Re: [amsat-bb] RE: Future ECHO User Status burst?

[RogerKola@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 08/01/04 1:40:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, w0eec@AMSAT.Org 
writes:


> I think the idea of something happening when the CTCSS drops is a good 
> ideal.  However a 9600bps packet cannot be heard by anyone (at least not by 
> anyone I know) so I would just recommend that there be a simple beep like 
> a courtesy tone.  However if you wanted to proceed that beep with a 9600 
> baud Mic-E compressed packet that would be OK.  But I feel that there needs 
> to be some audible indication that the CTCSS dropped

I think that a "Roger Beep" rather than a "courtesy tone" would be most 
appropriate, with my understanding that the hangtime delay is not necessary for 
effective communications. This is assuming that during the delay before the 
carrier drops that the satellite IS accessable by another CTCSS tone, and that the 
only requirement is that two equal level uplink tones are not heard at the 
same time.

A Roger Beep (for us old CBers and Moon Landing viewers) should be at the end 
of the Transmitting Station's "carrier/tone" drop. Reserving the courtesy 
"space" is a waste of a percentage of resources, IMHO. If we had more than one 
channel this would not be as important. But we have to work with what's up 
there. As for a packet burst, I am all for it...

Roger
WA1KAT
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