I am ready to make the final connections to my station
after months of hard work.
So much hard work and U$D that I don't want to let the smoke out of the
box inadvertently tho I am keeping the halon extinguisher handy.Seems a
shame to go this far and
I agree with John 100%!
73, Jim KQ6EA
On 09/04/2013 10:53 PM, tosca...@umn.edu wrote:
As long as AMSAT-NA needs to concentrate on 1U/3U/6U Cubesats for the
immediatee future, I would really like to see the pursuit of linear
transponders on them instead of single-channel FM repeaters. The way
Hi John,
The reason that Fox-1 is an FM transponder is because it was designed to
be a quick replacement for the popular AO-51.
The move to a linear transponder in our first cubesat will require time,
and learning. Boy, if we could work together with other hams around the
world to learn and
Clayton,
Amateurish, but at least you didn't ham it up.
73s,
Alan
WA4SCA
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Of Clayton Coleman
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 6:15 PM
To: AMSAT-BB
Subject: [amsat-bb] HEO satellite
Great Bob!
Out of curiosity, what is your az/el rotor?
Stefan, VE4NSA
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Robert C. Campbell kb3...@gmail.com wrote:
Fantastic job Fabiano CT7ABD.
Elmer's Wanted, I am ready to make the final connections to my station
after months of hard work.
So much hard
As I see it, AMSAT has two things that need to be publicized to the ham
community:
1. Antennas are small. More and more hams face antenna restrictions and
many seem to drop out rather than adapt. A decent LEO V/U antenna doesn't
need to be any bigger than a TV yagi. It would be pretty easy to
... launch opportunities are so rare that we ought to
fly the most capable equipment we can on those rare
occasions when we can get a launch ...
Perhaps we should define, most capable equipment. And
we also need to define bang for the buck.
What should a ham satellite program offer to the
... launch opportunities are so rare that we ought to
fly the most capable equipment we can on those rare
occasions when we can get a launch ...
Perhaps we should define, most capable equipment. And
we also need to define bang for the buck.
What should a ham satellite program offer to the
On 09/04/2013 03:06 PM, John Becker wrote:
On 9/4/2013 12:43 PM, Gus wrote:
Truly.
However, to include operators with modest shacks, you need to allow
operation on modes A, B and/or J. A satellite operating on 24.0 GHz
won't be of interest to the average ham. Not until the average ham
has
... launch opportunities are so rare that we ought to
fly the most capable equipment we can on those rare
occasions when we can get a launch ...
Perhaps we should define, most capable equipment. And
we also need to define bang for the buck.
What should a ham satellite program offer to the
Crossed yagis aloft
elements corrode slowly
old logs dampen eyes.
(First attempt.)
On 09/04/2013 07:15 PM, Clayton Coleman wrote:
AO-40 premature death
Sob-sob Boo-hoo
I want, I want, I want.
(amateurish, I know)
73
Clayton
W5PFG
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Congratulations to the whole team, this is great news.
The AMSAT FUNcube team are delighted to be able to announce that the
FUNcube-1 CubeSat has now completed all its final testing and been
placed into its launch POD.
This work was completed during a three day programme at the premises
of
I'm almost fifty one years old and I'm now convinced that we will not
see another HEO in orbit in my lifetime...if ever. The economic
environment to do it just doesn't exist anymore. AMSAT has as much as
told everyone that by abandoning their efforts and concentrating on LEO
cubesats. No
For the record:
They called me AO-40
What a name is that?
I started off just gorty
I burped, what the heck was that?
Someone screwed me dorky
I lost the game, wanna bet
Now I am dead at 40
What a game is that?
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Gus 8p...@anjo.com wrote:
Crossed yagis
If we want the most bang for the buck, it would be something that supports
the most QSOs per watt of solar power. Since most hams have computers,
something that supports half a dozen PSK31 sessions would suffice. Given the
new open-source voice codec you could also make something that supports
I've enjoyed reading this segment and I wasn't going to touch it, but this
one makes me want to chip in my two cents.
Granted, I'm not up to speed on what ya'll have done or what you haven't
done.
But we used to use a ucc1 in the navy to receive messages.
Long live this thread
I work the LEOs,
A-O Forty came and went,
Way before my time.
EMike, KC8YLD
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On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Stefan Wagener wagen...@gmail.com wrote:
For
The satellite could collect the individual uplink signals and package them
in one downlink. One TDM downlink would use much less power than FDM
downlinks and would fit in the bandwidth of existing amateur receivers. Once
you have DSP in the satellite, there are a lot of possibilities.
73,
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From: John Becker w0...@big-river.net
To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 9:06 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: A0 40 replacement
I will 'never support another FM only sat.
My reason for dropping out of AMSAT was no direction other then just that.
Super News. On behalf of AMSAT INDIA I would like to thank all those involved
in the project for realizing the end goal.
73
Nitin [VU3TYG]
Secretary, AMSAT INDIA
From: PE0SAT | Amateur Radio pe0...@vgnet.nl
To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Sent: Thursday, 5 September
You also could develop a whole new line of amateur radio equipment.
By that, I mean that ham's could use existing transceivers, and for
satellites that were equipped, they could buy this box that would allow them
to transmit on channel ?? of frequency ?? and the same on receive.
Of course, that
My Haiku:
AM-SAT volunteers
Working to keep us in space
Thank you, job well done
Doug
k9DLP
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Robert C. Campbell kb3...@gmail.com wrote:
2.4 meter dish mounted on 8 foot tower section, with az and el rotors and
home brew 12 turn 2.4GHz helical at focal point. Model 2400 High Siera
HamTV-Down Converter
12 turns for the 2.4 ghz feed sounds a bit long. What is the focal
distance
Hello All,
Several ISS SSTV images are received from several ground stations.
See ISS SSTV images and info:
http://ariss-sstv.blogspot.nl/
http://www.dk3wn.info/satblog.shtml
I asume the Russian ISS crew have sended 4 different SSTV images today.
If someone have received other images please
I know how much the FM satellites are loved by certain segments of the AMSAT
community, and FOX-1 will serve that community beginning late next year. In
addition, many universities are building 2 meter FM satellites as part of
their aerospace engineering curriculum.
The problem with the FM
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