David, and other AO-7 watchers,
I was hoping for Mode B or Mode A, but we got Mode "D" (435.1 MHz beacon only). Yes, I guess it just cycled into the 70-cm beacon mode for the last pass of SKN 2010! At least it was a nice strong carrier, and I got in some SKN QSOs via AO-51 just a bit earlier.
TNX to AA5PK, N3TL and K2BMI for the AO-51 SKN contacts!
73 de Andy W5ACM
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Giles" [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 4:38 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-7 beacon
Hello and happy new year,
I've just been listening to AO-7. The 10m beacon was off and I couldn't raise a signal through the transponder. But I did hear the 70cm beacon and it was only transmitting a constant carrier (no RTTY or CW this time).
Any of the old hands know what would cause this?
73 de David VK5DG