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Today's Topics:
1. CW anyone? (francesco messineo)
2. Rare Grids in South Dakota (Jerry Felts)
3. Re: Rare Grids in South Dakota (Larry Teran)
4. Re: Rare grid squares? (n3tl@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
5. Arrow Ant Outside? (Jerry Felts)
6. Arrow Ant Outside? (Jerry Felts)
7. AMSAT-UK Colloquium at Guildford This Weekend (Trevor .)
8. Re: Rare Grids in South Dakota (Rodney Waln)
9. Rare grid squares? (John W Lee)
10. Re: SATpc32 doppler.sqf file (Marc Tessier - VE3TES)
(Marc Tessier - VE3TES)
11. Re: Rare Grids in South Dakota (Gary "Joe" Mayfield)
12. WD9EWK's road trip - Wednesday (22 July) report
(Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK))
13. Re: WD9EWK's road trip - Wednesday (22 July) report (Jeff Yanko)
14. AO-27 telemetry software (Angel)
15. Re: AO-27 telemetry software (Rodney Waln)
16. Re: SATpc32 doppler.sqf file (Marc Tessier - VE3TES)
(Jean-Fran?ois M?nard)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:01:58 +0200
From: francesco messineo <francesco.messineo@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] CW anyone?
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Hello all,
I'm in the middle of a short trip to IS0 land, I'm using the satellite
antennas (2 x lindenblad RHCP) I made last december. Operations here
can be almost all the time in CW, due to low signals obtainable with
omni antennas and 20m RG-213 on both bands.
During a few passes of VO-52 I can also work SSB in the best part of
the pass and the high passes of AO-27 are also sometimes workable in
FM (made a couple of contacts, amazing for omni antennas in the
crowded europe).
Results are really good if you ask me, but I almost always call on the
linear birds for almost all the pass (2-3 degrees are already workable
usually) in CW making one contact if I'm lucky. So what's wrong with
CW on satellites? I hear a lot of SSB stations, but uplinking in SSB
is hopeless on FO-29 and AO-07 and difficult most of the time on
VO-52.
I think it also would be possible to try a contact with Canada on
Oscar-7, if anyone feels like trying a sked, just drop me an email.
Best 73 de IS0/IZ8DWF
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:37:28 -0600
From: Jerry Felts <nr5ajerry@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Rare Grids in South Dakota
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID:
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I can do some of the grids around me. DN84lc is the grid I live in.
Right now it would have to be the FM sats. Rig would be my FT-60R and
Elk antenna.. Also it would have to be during the day while my wife is
at work.
How would I notify everyone? I'd hate to go some place and not work
anyone. Just getting ideas right now.
Jerry - NR5A - South Dakota
http://nr5abikeblog.blogspot.com/
http://nr5abeaconblog.blogspot.com/
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:46:43 -0700
From: Larry Teran <satvader@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Rare Grids in South Dakota
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <BAY109-W59FA09188235AA2B1D4E5CD1B0@xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Give it a wing ding!!! Just let us know here on the BB on which sat and pass
you plan to be working and we will be listening for you!!!
> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:37:28 -0600
> From: nr5ajerry@xxxxx.xxx
> To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Rare Grids in South Dakota
>
> I can do some of the grids around me. DN84lc is the grid I live in.
> Right now it would have to be the FM sats. Rig would be my FT-60R and
> Elk antenna.. Also it would have to be during the day while my wife is
> at work.
>
> How would I notify everyone? I'd hate to go some place and not work
> anyone. Just getting ideas right now.
>
>
> Jerry - NR5A - South Dakota
> http://nr5abikeblog.blogspot.com/
> http://nr5abeaconblog.blogspot.com/
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:13:45 +0000
From: n3tl@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Rare grid squares?
To: "Jeff KB2M" <kb2m@xxxxxxx.xxx>, "'amsat bb'" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Jeff and everyone,
Randy is doing well. I emailed him recently while researching the feature on
Rob, KD4ZGW, that appears in the new issue of the AMSAT Journal, which has
already hit a few mailboxes. Randy is the first to have earned the Central
States VHF Society's Reverse VUCC Award on the satellites. Only one other
operator - Allen, N5AFV - also has the award on the satellites.
Congratulations to both of them. Those who know Randy may be interested in
this update he provided, when I asked if he ever gets on the satellites these
days:
I do listen on my way to work and did get back on for a few days last month.
