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ANS Special Bulletin - AO-51 Configuration to Support Scouting JOTA
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 289.01
>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
October 16, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-289.01
AMSAT-NA is supporting the 52nd Jamboree on the Air (JOTA)
Scouting event by dedicating AO-51 operation to the Scouts.
AMSAT-NA VP Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA said, "For
October 17th and 18th, the AO-51 QRP repeater will be allocated
for JOTA use. All users are requested to give way to JOTA stations
or QSOs with JOTA stations."
The frequencies used for this weekend will be 145.880 FM uplink,
and 435.150 FM downlink, no PL tone required. The mode change
should occur at ~00:00 UTC on the 17th (Friday evening in the
US) and run for approximately 48 hours.
AMSAT wishes the Scouts good luck operating via the AO-51 satellite
for the event.
Reports of your JOTA operations should be sent to the AMSAT-BB or
directly to ko4ma(a)amsat.org.
Photo files up to 5 Mb total are also welcome for possible inclusion
in an upcoming AMSAT Journal article.
Keith Pugh, W5IU, reports from Texas, "K2BSA will be operating on
the Amateur Radio Satellites from the National Scouting Museum in
Irving, TX, from 14:00 to 22:00 UTC on Saturday, 17 Oct. 2009. We
will be on as many of the passes listed below as possible. We will
be operating as a portable, hand-held station. Bring your Scouts
and join us on the Birds."
Here are the predicted passes for K2BSA:
WinAos QTH: -97.0/32.9 T#: 11612 Sat.: 6 [Standard]
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Day Object AOS (U) LOS Period maxEl AZ
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17.10.2009 SO-50 14:41 14:50 09 10 356 - 098
17.10.2009 AO-07 14:47 15:06 19 37 005 - 225
17.10.2009 VO-52 15:35 15:48 13 35 023 - 176
17.10.2009 SO-50 16:20 16:33 13 76 330 - 155
17.10.2009 VO-52 17:12 17:23 11 16 348 - 228
17.10.2009 AO-27 19:10 19:23 13 20 129 - 003
17.10.2009 AO-27 20:48 21:03 15 39 185 - 340
There will also be an ARISS Contact with Scouts at the museum that
will take place starting at 21:53 UTC. This will be a Telebridge
contact via WH6PN in Hawaii. The contact will be on the EchoLink
AMSAT Conference and on a wide area, 442.400 MHz repeater in the
Dallas/Fort Worth area.
[ANS thanks Keith, W5IU, and Drew, KO4MA for the above information]
/EX