Re: [amsat-bb] AO-10 dead ??!!

[K5OE@xxxxxxx]

Hardy,
I worked AO-10 last night about 0050 when it came over my western horizon.  Signals were strong as it was near perigee.  I went away to work UO-22 and when I returned 30 minutes later, when it was south of me and over S.A., the beacon became very weak and the QSB was complete (silence) on about a 1 minute cycle.  I could still hear my CW ping between fades.  15 minutes later, the beacon dissapeared completely (was not in eclipse) and I checked several times in the next hour and never could hear it again.  At 0230, the last time I checked (hoping to hear ZY0SAT), there was no sign of the beacon.

Let's hope it comes back (soon).
73,
Jerry, K5OE

In a message dated Tue, 3 Apr 2001  8:28:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time, dc8ts@t-online.de (rschulze) writes:

<< Yesterday 02apr2001 signals via AO-10 were quite noisy which I thought was due
to the high solar activity.
But today I was checking for abot 2 hours now - no signal at all.
It is now about MA 250. 
I have worked other satellites this morning  - so my station is working.

Anybody else has made similiar observations ?

Worked quite a number of US stations on AO-10 during the last two weeks. If
anybody wants a card - it will be fine via the bureau - please drop me a line 
and I will put a card in the box for the bureau.

Hardy DC8TS/KC2DMA


Reinhard Schulze
Elsa-Braendstroem-Str. 35
D-53879 Euskirchen 
Federal Republic of Germany

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