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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Atlantis Now In Orbit (saguaroastro@xxx.xxxx
2. 5 in em55 (wa4hfn@xxxxxxx.xxxx
3. Scanning question (Malcolm Preston)
4. Re: Atlantis Now In Orbit (Lowell White)
5. Re: Russian KOSMOS award? (K5OE)
6. Re: Atlantis Now In Orbit (Gregg Wonderly)
7. Re: Russian KOSMOS award? (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK))
8. Re: Russian KOSMOS award? (na2x@xxxxx.xxxx
9. Stationary antennas (Richard Lawn)
10. Re: Atlantis Now In Orbit (B J)
11. Re: Russian KOSMOS award? (Bruce)
12. STS-135 Retransmission Discovery (Clayton Coleman)
13. Russian KOSMOS award? (k6yk)
14. Re: Russian KOSMOS award? (Gary "Joe" Mayfield)
15. STS-136 TLE (Clint Bradford)
16. FAST2 (John Ronan)
17. Re: Russian KOSMOS award? (i8cvs)
18. Re: FM satellites (Gordon JC Pearce)
19. Re: Russian KOSMOS award? (K5OE)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 15:24:00 -0400
From: <saguaroastro@xxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Atlantis Now In Orbit
To: B J <top_gun_canada@xxxxx.xxx>, amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <20110708152400.EUO8Y.1132368.imail@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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---- B J <top_gun_canada@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>
>
> --- On Fri, 7/8/11, saguaroastro@xxx.xxx <saguaroastro@xxx.xxx> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
BJ,
> I was surprised, however, that the count resumed at T-31 seconds where it
was halted. I thought that it would be restarted at a point earlier in the
sequence, such as T-9 minutes. I don't ever recall a launch, even as far
back as Mercury, in which a countdown was stopped so close to ignition and
then continued from where it left off.
I too thought they'd recycle it back, they probably didn't have to since the
hold occurred just prior to Guidance release. The platform would still be
locked and would not need to be realigned, Either that or the hold was short
enough that the error was not significant enough to matter.
>
> It's too bad that there was no live TV transmission of the ET separation
seen from the tank itself. I always liked the view of the orbiter heading
off.
>
I saw the ET sep. It was there. Not sure why you missed it. They kept
talking about how the CDR would now turn the spacecraft so a crewmember
could get photo's of the ET as it dropped away.
73
Rick
K7TEJ
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 19:29:51 +0000 (UTC)
From: wa4hfn@xxxxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] 5 in em55
To: AMSAT <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Congrats to KB1PVH # 14 for 5 in EM55
WA4HFN em55
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 14:47:32 -0500
From: Malcolm Preston <preston.malcolm@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Scanning question
To: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: George Cline <kp2george@xxxxx.xxx>
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This question is really not an AMSAT one but relates to expertise someone in
AMSAT may have. It involves a frequency tracking program such as SATPC does
for sats but for an hf application.
We are looking for a program that would:
1. Scan 2-4 frequencies, each on different hf bands on a timed basis - say
every 3 minutes.
2. Stop scanning when a connection is requested by a digital mode (pactor or
winmor). Resume scanning when a connection is broken.
Note that no rig that we know of provides this scanning capability on a
multiband basis.
The application is the WINLINK hub KP2D on St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
The previous set-up involved 3 modems on 3 different bands with separate
antennas. It was trashed by lightning. We would like to get it working but
with a single rig and modem to avoid the high cost of separate modems for
each band and using a multi band antenna.
Does anyone out there know of software that has been developed that would do
this or could be modified to do it?
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Mal Preston, NP2L
St. John, USVI
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:03:13 -0500
From: "Lowell White" <whiteld@xxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Atlantis Now In Orbit
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <364PgHucN4096S04.1310155393@xxxxx.xxx.xxx.xxx>
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Did anyone else notice that about MET 41-43 minutes the camera shot from the
detached fuel tank showed one satellite arcing over and back down (behind the
tank as the camera was rear-facing) and later another CLOSE satellite miss...
one whose dish antenna could be seen clearly jus tbefore the video cut away?
There may have been some other noticable space debris but a) the tank was
moving pretty rapidly and b) there was enough noise on the video signal that
at times it as hard to discern between dropped video bits and visual debris.
73,
Lowell
K9LDW
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 16:53:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: K5OE <k5oe@xxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Russian KOSMOS award?
