Hello Pete and Al >>>

Sorry I wasn't able to get on the satellites this evening. Three out of four evenings in the current cycle isn't too bad! I spent the last two days helping a new ham, Ventis, KL2BL, get on the air. We built one good 2M ground plane out of two broken antennas and wired his used IC-27A up to a surplus power supply. He checked into the Alaska ARES net this evening and made his first amateur radio contact.

Based on the latest HO-68 schedule from Alan, BA1DU, and the attached Alaskan HO-68 pass tables, there aren't any usable Alaskan evening passes that occur during periods that the satellite will be up and running. However... Alan's activation schedule is only current through February 7th (local evening of the 6th), so we will just have to wait for his posting of subsequent operational schedules to see what works out.

In summary, as soon as you see dates for HO-68 being available on V/U FM after 0300Z, please look at the attached Alaskan pass tables and call or e-mail Dale, KL7XJ and Craig, KL4E, to set up a firm schedule for your Alaskan QSOs.

Good Luck & 73,

Craig, KL4E

TEL: ((907) 694-4730 FAX: (907) 696-4730 Cell: (907) 242-4730 E-Mail: craig_bledsoe@ak-prepared.com

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Hi Craig I see that you are active in HO68, I will be in our mutual pass beginning for me at 0343 tonight Thursday night... Hope to hear you, BP51 is a new one for me GL !!! Al XE2AT in DL81uu

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Hi Craig,

I heard from N3TL, Tim, on the contacts the past two nights, I would also like to add AK to my State count, look forward to working you.

73's Pete WB2OQQ, FN30

"Angelo Glorioso III / N5UXT" n5uxt@hotmail.com on Thursday, February 04, 2010 at 4:57 AM -0800 wrote:

Hi Tim,

Thanks for the congrats. I heard you at the end of the pass too. It was really cool. All I need now is Hawaii now and I have work all states via satellite. Any takers in Hawaii listening to the BB???

73 de Angelo

----- Original Message ----- From: [ mailto:n3tl@bellsouth.net ]Tim - N3TL To: [ mailto:ruthann.bledsoe@alaskaair.com ]RuthAnn Bledsoe ; [ mailto:n5uxt@hotmail.com ]n5uxt@hotmail.com Cc: [ mailto:kl7xj@arrl.net ]kl7xj@arrl.net ; [ mailto:fl@papays.com ]fl@papays.com ; [ mailto:dan@obarr.net ]dan@obarr.net ; [ mailto:wd9ewk@amsat.org ]wd9ewk@amsat.org ; [ mailto:john@papays.com ]john@papays.com ; [ mailto:tcraftdan@yahoo.com ]tcraftdan@yahoo.com ; [ mailto:sawson@w6yx.stanford.edu ]sawson@w6yx.stanford.edu Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 7:11 AM Subject: Re: Alaska Finally

Congratulations Angelo! I heard your contact with Craig. Good for you!

And thank you, Craig, for being on the passes this week to give folks in the lower 48 the opportunity to work Alaska via HO-68.

73,

Tim - N3TL

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From: RuthAnn Bledsoe <[ mailto:ruthann.bledsoe@alaskaair.com ]ruthann.bledsoe@alaskaair.com> To: [ mailto:n5uxt@hotmail.com ]n5uxt@hotmail.com Cc: [ mailto:kl7xj@arrl.net ]kl7xj@arrl.net; [ mailto:fl@papays.com ]fl@papays.com; [ mailto:dan@obarr.net ]dan@obarr.net; [ mailto:wd9ewk@amsat.org ]wd9ewk@amsat.org; [ mailto:n3tl@bellsouth.net ]n3tl@bellsouth.net; [ mailto:john@papays.com ]john@papays.com; [ mailto:tcraftdan@yahoo.com ]tcraftdan@yahoo.com; [ mailto:sawson@w6yx.stanford.edu ]sawson@w6yx.stanford.edu Sent: Wed, February 3, 2010 11:41:17 PM Subject: Re: Alaska Finally

Hi Angelo >>>

You had a nice signal here in Eagle River, Alaska, this evening in between the packet racket. One more shot via HO-68 in the current sequence tomorrow night. Hope to hear you again!

                           73,

                           Craig, KL4E

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From: "Angelo Glorioso III / N5UXT" <[ mailto:n5uxt@hotmail.com ]n5uxt@hotmail.com> 2/3/2010 7:08:50 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Alaska Finally To: "AMSATBBS" <[ mailto:amsat-bb@amsat.org ]amsat-bb@amsat.org>

Finally worked Alaska tonight:

KL4E in BP51 02/04/2010 0402

Now that is what I call stretching it.

73 de Angelo