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Today's Topics:
1. Re: those that use the sateites (Clayton Coleman)
2. sat-com (figured I better change the subject) (Howie DeFelice)
3. ANS-086 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - Tony Monteiro,
AA2TX SK (JoAnne Maenpaa)
4. Re: sat-com (figured I better change the subject)
(Roger Kolakowski)
5. Re: sat-com (figured I better change the subject) (Greg D)
6. FUNcube/AO-73 Transponder Test - Sat 29 Mar 2014 (Jim Heck)
7. Re: ANS-086 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - Tony
Monteiro, AA2TX SK (Hector, CO6CBF)
8. Re: ANS-086 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin -
TonyMonteiro, AA2TX SK (Rich/wa4bue)
9. Re: ANS-086 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - Tony
Monteiro, AA2TX SK (Personal)
10. N American Satellite Activity UP (Clayton Coleman)
11. update on tomorrow's post-hamfest road trip
(Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK))
12. Re: N American Satellite Activity UP (B J)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:07:16 -0500
From: Clayton Coleman <kayakfishtx@xxxxx.xxx>
To: wa4hfn@xxxxxxx.xxx
Cc: AMSAT <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: those that use the sateites
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Damon,
I personally don't think you will find a single conduit with greater
information on the satellite community than right here on the
AMSAT-BB. While not all emails interest me I have the free will and
ability to utilize my delete key.
To insinuate the AMSAT-BB isn't for people who WORK satellites is
false. This year alone, there have been email threads discussing new
transponder satellites, special event operations (W1AW,) hamfest
operations, and talk of future launches. There is a world wide
audience on this BB and quite possibly not all of them are in our
mutual footprints. Not everyone chases grids and awards.
A recent grid expedition was posted on the AMSAT-BB. As a result many
individuals have been chasing that mobile operator. I've not seen
that grid expedition posted on any other email lists.
73
Clayton
W5PFG
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:23 PM, <wa4hfn@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> If you WORK the satellites and would like information about rare grids
being activated, hard to find states and new countries on the birds,
> then you might want to join a new satellite BB
> Here you will find that kind of information
>
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>
> Thanks WA4HFN Damon em55 see ya on the birds
>
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:17:14 -0400
From: Howie DeFelice <howied231@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] sat-com (figured I better change the subject)
Message-ID: <BLU169-W1144F171A0AD1FEAC24A546E7670@xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
"I bet (a small bet anyway) my cell phone carrier doesn't save receive
frequency data accurate enough to determine what direction I am driving
though."
You are probably right since the doppler shift is pretty small ( at least I
hope it is :) ) on a
cellphone. The satellite access is MA-TDMA so the burst timing and frequency
offset need to be tracked.
This is a useful performance metric when troubleshooting connectivity issues
in a big network.
- Howie AB2S
------------------------------
Message: 3
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:10:42 -0500
From: "JoAnne Maenpaa" <k9jkm@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS-086 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - Tony
Monteiro, AA2TX SK
Message-ID: <007c01cf4a2a$ec597040$c50c50c0$@xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-086.01
AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - Tony Monteiro, AA2TX SK
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 086.01
>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
March 27, 2014
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-086.01
Anthony "Tony" J. Monteiro, AA2TX (SK)
AMSAT VP-Engineering and Board Member Anthony J. Monteiro, AA2TX of
North Andover, MA died on Wednesday morning, March 26, 2014 while
hospitalized in Boston, MA from cancer. He was 55. He is survived
by his wife, Mary Lou and daughter, Veronica, a college freshman.
Tony was first licensed in 1973 as a Novice and subsequently held an
Extra Class Amateur Radio License. An avid operator, he described his
first contact in an AMSAT BoD Candidate's Statement in 2011: "I earned
my novice ticket in 1973 and made my first ham radio contact with a
transmitter made from parts out of an old TV set. A Heathkit HR-10B
receiver and a 65-foot piece of wire strung out of a window for an
antenna made up the rest of my station, which was pretty modest even
by 1973 standards! Even so, I will never forget the thrill of my very
first contact."
