[amsat-bb] Re: Rare Grids and Gridpeditions

2009-07-24 Thread John Papay
for. I will be listening for you on AO-7 et. al. Have a great trip. Don't forget to post your operating schedule on the amsat-bb so we know when to look for you and what grids you'll be in. John K8YSE Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:43:03 -0400 From: Andrew Glasbrenner glasbren...@mindspring.com

[amsat-bb] Rare Grids and Gridpeditions

2009-07-23 Thread John Papay
transponder available. There is no guarantee that this will always work, but if there are no emails, it is likely that there will be more periods of non V/U voice on AO51. John K8YSE ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those

[amsat-bb] Re: Evidence of Moon Landings

2009-07-22 Thread John Marranca, Jr
this the other day: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8157368.stm With proof, there is truth. John KB2HSH -- ___ John Marranca, Jr PBX Technician/Shop Steward CWA Local 1122 BN Systems, Inc Orchard Park, NY (716)972-2006

[amsat-bb] Moon Landing a Russian report

2009-07-21 Thread john heath
of the Amarican moon landings. Bykovsky said that they were monitoring the mission and there was no doubt in their minds that it was genuine. 73 John G7HIA PS - I am also looking forward to some high resolution images so that we can bury the hoax theory once and for all

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Officer Assistance

2009-07-20 Thread John B. Stephensen
97.113 (5) (c) A control operator may accept compensation as an incident of a teaching position during periods of time when an amateur station is used by that teacher as part of classroom instruction at an educational insitution. 73, John KD6OZH - Original Message - From: Timothy J

[amsat-bb] Delaware Operation FM29ft

2009-07-13 Thread John Papay
of you who do activate these grids and help us with our VUCC! 73, John K8YSE ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http

[amsat-bb] Re: controller and Rotator help

2009-07-09 Thread John
Here is a link to a fellow ham who produces fantastic kits/fully assembled units. They are REAL reasonable priced and work just great. Give him a try you will be very happy with the results. http://www.foxdelta.com/products/satellite.htm - Original Message - From: Bill Howell

[amsat-bb] FM29 Delaware

2009-07-08 Thread John Papay
to be able to hear it if I can see it. I should have internet if there are any questions. k8...@amsat.org 73, John K8YSE ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur

[amsat-bb] EN86 Drummond Island MI

2009-07-07 Thread John Papay
birds but plans to set up the TS2000 with doppler control now that he is on the island. Hope you can make a contact. John K8YSE k8...@amsat.org ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join

[amsat-bb] Information.

2009-07-06 Thread John Hackett
Hello Dave, Certainly, just follow the additional information from the main page of ... http://www.russianspaceweb.com/index.html Have a good day. 73 Johnla2...@amsat.org From

[amsat-bb] Re: ILN... Is this our future ride to the moon? MM

2009-07-06 Thread John B. Stephensen
and what type of experiments NASA is interested in. Then we could calculate what could be provided for an RF downlink to earth and how many people could use it. 73, John KD6OZH - Original Message - From: MM ka1...@yahoo.com To: James French w8...@wideopenwest.com Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org

[amsat-bb] An alternative ... or ... competition !!!.

2009-07-05 Thread John Hackett
OPINION*) only serve a few dedicated 'experts' ... leading to the demise of amateur satellite communications in general. Comments, monies and praise to LA2QAA. Criticisms, horsewhipping and flaming to GM1SXX. 73 John. la2...@amsat.org Interested parties may read the following

[amsat-bb] Molinya

2009-07-05 Thread John Hackett
are in English dialogue would be classified as *HIGHLY* elliptical. The planned space station is envisaged in a 70 degree LEO orbit. I apologise for my misleading remarks. 73 John. la2...@amsat.org From: g0...@aol.com Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 11:32:56 -0400 Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] An alternative

[amsat-bb] Re: dream your own sat

2009-07-05 Thread John B. Stephensen
, John KD6OZH - Original Message - From: Art McBride kc6...@cox.net To: 'rupert red' rupert@live.it; amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 19:00 UTC Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: dream your own sat Rupert, I think that is a fair assumption on your part, but only because

