[amsat-bb] FM Birds

Sat Jul 8 01:42:41 UTC 2017

The other three listed on the page are the unlaunched AMSAT Fox-1
satellites.

2 months and 2 weeks until RadFxSat (Fox-1B) is scheduled to launch!

73,

Paul, N8HM

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 21:36 Matthew Stevens <matthew at mrstevens.net> wrote:

> IO-86 works pretty good here from Florida when it's on ;-)
>
> - Matthew kk4fem
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jul 7, 2017, at 21:03, Rick Tejera <SaguaroAstro at cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > Ryan,
> >
> > What 6 are you referring to? ? The three are SO-50, AO-85 and
> Lilactsat-2 (rarely active).
> >
> > IO-86 has an FM transponder, but it's equatorial orbit is unacscesable
> from the US. EO-80 will most likely never be activated, for reasons I don’t
> recall, I'm sure someone will fill in that blank. The only other one I can
> think of is the ISS, whose repeater is again very rarely active and then
> usually when the downlink is available for other uses (as was the case when
> they tested the Russian satellites earlier this week.)
> >
> > Rick Tejera (K7TEJ)
> > Saguaro Astronomy Club
> > www.saguaroastro.org
> > Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club
> > www.W7TBC.org
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Ryan
> Butler
> > Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2017 1:50 PM
> > To: Joe <nss at mwt.net>
> > Cc: amsat-bb <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
> > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] FM Birds
> >
> > I count 6 on the page referenced above?
> >
> > There were several more that are inoperable now.
> >
> > Ryan, NF0T
> >
> >
> >> On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Joe <nss at mwt.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Really? there is only 3 of them?
> >> I had the impression there were a LOT more than that.
> >>
> >> Joe WB9SBD
> >> Sig
> >> The Original Rolling Ball Clock
> >> Idle Tyme
> >> Idle-Tyme.com
> >> http://www.idle-tyme.com
> >>> On 7/2/2017 10:46 AM, R.T.Liddy wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Joe....  See below.   73,  Bob K8BL
> >>>
> >>> FM Satellite Frequency Summary – AMSAT-NA
> >>> <https://www.amsat.org/fm-sate llite-frequency-summary/>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>    FM Satellite Frequency Summary – AMSAT-NA
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> <https://www.amsat.org/fm-satellite-frequency-summary/>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> ---
> >>> *From:* Joe <nss at mwt.net>
> >>> *To:* amsat-bb <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
> >>> *Sent:* Sunday, July 2, 2017 10:48 AM
> >>> *Subject:* [amsat-bb] FM Birds
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> As someone myself not into the FM Birds, I really have not paid any
> >>> attention to what is out there FM bird wise.
> >>>
> >>> But this past Field Day we had this 14 year old kid stop in at our
> >>> Field Day site.
> >>> He's newly licensed Tech, ( January got his ticket ), He sat down in
> >>> front of the HF radio and listened for ohh ten minutes or so, we then
> >>> offered him a chance to run the logger.
> >>>
> >>> And he did Great! We were running a Freq on 15 meters at the moment,
> >>> and then asked him if he would want to try getting on the radio, and
> >>> he said sure.
> >>>
> >>> We explained the exchange and QSO pattern of what to say and when and
> >>> all that.
> >>>
> >>> And said go for it!
> >>>
> >>> He was Incredible! Almost from the start he was Running the Freq like
> >>> a veteran pro!  The off freq SSB sigs never even fazed him at all.
> >>> Even pileups he handled perfectly. I was very impressed. For someone
> >>> that has never been on HF or even heard it before, it was like he was
> >>> doing this for decades!
> >>>
> >>> He would "QRZed Field Day" And he'd grab a call out of the pile,
> >>> never write it down or anything and go back to them with the exchange
> >>> and all that. Monitoring the QSO rate meter, he for the two hours he
> >>> played, he was running an average 90 QSO's a hour rate! Incredible
> >>> for someone that has never ever been on HF ever before!
> >>>
> >>> After he got off I talked to him a bunch and learned that he got his
> >>> license because he read someplace about Amateur Radio and how we can
> >>> talk through  Satellites all our own.
> >>>
> >>> Right now all he has is a Baeofeng BF-F8HP, so not much of a Sat
> >>> radio there,, BUT....  I want to give him a list of FM birds to at
> >>> least listen for, and Elmer him into some of the prediction
> >>> software's and or web pages.
> >>>
> >>> But I need a list of active FM birds that I can suggest to him to
> >>> listen for.
> >>>
> >>> Anyone?
> >>>
> >>> Joe WB9SBD
> >>> --
> >>> Sig
> >>> The Original Rolling Ball Clock
> >>> Idle Tyme
> >>> Idle-Tyme.com
> >>> http://www.idle-tyme.com <http://www.idle-tyme.com/>
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