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AMSAT-SM HF-nätet 17/3 2013

Hej!

Dagens nät på 3740 KHz klockan 10.00

Deltagare
SM4EFW
SM4JLX
SM5HL
SM6NZV
SM7WSJ

Lite punkter

*Allmänt om ISS, Komet,mm mm

*D-star satellit
http://www.leodium.ulg.ac.be/cmsms/

*Estland Cubesat
http://amsat-uk.org/tag/estcube-1/

*Konverter till Funcube dongle
http://www.ct1ffu.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=178&Itemid=104

*Amsat ballong (inget vi når men intressant läsning)

Amsat Argentina is pleased to announce that on Saturday March 23, 2013 from
14hs GMT climate permits, launch of free balloon repeater ?Betty? is planned
from near Castex, La Pampa, 660 Km. west of Buenos Aires. Details and photos
of the announcement and prior experience in
http://www.amsat.org.ar/globo23.htm

Approval of ANAC (Civil Aviation National Administration (Argentina FAA))
had been granted by NOTAM (NOtice To AirMen)
http://amsat.org.ar/images/anacfax.jpg .

For these experiments members of AMSAT-LU, LUSEX, project development group
http://lusex.org.ar , are working together with Pampeano amateur Radio
Club, RC QRM Belgrano, APRS Group, etc.

The electronics is comprised of a voice UHF to VHF FM repeater with CW TLM,
APRS, DTMF and SSTV. According to estimates balloon could reach over 30,000
meters high, traveling for 3 hours, 100 km to the east of the launch site.

This would allow contacts between stations located in the provinces of
Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Entre Rios, Cordoba, Catamarca, Santiago del Estero,
La Pampa, San Luis, Mendoza, San Juan, Rio Negro, Neuquen, Uruguay and
Chile. (It is launched from the center of the country to facilitate greater
participation). Details http://www.amsat.org.ar/picocubr.jpg

To receive the payload, if less than 750 km from the launch site, only need
is a handy or base FM receiver on 145,950 KHz for voice, 144,930 for APRS or
145,850 for SSTV.

The repeater which is enabled via 123 Hz CTCSS subtone, receives 435,950 KHz
FM voice (-112dBm, 0.56 uV) emitting 2W output simultaneously on 145 950
KHz.

To enable better utilization, it is suggested short QSOs (license, own
locality, grid locator, received signal and short comments).

Simultaneous emits APRS 1200 baud at 144,930, and also in 145,950. The DTI
symbol on APRS will change from a balloon ( /O ) during ascent to a slider
( /g ) during the parachute descent.

Will operate for 90 seconds voice, then a beep alerting the end of that time
will make way for the issuance of APRS at different frequencies. Every five
minutes CW TLM via telegraphy audio tones sends callsign LU7AA and height in
meters, then repeat the cycle.

On 145,850 KHz SSTV images ROBOT-36 mode (36 seconds) will be emitted in
real time continuously showing what the balloon sees (Can be received, with
either MIXW or RX-SSTV (recommended)).

Given 145.850 KHz could be received by SO-50, part of experiment will be
crosslink between balloon and SO-50 during his three timeframe passes, thus
allowing SSTV from Balloon -> 145.850 -> SO-50 -> 432.795 -> user,
providing a wider footprint.

Balloon will carry two TV cameras (one to ground and another to the horizon)
that will record images and sound during flight and can be retrieved with
the payload.

It can be received in APRS on http://aprs.fi/?call=lu7aa-11 every minute,
including speed, height, internal and external temperatures and battery
voltage.

Georeferenced maps are available for UI-View in
http://www.amsat.org.ar/pico.jpg, http://www.amsat.org.ar/pico.txt.

The experiment on 435.950 KHz voice also receives and accepts DTMF user
issued commands i.e. B * (DTMF keypad UHF handy) will return S5 … ….. on
VHF CW 145.950, your signal strength received at balloon, if P10 that states
S9 +10. There are more commands that enable issuance of TLM in CW or APRS
beacon and remote commands to drop payload, mode changes, control of time,
energy, power, etc..

Additionally and in coordination with ANAC, a VAISALA RS92SGP radiosonde
emitting FM wide on 402-403 Mhz has been added, which provides GPS location,
pressure, winds, height, course, dwt point, temperatures, etc. Same data as
daily collected by the National Meteorological Service. Data can be received
with sondemonitor program available as test for 21 days from internet.

