Hi Clint,
Are you sure it was a totally empty carrier? There was one YouTube posting from someone (I forget who - across the pond, I believe), who recorded the entire pass. I had the fan on in the Shack, so it was a little noisy, but I didn't hear anything the entire recording. Then I noticed the S-meter in the radio's display poked up a couple of notches and realized that the audio level was simply very low. Sure enough, turned the audio all the way up and I heard voices.
Perhaps the audio levels are not the same for all recordings? (Hopefully it's not an intermittent in the satellite...)
Greg KO6TH
From: [email protected] Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 20:13:50 -0700 To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISSat-1 on 2M
Sorry to re-re-re-post this - but we're in a new month on the system ... and further apologies if the answer is really obvious ...
Do the ARISS powers-that-be know WHY some had tremendous success hearing the WONDERFUL pre-recorded messages from kids on 145.95 last weekend - while some passes had "empty carrier" or nothing on 145.95?
I experienced both phenomena - just a "keying up" and dead silence for a few seconds at 1:03AM PDT Sunday morning, and then wonderful, full kids' messages during the 2:38AM PDT pass.
Clint Bradford
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