Hell All,
The command team could really use your help. If you work AO-51 (or hear it) and there isn't a recent entry, please make a report entry here http://oscar.dcarr.org/ so we know all is well.
Things are touch-and-go now that we are experiencing eclipses, and reports on the OSCAR Status Page that the bird is up and functional are extremely helpful.
We do expect the transmitter to go OFF during eclipse, but eclipses are only a couple minutes or less at the moment.
Thanks for your help!
Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]
Thanks to our many friends for their posts about AO-51 activity! It is very helpful. I think our international colleagues are winning by a landslide...
I must admit a bit of disappointment though that many passes over the East coast of the US go without a report...*please* consider posting that AO-51 was active. Just one report is helpful and confirms that the bird remains active.
Did anybody work AO-51 during the 4:45pm pass today??
Thanks,
Mark N8MH
At 03:50 PM 12/30/2010 -0500, Mark L. Hammond wrote:
Hell All,
The command team could really use your help. If you work AO-51 (or hear it) and there isn't a recent entry, please make a report entry here http://oscar.dcarr.org/ so we know all is well.
Things are touch-and-go now that we are experiencing eclipses, and reports on the OSCAR Status Page that the bird is up and functional are extremely helpful.
We do expect the transmitter to go OFF during eclipse, but eclipses are only a couple minutes or less at the moment.
Thanks for your help!
Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]
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Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]
I worked a number of stations here in Melbourne, Florida during that pass. AO-51 was coming quite good and I didn't even have my 70cm preamp on during the entire pass while working the stations with omni antennas that are not the same. The 70cm downlink was copied using a 2 meter $2.50 homebrew groundplane for the 70cm downlink.
Reid, W4UPD
On 1/4/2011 5:59 PM, Mark L. Hammond wrote:
Thanks to our many friends for their posts about AO-51 activity! It is very helpful. I think our international colleagues are winning by a landslide...
I must admit a bit of disappointment though that many passes over the East coast of the US go without a report...*please* consider posting that AO-51 was active. Just one report is helpful and confirms that the bird remains active.
Did anybody work AO-51 during the 4:45pm pass today??
Thanks,
Mark N8MH
At 03:50 PM 12/30/2010 -0500, Mark L. Hammond wrote:
Hell All,
The command team could really use your help. If you work AO-51 (or hear it) and there isn't a recent entry, please make a report entry here http://oscar.dcarr.org/ so we know all is well.
Things are touch-and-go now that we are experiencing eclipses, and reports on the OSCAR Status Page that the bird is up and functional are extremely helpful.
We do expect the transmitter to go OFF during eclipse, but eclipses are only a couple minutes or less at the moment.
Thanks for your help!
Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]
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Thanks, Reid. One of the challenges for the command stations is that sometimes we're working on the digital side of the bird (435.150) and therefore can't easily tell what is going on with the 435.300 side. So reports are very helpful.
Yes, we figure people will like the 1.47 Watt signals! It spoils you...that's up from around 500 mW a few days ago. That's the benefit of running one transmitter at a time...there is quite a bit of power available when you don't have to share the available current between 2 transmittters :)
Again, thanks for the report.
73,
Mark N8MH
At 06:13 PM 1/4/2011 -0500, w4upd wrote:
I worked a number of stations here in Melbourne, Florida during that pass. AO-51 was coming quite good and I didn't even have my 70cm preamp on during the entire pass while working the stations with omni antennas that are not the same. The 70cm downlink was copied using a 2 meter $2.50 homebrew groundplane for the 70cm downlink.
Reid, W4UPD
On 1/4/2011 5:59 PM, Mark L. Hammond wrote:
Thanks to our many friends for their posts about AO-51 activity! It is very helpful. I think our international colleagues are winning by a landslide...
I must admit a bit of disappointment though that many passes over the East coast of the US go without a report...*please* consider posting that AO-51 was active. Just one report is helpful and confirms that the bird remains active.
Did anybody work AO-51 during the 4:45pm pass today??
Thanks,
Mark N8MH
At 03:50 PM 12/30/2010 -0500, Mark L. Hammond wrote:
Hell All,
The command team could really use your help. If you work AO-51 (or hear it) and there isn't a recent entry, please make a report entry here http://oscar.dcarr.org/ so we know all is well.
Things are touch-and-go now that we are experiencing eclipses, and reports on the OSCAR Status Page that the bird is up and functional are extremely helpful.
We do expect the transmitter to go OFF during eclipse, but eclipses are only a couple minutes or less at the moment.
Thanks for your help!
Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]
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I have been out of the loop for a while
Can someone help me with what birds I can pick up on a HT ?
- Andrew VK4TEC -
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Thanks, Reid. One of the challenges for the command stations is that sometimes we're working on the digital side of the bird (435.150) and therefore can't easily tell what is going on with the 435.300 side. So reports are very helpful.
