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We will be doing Satellite Demonstrations from the AMSAT Demo Area at Dayton
on as many of the passes shown below as possible. The passes shown for the
ISS and HO-68 will be listen only. We will be trying to help as many Youth
and other New Hams as possible to make their first Satellite Contact.
I worked CO6CBF, WB2SIH, W5GR, KB1RVT, and KB7MG(A or E??) today. If you
need a QSL, email me. I will be sending new contacts QSL's anyway. Thanks
guys...but I still need to figure out the last letter in the KB7MG-
callsign.
I was /p in EN53 instead of the usual EN52
--
*Vince Waelti, K9TSU*
WX
One of the great things about AMSAT is the willingness of people like Alan
and Paul
to share information and answer questions. I followed Alan's chicken-little
contest and recall someone had done some graphs related to the decay. I
tried
searching for the postings but could not find them or remembe
Two videos, one of the Aalto-1 groundstation the other an animation of the
mission.
See http://www.uk.amsat.org/7371
73 Trevor M5AKA
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Tom,
As usual, Paul has covered the important points. I would suggest, if you
are really interested, getting an account on Space Track and looking at the
archived values for TLE of decayed satellites. Looking at the decay rate
will clearly give you an indication to within a day or so. Normally
See http://www.uk.amsat.org/7348
73 Trevor M5AKA
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http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/hamvention/2012/Banquet.php
2012 AMSAT/TAPR Hamvention Banquet
The sixth annual joint AMSAT/TAPR Banquet will be held Friday evening, May 18,
2012 during the Dayton Hamvention.
The Banquet will be at the:
Kohler Presidental Banquet Center
4572 Presidential Way
On May 11, 2012, at 12:59 PM, Thomas Doyle wrote:
> There must be a better way to detect re-entry than simply than throwing an
> unhandled exception.
>
> You guys seem to be the experts - any suggestions on how to do it ?
> It seems to be related to the BSTAR drag value. Some say when the BSTAR
>
