Yes, I’m doing it again. KD0BMW and I are heading back to Colorado (DM79) in February. Won’t have much of a place to transmit from so will have to do some SOTA work or just out at campsites.
Took a look at my LOTW, and I need one more states from that location; Delaware. For my RTTY WAS I need 5 more: Delaware, Maine, West Virginia, Nevada, and Rhode Island.
Whoops.. I broke it again.. will find my backup and reload in a short bit..
11/28 uploaded the back up but it didn’t have the image files.
Got a card via the bureau the other day and it was Canary Islands. This was the African continent card I was looking for to get my basic WAC. The next meeting I’ll get the cards confirmed and then will cut my $13 check to the league and I’ll wait for my new piece of wall paper <woot!>.
I haven’t been playing radio for a while now due to issues with being heard. I hope to move out of this radio hole in the first part of the new year. Reading up on a few new fun ideas over the last few months. I need to get off my butt and get my Extra studied and taken. Once that is over and done I can concentrate on a few other parts of the hobby that I need to address.
The new car has proven to be not an easy beast to put an antenna on, so I’m waiting right now to put that back in until I get a used truck or jeep come about the same time I plan on moving.
Yesterday we had a power outage due to a bad transformer (or so I’m guessing). There was a nice explosion nearby and for the next 75 minutes or so, no power. Once power came back up the PC running the radio gear threw a few PCI errors and paused. I rebooted and it seemed to come up okay. When I returned downstairs after a few minutes away, the screen was dark. No hard drive noise can be heard and the video is in perpetually sleepy mode. So far tinkering has not succeeded in awaking the beast.
The loss of the computer can be compensated for, but I’m not 100% sure I have all the data files off it I need. There are a few ARISSat images that I know I did not back up yet, and the audio files are over there. My Logbook may or may not be fully uploaded to ARRL, I think so, so I hopefully can pull down what I had not already shifted to the Windows7 box.
Could this be the absolute point where I move the radio to the G4 Mac? This could very well be.
Tonight’s ARISSat-1 SSTV image. Could have been a bit cleaner, but this was an unattended pass, so I didn’t control the dopplar that was going on. But still a decent image of one of the space side cameras.
Here’s the audio file and the photo for the 9:33pm CDT pass over EM48
Audio File link below.
Even with the bad radio reception and transmission we decided to stay here at the townhouse. Moving in the middle of August is just a mess, and the complex management agreed to actually FIX the problem. Imagine that. So my stickers I made for QSL cards can still be used.
SSTV image captured this morning on the pass
Antenna: J-Pole on second balcony pointed SE
Radio: Alinco DR-135
Audio File: 04Aug2011-072240
Adding a audio file from the 12:22GMT pass o4 Aug 2011 pass. Very poor, but you can make out the following:
Amateur Radio Satellite….
Foreign language
SSTV
Hi, this is ARISSat… Call sign? … With the help of Amateur Radio… Wish you and your family peace and happiness.. bye bye.
Telemetry numbers .. not legible.
Sorry for the mess I just realized that hosting the site over at WordPress itself doesn’t allow for me to post audio file. I wanted to post my attempts at ARISSat as it passes over head for your listening. That required me to again move the site and bring it back up on my own web hosting.
