Hello Patrick,

I understand the ECHO BBS transmitter baud rate is 9600 or greater

For the U transmitters 9k6-38k4, for the S transmitter 38k4-76k8 this has to do with the filtering required for the demodulation

Can someone operate the more common 1200 baud up to echo and will it appear as 1200 on the downlink and additionally, can this be accomplished by ground control?

Theoretically yes you can get 1200 baud data though. BUT, since it is a single channel, FM device, it would be difficult to get many entire packets through and locked in on the downlink side so much voice competition. The satellite acts a cross band repeater, what goes in, comes out - including taxicab commuications. The previous PL tone just gated the input audio into the transmitter. The illegal signals were still being output from the reeiver, just not gated to the transmitter, so you heard noise. I and many others prefer to hear the signals that the satellite is receiving, so I know it is working well and people don't tend to increase their output level to try to get into the satellite.

Operators can still receive the 9k6 telemetry from AO-51. As Drew said the other day, we need some code changes to be made to allow another receiver to be used for the digital uplink for the BB, without causing the processor to have to respond to too many receiver interrupts from just noise.

73, Gould, WA4SXM

----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick McGrane" N2OEQ@aceweb.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 5:13 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Oscar 51 packet baud rates

Greetings again from Patrick, N2OEQ

I understand the ECHO BBS transmitter baud rate is 9600 or greater.

Can someone operate the more common 1200 baud up to echo and will it appear as 1200 on the downlink and additionally, can this be accomplished by ground control?

Thanks for replies, 73, pat

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