QRZ Forums - Satellite and Space Communications for Friday 9 June 2017

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Any indoor satellite users?

Posted: 08 Jun 2017 03:58 PM PDT
https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/any-indoor-satellite-users.566739/

I have never worked satellites and know almost nothing about them. Why is
it that when you see somebody enjoying a satellite QSO theyre always out
doors with a handheld antenna? Can you have an indoor station?



Hank/ke0cu

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Beginner APRS/Packet Questions about ISS

Posted: 08 Jun 2017 01:50 PM PDT
https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/beginner-aprs-packet-questions-about-iss.539651/

Hi all,



In the four years Ive been licensed Ive been vaguely away of some packet
and/or APRS capability aboard the ISS. With the Station getting on in age,
I thought it might be a good idea to try to do this while the equipment is
still operational.



Ive been researching on how to do this, but much of the information on the
web seems to be old, some of it about a decade in age and Im unsure if it
still accurate.



What can one do with the current digital capability onboard the ISS?...



Beginner APRS/Packet Questions about ISS

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AMSAT Strategic Planning Member Poll

Posted: 08 Jun 2017 06:39 AM PDT
https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/amsat-strategic-planning-member-poll.569657/

A key part of the strategic planning process, as President Barry Baines
explains in his article (http://www.amsat.org/?p=6058), is “member
engagement.” The reason is that, in a non-profit membership organization
like AMSAT, the members quite simply are the lifeblood, the key
stakeholders, or what a commercial enterprise would call “customers.”



Member engagement can take many forms. In the strategic planning process,
however, member engagement means helping AMSAT figure out how...



AMSAT Strategic Planning Member Poll

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AMSAT Strategic Planning Update

Posted: 08 Jun 2017 06:11 AM PDT
https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/amsat-strategic-planning-update.569655/

A report on AMSATs 2017 Strategic Planning process has been posted to the
AMSAT website.



http://www.amsat.org/?p=6058

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May/June Issue of The AMSAT Journal Sent to Printer

Posted: 08 Jun 2017 05:33 AM PDT
https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/may-june-issue-of-the-amsat-journal-sent-to-printer.569652/

The May/June 2017 issue of The AMSAT Journal has been sent to the printer
and should begin arriving in members’ mailboxes shortly.



In this issue:



*AMSAT Announcement



*Apogee View

Barry Baines, WD4ASW



*AMSAT Strategic Planning Update

Barry Baines, WD4ASW

Keith Baker, KB1SF/VA3KSF

Clayton Coleman, W5PFG

Paul Stoetzer, N8HM

Jerry Buxton, N0JY



*AMSAT Journal Strategic Planning Poll



*Hamvention 2017

Joe Kornowski, KB6IGK



*Setting the ISS UHF Distance Record

Jerry L. Rogers, W8LR



*Going...



May/June Issue of The AMSAT Journal Sent to Printer

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Apogee View - May/June 2017

Posted: 08 Jun 2017 05:08 AM PDT
https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/apogee-view-may-june-2017.569650/

The May/June edition of Apogee View, a comprehensive bimonthly update of
AMSATs activities written by AMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW, is now
available on the AMSAT website at http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=5850



Topics covered in this edition include:

-Hamvention

-Board of Directors Election & Leadership Changes

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"This Month in QST" Free Article: Satellite Roving in the Northwest
Territories

Posted: 08 Jun 2017 05:07 AM PDT
https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/this-month-in-qst-free-article-satellite-roving-in-the-northwest-territories.569649/

AMSAT member Gabriel Zeifman, NJ7H/VE6NJH, is the author of the ARRLs "This
Month in QST" Free Article for July 2017. The article, "Satellite Roving in
the Northwest Territories", chronicles his trip north of the 60th parallel
this past winter.



http://www.arrl.org/files/file/QST/This Month in QST/July2017/Zeifman
Promo.pdf