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Today's Topics:
1. MIR sound clip (Bill Howell)
2. Mesbah-2 (Peter Guelzow)
3. Re: THE DMSP launch (Rocky Jones)
4. Re: THE DMSP launch (Rocky Jones)
5. Re: THE DMSP launch (Rocky Jones)
6. Re: Mesbah-2 (Rocky Jones)
7. Re: MIR sound clip (laura halliday)
8. Re: Filters and Preamps Question (Joe Fitzgerald)
9. Re: MIR sound clip (Rocky Jones)
10. Re: Filters and Preamps Question (Jim Jerzycke)
11. Re: MIR sound clip (Jonathan Guthrie)
12. WD5DWP needs help (Allen F. Mattis)
13. Re: Filters and Preamps Question (i8cvs)
14. Weekend on the Birds (John Papay)
15. Re: Weekend on the Birds (Bob- W7LRD)
16. Re: THE DMSP launch (Daniel Schultz)
17. Re: Weekend on the Birds (Glenn AA5PK)
18. Re: Filters and Preamps Question (Elan Portnoy)
19. Re: MIR sound clip (Greg D.)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:55:21 -0500
From: Bill Howell <mrbillmac@xxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] MIR sound clip
To: Amsat List <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Here's a MIR clip I recorder years ago, using a cassette recorder
with vox, hooked to a Radio Shack scanner.
The file is named 8-25-99, but I'm not sure when the recording happened.
http://web.mac.com/mrbillmac/Site/MIR_sound_file.html
The file plays okay from the web page, on a Mac... haven't tried it
on a PC yet.
Bill Howell
N5AB
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:29:44 +0200
From: Peter Guelzow <peter.guelzow@xxxxxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Mesbah-2
To: AMSAT <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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http://www.astronautix.com/craft/mesbah2.htm
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:00:23 -0500
From: Rocky Jones <orbitjet@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: THE DMSP launch
To: <bruninga@xxxx.xxx>, Amsat BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Bob...
LOL really it is funny.
If one person can knock them off their stride then the deserve to bilge...
I guess that any explanation for poor performance works
Robert WB5MZO
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:03:30 -0500
From: Rocky Jones <orbitjet@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: THE DMSP launch
To: <samudra.haque@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: Amsat BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, n8fgv@xxx.xxx
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>
> Samudra, N3RDX and S21X
interesting post...there are lots of volunteer organizations and all of them
managed to do things without the endless whining of "they are all
volunteers"...gee if that could lift things into orbit
Robert WB5MZO
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:56:31 -0500
From: Rocky Jones <orbitjet@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: THE DMSP launch
To: <bruninga@xxxx.xxx>, Amsat BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Bob
It is OK, maybe suitsat 2 or whatever it is called with be a success or at
least occur..if it flops then all the folks who are always gung ho to make
excuses can have something else to do! Work is also needed for those
protecting inertia
Robert WB5MZO
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:58:00 -0500
From: Rocky Jones <orbitjet@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Mesbah-2
To: <peter.guelzow@xxxxxx.xx>, Amsat BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Peter...as I said, someone is building a cubesat.
or something slightly bigger.
Robert WB5MZO
> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:29:44 +0200
> From: peter.guelzow@xxxxxx.xx
> To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Mesbah-2
>
> http://www.astronautix.com/craft/mesbah2.htm
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:21:58 -0700
From: laura halliday <marsgal42@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: MIR sound clip
To: <mrbillmac@xxx.xxx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Bill N5AB wrote:
> Here's a MIR clip I recorder years ago, using a cassette recorder
> with vox, hooked to a Radio Shack scanner.
> The file is named 8-25-99, but I'm not sure when the recording happened.
>
> http://web.mac.com/mrbillmac/Site/MIR_sound_file.html
>
> The file plays okay from the web page, on a Mac... haven't tried it
> on a PC yet.
It plays fine on a PC if you have the QuickTime plug-in, free from Apple.
The audio reminds me of the closing warning from Glukoza's tune "Schweine",
except that it's in the wrong language... :-)
Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre
Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..."
ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - Hospital/Shafte
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:33:19 -0400
From: "Joe Fitzgerald" <jfitzgerald@xxxx.xxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Filters and Preamps Question
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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> what's the preferred
> order?
