[amsat-bb] Special Event Station W7M Saturday, August 16 2014
The Snohomish County HAMS Club and the Cascade Radio Club of Everett will be activating the Mukilteo Washington Lighthouse for the International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend on Saturday, August 16th. The special event call sign will be W7M. I will be putting W7M out on FO-29, AO-7 and SO-50 in grid CN87. This is not a particularly rare grid, but it will be fun and an opportunity to demonstrate satellite operations. The following is a list of the passes I plan to try: FO-29 1532Z and 1719Z (1719Z is extremely low elevation and may not work) SO-50 1626Z , 1809Z, 1951Z (1809Z is extremely low elevation and may not work) AO-7 2042Z (this one also low elevation – will try CW only on this pass) For FO-29, look for W7M around 435.830 +/- Doppler 73’…Ed WA7ETH ___ 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] Special Event Tonight from EL-29
Welcome a newly licensed ham, KF5YXV tonight on a number of passes starting Nov 5 at 01:44 UTC on FO-29. Hector will operate from Galveston island. 73 Clayton W5PFG ___ 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] SPECIAL EVENT
Hello, This weekend is Lighthouse Lightship weekend, around the world. I will be operating at the Fire Island Lighthouse, from Fire Island, NY, FN30. The host club is the Great South Bay ARC, www.gsbarc.org. I will be using the club call sign, W2GSB/FI. The plan is to work all the amateur satellites, Saturday and Sunday, starting on the 14:23 U pass of FO-29. The operating hours will be until 4 PM, as the Lighthouse is being repaired and we must leave at that hour each day. If you like to collect Lighthouse QSL cards you will enjoy having this one, and can mail your card to my home call. I look forward to working many stations and those of you worked me at Custer Observatory, QSL cards are being printed, thank you. 73 Pete WB2OQQ ___ 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] SPECIAL EVENT- FIRE ISLAND- FN30
Hello: The Great South Bay Amateur Radio Club, www.gsbarc.org, will be active on Fire Island National Seashore August 18th and 19th. I will be using the callsign W2GSB/FI on the FM amateur Satellites. I will begin on S0-50, for the 14:10 U pass tomorrow, and all workable FM passes, during daylight hours for the weekend. If you would like a special QSL card, I look forward to working you, and follow the instructions on the gsbarc site, to receive the card, thank you. Due to the popularity of the FM satellites and activity on the weekend, it might be a good idea to call W2GSB, so I can have a better chance of working you, I will be hand held. 73's WB2OQQ Pete ___ 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] SPECIAL EVENT -- TUESDAY, AUGUST 7th
Here in Livingston, New Jersey, the Roseland Amateur Radio Club, K2GQ, will be at the National Night Out on Tuesday, August 7th , with various ham radio demonstrations, starting at 5:30 p.m. EDT (2130-Z). Although unfortunately this year we do not anticipate any satellite operations, we will be on the two meter W2QR -- WA2JSB repeater, IRLP Node 4469. Please give us a call! Thank you! Bob Kovacs KC2WYH. AMSAT Member 38304 ___ 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] **SPECIAL EVENT** CUSTER OBSERVATORY
Hello, I will be operating today from Custer Observatory, www.custer.org, as W2GSB. A special QSL card is available, visit www.gsbarc.org for information, I will be on the FM satellites, thank you. 73 WB2OQQ ___ 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] SPECIAL EVENT STATION
Hello, In recognition of Armed Forces day, I will be operating on the FM satellites, Saturday Sunday. The event call is W2GSB/APM . APM is the Air Power Museum located at Republic Airport, Farmingdale, LI, http://www.americanairpowermuseum.com/Website/index.html. Passes: SO-50- 5/19- 15:30 UAO-27- 5/19- 18:14 U SO-50- 5/19- 17:12 U AO-27- 5/20- 17:46 U SO-50- 5/20- 15:59 U SO-50- 5/20- 17:42 U If you would like a special QSL card for the event, see the May, QST page 92, or SASE, Great South Bay Amateur Radio Club/APM, PO Box 1356, West Babylon, NY 11704. www.gsbarc.org Thank you, 73, Pete WB2OQQ ___ 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] Special Event Station K7P
I know is very short notice. I have just put my gear together to operate portable from BO40 tomorrow afternoon and possibly Saturday afternoon as well. I will be in Homer, Alaska for the annual Refuges on the air event. We will be operating on the HF bands as well. We are located at the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge center. We operated last year from there as KL7YY. This is to celebrate National Wildlife Refuge Week. 73, KL7XJ ___ 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] SPECIAL EVENT -- TUESDAY, AUGUST 2nd
