[amsat-bb] Shanghai Ham Radio Expo

2010-03-28 Thread William Leijenaar
Hi AMSATs, Is anyone off you going to the Shanghai Ham Radio Expo ? It is from 3 till 5 April 2010 at the Tarsus Hope Exhibition in Shanghai, China. It would be nice to meet some amateur satellite minded people. I will be at the Shanghai Expo presenting my small transponder device and promote th

[amsat-bb] Re: WOUXUN Radio

2010-03-28 Thread CE3SOC Raul Romero
Gary is same Sorry my English not Very Good And Spanish also Better ;) 73 Raul CA3SOC - Original Message - From: "Gary "Joe" Mayfield" To: Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 9:48 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: WOUXUN Radio > Raul, > > A picture is worth a 1000 words. It looks like a goo

[amsat-bb] Re: WOUXUN Radio

2010-03-28 Thread Gary "Joe" Mayfield
Raul, A picture is worth a 1000 words. It looks like a good receiver. 73, Joe kk0sd -Original Message- From: CE3SOC Raul Romero [mailto:ce3...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 7:06 PM To: Gary "Joe" Mayfield; amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] WOUXUN Radio one vi

[amsat-bb] College Satellite this Thursday evening

2010-03-28 Thread Dr. Jay Garlitz
It's time for another College Satellite night! We hope to see you on the birds Thursday evening April 1st from 22:00 UTC to 0500 UTC. College Satellite nights are a monthly event held the first Thursday of the month. Mark your calendar and spread the word to college hams/club stations that you kn

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 crashed update

2010-03-28 Thread Auke de Jong, VE6PWN
Although I'm nearly deaf on s-band, I did hear activity just now, about 12KHz below where Orbitron was telling me to tune. Auke - Original Message - From: "Luc Leblanc" To: Cc: Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 4:53 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-51 crashed update > Unconfirmed report seems t

[amsat-bb] AO-51 crashed update

2010-03-28 Thread Luc Leblanc
Unconfirmed report seems to confirm operation switch happen earlier than planned on the schedule. It should be now on S/V mode only explaining the sudden cutoff of all the UHF downlink. "-" Luc Leblanc VE2DWE Skype VE2DWE www.qsl.net/ve2dwe DSTAR urcall VE2DWE WAC BASIC CW PHONE SATELLITE __

[amsat-bb] Mode S is on

2010-03-28 Thread Andrew Glasbrenner
145.88 up, 2401.200 down. I'd appreciate daily reports about the S band transmitter, either emailed or posted to http://oscar.dcarr.org/ 73, Drew KO4MA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member

[amsat-bb] Re: AA5UK/KH6 QRV for HO-68 and VU-52 from Hawaii BL02 ic Macrch 28 March 29th

2010-03-28 Thread davekn4ok
Thanks Tim, I was looking at the log and thought it would be mode B. I better double check and will look for you as well. Best 73's, Dave, kn4ok -Original Message- From: Tim - N3TL To: davekn...@aol.com Sent: Sun, Mar 28, 2010 4:31 pm Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: AA5UK/KH6 QRV

[amsat-bb] Re: WOUXUN Radio

2010-03-28 Thread Andy MacAllister
Although the manual has plenty of claims about FCC acceptance, I consider these things to be "experiments", i.e. it's up to me to ensure that they comply with the specifications for an amateur-radio transceiver. In 1992 when I cut the red and blue wires in my Alinco DJ-580T HT 30 minutes after I

[amsat-bb] Re: WOUXUN Radio

2010-03-28 Thread Ernie Howard
There was some chatter from the FCC on these WOUXUN units last year. It's like you said, they were user programmable onto non-ham frequencies, and that concerned the FCC. There were some importers/dealers who got in the mess. A little google searching should turn up some material on this. At a

[amsat-bb] Re: AA5UK/KH6 QRV for HO-68 and VU-52 from Hawaii BL02 ic Macrch 28 March 29th

2010-03-28 Thread davekn4ok
Adrian, I will be on the last AO-7 pass this evening from 01:53-02:09 hoping you will fall in my window. You can look for me around 145.952. Your elevation will be very low if at all. The best shot I see for us will be Monday morning 15:50-16:01. If you think you can make this, please let

[amsat-bb] Re: WOUXUN Radio

2010-03-28 Thread George Henry
Are they FCC certificated ("type-accepted")? If not, (and, given that they are user-programmable to operate on Public Service frequencies, they almost certainly aren't) they may not be legally imported into the US, regardless of their intended use. There are stories in the eBay Community area

[amsat-bb] Visitor Satisfaction Survey

2010-03-28 Thread Clint Bradford
I set up a quick "satisfaction survey" earlier this month for visitors to my "How to Work the FM Sats with your Handheld Radio" Web site. I wanted to make sure I was on the right track for what I am trying to accomplish with the site: Provide all the info needed to get on the FM birds painlessly

[amsat-bb] Next "HV Satcom" Net

2010-03-28 Thread Stuart Balanger
*Hi all., The next "HV Satcom" Net is skeduled for ThusdayApril 1 on the 146.97MHz. Mbarc Repeater, (8PM;or 2400 UTC)w/ an Echolink node of "N2EYH-L" Node! More info: www.hvsatcom.org Hope to hear some new people! 73,.Stu (WA2BSS) *

[amsat-bb] AA5UK/KH6 QRV for HO-68 and VU-52 from Hawaii BL02 ic Macrch 28 March 29th

2010-03-28 Thread Adrian Engele
Greetings all, Made it to Kauai yesterday and managed to get on some informal passes. I plan to operate this morning here in HI on some of the following passes: HO-68 FM during 18:49 UTC pass VU-52 SSB during 19:10 UTC pass. I also plan on several evening passes after 0300 UTC on AO7, FO29, VU5

[amsat-bb] HO-68 Schedule - 21-28 Mar 2010

2010-03-28 Thread Alan Kung
28 Mar. 2010 16:25...Turn On--FM India, Africa, Middle East, Europe,NA 17:10...Turn Off 18:15...Turn On--FM Africa,Europe,Middle East,NA 19:00...Turn Off 29 Mar. 2010 01:10...Turn On--PACKET South America,NA,North Asia 01:55...Turn