Thanks to the following operators who sent updates and/or
provided data for a new gridmap on my satellite website.
W0DHB
N8HM
KB1PVH
WA7ETH
AC0RA
W5PFG
WD9EWK
KO4MA
PD4KH
F6GLJ
These maps show that there continues to be activity on the birds
despite there being fewer to work through. I'm
Several years ago I started posting grid maps on my
website so that grid chasers and grid expeditioners
could get an idea of what was needed by active satellite
operators. However, some of these maps have not been
updated in quite a while. And there are many new grid
chasers that have not
It is very rare to hear clear CW from the AO-7B
telemetry beacon around 145.972. Most of the time
there is no beacon at all. Sometimes there is
jibberish. Usually the signal is very weak.
With AO-7 going through eclipse on every orbit, the
satellite can come out of eclipse in different modes/
I will try to operate on SO-50 from EL96 on Saturday
and Sunday, 15 and 16 February as follows:
15Feb2014 1302-1315utc 46deg elev max
15Feb2014 2322-2334utc 31deg elev max
16Feb2014 1149-1201utc 36deg elev max
16Feb2014 2209-2221utc 53deg elev max
The morning passes will have
Drew, OZ/KO4MA, was worked this morning at 0841utc
on AO-7B. He had a nice signal from JO45. He was
worked last year on the 31st of December from the same
grid.
73,
John K8YSE
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Yuri, UT1FG/MM, asked me to send his Christmas Greetings
to everyone on the satellites. He is
spending his Christmas in port at Constanta Romania and
expects to be loaded and sailing 28 or 29 December. His
next port will be in France. He will continue to listen
for North America on FO-29 and
Some of the active grid chasers on the birds are aware
that KA6SIP just gave me my last USA grid when he operated
from CN72 in Oregon. And I thought it might be interesting
to look at the stats and how one manages to work and confirm
all 488 USA lower 48 States grids.
Satellite operators come
From the OPDX Bulletin by KB8NW, Nr. 1121 dated 29July2013:
2U, GUERNSEY (Satellite Op!) Peter, 2E0SQL, is now active as 2U0SQL from
Guernsey (IN89RL) until July 30th. Activity will be sporadic on the satel-
lite passes. He will be focusing on FO-29 and SO-50 passes. Peter states,
... no firm
W4UOO is operating as K2BSA from Beckley West Virginia
EM97. West Virginia is a rare state on satellites. It's
small and very mountainous and most places are down in the valleys
such that they don't have a low horizon. I drove down to Beckley
several years ago to hand out EM97. It was 300
VY1RM was on FO-29 at 0300utc 12May calling
CO6CBF. He said he would be on the next pass.
The Yukon is pretty rare so try to work him if
you can.
73,
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I only heard KJ6KRW-1 on this morning's pass 25April
over Ohio. Nothing heard from KJ6KRW and KJ6KRW-2.
73,
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Eugene UX0FY advises that he has not received logs for
UT1FG/MM after November 2012. He hopes to have the
December 2012 thru March 2013 logs in a few weeks.
Then he will be answering all QSL requests that he
has received so far. He asks everyone to be patient.
73,
John K8YSE
Eugene UX0FY advises that he has not received logs for
UT1FG/MM after November 2012. He hopes to have the
December 2012 thru March 2013 logs in a few weeks.
Then he will be answering all QSL requests that he
has received so far. He asks everyone to be patient.
73,
John K8YSE
Thanks to everyone who worked me today while I was
/MM in FL06. We finally had seas that were conducive
to operating from a 27' fishing boat. I operated on
SO-50 and worked AC0RA and VE3NKL. Later I was on FO-29
and made the first qso with W0DHB. I worked CO6CBF at the
end of the pass
There is a possibility of operating on 2 Sunday
morning passes from wet grid squares FL05 and FL06.
Weather permitting I will be on VO-52 at 1253utc from
FL-05 and on FO-29 at 1427 and 1611utc from FL06. Hope
to work you. Send an email if you want a qsl card for your
contact.
73,
John K8YSE
John K8YSE and Bill KD4FRB will be hosting an AMSAT
table at the Miami Hamfest on Saturday February 2nd.
We will try to operate a demo station on high elevation
ssb and FM passes and also on my home station over the
internet. Would appreciate contacts.
