[amsat-bb] need 3SK121Y or similar for icom AG-25

2009-06-02 Thread Raul Romero
need 3sk121y any have unit sold need 2 unit in my country not have tnx Raul CA3SOC ___ 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 s

[amsat-bb] Re: true duplex radios

2009-06-02 Thread k0vty
Hi Alan Memories: 14 March 1965, My first Satellite QSO. OSCAR III went up on March 9 1965 and the battery lasted 18 days. After two year of designing and building for this day I made my first satellite QSO (CW) 1965 was a much different time for 2 meters and all that went along with that frequen

[amsat-bb] Re: Portable QSLs

2009-06-02 Thread Gary "Joe" Mayfield
Justin, I have never heard of one of my cards being rejected, and I have helped many to VUCC by operating portable. Strike out your home grid, then add portable from Grid, county and state. You should be good to go with that and you will make the card checker happy. On LOTW I have gotte

[amsat-bb] AO-7 at 13:15 UTC on 3 June

2009-06-02 Thread n3tl
Hey Everyone, I just looked at tomorrow's passes of AO-7, and the one that will have me in the footprint beginning at about 9:06 Eastern Daylight Time (13:06 UTC) hits a maximum elevation of 87.5 degrees. Beginning at about 9:15 EDT (13:15 UTC), I'm going to be calling CQ and/or looking for c

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2009-06-02 Thread Howard Kowall
Hello Is there anyone out there using WXTrack for radio and rotor control thanx Howard VE4ISP ___ 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! Subscript

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 mode ?

2009-06-02 Thread Andrew Glasbrenner
Still in normal mode. As soon as the weekly conference call is over I'll have time to update the webpage with the new schedule. Sorry about the delay. 73, Drew KO4MA - Original Message - From: "John Price" To: Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 8:44 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-51 mode ? >

[amsat-bb] AO-51 mode ?

2009-06-02 Thread John Price
Anyone know if the bird is still in May configuration? I did not get to work it this evening. Grandson music concert took priority -- N4QWF Amateur Radio Operator AO-7,AO-27,FO-29,SO-50,AO-51,VO-52,ISS Email n4...@amsat.org Echolink nodes #110903 -L #388463 http://home.comcast.net/~n4qwf/site/ Fo

[amsat-bb] Re: Full duplex radios

2009-06-02 Thread Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
At least "their" is a proper word. Sheesh isn't in the dictionary. Sil - ZL2CIA wrote: > > > Nigel, > > > > > > Yes, of course, that's true. A single band repeater is a full duplex > radio. > > > > I don't think their are any Ham radios that operate full duplex in a > > single band. Of co

[amsat-bb] Full duplex radios

2009-06-02 Thread Sil - ZL2CIA
> Nigel, > > > Yes, of course, that's true. A single band repeater is a full duplex radio. > > I don't think their are any Ham radios that operate full duplex in a > single band. Of course, I could easily be wrong. Do you know of any? > > > > Sil "There", not "their" - sheesh Sil ___

[amsat-bb] Re: Full Duplex Radios

2009-06-02 Thread Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
There are plenty of commercial receiver/transmitter pairs but they all need external filtering. I don't know of any amateur transceivers that fall into that category. Sigil wrote: > > > Yes, of course, that's true. A single band repeater is a full duplex radio. > > I don't think their are any

[amsat-bb] Re: Full Duplex Radios

2009-06-02 Thread Sigil
Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF wrote: > Not exactly. > Full Duplex can be both receive and transmit simultaneously in the same > band or on the same frequency. > Doesn't have to be in different bands. > > Nigel, Yes, of course, that's true. A single band repeater is a full duplex radio. I don't think

[amsat-bb] Re: true duplex radios

2009-06-02 Thread Andrew Koenig
I've added a lot of Alinco radios, a few HT's and a base rig. Hopefully this is complete. Now the fun begins. Adding the "tone/no tone" column :-). I'll probably spend a couple hours on Universal Radio's website when school gets out trying to find that info. 73 de KE5GDB HTs - Icom IC-W2A Icom I

[amsat-bb] Re: true duplex radios

2009-06-02 Thread Tony Langdon
At 05:02 AM 6/3/2009, Martin wrote: >Hi Jim and others. > >For ordinary Repeaters the Rx/Tx in the same band is mandatory. But just >think of the filtering needed for TX'ing lots og watts just 600kHz away >from your Rx-frq. >This is also the reason why most repeaters (at least that I know of) >uses

[amsat-bb] Re: Hawaii BL11 on AO51 today?

2009-06-02 Thread Glenn AA5PK
The distance could have been stretched a little farther east had Robert been able to break through the West Coast wall :O) Glenn AA5PK in DM91 ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join n

[amsat-bb] Re: true duplex radios

2009-06-02 Thread Alan P. Biddle
A good discussion of OSCAR III here: http://projectoscar.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/o3_translator.pdf Alan WA4SCA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur

[amsat-bb] Re: true duplex radios

2009-06-02 Thread OZ1MY
Hi Martin and other AMSAT'ers, This is a bit beside the subject but I seemed to recall that OSCAR-III was running full duplex in the 2 metre band: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=26&retURL=satellites/all_oscars.php That is not on the same frequency - but the same band.

