Saturday morning local was the first chance I had to try out Funcube 3. Finding my correctuplink frequency required a lot of tuning. I finally located it about 21 KHz up from the published frequency of 435.050.
Signal level was good considering my antenna limitations here. Called CQ entire passand heard a lot of signals trying to find themselves, but got no replies this pass. Nice to have another satellite to play with.... Keith N4ZQ EL88
I also heard the sat here on Long Island NY with my 3 ele beam fixed at 30 deg elevation. I did hear lots of wideband noise in several spots throughout the passband. Never did hear any SSB.
Maybe it was cockpit error as Im still a noobie.
Frank WA2NDV
From: Keith O'Brien via AMSAT-BB Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 11:12 AM To: AMSAT-BB Subject: [amsat-bb] FunCube 3 EO-79
Saturday morning local was the first chance I had to try out Funcube 3. Finding my correctuplink frequency required a lot of tuning. I finally located it about 21 KHz up from the published frequency of 435.050.
Signal level was good considering my antenna limitations here. Called CQ entire passand heard a lot of signals trying to find themselves, but got no replies this pass. Nice to have another satellite to play with.... Keith N4ZQ EL88
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I was in receive-only mode for that pass and the downlink was strong. There were some good CW signals and a few people trying SSB.
K4FEG & VE4AMU were able to get in a good contact but the entire passband was covered by what appeared to be a data stream, possibly 19k2 since it was 25k wide.
Unfortunately, I have not been able to decode the data nor identify the source.
73!
-Scott, K4KDR Montpelier, VA USA
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On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Keith O'Brien via AMSAT-BB < amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:
Saturday morning local was the first chance I had to try out Funcube 3. Finding my correctuplink frequency required a lot of tuning. I finally located it about 21 KHz up from the published frequency of 435.050.
Signal level was good considering my antenna limitations here. Called CQ entire passand heard a lot of signals trying to find themselves, but got no replies this pass. Nice to have another satellite to play with.... Keith N4ZQ EL88
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