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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/YTNCNDRRD5Y4RSEWQSOZEEJBZE3V2ZT3/",
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    "sender": {
        "address": "jonny290 (a) gmail.com",
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    "sender_name": "Jonny 290",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]  So close to success! (SO-50 pass)",
    "date": "2007-12-01T09:03:49Z",
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    "content": "Satellite station is about 90% done as far as hardware goes - about all I\nneed to do is to get a quality 70cm rig and perhaps set up elevation control\nfor the beams (6 elements for each band). I have only received faint signals\nso far and nothing really good quality.\n\nSo, this evening I fired up the Orbitron as usual to see if I could try to\nRX any passes. Turns out there was a nice SO-50 pass, about 41 degrees peak,\nand decided to give it a shot.\n\nOne thing I tried was tearing my shack-mount, terribly-constructed preamp\nout of line. I have to say that I slacked on it - I used 3\" pieces of RG-174\nas patches in the (unshielded) box, and attempted to have a bypass relay\nsetup - but with a cheap little DIP relay. Crappy, I know, but it's old.\n\nSo, I just hooked the Icom 208 straight up to the antenna feedline, and said\n\"what the hey.\" It's a better receiver than the PCR100 but still has a\nwideband RX front end so I was fearing knocking the RX out when TXing (both\nantennas are vertical polarization and I have no filtering yet)\n\n\nSure enough as soon as the bird hit about 7-8 degrees (I'm at 15 foot\nantenna elevation in a mildly urban area) I was able to activate it, and I\ngot a full quieting carrier when I called CQ.\n\nI was able to CQ for about 75% of the pass, I lost it above 35 degrees or\nso. Quickly regained it on the descent.\n\nRight as I was losing it I heard a station with a Spanish accent come back\nto my CQ but it was too late - lost the bird.\n\nAnyways I am terribly excited and hope that I can get some passes in when\nthere is actual activity. Hope to talk to you all on the birds very soon!\n(like tomorrow)\n\nVery surprised at the audio and transmission quality. For some reason I\nimagined that the signal would have much more flutter and fading. It was\nremarkably consistent. good job amsat! :)\n\nAs an aside, I intend to catch as many overnight passes of -50 and -51 as\npossible. If anybody in NA wants to try to set up a sked some time, do send\nme an email.\n\n73 de Matt\nKC4YLV\nem26\n",
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