SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-020.01 STEVE GRANT, N8AJD, SILENT KEY AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 020.01 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD, JANUARY 20, 2002 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-020.01 For the second time in as many weeks, ANS is saddened to report another silent key. This edition of ANS is dedicated to Steve Grant, N8AJD, who died recently at age 51. N8AJD was an avid ham, always ready to help others. He was heavily involved in volunteer work for AMSAT as an Area Coordinator for southeast Ohio. Steve conducted a weekly net, which featured live demonstrations of satellite communication. He was specifically active on many of the current digital satellites. In addition, Steve arranged several AMSAT symposia in smaller Ohio cities and lent a helping hand to AMSAT-NA at Hamvention (and other Ohio hamfests). Steve also maintained a 6-meter beacon on 50.103 MHz, as well as being a member of SETI. He will be missed. [ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for this information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-020.02 NEW AMSAT-NA SATELLITE PROJECT AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 020.02 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD, JANUARY 20, 2002 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-020.02 At an AMSAT-NA Board of Directors teleconference meeting (held January 17, 2002) it was decided to add a new satellite to the list of current projects underway. After extensive discussion (and by a unanimous vote of the Board), a new low Earth orbit micro-satellite project was approved. This microsat will provide amateurs access with only a handheld transceiver, using the 2-meter and 70-cm bands. The design will feature several channels, so that simultaneous communications can take place. The microsat will be powered using efficient solar cells. In addition to the bent pipe style operation, the new satellite will carry one or more experimental modes which are currently being determined. More details on this exciting project will be forthcoming over the next few weeks, stay tuned to ANS! [ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for this exciting news] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-020.03 KB1SF NOW EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 020.03 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD, JANUARY 20, 2002 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-020.03 At the recent AMSAT-NA Board of Directors teleconference meeting, immediate AMSAT-NA past President Keith Baker, KB1SF, volunteered to become the Executive Vice President, a position which had not been filled at the Atlanta meeting of the Board of Directors. AMSAT-NA President Robin Haighton, VE3FRH, welcomed Keith's offer, which was unanimously accepted by the Board. Congratulations KB1SF! [ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for this information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-020.04 ISS HAM ANTENNA INSTALLATION SUCCESSFUL AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 020.04 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD, JANUARY 20, 2002 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-020.04 Amateur Radio on the International Space Station Board Chairman Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, recently congratulated the ARISS-International team on the successful installation of the first of four ham radio antennas on ISS. Those that watched the NASA TV video were afforded an outstanding view of the first ISS ham antenna installation EVA, which was performed by Cosmonaut Yuri Onufrienko and astronaut Carl Walz. "It was exciting to see the unfurled ISS ham antenna system permanently mounted on the outside edge of the service module," said KA3HDO, adding, "the antenna system looked breathtaking from the videos we witnessed while supporting the EVA activity." Lou McFadin, W5DID, Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, Mark Steiner, K3MS, Ken Nichols, KD3VK, and Mark Clausen supported the ISS antenna installation