June 2011 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

Fwd: Live Web Broadcast of Field Day Saturday EM55
by wa4hfn＠comcast.net 24 Jun '11

24 Jun '11

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Tom" <wa5kub(a)gmail.com> To: "Tom" <wa5kub(a)gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 8:29:48 PM Subject: Live Web Broadcast of Field Day Saturday Hello to all the viewers of the W5KUB.COM broadcasts. Live Broadcast this weekend! Thank you so much for being with us during the Dayton Hamvention. We had over 30,000 unique hams follow us the 5 days and in about 100 countries. We hoped you enjoyed the broadcast. We are planning 2 live events. 1. We will be broadcasting live the Field Day operations from Collierville, TN. This event will be a large Memphis event with three local ham clubs taking part. They will be working many bands and will also include set up to work the satellites. This event will be broadcast on this Saturday June 25. I will try to start the broadcast around 8:00 am Central time. 2. We will be broadcasting the Huntsville, AL hamfest Aug 20-21. This is a large hamfest that pulls many people from not only the S.E. U.S. but also across the country. We will have prizes again for our viewers. This is a great inside facility and we will have perfect connectivity so will be able to stream great quality video. We will also be able to move around and show you everything in there plus lots of neat interviews. The website is the same http://w5kub.com Please help pass this information around to other hams that you know. Also please register for the chat room if you have not done so. It takes only about 1 minute to register. Just pick your name, and a password, and then enter your email. You will receive an email (instantly) with a link to click. That will complete your new account and register you. Thanks and 73, Tom W5KUB -- Check out my website at http://tmedlin.com and my live video site for hamfests at http://w5kub.com Senior Member of the I.E.E.E

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Yaesu FT770 on satellites
by John Geiger 24 Jun '11

24 Jun '11

Has anyone on the reflector used a Yaesu FT770 on the mode J satellites? If so, how well does it hear on UHF? 73s John AA5JG

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AO-27 This Afternoon
by Clint Bradford 24 Jun '11

24 Jun '11

Who was that working AO-27 a couple hours ago? Kansas City, EM29 KBOxx Clint, K6LCS

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"FO-29 performs well. Its a shame I often find myself the only one on during the pass "
by Thomas Doyle 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

The following quote from John W9EN hit home with me. "FO-29 performs well. Its a shame I often find myself the only one on during the pass " I am an AMSAT old timer (Amsat LM-0875) who had been inactive in ham radio for a decade or two. Recently I got back on the air. The easiest way to get back on the air was 2M/70cm repeaters. The activity level on the repeaters here in Madison is at an very low level. In the old days you could always find someone on the repeaters. I was a bit surprised to say the least. Back in the day I worked WAS on Oscar using scratch built transverters. I thought I might give the current satellites a try. I thought my gear was not working but I guess it is the low level of activity on the sats. The same situation occurred about 65 million years ago when the few remaining dinosaurs stood around and asked themselves - where is everybody. Today "everybody" is playing Angry Birds on their iWhatever or tweeting the fact that they are up and going to have breakfast soon. One thing that would help the satellite hobby is a more modern use of the internet for discussions. I searched for an Amsat yahoo group and could not find anything. Some sort of threaded discussion system with actual search capability like the yahoo groups would be much more useful than the current 'old school' listserv. Unfortunately the few people who read this will think I am nuts and that the current system works great - "for them". That is always the situation when something is in decline - the few remaining folks like things just fine the way they are. 73 tom W9KE P.S. the spell checker on my email system picked the word "transverters" as misspelled. It suggested "transvestites" as a possible correct spelling. I guess I am truly a dinosaur.

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Re: Major ISS reboost June 12th
by Colin Knight 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

And a furthur two big boosts set for the 15th June @ 15:05 and 19:09hrs utc. Hang on to your hats. Cjk ======= On 11-June-2011, 12:10:56 you wrote: ======= >According to Roscosmos, the ISS altitude will be raised 19.2 km tomorrow. >Until updated Keps are available from Space Track, there will be a slippage >in predictions of _approximately_ 6 minutes per day! > > >http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=11894&lang=en > >Alan >WA4SCA

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QSO on AO7
by Luis Quintas 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

I Tnx Louis (KD5GM) for QSO on CW on AO7 Mode B, June 22 at 23.33 Z, Orbit 67507 (EL29KQ - - FF66TQ, 7631 km). QRV for others QSOs attempts via AO7. --luis LU6QI

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HudsonValleySatcomGroupNetJune23@ 8PM ON Echolink N2EYH-L(429079)MTBeacon146.970
by Cotejaune2＠aol.com 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

Hello all it is time again for the HVSG Net Tomorrow June 23 @ 8 PM EDT on Echolink N2EYH-L node 429079. Everyone is gearing up for field day this weekend trying to make that one satellite contact for the bonus points.Hope to hear you on the birds and on the net .Please check in and say hello. 73 Gary wa2aqh

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SpaceRef Article - ARISS Contacts
by Trevor . 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

Proposal Deadline Approaching: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station Contact Opportunity http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=37460 73 Trevor M5AKA

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Instanbul Linear Transponder Sat
by Trevor . 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

The Istanbul Technical University have submitted a frequency coordination request with IARU for a 50 kHz bandwidth V/U linear transponder satellite TURKSAT-3USAT. They indicate a launch in 2012, see http://www.southgatearc.org/news/june2011/turksat_3usat.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio Email/RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email Your News To: editor at southgatearc.org Or Upload At: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/your_news_1.htm ----

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ISS Repeater for Field Day!
by Don Hoover 21 Jun '11

21 Jun '11

Does anyone know if we will have the repeater on ISS to use for field day? Thanks!

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