As ever "that depends". In the specific case I was involved in at
Worcester Polytech, we found that we could get the best trade off by
putting the preamp at the antenna then knocking down the out of band stuff
with the filter between the preamp and the receiver. The losses in the
filter hurt your system noise figure much more if you go ant -> filter ->
preamp -> receiver
If the out of band stuff is desensing your preamp, well, that is another
story. At +12 dBm for the ARR GaAs FET we were using there was no
problem, even in an urban environment.
-Joe KM1P
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:56:05 -0500
From: Rocky Jones <orbitjet@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: MIR sound clip
To: <mrbillmac@xxx.xxx>, Amsat BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <COL106-W21E941B619BD9AD59BDBE1D6C10@xxx.xxx>
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Bill..well done...nice tower shots as well
Robert WB5MZO
> To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
> From: mrbillmac@xxx.xxx
> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:55:21 -0500
> Subject: [amsat-bb] MIR sound clip
>
> Here's a MIR clip I recorder years ago, using a cassette recorder
> with vox, hooked to a Radio Shack scanner.
> The file is named 8-25-99, but I'm not sure when the recording happened.
>
> http://web.mac.com/mrbillmac/Site/MIR_sound_file.html
>
> The file plays okay from the web page, on a Mac... haven't tried it
> on a PC yet.
>
> Bill Howell
> N5AB
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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:07:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jim Jerzycke <kq6ea@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Filters and Preamps Question
To: Joe Fitzgerald <jfitzgerald@xxxx.xxx.xxx>
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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And I've been on the other side of things where the "noise" we had to filter
out was so close to the signal we wanted, we had no choice but to put a
tight bandpass filter at the antenna, ahead of the amp, to keep the amp from
overloading.
6 of one...half a dozen of the other....
73, jim KQ6EA
--- On Mon, 10/19/09, Joe Fitzgerald <jfitzgerald@xxxx.xxx.xxx> wrote:
> From: Joe Fitzgerald <jfitzgerald@xxxx.xxx.xxx>
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Filters and Preamps Question
> To:
> Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
> Date: Monday, October 19, 2009, 4:33 PM
>
>
> >? what's the preferred
> > order?
>
> As ever "that depends".? In the specific case I was
> involved in at
> Worcester Polytech, we found that we could get the best
> trade off by
> putting the preamp at the antenna then knocking down the
> out of band stuff
> with the filter between the preamp and the
> receiver.???The losses in the
> filter hurt your system noise figure much more if you go
> ant -> filter ->
> preamp -> receiver
>
> If the out of band stuff is desensing your preamp, well,
> that is another
> story.? At +12 dBm for the ARR GaAs FET we were using
> there was no
> problem, even in an urban environment.
>
>
> -Joe KM1P
>
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Message: 11
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:29:16 -0500
From: Jonathan Guthrie <ka8kpn@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: MIR sound clip
To: laura halliday <marsgal42@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Cc: mrbillmac@xxx.xxxx amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 16:21 -0700, laura halliday wrote:
> Bill N5AB wrote:
>
> > Here's a MIR clip I recorder years ago, using a cassette recorder
> > with vox, hooked to a Radio Shack scanner.
> > The file is named 8-25-99, but I'm not sure when the recording happened.
> > http://web.mac.com/mrbillmac/Site/MIR_sound_file.html
> > The file plays okay from the web page, on a Mac... haven't tried it
> > on a PC yet.
> It plays fine on a PC if you have the QuickTime plug-in, free from Apple.
For what it's worth, my Linux computer at home plays it just fine. The
one at work had issues, probably with the Javascript at mac.com. I'll
look into it when I get the time. I was surprised because the QT codecs
seem to be quite hit or miss under Linux.
!DSPAM:117,4add046f42761734414083!
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Message: 12
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:44:07 -0500
From: "Allen F. Mattis" <afmattis@xxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] WD5DWP needs help
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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If anyone can help Philip WD5DWP please respond to him directly - I
do not believe he receives amsat-bb.
I still tune manually and can not help him.
Allen N5AFV
>From: "wd5dwp" <wd5dwp@xxxxx.xxx>
>To: <afmattis@xxxxxx.xxx>
>Subject: I need help
>Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:10:27 -0500
>X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3598
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>Hi Allen:
>
>Do you know anyone who mignt help me. I am trying to connect my
>computer to my 910h and my IC718. Iwant to use HRD but have not
>been able to get connected. I have a IC ct-17 interface.
