Terrestrial repeater interference to AO-27
Has anyone heard that rogue repeater thru AO-27 recently? I received a phone call from Riley this afternoon, following up on my complaint about the repeater, and he wanted to know if it was still on the air. It is located too far from my home QTH to hear directly, and my satellite antennas are down at the moment. The one time I *did* hear it on the ground (early October), I was out mobile and much closer to it than when I am at home, but I haven't been up that way (northern suburbs of Chicago) for quite a while.
George, KA3HSW
I talked to one of the control ops via Echolink a few weeks ago and he said it had been moved. I can't verify it. It was a simplex echolink link into a repeater. There were actually two of them, one on 145.850, and the other on 145.925.
I didn't know anyone else was working on this. Had he not said they had been moved Riley was going to be my next call! Thanks for your efforts.
This sort of thing is one of the reasons we shouldn't use CTCSS on satellite uplinks unless we have to....
73, Drew KO4MA
----- Original Message ----- From: "George Henry" ka3hsw@earthlink.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 4:59 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Terrestrial repeater interference to AO-27
Has anyone heard that rogue repeater thru AO-27 recently? I received a phone call from Riley this afternoon, following up on my complaint about the repeater, and he wanted to know if it was still on the air. It is located too far from my home QTH to hear directly, and my satellite antennas are down at the moment. The one time I *did* hear it on the ground (early October), I was out mobile and much closer to it than when I am at home, but I haven't been up that way (northern suburbs of Chicago) for quite a while.
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I heard some random non-sat related chatter recently on AO-27, as well as some odd blocking on SO-50. I haven't gone back in monitor mode, though. If it starts to be a big problem again, I suppose can start recording the "good" pass on AO-27 like last time. Good point about CTCSS, Drew.
Bob - AE6RV
--- Andrew Glasbrenner glasbrenner@mindspring.com wrote:
I talked to one of the control ops via Echolink a few weeks ago and he said it had been moved. I can't verify it. It was a simplex echolink link into a repeater. There were actually two of them, one on 145.850, and the other on 145.925.
I didn't know anyone else was working on this. Had he not said they had been moved Riley was going to be my next call! Thanks for your efforts.
This sort of thing is one of the reasons we shouldn't use CTCSS on satellite uplinks unless we have to....
73, Drew KO4MA
----- Original Message ----- From: "George Henry" ka3hsw@earthlink.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 4:59 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Terrestrial repeater interference to AO-27
Has anyone heard that rogue repeater thru AO-27 recently? I received a phone call from Riley this afternoon, following up on my complaint about the repeater, and he wanted to know if it was still on the air. It is located too far from my home QTH to hear directly, and my satellite antennas are down at the moment. The one time I *did* hear it on the ground (early October), I was out mobile and much closer to it than when I am at home, but I haven't been up that way (northern suburbs of Chicago) for quite a while.
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I'll let Riley know that it has moved, although he'll still probably want to get in touch with the licensee, as his information in ULS is out-of-date... I tried to send him a letter, and it came back as undeliverable, and Riley was also unable to come up with a valid address.
George, KA3HSW
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Glasbrenner" glasbrenner@mindspring.com To: "George Henry" ka3hsw@earthlink.net; amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Terrestrial repeater interference to AO-27
I talked to one of the control ops via Echolink a few weeks ago and he said it had been moved. I can't verify it. It was a simplex echolink link into a repeater. There were actually two of them, one on 145.850, and the other on 145.925.
I didn't know anyone else was working on this. Had he not said they had been moved Riley was going to be my next call! Thanks for your efforts.
This sort of thing is one of the reasons we shouldn't use CTCSS on satellite uplinks unless we have to....
73, Drew KO4MA
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George Henry