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AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates
by Alan P. Biddle 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

It is my pleasure to announce that the following have been nominated to serve on the AMSAT Board of Directors for two year terms: Tom Clark, K3IO Lou McFadin, W5DID Tony Monteiro, AA2TX Gould Smith, WA4SXM Candidates will be afforded the opportunity to have statements of their qualifications and positions circulated to the membership. In accordance with the bylaws of the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, the ballots will be mailed no later than July 15th, and must be returned no later than September 15h to be counted. Since there are four candidates for three seats, the three candidates having the greatest number of votes will be elected to full terms. The forth candidate will serve as an alternate until the next annual election. Alan Biddle WA4SCA AMSAT Corporate Secretary

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Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates
by Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

At 10:27 PM 6/16/2010 -0400, Anthony Monteiro <aa2tx(a)comcast.net> wrote: >At 07:40 PM 6/16/2010, Dave Guimont wrote: >>I hope we are getting great financial support from the fm'ers. I >>assume the reason for fm is the assumed cost of ssw/cw rigs in > >Dear Dave and Vince and the group, > >You guys have to know that I would love to put up a linear HEO and >resurrect the +20 net! Pull my finger. KB7ADL

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Moonbound CubeSat
by Trevor . 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Article from EETimes: The proposed lunar lander will be a single unit CubeSat with four mini-thrusters on the bottom to maximise control and manoeuvrability. Two potential options for propulsion are being examined – a bi-propellant booster or a Xenon powered ion drive booster. The Xenon thruster can also be used for a triple CubeSat that would go to and orbit the moon. The team is currently working on initial designs for the spacecraft, with the aim of achieving further NASA funding in June 2011. Lunar lander project relies on SPARK programming language http://www.electronics-eetimes.com/en/lunar-lander-project-relies-on-spark-… 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio Email/RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email Your News To: editor at southgatearc.org Or Upload Using Form At: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/your_news_1.htm ----

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Icom IC-7000 and SatPC
by Clint Bradford 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

>From my in box ... I'll send him all replies. I do not "know" the IC-7000 well enough to respond. -Clint Clint, Thanks for all your great help in enabling us to work the sats. I read with great interest the article in the latest AMSAT Journal by Adrian Engele, AA5UK...In it he indicated that he used SatPC to control the doppler receive in his rig which precluded the need for a rig with full duplex capabilities. I had thought I need a full duplex rig to work the birds with linear transponders. I have seveal hundred qso's on the FM birds and want to get on the ssb birds. Also would like to get on the ssb birds for FD as I know the FM birds will be crowded and current predictions indicate only a couple good passes of the fm birds during FD here in Houston. My question is will SatPC (or any other software) enable me to use my IC7000, which is not a full duplex rig, to work the birds with linear transponders??? Thanks again for all your help. Stan Polak K5STZ Houston, TX

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AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2010 - Final call for Speakers
by David Johnson 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Hi All, This is the final call for speakers for the AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2010 which will be held at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, UK (same venue as in 2009) on *Sat 31st Jul and Sun 1st Aug 2010*, with a beginners session on the afternoon of Friday 30th. AMSAT-UK invite speakers, about amateur radio, space and associated activities to this event, details of which, can be found at: http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/32/42/ As this is a late call, the submission of a paper is not required but any PowerPoint or similar material can be made available online, afterterwards. Submissions should be sent *ONLY* to G4DPZ, via the following routes: e-mail: david.johnson AT blackpepper.co.uk SnailMail: QTHR from www.QRZ.com Likewise if anyone knows of a good speaker, please send contact and other information to G4DPZ. 73 Dave G4DPZ

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AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2010 - Final call for speakers
by David Johnson 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Hi All, This is the final call for speakers for the AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2010 which will be held at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, UK (same venue as in 2009) on *Sat 31st Jul and Sun 1st Aug 2010*, with a beginners session on the afternoon of Friday 30the. AMSAT-UK invite speakers, about amateur radio, space and associated activities to this event, details of which, can be found at: http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/32/42/ As this is a late call, the submission of a paper is not required but any PowerPoint or similar material can be made available online, afterterwards. Submissions should be sent *ONLY* to G4DPZ, via the following routes: e-mail: david.johnson AT blackpepper.co.uk SnailMail: QTHR from www.QRZ.com Likewise if anyone knows of a good speaker, please send contact and other information to G4DPZ. 73 Dave G4DPZ

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For W4UPD only
by David Giles 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Hello Reid, I've tried three times to reply to your emails but they keep bouncing. Thanks for the file, just what I wanted. 73 de David VK5DG

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Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates
by Tom Clark, K3IO 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Vince asked: > Which of these candidates would support adding a Mode A linear transponder > to FOX, or any type of linear transponder for that matter. FOX will > already have a 2m receiver all you'd need to add is a 10m downlink > transmitter. Use a tape measure tape for the antennas. Not very practical ides -- sorry. FOX is a 1U Cubesat, 10cm=4" on a side. Kinda hard to fit 10M dipole (which would be ~16 ft long, fed in the middle). You can't do it with a monopole because the 4" box doesn't have enough size to feed a monopole against. And with a 4" cube (even with deployable panels) we can only expect a total of a few watts (orbit average) of power. The laws of physics and engineering are rather unforgiving! 73, Tom

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TS-711/811 help
by David Giles 16 Jun '10

16 Jun '10

Hello All, I've just acquired a TS-811 but alas it does not have the IF-10A computer interface. I've downloaded the manual and have all the chips, eprom programmer, spare eproms etc. to build my own. What I don't have is the contents of the 2732 extension eprom. If anyone has a hexdump of the eprom or is able to extract the contacts (or knows where I can get a copy) please reply to me off-list. 73 de David VK5DG

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Falcon 9 to launch Iridium sats
by Trevor . 16 Jun '10

16 Jun '10

Looks like SpaceX has a contract to launch lots of Iridium satellites into a 781km orbit. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10335315.stm 73 Trevor M5AKA

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