College Satellite Night March 27 on AO-51

[g4tut]

College Satellite Night March 27 on AO-51
College Satellite Night will be held Thursday March 27, 2008 (local time).

AMSAT Operations is supporting this event by dedicating a second repeater onboard AO-51 to college operations only for this date. Previous events have had the colleges well represented on the air.

This event is a great opportunity for radio hams who are satellite active to interact with existing college operators and/or to elmer a new generation!

Do you know a college student who would find amateur satellites interesting and intellectually challenging? Have them as a guest at your station and introduce them to amateur radio in a way they will never forget.

AMSAT has a dedicated orbiting repeater set aside for the evening on satellite AO51 for this event:

Uplink: 145.880 MHz FM, NO PL Tone
Downlink: 435.150 MHz FM.

Even if you are not set-up for transmission please listen in. You can find satellite pass information for the evening at:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/predict/

Hope to see you on the birds!







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[n2nrj]

I was listening @ 20:03 local time here in NY and heard nothing......kinda strange.....anyone else hear anything??

[kb3p]

I heard nothing on the 435.150 downlink during the 2nd evening pass at my location in PA. Was surprised, as there was activity on the usual frequency.

[ko4ma]

There was a good deal of activity on the 2nd evening pass last night (3/27 EDT). I heard W4DFU at UF, W5YM at U or Arkansas, XE1AO at U of Colima, W8SM at UMich?, and several others. There were messages posted on GO-32, and I heard stations were on AO-7 as well. It seems like word is getting out among the cubesat groups!

73, Drew KO4MA

[ke7jgb]

I live in Western Washington and was able to make a very short contact with someone in Alaska. He repeated back my callsign and said he was in Alaska. His signal wasn't, even with a preamp, even moving the needle. I've got an IC 821 and was using two eggbeater antennas. First and only time I've "worked" a satellite.... unfortunately, I couldn't get his call sign. If he does read this and remembers KE7JGB I'd appreciate hearing from him.

[w2nrl]

We heard N2NRJ loud and clear at W8SH (Michigan State Univ., who Drew heard), but N2NRJ wasn't receiving anybody.
We worked a dozen or so stations on AO-51 and SO-50 including XE1AO. Nice time, and we need to get some of these inactive university clubs back on the air; some of them have satellite equipment just sitting there rotting away..

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Michael A. Volz W2NRL
http://www.egr.msu.edu/~volzmich/