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The July 18-25 Lesotho 7P8 DXpedition sponsor by the Lone Star DX Association and the Texas DX Society has added amateur satellite mode to its planned operations,DXpeditoin Leader Charles Frost, K5LBU/7P8TA has announced.

The operation will be on the AO-40 satellite. The uplink will be U–band (70cm) uplink on U-band 435.550 to 435.800 MHz CW/LSB and S2 (2.4GHz) downlink 2401.225 – 2401.475 MHz CW/USB, Frost said. The AO-40 satellite was launched Nov, 16, 2000 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana.

Equipment including antennas and a down converter were donated by Wayne Estes W9AE and a spare down converter donated by Bruce Paige, KK5DO.

Paige, qsl manager for the recent P5/4L4FN operation from North Korea is also providing pre-Dxpedition satellite training in Houston.

Paige is AMSAT VP of User Services & ARRL Awards Manager (WAS, 5BWAS,VUCC).

For additional 7P8 satellite information and news click on http://www.amsatnet.com

We re glad to offer such a needed mode from Lesotho, Frost said,adding that those wanting to make a contact with the DXpedition take it easy on us because none of us are satellite operators, but we are willing to try our best at giving everyone who wants one a 7P8 QSO.

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P PcSats hemsida finns det att lsa fljande:

END OF MISSION: PCsat was in full sun 10-20 April 2003 and continued to be power positive until 26 April. At that point it was back into heavy eclipses and the batteries are so weak that even in the sun, they can barely support a single packet. I m declaring PCsat mission as complete. It operated reliably for 19 months and supported over 2000 users worldwide. We were seeing typically 50 users in each 8 hour period on pcsat.aprs.org. So she was well used up until the end. We will leave her ON for continued experimentation, but the only packets you can get through PCsat now are very short ones.

Och Bob tipsar om hur man skapar sm paket att testa med:

– Mic-E formatted Packets (position, Course, SPeed and ICON)(only 9 bytes in the payload)
– Kenwood D7 and D700 s use the Mic-E format (Turn off any status text)
– Transmit VIA XBAUD and your 1 second 1200 baud packet will be digipeated back down at 9600 baud
– Set your radio to crossband and TX at 9600 baud on the UHF input.

PcSats hemsida

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Frn ANS-138 hmtar vi fljande fr er som jagar DX:

From May 19th to May 30th, and then again possibly 2 weeks later, Drew, KO4MA, will be in Anguilla for work. He will at the least have an arrow and HT to make QSOs on UO-14, and SO-50 or AO-27 if they are on or still on by the time they get to 18 degrees latitude. A reciprocal license application has been submitted, but since it must be picked up in person, and this is a work trip, the exact date that operations can start as well as the callsign
is unknown at this time.

Drew says, I would like to do AO-40 too, but my luggage allowance is VERY restricted due to work stuff. With the close range and attitude, I may be able to use the UHF half of the arrow and a helix/preamp combo, or line an umbrella with foil when I get there and try that. If it looks like I can fit the gear, and it will work, I ll take the radios to do AO-40 (Yaesu FT-790/817 combo). If I do make AO-40, it will be only in the earliest AM hours before work. I will endeavor to assemble this setup this week and test it before I go.

There is also a chance of an evening pass or 2 from nearby Saint Martin/Maarten (PJ7/FS).

QSL direct only, with an SASE, or SAE and green stamp/euro, to my QRZ.com address.

[ANS thanks Drew, KO4MA, for the above information]

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