Here in Livingston, New Jersey, the Roseland Amateur Radio Club, K2GQ, will be at the National Night Out on Tuesday, August 2nd, with various ham radio demonstrations. There is a high elevation pass by AO-51 at 2026-Z (4:26 p.m. EDT) and we would appreciate working any available station. Thank you! Bob Kovacs KC2WYH. ___ 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] Special Event Station N8M Active on Satellites This Weekend
Hello Everyone, Here is an interesting item. If we waited for the weekend ANS news cycle this special event activity would be already be over ... Ford Amateur Radio League, along with other local radio clubs, will be active during the weekend of July 30th 31st with the special event call of N8M located at the Detroit Maker Faire at the Henry Ford Museum of Dearborn Michigan. Operating modes will be HF/VHF/SAT/EME CW/VOICE/DIGI conditions permitting. We hope to work as many Satellites as possible with the special call. For more info, go to http://www.thehenryford.org/events/makerFaire.aspx (or) http://www.k8utt.org/index.htm For more info, contact n8...@yahoo.com -- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9...@amsat.org Editor, AMSAT News Service ___ 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] Special event for Royal Wedding
Hi All, For those in Europe we will be operating on all FM sats on Friday under a special event callsign of MR0DQO. Please visit our website after the event for callsigns worked. http://wordpress.projectoscar.co.uk/#/?cat=45 Many thanks, Chris Bloy M0DQO - Founder Project OSCAR Uk www.projectoscar.co.uk Sent from my iPhone ___ 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] Special Event April 12th
Hi: Since posting a query and no reponse, I've decided to do a Special Event for the 50 years of the First Man in Space and 30 years of the first Space Shuttle Launch. It will be on HF and locally on 2 meters. It has been posted on QRZ.com. Also if you know of any other activation, let me know, I assume that in Russia there will be an operation of some kind. Cheers, Angel Santana - WP3GW ___ 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] Special Event Operation Sat/Sun 12/13 March 2011
I will be using a special event callsign on the birds this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the OPDX Bulletin. The callsign will be NO8DX/20. The OPDX Bulletin is a free DX Bulletin that is distributed via an email list and picked up by email groups around the world. Papays.com hosts the official web version of the Bulletin which comes out every Sunday evening. Tedd Mirgliotta KB8NW is the editor of this publication which often includes satellite announcements. Tedd is the President of the Northern Ohio DX Association (NODXA) and has devoted a good part of his life to this free source of DX information. There have been 1001 issues published to date. Thousands of amateurs around the world read this bulletin every week. The NO8DX/20 call will be used by many of our NODXA club members on the HF and VHF bands. Those who wish to receive a special QSL card should send their SASE to the qrz.com address for KB8NW. If there are any rare grid operations on the birds over the weekend, I will obviously yield the bird to them. 73, John K8YSE ___ 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] Special Event
Hello, I want to thank all the stations that contacted W2GSB/APM on AO-27 this past Saturday, we had a group of Amateur Operators that heard the pass, here is one e-mail that is typical when you do a live presentation. 73's Pete WB2OQQ www.massapequanyweather.com Hi Pete, I enjoyed working with you on Saturday at the Air Power Museum. A person can read all the info in the world, but there's nothing like seeing the equipment work in real life. I'm hooked. I'll be ordering my antenna this week. See you soon, 73 - George K2KVI ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Special Event Coinciding with AMSAT Symposium
All, Those of you into Edgar Allan Poe.there is a special treat if you come to this year's symposium. The famous poet is celebrating his 200th birthday this year. He lived in Baltimore for several years and died and was buried in the city. And there is a Poe Museum at the Baltimore house he lived in before his death. The year-long commemoration of Poe will culminate with a recreation of his funeral that occurs around the Symposium dates. Poe died on October 7, 1849. There will be a recreation of a wake for Poe from noon to 11 pm at the Poe House. This will be followed up with a mock-funeral for Poe on Sunday October 11 (12:30 and 4:30). John Astin (Gomez Addams from the Addams family fame) will officiate the funeral services. If you want more information on this, go to the following web sites: www.nevermore2009.com www.poebicentennial.com www.annabelleetavern.com This all Poe tavern was named after one of Poe's last poems.a virtual shrine to Edgar Allan Poe with his poetry covering the walls. www.westminsterhall.org Where he is buried.and where a mystery man dresses in black leaves a bottle of cognac and three red roses on Poe's birthday. If you didn't know it before, now you know why the Baltimore Football team is called the Ravens... 73, Frank Bauer, KA3HDO 2009 AMSAT Symposium Co-Chair ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Special Event- Lighthouse Weekend
