July 2020 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

Address Change
by Michael Whitman 23 Jul '20

23 Jul '20

Brennan, So sorry for this confusion, but we moved and I hadn’t changed my address on the member portal before July 1. It WAS 4000 Waterford Circle and is NOW 517 Eline Ave. Do you mind to resend? Again, I’m so sorry about this. 73, Michael, N4DCW -- Michael Whitman michael(a)n4dcw.com Home Grid: EM78

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Re: [amsat-bb] Ballots?
by Brennan Price 23 Jul '20

23 Jul '20

I have replied to Jack and another similarly situated member separately, but wanted to offer the following guidance to all members. It would be worthwhile for members to verify their addresses of record through the AMSAT membership portal at launch.amsat.org. If that address is missing or incorrect, it is almost certain your ballot won't be delivered. If you need to correct the address, please advise me, and pending verification against the voter list, I will send a replacement at the next opportunity (which will be Saturday at the earliest, as I am away from home). The procedure for an correcting an incorrect address is different from the procedure for deeming a ballot lost in post. As stated earlier, given domestic and international delivery standards and accounting for guard time, a correctly addressed ballot will not be considered lost in post until August 12. 73, Brennan Price, N4QX Secretary, Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 10:53:36 -0400 From: <kd4iz(a)frawg.org> To: <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org>, <Info(a)amsat.org> Subject: [amsat-bb] Ballots? Message-ID: <012a01d66101$0d3d48b0$27b7da10$(a)frawg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Folks, I am an AMSAT life member and very much want to participate in the upcoming election of directors. I have been watching the mail for a ballot envelope from AMSAT and have yet to see one. Were the ballot envelopes mailed out all at once or are they being sent "batched"? When should I start to worry? Thanks much in advance for your answer. Jack Spitznagel, DDS, PhD KD4IZ Trustee for NR3DT Museum Ship USCGC W-37 Amateur Radio Group

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Orbit visualization & antenna performance
by Stephen DeVience 23 Jul '20

23 Jul '20

I couldn't find any tech specs other than what you have, but I did find a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWHn4H-BDPI Also consider using Lilacsat-2 for your comparison. It has a circularly polarized UHF downlink. http://lilacsat.hit.edu.cn/wp/?page_id=257 https://amsat-uk.org/satellites/comms/lilacsat-2/ -Stephen, N8URE

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Ballots?
by kd4iz＠frawg.org 23 Jul '20

23 Jul '20

Folks, I am an AMSAT life member and very much want to participate in the upcoming election of directors. I have been watching the mail for a ballot envelope from AMSAT and have yet to see one. Were the ballot envelopes mailed out all at once or are they being sent "batched"? When should I start to worry? Thanks much in advance for your answer. Jack Spitznagel, DDS, PhD KD4IZ Trustee for NR3DT Museum Ship USCGC W-37 Amateur Radio Group

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Hawkeye 360 news
by Robert McGwier 23 Jul '20

23 Jul '20

Hawkeye 360, a company I cofounded, has its next cluster of 3 spacecraft through testing. It has significant new capabilities. And there are FIVE more clusters planned for launch in 2021. This candidate for the board of directors of AMSAT brings experience and capabilities that can help AMSAT. I ask for your vote and if you can find a more qualified candidate vote for them. https://spacenews.com/hawkeye-360-cluster-2/ Bob McGwier N4HY

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Re: [amsat-bb] Is This AMSAT's Future?
by Clint Bradford 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

Some wonderfully informative answers - many thanks! Clint Bradford K6LCS > On Jul 22, 2020, at 2:45 PM, amsat-bb-request(a)amsat.org wrote: > > Is This AMSAT's Future?

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Slack vs. eMail -- The medium is the message
by Joe Leikhim 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

Something for the new BOD to consider. I have been monitoring/lurking AMSAT-BB for years, and still have to go to the archives to read a thread, cut and paste an e-mail to contribute. I still have not figured out its clunkiness. It may be a barrier to new tech types. I am old school and it seems archaic to me. I am using Groups.io and I am the owner/moderator of two mail lists over there. ICOM-IC-970(a)groups.io and ICOM-ICR-9000(a)groups.io. (Welcome aboard if interested) This is a very flexible system and has both an e-mail and web interface. It was designed to replace yahoo groups which declined into self destruction by yahoo. For my purposes, they run themselves. I recommend considering it for AMSAT-BB. Initially there will be some noise from folks in bandwidth challenged areas, but once they read the instructions and set their accounts appropriately it will work fine. My accounts are free. For a very large organization there may be a subscription cost. It may be possible to have the archives converted and embedded into the list. If not, they can be stored in the files area or linked to their current location. If the change is made, be sure to redirect or block new submissions to the old system so there is thread continuity. Feel free to subscribe to mine and check out the features. -- Joe Leikhim Leikhim and Associates Communications Consultants Oviedo, Florida JLeikhim(a)Leikhim.com 407-982-0446 WWW.LEIKHIM.COM

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QO-100 LNB
by Ev Tupis 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

Does the LNB have a dielectric lens on it? I can't tell from the pictures (and I'm looking to experiment with dielectric lenses...and am looking for an inexpensive source). Ev, W2EV Rochester VHF Group

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All operations back to normal
by Bruce 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

I removed the crashed drive, installed the cloned drive from April and everything booted. Reinstalled the crashed drive and was able to look at all the files, just not boot from it. Moved all my files and databases over and everything is back to normal. Wasted a couple hours but so much better than wasting days. Copied all the files for my email client and everything is as it was. Nothing lost. 73...bruce -- Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards AMSAT Board Member 2016-2020 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

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Filters
by Brad Brooks WF7T 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

Bob, first...I hope you feel better quickly. Second, have you seen this? http://www.w1ghz.org/filter/Combline_Filters_for_VHF_and_UHF.pdf 73 Brad WF7T

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