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Changes on amsat.se

Uppdateringar på amsat.se juli 2017

Årets sommarstädning på www.amsat.se har resulterat i ett antal uppdaterade sidor och rättningar av felaktiga länkar etc. Som exempel är följande sidor förändrade:

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Hamradio from ISS

ISS SSTV RX juli 2017

Kurt Winebäck tog emot denna fina SSTV-bild från ISS under juli 2017.

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Telemetry

Nayif-1 telemetry 2017-07-03

74 frames RX in 6 minutes with #airspy and fixed Crossed Dipole!

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Ham Satellite news

LilacSat-1har fått namnet LilacSat-OSCAR 90


LilacSat-1 har nu fått namnet LilacSat-OSCAR 90 för att satelliten har lyckats med amatörradiokommunikation både på upp- och nerlänk. Snart är vi uppe i 100 Oscar-nummer!

OSCAR Number Administrator Bill Tynan, W3XO, has announced that,
pursuant to a request submitted to the AMSAT Board of Directors, the
LilacSat-1 satellite has been assigned the designation LilacSat-OSCAR
90, or LO-90.

LilacSat-OSCAR 90 was designed and constructed by the Harbin Institute
of Technology in Harbin, China as part of the QB50 project to study
the lower thermosphere. It was carried aboard an Orbital-ATK Cygnus
cargo ship, which was launched to the International Space Station on
April 18, 2017, and deployed from the ISS on May 25, 2017.

LO-90 carries a voice transponder with a 145 MHz FM uplink and a 435
MHz digital voice downlink using the Codec2 open source voice codec as
well as a camera open for activation by amateur radio operators
worldwide.

More information about the satellite can be found
http://lilacsat.hit.edu.cn/?page_id=594. A guide for receiving the
downlink prepared by Adam Whitney, K0FFY, can be found at
http://adamwhitney.net/working-lilacsat-1/.

Since the launch of the first amateur radio satellite, OSCAR 1 in
1961, it has been traditional for amateur radio satellites to carry
the name OSCAR, for “Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio”.
AMSAT, which administers the numbering of OSCAR satellites at the
request of the Project OSCAR organization, encourages all
builders/owners of amateur radio satellites that meet the requirements
listed at http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=2478 to apply for an OSCAR
designation.

[ANS thanks Paul, N8HM, for the above information]

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Hamradio from ISS

SSTV från ISS den 15 juli 2017

Den 15 juli 2017 väntas det SSTV från ISS på 145.800 MHz. Läs mer nedan.
Och gå gärna in på vår specialsida om ISS.


ARISS SSTV Commemorative Activity

Special Slow Scan Television (SSTV) transmissions are expected to be made from the International Space Station on 145.800 MHz FM around the weekend of July 15. In commemoration of their 20th anniversary, the ARISS team is planning to transmit a set of 12 SSTV images that capture the accomplishments of ARISS over that time.

The ARISS SSTV Blog says:

While still to be scheduled, we anticipate the SSTV operation to occur around the weekend of July 15. We are planning for at least a 2 day operation, but are working for a potential longer operation. Note that all of this tentative and may change based on crew scheduling and ISS operations. Starting with our first meeting in November 1996, our joint operations on Mir, becoming the first operational payload on ISS in November 2000 to our 1103rd school contact (so far), ARISS’ accomplishments have been tremendous. We have touched the lives of many and inspired and educated countless students to pursue science, technology, engineering and math careers.

Please stay tuned as more details on our SSTV event will be communicated in the coming weeks. Please spread the word. And think about how you can get students in your area involved in capturing these images. We would love to hear your stories on how that goes.

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Telemetry

Nayif-1 telemetry 2017-06-23

RX with SDR Console V3, #airspy, antenna is fixed crossed dipole.