Hello All, As part of the International Lighthouse/Lightship event, I will be operating on most of the FM Satellites, thru the weekend. In addition we will have AMSAT information available to the many visitors that tour the Fire Island Lighthouse, our goal is to have fun and bring new Satellite operators to the airwaves. So when you hear W2GSB/Lighthouse, give us a call, you can visit http://www.gsbarc.org to view the QSL card and more information about the event, thank you. 73, Pete, WB2OQQ CQ CQ... this is W2GSB/Lighthouse - Fire Island Lighthouse NYSpecial Event Station W2GSB/Lighthouse - August 15 and 16, 2009 Fire Island Lighthouse, Fire Island National Seashore, Fire Island, Suffolk County, New York The event is always held on the 3rd full weekend in August starting at 0001 UTC on Saturday and finishing at 2359 UTC on Sunday. It also now coincides on the Sunday with the International Lighthouse Day which is an event organized by the International Association of Lighthouse Keepers whereby as many world lighthouses will be open to the public for the day. The following are the various designators for the operation W2GSB/Lighthouse location information: Grid Square: FN-30-jp QSL via W2GSB/LH, PO Box 1356, West Babylon, NY 11704-0356. S.A.S.E. Please. The International Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend came into being in 1997 from the Scottish Northern Lighthouses award weekend by Mike Dalrymple, GM4SUC, a member of the Ayr Amateur Radio Group, see also this web site for further history and this page for the event's first web site. Over the years it has grown to over 380 lighthouses in some 51 countries around the world participating in the event. 73, Pete, WB2OQQ ___ 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
[amsat-bb] Special Event operation coming to the satellites!
Hey everyone, This time next week, at least nine of the Original 13 Colonies will be active on the amateur satellites as part of a special event organized by Ken, KU2US, in New York. Here is the Web site announcing the event, and the certificate available: http://home.comcast.net/~dzabawa/ThirteenColonies.htm You’ll also find updates on Ken’s QRZ.com page – look up KU2US. When I saw an email about this special event, I contacted Ken and asked if he’d consider including satellite operations in the event. He responded with an enthusiastic yes – then told me to get everything organized as quick as I could because we were running out of time! I’m glad to do it because this should be a fun event for us on the satellites. As I write this, we have commitments from stations in nine of the original 13 colonies, and they will be using the call signs for each that are listed on the special events page. For example, I’ll be operating as K2G daily during the special event. I intend to work at least one pass of every satellite as K2G, every day. Listed alphabetically by Colony, here are the stations that have confirmed to date. The calls they will use are in parentheses: Georgia – Tim, N3TL (K2G) Massachusetts – Dave, KB1PVH (K2H) New Hampshire – Rik, N1XED (K2K) New Jersey – Marc, W4MPS (K2I) New York – Peter, WB2OQQ (K2A) North Carolina – Jim, ND9M (K2J) Rhode Island – Fletch, N1RCN (K2C) South Carolina – Art, K4YYL (K2L) Virginia – Steve, NL7VX (K2B) As of now, there are four of the original 13 colonies NOT scheduled to be active on the satellites: Connecticut Delaware Maryland Pennsylvania Can anyone help with any of them? The process is simple: 1 – Please email me off the BB to let me know of your interest. 2 – You can work as many or as few satellite passes as you like during the special event. It’s supposed to be fun, not work! 3 – After the event, email your log(s) to KU2US, who will handle the certificates. I’ll provide more information after hearing from anyone who wants to activate one of the four remaining colonies. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to work one or more of us on passes from July 1 through July 5. You only need to work one station to get the certificate, but the more the merrier! 73 to all, Tim – N3TL ___ 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
