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Today's Topics:
1. Re: XW-1 CW beacon (Alan P. Biddle)
2. Re: XW-1 Keps (Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF)
3. XW-1 Over North America 15Dec09 1517Z (John Papay)
4. Chinese Launch December 15 (UTC) ( Bob Christy )
5. Re: AO-51 Mode S reports (Luc Leblanc)
6. Re: [VUHams] Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Student
Satellite, Pratham (jhonny jha)
7. XW-1 again over Europe (OZ1MY)
8. XW-1 Western North America 15Dec2009 1702z (John Papay)
9. Re: XW-1 Western North America 15Dec2009 1702z (David Barber)
10. Re: XW-1 Western North America 15Dec2009 1702z (David Barber)
11. xw-1 great sig over uk (paul robinson)
12. XW-1 heard during the 19:30 CEST pass (JO21) (PE0SAT)
13. XW-1 FM transponder works great (Michael Chen)
14. Re: XW-1 heard during the 19:30 CEST pass (JO21) (Trevor .)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:36:04 -0600
From: "Alan P. Biddle" <APBIDDLE@xxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: XW-1 CW beacon
To: "AMSAT-BB" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <1A7765C841414668A98850E1108515A6@xxxxxx>
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Just copied a nice pass over the eastern US. Signal was very loud. Using
Object A, USB, I had to tune down 1000 Hz. SATPC32 tracked the signal
throughout the entire pass with no manual tuning required. AOS and LOS
frequencies were the same, with TCA being about 200 HZ higher.
Attached are some software copied CW. The spacing was a bit odd, and some
of the strings of "Ts" are most like "Os."
The high orbit will make this a good one to work if all the transponders
come up.
Congratulations,
Alan
WA4SCA
B J 1 S A X W X W A A A T T T A U V A A E E T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T
T T T T T T T T T T X W X W
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B J 1 S A X W X W A A A T T T A U U A E T E T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T
T T T T T T T A T T X W X W E
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B
T T T T T T T T T T T T A T T X W X W E B J 1 S A X W X W A A A T T T A U H
A U T E T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T X W X W B J 1 S
A X W X W A A A T T T A U U T D T E T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T
A T T T T T X W X W
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B J 1 S A X W X W A A A T T T A U U A V E E T T T T T T T T T T T T T T A T
T T T T T T T T T T W X W E
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B J 1 S A X W X W A A A T T T A U U U 6 E E T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T
T T T T T T T T T T * W X W
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B J 1 S A X W X W A A A T T T A U U A B T E T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T
T T T T T T T T T T X W X W
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B J 1 S A X W X W A A A T T T A U U T B T E T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T
T T T T T T T T T T X W X W
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:37:12 +0000
From: Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF <nigel@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: XW-1 Keps
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <4B27AD28.5060907@xxxxx.xxx>
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Beacon frequency was aprox 435.790 overhead and 435.780 at LOS horizon.
Must have been strong. I copied it with a 2M J-pole antenna.
Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF wrote:
> Here's a newer set.
>
> OBJECT A
> 1 36121U 09072A 09349.53641119 -.00000045 00000-0 00000+0 0 31
> 2 36121 100.5050 046.6267 0007989 035.4736 324.6735 13.16391085 50
> OBJECT B
> 1 36122U 09072B 09349.60184596 -.00000048 00000-0 00000+0 0 34
> 2 36122 100.4355 046.6836 0157547 026.2661 334.6385 13.45974592 66
> OBJECT C
> 1 36123U 09072C 09349.53641470 -.00000045 00000-0 00000+0 0 33
> 2 36123 100.5030 046.6262 0008203 039.9377 320.0405 13.16286026 35
>
--
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825 5032
Amateur Radio G8IFF W8IFF (was KC8NHF), e-mail nigel@xxxxx.xxx www
http://www.ngunn.net
Member of ARRL, GQRP #11396, QRPARCI #11644, SOC #548, Flying Pigs QRP
Club International #385,
Dayton ARA #2128, AMSAT-NA LM-1691, AMSAT-UK 0182, MKARS, ALC,
GCARES, XWARN.
