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Today's Topics:
1. Re: ARRL VUCC (Dave Guimont)
2. Re: NOVA (Fred VE3FAL)
3. ARRL, AMSAT, and Publicity (Clint Bradford)
4. Re: ARRL VUCC (STeve Andre')
5. Re: ARRL, AMSAT, and Publicity (Bruce Robertson)
6. Re: ARRL VUCC (Sebastian)
7. AMSAT 2008 Field Day Results (Bruce)
8. AMSAT 2008 Field Day Results (reformatted) (Bruce)
9. AMSAT Field Day 2008 Results (3rd time is the charm) (Bruce)
10. Skeds for WAS (John Papay)
11. Contribution (Rob Redmon)
12. Re: Contribution (Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF)
13. Re: Contribution (Simon (HB9DRV))
14. Rotor Interface Question (Curt Nixon)
15. Richard Garriott aboard ISS (Allen Vinegar)
16. Schedule (Martha)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:20:17 -0700
From: Dave Guimont <dguimon1(AT)san.rr.com>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARRL VUCC
To: "Jim Danehy" <jdanehy(AT)cinci.rr.com>
Cc: amsat-bb(AT)amsat.org
Message-ID:
<20081007192021.GYWM28641.cdptpa-omta06.mail.rr.com(AT)Dave.san.rr.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
>
>Your comment that the League is not interested in satellite operations is,
>in my opinion, also proper. I posted a few weeks ago here on the AMSAT BB
>my "first impressions" . I had operated satellites in 1974-1976. Upon my
Jim, and others,
I gave up on ARRL a long time ago...They promote what they can sell.
The paucity of information regarding satellites was their
standard. I have no idea of what they are doing today.
Seems like we have a role reversal...AMSAT is promoting ARRL, and to
what benefit for the amateur radio satellite program is a mystery to me??
Some connection there, obviously, maybe someone can explain it??
73, Dave, WB6LLO
dguimon1(AT)san.rr.com
Disagree: I learn....
Pulling for P3E...
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 16:03:02 -0400
From: "Fred VE3FAL" <flesnick(AT)tbaytel.net>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: NOVA
To: <n4csitwo(AT)bellsouth.net>
Cc: 'amsat' <amsat-bb(AT)amsat.org>
Message-ID: <55402709051844ABB7D0F770A771F677(AT)radioroom>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
http://www.nlsa.com/
Had no problem getting a key re-issued to me a few weeks ago.
Page opens ok for me.
Fred
VE3FAL
-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces(AT)amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces(AT)amsat.org] On
Behalf Of David H. Jordan
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:57 AM
To: AMSAT-BB
Subject: [amsat-bb] NOVA
Does anyone know if something has happened to NLSA?. I,ve emailed them about
a problem with my NOVA soltware, but got no response. Tried to call, but
answering message sounds like I'm calling a residence.
Dave, AA4KN
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:25:10 -0700
From: Clint Bradford <clintbrad4d(AT)earthlink.net>
Subject: [amsat-bb] ARRL, AMSAT, and Publicity
To: amsat-bb(AT)amsat.org
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On Oct 7, 2008, at 12:00 PM, amsat-bb-request(AT)AMSAT.Org wrote:
> Your comment that the League is not interested in satellite
> operations is,
> in my opinion, also proper.
Sorry if I am repeating myself, but WE are responsible for educating
the ARRL and the media when it comes to amateur satellites.
We should NOT expect ANY non-AMSAT entity to know anything about this
aspect of the hobby.
It is up to us who are involved in our "specialties" to convey -
intelligently and using proper, approved methods - that information to
appropriate sources.
Most of our news comes from "media alerts" nowadays. Knowing HOW to
contact and WHOM to contact with media alerts is OUR responsibility.
