Re: [amsat-bb] AO-40 Status, Orbit 349

[Dave Guimont <dguimon1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>
>The command/RUDAK team currently plans to do testing and software loading 
>on 2001-08-03 for one hour from approximately 0200U to 0300U.  This will 
>be early in Orbit 349 (the latest NORAD keps, day 211, remain 1 orbit 
>low).  By MA=36, testing should be complete.  If testing starts somewhat 
>earlier, it should finish earlier, as every effort will be made to limit 
>this to about one hour.  During testing the passbands will be closed and 
>the middle beacon will be off or intermittently off and on.  Once the 
>middle beacon is back on continuously, the passbands will have been restored.
>
>Finding Yourself
>------------------------
>
>It should be noted that the middle beacon is, almost precisely, in the 
>middle of the passband.  So, to find yourself when the MB is active, 
>here's the simple method that I use.  You may well have a better 
>technique, but this works for me.

I understand your method, Stacey, and those with a good memory ok, but with my
"senior moments" I do the following:

1.  Record the frequency pairings and the MA of a contact at that time.
2.  When the session is over I reset those pairings on my IC 821
     and crank that pair to an uplink of 435.629.
3.  I've recorded the MA's and the pairings with an uplink of 435.629.
4.  I maintain that 435.629 up with a down of 2401.368 in memory 00.
5.  With a converter warm-up of at least 30 minutes I can find my  downlink
     with a second of ditting...by maintaining that uplink, and finding my
      downlink by reading my chart..

I used the same method in 1984 before we had the luxury of reverse tuned 
radios!  I'd
read the pairings from the  'CARDBOARD' "NO-DITTER". And of course had to 
tune TWO radios!

See noditter.zip at:

http://home.san.rr.com/doguimont/uploads

Tnx fer the tip, Stacey...


            73, Dave wb6llo@amsat.org
                    Disagree: I learn....
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