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| Ham Radio AO-51 Satellite, again |
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I try my luck at working AO-51.
Higher quality over at google video-
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=52654
42877895009993
Bracket video -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwNIimeKOEI
N1ASA tells us how to correctly do this!
http://www.wku.edu/ksgc/sats.pdf
I use Orbitron - Satellite Tracking software.
It is free, you can download it from:
http://www.stoff.pl
A very good web based site for satellite
prediction is:
http://www.heavens-above.com/
Grid squares are used for location. My grid
is CM99. You can learn more about this at;
http://www.arrl.org/locate/gridinfo.html
Arrow Antennas-
http://www.arrowantennas.com/
Randy
Tags : K7AGE ham amateur radio hamradio AO-51 AO51 satellite kenwood yaesu icom FT-51 amsat |
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Durée : 661 s |
| The Ham Band Video |
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The Ham Band is Andrew (G3WZZ/OZ1XJ/OZ5E),
his wife Lissa and a group of Nashville
session musicians. All the songs are about
amateur radio and the booklet which comes
with the "Seek You" CD tells the whole story
of contests, dx-peditions, antennas etc.
The Ham Band has just finished their new
song/video which describes the whole process
of building a modern amateur radio station
and at the same time enables the
listener/viewer to learn Morse code - yes all
the letters and numbers are in there! The
video lasts about 20 minutes and there are 19
musicians playing in three different musical
styles (French Musette, Viennese Waltz and
German Oompah). The music changes key 24
times which means that this musical work may
get into the Guinness Book of World Records!
You can view the first quarter (about 5
minutes) of the video for free at
www.hamband.com
Tags : Ham Radio Amateur Country Music Antenna ARRL |
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Durée : 280 s |
| Frasier - Season 4 - Ham Radio - First Part |
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Frasier decides to re-create a radio murder
mystery, Nightmare Inn for KACL's 50th
anniversary. As such, he appoints himself as
director and narrator and allows his KACL
colleagues to have the other roles given.
These include Gil's role of a guest called
Nigel Fairservice, who we are told was forced
out of the army under mysterious
circumstances (Roz remarks that his playing
of the character will make it seem less
mysterious), with which Gil gleefully
comments throughout the episode about his
favourite line of dialogue (a monologue, as
he dies, reminiscing about "my boyhood in
Surrey, romping with my schoolchums in the
fens and spinneys, where the twilight bathed
the hedgerows like a lambent flame"); Roz as
the landlady Mrs Thorndyke and Bulldog as the
silk merchant, Mr. Wing.
Frasier also hires a voice actor called Mel
White (named as an homage to Mel Blanc) to
play several minor parts, but finds faults
with each of his renditions - his German
accent sounded Austrian, his dwarf too tall,
and his Irishman too Protestant, for example.
The actor storms out, leaving Niles to step
in (without the benefit of rehearsal).
Tags : Frasier Niles Marty Crane Daphine Moon Roz Doyle Bulldog Gil |
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Durée : 586 s |
| bhutan: ham radio - 2|6 |
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History of Amateur Radio
in The Kingdom of Bhutan
(Written and Compiled by Yeshey Dorji, A51AA)
'Hello Hello..... Able Charlie Baker Calling'
Going by available records, this call was the
first ever radio call sent out over the
Bhutanese airwaves. The year was 1955 - QTH
was Rida in Wangduephodrang, Western Bhutan.
The call was made by N Chhawna (AC5PN) on the
famous B2. The occasion was the Royal tours
of His Majesty King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck to
Eastern Bhutan.
N Chhawna (AC5PN) was the first radio amateur
to ever operate from Bhutan. Thus, credit
goes to him for putting Bhutan on the world
map of amateur radio.
N Chhawna was an Indian national from the
North-Eastern state of Mizoram. He worked in
Bhutan's Royal Bhutan Wireless as trainer and
supervisor.
The first western operator to operate from
Bhutan was Mr. Gus Browning of USA - a
legendary Dxpeditioner. It is still a mystery
how Gus managed to enter Bhutan during a time
when Bhutan remained almost exclusively
forbidden territory to foreigners. It would
seem that in return for permission to enter
Bhutan and operate from this extremely rare
location, Gus offered to train local
personnel in the use, repair and maintenance
of the B2 radio.
Gus began a series of transmission from
Bhutan -- first in1963 and then again in1965.
Gus reports, in one of his articles, that he
intended to come back to Bhutan in 1975 --
but there is no proof of him ever returning
to Bhutan -- after 1965. The last record of
his relation with Bhutan is a black and white
photograph of him with Dasho K Letho whom he
met in New York in 1973. During that time,
Dasho Letho was the Secretary of
Communications.
Bhutan was listed in the original pre-war
ARRL, DXCC Countries list - published in
1937. However, due to lack of radio activity
from within the country, it appears that a
country pre-fix was not allocated to Bhutan.
In a letter dated 1972, the then Director of
Wireless writes that Bhutan has been
allocated a country pre-fix - exact date when
it was done in not known but it is safe to
assume that it was an outcome of Bhutan
joining the UN system in 1971.
In the amateur radio world, as well as
international terms, Tibet ceased to be a
DXCC country on 30th May, 1974. Sikkim went
the same way in 1975. That left Bhutan as one
of the rarest DXCC countries in the Himalayan
region as well in the world. Bhutan remained
to be listed as the 2nd rarest country --
until the operation of the A52A DXpedition
after which the ranking began to slide.
As of the year 2000, with the introduction of
The Bhutan Telecommunications Act of 1999,
Bhutan formally authorised the operation of
amateur radio from within the country. The
Act came into effect as of April, 2000.
(http://www.bhutanmegalam.com.bt/misc/hamhist
ory.html)
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