I am going to help a school in Salt
Lake county with their ARISS contact which has not been given a date yet.
When they get a date I will on the
satellites a lot more to get back in practice. They last few years I have
been active doing EME on 2 meters and I have 107 grids confirmed via the moon.
You can check out http://emeshack.com/ for my latest status.
It was fun to give out all of those grid squares. Feel free to use the map at
http://www.xmission.com/~rkohlwey/images/fromgrid.gif
The map is current of August 3, 2006. The dots are the locations I have
worked a satellite from. The dots that are not in a shaded area I was not
able to complete a contact. The grids with the grid square displayed are the
ones that I did not send out a QSL card for. No one requested one.
Part of my motivation for giving out so many grids was to get help on working
all of the grids in the 48 Continental
states. I completed that on August 11, 2001. The blue dots on the following
map are confirmed QSOs on satellite.
http://www.uglyfrog.com/n7sfi/images/usagrid.gif
I completed a reverse WAS on September 12, 2008 but do not have QSL cards for
all the states.
Hope this helps,
Randy - WI7P
Moon VUCC! How cool is that?!
73 to all,
Tim - N3TL
-------------- Original message from "Jeff KB2M" <kb2m@xxxxxxx.xxx>: ---------
-----
> 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: 5
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:44:59 -0600
From: Jerry Felts <nr5ajerry@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Arrow Ant Outside?
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID:
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Trying to figure out one small ant to be permiently mouted outside in
South Dakota. How would the Arrow Ant hold up??
Anyone one have a used one they want to give up?? Without a dupxler
prefered.(have my own)
--
Jerry - NR5A - South Dakota
http://nr5abikeblog.blogspot.com/
http://nr5abeaconblog.blogspot.com/
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:46:17 -0600
From: Jerry Felts <nr5ajerry@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Arrow Ant Outside?
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID:
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Trying to figure out one small ant to be permiently mouted outside in
South Dakota. How would the Arrow Ant hold up??
Anyone have a used one they want to give up? Burnt upndipxler wuld be great
--
Jerry - NR5A - South Dakota
http://nr5abikeblog.blogspot.com/
http://nr5abeaconblog.blogspot.com/
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:47:23 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Trevor ." <m5aka@xxxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT-UK Colloquium at Guildford This Weekend
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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Just a final reminder that the AMSAT-UK Colloquium takes place at the Holiday
Inn hotel in Guildford, England on Sat/Sun July 25/26.
Nearest airports London-Heathrow and London-Gatwick.
The event is open to all Radio Amateurs and SWL's.
The programme can be seen at
http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/679/266/
Among the many presentations are:
? Earth-Venus-Earth Project Report by Peter Guelzow, DB2OS, AMSAT-DL
? Software Defined Radio reception of Satellite Signals by Drew Glasbrenner,
KO4MA
? Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Options by David Bowman, G0MRF
? ESEO Mission Update by Graham Shirville, G3VZV
Booking details are at
http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/25/49/
AMSAT-UK Colloquium
http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/32/42/
AMSAT-UK publish a color A4 newsletter, OSCAR News, that is full of Amateur
Satellite information. Join online at
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73 Trevor M5AKA
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:05:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rodney Waln <kc0zhf@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Rare Grids in South Dakota
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <366942.87261.qm@xxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
hi Jerry, just post to this BB your plans and you will get worked,
even from home, or around the Hills area,
there is some good high points close by for the low passes :-),
?
Rodney
kc0zhf DN94, SD
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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:41:25 -0800
From: John W Lee <k6yk@xxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Rare grid squares?
To: ka3hsw@xxx.xxx
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <20090722.185153.2452.1.k6yk@xxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Well, for me, they are:
DM28, DN37, DN67, DN73, DN75.
That would clean up the entire "Lower 48" for me!
73,
John K6YK
P.S. I have given out 57 grids and around 18 states in my travels
on the FM birds.
==============================================
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:31:47 -0500 "George Henry" <ka3hsw@xxx.xxx>
writes:
> 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: 10
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:53:42 -0400
From: "Marc Tessier - VE3TES" <ve3tes@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: SATpc32 doppler.sqf file (Marc Tessier -
VE3TES)
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
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Thanks to John K8YSE, and also Jean-Fran?ois M?nard VA2SS. I now have a great
collection of birds added to my possible list of satellites...
73 and CU on the birds soon !!!