[amsat-bb] Re: true duplex radios

2009-06-02 Thread Martin
Hi Jim and others. For ordinary Repeaters the Rx/Tx in the same band is mandatory. But just think of the filtering needed for TX'ing lots og watts just 600kHz away from your Rx-frq. This is also the reason why most repeaters (at least that I know of) uses really big cavity-filters. But for Rx/

[amsat-bb] Re: Re; Full duplex: same band ?

2009-06-02 Thread Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
Agreed, Henk, but we're talking telecommunications terminology. Your old fashioned wired telephone does full duplex in the same band (baseband audio) and has done so for over a hundred years. Henk, PA3GUO wrote: > Hi Nigel > >> Full Duplex can be both receive and transmit simultaneously >> in

[amsat-bb] Re: Re; Full duplex: same band ?

2009-06-02 Thread Bill Ress
Hi Henk, Very nice presentation! Thanks for making it composing it and making it available. Regards...Bill - N6GHz Henk, PA3GUO wrote: > Hi Nigel > >> Full Duplex can be both receive and transmit simultaneously >> in the same band or on the same frequency. > > There will be very few radios I

[amsat-bb] Re; Full duplex: same band ?

2009-06-02 Thread Henk, PA3GUO
Hi Nigel > Full Duplex can be both receive and transmit simultaneously > in the same band or on the same frequency. There will be very few radios I guess that can at the same time receive as well as transmit on the same band / frequency ... At least my THD7 and TS2000 can do full duplex, but not

[amsat-bb] Re: Portable QSLs

2009-06-02 Thread Andrew Glasbrenner
Yes to all of the above. My cards have a portable/mobile entry field as well. Alternatively, Martha still has AO-7 QSLs that are very inexpensive, and work well for confirming QSOs away from home, or using as reply QSLs for the station you worked to sign and return. On a related note...if you w

[amsat-bb] Portable QSLs

2009-06-02 Thread Justin Pinnix
If you are operating away from home and want to send out QSL cards, is it acceptable to use your "home" card and note corrections to the location? Can I just put "portable FM17" in the notes field? Should I strike through my home grid? 73 AJ4MJ/P FM25 (15 May - 17 May 2009) AJ4MJ/P FM07 (30 May

[amsat-bb] Re: Hawaii BL11 on AO51 today?

2009-06-02 Thread n3tl
Hey everyone, Off the BB, I emailed Patrick and asked for a more accurate time of his contact with Bill. He replied that it occurred sometime during the 02:33 UTC minute of the pass last night, but he didn't have the exact second. Using Orbitron's simulation mode, the following represents the C

[amsat-bb] Re: [Senior-officers] Re: Reminder

2009-06-02 Thread AC7YY - Kim
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 08:16 -0400, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote: > > > > What is an AMSAT Member Society? > > > > Think of it as a club joining AMSAT. If your club has paid their dues as a > Member Society of AMSAT, they may vote to nominate you in lieu of 5 > individual members. > > 73, Drew KO4MA

[amsat-bb] Re: Hawaii BL11 on AO51 today?

2009-06-02 Thread n3tl
Hey Patrick, You've sold yourself and Robert a few hundred miles short with that estimate of 2,900 miles. That, of course, is the "shortest distance between Point A and Point B" straight-line distance. But each of you had to make it up to AO-51. At the risk of initiating a major debate here, I

[amsat-bb] Re: Hawaii BL11 on AO51 today?

2009-06-02 Thread n3tl
Congratulations to both of you! -- Original message from "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)" : -- > Hi! > > > Robert - you sounded great here in DM13-land (Riverside, CA). > > Patrick is further east than I am ... how far did you > > communniate??? > > I don't know

[amsat-bb] Re: [Senior-officers] Re: Reminder

2009-06-02 Thread Andrew Glasbrenner
> > What is an AMSAT Member Society? > Think of it as a club joining AMSAT. If your club has paid their dues as a Member Society of AMSAT, they may vote to nominate you in lieu of 5 individual members. 73, Drew KO4MA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org

[amsat-bb] Re: Full Duplex Radios

2009-06-02 Thread Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
Not exactly. Full Duplex can be both receive and transmit simultaneously in the same band or on the same frequency. Doesn't have to be in different bands. Sigil wrote: > > Everyone seems to agree on the meaning of "Full Duplex" as the term is > used when talking about Ham satellites and radio

[amsat-bb] Re: true duplex radios

2009-06-02 Thread Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
No. Half Duplex is when you can both receive and transmit but not simultaneously. Full Duplex is when tou can both receive and transmit simultaneously Simples is when you can either receive or transmit but not both. Jim Heck wrote: > > Again im my experience, such a radio as Greg has describe

[amsat-bb] Re: true duplex radios

2009-06-02 Thread Mark L. Hammond
Nice work, Andrew. Somebody mentioned the Kenwood TS-790A/E previously (a base unit), but I don't think I see it on your current list. It's an important addition :) 73, Mark N8MH > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 18:21:11 -0500 > From: Andrew Koenig > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: true duplex r

[amsat-bb] Full Duplex Radios

2009-06-02 Thread Sigil
Hi, I have been trying to follow this confusing discussion about "Full Duplex Radios". It seems to me that different people are using the same term to mean different things. Everyone seems to agree on the meaning of "Full Duplex" as the term is used when talking about Ham satellites and radio