Hi all, Tried it out this late afternoon. As someone remarked the downlink is strong - but the noise level it very high, at least here over Europe. Made a couple of QSO's on two passes.
My doppler file in SatPC32 is a little different from Drews after testing the satellite:
AO-16,437024.87,145920,USB,FM,NOR,0,0
It is just the downlink that is different.
I am using full doppler control in the program.
The downlink antenna is RHCP on this frequency - but sometimes it was better with LHCP.
Have fun :-) 73 OZ1MY Ib
Hello, I tried AO-16 too on one pass, noise level is high and also I noticed a very deep fading I could not compensate with H/V polarity switch. This is the only LEO I ever found difficult to access so far, I'm going to test other known sat to check my setup, maybe the problem is only here. I also found difficult to tune some stations, the audio never come good as if the modulation was distorted, I don't know if others had the same results. I've never had problems with linear sats however. I'll try again tomorrow.
73 Francesco IZ8DWF
I just worked via AO-16 on 06:36(UTC) pass with several stations in Japan. It was excellent, although downlink tuning was bit difficult, with a suport of SatPC32, spent a exciting minutes.
Congratulation and thanks for the command team !
JA0CQP Toyo Komatsu JAMSAT-Member
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