Re: HO-68 first QSO over Europe
----- Original Message ----- From: "?. ?????????????" ekaf@in.gr To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 9:05 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] HO-68 first QSO over Europe
Dear friends, HO-68 over Europe is a reality, but with some degree of frustation. I heard the bird at 10 degrees (loc KM17), I called and I made two QSO's with RZ6MB and Nikolay, UR5BFX, with excellent signals. May be these are the first QSOs over Europe with the new chinese bird.
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sorry we were faster :) http://www.enduro.idl.pl/audio_sat/first_qso_xw1_18_12_2009_europe.mp3
But when the satellite reached an elevation of 30 degrees, I was not able to enter the uplink channel. I heard some calls from Nikolay, and a couple of minutes later I heard HB9OAB calling and calling through the wlole pass, but I was not able to enter the repeater. I suspect that many station were trying to enter, but the only station heard was HB9OAB with a strong signal. Do you have any explanation?
Any way I thank our chinese colleagues for this Chrismas present and I hope to enjoy the next passes, 73 de SV1EEK
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I looks like lower sensitivity of the sat receiver or very big troposferic scatter of transmitted signals in 2m band (?)
Matt SQ7DQX
Hi Matt and all
Thank you for your reply and correction of my 'arrogant' post. I do not think that was a problem of tropospheric scatter, since HB9OAB was heard during the whole pass. May be, as OZ1MY has pointed out, there were 100's of station trying to enter and the receiver could not demodulate any of them. At low elevation, when in the footprint were only Greece, Italy and Ucraine, QSOs were made easily and with strong signals.
We look forward for the next passes to understand the problem.
Marry Christmas to all and my best wishes for a happy and fruitful new year.
73 de Evan, SV1EEK
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mateusz" sq7dqx@poczta.onet.pl To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 4:30 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: HO-68 first QSO over Europe
----- Original Message ----- From: "?. ?????????????" ekaf@in.gr To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 9:05 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] HO-68 first QSO over Europe
Dear friends, HO-68 over Europe is a reality, but with some degree of frustation. I heard the bird at 10 degrees (loc KM17), I called and I made two QSO's with RZ6MB and Nikolay, UR5BFX, with excellent signals. May be these are the first QSOs over Europe with the new chinese bird.
sorry we were faster :) http://www.enduro.idl.pl/audio_sat/first_qso_xw1_18_12_2009_europe.mp3
But when the satellite reached an elevation of 30 degrees, I was not able to enter the uplink channel. I heard some calls from Nikolay, and a couple of minutes later I heard HB9OAB calling and calling through the wlole pass, but I was not able to enter the repeater. I suspect that many station were trying to enter, but the only station heard was HB9OAB with a strong signal. Do you have any explanation?
Any way I thank our chinese colleagues for this Chrismas present and I hope to enjoy the next passes, 73 de SV1EEK
I looks like lower sensitivity of the sat receiver or very big troposferic scatter of transmitted signals in 2m band (?)
Matt SQ7DQX
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