[amsat-bb] Univ. of Pittsburgh satellite demo (corr.)

2011-10-06 Thread Helmuth Kump
(Will be using Pitt's call sign on their grounds, W3YI.) I will be visiting the Panther Amateur Radio Club at Pitt this Friday afternoon and evening, signing W3YI in FN00. Please say hello to the hams at Pitt, we'll be on AO-51 at 2131, and later on, AO-7 at 0005. 73 Doc, KT3L

[amsat-bb] Univ. of Pittsburgh satellite demo

2011-10-05 Thread Helmuth Kump
I will be visiting the Panther Amateur Radio Club at Pitt this Friday afternoon and evening, signing KT3L portable in FN00. Please say hello to the hams at Pitt, we'll be on AO-51 at 2131, and later on, AO-7 at 0005. 73 Doc, KT3L ___ Sent via

[amsat-bb] SO-67

2011-09-07 Thread Helmuth Kump
I think this is new information...at least I haven't seen it yet. http://www.amsatsa.org.za/ under the heading of Breaking News, says: SO67 SAFE BUT PROBLEMATIC The Ground Control Station Engineers at SunSpace in Stellenbosch are still working to restore SO67. SumbandilaSat developed a problem

[amsat-bb] EM99 Thurs, FN01 Fri.

2011-08-10 Thread Helmuth Kump
I'll be returning to these two grids tomorrow and Friday, working most or all of the daytime passes from about 1300 to 2100 UTC. 73 Doc KT3L ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to

[amsat-bb] EM99 Friday

2011-07-14 Thread Helmuth Kump
I'm hoping to operate satellite portable from EM99rv, Marshall County West Virginia, on the daytime passes from 1200 till about 2200 UTC tomorrow 7/15. As always, weather- and Murphy-permitting. 73 de KT3L ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions

[amsat-bb] Pass predictor on amsat.org

2011-06-11 Thread Helmuth Kump
A huge thank you to whoever turbocharged the pass predictor on amsat.org's web site, which I depend on for pass information. Requesting the next 50 passes of a given sat used to take about 20 seconds to process. Now it returns in about one second! To the person(s) responsible for this upgrade:

[amsat-bb] Re: multi-sat, chronilogical pass predictions

2011-04-18 Thread Helmuth Kump
I use a spreadsheet method. I use the amsat.org passes predictor, highlight (select) the data from the web page, copy, then paste each bird output into a different tab of an Excel spreadsheet. An Excel macro adds another column that only contains the sat. name. Then I made some more macros to

[amsat-bb] FN01 tomorrow (4/15)

2011-04-14 Thread Helmuth Kump
Weather- and Murphy-permitting, I will be in PA State Game Lands 95 tomorrow (FN01bb) and working most of the daytime passes, hopefully starting with SO-50 at 1345 and going till AO-51 at 2120. Hope to work you then. I'll post other info on my QRZ.com. 73 Doc KT3L

[amsat-bb] SO-67 and LOTW?

2011-02-07 Thread Helmuth Kump
Hello all, wonder if any of you have come across this. In the FAQ for LOTW (very last item) there's a list of supported satellites. SO-67 is on the list. However when I want to sign the .adi that contains my SO-67 contacts I get: Error: Invalid SAT_NAME (SO-67) on line 22 My .adi is an export

[amsat-bb] Fwd: SO-67 and LOTW?

2011-02-07 Thread Helmuth Kump
for the false alarm. Still getting used to LoTW. 73 Doc KT3L -- Forwarded message -- From: Helmuth Kump helmuth.k...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 17:22:19 -0500 Subject: SO-67 and LOTW? To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Hello all, wonder if any of you have come across this. In the FAQ