On launch day/time Amsat-LU will have one of his members on the Ezeiza
Airport Traffic Tower, acting as a contact between ANAC and Amsat, using
VOR locations application gently configured by EOSS, adapted and available
on http://amsat.org.ar/vor.asp .

Local frequencies coordination and announcements before and during flights
will be 7095 kHz LSB + / -10 kHz and VHF frequencies of local repeaters in
the area.

During flight will be active in 430.930 and 144.930 the AMSAT-LU APRS wide
coverage Igate LU7AA-0, operating from the Investigation Center, besides a
portable Igate close to launch site. Any area stations that can receive and
provide bridge to the APRS network are welcome.

Being an experiment aimed at a next satellite, contacts made between
stations thru this UV repeater will be considered valid and awarded upon
request by Amsat-LU Permanent Satellite Certificate, free and also
applicable for license upgrades, see http://www.amsat.org.ar/certsat.html,
http://www.lu4ao.org.ar, http://www.amsat.org.ar/lu4aao.

During the balloon flight, chase hunt groups will try to locate and recover
the payload estimated to land next to General Pico, La Pampa.

The 10 participants with the highest two-way contacts numbers and sum of
distances thru repeater will be recognized with a special certificate. Send
email with data filled on form
http://www.amsat.org.ar/lu4aao/Globo_23mar2013.xls QSO with stations via the
balloon including QRA Locators, QTR to RC QRM Belgrano before April 23.

All reports welcome. If you want or can organize or be part of launch teams,
control, monitoring and recovery, operating as an independent station and
capturing data, and / or want to join us in this adventure from the launch
site can do it through an email to parapente arroba amsat.org.ar.

We appreciate having read this information and forward if possible.

73, LU7AA, AMSAT-LU, aiming to the future by making present fun.

Vi kör nästa organiserade nät söndag om två veckor.

73 Håkan SM7WSJ

Categories
SDR and software

SDR HF converter

SDR converter
Här är en HF-converter lämplig att använda till bla. FunCube Dongle. Lite fakta:

– It runs with phantom power directly from Fun Cube Dongle’s SMA cable
– USB power for generic RTL TV dongle sticks
– Separeted antenna inputs  HF/6m and VHF/UHF
– Automatic internal relay antenna switch: HF or Bypass VHF and UP
– WFM broadcast filter avoiding saturation of SDR front-end
– LED indication for converter running
– DBM diode ring mixer 7 dBm: This ensures exellent HF reception performance
– LO on 106.250 Mhz or 65.520Mhz: This avoids interference from WFMradios
– Tests made by hams worldwide reveal exceptional clean reception on HF
– Technical assistance after selling
– Either ready built and tested or as KIT easy to build by yourself
– Worldwide shipping and tracking is included in advertised price
– You can now choose the LO freq: 106.250Mhz or 65.520Mhz models

Mera info på: http://www.ct1ffu.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=178&Itemid=104

Categories
Telemetry

Info om telemetri från STRaND-1

Nedanstående information ger lite tips om hur man kan ta emot telemetri från den nya satelliten STRaND-1. Det finns intressant info om hur man kan använda DSP-mottagare tex. FunCube Dongle. Se mitt i texten!

STRaND-1 carries an amateur radio AX.25 packet radio downlink on
437.568 MHz using 9600 bps FSK modulated data with HDLC frame, NRZI
encoding.

Free satellite tracking software:
• SimpleSat Look Down http://www.amsat-uk.org/?p=8217
• Gpredict http://gpredict.oz9aec.net/
• Orbitron http://www.amsat-uk.org/?p=9051

Dr Chris Bridges would be delighted to receive all available
telemetry files by email to C.P.Bridges@surrey.ac.uk

Mark Hammond N8MH has provided these tips to decode STRaND-1:

(1) Sprint-2 TNC set at 9600 baud in KISS mode (or any 9600 TNC in
KISS mode probably)
(2) Using this software to capture
http://www.dk3wn.info/files/online_kiss_plus.zip
(3) And using this software to decode the captured KISS files
http://www.dk3wn.info/files/kissdump.zip

Thanks to Mike Rupprecht DK3WN for the excellent software.