Clint Bradford, K6LCS / KAF3359
909-241-7666
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:03:32 -0400
From: "STeve Andre'" <andres(AT)msu.edu>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARRL VUCC
To: amsat-bb(AT)amsat.org
Message-ID: <200810071803.33258.andres(AT)msu.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
On Tuesday 07 October 2008 15:20:17 Dave Guimont wrote:
> >Your comment that the League is not interested in satellite operations is,
> >in my opinion, also proper. I posted a few weeks ago here on the AMSAT BB
> >my "first impressions" . I had operated satellites in 1974-1976. Upon my
>
> Jim, and others,
>
> I gave up on ARRL a long time ago...They promote what they can sell.
> The paucity of information regarding satellites was their
> standard. I have no idea of what they are doing today.
>
> Seems like we have a role reversal...AMSAT is promoting ARRL, and to
> what benefit for the amateur radio satellite program is a mystery to me??
>
> Some connection there, obviously, maybe someone can explain it??
>
>
>
>
> 73, Dave, WB6LLO
> dguimon1(AT)san.rr.com
>
> Disagree: I learn....
>
> Pulling for P3E...
I think thats unfair, Dave. The ARRL has a ton of interests and tries to do
a tremendous amount of stuff with a fairly small budget. They try (and,
are sometimes trying), and they do a lot of good.
If you aren't satisifed with their talk of staellites, and I can understand
why, it would be best if you worked on teaching them and getting them
to really understand.
Don't say that you've tried and failed. I'll believe you, but failures simply
mean that it hasn't been brought up enough. This goes for any of the
speciality modes that ham radio has. I've heard plenty of groussing on
other mailing lists too, for perceived slights by the ARRL from other
smaller speciality communities.
The ARRL is all we have. There is no point to try and create something
else because I don't think enough people could/would ever step up to
do anything, not that I think it would be reasonable to do that. Instead,
I think it is encumbant upon ALL amateurs to step up and help the ARRL,
to reshape it in such a way as to accurately reflect the wishes and desires
of the groups that make up all the interests in our hobby.
What this means is Politics meets Ham Radio.
Politics is the interaction between people, say about three of more of
them. An entity like the ARRL has internal politics, and deals with
*real world* politics, like BPL. Sometimes, they make some pretty
stunning wins, like the recent crabbing they did with regard to the
FCC's proceedural moves with BPL. That helped ham radio hugely, for
it reminded the FCC that the little puny ham community can create
legal muster that has to be reckoned with, not to mention the actual
problems with BPL itself.
The ARRL is hardly perfect. They've come a long way however, and
with our help they will improve. If anyone reading this has given up
on them in disgust, please remember that first (or even fifth) efforts
at things might not work, and one needs to plug away at the cause...
Sending reasoned discourse to them--and getting your friends to do
that as well--is a start to changing the VUCC regs, or whatever.
But let us not give up on the entity that is us. Instead let us work on
changing the parts that need it.
--STeve Andre'
wb8wsf en82
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:32:51 -0300
From: "Bruce Robertson" <ve9qrp(AT)gmail.com>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARRL, AMSAT, and Publicity
To: "Clint Bradford" <clintbrad4d(AT)earthlink.net>
Cc: amsat-bb(AT)amsat.org
Message-ID:
<49657a760810071532o4803e392t52c5414e4f5c4420(AT)mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Clint Bradford
<clintbrad4d(AT)earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Oct 7, 2008, at 12:00 PM, amsat-bb-request(AT)AMSAT.Org wrote:
>
>> Your comment that the League is not interested in satellite
>> operations is,
>> in my opinion, also proper.
>
>
> Sorry if I am repeating myself, but WE are responsible for educating
> the ARRL and the media when it comes to amateur satellites.
>
> We should NOT expect ANY non-AMSAT entity to know anything about this
> aspect of the hobby.
>
> It is up to us who are involved in our "specialties" to convey -
> intelligently and using proper, approved methods - that information to
> appropriate sources.
>
> Most of our news comes from "media alerts" nowadays. Knowing HOW to
> contact and WHOM to contact with media alerts is OUR responsibility.