His interest in amateur radio and electronics led him to earn a BS
in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University and a MS in Com-
puter Science from Stanford University. His professional career
started at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey developing network man-
agement systems and then consumer products. After working at several
startup companies, Tony landed at Cisco Systems where he managed
the development of ADSL, voice over packet, and content networking
products. He retired from industry in 2002 and focused his efforts
working on satellite projects.
Tony joined AMSAT in 1994 and started working the satellites. He
earned ARRL VHF/UHF Century Club-Satellite #58 and worked 49 states
(only Hawaii was not logged) as well. Tony worked a number of stations
while he commuted along the I-495 corridor outside Boston. Many will
remember working him through AO-40 as he utilized his "cardboard
box horn antenna." Tony led a workshop at the 2003 AMSAT Space
Symposium where students built similar antennas, demonstrating the
ease in which one could build a 2.4 GHz S-band antenna to receive
the AO-40 downlink.
Additional technical contributions to the amateur satellite com-
munity that Tony made included "InstantTune Automatic Radio Tuning"
software, "A Simple Desense Filter for Echo", and several extremely
low cost projects such as "A $5 Mode V/S Adapter using a Sub-Harmonic
Mixer". AMSAT-UK currently offers a 70 CM Parasitic Lindenblad antenna
based upon his design.
Tony also played a significant role in space-based hardware develop-
ment. He collaborated on the NO-60 satellite. As AMSAT's VP-Engineer-
ing, he served as the software designer for the SDX (Software Defined
Transponder) on ARISSat-1/Kedr that was deployed from the Inter-
national Space Station by Russian Cosmonauts during a space walk in
August 2011. Tony led the Fox-1 Engineering Team from inception in
2009 and led AMSAT's efforts to apply for acceptance of Fox-1 in
the NASA Education Launch of NanoSat (ELaNA) in 2011 and Fox-1B in
2012. He established relationships with several universities to
secure scientific payloads for Fox-1 and Fox-1B, including student
experiments.
A strong proponent of student involvement in satellite projects,
Tony served as coordinator of AMSAT Engineering relationships with
SUNY-Binghamton, Penn State-Erie, Virginia Tech, and Rochester
Institute of Technology where students developed new technologies
to be applied in future AMSAT spacecraft as "Capstone" projects.
These projects, such as the development of storage capacitors to
replace batteries developed by SUNY-Binghamton, provided student
experiences that will ultimately be flown in space. The AMSAT
JOURNAL in recent years featured several articles concerning these
projects.
Tony was elected to the AMSAT Board of Directors in 2011 following
service for one year as a BoD alternate. Him wise counsel and focus
on finding ways to make it affordable for AMSAT to fly amateur radio
systems in space resulted in several innovative approaches. It was
Tony that convinced the NASA ELaNA program to modify their qualifi-
cation criteria to add "not for profits" to those that could apply
for launch grants. It was Tony that met with universities that were
looking for ways to fly their payloads but didn't have the experience
to build satellites, encouraging collaboration that would benefit
both AMSAT and the university.
Tony's approach to participation in the AMSAT Leadership Team reflect-
ed his approach to life. Whenever he had a thought to share with the
entire AMSAT Board of Directors and/or Senior Officers via e-mail, he
always started with "Dear Friends". As AMSAT VP-Operations Drew Glas-
brenner, KO4MA noted, "I always admired how he reminded me we were
all friends despite whatever argument was raging."
Arrangements for a service for Tony will be announced at a later
date. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to
Radio Amateur Satellite Corp. (AMSAT), 850 Sligo Avenue, Suite 600,
Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Barry A. Baines, WD4ASW
President-Radio Amateur Satellite Corp. (AMSAT)
[ANS thanks AMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW for the above
information]
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 22:14:54 -0400
From: Roger Kolakowski <Rogerkola@xxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: sat-com (figured I better change the subject)
Message-ID: <5334DB1E.5020405@xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
My cellphone carrier can detect which direction my phone is pointed very
accurately in a single location in my home. It shows on my internal
mapping function and GPS is shut off. That to me means constant
triangulation along with direction sensing within my android device...
