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- Subject: Ham-Space Digest V94 #173
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- Ham-Space Digest Fri, 1 Jul 94 Volume 94 : Issue 173
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- Today's Topics:
- AO-13 and Field Day (2 msgs)
- Newbie Experience with DOVE Satellite
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- Date: 30 Jun 1994 14:04:44 -0000
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!sacsa3.mp.usbr.gov!ash.lab.r1.fws.gov!ash.lab.r1.fws.gov!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: AO-13 and Field Day
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
-
- davem@ee.ubc.ca (Dave Michelson) writes:
-
- >Did anyone else manage to work anybody through AO-13 on Field Day?
-
- >We heard the beacons loud and clear but the transponders were
- >absolutely silent. Was this just a case of a really bad squint angle
- >or was there something else going on?
-
- I was able to work 2 people in during the first 15 minutes of the
- contest. Since I only needed one, I didn't listen any longer. Tough
- job, huh!? Did you check the mode schedule? I noticed that a while
- back somebody in Italy reported that the bird was off between 0
- and 80. The official reports say it's on, but when I listened during
- the week prior to FD, it didn't appear to be on until MA 80. I did hear
- the beacon though...
-
- --
- Stu Mitchell stu@lab.r1.fws.gov
- USFWS Forensic Lab mitchellstu@fws.gov
- Ashland, Oregon wd4eck@w7oek
- *** These are my opinions, not the Government's ***
-
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-
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 94 08:49:50 CST
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!iat.holonet.net!vulcan!n4nr@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: AO-13 and Field Day
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
-
- ve8ev@gov.nt.ca (John Boudreau) writes:
-
- > In article <1994Jun29.083523.6609@ee.ubc.ca> davem@ee.ubc.ca (Dave Michelson)
- > >Did anyone else manage to work anybody through AO-13 on Field Day?
- > >
- > We heard the beacons loud and clear but the transponders were
- > >absolutely silent. Was this just a case of a really bad squint angle
- > >or was there something else going on?
- > >
- > --
- > >Dave Michelson ve7tsx
- > >davem@ee.ubc.ca
- > >
- >
- > Same here. I think it was the squint angle though. At about 1130UTC
- > I did manage to hear my own CW and a few other stations on the downlink
- > but signals were too weak for me to copy. It does seem strange that
- > it was not working at the beginning of the orbit. I had the beacon
- > at S-9 when it was already 11000 km out but nothing else was heard.
- > Oh well. Moving to attitude 180/0 on July 11 :-) :-) :-) :-)
- > =============================================================
- > John Boudreau VE8EV INTERNET: ve8ev@amsat.org
- > Inuvik, NWT, CANADA PACKET: VE8EV@KL7GNG.#NAK.AK.USA.NA
- > =============================================================
- >
- >
-
- Could it be that you were listening during the time that mode B was off?
- The schedule according to the cw beacon had mode b switched off for quite
- a while around perogee....This was never (to my knowledge) published in
- the written schedules, but when I copied the beacon, sure 'nuff...the
- command team said mode b was off around perogee.......
- as for contacts, we made 80 contacts, (42 on AO-13, 33 on AO-10 and 5 on
- FO-20) and we were using only cush-craft antennas......don't think that
- our differences in QTH would make much difference, as we both suffered
- poor squint angles and condx....maybe just unlucky timing?
-
- --
- Dennis T. Dease internet - n4nr@vulcan.com (or n4nr@amsat.org)
- Pelham, Alabama, USA packet radio - n4nr@kd4cim.al.usa.na
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 17:51:11 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!battin@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Newbie Experience with DOVE Satellite
- To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <1994Jun27.154429.3566@radian.uucp>, Phil Riba (philr@radian.com) wrote:
- > Newbie Experience with DOVE Satellite
-
- > I finally decided to see if I could "catch" my first
- > satellite last week. Since DOVE is supposed to be so
- > easy to hear, I decided that it would be my target.
- > Everything you've heard about it is TRUE. I fired up
- > a tracking program, determined when the next pass would
- > be, and then turned on my ICOM handi-talkie. Right on
- > schedule, there it was saying, "HI, THIS IS DOVE IN SPACE."
- > Would could be easier? I thought I'd share my experience
- > with the net just in case there are any others out there
- > who have been wanting to try and hear a satellite first
- > hand, but haven't ever gotten around to it.
-
- [snip,snip]
-
- I want to thank you for this informative article.
- I heard DOVE today (around 11:40 am, EST) with
- a simple 1/4-wave ground-plane on my HTX-202, by
- following your advice to just monitor 145.825, since
- I don't have any tracking prog set up yet.
- I might mention that the DOVE team is interested in
- reports on how well simple equipment does at receiving
- the satellite - the last SpaceNews article has an
- internet address for sending reception reports, although
- I unfortunately didn't document my reception well enough
- to say anything other than that I _could_ hear it.
-
- Anyhow, thanks again for the neat info!
-
- --
- Gene Battin, N9XAM
- battin@iucf.indiana.edu
-
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