Marc Tessier - VE3TES
ve3tes@xxxxxxx.xxx
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Message: 11
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:12:07 -0500
From: "Gary \"Joe\" Mayfield" <gary_mayfield@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Rare Grids in South Dakota
To: "'Rodney Waln'" <kc0zhf@xxxxx.xxx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <COL0-DAV58774219A9E7D0E30D09878A180@xxx.xxx>
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You almost don't need to post. Northwest South Dakota draws a crowd every
time!
73,
Joe kk0sd EN14, SD
-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of Rodney Waln
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 5:06 PM
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Rare Grids in South Dakota
hi Jerry, just post to this BB your plans and you will get worked,
even from home, or around the Hills area,
there is some good high points close by for the low passes :-),
?
Rodney
kc0zhf DN94, SD
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Message: 12
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:04:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Patrick STODDARD \(WD9EWK/VA7EWK\)" <amsat-bb@xxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] WD9EWK's road trip - Wednesday (22 July) report
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
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Hello!
After 7 days and over 1905 miles/3066km on the road, I'm back home
in Phoenix. Today was mainly a travel day, not wanting to make a
late drive home tonight before returning to work tomorrow morning.
I worked two passes to help some operators get QSOs with certain
grids, had lunch in between the two passes, and drove about 400
miles/640km today.
I started the day in Mesquite, Nevada - a small town along the I-15
freeway at the Nevada/Arizona border. Before leaving that area, I
worked one SO-50 pass around 1449 UTC from the DM26xt/DM36at line
just inside northwestern Arizona. DM26 is on regularly, but not
DM36. I figured I'd make one pass from here, handing out more QSOs
from there. I was in another part of DM36 in late May, operating
from Grand Canyon Village. In 2008, I worked from 3 different
spots in DM36 as part of my July 2008 road trip along Arizona's
borders with Utah and Nevada. I worked 7 stations across the US
and Canada, not a big number but pretty good for a weekday morning.
After the SO-50 pass, I made the hour-long drive down to Las Vegas.
I met Jeff WB3JFS, a Las Vegas resident and satellite ham, for lunch.
Jeff had told me earlier that he had never worked anyone in his
home grid (DM26), but had worked the other grid that covers the
southern end of metropolitan Las Vegas (DM25). I said I would try
to help him, and planned to work from the DM25jx/DM26ja grid
boundary where I stopped last year. Jeff gave me some QSL cards
for QSOs we had made earlier in my current road trip, saving the
postage for those cards. :-) After lunch, Jeff went home and I
went to the south end of the Las Vegas "Strip" for an AO-27 pass
around 2029 UTC.
In 7 minutes on AO-27, I worked 15 stations - including WB3JFS -
from the DM25/DM26 grid boundary. I realize that these grids
would not be the most rare of the grids in the state of Nevada.
I was not intending on going to those rare spots on this trip.
This stop, and the earlier stop in DM26/DM36, were made to help
others specifically looking for at least one of the grids at
those stops - and they were not out of my way for today's travels.
After the AO-27 pass, I dismantled my portable station and stowed
the gear. It was time to return home and wrap up this trip.
Other than s-l-o-w traffic passing over Hoover Dam on the Colorado
River, the drive was OK. Some rain near Hoover Dam and near
Phoenix, otherwise a quiet drive where I could set the cruise
control on my truck. I made a quick stop at Hoover Dam to get
some photos of Lake Mead (the water level was much lower than I
have ever seen it in person), and held my camera out the window
to get pictures of the new bridge being built over the river that
will replace Hoover Dam as the way to cross the river at that
point on the Arizona/Nevada border.
I will post a longer report covering all of my trip in a few days.
So far, I know I made over 250 QSOs throughout the trip, working
from 14 grids (DM25, DM26, DM35, DM36, DM37, DM38, DM45, DM46,
DM47, DM48, DM49, DM57, DM58, DM59) in 3 states (Arizona, Nevada,
Utah). In between the two AO-27 passes from DM58/DM59 in eastern
Utah on Monday afternoon, I made a quick road trip to the
Utah/Colorado border. I stopped at the state line to take some
photos, then went to the first exit on I-70 in Colorado before
returning to the DM58/DM59 boundary for the later pass.
If you worked me during the past week - going back to last Thursday,
the day before the hamfest in Williams AZ started - and would like
QSL cards for those QSOs, please e-mail me with a listing of the QSOs.
If you're in the log, you'll get a card (or multiple cards).