at the NASA Goddard/ISS Ham-Goddard Control Center. Carolynn Conley, KD5JSO, provided the antenna installation support at the NASA Johnson Space Center Mission Control Center. Sergej Samburov, RV3DR, Alex Polechuk, RZ3FP, cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, U5MIR, and Alex Alexandrov, RK3AP, supported the EVA activities at the Mission Control Center in Moscow. "Congratulations team on a job well done. We have taken our ideas, concepts and vision and transformed them into reality," said KA3HDO. The first space walk of the Expedition-4 crew's five-month tour of duty lasted just over 6 hours. The spacewalk was the 32nd in support of space station assembly. The next spacewalk of the expedition is targeted for late January. The plan for this spacewalk currently includes installation of the second of the remaining three Amateur Radio antenna's, along with thruster deflector shields on the end of the Zvezda module. [ANS thanks ARISS and NASA for this information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-020.05 ANS IN BRIEF AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 020.05 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD, JANUARY 20, 2002 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-020.05 ANS news in brief this week includes the following: ** NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe visited the Johnson Space Center recently as the newly-appointed Administrator continues a tour of NASA's 11 field centers. -NASA ** DH2VA recently established a web page about his portable Mode-S receive system at < http://gulp.physik.unizh.ch/ao40/ >. -Achim, DH2VA ** Yoshi, JA6BX, remembered his last QSO on AO-13. From his log he made a two-way SSB QSO with VK3XDQ on November 23, 1996. This was his last DX QSO via AO-13. It was followed by a contact with JN1GKZ on the same day - which became his last QSO via the bird. -ANS ** CQ VHF magazine will resume publication as a quarterly in the spring of 2002. The magazine had been published monthly from 1996 to 1999. Longtime CQ magazine VHF-Plus editor Joe Lynch, N6CL, will be editor of the new quarterly, with the first issue due out in May. -ANS ** Flight controllers for NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft recently sent commands to raise the spacecraft up out of the atmosphere and to conclude the aerobraking phase of the mission. -SpaceDaily ** Lee, KU4OS, reports the an AMSAT chat room is currently being hosted on the duck.informx.com, server port 6667. To access the chat room you will need to have an IRC client installed - there are several free client programs available. -AMSAT BB ** Arianespace is positioned to continue its commercial launch services leadership in 2002 as the company introduces the increased-lift Ariane-5 launcher and plans a busy year of launch campaigns for its international customers. -SpaceDaily ** The 2001 AMSAT Symposium awards included a presentation to Peter Guelzow, DB2OS; on behalf of AMSAT organizations throughout the world, thanking Peter for all the work he put into AO-40. Peter assumed the role of the AMSAT manager at Kourou under difficult conditions and completed a successful launch campaign. Since then, DB2OS has worked tirelessly as one of the satellite command station team members. His dedication to the Amateur Radio satellite community (and to AO-40), is greatly appreciated. -ANS ** Ireland's government has given the go-ahead to build the worlds biggest offshore wind farm on a sandbank in the Irish Sea, south of Dublin. The 562-million-dollar development will produce 10 percent of the country's electricity. -SpaceDaily ** Amateur Radio's secondary allocation at 219-220 MHz remains intact in the wake of an FCC spectrum reallocation of the 216 to 220-MHz band. The FCC declined to go along with ARRL's request to expand amateur access to 216 to 220 MHz. The Commission also potentially relieved spectrum competition for Amateur Radio at 2.3 GHz by making space available elsewhere. -ARRL ** Parts of Antarctica have cooled sharply in recent years, a finding which counters doomsday perceptions that the frozen continent faces imminent