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <8CE0BC83D0DEABE-11E0-D9A8@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxx.xxx>
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I knew I must be younger than you, Bruce... maybe Mike too :-)
KOCMOC 54
VUCC 88
But how many had their Cosmos Award hand-delivered in Moscow?
73,
Jerry
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:56:35 -0500
From: Gregg Wonderly <w5ggw@xxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Atlantis Now In Orbit
To: B J <top_gun_canada@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <4E176F03.9020102@xxx.xxx>
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The web accessible (or iPhone etc) Nasa TV feed showed it. What were you
watching?
Gregg Wonderly
On 7/8/2011 11:45 AM, B J wrote:
>
>
> --- On Fri, 7/8/11, saguaroastro@xxx.xxx<xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> The glitch was a non confirmation of the gaseous vent arm
>> retract. They turned a camera to it and validated that it
>> had in fact retracted and resumed the count from there.
>> about a 2 minute hold.
>
> I heard that being mentioned.
>
> I was surprised, however, that the count resumed at T-31 seconds where it
was halted. I thought that it would be restarted at a point earlier in the
sequence, such as T-9 minutes. I don't ever recall a launch, even as far
back as Mercury, in which a countdown was stopped so close to ignition and
then continued from where it left off.
>
>> A nominal launch, good enough to eliminate the OMS-1 Burn.
>
> I noticed that.
>
> It's too bad that there was no live TV transmission of the ET separation
seen from the tank itself. I always liked the view of the orbiter heading
off.
>
> <snip>
>
>
>>> There was a glitch just as control was about to be
>> handed over to the on-board computers but, others than that,
>> it was a good launch.
>
>
> 73s
>
> Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 09:02:42 -0700
From: "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)" <amsat-bb@xxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Russian KOSMOS award?
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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Hi!
> Are they still issuing the JARL FUJI Award or the SA-AMSAT award and
> more? I might have some real dinosaurs here on my walls...
Both of these are still being issued. Bruce KK5DO takes care of the
SA-AMSAT award along with the other AMSAT-NA awards, and the
JARL still issues the Fuji award:
http://www.jarl.or.jp/English/4_Library/A-4-2_Awards/Award_Main.htm
You can look for recipients of the Fuji award, along with the other
JARL awards since 2005, at:
http://www.jarl.or.jp/English/4_Library/A-4-2_Awards/award-data/data-index.htm
It looks like SQ9MES received Fuji award 120 in June 2011. I received
my Fuji award in May 2009, after submitting my application to the JARL
desk at Dayton that year. It's not numbered, but it appears to have
been #110 based on what I see at the last link. A nice certificate,
similar in size to the current VUCC award. The JARL representative
at Dayton in 2009 even apologized that he didn't have any blank Fuji
awards that could be filled in and given to me on the spot - something
they were able to do with many of their other (more popular) awards.
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 12:12:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: <na2x@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Russian KOSMOS award?
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID:
<1310152374.23175.YahooMailClassic@xxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
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Yes, the JARL is still issuing the FUJI Award. I got one dated 11/22/2010
(no number).
http://www.jarl.or.jp/English/5_Fuji/eaward.htm
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 15:47:51 -0400
From: Richard Lawn <rjlawn@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Stationary antennas
To: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Some of you may recall my earlier posts inquiring about
recommendations for stationary antennas. Here is my update and
progress report so far.
1 have constructed k5oe eggbeaters for both bands and so far only
tested the 2 mtr uplink
2 also completed construction of a 70 cm turnstile moxon and will try
next month along with a quadridiler for 2m and 2m moxon if I get it
finished
3 yesterday I tried a Antennas.us 70cm quadridiler and home brew 2m k5oe.
Results: I was able to hear my cw down link fairly well on FO-29 down
to about 8 deg or so using a mirage preamp at the station with short
run of coax. I'm encouraged though as usual no one to talk to.
I was really surprised that I heard w7jpi with a solid ssb cq on AO-7
which I didn't think was still operational. For receive on 10 I'm
using an OCF windom with ts-2000 and it's internal hf preamp. Nothing
was heard yesterday out of AO-51 at least when I tried.
I'll report further next month after I have given a fair trial to all
home brew antennas and the one inexpensive commercial product I
mentioned. At least I'm more encouraged.
Rick
W2Jaz
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Message: 10
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 14:03:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: B J <top_gun_canada@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Atlantis Now In Orbit
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID:
<1310158995.32978.YahooMailClassic@xxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
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--- On Fri, 7/8/11, Gregg Wonderly <w5ggw@xxx.xxx> wrote:
> From: Gregg Wonderly <w5ggw@xxx.xxx>
> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: Atlantis Now In Orbit
> To: "B J" <top_gun_canada@xxxxx.xxx>
> Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
> Received: Friday, July 8, 2011, 2:56 PM
> The web accessible (or iPhone etc)
> Nasa TV feed showed it. What were you watching?