[amsat-bb] Re: The Moon is our Future / antennas

2009-07-04 Thread john hackett
Hello David, Principally, the same as the Fyllingsdales BMEWS steerable phased array, yes ??. We have some info on it on OBSERVATIONS. http://www.observations.biz) 73 John. la2...@amsat.org

[amsat-bb] The Moon is not our future

2009-07-04 Thread john heath
being destroyed by the extreem cold of the lunar night. I don't believe there is any likelyhood that we can fly a radioactive source on an amateur radio payload. 73 John G7HIA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author

[amsat-bb] Future satellites

2009-07-04 Thread John B. Stephensen
for high-gain antennas. 73, John KD6OZH I have extracted from it the most important following part: 73 de i8CVS Domenico Extracted from G3RUH article THE EARTH MOVES An example, 1 watt transmitted from a 20 dbi gain dish on the Moon, received on a 1.2m dish at Earth with a system noise

[amsat-bb] Re: The Moon is our Future

2009-07-03 Thread John B. Stephensen
of power has been consumed by 10 stations on HEOs. 73, John KD6OZH - Original Message - From: Joe To: John B. Stephensen ; amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 22:01 UTC Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: The Moon is our Future Now thats pretty good! But why

[amsat-bb] Re: The Moon is our Future

2009-07-03 Thread John B. Stephensen
the average power output. Amateur HEO satellites have used SSB for multichannel applications as you can count on the voice peaks for different users to occur at different times and design for the average power of all users. However, you need lots of users to reach this goal. 73, John KD6OZH

[amsat-bb] Re: The Moon is our Future

2009-07-03 Thread John B. Stephensen
to their test facilities and pass their tests. There are also legal requirements (ITAR) when working on space-related projects. 73, John KD6OZH - Original Message - From: Joe To: John B. Stephensen Cc: i8cvs ; Jack K. ; AMSAT-BB ; kg4...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 19:57 UTC

[amsat-bb] Re: NASA Kills Ulysses

2009-07-01 Thread John B. Stephensen
This sounds like the AMSAT-Intelsat deal except that the Intelsat agreement would allow the amateur payload to operate in parallel with the primary payload. A number of the RS series amateur satellites also operated this way. 73, John KD6OZH - Original Message - From: STeve Andre

[amsat-bb] Thanks - attic Antennas

2009-06-19 Thread john heath
installation on his web site. 73 John G7HIA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

[amsat-bb] Re: Pots for 5400 or 5500?

2009-06-17 Thread John Price
No, The same part is used in the three versions of the rotor. The part in the control box is common to all the control boxes. Better said is the part for the rotors is S8101823 and the part for the control boxes is Q9000404. Hope that makes it clear. 73's John On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:54 PM

[amsat-bb] Re: [Fwd: Re: Re: John Price n4q...@gmail.comRe: Re: Pots for 5400 or 5500?]

2009-06-17 Thread John Price
questions. If anyone needs the phone number or part numbers drop me a email. 73's John On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:09 PM, w4upd upd...@bristor-assoc.com wrote: Due to several comments concerning attempts to contact Yaesu have been met with no contact or delays, I thought I'd pass on the info I made

[amsat-bb] Re: Yaesu 5500

2009-06-16 Thread John Price
OK, Phone # 1-714-827-7600 Part #Q9000404 73's John On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Edward Cole kl...@acsalaska.net wrote: John, Please send me the phone number and part number. MY B5400 has been not in service for a couple years and I hope it works well when I get it back up

[amsat-bb] Re: Pots for 5400 or 5500?

2009-06-16 Thread John Price
the potentiometer in the AZ and EL rotors for them and do they have a manufactures part number for it. I believe they are the same part. I am sure there are lots of folks here that would like that info. Thanks John On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Peter Sils kd...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi John, I have a 5500

[amsat-bb] Re: Yaesu 5500

2009-06-15 Thread John Price
available. I have the phone number and part number if you need it. 73's John On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:20 AM, n8...@roadrunner.com wrote: John, Guess I should have mentioned that I have seen a problem with a dirty calibration pot. But to explain your symptoms, they would both have to be dirty

