[K3PZN-List] ARISSat-1 Deploy! Bring Your HT to Work!

Tue Aug 2 21:49:38 EDT 2011

Pat

thanks for posting, and nice to see you, Jerry and Fred at the E-burg night-out event.  

I see this is the FM 'broadcast' freq:  145.950 MHz FM Downlink
FM
 transmissions will cycle between a voice ID as RS01S, select telemetry 
values, 24 international greeting messages in 15 languages and SSTV 
images. One of the messages will be a conversation between Yuri Gagarin 
and ground control.

If you successfully receive the SSTV transmissions, you are invited to upload your picture to
to the ARISS SSTV Gallery.

There also is a bunch of interesting capabilities, including a 432/144 linear transponder.  I am not equipped myself for the uplink .... maybe to get some club members onto a satellite for a new experience we could consider setting up somewhere?  I have done linear satellite work in the past, but that was back with the Radio Sputnik's - using both 15m (easy) and 2m (not as easy, requires more doppler compensation) uplinks.  

Good news to have something useful and easy in orbit.  

73 Curt

________________________________
From: "Kilroy, Patrick L. (GSFC-5680)" <patrick.l.kilroy at nasa.gov>
To: Carroll County Amateur Radio Club <k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2011 6:12 PM
Subject: [K3PZN-List] ARISSat-1 Deploy!  Bring Your HT to Work!

ARISSat-1, to be deployed by hand from

the ISS tomorrow morning, will be a big

hit in schools, clubs and the news media.

I hope many of you/us in the club will

go outside with an HT to hear some of the

initial passes!

FIRST PASSES OVER MARYLAND:

03 Aug 11

17:33:38

00:06:03

161

4

135

88

17:39:41

03 Aug 11

19:06:59

00:10:13

222

56

124

55

19:17:12

03 Aug 11

20:43:36

00:09:34

268

19

328

44

20:53:10

03 Aug 11

22:21:19

00:08:14

303

9

344

49

22:29:33

03 Aug 11

23:58:09

00:09:01

316

13

17

77

00:07:10

Eight columns above, l to r: Date, AOS time

in UTC, Duration in hh:mm:ss, Max El, Max

el Az, LOS Az, and LOS time.

MORE INFO:

http://amsat.org

http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/predict/

http://www.arissat1.org/v3/

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition28/russian_eva29.html

http://www.edn.com/article/518993-Amateur_satellite_ready_to_go_in_to_action.php

Cheers,

Pat Kilroy

N8PK

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