On 2010-01-03 14:42, Mark L. Hammond wrote:
Do you at least share the footprint with the other station?
Yes. We had a 2 deg elevation and the satellite was about midway between OZ7SAT and UA9UAZ over the Kola peninsula.
I suspect that the operator had the PL tone ON so his packets were being repeated through the FM repeater. I think that would make the packet look like it came directly to your station, without a path.
That sounds like a very plausible explanation.
I understand that packet operators should turn their PL tone OFF in order to prevent this.
Agree.
Congratulations to Nader for uploading three messages successfully! I am interested in his Wisp/MSPE TNC settings. For example, what the Retries time was set to, TxDelay, etc.
For what it is worth, here are the settings we use. You have to be rather aggressive when connecting to a satellite, so the T1 timer is set very low:
Window size: 1 T1: 0.5 sec Retry count 10 Maximum packet length. 128
The latter is probably not necessary with HO-68, but it was with GO-32.
Best 73 de Bent/OZ6BL