Yes, we figure people will like the 1.47 Watt signals! It spoils you...that's up from around 500 mW a few days ago. That's the benefit of running one transmitter at a time...there is quite a bit of power available when you don't have to share the available current between 2 transmittters :)
Again, thanks for the report.
73,
Mark N8MH
At 06:13 PM 1/4/2011 -0500, w4upd wrote:
I worked a number of stations here in Melbourne, Florida during that pass. AO-51 was coming quite good and I didn't even have my 70cm preamp on during the entire pass while working the stations with omni antennas that are not the same. The 70cm downlink was copied using a 2 meter $2.50 homebrew groundplane for the 70cm downlink.
Reid, W4UPD
On 1/4/2011 5:59 PM, Mark L. Hammond wrote:
Thanks to our many friends for their posts about AO-51 activity! It is very helpful. I think our international colleagues are winning by a landslide...
I must admit a bit of disappointment though that many passes over the East coast of the US go without a report...*please* consider posting that AO-51 was active. Just one report is helpful and confirms that the bird remains active.
Did anybody work AO-51 during the 4:45pm pass today??
Thanks,
Mark N8MH
At 03:50 PM 12/30/2010 -0500, Mark L. Hammond wrote:
Hell All,
The command team could really use your help. If you work AO-51 (or hear it) and there isn't a recent entry, please make a report entry here http://oscar.dcarr.org/ so we know all is well.
Things are touch-and-go now that we are experiencing eclipses, and reports on the OSCAR Status Page that the bird is up and functional are extremely helpful.
We do expect the transmitter to go OFF during eclipse, but eclipses are only a couple minutes or less at the moment.
Thanks for your help!
Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]
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Mark,
I routinely work AO-51, AO-27, SO-50, HO-68 (FM) & SO-67 on my HT with. Homebrew dualband Yagi.
Hope to work you soon.
Sent from my iPod Rick Tejera Editor, SACnews Saguaro Astronomy Club www.saguaroastro.org K7TEJ
On Jan 4, 2011, at 18:09, "Andrew Rich" vk4tec@tech-software.net wrote:
I have been out of the loop for a while
Can someone help me with what birds I can pick up on a HT ?
- Andrew VK4TEC -
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark L. Hammond" marklhammond@gmail.com To: "w4upd" updwrb@bristor-assoc.com; amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 9:40 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Helped needed--AO-51 activity reports
Thanks, Reid. One of the challenges for the command stations is that sometimes we're working on the digital side of the bird (435.150) and therefore can't easily tell what is going on with the 435.300 side. So reports are very helpful.
Yes, we figure people will like the 1.47 Watt signals! It spoils you...that's up from around 500 mW a few days ago. That's the benefit of running one transmitter at a time...there is quite a bit of power available when you don't have to share the available current between 2 transmittters :)
Again, thanks for the report.
73,
Mark N8MH
At 06:13 PM 1/4/2011 -0500, w4upd wrote:
I worked a number of stations here in Melbourne, Florida during that pass. AO-51 was coming quite good and I didn't even have my 70cm preamp on during the entire pass while working the stations with omni antennas that are not the same. The 70cm downlink was copied using a 2 meter $2.50 homebrew groundplane for the 70cm downlink.
Reid, W4UPD
On 1/4/2011 5:59 PM, Mark L. Hammond wrote:
Thanks to our many friends for their posts about AO-51 activity! It is very helpful. I think our international colleagues are winning by a landslide...
I must admit a bit of disappointment though that many passes over the East coast of the US go without a report...*please* consider posting that AO-51 was active. Just one report is helpful and confirms that the bird remains active.
Did anybody work AO-51 during the 4:45pm pass today??
Thanks,
Mark N8MH
At 03:50 PM 12/30/2010 -0500, Mark L. Hammond wrote:
Hell All,
The command team could really use your help. If you work AO-51 (or hear it) and there isn't a recent entry, please make a report entry here http://oscar.dcarr.org/ so we know all is well.
Things are touch-and-go now that we are experiencing eclipses, and reports on the OSCAR Status Page that the bird is up and functional are extremely helpful.
We do expect the transmitter to go OFF during eclipse, but eclipses are only a couple minutes or less at the moment.
Thanks for your help!
Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]
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Mark,
In the case where there is an eclipse during part of the pass, would you prefer to have the report that you heard it, or that you didn't (signal lost) ?
Frank KK5XX
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Mark L. Hammond marklhammond@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, Reid. One of the challenges for the command stations is that sometimes we're working on the digital side of the bird (435.150) and therefore can't easily tell what is going on with the 435.300 side. So reports are very helpful.
Yes, we figure people will like the 1.47 Watt signals! It spoils you...that's up from around 500 mW a few days ago. That's the benefit of running one transmitter at a time...there is quite a bit of power available when you don't have to share the available current between 2 transmittters :)
Again, thanks for the report.
