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- Subject: Ham-Space Digest V94 #107
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- Ham-Space Digest Thu, 28 Apr 94 Volume 94 : Issue 107
-
- Today's Topics:
- 48-Hours & Unidentified radio signals.
- AO-21
- Ao-21 via mobile? (2 msgs)
- ARLS021 Another SAREX success
- Orbit DETERMINATION software ??
- Radio Astronomy (2 msgs)
- rec.radio.amateur.vhf.plus (?)
- SAREX QSL information
- Satellites without beams (2 msgs)
- STS-xx QSL routes??
-
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-
- Date: 28 Apr 94 02:34:25 GMT
- From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!apple.com!apple.com!not-for-mail@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
- Subject: 48-Hours & Unidentified radio signals.
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
-
- palmer@alumni.caltech.edu (David M. Palmer) writes:
-
- >fsrla@aurora.alaska.edu writes:
-
- >>What got my attention, however, was the segment on the
- >>radio-telescope facility that was scanning the skies in
- >>search of hopeful radio contact, or sounds, or, well,
- >>anything out of the norm. They had 37 signals they
- >>could not identify.
-
- >>Now, my question is, does anybody know what frequencies
- >>these 37 signals were heard on? I'm just curious.
-
-
- >Horowitz and Sagan, 1993 Sept 20, Astrophysical Journal V. 415, 218-235.
- ^^^^^^^^
-
- Note of interest: Paul Horowitz is W1HFA. Also coauthor with Hill for
- "The Art of Electronics."
-
- 73,
-
- Kok Chen, AA6TY kchen@apple.com
- Apple Computer, Inc.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 22 Apr 94 20:18:02 GMT
- From: agate!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!news.ans.net!hp81.prod.aol.net!search01.news.aol.com!not-for-mail@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
- Subject: AO-21
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <766339135snz@g8sjp.demon.co.uk>, ip@g8sjp.demon.co.uk (Iain
- Philipps) writes:
-
- OSCAR-21 uplink? From all the info I have, the uplink is 435.016, although
- 435.015 seems to work well.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- 73, Gary WA4YMZ
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 27 Apr 94 07:23:55 GMT
- From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cleveland.Freenet.Edu!da884@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
- Subject: Ao-21 via mobile?
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
-
- I read alittle while back about being able to operate Ao21 via low power?
- If so can anyone give me info on it I'll like to give it a shot
- I'm working the grave yardshift so I have the wee hours of the morning to
- give it a shot.
-
- I know there was talk about trying it late in the morning when most operators are asleep and not to many big stations are up and running, Any help??
-
- --
- ____________________________________________________________________________
- | David AMPRnet - ve3tos@ve3tos.ampr.org www |
- |Don Mills, Ontario Internet - da884@cleveland.freenet.edu (o o) |
- |_Canada____VE3TOS_____Packet - ve3tos@va3bbs.#scon.on.can.noam_oOO__(_)__OOo|
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 28 Apr 94 02:40:37 GMT
- From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cleveland.Freenet.Edu!da884@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
- Subject: Ao-21 via mobile?
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
-
- IP>
- IP> > I read alittle while back about being able to operate Ao21
- IP>
- IP> Me too.
- IP>
- IP> > If so can anyone give me info on it I'll like to give it a
- IP>
- IP> I tried it. 50W ERP and no sign of a signal being relayed. I
- IP> heard (on Sunday) a 'local' through the bird, and I could
- IP> hear his uplink signal, too. He was just about fully
- IP> readable via satellite. I asked him about his setup, and
- IP> what he described equated to roughly 1.4KW ERP. On that
- IP> basis, I'll stay listening :-(
- IP>
-
- What are the Up and down link freqs???
-
- --
- ____________________________________________________________________________
- | David AMPRnet - ve3tos@ve3tos.ampr.org www |
- |Don Mills, Ontario Internet - da884@cleveland.freenet.edu (o o) |
- |_Canada____VE3TOS_____Packet - ve3tos@va3bbs.#scon.on.can.noam_oOO__(_)__OOo|
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 00:35:50 GMT
- From: pacbell.com!amdahl!netcomsv!netcom.com!marcbg@ames.arpa
- Subject: ARLS021 Another SAREX success
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
-
- SB SPACE @ ARL $ARLS021
- ARLS021 Another SAREX success
-
- ZCZC AS65
- QST de W1AW
- Space Bulletin 021 ARLS021
- >From ARRL Headquarters
- Newington, CT April 26, 1994
- To all radio amateurs
-
- SB SPACE ARL ARLS021
- ARLS021 Another SAREX success
-
- Another SAREX success
-
- During the just-completed shuttle mission, STS-59, astronauts Jay
- Apt, N5QWL, and Linda Godwin, N5RAX, used their SAREX 2-meter
- equipment for a contact with Astronaut Ken Cameron, R3/KB5AWP, on
- assignment at the Russian space facility at Star City, near Moscow.
