AMSAT-NA, the ARRL, and AMSAT-UK will be well-represented at the upcoming Palm Springs HamFest at the beautiful Palm Springs Air Museum on Saturday, February 4, 2017. Clint Bradford, K6LCS, will be presenting his “How to Work Amateur Satellites With Your HT” presentation at 11 a.m. Benefits of AMSAT and ARRL memberships are always included. Throughout the presentation, several lucky trivia question answerers will receive beautiful prints from NASA and other fun items. And attendees will learn a little about the AstroPi computers that are aboard the ISS, running programs developed by kids in Europe! One of the raffle prizes K6LCS is donating to the HamFest is an AstroPi computer and SENSE HAT - the exact same hardware that is aboard the ISS! Throughout the presentation, several lucky trivia question answerers will receive beautiful prints from NASA archives. Your admission fee INCLUDES access to the extraordinary exhibits at the Museum. Pre-sales NOW are only $8 … $10 at the door. What a great family experience at such a minimal cost! Food this year will be catered (but NOT expensive), and there are so many aspects of aviation and military history and amateur radio covered that everyone should find many things to do during the day. The Palm Springs Air Museum is located at 745 North Gene Autry Trail, Palm Springs, CA 92262. The extravaganza is on Saturday, February 4, 2017, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. VE testing will be available this year from 9:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. The speakers/forums are listed at … http://palmspringshamfest.com/speakers/ Pre-sale tickets for only $8 are available at … http://palmspringshamfest.com/entry-tickets-purchase/ Tentative satellites passes during the show include AO-73, AO-85, SO-50, the ISS, and several others! See you in Palm Springs February 4, 2017! Clint Bradford K6LCS (909) 999-SATS
Satellite pass data for the show will be published soon ... Pre-program your rigs and work a couple birds with us at the show! The cutoff date for discounted pre-registration is January 15 - get your tix online NOW and save a couple bucks! And remember: Your admission ticket allows you to enjoy the Aviation Museum as well as attend the HamFest! And children under 12 years of age are admitted FREE! http://www.palmspringshamfest.com Tentative passes during the event: NO-84 at 8:51AM AO-73 at 8:54AM DELFI C3 at 8:56AM AO-85 at 9:19AM EO-79 at 10:33AM UKUBE-1 at 12:10PM SO-50 at 12:11PM ISS Packet at 2:57PM After 4PM, low elevation passes of CUTE-1, the XW-xx series, LilacSat-2, another ISS pass, and another AO-85 pass should occur. The handout will have frequency charts ... and I will publish it online before the event. Clint Bradford 909-999-SATS
I get that ARRL will be well-represented at this hamfest. It is an ARRL sanctioned event. I know that AMSAT will be there. That is listed on the Confirmed Vendors page of the hamfest's web site, and has been publicized by AMSAT on its web site and recent news bulletins (4 December and 10 December). I wasn't aware AMSAT-UK was sending anyone over to represent them. I'm a member of AMSAT-UK, a fine organization, and I would expect there are going to be AMSAT-UK members present at this hamfest. That's different than saying that the organization will be represented or "well-represented" there. I will have AMSAT-UK's FUNcube project patches at the AMSAT booth in Palm Springs, but I won't go as far as saying I am representing AMSAT-UK. "Just for accuracy's sake".
And it is great that you are properly representing what you are and what you are not doing. But your "promotional" posts lack, well, lack "promotion" --- Like the event's Web site - gotta mention that all the time to make it easy for readers to find ... http://www.palmspringshamfest.com And the fact that discounted tickets are available just through January 15 - so use the site's PayPal page to save a couple dollars on each today! And kids under 12 years of age are admitted FREE!
I appreciate your recognition of the truthfulness in my post. Sometimes that escapes you, Mr. Bradford. Since you seem to lack that quality in how you have presented yourself at this hamfest in this thread, we'll let your words from another thread clarify what you meant by "well-represented"... I'm looking forward to being out there. You expressed your opinion about AMSAT and this hamfest clearly in that other thread... The Palm Springs Hamfest extended AMSAT an invitation to their hamfest, and that invitation was accepted. The hamfest has now listed AMSAT as a confirmed vendor on its web site. AMSAT has listed this as an upcoming event on its web site where there will be an AMSAT presence, and that will be repeated in AMSAT News Service bulletins over the next few weeks. Word of mouth will also help spread the word. AMSAT's presence will be promoted via social media during the hamfest, too. "Just for accuracy's sake."
Any reason why you are planning to demo a sat that is now telemetry only like DO-64, but not the most popular linear transponder satellite in orbit, FO-29?
I can't speak for Mr. Bradford, but I hear either WD9EWK or W3ZM/6 could be on FO-29 from the hamfest. I have operated from the air museum a few years ago, after a past hamfest out there. It should be a good site for AMSAT satellite demonstrations during the hamfest. 73!
I have not published any passes that I will be working ... but FO-29 will be passing 50 degrees overhead at 9:31am for us ... and a 19-degree elevation pass at 11:17am. I am assisting the convention and working for a couple organizations for the early pass, and will be speaking, of course, at 11am.
>> ... I wasn't aware AMSAT-UK was sending anyone over to represent them ... As already stated, I will be representing AMSAT-UK, ARRL educational services, and ARISS at the Palm Springs extravaganza. During my presentation, at my table ... Oh, and the Astro Pi projects, too. And maybe even more ...
Cool. Do you have one of those "ham shirts" made up with patches representing all those organizations? Some guys like to get the button-up Dickies work shirts and sew on patches representing every club to which they belong. Looks real official.
The 'Fest's official flyer is available as a .pdf to download here - http://tinyurl.com/PS-HAMFEST-2017 The speakers/forums are listed at … http://palmspringshamfest.com/speakers/ Pre-sale tickets for only $8 (through January 15 only!) are available at … http://palmspringshamfest.com/entry-tickets-purchase/ Kids under 12 years of age admitted FREE! Hope to see you in Palm Springs February 4, 2017! Clint Bradford K6LCS (909) 999-SATS
A ham friend just advised me that her club members couldn't attend the upcoming Palm Springs HamFest on February 4, 2017 - because that is the day they hold their monthly meeting. SOLUTION: Change the meeting place to the parking lot of the HamFest! Conduct your 20 minutes of true club business, then adjourn and attend/support your fellow hams at the beautiful Palm Springs Air Museum! Carpool four to a car. Make it an EVENT for the club! Discounted admission online at ... http://www.palmspringshamfest.com ... is just eight bucks through January 15 - then ten dollars after that. And your children under 12 years of age get in FREE! That's NOT just for the Ham Fest - but also access to the phenomenal exhibits at the Museum! MAKE IT HAPPEN! Shake things up a little ... (grin). This reminds me of when my wife was president of our local Rotary club. One regular weekly lunch meeting, everyone was on time, and she clanged the opening bell and announced from the podium, "OK, everyone - let's march outside to the waiting bus: We are having lunch today at our local senior center." And outside was a fellow Rotarian in the Center's comfortable bus. It came off wonderfully ... Clint K6LCS PS And for every under-12-years-of-age attendee, I will have at my table a truly beautiful 4x6" photograph from NASA of a scene that we'll never see again - with no shuttle program: the silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour over Earth's colorful horizon n the photo by an Expedition 22 crew member on board the International Space Station - as the shuttle approached for its last docking during the STS-130 mission.