If I'm in an accident that is good...if I do something illegal that is
bad...
Not bad for finding north to orient satellite antennas though...
That to me is scarey in itself.
Roger
WA1KAT
On 3/27/2014 4:17 PM, Howie DeFelice wrote:
> "I bet (a small bet anyway) my cell phone carrier doesn't save receive
> frequency data accurate enough to determine what direction I am driving
> though."
>
> You are probably right since the doppler shift is pretty small ( at least
I hope it is :) ) on a
> cellphone. The satellite access is MA-TDMA so the burst timing and
frequency offset need to be tracked.
> This is a useful performance metric when troubleshooting connectivity
issues in a big network.
>
> - Howie AB2S
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> 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!
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--
?TV will never be a serious competitor for radio, because people must
sit and keep their eyes glued on the screen; the average American family
hasn?t time for it.?
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 20:53:26 -0700
From: Greg D <ko6th.greg@xxxxx.xxx>
To: Howie DeFelice <howied231@xxxxxxx.xxx>, "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx
<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: sat-com (figured I better change the subject)
Message-ID: <5334F236.2040502@xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Howie DeFelice wrote:
> "I bet (a small bet anyway) my cell phone carrier doesn't save receive
> frequency data accurate enough to determine what direction I am driving
> though."
>
> You are probably right since the doppler shift is pretty small ( at least
I hope it is :) ) on a
> cellphone. The satellite access is MA-TDMA so the burst timing and
frequency offset need to be tracked.
> This is a useful performance metric when troubleshooting connectivity
issues in a big network.
>
> - Howie AB2S
>
If my math is correct, doppler shift for a car driving 60mi/hr directly
towards a non-moving cell tower (not always a safe assumption in
California) would have a Doppler shift of about 90 hz, assuming a cell
frequency of 1 ghz. There's probably considerably more variation in
your carrier frequency due to temperature, power supply factors, and
component ageing, though I suppose with time these could probably be
determined and backed out.
Greg KO6TH
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 11:01:14 -0000
From: "Jim Heck" <jimlist@xxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] FUNcube/AO-73 Transponder Test - Sat 29 Mar 2014
Message-ID: <004201cf4a75$0aff8260$20fe8720$@xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hi Folks,
Results of last weekend's tests: the transponder was maintained ON for two
orbits, and we did not see any noticeable fall in battery temperature.
We are therefore proposing to repeat the test next Saturday (29 Mar), but
leave the transponder on for a longer period. We will switch it on during
the first pass over the UK (approx 10:30 UTC) and switch it off during one
of the evening passes over UK, the first of which is at approx 20:00 UTC.
We are particularly interested to receive TLM when the satellite is coming
out of eclipse (ie when it should be at its coldest temp). So reception from
suitablely located stations would be very welcome.
If you hear the transponder on, please feel free to use it!
73s Jim G3WGM
------------------------------
Message: 7
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 07:44:50 -0400
From: "Hector, CO6CBF" <co6cbf@xxxxxx.xx.xx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ANS-086 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin -
Tony Monteiro, AA2TX SK
Message-ID: <000001cf4a7b$271abbd0$75503370$@xx.xx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
It's very sad to hear this news about Tony
I had the pleasure of meeting him in person at the 2012 AMSAT Symposium. I
was delighted with his technical presentations and the great job leading
AMSAT Engineering toward new technologies.
This is a great loss to the AMSAT community
My condolences to his wife, daughter and family
73!
