[amsat-bb] OX Dxpedition Update

2010-04-14 Thread Reid Crowe
I just wanted to give everyone an update on an upcoming QTH change. Although I am scheduled to be in Thule until April 23rd, there is a chance I could leave as early as April 21st. I will be going to Wallops Island, VA to put our radar equipment on a P-3 aircraft and do flight tests. I will

[amsat-bb] Re: Space Debris:

2010-04-14 Thread John Heath
hi steve, thanks for an informative post. good to see the bb doing what it does best. 73 john g7hia From: Stephen Melachrinos melac...@verizon.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 April, 2010 0:22:34 Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Space Debris: Greg - I

[amsat-bb] Re: Email etiquette - was Re: Re: Moon

2010-04-14 Thread Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
Only 4 lines of sig. The 2 dashes are the delimiter put in by the e-mail client. Could be worse. I could put the sig at the top! Also bugs me when people dont crop the recipient list. On 14-Apr-10 04:39, Steve Meuse wrote: Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF expunged (ni...@ngunn.net): Top posting is the

[amsat-bb] NH6VB back on the satellites from Hawaii

2010-04-14 Thread Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)
Hi! On Saturday (10 April) morning, there was an HO-68 SSB/CW pass that went from the north toward the Pacific Ocean. I was out at my normal Phoenix QTH (DM33xp/DM43ap boundary), and worked 3 stations. Early in the pass, John VE8EV called me from CP38. I've worked John in the past when I was

[amsat-bb] AO-7 is not OK

2010-04-14 Thread ps8rf Piraja
Some days we are seeing very strange behavior in the AO-7. In some orbits can only hear the feedback on the downlink when the satellite is approaching my station at about 30 degrees elevation, before is impossible to hear any signal via AO-7. Using two pre-amplifier, one in the TS 2000x and

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 is not OK

2010-04-14 Thread Mike Rupprecht
Hi Piraja, Yes, I made similar observations. If the CW is active on 70cm you can hear sometimes a very strong deviation in frequency. The CW beacon partly not decodable. I agree with you it could be an effect by low batteries or due heavy usage. See some graphs here:

[amsat-bb] Re: Email etiquette - was Re: Re: Moon

2010-04-14 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
The last time I set up a mailing list, the list manager was insistent that I did not want to set the reply-to address to the list address, noting that doing that removed any reply-to field that the sender put in there, which was a loss of important data for those users who put data in that

[amsat-bb] 2 Tracker Boxes

2010-04-14 Thread Martha
Due to 2 cancellations, I now have 2 Tracker boxes in stock. You can place your order on the AMSAT store found on the AMSAT website. The first 2 orders will get the boxes. -- 73- Martha ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 is not OK

2010-04-14 Thread Peter Portanova
Hello, Correction, The Grand Lady AO-7. 73's Pete WB2OQQ www.massapequanyweather.com ___ 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

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 is not OK

2010-04-14 Thread Dee
Pete, Come on now, we all treat her like a lady, don't we? Always a few, Pete, that never listen to suggestions...Hope all is well and your weather site looks great. Hope you're planning a few hamfest this year for AMSAT. Been to quite a few already and hopefully we keep spreading the

[amsat-bb] Re: Most Hams in Space at one time?

2010-04-14 Thread Trevor .
I made the total 10 hams, see list at Six radio hams fly to space station http://www.southgatearc.org/news/april2010/six_hams_on_sts131.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA --- On Tue, 13/4/10, Alan VE4YZ ve...@mts.net wrote: From: Alan VE4YZ ve...@mts.net Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Most Hams in Space at one

[amsat-bb] amazing video of robot for ISS

2010-04-14 Thread Samudra Haque
I wonder if a robot operator would make a 2-way QSO from the ISS using a ham radio transceiver? See the video... amazing development: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY-SJyS18lAfeature=player_embedded http://news.cnet.com/8301-17912_3-20002479-72.html 73 de N3RDX S21X

[amsat-bb] FW: Re: AO-7 is not OK

2010-04-14 Thread ps8rf Piraja
Hello friends, Some friends wrote that the batteries of the AO-7 will not work. However when analyzing the data made available by Mike in your web site I saw that the results of telemetry for the voltage of the batteries and its load are different in each decoding ... I am convinced that

[amsat-bb] AO7 heard few minutes ago.

2010-04-14 Thread PY5LF
Hello all Signal heard from AO7 few minutes ago ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAjsrSmmmiU 73 PY5LF LUCIANO FABRICIO CURITIBA-PR-BRAZIL GG54JM http://www.qrz.com/db/py5lf http://www.qrz.com/db/py5lf http://www.falautomation.com.br/ www.falautomation.com.br

[amsat-bb] Re: FW: Re: AO-7 is not OK

2010-04-14 Thread Sebastian
AO-7 is definitely having problems. On the last pass at 00:00 4/15/2010, I worked a few stations. The bird was very busy, lots of signals. My downlink was very strong, above normal, even after lowering my power down almost all the way on my 910H. I heard heavy distortion on my downlink.

[amsat-bb] AO-7 situation

2010-04-14 Thread Bob- W7LRD
Hello Just got off AO-7, it really sounds not too good.  Weak and distorted audio.  Like not enough voltage from the 35 year old solar cells.  Heard eveything from response to a CME event to being in mode C to being hit by whatever.  The audio distortion does not depend on the uplink power,

[amsat-bb] Settings to work HO-68 in FM

2010-04-14 Thread Francisco Jiménez-Martín Sánchez
Hello to all the people in the list, I would like to know if you use any special setting to work the HO-68 sat in FM, because I have tried for to two days to enter in the satellite with no success. I have an icom IC-910H, with the pl tone of 67 in the uplink but there is no way to enter in the

[amsat-bb] Most hams in space at one time??

2010-04-14 Thread edward kacura
I know this sounds negative, but with all these hams in space, why isn't anyone operating???   Why can't I and all the rest of us earth bound hams contact the ISS with our handhelds and Arrow antennas   What good is it , to have all these hams up there, and not a one, can make contact with