December 28, 2021

ARISS SSTV Award

 


Hello ST2NH,
This ARISS SSTV event is dedicated to "Present ISS Space Agency Contributions to Lunar Exploration, Past, Present and Future.” The SSTV slides provide some historical context to several missions, some not well known, that significantly contributed to Lunar Exploration either from a technology or scientific perspective. General intention of the ARISS SSTV slides is to provide aspects to the observers that may not be known before and could offer a base for own investigations on space history.

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio.
More info:

The ARISS Ad-hoc Award Committee:
- Oliver DG6BCE (chair)
- Armand SP3QFE
- Francesco IK0WGF
- Bruce W6WW
- Shizuo JE1MUI
- Darin VE3OIJ
- Ian VE9IM

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Greetings - Slawek SQ3OOK
ARISS SSTV Award Manager

June 26, 2021

ARISS SSTV Award

Hello Nader Omer -ST2NH,
This time the SSTV images series is dedicated to radio amateur astronauts and cosmonauts and their activities on board of the Space Shuttle, Mir Space station and International Space Station. The ARISS SSTV Award presents  three special people.
On the left: Musa Manarov U2MIR - Russian cosmonaut who launched amateur radio equipment on board of the Mir space station. He made the first amateur radio communication in October 1988. Consequently, the MAREX (Mir Amateur Radio Experiment) and MIREX (Mir International Amateur radio EXperiment) programs were created.
Center: Sergey Krikalyov U5MIR - Russian cosmonaut, member of the Expedition 1 on the International Space Station. In November 2000 launched an amateur radio station on board of the ISS. This event was the beginning of ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) school contacts. Many cosmonauts and astronauts also conducted unscheduled radio communications, which made a lot of joy for the radio amateurs around the world.

On the right: American Owen Garriott W5LFL who was the first astronaut and amateur radio operator to take with him on the space shuttle Columbia (STS-9 mission in 1983) amateur radio equipment and conducted radio communications with radio amateurs on Earth. Hereby the SAREX program (Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment later called Space Amateur Radio Experiment) was created.

Greetings - Slawek SQ3OOK
ARISS SSTV Award Manager


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Photo received from ISS over Sudan  




June 23, 2021

Mir-Sat-1 Received Over Africa

 

Mir-Sat-1 (Mauritius Imagery and Radio Communication Satellite -1) is the first Mauritian satellite. It is a 1U cubesat deployed from the ISS Tuesday at 10.55 UTC by JAXA .At a very low pass telemetry received and decoded over Khartoum.Congratulation #MIRSAT1 team.
 

 

May 7, 2021

JIDXM Friendship award 2020.

I'm so honored and grateful to be the recipient the beautiful plaque of JIDXM Friendship award 2020.

 


 

April 24, 2021

Radio amateur G3YJO on BBC Radio 4

 

Radio amateur Professor Sir Martin Sweeting G3YJO, was the guest on the Radio 4 show The Life Scientific that was broadcast on Tuesday, April 20.

Martin Sweeting G3YJO pioneered the original SmallSats revolutions with the UOSAT-1 and UOSAT-2 spacecraft that carried amateur radio payloads and launched in the early 1980’s. They led to the founding of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) of which he is Executive Chairman.

You can listen to, or download, an MP3 recording of the BBC show which mentions amateur radio and AMSAT from the BBC website at https://bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v7pb

 

 

 read more @ https://amsat-uk.org/

March 30, 2021

DIY-1 Satellite RTTY telemetry received over Africa !

Mode rtty 100 BD 7N2 telemetry of  DIY-1 satellite  received and decoded  Orbit #79 over Africa. .Object Y(47954) Congratulation DIY-1 diysatellite.com
 
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March 27, 2021

UniSat-7 received over Africa.

UniSat-7 received over Africa ...very strong signal through all the pass

 


 

March 19, 2021

JY1 The Late King Hussein of Jordan with old timer Arab Radio Amateur ...

     JY1 The Late King Hussein of Jordan ( in T-shart) with DR. Sid Ahmed  Ibrahim ST2SA  (holding the mike) and other Radio operators 9K2AL-   9K2AM-7Z3AB-JY4IA


March 17, 2021

SpaceX decoding

Good summary on SpaceX decoding so far by Scott Manley: How Amateur Radio Fans Decoded SpaceX's Telemetry & Engineering Video

 

  Over the weekend amateur radio tinkerers in Europe managed to decode some portions of the telemetry data broadcast by the second stage of the Falcon 9 when it's in orbit. This data was in a somewhat standard format, but decoding still required some custom tools to extract the bitstream from the signal and then some guesswork to figure out the exact format. There's still lots of unknown data, but most interestingly this gave access to the engineering cameras including one showing the interior of the liquid oxygen tank.

