In my 45 years of haming, I can recall ONE QSO, back in my days on HF AM, with somebody using NBFM. Until last weekend, I had completely forgotten that the FT-847 has a button for that, and of course SATPC32 supports it as well. ;)
One thing I find is that the discriminator consistently centers up about 2 KHz lower than the published frequency. I find that 435.343 MHz works best. The rig is calibrated, and the other birds are all where they claim to be. So far, there has been too much traffic to determine whether the uplink is a bit off.
Alan WA4SCA
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 21 November, 2009 12:04 To: amsat-bb Subject: [amsat-bb] SO-67 Western Pass 11/21 @ 1741
This mornings pass of SO-67 was the best one sofar, probably because it wasnt overloaded with signals being it was partially out over the Pacific.
VA7VW, WC7V, W7JPI, K7CWQ, WD9EWK, N7EDK and a XE2 station were on, and for the mostpart good communications spaced out over the 12 minute pass. Once everyone waited for that 3 second tail audio was very good, with Leo, W7JPI having Hi-Fi studio audio from that 847 with Mic gain turned down. It is hard to wait for the tail, as all of us are use to the other birds. I copied the satellite down to 2 degs over the Pacific.
Sorry no recording device of it.... guess we need to make a remote base for John K8YSE out here on the Left Coast, hi...
John W6ZKH DM06
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