Hector, CO6CBF / KF5YXV
-----Mensaje original-----
De: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx En nombre
de JoAnne Maenpaa
Enviado el: jueves, 27 de marzo de 2014 22:11
Para: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Asunto: [amsat-bb] ANS-086 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - Tony
Monteiro, AA2TX SK
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-086.01
AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - Tony Monteiro, AA2TX SK
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 086.01
>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
March 27, 2014
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-086.01
Anthony "Tony" J. Monteiro, AA2TX (SK)
AMSAT VP-Engineering and Board Member Anthony J. Monteiro, AA2TX of
North Andover, MA died on Wednesday morning, March 26, 2014 while
hospitalized in Boston, MA from cancer. He was 55. He is survived
by his wife, Mary Lou and daughter, Veronica, a college freshman.
Tony was first licensed in 1973 as a Novice and subsequently held an
Extra Class Amateur Radio License. An avid operator, he described his
first contact in an AMSAT BoD Candidate's Statement in 2011: "I earned
my novice ticket in 1973 and made my first ham radio contact with a
transmitter made from parts out of an old TV set. A Heathkit HR-10B
receiver and a 65-foot piece of wire strung out of a window for an
antenna made up the rest of my station, which was pretty modest even
by 1973 standards! Even so, I will never forget the thrill of my very
first contact."
His interest in amateur radio and electronics led him to earn a BS
in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University and a MS in Com-
puter Science from Stanford University. His professional career
started at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey developing network man-
agement systems and then consumer products. After working at several
startup companies, Tony landed at Cisco Systems where he managed
the development of ADSL, voice over packet, and content networking
products. He retired from industry in 2002 and focused his efforts
working on satellite projects.
Tony joined AMSAT in 1994 and started working the satellites. He
earned ARRL VHF/UHF Century Club-Satellite #58 and worked 49 states
(only Hawaii was not logged) as well. Tony worked a number of stations
while he commuted along the I-495 corridor outside Boston. Many will
remember working him through AO-40 as he utilized his "cardboard
box horn antenna." Tony led a workshop at the 2003 AMSAT Space
Symposium where students built similar antennas, demonstrating the
ease in which one could build a 2.4 GHz S-band antenna to receive
the AO-40 downlink.
Additional technical contributions to the amateur satellite com-
munity that Tony made included "InstantTune Automatic Radio Tuning"
software, "A Simple Desense Filter for Echo", and several extremely
low cost projects such as "A $5 Mode V/S Adapter using a Sub-Harmonic
Mixer". AMSAT-UK currently offers a 70 CM Parasitic Lindenblad antenna
based upon his design.
Tony also played a significant role in space-based hardware develop-
ment. He collaborated on the NO-60 satellite. As AMSAT's VP-Engineer-
ing, he served as the software designer for the SDX (Software Defined
Transponder) on ARISSat-1/Kedr that was deployed from the Inter-
national Space Station by Russian Cosmonauts during a space walk in
August 2011. Tony led the Fox-1 Engineering Team from inception in
2009 and led AMSAT's efforts to apply for acceptance of Fox-1 in
the NASA Education Launch of NanoSat (ELaNA) in 2011 and Fox-1B in
2012. He established relationships with several universities to
secure scientific payloads for Fox-1 and Fox-1B, including student
experiments.
A strong proponent of student involvement in satellite projects,
Tony served as coordinator of AMSAT Engineering relationships with
SUNY-Binghamton, Penn State-Erie, Virginia Tech, and Rochester
Institute of Technology where students developed new technologies
to be applied in future AMSAT spacecraft as "Capstone" projects.
These projects, such as the development of storage capacitors to
replace batteries developed by SUNY-Binghamton, provided student
experiences that will ultimately be flown in space. The AMSAT
JOURNAL in recent years featured several articles concerning these
projects.
