Ham Radio AO-51 Satellite Demonstration

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Every Friday a group of us radio guys meet at the Flour Garden Bakery and coffee shop in Grass Valley to talk radio. This morning Grover, K7TP, passes out some modified computer mice to accept a key for Morsemail operation.

After the mice are passed out, we start on our AO-51 satellite pass.

What follows was not part of the plan.

N1ASA tells us how to correctly do this!
http://www.wku.edu/ksgc/sats.pdf

Satellite Predictions, set up an account at
http://www.heavens-above.com/

Morsemail
http://brasspounder.com:8873/

AO-51
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID



1&retURL
/satellites/status.php

Arrow Antennas
http://www.arrowantennas.com/

Pocketsat
http://www.bigfattail.com/pocketsat/

73 -
Randy
















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Ham Radio AO-51 Satellite Demonstration

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  • i down loaded the ...

    i down loaded the program obitron and i cant get the AO-51 sat

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  • You can do that ...

    You can do that with a handheld? Does that mean handheld are capable of long distances?

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  • Used to work out of ...

    Used to work out of W.Sac for FedEx and would find myself all over the area including Grass Valley! In fact I think I used to use that same 440 machine before I moved to Japan. Now I stand in my apartment's parking lot doing the same thing as you guys in the video; waving an arrow antenna around looking for the next satellite pass.

    73, N6ELF/JE6CLO

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  • Great video! Very ...

    Great video! Very well produced! I hope we get to see some more of the Flower Garden club in the future!

    Peter

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  • I am curious about ...

    I am curious about your 44 element beam I bet you could get some could repeaters.

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  • great video, I'm ...

    great video, I'm dying to try sats one of these days, 73s KD8HGU

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  • Check out my other ...

    Check out my other AO-51 video. Enjoy. Randy

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  • Too cool.. just ...

    Too cool.. just found this video.

    I used to work A0-14 all the time before it died.

    Great video.. 73 De W6UTC :)

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  • Thanks, I really ...

    Thanks, I really try and have good audio on my videos. Audio really makes a big difference. There are so many videos with no sound or no narration, so that you have no idea what is going on. Kind of like silent movies! Keep watching. Randy

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  • Looks like you guys ...

    Looks like you guys had some fun. The audio sounded really great:-).

    73, Rudy King KC0GQT

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  • Friggin' borin'

    Friggin' borin'

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  • great show man, ...

    great show man,enjoyed.--vu3sck

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  • Great Video Thats ...

    Great Video Thats what Hamradio it's all about.

    By np3ba [Affiliate User] 1191365547 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Seems like a great ...

    Seems like a great bunch of guys. Too bad you weren't able to make a contact!

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  • Those are ...

    Those are microphone holders. Randy

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