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

w1aw/0 in Minnesota
by Rolf Krogstad 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

This is the week for W1AW portable from Minnesota. There will be two of us, N0TOR and NR0T, working the birds as W1AW/0. I just started the week off by working W4VAS and AA5PK on AO-7 Mode B. Signals were good and no FM'ing. Both of us work M-F 8am to 5pm so there is not likely to be much opportunity to operate during the work day. Please note that the grid will be different depending on the operator. 73 Rolf NR0T from EN34 and and Chandler, N0TOR from EN35

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Re: [amsat-bb] ANS-159 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by Rich/wa4bue 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

Thant is great info. K4AMG will be GOTA station at the W4CAR FD. Since we have SSB CW we will not operate SO 50 because of the congestion. We tried FD last year but had to many program and other failures with an old HR Deluxe. Hope to work you all from Deep Creek Lock Park on the Waterway in Chesapeake, VA FM 16. R W4BUE ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greene, Stephan A" <stephan.a.greene(a)thesiorg.com> To: "Rich/wa4bue" <richard.siff(a)verizon.net> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 9:50 AM Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] ANS-159 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins > Like Paul said, Class (# TX and A/B/C/D/E) and ARRL Section. E.g, for > me (operating as K4LRG), it will be 5A VA. I've noticed sat and VHF ops > often add the 4-character grid square ID, but class and section are all > that is required for FD. > > ARRL treats ALL satellites as ONE BAND for scoring. I can work you > twice in total for FD scoring, once on voice and once on CW/digital (I > think CW & digital modes are treated the same, although it's moot as > ISS is the only transponder supporting non-CW digital). Anything beyond > that is a dupe. If the QSO is on SO-50 or LO-78 (our operating FM > birds), that's the ONE ALLOWED FM QSO. > > AMSAT uses different scoring - each satellite counts as a separate band. > So we could work each other twice (SSB, CW) on AO-7, FO-29, VO-52, ... > > 73 & GL. > Steve > > Steve Greene KS1G Fm18hx > ks1g(a)amsat.org >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Rich/wa4bue [mailto:richard.siff@verizon.net] >> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 3:44 PM >> To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org >> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ANS-159 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins >> >> What is the FD exhange on QSCAR? > > >

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OSCAR 7
by Roland Zurmely 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

>From AOS to TCA in mode B, and then, at 19:31 UTC, from TCA to LOS in mode A. Good signal, CQ CQ... :-( 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ GH70un

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TS-2000 TNC Program
by Keith O'Brien 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

Are there any TS-2000 owners out there that use the built in TNC of the radio ? If so what terminal programs are available to use with it ? Back in the day there were a half dozen or so good terminal programs with buffers, canned messages and other features. But a Google search brings up nothing today. I'm looking for something a lot more then Windows Hyper Terminal gives me. So, what are you using ?? Keith N4ZQ

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CAPE-2 over Brazil
by Roland Zurmely 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

Successful Send Text To Speech command: http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/Ca2100614.wav 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ

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CAPE-2 over Brazil #3106
by Roland Zurmely 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

W5UL-15>W5UL>UI,C,F0: +W5UL,CAPE-2,e,GR,201301281932CST,5229mV,01003,e,19C,19C,ulcape.org# W5UL-15>W5UL>UI,C,F0: W5UL,5286,828,5266,3,5272,59,5272,GR,001,26,19,ulcape.org# W5UL-15>W5UL>UI,C,F0: +W5UL,CAPE-2,f,GR,201301281934CST,5097mV,01003,f,21C,20C,ulcape.org# 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ GH70un

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Re: [amsat-bb] VUCC via Satellite
by Kevin M 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

Congrats all around! I was one of those 7... Right behind you, Paul, with VUCC #249, also issued in March. I waited to submit 150 grids to match up with the 150 I previously had (under my old callsign) which was VUCC #86. Those were all on RS-12/13. <sigh!> I miss that bird... :^) 73, Kevin N4UFO --------------------------------------------------------------- Congrats, Ed! I got #248 back in March, so 7 issued in 3 months isn't too bad! 73, Paul, N8HM On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Bruce <kk5do at amsat.org> wrote: >Congrats to Ed, WA7ETH. Got his VUCC today #255. >>Ed says, "Just arrived today! Finally made it." >>>73...bruce >>

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VUCC via Satellite
by Bruce 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

Congrats to Ed, WA7ETH. Got his VUCC today #255. Ed says, "Just arrived today! Finally made it." 73...bruce

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LO-78 added to LoTW
by Paul Stoetzer 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

Just got a message from W3IZ stating that a new TQSL configuration file has been released adding LituanicaSAT-1 (LO-78) to the satellite tables. Here are the instructions for updating your configuration files: "TQSL 2.0 user have nothing to do. When opening TQSL for the first time of the day the TQSL program will detect the update and ask you to confirm installation. TQSL 2.0 users can manually check for updates under the help button in the TQSL toolbar. See < www.arrl.org/instructions > More TQSL > Checking for updates. Users of older versions of TQSL will have to download the file from their user account under the tab "Your Account" then select "Your Certificate" then select "Download Current TQSL Configuration File." The file can be saved to a folder on your computer then loaded in TQSL using the TQSL CERT - Load File utility." 73, Paul Stoetzer, N8HM

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Re: [amsat-bb] SO-50 Frequency Drift
by Tom Schuessler 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

I will say that the fact that the actuality of the 5KHz lower than published frequency (Known for years) is the reason that often times you here a newby on the bird, throwing out his call, getting responded to but never answering back. I had a good QSO on HF a bit back, mentioned "I do AMSAT" and he said something to the effect, "I tried listening and calling but never heard anything". I told him about the "Actual vs. published" frequencies. He says "Well that probably explains it then". Even K6LCS's great pages at http://www.work-sat.com/Sat_Skeds.html do not refer to the offset. I am convinced that this disparity is the cause for at least some of the QRM on that bird, not all but some. Tom Schuessler N5HYP n5hyp(a)arrl.net Message: 2 Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 16:47:19 +0200 From: Ib Christoffersen <oz1my(a)privat.dk> To: Koos van den Hout <koos(a)kzdoos.xs4all.nl> Cc: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] SO-50 Frequency Drift Message-ID: <70.98.04540.7F523935@fep45> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Koss and Paul, I do not think that the "normal" center frequency is 436.795 MHz. I use two frequencies for the downlink in SatPC32: 436.791 and 436.788 MHz. I have heard it suddenly jump about 5 kHz during a pass - but that is some time ago. The two frequencies above are not always spot on but close enough. Have a nice weekend all. OZ1MY/Ib

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