Jan PE0SAT describes how he used the free TNC emulator software
AGWPE and SDR# to decode the telemetry. This approach means you don’t
have to buy a dedicated hardware TNC it simply uses your existing PC
and radio that supports 9600 bps data:

(1) Record a pass using SDR# and a FUNcube Dongle Pro+ and save the
IQ wav file so you can work with it after the pass.
(2) Configure AGW Packet Engine (AGWPE) as a 9600 baud modem using
your audio mixer as input. If you don’t have an audio mixer, use
audio VAC to route the received audio to the AGW audio input.
(3) When the AGW packet engine is running use AGW-Online-KISS from
DK3WN to connect to the packet engine and decode the telemetry.
(4) Open the IQ wav file within SDR# and playback the recorded file
and tune to the correct receive frequency, now you can see decoded
data within Online-Kiss.
(5) Feed the files captured to KISS-Dump

Descriptions of ONLINE KISS +, AGW ONLINE KISS and KISS Dump + are
at http://tinyurl.com/SatSoftwareDK3WN/

The free AGWPE soundcard packet software AGWPE.zip is available at
http://www.sv2agw.com/downloads/

Guide on how to use AGWPE http://www.soundcardpacket.org/

Latest Keps for the objects from the PSLV-C20 launch. Note: At the
current time the object to satellite mapping is not known:

2013-009A
1 39086U 13009A 13057.07723200 -.00000047 00000-0 00000+0 0 66
2 39086 98.6489 247.4456 0046840 48.7060 103.7711 14.45874186 76
2013-009B
1 39087U 13009B 13057.12205894 -.00000045 00000-0 00000+0 0 65
2 39087 98.6295 247.4478 0010362 263.0055 96.9849 14.33603731 70
2013-009C
1 39088U 13009C 13057.12202184 -.00000045 00000-0 00000+0 0 54
2 39088 98.6260 247.4462 0010229 264.9844 95.0146 14.33699090 77
2013-009D
1 39089U 13009D 13057.12196648 -.00000045 00000-0 00000+0 0 52
2 39089 98.6302 247.4430 0009913 269.8258 90.1934 14.33842702 72
2013-009E
1 39090U 13009E 13057.12180062 -.00000045 00000-0 00000+0 0 57
2 39090 98.6314 247.4520 0008151 271.9062 88.1247 14.34269067 79
2013-009F
1 39091U 13009F 13057.12171611 -.00000045 00000-0 00000+0 0 69
2 39091 98.6289 247.4453 0009293 286.2139 73.7956 14.34449938 72
2013-009G
1 39092U 13009G 13057.12216226 -.00000045 00000-0 00000+0 0 62
2 39092 98.6325 247.4484 0010738 258.3712 101.6263 14.33353747 74

For more information visit
http://amsat-uk.org/satellites/strand-1/strand-1-telemetry/

[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]

Categories
Members news

Angående medlemsskap i AMSAT-SM

Hej!
Jag fick en fråga angående medlemsskap i AMSAT-SM. Vi har under de
senaste året genom beslut på årsstämma valt att inte ta ut någon
medlemsavgift för befintliga medlemmar. Nya medlemmar har betalt en
inträdelseavgift på 100 kr.

Detta innebär att du som senast betalt medlemsavgift (ca. 4 år sedan)
och inte aktivt själv valt att gå ur AMSAT-SM fortfarande är kvar som
medlem.

Nu har vi dock ett medlemsregister som inte speglar verkligheten. Det
finns säkert många som har ny adress, en del önskar kanske inte vara
kvar i föreningen och en del har även gått silent key.

Vidare har vi ingen koppling mellan medlemsregistret och registrerade
användare på hemsidan. En del har blivit nya medlemmar, fått konto på
hemsidan men inte betalt inträdelseavgiften.

Styrelsen kommer under 2013 att försöka ordna upp medlemsregistret och
registreringarna på hemsidan. Hur detta ska lösas är i skrivande stund
oklart men vi återkommer efter första styrelsemötet.

73
Lars SM0TGU
www.amsat.se

Categories
Ham Satellite news

AMSAT-SM HF-nätet 3/3 2013

Hej!

Dagens deltagare

SM4EFW
SM4JLX
SM6NZV
SM7WSJ

*Motion till SSA årsmöte
http://www.sk7rn.se/pdf/ssa/motion_2013-5.pdf

*Sunita Williams på ISS

http://www.wimp.com/orbitaltour/

*Space X
http://www.americaspace.com/?p=32139

*Cubesat
Dom satelliter vi följde under veckan verkar vara vid god form.

Undertecknad är ute och reser nästa söndag men nätet körs ändå.

