[amsat-bb] Re: Jugnu (JNU)
Dinesh, thanks. For the record, the TLE we track with us that for object E. The frequency is 437.275 and TLE defined doppler. I'm in class right now, so can't look for the specific number. We heard it in 4 and 17 degree elevation passes, so when it is on, signal strength is probably not an issue. Our payload turns on whenever we command it to, and downlink is initiated from the ground. That is on a separate frequency, though, and we aren't doing it just yet while we try to understand the power situation. On 10/17/11, Dinesh Cyanam wrote: > Hi Shashank, > FYI… Got this report today at 4:10 am IST. > Also, will your payload be turned on only over the Indian sub-continent or > all over the world? > > Regards > Dinesh > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: "PY5LF" >> Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] Re: Jugnu (JNU) >> Date: October 16, 2011 6:41:40 PM EDT >> To: "'Dinesh Cyanam'" >> >> Hello >> I heard JUGNU very strong today. >> 73 >> >> PY5LF >> LUCIANO FABRICIO >> Curitiba-PR-Brazil GG54jm >> http://www.qrz.com/db/py5lf >> >> -Mensagem original- >> De: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] Em nome >> de Dinesh Cyanam >> Enviada: domingo, 16 de outubro de 2011 20:17 >> Para: Amsat - BBs >> Assunto: [amsat-bb] Re: Jugnu (JNU) >> >> Yeah. I am wondering the same too. Heard no reports about Jugnu in the >> last >> 3 days. >> >> ___ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB@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 >> > > -- Chintalagiri Shashank Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur http://blog.chintal.in ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@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
[amsat-bb] Re: Technical discussions on AMSAT-BB......"an endangered species" ?
Hi Bruce,KK5DO I agree completely with you ! 73" de i8CVS Domenico - Original Message - From: "Bruce" To: "i8cvs" Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 5:49 AM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Technical discussions on AMSAT-BB.."an endangered species" ? maybe because you can work an fm leo with an ht and arrow antenna. you do not need to be technical to do that. i have not been on a satellite since ao40 died because there is no chalenge to me to work an fm satellite. i have given a few demos over the years but i much prefer rag chewing with someone in europe or asia than a 5 second grid square transfer. 73...bruce Sent from my iPhone On Oct 16, 2011, at 10:25 PM, "i8cvs" wrote: > Hi All, > > I do remember that when OSCAR-10, OSCAR-13 and AO40 were > alive and well this net on AMSAT-BB was full of technical messages > from W3IWI now K3IO ,G3RUH, G3WDG, ZL1AOX and many others > from wich it was possible to lern the radio technique particularly in the > field of RF and antennas. > > By the way actually with the prolification of Microsats,Nanosats and so on > the above people seems to be not anymore interested on satellite technical > discussions and they abandoned the net. > > Can anyone explain to me why ? > > Thanks for any answere. > > 73" de > > i8CVS Domenico > ___ > Sent via AMSAT-BB@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-BB@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
[amsat-bb] Re: E1Pu2 & RAX2 downlink conflict?
Hello, RAX-2 will be using 437.345 MHz 9600 baud, RHCP http://rax.engin.umich.edu/?page_id=138 73's Armando N8IGJ ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@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
[amsat-bb] Re: Technical discussions on AMSAT-BB......"an endangered species" ?
