Hi All
Since last week, we have learnt a couple of things re the behaviour of the FM payload, most notibly that the drop-out problem can be avoided as follows: directly after an over, the Tx tail will be "active" for 3 seconds. If, during this time, somebody starts to Tx, that person will be cut off when the tail stops. For the time being, the cut-outs can therefore be avoided by waiting out the 3s tail before transmitting.
This is obviously an irritation that we're still working on. Also note that an over has a maximum permitted duration of 30s. After this, the transmission will be terminated.
The schedule for this weekend is as follows (all times in UTC; all activations are 15 min long):
20 Nov 23:00 Australia
21 Nov 00:19 Japan 00:36 Australia 03:33 India 06:55 RSA 09:45 Europe 11:35 Brazil 13:07 Brazil 14:30 Canada/USA 16:05 Canada/USA 17:38 Canada/USA 21:11 New Zealand 23:57 Japan
22 Nov 00:14 Australia 06:34 RSA 07:49 Europe 08:10 RSA 11:13 Brazil 12:46 Brazil 14:10 Canada/USA 15:43 Canada/USA 17:17 Canada/USA
Regards Jan-Albert ZR1JAK
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