meltdown from global warming. -SpaceDaily --ANS BULLETIN END--- /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-020.06 WEEKLY SATELLITE REPORT PART 1 AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 020.06 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD, JANUARY 20, 2002 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-020.06 Phase 3D / AMSAT OSCAR 40 / AO-40 Launched: November 16, 2000 aboard an Ariane 5 launcher from Kourou, French Guiana. Status: Currently, the U/L-1 to S-2 passband is active at times. Uplink U-band 435.550 - 435.800 MHz CW/SSB L1-band 1269.250 - 1269.500 MHz CW/SSB L2-band 1268.325 - 1268.575 MHz CW/SSB Downlink 2401.225 - 2401.475 MHz CW/SSB AO-40 experimental transponder operation started on May 05, 2001 at approximately 08:00 UTC when the U-band and L1-band uplinks were connected to the S-2 transmitter passband downlink via the Matrix switch. Some 58 DXCC countries are/were QRV via AO-40 in 2001. Mal, NP2L, reports receiving my strong signals from AO-40 recently with minimal uplink power. Howard, G6LVB, also reported good signals from AO-40; "the bird was indeed excellent, with some QSB." For the current transponder-operating schedule visit: http://www.amsat-dl.org/journal/adlj-p3d.htm [ANS thanks AMSAT-NA, AMSAT-DL and the ARRL for this information] INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION/ARISS Worldwide packet uplink: 145.990 MHz Region 1 voice uplink: 145.200 MHz Region 2/3 voice uplink: 144.490 MHz Worldwide downlink: 145.800 MHz TNC callsign NOCALL ARISS initial station launched September 2000 aboard shuttle Atlantis. ARISS is made up of delegates from major national Amateur Radio organizations, including AMSAT. Status: Operational. The ISS packet station (normally) available for UI packets. The mailbox and keyboard is currently disabled. Please see the packet section of the ARISS web page before attempting to first work ISS on packet. Thirteen elementary school students in Mississippi fired off a total of 18 questions this past week to astronaut Carl Walz, KC5TIE, who responded from the International Space Station during a pass over North America. A crowd of about 200 students and 50 parents watched as the youngsters at St. Clare School in Waveland, Mississippi, quizzed Walz for 10-minutes. Upcoming contacts are scheduled with Butte High School in Montana; Deep Creek Elementary School in Oregon; Quogue Union Free School and Vestal Senior High School in New York; Kursk Technical University in Russia; Harrogate Ladies College in the United Kingdom and the Zeehan Primary School in Australia. NASA information on the ISS station can be found at: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/reference/radio/ The ISS daily crew schedule (which gives an idea when crew members have free time and may be available for Amateur Radio operations) can be found at: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/timelines/2001/may/index.html A detailed breakdown of the antenna installation with some great pictures and diagrams (depicting the entire ISS ham system including antenna's) can be downloaded at: http://ariss.gsfc.nasa.gov/EVAs/amsat01.pdf U.S. callsign: NA1SS Russian callsigns: RS0ISS, RZ3DZR The QSL routes for W/VE stations working NA1SS aboard the International Space Station: U.S. stations (a SASE is required to get a QSL in return): Margie Bourgoin, KC1DCO Attn: ARISS Expedition-1 (or 2, 3) QSL ARRL, 225 Main Street Newington, Connecticut 06111 Canadian stations: Radio Amateurs of Canada Attn: ARISS Expedition-1 (or 2, 3) QSL 720 Belfast Road, Suite 217 Ottawa, Ontario KEG 0Z5 European stations (a SASE and 2 IRC's are required to get a QSL in return). AMSAT-France 14 bis, rue des Gourlis 92500 Rueil Malmaison France [ANS thanks Will Marchant, KC6ROL, and Jean-Louis Rault, F6AGR, for this information] RADIO SPORT RS-12 Uplink 145.910 to 145.950 MHz CW/SSB Downlink 29.410 to 29.450 MHz CW/SSB Beacon 29.408 MHz Robot 29.454 MHz (145.831 MHz uplink) Launched: February 5, 1991 aboard a Russian Cosmos C launcher Status: RS-12 was re-activated in mode-A on January 1, 2001 The latest information on