Yes, PCSAT-1 is working great. I was driving through Tennessee on Friday, and saw a PCSAT-11 packet on the normal North Americal 144.39 frequency and so I quickly QSY'ed to 145.825 and in my mobile with a magmount, my D700 radio captured 12 stations via PCSAT-1 and 10 messages/bulletins to the radio front panel.
PCSAT-1 has a 1 minute beacon on 144.39 over North America so that people in low-QRM areas might see when PCSAT is in view for just this purpose. There is no 144.39 uplink, of course, since all the satellite would hear is 10,000 jammed packets in space. Later, I just left my radio on overnight on 145.825 and captured similarly a dozen stations. (Be sure to set your RANGE limit back to 0, or the D700 will ignore all packets coming from too far away...)... De WB4APR, Bob
On Behalf Of Ian Mills Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 8:26 PM
Well, I was pleasantly surprised this afternoon as I managed quite easily to have my position received via PCSAT. I drive two hours to and from work and I have been monitoring PCSAT... so I fired off my position via a THD-7 into a 30w amp attached to a 1/4 wave rod antenna on my car. ...the following from findu confirms I got through:
VK2HIM-7>S4T3W2,PCSAT-1*,WIDE2-2,qAo,VK3JTM-5:`NM_!6 >/>"3w} VK2HIM-7>S4T4V8,PCSAT-1,VK7HSE-1,VK7RAD,WIDE2*,qAo,VK7HDM-12:` NM @5>/>"4.}On UHF repeater VK2HIM-7>S4T4X1,PCSAT-1,VK7HSE-1,VK7RAD,WIDE2*,qAo,VK7HDM-12:` NMKnf~>/>"4:}
The last time I tried was over a year ago and I didn't have any trouble then either, and this was using the 5W THd7 without a 30w amp!!
Cheers Ian vk2him AWA Limited _______________________________________________ Ozaprs mailing list Ozaprs@aprs.net.au http://aprs.net.au/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs