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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Optimum HT for FM satellite use? (Clint Bradford)
2. Re: Optimum HT for FM satellite use? (Alan P. Biddle)
3. Re 70cms satellite polarity? (Angus)
4. KKS-1 beacon (nader omer)
5. Re: Re 70cms satellite polarity? (Mark Lunday, WD4ELG)
6. PRISM Beacon (nader omer)
7. Re: ISS APRS (Robert Bruninga)
8. ARRISS contact on As It Happens (CBC) today
(Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604)
9. AO-51, 2 Feb 09, 2215z (Darin Cowan)
10. Plans for UK satellite launcher (David - KG4ZLB/M?ZLB)
11. Re: ARRISS contact on As It Happens (CBC) today (Alan)
12. FT-736 tuning dial (Alan Sieg WB5RMG)
13. Re: Re 70cms satellite polarity? (Greg D.)
14. Plans for UK Satellite Launcher (Clint Bradford)
15. Keps and frequencies for Iran's Omid satellite?
(Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ)
16. Hammering the Sat (nader omer)
17. Re 70cms satellite polarity? (Angus)
18. Iranian satellite keps? (andy thomas)
19. Iranian satellite technical round-up (andy thomas)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 12:26:23 -0800
From: Clint Bradford <clintbrad4d@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Optimum HT for FM satellite use?
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <B8A1D132-2E7A-48BA-9292-225F809A24EC@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
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Instead of purchasing old equipment (very few will come with new
battery pack...repairs either expensive or not available), you could
always use two radios - one for RX and one for TX. Or use a scanner on
RX!
And on the FM birds, it is not mandatory to operate at full duplex.
Preferable, but not mandatory.
I use the Yaesu FT-60R for all my AO-51 demonstrations. The underlying
"theme" to my presentations is the fact that most hams probably
already have the necessary equipment to work the FM birds, and, if
not, it doesn't take a lot of money for equipment. FT-60R are great
dual-band rigs: bulletproof construction, strongest belt clip of ANY
amateur HT chassis on the market, 1,000 memories, RX 108 to a gig,
great RX volume. Add to this a great battery system where, with the
optional AA battery case, you have FULL TX POWER available if needed.
For comparison, use an optional AA case with the Kenwood TH-F6a, and
you're running one-half of one Watt TX.
The FT-60R can be programmed for "split freqs" (page 28 of the owners
manual) - where you can set it up to TX on one band and RX on another
in a single memory location. (Several other current HTs do this, too.)
All for under $200. Improve its -2dB stock antenna, and you have a
portable satellite station!
For AO-51, I have mine programmed like this ... (nothing extraordinary
here) ...
Ch 100, RX 435.310, TX 145.920
Ch 101, RX 435.305, TX 145.920
Ch 102, RX 435.300, TX 145.920
Ch 103, RX 435,295, TX 145.920
Ch 104, RX 435.290, TX 145.920
Channel 102 is the "center" frequency. As you ACQUIRE the signal,
listen slightly ABOVE (ACQUIRE - ABOVE: my mnemonic device) the center
frequency to compensate for the doppler effect.
Preachin' to the choir here ... sorry ... (grin)
Clint Bradford
http://www.clintbradford.com
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 14:40:07 -0600
From: "Alan P. Biddle" <APBIDDLE@xxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Optimum HT for FM satellite use?
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
While less than ideal from a pure portability standpoint, a way to handle
multiple radios is to stop by the sporting goods section of a big box store
and find an inexpensive hunting vest with lots of pockets. I saw one with
space for two radios, a voice recorder, a couple of extra batteries, and a
low noise preamp. Everything was neatly connected with custom wires, and
both radios were readily available for tuning and operating on the front.
All you had to do was hook up the antenna, turn everything one, and off you
went. I saw this bit of HamWear demoed at a local hamfest several years
ago.
Alan
WA4SCA
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 21:00:51 -0000
From: "Angus" <angus@xxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re 70cms satellite polarity?
To: <AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx>
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Hi all,
sorry if this question has been asked lots of times, but I cannot find a
reference for it, but are all the current satellites using RHCP for 70cms, be
it Uplink or Downlink?
regards
Gus M0IKB
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 13:53:29 -0800 (PST)
From: nader omer <st2nh@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] KKS-1 beacon
To: amsat bb bb <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <27816.55108.qm@xxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
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KKS-1 Beacon
Orbit # 156
21:22 - 21:33 UTC
TLE de? http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/tle-new.txt
?
