I'm trying to improve on my number of successful satellite QSO's (at the moment: 3) and because I'm quite good at forgetting a callsign in the heat of the moment I am trying to build a working setup to record FM QSO's.
The setup with a splitter from my HT to the line-in of a mp3 device does record something but it's still distorted. I will try on the FT-857 again but that's a bit heavy for satellite contacts. It can give more output power than the default 5W (.. if the specs are to be believed) of the HT which may improve the chance of actually getting across.
I noticed (again) that there seems to be a fixed format in action for exchanging callsign / signal report / locator. But I'm not sure of the right order. Can someone explain this? I haven't seen this mentioned on amsat-bb.
My latest recording where I heard this type of exchange twice is linked from http://idefix.net/~koos/newsitem.cgi/1435521672
Koos