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Sat Presentation in Georgia (US) 01/14/2012
by Clint Bradford 15 Dec '11

15 Dec '11

AMSAT area coordinator Clint Bradford, K6LCS, will be presenting his ‘Working Amateur Satellites With Your HT’ session at the Gwinnett Amateur Radio Society's TechFest 2012 in Lawrenceville, Georgia on January 14, 2012. ALL are welcome to attend! Saturday, January 14, 2012 - 11AM EST Gwinnett Medical Resource Center 655 Duluth Highway (GA120) Lawrenceville GA 30046 Event Web site: http://tinyurl.com/GARS-2012 Attendees should download Clint’s four-page tutorial and radio programming data from … http://www.work-sat.com … and Clint welcomes pre-presentation questions: Send email to … clint(a)clintbradford.com. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Clint K6LCS

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FO-29 status update
by Mineo Wakita 15 Dec '11

15 Dec '11

I calculated FO-29 Eclipse from 1st Dec.2011 to 31th Dec.2014 using scrap.exe software. http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/11215f29.png And the control station says that 'Because the malfunction of the part of the command generator of FO-29 occurs, we cannot operation FO-29 now. We, the control station perform the recovery of this device now. Wait for a while now.' JE9PEL, Mineo Wakita

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Prospero Pass This Morning 0943 - 0955 GMT
by Roger Duthie 15 Dec '11

15 Dec '11

Please check our blog for details of a pass we've decide to command. It's in an hour. Apologies for the short notice. We'll do more in the future. Keep and eye on our blog!!! Blog URL: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/prospero-satellite - Roger Duthie M0RJA

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AI participation at HFI 2011
by Nitin Muttin 15 Dec '11

15 Dec '11

All, AMSAT INDIA had setup a booth at Hamfest India held on Dec 10th and 11th 2011 at Cochin. The hamfest was a great success with ~900 delegates and many visited the AMSAT INDIA booth and I have recieved positive unsolicited feedback from many delegates. We had displayed the below at the booth. 1. Transponder– Ganesan KJ6LRR displayed U/V linear transponder,cubesat comm system and his other projects. 2. Satellite Tracking and antenna orientation - Mani VU2WMY and Balaji VU3PZA displayed satellite tracking and antenna positioning using Yaesu G5500 rotator with two HB9CV (2meter) antenna for reference only. They also had a FT 847 to demo auto Doppler correction. 3. Antennas for LEO satellites - One 70 Cms egg beater antenna, Double cross , 70 cms Slim Jim and QFH for 137 MHz were displayed. Ramesh VU2RMS and Ravi VU2RVJ managed this at the booth. 4. Telemetry Decoding- Simulated demo of telemetry decoding from Amateur radio satellites and also demo the same using Funcube dongle. Nitin VU3TYG and Somu VU3HCJ managed this at the booth. 5. Distribution of Goodies- One sticker (containing AMSAT INDIA logo and HAMSAT Image). We also conducted a Quiz in which a recorded satellite QSO was required to be heard by paticipants and the questions answered, winner was picked by lucky draw and a brass PSLV rocket (scale model) was presented. 6. Ramesh VU2RMS got a book printed on "working the amateur radio satellites" and this was made available at a heavily discounted price. We also had a one hour technical talk during the technical session and the presenters spoke on various topics like satellite tracking , antennas , telemetry decoding etc. I would like to place on record our appreciation to the HFI 2011 organizing committe for all their help and warm hospitality during our stay at Cochin, special thanks to Girish VU2KGB (AI life member) who personally ensured that we were comfortable and AI President Ramesh VU2RMS for all the help to make this a grand success. Great team work by the AMSAT INDIA team comprising of Ramesh VU2RMS, Mani VU2WMY, Ravi VU2RVJ, Somu VU3HCJ, Ganesan KJ6LRR, Balaji VU3PZA who worked hard to get the materials ready for the booth and foils for the technical talk. Some photos taken by VU3SOH of the event and the AI booth can be viewed at https://picasaweb.google.com/106446396333396507000/HFI2011FirstDay?feat=ema… and by VU2YNS at https://picasaweb.google.com/110214972693892202781/HAMFEST2011?authkey=Gv1s… 73's Nitin [VU3TYG] Secretary,AMSAT INDIA

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AC0RA/p AO7 1005z looking for Europe
by Wyatt Dirks 15 Dec '11

15 Dec '11

Today on the 1005z pass of AO7 I will be setting up my portable ssb satellite station to attempt to work into Europe. I will be working portable from EN41cx in Iowa. On this pass of ao7 the footprint reaches as far as Austria, Poland, and Spain. I will be calling at 145.952+/- and if nothing is heard there I will tune around. Hope to work someone across the pond. 73 Wyatt AC0RA

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Joanne "CN:35"
by Joe Batty 15 Dec '11

15 Dec '11

Joanne, My mistake, I was trying to work AO-27 which on the other side of the country and I guess I gave my grid as CN35 not CN 85. A newbe at work still trying to learn how this Sat stuff works. Lots to learn after years of HF. (You were right Wyatt) 73 Joe KT7E CN85mm

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UT1FG/MM
by John Geiger 15 Dec '11

15 Dec '11

Which grid was Yuri in during the AO27 pass at 1950Z this afternoon? 73s John AA5JG

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ARRISSat-1 (37772) decay date update for 2011 Dec 14
by DeYoung James 14 Dec '11

14 Dec '11

Greetings, It is time for another decay date prediction update. As the satellite has gotten lower the atmospheric drag has increased significantly. This prediction update uses solar data through 2011 Dec. 14. The fit only includes orbital height data between Dec. 9 and Dec. 14. The decay date now indicated is 2011 Dec. 31 with a rule-of-thumb error estimate of about +/- 3 days giving a decay date ranging between 2011 Dec 28 to 2012 Jan 3. Jim, N8OQ

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Re: Coast-to-Coast Balloon Flight
by Bob Bruninga 14 Dec '11

14 Dec '11

This transcontinential and trans-Atlantic Balloon mission was fantastic! But in reviewing all the hundreds of emails and minute-by-minute tracking excitement, I just went back to read about the balloon itself, and can find nothing. The original post referred to the California Near SpaCe Project as being the owners. http://californianearspaceproject.com/ But in reviewing all the emails, I can find no other reference to WHO launched it and what it is. Further, going to that site has NO NEWS about this mission, other than a link to APRS.FI which we are all using to track it. So what gives? Are there no pictures of the launch, or who owns it? Or did I just miss the memo... Bob, WB4APR

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Kennedy Space Center Tour
by Bobby Lacey 14 Dec '11

14 Dec '11

Happy Holidays to everyone.. I thought maybe some of you would enjoy looking at these: Recently I was blessed with the opportunity to spend some time at KSC and was given access to both Atlantis and Endeavour. I spent approximately 3 hours inside Atlantis photographing the payload bay, flight deck, and mid-deck. While inside Atlantis, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to take photos of mine and my dad's QSL cards on the flight deck: http://flic.kr/p/aVsWfM Afterwards, I was taken to the VAB to photograph Endeavour and then on to the engine shop where for the first time, all 15 space shuttle main engines sat in the same room at once. If you'd like, you can view the entire set at http://flic.kr/s/aHsjxni8cR Vry 73 Bobby KF4GTA http://www.bobbylacey.com/KF4GTA/

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