-
- The two astronaut-hams also spoke to cosmonaut Anatoli Artsibartski,
- U6MIR. The contacts were made on two successive passes overhead.
-
- Jay Apt said ''Ken is my friend and former STS-37 crewmate. It was
- terrific to hear his voice after several months corresponding by
- e-mail only. What a great way to use ham radio.''
-
- Cameron and Artsibartski were standing near the Star City statue of
- Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, using a hand held transceiver and
- 5/8 wavelength whip antenna, standing on a car to increase their
- elevation, astronaut Jay Apt related in an Amateur Radio packet
- message from space.
- NNNN
- --
- Marc Grant
- Home: marcbg@netcom.com Telephone: 214-205-4593
- Office: marcbg@esy.com Amateur Radio N5MEI
- "The road to enlightment is chuck full o' potholes"
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 14:16:38 GMT
- From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!sgiblab!wetware!spunky.RedBrick.COM!psinntp!psinntp!arrl.org!zlau@ames.arpa
- Subject: Orbit DETERMINATION software ??
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
-
- Methods of Orbit Determination for the Microcomputers
- by Dan Boulet ISBN 0-943396-34-4 The Publisher,
- Willmen-Bell, Inc., also sells Basic software to go
- with the book.
-
- Zvi Lev (zvikal@ccsg.tau.ac.il) wrote:
-
- : Hi all. In recent weeks I have searched many ftp sites for orbit
- : determination software - that is, software for calculating the orbit
- : parameters of the sattelite given data such as measured Ra and Dec from
- : a given ground stations(s), or doppler (i.e. velocity) readings from such
- : stations. While there are many excellent shareware packages available for
- : orbit calculation or tracking (that is, given the orbital parameters where
- : will the sat be at time T), I have failed to find any for my 'Inverse'
- : problem. Any info will be of help.
-
- --
- Zack Lau KH6CP/1 2 way QRP WAS
- 8 States on 10 GHz
- Internet: zlau@arrl.org 10 grids on 2304 MHz
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 09:28:17 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!festival!ee.ed.ac.uk!J.Paul.Lesso@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Radio Astronomy
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
-
- Keywords: radios n stuff
-
- I enjoy astronomy as a hobby but have recently become interested in
- radio astronomy, speciifically listening to Jupiter 20MHz and also the bands
- that can be used to listen to meteors. Any FTP sites, publications or any
- help would be most appreciated!
-
- TIA
-
- Paul
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 27 Apr 1994 02:55:11 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!hermes.acs.ryerson.ca!ee.ryerson.ca!phiscock@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Radio Astronomy
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
-
- J Paul Lesso (JPaulLesso@ee.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
- : Keywords: radios n stuff
-
- : I enjoy astronomy as a hobby but have recently become interested in
- : radio astronomy, speciifically listening to Jupiter 20MHz and also the bands
- : that can be used to listen to meteors. Any FTP sites, publications or any
- : help would be most appreciated!
-
- : TIA
-
- : Paul
-
- How about 'Radio Astronomy and How To Build Your Own Telescope'
- John Heywood, Arc Books, $0.95, 1969.
- All the electronics is tube thingies, but the concepts are still
- valid.
-
- Cheers -
- Peter
-
-
- --
- Peter Hiscocks Phone: (416) 979-5000 Ext 6109
- Department of Electrical Engineering Fax: (416) 979-5280
- Ryerson Polytechnical University, Toronto, Canada
-
- The finite speed of light: God's way of limiting
- the spread of McDonalds restaurants.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 21:49:40 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!wetware!spunky.RedBrick.COM!RedBrick.COM!mmt@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: rec.radio.amateur.vhf.plus (?)
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <2pblak$oj9@spool.cs.wisc.edu>, jhanson@yar.cs.wisc.edu (Jason Hanson) writes:
- [...]
- >2) Try starting up an alt.radio.amateur.vhf-plus first and see how it does,
- >this requires no votes, etc. and will tell you whether or not support is there
- >for a group in the "real" usenet. (I can probably help with this if you need
- >it.)
- [...]
-
- Please don't do this! Alt.* is not a trial hierarchy.
-
- If you think there is enough traffic for a rec group, then put
- in the RFD for it. (A pre-existing mailing list is a great way
- to demonstrate such traffic).
-
- If it fails the vote, *then*, by all means, propose the alt group.
- This would be a much more legitimate use for alt.* and will help
- keep it less cluttered.
-
- Followups to news.groups, where this discussion belongs.