>
>
> Clint Bradford, K6LCS / KAF3359
> 909-241-7666
>
To shore up Clint's point with some evidence, note the ARRL's podcast
and email 'Letter'. These routinely announce interesting events and
changes in status pertaining to satellites. DO-64 was nicely
highlighted, both on launch with the other cubesats and upon its mode
change; and the re-purposing of AO-16 made good text.
Other podcasts such as TWIAR and Newsline have regular features on
AMSAT affairs. Frankly, I think we do a good job of getting our word
out. The times I've found my callsign spread across the web have been
instances where the AMSAT news service has caught a post of mine and
relayed it.
Where we might fail, and where people might incorrectly be faulting
ARRL, is in the quantity of satellite-related articles published in
QST. But QST depends on submissions, so unless we have evidence of
them junking AMSAT articles en masse, all we can do is step up our
submissions if we wish to alter this. Every editor I know is happy to
have lots of new stuff.
73, Bruce
VE9QRP
>
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:38:25 -0400
From: Sebastian <w4as(AT)bellsouth.net>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARRL VUCC
To: AMSAT BB <AMSAT-BB(AT)amsat.org>
Message-ID: <9763C753-8013-46CE-9B76-64D374D6BB42(AT)bellsouth.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
Very well said Steve. This reflector, and I guess the world in
general, has a lot of people who seek to only create barriers and like
to play the blame game. You are so right that the ARRL is all that we
have. They aren't perfect, they can and should be better. One of the
best ways of changing things that you may not be happy with, is to get
involved.
The ARRL exists only for amateur radio. And for many years they have
been the words and eyes of the amateur community in our government,
and in the international stage. I'm sure that without them, we would
probably have a very small amount of frequencies that we could use;
most of them would have been auctioned off a long time ago. PRB-1 is
an extremely important victory that was won, and many people seem to
have forgotten that.
What's funny to me is that many times there is more activity on these
reflectors than on the air. All of those complaining about multiple
things especially about satellites, I never hear on the birds. To me,
that's the same as someone who complains about their elected official,
yet never bothers to vote.
My elevation rotor is being repaired, so my satellite antennas are
down. In the meantime, I just worked 3 stations on AO-16 using my
dual band vertical.
73 de W4AS
Sebastian
On Oct 7, 2008, at 6:03 PM, STeve Andre' wrote:
>> I think thats unfair, Dave. The ARRL has a ton of interests and
>> tries to do
> a tremendous amount of stuff with a fairly small budget. They try
> (and,
> are sometimes trying), and they do a lot of good.
>
> If you aren't satisifed with their talk of staellites, and I can
> understand
> why, it would be best if you worked on teaching them and getting them
> to really understand.
>
> Don't say that you've tried and failed. I'll believe you, but
> failures simply
> mean that it hasn't been brought up enough. This goes for any of the
> speciality modes that ham radio has. I've heard plenty of groussing
> on
> other mailing lists too, for perceived slights by the ARRL from other
> smaller speciality communities.
>
> The ARRL is all we have. There is no point to try and create
> something
> else because I don't think enough people could/would ever step up to
> do anything, not that I think it would be reasonable to do that.
> Instead,
> I think it is encumbant upon ALL amateurs to step up and help the
> ARRL,
> to reshape it in such a way as to accurately reflect the wishes and
> desires
> of the groups that make up all the interests in our hobby.
>
> What this means is Politics meets Ham Radio.
>
> Politics is the interaction between people, say about three of more of
> them. An entity like the ARRL has internal politics, and deals with
> *real world* politics, like BPL. Sometimes, they make some pretty
> stunning wins, like the recent crabbing they did with regard to the
> FCC's proceedural moves with BPL. That helped ham radio hugely, for
> it reminded the FCC that the little puny ham community can create
> legal muster that has to be reckoned with, not to mention the actual
> problems with BPL itself.
