
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 
 