73,
John K8YSE
I was on the 2236utc 15Jan SO50 pass from Captiva Island
in EL86. Stations worked were: W5PFG, N8RO, KE4KOL, KB2M,
KD8QBA and WA2EFU. Called KK4HEQ but no response. If you
need a card, please send me an email.
Hope to be on again Wednesday and Thursday.
73,
John K8YSE
I will try to operate SO-50 from EL86, Sanibel
Island Florida on early evening passes on Tuesday
thru Thursday 15-17 January. EL86 is fairly rare
since it is mostly water. As always, no promises
on being active but I will try my best. Send QSL
requests via email if you need the card.
73,
John
K8YSE
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Luis, EC4TR, is looking for North American stations
to set up schedules with. His grid in IN80er. Email him
at his qrz.com email address if you would like to contact
him. FO-29 is over 1300km high during morning passes over
the Atlantic now. AO-7 is always around 1450km and is in Mode B on
The ARRL Letter dated November 8th has an item
about the USPS proposing to discontinue the sale
of IRC's here in the United States. If you are
sending for a QSL card to many countries, the alternative
compensation, American dollar bills, are likely to be stolen by
a postal worker. Your card
AO-27 sent data after the repeater mode expired on
the 1835utc pass, 5 October. 50 seconds into the data,
the mark/space toggling stopped and a mark only tone
was heard. That tone was heard for 4-1/2 minutes until
the signal was lost when the bird went over the horizon.
A recording of the
The Funcube Dongle postings veered off into a
discussion of the current state of affairs with
the satellites that are still working. After reading
about how the activity on the linear birds was down, I
had to wonder a bit. It has not been my experience.
I really expected the activity on the FM
Yuri, UT1FG, has been on a well deserved vacation in Russia
following his 6 month long voyage as Captain of the M/V Mottler.
Logs for the April-May 2012 timeframe have just now become available to
his manager Eugene, UX0FY. Yuri was only home for a few days but
he managed to write many qsl cards
hope it stays in this condition for many years
to come.
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Mode A seems to be more tolerant of lower power coming
from the solar panels than Mode B. Still you can tell
that the satellite is suffering. A 5 watt CW signal will
cause the bird to FM but it is not driving the bird to its
maximum power capability. I heard N4ASF much louder on it
in CW on
Station 2 Oscar 12 Whiskey was heard and worked on FO-29 this
morning. QSL info is on qrz.com. This is a special event
station celebrating the London 2012 Olympic Games. They are
operating from IO81IJ. They should be active for several weeks.
73,
John K8YSE
Since AO-7B came out of the eclipsed orbits, it has been
performing poorly. I can usually do very well on the low
elevation passes towards Europe, but now I may only be able
to hear my own cw signal with no other signals heard.
Today on the 2116utc pass I worked PV8DX on CW but as the bird
A station in FN03 using the callsign CG3B was worked
on the 0020z SO-50 pass on 18 July. It is a special
event callsign commemorating 200 years of friendship between
Canada and the US (after the War of 1812). The operator
was unknown. QRZ.com indicates that the callsign will be used
during the
Kevin, VA3OR/VE3RCN will be operating from the Battleship USS New Jersey
using the callsign NJ2BB as follows:
A027
2 JUNE - 1636Z 12 DEGREE PASS
2 JUNE 1813Z 82 DEGREE PASS
3 JUNE 1745Z 54 DEGREE PASS
3 JUNE 1925Z 17 DEGREE PASS
SO50
2 JUNE 1204Z 67 DEGREE PASS
2 JUNE 1345Z
I was sorry to hear about the passing of Greg, KI4OTG.
Greg was one of the most courteous operators that I've
known. He was active on the birds and enjoyed working
new grids. My log shows that he worked me on my Lake
Superior Grid Expedition in 28 out of the 32 grids I
operated from. He did
Yuri, UT1FG/MM, left Thunder Bay Ontario on Lake Superior
a few days ago with a cargo of Oats and Wheat destined for
San Juan Puerto Rico. He had gone through the Welland Canal
which connects Lake Ontario to Lake Erie on the way to
Thunder Bay and would come back through on his way out. The
Yuri's (VE3/UT1FG/MM) ship was the first foreign ship to
dock in Toronto for the 2012 shipping season. The
event is celebrated in a ceremony and the captain is
crowned with a 150 year old Beaver Hat on the ship.
There is a Youtube Video that documents the event:
There were three passes of VO-52 here this morning, 27March2012.