I'm curious, as someone who was involved in designing a nanosatellite. What sort of payloads would be of interest to the amateur community? When we started out, we did spend a fair bit of time looking for payload, but most things to do with transponders seemed to be somewhat unfeasible. On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:55 AM, i8cvs wrote: > Hi All, > > I do remember that when OSCAR-10, OSCAR-13 and AO40 were > alive and well this net on AMSAT-BB was full of technical messages > from W3IWI now K3IO ,G3RUH, G3WDG, ZL1AOX and many others > from wich it was possible to lern the radio technique particularly in the > field of RF and antennas. > > By the way actually with the prolification of Microsats,Nanosats and so on > the above people seems to be not anymore interested on satellite technical > discussions and they abandoned the net. > > Can anyone explain to me why ? > > Thanks for any answere. > > 73" de > > i8CVS Domenico > ___ > Sent via AMSAT-BB@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 > -- Chintalagiri Shashank Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur http://blog.chintal.in ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@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
[amsat-bb] Re: nanosatellite 2-way payload
Just about any radio system used for comms with the command station could be adapted to a two-way mission. Mass and power budget are the limiting factors in most cases. Which nanosatellite did you help design? 73, Drew KO4MA AMSAT-NA VP Operations -Original Message- >From: Shashank Chintalagiri > >I'm curious, as someone who was involved in designing a nanosatellite. >What sort of payloads would be of interest to the amateur community? >When we started out, we did spend a fair bit of time looking for >payload, but most things to do with transponders seemed to be somewhat >unfeasible. > ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@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
[amsat-bb] Re: 4C1JPG on satellites - 14-30 October 2011
I worked them on PSK31 this weekend. Looks like they've been very active in
the evenings.
Has anyone worked them on the birds?
Sent from my iPod
Rick Tejera
Editor, SACnews
Saguaro Astronomy Club
www.saguaroastro.org
K7TEJ
On Oct 16, 2011, at 17:37, "Patrick STODDARD \(WD9EWK/VA7EWK\)"
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I saw this on another mailing list, and haven't seen any mention
> of it anywhere else, so here goes Members of the "Radio
> Experimentadores de Occidente" radio club XE1TD will use the special
> Mexican call 4C1JPG during the 2011 Pan-American Games, currently
> taking place in Guadalajara. 4C1JPG ("Juegos Panamericanos
> Guadalajara", the Spanish translation of the event in that Mexican
> city) will be on 160m through 6m, as well as the satelltes through
> 30 October 2011.
>
> QSL cards will be available, as well as electronic confirmations in
> both LOTW and eQSL. More information about 4C1JPG, including the
> Mexican address of the 4C1JPG QSL manager, is available at:
>
> http://www.qrz.com/db/4C1JPG
>
> By the way, for those who work that station - or any Mexican
> station - and would like to send SASEs instead of including a
> US dollar bill or IRC with your QSL request, I have lots of
> Mexican postage stamps. Using SASEs works a lot better when
> trying to send something to a Mexican ham. Please e-mail me
> directly if you would like to get some stamps for QSLing.
>
> Good luck and 73!
>
>
>
>
>
> Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
> http://www.wd9ewk.net/
>
>
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[amsat-bb] Re: 4C1JPG on satellites - 14-30 October 2011
I worked 4C1JPG on the 02:30z pass of SO-50 last night. They were very strong
into the satellite (full quieting).
I don't think they were hearing very well, which might be the language barrier,
but is more likely SO-50's wandering transmitter frequency or an
antenna/pre-amp/radio issue.
73, Steve N9IP
--
-Original Message-
I worked them on PSK31 this weekend. Looks like they've been very active in
the evenings.
Has anyone worked them on the birds?
Sent from my iPod
Rick Tejera
Editor, SACnews
Saguaro Astronomy Club
www.saguaroastro.org
K7TEJ
On Oct 16, 2011, at 17:37, "Patrick STODDARD \(WD9EWK/VA7EWK\)"
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I saw this on another mailing list, and haven't seen any mention of it
> anywhere else, so here goes Members of the "Radio Experimentadores
> de Occidente" radio club XE1TD will use the special Mexican call
> 4C1JPG during the 2011 Pan-American Games, currently taking place in
> Guadalajara. 4C1JPG ("Juegos Panamericanos Guadalajara", the Spanish
> translation of the event in that Mexican
> city) will be on 160m through 6m, as well as the satelltes through
> 30 October 2011.
