March 2014 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

Got Grids ?
by wa4hfn＠comcast.net 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Got Grids ? award # 3 goes to Rick WA4NVM .... Congrats to Rick. WA4HFN Damon EM55

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Fwd: W5KUB Live Webcast
by wa4hfn＠comcast.net 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "W5KUB Broadcast" <wa5kub.video(a)gmail.com> To: "Tom Medlin" <wa5kub.video(a)gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 12:19:36 AM Subject: W5KUB Live Webcast It's time for the W5KUB.COM live webcast of Gigaparts’ Ham Radio Day!! Please join W5KUB.com for our live, online webcast of the Gigaparts Ham Radio Day on Saturday, March 29th in Huntsville, Alabama. Great in-store prizes and online prizes will be awarded. To join the broadcast go to http://W5KUB.com where the fun begins! W5KUB will interview various vendors regarding their latest products, special guests, and attendees. During the live broadcast, online viewers will have the opportunity to meet and chat with other ham radio operators from around the world or chat directly with us at the event and ask questions. You may see some of your friends on the broadcast. Make sure to register at Gigaparts.com for the Icom IC-7100 HF radio. This Gigaparts sweepstakes prize will be announced on our webcast at 2:00 PM CT on Saturday, March 29 th . You will instantly know if you are the winner. You could also win one of many online prizes awarded during the webcast if your name is called from the registered users in the W5KUB chatroom. As always, you must claim your prize within the specified time frame. In the past year over $10,000 in prizes have been awarded! Of course, no purchase is necessary to win an online prize as W5KUB does not sell any products or services. All prizes are donated from vendors or manufacturers. Broadcast schedule (all times are subject to change): · Friday, March 28th 1300 UTC (8:00 AM - 1200 PM CT) Live broadcast of our drive from Collierville, TN to Huntsville, AL. · Saturday, March 29 th 1400 UTC to 2100 UTC (9:00 AM – 4:00 PM CT), Gigaparts Ham Radio Day · Sunday, March 30th: 1400 UTC to 1900 UTC (9:00 AM – 2:00 PM CT), Live broadcast of our drive from Huntsville, AL to Collierville, Tennessee. Join our group on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/w5kub/ to keep up with us year-round. Also, please help spread the word by posting this announcement in Facebook and forwarding this message to your ham radio friends that may not have received this message! We'll 'see' you at Gigaparts! 73, Tom Medlin, W5KUB http://w5kub.com If you would like to be removed from these mailings, please click Reply and type 'Remove' in the subject line.

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Amazon Smile - EXTRA $5
by Clint Bradford 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Extra $5 donation from AmazonSmile if you buy by March 31, 2014. Normally, when you buy any eligible item at AmazonSmile, your chosen nonprofit gets one-half of one percent of the purchase price. Spend $100, and they get fifty cents. With this bonus, it's the equivalent of you spending $1000! Here are the details: • One donation per customer. • Limited time offer. You must complete a purchase at smile.amazon.com including one or more items eligible for an AmazonSmile donation between 12:00 a.m. (PT) March 24, 2014 and 11:59 p.m. (PT) March 31, 2014. In addition, this promotion will expire after aggregate donations have reached $1 million. • The $5 donation will be made through the AmazonSmile program atsmile.amazon.com under the same terms and at the same time as other donations made through the program, and will be in addition to the 0.5% donation made on the purchase price of your eligible item(s). • Offer valid for customers located and with billing addresses in the United States. • Offer may not be combined with other offers. • Amazon reserves the right to modify or cancel the offer at any time. • Offer is non-transferable and may not be resold. • If any of the products related to this promotion are returned, the donation will not be made. • If you violate any of the Terms and Conditions, the promotion will be invalid. • Void where prohibited. Note that they will stop when they hit $1,000,000...so you'd better get shopping! :) I already bought something, so AMSAT has benefited! Clint K6LCS

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Re: Malaysian airliner puzzle
by Howie DeFelice 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

All Inmarsat satellites though the F-3 series have been in inclined orbits since beginning of life. This gives them extended on orbit lifetime. The beamwidth of the Inmarsat L band ground terminals is large enough that tracking isn't required. The gateway stations operate at C band with large antennas that require continuous step tracking. I don't know for sure if the F-4 satellites are inclined or not. This was a very clever use of available data for an unintended purpose.

