SWSU satellites Diploma and QSL card.
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August 23, 2022
May 24, 2022
DXCC Silver Award and Bronze Award ....
DXCC Silver Award,for working 100 unique DXCC entities via QO-100 satellite.
https://qo100dx.club/
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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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 18, 2021
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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March 12, 2021
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...
...
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==========================
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...
...
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.
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