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Today's Topics:
1. SATpc32 doppler.sqf file (Marc Tessier - VE3TES)
2. Re: Rare grid squares? (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK))
3. Re: AO-51 message + SSTV (Edward Cole)
4. WD9EWK's road trip - Tuesday (21 July) report
(Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK))
5. Re: Doug's (KD8CAO/P) recent road trip! (Jeff Yanko)
6. Re: Evidence of Moon Landings (John Marranca, Jr)
7. Re: Rare grid squares? (Jeff KB2M)
8. Re: Rare grid squares? (Bruce)
9. Icom IC W32A for sale (Johnny Miller)
10. Re: Rare grid squares? (Larry Teran)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:19:30 -0400
From: "Marc Tessier - VE3TES" <ve3tes@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] SATpc32 doppler.sqf file
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Does anyone have a current up to date doppler file for SATpc32 I could get,
mine is so messed up from attempts to add a few of the newer birds. I would be
grateful if yours already has the newer birds added...
73 and CUL de VE3TES
Marc Tessier
ve3tes@xxxxxxx.xxx
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:40:40 -0700
From: "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)" <amsat-bb@xxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Rare grid squares?
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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Hi Marv!
> I was thinking the same thing. Are there grids in Minn or eastern SD/ND That
> would make a nice weekend trip?
> What is needed?
Just about anywhere in the places you mentioned above could be "needed" by
a lot of satellite operators. Then again, don't worry about what is "needed"
or
"wanted". If you're taking a trip, take a portable satellite station
along for the
ride - then get on the air.
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK - currently in Mesquite, Nevada
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:28:07 -0800
From: Edward Cole <kl7uw@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 message + SSTV
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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I have the recording on my website:
http://www.kl7uw.com/40th_apollo_message.wav 2.2 MB
73, Ed - KL7UW
At 07:30 AM 7/21/2009, Nitin Muttin [VU3TYG] wrote:
>Drew,
>
>Thanks for the update. Please upload so we can hear the message.
>
>73's
>Nitin
>VU3TYG
>
>
>--------- Original Message --------
>From: Andrew Glasbrenner <glasbrenner@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
>To: Nitin Muttin [VU3TYG] <vu3tyg@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>, amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
><amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
>Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 message + SSTV
>Date: 07/20/09 07:50 PM"
>
> > The event is over. If you'd like to hear the audio I'll try to get it
>posted
> > online somewhere.
> >
> > 73, Drew
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:32:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Patrick STODDARD \(WD9EWK/VA7EWK\)" <amsat-bb@xxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] WD9EWK's road trip - Tuesday (21 July) report
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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Hi!
Another day on the road... worked from 4 grids, drove almost
400 miles/640km, and still having fun. Only one more day
on the road, before I'm back home and back to the "real world".
I started the day at Nephi, a small city at the south end of
the Salt Lake City metropolitan area in DM49bq. I woke up early,
and saw that I had an overhead AO-51 pass around 1347 UTC. I
decided to try that, before hitting the road. I drove a
couple of miles/km from my motel, and proceeded to work 10
stations. A nice start to a busy day.
Before the next AO-51 pass came by around 1529 UTC, I drove
south to the town of Redmond in central Utah. I was in grids
DM48bx and DM49ba at this location, where I worked 4 passes
from here - one on AO-51, then two SO-50 passes, and finally
a shallow AO-27 pass. The AO-51 pass and one of the SO-50
passes (the one tha went down the Pacific coast) didn't have
a lot of stations on it, where the other SO-50 pass and that
shallow AO-27 pass were busier. I worked a total of 22 QSOs
from here, and took time between a couple of passes to survey
my next operating location...
I drove about 15 minutes south from Redmond to another small
town, Sigurd. This town straddles the DM38/DM48 grid boundary,
and I stopped at DM38xu/DM48au near an electrical substation
on Substation Road. Looking at a map with either Maidenhead
grids or latitude/longitude showed me I was around the spot
where 4 grids came together (DM38, DM39, DM48, DM49), but I
would not be able to get to that spot. There has been some
recent activity from DM39 (I've worked AC7SU in DM39 a couple
of times in the past 5 or 6 months), so I decided to skip that
grid and focus on the others in that area.
>From the DM38/DM39 boundary, I worked a pair of AO-27 passes.
