[amsat-bb] Hamfest sat demos tomorrow 2018-03-31 on FO-29, AO-91, AO-92

[John Brier]

Hi friends,

Philip Jenkins N4HF, and I will be representing AMSAT tomorrow at the
Raleigh Amateur Radio Society Hamfest (RARSfest). We will have a booth
with AMSAT merchandise and I will be doing satellite demos outside.

I am planning on working these passes from grid square FM05:

FO-29 @ 1220 UTC
AO-92 @ 1519 UTC
AO-91 @ 1648 UTC

FO-29 is an experiment as I've only worked it once making two contacts
so far, but I plan to use my Portable Rotation Az/El rotator so I can
focus on tuning the frequency. I only committed to RARS, and they only
put on the schedule, the AO-91 and AO-92 passes, so if I can't get
things working for some reason on FO-29, it's no big deal, but I am
personally excited about the opportunity to make it work so would
appreciate any operators who will try to work me. I will probably try
to stay in the center of the passband to make it easy for me.

One thing to mention is that in order for us to be easily
findable/seen by the attendees we will be doing the demos close to the
building the hamfest is inside, so for certain parts of the pass we
may not be able to get in at all as the bird is behind the building,
so hang in there if you don't hear us (really me) immediately.

I will be using my callsign for the demos.

I may send out updates on any additional passes I might try to do or
other changes on my Twitter account:

https://twitter.com/SpaceComms1

73, John Brier KG4AKV