Thanks John,
It would be very interesting to hear from other parts of the world where only 1-2 stations are on whether the dropouts are similar. That would help clarify the situation. SO-50 has similar dropouts, and AO-51 did as well when the PL access was enabled.
Alan WA4SCA
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of John Papay Sent: 14 November, 2009 09:45 To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] SO-67 14Nov2009 1521z Audio
The central USA pass was much like the eastern pass. Signals from the satellite were very strong. Audio was very loud, even on the wideband rx setting on the TS2000. Audio cut off after a few seconds of transmission was prevalent. It seems that it took several seconds for the audio to come back when this happened. Lots of stations on the bird including KC8ZFN, KD8CAO, WB8OTH, WC7V, WA4NVM, KB1RVT, WA4SCA, KB0RZD, N5AFV, WD9EWK, N5UXT, WB2IOL, KF9L, AA5PK and others. The bird went over the horizon before it turned off.
http://www.papays.com/SO-67_14Nov2009_152116z.mp3
The next Western USA pass is not visible in Cleveland.
73, John K8YSE EN91dh
John Papay john@papays.com
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