[amsat-bb] K2BSA/W4UOO-EM97 West Virginia FO-29 1500z 13July2013

2013-07-13 Thread John Papay
W4UOO is operating as K2BSA from Beckley West Virginia EM97. West Virginia is a rare state on satellites. It's small and very mountainous and most places are down in the valleys such that they don't have a low horizon. I drove down to Beckley several years ago to hand out EM97. It was 300

[amsat-bb] SunSpace Announcement

2013-07-13 Thread M5AKA
The South African Relay League (SARL) has issued a bulletin about the company SunSpace which developed out of the Stellenbosch University SUNSAT OSCAR-35 project and was responsible for building the SumbandilaSat OSCAR-67 satellite. See

[amsat-bb] Re: AO7 Mode A

2013-07-13 Thread Dave WØDHB
AO-7 in mode A last pass ? 2000utc ?? -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of K4FEG Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2013 7:27 AM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] AO7 Mode A AO7 is in Mode A during the 1309UTC pass over

[amsat-bb] AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2013 Programme Online

2013-07-13 Thread David A B Johnson
Hi, As programme organiser, on behalf of the AMSAT-UK committee, I'm pleased to let the AMSAT community know that the programme is now online at: *http://tinyurl.com/pyey25w* Details of the event at: http://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/colloquium-2013/ 73 Dave, G4DPZ

[amsat-bb] Rotor in need of overhaul

2013-07-13 Thread Jim Bennett
Has anyone got a reliable source to overhaul the Yaesu B5400 rotors? Or should I just replace with new? Or with the sats dying, should I even care to fix them? Thanks for any insite. Jim Ke4kol ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions

[amsat-bb] Re: Rotor in need of overhaul

2013-07-13 Thread Jim Jerzycke
Do a Google search for Yaesu Rotor Rebuild. There's several websites detailing how to do it, complete with pictures. It's not hard to do, and sure beats paying over $700 for a new one! 73, Jim KQ6EA On 07/13/2013 11:19 PM, Jim Bennett wrote: Has anyone got a reliable source to overhaul the

[amsat-bb] ANS-196 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

2013-07-13 Thread Lee McLamb
AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-195 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur

[amsat-bb] Ac0ra trip

2013-07-13 Thread wyattdirks
Well just another four hours of driving till we get home. Well I am riding now but will drive the last stretch through Iowa. By the time we get home we will have been on the road for about 22.5 hours.  Any way I just did the tally and I have 238 contacts in the log from 25 different grids and