1. http://www.amsat.org

2. AMATEUR SATELLITES NUMBER AND STATUS CONSTANTLY CHANGING http://amsat.org/amsat/news/wsr.html

3. AMATEUR SATELLITE TYPES Analogue FM Single Channel Analog Transponder -SSB/CW Digital Digital and Analog ISS

4. SATELLITE ORBITS Low Earth Orbit - LEO High Altitude Elliptical Orbit

5. LEO ORBIT - 1000 Kilometers Nominal

6. O High Elliptical Orbit

7. AMATEUR SATELLITES IN ORBIT OPERATIONAL - 16 SEMI OPERATIONAL - 11

8. OPERATIONAL SATELLITES 2 ANALOG + DIGITAL 8 ANALOG 6 DIGITAL ISS http://www.rac.ca/ariss.htm

9. ANALOG SATELLITES TRANSPONDER - 8 FM REPEATER - 2

10. SATELLITE MODES OPERATE CROSS BAND Up on one band - Down on another Analog operation FULL DUPLEX

11. TRANSPONDERS Receives and retransmits a frequency band eg. RS-12 mode K non inverting Rx 21.210 to 21.250 Tx 29.410 to 29.450 AO-40 mode U/S inverting Rx 435.550 to 435.800 TX 2401.475 to 2401.225

12. LEO FM REPEATER SATELLITES UO-14 145.975 up / 435.070 down SO-41 145.850 up / 436.775 down ISS 145.990 packet up / 144.490 voice up 145.800 down

13. LEO ANALOG TRANSPONDER SATELLITES AO-7 2 m up / 10 m down 70 cm up / 2 m down RS-12 15 m up / 10 m down RS-13 15 m up / 2 m down RS-15 2 m up / 10 m down FO-20 2 m up / 70 cm down FO-29 2 m up / 70 cm down

14. HIGH ORBIT TRANSPONDER SATELLITES AO-10 70 cm up / 2 m down AO-40 2m or 70 cm or 23 cm up / 13 cm or 1.3 cm down

15. MY INTEREST HI ORBITERS LARGE FOOTPRINT WORK MOST OF WORLD ( not just W and VE) EASY TO RAGCHEW SEVERAL OPS GET INTO DISCUSSION ON THE SAME FREQUENCY SMALL DOPPLER AND ANT POINTING INCREMENTS

16. MY FAVOURITE AO-40

17. AO-40 VERY LARGE ELLIPTICAL ORBIT VERY LARGE FOOTPRINT ONE ORBIT TAKES 19 hrs 6 min CIRCLES AROUND EQUATOR www.amsat-dl.org/journal/adlj-p3d.htm

19. AO-40 OPERATING FREQUENCIES DOWNLINK S-BAND 2401.225 - 2401.475 K-BAND 24084.010 -24048.060 UPLINK U-BAND 435.550 - 435.800 or L1-BAND 1269.250 - 1269.500 or L2-BAND 1268.325 - 1268.575 V-BAND 145.840 - 145.990

20. CONSTRAINTS OFF POINTING ANGLE SCHEDULE

21. O OFF POINTING ANGLE

23. O 0(256)128 64 192 Mean Anomaly “ MA”

24. SCHEDULE MA 036 - U/L - 120 120 - V/L- 129 128 - RUDAK - 160 160 - U/L2 - 200 200 - BEACON - 036 http://www.amsat-dl.org/journal/adlj-p3d.htm

25. O 0(256)128 64 192 036-UL-120-VL-128-RUDAK-160-UL2-200-BEACON-036

26. VISIBILITY SCHEDULE

27. LEO SATELLITE EQUIPMENT FM - HT and hand held Arrow ant. TRANSPONDER - 2 m 50w ssb tx / 70 cm low noise preamp and 70 cm ssb rx : az/el rotor, 8 to 12 ft boom 2 m and 70 cm ants.

28. AO-40 TRANSMIT EQUIPMENT 70 cm up: 50 w ssb/cw into 10 to 12 ft boom, right hand circular antenna

29. AO-40 RECEIVE EQUIPMENT

30. MAJOR URL SOURCES AMSAT NA - www://http.amst.org AMSAT DL - www://http.amsat-dl.org AMSAT UK - www://http.uk.amsat.org

31. AMATEUR SATELLITE EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS Down East Microwave - http://www.downeastmicrowave.com/Catalog.html SSB Electronics - http://www.ssbusa.com/ham.html Hamtronics Inc. - http://www.hamtronics.com K5GNA - k5gna@aol.com (e-bay)

32. AMATEUR SATELLITE ANTENNA SUPPLIERS M2 - http://www.m2inc.com Arrow Antennas - http://www.arrowantennas.com K5GNA - k5gna@aol.com

33. AMATEUR SATELLITE WEB PAGES AND INFO K5OE - http://members.aol.com/k5oe WB6LLO - http.san.rr.comdoguimont/uploads K1IR- http://www.designet.com/k1ir/AO40bookmarks.htm Getting Started with AO-40 - http://ao40homestead.com/index.html AO-40 FAQ - http://hamgate.apana.org.au/AO-40FAQ.htm

34. AMATEUR SATELLITE SOFTWARE http://amsat.org/amsat/catalog/software/html

35. VE3NPC AO - 40 ANTENNA ARRAY