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Today's Topics:
1. Registration (Martha)
2. Video Streaming as Next ISS Crew Launches From Baikonur on
Tuesday Morning (JoAnne Maenpaa)
3. Kansas City Tracker board on Ebay (K&R Yoksh)
4. G-5500 (Bob- W7LRD)
5. Re: ISS digi on 145.800 (Ted)
6. Hector update - Monday 10/22 (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK))
7. Report on Japanese University Micro/Nano/Pico-satellite
Projects (Trevor .)
8. Re: ISS digi on 145.800 (JoAnne Maenpaa)
9. UT1FG/MM in FH20 on VO-52 (Roland Zurmely)
10. APRS Balloon antenna tracking (David Julian)
11. Re: Montagues & Capulets (was: FM vs SSB, HEO vs LEO, etc)
(R Oler)
12. Re: APRS Balloon antenna tracking (Robert Bruninga)
13. NO-44 SATPC worked today with an HT and Elk. (transbets@xxxxx.xxxx
14. Re: PRISM HAM Radio Service OPEN (JoAnne Maenpaa)
15. Re: NO-44 SATPC worked today with an HT and Elk. (Kevin Deane)
16. Re: PRISM HAM Radio Service OPEN (Alan P. Biddle)
17. Re: NO-44 SATPC worked today with an HT and Elk.
(Roger Kolakowski)
18. Re: Montagues & Capulets (was: FM vs SSB, HEO vs LEO, etc) (i8cvs)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:16:53 -0400
From: Martha <martha@xxxxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Registration
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At 5:00 PM ET, the on-line registration for the 2012 AMSAT Space
Symposium will close. After 5:00, you will need to register at the
door.
--
73- Martha
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:39:26 -0500
From: "JoAnne Maenpaa" <k9jkm@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Video Streaming as Next ISS Crew Launches From
Baikonur on Tuesday Morning
Message-ID: <002801cdb08c$f34667c0$d9d33740$@xxx>
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A Russian Soyuz booster will launch two cosmonauts and an American astronaut
from Baikonur on Tuesday at 6:51 a.m. EDT (1051 GMT). Live updates and
streaming video will be carried at:
http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp33/status.html
--
73 de JoAnne K9JKM
k9jkm@xxxxx.xxx
Editor, AMSAT News Service
Associate Editor, AMSAT Journal
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:42:10 -0500
From: "K&R Yoksh" <yokshs@xxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Kansas City Tracker board on Ebay
Message-ID:
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I put my Kansas City tracker board on Ebay.
$35 + $7.95 shipping to Conus.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kansas-City-Tracker-Tuner-ISA-board-/170929470490?pt=L
H_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27cc30bc1a
Thanks, 73
Kyle
K0KN
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:43:15 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bob- W7LRD <w7lrd@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] G-5500
Message-ID:
<1038262649.145185.1350934995173.JavaMail.root@xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xxxx.xxxx
xxx.xxx>
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looking for a N center scale for the G-5500 az/el control unit. Yaesu does
not make them.
73 Bob W7LRD
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:59:46 -0700
From: "Ted" <k7trkradio@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "'JoAnne Maenpaa'" <k9jkm@xxxxxxx.xxx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ISS digi on 145.800
Message-ID: <000301cdb08f$c9d2cde0$5d7869a0$@xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Has the frequency settled down on this? 800 or 825 ??
K7TRK
-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of JoAnne Maenpaa
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 8:00 PM
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS digi on 145.800
ISS digipeater has been running on 145.800 MHz simplex for the past couple
of passes. So if you don't copy anything on 145.825 try 145.800. It was
lonely for a mid-continent prime time pass.
--
73 de JoAnne K9JKM
k9jkm@xxxxx.xxx
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:03:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Patrick STODDARD \(WD9EWK/VA7EWK\)" <amsat-bb@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Hector update - Monday 10/22
Message-ID:
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Hi!
Thanks again to all the hams who have been sending me checks to help
with the effort to bring Hector to the AMSAT Symposium later this week.
As of today, I have received a total of $935 from those checks. This
will cover almost half of what I estimate the total costs will end up
being for this effort, and I appreciate the help. I told Hector about
this via e-mail earlier today, and he also appreciates the generosity
of everyone who is helping with this trip.
