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SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-089.01
ORBITAL DATA AVAILABLE ON THE WEB
HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 089.01 FROM AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD, MARCH 29, 1996
TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
BID: $ANS-089.01
As many know, TS Kelso has discontinued the "old" Celestial
BBS that many of us have relied on for years as a source of
Keplerian elements and as a repository for all things orbital.
TS has now transferred his activities to the Web, and the Celestial
BBS functions are now available at this URL:
http://www.grove.net/~tkelso/
Tom Clark W3IWO says that he just "surfed" it for a few minutes
and found it very complete. He even found the Keplerians for the
current operating GPS constellation and was able to get it with
just a click of the Netscape button.
Tom and all interested in satellites thank TS for continuing to
provide us with a useful service.
ANS thanks Tom Clark, W3IWI, for this news item.
/EX
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-089.02
AMSAT-URE HAS WWW SITE
HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 089.02 FROM AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD, MARCH 29, 1996
TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
BID: $ANS-089.02
AMSAT-URE, the Spanish Branch of AMSAT, has established a site in
the WWW. The URL is " http://www.deustnet.es/amsat ".
The site contains several hypertext articles in Spanish with
photos, diagrams and screen captures on Mode S operation and
introduction to digital satellites, etc.
There are also links to other sites of interest for amateur
satellites aficionados, basic info on AMSAT-URE and a FTP server
is under construction.
ANS thanks Antonio Fernandez EA4LE for this information. Toni
can be reached via E-Mail at ea4le@amsat.org.
/EX
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-089.03
US ATRONAUT HEARD ON MIR
HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 089.03 FROM AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD, MARCH 29, 1996
TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
BID: $ANS-089.03
US astronaut Shannon Lucid has been heard operating as
R0MIR From the MIR Space Station. She was using the
MIR Frequency 145.550 Simplex. Many North American
amateurs have reported working Shannon.
ANS thanks the many Amateurs who have reported their contacts
with R0MIR.
/EX
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-089.04
UNOFFICIAL SATELLITE DXCC HONOR ROLL
HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 089.04 FROM AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD, MARCH 29, 1996
TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
BID: $ANS-089.04
Although the ARRL does not currently recognize any such thing as
a Satellite DXCC Honor Roll, it would appear that if one did
exist, the following would qualify as of September 30, 1995:
KD6PY with 231 countries worked
VE7RG " 225 " "
W0DQY " 224 " "
DC8TS & K7HDK " 221 " "
VE6LQ " 209 " "
DJ5MN & JE2VVN " 206 " "
PA0AND " 205 " "
N4SU " 204 " "
JH2VHL " 203 " "
W2APU " 196 " "
This judgment is based on that fact that within each current
categories, (Mixed, Phone, CW and RTTY) the Honor Roll includes
those who are within nine countries of having confirmed QSOs with
all current (i.e., non-deleted) countries on the ARRL DXCC
Countries List. However, in the early days of DXCC, before
anyone had worked all countries on the list, the Honor Roll
consisted of those with the top ten current country totals, and
ties. Thus, if that criterion were to be applied to Satellite
DXCC today, these ten satellite DX chasers would qualify for the
Honor Roll.
Craig Mellinger N2MNA DX Editor for OSR points out that since
these figures include only those who submitted cards to ARRL
between October 1, 1994 and September30, 1995, they do not
reflect all of the ones who should be on such a list. He
suggests that the following be added, and speculates that there
are probably more:
DG2SBW with 201 countries worked
JA2ORW " 207 " "
JH2AYB " 222 " "
WA2RDE " 202 " "
K5ADQ " 218 " "
KL7GRF " 200 " "
ANS congratulates all of those on Both lists, as well as everyone
who has achieved Satellite DXCC, whatever his/her total happens
to be!
ANS thanks Ray Soifer, W2RS, and Craig Mellinger, N2MNA, for this
interesting bit of satellite operating news.
/EX
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-089.05
WEEKLY SATELLITE REPORT
HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 089.05 FROM AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD, MARCH 29, 1996
TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
BID: $ANS-089.05
AO-13 Schedules for the remainder of 1996
Date [Mon] Alon/Alat Weeks
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1996 Apr 01 180/0 11
1996 Jun 17 220/0 11
1996 Sep 02 180/0 13 ??
1996 Dec 02 200/0 2 ??
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The change to 180/0 has already taken place as of 30 March.
Re-entry is expected around 1996 Dec 05-19, so that by mid
November the spacecraft may well have expired due to overheating,
or be non-maneuverable due to buffeting at perigee (under 100
km).
This will be an interesting time, and the command team welcomes
suggestions which we could implement to make use of this unique
opportunity to observe an amateur spacecraft at re-entry. None
has been received thus far.
AO-13's Mode Schedule for 1 April through 17 June 1996 is as
follows:
Mode-B : MA 0 to MA 70 |
Mode-BS : MA 70 to MA 120 |
Mode-S : MA 120 to MA 122 |<- S beacon only
Mode-S : MA 122 to MA 140 |<- S transponder; B trsp. is OFF
Mode-BS : MA 140 to MA 180 | Alon/Alat 180/0
Mode-B : MA 180 to MA 256 | Move to attitude 220/0, Jun 17
Omnis : MA 230 to MA 25 |
The higher powered engineering beacon on 145.985 MHz is ON for
two periods: MA 0 - 25 and MA 90-100.
The Oscar-13 schedule is available from:
1. AO-13 PSK Beacon 145.812 or 145.985 or 2400.664 MHz
2. AO-13 RTTY Beacon 15 & 45 minutes past the hour
3. AO-13 CW Beacon 0 & 30 minutes past the hour
4. Satellite BBS AO-16, KO-23 etc.
5. Packet Radio Bulletins
6. Amsat News Service packet radio bulletins.
7. Amsat Radio Nets, HF and VHF
8. Amsat Journals (at least 12 of them)
10. Oscar Satellite Report
11. Space News
12. Internet: amsat-bb
13. Internet:
ftp://ftp.amsat.org/amsat/satinfo/ao13/schedule.doc
A 400 bps PSK decoder is available from G3RUH and several DSP
products support this mode.
Display software P3TLM, WINSAT, P3C.EXE (MS-DOS); !TLM13 (RiscOS)
etc. from several Amsat groups.
Internet users wanting the latest AO-13 information should always
check the many files at:
ftp://ftp.amsat.org/amsat/satinfo/ao13/
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/
Daily telemetry is archived at:
ftp://ftp.amsat.org/amsat/satinfo/ao13/telemetry/
Details of re-entry can be found in:
- Proceedings of the 12th annual Amsat Space Symposium,
Orlando, Florida, USA, 1994. 4 pages.
- Oscar News (UK) 1994 Oct No. 109 p 16-20
- Jamsat Newsletter (JA) No. 166, 1995 March 25. p1-4
- Amsat-DL Journal (D), Jg. 22, No. 1, Mar/May 1995.
- Amsat OZ Journal (OZ) No. 37, 1995 May
- The Amsat Journal (USA) Vol. 18 No.3, May/June 1995.
ftp://ftp.amsat.org/amsat/articles/g3ruh/a114.zip
(Article)
ftp://ftp.amsat.org/amsat/satinfo/ao13/decaykep.zip
(Re-entry keps)
ANS thanks AO-13 Command Station James Miller G3RUH for this
information.
MIR: Heard on 145.550 FM simplex.
RS-10/11: Lots of activity heard on passes over North America.
RS-12/13: In mode T and many stations heard on the bird.
ANS thanks BJ Arts, WT0N, for this news update.
/EX