RS-12 and RS-13 can be found on the AC5DK RS-12/13 Satellite Operators page at: http://www.qsl.net/ac5dk/rs1213/rs1213.html [ANS thanks Kevin Manzer, AC5DK, for RS-12 information] RADIO SPORT RS-15 Uplink 145.858 to 145.898 MHz CW/SSB Downlink 29.354 to 29.394 MHz CW/SSB Beacon 29.352 MHz (intermittent) SSB meeting frequency 29.380 MHz (unofficial) Launched: December 26, 1994 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Status: Semi-operational, mode-A, using a 2-meter uplink and a 10-meter downlink Dave, WB6LLO, has operating information for both RS-15 on his web site. In addition to satellite data, antenna information for mode-A operation is also featured. The WB6LLO web site URL is: http://home.san.rr.com/doguimont/uploads [ANS thanks Dave Guimont, WB6LLO, for this information] OSCAR 10 AO-10 Uplink 435.030 to 435.180 MHz CW/LSB Downlink 145.975 to 145.825 MHz CW/USB Beacon 145.810 MHz (unmodulated carrier) Launched: June 16, 1983 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana. Status: Semi-operational, mode-B. AO-10 has been locked into a 70-cm uplink and a 2-meter downlink for several years. DX continues to be heard and worked on AO-10. W4SM has more information about the satellite at the following URL: http://www.cstone.net/~w4sm/AO-10.html [ANS thanks Stacey Mills, W4SM, for his AO-10 status information and web site] AMRAD AO-27 Uplink 145.850 MHz FM Downlink 436.795 MHz FM Launched: September 26, 1993 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana. Status: Operational, mode J. Periodically, AO-27's analog repeater will be turned off for a few days at a time to enable ground controllers to gather Whole Orbital Data (WOD), to verify the health of the satellite. An AO-27 question-and-answer page is available on the AMSAT-NA web site, with updates by Ray, W2RS. The URL is: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/intro/ao27faq.html AO-27 uses a method called Timed Eclipse Power Regulation (TEPR) to regulate the on-board batteries. In simple terms, TEPR times how long the satellite has been in an eclipse (or in the sun) and decides what subsystems to turn on or off. The AO-27 pages on the AMSAT-NA web site include an explanation of TEPR AO-27 operations (at): http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/ao27.html On December 9, 2001 Chuck, KM4NZ, reset the TEPR states on AO-27 as follows: TEPR 4 - 19 TEPR 5 - 59 [ANS thanks AMRAD for AO-27 information] UO-14 Uplink 145.975 MHz FM Downlink 435.070 MHz FM Launched: January 22, 1990 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana. Status: Operational, mode J Tim, KG8OC, features UO-14 information on the Michigan AMSAT web site - point your web browser to the following URL: http://www.qsl.net/kg8oc Ray, W2RS, has revised the AO-27 FAQ on < www.amsat.org > to include information on UO-14. [ANS thanks Chris Jackson, G7UPN/ZL2TPO, for UO-14 information] JAS-1b FO-20 Uplink 145.90 to 146.00 MHz CW/LSB Downlink 435.80 to 435.90 MHz CW/USB Launched: February 07, 1990 by an H1 launcher from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. Status: Operational. FO-20 is in mode JA continuously Tak, JA2PKI, reported FO-20 control station operators believe that the UVC (Under Voltage Controller) now is regulating the transponder. The controller monitors battery voltage and tries to protect the batteries from over discharge. [ANS thanks Kazu Sakamoto, JJ1WTK, for the FO-20 status reports] JAS-2 FO-29 Launched: August 17, 1996, by an H-2 launcher from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. Status: Operational Voice/CW Mode JA Uplink 145.90 to 146.00 MHz CW/LSB Downlink 435.80 to 435.90 MHz CW/USB Digital Mode JD Uplink 145.850 145.870 145.910 MHz FM Downlink 435.910 MHz 1200-baud BPSK or 9600-baud FSK Callsign 8J1JCS Digitalker 435.910 MHz Last reported, the JARL FO-29 command station announced the operation schedule of FO-29 as mode JA through March 2002. Mineo, JE9PEL, has a FO-29 satellite telemetry analysis program that will automatically analyze all digital telemetry from the satellite (such as current, voltage and temperature). The JE9PEL FO-29/shareware is