SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-055.01 AMSAT MEMBERS' AUDIO INTERVIEWS AVAILABLE HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 055.01 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD FEBRUARY 24, 1996 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT BID: $ANS-055.01 Two AMSAT members audio interviews are now available on TAPR's new Amateur Radio Audio News Services web page. Of special note to AMSAT members are the interviews of Dick Daniels, W4PUJ regarding AMSAT and P3D and Lou McFadin, W5DID regarding the SAREX project. These are available on the Ham Radio and More page of the new segment of web pages hosted on the TAPR web server. The page can be reached via the TAPR home page, http://www.tapr.org. This new page contains audio from Amateur Radio Newsline, the RAIN Report (Radio Amateur Information Network), and Ham Radio and More. All audio is provided by the RealAudio system. RealAudio players are available for Mac, Windows, and UNIX based computers. TAPR notes they are currently only encoding for 14.4Kbps access speeds to lower the consumption of their hard drive space. They expect to be doing more 28.8Kbps+ speed access encoding later this year. [ANS thanks TAPR for the information that went into this bulletin item.] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-055.02 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR 75 METER NET "WARM UP" HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 055.02 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD FEBRUARY 24, 1996 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT BID: $ANS-055.02 AMSAT-NA President Bill Tynan, W3XO, recently noted that there continues to be problems getting AMSAT's Tuesday evening HF nets in the USA close to 3840 KHz. According to Bill, often by the time Ron, W8GUS, or his alternate starts the 9:00 PM Eastern Net, the frequency is already occupied. The result is that the net often must relocate from 3 to 6 KHz above or below 3840 KHz, the frequency where most people are looking for it. This, in turn, often causes the Mid-Continent Net, and sometimes even the Pacific Coast Net, to also have trouble establishing themselves on the usual frequency. Bill went on to note that many people, even if they are not licensed to operate on 75 meters, use these nets to obtain satellite information. Thus, it is very important that these nets continue and that they be able to operate somewhere close to their designated frequencies. Bill invites those so-equipped and licensed, particularly those who also live on the East Coast of the USA, to simply get on 3840 KHz just as it is getting dark and start a QSO. Then, he asks these people be ready to stand by and yield the frequency to the AMSAT Net Control Station at the appropriate time. In this way, net participants should be reasonably assured of having all three AMSAT HF nets operating somewhere close to their advertised frequencies. [ANS thanks Bill Tynan, W3XO, for the information that went into this bulletin item.] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-055.03 SATELLITE STATUS HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 055.03 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD FEBRUARY 24, 1996 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT BID: $ANS-055.03 *** AO-13 TRANSPONDER SCHEDULE *** 1996 Jan. 08 - Apr. 01 Mode-B : MA 0 to MA 140 Mode-BS : MA 140 to MA 240 Mode-B : MA 240 to MA 256 Alon/Alat 220/0 Omnis : MA 250 to MA 100 Move to attitude 180/0, Apr. 01 Please note that the higher powered engineering beacon 145.985 MHz is ON for the period: MA 0 - 40. (The lower powered beacon at 145.812 MHz is then off). -------------------- ** AO-13 TRANSPONDER SCHEDULE ** 1996 Apr. 02 - 1996 Jun. 10 Mode-B : MA 0 to MA 70 *** P R O V I S I O N A L *** Mode-BS : MA 70 to MA 110 Omnis : MA 230 to MA 25 Mode-S : MA 110 to MA 112 <- S beacon only Mode-S : MA 112 to MA 135 <- S transponder; B trsp. is OFF Mode-S : MA 135 to MA 140 <- S beacon only Mode-BS : MA 140 to MA 180 Alon/Alat 182/0 Mode-B : MA 180 to MA 256 Move to attitude 220/0, Jun. 01 AO-10 According to Stacey Mills, WB4QKT, AO-10 is on it's way back to usefulness. He notes its transponder is putting out a weak beacon tone and a quick try at an uplink yielded a very weak downlink reply. Stacey suspects that it will be several more weeks before functional levels of solar energy fall on the solar panels. He noted that last year it was 2/25/95 before AO-10 returned to usable function as reported by others in the ANS. RS-12 Keith Baker, KB1SF, reports an active transponder and strong clear signals via the newly activated 2m downlink on RS-12. He invites all those who are so licensed and haven't worked the RS birds in a while to dust off their HF rig's microphone and give Mode KT a try. Uplink passband is: 21,210-21.250 MHz and the 2m downlink passband is: 145.910-145.950 MHz. [ANS thanks G3RUH, WB4QKT, and KB1SF, for the information that went into this bulletin item.] /EX