Eight QSOs were made on the first (eastern) pass, and 4 more
on the western pass. These passes were not as busy as the
passes I worked yesterday from DM58/DM59 in eastern Utah, but
at least I worked everyone on these passes that wanted to make
a QSO with me.
After the last AO-27 pass, I went from avoiding the freeways
to actively seeking out the I-70 and I-15 freeways. I used them
to move toward southern Utah, and a spot on a frontage road
along I-15 on the DM37px/DM38pa boundary. Just like I had on my
first AO-51 pass this morning, there was an overhead pass around
0100 UTC this evening that I worked from this spot. Thirteen
QSOs were made from DM37/DM38, as cars and trucks were zooming
by on the I-15 freeway next to my operating location.
I had planned to travel as far south as St. George in southwest
Utah and stopping there for the night. When I got back on the
I-15 freeway after the last AO-51 pass, I thought about what I
might be doing tomorrow, and decided not to stop at St. George.
I drove about 40 miles/64km more, reaching the town of Mesquite
just into Nevada.
For tomorrow (Wednesday), I am only planning to attempt a couple
of passes. There is an SO-50 pass around 1448 UTC that I will
try to work from somewhere in DM36 a few miles/km up the road from
where I am staying, across the border from Mesquite in northwestern
Arizona. I was in DM36 a few weeks back, when I worked from the
South Rim of the Grand Canyon. This time, I might be able to park
on the DM26/DM36 boundary for this pass. With mountains to the
north and east of that area, I may only have a few minutes near the
middle of the pass (midpoint of this pass for me is approximately
1454 UTC) to work stations.
After lunch, I will be on the 2029 UTC AO-27 pass from somewhere
in grid DM26. Possibly the DM25/DM26 boundary on the south end of
Las Vegas, the spot where I worked from last year on that road
trip. Once this pass is done, I will hit the highway and get home.
As of tonight, I have driven almost 1500 miles/2500km, and have
a few hundred miles/km more to go tomorrow. I worked from 4
grids (DM37, DM38, DM48, DM49) today, to go with the 4 other
Utah grids I've worked from already (DM47, DM57, DM58, DM59)
and the two Arizona grids around Williams AZ last week (DM35
and DM45). I've worked lots of QSOs, and I know that some of
the calls are in my log a few times for several of these grids.
This trip alone won't make those 8 Utah grids significantly
less "rare", but at least there will soon be QSL cards in the
hands of some satellite operators for them.
Good night, and 73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK - Mesquite, Nevada
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:34:14 -0700
From: "Jeff Yanko" <wb3jfs@xxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Doug's (KD8CAO/P) recent road trip!
To: <kg4zlb@xxxxx.xxx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Group,
Same sentiments from me as well. Doug did a bang up job and helped many
work, and confirm a rare grid. Great job, Doug!!!
73,
Jeff WB3JFS
Las Vegas, NV
DM26
----- Original Message -----
From: "David - KG4ZLB" <kg4zlb@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 2:50 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Doug's (KD8CAO/P) recent road trip!
> All,
>
> I wanted to publicly thank Doug for going on the road recently and
> activating grids that we might not see again for some time and more
> especially for the QSL cards which he sent subsequently. Mine arrived
> today, a card for each contact with full 6 character grid square
> locators and County information - great for those of us that chase
> these additional bits of information.
>
> Many thanks Doug!
>
> 73
>
> --
> David
> KG4ZLB
> www.kg4zlb.com
>
>
>
>
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:33:06 -0400
From: "John Marranca, Jr" <KB2HSH@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Evidence of Moon Landings
To: amsat-bb <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Good Morning, all...
Just adding my 2 cents worth...I was a skeptic as well previously. There
are numerous reasons why it would seem that humans COULDN'T make it to the
moon and back with such crude technology. I grew up hearing the
stories....but never quite believed.
That was until I read this the other day:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8157368.stm
With proof, there is truth.
John KB2HSH
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:40:31 -0400
From: "Jeff KB2M" <kb2m@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Rare grid squares?
To: "'amsat bb'" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <00c801ca0ac9$999937a0$cccba6e0$@xxx>
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Randy's call is now wi7p. I haven't heard Randy on the bird's since 2006, I
hope he is doing ok. The thing I remember most about Randy is that he
completed (to the my best of my knowledge) WAS in reverse. Another words he
worked someone on a satellite FROM every state! I thought that was quite an
accomplishment. He would travel somewhere for work and make sat contacts
from as many states as he could drive too while he was in that general area.
