A recording of the HO-68 pass, 27Dec2009 at 1527z over North America is on my webserver. This was an 82 degree pass for me and the bird was copied well from horizon to horizon. The first packet was received within one minute after AOS and the last packet was within a minute of LOS.

I was not at home for this pass. SatPC32 did all the work. The receive antenna was set for Left Hand Circular Polarization which seems to work better than right hand on average. Signals were strong throughout the pass. FM Voice and packet seemed to interrupt one another and it was hard for some to make a complete qso.

http://www.papays.com/HO-68_27Dec2009_152711z.mp3

These are the packets decoded during the pass. The date/time stamp was inserted by the TNC to show when the packets were received. It was not sent from the satellite:

BJ1SA-11>KB2M [12/27/09 15:28:18]:OK KB2M\D BJ1SA-11>PBLIST [12/27/09 15:28:18]:PB: Empty. BJ1SA-11>KB2M [12/27/09 15:28:38]:OK KB2M\D BJ1SA-11>PBLIST [12/27/09 15:28:38]:PB: KB2M\D BJ1SA-11>PBLIST [12/27/09 15:28:39]:PB: Empty. BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:28:43]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:29:20]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:29:32]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:29:44]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:30:08]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:30:44]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:30:56]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:31:32]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:31:45]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:31:57]:Open BJ1SA-12:1 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:33:09]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:33:34]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:33:46]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:33:58]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:34:46]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:34:58]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:35:23]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:35:35]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:35:59]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:36:23]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:36:47]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:37:35]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:37:48]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:38:24]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:38:36]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:38:48]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:39:00]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:39:13]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:39:24]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:39:36]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:40:01]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:40:13]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:40:25]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:40:37]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:41:01]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:41:14]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:41:26]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:41:38]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:41:50]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:42:02]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:42:14]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:42:26]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:43:27]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:43:39]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:43:51]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:44:15]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:44:27]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:44:51]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:45:03]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:46:04]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:46:16]:Open BJ1SA-12:0 BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/27/09 15:46:28]:Open BJ1SA-12:0

We look forward to more testing and fine tuning. Thanks again to AMSAT-China. Happy New Year.

73, John K8YSE