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

[Stan Rife]

	Congratulations Lyle!!! I need to get my Sat station back
operational. I miss working the Sats...It's been about 6 or seven years.



Stan Rife
WD5EWA
Houston, TX
K2 S/N 4216
 

-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Lyle Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 10:35 AM
To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] New Solar Powered QRP Station on the air!

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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