>
>I dont Know of anyone in my area as we live in the country. Nearest
>big city is 60mi in any direction.
>Pass this to any one you think might help. I have long distance on
>my phone so if they call me I will call them back so they wont have a charge.
>
>Phone: 985-839-2138
>
>73, wd5dwp Philip Buras
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Message: 13
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:37:52 +0200
From: "i8cvs" <domenico.i8cvs@xxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Filters and Preamps Question
To: "AMSAT-BB" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, "Joe Fitzgerald"
<jfitzgerald@xxxx.xxx.xxx>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Fitzgerald" <jfitzgerald@xxxx.xxx.xxx>
Cc: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:33 AM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Filters and Preamps Question
>
> > what's the preferred
> > order?
>
> As ever "that depends". In the specific case I was involved in at
> Worcester Polytech, we found that we could get the best trade off by
> putting the preamp at the antenna then knocking down the out of band stuff
> with the filter between the preamp and the receiver. The losses in the
> filter hurt your system noise figure much more if you go ant -> filter ->
> preamp -> receiver
>
> If the out of band stuff is desensing your preamp, well, that is another
> story. At +12 dBm for the ARR GaAs FET we were using there was no
> problem, even in an urban environment.
>
> -Joe KM1P
>
Hi Joe, KM1P
You are right and in fact:
It is a common EME procedure to put a passband cavity filter or an
interdigital passband filter at the output of the antenna mounted low
noise preamplifier because the insertion loss of it in dB decreases only
the gain of the preamplifier by the same amount in dB so that the
Noise Figure of the preamplifier is not degraded by the insertion loss
of the filter.
In this configuration we have --> antenna --->a T/R coax relay---->
preamplifier ---->cavity filter all antenna mounted and a coax cable
connected to the output of the preamplifier devoted only to receive
and directly going down the shack ------>to the receiver.
In more details the antenna is connected to the common port of the
T/R coax relay while the preamplifier is connected to the normally
closed NC contact of the T/R relay
In order to transmit the TX power amplifier is connected directly to
another coax cable dedicated only to transmit and it is connected at
the antenna via the normally open NO contact of the T/R relay.
The above configuration using a filter at the output of a preamplifier
is the best one because it do not degrade the preamplifier Noise Figure
but reduces the bandwidth providing a bonus in selectivity.
It is possible to improve the above configuration introducing between
the antenna and input of the preamplifier a filter plus a preamplifier
protection device designed by K3PGP showing a very low insertion
loss less than 0.1 dB at 432 MHz that without to deteriorate the
preamplifier Noise Figure provides in addition another bonus of
selectivity at the preamplifier input as you can realize reading the
following page:
http://www.k3pgp.org/432filter.htm
>From 1977 I was a 432 MHz EME operator so that I actually use for
satellite the above discussed setup both for 2 meters and 70 cm
because I live in the center of the gulf on Naples with a terrific RF
pollution in every amateur and out of amateur band so that a filter
at the preamplifier input and output is also mandatory to reduce the
preamplifiers gain compression due of out of band strong nearby
signals.
It is evident that using a filter at the output of a preamplifier it becames
a complicated matter using a commercial preamplifier with two coax
relays into it and by using only one transmission line to receive and to
transmit because the preamplifier output filter must be a big one to
pass all the transmitter power and particularly it must be tuned in such
a way as not to introduce a high VSWR into the TX transmission line.
Best 73" de
i8CVS Domenico
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Message: 14
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:19:46 -0400
From: John Papay <john@xxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Weekend on the Birds
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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This past weekend on the birds was second to
none that I've experienced in the past two
years. We had grid dxpeditions on the east and
west coast, two hamfest demonstrations, the Boy
Scout Jamboree stations and an Alaska Statehood
special event station operating.
Patrick, WD9EWK, was at the Old Pueblo Radio Club
Hamfest in Tucson and made a big detour to continue
down I-10 to the Arizona/New Mexico state line where he
operated from in the afternoon. Doug, KD8CAO, was at
the Holland Michigan Lakeshore Super Swap Hamfest and
put on a demonstration there.
Mark WA8SME operated on one AO-27 pass from the DN00/DN01
grid boundary, two very rare Nevada grids. John W6ZKH
operated from DM07 but had some trouble with his equipment
on this particular pass. He said he will go back some day.
