[amsat-bb] Wisconsin AMSAT members

2012-07-07 Thread Jimmy KC9PXZ
Hello again, I was wondering do the Wisconsin AMSAT members do things radio together at all. Like meeting or ops as a group. If so I would like to get in on the fun. If not to bad, it seems (at least to me) that it would be allot of fun. Thanks for your time 73 KC9PXZ Jimmy Norwalk, Wi. E

[amsat-bb] AMSAT net

2012-07-07 Thread Jimmy KC9PXZ
I was reading online about the AMSAT net out of Huston as I understand. There are no repeaters that retransmit that I can reach from my home QTH. Is that net still active is the first question abs the second is dies the AMSAT Echolink node retransmit the next and if so were can I find the info? Th

[amsat-bb] Working the birds Heard the bird (AO-27)

2012-06-13 Thread Jimmy KC9PXZ
Hi, Well today AT 1900 something UTC, AO-27 made a pass. (I don't know if sending a attachment of the recording will work, or if it's allowed) I heard the bird, for the first time. I did not try a contact as the goal was to hear and track the bird, get a idea of how to tune for Dopp

[amsat-bb] a couple tweaks to work AO-27 & SO-50

2012-06-09 Thread Jimmy KC9PXZ
Good Morning, First I want to take a moment to say thank you to those that sent me off list E mails with advice. I have a couple tweaks I have been thinking on. One is due to easier set up. setting up my 3 element yagi & my 70CM 6 element yagi @ 90 degrees to each other. Still using two radi

[amsat-bb] Re: first try @ a SO50 Pass

2012-06-08 Thread Jimmy KC9PXZ
Hi, well I did not hear the bird. I did some recording with my phone(just to make sure I understood how to record with it, never used that before now) it works pretty good. But no receive. I can try in the morning on both SO-50 and AO-27. So not sure what I did wrong bet we try again in the mo

[amsat-bb] first try @ a SO50 Pass

2012-06-08 Thread Jimmy KC9PXZ
Well, I finely got everything done HTX 202 programmed for uplink (three element yagi) and UV5R for the downlink (seven element yagi). Got the antennas on the right heading or about and set the Elevation by my best guess. With my compass I figured out that the bird will pass right to left.