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To : SAT@AMSAT
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 352.09
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
December 18, 2011
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-352.09
+ Playing this link too often may lead to additional coal in
your stocking ... hum along as the NOAA Weather Radio voice
(ahem) sings "Deck the Halls":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yGJbkQulQw&feature=share
+ While you're recovering from the first video watch: "A Ham's
Night Before Christmas" at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_9REVC4dtc
+ Trevor, M5AKA says the ARRL has kindly given permission to put some
of the OSCAR 1 articles from the February 1962 edition of QST on the
AMSAT-UK website. Links are at the bottom of this article:
http://www.uk.amsat.org/2011/12/12/50th-anniversary-of-oscar-1/
+ Eric, F4EJW announced a new website, AAR29/SAT, where he and Remy,
F1NNI provide an online log sharing resource for each of the ama-
teur satellites in service. Go to Eric's blog link, then click on
the Amateur Radio Satellite AAR29 banner:
http://f4ejw.over-blog.com/
+ XU, CAMBODIA. A group of JA operators plan to be active from
Sihanoukville between January 14-22. Operators mentioned are
Masumi/JA3AVO (XU7AVO), Takeo/JA3BZO (XU7AEN), Kunio/JA1CJA/
JH3LSS (XU7CJA), Tsuguya/JA3UJR (XU7UJR), Shozo/JA3HJI (XU7HJI
pending) and Tatsuo/JA3ARJ (XU7ARJ pending). Activity will pro-
bably be on 160-6 meters using CW, SSB and Digital modes. Also
look for satellite activity on 2m and 70cm. QSL via their home
callsigns. (Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 1040, December 12, 2011)
+ You can see more details and hear more of the mission plans of
these CubeSats:
Delfi-n3Xt video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI4rw_BGtaI&feature=share
University of Montana's Explorer-1[Prime]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2STzHXv9lY&feature=share
+ Southgate ARC's web has posted an excellent resource page called,
"Working the SSB satellites". There are several links describing
the techniques required for SSB operation as compared to operating
via the FM satellites: http://tinyurl.com/blul4eb (Southgate)
+ George, KA3HSW reported there was a typo in the Topr.txt file as
received from the AO-27 control team: The second line of the file,
which defines the transponder "on" period, should read 420, not 240.
You can edit the file yourself with your favorite text editor, or
download a corrected version of the file from the AO-27 scheduler
website: http://sites.google.com/site/ao27satellitescheduler.
+ A Cuban TV news crew filmed Hector, CO6CBF satellite demonstration
for high school students and teachers in Cienfuegos City, Cuba.
This was broadcast by the national TV in Cuba and now a lot more
hams are interested in satellites. Hector posted his TV video at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp-mbrlVQXI&feature=youtu.be
XE1SOV posted a video from his end of a contact with CO6CBF at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uei7vRJk28M
+ AMSAT's Keeper of the Keps, Ray Hoad, WA5QGD reports that Space-
Track has assigned the following catalog numbers to the satellites
launched on October 28:
Cat# Name
----- ----------------------------
37850 COSMOS 2251 DEB (boaster)
37851 Dice 1
37852 Dice 2
37853 RAX-2
37854 AUBIESAT-1
37855 HRBE (formally EXP1 Prime renamed for William H. Hiscock,
HRBE = Hiscock Radiation Belt Explorer)
+ The UK Tech Podcast, FrequencyCast, has released a short video
showing reception in Essex of FM voice and an SSTV image from
the amateur radio satellite ARISSat-1. The 145.950 MHz FM signal
was recorded at 1055 UT on the November 14, 2011. Watch at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nFSbj-ga2OA
[ANS thanks everyone for the above information]
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