Hello Greg and BB,

I was doing some experimenting and TXB in V/U mode (435.300 MHz downlink was off last night on the evening passes.) TXA in L/U was operational.

I turned TXB back on this morning o the 1300Z pass. I plan no further experiments this week, maybe one. So the more popular U/V repeater should be on for the next week or so. On Sunday night (US East Coast time) AO-51 will return to 'normal' mode

TXA 70cm digital downlink TXB U/V repeater

73, Gould, WA4SXM AO-51 Command Station

----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Johnson" gjohnson@psci.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 8:42 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-51 Status

Hello All,

New to the satellites. I was trying to listen to AO51 yesterday evening aroung 8/22/07 - 00:59 UTC (FM Voice side) from my location in southern Indiana. I could not hear anything on the downlinik freq 435.300 (starting at 435.310 and down to 435.290 to account for doplar). Anyway, I usually can hear some traffic, but last night nothing. I was wondering if perhaps AO51 was having problems last night or I need to look at my antenna setup closer.

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