Hi Pat, As pointed out by Henk there are two entries for September 18th.

The last one is probably for September 19th.

The first is for the "real" 18th.

73 OZ1MY/Ib

-----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Patrick E. Farcon [mailto:pfarcon@yahoo.com] Sendt: 18. september 2010 19:36 Til: Ib Christoffersen Emne: Re: SV: [amsat-bb] HO-68 question

Yes. Sorry for today. I was confused when I checked the website versus reports on Oscar website.

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On Sep 18, 2010, at 12:27 PM, "Ib Christoffersen" oz1my@privat.dk wrote:

Hi Pat, Are you talking about today ? September 18 ?

By the way it was/is on now starting 1605 ending 1650 in FM mode.

73 OZ1MY/Ib

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af Patrick Farcon Sendt: 18. september 2010 18:06 Til: amsat-bb@amsat.org Emne: [amsat-bb] HO-68 question

I finally got an opportunity to try and work HO-68 again on the weekend. Very tough during the week due to work schedule. I had a 65 deg at peak

pass

over FN20un but was unable to hear the satellite at all during the entire pass. Often I have a high 70cm noise level here so I figured it was

operator

tracking error (Arrow on a tripod) and the high noise level. I went to http://oscar.dcarr.org to see if anyone had heard the pass and

unfortunately

there were no reports either way. What I did find was a bit confusing

unless

the past work week took a real toll on me...LOL!...

There were 4 reports out of Europe earlier in the day of the satellite

being

heard. When I had checked the schedule on http://www.camsat.cn I thought I understood the satellite to be off between 1:51 and 14:20 UTC. The pass I was trying to catch was at 14:39 UTC but the reported heard times were in the OFF period for HO-68. Am I reading this all wrong? I was hoping to perhaps catch a European station or two on that pass and also work others here in the US.

Thanks in advance and maybe it¹s just a tough morning for me!

73,

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