*Hi All, I on a hunch, (Sun.6/28) (& w/ my IsP down; & came back on Mon 6/29, had tuned my Kenwood-TM-255A down to 145.800MHz, & bet. 5:10 & 5:15PM (EDT; -4 UTC) I heard the unmistakable Packet signal, & was wondering if that was the ISS, & the ant. used was a 2m horizontilly porerized home made Sqalo & the Packed sig. was "DFQ", & had no way to demodulate the Packet burst ? was wondering if I was right? QTH is Poughkeepsie,NY (Grid sq. FN31)! 73,.stu (WA2BSS) *
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:08:16 -0400 Stuart Balanger wa2bss@gmail.com wrote:
*Hi All, I on a hunch, (Sun.6/28) (& w/ my IsP down; & came back on Mon 6/29, had tuned my Kenwood-TM-255A down to 145.800MHz, & bet. 5:10 & 5:15PM (EDT; -4 UTC) I heard the unmistakable Packet signal, & was
The ISS ought to be on 145.825 for packet, unless they're doing something strange up there.
wondering if that was the ISS, & the ant. used was a 2m horizontilly porerized home made Sqalo & the Packed sig. was "DFQ", & had no way to demodulate the Packet burst ? was wondering if I was right? QTH is Poughkeepsie,NY (Grid sq. FN31)!
I don't know if there's any terrestrial APRS, or any other sort of 1200bps packet, but it's probably worth listening out for that to test your decoding. Receive levels are surprisingly uncritical, but if you can get access to a deviation meter or service monitor to set up the transmit levels you'll get on a lot better.
Round here (NW Scotland) APRS has undergone a sudden and massive resurgence of interest, and 144.800 is extremely busy.
Gordon MM0YEQ
They used to run packet on VHF split 144.990 up and 145.800 down so anything is possible. They may have left it on one of the unlisted uplinks or 145.800 simplex. Stuff happens.
Mike kc9doa
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