<div>Francisco Costa Boas!!</div>
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<div>Terás alguma informação para quando o satélite P3-Express estará operacional?</div>
<div><a href="http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/express/">http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/express/</a></div>
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<div>Um abraço...</div>
<div>73, CT1FZC</div>
<div>Freitas</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/6/28, Francisco Costa, CT1EAT <<a href="mailto:listas_ct1eat@sapo.pt">listas_ct1eat@sapo.pt</a>>:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Olá Salomão<br><br>> Algum dos Colegas tem escutado as frequências de "downlink" da ISS?<br><br>
Para saber o "status" actual das actividades da ISS,<br>veja esta página: <a href="http://www.issfanclub.com/">http://www.issfanclub.com/</a> no lado direito.<br><br><br>> A razão de ser das mesmas é a seguinte, desde sempre que conseguia escutar
<br>> o<br>> beacon de APRS da Estação, mas de há alguns meses a esta parte e mesmo com<br>> órbitas muito favoráveis, não consigo obter nenhum sinal.<br><br>O problema não é seu, mas do rádio da ISS que está desconfigurado,
<br>e ainda não foi possivel repor a configuração.<br>Para mais info, leia o report do Frank Baur.<br><br>73 F.Costa, CT1EAT<br><a href="http://www.qsl.net/ct1eat">www.qsl.net/ct1eat</a><br><br><br>----- Original Message -----
<br>From: "Frank H. Bauer" <<a href="mailto:ka3hdo@comcast.net">ka3hdo@comcast.net</a>><br>To: <<a href="mailto:sarex@AMSAT.Org">sarex@AMSAT.Org</a>><br>Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 2:45 AM<br>Subject: [sarex] ARISS Status Report April 24, 2007
<br><br><br>> ISS Ham Radio Enthusiasts,<br>><br>> I wanted to provide a progress report on the ISS Ham Radio activities.<br>> And<br>> to address some questions that have come up related to ARISS operations
<br>> and<br>> equipment upgrade and repair.<br>><br>> With the successful Shuttle return to flight, the International Space<br>> Station Program construction has moved into high gear with delivery and<br>> assembly of new ISS modules. If all goes well, the new European Columbus
<br>> Module and Japanese Kibo module will be installed on ISS in the next 12<br>> months. This substantial workload on the crew is impacting ARISS<br>> operations directly.<br>><br>> The launching of any new or replacement radios or computers has been
<br>> significantly curtailed due to the extremely limited upmass<br>> capability. There are just too many higher priority activities from an<br>> international space agency perspective and frankly we are a lower
<br>> priority. The extra workload on the crew has taken its toll on ARISS -<br>> they have had very little extra time for Amateur Radio activities beyond<br>> school contacts. This is somewhat frustrating to the general ham radio
<br>> community and the ARISS International Team, though the team is pleased<br>> that<br>> the crew has been able to speak so often with youth groups worldwide,<br>> piquing their interest in Amateur Radio, science, technology, engineering
<br>> and math.<br>><br>> The ARISS team had been hopeful that Charles Simonyi would have been able<br>> to restore the Kenwood D700 radio system to full functionality after an<br>> accidental reprogramming of the radio occurred near the end of Exp 13.
<br>> The<br>> ARISS team worked diligently with the Simonyi team to get Charles<br>> licensed, trained, and prepared to perform the Kenwood<br>> reprogramming. Unfortunately, the ARISS team hit a major hurdle a few
<br>> weeks before Charles' launch. We learned that additional software<br>> certification steps were required to allow the reprogramming software to<br>> be<br>> used on the ISS computers. Through heroic efforts by the team, final
<br>> software certification was successfully completed. Unfortunately, this<br>> was<br>> completed only a few days before Charles' return from space. As a result,<br>> the ARISS team was informed by the mission control team and some of our
<br>> international team partners that it there was insufficient time to allow<br>> Charles to complete the restoration. Thus, the Kenwood restoration was<br>> not<br>> completed by Charles. This last minute hiccup in software certification
<br>> was not predictable. So there was no way the ARISS team could have better<br>> prepared for Charles' flight.<br>><br>> At this point in time, it appears that a full restoration will require a<br>> substantial, concerted effort with full cooperation from our international
<br>> colleagues and the Russian and US space agencies. We need to make sure<br>> that all components necessary for a successful reprogramming are<br>> identified, purchased (if necessary), certified, tested and flown together
<br>> before the radio will be fully restored. Realizing this will be especially<br>> challenging due to the upmass issue I described above. This will likely<br>> take several months to accomplish as the team will have to begin from
<br>> square one. In the short term, requests for some investigative analysis by<br>> the crew will be made. This will enable the ARISS team to determine if<br>> the<br>> radio can be partially restored to provide some of the unattended
<br>> operations that it once provided.<br>><br>> With Charles' successful landing, we have started down this new path. We<br>> will continue to keep you informed of our progress.<br>><br>> In closing, we are aggressively working this issue, despite several
<br>> setbacks. While our plans to have Charles reprogram the radio were<br>> thwarted, we were happy that he could speak to so many hams around the<br>> world during his short stay. And capture the imagination of students
<br>> around the globe.<br>><br>> On behalf of the ARISS team, we thank all of you for your interest and<br>> enthusiasm in Ham Radio on the ISS.<br>><br>> 73, Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO<br>> ARISS International Chairman
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http://radio-amador.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cluster</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Carlos Freitas<br>CT1FZC