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Need some information
by Paul Ecker 18 Jun '17

18 Jun '17

I am trying to get back into working Satellites again after a hiatus of about 7 years. In trying to catch up, difficult to sort out the current landscape of what can be worked. So a couple of probably dumb questions for you guys who seem very much on top of the entire subject. - So where or how can I get a complete list of all the Sats that are currently workable with a full duplex FM HT setup? - in reading about the new CAS 4A &4B, it says they have linear transponders and it lists VHF and UHF frequencies for up & down-link. So is linear transponder a code word for SSB, can't be worked using an HT? - What exactly is a Linear Transponder? Tnx & 73 Paul kc2nyu

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FUNcube Status + Satllite Antenna Virtual Build-a-thon
by M5AKA 17 Jun '17

17 Jun '17

FUNcube Satellite Status June 2017 https://amsat-uk.org/2017/06/17/funcube-satellite-status-june-2017/ Amateur radio to the rescue of satellite https://amsat-uk.org/2017/06/17/amateur-radio-to-the-rescue-of-satellite/ Join Virtual Buildathon and build a satellite antenna https://amsat-uk.org/2017/06/16/join-virtual-buildathon-and-build-satellite… Syllabus consultation for UK amateur radio exams covers Amateur Satellite service https://amsat-uk.org/2017/06/16/syllabus-consultation/ CAS-4A and CAS-4B Linear Transponder Satellites from CAMSAT https://amsat-uk.org/2017/06/15/cas-4a-and-cas-4b-launched/ Book now for AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Milton Keynes October 14-15 https://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/ Trevor M5AKA ---- AMSAT-UK http://amsat-uk.org/ Twitter https://twitter.com/AmsatUK Facebook https://facebook.com/AmsatUK YouTube https://youtube.com/AmsatUK ----

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CAS4A & B over Brazil
by Roland Zurmely 17 Jun '17

17 Jun '17

4k8 demodulated with new UZ7HO HS-SM V 0.016b: <http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/cas4.htm> 73 de Roland PY4ZBZ

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CAS4A CAS4B SDR recordings?
by Douglas Quagliana 17 Jun '17

17 Jun '17

Does anyone have an SDR recording of CAS4A / CAS4B? I would like to try to demodulate and decode the 4800 baud telemetry signals and see what they say. Regards, Douglas

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CAS-4A and CAS-4B
by ingejack＠cox.net 16 Jun '17

16 Jun '17

The beacon cw id BJ1SK is definitely CAS-4A Object number 2017-034A and the beacon cw id BJ1SL is definitely CAS-4B Object number 2017-034B according to the recording made at 1715 UTC today June 16, 2017 KC7MG

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Grid Activations
by Scott Medbury 16 Jun '17

16 Jun '17

I am thinking about activating a number of grids while in Colorado, Wyoming, and South Dakota in August. The grids would be DM79. DN70, DN71, DN72, DN73, DN74, DN83, and DN84. All would be on SO50, AO85 and Lilac-2. I will post more as it gets closer. Please let me know if you are interested and I will listen for anyone on my list more closely. 73 . Scott KD5FBA Scott Medbury KD5FBA 16802 Aprilmont Drive Sugar Land, TX 77498-1941

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LilacSat-1
by W M WILLOUGHBY 16 Jun '17

16 Jun '17

Does this bird have a "Satellite Name" designation for uploading QSOs to LoTW yet? Thanks, Red KC4LE

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CAS-4A and CAS-4B
by ingejack＠cox.net 16 Jun '17

16 Jun '17

Beacons on Cas-4a and Cas-4b were very strong this morning at 171u UTC.. Transponders not yet turned on JACK-KC7MG

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Re: [amsat-bb] LOTW QSL - K8BL Rover Glitch
by R.T.Liddy 16 Jun '17

16 Jun '17

Hi Matthew, I think the Canadian Rover Grids of mine escaped somehow. My suspicion is that K8BL/VEx didn't get thrown in with the ones from plain K8BL, possibly because they have a different DXCC Country Code. Dunno!! LoTW Gurus at ARRL are still analyzing and helpful. TNX/73, Bob K8BL P.S. Bruce KK5DO sent a good suggestion, but LoTW asked me to standby until they finish their analysis. ________________________________ From: Matthew Stevens <matthew(a)mrstevens.net> To: R.T.Liddy <k8bl(a)ameritech.net> Cc: David Jaeger <yogiwn9q(a)gmail.com> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2017 12:11 AM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] LOTW QSL - K8BL Rover Glitch Hi Bob, Some of mine have been restored, FM16/26 and EL87, along with a couple others. There are still some missing however. Thanks for going to the extra effort to sort it all out! 73, - Matthew kk4fem On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 6:23 PM, R.T.Liddy <k8bl(a)ameritech.net> wrote: > Dave, et al: > My logging program did a wacky thing when I uploaded Q's from > the VHF Contest. It sent my Rover Q's from the last few years to > LoTW and they were overwritten with my home Grid! I spent over > 4 hours the other night taking the original rover files and reloaded > the original Log Files from my trips, but LoTW didn't overwrite > the bad Q's with the correct info. LoTW is sitting there with BOTH > data, but not confirming the correct Grid. The data just sits there > side-by-side. I have been working with the LoTW Help Desk and it is > being looked at for resolution. Hopefully, they'll have something to> > fix things soon. They have been very cooperative fixing whatever I did > to cause the problem. SRI, Bob K8BL > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ________________________________ > From: David Jaeger <yogiwn9q(a)gmail.com> > To: k8bl(a)ameritech.net > Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2017 2:17 PM > Subject: LOTW QSL > > Hello Bob, > I was checking my log against LOTW and noticed something. My log shows > us having a QSO on FO29 on 5/25/2017 at 14:49 and you were in FM27,FM28. > LOTW shows EN91 as indicated on the attachment. Could you check it out > to see if I did something wrong on this end? > > Thanks & 73, > Dave, WN9Q

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? Sked Allowed for Field Day?
by Fred Castello 16 Jun '17

16 Jun '17

Hi Folks, I have read through the Field Day rules and was looking for if it was not allowable to make a sked for a contact during Field Day. I could not find such a rule, but may have missed it. If it is allowed, would anyone be interested in setting up a sked? I am in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia grid FM08. Would probably prefer to use an SSB satellite. If this is disallowed, that is fine, please don't blow me up..... Best Regards, Fred - KF4FC

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