September 2009 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

Soyouz-2 IGNITION
by JC-Aveni 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

Soyouz-2 Meteor-M1 + Micro-Sat LAUNCH succes at 16:50 UTC

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Re: Sumbandilasat launch
by andy thomas 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

i see she has a bird from Moscow state university (MGU) on board, would that be Tatiana, ane educational satellite with a 1.7 GHz downlink? 73 de andy G0sfj ....watching...love the sounds too...

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Sunbandilasat launch
by G0MRF＠aol.com 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

Something seems to be happening today at: _http://www.tv-tsenki.com/live.php_ (http://www.tv-tsenki.com/live.php) David

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KB1RVT/P MAINE (CORRECTION FN64 NOT FN63!)
by Daniel "Nick" Kucij 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

I guess one cannot proofread ones own work. I was in FN64 not FN63, I would have been maritime mobile without a boat for that! 73 Nick KB1RVT

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accidental satellite ops
by w7lrd＠comcast.net 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

I noticed yesterday while AO-7 was in mode B over the US there were several stations who were working the VHF contest this weekend. The downlinks sigs were LSB and obviously oblivious they were uplinking to AO-7. I emailed some of them, maybe we can create some accidental satellite aficianados. 73 Bob W7LRD

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Update from KB1RVT/P in Maine
by Daniel "Nick" Kucij 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

Over the course of several trips to Maine this summer, I was able to operate as a portable station with my usual rig (HTs and a homebrew yagi) from three different grids. Mostly I was on Mt. Desert Is (FN54), spent some time in Portland (FN43) and made a day-trip to relatively rare FN63. Overall, it resulted in 158 QSOs in the log. The recent trip had some highlights: The day-trip further Downeast to FN63 was my first "DXpedition". I managed to work one pass on each of the three FM birds. Reception on the first, SO-50, was rough, resulting in just two contacts. The second, AO-27, from a blueberry hill in Harrington, resulted in 8 more contacts. The third, a high AO-51 pass from the edge of the Atlantic in the beautiful working harbor of Corea, resulted in 8 more contacts; for a total of 16 different stations. I plan to get back there again next summer. I also tried working a couple of lower westerly passes from up on Cadillac Mt. (1500') in Acadia National Park. On one 11 degree AO-27 pass to my west, I worked K6CDW in Agoura Hills, CA and WX7P in Rice, WA. For both of them Maine was a new state, but I could tell Wilse, WX7P was excited. It turned out, Maine was the last state he need for WAS and he told me he'd been trying to get it for three years, so it made my day also. Earlier in the summer, I'd been keeping an ear out for KC7USS, Dave in Shelton, WA. Luckily, on my last evening evening in Portland, we QSOed on AO-51, which completed his WAS also. VO1BQ, Joe in St. Johns, NL, one of my contacts from the FN64 trip, had told me of his transatlantic success from Sutton Hill overlooking his hometown. He'd worked the UK, Portugal and Spain; so on my last afternoon of vacation I headed over to Cadillac Mt. again, this time to try some lower passes to the east. For the first one, I stopped the car on the Ocean Drive in ANP, at about 300' and set up by the side of the road for a 14 degree AO-27 pass. Sure enough, there was "Echo America One Queen Sugar" calling. Pablo in Pontevedra on the northern coast of Spain had a fine signal and we made a contact, my first transatlantic! Later in the afternoon, I was up on the very top of Cadillac Mt. for a 16 degree AO-51 pass. I heard the bird as soon as it came up on the horizon. The carrier was quieting, but had a very rapid fade which smoothed out some over the course of the pass. I heard a station calling and replied, it was EA8HB, Hugo in the Canary Islands. just off the coast of Africa; then another somewhat stronger station came on, it was Pablo, EA1QS again. I stayed on the pass all the way north and could hear my signal into the bird, but did not hear anyone else. I was really thrilled to make these contacts. Hugo was just about 3000 miles away, my most distant LEO QSO to date. Pablo said he often is calling on the mid-atlantic passes, without hearing anyone. I don't know how many of us are trying to work transatlantic from the east coast and maybe I was just plain lucky, but I'll surely be trying again! All in all, a fun time operating portable. I'll be back in southern Maine this fall visiting family and plan to make a day-trip to FN53. I expect it is rare as it is mostly water. If you need a QSL for any of our Maine QSOs, just send me an email with the details. I'll be going over my log and getting cards out soon. Thanks for all the contacts! 73, Nick, KB1RVT

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Hudson Valley Satcom Group Net 3rd Anniversary Net Tonight 8PM On N2EYH-L
by Cotejaune2＠aol.com 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

Hello again everyone. Tonight September 17 at 8pm we will be having our third anniversary net on Echolink N2EYH-L and on the MT. beacon ARC 146.970 repeater pl 100. I do hope you will join us and share your satellite knowledge with us. We usually have an Amsat coordinator join us on the net also. Hope to hear you on the net. 73 Gary WA2AQH

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Re: true duplex radios
by clintbrad4d＠earthlink.net 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

But the ability to crossband repeat doesn't automatically mean that a radio can monitor a satellite's downlink while transmitting to it .... -----Original Message----- From: "Andrew Glasbrenner" <glasbrenner(a)mindspring.com> Subj: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: true duplex radios Date: Mon Jun 1, 2009 12:55 pm Size: 467 bytes To: "Clint Bradford" <clintbrad4d(a)earthlink.net>,<amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> > Really? Dual-receive, indeed. And will perform crossband repeating. > But I can transmit on one band and simultaneously hear myself on > another with a FT-8800? How else would it be able to cross band repeat? Page three of the manual: "Featuring 1054 memory channels (527 channels each for "Main" and "Sub" band), full duplex operation with independent Volume and Squelch controls, and built-in CTCSS and DCS encoder/decoder circuits, ..." 73, Drew KO4MA

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45th IET Appleton Lecture
by G7SVI 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

For those across this side of the pond and those who may be visiting, Martin Sweeting (G3YJO and Chairman of AMSAT-UK) will be presenting this lecture entitled "Ordinary components, extraordinary missions - the role of small satellites in space exploration" on Tuesday 19th January 2010. The lecture will be in London. "The Appleton Lecture was established in 1965 to commemorate the life and work of Sir Edward Appleton, a widely honoured physicist and Nobel Prize winner who is mainly noted for research into the upper atmosphere. Professor Sir Martin Sweeting's talk will be the 45th in the series." This lecture is free to attend and you do not have to be a member of the IET. It is first come. First served and you can reserve your place at http://conferences.theiet.org/lectures/appleton/index.htm Congratulations Martin and look forward to hearing the lecture. Clive G7SVI AMSAT-UK 6366

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W6ZQ on AO-51 from BL02, Thursday evening
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

Hi! Ron W6ZQ is planning to work the AO-51 pass at 0230-0238 UTC tomorrow night (Thursday night, early Friday UTC time) from grid BL02 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. This will be the 5th time he has been on from Kauai during his Hawaiian vacation, and the third time from BL02 specifically. After tomorrow night, he will not be on from Kauai again until later this month. This AO-51 pass should be workable by those along the US West Coast, along with parts of western Canada and Alaska. It will be a pass with maximum elevation of 9 degrees here in Phoenix, and higher for those further west. If you're looking for a chance to work Hawaii via satellite, W6ZQ has been working virtually everyone who has called him on other passes from out there during this month. Good luck, and 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/

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