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Today's Topics:
1. Re: PVC-ED... (Clint Bradford)
2. Re: PVC (Matt Patterson)
3. Re: PVC (Dave Webb KB1PVH)
4. satpc32 question (ANTHONY JAPHA)
5. Engineers Week Satellite Demonstration (Dale Hershberger)
6. save 440 band (wa4hfn@xxxxxxx.xxxx
7. A LITTLE HAM HUMOR for a change (wa4hfn@xxxxxxx.xxxx
8. Glory Launch SUSPENDED (Clint Bradford)
9. Re: PVC (Andrew Glasbrenner)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:19:32 -0800
From: Clint Bradford <clintbrad4d@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: PVC-ED...
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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>> ... are always naturally curved, limp and bent ...
Thought you guys were making fun of me at my advancing age ... Then I read
the rest of the thread.
Clint, K6LCS
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:05:47 -0600
From: Matt Patterson <mattpatt@xxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: PVC
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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I can't even believe that some people recommend doing this!
Matt
W5LL
On 2/24/2011 11:21 AM, Ng, Peter wrote:
> I'm looking to put up a mast and am curious, why PVC? Is it better than
steel?
>
> 73's Peter VE7NGP
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of Bruce Semple
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 6:41 AM
> To: AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: PVC
>
>
> And I forgot to mention --
> I spray paint it all a flat black --- to help it blend in a little better!
>
> At 09:34 AM 2/24/2011, Bruce Semple wrote:
>
>> Hello Mike -
>> I use schedule 40 PVC with an OAK closet pole down the center for
>> added stiffness
>> for a horizontal boom.
>> For vertical mast I use two PVC schedule 40 - one inside the other -
>> along with a wood pole.
>> I use PVC end caps on the ends to keep water/ moisture out.
>>
>> 73,
>> Bruce
>> WA3SWJ
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> At 07:59 AM 2/24/2011, Mike1234 wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone ever experimented with PVC pipe to use for a mast in place of
>>> steel ? I have used it for vertical antennas and stands up excellent to
the
>>> winds and weather here in Toledo, Ohio .
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mike N8GBU
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> _______________________________________________
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:31:59 -0500
From: Dave Webb KB1PVH <kb1pvh@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: PVC
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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It would be great if all the Negative Nancys would offer a positive solution
instead of just shooting it down that way we can all benefit.
Dave - KB1PVH
Sent from my Verizon Wireless DROID X
On Feb 24, 2011 2:22 PM, "Matt Patterson" <mattpatt@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> I can't even believe that some people recommend doing this!
>
>
> Matt
> W5LL
>
>
> On 2/24/2011 11:21 AM, Ng, Peter wrote:
>> I'm looking to put up a mast and am curious, why PVC? Is it better than
steel?
>>
>> 73's Peter VE7NGP
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of Bruce Semple
>> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 6:41 AM
>> To: AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx
>> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: PVC
>>
>>
>> And I forgot to mention --
>> I spray paint it all a flat black --- to help it blend in a little
better!
>>
>> At 09:34 AM 2/24/2011, Bruce Semple wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Mike -
>>> I use schedule 40 PVC with an OAK closet pole down the center for
>>> added stiffness
>>> for a horizontal boom.
>>> For vertical mast I use two PVC schedule 40 - one inside the other -
>>> along with a wood pole.
>>> I use PVC end caps on the ends to keep water/ moisture out.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Bruce
>>> WA3SWJ
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> At 07:59 AM 2/24/2011, Mike1234 wrote:
>>>
>>>> Has anyone ever experimented with PVC pipe to use for a mast in place
of
>>>> steel ? I have used it for vertical antennas and stands up excellent to
the
>>>> winds and weather here in Toledo, Ohio .
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mike N8GBU
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Sent via AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx. Opinions expressed are those of the
author.
>>>> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite
program!
>>>> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
>>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite
program!
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>>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>>
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>
>
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:31:39 -0500
From: "ANTHONY JAPHA" <tjjapha@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] satpc32 question
To: "amsat-bb" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <380-220112424193139171@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
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Hi,
Anyone using a netbook running Windows 7 Starter with SatPC32?
Have you used the Radio Shack USB/Serial adaptors with it? I use 2 of them
on my desktop without trouble, but will they work with the netbook?
What model netbook would you suggest? Any other suggestions? Tricks?
Hints and Kinks?
Thanks and 73,
Tony, N2UN
LM 183
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:38:19 -0900
From: Dale Hershberger <daleh@xxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Engineers Week Satellite Demonstration
To: amsat-bbs <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Monday afternoon Feb. 28th KL4E will be doing a satellite Demonstration at
the Mears Middle School Chugiak, Alaska. Craig Bledsoe, KL4E will be
working afternoon passes
that are available on the satellites. Anyone is welcome to help in this
Engineers Week Satellite
Demonstration..
Hopefully we will have two stations operating at the school to get as
many students
as possible the opportunity to participate. This will be a presentation
during the 2PM to 2:45PM class Alaska Standard Time.