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after-hamfest day trip to SE Arizona...
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Hi! After the hamfest wraps up in Tucson AZ around midday on Saturday, I plan on heading east on I-10 toward the rarely heard grids DM51, DM52, and DM53. I will also be near New Mexico. For those who are interested in grids, I can stop and work from two of the 3 grids I listed. DM52 will certainly be one grid I can work from out there, and I can get to grid boundaries where I could also be in DM51 or DM53. Is there any preference on which of the other two grids I should go to? Or a QSO with New Mexico, which would still be DM52 but a little further east on I-10? I've worked from this area on many post-hamfest road trips over the past few years, so I know the spots where I can park my car to be on those grid boundaries. Unfortunately, my car won't survive the dirt track to park on the Arizona/New Mexico state line, and I won't stop on the side of the freeway to be on the state line, so a New Mexico QSO will be from a freeway exit about 5 miles/8km east of the state line. It looks like I will have one SO-50 pass I can work at the hamfest Saturday morning. The evening passes appear to be too late for me. I should be able to work VO-52 and FO-29 passes from wherever I end up out there. For those who can only work FM satellites (read "SO-50", for the time being), sorry. I will be back in this area in early May, and SO-50 might have better pass times for an afternoon/early evening swing through this area. As with the satellite demonstrations at the Tucson hamfest, I will upload my post-hamfest log to Logbook of the World. I will also print QSL cards, and be happy to send one your way if you are in my log. Please e-mail me the QSO details, as there's no need to send me a card or SASE to get my card. Thanks, and 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/

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AMSAT table at Tucson AZ hamfest, Saturday (29 March)
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Hi! I will have an AMSAT table at the Radio Society of Tucson's 2014 Hamfest in Tucson, Arizona, this Saturday (29 March 2014). The hamfest is at a restaurant east of downtown Tucson. This is a half-day event, and you can read more about it in the PDF file at: http://www.k7rst.org/hamfest_2014.pdf I plan on having demonstrations of satellite operating throughout the morning, probably starting around 6am (1300 UTC). If you hear WD9EWK on the satellites Saturday morning, please call and be part of the demonstrations. The hamfest site is in grid DM42. As usual, I will upload my log to Logbook of the World sometime after the hamfest, and will be happy to send QSL cards out to those who work me during the hamfest. Just send me the QSO details, and I will drop a card in the mail. No need to first send me a card or SASE. In addition to satellites, the Arizona Near Space Research group will launch its ANSR-81 balloon around 9am (1600 UTC) Saturday morning from a site between Tucson and Phoenix in central Arizona. Among the payloads that will be carried aloft, there will be a cross-band repeater that requires a PL tone - basically SO-50, but with more downlink power and no Doppler adjustments needed. I may be on there between satellite passes, for anyone in Arizona or surrounding states that would like to work me at the hamfest. More information about the balloon flight is available at: http://www.ansr.org/ (click on Announcements) You can see coverage maps based on the balloon being over central Arizona at different altitudes at: http://balloon.wd9ewk.net/ 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/

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ISS Crew - Delayed Arrival
by Clint Bradford 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

The next trio of crew members destined for the International Space Station is now looking forward to a Thursday arrival at the orbiting laboratory after their Soyuz spacecraft was unable to complete its third thruster burn to fine-tune its approach. Flight controllers in the Mission Control Center outside Moscow are now reverting to a backup 34-orbit rendezvous, which would result in an arrival and docking at 7:58 p.m. EDT Thursday, March 27. -NASA News

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Got Grids? and 5 in em55
by wa4hfn＠comcast.net 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Go to www.starcommgroup.org click on the awards tab to see the awards and the rules. Please note that the 5 in em55 rules have changed, If you work 5 ops that have the award ,then you qualify ,Send in the log of your contacts to WA4HFN or WA4NVM. There is a list of award holders on the page for you to check to see if you have 5 contacts This award if free and any donations are to be sent to AMSAT in the name of the award you qualified for. The Star Comm Group is non profit, we want to support the use of the satellites and Amsat NA We also encourage the use of DSTAR Thank you all and good hunting WA4HFN em55 Damon

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GOT GRIDS ?
by wa4hfn＠comcast.net 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Got Grids Award # 2 goes to WA5KBH congrats George. Thank you for your support. WA4HFN em55 Damon

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Geostationary sat.
by Anthony Japha 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Great news! Thank you Peter et. al. How abt a discussion here about how we North Americans might make use of this opportunity? 73, Tony, N2UN LM 183 --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

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