Doing what I try to do every vacation which is try to spend a little time back on the birds. I've yet to have a QSO on HO-68. I hear the beacon just fine. But I just finished my 2nd pass from NJ and was unable to hear any signals let alone myself coming back on any mode. Did I misread the operating schedule or am I doing something wrong? MacDoppler told me there was a good pass to this part of the world are around 21:30 my time. Great beacon strength but nobody else was home.
Rick W2JAZ
Rick.....HO-68 is not turned on every pass. At that 2130 utc time, it was off, even though it flew over the US, and the beacon is always on no matter what. HO-68 usually has morning passes, coming from the north down to the south. Check the Amsat-bb here for latest schedule and mode, think it was just the other day infact.
John W6ZKH
________________________________ From: Richard Lawn [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, December 18, 2010 6:43:26 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Working HO-68
Doing what I try to do every vacation which is try to spend a little time back on the birds. I've yet to have a QSO on HO-68. I hear the beacon just fine. But I just finished my 2nd pass from NJ and was unable to hear any signals let alone myself coming back on any mode. Did I misread the operating schedule or am I doing something wrong? MacDoppler told me there was a good pass to this part of the world are around 21:30 my time. Great beacon strength but nobody else was home.
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TNX everyone. I'll check the schedule carefully and try one of these mornings. Rick W2JAZ
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:48 AM, John Neeley [email protected] wrote:
Rick.....HO-68 is not turned on every pass. At that 2130 utc time, it was off, even though it flew over the US, and the beacon is always on no matter what. HO-68 usually has morning passes, coming from the north down to the south. Check the Amsat-bb here for latest schedule and mode, think it was just the other day infact.
John W6ZKH
*From:* Richard Lawn [email protected] *To:* [email protected] *Sent:* Sat, December 18, 2010 6:43:26 PM *Subject:* [amsat-bb] Working HO-68
Doing what I try to do every vacation which is try to spend a little time back on the birds. I've yet to have a QSO on HO-68. I hear the beacon just fine. But I just finished my 2nd pass from NJ and was unable to hear any signals let alone myself coming back on any mode. Did I misread the operating schedule or am I doing something wrong? MacDoppler told me there was a good pass to this part of the world are around 21:30 my time. Great beacon strength but nobody else was home.
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The latest schedule has not been posted to the -BB yet, nor on the CAMSAT website. However, the beacon will tell you whether the transponder is on, and in which mode (although I have observed 2 instances where the beacon indicated a mode different than what the satellite was actually operating in). Just listen to the first part of the beacon transmission: after sending the callsign BJ1SA, the beacon will transmit XW twice. The next 2 CW groupings will tell you the mode:
AAA TTT means beacon only.
TTT TAT means that the linear transponder is on.
TTT TTA means that the FM transponder is on.
The rest of the beacon consists of telemetry data, and ends with XW XW.
Hope this helps!
George, KA3HSW
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Neeley" [email protected] To: "Richard Lawn" [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 11:48 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Working HO-68
Rick.....HO-68 is not turned on every pass. At that 2130 utc time, it was off, even though it flew over the US, and the beacon is always on no matter what. HO-68 usually has morning passes, coming from the north down to the south. Check the Amsat-bb here for latest schedule and mode, think it was just the other day infact.
John W6ZKH
From: Richard Lawn [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, December 18, 2010 6:43:26 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Working HO-68
Doing what I try to do every vacation which is try to spend a little time back on the birds. I've yet to have a QSO on HO-68. I hear the beacon just fine. But I just finished my 2nd pass from NJ and was unable to hear any signals let alone myself coming back on any mode. Did I misread the operating schedule or am I doing something wrong? MacDoppler told me there was a good pass to this part of the world are around 21:30 my time. Great beacon strength but nobody else was home.
Rick W2JAZ
I am having a problem hearing the downlink of any SSB satellites on 440.
I've been off the Sats for a couple of years, two or so. I just rebuilt my station PC and reinstalled all the apps, specifically, SatPC32, and ARSWIN and my controller to my G-5500 and 12 element 2-meter and 17 element 440 beams. I use two SSB pre-amps, one each for 144 and 440, both appear to work perfectly. When I click the Pre-amp button on the ICOM-910, I hear the background noise level increase, telling me the pre-amp is operating. The 440 receiver appears to otherwise work ok.
I was able to work VO-52 where 440 was the uplink and was able to get on the air for one pass of an FM bird, AO-51, where the downlink was 440. I am no longer able to hear the usual passband noise of the Sat when as it comes overhead
It is 21:10 UTC and I just finished trying to work FO-29 from CN87 (20:59 to 21:17), and again no luck. I sent my call out on 145.950, but nothing back. Checked the ARRL satellite tracking site and it appears I have the correct keps installed. I went outside and checked the bearing of the antenna. Seems ok.
Anyone have any ideas? I am stumped.
Michael K3MH
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Lawn Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 6:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Working HO-68
Doing what I try to do every vacation which is try to spend a little time back on the birds. I've yet to have a QSO on HO-68. I hear the beacon just fine. But I just finished my 2nd pass from NJ and was unable to hear any signals let alone myself coming back on any mode. Did I misread the operating schedule or am I doing something wrong? MacDoppler told me there was a good pass to this part of the world are around 21:30 my time. Great beacon strength but nobody else was home.
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Hi Michael!
I am having a problem hearing the downlink of any SSB satellites on 440.
<snip>
It is 21:10 UTC and I just finished trying to work FO-29 from CN87 (20:59 to 21:17), and again no luck. I sent my call out on 145.950, but nothing back. Checked the ARRL satellite tracking site and it appears I have the correct keps installed. I went outside and checked the bearing of the antenna. Seems ok.
