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Subj: WEEKLY OPERATING UPDATE
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To : SAT@AMSAT
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 342.04 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. DECEMBER 8, 2002
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-342.04
** ANS welcomes the opportunity to publish your good news of success in
working a new satellite, new DX, new mode, etc. We also print reports
about what space related activities your local satellite groups and ham
clubs are doing. Send your operating reports to JoAnne (wb9jej@amsat.org)
and they will be printed here.
** Bruce Paige KK5DO, AMSAT Awards Manager, says that congratulations
go out to Leon Heidendal PA3GJE, for earning his Oscar Satellite
Communications Achievement Award. He is receipient #358. Leon has also
earned the South Africa AMSAT Satellite Communication Achievement
Award # US70.
** Bruce also extends congratulations to Peter Bodmer, AA9NF, for earning
his Oscar Satellite Communications Achievement Award. He is receipient #359.
To see these awards and a list of other awards, visit
http://www.amsatnet.com/awards.html
** Greg N0ZHE sent a report of a Thanksgiving weekend contact with the ISS
in the visual wavelengths. Greg wrote, "In the evening of Thanksgiving
Day John KA0OXY and I both went out to the back yard to watch a visual
pass of the ISS and the docked space shuttle fly over our location in
EM17. The elevation was at 40 degrees, passing from the SW to NE. At
about two-thirds the way through the pass we watched the ISS vanish into
thin air as it went into the Earth's shadow."
"On Saturday, November 30, we went out to watch the ISS and space shuttle,
still docked, fly over again on a SW to NE pass. We saw the station vanish
into the Earth's shadow as it did two evenings previously."
"Before this pass had started, I had put a call out on the local repeater to
Ron N5SMJ. Ron was not available at the time but Dan KB0LYK returned my
call. As I told Dan about the upcoming visual pass of the ISS/space shuttle
Conrad KB0FCL came on asking for more details. I heard other stations on my
mobile rig announcing they had a visual on the ISS."
"By the end of the pass our count on who had seen the ISS now included
KB0LYK and wife, WD0ACB, N0IEG, KC0FCL, N0IDW, KA0OXY, N0ZHE and many other
non-hams."
** John NE0P described his success on AO-7 last Wednesday. John wrote,
"I made my first AO7 QSO today, using a Yaesu FT100D with 13 elements on 2
and 16 elements on 432, and an antenna switch between the two. What a
thrill
it was to be on a satellite that was launched 28 years ago. My one QSO was
with Jim, W5SSG, who lives 1.5 miles from me. I heard many other signals,
and the satellite has a great downlink signal." John was using Mode B.
[ANS thanks KK5DO, N0ZHE, and NE0P and congratulates PA3GJE and AA9NF for
this week's operating news.]
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