Re: [amsat-bb] RS-15 passband heard?

[AA2AE <aa2ae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John

I worked RS-15 on 1/27/04 during the 10:30z pass. The bird was in sunlight
and the beacon seemed exceptionally strong. I didn't detect any FM'ing on my
CW downlink, but I know RS-15 can be unpredictable at times. Appartenly,
supply voltage was low during the 00:10z pass despite solar illumination.

If you monitor RS-15 for a while you'll notice that, more often than not,
the 10 meter downlink signals are pretty weak. I have a 4 element 10m Yagi
on the tower and this mornings pass showed the beacon signal peaking S-7,
but my downlink was just above the noise ( 50w 7el 2m uplink ).

When RS15 cooperates, you can carry on a CW QSO if you can put-up with the
QSB. I have been successful with SSB, but it's certainly more difficult than
using CW.

Hope to work you sometime.

73, Tony - AA2AE





-- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Mock" <kd6pag@qsl.net>
To: <AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 7:36 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] RS-15 passband heard?


> As has often been the case lately, i've heard the RS-15 beacon (at about
> 29.3525 MHz) fairly well this afternoon, except today at about 0010Z, it
> was FM'ing. Tuning around, it appears there was QSO in progress at about
> 29.3540 MHz.  My CW skills are pretty weak, so i wasn't able to copy it
> by ear, but like the beacon, it did appear to have doppler on it.  Did
> anyone else hear it (or perhaps even worked it)?
>
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