>
> QSL cards will be available, as well as electronic confirmations in
> both LOTW and eQSL. More information about 4C1JPG, including the
> Mexican address of the 4C1JPG QSL manager, is available at:
>
> http://www.qrz.com/db/4C1JPG
>
> By the way, for those who work that station - or any Mexican station -
> and would like to send SASEs instead of including a US dollar bill or
> IRC with your QSL request, I have lots of Mexican postage stamps.
> Using SASEs works a lot better when trying to send something to a
> Mexican ham. Please e-mail me directly if you would like to get some
> stamps for QSLing.
>
> Good luck and 73!
>
>
>
>
>
> Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
> http://www.wd9ewk.net/
>
>
> ___
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[amsat-bb] Re: Technical discussions on AMSAT-BB......"an endangered species" ?
Domenico, Here is a copy of "WHY" and some other questions answered...Of course, just my opinion but I received many compliments on the discussion... 73, Dee, NB2F All, As most of you know me, I am one of the voices in the crowd within satellite circles and have been accused of having my own agenda. I am a fixture at many hamfests here in the New Jersey Area and wherever I can present to the Amateur community the aspects of satellite activity and promote AMSAT's proliferation. I give many talks and dog and pony shows to various clubs. My motto is "I work for donations!" I am glad this thread was ongoing since I come across this type of thinking all the time. It's a good discussion since AMSAT membership is declining and Satellite enthusiasm is dwindling, so I read. While this area of insuring plans for HEO and MEO birds is one of my pet projects, AMSAT itself has re-addressed itself to LEO activities because of financial reaches that present launches are out of the normal (?) abilities of AMSAT to obtain. My many unscientific polls as to why hams are not rejoining AMSAT nor assisting future funding shows that they think we have to put up HEO or MEO birds to attract them back into the fold. Of course this doesn't make sense and it doesn't add to our present coffers to even think about these type of birds. Yes, it costs money to do these things. In the past, there were negotiations behind the scenes with a GEO-Sync satellite company to add our payload to one of these birds. Company was sold, contacts were lost and so went that avenue. As with an AO-40 type satellite, we had numerous items made by our supporting volunteers and many, many, many volunteer hours to see that satellite came to fruition. Volunteers even gave up precious vacation time to work on this project. A minimal cost launch by Arianne certainly provided a great opportunity. Some of our people went by the wayside since then and we lost engineering staff to fall back on. As Dan, N8FGV, points out to us all is that our dreams are still there. We need to reactivate those spirits as he indicates. One person stated, "I am willing to ante up $4000-I need to convince 4,999 of my friends to do the same." We are all Amateurs in this satellite area and as pioneers in Ham Radio, we must reinvent ourselves to continue to be prominent in building sats with real actual launches rooted out where we can. We have dedicated people now in active building projects for slots available for launch. My hat is off to them and I will always support their efforts. Having functioning packages on the ready is a big plus- Look at ARISsat-1 and that was a super job by "OUR" staff to step up and act before the deadline. (We don't need no stinkin' UHF antenna!) (OOPS?) Dan provides us with answers to all these questions of why and why not. Read his input as well and I think this thread needs the answer of how much is the Amateur community willing to contribute to keep these higher orbiting satellite ideas alive. Anyone have a "RICH" uncle to donate something to this superfund? I think that we need a spark - incentive - or a benefactor to step up to get us on the launch pad at the right spot. Lottery tickets seem to be the American dream (HI, HI). Please feel free to "thank" our many sincere volunteers that keep publications coming, transponders appearing, protecting frequency allocations, monitoring rule proposals, Symposiums happening and informational updates accurate. 73, Dee, NB2F NJ AMSAT Coordinator -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Schultz Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 2:03 AM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Geostationary Satellites It is true that a Geo bird would only cover 1/3 of the Earth, but it would ALWAYS be there, with no need for antenna rotors or keps or a computer for tracking. It would be like picking up a telephone. It would be wonderful for emergency service in a disaster area. It could provide high speed digital communications on the amateur microwave bands in places where the internet is not available. Geosynchronous orbit slots are allocated by transponder frequency. On the amateur radio bands we are free to locate a satellite anywhere we can get to because we don't share our frequencies with commercial transponders. The reason we don't have any high altitude satellites is all about the money. We amateurs created the small satellite business. Back in the old days the big boys laughed at our cute little toy satellites, but they did allow us to bolt them to a launch vehicle for free or for very low cost. The experts were certain that our homebrew satellites wouldn't last a week without expensive mil-spec electronic components. We amateurs proved that small satellites were useful and thus created a market that we are now priced out of. The launches that used to be free can now be sold to paying customers for millions of d
[amsat-bb] PACIFICON a Blast!