Hector will fly to Miami on Wednesday, arriving a couple of hours
before I arrive later in the afternoon. Hector has a friend in Miami
who will meet him in the Miami airport after clearing US Customs and
Immigration, and then I'll get with him after I arrive. The current
plan is for the two of us to drive up from Miami to Orlando on
Thursday morning, arriving in Orlando around midday depending on when
we get out of the Miami area. Hector will be at the Symposium all
weekend, and also take the KSC tour next Monday (10/29). His flight
home is next Wednesday (10/31), so we will return to Miami either
after the KSC tour Monday evening or early Tuesday morning, so he
has more time to spend with his friends down there before his flight
home.
Thanks again for all the support - and not just those sending me
checks. I have received lots of e-mails, and also seen posts on
other public forums, with good words about this effort. Seeing
Hector in person later this week will make this worth all the time
and money spent over the past 7 months. :-)
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:10:08 +0100 (BST)
From: "Trevor ." <m5aka@xxxxx.xx.xx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Report on Japanese University
Micro/Nano/Pico-satellite Projects
Message-ID:
<1350940208.82119.YahooMailClassic@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Report on the current state of "Japanese University
Micro/Nano/Pico-satellite Projects"
http://www.unisec.jp/member/jusat-e.html
http://www.unisec.jp/member/files/2012Oct_Satellite_2ndEdition_120925_v1.1_fin
.pdf
73 Trevor M5AKA
AMSAT-UK http://www.amsat-uk.org/
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:13:37 -0500
From: "JoAnne Maenpaa" <k9jkm@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ISS digi on 145.800
Message-ID: <002901cdb09a$1b610e10$52232a30$@xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hello Ted,
> Has the frequency settled down on this? 800 or 825 ??
ISS digi is back on their usual 145.825 MHz frequency now. I just heard them
and had a packet QSO via .825 at 2100 UTC today over USA. There will be a
few more USA passes coming up this afternoon/evening.
I check http://issfanclub.com ... on the right side of the page is a status
listing of their various frequencies, such as 'last heard', etc.
--
73 de JoAnne K9JKM
k9jkm@xxxxx.xxx
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:27:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Roland Zurmely <py4zbz@xxxxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] UT1FG/MM in FH20 on VO-52
Message-ID:
<1350948427.31836.YahooMailNeo@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
QSO with Yuri UT1FG/MM on VO-52 #40390.
73 de Roland PY4ZBZ in GH70un
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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:59:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Julian <ddjulian54@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] APRS Balloon antenna tracking
Message-ID:
<1350950351.67950.YahooMailNeo@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
A local University is going to do a balloon launch and release a paper
airplane this Saturday. they will have APRS on both the balloon and airplane
with the goal to find both when they land. I won't be able to join the chase
but just for fun I would like to use my satellite antenna array to track
them.?Is anyone aware of a program that will steer the antenna's based on
received APRS data? I am using an LVB tracker and Yaesu 5400 setup and have
SATPC32 and Nova for windows?if there is some sort of an interface program.
?
Thanks//Dave WB9YIG
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Message: 11
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:45:35 -0500
From: R Oler <orbitjet@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <tosca005@xxx.xxx>, Amsat BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Montagues & Capulets (was: FM vs SSB, HEO vs
LEO, etc)
Message-ID: <COL106-W15DCFD79F55C093FBD3ABAD67A0@xxx.xxx>
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Hello OM
I am not sure how you got what you said from my one paragraph about 2 meter
gear...but I can put you at ease in that most of what you are saying I would
agree with...my point however for the "average" ham I stick by.
We do use 10ghz here a bit...all our repeaters are controlled or cross
linked by either a 3 or 13 centimeter link. Robert WB5MZO
> From: tosca005@xxx.xxx
> To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
> Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 23:29:15 -0500
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Montagues & Capulets (was: FM vs SSB, HEO vs
LEO, etc)
>
> On Oct 21 2012, R Oler wrote:
>
> >
> The gear for the linear birds is not all that much more expensive then FM
> equipment. BUT if you dont use it for the birds and dont have really good
> antenna arrays it is more or less not of a lot of use. The same could be
> said in spades for some gear that will do C to X band or the other way.
> >
> Without some sort of HEO (or even a reasonable MEO) any "band" that comes
> from the linear birds is always going to be more "short ranged"...and while
> a lot of people like building things etc the prime object in amateur radio
> still is "communication" and working DX...one doesnt have to do a lot of
> "footprint" work to see that AO-7 and VU-52 great birds that they are, are
> still not terribly "dx" birds.
