I posted the new schedule for August late last night. This time around we had _seven_ specific requests and filled all of them. There are several grid expeditions and cruises that will be on AO-51 in August, both in North America and Europe, that requested "normal" V/U repeater mode. We've also scheduled some L/U and L/S time for the adventurous. Eclipses are getting shorter this month, so expect to see the downlink power move up in response.
Please send your requests for September to ao51-modes@amsat.org for consideration.
Thanks and 73, Drew KO4MA AMSAT-NA VP Ops
August 2007 AO-51 (AMSAT Echo) Schedule
August 1 until August 31, subject to modification
August 1 - August 2
FM Repeater, V/U Uplink: 145.920 Mhz FM, NO PL Tone Downlink: 435.300 Mhz FM
9k6 Digital, Telemetry Only Downlink: 435.150 Mhz FM, 9k6 Telemetry
August 2 - August 5
FM Repeater, L/S Uplink: 1268.700 Mhz FM, NO PL Tone Downlink: 2401.200 Mhz FM
August 5 - August 20
FM Repeater, V/U Uplink: 145.920 Mhz FM, NO PL Tone Downlink: 435.300 Mhz FM
9k6 Digital, Telemetry Only Downlink: 435.150 Mhz FM, 9k6 Telemetry
August 20 - August 27
FM Repeater, V/U Uplink: 145.920 Mhz FM, NO PL Tone Downlink: 435.300 Mhz FM
FM Repeater, L/U Uplink: 1268.700 Mhz FM, NO PL Tone Downlink: 435.150 Mhz FM
August 27 - August 31
FM Repeater, V/U Uplink: 145.920 Mhz FM, NO PL Tone Downlink: 435.300 Mhz FM
9k6 Digital, Telemetry Only Downlink: 435.150 Mhz FM, 9k6 Telemetry
Wow, thanks Drew!
What other hobby on the planet can you order up your own personal spaceship (at least, the illusion of it, part time). I feel so powerful!
Greg KO6TH
----Original Message Follows---- From: "Andrew Glasbrenner" glasbrenner@mindspring.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org, "ans-editor" ans-editor@amsat.org CC: ao51-modes@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] August AO-51 schedule is up! Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:05:03 -0400
I posted the new schedule for August late last night. This time around we had _seven_ specific requests and filled all of them. There are several grid expeditions and cruises that will be on AO-51 in August, both in North America and Europe, that requested "normal" V/U repeater mode. We've also scheduled some L/U and L/S time for the adventurous. Eclipses are getting shorter this month, so expect to see the downlink power move up in response.
Please send your requests for September to ao51-modes@amsat.org for consideration.
Thanks and 73, Drew KO4MA AMSAT-NA VP Ops
August 2007 AO-51 (AMSAT Echo) Schedule
August 1 until August 31, subject to modification
August 1 - August 2
FM Repeater, V/U Uplink: 145.920 Mhz FM, NO PL Tone Downlink: 435.300 Mhz FM
9k6 Digital, Telemetry Only Downlink: 435.150 Mhz FM, 9k6 Telemetry
August 2 - August 5
FM Repeater, L/S Uplink: 1268.700 Mhz FM, NO PL Tone Downlink: 2401.200 Mhz FM
August 5 - August 20
FM Repeater, V/U Uplink: 145.920 Mhz FM, NO PL Tone Downlink: 435.300 Mhz FM
9k6 Digital, Telemetry Only Downlink: 435.150 Mhz FM, 9k6 Telemetry
August 20 - August 27
FM Repeater, V/U Uplink: 145.920 Mhz FM, NO PL Tone Downlink: 435.300 Mhz FM
FM Repeater, L/U Uplink: 1268.700 Mhz FM, NO PL Tone Downlink: 435.150 Mhz FM
August 27 - August 31
FM Repeater, V/U Uplink: 145.920 Mhz FM, NO PL Tone Downlink: 435.300 Mhz FM
9k6 Digital, Telemetry Only Downlink: 435.150 Mhz FM, 9k6 Telemetry
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At 01:50 PM 7/31/2007, Greg D. wrote:
Wow, thanks Drew!
What other hobby on the planet can you order up your own personal spaceship (at least, the illusion of it, part time). I feel so powerful!
LOL, I know that feeling. I was doing the scheduling for SO-35 in this part of the world for a few months, until its untimely demise. By making use of my local knowledge, I was able to give a better experience for local hams and take the load off the controllers - they only had to take my times and add that to master schedule on the next command run.
It also had the side effect that I was able to present more information to prospective satellite operators, like AOS, LOS and roughly where in the sky the bird would be during active passes, so a newbie could come up on the air without needing to do more than look at my site.
I also took requests from users into account, when they came. It was a bit of work every couple weeks (especially the presentation side for the web, a LOT of running pass predictions and typing), but it did help a number of people.
73 de VK3JED http://vkradio.com
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