[amsat-bb] Re: temp qrt

2012-04-10 Thread i8cvs
Hi Bob, W7LRD You don't need to rebuild your antennas but you need a HEO satellite ! 73" de i8CVS Domenico - Original Message - From: "Bob- W7LRD" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 2:27 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] temp qrt > > > to all my friends on the birds I will be temp qrt while r

[amsat-bb] Celestrack site not up?

2012-04-10 Thread Greg Dolkas
Anybody know if the Keps site has moved, or is simply (and temporarily) down? Gpredict isn't updating it's keps, and I figured out that www.celestrak.com isn't responding to a ping. Greg KO6TH ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are tho

[amsat-bb] Re: DELFI C3 Close Approach Message

2012-04-10 Thread Peter Portanova
FYI 73 WB2OQQ -Original Message- From: JSpOC/Space Correspondence Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 8:58 PM To: Peter Portanova Cc: Dewitt, James L CTR USAF AFSPC 614 AOC/OL-D ; Petruna, Stacey L CTR USAF AFSPC 614 AOC/OL-D ; JSpOC/Space Correspondence Subject: DELFI C3 Close Approach Me

[amsat-bb] temp qrt

2012-04-10 Thread Bob- W7LRD
to all my friends on the birds I will be temp qrt while rebuilding all my antenna systems.  The details of which would take too long to explain.   See you when I'm done. 73 Bob W7LRD Seattle ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are

[amsat-bb] Re: "Dee" Interdonato

2012-04-10 Thread Robert McGwier
This is really sad. We lost a great one here and NJ will never be the same. Bob On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Martha wrote: > Dee Interdonato, NB2F died on April 8th. He was a long time Area > Coordinator for NJ.  Not only did he handle the booth at many NJ hamfests > throughout the year but

[amsat-bb] Dee

2012-04-10 Thread Clint Bradford
Dave Taylor sent me THE email we were waiting for yesterday morning: with word of the exact time NASA set up for our ARISS contact out here in Jurupa Valley, California. On an emotional high, and as I was sending out our updated media alert to several recipients, I received the AMSAT-BB digest o

[amsat-bb] Re: UT1FG/MM Welland Canal

2012-04-10 Thread Bob- W7LRD
You're a lucky man John, fascinating 73 Bob W7LRD - Original Message - From: "John Papay" To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 9:07:05 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] UT1FG/MM Welland Canal Yuri, UT1FG/MM, left Thunder Bay Ontario on Lake Superior a few days ago with

[amsat-bb] Re: UT1FG/MM Welland Canal

2012-04-10 Thread w4upd
Kind of cool and sounds like a lot of fun. I decided to try Yuri's movements on a marine traffic URL. The chart can be be found at: http://marinetraffic.com/ais/ You can put in the name of the ship. In this case just the Barnacle works. At this email writing, the chart shows him at: N46. 31',

[amsat-bb] UT1FG/MM Welland Canal

2012-04-10 Thread John Papay
Yuri, UT1FG/MM, left Thunder Bay Ontario on Lake Superior a few days ago with a cargo of Oats and Wheat destined for San Juan Puerto Rico. He had gone through the Welland Canal which connects Lake Ontario to Lake Erie on the way to Thunder Bay and would come back through on his way out. The Well

[amsat-bb] NPS CubeSat Video

2012-04-10 Thread Trevor .
The Naval Postgraduate School will have a CubeSat on the OUTsat mission slated for launch August 2012. It is understood there will be 11 CubeSats on the mission. See the video at http://www.uk.amsat.org/6375 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@am

[amsat-bb] Re: ISS Visible in Evening Sky (North America)

2012-04-10 Thread JoAnne Maenpaa
As a postscript, running that cool SkyWatch 2.0 Java applet shows there are ISS evening passes worldwide. 1. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/ 2. Click Start Applet (some systems may require Java upgrade) 3. When Skywatch starts click on your continent. 4. Then click on nearby city.

[amsat-bb] Re: ISS Visible in Evening Sky (North America)

2012-04-10 Thread Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)
Or if you're an APRS user, just send an APRS message (any content except a valid APRS callsign-SSID) to ISS. The response will contain the next pass information for your last beaconed position (or the last beaconed position of the callsign-SSID that you send as the text to ISS). Unfortunately

[amsat-bb] ISS Visible in Evening Sky (North America)

2012-04-10 Thread JoAnne Maenpaa
Hello Everyone, This is a quick reminder that there are several ISS eyeball viewing opportunities this week for North American stations. They are evening passes. On a couple passes you may be able to watch the ISS enter eclipse. Use your tracking program or the tracking resources on-line: http:/