available at the following URL: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/ [ANS thanks Kazu Sakamoto, JJ1WTK, for the FO-29 status reports] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-020.07 WEEKLY SATELLITE REPORT PART 2 AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 020.07 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD, JANUARY 20, 2002 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-020.07 PCSat Uplink/downlink 145.827 MHz 1200 baud AX-25 AFSK via PCSAT-1 Aux/Uplink 435.250 MHz 9600 baud via PCSAT-2 (off) APRS Downlink 144.390 MHz (Region 2) Launched: September 30, 2001 aboard an Athena-1 rocket from the Kodiak, Alaska launch complex. Status: Operational Bob, WB4APR, reports PCSat entered full sun for the period of January 7-21, 2001. During this time there was enough power to keep the GPS system turned on worldwide, allowing PCSat to be the first satellite to report its own exact position directly to all users for immediate display on their APRS maps. As the first in what is hoped to be a constellation of future Amateur Radio satellites doing dumb digipeating to mobile users, PCSat planned to use the digipeater alias of APRSAT and encourage its use on all such space digipeaters. Since this mission can also be supported by the existing ISS digipeater as well, PCSat has temporarily dropped the APRSAT alias and added NOCALL to its alias list (to be compatible with the ISS) so that mobile users do not have to re-configure between ISS and PCSat passes. PCSat is a 1200-baud APRS digipeater designed for use by stations using hand-held or mobile transceivers. Downlinks feed a central web site < http://pcsat.aprs.org >. The APRS-equipped PCSat was built by midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy under the guidance of Bob Bruninga, WB4APR. For more information, visit the PCSat web site at: http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/pcsat.html [ANS thanks Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, for PCSat information] TIUNGSAT-1 Uplink 145.850 or 145.925 MHz 9600-baud FSK Downlink 437.325 MHz Broadcast callsign MYSAT3-11 BBS MYSAT3-12 Launched: September 26, 2000 aboard a converted Soviet ballistic missile from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Status: Operational at 38k4-baud FSK TiungSat-1 is Malaysia's first micro-satellite and in addition to commercial land and weather imaging payloads offers FM and FSK Amateur Radio communication. TiungSat-1, named after the mynah bird of Malaysia, was developed as a collaborative effort between the Malaysian government and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. [ANS thanks Chris Jackson, G7UPN/ZL2TPO, for this information] UOSAT UO-22 Uplink 145.900 or 145.975 MHz FM 9600-baud FSK Downlink 435.120 MHz FM Broadcast Callsign UOSAT5-11 BBS UOSAT5-12 Launched: July 17, 1991 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana. Status: Operational Jim, AA7KC, reports UO-22 is operational. Downlink efficiency is in the 70% range. More information on the satellite is available at the following URL: http://www.sstl.co.uk/ [ANS thanks Chris Jackson, G7UPN/ZL2TPO, for UO-22 information and Jim Weisenberger, AA7KC, for status information] OSCAR-11 Downlink 145.825 MHz FM (1200-baud AFSK) Mode-S Beacon 2401.500 MHz Launched: March 1, 1984 by a Delta-Thor rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Status: Operational During the period 15-December through 14-January good signals have been received from the 145 MHz beacon. The internal temperatures have been fairly static with no particular trends observed. These temperatures are now 5.6 and 4.0 C for battery and telemetry electronics respectively. The battery voltage observed during daylight passes is unchanged. The average value observed was 13.8 volts with a range of 13.5 to 14.1 volts. The rate at which the SEU counter increments has continued to increase from 516 to 771 counts per day. The spin period has drifted between 179 and 247 seconds. Attitude is controlled solely by the gravity boom gradient (as the Z-axis magnetorquer counter has reached saturation (1024). Ground