[Elecraft] New Solar Powered QRP Station on the air!

[Ed Long]

Lyle,

Congratulations to you and all the team. Great job! Signal reports are 
already coming in and the satellite looks like it's doing great so far. 
Let's get some of those Elecraft transverters working the sat!

73 and thanks,

Ed Long
WA4SWJ
Editor, The AMSAT Journal

K2 #2078
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From: "Lyle Johnson" <wa7gxd at fidalgo.net>
To: <Elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [Elecraft] New Solar Powered QRP Station on the air!
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 08:35:17 -0700

OK, this is off-topic, so I'll keep it brief.

AMSAT-OSCAR Echo was launched from the Baikonur Cosomodrome in Kazakhstan on
2004 June 29 at 0630 UTC, inserted into orbit at 0645, and first
communications were established at 1452 when it passed over the US in range
of the command station(s).

Echo is an Amateur radio communications satellite, supporting simultaneous
voice (FM) and digital modes.  Details at www.amsat.org

You can uplink to Echo once it is commissioned (1 to 3 weeks, probably)
using an XV144.  Downlink is on 70 cm, so you'll have to wait for the XV430
(no this is not a product announcement!), or on S-band, which can feed into
your XV144 (see, I did get it to on-topic :-)

Yes, I am excited.  I designed the flight computer in this spacecraft,
participated in the design of many other subsystems, and was part of the
launch integration team at Baikonur just over a week ago.

-Lyle KK7P



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