I kvll 18/11 2052 lokal tid hrde jag packetsignaler frn ISS, ingen trafik bara identifiering som klart och tydligt talar om att det r internationella rymdstationen.
Hkan SM7WSJ
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Här finner du nyheter om amatörradiosatelliter från hela världen.
Varios ham radio satellites news.
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Compendia is updated
The compendia is updated and released on homepage free for download.
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UO14 QRT efter 14 år i rymden
The Mission Control Centre at SSTL at the Surrey Space Centre reports that UoSAT-OSCAR-14 has finally reached the end of its mission after nearly 14 years in orbit.
Launched on 22 January 1990 by Ariane, UO-14 was the first 9k6 bps amateur data communications satellite and pioneered the PACSAT communications concept. After approximately 18 months in orbit, UO-14 was switched to commercial frequencies for humanitarian use for Satellite and it was used by them until 1997 when it was switched back to amateur use as an FM repeater where it remained until now.
Since launch, UO-14 has completed over 72,000 orbits and
many charge/discharge cycles of its on-board NiCd battery, however recently one of the battery cells has become
exhausted and can no longer support continuous operation of the repeater (the transmitter shuts down shortly after it is commanded ON due to undervoltage) so the microsatellite s mission has been terminated.
Thank you UO-14 for your long service!
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Professor Sir Martin Sweeting OBE FRS G3YJO
Chairman, AMSAT-UK
73
Richard W L Limebear G3RWL
g3rwl@amsat.org
FOC # 1188
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Info om CubeSate XI-IV
Hr kommer lite info om de japanska CubeSats:
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Two CubeSats XI-IV and CUTE-I were launched 30 Jun 2003, 14:15:26 UTC+2, by Japanese Universities,
XI-IV : Tokyo University
CUTE-I : Tokyo of Institute of Technology University
Earth images from XI-IV s image decoder have been posted to the following URL.
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/cubsat-2.htm
XI-IV can be heard on the frequencies and modes below.
Sat. Downlink Beacon Mode
XI-IV 436.8475 1200bd CW
XI-IV 437.490 1200bd FM Packet AX.25
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Status 2:a november
Lite status om Oscar 40 frn ANS kommer hr (OBS! nytt schema ocks!):
AO-40 continues to move in ALON, keeping ahead of the sun. As of 31 Oct 2003, AO-40 s attitude was ALON/ALAT ~ 30 / 0. ALON will slowly be advancing to 45 deg.
The passband schedule has been modified slightly and the K-band window has been discontinued.
Stacey Mills, W4SM, provided the following update regarding AO-40 s telemetry beacon. Stacey says, FEC is turned on as for as many orbits as possible, working around the need for pictures and other command functions.
FEC mode requires loading the IHU-2 each orbit and this is not always possible; however most orbits have FEC active. The FEC routine has been modified to allow the option of cycling between normal mode telemetry including message blocks and event blocks, and FEC mode telemetry (A-blocks only). With this option, the normal mode is currently active from 0 to 16 minutes of the hour, and the FEC mode is active for the remainder of the hour. This allows time for users to read the message blocks and for event blocks to be collected. During transition between these two modes, up to 1 minute of beacon idling (hex50) may be heard before the new mode starts.
The AO-40 team would like your telemetry files! Please zip compress your daily telemetry files and e-mail to: ao40-archive@amsat.org
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Ballongprojekt från AMSAT-CT
AMSAT-SM fick fljande info frn AMSAT-CT angende ett ballongprojekt de just gjort. Dom har tappat bort ballongen och behver hjlp:
Greetings to all,
as part of the group of AMSAT-CT and AMRAD PT, please alow
me to introduce us to the AMSAT organizations that don t
know us yet.
Please take a wee time to check our webpage (in Portuguese), as it has info on the organization, and also
on the balloon launch.
http://www.amrad.pt/ – main
http://www.amrad.pt/amsatct.php
Balloon launch –
http://www.amrad.pt/lancamento_cinelsat2.php
AMRAD s balloon was lauched last Friday, 24th October,
around 5:30pm GMT. The payload consisted on a Video Camera, ATV 1260MHz, GPS receiver, APRS tracking device transmitting on VHF 145.850MHz. Four balloons pulled it up, and a parachute went together. (first picture shows the setup) It has inside the payload, a plastic wrapped paper with ID, contacts and emails.
The balloon was tracked for more than 10h with the precious help of CT1FAK, and other collegues, using their powerfull receiving stations, equiped with the latest radio technology.
The last received packet from the ballon, at CT1FAK s station, has the timestamp of +-3:30am GMT 25th October. We lost contact with the balloon after that. We received logs from our friends in the NorthWest Spain, Galiza, with timestamps of 7:49am Zulu same day. They had the last contact with the running balloon.
The balloon climbed up to 27xxx feet only. Bad weather and
heavy clouds didn t allow it any further up. According to wind charts, forecasts and local Meteo office, we had East winds that would push the balloon into middle Atalantic Ocean, and later north. Is this correct ?? Theres no way to know this. The balloon is already electrically dead .
Hence our contact to the countries around the Atlantic
Ocean. As the payload is pulled by four balloons, we presume it is still floating around somewhere, if it hadnt burst because of the heavy cloud ceiling, that didn t allow it any further up.
We take the opportunity to ask for help (and some advise),
if by any chance the balloon falls in your country, is
picked up in the ocean by boats/fishermen, or picked at the sea shore.
On behalf of AMRAD s board and associates, we thank you all. For reading, for spreading the news to your associates and collegues, and for, who knows, catching the payload 🙂
73 de CT1XI
AMRAD and AMSAT-CT board of directors
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