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Re: [amsat-bb] AMSAT on HF
by GEO Badger 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

Pix are available upon request. I purchased this radio for Burning Man ops. It has 60M band and the DSP board installed. The remote mounting kit is included. I installed a IRC #720-F 2000 Hz SSB XTAL filter in the 455 kHz slot and a stable TXCO. Also included is an USB programming cable. All the accessories are unused. The original manual, untouched except to move it out of the way, and a loose-leaf binder with the slick, operation manual, XTAL filter specs and service manual will also be included. The radio was powered up to program and check operation, then stored in my "Go Box". I labeled the I/O on the back panel to be readable from the top of the radio. Any transmitting equipment will only be sold to a licensed amateur operator with a call sign verifiable in QRZ. If you wish to purchase this for a ham as a present, please contact me with their call and relationship. I am asking $1000.00 USD OBO + S&H. IMPORTANT! I am unable to ship to a PO Box. **NOTE - This item is not eligible for return or exchange. Please read the description, examine all the pictures, read and understand the return policy and ask lots of questions. We assume that the buyer is knowledgeable and proficient in the used of this type of equipment. COMPATIBILITY is the RESPONSIBILITY of the BUYER and is NOT a reason for return. Please verify compatibility before buying.Although we welcome your questions and inquiries, buyers are expected to do their own research in regard to the compatibility and/or software/driver requirements for any item they are considering purchasing.Use Dr Google to find more information. I accept PayPal only.Item(s) will be shipped from the Monterey Bay, California area when the correct funds are deposited in my account.

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test
by F6GLJ 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

73 Qro de Michel F6GLJ https://www.qrz.com/db/F6GLJ

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Missed Connection AO-7(b)
by Mike Diehl 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

There I was standing on the side of the road on a breezy afternoon around 1930z. I had a piece of 3/4” 6061 in one hand and my PTT switch in the other with only my IC-910H at minimum power to keep me warm. I was listening to the sweet sound of noise at 145.938 MHz with an occasional “one two” to keep my manual tuning on track while I awaited for the sweet DX to get into the footprint. Then you entered the scene pounding away with your CW and sweeping around demanding attention. You were as strong as an ox. You were splattering throughout the whole 60kHz of the passband, how could anyone miss you? And then as suddenly as you appeared there was utter silence. I mean, with that much power how could you not bring any bird to it’s knees? Perhaps we can meet again sometime, maybe try QRP for a less dramatic entrance and we can have a chance to have a conversation. 73, Mike Diehl W8LID/VE6LID

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AMSAT on HF
by skristof＠etczone.com 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

For anyone interested in the AMSAT on HF award I will be calling "CQ AMSAT" in slow code from 1945 UTC to 2015 UTC today (Monday). Frequency will be between 10.105 MHz and 10.115 MHz. Award info: https://www.amsat.org/amsat-50th-anniversary-awards-program/ Steve AI9IN

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Video: Talking through a satellite from 15 feet apart
by John Brier 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

https://youtu.be/HbNKiGO1Bfo Andrew Knafel, KN8FEL saw my videos and through our correspondence I helped him learn how to operate satellites. He and his family live in Ohio but regularly vacation at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He has a long time friend who lives near Raleigh, which is on the way to Myrtle Beach, who he usually stops to see. Since he was in town we met up for an evening to play radio. We worked four passes on four different satellites. The highlight was making contact through a satellite while standing mere feet away from each other. We actually did this twice on two different satellites. :-) Follow Andrew's sat activities on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kn8fel Andrew's equipment: Arrow II antenna Yaesu FT-818 for transmit on linear/SSB sats Wouxon HT for transmit on FM repeater sats Kenwood TH-D74 for receive My equipment: Alaskan Arrow with only one of three sections, except SO-50 pass where I used two of three sections. Icom IC-910H for linear sat passes Kenwood TM-V71 for SO-50. We worked these four passes: 2019-03-30 - 22:51 UTC - XW-2D 2019-03-30 - 23:10 UTC - XW-2C 2019-03-30 - 23:24 UTC - CAS-4A 2019-03-31 - 00:02 UTC - SO-50 73, John Brier KG4AKV