09/01/24 ?03:17 06
09/01/24 ?03:17:006
09/01/24? 03?? :06
09/01/24 ?03:17:0?
09/01/24 ?03:17:06
09/01/04? ?3:17:0
09/01/24 ?03:17
09 01/24 ?03:17:006
09/01/24? 03 7:006
09/01/?????? ?17:006
09/01/24 0
09/01/24 ?03:17:006
09/01/24? 03:17:006
09/01/24 ?03: h:006
09/01/24? 03:17:60
09/01/24 ?03:17:06
09/01/???? ?03:17:
09/01/24?? 03:17:?
09/01/24?? ?3:17
?
73
Nader , st2nh
www.st2nh.com
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 17:36:00 -0500
From: "Mark Lunday, WD4ELG" <mlunday@xx.xx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Re 70cms satellite polarity?
To: "'Angus'" <angus@xxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xx.xx>, <AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <001301c98586$a1179940$e346cbc0$@xx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Gus
It's in the weekly AMSAT satellite report. I will send to you offline...
Mark Lunday
WD4ELG
wd4elg@xxxx.xxx
http://wd4elg.net
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Behalf Of Angus
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 4:01 PM
To: AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re 70cms satellite polarity?
Hi all,
sorry if this question has been asked lots of times, but I cannot find a
reference for it, but are all the current satellites using RHCP for 70cms,
be it Uplink or Downlink?
regards
Gus M0IKB
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 15:26:46 -0800 (PST)
From: nader omer <st2nh@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] PRISM Beacon
To: amsat bb bb <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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PRISM?Beacon
Orbit # 160
22:51 - 23:04 UTC
TLE de? http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/tle-new.txt
?
prc//www.space.t.u-tokyoac.jp
prd-make steps-hand-in hand
pr0000325a5a420a5a4
pr1100a51db2b600110
pr2t090003000688442
pr3...........................
pr4...........................
pr50059000086878c74
pr6006d6d6d6d656700
pr7007d7d7b7c662000
pr8000100708007099860
pr93f3f403f4040403f3f403f403f3f3f
pra00001ca653
prb065042504250420000
prc//www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
prdn will-meet-ag? -some-sunnyday
?
Nader - st2nh
www.st2nh.com
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 19:11:43 -0500
From: "Robert Bruninga" <bruninga@xxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ISS APRS
To: "'Tony'" <dxdx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>, <wb4apr@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: 'AMSAT BB' <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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>> Thanks for all your help in my attempts
>> to hit ISS! It looks like they
>> changed the path from RS0ISS-3 to
>> RS0ISS-4 since Friday evening. How are
>> we to know that they do this?
Just monitor the downlink. Otherwise the best thing is to
ignore the callsign and use the generic Alias of ARISS which
will work independent of which callsign they are using.
>> Should I have more in the path than
>> either RS0ISS-3 or -4? I see there
>> are some WIDE1-1 statements in a few
>> of the raw packet data.
That only applies when PCSAT-1 is operational. But she no
longer can support either the ARISS or WIDEn-N paths. So to use
PCSAT-1 y ou have to use its exact call of W3ADO-1. And that
will only work during a mid-day pass.
Good luck.
Bob, WB4APR
>
>
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 20:03:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 <faunt@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] ARRISS contact on As It Happens (CBC) today
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <20090203010357.C075A13805@xxxxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
I had to cope with the world while trying to listen, so don't know
details.
You too can listen to the radio show here:
http://www.cbc.ca/radioshows/AS_IT_HAPPENS/20090202.shtml
73, doug
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 20:56:37 -0500
From: "Darin Cowan" <yet.another.squid@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-51, 2 Feb 09, 2215z
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <4987a45d.083e400a.090b.069b@xx.xxxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Thanks to everyone for being patient. I was working the satellite from a
vertical antenna and learning a lot about where it is effective, and where
it is not effective and receiving satellite signals. I managed one QSO, and
I hope I wasn't spamming the bird too much. Learned a lot, so if I try it
again, I should be easier to work. I think I know where every skinny,
useless side-lobe is on my antenna now.