FO-29 is currently off. Since it was the only current SSB/CW satellite with a 70cm downlink, we will have to hope that FO-29 can be reactivated in the near future. Otherwise, there's VO-52 with a 2m downlink and AO-7 with its alternating 2m and 10m downlinks if you're trying to work SSB, or you can try for the transponder on ARISSat-1 (70cm up/2m down).
If you want to work FM, you have AO-51 as well as AO-27 (afternoon passes only) and SO-50 that are available - all with 70cm downlinks.
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/
Trying to get my station back on the air, challenging when I am not sure which bird is working and when.
It is now 22:25UTC, trying to get on AO-51, looks like it is down also, from the AMSAT status page, has anyone heard it today? I am assuming that its base downlink frq 435.300 as I've got an old ARRL frequency guide that shows it as 435.225.
Sorry for all the traffic...
Michael K3MH
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 2:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Odd Satellite problem
Hi Michael!
I am having a problem hearing the downlink of any SSB satellites on 440.
<snip>
It is 21:10 UTC and I just finished trying to work FO-29 from CN87 (20:59
to
21:17), and again no luck. I sent my call out on 145.950, but nothing
back.
Checked the ARRL satellite tracking site and it appears I have the correct keps installed. I went outside and checked the bearing of the antenna. Seems ok.
FO-29 is currently off. Since it was the only current SSB/CW satellite with a 70cm downlink, we will have to hope that FO-29 can be reactivated in the near future. Otherwise, there's VO-52 with a 2m downlink and AO-7 with its alternating 2m and 10m downlinks if you're trying to work SSB, or you can try for the transponder on ARISSat-1 (70cm up/2m down).
If you want to work FM, you have AO-51 as well as AO-27 (afternoon passes only) and SO-50 that are available - all with 70cm downlinks.
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/
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Hi Michael!
Trying to get my station back on the air, challenging when I am not sure which bird is working and when.
It is now 22:25UTC, trying to get on AO-51, looks like it is down also, from the AMSAT status page, has anyone heard it today? I am assuming that its base downlink frq 435.300 as I've got an old ARRL frequency guide that shows it as 435.225.
The normal AO-51 downlink *was* 435.300 MHz, but with its limited capabilities now it uses 435.150 MHz as the downlink. Its uplink is on 145.880 MHz. I was just on that pass, and it was busy with stations from Cuba and Mexico up into Canada, and all across the continental USA from my backyard here in the Phoenix area.
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/
AO-51- 145.180 uplink, 435.150 downlink
Dave - KB1PVH
Sent from my Verizon Wireless DROID X On Oct 16, 2011 6:42 PM, "Michael Hatzakis" [email protected] wrote:
Trying to get my station back on the air, challenging when I am not sure which bird is working and when.
It is now 22:25UTC, trying to get on AO-51, looks like it is down also, from the AMSAT status page, has anyone heard it today? I am assuming that its base downlink frq 435.300 as I've got an old ARRL frequency guide that shows it as 435.225.
Sorry for all the traffic...
Michael K3MH
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 2:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Odd Satellite problem
Hi Michael!
I am having a problem hearing the downlink of any SSB satellites on 440.
<snip>
It is 21:10 UTC and I just finished trying to work FO-29 from CN87 (20:59
to
21:17), and again no luck. I sent my call out on 145.950, but nothing
back.
Checked the ARRL satellite tracking site and it appears I have the
correct
keps installed. I went outside and checked the bearing of the antenna. Seems ok.
FO-29 is currently off. Since it was the only current SSB/CW satellite with a 70cm downlink, we will have to hope that FO-29 can be reactivated in the near future. Otherwise, there's VO-52 with a 2m downlink and AO-7 with its alternating 2m and 10m downlinks if you're trying to work SSB, or you can try for the transponder on ARISSat-1 (70cm up/2m down).
If you want to work FM, you have AO-51 as well as AO-27 (afternoon passes only) and SO-50 that are available - all with 70cm downlinks.
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/
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Sorry, should have been 145.880. My fingers were going faster than my brain.
Dave - KB1PVH
Sent from my Verizon Wireless DROID X
For starters, FO-29 has not been heard in a couple of weeks:
http://oscar.dcarr.org/index.php
That's why you haven't heard it ;)
Seems like the other active 70cm birds are FM...
73,
Mark N8MH
At 02:24 PM 10/16/2011 -0700, Michael Hatzakis wrote:
I am having a problem hearing the downlink of any SSB satellites on 440.
I've been off the Sats for a couple of years, two or so. I just rebuilt my station PC and reinstalled all the apps, specifically, SatPC32, and ARSWIN and my controller to my G-5500 and 12 element 2-meter and 17 element 440 beams. I use two SSB pre-amps, one each for 144 and 440, both appear to work perfectly. When I click the Pre-amp button on the ICOM-910, I hear the background noise level increase, telling me the pre-amp is operating. The 440 receiver appears to otherwise work ok.
I was able to work VO-52 where 440 was the uplink and was able to get on the air for one pass of an FM bird, AO-51, where the downlink was 440. I am no longer able to hear the usual passband noise of the Sat when as it comes overhead
It is 21:10 UTC and I just finished trying to work FO-29 from CN87 (20:59 to 21:17), and again no luck. I sent my call out on 145.950, but nothing back. Checked the ARRL satellite tracking site and it appears I have the correct keps installed. I went outside and checked the bearing of the antenna. Seems ok.
Anyone have any ideas? I am stumped.
Michael K3MH
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