Since I operated from so many unique locations, I will need a little
bit of time to prepare cards. As I have tried to do in the last year
with my QSL cards, all of these cards will have descriptions of the
location for each QSO including the grid(s), name of the county I
was in during the QSO, and an image of my GPS receiver's display
showing the latitude and longitude for that location. I will
include the GPS image even for those cards where my location was not
on a grid boundary, to keep all of these cards similar in terms of
the information I am presenting for my location.
Was this a fun trip for me? Yes! I've never driven beyond the
Arizona/Utah border area in Utah, and it was fun to see more of that
state. Getting on the air a lot over the past week, whether I was
at the hamfest or on the road after the hamfest closed, was great.
Generally there was good cooperation on passes, allowing many to get
QSOs with me in these different locations. Meeting WB3JFS in Las
Vegas today was a nice surprise, and I was happy to help Jeff and a
few others get QSOs with new grids throughout this trip.
Time for bed. Good night, and 73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK - back home in Phoenix, Arizona
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
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Message: 13
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:55:36 -0700
From: "Jeff Yanko" <wb3jfs@xxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: WD9EWK's road trip - Wednesday (22 July)
report
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxxx.xxx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Message-ID: <01A1198075884188AC310976AAA9D659@xxxxxxxx>
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reply-type=original
Hi Patrick and all!
It was great to work 6 new grids over the past week, and I could've made a
few more if passes would've been a bit more time friendly. :) In any case,
I believe your trip was a huge success and many others will no doubtedly
agree. It was nice to meet up with you, have lunch and chat for a bit on
your final leg of the trip.
Patrick, like I told you about Lake Mead, it is getting low, that's why I
made the wisecrack about the water to the waitress. :) Another 19 foot drop
and a formal emergency will be declared and the water distribution rights
between the states, as well as Mexico, will be re-written.
Sorry about the traffic over the dam, but the view and surroundings of the
dam make up for any frustrations of waiting. :)
73,
Jeff WB3JFS
Las Vegas, NV
DM26
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)" <amsat-bb@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:04 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] WD9EWK's road trip - Wednesday (22 July) report
> Hello!
>
> After 7 days and over 1905 miles/3066km on the road, I'm back home
> in Phoenix. Today was mainly a travel day, not wanting to make a
> late drive home tonight before returning to work tomorrow morning.
> I worked two passes to help some operators get QSOs with certain
> grids, had lunch in between the two passes, and drove about 400
> miles/640km today.
>
> I started the day in Mesquite, Nevada - a small town along the I-15
> freeway at the Nevada/Arizona border. Before leaving that area, I
> worked one SO-50 pass around 1449 UTC from the DM26xt/DM36at line
> just inside northwestern Arizona. DM26 is on regularly, but not
> DM36. I figured I'd make one pass from here, handing out more QSOs
> from there. I was in another part of DM36 in late May, operating
> from Grand Canyon Village. In 2008, I worked from 3 different
> spots in DM36 as part of my July 2008 road trip along Arizona's
> borders with Utah and Nevada. I worked 7 stations across the US
> and Canada, not a big number but pretty good for a weekday morning.
>
> After the SO-50 pass, I made the hour-long drive down to Las Vegas.
> I met Jeff WB3JFS, a Las Vegas resident and satellite ham, for lunch.
> Jeff had told me earlier that he had never worked anyone in his
> home grid (DM26), but had worked the other grid that covers the
> southern end of metropolitan Las Vegas (DM25). I said I would try
> to help him, and planned to work from the DM25jx/DM26ja grid
> boundary where I stopped last year. Jeff gave me some QSL cards
> for QSOs we had made earlier in my current road trip, saving the
> postage for those cards. :-) After lunch, Jeff went home and I
> went to the south end of the Las Vegas "Strip" for an AO-27 pass
> around 2029 UTC.
>
> In 7 minutes on AO-27, I worked 15 stations - including WB3JFS -
> from the DM25/DM26 grid boundary. I realize that these grids
> would not be the most rare of the grids in the state of Nevada.
> I was not intending on going to those rare spots on this trip.
> This stop, and the earlier stop in DM26/DM36, were made to help
> others specifically looking for at least one of the grids at
> those stops - and they were not out of my way for today's travels.
>
> After the AO-27 pass, I dismantled my portable station and stowed
> the gear. It was time to return home and wrap up this trip.