PACIFICON in Santa Clara was a blast! Had a great time. Arrived Friday mid-day - in plenty of time to work AO-51 at 4:30PM PDT. Saturday, of course, was non-stop fun. Gordo emcee'd breakfast. I gave my satellite show twice - right before and right after lunch. Standing room only group of 56 attendees for the first show. About 47 for the second show. Then we worked passes outside: A0-27 "showed up" mid-pass for us at about 245PM PDT. Then AO-51 again for a GREAT pass at about 3:53PM PDT. The event didn't formally get a request in to work Commander Fossom aboard the ISS for his 3:06AM PDT pass on early Saturday morning ... He worked a Scout group FIVE MINUTES before streaking across Santa Clara - but his radios were already turned OFF for a while. BUT our group of several kids/Scouts/parents/hotel security staff enjoyed a video I had set up on Fossum's NASA career, and we all had a great time - albeit 3 o'clock in the morning ... (grin) The PACIFICON organization is a first-class group. They treat their speakers well ... offer all aspects of the hobby to their attendees ... and gave it all to us in a comfortable venue (Santa Clara Marriott). They will be hosting the NATIONAL ARRL Convention next year! The organizers gave me a table right inside the front door of the exhibition hall - couldn't have asked for better placement. AMSAT Symposium flyers and sat sheets and more were handed out to attendees. More will be posted on my Work-Sat YahooGroup later this week. Clint Bradford, K6LCS http://www.work-sat.com ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@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
[amsat-bb] Re: OOTC demo on AO-27 @ 2130 UTC
Thank you Patrick and all the other that gave me a call yesterday. It was a very successful presentation and demonstration. In fact, I heard from Dave W6KL this morning and he has already ordered an Arrow and a TH-D72A. John Belstner W9EN Valley Center, CA DM13le ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@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
[amsat-bb] Re: PACIFICON a Blast!
Clint, Sounds like it was a very successful weekend. Thanks for your enthusiasm. I'm sure it was contagious. 73 Rick K7TEJ Clint Bradford wrote: > PACIFICON in Santa Clara was a blast! Had a great time. > > Arrived Friday mid-day - in plenty of time to work AO-51 at 4:30PM PDT. > > Saturday, of course, was non-stop fun. Gordo emcee'd breakfast. I gave my > satellite show twice - right before and right after lunch. Standing room only > group of 56 attendees for the first show. About 47 for the second show. Then > we worked passes outside: A0-27 "showed up" mid-pass for us at about 245PM > PDT. Then AO-51 again for a GREAT pass at about 3:53PM PDT. > > The event didn't formally get a request in to work Commander Fossom aboard > the ISS for his 3:06AM PDT pass on early Saturday morning ... He worked a > Scout group FIVE MINUTES before streaking across Santa Clara - but his radios > were already turned OFF for a while. BUT our group of several > kids/Scouts/parents/hotel security staff enjoyed a video I had set up on > Fossum's NASA career, and we all had a great time - albeit 3 o'clock in the > morning ... (grin) > > The PACIFICON organization is a first-class group. They treat their speakers > well ... offer all aspects of the hobby to their attendees ... and gave it > all to us in a comfortable venue (Santa Clara Marriott). They will be hosting > the NATIONAL ARRL Convention next year! > > The organizers gave me a table right inside the front door of the exhibition > hall - couldn't have asked for better placement. AMSAT Symposium flyers and > sat sheets and more were handed out to attendees. > > More will be posted on my Work-Sat YahooGroup later this week. > > Clint Bradford, K6LCS > http://www.work-sat.com > > > > > > ___ > Sent via AMSAT-BB@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-BB@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
[amsat-bb] Russian geostationary satellite locator - with AO-7, AO-27 and FO-29
