At 11:02 AM 12/29/2009 -0600, "George Henry" ka3hsw@att.net wrote:
I tried the 13:40-ish pass, and also feel that the audio was low...
I'm only working with a quarter-wave ground plane at the moment, and it was only a 10 degree pass for me. I heard a couple of other stations, one of which was off-frequency on the uplink. We'll see what it's like later on a higher pass.
George, KA3HSW
I listened last night, and that was my thought too. The FM downlink from Echo was twenty over nine, with a lot of white noise in the background much like you hear when listening to a 9600 bps signal, but the audio level of the stations making contacts on it was low. Receiving Echo shouldn't be a problem if the output is lowered, at least for me anyway, but I wonder if it's possible to increase the receiver gain on Echo so SSB signals come out louder. To me it seemed the audio should have been louder as I was receiving the downlink almost full scale.