Tony was elected to the AMSAT Board of Directors in 2011 following
service for one year as a BoD alternate. Him wise counsel and focus
on finding ways to make it affordable for AMSAT to fly amateur radio
systems in space resulted in several innovative approaches. It was
Tony that convinced the NASA ELaNA program to modify their qualifi-
cation criteria to add "not for profits" to those that could apply
for launch grants. It was Tony that met with universities that were
looking for ways to fly their payloads but didn't have the experience
to build satellites, encouraging collaboration that would benefit
both AMSAT and the university.
Tony's approach to participation in the AMSAT Leadership Team reflect-
ed his approach to life. Whenever he had a thought to share with the
entire AMSAT Board of Directors and/or Senior Officers via e-mail, he
always started with "Dear Friends". As AMSAT VP-Operations Drew Glas-
brenner, KO4MA noted, "I always admired how he reminded me we were
all friends despite whatever argument was raging."
Arrangements for a service for Tony will be announced at a later
date. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to
Radio Amateur Satellite Corp. (AMSAT), 850 Sligo Avenue, Suite 600,
Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Barry A. Baines, WD4ASW
President-Radio Amateur Satellite Corp. (AMSAT)
[ANS thanks AMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW for the above
information]
_______________________________________________
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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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:39:12 -0400
From: "Rich/wa4bue" <richard.siff@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ANS-086 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin -
TonyMonteiro, AA2TX SK
Message-ID: <AA9A8720CEC849CD96E31AFBF8A8093E@xxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1;
reply-type=original
There are too many SKs and not many young ones coming into our high tech
world of electronics and wireless communications.
We have lost a good guy.
Good Bless
R
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:45:23 -0500
From: Personal <johnag9d@xxxxx.xxx>
To: johnag9d@xxxxx.xxx
Cc: "<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ANS-086 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin -
Tony Monteiro, AA2TX SK
Message-ID: <6BD619B6-AF43-46B3-A976-923F77A1EC36@xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Very sad news. The entire amateur radio community has suffered a huge loss.
Deepest sympathies to his family.
John AG9D
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 27, 2014, at 9:10 PM, "JoAnne Maenpaa" <k9jkm@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-086.01
> AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - Tony Monteiro, AA2TX SK
>
> AMSAT News Service Bulletin 086.01
> From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
> March 27, 2014
> To All RADIO AMATEURS
> BID: $ANS-086.01
>
> Anthony "Tony" J. Monteiro, AA2TX (SK)
>
> AMSAT VP-Engineering and Board Member Anthony J. Monteiro, AA2TX of
> North Andover, MA died on Wednesday morning, March 26, 2014 while
> hospitalized in Boston, MA from cancer. He was 55. He is survived
> by his wife, Mary Lou and daughter, Veronica, a college freshman.
>
> Tony was first licensed in 1973 as a Novice and subsequently held an
> Extra Class Amateur Radio License. An avid operator, he described his
> first contact in an AMSAT BoD Candidate's Statement in 2011: "I earned
>
> my novice ticket in 1973 and made my first ham radio contact with a
> transmitter made from parts out of an old TV set. A Heathkit HR-10B
> receiver and a 65-foot piece of wire strung out of a window for an
> antenna made up the rest of my station, which was pretty modest even
> by 1973 standards! Even so, I will never forget the thrill of my very
> first contact."
>
> His interest in amateur radio and electronics led him to earn a BS
> in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University and a MS in Com-
> puter Science from Stanford University. His professional career
> started at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey developing network man-
> agement systems and then consumer products. After working at several
> startup companies, Tony landed at Cisco Systems where he managed
> the development of ADSL, voice over packet, and content networking
> products. He retired from industry in 2002 and focused his efforts
> working on satellite projects.
>
> Tony joined AMSAT in 1994 and started working the satellites. He
> earned ARRL VHF/UHF Century Club-Satellite #58 and worked 49 states
> (only Hawaii was not logged) as well. Tony worked a number of stations
>
> while he commuted along the I-495 corridor outside Boston. Many will
> remember working him through AO-40 as he utilized his "cardboard
> box horn antenna." Tony led a workshop at the 2003 AMSAT Space
> Symposium where students built similar antennas, demonstrating the
> ease in which one could build a 2.4 GHz S-band antenna to receive
> the AO-40 downlink.
