Thanks for the reports James, Alan, Dani.
Please let us know via -bb what your experience is if you caught AO-85 on this current orbit 443. We will do another test over the U.S. beginning about 17:15 UTC.
U.S. STATIONS PLEASE KEEP THE UPLINK CLEAR! We had some competition that affected our low power testing during this first pass. The longer it takes us to test, the longer it will be before AO-85 is commissioned and we can turn it over to Operations for scheduling. We are trying to characterize the uplink sensitivity, and can't do that if other stations are trying to use the bird causing QRM.
Thank you.
Jerry Buxton, NØJY
On 11/8/2015 10:18, Daniel Estévez wrote:
Hi,
AO-85 COR mode was working fine in its last pass over Europe (about 15:52 UTC). Plenty of stations where using the transponder and it seems that most sounded quite good without the DUV telemetry.
Hitting the transponder with my handheld arrow and 5W didn't seem more difficult than usual, perhaps even a bit easier.
73,
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