73 Håkan SM7WSJ

Categories
Ham Satellite news

AMSAT-SM HF-nätet 24/2 2013

Hej!

Dagens nät med deltagare.

SM4EFW
SM4JLX
SM6NZV
SM7WSJ

Ett flertal kända lyssnare på webmottagaren i Mora

* AAUsat-3 (uppskjutning till veckan som kommer)
http://www.space.aau.dk/aausat3/

*STRaND-1 (Uppskjutningsdags)

http://www.amsat-uk.org:80/?p=12858

* AO-7 hade under veckan en nära passage av annat objekt.

The United States Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) has updated
apredicted conjunction between OSCAR 7 (SCC# 7530) and SCC# 18116.

Primary Object: OSCAR 7 (SCC# 7530)
Secondary Object: SCC# 18116
Time of Closest Approach: 18 FEB 2013 22:06 UTC

Overall miss distance: 81 meters
Radial (dU) miss distance: 32 meters
In-Track (dV) miss distance: -36 meters
Cross-track (dW) miss distance: 66 meters

Primary Radial Error (U): 10 meters
Primary In-Track Error (U): 39 meters
Primary Cross-track Error (U): 8 meters

Secondary Radial Error (U): 10 meters
Secondary In-Track Error (U): 43 meters
Secondary Cross-Track Error (U): 10 meters

*Antenner och rotorer

Lite olika uppslag för den som funderar på ett bygge
http://home.wavecable.com/~ko6th/

*ISS

Rymdstationen tappade kommunikationsmöjligheter unde veckan.

NASA lost regular communication with the International Space Station on
Tuesday and has since established only limited connections. The space agency
said it was doing a routine update of computer software when communications
were lost, leaving the craft able to communicate only every 90 minutes when
it passes over ground stations in Russia. “This is the same way they used to
do it in the 1960s, with Gemini and Apollo,” NASA spokesman Josh Byerly
said. “The crew is working on this, and they’ll get it back up and running.”
The station, which is carrying one American astronaut and two Russian
cosmonauts, does not appear to be in danger. “It’s not a panicked mood that
takes over mission control,” Byerly said. “Anybody’s who’s been here has
seen that.” Aboard the station, Commander Kevin Ford told mission control
during a pass over a Russian ground station that the craft is “still flying
straight” and that “everybody’s in good shape.” The loss in communications
is not considered unprecedented, though it is thought to be a cause for
concern, officials said. The station is the product of a partnership among
16 nations and carries six laboratories for space research.

Det är annars väldigt mycket trafik från ISS på 145.825 samt 145.800.

*Nyheter från spacetrack

We are pleased to announce the upgrade of www.Space-Track.org to add the
look and functionality that matches what is now on
https://beta.space-track.org. The bulk file downloads from our current
Space-Track site will continue to be available to scripters for a limited
time after the upgrade using established URLs.

This upgrade will vastly improve how the Space-Track User community
interacts with orbital element sets, the satellite catalog and conjunction
data. With a robust Representational State Transfer (REST-ful)
Application Programming Interface (API), scripters will be able to get the
latest data available, customized for their purposes.

Here are just a few of the new features that will become part of the
upgraded www.Space-Track.org:
– A streamlined and intuitive user interface that is easier to navigate
and allows simple searches
– A robust help and documentation section – “Favorites” lists to identify
logical groupings of catalog objects that Users can monitor via the web
interface or with the site’s API

If you have production scripts that currently use beta.space-track.org, we
recommend that you change your scripts to point at www.Space-Track.org on
or after 20 February 2013.

If you have scripts that screen-scrape or download text/zip files from the
current yellow-colored legacy www.Space-Track.org, they will continue to
perform correctly for a few months, but we recommend that you quickly
transition your scripts to take advantage of the new API. Documentation
is available under “Help” to assist you, as well as the API query builder
tool on the upgraded site.

We have also started sharing information about Space-Track’s new features
on tumblr, facebook and twitter, so please engage us on your favorite
social media platform.

Our sites are http://space-track.tumblr.com,
http://www.facebook.com/SpaceTrack and http://www.twitter.com/SpaceTrackOrg

We understand that any significant upgrade has the potential to cause
frustration for our user community and we apologize if this creates any
adjustment problems for you. For help or clarification, please email us
at admin@space-track.org.

Thank you,
The www.Space-Track.org Team

Vi kör ett nät även nästa söndag på 3740 klockan 10.00

mvh Håkan SM7WSJ