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QCWA Lapel pins are gold plated, with call engraved. Two types are available. r No year tags. Choose tie-tack, safety-pin, or screw type. Plain pins (no year), each $10.00 I With year tags (clutch-type only). Specif year-25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65,70, or 75. Year pins, each , (as of March 10, 1994) QCWA Life Member pin QCWA Embroidered emblem 270 QCWA Red stamps (regular) 270 QCWA Gold stamps (Life) 240 QCWA Yellow Stamps (50-yr) QCWA Logo on rubber stamp QCWA Cap with Logo iQCWA Chapter Banner ig.*t fecars. Sweatshirts and T-shirts i iQCWA QSL Cards I l*rO, Ship to: vests are no longer available. $15.00 $ 5.00 $ 5.00 $ 2.50 $ 2.50 $ 2.50 $ 6.50 $ 5.00 $200.00 $ 1.00 (Please call to order) (Please call to order) Total $ Name Call QCWA No. No. and Street ic,,, State Zipccdie Sorry, but we can no longer accept orders charged to credit cards. Please mail your check to: QC\YA,Inc. 159 E. 16th Ave. Eugene, OR 97401-4017 Lplgg[ryg{"rg{y,_pqr{e1s}.101-981!e_!1J"llo!{sf 1!lel j QCIIA Journal Member Supplies 32 Certificates MEMBERSIIIP CERTIFICATES numbered in serial order are iszued to each member. Numbers are not re-issued except to the same member to whom they were first issued. QCWA GOLD CERTITICATES celebrate the 50rh anniversary of licensing. Issued without charge to eligible members upon proofofyear offirst license. GOLDEN CERTIFICATES are issued in five year increments-Ss, 60, 65, 70, 75 year Certificates free of charge to eligible members. 50-YEAR CONTINUOUS LICENSING Gold certificate available to eligible members. Requires submission of proof of continuous licensing. There is a $5.00 fee. Applications available from QCWA Headquarters. QCWA CENTURY CLUB CERTIflCATE is issued to QCWA members whose age, when added to their number of years as a QCWA member totals 100 or more. No charge for the Certificate. MERITORIOUS AWARD is issued by Headquarters, upon request of any active QCWA Chapter. One such award is authorized for each Chapter each year. The award may be given to recognize unusual dedication to QCWA or Amateur Radio. No charge for the award. Operating Awards QCWA Operating Award Certificates are issued to QCWA members by the activities manager. Proof of eligibility is required. QCWA WORKED 50 STATES awards are issued to QCWA members who have contacted members in each state of the Union. QCWA WORKED 100 MEMBERS awards are issued to QCWA members who have contacted at least 100 QCWA members. QCWA WORIGD 60 CHAPTERS awards are issued to QCWA members who have contacted members of 60 chapters. QCWA WORKED 500 MEMBERS awards are issued to QCWA members who have contacted 500 QCWA members. In addition, plaques are awarded to the highest scoring members for both phone and CIY 8SO Parties. Runners-up receive certificates.
Amateur Radio Satellite News By: Keith Pug[ W5ru, Vice President of Operations, AI4SAT-NA. n recent olumns I have talked about a number of the currently active Amateur Radio Satellites, but it has been a long time since a complete list of the Amateur Radio Satellites has been pnblished in thisjournal or any other for that nntter. This column will be devoted to a brief description of the ..active birds,' and souroes of information about tlre Amateur Radio Satellite program. Active Amateur Radio Satellites: The Journal Hitor informed me that a roquest had been made for an alphabetical li*ing of the active amateu radio satellites in a couple of lines. Here are the lines: AO.l0, AO.13, A0-16, AO-21 ES-14), AO- 27, ARSENE, DGIT (DO\18), FO-20, 1026, Ko}3, KO.25, LG.19, N4IR, POSAT (pG.28), Rs-loill, RS-12/13, UO-11, UO. 22,andWO.l8. The above oompct list itlustrates the number of amateur radio satellites currently activg but it does not tell the whole $ory. For this issue only, a tabular listing outlining a few more details is incluMasTablel. As you (itn see, in Table I, amateur radio satellites conp from a variety of plaoes, serve a rariety of functions, and most live Iong lives. ARSENE, unforhmately, appears to have