>
> The ARRL is hardly perfect. They've come a long way however, and
> with our help they will improve. If anyone reading this has given up
> on them in disgust, please remember that first (or even fifth) efforts
> at things might not work, and one needs to plug away at the cause...
>
> Sending reasoned discourse to them--and getting your friends to do
> that as well--is a start to changing the VUCC regs, or whatever.
>
> But let us not give up on the entity that is us. Instead let us
> work on
> changing the parts that need it.
>
> --STeve Andre'
> wb8wsf en82
------------------------------
Message: 7
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:52:14 -0500
From: Bruce <kk5do(AT)arrl.net>
Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT 2008 Field Day Results
To: "amsat-bb(AT)AMSAT.Org" <amsat-bb(AT)amsat.org>
Message-ID: <48EBE81E.4090602(AT)arrl.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
I had forgotten all about this due to the hurricane.
Anyhow....
Here are the results in order of how they placed. Any ties in scores
were listed alphabetically. Certificates will be given out at the AMSAT
Symposium Banquet later this month.
1
W5MSQ
43
2A Emerg
2
W9LDX
34
3A Emerg
3
W0MA
23
4A Emerg
4
W9LJ
22
2A Emerg
5
W8DXA
21
2A Emerg
6
N5JO
20
1AB Emerg
7
W8TNO
19
3A Emerg
8
W2MMD
18
8A Emerg
9
W5IU
17
3A Emerg
10
K4HEX
15
2A Emerg
11
VE7RAR
11
2A Emerg
12
W6ASL
11
1D Comm
13
KF4XB
4
1D Comm
14
W6NWG
4
5F Emerg
15
WD9EWK
3
1B Emerg
16
KH6E
2
2A Emerg
17
W7DU
2
4A Emerg
Here is a quick list of statistics.
2005
2006
2007
2008
Satellites
8
7
5
8
QSO's
120
258
207
220
Stations
11
21
13
17
73...bruce
--
Bruce Paige, KK5DO
AMSAT Director Contests and Awards
ARRL Awards Manager (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE
Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on SkyScanner Satellite Radio Network on Galaxy-
25 (AT)97? West,
Transponder 23 (12115 Vert), Symbol Rate: 22425, APID: 1794 (DVB Free To Air)
Also streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com
Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes
Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News
http://www.arrl.org
------------------------------
Message: 8
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:57:08 -0500
From: Bruce <kk5do(AT)arrl.net>
Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT 2008 Field Day Results (reformatted)
To: "amsat-bb(AT)AMSAT.Org" <amsat-bb(AT)amsat.org>
Message-ID: <48EBE944.8070103(AT)arrl.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Forgot all about this due to the hurricane. Here are the results from
field day this year. Any ties in score are listed in alphabetical order.
Certificates will be given out at the AMSAT Symposium later this month.
1
W5MSQ
43
2A Emerg
2
W9LDX
34
3A Emerg
3
W0MA
23
4A Emerg
4
W9LJ
22
2A Emerg
5
W8DXA
21
2A Emerg
6
N5JO
20
1AB Emerg
7
W8TNO
19
3A Emerg
8
W2MMD
18
8A Emerg
9
W5IU
17
3A Emerg
10
K4HEX
15
2A Emerg
11
VE7RAR
11
2A Emerg
12
W6ASL
11
1D Comm
13
KF4XB
4
1D Comm
14
W6NWG
4
5F Emerg
15
WD9EWK
3
1B Emerg
16
KH6E
2
2A Emerg
17
W7DU
2
4A Emerg
Some statistics from past field days.
2005
2006
2007
2008
Satellites
8
7
5
8
QSO's
120
258
207
220
Stations
11
21
13
17
73...bruce
--
Bruce Paige, KK5DO
AMSAT Director Contests and Awards
ARRL Awards Manager (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE
Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on SkyScanner Satellite Radio Network on Galaxy-
25 (AT)97? West,
Transponder 23 (12115 Vert), Symbol Rate: 22425, APID: 1794 (DVB Free To Air)
Also streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com
Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes
Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News
http://www.arrl.org
------------------------------
Message: 9
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:04:24 -0500
From: Bruce <kk5do(AT)arrl.net>
Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Field Day 2008 Results (3rd time is the
charm)
To: "amsat-bb(AT)AMSAT.Org" <amsat-bb(AT)amsat.org>
Message-ID: <48EBEAF8.3060305(AT)arrl.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Dang...had to enter this manually into my email client. Sorry about that.
