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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Hamtronics receive converters (Alan P. Biddle)
2. Re: Hamtronics receive converters (Andrew Glasbrenner)
3. Re: Getting "Cheep" ... (Clint Bradford)
4. Re: ALERT (wa4hfn@xxxxxxx.xxxx
5. Re: ALERT (KP4TR (Ramon Gonzalez))
6. Re: Getting "Cheep" ... (John Geiger)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:41:52 -0600
From: "Alan P. Biddle" <APBIDDLE@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: "'John Geiger'" <aa5jg@xxxxxxx.xxx>, "'AMSAT-BB'"
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Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Hamtronics receive converters
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John,
They did at one time. You can find the manuals here:
http://www.hamtronics.com/instruction_manuals.htm
Alan
WA4SCA
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Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 10:27 AM
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Subject: [amsat-bb] Hamtronics receive converters
Does anyone know if Hamstronics has made a UHF receive converter? The
currently make one for 2m, but I would like one to use for FO29, if
possible.
73s John AA5JG
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:38:07 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
From: Andrew Glasbrenner <glasbrenner@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: John Geiger <aa5jg@xxxxxxx.xxx>, AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Hamtronics receive converters
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High Sierra Microwave makes receive converters, and they are very high
performance IMO.
http://www.hsmicrowave.com/page12.html
73, Drew KO4MA
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>From: John Geiger <aa5jg@xxxxxxx.xxx>
>Sent: Jan 20, 2012 11:26 AM
>To: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
>Subject: [amsat-bb] Hamtronics receive converters
>
>Does anyone know if Hamstronics has made a UHF receive converter? The
>currently make one for 2m, but I would like one to use for FO29, if
>possible.
>
>73s John AA5JG
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:28:23 -0800
From: Clint Bradford <clintbradford@xxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Getting "Cheep" ...
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>> ... I wish some of the "self-proclaimed" experts would tell these people
that if they cannot hear themselves on the downlink that does not mean
that they are not keying the satellite.
I know of no "self-proclaimed expert" who is teaching anything other than
"working full-duplex on the FM LEOs is the preferred method of operation
... "
And I am still finding audiences who appreciate knowing that they already
own most of the equipment necessary to successfully work these birds.
One of the very first reception reports of the ARISSat-1 project was from a
gentleman using a handheld radio - and its stock antenna. I know of MANY
"self-proclaimed experts" who advise that that is not the best way to go ...
(grin)
I am very proud of the on-the-air operations that I hear here on the West
Coast. I mean, I am in the most-populous region of the nation's most
populous state - so the potential for poor operating methods are greater.
But we're doing quite fine.
Clint Bradford, K6LCS
http://www.work-sat.com
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:10:23 +0000 (UTC)
From: wa4hfn@xxxxxxx.xxx
To: Ted <k7trkradio@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Cc: AMSAT <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ALERT
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A solar flare will disrupt all HF and some satellites,While the flare is
hitting the earth ,it can cause the VHF bands to open up .After the flare
passes then the HF bands will be very active for F2 and maybe even some on 6
meters too
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From: "Ted" <k7trkradio@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: wa4hfn@xxxxxxx.xxx
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 1:00:58 PM
Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] ALERT
Does that help HF?
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Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 6:23 AM
To: AMSAT
Subject: [amsat-bb] ALERT
INCOMING CME: Active sunspot 1401 erupted yesterday, Jan. 19th around 16:30
UT, producing an M3-class solar flare and a full-halo coronal mass ejection
(CME). The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the cloud expanding
almost directly toward Earth:
SEE spaceweather.com
WA4HFN Damon
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:54:10 -0500
From: "KP4TR (Ramon Gonzalez)" <kp4tr.ramon@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "wa4hfn@xxxxxxx.xxxx <wa4hfn@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Cc: AMSAT <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ALERT
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The flare prompted a call from a friend who was operating his remote HF/6m
station in Puerto Rico. He thought something had happened to the radio. Told
him he either had his G5RV knocked off the tower or someone tinkered with
radio controls. Then i told him maybe a solar flare reached earth. Looks
like my guess was correct.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 20, 2012, at 2:10 PM, wa4hfn@xxxxxxx.xxx wrote:
> A solar flare will disrupt all HF and some satellites,While the flare is
hitting the earth ,it can cause the VHF bands to open up .After the flare
passes then the HF bands will be very active for F2 and maybe even some on 6
meters too
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ted" <k7trkradio@xxxxxxx.xxx>
> To: wa4hfn@xxxxxxx.xxx
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 1:00:58 PM
> Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] ALERT
>
> Does that help HF?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
> Behalf Of wa4hfn@xxxxxxx.xxx
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 6:23 AM
> To: AMSAT
> Subject: [amsat-bb] ALERT
>
> INCOMING CME: Active sunspot 1401 erupted yesterday, Jan. 19th around 16:30
> UT, producing an M3-class solar flare and a full-halo coronal mass ejection
> (CME). The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the cloud expanding
> almost directly toward Earth:
> SEE spaceweather.com
> WA4HFN Damon
>
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:55:57 -0600
From: John Geiger <aa5jg@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: Clint Bradford <clintbradford@xxx.xxx>
Cc: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Getting "Cheep" ...
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I do think we need to be careful that we don't send the message that you
must have a complex (and expensive) station to work the FM sats. I
wouldn't want someone interested in the sats to give up because they
thought they needed circularly polarized yagis, elevations rotors, mast
mounted preamps, and computer control for doppler shift.
My current FM satellite station cost me right around $200. I spent $99 for
a used Kenwood TM251 FM rig, which has the most sensitive UHF receiver that
QST has reviewed, $45 for a dualband Arrow antennas J pole, and $45 for a
50 foot run of 9913flex coax. I already had a power supply so I didn't
figure that into the total cost. Is it the "best" satellite station one
could assemble? Not by a long shot. But I can hear most of every pass,
with some fades, and still have a good time on the sats while making lots
of QSOs.
I do miss AO51, though.
73s John AA5JG
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Clint Bradford <clintbradford@xxx.xxx>wrote:
> >> ... I wish some of the "self-proclaimed" experts would tell these people
> that if they cannot hear themselves on the downlink that does not mean
> that they are not keying the satellite.
>
> I know of no "self-proclaimed expert" who is teaching anything other than
> "working full-duplex on the FM LEOs is the preferred method of operation
> ... "
>
> And I am still finding audiences who appreciate knowing that they already
> own most of the equipment necessary to successfully work these birds.
>
> One of the very first reception reports of the ARISSat-1 project was from
> a gentleman using a handheld radio - and its stock antenna. I know of MANY
> "self-proclaimed experts" who advise that that is not the best way to go
> ... (grin)
>
> I am very proud of the on-the-air operations that I hear here on the West
> Coast. I mean, I am in the most-populous region of the nation's most
> populous state - so the potential for poor operating methods are greater.
> But we're doing quite fine.
>
> Clint Bradford, K6LCS
> http://www.work-sat.com
>
> _______________________________________________
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