That's an interesting obsevation Dan.
If we listen to the pass at 23.15 UTC, the pass is mid Atlantic with good communications between Western Europe and the East Coast of the USA. Italy / Eastern Europe is out of the footprint, so there should be fewer stations on the XW1 uplink.
Thanks
David
In a message dated 24/12/2009 17:42:05 GMT Standard Time, Danny.casier@skynet.be writes:
Hello satfolks;
When i listen to the recording of the activity (12:35z) over Europe of HO68 I hear my calling is shortly interupted just that long of a packet. So I think the input of the transmitter is muted every time a carry is detected. If many try to send packets to the sat normal voice communication is impossible. So my conclussion is: packet and voice mode at the same time is not a good way. Maybe that was the problem of the firsth FM-activity over Europe. Many where trying to work the sat in packet and the input was most of the time muted. Only big gunns could get thru the packets.
Merry Christmas. Dan ON5UE
It's the combination of the PL and lots of people trying to use the bird. We've seen this before, with AO-51, UO-14, SO-50, etc. When the newness wears off it will work much better for everyone. I would like to see what happens if they turn off the PL though....
73 Jeff kb2m
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of G0MRF@aol.com Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 2:21 PM To: Danny.casier@skynet.be; amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: one remark of HO68
That's an interesting obsevation Dan.
If we listen to the pass at 23.15 UTC, the pass is mid Atlantic with good communications between Western Europe and the East Coast of the USA. Italy / Eastern Europe is out of the footprint, so there should be fewer stations on the XW1 uplink.
Thanks
David
In a message dated 24/12/2009 17:42:05 GMT Standard Time, Danny.casier@skynet.be writes:
Hello satfolks;
When i listen to the recording of the activity (12:35z) over Europe of HO68 I hear my calling is shortly interupted just that long of a packet. So I think the input of the transmitter is muted every time a carry is detected. If many try to send packets to the sat normal voice communication is impossible. So my conclussion is: packet and voice mode at the same time is not a good way. Maybe that was the problem of the firsth FM-activity over Europe. Many where trying to work the sat in packet and the input was most of the time muted. Only big gunns could get thru the packets.
Merry Christmas. Dan ON5UE
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