Clayton,

I thought i saw on a link ona tweet from BG2BHC shows the uplink to be 144362.5? not that it would matter much, but i do tend to be a tad anal that way hi hi.

Rick Tejera (K7TEJ) Saguaro Astronomy Club www.saguaroastro.org Thunderbird Radio Club www.w7tbc.org 623-572-0713 623-203-4121 (cell) SaguaroAstro@cox.net

-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Clayton Coleman Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 1:15 PM To: AMSAT-BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] LilacSat-2 Transponder active over N America 13:15 UTC

I should have been a little more clear in my email earlier. The transponder on LilacSat-2 active today was not the normal FM one but rather a SSB transponder. It is experimental and has no AGC according to the reports from Twitter. I'd suggest paying attention to the AMSAT OSCAR status page (http://www.amsat.org/status) and following BG2BHC on Twitter for operational updates.

I was using manual control but you can add this line to your DOPPLER.SQF. It will need some minor calibration:

LILACSAT-2,437200.0,144362.0,USB,USB,NOR,0,0,SSB Transponder

73 Clayton W5PFG

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Clayton Coleman kayakfishtx@gmail.com wrote:

This morning, Glenn AA5PK, and I had a QSO via the experimental transponder activated on LilacSat-2. It was very interesting and fun. A non-inverting mode J transponder was new to me.

Using manual tuning to adjust for Doppler shift proved to be a small challenge as I am more accustomed to operating on a transponder like FO-29. Running SDR in parallel to my Icom IC-9100 gave me a good visual representation of the transponder pass band.

You can listen to a brief clip of our QSO here:

https://soundcloud.com/w5pfg/lilacsat-2-2016-07-11-1315z-ssb-transponder

73 Clayton W5PFG

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