Saturday, May 07, 2005 11:50 PM
VU2POP reportsHi All
Hamsat is doing good and being utilised well by all hams around
the world.
I am very pleased to say I was the first VU to uplink all modes
and worked VU2WMY yesterday on a 6 deg el. This morning I worked
the first DX from Malaysia 9W2QC Chow on a 3 deg el.
This evening I worked 9W2QC, VU2WMY, VU2HFR heard HS1GLR
Second pass was
I have received msg from all over
South India
I have been receiving hundreds of mails about worked / heard
reports and the same maybe now be submitted to reports@amsat.in
you can also view the reports at our www.amsatindia.com
Happy HAMSATing
Best 73
Pop
VU2POP
Secretary
Amsat India (Regd.)
Saturday, May 07, 2005 11:47 PM
NILANJAN MAJUMDAR reports
HAMSAT REPORT ON 07.05.2005 FROM VU2HFR
QTH CALCUTTA / 22.5577 N / 88.3572 E / LOC : NL42en
TIME OF PASS : 16:05 UTC - 16:18 UTC / PEAK ELEVATION : 74 DEGREES
EQUIPMENT : FT-50RD H.T. (5 WATTS) & ARROW 3EL / 7EL HAND HELD YAGI
UPLINK : 435.250 MHz DOWNLINK : 145.900 MHz MODE : FM
STATIONS HEARD REPORT SENT REPORT RCVD
9W2QC 57
STATIONS WORKED
VU2POP 59 55
VU2WMY 59 55
Remarks : This was a very good pass over Calcutta. Pop, VU2POP was
the strongest station heard causing full quieting with 59+ signals.
At times there was interference which could be caused by other
stations on nearby frequencies on the transponder. Mani, VU2WMY
signals were strong but audio was a bit distorted which could be due
to his uplink / downlink frequency on the transponder being a few
KHz off from where I had tuned to. Infact there semed to be a lot of
stations whose uplink frequencies were not identical causing the
frequency to be jammed at times.
Hamsat is primarily a CW / SSB satellite. However in VU land very
few of us possess multimode satellite ready rigs and if Amsat India
allows us to use FM, it would enable us to work this satellite. Only
some guidelines for FM operation regarding ERP on TX / Uplink &
Downlink frequency combination for FM with doppler shift
compensation would be welcome. I was uplinking on 435.250 MHz and
monitoring on 145.900 MHz. Local hams from Calcutta monitoring my
signals reported that my signals were much better on 145.905 MHz.
Since Hamsat has a linear inverting transponder which is not
primarily meant for FM use some improvisation may be necessary to be
on the correct uplink / downlink frequency. My H.T. doesnot have
simultaneous dual receive.
Pop, since you have been evaluating the satellite please provide
some guidelines on FM use regarding use of power and uplink /
downlink frequencies with doppler compensation. If all of us VU hams
who wish to work Hamsat on FM follow the Amsat India guidelines then
all of us would be able to work this wonderful new bird from India
and enjoy the thrill of Satellite communication for years to come
without causing QRM to other users.
Best 73's
Horey
Nilanjan Majumdar, VU2HFR
Saturday, May 07, 2005 11:45 PM
Srikanth Bhat reports
Friends,
I am pleased to report my first SWL report of upto S2 on HAMSAT just
a few minutes ago. It was HAMSAT's orbit # 37 passing over my QTH at
around 23:16 IST / 17:46 Z at an elevation of 35.8 degrees.
After an unsuccessful attempt on orbit # 36 at 16:10z (10.3 degree
elevation) I had put the radio on "alert" mode, left it on 145.9 and
went to bed as was pretty tired to stay awake. The radio woke me up
upon receiving signals, and I was thrilled to hear VU2POP, VU2WMY,
VU2GUR, VU2RMS etc on FM. It lasted for couple of minutes after
which it faded. I was up to about an additional 15kcs when I last
copied it.
POP was shouting "Give every one a chance yaaar" :)
I am enough thrilled to compell me to buy a radio that will enable
me to work our own HAMSAT!!
Hearty Congratulations to the AMSAT INDIA team and thank you very
much !!
73
de Sri, VU2SBJ.
Saturday, May 07, 2005
11:40 PM
Saifudden Reports
VU2ARA heard VU2POP working through satellite at 0920 hrs and 1053
hours with his handy and rubber ducky antenna standing on the
terrace
VU3NSH
heard Vu2POP on the above two morning passes using his yahi beam
antenna and handy
Vu2PLL heard the signals and beacon on the two passes in the morning
using his normal vhf setup.
E.S.A.SAIFUDEEN, B.E.,
119, NALINI SEKHAR STREET,
SUBBAYAN NAGAR,
POLLACHI-642002
Saturday, May 07, 2005 11:32 PM
Greg Chartrand reports
I copied several east coast signals Q5 through HM1 using my 6 meter
dipole as a receiving antenna! I can't wait to get my real antennas up
and running!
