[amsat-bb] oscar.dcarr.org

Does anyone know what happened to this important and popular website http://oscar.dcarr.org/ ? gl de ha6nn Andras ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur sate

[amsat-bb] Re: oscar.dcarr.org

Andras, It is working fine this morning. Alan WA4SCA -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Bato, Andras Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 8:13 AM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] oscar.dcarr.org Importance: High Does

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 Record

On Jul 16, 2010, at 6:48 AM, Peter Portanova wrote: > Hello, > > Congratulations, Joe and Luciano, on your outstanding, record-setting QSO! > We must also give credit to the " Powers of the Heavens Above" who have kept > AO-7 communicating with us! > The "Powers of the Heavens Above" do not

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 Record

James. You're a few years out of date. Joe Kasser has lived in Australia, Britain and Israel since he was a /W3. QRZ currently puts him in Britain although he is actually in Singapore at the National University. On 17-Jul-10 14:29, James Duffey wrote: > >Give credit where credit is due, to thos

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 Record

Mr. Duffy, I glad that you mentioned those individuals who made incredible sacrifices of their time and expertise to launch AO-7. However, I can't think of too many satellites that have "come back to life" call it luck and possibly another force that also contributed to this marvelous piece of

[amsat-bb] Sat demo

Please look for WA4NVM on AO27 pass at 1941 UTC today 17 July 10. Ricky will be giving a demonstration on satellites today at a ham class at the Red Cross building in Memphis, TN. If you work him please give the grid and state so that the students can have a idea of the distance and how it wor

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 Record

Especially when we "need" them to operate from(thru), eh Pete? 73, Dee -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Peter Portanova Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 11:46 AM To: amsat-BB@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 Record Mr

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 Record

On Jul 17, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Peter Portanova wrote: > However, I can't think of too many satellites that have "come back to life" > call it luck and possibly > another force that also contributed to this marvelous piece of engineering > to still be giving us enjoyment and world records! Most

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 Record

Don't worry about it. The US doesn't comply with the IARU bandplans on any of the HF bands either. On 17-Jul-10 21:14, James Duffey wrote: and it does not conform to the IARU band plan ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of th

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 Record

-Original Message- >From: James Duffey > Although it is a great engineering feat to have our hardware still partially > operational after 36 years in orbit, in some sense >it is a bit embarrassing > to have hardware in orbit that we cannot control. Fortunately, in AO-7s case > the in

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 Record

Drew - Thanks for the comments and shedding light on this topic. On Jul 17, 2010, at 3:55 PM, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote: > Let me clarify something here for the record, especially since it keeps > coming up. We absolutely DO have the ability to command AO-7, including a > command set that will

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 Record

-Original Message- >From: James Duffey >I based my comments on the AMSAT Satellite Summary of AMSAT Oscar AO-7 located >on the AMSAT website. See: > >< http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/ao7.html > > >Which contains the following two paragraphs: > >"*Note: Due to changes in Amate

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 Record

When there is vhf/uhf contest going on I occasionally hear a contester on the AO-7 downlink.  However due to fact that AO-7 has an inverting band pass the UHF uplink which is USB comes down LSB.  This of course is unknown to the contester.  Whereas everyone using AO-7 uplinks in LSB so that we

[amsat-bb] AMSAT 2010 Space Symposium Call for Papers

AMSAT 2010 Space Symposium Call for Papers The September 1 deadline of the call for papers for the 2010 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting is rapidly approaching! So far the Proceedings crew has received two abstracts for papers - thank you! The abstract f

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 5, Issue 309

>To: "Nick Pugh K5QXJ" > Cc: > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 2:20 PM > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: tisat-1 > It is not listed under the name TiSAt but is listed as "2010-035B" 73, Rick Tejera K7TEJ, DM33vq ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expr

[amsat-bb] TISAT

Hello TISAT heard over SA . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSyVSY4IICg 73 PY5LF LUCIANO FABRICIO CURITIBA-PR-BRAZIL GG54JM http://www.qrz.com/db/py5lf www.falautomation.com.br ___

[amsat-bb] NO5X SK

For those of you who have worked NO5X on the sats, I am sad to inform you that he became a SK in the past couple of days. I met John twice in person back in May when buying some equipment from him, and he was a great guy. I will miss hearing him on the birds. 73s John AA5JG

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 Record

In a message dated 7/17/2010 5:26:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jamesduf...@comcast.net writes: < In the amateur realm, I believe only RS10-RS11 have been turned off, Speaking of the Russian birds, I found a QSL card the other day dated September 2000 for a RS-13 QSO with KØSU in C

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 Record

... and if I recall, this was a much more common occurrence on RS-12/13, where its mode KT uplink on 15 meters saw quite a number of casual QSOs being relayed over to 10 meters via the satellite. Nobody really seemed to be bothered by that. Why would AO-7 be any different? Greg KO6TH > Da