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:59:46 -0500
From: John Papay <john@xxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] XW-1 Over North America 15Dec09 1517Z
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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The XW-1 CW Beacon was heard over North America
this morning with an excellent signal and tone
quality. It sends a long string which changes
a bit on every transmission.
The keps are a bit off since the bird went over
the horizon prior to the prediction. I lost it
when it was still at 2.7 degrees according to
SatPC32. The doppler correction is off as well
indicating changing keps. Hopefully we will get
some better keps soon. The bird is apparently
ahead of the predicted position.
A recording of XW-1 is on my webserver:
http://www.papays.com/XW-1_15Dec2009_1517z.mp3
At one point the antenna had to turn around. I had some
copy on this bird while the antennas came around 180 degrees
indicating a strong signal. I noted that there were polarity
shifts between right and left hand circular. At one point
I tuned to the packet frequency to see if there was any activity.
I heard none but only listened for a short time before returning
to the beacon frequency.
Congratulations to the Chinese Team that designed, built and
launched this satellite. It is off to an excellent start. We
look forward to having it operational soon and for many years
to come.
73,
John K8YSE EN91dh
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:28:09 +0000
From: " Bob Christy " <bob@xxxxx.xxxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Chinese Launch December 15 (UTC)
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <20091215092809.2769.qmail@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
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Yaogan 8 and "Hope 1", details against today's date:
http://www.zarya.info/Calendar.php
1184 x 1193 km, 100.5 deg inclination
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:45:27 -0500
From: Luc Leblanc <lucleblanc6@xxxxxxxxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 Mode S reports
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Cc: ko4ma@xxxxx.xxx
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>
> > AO-51 is currently in Mode V/S on 145.88/2401.200. With our attitude
> > inverted from normal, I'm interested in any S band reports. The L/S
> > antenna should be pointed towards the ground now in the southern
> > hemisphere, and away in the northern.
0404 EDT pass i was alone signal good S4 S5 start to copy at 12 deg
0612 EDT pass start to copy at 8deg copy was peaking at 20 db over my noise
floor signal only interrupted by blocking object. It was a 65
deg elevation pass here. Made QSO with N8BBQ Edward and N8MH Mark
Near the end of the pass a rapid pulsating tone carrier appears it was just
at the same level as other signal at times.
As per my test S band signal is lower at this attitude on low pass to a
point to be weak to be received. Depending where the satellite is
also made a big change in the signal strength when he pass my latitude on
one occasion the signal increased by 1 s unit
"-"
Luc Leblanc VE2DWE
Skype VE2DWE
www.qsl.net/ve2dwe
DSTAR urcall VE2DWE
WAC BASIC CW PHONE SATELLITE
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:06:12 +0530
From: jhonny jha <jhajhonny@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: [VUHams] Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Student Satellite, Pratham
To: gopal.madhavan@xxxxx.xxx
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx amsatindia@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
vuhams@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Message-ID:
<4ed1eefc0912150636i73bb6794pe8ad86ae97be5f76@xxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
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Respected Sir,
We were cautioned regarding this by Mr. Mani Sir from ISAC. The license is
issued under name of one of our students who has an amateur license. We are
also planning to give an exam in the coming months to get more licenses so
that we do not have a single person to bank upon for future missions. We
have a HAM club at IIT Bombay which is currently co-ordinating this entire
process.
Thanking You for your advise,
Regards,
Jha Jhonny,
Project Manager, IITB Pratham
2009/12/15 Gopal Madhavan <gopal.madhavan@xxxxx.xxx>
> Hello Johny
>
>
>
> While it is appreciated that you students are planning to make a satellite,
> I would just like to remind you that using amateur radio frequencies by non
> licensed amateurs is just not permitted and WPC will not allocate such
> frequencies unless the users have valid licenses. I am sure that you are
> already aware of this.
