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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/HXZ2FISS4IZ6Y6E3GUY2GBZRZZMLYXRV/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "HXZ2FISS4IZ6Y6E3GUY2GBZRZZMLYXRV", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/MSLI5WN45IQEQU4YZQZLJ5CADBUNRAUD/", "sender": { "address": "dominic (a) del.co.uk", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Dominic Hawken", "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: AO-27/SO-50", "date": "2011-10-24T13:54:36Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/IM5TCKPSGI76NKFCWPNGQD6A5L6FT2ZL/", "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "On 24/10/2011 14:31, David Palmer KB5WIA wrote:\n> Hi Richard,\n>\n>> . I am using a yeasu g-5500 rotator with the AMSAT controller and ham radio deluxe. Kenwood ts-2000 for the rig and a 8 element 440 and a 4 element 2 meter antenna. The antennas are currently linear polarized since my phasing cables still have not arrived from the manufacturer.\n>\n> Good setup!\n>\n>>\n>> My questions are, is AO-27 difficult to work? Is it on a schedule? Any ideas why I could not raise or hear it?\n>\n> Yes, it's on a schedule -- check the status page on www.amsat.org to\n> see when it comes on and off. It comes on at mid-latitudes by a timer,\n> so for an overhead pass in your area you *should* have heard it ....\n> other things to check would be that the keps are current, and that\n> there weren't any glitches during that particular pass (ie. maybe\n> radios briefly stopped tuning). Try again, it's a nice loud sat.\n>\n>>\n>> As for SO-50: Should I be listening 5khz down? Ham radio deluxe is controlling the radio frequencies and I made a custom entry for 5khz down and corrected for Doppler. This still did not seem to help.\n>\n> I've found SO-50 about 5kHz-8kHz down, so listen down a little.\n> Remember the tone on the uplink too. Also, I've seen quite a few\n> posts that the TS-2000 has a birdie right at the high end of SO-50's\n> downlink, so you may have a better chance hearing it later in the pass\n> as doppler moves the downlink away from the birdie.\n\nI have a virtually identical set up but with a FT-847 radio. I get AO-27 \nbut with HRD I do find I have to tune about to get the receive - 5 to \n10Khz. Wierdly I find it _much_ easier to work the SSB sats with the set \nup than I do the FM ones - sounds like you have the same issue.\n\nDominic G6NQO\n\n", "attachments": [] }