October 2015 - Amsat-dc (INACTIVE)

Pictures needed
by Robert McGwier 10 Oct '15

10 Oct '15

I need some high quality pictures of the Phase 3 spacecraft in the electronics museum in Linthicum. I was there visting NG and NSA and just was swamped during all the hours they were closed.. Thanks, Bob -- Bob McGwier Founder, Federated Wireless, Inc Founder and Technical Advisor, HawkEye 360, Inc Research Professor Virginia Tech Senior Member IEEE, Facebook: N4HYBob, ARS: N4HY Faculty Advisor Virginia Tech Amateur Radio Assn. (K4KDJ) Director of AMSAT

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AO-85
by Stephan Greene 09 Oct '15

09 Oct '15

Congratulations to AMSAT-NA and the Fox-1A team! Just monitored the 02:00-ish UTC pass; I was surprised to hear the transponder active and heard a number of QSOs and well- disciplined ops. Mostly solid copy from shortly after AOS until at about 10 deg above LOS. Not sure if its a null in the satellite antenna pattern or ground clutter (which in my neighborhood is about equally bad in all directions). Arrow antenna on tripod (and you want to be able to rotate it for polarity changes) and Yaesu VX5. No preamp and I am not sure one is going to be needed for this bird. 73 Steve KS1G FM18hx -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Greene ks1g04(a)gmail.com <kay ess one gee zero four>@gmail.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Interesting STEM Trek event Nov.7
by Tom Clark 06 Oct '15

06 Oct '15

AMSAT people might be interested in this event in Catonsville: See http://marylandstemfestival.org/events-index/2015/8/19/stem-trek and http://www.baltimorestemalliance.org/stem-trek/ 73 de Tom K3IO

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