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Subj: Re: //WL2K Re: KD5NJR > space buffs
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Sent: 160120/0251Z 30022@AE5ME.#NEOK.OK.USA.NOAM BPQ1.4.64
Scott,
The biggest challenge is the bandwidth. Normal ham transceivers and scanners are too narrow banded. But the RTL-SDRs, etc. would appear to be a good candidate.
--Jeff AE5ME
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Date: 2016/01/19 02:59
From: KD5NJR
To: kb2vxa@vk6zrt.#bun.#wa.aus.oc
Source: KD5NJR
Subject: //WL2K Re: KD5NJR > space buffs
R:160119/0305Z 29959@AE5ME.#NEOK.OK.USA.NOAM BPQ1.4.64
Has anyone tried their hand at listening for WX Satellites ?
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Date: 2016/01/12 13:10
From: kb2vxa@vk6zrt.#bun.#wa.aus.oc
To: kd5njr@ae5me.#neok.ok.usa.noam
Source: AE5ME
Subject: Re: //WL2K Re: KD5NJR > space buffs
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From: KB2VXA@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
To : KD5NJR@AE5ME.#NEOK.OK.USA.NOAM
Hi Scott,
"There is so much space-related stuff we hams can play with."
Ain't that the truth! I'm reminded of one of my best Field Day adventures
ever when a crew of Rutgers University students showed up with a van load of
satellite gear and I helped them set up. They had a steerable array and
somebody connected the az-el rotor wrong. When they powered up it spun around
and pointed itself straight down. LOL! One quick fix and everything was
working but not quite as expected, no contacts for their section of the ARRL
contest logs... oh well. Then I went over to the Novice trailer to set up the
10M dipole and vertical, my old CB Ringo retuned for 10M. Inside the trailer
was a coaxial switch to mitigate the effects of polarization shifts. As we
erected the vertical I heard a click behind me, when it was secure I turned
around and found a reporter and her photographer from the local paper. She
interviewed me and I told her all about Amateur Radio and the Field Day myth,
a practice run for emergency comms when it's a contest in disguise. No, I
told her only the myth. The next day copies of the paper came around with my
interview and picture looking like the famous Iwo Jima with an antenna for
the flag. There it was for all to see, my 15 minutes of fame, that's about
how long it took to read the article.
One other FD adventure with another club, I always did the overnight shift
when most were sleeping cuz mama, that's where the fun is. (Bruce
Springsteen, Blinded By The Light) There's little but always some DX action
on 75M phone when everybody is zombieized and slap happy, more than short
contacts with the exchange. That's why I like it, I'm a rag chewer. The
calsign being W2DOR got little attention on its own but We're Two Dirty Old
Rats drew them like a magnet. (;->)
Back to satellites, unfortunately I never had a QTH where I could set up
anyting better than an eggbeater, but I had marvelous success with the ISS
using a home brew ground plane. This was soon after it first went into orbit
(gotta be fustus wit de mostus) and my first contact was with a Russian
Cosmonaut for the entire 10 minute pass. That quickly went downhill when the
world discovered they had a 2M rig up there. The same with packet, I had a
couple of exchanges at first, then it was Packet Collision City, soon after
only the repeater was running, everybody and his Uncle Hiram had his callsign
up in lights. That was the end of the ISS and space communications for me.
A few years later I ended up at this QTH with hopes I could at least put a
discone in the attic for 2M, 70cM and my scanner. After a few back and forths
with the landlord making lame excuses about this and that I realized he lied,
I became a paper ham with a "remote base" in Australia. My first sysop was
ray VK2TV who ran into difficulties and had to shut down, no problem when Bob
VK6ZRT came to my rescue. Meanwhile Ray and I became the greatest of mates,
he teaches me to speak Australian and I teach him American. Not only that but
he's a fellow computer geek, our current project just wrapping up is cleaning
out Windows 7 and making it spy proof after W10 was the turning point when
Microsoft fell from grace and became Micro$atan.
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Knock it off Little Devil, it ain't funny!
"New Jersey, the most American of all states. It has everything from
wilderness to the Mafia. All the great things and all the worst,
like Route 22."
Jean Shepherd K2ORS (SK) & WOR radio personality
73 de Warren
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