I was watching the NASA JPL feed via Ustream.
<snip>
I used to watch NASA TV via RealPlayer. In the past, there was the
irritating tendency for the video to freeze while the audio continued.
As I mentioned in a different post, all I saw was a view of the ET from the
orbiter right after SRB sep and as I heard that there apparently wouldn't be
any TV downlink of the ET sep, I didn't think anything was out of order.
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL
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Message: 11
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:29:17 -0500
From: Bruce <kk5do@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Russian KOSMOS award?
To: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <4E1776AD.5000301@xxxxx.xxx>
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okay, had to dig my kocmoc out and it is still in framed (just not on
the wall) and is number 6. got it when you were in diapers, jerry, it is
dated 1997. but i know your daughter and my daughter are the same age.
73...bruce
On 7/8/2011 3:53 PM, K5OE wrote:
> I knew I must be younger than you, Bruce... maybe Mike too :-)
>
> KOCMOC 54
> VUCC 88
>
> But how many had their Cosmos Award hand-delivered in Moscow?
>
> 73,
> Jerry
>
>
>
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Message: 12
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 18:47:55 -0500
From: Clayton Coleman <kayakfishtx@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] STS-135 Retransmission Discovery
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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I was working on my chainsaw this morning when I decided to turn on my 2m
rig and put it in VFO scan mode. I went back to the workbench and the radio
stopped scanning -- on a shuttle retransmission channel. Someone within
range of my home QTH was retransmitting the final moments as the ground crew
was closing up the shuttle and getting ready to pressurize the cabin. The
signal I had was fairly weak but perfectly readable, so I left the radio
sitting there for the next few minutes as I wrapped up my work.
After I finished up my business outdoors and the temperature had hit 100
degrees, I went back in the house to see if I could find out online who was
the source of that shuttle retransmission on 147.56. The only reasonable
explanation is it was coming from a station in Beaumont, 140 miles south of
me. They used to retransmit the shuttle missions years ago and I would
occasionally hear them. It was really cool to hear this station on the air
again. I listened to them years ago via another similar band opening.
If someone on this list is part of that group in Beaumont who setup the
station, thank you. It was a pleasant blast from the past.
73
Clayton
W5PFG
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Message: 13
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 18:45:50 -0700
From: k6yk <k6yk@xxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Russian KOSMOS award?
To: we1u@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <20110708.185707.953.748487@xxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx.xxx>
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Guys,
I'm looking at my KOCMOC, it says No. 8-1 CT. 12 December 99.
I can't remember what the levels of achievement were. I was at
"Step 1".
And it was one of the hand-delivered ones!
For those who don't know, there are several awards available for
OSCAR as well as HF.
Worked All California Counties (WACC). I have this one, No. 23 and
No. 1 on OSCAR.
Worked all Continents (IARU award) endorsed for OSCAR
CQ DX field award (CQ magazine). I have this one No. 59 for OSCAR.
County Award from SWOT (Sidewinders on two) in Texas. Requires only
100 counties. I have No. 4, 8-27-99.
Does anybody have the "Satellite DX Achievement Award" from ARRL?
I have this, no number on it, received in 1975 for "proficiency using the
OSCAR 6
communications satellite".
73,
John, K6YK
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:07:06 -0400 Bob DeVarney W1ICW
<we1u@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx> writes:
> I am wondering how many Russian KOSMOS awards have been/were issued?
>
> Anybody have any info on them?
>
> I was cleaning the shack up and after dusting off the walls, I
> noticed
> mine from 1998 with number 51-RS on it.
>
> I know N1JEZ has one with a similar number on his. Anybody have any
>
> idea if they still issue the award?
>
> Are they still issuing the JARL FUJI Award or the SA-AMSAT award and
>
> more? I might have some real dinosaurs here on my walls...
>
> 73 de W1ICW
>
> Alias Cro-Magnon man
>
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Message: 14
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 22:35:14 -0500
From: "Gary \"Joe\" Mayfield" <gary_mayfield@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Russian KOSMOS award?
To: "'amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <COL114-DS21E37DB241168396A615508A430@xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
How do I get the KOSMOS award? I have a lot of confirmed RS contacts.
