Re: [amsat-bb] Echo totally unuesable on an Arrow

[Margaret Leber <maggie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Emily Clarke wrote:

 > I made a contact on stock W32A with an AL-800
> whip antenna when the satellite was at 60 degrees of elevation, and 
> another using the Arrow at 15 degrees.  Aruni VE4WMK has also been 
> making contacts using an Arrow and a W32A as well.

Were these passes to the east (where the sat is exposed to more users) 
or out over the Pacific? ARISS packet users noted long ago that as the 
spacecraft moves out over the Atlantic (shrinking the footprint on land) 
that collisions reduce and sucessful transmissions increase dramatically.

Aruni's contact with Egon happned on an az of 10 and el of <20, placing 
the bird over the Arctic and away from QRM as well.

Do we see a pattern yet?

  73 de Maggie K3XS


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