> >
>
> Spoken like someone who is not active on the 10 GHz band. If you look at
> the records of the ARRL 10 GHz and Up Cumulative Contest (the only ARRL
> contest that reports the distances between stations in QSO's), you will
> find a large number of 300 Km and longer contacts. And I'm not talking
> about the spectacular distances covered by rare and exotic band openings.
> I'm talking about repeated contacts between stations running 2 to 8 watts
> into a small offset feed dishes. Microwave bands are NOT just for contacts
> in the 20-50 Km range.
>
> And not just for contests either. I admit that a lot of the hams in the
> area where I lived for 33 years and now live during the summertime (where
> the Northern Lights Radio Society plays) turn off the microwave equipment
> and put it into storage between contests, but not all of them. In fact,
> there are a couple of operators that ragchew on 10 GHz between Minneapolis
> MN (EN34lx) and Grand Rapids, MN (EN37ed) nearly every day. No monstrous
> band opening required.
>
> The more often that people hear hams say that the microwave bands are only
> good for contesting over very short distances, the greater is the chance
> that the "brainwashing" will be successful. This is known as a
> self-fulfilling prophecy.
>
> Note that I am firmly in the camp of wishing for linear transponders on any
> bird that we manage to fly. The accomplishments of PE1RAH prove that even a
> tiny cubesat can physically support a linear transponder, not just an FM
> single-channel transponder. (See
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/59006469/le005-r2 ) And I am firmly in the camp
> of wishing for HEO satellites if we can ever manage to get one launched
> again. Too bad that Bill Gates (or someone with almost as much money as
> him) isn't a ham interested in satellite communication.
>
> Just want to set the record straight about the utility of the higher bands.
>
> 73 de W0JT
> EN34js June-September
> EL09ro October-May
> AMSAT-NA Life Member #2292
>
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Message: 12
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:54:27 -0400
From: Robert Bruninga <bruninga@xxxx.xxx>
To: David Julian <ddjulian54@xxxxx.xxx>, amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: APRS Balloon antenna tracking
Message-ID: <6b10b0978ad08d5a0f8ea74b5c095138@xxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
And where on the planet might this "local" event be? A balloon can have a
range of 400 miles or so. Lots of us can watch if we know what part of
the planet this might be in...
-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of David Julian
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 7:59 PM
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] APRS Balloon antenna tracking
A local University is going to do a balloon launch and release a paper
airplane this Saturday. they will have APRS on both the balloon and
airplane with the goal to find both when they land. I won't be able to
join the chase but just for fun I would like to use my satellite antenna
array to track them.?Is anyone aware of a program that will steer the
antenna's based on received APRS data? I am using an LVB tracker and Yaesu
5400 setup and have SATPC32 and Nova for windows?if there is some sort of
an interface program.
Thanks//Dave WB9YIG
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Message: 13
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:20:34 -0400
From: "transbets@xxxxx.xxxx <transbets@xxxxx.xxx>
To: Amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] NO-44 SATPC worked today with an HT and Elk.
Message-ID:
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Hi all
I just wanted to share my excitement that I worked NO-44 at 14:47 today,
10/23, with my Yaesu VX8DR HT with a five element Elk, for the first time.
I have been trying for awhile and didn't expect much in the way of results.
Now, I can proceed to jump around my living room.
73,
Elizabeth
K3ODX
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Message: 14
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:39:53 -0500
From: "JoAnne Maenpaa" <k9jkm@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: PRISM HAM Radio Service OPEN
Message-ID: <002d01cdb134$a6446b90$f2cd42b0$@xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
I am seeing a blank page when I go to:
http://www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/prism/en/HAMservice.html
Are there any other pages with information?
Thanks!
--
73 de JoAnne K9JKM
k9jkm@xxxxx.xxx
Editor, AMSAT News Service
Associate Editor, AMSAT Journal
-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of Mineo Wakita
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 07:23
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: PRISM HAM Radio Service OPEN
Uplink frequency, Command and the other attention are written
in detail. Please click the bottom button.
http://www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/prism/en/HAMservice.html
JE9PEL, Mineo Wakita
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Message: 15
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:43:48 -0700
From: Kevin Deane <summit496@xxxx.xxx>
To: <transbets@xxxxx.xxx>, "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: NO-44 SATPC worked today with an HT and Elk.
Message-ID: <COL107-W41159A58F47F548EA2E4583790@xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> Subject: [amsat-bb] NO-44 SATPC worked today with an HT and Elk.
