EU members - UHF contest tonight?
Just now on AO-7 I heard a terrestrial station (DL on LSB) working a contest of some sort. He was pretty weak here, but thought I copied G4VF? His frequency would have been 432.160 or so. Always interesting hearing the unintentional sat ops...reminds me of RS-12/13.
73, Drew KO4MA
Hi Drew et al. I have heard the same thing when there is a UHF contest going on. I try to send the station a email that he was loud and clear on satellite AO-7. Hoping that may nudge some satellite interest. Last couple of passes on AO-7 were very favorable from CN87 (Seattle) to Northern Europe. No one at home not even Mika. 73 Bob W7LRD Seattle, Wa.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Glasbrenner" glasbrenner@mindspring.com To: "amsat-bb" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 1:13:24 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] EU members - UHF contest tonight?
Just now on AO-7 I heard a terrestrial station (DL on LSB) working a contest of some sort. He was pretty weak here, but thought I copied G4VF? His frequency would have been 432.160 or so. Always interesting hearing the unintentional sat ops...reminds me of RS-12/13.
73, Drew KO4MA
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Drew,
This evening was the 70cms RSGB Contest (UKAC) so most likely have been one of the stations taking part in that.
73, Peter, 2E0SQL
On 9 October 2012 21:13, Andrew Glasbrenner glasbrenner@mindspring.comwrote:
Just now on AO-7 I heard a terrestrial station (DL on LSB) working a contest of some sort. He was pretty weak here, but thought I copied G4VF? His frequency would have been 432.160 or so. Always interesting hearing the unintentional sat ops...reminds me of RS-12/13.
73, Drew KO4MA
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On 10/09/2012 04:13 PM, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
Just now on AO-7 I heard a terrestrial station (DL on LSB) working a contest of some sort. He was pretty weak here, but thought I copied G4VF? His frequency would have been 432.160 or so. Always interesting hearing the unintentional sat ops...reminds me of RS-12/13.
73, Drew KO4MA
I can recall (many years ago) during a perigee pass of AO-13 over SA, I could clearly hear SA stations working terrestrial UHF FM, mobile, with the satellite on the omni antennas. Perhaps I should have sent out QSL cards with SWL reports, just to encourage those operators to consider the possibility of raising their eyes above the horizon.....
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gus 8P6SM" 8p6sm@anjo.com To: "Andrew Glasbrenner" glasbrenner@mindspring.com Cc: "amsat-bb" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 3:53 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: EU members - UHF contest tonight?
I can recall (many years ago) during a perigee pass of AO-13 over SA, I could clearly hear SA stations working terrestrial UHF FM, mobile, with the satellite on the omni antennas. Perhaps I should have sent out QSL cards with SWL reports, just to encourage those operators to consider the possibility of raising their eyes above the horizon.....
-- 73, de Gus 8P6SM The Easternmost Isle
Hi Gus, 8P6SM and all
I remember in 1961 I was listening a night for OSCAR-7 mode A in 10 meters between 29.400 to 29.500 MHz when I got a very strong signal in SSB from a station in North Italy talking in italian in a familiar like local QSO with a station in Asuncion Paraguay South America.
Since the ionosferic propagation do not permitted to a signal in North Italy to be received so strong by me in South Italy in 10 meters at that time I realized that the North italian station was transmitting terrestrial in 15 meters uplinking RS-13 between 21.260 to 21.300 MHz and that it was translated by RS-13 operating in mode K with downlink in 10 meters.
As soon the North italian station stopped to transmit in order to listen for the station in Paraguay I was able to get the signal from the guy in Asuncion very week and with strong QSB because his signal transmitted in 21 MHz was received via ionospheric propagation by RS-13 over Europe and than translated in 10 meters.
A look at InstantTrack confirmed that RS-13 was overhead to me at that time
Nice to remember those funny days !
73" de i8CVS Domenico
Just now on AO-7 I heard a terrestrial station (DL on LSB) working a contest of some sort. He was pretty weak here, but thought I copied G4VF? His frequency would have been 432.160 or so. Always interesting hearing the unintentional sat ops...reminds me of RS-12/13.
73, Drew KO4MA
There was a Nordic VUSHF-Activity Contest going on last tuesday. NAC-contest is periodically every tuesday on 18:00 - 22:00 UTC. Every first tuesday a month is 144MHz, second tuesday 432MHz, third Tuesday 1296, fourth tuesday 2,3GHz and UP. There are also many european contest at the same time.
So the contest stations were uplinked unintentionally by AO-7.
-jari oh3uw
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Peter Goodhall