73...bruce
Forgot all about this due to the hurricane. Here are the results from
field day this year. Any ties in score are listed in alphabetical order.
Certificates will be given out at the AMSAT Symposium later this month.
1 W5MSQ 43 2A EMERG
2 W9LDX 34 3A EMERG
3 W0MA 23 4A EMERG
4 W9LJ 22 2A EMERG
5 W8DXA 21 2A EMERG
6 N5JO 20 1AB EMERG
7 W8TNO 19 3A EMERG
8 W2MMD 18 8A EMERG
9 W5IU 17 3A EMERG
10 K4HEX 15 2A EMERG
11 VE7RAR 11 1D EMERG
12 W6ASL 11 1D COMM
13 KF4XB 4 1D COMM
14 W6NWG 4 5F EMERG
15 WD9EWK 3 1B EMERG
16 KH6E 2 2A EMERG
17 W7DU 2 4A EMERG
Some statistics from past field days.
2005 2006 2007 2008
Satellites 8 7 5 8
QSO's 120 258 207 220
Stations 11 21 13 17
--
Bruce Paige, KK5DO
AMSAT Director Contests and Awards
ARRL Awards Manager (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE
Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on SkyScanner Satellite Radio Network on Galaxy-
25 (AT)97? West,
Transponder 23 (12115 Vert), Symbol Rate: 22425, APID: 1794 (DVB Free To Air)
Also streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com
Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes
Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News
http://www.arrl.org
------------------------------
Message: 10
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:27:39 -0400
From: John Papay <k8yse(AT)papays.com>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Skeds for WAS
To: amsat-bb(AT)amsat.org
Message-ID: <200810080326.m983Q6DD006281(AT)mx02.mailboxcop.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
I am looking for anyone in Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska and
Delaware that could sked with me on AO51, AO-16, VO52 or FO29. Thanks.
Email: k8yse(AT)amsat.org
John K8YSE EN91
North Royalton, OH
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Message: 11
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:41:57 -0600
From: Rob Redmon <Rob.Redmon(AT)noaa.gov>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Contribution
To: amsat-bb(AT)amsat.org
Message-ID: <48EC9C85.4060108(AT)noaa.gov>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Hello,
I work and attend graduate school in Boulder, Colorado. My personal and
professional interests include radio propagation, ionosphere dynamics
and magnetosphere, ionosphere coupling. I am very new to these topics
and still smell turnips.
I am keenly interested in VHF beacons (e.g. VO-52), initially as a
hobby. I've even borrowed an ICOM that I have yet to figure out. As
part of my graduate curriculum, I am enrolled in an astrodynmics
course. The course requires a course project. Until now, I have been
dreaming up project ideas in nearly a vacuum. My day job is as a civil
servant (ionosonde data manager) and through that role, I've become
accustomed to asking scientific and engineering communities, "what is
needed?". Thus, I would like to query this wonderful community
similarly. What is needed?
I'll proffer a starting line of questioning to get the ball rolling.
Given my interest in VO-52 and other VHF beacon LEO satellites, I
realize that accurate positioning is detrimental. I've been retrieving
TLEs for two weeks now and in that window, VO-52 has had 2 updates with
a 10 day cadence. Is ~10 days the usual tracking priority for such
satellites? Are there already "good enough" techniques for filling the
orbital element gaps? Are there more sophisticated public domain orbit
propagation algorithms just waiting to be tried out? The dawn of a new
solar cycle (24) is upon us. How does will already employed prediction
techniques stand up to the next solar max?