Mark also said he might be able to operate from DM07 in the
near future.
Then we had the Boy Scouts Jamboree on the Air with quite a
few different stations operating on all of the FM birds including
K2BSA/5, W0S, K5B etc.
The most prominent grid dxpedition this weekend was by Richard,
N2SPI. He had originally planned to operate from FN53, FN56,
FN57, FN66 and FN67 but he found a way to also operate from FN55
and FN65 as well. He worked on the FM birds as well as VO-52.
This operation began Saturday morning and finished up Sunday afternoon,
about 30 hours from the first qso until the last on AO-27 at 1853z.
Richard operated at least one pass in each of seven grids and never
operated on a grid boundary. This was quite a trip! Richard
returned back to Massachusetts late Sunday night.
The weekend rounded out with an announcement to look for KL5O, an
Alaska Special Event Station, on the birds. The AO-7 pass Sunday
evening at 0043Z had at least 14 different stations operating
including WV9E, KE5GFJ, WA4NVM, AA4FL, AA5PK, K6CDW, KE2CKO, K0OU,
K3SZH, AJ9K, KD8CAO, W7LRD, K8YSE and KL5O! KL5O was down around
937 late in the pass. So if you think that there is no one on AO-7,
this should put that thought to rest. Many of them were talking about
KL5O. A special event does draw people to the birds just like it
does on the HF bands. Of course working Alaska is a special treat
under any situation. I believe KL7XJ was the operator.
Activity is on the rise on the SSB birds in general. Many that have
been active on the FM birds are getting equipment set up for the
SSB/CW birds. It's nice to be able to have a qso that involves more
than a callsign and grid exchange. We hope to have FO-29 back soon
but VO-52 and AO-7 are there for us every day.
A big thanks to all of the grid dxpeditioners who spent a lot of time
and money operating from places away from their homes. They have given
us many new grids. I hope this encourages others to try their hand
at operating from other grids. It's a lot of work but you will have
a lot of fun and satisfaction doing it.
73,
John K8YSE
John Papay
john@xxxxxx.xxx
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Message: 15
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:38:23 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bob- W7LRD <w7lrd@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Weekend on the Birds
To: John Papay <john@xxxxxx.xxx>
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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DITTO!
73 Bob W7LRD
Seattle
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Papay" <john@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 7:19:46 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: [amsat-bb] ?Weekend on the Birds
This past weekend on the birds was second to
none that I've experienced in the past two
years. ?We had grid dxpeditions on the east and
west coast, two hamfest demonstrations, the Boy
Scout Jamboree stations and an Alaska Statehood
special event station operating.
Patrick, WD9EWK, was at the Old Pueblo Radio Club
Hamfest in Tucson and made a big detour to continue
down I-10 to the Arizona/New Mexico state line where he
operated from in the afternoon. ?Doug, KD8CAO, was at
the Holland Michigan Lakeshore Super Swap Hamfest and
put on a demonstration there.
Mark WA8SME operated on one AO-27 pass from the DN00/DN01
grid boundary, two very rare Nevada grids. ?John W6ZKH
operated from DM07 but had some trouble with his equipment
on this particular pass. ?He said he will go back some day.
Mark also said he might be able to operate from DM07 in the
near future.
Then we had the Boy Scouts Jamboree on the Air with quite a
few different stations operating on all of the FM birds including
K2BSA/5, W0S, K5B etc.
The most prominent grid dxpedition this weekend was by Richard,
N2SPI. ?He had originally planned to operate from FN53, FN56,
FN57, FN66 and FN67 but he found a way to also operate from FN55
and FN65 as well. ?He worked on the FM birds as well as VO-52.
This operation began Saturday morning and finished up Sunday afternoon,
about 30 hours from the first qso until the last on AO-27 at 1853z.
Richard operated at least one pass in each of seven grids and never
operated on a grid boundary. ?This was quite a trip! ?Richard
returned back to Massachusetts late Sunday night.