I remember him discussing this activity while we were having dinner at the
AMSAT symposium banquet in 2000 in Maine. There was another person involved
in doing this also, but I now forget who it was.
73 Jeff kb2m
-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of Gary "Joe" Mayfield
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:58 PM
To: 'George Henry'; 'amsat bb'
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Rare grid squares?
DXers produce list of desired countries. Six meter operators have compiled
such a list of grid squares, I suspect our list would be similar. If you
have not read about the Fred Fish (w5ff) award, it is interesting. I think
Randy, n7sfi is probably our Fred Fish as I don't know of anyone else who
has all of the grids touched by the lower 48 states.
I would like to see two lists; one for Grids and one for States. Satellite
operations should make for an easy WAS, but I know it took me way longer
than I thought it should have.
A few years ago to spark interest QRP-L had a one state per weekend deal for
QRP ops. Maybe we should do a one state a weekend for satellite ops?
Anyway... I would be willing to help with such a project. I think a good
starting point might be a web site where folks could report what they have
or have not worked. It might even be enough to get me to update my grid
list :-)
73,
Joe kk0sd
-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of George Henry
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:32 PM
To: amsat bb
Subject: [amsat-bb] Rare grid squares?
What are considered "rare" grid squares for satellite ops?
Maybe more of us could activate them, if we only knew where they were.....
George, KA3HSW
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:48:34 -0500
From: Bruce <kk5do@xxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Rare grid squares?
To: Jeff KB2M <kb2m@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Cc: 'amsat bb' <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <4A670AA2.2010800@xxxx.xxx>
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Randy not only did WAS in reverse but also VUCC. He had worked from well
over 100 different grids. I have not talked with him in a few years.
73...bruce
On 7/22/2009 7:40 AM, Jeff KB2M wrote:
> Randy's call is now wi7p. I haven't heard Randy on the bird's since 2006,
I
> hope he is doing ok. The thing I remember most about Randy is that he
> completed (to the my best of my knowledge) WAS in reverse. Another words he
> worked someone on a satellite FROM every state! I thought that was quite an
> accomplishment. He would travel somewhere for work and make sat contacts
> from as many states as he could drive too while he was in that general area.
> I remember him discussing this activity while we were having dinner at the
> AMSAT symposium banquet in 2000 in Maine. There was another person involved
> in doing this also, but I now forget who it was.
>
> 73 Jeff kb2m
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
> Behalf Of Gary "Joe" Mayfield
> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:58 PM
> To: 'George Henry'; 'amsat bb'
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Rare grid squares?
>
> DXers produce list of desired countries. Six meter operators have compiled
> such a list of grid squares, I suspect our list would be similar. If you
> have not read about the Fred Fish (w5ff) award, it is interesting. I think
> Randy, n7sfi is probably our Fred Fish as I don't know of anyone else who
> has all of the grids touched by the lower 48 states.
>
> I would like to see two lists; one for Grids and one for States. Satellite
> operations should make for an easy WAS, but I know it took me way longer
> than I thought it should have.
>
> A few years ago to spark interest QRP-L had a one state per weekend deal for
> QRP ops. Maybe we should do a one state a weekend for satellite ops?
>
> Anyway... I would be willing to help with such a project. I think a good
> starting point might be a web site where folks could report what they have
> or have not worked. It might even be enough to get me to update my grid
> list :-)
>
> 73,
> Joe kk0sd
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
> Behalf Of George Henry
> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:32 PM
> To: amsat bb
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Rare grid squares?
>
> What are considered "rare" grid squares for satellite ops?
>
> Maybe more of us could activate them, if we only knew where they were.....
>
>
> George, KA3HSW
>
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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:52:55 -0400
From: "Johnny Miller" <millerj@xxxxx.xx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Icom IC W32A for sale
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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I have for sale and Icom IC W32A for sale. It is on ebay this morning.
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<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120450972239>
&item=120450972239
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Message: 10
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:17:13 -0700
From: Larry Teran <satvader@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Rare grid squares?
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <BAY109-W893664ADF98EB13A7198ECD1B0@xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"
There is this good PDF about a survey for rare grids on 6 meters which apply
now for VHF and SATELLITES, it's date was from 2007.
http://www.arrl.org/awards/ffma/Most_Wanted_Grid_Survey.pdf
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