Hi friends,
Philip Jenkins N4HF, and I will be representing AMSAT tomorrow at the Raleigh Amateur Radio Society Hamfest (RARSfest). We will have a booth with AMSAT merchandise and I will be doing satellite demos outside.
I am planning on working these passes from grid square FM05:
FO-29 @ 1220 UTC AO-92 @ 1519 UTC AO-91 @ 1648 UTC
FO-29 is an experiment as I've only worked it once making two contacts so far, but I plan to use my Portable Rotation Az/El rotator so I can focus on tuning the frequency. I only committed to RARS, and they only put on the schedule, the AO-91 and AO-92 passes, so if I can't get things working for some reason on FO-29, it's no big deal, but I am personally excited about the opportunity to make it work so would appreciate any operators who will try to work me. I will probably try to stay in the center of the passband to make it easy for me.
One thing to mention is that in order for us to be easily findable/seen by the attendees we will be doing the demos close to the building the hamfest is inside, so for certain parts of the pass we may not be able to get in at all as the bird is behind the building, so hang in there if you don't hear us (really me) immediately.
I will be using my callsign for the demos.
I may send out updates on any additional passes I might try to do or other changes on my Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/SpaceComms1
73, John Brier KG4AKV