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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/QIDUJN4MUDVN3N67VMYKHDEZ7OJVTHVG/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "QIDUJN4MUDVN3N67VMYKHDEZ7OJVTHVG", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/QIDUJN4MUDVN3N67VMYKHDEZ7OJVTHVG/", "sender": { "address": "the2belo (a) msd.biglobe.ne.jp", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "J. Boyd (JR2TTS)", "subject": "[amsat-bb] Must have been tropo this morning", "date": "2016-03-07T04:34:27Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "I got unexpectedly good results on both FUNCube-1 and UKube-1 this\nmorning here in JA during three separate passes between 0000 and 0400\nUTC, that I suspect was helped out by tropospheric ducting.\n\nMy QTH (PM85jl) is on the side of a mountain overlooking a valley, so\nthere is no direction I can look where I can see the horizon other than\na small sliver to the SSW. The mountain to the north wipes out the sky\nup to 40° elevation, and the hills east and west cover up to at least\n20°. Despite this, I received 10 packets from AO-73 with my Diamond\nD-150 discone at 10m height, despite the bird being only being 11° \nmaximum el, and a fantastic 70 packets during its next higher pass,\nwhere I heard the beacon loud and clear almost immediately after AOS,\ndespite it being far down behind the mountain.\n\nI later got 26 packets from UKube-1 as it passed far to the west, with\nthe last one having been received *after* LOS, something that had not\nhappened to me before. With all of the terrestrial obstructions between\nme and the bird at that moment, I can only think that tropo had given it\na boost.\n\nAt 739th place in the rankings and rising fast, watch out world...\n\n-- \nJ. Boyd, JR2TTS/NI3B\[email protected]\nhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/the2belo/\nhttp://www.qrz.com/db/JR2TTS\nTwitter: @Minus2_C\n\n", "attachments": [] }