I was able to copy the beacon on all three passes. Here are the
results:
1200utc 145862.6
1335utc 145861.7
1510utc 145861.9
The frequencies are not exact. My CW offset is 850Hz. There is
significant frequency drift and
Every now and then someone asks about the possibility
of making a satellite QSO when the bird is below the
horizon. Once in while it happens as it did with Adrian,
AA5UK/KH6, on FO-29 this morning at 0849utc.
Adrian has been operating from KH6 and trying to give out
WAS to the deserving. Many
VO-52 has been a very loud and easy to work satellite
since the recovery and change to the Dutch Transponder.
The CW beacon is very loud and you can usually find an
image of it elsewhere in the transponder passband.
If you are running full doppler control, you have probably
noticed that your
Erich DK1TB has again implemented another great feature
into SatPC32 V12.8b by means of a patch file. You can
find it in the downloads link on his website, www.dk1tb.de
Scroll down to Section 7, Patches.
I often hear others talk about meeting someone, usually a
long distance new grid square, on
Many have been wondering what happened to Yuri,
UT1FG/MM, who has been so active on the birds.
He is navigating the St. Lawrence Seaway and has
been too busy to operate on the satellites. There
are many inspection requirements for a ship coming
into the Great Lakes and his duties are such that
Today marks the two year anniversary of my satellite
recordings website. Since March 18th, 2010, there have
been about 2800 recordings posted totalling about 1.9Gb.
AO-51 is the most recorded satellite with 1358 files. It
was a great bird and its demise was a great loss to the
satellite
VO-52 was in use over North America shortly after
being turn on over India. The pass around 1430utc
was active with W7JPI, KC7MG, KB1PVH and KN6ZA? The
beacon was also heard. Signals were strong from the
satellite. Congratulations to everyone in India involved
in the restoration. I hope it
N3YKF and K8YSE will have an AMSAT table
at the Stuart Florida Hamfest on 3/17. Now
that we have VO-52 back we will have more
opportunities to demo satellites. Norm will
be operating his portable station and I will
likely have my Remote Station operating via a
3G Hotspot. Weather predictions
Many of us have been following UT1FG/MM as he sails from port
to port, operating on the birds and 6 meters. When Yuri left
port in Nicaragua a few days ago, he emailed the bad news that
his 12v power supply that runs his IC706 had failed and could
not be fixed.
This prompted an effort to find a
VO-52 was not heard over the US at 1330z, 28Feb2012.
Reports on oscar.dcarr.org at 1100z also say that it
was not heard over Europe.
Please listen for VO-52 and submit reports to
the oscar.dcarr.org website.
73,
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The OPDX Bulletin 1050 is reporting that a team of 10
operators, from the Aguas- calientes Amateur Radio Club
will activate Isabel Island using the callsign XF1AA.
Ismael, XE1AY, is one of the operators and is active
on the satellites. The planned dates are March 16th
through the 21st. The grid
The trip down to EL97 was uneventful. The location chosen
was on US1 in Sebastian Florida, Indian River County. 21
stations were worked on the AO-27 1825z pass and 6
more were worked on the low elevation western pass at 2005z.
It was sunny with temps in the low 70's, a very nice day for
a grid
Plans are to activate EL97 on both AO-27 passes on Saturday,
7 January 2012 at 1824z and 2005z. Equipment checked out ok
on today's AO-27 eastern Atlantic pass.
Please do not send qsl card requests. Simply send an email
with the qso data and I will send a card direct. I do not
plan to make a
I've had several requests for EL97. I will plan to be on the
AO-27 pass at 1824z or so on Saturday, 7 January 2012. This
pass should work well for the eastern half of the US. If there
are any west coast stations that need it, I will stay for the
next AO-27 pass at 2005z. If you can't make the
I'm pleased to report that with the new QRZ.com format,
the Gridmapper has been fixed. Gridmapper allows you to
see the gridsquare of the lookup station on a Google map.
A six character square is outlined. It makes it easy to
see how far a particular station is from another grid that
you might
The suggestion to mount the converter on the tower
near the antenna might have some good results, however,
there are two problems. The first is that you will need
two coax relays or a transfer switch up on the tower to
switch the converter in and out of the circuit. Then you
have the potential
As many of you know, my satellite radio is a TS2000X.
