SB NEWS @ AMSAT $SPC0912 * SpaceNews 12-Sep-94 * BID: $SPC0912 ========= SpaceNews ========= MONDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 1994 SpaceNews originates at KD2BD in Wall Township, New Jersey, USA. It is published every week and is made available for unlimited distribution. * SpaceNews EDITOR ON WWCR * ============================ Mark you calendars and warm up your receivers for a ive radio interview with the man behind the SpaceNews keyboard, John Magliacane, KD2BD. The producers of "Spectrum", a radio program broadcast over shortwave radio station WWCR, on 5810 KHz, in Nashville, Tennessee will feature an interview with the editor and publisher of SpaceNews on Sunday 11-Sep-94 from 0300 to 0400 UTC (that's Saturday 10-Sep-94 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM Eastern Time). "Spectrum" is a communications program that originates live from studios in Holmdel, New Jersey, and features news and information regarding shortwave listening, commercial broadcasting, scanning, and Amateur Radio. During the interview, listeners will be given the opportunity to call into Spectrum and ask questions of the guest. WWCR broadcasts on shortwave with 100 kilowatts of transmitter power, over 1 million watts of effective radiated power, and provides a signal that covers much of the world. In addition, those with TVRO ground stations can receive "Spectrum" on the Galaxy 5 satellite, transponder 17, audio 5.8 MHz. * FO-20 RETURNS TO MODE JD * ============================ FO-20 software reloading was successfully completed on 06-Sep-94 at 1800 UTC and FO-20 was commanded into mode JD. The following packet frames were captured by KD2BD in New Jersey last Monday: 8J1JBS>BEACON : JAS1b RA 94/09/05 20:06:58 428 442 674 678 730 817 835 821 000 673 608 000 463 482 503 487 497 507 645 000 670 704 655 662 999 635 865 490 018 000 010 101 000 001 111 100 001 111 011 000 8J1JBS>BEACON : JAS1b M0 94/09/05 20:07:00 Mailbox is at your service from 94/09/05 05:10:00 The JD Transmitter is available in all orbits during JD mode. The mailbox is also in operation. Congratulations go to the spacecraft controllers for returning FO-20's digital transponder back to life after it had been reported as being lost forever. Ground stations are encouraged to copy telemetry transmissions made by the satellite, and forward telemetry frames to the spacecraft controllers if the on-board computer should crash once again. [Info via Kazu Sakamoto, JJ1WTK] * HV AND T7 ON AO-13 * ====================== It's time for Eric Archer, WB6GYD, to take another trip to the lovely country of Italy. Eric plans to be in Rome the period of September 14-28 and will operate from the following locations: HV3SJ Vatican City: Sept. 17/18 T70A Republic of San Marino: Sept 24/25 The operation at HV3SJ may not result in AO-13 contacts as Eric does not yet have permission to operate in the middle of the night. So at this point in time, AO-13 is questionable for HV3SJ. Eric will operate HF instead (if not satellite). HV3SJ now has a permanent FT-736R, 435 MHz Mirage amplifier and Landwehr LNA at their station. (FT-736R donation is courtesy of Yaesu USA, THANK YOU!!) Eric plans to help install some yagis to complete their permanent station. Eric has permission to operate in the middle of the night at the RSM Radio Club location, so the operation there is definate. He will either sign as T70A or as T7/WB6GYD. Look for Eric at approximately 0000Z to 0500Z on Sept. 25. This seems to be the best operating time for AO-13. [Info via Eric Archer, WB6GYD] * W2YLV SK * ============ John Snodgrass W2YLV has passed away. He was active on AO-10 & AO-13 CW. It is unclear whether John kept any skeds with people on AO-13, but this notice is for all his friends on AO-13. John was in his 70's and died of heart problems. He will be missed, especially by his friends on the radio. [Info via Len Popyack, WF2V] * THANKS! * =========== Thanks to all those who sent messages of appreciation to SpaceNews, especially: OS1AMV DB2OS VU2JHM WF2V VE4KHS K5MBV WB8LUJ Robert Munger * FEEDBACK/INPUT WELCOMED * =========================== Mail to SpaceNews should be directed to the editor (John, KD2BD) via any of the following paths: FAX : 1-908-747-7107 PACKET : KD2BD @ N2KZH.NJ.USA.NA INTERNET : kd2bd@ka2qhd.de.com -or- kd2bd@amsat.org SATELLITE : AMSAT-OSCAR-16 MAIL : John A. Magliacane, KD2BD Department of Engineering and Technology Advanced Technology Center Brookdale Community College Lincroft, New Jersey 07738 U.S.A. <<=- SpaceNews: The first amateur newsletter read in space! -=>> /EX