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Voice Recorders
by Robert Hynd 01 May '19

01 May '19

What voice recorders, currently available, are members using for their portable ops? Bob N5URL Sent from my iPhone

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WD9EWK @ DM52/53 on Friday (3 May), maybe DM51/52 on Saturday (4 May) afternoon
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 01 May '19

01 May '19

Hi! I previously mentioned my plans to visit the DM52/DM53 grid boundary in Graham County AZ on Friday, 3 May 2019: https://amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2019-April/072954.html I still plan on working the AO-91 and AO-92 passes around the middle of the day out there. After those passes and a lunch break down the road in Safford, I plan on returning to the DM52/DM53 line to work some SSB passes. I may even try a FalconSat-3 pass out there, too. I'm not sure if I will be able to work the 2118 UTC AO-7 pass from there, and not sure if AO-7 would be in mode B at that time. I do plan on trying the 2250 UTC FO-29 pass from DM52/DM53, and some of the XW-2 passes after that. I still need to make it to DM41 for the evening, so I definitely won't stay out at DM52/DM53 after dark. My travels should be visible as WD9EWK-9 on APRS: http://aprs.fi/WD9EWK-9 and updates during the day will be posted on my @WD9EWK Twitter feed, which is also visible at: http://twitter.com/WD9EWK For Saturday in the late afternoon, I may make a quick stop on the DM51/DM52 grid boundary in Cochise County AZ. I was just at this spot in late March, but some have asked if I could make a return trip and put that grid boundary on the air. There aren't any late afternoon FM satellite passes at that location, meaning it would only be on the SSB transponders, and maybe FalconSat-3 for those who work packet. Please check my @WD9EWK Twitter feed on Saturday for updates, to see if I am heading out there, as well as my APRS track. QSOs will be uploaded to Logbook of the World, and QSL cards will be available on request (please e-mail me directly with QSO details - no need to first send me a card or SASE). Thanks, and 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK or http://twitter.com/WD9EWK

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W5PFG May planned roves
by Clayton Coleman W5PFG 01 May '19

01 May '19

May 11 EL18/28 (TX) FM only, AO-91 & AO-92 between 16:30-18:40 UTC. May 18 DN91 (NE) May 19-23 DN83 (SD) May 23-24 DN74 (WY) May 24-26 DN71 (WY) May 26-27 DM77 (CO) May 27-28 DM95/DM85 (TX) FM/SSB satellites, holiday-style. Open to schedules with EU. Twitter @w5pfg 73, Clayton W5PFG

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Fw: VUCC Awards-Endorsements for April 2019
by Ronald G. Parsons 01 May '19

01 May '19

Here are the endorsements and new VUCC Satellite Awards issued by the ARRL for the period April 1, 2019 through May 1, 2019. Congratulations to all those who made the list this month! Lots of activity at the high end and low end of the list this month. Great! CALL APRIL MAY KO4MA 1656 1673 WA4NVM 1522 1536 N8HM 1068 1102 N8RO 1065 1068 K6FW 743 794 WD9EWK 537 550 K7TAB 430 531 N3GS 409 454 NS3L 400 426 AE5B 368 384 KE8FZT 301 325 AB5SS 102 306 G0ABI 252 304 K5IX 250 300 K9UO 265 300 NR0T 200 274 KE8AKW New 258 AD0HJ 200 225 AJ4A New 225 AD0DX 167 219 K2MTS 100 201 AB1OC 150 177 KJ4EU 101 151 WD9EWK (DM41) 107 127 LW2DAF 120 125 W0NBC New 106 KL2DN New 100 N7EGY New 100 VE3CWU New 100 WD9EWK (DM42) New 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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Karl Janskey call sign
by Nick Pugh 01 May '19

01 May '19

Hello All Karl Jaskey is the father of radio astronomy . Was Karl Janskey a license amateur if so what was his call sign? Tnx nick de k5qxj

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Linear Transponder Up and Down link frequency calculator
by Wendy and Terry Osborne 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

