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" <marklhamm...@gmail.com> To: "w4upd" <upd...@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] >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the >>>> author. >>>> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite >>>> program! >>>> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >>> >>> Mark L. Hammond [N8MH] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >>> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite >>> program! >>> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >>> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >>Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >>Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > > Mark L. Hammond [N8MH] > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb _______________________________________________ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
