Mode S down link sounds great. I almost had the bird to myself I caught a station with NUK then nothing. Rather tricky tracking the fast moving 51 with a 3 foot dish and chasing doppler all by hand. Nice to know my old AO-40 (sobsob) S band stuff still works! Get out that "old" S band gear! 73 Bob 7LRD Seattle
Yea, I've been working it since it was turned on Sunday nite...until Tuesday night.. The signals are fantastic, even with a small antenna. I think I popped the front end of my converter, working some local FM stuff on 2 meters. Think I'm going to put a shorted quarterwave stub on the front end of my converter once I get it fixed.
Michael Heim ARS KD0AR
----- Original Message ---- From: "w7lrd@comcast.net" w7lrd@comcast.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 10:44:49 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-51 mode S
Mode S down link sounds great. I almost had the bird to myself I caught a station with NUK then nothing. Rather tricky tracking the fast moving 51 with a 3 foot dish and chasing doppler all by hand. Nice to know my old AO-40 (sobsob) S band stuff still works! Get out that "old" S band gear! 73 Bob 7LRD Seattle _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
Bob,
I wanted to listen in but that was all I could do. My AO-40 S band downconverter comes out on 2M and I believe that most others also had 2M output. I would have needed another radio and was rapidly running out of hands. Now if it were possible to run U/S for AO-51 that would probably get a lot of AO-40 S band equipment out of storage.
73 de WB2LLP Gene
----- Original Message ----- From: w7lrd@comcast.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 10:44 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-51 mode S
Mode S down link sounds great. I almost had the bird to myself I caught a station with NUK then nothing. Rather tricky tracking the fast moving 51 with a 3 foot dish and chasing doppler all by hand. Nice to know my old AO-40 (sobsob) S band stuff still works! Get out that "old" S band gear! 73 Bob 7LRD Seattle _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
With many thanks to the help received from Alan, WA4SCA and Drew, KO4MA, I have been Mode S on AO-51 since Monday and have been having a blast using a BBQ dish "down converted" into my 910. SatPC32 is taking care of the doppler. Uplink is via my 706MKIIG which is just parked on 145.880 with no adjustments made during the pass. Really strong signals received and no more difficult than pushing the button and talking! I hope V/S gets scheduled every month. I am thinking of buying one of Bob's helix fed dishes to even out the deep fades but its quite easy to time my talking around the fading issue!
73
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