control action is awaited to reset the magnetorquer pulse counters. The operating schedule is unchanged. ASCII status (210 seconds) ASCII bulletin (60 seconds) BINARY SEU (30 seconds) ASCII TLM (90 seconds) ASCII WOD (120 seconds) ASCII bulletin (60 seconds) BINARY ENG (30 seconds) The ASCII bulletin is currently a static message, detailing modes and frequencies of all active Amateur Radio satellites. More information on OSCAR-11 is available at the following URL: http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/clivew/ [ANS thanks Clive Wallis, G3CWV, for OSCAR-11 status information] PACSAT AO-16 Uplink 145.90 145.92 145.94 145.96 MHz FM (using 1200-baud Manchester FSK) Downlink 437.025 MHz SSB (RC-BPSK 1200-baud PSK) Mode-S Beacon 2401.1428 MHz Broadcast Callsign: PACSAT-11 BBS PACSAT-12 Launched: January 22, 1990 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana. Status: Semi-operational, the digipeater command is on. Telemetry is as follows: uptime is 689/18:22:19. Time is Wed Jan 02 22:04:59 2002 +10V Bus 10.400 V +Z Array Temp -7.263 D +X (RX) Temp -1.212 D RX Temp 13.916 D Bat 1 V 1.252 V Bat 2 V 1.201 V Bat 3 V 1.220 V Bat 4 V 1.247 V Bat 5 V 1.212 V Bat 6 V 1.216 V Bat 7 V 1.222 V Bat 8 V 1.223 V Bat 1 Temp 10.285 D Bat 2 Temp 9.680 D Baseplt Temp 9.075 D PSK TX RF Out 1.512 W +Y Array Temp -17.550 D PSK TX HPA Tmp 4.839 D Total Array C= 0.000 Bat Ch Cur=-0.398 Ifb= 0.154 I+10V= 0.258 TX:1009 BCR:1E PWRC:36D BT:1E WC:25 EDAC:DC A WOD collection of current graphics along with general information and telemetry samples can be found at: www.telecable.es/personales/ea1bcu [ANS thanks Miguel Menendez, EA1BCU, for AO-16 status information] ITAMSAT IO-26 Uplink 145.875 145.900 145.925 145.950 MHz FM (1200-baud) Downlink 435.822 MHz SSB Broadcast Callsign ITMSAT-11 BBS ITMSAT-12 Launched: September 26, 1993 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana. Status: Semi-operational, the digipeater function is on and open for APRS users. [ANS thanks ITAMSAT Project Manager Alberto E. Zagni, I2KBD, for IO-26 information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-020.08 WEEKLY SATELLITE REPORT PART 3 AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 020.08 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD, JANUARY 20, 2002 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-020.08 THE FOLLOWING ARE IN ORBIT BUT ARE NON-OPERATIONAL OR SEMI-OPERATIONAL AT THIS TIME: KITSAT KO-23 Uplink 145.900 MHz FM (9600-baud FSK) Downlink 435.170 MHz FM Broadcast Callsign HLO1-11 BBS HLO1-12 Launched: August 10, 1992 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana. Status: Non-operational. Jim, AA7KC, reports that KO-23's downlink transmitter continues in a non-operational status. [ANS thanks Jim Weisenberger, AA7KC, and KyungHee Kim, HL0ENJ, for KO-23 status information] KITSAT KO-25 Uplink 145.980 MHz FM (9600-baud FSK) Downlink 436.500 MHz FM Broadcast Callsign HL02-11 BBS HL02-12 Launched: September 26, 1993 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana. Status: Non-operational Jim, AA7KC, reports that KO-25 is not operating. The downlink transmitter is off and there has been no downlinked data since January 4, 2002. [ANS thanks Jim Weisenberger, AA7KC, for this information] UoSAT-12 UO-36 Uplink 145.960 MHz (9600-baud FSK) Downlink 437.025 MHz 437.400 MHz Broadcast Callsign UO121-11 BBS UO121-12 Launched: April 21, 1999 by a Russian launcher from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Status: Unknown UO-36 carries a number of imaging payloads, digital store-and-forward communications and mode L/S transponders. Paul, KB2SHU, tells ANS that UO-36 has not been operational (over North America) since late July. In addition, Sangat, 9M2SS, reports he has not copied UO-36 since July 30th. The VK5HI viewer shareware for UO-36 is available on the AMSAT-NA web site at the following URL: ftp://ftp.amsat.org/amsat/software/win32/display/ccddsp97-119.zip Further information on UO-36 is available from: http://www.sstl.co.uk/ [ANS thanks Chris G7UPN/ZL2TPO, and the University of Surrey for UO-36 information] TMSAT-1 TO-31 Uplink 