NOAA-2 returning from the dead

A few days ago, a long-time amateur radio satellite watcher Scott Tilley announced on Twitter that his automated L-Band receiver detected signal emissions from the old NOAA-2 satellite.


 It is not too uncommon for old decommissioned satellites to start transmitting a signal again, you may be familiar with a similar phenomenon that’s happened to Transit 5B-5 or NOAA-9, and plenty other satellites. Happysat has a page on his blog documenting emissions like this, but note that it’s now out of date and the satellites shown there may no longer be active.

Read More  https://sgcderek.github.io/posts/noaa2-revival/

 

March 16, 2021

FodTrack

The world's best beloved real time satellite tracking system!
It was in 1992, and I was looking for new horizons in my amateur radio station. I had done it all, or almost so. Satellites were the single major frontier I had not yet explored. So I started setting up my satellite station, starting small and improving it step by step. In 1994 I reached the point where I needed directional antennas and a computer control system to keep them pointed at the satellites. There were several systems on the market for just that purpose, but they were all expensive, and most didn't perform very well. So I decided to roll my own. I designed a simple interface to connect the antenna rotator to the computer, and wrote a program that calculated the position of any desired satellite and sent the azimuth and elevation data to the interface. So far, so good. My problem was solved.

Soon later a colleague asked me for a copy of that program. Since it was still very rustic, I added a basic user interface to it, and released it as version 1.0 into the public domain. The rest, as they say, is history... Many people started using FodTrack, made suggestions for improvement, reported bugs, and I kept releasing one version after another, over 30  versions so far! Most of this development happened in the first five years; after that, the system stabilized, and since then I only occasionally add some new features.

At this time, FodTrack controls both the antenna aiming, and the radio equipment, and can be run in manual or in automatic mode. It has a GPS interface for time and position setting, so that it can be used in mobile satellite stations. It is highly configurable to the requirements of each station. And what is its best liked feature, it's completely free for amateur and other non-commercial use! Only if someone uses it for profit, I would like a modest share of the money made that way!

FodTrack started as a DOS program, designed with a view towards optimal performance in DESQview, which was the best multitasking environment available when the program was first created. It also worked well in old Windows versions, as long as you configured a DOS window with direct hardware access, which is needed in order to write the special output required by the rotator interface. I used it under Windows 98 and even XP on an old main-board. Some people even used it on Linux (with DOSEMU).

More recently FodTrack was changed into a genuine Windows program, by using a Windows-based compiler and making changes necessary for this brave new USB world that has no parallel ports and often not even real COM ports. Unfortunately this meant dropping support for the original parallel-port-based FodTrack rotator interface. The look and operation of the software has been kept unchanged.

On this link you will find both the last DOS-based version of FodTrack that supports the original interface, and the current Windows version. homo ludens homepage.

de Manfred- XQ2FOD ..

 

March 15, 2021

Status of active Birds4 Satellites .

read more @dk3wn-blog

 

New Sats Status

TSURU    4k8 FSK  active    JG6YMX
GuaraniSat-1      active    JG6YMZ
Maya-2            unknown
Tausat-1 9k6 BPSK active
RSP-001      CW   active    8N1RSP
STARS-EC(A)  CW   active    JJ2YVA
STARS-EC(B)  CW   active    JJ2YVB
STARS-EC(C)  CW   unknown
OPUSAT-II         unknown
WARP-01           not heard
Hirogari          not heard
Read more at  wakky.asablo.jp/blog/

March 14, 2021

Microsatellite Satellites released from "Kibo" on ISS March 14th-2021

Birds-4
 
BIRDS4 Project, Japan
The project is led by Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan .
 437.375MHz, Tsuru/GuaraniSat-1/Maya-2
 
BIRDS4 Project website 

 Dear BIRDS-4 followers and amateur radio operators. 

We published the decoder software which is to receive CW and decode it. In the pdf file, you can access the detailed specification of our satellites CW. And you can also access the pptx file which is to explain how to use the software.

https://birds4.birds-project.com/

The BIRDS Satellite Project

The Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds Satellite (BIRDS) Project was initiated in 2015 by the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan with the help of over ten partner institutions. It was envisioned by Dr. Mengu Cho, Professor at Kyutech, who became Principal Investigator for the Project. The BIRDS Project trains graduate students from many developing countries in using innovative and cost-effective systems engineering during the course of a two-year satellite project. The BIRDS project was selected by the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) as the winner of the 2017 GEDC Airbus Diversity Award for diversity in engineering. The Project has provided training for students from many countries including: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Egypt, Ghana, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Nigeria, Paraguay, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Thailand, and Turkey.

