April 2008 - Amsat-florida (INACTIVE)

This week's Florida AMSAT Net
by David J 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

_____ HQ8R SWAN ISLAND DXPEDITON SATELLITE COMMUNICATION Florida AMSAT Net, on the 443.1 MHz N4HHA repeater, On the NI4CE system of repeaters and over Echolink at KG4YZY-R, node# 4429, on Thursday April 10th at 19:30 ET. Following a Preamble and announcements, Bill Dzurrila, NZ5N, http://www.qrz.com/nz5n will present his adventures to, during and from the recent Swan Island Dxpedition which ended about March 27. Web site: http://www.hondurasdx.com/ Please email questions you would like to ask Bill to: David Jordan, AA4KN, at: aa4kn(a)amsat.org Dave is only accepting questions sent PRIOR to net time. Additional questions will be allowed as time permits. This will allow reduction of duplicate questions and also allow David to be heard by everyone via the repeater. Please include your Name and Call Sign. Credit of the Name and Call Sign will be given over the repeater for those questions sent to David. During prior events, many mobile units were unable to present a consistent r.f. signal into the repeater. Also a more smoothly run net will occur by reducing the number of "overs" etc. AMSAT, The Radio Satellite Corporation, web site is: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/index.php Prepared by Carl Zelich, AA4MI, aa4mi(a)arrl.net Forwarded by David Jordan, AA4KN aa4kn(a)amsat.org _____ Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL <http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/united-states?ncid=aoltrv00030000000016> Travel Guides.

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May 31st Shuttle Launch
by K4ACB 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hey there gang well Im finally gonna be able to see a space shuttle launch. I got my tickets monday morn when they went on sale. The launch is set for May 31 @ 5:01pm EDT. Got a few questions if anyone is able to answer or even help. Im looking for freq's for rebroadcast for launch, and freq's to listen to crew, and etc. I am also looking for 2m/ and or 70cm freqs for repeaters. Hey any other info would be great aswell to get the best out of my 1st and only space shuttle launch before they put it away. Hope all is going well with everyone. 73, Cameron Amateur Radio Operator ( K4ACB ) Saint Petersburg, FL K4ACB(a)yahoo.com / KI4VYQ(a)yahoo.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com

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FW: EchoLink
by David J 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Bill, Thanks for your efforts in this. You are the 4th person I have encountered that has had EXTREME difficulty in configuring for echolink. I am still one of them myself. I finally gave up until I figure I have to use it for something important. Let me look into this somemore and see if I can at least get my system working with it and I'll let you know what I did to get it working. In the meantime, I have forwarded this email to our AMSAT-FLORIDA list in hopes that someone will answer as Scott did who might have another angle on this. I really hope we can find a solution so we can have you as a guest on the net. I'll be in touch, Dave, AA4KN -----Original Message----- From: Bill Dzurilla [mailto:billdz.geo@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:31 AM To: Scott Schmautz Cc: n4csitwo(a)bellsouth.net Subject: Re: EchoLink David, thanks for the invitation to speak to the net. Scott, thanks for helping me try to configure Echolink. Unfortunately, I can't get Echolink to work. I've called my provider and followed the instructions at portforwarding.com and echolink.org to the best of my ability, but no success. 73, Bill NZ5N --- Scott Schmautz <wb2uzr(a)gmail.com> wrote: > This may help also? > > Scott/WB2UZR > > http://www.echolink.org/firewall-friendly.htm > ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com

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FW: Florida AMSAT Net
by David J 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

I trying to get Bill some help in configuring his system for echolink so we can have his as a guest on the net, but he is having some problems with getting it to run on his system. Can anyone help him out? Refer to our past emails below. Dave, AA4KN -----Original Message----- From: Bill Dzurilla [mailto:billdz.geo@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 8:35 PM To: David J Subject: RE: Florida AMSAT Net Looks like I'll need some help. Downloaded Echolink and I get the "Cannot connect - timed out" message. Checked the Help section and it mentions the need to configure a Static IP address and port forwarding. To get the static address, you need to find out the DNS server address, which apparently requires a call to my ISP. But they are closed for the evening. If there's any way to do this without calling the ISP, please let me know. If someone can walk me through it, my phone is 954 475 9801. Bill --- David J <n4csitwo(a)bellsouth.net> wrote: > Ok Bill, > > Thanks for your reply and interest in being part of > our net. If you run into > any problems with echolink, please let me know and I > will try to get you > hooked up with someone that can help. I think the > best approach to this is > to have you configure for linking to the net this > week and see if you have > any problems checking in with us on Thursday. This > will give you a week to > get things corrected so we have a smooth linkup on > April 10th. > Looking forward to having you as a guest and > hopefully a regular check-in. > > 73s, > > David H. Jordan, AA4KN > AMSAT area coordinator for Central Florida > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Dzurilla [mailto:billdz.geo@yahoo.com] > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 12:19 PM > To: David J > Subject: Re: Florida AMSAT Net > > Hi David, > > I've heard about the Thursday net and was meaning to > download Echolink and try to check in. Let me see > if > I can get it working this evening. If yes, I'll be > glad to check in and talk about Swan Island. I'm > not > within range of your repeaters, so Echolink is my > only > hope. > > 73, Bill > --- David J <n4csitwo(a)bellsouth.net> wrote: > > > Bill, > > > > > > > > I'm David Jordan, AA4KN. I believe I read that you > > were the lead satellite > > operator of the HQ8R Dxpedition to the Swan > Islands. > > I am one of the net > > controls for the Florida AMSAT Net. We meet weekly > > on Thursday nights at > > 19:30 ET on several repeater systems in Florida > and > > over Echolink. I'm > > always looking for items of interest to include in > > our net. Would it be > > possible for you to join us on the air for our net > > either this Thursday > > evening or on the next Thursday, April 10th and > give > > us a brief discussion > > (very informal) on your experience on the HQ8R > > Dxpedition and maybe field a > > few questions that the check-ins my have for you? > > I'm sure there are a lot > > of operators that would enjoy knowing the details > of > > the trip and your > > experience operating satellites from there. Please > > let me know as soon as > > you can if you can do this so I can start listing > > you as a feature for this > > week. We are only allotted an hour for the > linkups, > > so you will only have > > about 30 minutes for the talk and questions. > > > > > > > > After bringing you up on QRZ.COM, it appears that > > you live in Plantation. If > > that is the case, there may be a repeater system > > that you can hit directly > > that carries our net in order to link into us. If > > not, you can link in via > > Echolink at KG4YZY-R, node # 4429. The repeaters > > carrying the net that I am > > aware of are, the NI4CE system of repeaters > covering > > a large area of > > southwest Florida, see www.ni4ce.org > > <http://www.ni4ce.org/> . for coverage. > > > > > > The N4HHA repeater in the Orlando and Central > > Florida area which is probably > > too far north. Let me know as soon as you can if > > this is a possibility. > > > > > > > > 73s, > > > > > > > > David H. Jordan, AA4KN > > > > AMSAT area coordinator for Central Florida > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > ________ > No Cost - Get a month of Blockbuster Total Access > now. Sweet deal for Yahoo! > users and friends. > http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text1.com > > ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Like movies? Here's a limited-time offer: Blockbuster Total Access for one month at no cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text4.com

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