SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-294.01 DRIG PROVIDES E-MAIL KEP SERVICE HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 294.01 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD OCTOBER 22, 1994 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT BID: $ANS-294.01 Dallas Remote Imaging Group (DRIG) BBS Provides Keplerian Elements E-Mail As a service to the AMSAT satellite community, The Dallas Remote Imaging Group is providing an automated email response service to request satellite keplerian elements via email request. To obtain the latest satellite keplerian elements, simply send an email note to the following addresses for the specific set of satellites that you would like. New e-mail address services include: elements@drig.com amsatkep@drig.com intelsat@drig.com weathkep@drig.com shuttle@drig.com info@drig.com An email message to elements@drig.com generates a response with NASA 2-line elements for the week, email to amsatkep@drig.com generates a response with AMSAT style explicit keplerian elements, email to intelsat@drig.com generates the Ted Molczan Intelligence sat keplerian elements, email to weathkep@drig.com generates the listing f weather/imaging satellite keplerians, and email to shuttle@drig.com generates the latest STS-XX shuttle mission keps during active STS missions only. To use this service, simply address your email to the above addresses, and the latest of the keplerians will be forwarded to your email address. The body of the letter can have anything in it. The 56 kbps line will be installed at DRIG in early December, and at that time the software will be modified for telnet and ftp capability. [The AMSAT News Service (ANS) would like to thank Jeff Wallach (N5ITU) of the Dallas Remote Imaging Group for this bulletin item.] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-294.02 WEEKLY OSCAR STATUS REPORTS HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 294.02 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD OCTOBER 22, 1994 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT BID: $ANS-294.02 Weekly OSCAR Status Reports: 22-OCT-94 AO-13: Current Transponder Operating Schedule: N QST *** AO-13 TRANSPONDER SCHEDULE *** 1994 Sep 12 - Dec 19 Mode-B : MA 30 to MA 150 |<- OFF Oct 22 - Nov 07 for eclipses Mode-B : MA 150 to MA 190 | max duration 2h 12m Mode-BS : MA 190 to MA 218 | Mode-S : MA 218 to MA 220 |<- S beacon only Mode-S : MA 220 to MA 230 |<- S transponder; B trsp. is OFF Mode-B : MA 230 to MA 30 | Blon/Blat 230/0 Omnis : MA 250 to MA 140 | Move to attitude 180/0, Dec 19 The battery charge state is of paramount importance during the eclipse seasons. As always the command team may have to have to make temporary changes to the published schedule. In that case we will try to minimize the inconvenience, setting Mode-B OFF from MA 230-256 in the first instance. ========================================================================== [G3RUH/DB2OS/VK5AGR] MIR: German Astronaut Ulf Merbold, DP3MIR, has been active from the Russian space station MIR over Europe during the recent evenings. Unfortunately there seems to be a power supply problem aboard MIR, which prevents Ulf >From using the Digital Voice Memory and obviously reduces his activity to only a few passes a day over Europe. Since we do not have exact infor- mation about this problem, as all questions and answers regarding the HAM activity of DP3MIR have to be relayed via the Moscow Control Center. DP3MIR will stay aboard MIR until about 3-NOV-94. We hope, he will be active over other continents besides Europe. The QSL info is: DP3MIR via the usual German (DARC) QSL Bureau. [DF5DP] FO-20: JJ1WTK reports that on 19-OCT-94 that all software needed to start the BBS was completed and the BBS is now in full operation. JJ1WTK notes also that is has been 4 years since FO-20 was placed into orbit. The batteries on FO-20 are performing far better than those aboard FO-12 at this same point in FO-20's life. However, the FO-20 batteries have degraded slightly and this has caused a change in the battery voltage power control unit telemetry item (abbreviated by PCU) to change to level 3. [Kazu Sakamoto (JJ1WTK) qga02014@niftyserve.or.jp] AO-21: The "total-shutdown" of the amateur radio payload AO-21 (including the CW-beacon on 145.818MHz) on the main spacecraft INFORMATOR 1 occured during the following time period: 94-10-12 15:00 UTC & 94-10-13 11:42 UTC. If anyone was watching the shutdown when it happened or can narrow this time interval to the very instant it happened, this will be very helpful data to understanding what is going on with INFORMATOR 1. The AO-21 Command Team is looking forward to hearing from you. Please send your comments via PACKET to Robert: DD4YR @DB0AAB.#BAY.DEU.EU or via INTERNET to Peter at db2os@amsat.org. [DB2OS/DG2CV/DD4YR] AO-27: When AO-27 is over North America, it has its amateur radio payload activated almost 100% of the time. [N4USI] The AMSAT NEWS Service (ANS) is looking for volunteers to contribute weekly OSCAR status reports. If you have a favorite OSCAR which you work on a regular basis and would like to contribute to this bulletin, please send your observations to WD0HHU at his CompuServe address of 70524,2272, on INTERNET at wd0hhu@amsat.org, or to his local packet BBS in the Denver, CO area, WD0HHU @ N0QCU. Also, if you find that the current set of orbital elements are not generating the correct AOS/LOS times at your QTH, PLEASE INCLUDE THAT INFORMATION AS WELL. The information you provide will be of value to all OSCAR enthusiasts. /EX