73's
W7MY
Saturday, May 07, 2005 9:07 PM
Mirek Rozbicki reports
Hi,
I have heard HamSat for the first time this
morning, 7.05.2005 around 02:25. There was a station calling CQ, but I
am not sure of the callsign. It sounded like VK6..H (most likely VK6XH)
Later on tonight we had more stations active
at 14:23Z pass.
I heard strong signals of VK3KOS working
VK6XH, then VK6APH, then VK6XH chatting to VK6APH and worked them all
afterwards as well.
I was using only dual band vertical and
around 50 watts output power.
So not much is required to work via HamSat.
Thank you to all involved, who made it
possible, for flying this nice new bird- HamSat..
73
Mirek VK6DXI
Perth
Saturday, May 07, 2005 8:36 PM
Håkan Harrysson reports
We had the pleasure to work the new
satellite today 7/5 in the morningpass and the satellite sounded great. It
was good activity and alot of well known callsign on the air.
A big thank you to Amsat India for bringing us another satellite.
73 Hakan SM7WSJ
Saturday, May 07, 2005 8:15 PM
ARNALDO - PY5AQ reports
Dear colleagues
Now in the morning, in the órbit #34 I accomplished my first QSO through
HAMSAT.
I am in Curitiba, Parana State in south part of Brasil ( Loc: GG54ho )
I worked PP8DA, Mr. Nicolaus in the North part of Brazil (Manaus–Amazonas)
with signs in DL 5/9+.
I also maintained QSO with PY2CDS Mr. Gio in São Paulo, with very strong
signal in DL 5/9 to 5/9+20 dB.
My equipment:
Transceiver YAESU FT-847
Antena 13 dB gain on UHF UL and with 13 dB on the VHF DL, with Az and El
rotor.
Congratulations for the excelent and fantastic success of this mission to
all the colleagues VU and PA direct involved or indirectly in the project.
Please send me information about any telemetry decoder that I can use.
I am QRV
Best regards and congratulations agn.
Arnaldo Drummond Caxambú PY5AQ
Member of SATFM ORG and ARRL
Saturday, May 07, 2005 7:33 PM
Nicolaus Sallay reports
Hello all at Amsat -VU;
First, I have to congratulate Amsat India Staff for the new sattellite and
excellent achievment.
I just had my first SSB QSO with PY5AQ in South Brasil with signals ranging
in the 59 area using 5 Watts in and 13 dB gain on UHF receiving with 13 dB
on the VHF side.max elevation was about 26 degreas and aquisition was at 3.5
deg. aprox.I noticed some QSB but it was a FB QSO.
Please send us a telemery decodeder that we can use as soon some readings
will be available.
Regards an congratulations again
73
Nicolaus Sallay-PP8DA (Loc. FI96XX)
Saturday, May 07, 2005 7:34 PM
W8IJ reports
On the 0316z pass I heard several stations and worked K9QHO for my first
HAMSAT contact. Thanks for the new satellite. It is very usable for me
using just loop antennas on 145 and 435 mhz.
73,
W8IJ
Saturday, May 07, 2005 7:25 PM
Andy Thomas reports
Hamsat CW carrier heard here at IO92NL at 1247 utc. I heard the continuous
carrier doppler from 145.940 to 145.934 from the Indian beacon but was unable to
hear
anything of the Dutch beacon on 145.860 and downwards.
I used the Amsat keps and my trusty AOR scanner AR8000 with a 9 ele XY RHCP.
Subjectively the signal seemed weaker than the Japanese CUBESATS and I could not
capture the doppler in SPECTRAN although I could hear it.
Please can you tell me how to get a QSL card or sticker? I'd be happy to send
IRC dollar or rupee notes.
Andy G0SFJ
Saturday, May 07, 2005 12:45 PM
Sion Chow Q. C. (9W2QC) reports
HAMSAT passed West Malaysia with a maximum elevation of 52 degrees at 0355
UTC, 7 May 2005.
Excellent signals were heard from the beacon at 145.936 MHz +/- and even
worked VU2POP. He was the 2nd station and the 1st DX station I worked on
HAMSAT. I also understood from VU2POP that I was the first DX station that
he had worked. Thank you very much for the fine contact, Pop. Frequencies
were 435.250 MHz +/- uplink and 145.900 MHz +/- downlink in FM mode. Very
strong signals heard and VU2POP was peaking to 59 over 20 db!!!
Setup here is a Yaesu FT-847, 10 element Yagi for 2M feeded with RG-213
coaxial cable, 11 element Quad for 70 cm feeded with Belden 9913 coaxial
cable, all vertically polarized. No preamp for the 2M band yet but I guess
with the good signals of HAMSAT this isn't needed too. Only about 5-10
watts of power depending on the elevation is needed to work HAMSAT from my
QTH.
Thank you and good luck to AMSAT-INDIA and the HAMSAT team for making this
satellite a success.
