[amsat-bb] Re: Rotation of NIWAKA

2013-02-12 Thread tanaka
Thank you David and Joe. It may be air resistance effect. I will consider again. -- Takushi, JA6AVG - Original Message - Dear Satellite expert, Satellite NIWAKA increases its rotation speed. I appreciate if you know the reason. http://www.fit.ac.jp/~tanaka/fitsat.shtml Thank you

[amsat-bb] New Cuban Stations on Satellites

2013-02-12 Thread Raydel Abreu Espinet
Hello everyone, As many of you should already know, now we have two new Cuban Amateur Operators on FM Satellites. Recently CO7WT and CM2XN have finally achieve their firsts QSO on SO-50 Satellite. This may look simple, but for a Cuban Ham this is a great success, after many weeks of antenna

[amsat-bb] Re: New Cuban Stations on Satellites

2013-02-12 Thread Alan
Raydel, You are doing great things, and showing the spirit of how hams innovate and improvise. Please keep us informed. 73s, Alan WA4SCA -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Raydel Abreu Espinet Sent: Tuesday, February

[amsat-bb] CO7WT QRV on FL11 this nigth on SO-50

2013-02-12 Thread Ing. Pavel Milanes Costa
Hi OMs I (CO7WT) will be active this nigth (12-feb-3012 ~0130Z) on the SO-50 bird. It will be an aprox. 40 degrees pass here, with my setup I have shure coverage of about 20 degrees and up... QSL is 100% via manager ( N2CQ ) and will be ready a few days after the contact. I'm ready for

[amsat-bb] SpaceTrack.org upgrade 20 February 2013 at 12:00 PST

2013-02-12 Thread Joe Fitzgerald
If you are getting your keps from SpaceTrack, you may see some changes soon. The following is the latest from Vandenburg: ** We are pleased to announce that we will upgrade the current www.Space-Track.org on Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 12:00 PST to add the