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Klla: Bernd DF2ZC

New SuitSat Project !!

Hello All,I wish to call your attention to an exciting new project and would also like to ask for your help in locating an urgently needed piece of electronic equipment.

A small group of us involving the AMSAT, ARISS and NASA Organizations are underway with a new Amateur Radio Project named SuitSat. It is an idea that was originated by Sergej Samburov, RV3DR, Russian ARISS Member and also Chief of the Cosmonaut Amateur Radio Dept in Korolev, Russia.

There is an obsolete Orlon Russian Space Suit aboard the International Space Station (ISS). This suit was slated to be discarded into space.Sergej suggested that the suit be equipped with electronics for a functional data satellite
which would include a Slow Scan TV System (SSTV) This space suit will be launched into orbit during a space walk by the ISS Crew.

This project has a very short completion schedule. Several of us are presently underway putting together a prototype SSTV System for the SuitSat.

The prototype is scheduled for completion in January, 2005. Testing and final approval is scheduled for April, 2005 with a tentative launch in August, 2005.

For the SSTV system we are planning to use a stand alone hardware package, the TASCO TSC-70 scanner. A camera in the helmet will feed video to the TSC-70 and it will be programmed to activate a transmitter also inside the space suit.

It is hoped to get pictures of the ISS as this satellite departs. As the satellite drifts from the ISS, Earth pictures from approximately 230 miles altitude will be transmitted to anyone of us around the world who have any
of the many available, conventional analog SSTV receiving programs.

In order to complete the above project an urgent request is hereby made for a donation or offer to sell the TASCO TSC-70. A minimum of 5 TASCO units are needed. One unit has thus far been donated. Actually 6 total units are desired for testing, safety approval, spares, etc.

I would be most pleased to hear from anyone who has a TASCO TSC-70 to donate or offer for sale. Thanks very much for your consideration to be a part of this project.

Farrell Winder, W8ZCF
6686 Hitching Post Lane
Cincinnati, Ohio 45230

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Fr dom som ngon gng funderat p att kra ett EME qso utan att egentligen ha mjlighet till det s r det nu mjligt.

Kanske inte p CW men med hjlp av FSK och datorns ljudkort s kan nstan vilken normal tropo station som helst kra RN6BN. Sjlv s har jag ftt lite signaler p min 5/8 GP p taket men inte tillrckligt fr att avkoda, dock s har flera stationer hrt honom p ett big Wheel eller liknande.

Dags att stta upp en liten yagi i trdgrden och ladda ner WSJT programmet via tex DK5YA:s hemsida och brja lyssna mot Mnen.

73 Hkan SM7WSJ

http://www.73.ru/ .

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Ny info p Amsat DL angende nsta DX satellit

Lnk

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Enligt nedanstende:

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December 2004 AO-51 (Amsat Echo) Schedule
Updated 26 Nov 2004

Dec 1
Experimenters Wednesday
38k4 Digital Downlink, V/U Mode
Uplink: 145.860 mhz FM, 9k6 PBP Digital
Downlink: 435.150 mhz FM, 38k4 PBP Digital, 1 watt
FM repeater OFF
Dec 2
FM Repeater, V/U, ON
9k6 Digital, V/U, PBP BBS, OPEN for Users
Dec 15
Experimenters Wednesday
Dual FM Repeater Test
FM Repeater, V/U, TXB, 435.300/145.920 with Tone
FM Repeater, V/U, TXA, 435.150/145.880 NO TONE
The 2nd FM Repeater, TXA on 435.150, will be reserved for Low Power Stations (QRP) only.
Dec 16
FM Repeater, V/U, High Power Mode ON
9k6 Digital, V/U, PBP BBS OFF, TXA OFF
Dec 22
Experimenters Wednesday
38k4 Digital Downlink, V/S Mode
Uplink: 145.860 mhz FM, 9k6 PBP Digital
Downlink: 2401.200 mhz FM, 38k4 PBP Digital
FM repeater OFF
Dec 23
FM Repeater, V/U, ON
9k6 Digital, V/U, PBP BBS, OPEN for Users

Dec 29
Experimenters Wednesday
FM Repeater, V/S, ON, Using 67hz Tone on the Input
9k6 Digital, V/U, PBP BBS OFF, TXA OFF
We will use the tone as a test to clear the QRM. The 67hz PL Tone will be needed or you uplink signal to pass your signal through the Satellites IFC. The transmitter will not be PTT d.
Dec 30
TBD

Further updates at:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/echo/controlteam.php
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USA planerar en obemannad mnexpedition 2010. Tv robotar ska landsttas fr att samla stenprover och sedan tervnda till Jorden.

Enligt planen ska robotarna utforska mnens strsta och ldsta krater, Aitken-bckenet vid sydpolen, avsljade forskaren Carle Pieters p en konferens i Indien med ver 200 deltagare frn 16 lnder.

Pieters r engagerad i USA:s rymdprogram och knuten till den geologiska institutionen p Brown University.

Syftet blir att studera fr hur lnge sedan bckenet blev till och att ta reda p hur sdana bcken bildas.

Materialet ska sedan forslas till Jorden fr analys.

Varje robot kommer att samla ett kilo sten och fragment som ska ge oss insikt om bckenets geologiska historia, berttade hon fr deltagarna p den internationella konferensen.

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