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

[Rick Tejera]

Mark,

I routinely work AO-51, AO-27, SO-50, HO-68 (FM) & SO-67 on my HT with. Homebrew dualband Yagi. 

Hope to work you soon.

Sent from my iPod
Rick Tejera
Editor, SACnews
Saguaro Astronomy Club
www.saguaroastro.org
K7TEJ

On Jan 4, 2011, at 18:09, "Andrew Rich" <vk4tec at tech-software.net> wrote:

> 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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