Tried to work the 1201Z 06AUG2011 pass of ARRISSat-1 from FM26 this morning without much luck. I have been successfully working the FM birds for a while but this is my first attempt with a linear bird. I was wandering if someone with a similar setup could verify my settings?
Equipment as follows:
Icom IC-910H Gulf Alpha 2M/70cm dual band yagi. 2M->6 element 70cm->8 element antenna
LVB tracker box connected to a Yaesu G-5500 Az/El Rotator controlled by Ham Radio Deluxe.
In HRD I set the following:
Rx - Center of 145.930 USB Tx - Center of 435.750 LSB
I set it to control doppler on *both* freqs. I am pulling the keps from Celestrak now.
This morning's pass was to North->South and to the West of my location(FM26au). I noticed that the Rx was always being set lower than the center freq, and the Tx was lower before max elev and higher after Max elev. I had about a 9min window. About a 1/3 of the way into the pass I thought I heard some garbled voice. In the last 1/4 of the pass I definitely was hearing some CW. I can post the recorded .wav file if necessary.
Would greatly appreciate any help.
73, Bill - W4RVN