Category: Ham Satellite news

Howard G6LVB will be in Svalbard (JW prefix) at the end of this month and intends to be active on the satellites. He should be workable from any satellite pass over Northern Europe. All I can say is, rather him than me, as it s a bit too cold for my liking.
73 Trevor M5AKA

I will be travelling to Svalbard (JW prefix, 78.15 deg N, 16.02 deg E) in the next few weeks (currently I am looking at 26, 27 and 28 August) to do some minor upgrades to a satellite station at http://www.svalsat.com I am
intending to take some LEO satellite gear with me, so if you d like to add JW to your DXCC list let me know.

Despite its northerly location, it has coverage to Canada and the North Eastern US as well as Japan.

I will definitely be active on AO-51, SO-50, AO-27, PO-28 (let s hope) and if I have room for SSB equipment I will operate FO-29, VO-52 and possibly AO-7. The ISS never travels far enough North for me to take a shot at it.

There are no plans to take any HF gear, whatever that is 😉 73, Howard G6LVB

Klla: Trevor M5AKA

Hr kommer en sammanstllning av de senaste notiserna och nyheterna om PCSat2:

Hi,

At 11:17 GMT on Wednesday 3rd August PCSAT2 was installed on the International Space Station. For the installation images see http://www.pcsat2.info/

Due to the safety system on PCSAT2, which prevents any transmissions occuring while there s a possibility of the Astronauts being outside ISS, we will have to wait for an 8.6 hour timer to expire before it starts transmitting.

So on passes after 20:00 GMT listen on 437.975 MHz FM plus or minus about 10 kHz for doppler shift. To find out when the ISS is within range go to the Online Satellite Predictor at:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/predict/

Select Show Predictions for ISS and enter your approximate Lat and Long co-ordinates or IARU QTH Locator.

73 Trevor M5AKA
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(050804 kl 09:06)
Hej

Den passerar just nu! vrlstark in p 437975 handapparat 5/8 GP

73 Hkan
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Telemtrin kommer att dyka upp p fljande sida:

http://www.pcsat2.info/PCSat2Web/RealTime.jsp

Men ingen info dr just nu kl 09.16….

/Lars SM0TGU
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The following updates on PCSAT2 received from Dave G4DPZ and Bob WB4APR via AMSAT-BB. 73 Trevor M5AKA
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Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 07:44:10 +0100

Hi,
The live telemetry site has been connected the APRS-IS network (ahubswe.net) rather than the specific server that Bob has mentioned.

I ve just moved it over to that site and I ll be monitoring it for the next few hours.

The interesting thing is that I ve seen many PC2XXB test packets on the APRS-IS but there s very little appearing at the moment.

According to http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/pcsat2.cgi , the only packets that have been seen are:

00:11:28:59 : PC2XXB]APRS,RS0ISS-3*,qAO,KB8ZGL-5:!3900.00N/
07630.00W0Testing
00:11:30:28 : PC2XXB]APRS,RS0ISS-3*,qAO,KB8ZGL-5:]testing
02:06:00:51 : PCSAT2]APRLTM,SGATE,qAO,KC9XG:{T# IGNORE ALogger A side
test packet
02:06:00:51 : KC9XG]APRS,PCSAT2*,qAC,KC9XG:] IGNORE ALogger A side
test digi packet
02:06:00:52 : PCSAT2]APRLTM,SGATE,qAO,KC9XG:T# IGNORE ALogger A side test packet

– Dave G4DPZ

PCSat2 telemetri-info

Klla: Trevor M5AKA

STELLA Linear Transponder DSP IF, plus LVB Tracker 2 info

Folks

I have put some further information (mostly pics) on line about the auto-notching DSP linear transponder IF I ve developed in conjunction with David G0MRF s RF expertise, presented and demonstrated at the AMSAT-UK Colloquium this last weekend.

After spending the past six months struggling to make time to make this and the LVB Tracker 2 demonstrable projects, life would be quiet. From the extraordinary response I have received it seems that this will not be the case…

The technologies popularised by Gerald Youngblood s SDR-1000, and used extensively by the STELLA device, I am sure will go from strength to strength.

73, Howard G6LVB

STELLA

Klla: amsat

Det kommer en ny FM satellit inom ngra veckor. Mer info p Amsat UK samt fljande lnk.

Lnk

Klla: southgate

Den 29-31 juli r det dags igen fr AMSAT-UK Colloquium. Fljande info finns:
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AMSAT-UK is privileged to have Professor John Zarnecki Principal Investigator for the Surface Science Package on Huygens giving the keynote presentation at the International Space Colloquium to be held at the University of Surrey, Guildford, England from 29th – 31st July.

Professor John Zarnecki s presentation on Friday July 29th will describe the journey of the Huygens probe as well as its final dramatic plunge to the surface of Titan.

Day passes to the event cost 12:50. If required, overnigh accomodation and meals at the University are available. For further details contact Sophie Haigh; Email: s.haigh@sstl.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1483 689888

Guildford is close to both London-Heathrow and London-Gatwick airports.
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Se ven hemsidan.

Colloquium hemsida

Klla: ANS-198

Det meddelas att uppskjutningen av SSETI Express r frsenad:

We have just been advised that the launch date for the COSMOS launch vehicle scheduled to carry the SSETI Express and a number of other satellites into space has been delayed for approximately one month.
A revised launch date and time has not yet been confirmed.
Sorry but we will just have to keep our fingers crossed for a little longer!
73
Graham Shirville G3VZV

Klla: Graham Shirville G3VZV