Re: [amsat-bb] AO-7 weirdness

[Dave Guimont <dguimon1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>2330 AO-7 pass here in EL88 the 2m beacon was on, extremely loud and clear.
>The transponder however was not working right. There were beacon images,
>very rough and louder than the beacon, at 956, 941, and 925. I did manage to
>hear my dits at closest approach, but with 100 watts and 18 elements uplink
>only, and very faint at that. there was no other activity that I heard for
>the entire pass.
>
>What could cause this, and has anyone noticed it before? Could the A
>receiver and B transmitter be on together or something like that?

I can't answer the question, but yes, I noticed exactly that on a pass this
morning.  The beacon frequency position at ~145.972 was loud and clear, but the
images were ratty sounding.  However, I was uplinking with only 3 watts up the
pipe to a KLM 22c and my return was very loud and clear...Couldn't find any
takers though...



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