One BIRDS project is begun each year, with 2019 marking the fourth generation (BIRDS-4) since the Project’s inception. The yearly projects are carried out by graduate students enrolled at Kyutech for a masters or doctoral degree, and such projects are supervised by four Kyutech faculty members. During these two-year satellite projects, the students design, develop, and operate CubeSats belonging to participating countries. Since 2015, the BIRDS Project has trained fifty-two graduate students, thirty-two of whom hail from under-represented countries, and launch eleven 1U CubeSats.

The long-term goal of the BIRDS Project is to train students in developing countries to help launch and steer their nations’ space programs. As part of the project, Kyutech has built a global human and ground station network of more than fifteen countries that are continually operating satellites and sharing research ideas. The Project hosts an annual BIRDS workshop to foster communication and cooperation, allowing its participants and graduates to meet in person and discuss their progress and new programs. It has supported Bangladesh, Bhutan, Ghana, Mongolia, Nepal and Sri Lanka in launching their first national satellites with the help of project graduates. The BIRDS Project has also supported ten institutions in developing countries through the difficult process of creating their own sustainable space research and education programs. Red More @ SSPI

OTHER SATELLITES ARE

Hirogari
Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Muroran Institute of Technology
145.900MHz, 1k2AFSK/9k6GMSK/19k2_4FSK,CW


RSP-01
Rymansat Project, Japan
145.810MHz, 1k2AFSK/9k6GMSK/19k2FSK,CW


Tausat-1
TelAviv University, Israel
436.400MHz, 9k6BPSK

 

 

March 13, 2021

Some of my old messages with ISS BBS,date back to 2004.

 Some of my old messages  with International Space Station  message board,date back to 2004.

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Hello from Michigan (the "Great Lakes State")
                        73
                        John B. Kobberstad  (kc8frw)
                        6054 Wildrose Lane
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March 12, 2021

We are pushing the boundaries yet again!

Decoded this really cool video from #SpaceX #Falcon9 2nd stage S-band down-link. Great views of the Earth and also inside view of the fuel tank. Too bad it only transmits for 2 orbits or less. Thanks to the for the recording. We are pushing the boundaries yet again!

 reed more at  https://twitter.com/r2x0t/status/1370030702633312259


 

March 6, 2021

LCD display satellite name,azimuth and elevation. part-2

Thanks you all for your interesting in my previous post , the( LCD display Satellite Name,Azimuth and Elevation.)
Many asking for the Arduino code.so here is the code with some hints for the setup.

I added a label texts to the 2nd low row of the LCD. see below photos .



Download and unzip the DdeOrbitronToSerial to temp folder.
Copy the ( DDEOrbitronToSerial.exe) folder and place it inside Orbitron Config folder..
See photo.
Clear any old text below the [Drivers] at Orbitron\Config\Setup.cfg .





When you Click DRIVER button at Orbitron,a window will popup ask you where the the DDEOrbitronToSerial.exe application .
Browse to Orbitron Config file and select it , now the DDEOrbitronToSerial application should launch and you will be able to select your com port and output the satellite data to the serial port. .

I found the DDEOrbitronToSerial sent data to 1st row only. !! so I added in my code a label text to the 2nd row. see photos above...








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More about DdeOrbitronToSerial see http://tripsintech.com/

//======================Arduino LCD display code==========================

//LCD DISPLAY SAT NAME ,AZ AND EL...DE ST2NH 1-3-2021
// include library ..

#include <LiquidCrystal.h>
//LCD pin to Arduino
const int pin_RS = 8;
const int pin_EN = 9;
const int pin_d4 = 4;
const int pin_d5 = 5;
const int pin_d6 = 6;
const int pin_d7 = 7;
const int pin_BL = 10;
LiquidCrystal lcd( pin_RS, pin_EN, pin_d4, pin_d5, pin_d6, pin_d7);

void setup() {
lcd.begin(16, 2); // this for lower row
Serial.begin(9600); // speed
lcd.print("WAITING FOR DATA ");
// delay(1000);
}
void loop() {
// seting LCD for the lower row (0, 2) to print satellite name/AZ/EL ..
//The firest row writing by the DDE and Orbitron software??? see the blog for more info....
//At Orbitron to Serial their are many chooses for the data to be print on the 1st row..

lcd.setCursor(0, 2); // low raw
lcd.print(" NAME AZ EL"); // adjust space between words
//to fit on the lcd display

if (Serial.available()) //data from PC available
{
//wait and clear the display !!
delay(100);
lcd.clear();

while (Serial.available() > 0) //if data is here from the PC write the 1st raw..