Andy Thomas G0SFJ posted a great web page for a vintage Russian geostationary satellite locator he was fortunate enough to buy at a flea market. I modified a program of mine to use the old school Russian IMMARSAT map as the basis for a polar projection satellite tracker. I am sure there are many other programs out there that do the same thing. Here are a few screen shots from yet another one. Even though the continents look a little funky the tracks actually came out quite close to SatPC32 tracks. It does take a little while to get used to the new look of the world. It is an equiangular projection so as you get farther away from the north pole things look larger. Who knew Australia was so large. http://www.tomdoyle.org/polarprojection/ http://sites.google.com/site/andythomasorg/Home/russian-geostationary http://www.bathurst1000.com.au/ Nothing to do with sats but it was a great race. ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@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
[amsat-bb] Re: KickSat - a personal spacecraft of your own in space
Hi AMSATs, I really wonder if this ever can and will be launched. AMSAT started with eperimental communication systems on the early oscars, and grown into highly complex satellites like AO-40, which was a real achievement for ham radio amateurs. However recent years there is a big trend on CubeSats, of which most are bleep-sats as they only send digital data (as cheap downlink ?). Luckily not all CubeSats are like that :o) At least these CubeSats are under some kind of control, and don't survive very long or can be switched off to minimize RF polution. When I see the idea of 100 chipsats that will all send digital RF signals I wonder where amateur satellite hobby will go into. I see these ChipSats more like RF polution and I believe you can better put your money and effort in designing a real communication satellite. I wonder what is the mission of these 100 chips ? (commercial ? publicity ?) Is there any technology thing we learn from this ? 73 de PE1RAH William Leijenaar ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@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
[amsat-bb] Re: KickSat - a personal spacecraft of your own in space
On 10/17/11 15:23, William Leijenaar wrote: Hi AMSATs, I really wonder if this ever can and will be launched. AMSAT started with eperimental communication systems on the early oscars, and grown into highly complex satellites like AO-40, which was a real achievement for ham radio amateurs. However recent years there is a big trend on CubeSats, of which most are bleep-sats as they only send digital data (as cheap downlink ?). Luckily not all CubeSats are like that :o) At least these CubeSats are under some kind of control, and don't survive very long or can be switched off to minimize RF polution. When I see the idea of 100 chipsats that will all send digital RF signals I wonder where amateur satellite hobby will go into. I see these ChipSats more like RF polution and I believe you can better put your money and effort in designing a real communication satellite. I wonder what is the mission of these 100 chips ? (commercial ? publicity ?) Is there any technology thing we learn from this ? 73 de PE1RAH William Leijenaar William, I have wondered about this, too. I have come to think of these as seeds. Seeds that plant the idea of satellites in the heads of people and make them want larger, better (heo) systems. They won't last that long, so the idea of RF pollution isn't really there. And, if the sat sub-band can have a section devoted to these cube sats such that they aren't everywhere, even better. The more people that get a taste of satellites, the better. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en72 ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@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
[amsat-bb] Re: KickSat - a personal spacecraft of your own in space
--- On Mon, 17/10/11, William Leijenaar wrote: > I see these ChipSats more like RF polution and I believe > you can better put your money and effort in designing a real > communication satellite. I think it will be a great acheivement to successfully deploy sats this small and successfully receive data from them. I do, however, share your concerns regarding long term RF pollution. In the case of KickSat this would be mitigated by the short lifetime before re-entry of a few days and I understand the total bandwidth occupied by all the 10 milliwatt ChipSat transmitters will be under 100 kHz. KickSat is not a problem but you can see how this technology can be built on in the future. Low cost swarms of satellitess can be a valuable scientific tool. When it moves to the commercial arena we won't want it in our bands. The