Hi Steve,
The most helpful thing would be to get any telemetry you can. The Hamscope software uses your radio speaker out to computer soundcard and does a good job decoding the CW if you keep the signal centered. This is easy to do as there is a good graphical display. In addition it will save the CW TLM to a text file. Getting actual telemetry values from satellite will be the most helpful to the command stations.
73, Gould, WA4SXM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Raas" [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 2:48 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] FO-29 -- Lets see what happens !
Im not sure if any one has had an intermittent reception of FO-29's Dnlnk other than myself, I plan on trying to see if I can hear the transponder again this afternoon as I have a really high pass from 19:14z to 19:34 z with max el of 71 deg. As per my SatPc32 its either orbit # 52848 or 54849 I will be sending dashes at 40 watts until it reaches about 10 deg ele, then ill go to 2 watt mode. I will try and keep the Downlink freq near 435.850. Unfortunatally I have no way of recording properly.
Listen in from 19:14z - 19:34 again.. if I do hear my Downlink.. and its not on 435.850 I will qsy my uplink to get on frequency.
Steve Raas
N2JDQ
FN20vg
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