145.925 MHz (9600-baud FSK) Downlink 436.925 MHz (9600-baud FSK) Broadcast Callsign: TMSAT1-11 BBS TMSAT1-12 Launched: July 10, 1998 by a Zenit rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Status: Non-operational, no data downlinked since December 18, 2000. Chris G7UPN, (UoSAT operations manager) reports the following to ANS: The TO-31 downlink will be off over most areas, with the exception of Europe and Thailand. ProcMail V2.00G has been released by G7UPN. This software permits the processing of image files from TO-31. It has been posted to the AMSAT-NA FTP site at the following URL: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/software/win32/wisp Many of the high-resolution color images transmitted by TMSAT are compressed using a UoSAT compression format. This format is supported by the VK5HI CCD display program. [ANS thanks Chris Jackson, G7UPN/ZL2TPO, for TO-31 status information] LUSAT LO-19 Uplink 145.84 145.86 145.88 145.90 MHz FM (using 1200-baud Manchester FSK) CW downlink 437.125 MHz Digital downlink 437.150 MHz SSB (RC-BPSK 1200-baud PSK) Broadcast Callsign LUSAT-11 BBS LUSAT-12 Launched: January 22, 1990 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana. Status: Beacon only. The CW beacon is sending eight telemetry channels and one status channel on 437.126 MHz. No BBS service is available. The digipeater is not active. Telemetry is as follows: Time is Fri Nov 30 21:03:00 2001 Orb-61900 CW-Code: ava abv aab ad6 atd abv ttu aee 5V-reg.: 4.85 V 8.5V-reg: 8.68 V 10V-Bat: 11.07 V 10V-Curr: 121.1 mA TX-Pwr : 0.967 W TX-Temp.: 6.27 ?C +Z-Sol.: 0.30 V Box-Temp: 9.97 ?C CW-Code: avt abv aan ad6 aat abu ttu aee 5V-reg.: 4.89 V 8.5V-reg: 8.68 V 10V-Bat: 11.07 V 10V-Curr: 120.4 mA TX-Pwr : 0.967 W TX-Temp.: 5.56 ?C +Z-Sol.: 0.30 V Box-Temp: 9.26 ?C CW-Code: avt abu aua ade aaa abu ttu aee 5V-reg.: 4.89 V 8.5V-reg: 8.68 V 10V-Bat: 11.01 V 10V-Curr: 120.4 mA TX-Pwr : 0.957 W TX-Temp.: 4.85 ?C +Z-Sol.: 0.30 V Box-Temp: 8.90 ?C General information and telemetry samples can be found at: www.telecable.es/personales/ea1bcu [ANS thanks Miguel Menendez, EA1BCU, for LO-19 status information] SO-41 SAUDISAT-1A Uplink to be released Downlink 437.075 MHz Broadcast Callsign SASAT1-11 BBS SASAT1-12 Launched: September 26, 2000 aboard a converted Soviet ballistic missile from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Status: Unknown, this satellite has been in orbit for almost 8 months. ANS has received no additional information. When/if operational, SaudiSat-1A will operate as 9600-baud digital store-and-forward systems as well analog FM repeater mode capability. One of two new ham satellites from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia built by the Space Research Institute at the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology. SO-42 SAUDISAT-1B Uplink to be released Downlink 436.775 MHz Broadcast Callsign SASAT2-11 BBS SASAT2-12 Launched: September 26, 2000 aboard a converted Soviet ballistic missile from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Status: Unknown, this satellite has been in orbit for almost 8 months. ANS has received no additional information. When/if operational, SaudiSat-1B will operate as 9600-baud digital store-and-forward systems as well analog FM repeater mode capability. One of two new ham satellites from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia built by the Space Research Institute at the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology. SUNSAT SO-35 Mode J Uplink: 145.825 MHz FM Mode J Downlink: 436.250 MHz FM Mode B Uplink: 436.291 MHz FM Mode B Downlink: 145.825 MHz FM Launched: February 23, 1999 by a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Status: Non-operational The SunSat team released the following statement, dated February 1, 2001: We regret to announce that the last communication with SunSat from our ground station at the Electronic Systems Laboratory at Stellenbosch University took place recently. We are certain, after having performed several tests since the last contact, that an irreversible, physical failure has occurred on the satellite. It is