If you have visited my satellite webpage, you have seen
many recordings of AO-27 and SO50 from AOS to LOS. Most
of these recordings were made when I was not sitting in
front of the radio.
At first I used a uhf mobile to hear AO-27 and SO-50.
KC9DOA mentions that he still had the birdie
problem with a downconverter and that is understandable.
The TS2000 radiates the birdie and if your downconverter
is not shielded or the UHF antenna is too close to the
radio, you might still pick it up. Simple experimentation
will find the right
AO-51 is extremely weak now. Normally AO-51 would
produce a signal in excess of .6 uV at the receiver
in the shack. This is from a 40el KLM with a 20'
9913 pigtail and 50' of 7/8 Heliax. The maximum
signal strength on the 2113z 24Nov pass (38 degree
elevation) was only .22uV. It is down about
Rodney had some trouble posting this:
i operated from dn80/81 by Julesburg, CO off the side of the road,
those that would like a card just send the contact
information to my email and cards will be made up
thanks to those that worked me,
this weekend if the weather holds out i will operate from
ARRISat-1 continues to function although the
signal from orbit to orbit is quite different. On
the previous pass at 2135z 30 Oct, I could barely
hear my downlink. I was hearing W8ZCF and he heard
at least part of my call. On the next pass at 2309z,
the transponder was strong and I was able to
It has been a while since we have had usable ARRISat-1
passes over the US. We are now starting to get daylight
passes in the early evening so it's time to start having
some fun with this bird again.
Last evening around 2203UTC, ARRISat-1 had a great pass
over the south and eastern US. After
It is difficult for me to believe that there
have been 1000 grids active in the last 5 years.
When I first started in satellites I thought two or
three hundred grids would be about it, but many things
happened to move that estimate up. Last night I worked
VY1RM in the Yukon for grid number 1000
ARRISat-1 was in pretty good shape when it finally
turned on after being in eclipse this morning around
1510z or so. I had a good qso with WB0KFC and heard
someone else (maybe N8MH?) at the end of the pass. The
bird went off the air around 1516z before my LOS.
The next pass at 1643z should be
The Central States VHF Society has just updated
their website to reflect applications for VUCC-r,
Reverse VUCC, filed some time ago.
http://www.csvhfs.org
This award is given to those who have operated via satellites
in more than 100 grids away from their home grid. There
are now four
Bob, K8BL, will be heading back from Nova Scotia
Saturday and will stop somewhere in FN55 during the
afternoon. He could work an AO-27 or an AO-51 pass.
This grid is pretty rare so try not to miss him.
73,
John K8YSe
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Jens, DL7VTX, is apparently operating portable in EA8.
He was worked on AO-51 this afternoon. His signal wasn't
very strong into the bird but he was hearing. Jens has
operated from the Caribbean in the past, usually with an
HT and a whip antenna. He likes to hike and takes the radio
with him.
Patric, VE3HZQ, announced on the air that he would
be operating from EN85 on Wednesday, 14September2011.
This is a fairly rare grid spanning the US and Canada.
He has been active recently from his home grid, EN96.
73,
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KD8CAO and K8YSE completed an unscheduled
2 way ssb qso on the ARRISat satellite this
morning 5 August 2011 at 1125z. Signals were
weak but readable. My keps were way off as the
doppler shifted 1700 Hz from AOS till overhead
elevation. If it had a uhf antenna, we would be
doing a lot better,
There is a huge difference in signal quality between
Mode A and Mode B on AO-7. I've been working Europe on
Mode A days and have found that the audio quality is
excellent. I've experimented with higher power levels
to see how the transponder performs and have found that
it can handle the highest
Erling, LA4FPA, will likely be on the AO-7 pass
today around 1952utc. You can track him on aprs.fi
using LA4FPA-9. He has been operating from JP32 but
is planning for JP22 today. Good luck.
73,
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The purpose of full doppler correction is to keep your signal in
the exact same spot on the receiver in the satellite. It has a finite
passband and if you don't correct your uplink, you move within that finite
passband. Theoretically a single linear transponder can support many
conversations but
My satellite truck is currently using the 4el VHF Yagi
from Arrow Antennas. They are very well built and can
be ordered with a Type N connector for a small extra charge
(well worth it). The 7x7 Arrow II is what I use for UHF on
the truck with a coax relay to switch between horizontal and
I'll be attempting to work a few satellite passes from
the Cleveland Metroparks at the Westpark Radiops Club
Meeting/Picnic tonight. It is very likely that there will be no
line of sight from this location but I'll try no matter what.
