Hello all,
I will be doing an AMSAT presentation, via Zoom to a Western Wisconsin/Eastern Minnesota Ham group tomorrow, Saturday 11/11 at 1530UTC. This will be a little different than many presentations as it will be from out in my backyard as a bit of a Show-and-tell. Fellow friends of AMSAT, Jack Weaver, AA5VZ and Virginia Smith, NV5F, will be helping. Virginia is going to show working FM Sats with the Kent Britain Cheap Yagi and talking about her Cubesat Simulator project. Jack will try and track a linear pass on his Yaesu 1836 combo and his home brew antenna positioner. I will show SDR dongles for RX. Should be a fast paced hour.
There are two passes we will try and hit, and one that is a fallback. NV5F will be trying SO-50, which for us will be a 1530Z 11/11 pass. AA5VZ will give a whirl on JO-97 Linear pass at 1540Z 11/11, with a backup of AO-91 at about 1600Z chich could be either. Please if you could listen for these two and maybe even give a direct call to punch a hole and get some contacts going. I know EM12 is not a rare grid, but we are showing off our hobby passion.
Please help us out making this a great set of demos for this club. I hope to get recordings and edit for future use as well.
73 and see you on the birds.
Tom Schuessler, N5HYP