Hi Mark,

I can confirm that this AO51 mode works extremely well - trouble is that this side of the water there is Zero activity. It is very sensitive and has great audio but on the 1833UTC pass I became very bored with the sound of my own voice. Lets hope more stations join in on subsequent passes:)

73

Graham G3VZV ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark L. Hammond" marklhammond@gmail.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 1:48 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-51 V(ssb)/U fun!

Hi all,

Had a great LONG QSO with Marc N1SDH this morning on AO-51 on the V(SSB)/U repeater. Audio sounds great on this mode and even lets you "double" a bit and still hear each other :)

Here is my DOPPLER.SQF entry for SatPC32:

AO-51,435150,145880,FM,USB,Nor,0,0,SSB V/U

I was within 100Hz of being "on the money" with the uplink (TS-2000x).

Give it a try...you too might find it fun and a bit different from the "same ol' same ol'"

FM Repeater, V(SSB)/U Uplink: 145.880 MHz SSB Downlink: 435.150 MHz FM

73,

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