Hi Graham,
I have to agree with you.. Very little fading like in the past. It reached the S9 + 60 on the S meter. Made contacts with N5AFV from his car and KC9ELU. Traffic got heavy near the end of the pass with a few 7 landers. I was even able to make a contact with N1RCN on AO-51 with about .5 degrees elevation today.
The good old gal is working great!! :-)
73 de Angelo
----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Shirville" g.shirville@btinternet.com To: "Angelo Glorioso" n5uxt@hotmail.com; "Bob- W7LRD" w7lrd@comcast.net; "Andrew Glasbrenner" glasbrenner@mindspring.com Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 4:39 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 V/S
Hi all,
It is amazing just how strong the AO51 S Band signal is with even a small dish on the ground.
I understand that the S Band PA is probably producing just less than I watt of RF so I really really hope that our long delayed ESEO spacecraft will get off the ground before too long. This is scheduled to have a U/S FM transponder with a 3 watt PA so should be workable with even smaller dishes!
More info on ESEO can be seen here http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=78&retURL=sa...
73
Graham G3VZV
----- Original Message ----- From: "Angelo Glorioso" n5uxt@hotmail.com To: "Bob- W7LRD" w7lrd@comcast.net; "Andrew Glasbrenner" glasbrenner@mindspring.com Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 4:19 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 V/S
Signal here reached the usually S9+60db at 5 degree elevation on the western pass. Sounded good. Just need to get rid of my hmmm on the signal. :-(
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob- W7LRD" w7lrd@comcast.net To: "Andrew Glasbrenner" glasbrenner@mindspring.com Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 6:06 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 V/S
Last pass signals were s9 + 20 max on a three foot dish/3731aa downconverter
73 Bob W7LRD
CN87
Seattle ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Glasbrenner" glasbrenner@mindspring.com To: "Andrew Glasbrenner" glasbrenner@mindspring.com Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 3:41:14 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 V/S
We are in mode V/S now. I'm slightly concerned we may have hit the low voltage trip during the last pass while I was trying to get some telemetry, so reports of S reception would be appreciated.
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