-
- --
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
- Maxime Taksar KC6ZPS mmt@RedBrick.COM PGP key by request
- GCS/O d- -p+ c+ !l u+ e+ m+ s++/ !n(---) h f+ g+ w+++ t+ r(-) y?
- "Remember, a no-smoking section in a restaurant is like a
- no-peeing section in a pool" --EGK
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Apr 94 18:43:00 GMT
- From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!usenet@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
- Subject: SAREX QSL information
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
-
- SAREX QSL Information
- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
- Mission QSL address
- ================================================================================
-
- STS-35 Frank Bauer, KA3HDO
- Columbia 9609 Tuckerman Ct.
- 02Dec90 Seabrook, MD 20706
-
- STS-37 Frank Bauer, KA3HDO
- Atlantis 9609 Tuckerman Ct.
- 05Apr91 Seabrook, MD 20706
-
- STS-45 Sterling Park ARC
- Atlantis P.O. Box 599
- 24Mar92 Sterling, VA 22170
-
- STS-50 Dayton Amateur Radio Association
- Columbia c/o Keith Baker, KB1SF
- 03Jun92 P.O. Box 44
- Dayton, OH 45401
-
- STS-47 Dr. Jay Apt, N5QWL
- Endeavour 806 Shorewood Dr.
- 12Sep92 Seabrook, TX 77586
-
- STS-56 STS-56 QSL
- Discovery c/o Vienna Wireless Society
- 08Apr93 P.O. Box 418
- Vienna, VA 22183
-
- STS-55 IBM Amateur Radio Club/1993
- Columbia P.O. Box 1328
- 26Apr93 Boca Raton, FL 33429-1328
-
- STS-57 STS-57 QSL
- Endeavour c/o Miami County ARC
- 21Jun93 P.O. Box 214
- Troy, OH 45373
-
- STS-58 ARRL
- Columbia SAREX STS-58 QSL
- 18Oct93 Education Activities Division
- 225 Main St.
- Newington, CT 06111
-
- STS-60 ARRL
- Discovery SAREX STS-60 QSL
- 03Feb94 Education Activities Division
- 225 Main St.
- Newington, CT 06111
-
- STS-59 ARRL
- Endeavour SAREX STS-59 QSL
- 09Apr94 Education Activities Division
- 225 Main St.
- Newington, CT 06111
-
- Questions or concerns regarding the QSL distribution:
- contact Frank H. Bauer at ka3hdo@amsat.org.
-
-
- Hope this is helpful.
- 73, W6/DL5KR
- Manfred
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Apr 1994 19:51:14 -0400
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!news.ans.net!hp81.prod.aol.net!search01.news.aol.com!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Satellites without beams
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <2pcbn2$58e@oak.oakland.edu>, prvalko@vela.acs.oakland.edu (prvalko)
- writes:
-
- ....routinely work RS-10/11 with 10 watts.
-
- Thanks, Paul. That looks like it will be my first shot. I've got an Isopole
- for 2M so I'm set. 29 MHz antenna is an R-7. From my location, RS-12 is much
- louder than RS-10 even though both are 10M downlink. HF rig is a TS-690, so
- the receive should be pretty good. Any reason for the disparity that you know
- of? Are you using a pre-amp? Any suggestions? Tnx.
-
- 73, Gary WA4YMZ
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 22 Apr 94 20:27:06 GMT
- From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.ans.net!hp81.prod.aol.net!search01.news.aol.com!not-for-mail@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
- Subject: Satellites without beams
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
-
- I live in a rented house, and my landlord is pretty reasonable about letting me
- do some things, but I think he would draw the line at a tower or putting up
- beams or arrays on the roof. What are my options for satellite work? I don't
- mind adding hardware in the shack, but the stuff outside will be limited to
- dipoles, verticals, etc. Present equipment includes HF, 2M, and an old TNC-2
- clone. I'll probably be replacing the TNC shortly, but the 2M is an Icom 251A
- and it will most likely be staying. Upgrading will be piece-by-piece.
- Suggestions are GREATLY appreciated. TNX.
-
- 73, Gary WA4YMZ
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Apr 1994 15:17:12 GMT
- From: tribune.usask.ca!herald.usask.ca!hardie@decwrl.dec.com
- Subject: STS-xx QSL routes??
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
-
- Some time ago somebody posted a list of the QSL routes for all the shuttle
- missions so far. I carefully saved the file and then equally carefully deleted
- it.
- Specifically, I need the QSL route for STS-60 for a packet contact but would
- like the whole list if it's still around.
- Thanks
- Pete
- ve5va.qrp@usask.ca
- --
- ve5va.qrp@usask.ca
-
- ------------------------------
-
- End of Ham-Space Digest V94 #107
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