therefore unlikely that we will have any further contact with SunSat, apart from the occasional visual sighting by telescope! When it was operational the SunSat package included 1200 and 9600 baud digital store-and-forward capability and a voice 'parrot' repeater system in addition to Mode B/J operation with two VHF and two UHF transmit-receive systems. For more information on SunSat visit the following URL: http://sunsat.ee.sun.ac.za [ANS thanks Garth Milne, ZR1AFH, for this information] RADIO SPORT RS-13 Uplink 21.260 to 21.300 MHz CW/SSB Downlink 145.860 to 145.900 MHz CW/SSB Beacon 145.860 MHz Launched: February 5, 1991 aboard a Russian Cosmos C launcher Status: non-operational (last operational in mode-T) RS-12 was re-activated in January 2001. Prior to this switch RS-13 was operational (mode T), but was apparently turned off following the recent RS-12 switch. The latest information on RS-12 and RS-13 can be found on the AC5DK RS-12/13 Satellite Operators page at: http://www.qsl.net/ac5dk/rs1213/rs1213.html [ANS thanks Kevin Manzer, AC5DK, for this information] TECHSAT-1B GO-32 Downlink 435.225 MHz using HDLC telemetry Launched: July 10, 1998 by a Russian Zenit rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Status: Semi-operational. Efforts were reported to be underway to bring GO-32 on line, however, no information has been received by ANS (the last report was dated November 1999). Last reported, the satellite does transmit a 9600-baud burst every 30 seconds (the GO-32 beacon sends one short telemetry status transmission of 44 bytes) and upon request the complete telemetry buffer. Max White reported to ANS that two passes of GO-32 were received recently; it still issues the burst transmission as stated above with "quite a strong signal" according to White. [ANS has no further information] PANSAT PO-34 Uplink/downlink frequency (listed on the PanSat web site) 436.500 MHz Launched: October 30, 1998 by the Shuttle Discovery. Status: Unknown The satellite is not available for general uplink transmissions. The Naval Postgraduate School developed PanSat. At the time of launch, PanSat spread-spectrum digital transponders were to be available to Amateur Radio operators along with software to utilize this technology. For more information, visit the official PanSat web site at: http://www.sp.nps.navy.mil/pansat/ PanSat was the featured cover article on the July/August 1999 issue of the AMSAT-NA Journal (the story written by KD6DRA and N7HPR). [ANS has no further information] DOVE DO-17 Downlink 145.825 MHz FM (1200-baud AFSK) 2401.220 MHz Launched: January 22, 1990 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana. Status: Non-operational. DOVE stopped transmitting in March 1998. The 145.825 MHz and 2401.220 MHz downlinks are off the air and the satellite has not responded to ground station control. [ANS has no further information] WEBERSAT WO-18 Downlink 437.104 MHz SSB (1200 baud PSK AX.25) Launched: January 22, 1990 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana. Status: Non-operational. WO-18 was last reported to be in MBL mode after a software crash. [ANS has no further information] SEDSAT-1 SO-33 Downlink 437.910 MHz FM (9600-baud FSK) Launched: October 24, 1998 by a Delta 2 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Status: Semi-operational. The satellite is not currently available for uplink transmissions and the image and transponder recovery efforts have been unsuccessful. SedSat-1 signifies Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (satellite number one). SedSat-1 has downlinked months worth of telemetry data on the performance of its electrical power system parameters. The Nickel Metal Hydride batteries on the spacecraft were experimental and experienced some abuse due to a power negative situation. This information has provided NASA with useful information. With the exception of the imaging system and the use of the transponders, SedSat-1 has been judged a success. For more information on SedSat-1 visit the satellite web site at the following URL: http://seds.uah.edu/projects/sedsat/sedsat.htm [ANS has no further information] /EX