I tried again just now on the (fairly high) pass over the UK and EU. Heard a couple of EA and SM stations on, but I couldn't open the repeater myself.
I had my Kenwood TH-F7E handheld with the cross-band Yagi, and a Jingtong JT-308 with its own rubber duck listening for the downlink. The Jingtong was picking up a huge signal from the ISS - very very good reception indeed. I just couldn't seem to get the repeater to open for me at all though. Any suggestions? I know the TH-F7E and antenna work well for LEO satellites, so I figured it would work for the ISS.
Gordon
Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ wrote:
I tried again just now on the (fairly high) pass over the UK and EU. Heard a couple of EA and SM stations on, but I couldn't open the repeater myself.
No probs here in Australia... you are using a 67Hz PL tone aren't you ?
cheers
Tim
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 13:11 +1100, Tim Tuck wrote:
Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ wrote:
I tried again just now on the (fairly high) pass over the UK and EU. Heard a couple of EA and SM stations on, but I couldn't open the repeater myself.
No probs here in Australia... you are using a 67Hz PL tone aren't you ?
Yep. I checked the aerial, and can lift a nearby (25 miles or so) repeater with 500mW (power set to L). So presumably the 2m antenna and 2m half of the diplexer are healthy.
Gordon
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