Excellent 19 deg pass over VK/ZL at 2138 UTC. Very strong downlink signals up to 60db over S9 for most of the pass. Could hold the transponder in at less than 1 deg. Worked Graham (VK2AYE) and no problems using the recommended technique.

Alan ZL2BX

-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jan-Albert Koekemoer Sent: Friday, 6 November 2009 20:59 To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] SA-AMSAT payload activation on SO-67

Hello

We intend to schedule the FM V/U cross-band repeater on Sumbandila as follows (all times in UTC; all activations 13 minutes duration):

Fri 6 Nov 2009: 21:38 (Eastern Australia / New Zealand)

Sa 7 Nov 2009: 02:05 (Western Asia) 08:17 (Europe) 11:40 (Eastern part of South America) 16:13 (Central Canada / USA)

The CTCSS tone for the transponder is 233.6 Hz.

Uplink: 145.875MHz Downlink: 435.345MHz

Additional recommendations: Use only narrow FM Switch off compression Speak softly (mic gain down)

Satellite characteristics: All antennas are linear vertically polarized (1/4 wavelength) Sat Tx power = 5W Sat Rx sensitivity = -116.5dBm for 12dB SINAD Max antenna gain = 4dBi

Note that the satellite is currently in a controlled sun tracking mode with antennas Nadir pointing.

Apologies for the late notification, but we're still in the commissioning phase and can therefore not guarantee the SA-AMSAT payload service far ahead in time. Since we're using the same (shared) transponder for TT&C purposes at present, we can unfortunately not schedule the payload over RSA on Saturday.

Regards Jan-Albert (ZR1JAK) Sumbandila Ground Control Team

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On 6 Nov 2009 at 22:59, Jan-Albert Koekemoer wrote:

Date sent: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:59:06 +0200 From: Jan-Albert Koekemoer [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] SA-AMSAT payload activation on SO-67 To: [email protected] Copies to: [email protected]

Hello

We intend to schedule the FM V/U cross-band repeater on Sumbandila as follows (all times in UTC; all activations 13 minutes duration):

16:13 (Central Canada / USA)

HI Jan-Albert

Can you check the 16.13 UTC pass give's a foot print only over the Pacific ocean here? The 14.36 is the one over central Canada/US. "-"

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