73 de CG3OIJ / VE3OIJ
-Darin
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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:27:33 -0500
From: David - KG4ZLB/M?ZLB <m0zlb@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Plans for UK satellite launcher
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <4987AB95.2000909@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
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Click! <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7862827.stm>
David
KG4ZLB/M0ZLB
www.kg4zlb.com
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Message: 11
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 20:44:11 -0600
From: "Alan" <ve4yz@xxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARRISS contact on As It Happens (CBC) today
To: "'Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604'" <faunt@xxxxx.xxx>,
<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <8082102715894CBABB1C83F09ED620F8@xxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
And the video is here where you may have to cut and paste to get the full
URL into your browser
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090202.wvspacestation02
02/VideoStory/Technology/home?pid=RTGAM.20090202.wcollegeradio0202
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx
> [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On Behalf Of Doug Faunt
> N6TQS +1-510-655-8604
> Sent: February 2, 2009 7:04 PM
> To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
> Subject: [amsat-bb] ARRISS contact on As It Happens (CBC) today
>
> I had to cope with the world while trying to listen, so don't
> know details.
> You too can listen to the radio show here:
> http://www.cbc.ca/radioshows/AS_IT_HAPPENS/20090202.shtml
>
> 73, doug
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Message: 12
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 21:50:00 -0600 (CST)
From: "Alan Sieg WB5RMG" <wb5rmg@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] FT-736 tuning dial
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <2876.192.168.121.31.1233633000.squirrel@xxx.xxx.xxx.xx>
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Thanks for all the encouraging words of advice and consolation.
I've heard from concerned friends all around the world in less than 24 hr.
No less than a dozen by direct email, as well as some via the AMSAT-BB.
This is an amazing team we have, isn't it. Honestly - Thank You All.
So, while not fully recovered - the prognosis is good for my trusty radio.
Still in intensive care (with covers off), the major surgery went well.
I first carefully pried off the shiny knob face, then gradually slipped a
tiny screwdriver in under the knob rubber, moving around the dial - working
it steadily off of the knob without stretching it. This revealed two holes,
one of which gives access to the one set screw. Not the old-fashioned
hex-hole requiring an Allen wrench, but a hex spline - my tool says "T-8".
Once the knob was off, I went ahead and removed the top and bottom covers
so as to allow the front panel to hinge down revealing the inside of the
encoder. I really didn't want to remove this, but needed to see that
there was nothing inside that would be readily helpful. With the radio
standing on it's back-side heat sink fins, face-up - I applied a few
tiny tiny drops of WD40 with a tiny screwdriver, to the shaft where it
enters the panel mount bushing (with the screw threads and big nut)...
I turned the knob 360 degrees and applied a few more drops - and left it
to penetrate for a while. Then came back and turned it and gave a few more
tiny drops. I don't want WD40 inside the encoder if at all possible. If
I don't take the shaft out of the bushing, I'll have to depend upon the WD40
and my incessant turning to eventually break down the dust or crud that
had apparently gotten bolluxed into the juncture. I'll look at it as
helping my friend thru a theraputic recovery process.
Learning to tune again.
I repeated the process several times, and it got a little bit better each
time. I had to go to work today, and there was no one home to do this
every so often - so it may take a bit longer. It may be that by removing
the encoder from the panel, I would see a better way, but I'll hope that
my patience and persistence will pay off. It may never be as silky smooth
as it was for the last 20 years, but I'm certain that it is on the road
to recovery. While I wait for the WD40 to penetrate, I've been cleaning
the face and knobs and buttons on my ol'buddy. It is truly amazing how
nasty-dirty that stuff can get. Especially the buttons you DON'T push...
Just a hint of WD40 on a Q-Tip can work wonders down in those grooves.
Such a long way from the first radio dial I ever re-strung. Can you believe
that we used to do this with a spring-loaded string wrapped around a shaft,
fed around pulleys, and tied to a wheel on the end of the shaft thru an
air-variable capacitor ..?.. Uggh, and before that we had "crystals"...
I guess the WD40 is more of a rite-of-passage. Merely a mild stroke if
you would. At least this time I didn't have to get out the duct-tape.
Thanks again everyone who sat up late awaiting word from the recovery room.
I think we're out of the woods as they say.
At least I can see a clearing from here.
Thanks again and 73 for now /;^)
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Message: 13
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 20:19:31 -0800
From: "Greg D." <ko6th_greg@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Re 70cms satellite polarity?