> Other than s-l-o-w traffic passing over Hoover Dam on the Colorado
> River, the drive was OK. Some rain near Hoover Dam and near
> Phoenix, otherwise a quiet drive where I could set the cruise
> control on my truck. I made a quick stop at Hoover Dam to get
> some photos of Lake Mead (the water level was much lower than I
> have ever seen it in person), and held my camera out the window
> to get pictures of the new bridge being built over the river that
> will replace Hoover Dam as the way to cross the river at that
> point on the Arizona/Nevada border.
>
> I will post a longer report covering all of my trip in a few days.
> So far, I know I made over 250 QSOs throughout the trip, working
> from 14 grids (DM25, DM26, DM35, DM36, DM37, DM38, DM45, DM46,
> DM47, DM48, DM49, DM57, DM58, DM59) in 3 states (Arizona, Nevada,
> Utah). In between the two AO-27 passes from DM58/DM59 in eastern
> Utah on Monday afternoon, I made a quick road trip to the
> Utah/Colorado border. I stopped at the state line to take some
> photos, then went to the first exit on I-70 in Colorado before
> returning to the DM58/DM59 boundary for the later pass.
>
> If you worked me during the past week - going back to last Thursday,
> the day before the hamfest in Williams AZ started - and would like
> QSL cards for those QSOs, please e-mail me with a listing of the QSOs.
> If you're in the log, you'll get a card (or multiple cards).
>
> Since I operated from so many unique locations, I will need a little
> bit of time to prepare cards. As I have tried to do in the last year
> with my QSL cards, all of these cards will have descriptions of the
> location for each QSO including the grid(s), name of the county I
> was in during the QSO, and an image of my GPS receiver's display
> showing the latitude and longitude for that location. I will
> include the GPS image even for those cards where my location was not
> on a grid boundary, to keep all of these cards similar in terms of
> the information I am presenting for my location.
>
> Was this a fun trip for me? Yes! I've never driven beyond the
> Arizona/Utah border area in Utah, and it was fun to see more of that
> state. Getting on the air a lot over the past week, whether I was
> at the hamfest or on the road after the hamfest closed, was great.
> Generally there was good cooperation on passes, allowing many to get
> QSOs with me in these different locations. Meeting WB3JFS in Las
> Vegas today was a nice surprise, and I was happy to help Jeff and a
> few others get QSOs with new grids throughout this trip.
>
> Time for bed. Good night, and 73!
>
>
>
>
> Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK - back home in Phoenix, Arizona
> http://www.wd9ewk.net/
>
>
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Message: 14
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:37:10 +0000 (GMT)
From: Angel Pel?ez, EA4DUT <angelkilroy@xxxxx.xx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-27 telemetry software
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <547227.33523.qm@xxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
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Good morning everybody:
I'm trying to find out a way to make work AO-27 telemetry software (AO-27
TLM)?with the souncard and not with an external TNC.
Perhaps there is another?software or workaround to achieve it.
Any suggestion will be wellcome.
Thanks in advance.
73, Angel, EA4DUT
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Message: 15
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:43:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rodney Waln <kc0zhf@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-27 telemetry software
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID: <538321.23284.qm@xxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
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net search came up with is,
he has a great listing of Telemetry decoders
?
?
http://www.dk3wn.info/software.shtml
?
Rodney kc0zhf
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Message: 16
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:59:18 -0400
From: Jean-Fran?ois M?nard <jf.va2ss@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: SATpc32 doppler.sqf file (Marc Tessier -
VE3TES)
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Message-ID:
<b6cfdc060907230359r61c7f246nadbee8c6fae6bf8b@xxxx.xxxxx.xxx>
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Hi,
Be sure, when listening to beacon sat frequency, that the file
contains the RX and also a "dummy" TX" instead of leaving it to a null
value 0 as suggested. I talked to Erich earlier, because I found a
small concern when switching between a V/U and U/V and then go back to
a U only beacon sat, the software will not choose rhe right VFO. Erich
suggested me to put a dummy frequency instead of 0.
2009/7/22 Marc Tessier - VE3TES <ve3tes@xxxxxxx.xxx>:
> Thanks to John K8YSE, and also Jean-Fran?ois M?nard VA2SS. I now have a
great collection of birds added to my possible list of satellites...
>
> 73 and CU on the birds soon !!!
>
> Marc Tessier - VE3TES
> ve3tes@xxxxxxx.xxx
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VA2SS
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