Date: Mon, 27 Jun 94 04:30:41 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 #169 To: Ham-Space Ham-Space Digest Mon, 27 Jun 94 Volume 94 : Issue 169 Today's Topics: ANS-176 BULLETINS APT-Satellites: Report JUNE 26, 1994 Ham Sats (2 msgs) reader 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: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 20:07:01 MDT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!ve6mgs!usenet@network.ucsd.edu Subject: ANS-176 BULLETINS To: ham-space@ucsd.edu SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-176.01 PHASE 3-D STATUS REPORT HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 176.01 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD JUNE 25, 1994 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT BID: $ANS-176.01 WD4FAB & DB2OS Provide Phase 3-D Status Report The Phase 3-D Project Leader and AMSAT-DL President, Karl Meinzer (DJ4ZC) hosted six days of meetings, 13-18 June 1994 in Marburg, Germany to assess the status of a number of major areas of the project. In attendance at these meetings was Dick Jansson (WD4FAB), AMSAT-NA's Vice-President of Engineering. As a result of these meetings, the Project has ordered the solar arrays and is on the verge of ordering the spacecraft batteries. The selection of the machining contractor for the large aluminum rings for the 2624mm diameter SBS (Spacecraft Bus System) was also discussed and is quite close to being ordered. The SBS, which will be fabricated at Weber State University (WSU) in Ogden, UT, is a large cylinder that is part of the load carrying structure of the Ariane-5 launch vehicle. The Phase 3-D spacecraft is housed inside of the SBS for the ride into orbit. Discussions were also held with Danny Orban (ON4AOD) on design refinements of the Ku Band transmitter (24 GHz) being constructed in Belgium. Some of these Ku Band transmitter refinements may also be applied to the X Band transmitter being constructed by the AMSAT-OH group at the Helsinki University of Technology in Finland. One day of the meetings was devoted to very detailed discussions with Bernard LaCoste of the European Space Agency (ESA) regarding the launch configuration of the AR-502 vehicle and the testing that AMSAT will need to do inorder to qualify the Phase 3-D spacecraft and the SBS for their launch on AR-502. Within the next month, AMSAT will conclude the ordering of the major components noted above. Also, in this near time period, the "flight" spaceframe will arrive at the Florida integration facility and start its final cleaning, paiting and assembly. The integration facility, located at the Orland Internation Airport, is in the final stages of being prepared for its mission of providing the specialized environ- ment for the spacecraft assembly activities. [The AMSAT News Service (ANS) would like to thank WD4FAB and DB2OS for this bulletin item. ] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-176.02 WEEKLY OSCAR STATUS REPORTS HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 176.02 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD JUNE 25, 1994 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT BID: $ANS-176.02 Weekly OSCAR Status Reports: 18-JUN-94 AO-13: Current Transponder Operating Schedule: L QST *** AO-13 TRANSPONDER SCHEDULE *** 1994 May 07-Jul 11 Mode-B : MA 0 to MA 170 | Mode-BS : MA 170 to MA 218 | Mode-S : MA 218 to MA 220 |<- S beacon only Mode-S : MA 220 to MA 230 |<- S transponder; B trsp. is OFF Mode-BS : MA 230 to MA 250 | Alon/Alat 230/-5 Mode-B : MA 250 to MA 256 | Omnis : MA 250 to MA 120 | Move to attitude 180/0, Jul 11 [G3RUH/DB2OS/VK5AGR] KO-25: The uplink of the KO-25 spacecraft has been recently switched to 145.870 MHz. In addition, the control station is indicating that a reset of the On-Board Computer (OBS) is planned for 20-June-94. [K6OYY] DO-17: DO-17 still continues to transmit its voice message on a downlink frequency of 145.825 MHz. The AMSAT NEWS Service (ANS) is looking for volunteers to contribute weekly OSCAR status reports. If you have a favorite OSCAR which you work on a regular basis and would like to contribute to this bulletin, please send your observations to WD0HHU at his CompuServe address of 70524,2272, on INTERNET at wd0hhu@amsat.org, or to his local packet BBS in the Denver, CO area, WD0HHU @ W0GVT. Also, if you find that the current set of orbital elements are not generating the correct AOS/LOS times at your QTH, PLEASE INCLUDE THAT INFORMATION AS WELL. The information you provide will be of value to all OSCAR enthusiasts. /EX ------------------------------ Date: 27 Jun 1994 07:05:15 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!nntp.gmd.de!NewsWatcher!user@network.ucsd.edu Subject: APT-Satellites: Report JUNE 26, 1994 To: ham-space@ucsd.edu Observed at station 50.7 NLat, 7.1 ELon, JUNE 26, 1994 NOAA-9: APT 137.62 On NOAA-10: APT 137.50 On NOAA-11: APT 137.62 On NOAA-12: APT 137.50 On Meteor 2-21: APT 137.85 On Meteor 3-5: APT 137.85 On Nothing unusual. Meteor 2-21 passes early in the morning, APT-signal remains weak. Meteor 3-5 is ok. NOAA-9 became a late-morning descender transmitting good illuminated images. NOAA-11 slowly moves to later afternoon. Good transmissions from NOAA-10 and NOAA-12. +------------------------------------------+ |Peter Henne (peter.henne@gmd.de) | | (henne@gmd.de) | |German Nat.Research Center.f.Comp.Science | |D-53754 St.AUGUSTIN, Germany | +------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: 26 Jun 94 05:04:00 -0500 From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!iat.holonet.net!cjbbs!eddy.salvador@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Ham Sats To: ham-space@ucsd.edu I'm new into satellite tracking but I have been a ham for some time now. can anyone tell me what would be a good bird to track, its beacon freq, time and modes of op and whatever if it can be received with standard equipment. Thanks ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jun 1994 03:48:12 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!psgrain!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca!gov.nt.ca!ve8ev@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Ham Sats To: ham-space@ucsd.edu In article <4d5_9406261630@cjbbs.com> eddy.salvador@cjbbs.com (Eddy Salvador) writes: > > > >I'm new into satellite tracking but I have been a ham for some time now. >can anyone tell me what would be a good bird to track, its beacon freq, >time and modes of op and whatever if it can be received with standard >equipment. > Thanks There are several good one to get started on. Here are few easy ones you can try for: DO-17 145.825 MHz FM voice and AX.25 1200 baud packet telemetry AO-21 145.987 MHz FM voice repeater and AX.25 1200 baud telemetry AO-27 436.800 MHz FM voice repeater Mir 145.550 MHz FM voice and AX.25 1200 baud packet BBS All of the above should provide good results with an outside antenna or from a mobile setup. Note that the frequencies listed will shift from slightly higher to slightly lower than shown as the satellite passes over due to the Doppler effect. Good Luck! 73 John - VE8EV ============================================================= John Boudreau VE8EV INTERNET: ve8ev@amsat.org Inuvik, NWT, CANADA PACKET: VE8EV@KL7GNG.#NAK.AK.USA.NA ============================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 22:23:34 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!eff!news.kei.com!ub!csn!springsboard!pat.curtis@network.ucsd.edu Subject: reader To: ham-space@ucsd.edu hi alex, i am having some trouble with my off line reader. it works fine on other bbs and worked fine here before the big crash of 6-94. HELP! ------------------------------ End of Ham-Space Digest V94 #169 ******************************