>
>
>
> For your information another university is also planning such a project and
> there faculty and students are busy studying to get their licenses before
> the satellite is built.
>
>
>
> I would suggest that you also do likewise or request WPC to allocate
> frequencies that are outside the amateur bands, so that licensed amateurs
> can also use their setup to monitor and assist you.
>
>
>
> This is not to discourage the project but only to caution you on the use of
> allowed frequencies.
>
>
>
> Best regards
>
>
>
> Gopal VU2GMN
>
> President Amateur Radio society of India
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* vuhams@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx [mailto:vuhams@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx *On Behalf
> Of *Mani VU2WMY
> *Sent:* Friday, December 11, 2009 12:32
> *To:* vuhams@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx Mr Kalyana Sundaram R.
>
> *Subject:* Re: [VUHams] Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Student
> Satellite, Pratham
>
>
>
>
>
> Thank you Kalyan for your kind offer. We'll keep you posted once every
> thing is in place.
>
>
>
> 73 de
>
> Mani VU2WMY
>
> Quoting "Mr Kalyana Sundaram R." <vu2kls@xxxxx.xxx>:
>
> Dear Mani and Johny
>
> If any help needed from Chennai Kindly let us KNOW.We are with you.
>
> R.Kalyanasundaram
>
> (vu2kls@xxxxx.xxxx
>
> Jt.Secratary.
>
> Madras Amatuer Radio Society.
>
> --- On *Thu, 10/12/09, Mani VU2WMY **<wmy@xxxx.xxx.xx>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Mani VU2WMY <wmy@xxxx.xxx.xx>
> Subject: Re: [VUHams] Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Student
> Satellite, Pratham
> To: vuhams@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx "jhonny jha" <jhajhonny@xxxxx.xxx>
> Cc: vuhams@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx amsatindia@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
> Date: Thursday, 10 December, 2009, 9:45 PM
>
> Hi Jhonny,
>
> It is nice to see your mail just after the review we had in ISRO Satellite
> Centre. I am sure that more amateur stations from India would participate
> and be useful to augment your mission goals. Looking forward to meet you and
> your entire team during the PDR meet at ISRO. Good luck and wishes.
>
>
>
> with regards
>
> Mani, VU2WMY
> Secretary & Station-In-Charge
> Upagrah Amateur Radio Club VU2URC
> ISRO Satellite Centre
> Airport Road, Bangalore-560 017.
> Phone:(O)91- 80-2508 2054/2192/2537
> Mobile: 91-80-98803 41456
> E-mail ID: wmy@xxxx.xxx. in
> vu2wmy_mani@ yahoo.com
> isrohams@xxxxx. com
>
>
>
> Quoting jhonny jha <jhajhonny@xxxxx. com>:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am Jhonny Jha, student of IIT Bombay, and the project manager of a
> student satellite initiative of the institute. We started the project a year
> back and we are currently entering the detailed designed phase of our
> satellite. The project is an initiative undertaken jointly by the institute
> and ISRO. Payload of this mission is to measure the total electron count of
> the atmosphere using the technique of faraday rotation. In order to
> implement this, we have two monopoles onboard working in VHF and UHF amateur
> bands and a Groundstation at IITB to receive the signals.The total electron
> cont can be estimated by using a simple circuitry after your receiving
> antennae which gives the polarization of the incoming signal. In order to
> make the mission successful, we have also included a social goal in our
> mission statement, wherein we aim at teaching students from across the
> country the intricacies of antennae designing and fabrication. We have
> already c onducted 2 national workshops for the same.
>
> We want the amateur radio community to help us in our mission by setting up
> mini groundstations all over the country and measure the polarization of the
> incoming signal. Incase, we have a large number of stations spread across
> India, we would have more datapoints and can even perform ionospheric
> tomography with the data. This would help create a 3D map of electron count
> over India, which we currently do not have. This data can be used in the
> field of GPS correction, incase the country aims for its own GPS system in a
> few years.
