Hello to all!
It was an exciting afternoon on the birds! First, I worked Patrick, WD9EWK
on SO-50 in a new grid for me (FN56). Patrick, thanks very much for the
great QSO and new grid!
Then, I had my first contact on satellites with France. Michael, F6GLJ in
IN94qs and I completed a great
You could look at a 12 element ZL Special 1.1M long and gives 14dBd gain.
In the UK they are made by Moonraker
Steve
G6UIM
-Original Message-
From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On
Behalf Of Jim Jerzycke
Sent: 21 July 2014 05:38
To: l...@highnoonfilm.com;
Gulf Alpha has a 7 x 7 element 2 meter with a 10 x 10 element 70cm antenna
on one boom. I would love to hear from someone with one of those.
http://gulfalphaantennas.com/
I have one of his earlier / smaller antennas, and it performs very well and
is the most sturdily built antenna like this I
On 07/21/2014 01:57 AM, Phil Karn wrote:
On 07/20/2014 08:00 PM, Gus wrote:
I'd hazard to guess that the 'average' shack has multi-mode HF
capability, along with VHF/UHF FM. Some lesser number of 'average'
shacks will have multi-mode VHF/UHF, or could readily acquire that
capability without
K4AMG Memorial Amateur Radio Club, Inc operated as the GOTA station for the
Chesapeake Amateur Radio Service (W4CAR).
As to be expected we had our share of problems but had a great time.
These are the SATCOM Qs from K4AMG:
DATETIME CALL SAT CLASS
Dear Friends,
With heavy heart, I sadly convey, that our little angel ‘HAMSAT VO-52’
would no more be able to offer her services to the ‘Amateur Radio
Fraternity. HAMSAT VO-52 succumbed in Space on 11th July 2014, while she
was on her 49,675th orbit, due to the failure of on-board lithium ion
What a wonderful asset the satellite has been built by good people it
accomplished the goal we should all be part of, of extending the hobby to
others. I'll keep listening on occassions...you never know eventually it
might do an Oscar 7
Congrats to all who built her. Robert G. Oler
Thanks Mani for posting the latest update about VO52. It is sad to hear that
the satellite cannot be reviewed due to the issues with the batteries, it has
served the amateur radio fraternity very well and the reports I have received
from our friends shows how popular this satellite was. I wish
We will all miss her, but thanks to all who were involved in the
project. It served us well over the past 9+ years and served as an
excellent gateway to linear satellite operations with it's excellent
downlink signal. I remember fumbling through my first full-duplex
linear satellite QSO just under
Unfortunatty this day arrived, I will keep my records and memories of a lot
of fun doing amazing QSO´s.
Thank you ALL the Team.
Now we need to look forward to the next bird.
RIP VO-52 and thank you for all.
73 Fabiano Moser
CT7ABD
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:07 PM, R Oler orbit...@hotmail.com
On 21-07-2014 17:03, Mani [VU2WMY/KJ6LRS] wrote:
Hi Mani,
Dear Friends,
With heavy heart, I sadly convey, that our little angel ‘HAMSAT VO-52’
would no more be able to offer her services to the ‘Amateur Radio
Fraternity. HAMSAT VO-52 succumbed in Space on 11th July 2014, while
she
was on
Have you looked at the Myers quadrifilar helix from US Antennas? I use one
exclusively for 70 cm receive and am installing one in the garage for winter
sat operation.
Brad KC9UQR
Sent from Brad's iPod
On Jul 20, 2014, at 11:18 PM, Les Rayburn l...@highnoonfilm.com wrote:
I'm limited to
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 09:37:05PM -0400, Hector, CO6CBF wrote:
It was an exciting afternoon on the birds! First, I worked Patrick, WD9EWK
on SO-50 in a new grid for me (FN56). Patrick, thanks very much for the
great QSO and new grid!
Then, I had my first contact on satellites with France.
It is very sad news!!
VO-52 was the satellite that brought me into the linear birds. I will
certainly miss her, good bye dear friend.
Thanks to all who helped fund, design, build, launch, command and operate
VO-52. It's 9+ year mission has been wonderful! It was fun!! Memories and
stories
Since I think it so apropos to our discussion of old vs new technology
in AMSAT, I hereby quote in full today's Borowitz Report from the New
Yorker. Rarely does an item cause me to laugh and feel pain at the same
time, but this is one of those cases.
--Phil
[Picture of Buzz Aldrin saluting the
Hello Everybody.
I was very happy for this incredible QSO with Hector CO6CBF. Thanks Hector
for the precision of your calculation and yours instructions for frequency
and time of schedule.
