On 24 Sep 2008 at 1:24, w7lrd@comcast.net wrote:

This last pass of AO51 I could hear Luc very well. I'm having an uplink issue. Do we need a pl tone? How much should I adjust for doppler? 73 Bob W7LRD

-- "if this were easy, everyone would be doing it"

Hi Bob

You don't need any tone on the 1.2GHZ uplink. I adjust the doppler here manually this way i can adjust the audio pitch and he's also quite fast that's why many stations are always aside and they are searching for their downlink in the QRM. I found also that i got an issue on my 5/8" Heliax line i have a 45' run but i discover an anormal attenuation losses. I made some change in a hurry this afternoon and first results seems to confirm 2 possibility a faulty coax or connector jumper at the station or at the antenna or the SO-259 Heliax termination at one end induce a too great mismatch?

It takes nothing to ruin the signal at 1.2GHZ!

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