Date: Sat, 5 Mar 94 04:30:59 PST From: Ham-Space Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Ham-Space-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Ham-Space@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: Ham-Space Digest V94 #48 To: Ham-Space Ham-Space Digest Sat, 5 Mar 94 Volume 94 : Issue 48 Today's Topics: ARLS011 Anniversary for AMSAT GPS Receiver Boards Mir (2 msgs) NASA pictures Satellite progs on World STS-62 Element Set (94063.635) Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send subscription requests to: Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the Ham-Space Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/ham-space". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 1 Mar 94 13:53:12 GMT From: nprdc!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!marcbg@network.ucsd.edu Subject: ARLS011 Anniversary for AMSAT To: ham-space@ucsd.edu SB SPACE @ ARL $ARLS011 ARLS011 Anniversary for AMSAT ZCZC AS55 QST de W1AW Space Bulletin 011 ARLS011 >From ARRL Headquarters Newington, CT February 25, 1994 To all radio amateurs SB SPACE ARL ARLS011 ARLS011 Anniversary for AMSAT Anniversary for AMSAT Congratulations to the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), which celebrates its 25th anniversary on March 3. In early January 1969 a small group of interested amateurs began meeting in the Washington, D.C. area, with the idea of forming an East Coast group to carry on the objectives of Project OSCAR (Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio). They decided to form a non-profit corporation to disassociate the group's activities from any of the companies with whom the members were employed, which included IBM, the Applied Physics Lab of The Johns Hopkins University, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Nearly two dozen interested amateurs attended the first general organizational meeting, held on February 6, 1969. Just two months later, on March 3, 1969, AMSAT was incorporated in the District of Columbia. The first public announcements appeared in April QST and in Autocall, a Washington, D.C.-area clubs publication. Among AMSAT's founders (and members of the first board of directors) were George Jacobs, W3ASK; Perry Klein, W3PK; Jan King, W3GEY; and Bill Tynan, W3XO. Today, AMSAT supports both amateur satellites and the SAREX (Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment) program. NNNN /EX -- ================================================ Marc B. Grant Voice Mail: 214-246-1150 marcbg@netcom.com Amateur Radio N5MEI marcbg@esy.com ================================================ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 16:31:44 GMT From: news.acns.nwu.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!ns.draper.com!news.draper.com!jwy1294a.draper.com!jyoungberg@network.ucsd.edu Subject: GPS Receiver Boards To: ham-space@ucsd.edu I've followed various GPS threads as they've come and gone. In order to pose volume/price arguments to folks in the business, what would be the size of the amateur market for GPS engines? Presume an engine consists of the entire RX, minus antenna, including a data port (probably NMEA 0183), on a PC board. Examples are currently manufacured by Rockwell, Magellan, Canadian Marconi, Plessey, and Trimble, among others. Marketed in the $500 class for single-unit quantities. Skip, K1NKR ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 17:40:47 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!rsiatl!ke4zv!gary@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Mir To: ham-space@ucsd.edu In article Troyce@bio.tamu.edu (Troyce) writes: >According to the latest orbital data, the Mir should be orbiting almost >directly overhead of me late Friday morning and only about 389 km in >distance. Would I have any real chance of picking them up (if they're >transmitting) using only a HT, or would I need a base rig and satellite >antenna? The HT should work. Try to get on a high rooftop to increase your horizon. A better antenna than the typical duck would be a big help though. Even a homemade J-pole should suffice. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | uunet!rsiatl!ke4zv!gary 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | ------------------------------ Date: 3 Mar 1994 20:01:03 GMT From: news.acns.nwu.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!cs.umd.edu!mojo.eng.umd.edu!tedwards@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Mir To: ham-space@ucsd.edu In article Troyce@bio.tamu.edu (Troyce) writes: >According to the latest orbital data, the Mir should be orbiting almost >directly overhead of me late Friday morning and only about 389 km in >distance. Would I have any real chance of picking them up (if they're >transmitting) using only a HT, or would I need a base rig and satellite >antenna? You have a very good chance of hearing MIR on an HT...but keep in mind they are usually doing packet. I have heard MIR on an HT during a voice QSO with W3EAX. All LEO sats can be definately heard with a mag-mount quarter-wave or 5/8 wave vertical, no problem. You only really need satellite antennas to hear elliptical orbit sats such as AO-13. You have little chance of making it through the typical pileup into either packet or voice modes with an HT. If you were the only ham within the line-of-sight, you might have a chance to hit them, depending on MIR orientation to you. -Thomas N3HAU ------------------------------ Date: 4 Mar 1994 15:28:24 GMT From: news.acns.nwu.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca!herman.cs.uoguelph.ca!jdoherty@network.ucsd.edu Subject: NASA pictures To: ham-space@ucsd.edu Does anyone know where to find the satellite pictures of the moon, and other things, that are currently being received from NASA's Clementine probe? I heard on the news last night that these pics were available on the Internet... Please email: jdoherty@uoguelph.ca Thanks, John ------------------------------ Date: 1 Mar 94 11:13:11 GMT From: nprdc!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!bbc!ant!boyer@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Satellite progs on World To: ham-space@ucsd.edu Scott Ehrlich (wy1z@netcom.com) wrote: : I have now placed some satellite tracking programs on World: : - stsplus.zip : - stsorbit.zip : - traksat {trak300a.zip & trak300b.zip} (latest version of traksat) : They are available via anonymous FTP via : ftp ftp.std.com:/pub/hamradio/pc/satellite Just a short comment. I have traksat and it is really great and dead easy to use. John B John.boyer@rd.eng.bbc.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 23:15:33 GMT From: telesoft!garym@uunet.uu.net Subject: STS-62 Element Set (94063.635) To: ham-space@ucsd.edu STS-62 1 00062U 94063.63594965 .00073440 00000-0 22129-3 0 30 2 00062 39.0115 248.5979 0006644 298.2691 61.7477 15.90695888 23 Satellite: STS-62 Catalog number: 00062 Epoch time: 94063.63594965 (04 MAR 94 15:15:46.05 UTC) Element set: 003 Inclination: 39.0115 deg RA of node: 248.5979 deg Space Shuttle Flight STS-62 Eccentricity: .0006644 Prelaunch Element set JSC-003 Arg of perigee: 298.2691 deg Launch: 04 MAR 94 13:53 UTC Mean anomaly: 61.7477 deg Mean motion: 15.90695888 rev/day G. L. Carman Decay rate: 7.3440e-04 rev/day*2 NASA Johnson Space Center Epoch rev: 2 (for Shuttle Elements subscription info, email: listserv@alsys.com) -- Gary Morris KK6YB Internet: elements-request@alsys.com San Diego, CA, USA Phone: +1 619-457-2700 ------------------------------ End of Ham-Space Digest V94 #48 ******************************