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Ham-Space Digest Sat, 5 Mar 94 Volume 94 : Issue 48
Today's Topics:
ARLS011 Anniversary for AMSAT
GPS Receiver Boards
Mir (2 msgs)
NASA pictures
Satellite progs on World
STS-62 Element Set (94063.635)
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Date: 1 Mar 94 13:53:12 GMT
From: nprdc!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!marcbg@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: ARLS011 Anniversary for AMSAT
To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
SB SPACE @ ARL $ARLS011
ARLS011 Anniversary for AMSAT
ZCZC AS55
QST de W1AW
Space Bulletin 011 ARLS011
>From ARRL Headquarters
Newington, CT February 25, 1994
To all radio amateurs
SB SPACE ARL ARLS011
ARLS011 Anniversary for AMSAT
Anniversary for AMSAT
Congratulations to the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation
(AMSAT), which celebrates its 25th anniversary on March 3.
In early January 1969 a small group of interested amateurs
began meeting in the Washington, D.C. area, with the idea
of forming an East Coast group to carry on the objectives
of Project OSCAR (Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur
Radio).
They decided to form a non-profit corporation to
disassociate the group's activities from any of the
companies with whom the members were employed, which
included IBM, the Applied Physics Lab of The Johns Hopkins
University, and the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA).
Nearly two dozen interested amateurs attended the first
general organizational meeting, held on February 6, 1969.
Just two months later, on March 3, 1969, AMSAT was
incorporated in the District of Columbia. The first
public announcements appeared in April QST and in
Autocall, a Washington, D.C.-area clubs publication.
Among AMSAT's founders (and members of the first board of
directors) were George Jacobs, W3ASK; Perry Klein, W3PK;
Jan King, W3GEY; and Bill Tynan, W3XO.
Today, AMSAT supports both amateur satellites and the
SAREX (Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment) program.
NNNN
/EX
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Marc B. Grant Voice Mail: 214-246-1150
marcbg@netcom.com Amateur Radio N5MEI
marcbg@esy.com
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Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 16:31:44 GMT
From: news.acns.nwu.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!ns.draper.com!news.draper.com!jwy1294a.draper.com!jyoungberg@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: GPS Receiver Boards
To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
I've followed various GPS threads as they've come and gone. In order to pose
volume/price arguments to folks in the business, what would be the size of the
amateur market for GPS engines?
Presume an engine consists of the entire RX, minus antenna, including a data
port (probably NMEA 0183), on a PC board. Examples are currently manufacured
by Rockwell, Magellan, Canadian Marconi, Plessey, and Trimble, among others.
Marketed in the $500 class for single-unit quantities.
Skip, K1NKR
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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 17:40:47 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!rsiatl!ke4zv!gary@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Mir
To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
In article <Troyce-020394085113@idmb-secretary.tamu.edu> Troyce@bio.tamu.edu (Troyce) writes:
>According to the latest orbital data, the Mir should be orbiting almost
>directly overhead of me late Friday morning and only about 389 km in
>distance. Would I have any real chance of picking them up (if they're
>transmitting) using only a HT, or would I need a base rig and satellite
>antenna?
The HT should work. Try to get on a high rooftop to increase your
horizon. A better antenna than the typical duck would be a big
help though. Even a homemade J-pole should suffice.
Gary
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Date: 3 Mar 1994 20:01:03 GMT
From: news.acns.nwu.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!cs.umd.edu!mojo.eng.umd.edu!tedwards@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Mir
To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
In article <Troyce-020394085113@idmb-secretary.tamu.edu> Troyce@bio.tamu.edu (Troyce) writes:
>According to the latest orbital data, the Mir should be orbiting almost
>directly overhead of me late Friday morning and only about 389 km in
>distance. Would I have any real chance of picking them up (if they're
>transmitting) using only a HT, or would I need a base rig and satellite
>antenna?
You have a very good chance of hearing MIR on an HT...but keep in mind
they are usually doing packet. I have heard MIR on an HT during a voice
QSO with W3EAX. All LEO sats can be definately heard with a mag-mount
quarter-wave or 5/8 wave vertical, no problem. You only really need
satellite antennas to hear elliptical orbit sats such as AO-13.
You have little chance of making it through the typical pileup into
either packet or voice modes with an HT. If you were the only ham within
the line-of-sight, you might have a chance to hit them, depending on
MIR orientation to you.
-Thomas
N3HAU
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Date: 4 Mar 1994 15:28:24 GMT
From: news.acns.nwu.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca!herman.cs.uoguelph.ca!jdoherty@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: NASA pictures
To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
Does anyone know where to find the satellite pictures of the moon, and
other things, that are currently being received from NASA's Clementine probe?
I heard on the news last night that these pics were available on the
Internet...
Please email: jdoherty@uoguelph.ca
Thanks,
John
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Date: 1 Mar 94 11:13:11 GMT
From: nprdc!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!bbc!ant!boyer@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Satellite progs on World
To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
Scott Ehrlich (wy1z@netcom.com) wrote:
: I have now placed some satellite tracking programs on World:
: - stsplus.zip
: - stsorbit.zip
: - traksat {trak300a.zip & trak300b.zip} (latest version of traksat)
: They are available via anonymous FTP via
: ftp ftp.std.com:/pub/hamradio/pc/satellite
Just a short comment. I have traksat and it is really great and dead easy
to use.
John B
John.boyer@rd.eng.bbc.co.uk
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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 23:15:33 GMT
From: telesoft!garym@uunet.uu.net
Subject: STS-62 Element Set (94063.635)
To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
STS-62
1 00062U 94063.63594965 .00073440 00000-0 22129-3 0 30
2 00062 39.0115 248.5979 0006644 298.2691 61.7477 15.90695888 23
Satellite: STS-62
Catalog number: 00062
Epoch time: 94063.63594965 (04 MAR 94 15:15:46.05 UTC)
Element set: 003
Inclination: 39.0115 deg
RA of node: 248.5979 deg Space Shuttle Flight STS-62
Eccentricity: .0006644 Prelaunch Element set JSC-003
Arg of perigee: 298.2691 deg Launch: 04 MAR 94 13:53 UTC
Mean anomaly: 61.7477 deg
Mean motion: 15.90695888 rev/day G. L. Carman
Decay rate: 7.3440e-04 rev/day*2 NASA Johnson Space Center
Epoch rev: 2
(for Shuttle Elements subscription info, email: listserv@alsys.com)
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San Diego, CA, USA Phone: +1 619-457-2700
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