>
> Hi all
>
> I just wanted to share my excitement that I worked NO-44 at 14:47 today,
> 10/23, with my Yaesu VX8DR HT with a five element Elk, for the first time.
> I have been trying for awhile and didn't expect much in the way of results.
>
> Now, I can proceed to jump around my living room.
>
> 73,
Took me a long time to get that one also, good for you! I got it just
recently also. You know it would be a LOT easyer to work if there werent so
many LAZY BEACONS on 145.825 which basicly have killed NO-44 to the point
where two way Qso is impossible and a short raw packet alone is as you have
seen pretty hard to do.
Anyway glad to see someone else is actually trying and not setting there
BEACONS and walking away from their station....:)
Kevin
KF7MYK
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Message: 16
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:47:14 -0500
From: "Alan P. Biddle" <APBIDDLE@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: "'JoAnne Maenpaa'" <k9jkm@xxxxxxx.xxx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: PRISM HAM Radio Service OPEN
Message-ID: <08BFB593C8184D52B5E28F51A599CCF8@xxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
JoAnne,
Works fine for me with Firefox and IE.
Alan
WA4SCA
-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of JoAnne Maenpaa
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 10:40 AM
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: PRISM HAM Radio Service OPEN
I am seeing a blank page when I go to:
http://www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/prism/en/HAMservice.html
Are there any other pages with information?
Thanks!
--
73 de JoAnne K9JKM
k9jkm@xxxxx.xxx
Editor, AMSAT News Service
Associate Editor, AMSAT Journal
-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of Mineo Wakita
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 07:23
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: PRISM HAM Radio Service OPEN
Uplink frequency, Command and the other attention are written
in detail. Please click the bottom button.
http://www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/prism/en/HAMservice.html
JE9PEL, Mineo Wakita
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Message: 17
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:13:50 -0400
From: Roger Kolakowski <Rogerkola@xxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: NO-44 SATPC worked today with an HT and Elk.
Message-ID: <5086C23E.5030800@xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Yes you did!
K3ODX-7>T0PY7W,W3ADO-1*,qAR,KU4BL-3:`fPFl!q[/`"49}Hi fr Betsy,
Levittown,PA :-}_
Congratulations!
Roger
WA1KAT
On 10/23/2012 11:20 AM, transbets@xxxxx.xxx wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I just wanted to share my excitement that I worked NO-44 at 14:47 today,
> 10/23, with my Yaesu VX8DR HT with a five element Elk, for the first time.
> I have been trying for awhile and didn't expect much in the way of
results.
>
> Now, I can proceed to jump around my living room.
>
> 73,
>
> Elizabeth
> K3ODX
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Message: 18
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:06:23 +0200
From: "i8cvs" <domenico.i8cvs@xxx.xx>
To: "R Oler" <orbitjet@xxxxxxx.xxx>, <tosca005@xxx.xxx>, "Amsat BB"
<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Montagues & Capulets (was: FM vs SSB, HEO vs
LEO, etc)
Message-ID: <000001cdb141$05912000$0401a8c0@xxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
From: tosca005@xxx.xxx
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 23:29:15 -0500
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Montagues & Capulets (was: FM vs SSB, HEO vs LEO,
etc)
Note that I am firmly in the camp of wishing for linear transponders on any
bird that we manage to fly. The accomplishments of PE1RAH prove that even a
tiny cubesat can physically support a linear transponder, not just an FM
single-channel transponder. (See
http://www.scribd.com/doc/59006469/le005-r2 ) And I am firmly in the camp
of wishing for HEO satellites if we can ever manage to get one launched
again. Too bad that Bill Gates (or someone with almost as much money as
him) isn't a ham interested in satellite communication.
Just want to set the record straight about the utility of the higher bands.
73 de W0JT
EN34js June-September
EL09ro October-May
AMSAT-NA Life Member #2292
Hi, W0JT
I agree with you particularly if a radio ham is able to build and not only
to buy his own microwave equipments and antennas in order to experiment
into the X band K band and higher bands and this is why a HEO satellite
with microwave linear transponders is ideal for the serious experimenter
ham.
To bad that I was not able to use my 10450-10452 MHz homebrewed
downconverter and 60 cm dish on the X band transponder of AO40 because
it never was activated because of the onboard explosion and fault of it.
I hope that some day in the future I can use my above X band set up if
the AMSAT-DL will be able to signe a launch contract for P3E because
actually the above setup been not working into the tropo DX frequency
segment is good only for me to receive the Sun-Noise time to time.
73" de
i8CVS Domenico
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