>
> Additional technical contributions to the amateur satellite com-
> munity that Tony made included "InstantTune Automatic Radio Tuning"
> software, "A Simple Desense Filter for Echo", and several extremely
> low cost projects such as "A $5 Mode V/S Adapter using a Sub-Harmonic
> Mixer". AMSAT-UK currently offers a 70 CM Parasitic Lindenblad antenna
>
> based upon his design.
>
> Tony also played a significant role in space-based hardware develop-
> ment. He collaborated on the NO-60 satellite. As AMSAT's VP-Engineer-
> ing, he served as the software designer for the SDX (Software Defined
> Transponder) on ARISSat-1/Kedr that was deployed from the Inter-
> national Space Station by Russian Cosmonauts during a space walk in
> August 2011. Tony led the Fox-1 Engineering Team from inception in
> 2009 and led AMSAT's efforts to apply for acceptance of Fox-1 in
> the NASA Education Launch of NanoSat (ELaNA) in 2011 and Fox-1B in
> 2012. He established relationships with several universities to
> secure scientific payloads for Fox-1 and Fox-1B, including student
> experiments.
>
> A strong proponent of student involvement in satellite projects,
> Tony served as coordinator of AMSAT Engineering relationships with
> SUNY-Binghamton, Penn State-Erie, Virginia Tech, and Rochester
> Institute of Technology where students developed new technologies
> to be applied in future AMSAT spacecraft as "Capstone" projects.
> These projects, such as the development of storage capacitors to
> replace batteries developed by SUNY-Binghamton, provided student
> experiences that will ultimately be flown in space. The AMSAT
> JOURNAL in recent years featured several articles concerning these
> projects.
>
> Tony was elected to the AMSAT Board of Directors in 2011 following
> service for one year as a BoD alternate. Him wise counsel and focus
> on finding ways to make it affordable for AMSAT to fly amateur radio
> systems in space resulted in several innovative approaches. It was
> Tony that convinced the NASA ELaNA program to modify their qualifi-
> cation criteria to add "not for profits" to those that could apply
> for launch grants. It was Tony that met with universities that were
> looking for ways to fly their payloads but didn't have the experience
> to build satellites, encouraging collaboration that would benefit
> both AMSAT and the university.
>
> Tony's approach to participation in the AMSAT Leadership Team reflect-
> ed his approach to life. Whenever he had a thought to share with the
> entire AMSAT Board of Directors and/or Senior Officers via e-mail, he
> always started with "Dear Friends". As AMSAT VP-Operations Drew Glas-
> brenner, KO4MA noted, "I always admired how he reminded me we were
> all friends despite whatever argument was raging."
>
> Arrangements for a service for Tony will be announced at a later
> date. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to
> Radio Amateur Satellite Corp. (AMSAT), 850 Sligo Avenue, Suite 600,
> Silver Spring, MD 20910.
>
> Barry A. Baines, WD4ASW
> President-Radio Amateur Satellite Corp. (AMSAT)
>
> [ANS thanks AMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW for the above
> information]
>
> /EX
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> 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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Message: 10
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 11:20:09 -0500
From: Clayton Coleman <kayakfishtx@xxxxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] N American Satellite Activity UP
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The past 7 days there has been a noticeable increase in activity on
most satellite passes over North America due in part to a grid
expedition by AC0RA. Wyatt posted his expedition here on the BB a few
weeks ago. Over the course of this past week I understand he has made
hundreds of contacts.
Some of the grids Wyatt visited have not been activated on the birds
in several years. This was evident by the number of people who are
leading the ARRL VUCC Satellite standings needing those grids.
Fortunately Wyatt put forth an effort that accomodated many working
peoples' schedules and whether or not people who needed that grid were
in the footprints he worked.