been slrort livo( but it has not been crossed off completely yet. A few of the others have degraded with time, but are still flrnctional in at least one mode. A few words of explanation are in order for some of ttp entries. A MOLYNIA orbit is a high altitude elliptical orbit ttut is usefirl forreal timeDX. Manypoople haveworked DXCC through tlre'birds". A LEO orbit is a Iow Earth O6it, usually polar or NAME AO-r0 uo-ll MIR RS-10/11 AO-13 RS-12/13 AO-16 DO-17 wo-18 LO-19 FO-20 AO-21 uo-22 KO-23 ARSENE KO-25 1o,-26 AO-27 POSAT Table I: ACTIVE AMATEUR RADIO SATELLITES at least fairly high inclination. LEO satellites terd to be much easier to worft due to their relatirrely short range from yor station; horryever, their real time communication range is much shorter than a MOLYNIA'bird." The LEOs are ideal for digital $ore and foruard applications (flyrng mailboxes). Three broad tpes of satellites are listed. ANALOG mqms a lineartransponder is canied on the satellite and any mode normallyused on IIF can be used through the tansponder. One word of cautioq please use only low duty cycle, rurow bandwidth modes such as SSB and CW. FM is a "hog,' on two counts so don,t use it on the analog 'birds." DIGI. means a digital transponder capable of Packet Rdio Communications. A & D nrears both Analog and Digital transeonden are available. EDU. means Educatiorul. Tlrcse'birds" are useful as educatiorul denpnstration tools. They are usully receive only "birds." The oommand station can change ttre sntents of any nressages and operating modes, but the user can only listen. Shtellite MODES are aluays oonfusing to the newcomer, but ttry are really a oonvenient "shorthend" method of eryressing tte uplink and downlink bands. For example: MODE ',A" is 2m up ard 10m down. MODE "B" is 70cm up and 2m down. MODE "S" is 70cm up ard l3cm dolvn. MODE "K' is l5m up and 10m do\iln. MODE "I'is 2m up ard 70crn down. Otlrer nrcdes reside in some of the'birds," hrt these are the orrently used mtr. This whole mode sctreme will be overhauled with the advent of phase 3D. More about that later. ORBIT TYPE MODES LAUNCII NATTONALITY MOLYNIA LEO LEO LEO MOLYNIA LEO LEO LEO LEO LEO LEO LEO LEO LEO GEO DR. LEO LEO LEO LEO ANALOG EDU. MANNED ANALOG ANALOG ANALOG DIGI. EDU. EDU. DIGI. A&D A&D DIGI. DIGI. A&D DIGI. DIGI. A&D DIGI. B 2m Rec. 2m FM A (PRr.) B,S K (PRI.) J 2mRec. J J J B J J 2m&S J J I J 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1990 1990 1990 1990 l99l 1991 1992 1993 1993 1993 t993 1993 MI.JLTI UK USSR USSR MULTI USSR USA BRAZIL USA ARGENTTNA JAPAN USSR& GER. UK KOREA FRANCE KOREA ITALY USA PORTUGAL 33 Spring 1994
Page 2 and 3: EDITORIAL In With The New, Continue
Page 4 and 5: QCWA Officers And Board Of Director
Page 6 and 7: Please address your lelters to Edil
Page 8 and 9: Dear Editor: Yonr New QCWA Joumal i
Page 10 and 11: A Couple Of Letters From The ARRL h
Page 12 and 13: By: Jack Kelleher, W4ZC NTIA Action
Page 14 and 15: tTlh. following candidates have bee
Page 16 and 17: a charter memhr of the Nutmeg Chapt
Page 18 and 19: Troster is the editor of *The Jug,"
Page 20 and 21: Meetings continued twice a year, mu
Page 22 and 23: NESCON. NESCON was organized in Oct
Page 24 and 25: Later that afternoon we headed back
Page 26 and 27: By: Betty Strattan, W2PVS, as told
Page 28 and 29: Note: I indioates life member and ^
Page 30 and 31: 1994 aCWA National Convention El Pa
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Page 38 and 39: from a philanthropic organization f
Page 40 and 41: In 1944 Sgt. Given was selected to
Page 42 and 43: Olympics in order to train for the
Page 44 and 45: Pleasenote: ChdpterRepo* atz listed
Page 46 and 47: Sqne rocent mernbers seen at our mo
Page 48 and 49: successfully and her chrysanthernum
Page 50 and 51: KLTAF; Vice-President, Chuck Sappah
Page 52 and 53: At the Pelican Picnic, at utrich tl
Page 54 and 55: Some members gather every Wednesday
Page 56 and 57: 26,435 Krizo, Philip w6zoF Klamath
Page 58 and 59: NR, NAME DAY TIME NCS TREQ I CLEVEL
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