>
> I request wholehearted support from the amsat and Ham community in this
> project of ours.
>
> Regards,
> Jhonny Jha,
> Project Manager,
> Pratham, IITB Student Satellite,
> IIT Bombay.
> www.aero.iitb. ac.in/pratham <http://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/pratham>
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:12:04 +0100
From: "OZ1MY" <oz1my@xxxxxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] XW-1 again over Europe
To: "AMSAT-BB" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <000901ca7da9$bc3deb40$6501a8c0@xxxxxx.xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi all,
It works great.
Thanks to Nigel for the new keps for Object A:
XW-1
1 36121U 09072A 09349.53641119 -.00000045 00000-0 00000+0 0 31
2 36121 100.5050 046.6267 0007989 035.4736 324.6735 13.16391085 50
I changed the name from Object A to XW-1 :-)
It works on SatPC32 and NOVA for Windows.
On the pass with AOS at 16:45:50 UTC here in Copenhagen the tone did not
change (to my old ears) over the whole pass.
Used 435.789400 MHz as the center frequency on the IC-910 in USB.
The usual ICOM offset in USB.
Nice 20 minute passes and long range. Looking forward to the transponders.
73 OZ1MY
Ib
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:42:16 -0500
From: John Papay <john@xxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] XW-1 Western North America 15Dec2009 1702z
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <752323.14439.qm@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
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XW-1 was again heard over western North America
with an excellent signal. The new keps provided
by Nigel G8IFF/W8IFF were used for Object A and
found to be spot on. I set SatPC32 for automatic
operation with the TS2000 in the CW mode and the
computer clock synchronized with NIST. I never
touched the radio dial or the antennas during the
entire pass and as you will hear on the recording,
the CW tone never changed. The TS2000 was updating
the frequency every second.
Again I found polarization shifts but the bird did best
on Left Hand during most of the pass. This was a 22 degree
pass for me to the west.
One of the three letter code groups changes on every string of CW
starting with BJ1SA XW XW etc and ending with XW XW. For example,
the 3 letter groups for some successive transmissions were:
TNE TDT AAE ATE 4VE A6E TBT 4VE T6E ATE. Every other code group
in the string stayed the same, at least during this pass.
I started the recording late. It is much better than my first
recording with the older keps on the amsat webpge.
http://www.papays.com/XW-1_15Dec2009_170842z.mp3
Let's hope we can start using the v/u transponders for voice/cw
soon.
Thanks again to all who were involved with this satellite.
It is operating very well.
73,
John K8YSE EN91dh
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:40:34 -0000
From: "David Barber" <david.barber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: XW-1 Western North America 15Dec2009 1702z
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: 'John Papay' <john@xxxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <CD66D109290D4F6294ED380FC6B06039@xxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Listening to it now in the UK, 18.30utc pass.
Strong little beast isn't it!
Just a shame there is a local PMR station on 437.785MHz. :-(
David
G8OQW
********
-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of John Papay
Sent: 15 December 2009 17:42
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] XW-1 Western North America 15Dec2009 1702z
XW-1 was again heard over western North America
with an excellent signal. The new keps provided
by Nigel G8IFF/W8IFF were used for Object A and
found to be spot on. I set SatPC32 for automatic
operation with the TS2000 in the CW mode and the
computer clock synchronized with NIST. I never
touched the radio dial or the antennas during the
entire pass and as you will hear on the recording,
the CW tone never changed. The TS2000 was updating
the frequency every second.
Again I found polarization shifts but the bird did best
on Left Hand during most of the pass. This was a 22 degree
pass for me to the west.
One of the three letter code groups changes on every string of CW
starting with BJ1SA XW XW etc and ending with XW XW. For example,
the 3 letter groups for some successive transmissions were:
TNE TDT AAE ATE 4VE A6E TBT 4VE T6E ATE. Every other code group
in the string stayed the same, at least during this pass.
I started the recording late. It is much better than my first
recording with the older keps on the amsat webpge.
http://www.papays.com/XW-1_15Dec2009_170842z.mp3
Let's hope we can start using the v/u transponders for voice/cw
soon.