Hi Folks, With the number of Linear Transponder Satellites that are operational or in the pipeline, I thought a simple program to convert uplink to downlink frequencies was worth writing. I’ve written one for Windows. You can find it here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4o375h6bygjxkzr/AABi9Ck9Wc6ODrhXwIVHxI-_a?dl=0 I’ve put the exe file and the same file in zip format. I have put all the current birds plus the ones that have launches pending. Just select the satellite of interest from the “Satellite” drop down menu, put your frequency into the text box and hit the Up or Dn calculate button. Let me know if you think this is useful. 73, Terry Osborne ZL2BAC

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iOS app Maidenhead
by Douglas Tabor 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

How much trust does one have WRT state boundaries and what Maidenhead displays? The borders are often not straight nor do they always align with Lat/Lon ... looking at Wyoming, we seem to have 8 more grids than our rectangular shape would have one believe (some from Colorado and others from Montana). Anyone else see this or similar? Thanks and 73, Douglas Tabor, N6UA - Sent from my iPad

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Fox -1B / AO-91 in trouble?
by Hans BX2ABT 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

Just had a good pass from Fox-1B, but it seems the bird is in trouble. No telemetry and no voices heard, just weird noises. I put a screen shot on my website: BX2ABT.com. Let's just hope a reset will cure this bird. 73 de Hans (BX2ABT)

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My first sat QSO
by Hans BX2ABT 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

It's been over a year since I decided to get busy with amateur satellites, and only now I've made my first sat QSO. For the last couple of weeks I have been trying to see which satellites I could reach with my home brew 2/70 cross yagis fixed at 20 degrees elevation. AO-91/92 were possible, but my IC-820H on loan has very low audio on FM, so I didn't dare to try. For some reason or another I can't get much signal from SO-50, but FO-29 was fine with CW and SSB. I tried Falconsat-3, but connecting the PC to the IC-820H is problematic, so I gave up for now. So Sunday night I was checking out a pass from CAS-4A and heard BD5EUA calling CQ in CW. At the spur of the moment I decided to answer him, just to see if I could. Well, I could get through the bird, but I was too late in answering him and the Doppler compensation didn't work, because BD5EUA was drifting up instead of down! Then an hour later, or so, a pass from CAS-4B and there he was again, still drifting up. So I switched off my Doppler correction and tried to get on his frequency. I put out my call and he came back to me with a 599, which I returned to him as well. So, yay! My first satellite QSO was in CW, not SSB, FM or digital. It wasn't a beauty of a QSO, but it counts. I made a screen recording of the whole ordeal and you can find it on my website: BX2ABT.com or here: https://youtu.be/Z7zRI_ALbpQ. I'm not proud of my keying, but I found I got fazed by the delay between my keying and the audio that came back from the bird. My first try to do CW over a satellite I did so with paddles, which was even worse, so this time I used a straight key (Chinese army made, kind of approriate), which I am more familiar with. Still, the delay wreaked havoc in my brain. Is the solution to turn of the side tone of my rig? Or maybe wearing headphones? Anyway, it was fun and we'll do it again. Heck, I might even become good at this!

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Yaesu GS-232B Rotor Interface to computer RS-232C Port Help!
by cbs045＠charter.net 29 Apr '19

29 Apr '19

Hello list members, I have a new Yaesu GS-232B I'm having connection issues and could use some help. My system is a Dell XPS running Windows 7 Pro. Terminal emulator is PuTTY.exeThis computer uses a real RS-232C port set to the only choice of COM1. No COM2 port, parallel or printer ports are used with this machine. Port settings are 9600 baud, 8 bit, no parity, hardware control set to none. I'm sure my computer, RS-232C port and strait RS-232C cables are good because I have no trouble connecting to another device. (Juniper CTP-1002 router)I tried all combinations of hardware control options, port speeds and always get a blank screen with only a cursor when connected to the Yaesu GS-232B. Anybody have any suggestions what I might be overlooking? Thank You, N8OCX Brook Smith

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