The Sumbandilasat and SA-AMSAT team has released their tentative activation times for this weekend, and it looks like North and South America will have many active passes. Keep in mind that many Scouts will be active for JOTA this weekend, so please make an extra effort to contact them and welcome them to amateur satellites.

73, Drew KO4MA

PS Thank you to the Sumbandilasat and SA-AMSAT team, and also to Ed, N8BBQ for calculating the pass times.

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Sumbandila ham payload activations (times in UTC; active for 15 minutes):

Africa

2010-10-12 20:24 2010-10-13 08:25 2010-10-14 08:07 2010-10-15 20:53 2010-10-16 20:36 2010-10-17 20:18

Europe

2010-10-12 19:10 2010-10-12 20:46 2010-10-13 08:08 2010-10-13 09:42 2010-10-13 17:20 2010-10-13 20:25 2010-10-14 07:50 2010-10-14 09:24 2010-10-14 17:00 2010-10-14 20:07 2010-10-15 07:30 2010-10-15 09:05 2010-10-15 10:40 2010-10-15 18:14 2010-10-16 07:12 2010-10-16 08:45 2010-10-16 10:20 2010-10-16 16:25 2010-10-17 06:52 2010-10-17 10:00 2010-10-17 17:37 2010-10-17 19:09

Americas (JOTA special event)

2010-10-16 10:39 2010-10-16 12:12 2010-10-16 13:37 2010-10-16 15:09 2010-10-16 16:42 2010-10-16 18:14 2010-10-16 19:47 2010-10-16 21:20 2010-10-16 22:38 2010-10-16 22:54 2010-10-16 23:55 2010-10-17 00:14 2010-10-17 01:28 2010-10-17 01:44 2010-10-17 03:00 2010-10-17 03:19 2010-10-17 04:55 2010-10-17 06:35 2010-10-17 10:20 2010-10-17 11:53 2010-10-17 13:15 2010-10-17 13:32 2010-10-17 14:50 2010-10-17 16:23 2010-10-17 17:56 2010-10-17 19:29 2010-10-17 21:01 2010-10-17 22:35