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SB NEWS @ AMSAT $SPC0110
* SpaceNews 10-Jan-94 *
BID: $SPC0110
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SpaceNews
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MONDAY JANUARY 10, 1994
SpaceNews originates at KD2BD in Wall Township, New Jersey, USA. It is
published every week and is made available for unlimited distribution.
* AO-16 NEWS *
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Recommended Operation Procedure to Reduce AO-16 Uplink Contention:
1993 has brought many new satellites and many new satellite users. It
would be good to dust off an old AMSAT bulletin from 1991 to help refresh
the "old-timers" procedures and to aquaint new users to the recommended
uplink frequency usage.
The AO-16 Command Team recommends that users of the AO-16 PBBS system
use only uplink channel D (145.960 MHz) for download and directory requests
leaving channels A, B, and C (145.900, 145.920, and 145.940 MHz) for file
uploads and digi users.
Stations uploading files should stay off of the download/directory/fill
request channel D as their longer uplink packets will collide with the
shorter request packets. Stations doing downloads and directories should
stay off channels A, B, and C since their frequent but short requests will
collide with longer uplink attempts seriously degrading uplink performance.
Another benefit of using this procedure, while most of the uplink activity
to AO-16 will be on channel D (145.960) this frequency is high enough in the
passband of AO-13 that QRMing our fellow operators will be kept to a minumum
when Pacsat crosses beneath AO-13's path.
Recommended AO-16 operating practice in summary:
Downlinks:
437.050 (also 2400.143 on experimenter's day.)
Uplinks:
145.900 A uploads
145.920 B uploads
145.940 C uploads
145.960 D downloads, fills and directory requests
[Info via WJ9F, AO-16 Command Team Leader]
* NASA TV MOVED *
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NASA Select Television has moved to Spacenet 2, transponder 5, C band,
69 degrees west longitude, 3880.0 MHz, horizontal polarization, with audio
on a 6.8 MHz subcarrier. NASA Select offers daily educational and
information programming, carries shuttle launches and mission coverage,
and occasionally airs live coverage of Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment
activity. The move occurred on 08-Jan-93 at 1500 UTC.
[Info via ARRL]
* NEW MIR CREW *
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By Serge Samburov, RV3DR
Launch: 08.01.94 aboard SOYUZ-TM18 (crew #15)
Docked at the port of "MIR" 10.01.94
Undocked and launched to Earth cosmonauts V. V. Ziblyiv
and A. A. Serebrov (crew #14) 14.01.94 aboard Soyuz TM17
Crew #15:
Viktor Afanasiev (commander) HAM #30, call U9MIR
Yuri Usachev (flight engineer) HAM #31, call R3MIR
Valerij Polyakov (doctor) HAM #32, call U3MIR
Call packet: R0MIR
Call PMS "MIR": R0MIR-1
Call voice U3MIR, U9MIR, R3MIR, R0MIR op. Viktor, Valerij, Yuri
===================================================
# CALL NAME # CREW FLIGHT TIME
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30 U9MIR VIKTOR AFANASIEV 15 08.01.94-04.07.94
31 R3MIR YURI USACHEV 15 08.01.94-04.07.94
32 U3MIR VALERIJ POLYAKOV 15/16/17 08.01.94-april 95
Starting 01.01.93 the new QSL Manager for cosmonauts is RV3DR.
I also confirm all QSOs with station MIR from 1988.
RV3DR-Serge Samburov, Space "MIR" QSL Manager
Chief of Cosmonaut Amateur Radio Department NPO "Energia"
All QSLs should be sent to:
P.O.BOX 73, Kaliningrad-10 city, Moscow Area, 141070, RUSSIA.
Send me message via PKT: RV3DR#R#MIR or RV3DR@RK3KP.#MSK.RUS.EU
Happy QSQ BEST 73 ***RV3DR***
[Info via N2NRD]
* GST UPDATE FOR 1994 *
=======================
For those tracking satellites with BASIC programs that require sideral
time constants, here is the Greenwich Sidereal Time (GST) for January 0,
1994:
G2 = 0.2761908
You will need to replace this value in your program for element sets
having Epoch years of 1994 and later. Don't forget that you can just use
a date of 13/01/93, 13/02/93, ... until you get 1994 element sets.
[Info via Dick, N3FKV]
* FO-20 OPERATION SCHEDULE *
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The following is the current operating schedule for FO-20:
ANALOG MODE:
12-Jan-94 7:30 -to- 19-Jan-94 7:50 UTC
26-Jan-94 8:20 -to- 02-Feb-94 6:50 UTC
09-Feb-94 7:15 -to- 16-Feb-94 7:40 UTC
The digital (Mode JD) transponder is available at all other times.
[Info via Kazu Sakamoto, JJ1WTK]
* THANKS! *
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Thanks to all those who sent messages of appreciation regarding SpaceNews,
especially:
FB1RCI XE1KK VU2LBW VK3ZMF XX9AS Frank L. Weissferdt
* FEEDBACK/INPUT WELCOMED *
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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@ka2qhd.ocpt.ccur.com -or- kd2bd@amsat.org
MAIL:
John A. Magliacane, KD2BD
Department of Engineering and Technology
Advanced Technology Center
Brookdale Community College
Lincroft, NJ 07738
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