[BARC-List] [amsat-bb] Special Commemorative SuitSat QSL Certificate

[Rick Meuse]

Hope this is of interest to some. Rick N1HID

A special Commemorative SuitSat QSL Certificate will be available to those
sending in reports of SuitSat signal on 145.990 MHz FM. Suitsat is due for
launch Friday 3rd Feb at 22:20 UTC and will only transmit for a few days. 
For further details see

http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2006/suitsat_qsl_certificate.htm
SpaceWeather.com is providing an alert service to let you know when SuitSat
is within range, see
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2006/spaceweather_alerts.htm

A Slow Scan TV decoding programme to display the SSTV picture that will be
transmitted by SuitSat can be downloaded from 
http://mmhamsoft.ham-radio.ch/mmsstv/

Further information on SuitSat can be found at
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/index.htm

To find out when you can hear SuitSat use the AMSAT Online Satellite Pass
Predictions page. Suitsat will be in the same orbit as the International
Space Station so select ISS
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/predict/

AMSAT-UK produce a quarterly newsletter "Oscar News" which is full of
Amateur Satellite information. For membership details contact the secretary
Jim Heck G3WGM
Tel: +44 (0)1258 453959
E-mail: g3wgm at amsat.org
Website: http://www.uk.amsat.org/


73 Trevor M5AKA
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