11 Jul
2016
11 Jul
'16
4:26 p.m.
This morning, Glenn AA5PK, and I had a QSO via the experimental transponder activated on LilacSat-2. It was very interesting and fun. A non-inverting mode J transponder was new to me.
Using manual tuning to adjust for Doppler shift proved to be a small challenge as I am more accustomed to operating on a transponder like FO-29. Running SDR in parallel to my Icom IC-9100 gave me a good visual representation of the transponder pass band.
You can listen to a brief clip of our QSO here:
https://soundcloud.com/w5pfg/lilacsat-2-2016-07-11-1315z-ssb-transponder
73 Clayton W5PFG