An audio recording of the HO-68 pass over the far western USA 24Dec2009 1807z is on my webserver:

http://www.papays.com/HO-68_24Dec2009_180656z.mp3

The same scenario continues with packet competing with the voice repeater. How the two work together is not obvious but it does seem that the packet shuts down the voice repeater for a period of time. What makes the voice repeater start up again is not clear.

I decoded some packets on this pass. I have the TNC set to Date/Time stamp the packets so we know exactly when they were received. The clock is accurate to within a few seconds.

BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/24/09 18:09:38]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/24/09 18:10:02]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/24/09 18:10:26]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/24/09 18:12:27]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/24/09 18:13:03]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/24/09 18:13:15]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/24/09 18:13:39]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/24/09 18:13:15]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/24/09 18:13:39]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/24/09 18:13:52]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/24/09 18:14:40]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/24/09 18:14:52]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/24/09 18:15:28]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/24/09 18:15:40]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/24/09 18:16:05]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>WC7V [12/24/09 18:17:01]:°3K BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/24/09 18:17:05]:Open BJ1SA-12:1 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/24/09 18:17:54]:Open BJ1SA-12:1

Thanks again to the Chinese Team for a wonderful Christmas present!

Merry Christmas.

73, John K8YSE