SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-289 01 ANS Special Bulletin - AO-51 Configuration to Support Scouting JOTA

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 289 01

From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD October 16, 2009 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-289 01

AMSAT-NA is supporting the 52nd Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) Scouting event by dedicating AO-51 operation to the Scouts

AMSAT-NA VP Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA said, "For October 17th and 18th, the AO-51 QRP repeater will be allocated for JOTA use All users are requested to give way to JOTA stations or QSOs with JOTA stations "

The frequencies used for this weekend will be 145 880 FM uplink, and 435 150 FM downlink, no PL tone required The mode change should occur at ~00:00 UTC on the 17th (Friday evening in the US) and run for approximately 48 hours

AMSAT wishes the Scouts good luck operating via the AO-51 satellite for the event

Reports of your JOTA operations should be sent to the AMSAT-BB or directly to ko4ma@amsat org

Photo files up to 5 Mb total are also welcome for possible inclusion in an upcoming AMSAT Journal article

Keith Pugh, W5IU, reports from Texas, "K2BSA will be operating on the Amateur Radio Satellites from the National Scouting Museum in Irving, TX, from 14:00 to 22:00 UTC on Saturday, 17 Oct 2009 We will be on as many of the passes listed below as possible We will be operating as a portable, hand-held station Bring your Scouts and join us on the Birds "

Here are the predicted passes for K2BSA:

WinAos QTH: -97 0/32 9 T#: 11612 Sat : 6 [Standard]

 Day     Object       AOS (U) LOS Period maxEl   AZ

17 10 2009 SO-50 14:41 14:50 09 10 356 - 098 17 10 2009 AO-07 14:47 15:06 19 37 005 - 225 17 10 2009 VO-52 15:35 15:48 13 35 023 - 176 17 10 2009 SO-50 16:20 16:33 13 76 330 - 155 17 10 2009 VO-52 17:12 17:23 11 16 348 - 228 17 10 2009 AO-27 19:10 19:23 13 20 129 - 003 17 10 2009 AO-27 20:48 21:03 15 39 185 - 340

There will also be an ARISS Contact with Scouts at the museum that will take place starting at 21:53 UTC This will be a Telebridge contact via WH6PN in Hawaii The contact will be on the EchoLink AMSAT Conference and on a wide area, 442 400 MHz repeater in the Dallas/Fort Worth area

[ANS thanks Keith, W5IU, and Drew, KO4MA for the above information]

/EX

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