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Stanford 50 meter dish.

The 50 meter Stanford University Dish.
Photograph Copyright © 2000 Randolph Kohlwey

My new ham vacation/weekend QTH in DN32, Power County, Idaho.
Photograph Copyright © 2005 Randolph Kohlwey

Current weather at home QTH DN40er.

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    Hello, and welcome to the N7SFI home page. My current project is working USA counties on satellite. To see if I have your county confirmed click here and then click on your state. Send skeds to: n7sfi@amsat.org. All times and dates are UTC.

    73, Randy N7SFI

    Orbital Elements

    • ISS Two Line. Updated: Dec 12, 2005 00:49 UTC.
    • OSCAR Two Line. Updated: Dec 12, 2005 00:49
    • OSCAR Amsat. Fixed for InstantTrack. Updated: Jul 29, 2005 04:19
    • JAWSAT Two Line. Updated: Dec 12, 2005 00:49
    • JAWSAT Two Line. 2001 2ln kep data.
    • MIR Two Line. Last set.

    Satellite Passes over Salt Lake City, Utah

    • Amateur Satellite passes. Updated: Dec 12, 2005 00:49 UTC.

    Satellite Grid Square status

    Continental (Lower 48) states. 499 grids

    • Confirmed: 499 (100%) Completed on September 22, 2001
    • Worked: 499 (100%) Completed on September 5, 2001
    • Confirmed+N7SFI: 499 (100%) Completed on August 11, 2001
    • Map

    VUCC award.

    • World Wide grids. Confirmed: 839 as of Aug 20, 2004
    • World Wide grids. Worked: 863 as of Dec 12, 2005
    • Grids listed by field. Updated: Dec 12, 2005
    • All grids. Updated: Dec 12, 2005
    • North America grids. Map Updated: September 12, 2003
    • Alaska grids. Map Updated: August 24, 2004
    • Hawaii grids. Map Updated: August 24, 2004
    • Canada summary Updated Jan 17, 2005
    • Top grid square calls Updated: Dec 12, 2005
    • The unoffical VHF/UHF Century Club Award satellite standings. Updated: Dec 12, 2005
    • The ARRL VHF/UHF Century Club Award satellite standings.

    Worked from Status.

    • Grids Confirmed: 241 as of Aug 20, 2004
    • Grids Worked from: 254 as of Aug 20, 2004
    • Map Updated: August 19, 2004
    • States worked from: 48. Left: AK,HI as of Aug 5, 2004.
    • Canadian Province/territorys worked from: AB,BC,MB,ON,SK as of July 4, 2002

    Satellite State (WAS) and County status

    • Counties confirmed: 1113 as of Jul 10, 2005
    • Counties worked: 1289 as of Dec 12, 2005
    • Counties listed by State. Updated: Dec 12, 2005
    • All 3077 counties. Updated: Dec 12, 2005
    • Top county calls Updated: Mar 1, 2005

    Other satellite award status.

    • DXCC countries confirmed: 67 as of Apr 19, 2003
    • DXCC countries worked: 69 as of Jan 13, 2003
    • DXCC summary Updated: Dec 12, 2005
    • The unoffical DX Century Club Award satellite standings. Updated: Sep 7, 2003
    • Satellite QSO's QSLed: 4404 as of Dec 12, 2005
    • Satellite QSO's confirmed: 3418 as of Jul 10, 2005

    Grid square Xpeditions.

    Papers and Conferences

    • Notes on the OS-2 satellite and the 153k6 S-Band Downlink.
    • JAWSAT WO-39 info
    • Notes on the 2000 - 14th Annual AIAA / Utah State University conference on Small Satellites.

    Software

    • WinGrid Windows Grid Square Program (Ver. 0.07 March 4, 1999) [README]
    • WinGrid Windows Grid Square Program (Ver. 0.20 July 28, 2001). WinGrid.exe only.
    • WinGridMap Detailed North America Data file for WinGrid program. This file is over 3 Megabytes. When it is placed in the same location as wingrid.exe the program will take much longer to load and redisplay. If you zoom in to a grid square (CN79) that is on a coast you can see the detail. Mexico has a problem and some day I will find it and fix it. I am also looking for a lower resolution world map. If you have a set of vectors I can use please let me know.
    • msvcirt.dll Here is a copy of a .DLL file needed by the program. If you get a missing .dll file error then extract msvcirt.dll from the zip file and place it in the same directory that wingrid.exe is in.
    • vcl30.dpl Here is a copy of a .DPL file needed by the program. If you get a missing vcl30.dpl file error then extract vcl30.dpl from the zip file and place it in the same directory that wingrid.exe is in.

    Grid squares maps.

    Photos.

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    Last updated: Dec 12, 2005 00:49 .