TRYON Amateur Radio Club – K2JJI

On Wednesday, January 19 at 1630 UTC, engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama confirmed that the NanoSail-D nanosatellite ejected from Fast Affordable Scientific and Technology Satellite (FASTSAT). According to NASA, the ejection event occurred spontaneously and when engineers at Marshall identified and analyzed onboard FASTSAT telemetry; the ejection of NanoSail-D also has been confirmed by ground-based satellite tracking assets. NASA is asking radio amateurs to listen on 437.270 MHz for the signal and verify NanoSail-D is operating. Hams should send information to the NanoSail-D dashboard.

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Members of the TRYON ARC represented the club this pass weekend at the NOAA location in Albany NY. The group operated the WX2ALY station from 7:00AM until 10:30AM. Thanks to Steve (K2ALS), Earl (KR2L), Don (WA2EZ) and Edgar (KC2UEZ) for participating on this event.
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FASTRAC-1, FASTRAC-2, NanoSail-D2, O/OREOS and RAX were launched at 01:24 UT on Saturday Nov 20, reports of the signals are needed.

So far signals have been reported from FASTRAC-2 (Emma), O/ORES and RAX.

Nominal Frequencies:
- FASTRAC-1 “Sara Lily” 437.345 MHz FM AX.25 1200bps
- FASTRAC-2 “Emma” 145.825 MHz FM AX.25 1200bps
- RAX-1 437.505 MHz
- O/OREOS 437.305 MHz
- Nanosail D2 0.5 sec beacon every 5 sec on 437.275 MHz.

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For about a year now I (KC2UEZ) have been re-broadcasting the K2JJI repeater on this site. I decided to expand the number of repeaters monitored.

How this work? K2JJI 146.700Mhz will take priority over all the other frequencies. If there is a QSO on a nearby repeater and a new QSO starts on K2JJI, the QSO on K2JJI will be the one streamed to the internet. The list of monitored repeaters frequencies are:

	Name	Freq		Name	Freq
1	K2JJI	146.700	9	WA2ZWM	146.610
2	CA 2M	146.520	10	WB2BGI	145.430
3	CA 70cm	446.000	11	N2FEP	147.360
4	K1YMI	443.700	12	NC2C	145.350
5	KC2AUO	147.195	13	N2CJ	449.975
6	WA2UMX	147.240	14	WA2IR	146.790
7	KF2JT	449.275	15	K2AE	147.060
8	WA2AAU	146.865	16	K1FFK	449.425

If you want me to change any of the frequencies, please leave a comment, there is a limit of 16 frequencies.

Due to scheduling conflicts, the Albany Weather Service was unable to schedule a winter training session for us this fall.

Everyone is invited to attend the Herkimer session on Nov. 10th at 6:30pm hosted at the Herkimer County 911 Center.

To register please visit this link.

Steve (K2ALS) will be running the RACES net Tuesdays at 7:00 PM EST for the month of October 2010. Everyone is welcome to participate. The frequency is -146.70 without PL, or via Echolink using the node number: 510372.

Thank you Steve.

Please visit the new gallery section label JDRF for pictures of the event:  St Jude’s “Community For A Cure” 5K Race. It took place last weekend 10/03/2010. Thanks for all the help.