If you want to hear garbage on 2 meters, try listening to it in the middle of the city.
I have to stand in one particular place to have a chance work Europe on AO-7 when it's dark outside. The light fixtures surrounding the parking lot and courtyard of my apartment building put out a terrible static. There's only one spot I've found where I can hear the satellite at low elevations to the northeast and not hear those light fixtures.
Trying to pick anything up from my balcony on 2 meters is fruitless. In addition to countless birdies from every piece of electronic equipment you can think of (including an S9+40 one right on 145.800 MHz), there's constant S8 broadband static from the building.
Then on 70cm there's the military EPLRS. Luckily that's just annoying, it doesn't really hurt my ability to copy anything.
73,
Paul Stoetzer, N8HM Washington, DC
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Colin Hurst cjhurst@bigpond.net.au wrote:
Stefan and Mark, 90% of the "crud" on 2 metres comes from my Cable Modem / Router. Lucky so far Funcube and N3XT are in the clear. Colin VK5HI.
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Wagener Sent: Saturday, 23 November 2013 14:24 To: Mark L. Hammond Cc: AMSAT BB Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Keplerian Elements for FUNCUBE 1
Hi Mark,
Thank you very much! I had this nasty birdie on the Defli-Next frequency and after reading your post, I killed my Netgear N600 and WOW, the birdie on 145.869 is gone :-)
Thank you again!
Stefan
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Mark L. Hammond marklhammond@gmail.comwrote:
Jerry,
My shack is (sadly) full of 2M "birdies." Most of them come from my wireless hub...replaced it once, didn't improve. Need one that is
"silent"
on 2M, but with so many devices, changing anything on the wireless gives me a migraine :)
The SDR FCDP+ waterfall on 2M is really, really ugly here. Heh.
73,
Mark N8MH
At 09:20 PM 11/22/2013 -0600, n0jy wrote:
Well, I will third that. I had a 2 degree pass and it worked well with
those keps. Not a lot of TLM recovered but I could hear the between frame beep for the duration of what SatPC32 said was AOS.
I've got a few birdies from neighboring ?? and they can wreck the FUNcube
telemetry very easily unless FUNcube is pretty strong. It doesn't seem to take much birdie carrier to lose a frame.
Anybody else have similar woes?
Jerry N0JY
On 11/22/2013 8:59 PM, Rick Walter wrote:
Just copied 89 frames of telemetry from FunCube 1. I agree, the 13066B
is a
really good fit.
FUNCUBE-1 1 39417U 13066B 13326.90242084 .00004113 00000-0 57014-3 0 107 2 39417 97.7998 39.4992 0063751 190.6311 169.3388 14.77099805 237
Rick - WB3CSY
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