Dale Hershberger
KL7XJ
AMSAT Area Coordinator Alaska
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:39:40 +0000 (UTC)
From: wa4hfn@xxxxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] save 440 band
To: AMSAT <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID:
<679697870.1522176.1298576380843.JavaMail.root@xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx.xx.xxxx.xxx
xxxx.xxx>
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Contact your Rep. about the possible loss of the 440 band
http://www.arrl.org/sample-letters
WA4HFN Damon
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:48:16 +0000 (UTC)
From: wa4hfn@xxxxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] A LITTLE HAM HUMOR for a change
To: AMSAT <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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You Might Be (and Probably Are)
an Amateur Radio Operator, If:
1. You have bought black electrical tape in ten packs.
2. You have stripped wire with your teeth.
3. You have told your child, "One day, all this will be yours," and he or
she did not respond at all.
4. You would rather help another Ham friend to hook up new equipment, or to
put up a new tower, than to mow your own lawn.
5. You have grabbed the wrong end of a hot soldering iron.
6. You have gotten an RF burn from your own antenna.
7. You have given out RST reports while you were on the telephone.
8. When the microphones or visual aids at a meeting did not work, you rushed
up to the front to fix them.
9. You have told the XYL, when she noticed a new rig in the shack, "Why,
that has been there for years."
10. You have set your watch to UTC only.
11. You have had to patch your roof after an antenna project fell onto it.
12. You have put a GPS tracker in the XYL's car or on the riding mower, just
so you could watch it on APRS.
13. You have tapped out "CQ" or "HI" on the car horn in Morse Code to
another Ham.
14. Your teenager has refused to ride in your car because it looks like a
porcupine.
15. You know the Latitude, Longitude, and Elevation of your home QTH.
16. You have gone into the local Radio Shack store, and the store clerk has
asked you where something is and how it works.
17. You have answered the telephone with your call sign, and then finished
the conversation with "73" and your call sign.
18. You have looked for antennas, radios, and Morse Code in movies and
television shows.
19. When you look at anything made of wire or metal tubing, you wonder if it
could be used as an antenna.
20. Your call sign is listed on one or more of your hats, T-shirts, or other
garments.
21. You regularly carry one or more tools in your pockets at any given time.
22. When any kinds of batteries go on sale, you get really excited.
23. When you look at a barbecue grill, it creates ideas about ground plane
antennas.
24. You have designated ring CW, SSB, or SSTV tones, even
when your Ham radio was off.
30. Your Go-Bag has more clothes in it than your dresser does.
31. You have a SKYWARN sticker on your back window.
32. Your significant other sits in the back seat, and your radios ride in
the front.
33. Your neighbors wonder if you are a "Narc" (narcotics officer), a Spy, or
a Federal Agent.
34. The cops pull you over because they want to see the inside of your car.
This one is actually being done by Tim Clark, KB4RPV:
35. Your cell-phone's ring tone is your Ham radio call sign, sent in Morse
Code http://www.planetofnoise.com/midi/morse2mid.php).
______________________
Thought this might be worth a little chuckle
WA4HFN
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:53:56 -0800
From: Clint Bradford <clintbradford@xxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Glory Launch SUSPENDED
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Feb. 24, 2011
Steve Cole
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0918
stephen.e.cole@xxxx.xxx
MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-056
NASA ASSESSING NEW LAUNCH DATES FOR THE GLORY MISSION
WASHINGTON -- Preparations for the launch of NASA's Glory mission from
Vandenberg Air Force Base in California have been suspended
temporarily. Engineers continue to troubleshoot a malfunction in
ground support equipment associated with the Taurus XL rocket.
On Feb. 23, a false indication was received about the rocket's status
after commands were sent approximately 15 minutes before launch to
activate the Taurus.
"We had an indication that a 'hold-fire' command was sent when indeed
it had not," said Omar Baez, NASA launch director.
The commands originated from the Vehicle Interface Control Console in
the mobile launch support van stationed a few miles from the launch
pad. The problem has not yet been isolated, and troubleshooting
continues. Managers are evaluating possible Glory launch
opportunities in early to mid-March.
"The Glory spacecraft is doing fine," reported Bryan Fafaul, Glory
project manager from NASA's Goddard Space Flight in Greenbelt, Md.
"We are continuing to slow charge the battery until we have a new
launch date."
The Glory satellite will be launched aboard a Taurus on a mission to
improve our understanding of how the sun and tiny atmospheric
particles called aerosols affect Earth's climate. Glory launch
management is provided by NASA's Launch Service Program at the
agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Orbital Sciences Corp. is
providing the Taurus XL launch vehicle and is responsible for
spacecraft operations.
For status updates on the Glory launch, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/glory
-end-
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:57:53 -05's a perfectly
acceptable material with the wood inside, non-conductive, non-rusting.
73, Drew KO4MA
-----Original Message-----
>From: Matt Patterson <mattpatt@xxxxxxxx.xxx>
>Sent: Feb 24, 2011 2:05 PM
>To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
>Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: PVC
>
>I can't even believe that some people recommend doing this!
>
>
>Matt
>W5LL
>
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