[amsat-bb] Re: The Ham Radio Bucket List

2013-04-15 Thread ac4ny_1
Welcome to the birds and keep up the good work! Working satellites is addictive. Hi Hi 73 Joe..AC4NY EM73dp (My neighbors thinks I lost it; running around the yard with a handheld antenna)! - Original Message - From: Les Rayburn l...@highnoonfilm.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent:

[amsat-bb] Fwd: Re: Fwd: [Tracking] PhoneSat launch April 17th! 437.425MHz

2013-04-15 Thread Samudra Haque
Hello AMSAT community some hams have requested information about the upcoming Phonesat mission telemetry format. This is a challenging objective for those who can track and monitor: there are 3 satellites being deployed from the same P-POD and will be released within moments of each other. The

[amsat-bb] Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: [Tracking] PhoneSat launch April 17th! 437.425MHz

2013-04-15 Thread Andrew Glasbrenner
So no published telemetry format? 73, Drew KO4MA Sent from my iPhone On Apr 14, 2013, at 10:58 AM, Samudra Haque samudra.ha...@gmail.com wrote: Hello AMSAT community some hams have requested information about the upcoming Phonesat mission telemetry format. This is a challenging objective

[amsat-bb] Re: The Ham Radio Bucket List

2013-04-15 Thread i8cvs
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Les Rayburn l...@highnoonfilm.com wrote: snip I wasted 35+ years on HFman, all the fun really is in the World Above 50 MHz! Thanks for helping to make a boys dreams come true at age 51! -- 73, Les Rayburn, N1LF 121 Mayfair Park Maylene, AL 35114

[amsat-bb] Re: The Ham Radio Bucket List

2013-04-15 Thread ac4ny_1
Hi Bob: I use a Yaesu FT-60r with a homebrew handheld 3 element loop yagi. I only work half duplex. For full duplex I use a Baofeng UV3R (cheap but does work). The Kenwood TH-F6A is great. Make sure the HT will do cross band. Also use a good duplexer. There are many other great radios out

[amsat-bb] Re: The Ham Radio Bucket List

2013-04-15 Thread STeve Andre'
On 04/15/13 09:34, i8cvs wrote: On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Les Rayburn l...@highnoonfilm.com wrote: snip I wasted 35+ years on HFman, all the fun really is in the World Above 50 MHz! Thanks for helping to make a boys dreams come true at age 51! -- 73, Les Rayburn, N1LF 121 Mayfair

[amsat-bb] Mount an Arrow on rotator with 2m vertical or horizontal

2013-04-15 Thread Don Hoover (WS4E)
Just wondering, should I mount my arrow with the 2m elements oriented vertical or horizontal? I am planning on putting it at 15deg and just using a az rotator. Does it even matter which way its oriented since the polarity of the sats are always changing? Maybe I should mount it like this: /

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 8, Issue 117

2013-04-15 Thread Burns Fisher
Hi, I hope I have not been missing something major on my Kenwood TH-F6 HT, but I don't think it does full duplex. You can receive two channels simultaneously, yes. But I don't believe you can transmit on one while simultaneously listening on the other. That's the capability that you need to

[amsat-bb] Re: TH-F6A capable of full-duplex satellite operation?

2013-04-15 Thread Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)
Burns, I hope I have not been missing something major on my Kenwood TH-F6 HT, but I don't think it does full duplex. You can receive two channels simultaneously, yes. But I don't believe you can transmit on one while simultaneously listening on the other. That's the capability that you

[amsat-bb] Re: Mount an Arrow on rotator with 2m vertical or horizontal

2013-04-15 Thread Mark L. Hammond
Hi Don, Here is me, thinking out loud--- Think of the secondary useIf you want to use the array for local FM repeaters, go vertical. If you want to use it for SSB contacts, go horizontal. 73, Mark N8MH On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Don Hoover (WS4E) w...@arrl.net wrote: Just

[amsat-bb] Re: Mount an Arrow on rotator with 2m vertical or horizontal

2013-04-15 Thread Lee Maisel
Hi Don, I have mine mounted with 2m elements horizontal, because that's how it seems I used it most when it was handheld. Lee W5LMM Don Hoover (WS4E) wrote: Just wondering, should I mount my arrow with the 2m elements oriented vertical or horizontal? I am planning on putting it at 15deg