Sorry that should have been 435.785 for the errant PMR!
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Barber Sent: 15 December 2009 18:41 To: [email protected] Cc: 'John Papay' Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: XW-1 Western North America 15Dec2009 1702z
Listening to it now in the UK, 18.30utc pass.
Strong little beast isn't it!
Just a shame there is a local PMR station on 437.785MHz. :-(
David G8OQW
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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Papay Sent: 15 December 2009 17:42 To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] XW-1 Western North America 15Dec2009 1702z
XW-1 was again heard over western North America with an excellent signal. The new keps provided by Nigel G8IFF/W8IFF were used for Object A and found to be spot on. I set SatPC32 for automatic operation with the TS2000 in the CW mode and the computer clock synchronized with NIST. I never touched the radio dial or the antennas during the entire pass and as you will hear on the recording, the CW tone never changed. The TS2000 was updating the frequency every second.
Again I found polarization shifts but the bird did best on Left Hand during most of the pass. This was a 22 degree pass for me to the west.
One of the three letter code groups changes on every string of CW starting with BJ1SA XW XW etc and ending with XW XW. For example, the 3 letter groups for some successive transmissions were: TNE TDT AAE ATE 4VE A6E TBT 4VE T6E ATE. Every other code group in the string stayed the same, at least during this pass.
I started the recording late. It is much better than my first recording with the older keps on the amsat webpge.
http://www.papays.com/XW-1_15Dec2009_170842z.mp3
Let's hope we can start using the v/u transponders for voice/cw soon.
Thanks again to all who were involved with this satellite. It is operating very well.
73, John K8YSE EN91dh
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