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-04-01 17:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-04-01 17:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: 58th Hamilton Scout Group, Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, direct via VE3DC The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Sat 2019-04-06 18:31:06 UTC 38 deg Shaftesbury High School, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, telebridge via VK6MJ (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***) The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI (***) Contact is go for: Wed 2019-04-10 15:57:13 UTC 37 deg (***) École des Charmilles, Thyez, France, telebridge via ON4ISS (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS (***) The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Thu 2019-04-11 12:55:18 UTC 64 deg (***) ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. International Space Station Astronauts are Calling CQ Students ARISS-US program’s education proposal window is open April 1 - May 15, 2019 March 24, 2019: The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program is seeking proposals beginning April 1, 2019, from US schools, museums, science centers and community youth organizations (working individually or together) to host radio contacts with an orbiting crew member aboard the International Space Station (ISS) between January 1, 2020 and June 30, 2020. Each year, ARISS provides tens of thousands of students with learning opportunities about space technologies, communications, and much more through the exploration of Amateur Radio and space. The ARISS program connects students to astronauts on the ISS through a partnership between NASA, the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, the American Radio Relay League, other Amateur Radio global organizations and the worldwide space agencies. The program’s goal is to inspire students to pursue interests and careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and in Amateur Radio. Educators report regularly that student participation in the ARISS program stimulates interest in STEM subjects and STEM careers. One educator wrote, “Many of the middle school students who took part in and attended the ARISS contact have selected science courses in high school as a result of that contact.” Educators are setting up ham radio clubs in schools and learning centers because of students’ interest. ARISS is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate the contact into a well-developed, exciting education plan. Students can learn about satellite communications, wireless technology, science research conducted on the ISS, radio science, and other STEM subjects. Students learn to use Amateur Radio to talk directly to an astronaut and ask their STEM-related questions. ARISS will help educational organizations locate Amateur Radio groups who can assist with equipment for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for students. The proposal window opens April 1, 2019 and the proposal deadline is May 15, 2019. For proposal guidelines and forms and more details, go to: http://ariss-proposal-webinar-spring-2019.eventbrite.com Proposal webinars for guidance and getting questions answered will be offered April 11, 2019 at 7 pm Eastern Time and April 16, 2019 at 9 pm Eastern Time. Advance registration is necessary. To sign up, go to https://ariss-proposal-webinar-spring-2019.eventbrite.com **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts. Applications should be addressed by email to: school.selection.manager(a)ariss-eu.org ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application. Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. For the application, go to: http://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd(a)gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss(a)iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) http://www.jarl.org/ (***) ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) http://www.jarl.org/ ****************************************************************************** ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n(a)amsat.org or aj9n(a)aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8Ø MHz. ******************************************************************************* All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke(a)sbcglobal.net **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 135 Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 113 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed, and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2019-04-01 17:00 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1296. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1239. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-03-28 21:00 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 58 on orbit Oleg Konenenko David St-Jacques KG5FYI Anne McClain Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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VUCC Awards-Endorsements for March 2019
by Ronald G. Parsons 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

Here are the endorsements and new VUCC Satellite Awards issued by the ARRL for the period March 1, 2019 through April 1, 2019. Congratulations to all those who made the list this month! CALL 01 Mar 01 Apr WI7P 835 858 N4UFO 729 730 AA8CH 451 500 N3GS 370 409 K9UO 225 265 N6RFM 201 226 WW8W 152 181 PU8RFL 151 157 PS8MT 150 156 K5CIS New 150 K4RGK 133 145 LW2DAF 115 120 KF0QS New 115 KJ4EU 100 101 PP2CC New 101 AD7DB New 100 N7AME New 100 For some reason, XE2JA and XE2JA dropped off the list at 100. If you find errors or omissions. please contact me off-list at <mycall>@<mycall>.com and I'll revise the announcement. This list was developed by comparing the ARRL .pdf listings for The two months. It's a visual comparison so omissions are possible. Apologies if your call was not mentioned. Thanks to all those who are roving to grids that are rarely on the birds. They are doing most of the work! Ron W5RKN

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DN73/83 DN74/84 Rove April 3-6th
by Robert Bragg 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

Time for a spring time fly fishing / satellite roving trip in eastern Wyoming. April 3rd I will be traveling through DN73 and DN83 and I will try to work: AO-92 18:27 utc SO-50 18:55 utc AO-91 19:31 utc SO-50 20:37 utc Some will be just DN73, some DN73/83 based on travel times. I will be camping in Beulah, WY in DN74 which is very close to DN84. Plan to work both vacation style, with DN84 mostly mid-day Thursday and Friday. Mostly FM birds, and I hope to practice my SSB a bit while in camp. Return passes through DN73 are unscheduled right now. I will try to post here and on Twitter before leaving. Very limited internet access during this trip. Hope to get some of you some new grids from DN land. R.J. WY7AA

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Re: [amsat-bb] AISAT APRS payload on PS4 Platform
by Nitin Muttin 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

Thanks Ron for the appreciative note. The payload is powered on now and the first reception reports from the locations I mentioned in my email is eagerly awaited. 73 Nitin [VU3TYG] -------------------------------------------- On Sun, 31/3/19, Ron VE8RT <ve8rt(a)yknwt.ca> wrote: Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AISAT APRS payload on PS4 Platform To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Cc: "Nitin Muttin" <vu3tyg(a)yahoo.co.in> Date: Sunday, 31 March, 2019, 2:08 PM Hi Nitin, I'm slowly setting up for satellite APRS as I believe it may be the best option for very short emcomm messages to/from our isolated northern communities (HF has been useless at the bottom of the solar cycle). Another APRS satellite is great news. Thanks! Ron VE8RT On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 15:31:57 +0000 (UTC) Nitin Muttin via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> wrote: > Hello All, > An APRS payload from AMSAT INDIA will be flown on PSLV C45. The launch is scheduled on April 1st 2019 at 09:27 IST / 03:57 UTC. The payload will be powered on approximately over Sweden,Norway,Denmark, Finland, Poland and Moscow.We request stations at these locations to report the first signals (145.825 Mhz) from the payload.We also request the Amateur Radio fraternity worldwide to use the payload and Satgates to feed the traffic. More details about this unique project is available at http://www.amsatindia.org > The prelaunch TLE are also available for download on http://www.amsatindia.org > 73 > Nitin [VU3TYG]Secretary, AMSAT INDIA > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb -- Ron VE8RT <ve8rt(a)yknwt.ca>

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Re: [amsat-bb] For Sale: Yaesu FT-897D New In The Box
by Tony 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

All: The FT-897D has been sold. Tony

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