Juno's Fly-By..'Live'

[Jerry]

Slooh.com and JPL will show Juno's Fly-By of Earth Wed 'Live'..The time
of closest approach is 3:21 p.m. EDT (12:21 PDT / 19:21 UTC) on Oct. 9,
2013 !
97% of NASA�s employees are furloughed � including public affairs � due
to the legal requirements of the shutdown! However, Amidst the
government shutdown, Juno prime contractor Lockheed Martin is working
diligently to ensure the mission success, because there are NO 2nd chances!
What�s not at all clear is whether Juno will detect any signs of
�intelligent life� in Washington D.C.!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0zbc3UXghg

Jerry
VE6CPP
DN39or

[Edward R Cole]

At 04:43 PM 10/8/2013, Jerry wrote:
>Slooh.com and JPL will show Juno's Fly-By of
>Earth Wed 'Live'..The time of closest approach
>is 3:21 p.m. EDT (12:21 PDT / 19:21 UTC) on Oct. 9, 2013 !

>97% of NASA’s employees are furloughed ­
>including public affairs ­ due to the legal

>requirements of the shutdown! However, Amidst
>the government shutdown, Juno prime contractor
>Lockheed Martin is working diligently to ensure
>the mission success, because there are NO 2nd chances!

>What’s not at all clear is whether Juno will
>detect any signs of ‘intelligent life’ in Washington D.C.!

>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0zbc3UXghg
>
>Jerry
>VE6CPP
>DN39or
>

My understanding is that the fly-by is over
eastern US and EU and mid-east Asia and the
Pacific will be on the wrong side of the planet
to see/hear anything. Correct me if I am wrong.


73, Ed - KL7UW
http://www.kl7uw.com
dubu...@gmail.com
"Kits made by KL7UW"

[Jerry]

No, your correct Ed ! Its closest to Earth will be near S Africa I
believe.. Slooh is a group of telescopes on Tenerife in the Canary
Islands..(also in Chile as well) Just 'one way to see what they can, if
we cannot' !
Jerry

[Stephen Kangas]

Ed, Jerry's correct: we can still see the fly-by, via remote viewing with
Slooh.com telescopes (which are heftier than anything in my backyard, that's
for sure)...plus they typically also do a live audio narration stream, and
later post a recording for playback.

--Stephen W9SK

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[Stephen Kangas]

Ahhh, I may be a little slow, but...were you thinking about the possibility
of a QSO off the fly-by? That would be cool! (if it were remotely even
possible). --Stephen

[Edward R Cole]

Stephen,

No 2-way QSO? The JUNO s/c flyby was a receive experiment where hams
transmit super slow "HI" in CW on 10m and the s/c receives it. I'm
not really sure what one accomplishes by participating other than
stress testing your transmitter by holding down the CW Key for 24
seconds for each "dot"!

I did send two ten-minute HI sequences beginning at 1800z, but dialed
down my power to 110w from 250w. Since the s/c was overhead at
Buenos Aires, Argentina, it was clearly over the horizon and probably
beyond range. If ionosphere is active enough for skip that far it
will block the signal from reaching above the ionosphere and reaching
the s/c...duh! It might be a better challenge if it can hear your
10m signal when it is orbiting Jupiter? (good luck on that one)

I find this as exciting as being an unpaid volunteer telemetry ground
station for some university built and launched satellite who use ham
radio frequencies for free but do not provide anything resembling ham
radio. BTW those universities are paid grants and the profs get paid
salaries...I get to pay my electric bill.

I'm no longer active/interested in amateur satellites as a result
(e.g. ham sats that do no do ham radio).

For real fun bounce signals off the Moon...or try transmitting over
2000 mi using meteors!

73, Ed - KL7UW
2m-eme: 4x M2 2mXP20 + 1300w
23cm-eme: 16-foot dish + 50w

[Al Hagen]

The Juno fly-by participation as requested by NASA JPL was for hams to go
key-down for 30 seconds, then key up for 30 seconds four times for the "H",
then 150 seconds for a space, then two more 30 seconds key-down & key-ups
for the "I" during a 10-minute period, beginning at 1800Z. This was to be
repeated
for approximately two and 1/2 hours. It will be interesting (to me, at
least) to
find out how successful this test of the Juno broadband receiver was.

I participated for one hour until I had a previously-scheduled
appointment. I was using an IC-706 at 100 watts to a wire dipole. The '706
ran cool
enough that the power was never automatically reduced. During the key-up
times,
I heard another station furiously sending "HI" & his call presumably with a
pre-programmed keyer!

See: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/hijuno/

Al
W7HDD
Wenatchee, WA

[Jerry]

Well.. my apologies to the group.. that link did not really do anything
for me ! Just a bit of scientific chatter mostly..with a short clip of a
'blip of light' going past ! ;-)
I was far from 'awestruck' to say the least !
Jerry
VE6CPP
On 10/9/2013 6:35 AM, Owen, Michael wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/hijuno/ has all the information on Juno
>
> W9IP

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[Edward R Cole]

Jerry,

The page has links but not intuitive that they are
links. Instructions were confusing to me.

The first JPL/NASA "ham participation" project was back in 1996 when
They invited hams to try copying the beacon from the MGS s/c as it
departed earth enroute to an orbit around Mars (MGS = Mars Global
Surveyor). That was a real challenge as the s/c transmitter output
1w RHCP EIRP on 437.1 MHz. At 10 million miles when they ran the
test the strength of the signal at earth was in the neighborhood of
-180 dBm and took eme-like effort to receive it. You needed a really
good circular polarized antenna, preamp and digital waterfall
sw. There was only one available back then from Mike Cook, AF9Y:
http://www.af9y.com/radio40.htm

Now that was worth trying and you received a QSL that meant something.
Alast my effort was for not...but it was the "spice" to get me
charged up to do ham radio, again. At first it was on satellite
which had AO-13 alive and the promise of AO-40 (1999). By 1999 this
evolved into building my 2m-eme station.

This weekend will launch a next step with 1296-eme using a 16-foot
dish -- crossed fingers, and toes!
Dish is ready and all systems are go:
http://www.kl7uw.com/eme1296.htm

73, Ed - KL7UW

[Al Hagen]

I guess I should have been more specific in my posting. When you click on
the "hi Juno" link, scroll down to "How do I Participate?". When you get to
that page, scrolling down even gives you representations of Juno's path
during the Earth pass-by.

Al
W7HDD