> A significant fraction of the spam I get on my primary email account
> comes by way of the amsat.org email reflector; by my count, 18 of the 76
> spam emails I've received in the last day.
Same here. I stopped using my amsat.org address about a decade ago because it was so badly spammed. It is still a valid address but it forwards to a separate address on my mail server. I check it every few days. These days, most of the spam is in Chinese.
Only reason I keep it at all is because that is the address used on several very old references that I did and I get E-Mail regarding those now and then.
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> I wonder if it would be possible to set up some sort of auto-responder
> on amsat.org so that instead of just forwarding email, returns a message
> to the sender with a non-machine-readable image of the user's actual
> email address, possibly accompanied with a sound file with the same
> information for anyone with impaired vision. Spammers couldn't handle
> it, especially since most don't even use valid return addresses. But any
> real human could resend his email directly to its destination.
An interesting idea for getting around the spammers... Almost any of the autoresponders do block most of the spam, but some legit users will also get blocked.
73
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Jim Walls - K6CCC
jim(a)k6ccc.org
Res: 626-914-4641 Ofc: 818-548-4804
Cell: 626-482-0927
Here is our latest induction into some of the AMSAT awards community.
There is a pretty good batch since my last report.
The following have entered into the Satellite Communicators Club for
making their first satellite QSO.
Jim Whitfield, K5JAW
Giancarlo Guenzi, IZ1JPS
Roberto Rachelli, IZ1WIX
Brad Smith, KC9UQR
Paul Stoetzer, N8HM
The following have earned the AMSAT Communications Achievement Award.
Charles Allen, KM5LY, #556
Brad Smith, KC9UQR, #557
David Johnson, KC9GHA, #558
Rolf Krogstad, NR0T, #559
Randy Morden, VE6RGU, #560
Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, #561
The following have earned the South Africa Satellite Communications
Achievement Award.
Charles Allen, KM5LY, #US186
David Johnson, KC9GHA, #US187
Randy Morden, VE6RGU, #US188
Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, #US189
To see all the awards visit http://www.amsat.org or
http://www.amsatnet.com/awards.html
Bruce Paige, KK5DO
AMSAT Director Contests and Awards
ARRL Awards Manager (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE
Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT*
Also streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com
Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes
Through his work on the educational aspects of the Fox satellites, Mark
Spencer has produced some great experiments and materials.
The Fox-1 attitude determination experiment, and now the Fox-2 MPPT
system have both been presented in the AMSAT Journal.
If you aren't a member of AMSAT you are missing some great stuff in the
Journal.
But in this research and work for the Fox-2 MPPT system I believe that
Mark may have inadvertently answered an age old question that has (to my
knowledge) never been definitively been answered before. A question as
old as the icebox itself.
In the MPPT article figure 3, Mark presents a measure of voltage and
power in three environments: a room (presumably in his home), the
refrigerator compartment of his refrigerator, and the freezer
compartment of his refrigerator.
The measured power is higher in the refrigerator and even higher in the
freezer.
EUREKA!
I believe that Mark has finally proven that the light in the
refrigerator (or freezer) STAYS ON WHEN THE DOOR IS CLOSED!
Otherwise, how could there have been any power output in the
refrigerator or freezer at all? A solar panel requires light to work.
Thank you, Mark! I can now share with my mother (poor Pop isn't around
to enjoy this discovery although he first posed the question to me 50+
years ago) that I KNOW.
And keep up the good work that you are doing for the ARRL Education and
Technology Program too.!
73
Jerry
N0JY
(The above was for fun and in no way meant to diminish Mark's work.)
I recently updated SatPC32 from 12.8b to 12.8c. I backed up my old data,
removed SatPC32 and installed the newer version then restored my backup
data. Everything is working and SatPC32 itself is using English language.
However any error with comms (ServerSDX) returns an error message in German
and SuM is also using German. Unfortunately the only German words I know
are not very polite so can someone tell me how to change the language of SuM
and ServerSDX back to English. I suspect I will also find some other parts
of the package that are in German too.
Thanks from Dick G4BBH.
The AMSAT Office is closed. FridayI fell and tore my achilles heel.. I am
in a fiberglass cast for 2 weeks and then a plaster cast for four weeks. I
cannot put any weight on my left leg. I do have a wheel chair so I hope my
husband (N4QQ) will take me to the office until I can manage on my own.
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73- Martha
