Author: SM0TGU

Frn det senaste numret av AMSAT-OZ Journal finns information om de nya Cubesats som skts upp den 30:e juni. Varje satellit har en egen hemsida med mer info.

Notera att alla anvnder frekvenser p amatrradiobandet. Nasanumret r i flera fall inte faststllt.

DTUsat
437.475 MHz FM ASFK 2400 bps
CW-beacon var 10:e minut
400 mW, LHCP antenn
Status: Ingen signal hrd
Troligtvis Nasanr: 27842
http://www.dtusat.dtu.dk

AAU Cubesat
437.450 MHz FM GMSK 9k6 bps
500 mW till en crossed dipol
50 ms beacn varje minut
Status: Signal hrd
Troligtvis Nasanr: 27842
http://www.cubesat.auc.dk

CanX
437.880 MHz FM AFSK 1200 bps
500 mW till en dual monopol
Beacon varje minut
Status: Ingen signal hrd
Troligtvis Nasanr: 27842
http://www.utias-sfl.net

Quakesat
436.675 MHz
1.2 W till LHCP antenn. 500 ms beacon var 10:e minut
Troligtvis Nasanr: 27845
Status: Signal hrd, bra signalstyrka
http://www.quakefinder.com/quakesat.htm

Cute-I
436.8375 MHz CW, 100 mW output
437.470 MHz FM AFSK 1200 bps, 350 mW output
Troligtvis Nasanr: 27844
Status: Signal hrd, bra signalstyrka
http://lss.mes.titech.ac.jp/ssp/cubesat/index_e.html

XI-IV Titech
Nerlnk: 437.490 MHz FSK AX.25 1200 bps, 600 mW output
Upplnk: 145.835 MHz FSK AX.25 1200 bps
Beacon: 436.8475 MHz CW, 100 mW output
Status: Signal hrd, men tydligen inte s stark
Troligtvis Nasanr: 75909 (??)
http://www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/cubesat/index-e.html

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Klla: AMSAT-OZ Journal nr. 124

PcSat2 r p gng och prototypen testkrs just nu i USA. Fljande finns med:

* APRS/UI digipeater (145.825 up and down)
* PSK-31 transponder (10m ssb up 435.250 down) (see note below)
* FM Voice repeater. (145.800 up 437.975 down)

Roligt ocks med en PSK-31 transponder! Vi kommer att lgga in fakta om PcSat2 p AMSAT-SMs hemsida senare men besk den utmrkta hemsidan s lnge.

PcSat2 hemsida

Klla: ANS-152

Frn ANS-138 hmtar vi fljande fr er som jagar DX:

From May 19th to May 30th, and then again possibly 2 weeks later, Drew, KO4MA, will be in Anguilla for work. He will at the least have an arrow and HT to make QSOs on UO-14, and SO-50 or AO-27 if they are on or still on by the time they get to 18 degrees latitude. A reciprocal license application has been submitted, but since it must be picked up in person, and this is a work trip, the exact date that operations can start as well as the callsign
is unknown at this time.

Drew says, I would like to do AO-40 too, but my luggage allowance is VERY restricted due to work stuff. With the close range and attitude, I may be able to use the UHF half of the arrow and a helix/preamp combo, or line an umbrella with foil when I get there and try that. If it looks like I can fit the gear, and it will work, I ll take the radios to do AO-40 (Yaesu FT-790/817 combo). If I do make AO-40, it will be only in the earliest AM hours before work. I will endeavor to assemble this setup this week and test it before I go.

There is also a chance of an evening pass or 2 from nearby Saint Martin/Maarten (PJ7/FS).

QSL direct only, with an SASE, or SAE and green stamp/euro, to my QRZ.com address.

[ANS thanks Drew, KO4MA, for the above information]

Klla: ANS 138

P PcSats hemsida finns det att lsa fljande:

END OF MISSION: PCsat was in full sun 10-20 April 2003 and continued to be power positive until 26 April. At that point it was back into heavy eclipses and the batteries are so weak that even in the sun, they can barely support a single packet. I m declaring PCsat mission as complete. It operated reliably for 19 months and supported over 2000 users worldwide. We were seeing typically 50 users in each 8 hour period on pcsat.aprs.org. So she was well used up until the end. We will leave her ON for continued experimentation, but the only packets you can get through PCsat now are very short ones.

Och Bob tipsar om hur man skapar sm paket att testa med:

– Mic-E formatted Packets (position, Course, SPeed and ICON)(only 9 bytes in the payload)
– Kenwood D7 and D700 s use the Mic-E format (Turn off any status text)
– Transmit VIA XBAUD and your 1 second 1200 baud packet will be digipeated back down at 9600 baud
– Set your radio to crossband and TX at 9600 baud on the UHF input.

PcSats hemsida

Klla: Bob Bruninga

Frn ANS:

A two ham Expedition 7 crew arrived at the International Space Station on April 28th to replace the crew currently on board.

Two men… cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, RK3DUP and astronaut Ed Lu, KC5WKJ, have arrived…. the first team ever to get to the I S S aboard a Russian spacecraft. They replace 3 men… Commander Ken Bowersox, KD5JBP, Don
Pettit, KD5MDT, and Nikolai Budarin, RV3FB. That team flew back to earth on the third of May.

[ANS thanks Roy Neal, K6DUE Amateur Radio Newsline, for the above information]

Klla: ANS 131