Thanks again to all who were involved with this satellite.
It is operating very well.
73,
John K8YSE EN91dh
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:00:32 -0000
From: "David Barber" <david.barber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: XW-1 Western North America 15Dec2009 1702z
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: 'John Papay' <john@xxxxxx.xxx>
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Sorry that should have been 435.785 for the errant PMR!
-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of David Barber
Sent: 15 December 2009 18:41
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Cc: 'John Papay'
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: XW-1 Western North America 15Dec2009 1702z
Listening to it now in the UK, 18.30utc pass.
Strong little beast isn't it!
Just a shame there is a local PMR station on 437.785MHz. :-(
David
G8OQW
********
-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of John Papay
Sent: 15 December 2009 17:42
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] XW-1 Western North America 15Dec2009 1702z
XW-1 was again heard over western North America
with an excellent signal. The new keps provided
by Nigel G8IFF/W8IFF were used for Object A and
found to be spot on. I set SatPC32 for automatic
operation with the TS2000 in the CW mode and the
computer clock synchronized with NIST. I never
touched the radio dial or the antennas during the
entire pass and as you will hear on the recording,
the CW tone never changed. The TS2000 was updating
the frequency every second.
Again I found polarization shifts but the bird did best
on Left Hand during most of the pass. This was a 22 degree
pass for me to the west.
One of the three letter code groups changes on every string of CW
starting with BJ1SA XW XW etc and ending with XW XW. For example,
the 3 letter groups for some successive transmissions were:
TNE TDT AAE ATE 4VE A6E TBT 4VE T6E ATE. Every other code group
in the string stayed the same, at least during this pass.
I started the recording late. It is much better than my first
recording with the older keps on the amsat webpge.
http://www.papays.com/XW-1_15Dec2009_170842z.mp3
Let's hope we can start using the v/u transponders for voice/cw
soon.
Thanks again to all who were involved with this satellite.
It is operating very well.
73,
John K8YSE EN91dh
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Message: 11
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:15:40 +0000 (GMT)
From: paul robinson <pushbiker2004@xxxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] xw-1 great sig over uk
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nice copy of becon of xw-1 here in England..looking forward to transponder!
de 2E1EUB
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Message: 12
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:26:52 +0100
From: "PE0SAT" <pe0sat@xxxxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] XW-1 heard during the 19:30 CEST pass (JO21)
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Congratulations Camsat,
This satellite is also heard in JO21 and follow the link below to hear
the recording I made :)
http://www.ham.vgnet.nl/downloads/XW-1_14-12-2009_1930CEST.mp3
Please keep us informed regarding schedules so we can experiment further
with this new Amsat Satellite. One other question, is it possible to
give us a website url with an english translation of the www.camsat.cn
website regarding XW-1?
73's
--
With regards PE0SAT
Internet web-page http://www.ham.vgnet.nl/
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Message: 13
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:47:42 +0800
From: Michael Chen <michael.bd5rv@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] XW-1 FM transponder works great
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All,
I managed to operate the special event station BT3WX to work several
E2, BY, VR2, XX9 throughout the evening pass of XW-1 using the FM
transponder. It was the 1st test open of this bird's transponder.
Everything works just great!
Michael Chen, BD5RV/4
Email: michael.bd5rv@xxxxx.xxx
MSN: bd5rv@xxxxx.xxx
Skype: michael-bd5rv
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Message: 14
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:49:20 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Trevor ." <m5aka@xxxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: XW-1 heard during the 19:30 CEST pass (JO21)
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx pe0sat@xxxxx.xx
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--- On Tue, 15/12/09, PE0SAT <pe0sat@xxxxx.xx> wrote:
> One other question, is it possible to give us a website url with
> an english translation of the www.camsat.cn website regarding XW-1?
Google will do it, try this
http://tinyurl.com/CAMSATeng
73 Trevor M5AKA
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