[amsat-bb] Got Yaesu 5400 rotor control box problem

2009-06-14 Thread John Price
John -- N4QWF Amateur Radio Operator AO-7,AO-27,FO-29,SO-50,AO-51,VO-52,ISS Email n4...@amsat.org Echolink nodes #110903 -L #388463 http://home.comcast.net/~n4qwf/site/ Formerly KC4AHW VK3FEZ Amsat Member #27845 DXCC #33,478 VUCC SAT #135 WAS SAT #296 51 on AO-51 #13 LON -79.256 LAT 37.459 Grid

[amsat-bb] Re: equal time

2009-06-14 Thread John
Additionally, I will be net for the four passes (2 in the AM and 2 in the PM) for 15 June, in celebration of my birth. Thank you all for your full cooperation. Please refrain from hogging the satellite every pass for multiple contacts. I cant get into the satellite anymore and I am not

[amsat-bb] Help - no antennas allowed

2009-06-14 Thread john heath
of antennas work best. 73 John G7HIA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

[amsat-bb] Re: Gold plated contact

2009-06-13 Thread John B. Stephensen
63/37 solder works fine but it wicks up the contact very quickly. 73, John KD6OZH - Original Message - From: Luc Leblanc luclebla...@videotron.ca To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 19:28 UTC Subject: [amsat-bb] Gold plated contact Did any one has ever try to solder

[amsat-bb] wispdde to VB.NET?

2009-06-09 Thread john
Has anyone successfully converted wispdde to Visual Basic 2008 Express? I need to make some code changes to drive my antenna rotors but I don't have access to VB6. Modifying the software for the newer version looks like a major undertaking... 73 John - VE8EV

[amsat-bb] Re: CW is still alive and well

2009-06-09 Thread John W Lee
Right on, Gary ! And in case nobody on the AMSAT-BB knows it, there was a record number of CW logs submitted for the CQ World Wide DX contest in 2008. Over 10,000 logs submitted. 73, John K6YK Find the perfect shutters to update

[amsat-bb] Re: HF satellite?

2009-06-08 Thread John Magliacane
an FM rig to produce the uplink. The downlink was received using a converted Hy-Gain CB board (used for 10-meter FM operation in previous years) in concert with a 455 kHz ceramic resonator as a narrowband IF filter. 73, de John, KD2BD -- Visit John on the Web at: http://kd2bd.ham.org

[amsat-bb] AO-51 mode ?

2009-06-02 Thread John Price
Anyone know if the bird is still in May configuration? I did not get to work it this evening. Grandson music concert took priority -- N4QWF Amateur Radio Operator AO-7,AO-27,FO-29,SO-50,AO-51,VO-52,ISS Email n4...@amsat.org Echolink nodes #110903 -L #388463 http://home.comcast.net/~n4qwf/site/

[amsat-bb] Re: true duplex radios

2009-05-31 Thread John W Lee
does cross-band repeat and does work great for doing FM satellite work, you can hear your own signal on the downlink. It has separate co-ax connectors for VHF/UHF. It also has memories, P.L. encode and decode, blue flourescent readout, etc. 73, John, K6YK

[amsat-bb] Not !!!! the Jimi Hendrix number ...

2009-05-18 Thread john hackett
Hey Joe, I need to chuck in my two pennysworth. Congrats mate. 73 John. la2...@amsat.org _ Show them the way! Add maps and directions to your party invites. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 eclipse

2009-05-13 Thread John Magliacane
(http://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/predict.html), AO-7 will experience uninterrupted sunlight through Thursday May 14th. Eclipses are expected to end on Saturday July 18th, and are not expected to occur again until June 2010. 73, de John, KD2BD -- Visit John on the Web at: http://kd2bd.ham.org

[amsat-bb] Re: Satellite funding sources!

2009-05-06 Thread John B. Stephensen
Note that these are opportunties are for LEO satellites like AO-51. 73, John KD6OZH - Original Message - From: Luc Leblanc luclebla...@videotron.ca To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Cc: eu-am...@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 13:21 UTC Subject: [amsat-bb] Satellite funding sources

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT bouncing email redirections?

2009-05-02 Thread john heath
This thread gives me the opportunity to say a long overdue thank you to Paul for giving the satellite community such a good service with the amsat-bb. It has been re directing my satellite mail for 5 or 6 years or more, without any problems. Thanks Paul 73 john G7HIA

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