To: <angus@xxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xx.xx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <BLU133-W386F5326B774608516AB69A9C20@xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi Gus,
Besides what the antennas are, electrically, there's also the orientation of
the satellite as compared to you to consider. Because of this, it's best if
you can have a switchable antenna. Last night we were having a nice round of
contacts on AO-51, and the signal started to go into the tank. Odd, given the
elevation and direction of the bird, it should still be in plain sight. One
flick of the switch to LHCP, and she was full quieting again. Made another
contact that I wouldn't have been able to, if I didn't have the the switch.
73,
Greg KO6TH
> From: angus@xxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xx.xx
> To: AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx
> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 21:00:51 +0000
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re 70cms satellite polarity?
>
> Hi all,
> sorry if this question has been asked lots of times, but I cannot find a
reference for it, but are all the current satellites using RHCP for 70cms, be
it Uplink or Downlink?
> regards
> Gus M0IKB
>
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Message: 14
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 01:30:50 -0800
From: Clint Bradford <clintbrad4d@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Plans for UK Satellite Launcher
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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From the BBC ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7862827.stm
Clint Bradford, K6LCS / KAF3359
909-241-7666
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Message: 15
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:48:29 +0000
From: Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ <gordonjcp@xxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Keps and frequencies for Iran's Omid satellite?
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <1233658109.14013.2.camel@xxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7866357.stm
Congratulations to them for joining the select few that have flown a
satellite. Now, where are we looking, and what are we listening for?
Gordon
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Message: 16
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 05:24:57 -0800 (PST)
From: nader omer <st2nh@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Hammering the Sat
To: amsat bb bb <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <96865.61114.qm@xxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
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Hammering the sat
The?Japanese?way of satellite?vibration test!
very nice movie to watch
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=DKR8HVr748k
?
73
Nader , st2nh
www.st2nh.com
?
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Message: 17
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:31:13 -0000
From: "Angus" <angus@xxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re 70cms satellite polarity?
To: <AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <79FE7875B09A455CBB073FA76834C5A9@xxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Thanks to all for information,
until I can get hold of some more quality coaxial relays to build a 4 way
polarity control box, I shall build the simple RHCP/LHCP switching unit as
shown in the ARRL Handbook, this will allow me to switch between the two modes
as needed, although I would like to try and build a complete unit allowing
four modes of polarity control, when some quality coaxial relays are found.
regards
Gus
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Message: 18
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 06:00:34 -0800 (PST)
From: andy thomas <andythomasmail@xxxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Iranian satellite keps?
To: amsat <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Re the Iranian launch:
Celestrak reports the following keps:
2009-004A
1 33506U 09004A 09034.19387999 .00095226 13865-4 25133-3 0 80
2 33506 55.5083 313.4501 0099270 151.1927 209.4657 15.86589494 74
2009-004B
1 33507U 09004B 09034.19673867 .00095923 13300-4 31019-3 0 92
2 33507 55.5529 313.4400 0144903 154.1368 206.6998 15.75803087 65
Day 34 of 2009 is February 3rd and it's a 55 degree inclination so visible in
the UK: I would check through 435-437 MHz for unusual signals at predicted
AOS, you never know.
73 de andy G0SFJ
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Message: 19
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 06:49:48 -0800 (PST)
From: andy thomas <andythomasmail@xxxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Iranian satellite technical round-up
To: amsat <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <534849.46736.qm@xxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
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Satellite called OMID ("hope" in Farsi) is described by Teheran as a "data
processing satellite". associated press quote: "Iranian television said the
satellite would orbit at an altitude of between about 155 and 250 miles. It
was taken into orbit by a Safir-2, or ambassador-2, rocket, which was first
tested in August and has a range of 155 miles.
The radio report said the satellite is designed to circle the earth 15 times
during a 24-hour period and send reports to the space center in Iran. It has
two frequency bands and eight antennas for transmitting data."
AP also quote: "Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that the satellite, which he said had
telecommunications capabilities, had reached its orbit and had made contact
with ground stations, though not all of its functions were active yet. The
launch was intended to be a message of peace and friendship to the world..."
which makes me wonder if there's a beacon on it. There's another report
talking about an interest in store-and-forward capability but not clear if
this has it or not.
Would have thought the satellite will decay earlier rather than later?
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h4ynWXGgXIWuMo6jcZGbdrhyuZ9A
D9644O1O0
73 de andy g0sfj
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