17 Mar
2009
17 Mar
'09
11:32 a.m.
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 23:57 -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
Just saying it smelled fishy to me -- assuming an FM receiver. No harm meant by it. The typical FCC TSO'ed AM aircraft transmitter is 5W PEP, some are 10W PEP. 5W PEP AM to an FM receiver to be well detected at ISS's range is certainly do-able, but it wouldn't sound very good, I'd think. Don't know. All depends on the receiver quality, of course... a bunch of stuff.
Further to my earlier message, a quick experiment has shown that my Kenwood TH-F7E (same one I picked the Edinburgh guys up with) gives intelligible but not brilliant audio from aircraft when it's set to FM. This may be down to the radio. I can post a couple of recordings, if you like.
Gordon