December 2010 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

DOUBLE Your Contribution to AMSAT
by Clint Bradford 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

If you donate to AMSAT here ... http://www.work-sat.com ... your contributions are DOUBLED. That's right - the next few contributors who send AMSAT money through my site will have their donation DOUBLED by K6LCS - up to another $100 and a deadline of midnight PST 12/24/2010. After you use the PayPal system to donate, you must PRIVATELY EMAIL ME so I can double your donation - clint(a)clintbradford.com SMALL PRINT - There is none. 100% of your donation goes directly to AMSAT-NA, less any PayPal fees they may incur. This is NOT an "affiliate" type of relationship - it is pure donations going directly to AMSAT-NA - K6LCS makes nada. Questions? Call me at 909-241-7666 (cell) or 951-685-8614 (res). __________________ Clint Bradford, K6LCS http://www.clintbradford.com

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Malware at CAMSAT site?
by Bill Dzurilla 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

I have not operated HO-68 for several months. Today I tried to navigate to camsat.cn to get the latest schedule for the bird, but instead the site was blocked by my Firefox browser with the message, "Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer! The website at www.camsat.cn appears to host malware." Tried with Chrome browser, same result. What's up? If the CAMSAT site is indeed infected, is there another site to get the HO-68 schedule? 73, Bill NZ5N

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first 1000 QSOs
by Loren 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

Being snow-bound today, I decided to count up QSOs per bird for my first 1000 QSOs on the FM satellites. I Stopped at 1000 to make the percentages easy to figure. I wonder if my percentages are typical of other hams who has been on the FM birds for about one year. AO-51 665 AO-27 163 SO-50 90 SO-67 15 HO-68 67 Merry Christmas to all 73 Loren k7cwq CN94

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AO-51 Straight Key Night CW over FM
by Roland Zurmely 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

Please could someone explain better this mode for your use on Straight Key Night for AO-51: Uplink: 145.880 MHz CW (is this A1 ?) Downlink: 435.300 MHz CW over FM (is this A2 over FM ?) Thanks !

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EM14/EM15
by ted 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

If everything works out today I'm going to try to work the afternoon passes of AO-27 from EM14/EM15. (1853Z, 2031Z) Should you need a card, an email will work fine. 73....ted....aa5ck

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New AO-27 schedule uploaded
by George Henry 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

A new schedule was uploaded to AO-27 yesterday (12/19), so if you use the Java schedule lister, make sure you update your data files! I have also been advised that the timing error on the AO-27 website has been corrected. George, KA3HSW Java Schedule Lister available at http://sites.google.com/site/ao27satellitescheduler

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AO51 Uplink?
by Zachary Beougher 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

Hi All, I just got off of AO51, and I could not get in for some reason. I was in V/U mode, and I am aware that it is in V/SU. I was transmitting on the 145.880 uplink (no PL). I heard several others on, but I could not hear myself in the downlink, and no one would respond to my calls. All I can figure is that I overlooked something – any ideas? 73! Zack KD8KSN

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ht for sale
by Dads 19 Dec '10

19 Dec '10

I have a couple HT,s for sale ?? I have a FT-530 Yaesu HT with manual, charger and battery $175.00 plus shipping The FT-530 is a dualband The other HT is Alinco model DJ-580 T dualband $ 145.00 plus shipping Jerry w0sat w0sat(a)msn.com

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Uplink on AO-51
by Andrew Glasbrenner 19 Dec '10

19 Dec '10

I switched the uplink to 145.920 this evening on the chance that the solid carrier blocking the uplink wasn't intentional. 73, Drew KO4MA

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Predict to email
by Andrew Rich 19 Dec '10

19 Dec '10

Does there exist a system that will email a list of passes to a user ? Of selected satellites ? Sent from my iPhone Andrew Rich

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