Hamfest sat demos tomorrow 2018-03-31 on FO-29, AO-91, AO-92
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
Hi John, Tweet your FO-29 2m uplink freq before the event. If people looking for you transmit on that freq as well then their downlink should be very close to yours. It makes it easier to find you. For example, I usually Tweet that I will transmit on 145.920. 73 and good luck tomorrow! KenVE3HLS
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2018 at 18:29, John Brierjohnbrier@gmail.com wrote: 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
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Thanks Ken,
I want to do it right in the middle of the pass band, so if my math is right, that would be 145.950 MHz.
73, John Brier KG4AKV
On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 9:43 PM, Ken Alexander k.alexander@rogers.com wrote:
Please don’t set up right in the middle of the passband. FO-29 has a 100 kHz wide passband, yet people all cram right into the center and talk over each other.
Spread out!
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 02:27 John Brier johnbrier@gmail.com wrote:
Hi John, Yeah, .950 is band center. I use .920 because I hear that most people tend to congregate around band center, making it crowded. I chose .920 to avoid that. That said, your demos are done and I see we did work each other on AO-91! You had a good signal! How did your demo go? 73, KenVE3HLS
From: John Brier johnbrier@gmail.com To: "k.alexander@rogers.com" k.alexander@rogers.com Cc: AMSAT BB amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2018 2:25 AM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Hamfest sat demos tomorrow 2018-03-31 on FO-29, AO-91, AO-92
Thanks Ken,
I want to do it right in the middle of the pass band, so if my math is right, that would be 145.950 MHz.
73, John Brier KG4AKV
On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 9:43 PM, Ken Alexander k.alexander@rogers.com wrote:
participants (3)
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John Brier
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Ken Alexander
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Paul Stoetzer