[amsat-bb] Re: Helped needed--AO-51 activity reports

[Andrew Rich]

I have been out of the loop for a while

Can someone help me with what birds I can pick up on a HT ?

- Andrew VK4TEC -


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark L. Hammond" <marklhammond at gmail.com>
To: "w4upd" <updwrb at bristor-assoc.com>; <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 9:40 AM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Helped needed--AO-51 activity reports


> Thanks, Reid.  One of the challenges for the command stations is that 
> sometimes we're working on the digital side of the bird (435.150) and 
> therefore can't easily tell what is going on with the 435.300 side.  So 
> reports are very helpful.
>
> Yes, we figure people will like the 1.47 Watt signals!  It spoils 
> you...that's up from around 500 mW a few days ago.  That's the benefit of 
> running one transmitter at a time...there is quite a bit of power 
> available when you don't have to share the available current between 2 
> transmittters :)
>
> Again, thanks for the report.
>
> 73,
>
> Mark N8MH
>
> At 06:13 PM 1/4/2011 -0500, w4upd wrote:
>>I worked a number of stations here in Melbourne, Florida during that
>>pass. AO-51 was coming quite good and I didn't even have my 70cm preamp
>>on during the entire pass while working the stations with omni antennas
>>that are not the same. The 70cm downlink was copied using a 2 meter
>>$2.50 homebrew groundplane for the 70cm downlink.
>>
>>Reid, W4UPD
>>
>>
>>
>>On 1/4/2011 5:59 PM, Mark L. Hammond wrote:
>>> Thanks to our many friends for their posts about AO-51 activity!  It is 
>>> very helpful.  I think our international colleagues are winning by a 
>>> landslide...
>>>
>>> I must admit a bit of disappointment though that many passes over the 
>>> East coast of the US go without a report...*please* consider posting 
>>> that AO-51 was active.  Just one report is helpful and confirms that the 
>>> bird remains active.
>>>
>>> Did anybody work AO-51 during the 4:45pm pass today??
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Mark N8MH
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> At 03:50 PM 12/30/2010 -0500, Mark L. Hammond wrote:
>>>> Hell All,
>>>>
>>>> The command team could really use your help.  If you work AO-51 (or 
>>>> hear it) and there isn't a recent entry, please make a report entry 
>>>> here http://oscar.dcarr.org/  so we know all is well.
>>>>
>>>> Things are touch-and-go now that we are experiencing eclipses, and 
>>>> reports on the OSCAR Status Page that the bird is up and functional are 
>>>> extremely helpful.
>>>>
>>>> We do expect the transmitter to go OFF during eclipse, but eclipses are 
>>>> only a couple minutes or less at the moment.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mark L. Hammond  [N8MH]
>>>>
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> Mark L. Hammond  [N8MH]
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