The AMSAT online store is once again open for business. It has been a
long road moving all the inventory from one store to another and adding
a few new items. Paul, N8HM, and I have been working hard at it and we
think we have it ready for you.
Added a few minutes ago,
2017 Getting Started in Satellites
2017 Tee Shirts
2017 Polo Shirts
As the store is linked to your account, if you have not already done so,
you need to log in and change your password. The first time, select
forgot password and the system should (if things work right) send you an
email with instructions to change your password. If you do not get the
email, the problem might be that the email address we had from the old
computer system is not your current email. If that is the case you can
drop an email to webmaster(a)amsat.org and let us know what your old and
current email address is and we can change it for you. If you just do
not exist in the system, you can create an account.
Then you can log in and manage your own profile. You can change your
address, add a shipping address, change your password. Then in the
store, that is where you will purchase your membership to AMSAT. You can
do it at your leisure and the system will automatically update your
membership when you hit submit on the payment screen.
Several nice features are coming... we want to bring you downloadable
items. We have not decided what they will be but you will be able to
purchase them and download right away without waiting for one of humans
to do something. Keep watching for more things to come.
We have to get more comfortable with all the features of the new store
and as we do, we will add things that it is capable of doing.
73...bruce
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Bruce Paige, KK5DO
AMSAT Director Contests and Awards
AMSAT Board Member 2016-2018
ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE
Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT*
Also live streaming MP3 athttp://www.amsatnet.com
Podcast athttp://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes
Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News
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Gridders,
I had a problem recently with my Rover Grids getting botched-up in LoTW
when I uploaded Q's from the ARRL VHF Contest. Somehow, my Logging
Program re-sent recent SAT Rover Q's to LoTW as being on 40M!!! LoTW
re-wrote the original Q's also as being from my home Grid EN91 and folks
needing my Rover Grids lost them.
After some good advice from Bruce KK5DO and many hours of editing the
original files and reloading them to LoTW, they appear to be corrected.
If you see that there are still some that escaped correction, let me know
in an e-mail and I'll check them out.
BTW, it appeared that my Canadian Rover Grids did not get botched, only US.
Thanks for your patience & 73, Bob K8BL
P.S. 92 Rover Grids & counting. Thinking about FN12/22 in mid-July.
Field Day is all over. However, you are not done. Not at least until you
get an email from me confirming I have received your AMSAT Field Day
Summary Sheet. Deadline is 11:59PM on Monday July 10, 2017. This is
earlier than the ARRL submission deadline. I need the extra time to get
the article ready and off to the journal editor so everything will
appear in the next issue. Do not forget to send me some photos of your
site or operators. I try to get at least one for every group into the
journal.
This was the first field day I have been able to actually participate in
for some 13 years as I worked on Saturday and Sunday. I took my M2 Leo
Pack to the Texas Emergency Amateur Communications (TEAC) site in
Kingwood, Texas and set up there. First pass of SO-50 for field day and
I snagged a contact right after V31CI left the window. He was having a
pretty good amount of activity at the start of the pass over the Houston
area. I was using my Wouxun KG-UV9D HT for 70cm receive and my Icom
2200H 2m mobile for TX.
Packed everything up and drove to the the Sam Houston Amateur Radio Klub
(SHARK) site in Cleveland, Texas. I set everything up there and waited
for the second pass of SO-50. This time, the armstrong rotors were not
pointing at the right spot for a contact. Only a 22 degree pass for me,
pretty much horizon shot and they kept wanting to point at 60
degrees...urgh. They missed out on their satellite contact. They enjoyed
hearing the satellite nevertheless.
Packed everything up and home I went. That was enough field day fun for
me for one day :-). By the way, bought some nice new cables for the M2
Leo Pack for field day.... 15 feet long. I was thinking of when I use my
Arrow antenna and have a 4 foot long cable. Was not really thinking the
Leo Pack are much larger antennas and 15 feet does not allow for much
turning of the antennas. Will need to go for at least maybe 30 feet for
next year. oops
73...bruce
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Bruce Paige, KK5DO
AMSAT Director Contests and Awards
AMSAT Board Member 2016-2018
ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE
Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT*
Also live streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com
Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes
Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News
http://www.arrl.org
AMSAT on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/amsat
Hello all,
I am trying to install a G4UP tap board in my older FT-847. One issue I came
across is the instructions call for attaching the VCC line to L3102. Only
problem is my unit does not have L3102. Has anybody found a suitable point
of attachment on the older FT-847's?
Thanks, Dave WB9YIG
NASA has just awarded a launch and a construction grant to Cornell University for a CubeSat designed to orbit the moon. Launch is scheduled for 2019. The core spacecraft technology involves a water electrolysis propulsion thruster which Cornell has been working on since 2009.
http://cornellsun.com/2017/06/22/nasa-to-send-cornell-groups-satellite-into…
Makes me recall an article I read many years ago ...
J. King, "Using Water as a Primary Method of Propulsion for Spacecraft Modifying Standard STS Orbits," Orbit, no. 19, Nov/Dec 1984, pp 5-8.
This article is available at
http://www.ka9q.net/AMSAT-ORBIT-19.pdf
(Thank you Phil!)
Martin Davidoff, K2UBC
I’ve operated my home satellite station each of the past few Field Day’s but 2017 out shined them all. Each pass was nearly filled with stations calling “CQ Field Day.” It was music to my ears although cacophonous at times.
Even though I was limited by family events, I managed to log 33 Satellite Field Day contacts Saturday and a few more today when time permitted. Even AO-7 stayed up and gave me quite a few contacts on Saturday.
I think my favorite pass was on XW-2A 25 June 2017 around 0130Z. It brought that old hymn to mind with a new title “Let’s all gather at the center.” See the following link for the waterfall spectrum.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Jez46MB5RaQ0xHLVRGblNLMTQ/view?usp=shari…
As expected, the FM satellites were overloaded with traffic but the current crop of linear satellites more than made up for it.
Looking back at a great 2017 and forward to an even better 2018.
Congratulations AMSAT!
Ron W5RKN