The weekend rounded out with an announcement to look for KL5O, an
Alaska Special Event Station, on the birds. ?The AO-7 pass Sunday
evening at 0043Z had at least 14 different stations operating
including WV9E, KE5GFJ, WA4NVM, AA4FL, AA5PK, K6CDW, KE2CKO, K0OU,
K3SZH, AJ9K, KD8CAO, W7LRD, K8YSE and KL5O! ?KL5O was down around
937 late in the pass. ?So if you think that there is no one on AO-7,
this should put that thought to rest. Many of them were talking about
KL5O. ?A special event does draw people to the birds just like it
does on the HF bands. ?Of course working Alaska is a special treat
under any situation. I believe KL7XJ was the operator.
Activity is on the rise on the SSB ?birds in general. ?Many that have
been active on the FM birds are getting equipment set up for the
SSB/CW birds. It's nice to be able to have a qso that involves more
than a callsign and grid exchange. ?We hope to have FO-29 back soon
but VO-52 and AO-7 are there for us every day.
A big thanks to all of the grid dxpeditioners who spent a lot of time
and money operating from places away from their homes. ?They have given
us many new grids. ?I hope this encourages others to try their hand
at operating from other grids. ?It's a lot of work but you will have
a lot of fun and satisfaction doing it.
73,
John K8YSE
John Papay
john@xxxxxx.xxx
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Message: 16
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:42:41 -0400
From: "Daniel Schultz" <n8fgv@xxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: THE DMSP launch
To: Rocky Jones <orbitjet@xxxxxxx.xxx>, Amsat BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Robert WB5MZO, wrote:
>Are the people who are suppose to be the experts in building state of the
art
>satellites so thin skinned that a bulletin board
>slows their progress? LOL
You missed my point entirely. The Amsat people who build the satellites mostly
don't have time to read Amsat-BB, so the thickness of their skin is not the
issue here.
But Amsat-BB is not read only by Amsat members. Anyone who Google's "Amsat"
will find Amsat-BB very quickly. Negative and unprofessional comments on
Amsat-BB hurt our image as professional satellite builders and could quite
possibly kill our chance of finding our next ride to orbit. In the 1990's the
ESA management handed the president of Amsat-DL a pile of e-mail printouts
from Amsat-BB following the repeated launch delays on Phase 3D, it almost got
the satellite thrown off the Ariane 5 vehicle. With launches even harder to
find in today's world, we cannot allow such bickering to tarnish our image as
professionals who can be trusted not to screw up the mission.
Dan Schultz N8FGV
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Message: 17
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:48:23 -0500
From: "Glenn AA5PK" <aa5pk@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Weekend on the Birds
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, "John Papay" <john@xxxxxx.xxx>
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On Monday, October 19, 2009 at 9:19 PM, John Papay wrote:
> Activity is on the rise on the SSB birds in general. Many that have
> been active on the FM birds are getting equipment set up for the
> SSB/CW birds. It's nice to be able to have a qso that involves more
> than a callsign and grid exchange. We hope to have FO-29 back soon
> but VO-52 and AO-7 are there for us every day.
John, you should have been on AO-7 Mode A during the ~0140Z pass. There
were six stations (that I know of) on that pass. Most Mode A activity I've
ever heard.
Glenn AA5PK
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Message: 18
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:02:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Elan Portnoy <elanportnoy@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Filters and Preamps Question
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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Thanks for all the great responses. I'll try switching them around and see
how it affects performance. Although I'm in Kansas City, RF pollution is not
too bad at my particular location. One benefit of the filters is reduction
of desensing the receiver when xmitting, especially with preamps on.
73,
Elan WB2IOL
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Message: 19
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:16:23 -0700
From: "Greg D." <ko6th_greg@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: MIR sound clip
To: <mrbillmac@xxx.xxx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Hi Bill,
Plays fine on my Linux box, once I got the quicktime capable plug-in for my
browser (*). I expect any machine with Quicktime support will work.
Greg KO6TH
(*) see:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Using+the+QuickTime+plugin+with+Firefox
> To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
> From: mrbillmac@xxx.xxx
> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:55:21 -0500
> Subject: [amsat-bb] MIR sound clip
>
> Here's a MIR clip I recorder years ago, using a cassette recorder
> with vox, hooked to a Radio Shack scanner.
> The file is named 8-25-99, but I'm not sure when the recording happened.
>
> http://web.mac.com/mrbillmac/Site/MIR_sound_file.html
>
> The file plays okay from the web page, on a Mac... haven't tried it
> on a PC yet.
>
> Bill Howell
> N5AB
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