73,
Mark N8MH
At 06:13 PM 1/4/2011 -0500, w4upd wrote:
I worked a number of stations here in Melbourne, Florida during that pass. AO-51 was coming quite good and I didn't even have my 70cm preamp on during the entire pass while working the stations with omni antennas that are not the same. The 70cm downlink was copied using a 2 meter $2.50 homebrew groundplane for the 70cm downlink.
Reid, W4UPD
On 1/4/2011 5:59 PM, Mark L. Hammond wrote:
Thanks to our many friends for their posts about AO-51 activity! It is very helpful. I think our international colleagues are winning by a landslide...
I must admit a bit of disappointment though that many passes over the East coast of the US go without a report...*please* consider posting that AO-51 was active. Just one report is helpful and confirms that the bird remains active.
Did anybody work AO-51 during the 4:45pm pass today??
Thanks,
Mark N8MH
At 03:50 PM 12/30/2010 -0500, Mark L. Hammond wrote:
Hell All,
The command team could really use your help. If you work AO-51 (or hear it) and there isn't a recent entry, please make a report entry here http://oscar.dcarr.org/ so we know all is well.
Things are touch-and-go now that we are experiencing eclipses, and reports on the OSCAR Status Page that the bird is up and functional are extremely helpful.
We do expect the transmitter to go OFF during eclipse, but eclipses are only a couple minutes or less at the moment.
Thanks for your help!
Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]
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I just thought I would check to see if I am using the proper protocol on AO 51. Based on the last pass, I gather one should wait for a station to call another station, then key up on top of the caller. Then when the other station attempts to respond, we should all key up on that station. Also, on a busy weekend pass, one should call out 'CQ' 'CQ' multiple times. Etc.
THAT was the rudest pass I have ever heard...LID City
73, Ted K7TRK
On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 15:55 -0800, Ted wrote:
I just thought I would check to see if I am using the proper protocol on AO 51. Based on the last pass, I gather one should wait for a station to call another station, then key up on top of the caller. Then when the other station attempts to respond, we should all key up on that station. Also, on a busy weekend pass, one should call out 'CQ' 'CQ' multiple times. Etc.
THAT was the rudest pass I have ever heard...LID City
73, Ted K7TRK
No no no no, You've got to call "OOOOOOOh-la ooooooooohlaaaaa oooooohlaaaaa <whistle whistle whistle> oh-la oh-la oooooooh-laaaaaaa" all throughout the pass.
Jeez, kids these days with their CQ and their letting go the PTT button. What is amateur radio coming to?
Gordon MM0YEQ
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 01:07:46AM +0000, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 15:55 -0800, Ted wrote:
I just thought I would check to see if I am using the proper protocol on AO
...
No no no no, You've got to call "OOOOOOOh-la ooooooooohlaaaaa oooooohlaaaaa <whistle whistle whistle> oh-la oh-la oooooooh-laaaaaaa" all throughout the pass.
10-4 good buddy, let me get my boots on and call you back.
Jeez, kids these days with their CQ and their letting go the PTT button. What is amateur radio coming to?
Yeah, GET OFF MY FREQUENCY.
Gordon MM0YEQ
- 73 Diane VA3DB
It was the worst I've ever heard which was a shame as there were several new calls and grids that I haven't heard in the past. I think I made it into the Bird once but that was it. AO-27 earlier in the Day was bad as well. It sounded like someone was pushing the buttons on their Mic and sending out tones over the top of others who were using the Bird.
Ryan / KB9RID
----- Original Message ----- From: Ted k7trkradio@charter.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:55:25 -0000 (UTC) Subject: [amsat-bb] Ao51 Protocol ?
I just thought I would check to see if I am using the proper protocol on AO 51. Based on the last pass, I gather one should wait for a station to call another station, then key up on top of the caller. Then when the other station attempts to respond, we should all key up on that station. Also, on a busy weekend pass, one should call out 'CQ' 'CQ' multiple times. Etc.
THAT was the rudest pass I have ever heard...LID City
73, Ted K7TRK
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----- Original Message ----- From: m1a1fan@comcast.net To: "Ted" k7trkradio@charter.net Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 2:11 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Ao51 Protocol ?
It was the worst I've ever heard which was a shame as there were several
new calls and grids that I haven't heard in the past. I think I made it into the Bird once but that was it. AO-27 earlier in the Day was bad as well. It sounded like someone was pushing the buttons on their Mic and sending out tones over the top of others who were using the Bird.
Ryan / KB9RID
Hi Ryan, KB9RID
To solve the above problem the only way is to use satellites with linear transponder like VO-52. OSCAR-7 and FO-29 with several QSO on CW and SSB at the same time without QRM in the same passband.
73" de
i8CVS Domenico
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