Is there a number on the Fuji Award -- Mine is dated March, 1995
Bruce is ahead of me in the S.A. Award, I have #22
In name I always liked the Sexagesimal Award, I have #103
But ZRO Test "Z9" #24 is the one I am most proud of!
73,
Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of Bruce
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 10:54 AM
To: we1u@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Russian KOSMOS award?
we did change from having the south africa award issued in south africa
with their number to a U.S. issued number. if you have one of the
original ones, i guess they are a bit more of a collectors item than the
U.S. issued ones. i have number 17 of the original south africa issued
certificates. they issued number 1-36 and then we started issuing them
as US1 and are up to US169.
now go figure this one.... i have vucc satellite number 17. i have
amsat's century award #21 and since 1977 when it was first started, we
are only up to number 40.
73...bruce
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Message: 15
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:05:29 -0700
From: Clint Bradford <clintbradford@xxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] STS-136 TLE
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <3C4A8F90-BBD6-4A6B-A77B-5F608E819933@xxx.xxx>
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TLEs for STS 135 now on CelesTrak.
Clint Bradford
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Message: 16
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:09:26 +0100
From: John Ronan <jpronans@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] FAST2
To: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <4E1828D6.9000905@xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Hi,
Surprisingly I received a beacon from FAST2 this morning.
I've seen posts to indicate that it is slightly high in frequency, does
anyone know if this is the case?
Regards
John
EI7IG
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Message: 17
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 12:39:23 +0200
From: "i8cvs" <domenico.i8cvs@xxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Russian KOSMOS award?
To: "Gary \"Joe\" Mayfield" <gary_mayfield@xxxxxxx.xxx>,
"'amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <000b01cc3e24$77f6a7a0$0401a8c0@xxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary "Joe" Mayfield" <gary_mayfield@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "'amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 5:35 AM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Russian KOSMOS award?
> How do I get the KOSMOS award? I have a lot of confirmed RS contacts.
>
> Is there a number on the Fuji Award -- Mine is dated March, 1995
>
> Bruce is ahead of me in the S.A. Award, I have #22
>
> In name I always liked the Sexagesimal Award, I have #103
>
> But ZRO Test "Z9" #24 is the one I am most proud of!
>
> 73,
> Joe
>
Hi Joe,
I own the ZRO-Test "Z9" # 19 on OSCAR-13 Mode-B dated Nov 1, 1992
signed by WA5ZIB and also own the AMSAT Technical Achievent Award
for the K2ZRO Memorial Station Engineering Award on OSCAR-13 with
Z-8 Mode B endorsements and Z-8 Mode-L endorsements signed by W3XO
on May 25 1991
It would be very interesting to ear from the other partecipants.I have a
list of call letters for the Z9 Club Honor Roll uptodated to Nov 1992 with
21 calls for Mode-B and 5 calls for mode L
The ZRO-Test is the only one I am most proud of !
73" de
i8CVS Domenico
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Message: 18
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 13:30:07 +0100
From: Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp@xxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: FM satellites
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <20110709133007.cefa9751.gordonjcp@xxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 17:04:29 -0400
Joseph Armbruster <josepharmbruster@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> Gordon,
>
> That's interesting! I live down in Florida and had no clue that some of
> those towers were powered by diesel!
>
> Do you know how many gallons (or liters) it takes to run the tower for a
> week?
>
> Joseph Armbruster
> KJ4JIO
The tank on site near the high site I was working on last week is about the
same size as my 1300 litre heating oil tank. It's a 10kVA genny, somewhere
around 2 litres per hour, and it gets topped up every two weeks.
A rough back-of-an-envelope calculation gives about three and a half weeks
running time to dry, not allowing for any load-shedding. Presumably you
could knock down the RAN output power, or drop off one of the microwave
links if you needed to save a bit of fuel.
Gordon MM0YEQ
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Message: 19
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 09:43:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: K5OE <k5oe@xxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Russian KOSMOS award?
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <8CE0C5549EE436C-1164-F8C5@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Congrats, John. You were #8.
> I'm looking at my KOCMOC, it says No. 8-1 CT. 12 December 99.
> I can't remember what the levels of achievement were. I was at
> "Step 1".
> And it was one of the hand-delivered ones!
Step 1 was for 100 contacts
Step 2 was for 200 contacts
Step 3 was for 300 contacts
They all look exactly the same except or the -1, -2, or -3 typed in at the
bottom.
Now back to 40 m and the IARU HF contest...
73,
Jerry
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