I'm happy to communicate off-line so as not to congest the mailing list
traffic. Equally, I'd welcome the opportunity rub elbows with any
locals. I have much to learn.
Regards,
Rob
p.s. I wrote a small program (Ruby) to grab TLE's from AMSAT
<http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasa.all> to slowly build
my own archive. I could share if interested.
--
Rob Redmon - Physicist - Ionosphere
NOAA/NGDC
325 Broadway E/GC2
Boulder, Colorado 80305
Tel: (303) 497-4331
Fax: (303) 497-6513
Rob.Redmon(AT)noaa.gov
"Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get."
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Message: 12
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:49:30 +0000
From: Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF <nigel(AT)ngunn.net>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Contribution
To: Rob Redmon <Rob.Redmon(AT)noaa.gov>
Cc: amsat-bb(AT)amsat.org
Message-ID: <48ECD68A.3010004(AT)ngunn.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Register with http://www.space-track.org/perl/login.pl
and you'll get 2 updates every day.
Rob Redmon wrote:
I've been retrieving
> TLEs for two weeks now and in that window, VO-52 has had 2 updates with
> a 10 day cadence.
--
<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
Nigel A. Gunn. G8IFF W8IFF (was KC8NHF)
1865 El Camino Drive, Xenia, OH 45385-1115, USA 937 825 5032
e-mail nigel(AT)ngunn.net www http://www.ngunn.net
Member of ARRL, GQRP #11396, QRPARCI #11644, SOC #548, Flying Pig #385,
Dayton ARA #2128, AMSAT-NA LM-1691, AMSAT-UK, MKARS,
ALC
<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
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Message: 13
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 18:44:59 +0200
From: "Simon \(HB9DRV\)" <simon(AT)hb9drv.ch>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Contribution
To: "Rob Redmon" <Rob.Redmon(AT)noaa.gov>, <amsat-bb(AT)amsat.org>
Message-ID: <2CFE356CC03B41E0827BC3D8B3D24A31(AT)doubletrouble>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
reply-type=original
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Redmon" <Rob.Redmon(AT)noaa.gov>
> I'll proffer a starting line of questioning to get the ball rolling.
> Given my interest in VO-52 and other VHF beacon LEO satellites, I
> realize that accurate positioning is detrimental.
Maybe it's the evening beer this side, but don't you mean the opposite?
Simon Brown, HB9DRV
www.ham-radio-deluxe.com
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Message: 14
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:32:53 -0400
From: Curt Nixon <cptcurt(AT)flash.net>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Rotor Interface Question
Cc: amsat-bb(AT)amsat.org
Message-ID: <48ECFCD5.2000008(AT)flash.net>
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Is anyone using the Fox Delta ST rotor interface with WispDDE?
I'm wanting a rotor-only interface to older analog rotors and do not
have controllable radios. I use Orbitron for tracking and it
communicates to WispDDE.
Any other suggestions for low cost interface? I'd like to use one that
has position feedback but will use the WB4APR opto-triac type drivers
for the old rotors.
Thanks
Curt
KU8L
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Message: 15
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 14:33:04 -0400
From: "Allen Vinegar" <tokens(AT)myranch.com>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Richard Garriott aboard ISS
To: <amsat-bb(AT)amsat.org>
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Oct 12 is approaching. What exactly is the game plan? Is he going to be
communicating only with hams at schools or will we be able to make individual
contacts with him? Will SSTV transmissions be only one way, from ISS to Earth
or will there be 2-way SSTV communications. What call sign will he use while
aboard the ISS?
Thanks for any clarification.
73 Al W8KHP
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Message: 16
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 14:54:08 -0400
From: Martha <martha(AT)amsat.org>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Schedule
To: amsat-bb(AT)amsat.org, "Board of Directors" <bod(AT)amsat.org>,
officers(AT)amsat.org
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<956751cf0810081154n566f1ccdv29675bf1d8062a18(AT)mail.gmail.com>
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I will be out of th office tomorrow.
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73- Martha
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