AOS was 0417, LOS 8.5 minutes later...only 13 degrees elevation for me in EM85tm/tn. Didn't hear anything until 0422 and then only for about 1 minute; not sure if it was BPSK or SSTV. Although signal was plenty strong, signal cut out at times, probably due to satellite tumbling. Antenna is the quad-band vertical Comet mounted on the car.
The next pass is in about 90 minutes @ 45 degrees elevation. If a 13 deg pass sounded like that, I'm sure the 45 degree one will wake me up! :-)
Philip N4HF (near Asheville, NC)
I should have added that it is quite mountainous here, and I'm in a valley, so I was rather surprised that I heard this pass at all (although it is open somewhat to the east where I live, which is the direction the satellite passed through).
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Philip Jenkins wythe25@gmail.com wrote:
AOS was 0417, LOS 8.5 minutes later...only 13 degrees elevation for me in EM85tm/tn. Didn't hear anything until 0422 and then only for about 1 minute; not sure if it was BPSK or SSTV. Although signal was plenty strong, signal cut out at times, probably due to satellite tumbling. Antenna is the quad-band vertical Comet mounted on the car.
The next pass is in about 90 minutes @ 45 degrees elevation. If a 13 deg pass sounded like that, I'm sure the 45 degree one will wake me up! :-)
Philip N4HF (near Asheville, NC)
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