I've had several instances of squelch being broken while scanning, usually from my car using an external mag-mount antenna. In fact, my first (and so far only) QSO on AO-27 was done just this way - I was on my way to work and scanning the channels I have programmed in my HT, when the channel I have programmed for SO-50 broke squelch with a contact occurring. I was able to jump in after going to VFO mode (I can't save V/U or U/V frequency pairs in memory), and at first thought it was SO-50 until I ran pass prediction for the time of the contact. I've had the squelch break on AO-51 passes, as well as many times with ISS passes, mainly during packet transmissions.

Dave KC9GHA.

On 3/20/07, amsat-bb-request@amsat.org amsat-bb-request@amsat.org wrote:

Message: 1 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:10:55 -0400 From: "Tim Tapio" tim@timtapio.com Subject: [amsat-bb] Strong sigs To: AMSAT-BB@amsat.org Message-ID: 000001c76a94$ff0dd870$4101a8c0@D6Z67P91 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

While on the way home from our ham meeting tonight, listening to the repeater traffic, I was amazed to hear an EM64 as AO-51 broke squelch, through a rubber duck, sitting in the console of my car on the UHF side of my IC-W32A

High pass....muast have been around 1:42Z.....

73 de Tim, K4SHF FM04....heard in FM05