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- 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>┘TS>Newsgroups: r
- Mods for ICW-21AT for use with Sats
- Trakbox help
- WX FTP sites.
-
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- herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official
- policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there.
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-
- 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
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- SB NEWS @ AMSAT $SPC0620
- * SpaceNews 20-Jun-94 *
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- =========
- SpaceNews
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- 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 <UI>:
-
- 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
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-
- * FEEDBACK/INPUT WELCOMED *
- ===========================
- Mail to SpaceNews should be directed to the editor (John, KD2BD) via any
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- INTERNET : kd2bd@amsat.org -or- magliaco@pilot.njin.net
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- 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>┘TS>Newsgroups: r
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
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- 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_____
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- 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
-
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- TRW Denver Operations | bad, but thinking makes it so."
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- 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
-
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-
- 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
- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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