I'm in with 10w and some not fancy center loaded vertical...You just have to pick your times though.
I think I did notice that once you are in, the repeater seems to "hold" your signal but if you drop your carrier you probably won't be able to pick it up right away.
Anyway...no complaints...it's a lot of fun here in New England.
Roger WA1KAT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ransom, Kenneth G. (JSC-OC)[BAR]" [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 7:04 PM Subject: [sarex] Re: ISS Repeater sensitivity
Some of the discussion on the AMSAT-BB is reviewing this. Bob's response
seems most applicable to your comment. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/amsat-bb/48hour/msg61482.html
I have had good results using 5 watts into a ANLI telescoping vertical or
an Arrow antenna.
Kenneth - N5VHO
From: [email protected] on behalf of Patrick McGrane Sent: Mon 2/4/2008 5:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [sarex] ISS Repeater sensitivity
Greetings from Patrick N2OEQ
I recall a response to an inquiry some time ago that the D700 recieve
squelch is turned up all the way when configured for crossband repeat. I tried a vertical and 30 watts up with little success. Now I am using about 25 watts into a homebrew 7 element UHF beam fro the uplink with intermittent success. It might only be my rig but I noticed the iss recieves a little low ( considering doppler compensation too)
A million thanks to all who made the recent operation possible.
pat
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