Date: Fri, 24 Jun 94 04:30:49 PDT 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 #166 To: Ham-Space Ham-Space Digest Fri, 24 Jun 94 Volume 94 : Issue 166 Today's Topics: * SpaceNews 20-Jun-94 * age-ID: <2tr5jf$b1q@search01.news.aol.com>ŁTS>Newsgroups: r Mods for ICW-21AT for use with Sats Trakbox help WX FTP sites. 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: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 12:02:42 MDT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!ve6mgs!usenet@network.ucsd.edu Subject: * SpaceNews 20-Jun-94 * To: ham-space@ucsd.edu SB NEWS @ AMSAT $SPC0620 * SpaceNews 20-Jun-94 * BID: $SPC0620 ========= SpaceNews ========= MONDAY JUNE 20, 1994 SpaceNews originates at KD2BD in Wall Township, New Jersey, USA. It is published every week and is made available for unlimited distribution. * IMPACT WITH JUPITER * ======================== JPL's Galileo spacecraft is scheduled to observe 16 of the 21 possible impacts of the fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy-9 with Jupiter this July, according to project scientist Dr. Torrence Johnson. Galileo is scheduled to observe 16 of the 21 possible impacts of the fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy-9 with Jupiter this July. Galileo, however, won't be alone in keeping its eyes on Jupiter. Although the Galileo spacecraft will be in the best position to view Comet Shoemaker-Levy-9's impact with Jupiter, Voyager 2 and the Ulysses spacecraft will record various measurements from the event. On its way out of the solar system, Voyager 2 will be heading south, about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) from Jupiter, and will have the comet's impact sites in its line of sight. The spacecraft will observe with its ultraviolet spectrometer and planetary radio astronomy instrument, and numerical data will be returned in real time. The Ulysses spacecraft, on its way to explore the sun's polar regions, will be able to make measurements of radio and plasma waves from the comet's impact from its position at about 75 degrees south of the sun's equator and about 800 million kilometers (500 million miles) from Jupiter. JPL's Deep Space Network facility at Goldstone, California will perform radio astronomy on the synchrotron emission from Jupiter's radiation belt, looking for disturbances caused by Shoemaker-Levy dust. [Info via Ron Baalke at JPL] * MIR NEWS * ============ Progress M-23 docked with the Mir complex at 0618 UTC on May 24. The EO-15 commander and flight engineer, Viktor Afanas'ev and Yuriy Usachyov, will be replaced this month by the EO-16 crew, Yuriy Malenchenko and Talgat Musabaev, who will be launched on the Soyuz TM-19 ferry ship on June 20. Physician-cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov will remain aboard Mir. Both Malenchenko, a Russian Air Force cosmonaut, and Musabaev, a Kazakh Space Agency cosmonaut, will be on their first flights. [Info via Jonathan McDowell] * AO-10 NEWS * ============== JH0OTM in Japan reports getting a strong return downlink from AMSAT-OSCAR-10 on 13-Jun-94 at 23:30 UTC. The beacon carrier on 145.810 MHz was also strong at a range of 23000 km. With signals from AO-10 steadily improving, JH0OTM is looking forward to making contacts via AO-10's Mode B transponder. * DOVE NEWS * ============= DOVE-OSCAR-17 continues to exercise its voice capabilities. Downlinks can be heard on 145.825 MHz FM. The following packet frame was received from by spacecraft by KD2BD late last week: DOVE-1>BRAMST : Greetings to attendees at the ARRL National Convention and Education Forum from the DOVE Command Team (WD0E) * SPACE CALENDAR * ================== The following is a tentative calendar of space related events for the next several weeks. Jun 20-23 - International Conference of Environmental Systems, Germany Jun 24 - UHF Follow-On Atlas Launch Jun 24 - Soyuz TM-19 Launch (Russian) Jun 25-26 - Space Auction, Superior Galleries, Beverly Hills, California Jun 25-26 - Universe 94 Conference, Flagstaff, Arizona Jun 27 - Ulysses, Begin of 1st Solar Passage (-70.07 degrees latitude) Jul 04 - Soyuz TM-18 Landing (Russian) Jul 08 - STS-65, Columbia, International Microgravity Lab #2 (IML-2) Jul 09 - 15th Anniversary (1979), Voyager 2, Jupiter Flyby Jul 11 - 15th Anniversary (1979), Skylab Re-enters Earth's Atmosphere Jul 16-22 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 1993e Collision with Jupiter Jul 16 - 25th Anniversary (1969), Apollo 11 Launch Jul 20 - 25th Anniversary (1969), Man on the Moon (Apollo 11) Jul 28 - 30th Anniversary (1964), Ranger 7 Launch (Moon Impact Mission) Jul 28 - DirectTV Atlas II Launch Jul 31 - 25th Anniversary (1969), Mariner 6, Mars Flyby [Info via Ron Baalke at JPL] * FO-20 NEWS * ============== On 19-May-94, the FO-20 command station announced that a problem exists in FO-20's onboard computer system. The satellite's transponder will remain in the analog mode (JA) until further notice. [Info via Kazu Sakamoto, JJ1WTK] * THANKS! * =========== Thanks to all those who sent messages of appreciation to SpaceNews, especially: N1OHJ ON1EN VK3DHT KJ5TF VK5KCI * FEEDBACK/INPUT WELCOMED * =========================== Mail to SpaceNews should be directed to the editor (John, KD2BD) via any of the following paths: FAX : 1-908-747-7107 PACKET : KD2BD @ N2KZH.NJ.USA.NA INTERNET : kd2bd@amsat.org -or- magliaco@pilot.njin.net MAIL : John A. Magliacane, KD2BD Department of Engineering and Technology Advanced Technology Center Brookdale Community College Lincroft, New Jersey 07738 U.S.A. <<=- SpaceNews: The first amateur newsletter read in space! -=>> /EX -- John A. Magliacane, KD2BD * /\/\ * Voice : 1-908-224-2948 Advanced Technology Center |/\/\/\| Packet : KD2BD @ N2KZH.NJ.USA.NA Brookdale Community College |\/\/\/| Internet: magliaco@pilot.njin.net Lincroft, NJ 07738 * \/\/ * Morse : -.- -.. ..--- -... -.. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jun 94 16:39:00 -0500 From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!cateye!:tomsunman@network.ucsd.edu Subject: age-ID: <2tr5jf$b1q@search01.news.aol.com>ŁTS>Newsgroups: r To: ham-space@ucsd.edu radio.amateur.space TS>Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) TS> I've been saving the 2 line element sets from this newsgroup and TS>they are NOT working with stsorbit plus. I remove the info before the TS>actual set and the program will not read it. I don't quite understand TS>why. Any help would be appreciated through e-mail. In the meantime, TS>I'll have to go elsewhere for the latest sets. Thanks! TS>Tom TS>randall@sunydutchess.edu I believe that the information posted in r.radio.space is in the form of Keplerian data and the stsplus software uses 2-line element sets. While these contain essentially the same data, the format is different. However, the version of the software I have contains an option to manually input the Kep data from the posted listing and it (the software) builds the 2-line element set. I can't remember offhand just what version I have...... Someone who uses this stuff regularily can probably give a better explaination..... __________Internet: jeff.sigley@mgmtsys.com Amateur: N8UBI_____ --- ³ CmpQwk #UNREG³ UNREGISTERED EVALUATION COPY ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 20:26:55 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!dora!etuggle@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Mods for ICW-21AT for use with Sats To: ham-space@ucsd.edu This may be a dumb question, but I'll ask it anyhow... Is there a mod to allow me to transmit below 440MHz (ie. 430 - 440)? I know FM is not used below 440MHz but AO-21's uplink freq is in that range. Thanx for any help. 73, Eddie KB0LZZ, Parker Colorado -- Eddie D. Tuggle, etuggle@dora.auc.trw.com | "There is nothing either good or TRW Denver Operations | bad, but thinking makes it so." 16201 Centretech Pky / Aurora, CO 80011 | -- SHAKESPEARE Voice: 303.360.4001 FAX: 303.360.4133 | ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 1994 13:55:31 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!news.funet.fi!zippo.uwasa.fi!mkl@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Trakbox help To: ham-space@ucsd.edu Gear: Trakbox with 3.20beta ROM Yaesu 736R Problem: Can't get CAT control to work I have connected the CAT control from CN4 pins 2 (inverted TTL) and 5 (GND). Now and then the radio goes into CAT mode but it won't trak the frequency right. Are there any quirks to get it working properly? If you have a similar configuration please write and tell me about how it works for you. -- Markus ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 94 18:22:40 GMT From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu Subject: WX FTP sites. To: ham-space@ucsd.edu The following is a list of anonymous FTP sites where metereological images in GIF format can be found. 73 de Guillermo. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= CLIMLIST Mailing Number 92-08-19 Forwarded From: USENET newsgroup sci.geo.meteorology Origin: ilana@ncar.ucar.edu ==Current weather GIFs via FTP== vmd.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.98] FTP: Change directory to "wx" and set transfer type to "binary". GOES-7 visible and IR imagery over the US and Mexico, and surface analyses over the US, are available. A script to retrieve GIFs automatically is available from the ncardata FTP area (see below). Also available in this directory are SPOTFREQ.DOC and CHASE-TV.DOC, lists of ham radio frequencies and TV stations which carry useful info for storm chasers, and a few other useful documents. uriacc.uri.edu [131.128.1.1] FTP: Change directory to "davet.195" and set transfer type to "binary". Images of the northeast US in GIF format from the afternoon passes of NOAA-11. (Provided by Dave Tetreault, DAVET@uriacc.uri.edu.) unidata.ucar.edu [128.117.140.3] FTP: Change directory to "images" and set transfer type to "binary". Weather radar summary map GIFS, surface maps for various places, a few soundings on skew-t log-p diagrams, GOES Hugo images (in subdirectory "images/hugo"). Surface maps include Europe and China. cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk FTP: Change directory to "images" and set transfer type to "binary". IR and visibal images of Europe from Meteosat, twice daily, in 1152 x 900 GIF format (size of Sun root window). The subdirectory "gifs" has smaller 3x daily images of the Nordic areas, the UK, and Europe. marlin.jcu.edu.au [137.219.16.14] FTP: GMS-4 images updated regularly for various Australian states, the entire country, and for regions/events of interest such as TOGA/COARE. The images are in a format designed for the package JCUMetSat but can be converted to GIF format using the ALCHEMY public domain software available at this site. ats.orst.edu [128.193.120.19] FTP: GOES IR and VIS images over North and Central America, plus a "floater" image which "could be anything." Also Oregon and US city forecasts. aurelie.soest.hawaii.edu [128.171.151.121] FTP: Sea-Surface-Temperature data (near-real-time) in "pub/avhrr/images". AVHRR images within the radius of reception of the university's HRPT station, approximately 5 S to 45 N and 125 W to 165 E. The processed images are available usually within 30 min. of NOAA-11 and NOAA-12 passages. Data are compressed binary in netCDF format (get documentation from unidata.ucar.edu, above) labelled by satellite name (n11/n12) and time. More info available from hrpt@hokulea.soest.hawaii.edu. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Guillermo Gosset, XE1RGL Instituto de Biotecnologia/U.N.A.M. email: gosset@132.248.32.1 Cuernavaca, Mexico. xe1rgl@amsat.org =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ End of Ham-Space Digest V94 #166 ******************************