The Westpark Radiops is a very old club, one that I went
to
It was a 90 degree day in Ohio but it was comfortable
operating from the truck with the air conditioning running.
I arrived near the 4 corner grid square boundary near Burbank
Ohio just before a 3 degree AO-7 pass. I set up in EN91 but
was only able to hear DG1EA. The horizon was a little
I received two 13 Colonies Special Event Certificates
today, one for a clean sweep on HF and the other for a
clean sweep on satellites. There is a satellite endorsement
sticker on one award. The awards manager Ken Villone KU2US
is doing a great job processing the requests. The application
was
Jim is about 20 miles away from the DM51/52 line and plans
to operate from there on the AO-27 pass coming up at 2047z
or so. If he doesn't make that pass, he'll likely be on FO-29
at 2213z or so. You can track him on APRS, ND9M-9.
73,
John K8YSE
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Field Day recordings for AO-51, AO-27 and SO-50
are on my website. The late night-early morning
passes were not crowded and could have provided
opportunities for those trying to make the 100 point
bonus.
The recordings were made from my home station on autopilot.
Polarity was fixed on left-hand
Jim ND9M/MM reports that his emails from the ship have not been
going out. He is underway now and expects to be in FM01
after 2200z 26June. This means that he will likely not be
in FM01 for the first AO-7 pass at 2129 nor the AO-51 pass
that follow at 2145z. The next AO-7 pass at 2322 will
Congratulations to Jim, KE4KOL, for achieving Satellite VUCC.
This is the most sought after VHF/UHF award in the world and
equivalent to the DXCC program for HF 6 meters. It's one
thing to work 100 grids but the work doesn't stop until you
have all of the cards in hand (or now LOTW matches).
so he could run his
120vac radio in the car! This is a great example of ham
ingenuity; find a way to get it done, no matter what roadblocks
appear in front of you.
Again, congratulations Chris. I hope to work you in many more
new grids in the future!
73,
John K8YSE
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Jim is on a short test cruise and might slip
into FM01 this afternoon. Look for him on the
FM and SSB birds. Didn't hear him on the last
FO-29 at 1925z. AO-7 is in Mode B so look for him
there also. (Info from Jim via cellphone)
73,
John K8YSE
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I never saw this message on the amsat-bb so I'm
posting it now.
73,
John K8YSE
From: Andrew Glasbrenner
Sent: Jun 2, 2011 6:26 PM
To: Ted
Cc: amsat-bb
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] SO-67?
All this week. There was a glitch earlier and some passes didn't get
scheduled. Right now the ones below are
SO-67 was on at 0125z 3June2011. Quite
a surprise since no mention of it on
http://www.amsatsa.org.za/ Quite strong
as usual.
73,
John K8YSE
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If you are planning on going to Dayton, please take
some time to visit the ARRL area not far from the AMSAT
booth. Seek out the highest ranking officials you can find
and talk with them about the VUCC program and LOTW.
The fee schedule for VUCC applications, both paper and LOTW,
released back in
Chris, KC0YBM, discovered that the new VUCC application
form dated May2011 has some reduced fees on it. I have
revised my one page comparison accordingly. It can be
downloaded at: http://www.papays.com/vuccfees052011.pdf
The major concern is the initial application for VUCC compared
to DXCC.
Tomorrow, May 5th, we as Americans will celebrate the
Anniversary of Alan Shepard's flight into space 50 years
ago. Alan flew in a Mercury capsule on top of a Redstone
Rocket. His recovery at sea was viewed by millions on
live television. Alan could have been the first human to fly
in space,
The DX Cluster has a spot for XF2P saying that
the operation was cancelled due to bad weather.
Can anyone provide any information about this?
73,
John K8YSE
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Walner, WP4NYS, sent more photos taken with his phone
during their visit with Yuri UT1FG/MM on the Mottler.
Lots of electronics on that ship. Thanks Walner!
http://www.papays.com/sat
73,
John K8YSE
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Hector, CO6CBF, made his first satellite QSO back on
January 27th, 2011 on the AO-51 satellite. He didn't
have much help getting started but he read and built an
antenna and made that contact after he could successfully
hear others on the satellite.
I've only worked 3 Cuban stations, CO8TW in
Yuri, UT1FG/MM, is currently in port at San Juan Puerto Rico.
