Re: [amsat-bb] UO14 recently

[Emily Clarke <emily@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

I've been noticing a general degradation in it's signal.  I attributed it 
to excessive users and I hate to bring up the subject but there seems to 
have been a lot of intentional interference, like someone throwing a solid 
carrier for a long period of time.

Weird things I've heard lately:  someone conducting a net (asking for 
checkins); while it was over southern Alaska someone was playing something 
like a Forest Service nature programme; pagers, and of course the assorted 
QRM south of the border.

I noticed that before FD there were also many folks transmitting but not 
responding to anyone coming back to them. I wonder if they had their 
squelch off.  In some cases I think they think UO-14 is like any repeater - 
they key up looking for the squelch tail to tell them they hit 
it.  Unfortunately those extra 100 bonus points are a big incentive for 
someone with no experience and a big linear amp to try to get in.

-emily



At 10:43 AM 7/1/2003 -0700, John Geiger wrote:
>In the past couple of days I am having a hard time
>receiving UO14 really well.  Has anyone else noticed
>this?  It gets alot of fades, and the solid signals
>don't come in for real long periods of time.  I am
>using a horizontal yagi with no elevation, but it has
>worked well before.  I am also using a preamp in a RF
>concepts UHF amp.
>
>Wonder if others have noticed a weaker signal or
>greater fading in the past few days, or do I need to
>check my antenna system out?  It may have been going
>on longer than that, but I haven't been on UO14 in the
>past few weeks because of the great 6 meter openings.
>GOt back on the sats for FD
>
>73s John NE0P
>
>
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