QB50 project https://www.qb50.eu/ is proposing to launch a swarm of 50 2U CubeSats, see AMSAT-UK Colloquium presentation at http://www.batc.tv/vod/QB50.flv QB50 will have a significant spectrum requirement. I note that in the USA the NTIA is considering a paper proposing 10 MHz of UHF spectrum for small satellites, see http://www.uk.amsat.org/2011/10/01/new-itu-service-for-cubesats-and-nanosats/ Maybe that could be a solution to be problem ? Now you could say that if there's 10 MHz of spectrum between 400-2025 MHz going spare then the Amateur and Amateur Satellite Services could do with it ;-) The worrying thing is that some may consider our spectrum might fit the bill :-( 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@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
[amsat-bb] Re: KickSat - a personal spacecraft of your own in space
Hi William, PE1RAH Well said ! 73" de i8CVS Domenico - Original Message - From: "William Leijenaar" To: Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 9:23 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: KickSat - a personal spacecraft of your own in space Hi AMSATs, I really wonder if this ever can and will be launched. AMSAT started with eperimental communication systems on the early oscars, and grown into highly complex satellites like AO-40, which was a real achievement for ham radio amateurs. However recent years there is a big trend on CubeSats, of which most are bleep-sats as they only send digital data (as cheap downlink ?). Luckily not all CubeSats are like that :o) At least these CubeSats are under some kind of control, and don't survive very long or can be switched off to minimize RF polution. When I see the idea of 100 chipsats that will all send digital RF signals I wonder where amateur satellite hobby will go into. I see these ChipSats more like RF polution and I believe you can better put your money and effort in designing a real communication satellite. I wonder what is the mission of these 100 chips ? (commercial ? publicity ?) Is there any technology thing we learn from this ? 73 de PE1RAH William Leijenaar ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@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-BB@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
[amsat-bb] Re: 4C1JPG on satellites - 14-30 October 2011
Patrick,
Just made a contact with 4C1JPG on AO-51 around 2218 on a 70 degree pass here
in northern CA. They had a good signal into AO-51.
There were several other contacts made with 4C1JPG on that pass.
73's - Tom
Tom Deeble - KA6SIP
MDARC Membership Chairman
ka6...@aol.com
-Original Message-
From: Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)
To: amsat-bb
Sent: Sun, Oct 16, 2011 5:50 pm
Subject: [amsat-bb] 4C1JPG on satellites - 14-30 October 2011
Hi!
I saw this on another mailing list, and haven't seen any mention
f it anywhere else, so here goes Members of the "Radio
xperimentadores de Occidente" radio club XE1TD will use the special
exican call 4C1JPG during the 2011 Pan-American Games, currently
aking place in Guadalajara. 4C1JPG ("Juegos Panamericanos
uadalajara", the Spanish translation of the event in that Mexican
ity) will be on 160m through 6m, as well as the satelltes through
0 October 2011.
QSL cards will be available, as well as electronic confirmations in
oth LOTW and eQSL. More information about 4C1JPG, including the
exican address of the 4C1JPG QSL manager, is available at:
http://www.qrz.com/db/4C1JPG
By the way, for those who work that station - or any Mexican
tation - and would like to send SASEs instead of including a
S dollar bill or IRC with your QSL request, I have lots of
exican postage stamps. Using SASEs works a lot better when
rying to send something to a Mexican ham. Please e-mail me
irectly if you would like to get some stamps for QSLing.
Good luck and 73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
ttp://www.wd9ewk.net/
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[amsat-bb] Re: PACIFICON a Blast!
Glad I was able to work you during your demo. I hope I didn't sound too goofy. Jim Adams - K0BAM ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@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
[amsat-bb] 5 in EM55
Congrats to Don WA0SSN award #33 for 5 in em55 WA4HFN Damon em55 ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@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
