Hi Joel, It is great to hear you on the BB. I hope to work you on the birds when I get my antennas back in the air. We moved south of the Tennessee River near I-65.
Our daughter is now 3 years old (my classmates have grandchildren) and giving me a little more time to play radio. We managed to earn Field Day bonus points using an Arrow antenna the last 2 years. Alan, WB5RMG, brought his equipment out to the Field Day site this year and it worked great, but boy was it HOT outside under a canopy tent. As soon as the honey-do list is completed at the new house, my antennas will be back in the air, but it is 'Arm Strong' pointing at the moment. 73's, Tim - N8DEU ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 5:48 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Been A While > It's been quite a while since I have been on this BB. I got out of the > hobby for about four years but I am working my way back in. I used to be > KS4AW then K2SAT. Now I'm W4JBB. I don't even know if some of the folks > who > were involved in AMSAT are even still around. I do searches on their > webpages and either get nothing or no updates in years - I don't dive past > the first search results page. These are a few I remember: > > K5OE > K6YK > KF4FDJ > N7SFI > N8DEU > WB6LLO > > There were many others too. > > I am getting my equipment slowly out of storage (I have it stored all over > the house apparently). I had a FODtrack interface and found a partial > build > of the G6LVB tracker. I cannot remember if I finished the LVB tracker or > not. I have a cutout for and LCD display, but no display in it. My dad has > my '847, but he's not using it and I'll get it back in the next week. I > left my tower up with my 2m/70cm antennas and the G5400 rotor. Feedline is > still there too... partially. I guess my only question about gear is what > should I use for auto-tracking with a Vista box? Like I said, I *had* a > FODtrack interface, but I cannot find it. I also have a partially built > LVB > tracker. I have a parallel PCI card I can install in the Vista machine but > I wonder if anyone has had any luck with that setup... I'm not opposed to > booting up into Linux either. > > I have looked at the AMSAT homepage and there is only a small fraction of > satellites still available. I have renewed my membership and am really > looking forward to getting back on the birds. I think I have rambled > enough. > > 73, > Joel, W4JBB > _______________________________________________ > Sent via [email protected]. 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 > _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. 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
