No-84 is a unique bird. If everyone is listening you will hear NOTHING on the FM downlink.
For the downlink transmitter to come on it must hear the 10 Meter PSK-31 tones. Once it hears them then the transmitter comes on. Once the tones are gone there is like 10 second hang time like a regular FM repeater then the transmitter shuts down.
To hear anything someone HAS to be transmitting.
as far as bad timing, just keep listening the passes slowly rotate timewise.
Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 8/20/2017 12:52 PM, Greg D wrote:
Hard to say. The OSCAR Status page does indicate that others have heard it, but passes here in CM98 are currently at very inopportune times (middle of the night, mostly), so I have not heard it myself.
If you are decoding RF traffic from the ISS but not PSAT, it's probably that the satellite isn't in packet mode at the time. Most of the time it only does PSK31.
Greg KO6TH
Andrew Rich wrote:
Am i missing something
NO-84 or PSAT is very active on my ISS / PSAT website
I have it down as 145.825 MHz
I have listened to it in light and dark.
I have proved my setup on local APRS
I have not copied a peep out of NO-84
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