Early today I heard Mark, N8MH testing the bird. I’m in FN21 portable using 2 Arrow Antennas and an FT-847 and it was S9!! Very solid signal into the northern Pocono area about 30 miles east of Scranton. This was not a high pass for me peaking at only around 22 degrees or so. I wrote to tell him and he said that he was testing it and it seemed to be working though no guarantees that it will continue to work. .
I tried to access it but did not hear my downlink for some reason. Not sure why as I was using the required 67Hz tone. Hopefully it will continue to work at least in sunlight hours.
73
Rick, W2JAZ
Thanks, Rick. Yes it turned on. Pretty sure it was short lived. People can try it and report, but please don’t get your hopes up :) The battery condition is poor and probably can’t support operations. But from time to time we’ll try!
73, Mark N8MH
On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 4:21 PM Richard Lawn rjlawn@gmail.com wrote:
Early today I heard Mark, N8MH testing the bird. I’m in FN21 portable using 2 Arrow Antennas and an FT-847 and it was S9!! Very solid signal into the northern Pocono area about 30 miles east of Scranton. This was not a high pass for me peaking at only around 22 degrees or so. I wrote to tell him and he said that he was testing it and it seemed to be working though no guarantees that it will continue to work. .
I tried to access it but did not hear my downlink for some reason. Not sure why as I was using the required 67Hz tone. Hopefully it will continue to work at least in sunlight hours.
73
Rick, W2JAZ
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If it is still up—- Please only try AO-92 when satellite is in sunlight. No operations while in eclipse, just like AO-91.
Thanks, Mark N8MH
On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 4:36 PM Mark L. Hammond marklhammond@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, Rick. Yes it turned on. Pretty sure it was short lived. People can try it and report, but please don’t get your hopes up :) The battery condition is poor and probably can’t support operations. But from time to time we’ll try!
73, Mark N8MH
On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 4:21 PM Richard Lawn rjlawn@gmail.com wrote:
Early today I heard Mark, N8MH testing the bird. I’m in FN21 portable using 2 Arrow Antennas and an FT-847 and it was S9!! Very solid signal into the northern Pocono area about 30 miles east of Scranton. This was not a high pass for me peaking at only around 22 degrees or so. I wrote to tell him and he said that he was testing it and it seemed to be working though no guarantees that it will continue to work. .
I tried to access it but did not hear my downlink for some reason. Not sure why as I was using the required 67Hz tone. Hopefully it will continue to work at least in sunlight hours.
73
Rick, W2JAZ
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