[amsat-bb] Re: so67

2011-05-05 Thread Ib Christoffersen
Hi Kev, It is back on. This week over the Americas. Next week over Europe starting Monday. That is at last the plan. 73 OZ1MY/Ib -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] På vegne af mm0kjg Sendt: 4. maj 2011 17:57 Til: amsat-bb@amsat.org

[amsat-bb] Re: Cables for small satellites

2011-05-05 Thread Graham Shirville
Hi All, Many thanks to the kind experts who kindly sent us information in repect to this enquiry a couple of weeks ago. For FUNcube we have determined that the best coax for our purposes is RG178. The following reasons: we are only concerned with VHF and UHF signals flight heritage small

[amsat-bb] Re: Portable satellite antenna

2011-05-05 Thread Bob Bruninga
The issue is an antenna. I live in an antenna restricted area so I am not sure what to do. My goal is to work minimally the ISS! :-) I own a Kenwood TH-D72A Walk outside during a pass. Have the radio configured and working for normal APRS. Then just change from 144.39 (APRS) to 145.825

[amsat-bb] Re: 6th Aniversary of HAMSAT- VO 52

2011-05-05 Thread Peter Portanova
Mani, Congratulations, and many more orbits! We also want to acknowledge the government of India for supporting the construction and launch of VO-52 as a result of the emergency communications UO-14 provided after the 2001 Gujarat earthquake. We enjoy satellite communications as a hobby,

[amsat-bb] Re: Portable satellite antenna

2011-05-05 Thread Alexander Sack
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Bob Bruninga bruni...@usna.edu wrote: The issue is an antenna.  I live in an antenna restricted area so I am not sure what to do. My goal is to work minimally the ISS! :-) I own a Kenwood TH-D72A Walk outside during a pass.  Have the radio configured and

[amsat-bb] Re: Portable satellite antenna

2011-05-05 Thread Matt Patterson
Back when I used to get on the ISS APRS all I used was a j-pole antenna. It might not be the best but I never had a problem getting in. 73 Matt W5LL On 5/5/2011 7:06 AM, Bob Bruninga wrote: The issue is an antenna. I live in an antenna restricted area so I am not sure what to do. My goal

[amsat-bb] Re: Portable satellite antenna

2011-05-05 Thread Randy Hall
Hi Here is a video of me using my Arrow with AO-51. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HfvmU_utI8 Randy K7AGE On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Alexander Sack pisym...@gmail.com wrote: AMSAT-BB: I am a relatively new ham (1.5 months) and I have caught the satellite bug. I own a Kenwood

[amsat-bb] Re: SO-67 Question

2011-05-05 Thread Johann Lochner
Hi Dave, On Tuesday, 2011-05-03 21:56 +0200, Dave Marthouse wrote: When SO-67 isn't operating in amateur mode is it on a different frequency. If so, what frequency is it and what modulation scheme is used? Telemetry downloads, activity uploads and housekeeping tasks are performed on

[amsat-bb] Re: 6th Aniversary of HAMSAT- VO 52

2011-05-05 Thread Jan H. van Gils
On Thu, May 5, 2011 03:22, Mani VU2WMY wrote: Hi Mani, VO-52 is really a great Sat and it works great. Congratulations with this anniversary. PE0SAT Dear Friends, It gives us great pleasure and satisfaction to say that 'HAMSAT-VO 52' has completed 6 years of successful operation in orbit.

[amsat-bb] K6LCS Contest - Follow-up

2011-05-05 Thread Clint Bradford
Wow ... SouthGate ARC picked up the story ... http://www.southgatearc.org/news/may2011/mr_amsat_uk.htm Let's do this again soon - this was fun! Clint ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member?