Walt WP4T and his family drove over to San Juan yesterday to
attempt to see him. They were successful and were treated to
a red carpet tour of his ship the Mottler. They took pictures
and they are available for viewing on my website:
David XE3DX recently posted that he will be operating from
EK08, EK09, EK18 and EK19 from April 17th to the 30th.
These are grids that you don't hear very often so if you
are chasing grids, be on the lookout and please give David some
room.
This morning's AO-51 pass at 1050z was a little
Kevin, KF7MYK, provides a great example of what
happens when operators do not use phonetics. You
may think you are saving time by not using them, but
the fact is that unless someone is familiar with your
callsign, they may copy it incorrectly. You want
everyone on the bird to have your callsign
KD4ZGW/m will be operating from EM60, EM61 and EM62
on Tuesday 5 April. Look for Rob on SO-67, AO-51
and AO-27. QSL to his QRZ.com address and be sure to
include his grid as well as yours on the card. Rob is
one of a handful of operators who has qualified for the
satellite Reverse VUCC award
Thanks to all who worked or tried to work me mobile
on my trip back to Cleveland from Melbourne, Florida.
I operated while in motion on SO-67, AO-27 and AO-51.
Equipment was the Kenwood V7A and a Larsen dual band
mag mount on the trunk lid, no preamps.
SO-67 has a dynamite signal and it was easy
Yuri, UT1FG/MM, is currently reviewing a draft of a
proposed qsl procedure for his maritime mobile operation
on satellites. As soon as he finalizes the procedure, it
will be posted here on the -bb. Please hold off on sending
for cards.
Yuri is currently at anchor in FN58 awaiting dock space to
I will be using a special event callsign on the birds
this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, to celebrate the 20th
Anniversary of the OPDX Bulletin. The callsign will be
NO8DX/20.
The OPDX Bulletin is a free DX Bulletin that is distributed
via an email list and picked up by email groups around the
OPDX Bulletin Nr. 1000, edited by Tedd KB8NW and hosted on my
website www.papays.com/opdx.html, is reporting some good news regarding VUCC
and DXCC fees etc.:
DXCC NEWS (Awards Processing Update). The ARRL Awards-Blog page reports
the following: We are nearly done with processing all the 2010
The Florida AMSAT net is held every Thursday
evening at 7:30pm Eastern Time (18Feb 0030z).
Many Florida repeaters are connected together
for this net but others are welcome to join
by using the AMSAT Echolink Conference Node.
Mike N4HHA is usually the moderator. Bring
your questions and news
The SO-67 for North America has been updated
to show passes through 6Feb2011 at 1655z on
their website:
http://www.amsatsa.org.za/
73,
John K8YSE
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Jeff,
Here's the VUCC rule on the grid square:
7(b) For the convenience of the Awards Manager in checking cards,
applicants may indicate in pencil (pencil ONLY) the
grid locator on the address side of the cards that DO NOT clearly
indicate the grid locator. The applicant affirms that
he/she
The cost for credits for LOTW DXCC filings is:
0-49 $.25/each
50-99 $.225/each
100-249 $.20/each
250-499 $.175/each
500-$.15/each
LOTW for VUCC is $.16/credit no matter how many you submit.
If you submit 100 credits for DXCC, it's $20 for the qso's.
If you submit 100 credits for VUCC, it's
The new fee schedule has brought forth a lot of
comments. Twenty cents a card seems like a lot of
money but consider how much you spent to get that card.
An SASE with a stamp on it plus the stamp for sending
it here in the US costs you $.88. If you send for a
DX card to countries other than
I did not hear HO-68 on 12Jan on the afternoon
North America passes. This morning 13Jan it was not heard
at 1408 UTC either. The beacon appears to be off as
well. Let's hope this is not a serious problem.
Anyone else have the same experience?
73,
John K8YSE
I thought this might be helpful to those trying to
determine when HO-68 is workable from your qth.
Every week on Sunday I use the program WinAOS in the
Programs Menu of SatPC32 to generate a list of visible
passes for all satellites that I operate. I set the
date for each day, starting at
HO-68 was on this morning with a North America/Europe footprint,
but the only station heard was 2E0BFT. After the window with
Europe closed I found another station, WB8IMY, calling CQ with
a nice signal. I knew the callsign was familiar but it wasn't
from hearing it on the satellites. It was
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