73,
Sion Chow Q. C.,
9W2QC.
Saturday, May 07, 2005 2:35 PM
Ian Wareing reports
Firstly my congratulations on the great success!!!
A great day for India and amateur radio worldwide.
Heard HAMSAT on this orbit, while stopped for lunch in my van.
FT817 in vehicle with 1/4 wave mag-mount on roof copied usb signals from
Italy Hungary Spain and UK. Very clean signals only S1 but very
readable, until about 11.33utc.
Will be working all weekend to get an uplink set up.
GW8OGI's Orbit Calendar For HAMSAT
Date Time El Az Phase Lat Long Range Orbit
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Fri 06May05 11:21:56 0 13 156 76 340 2960 18*
Fri 06May05 11:23:24 6 13 160 72 350 2351 18*
Fri 06May05 11:24:52 15 12 164 67 356 1753 18*
Fri 06May05 11:26:18 28 10 167 62 0 1202 18*
Fri 06May05 11:27:36 53 3 171 57 3 788 18*
Fri 06May05 11:28:30 79 311 173 54 5 654 18*
Fri 06May05 11:28:48 78 249 174 53 5 657 18*
Fri 06May05 11:29:08 67 222 175 52 6 690 18*
Fri 06May05 11:29:43 50 209 176 49 7 809 18*
Fri 06May05 11:30:40 31 204 179 46 8 1106 18*
Fri 06May05 11:31:55 17 201 182 41 10 1581 18*
Fri 06May05 11:33:19 8 200 186 36 11 2144 18*
Fri 06May05 11:34:45 2 200 190 31 13 2740 18*
Fri 06May05 11:35:10 0 200 191 30 13 2908 18*
I am using predict 2.2.2 on Linux to track the sat.
73 and all the best to all contributors to this wonderful project.
Namaste
Ian GW8OGI North Wales.
Saturday, May 07, 2005 9:35 AM
Hasan Schiers N0AN reports
0313 through 0326 at EN22XC 07 May, 2005 (Friday evening, central USA)
Excellent signal strength (5x7) with an S1 or less noise level. Receiving with 4
el quad, preamp in shack. Uplink 8 el quad. Both have 80' of LMR 400 coax.
FT-847 no amp required.
Worked N8MH and K0VTY quite easily.
Congratulations and Thank you Amsat India!
73, ....hasan, N0AN
Saturday, May 07, 2005 7:17 AM
Alvaro de Leon Romo XE2AT reports
First all congratulations for your great
work !!!
Here QSO at 1639 UTC May-5th ..S9 at 13
degrees elev, with 2 yagis antennas RHCP and
we can activate the satellite with 5
watts.some up and down of the signal and
audio maybe some were using high power..
Al
XE2AT
DL81uu
Saturday, May 07, 2005 2:27 AM
Ken Swaggart W7KKE, CN75xa reports
Hamsat report - 5 May 1940 UTC
Good signals over western North America.
Made my first Hamsat QSO with W7TYN CN85 at
1940 UTC. My uplink power was approximately
10 Watts, LSB, using 10 x 10 crossed Yagi on
az/el mount. Received signal was up to S-7
to S-9 using horizontally polarized 2 meter
Yagi, steerable in azimuth only.
The received signals were very stable with
no trace of FMing or other abnormalities.
I switched uplink between RHCP and LHCP and
could not conclusively find there was a
consistent difference. At times, one
polarity would seemed favored, but later in
the pass it was not.
Congratulations on a very fine satellite!
73,
Ken, W7KKE, CN75xa
Saturday, May 07, 2005 4:28 AM
Don Blachura w2xb reports
OUTSTANDING! Worked the satellite at 3
degs and my meter on my ft-847 was at s-9.
Clear as a bell. Looking to many enjoyable
hours on this Bird.
Don...w2xb
Saturday, May 07, 2005 3:02 AM
Diane Bruce VA3DB reports
Hello all,
I thought you guys might appreciate a
recording.
A recording of the pass is at:
http://www.db.net/~db/hamsat_may_06_2005_1440.mp3
The mp3 should be "good enough" but you may
hear artefacts on the noise
compared to the .wav file.
Enjoy and 73.
- Diane VA3DB
Saturday, May 07, 2005 2:59 AM
W7TYN reports
I worked several Canadian stations while
the satallite was out some 1100 Km in
the Pacific Ocean from Portland, Oregon.
The signal strength was QSA 5x9 with
excellent audio. I talked through the
HAMSAT with 5 to 7 watts on both SSB and
CW. Congradulations to all at AMSAT
INDIA
73
W7TYN
Saturday, May 07, 2005 2:06 AM
Christian F1AFZ reports
Hi all !!
Very strong signal from HAMSAT on 145.900MHz
+/- during all the pass of the sat this
Friday.
Many contacts with ham europeen stations,
report S6/S9.
- 21 elements yagi in UHF and 18 éléments
yagi in VHF.
