Audio of AO-92, today
(I am assuming this is not violating any AMSAT rules. I am thinking it is good practice to listen in so that one day I will have gutzpah to transmit. If there is a better place to share such recordings, please advise.) Isaac, W4ITC
Audio of pass over N.C. (FM14) of AO-92, 10:18am to 10:21am local time. Elevation 23 degrees at 10:18am to 36 degrees at 10:20am and back to 23 deg at 10:21, my AOS, TCA and LOS, respectfully.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oJfXlFQLjgEFjIv8ftTNuelCTiOcdtL-/view?usp=d...
I am still learning to hear and remember call signs and grids. Seems impossible. For the following data I used the rewind 4 or 5 times to get copy and much of the session could not be reliably written down.
Here is what checked out, the other calls were not clear to me. Names shown were given on recording. (This is one and done for the BB, just wanted to share it once since it is new to me.)
N5LEX (QTH not heard), Nate
N0TEL (EM75, Tennessee) Wade. Wade was the session leader for sure. Many QSLs.
N3GS (QTH?) George
KE9AJ
KB2M (EL99, Florida)
WP4T (QTH not copied, but I am sure I heard, "Cuba' https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/s/?view=att&th=17068b3b5d5cb312&attid=0.1&disp=attd&realattid=df1175929473aa59_0.1&safe=1&zw
On 2020-02-21 14:28, Jackie Dander via AMSAT-BB wrote:
(I am assuming this is not violating any AMSAT rules. I am thinking it is good practice to listen in so that one day I will have gutzpah to transmit. If there is a better place to share such recordings, please advise.)
I'm sure there are no rules or laws against sharing a recording that you made of Amateur transmissions. We are, after all, prohibited from obscuring or encrypting our communications (except in one very special case- space telecommand).
I do notice that you have your squelch enabled. Due to the weakness of FM satellites, I find it most useful to leave the squelch off (open), even if it does create a bunch of racket without a strong signal present.
--- Zach N0ZGO
Kudos to you for the practice of listening for a long time before you try to "get on" the birds. Getting your "ears tuned" and getting an idea how good contacts go (and probably hearing some bad practices too!) will make you a better operator!
Good luck and 73,
Burns WB1FJ
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 3:43 PM Zach Metzinger via AMSAT-BB < amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:
On 2020-02-21 14:28, Jackie Dander via AMSAT-BB wrote:
(I am assuming this is not violating any AMSAT rules. I am thinking it is good practice to listen in so that one day I will have gutzpah to transmit. If there is a better place to share such recordings, please advise.)
I'm sure there are no rules or laws against sharing a recording that you made of Amateur transmissions. We are, after all, prohibited from obscuring or encrypting our communications (except in one very special case- space telecommand).
I do notice that you have your squelch enabled. Due to the weakness of FM satellites, I find it most useful to leave the squelch off (open), even if it does create a bunch of racket without a strong signal present.
--- Zach N0ZGO
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I've been doing this for a few years myself and I am still working on being able to remember callsigns and grid squares. What I generally focus on is making sure I've heard all the details and having a good audio recording. As long as I think I've heard the full call and grid at least once for a station as well as them coming back to me clearly, I'll call it good and play the recording back later to get the details down for the log. The key is just making sure you heard it once. I have mostly just relied on using my phone to record the audio, but since I've uploaded to an HT with built in audio record to an SD card, I've found that can do a better job with open squelch as it doesn't record all the background noise when I'm listening to the signal.
- Loren K7IW
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020, 12:29 Jackie Dander via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
(I am assuming this is not violating any AMSAT rules. I am thinking it is good practice to listen in so that one day I will have gutzpah to transmit. If there is a better place to share such recordings, please advise.) Isaac, W4ITC
Audio of pass over N.C. (FM14) of AO-92, 10:18am to 10:21am local time. Elevation 23 degrees at 10:18am to 36 degrees at 10:20am and back to 23 deg at 10:21, my AOS, TCA and LOS, respectfully.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oJfXlFQLjgEFjIv8ftTNuelCTiOcdtL-/view?usp=d...
I am still learning to hear and remember call signs and grids. Seems impossible. For the following data I used the rewind 4 or 5 times to get copy and much of the session could not be reliably written down.
Here is what checked out, the other calls were not clear to me. Names shown were given on recording. (This is one and done for the BB, just wanted to share it once since it is new to me.)
N5LEX (QTH not heard), Nate
N0TEL (EM75, Tennessee) Wade. Wade was the session leader for sure. Many QSLs.
N3GS (QTH?) George
KE9AJ
KB2M (EL99, Florida)
WP4T (QTH not copied, but I am sure I heard, "Cuba' < https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/s/?view=att&th=17068b3b5d5cb312&att...
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Zach Metzinger