[amsat-bb] Re: K6LCS Contest - Follow-up

2011-05-05 Thread Edward R. Cole
At 11:05 AM 5/5/2011, Clint Bradford wrote: Wow ... SouthGate ARC picked up the story ... http://www.southgatearc.org/news/may2011/mr_amsat_uk.htm Let's do this again soon - this was fun! Clint ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are

[amsat-bb] Celebration of Freedom 7 at the Cape

2011-05-05 Thread saguaroastro
Thought you all might be interested in this : http://ww2.cox.com/myconnection/phoenix/today/news/science-and-tech/article.cox?moduleType=apNewsarticleId=D9N1E4T02 73 de Rick K7TEJ ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the

[amsat-bb] Re: Portable satellite antenna

2011-05-05 Thread Alexander Sack
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Matt Patterson mattp...@1starnet.com wrote: Back when I used to get on the ISS APRS all I used was a j-pole antenna.  It might not be the best but I never had a problem getting in. Thanks Matt. Good to know. If anyone has a used Arrow II with duplexer, I'd be

[amsat-bb] AmSat hey

2011-05-05 Thread gregory . beat
AmSat, talk to you later http://r2.bit.ly/mrj9iK --- I want meadows red in tone and trees painted in blue. Nature has no imagination. -- Charlse Baudelaire osama bin laden is dead ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the

[amsat-bb] Satellite demonstrations at 2011 ARRL Rocky Mtn. Convention

2011-05-05 Thread Ollie Eisman
Hi everyone, I plan to be conducting satellite demonstrations at the 2011 ARRL Rocky Mountain Division Convention, to be held August 5-7 in Taos, New Mexico. if anyone would like to help with demos (especially using hand-held radio), please contact me off-list: a...@amsat.org Registration is

[amsat-bb] Re: Alan Shepard, First American in Space

2011-05-05 Thread i8cvs
Hi John, K8YSE May 5th is also the Anniversary of the death in 1821 in the island of Saint Helina of His Imperial and Royal Majesty the French General Napoleon Bonaparte. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon Along with his military career he had the merit of introducing the Metric System in

[amsat-bb] Re: AmSat hey

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Rich
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[amsat-bb] Re: Portable satellite antenna

2011-05-05 Thread Rick Tejera
Alexander, Your expectations are not high at all. If you don't mind homebrewing, Kent Britain WA5VJB, has plans for an easy to build (as evidenced by the fact that I built one) dual band yagi go says tha works great. Cost me under $20.00 in parts and a few hours of time. Go here for the

[amsat-bb] Funnies

2011-05-05 Thread Kevin Deane
Since Ham Radio cartoon funnies seem to be so hard to come by, I have been making my own. I was hoping I could find out from you guy's what was the OLDEST and BEST sat you all got to use so I could make them more interesting...Basically lookin for the oldtimers fav, something before my time

[amsat-bb] 13 Original Colonies Special Event help needed

2011-05-05 Thread Dave Webb KB1PVH
I am still looking for operators for CT, NH, NJ for the 13 Original Colonies Special Event. If anyone wants to participate send me an email. http://www.13colonies.info/ Dave - KB1PVH Sent from my Verizon Wireless DROID X ___ Sent via

[amsat-bb] Re: Funnies

2011-05-05 Thread Edward R. Cole
At 02:40 PM 5/5/2011, Kevin Deane wrote: Since Ham Radio cartoon funnies seem to be so hard to come by, I have been making my own. I was hoping I could find out from you guy's what was the OLDEST and BEST sat you all got to use so I could make them more interesting...Basically lookin for the

[amsat-bb] Re: Funnies

2011-05-05 Thread Edward R. Cole
I forgot to mention that the command stations were very busy in the first few weeks of AO-6 because we had to keep the transponder turned-off to save the batteries. Unfortunately, this resulted in QSO's being cut in half, because the bird lit up with activity every time the Tx became

[amsat-bb] Re: Funnies

2011-05-05 Thread i8cvs
Hi Kevin, KF7MYK Not including the SPUTNIC-1 beacon on 20 MHz the ECHO-1 beacon on 108.030 MHz and the moon on 70 cm EME the OLDEST communication satellite for me was OSCAR-6 and the BEST for me was AO40 on mode U/S and L/S 73 de i8CVS Domenico - Original Message - From: Kevin Deane

[amsat-bb] Re: Cables for small satellites

2011-05-05 Thread i8cvs
- Original Message - From: Graham Shirville g.shirvi...@btinternet.com To: CubeSat @ CubeSat.org cube...@cubesat.org; AMSAT BB amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 1:53 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Cables for small satellites There is a range of extra flexible semi-rigid cables