----- Original Message ----- From: "?. ?????????????" [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 9:05 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] HO-68 first QSO over Europe
Dear friends, HO-68 over Europe is a reality, but with some degree of frustation. I heard the bird at 10 degrees (loc KM17), I called and I made two QSO's with RZ6MB and Nikolay, UR5BFX, with excellent signals. May be these are the first QSOs over Europe with the new chinese bird.
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sorry we were faster :) http://www.enduro.idl.pl/audio_sat/first_qso_xw1_18_12_2009_europe.mp3
But when the satellite reached an elevation of 30 degrees, I was not able to enter the uplink channel. I heard some calls from Nikolay, and a couple of minutes later I heard HB9OAB calling and calling through the wlole pass, but I was not able to enter the repeater. I suspect that many station were trying to enter, but the only station heard was HB9OAB with a strong signal. Do you have any explanation?
Any way I thank our chinese colleagues for this Chrismas present and I hope to enjoy the next passes, 73 de SV1EEK
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I looks like lower sensitivity of the sat receiver or very big troposferic scatter of transmitted signals in 2m band (?)
Matt SQ7DQX