I used my Icom IC-910 without preamplifier, with around 80w, and the
antennas was a 11 elements on 2 m and
On 07/21/2014 06:00 AM, Gus wrote:
Probably because they didn't design a satellite. They designed an
entire system including ground station components as well as flight
hardware. The ground system components were made available such that
their target audience was able to upgrade their BUD
SAD
A fine bird and almost made 50,000.
Rest in Peace VO 52
- Original Message -
From: PE0SAT | Amateur Radio pe0...@vgnet.nl
To: Mani [VU2WMY/KJ6LRS] w...@isac.gov.in; Amsat BB
amsat-bb@amsat.org
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Good Bye HAMSAT-VO52 -
Sad indeed. This is the satellite that also got me interested in the linear
birds, forced me to buy my TS2000, put up yagis and figure out SATPC. I had
hundreds of contacts through this bird.
Thank you VO52, RIP, and thank you to those responsible for putting her into
orbit and keeping her
On 07/21/2014 01:00 PM, Phil Karn wrote:
Next questions:
Does a DirecTV receiving station cost $5K?
Actually, DirecTV is not available for purchase in my neck of the
woods. I can get a system installed, but it wouldn't be my system to
fiddle with.
Are its components hard to source
I'm not totally unsympathetic to Phil's ideas. They have quite a bit
of merit, but clearly AMSAT would also have to develop the ground
station equipment in order for it to get a user base that would make
it worthwhile. I know this was planned for Eagle, but that was for a
HEO which would have many
Which is exactly what the FunCube guys did, and look at what they've
wrought!!
73,
Jim
wb4...@amsat.org
When DirecTV designed their satellite broadcast system, did they worry
about backward compatibility with the multitude (or so it probably
seemed) of existing C-band BUD (Big Ugly Dish)
Look at what the FunCube guys did!
On 7/21/2014 5:00 PM, Gus wrote:
On 07/21/2014 01:00 PM, Phil Karn wrote:
Next questions:
Does a DirecTV receiving station cost $5K?
Actually, DirecTV is not available for purchase in my neck of the
woods. I can get a system installed, but it
On 07/21/2014 06:34 PM, Jim Sanford wrote:
Look at what the FunCube guys did!
Absolutely. Which is why I said in my initial post on this subject:
...any new, digital satellite will have to be developed in parallel
with readily available
ground station modules (Funcube Dongle Deluxe?) that
I am pleased that AMSAT-NA is going to move forward with a LEO
CubeSat, single channel, analog FM transponder. If successful, it
will be immensely popular worldwide. My hope is that it will help
usher in a new, improved series of satellites with more advanced
payloads. There is great potential
I will be operating portable from the old Marconi radio site on Cape Cod in
grid FN51. I will work SO-50 passes on 7/23/2014 at ~17:32 UTC and on 7/24/2014
at ~17:58 UTC. I will not have my usual portable system, but will operate with
a HT and a whip antenna. This may make contacts more
Does anyone know if there will there we a webcast of the Colloquium on July
25th -27th
73
Nitin [VU3TYG]
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Brad,
I have looked at them for mobile operation, but I'm not certain that
they would have enough gain to work well inside my attic. I'm going to
try the Diamond 11 element Yagi to start with. Low cost and I can put it
to good service for portable 432 operations if it turns out not to work
I've been meaning to ask...
It's been a while now, since Amazon introduced the Smile program. Is
there anyone who knows if it is paying dividends of any sort? Is it rude
of me to ask? I'd like to think that anyone who supports amateur
satellites would have signed up, but who knows? Maybe I'm
Dear radio amateurs,
Today during 04:30 UTC pass over Lithuania we have turned on LO-78 FM
transponder again. Transponder operation might be interrupted during
command sequences tomorrow morning. Wish You all good QSOs!
p.s. As it might be interesting how the signal changes during the decay we
On 07/21/2014 02:00 PM, Gus wrote:
Actually, DirecTV is not available for purchase in my neck of the
woods. I can get a system installed, but it wouldn't be my system to
fiddle with.
Sorry about that, I was primarily thinking of AMSAT-NA members when I
said that. Forget the DirecTV receiver
On 07/21/2014 02:53 PM, Paul Stoetzer wrote:
I'm not totally unsympathetic to Phil's ideas. They have quite a bit
of merit, but clearly AMSAT would also have to develop the ground
station equipment in order for it to get a user base that would make
it worthwhile.
Absolutely. About 14 years
On 07/21/2014 05:36 PM, Clayton Coleman wrote:
It's very easy to be a pessimist or a cynic. Very little risk is
involved. It doesn't take any cojones to sit in a comfy chair and
email snarky comments. If you are optimistic about a project and it
fails, your peers may see your actions as a
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