Category Archives: RS-44

Usual workup for WFD Satellites

Winter Field Day is this coming weekend, and it offers a total of SIX multipliers for making at least one CW/SSB and one FM satellite contact.  In addition another ONE multiplier can be achieved by sending/receiving a message via WinLink … Continue reading

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Getting Ready For Field Day Satellite

I haven’t made a satellite contact in a few years as another club member was nice enough to step up.  However, he had to back out this year, and I was left flat footed when everyone else took a step … Continue reading

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Getting Ready for SAT Field Day

For a variety of reasons, I’ve been off the satellites since last year.  With Field Day back on, one of my jobs is to make a Satellite contact for the Newport County Radio Club, NE1RI.  That means dusting off the … Continue reading

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Success with RS-44

I had a chance to get my Satellite rig on the air and added in information for HuskySat-1 and RS-44.  Never heard HuskySat, but during a pass around 23:45Z, I worked KS1G on CW, and N3CAL, W4ZXT + W5CBF on … Continue reading

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