On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 12:57 -0500, [email protected] wrote:
Hi Roger.
In the recent past the squelch appears to have been set fairly high. As witnessed by the repeated signals being essentially noise free. It is now much easier to track the correct uplink on 2m as the doppler shift is small compared to the 12.5kHz or so (a guess) bandwidth of the ISS receivers IF filter.
So 5kHz steps should be "close enough"?
Still, 5 Watts downlink is quite amazing and unlike any conventional satellite we have. Where's my 2m amp......
Well I can't use more than 10W anyway, and the only transceiver I have that does CTCSS has only 5W output.
I wonder if it's worth pointing the 6-element quad at it? I haven't really used that yet, since I don't have a tower to put it on, and it's a bit awkward to use hand-held ;-)
Gordon