Hi all,
I'm wondering if a curious phenomenon that I have seen is related to the infamous TS-2000 SO-50 birdie. I thought I would see if I could make a contact on SO-50 with my TS-2000 even knowing about the birdie. I can certainly hear others during parts of the pass.
I did not hear anything so I punch up the arming tone, and oddly, I could hear both the tone (120-something?) and my voice totally clearly on the downlink frequency. I seriously doubt that I was getting into the satellite at that point.
So what is the symptom of the birdie? I thought it was just blanking out the Rx band over a certain range.
Any thoughts?
Thanks and 73,
Burns WB1FJ
Hello. This is a bug of old (first) TS2000 radios. I have same problem :( Nothing to do with it.
CU
------ Original Message ------ From: "Burns Fisher" burns@fisher.cc To: "AMSAT BB" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: 11.03.2018 20:45:23 Subject: [amsat-bb] Symptoms of TS-2000 birdie
Hi all,
I'm wondering if a curious phenomenon that I have seen is related to the infamous TS-2000 SO-50 birdie. I thought I would see if I could make a contact on SO-50 with my TS-2000 even knowing about the birdie. I can certainly hear others during parts of the pass.
I did not hear anything so I punch up the arming tone, and oddly, I could hear both the tone (120-something?) and my voice totally clearly on the downlink frequency. I seriously doubt that I was getting into the satellite at that point.
So what is the symptom of the birdie? I thought it was just blanking out the Rx band over a certain range.
Any thoughts?
Thanks and 73,
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