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

[Ken Alexander]

Hi John,
Yeah, .950 is band center.  I use .920 because I hear that most people tend to congregate around band center, making it crowded.  I chose .920 to avoid that.
That said, your demos are done and I see we did work each other on AO-91!  You had a good signal!  How did your demo go?
73,
KenVE3HLS

      From: John Brier <johnbrier at gmail.com>
 To: "k.alexander at rogers.com" <k.alexander at rogers.com> 
Cc: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
 Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2018 2:25 AM
 Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Hamfest sat demos tomorrow 2018-03-31 on FO-29, AO-91, AO-92
   
Thanks Ken,

I want to do it right in the middle of the pass band, so if my math is
right, that would be 145.950 MHz.

73, John Brier KG4AKV

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 9:43 PM, Ken Alexander <k.alexander at rogers.com> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Tweet your FO-29 2m uplink freq before the event.  If people looking for you
> transmit on that freq as well then their downlink should be very close to
> yours.  It makes it easier to find you.  For example,  I usually Tweet that
> I will transmit on 145.920.
>
> 73 and good luck tomorrow!
>
> Ken
> VE3HLS
>
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>
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2018 at 18:29, John Brier
> <johnbrier at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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