{
lcd.write(Serial.read());
}
}
}


//======================Arduino LCD display code==========================

March 5, 2021

LCD display satellite name,azimuth and elevation.


Here is s simple project to display the satellite name,azimuth and elevation
on LCD attached to Arduino Micro-controller.

The software used are :

1- Orbitron v-3.71 .


2-Orbitron DDE Azimuth Elevation To Serial.from Trips in Tech
(http://tripsintech.com/orbitron-dde-azimuth-elevation-to-serial/)

3-My Arduino code to read and display the serial output data from
Orbitron and the serial DDE .

Hardware

1-LCD keypad shield.
2-Arduino UNO.
3-PC.










February 21, 2021

CQ JA Magazine

At the last issue (March-2021) of the CQ Ham Radio magazine ( CQ JA Magazine). I have an article about working Radio Amateur from Africa with friends from all over the globe via HF and Satellites. With  especially QSO story which took more than 2 months to complete with my friend OM Zorro San-JH1AJT and with his support, encouragement and persistence to the friendship contacts. 




February 19, 2021

JIDXM Friendship Award

 I am very honored and delighted to have received this JIDXM Friendship Award .




February 13, 2021

QSO phraseology as Text & Audio in eight languages.

QSO phraseology as Text & Audio in eight languages (based on OH2BR & OH2BAD Guide )


  

 

 How to learn the QSO PHRASEOLOGY in 8 languages online? My Finnish Friends, Radio Amateurs, brothers Heikinheimo Jukka OH1BR/OH2BR and Miika OH2BAD are authors of the manual for Ham Radio Operators: The “Radio Amateur's Conversation Guide”. They compiled it with help of DXer friends some 40 years ago! Later, the brothers published an additional audio companion to the Conversation Guide. They organized recording of audio files for all the languages and published them on C-cassettes and later, cooperating with DARC, on a CD-ROM. But young hams seldom read paper books or listen to CD-ROM discs. Therefore, our team had the idea to REMAKE the great work of brothers Heikinheimo in an Online Page on which it would be possible to click on the text and hear corresponding audio read by a native speaker, what was not possible earlier. So, we wanted to combine previously existing separate texts and audio materials into one place. Imagine - hundreds of phrases belonging to Amateur Radio jargon in 8 languages! Jukka and Miika eagerly supported the idea of creating such an online international ham tool. 

 You can easily get to the right page -

 just follow the link: https://raisa.blog/how-to/the-radio-a... 

 73 and 88! YL Raisa #R1BIG

January 18, 2021

ELaNa 20 CubeSats Deployed

            Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne system undergoes final preparations on a taxiway at Mojave Air and Space Port ahead of the company’s Launch Demo 2 mission. Taken in late December 2020. Photo: Virgin Orbit/Greg Robinson.

 Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne system

Today at approximately 3:35 p.m. ET (12:35 p.m. PT), 10 CubeSats began deploying from Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne Rocket into low-Earth Orbit as part of the Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 20 mission. Virgin Orbit’s 747-00 carrier, Cosmic Girl, took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California at 1:38 p.m. ET (10:38 a.m. PT) today carrying the LauncherOne Rocket and the 10 small research satellites.

CubeSats are a cornerstone in the development of cutting-edge technologies like laser communications, satellite-to-satellite communications, and autonomous movement. The nine CubeSat missions in this launch were developed by the following universities and one NASA center:

  • CACTUS-1 – Capitol Technology University, Laurel, Md.
  • CAPE-3 – University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • EXOCUBE – California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
  • MiTEE – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
  • PICS (two CubeSats) – Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
  • PolarCube – University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Q-PACE – University of Central Florida, Orlando, Fla.
  • RadFXSat-2 – Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.
  • TechEdSat-7 – NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.

CSLI is an initiative created by NASA to attract and retain students in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. Missions are selected through the CubeSat Launch Initiative and managed by NASA’s Launch Services Program at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Visit our website to learn more and follow us on Twitter at NASA_LSP and Facebook at NASA LSP.

 read more Kennedy Space Center

 

 

January 1, 2021

Got the rank # 12 and about 400.000 visitors

I'm very happy to see the visitors counter  around 400,000 visits. Also I'm glad to got the rank # 12 at (Top 15 Satellite Blogs & Websites To Follow in 2020). https://blog.feedspot.com/satellite_blogs/
Thanks for any visitors.Not bad for 14 years old Blog.