One thing that can be done to encourage such activity is by mentoring
new stations. I cringe at the "anti-handheld in the backyard
mentality" because those operators are our future. Some of them may
take on roles in AMSAT engineering, some may focus on operations (grid
trips,) and more importantly some may desire to educate the next
generation about satellite and space communications.
Last night I worked a station who told me I was one of his first
contacts. We've exchanged a few emails and now he's looking to
operate from a rare, neighboring grid square situated a mere 5 miles
from his home.
It's been a fun week for many of us chasing these seldom-heard grids.
If you have the equipment to operate outside the confines of your
shack, I would encourage you to do so. Not only is it an opportunity
to refresh your basic skills, it attracts others to do so, and gives a
chance for you to activate grid squares absent of any regular
satellite operators.
73
Clayton
W5PFG
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Message: 11
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:02:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Patrick STODDARD \(WD9EWK/VA7EWK\)" <amsat-bb@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] update on tomorrow's post-hamfest road trip
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Hi!
After receiving some responses to my e-mail earlier this week regarding
my post-hamfest road trip to southeastern Arizona (thank you to all who
sent me their comments!), I plan on making the drive to the DM51/DM52
grid boundary for the late-afternoon FO-29 and VO-52 passes starting just
after 0000 UTC (8pm Eastern time). There should be sufficient daylight
for me to work passes up to 0200 UTC in that area, and I may stick it out
through the SO-50 pass around 0223 UTC if things are calm in that area.
Between not wanting to stay out there well into the night, and a drive home
that will be at least 3 hours, I won't be able to work the SO-50 pass around
0400 UTC or the AO-73 passes later in the evening.
I will try to post updates here on the AMSAT-BB, depending on if I can
access Internet out in that area. I should be able to post updates on my
@xxxxxx Twitter feed via SMS messages, which can be viewed at
http://twitter.com/WD9EWK if you do not use Twitter. APRS usually
has good coverage in southeastern Arizona, so I should show up on
web pages like http://aprs.fi/WD9EWK-9 if you want to see where I
will be.
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
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Message: 12
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:04:48 +0000
From: B J <va6bmj@xxxxx.xxx>
To: Clayton Coleman <kayakfishtx@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: N American Satellite Activity UP
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On 3/28/14, Clayton Coleman <kayakfishtx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> The past 7 days there has been a noticeable increase in activity on
> most satellite passes over North America due in part to a grid
> expedition by AC0RA. Wyatt posted his expedition here on the BB a few
> weeks ago. Over the course of this past week I understand he has made
> hundreds of contacts.
>
> Some of the grids Wyatt visited have not been activated on the birds
> in several years. This was evident by the number of people who are
> leading the ARRL VUCC Satellite standings needing those grids.
> Fortunately Wyatt put forth an effort that accomodated many working
> peoples' schedules and whether or not people who needed that grid were
> in the footprints he worked.
>
> One thing that can be done to encourage such activity is by mentoring
> new stations. I cringe at the "anti-handheld in the backyard
> mentality" because those operators are our future. Some of them may
> take on roles in AMSAT engineering, some may focus on operations (grid
> trips,) and more importantly some may desire to educate the next
> generation about satellite and space communications.
>
> Last night I worked a station who told me I was one of his first
> contacts. We've exchanged a few emails and now he's looking to
> operate from a rare, neighboring grid square situated a mere 5 miles
> from his home.
>
> It's been a fun week for many of us chasing these seldom-heard grids.
> If you have the equipment to operate outside the confines of your
> shack, I would encourage you to do so. Not only is it an opportunity
> to refresh your basic skills, it attracts others to do so, and gives a
> chance for you to activate grid squares absent of any regular
> satellite operators.
<snip>
It looks like I'll be working with a student group at my alma mater
designing a cubesat. Perhaps by the time the project's completed,
some of the undergrads might be interested in getting their own
callsigns.
Now if I could only convince them to include a transponder for us hams....
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL
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