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

[Margaret Leber <maggie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Emily Clarke wrote:
> Hi Maggie
Hi back atcha. ;-)

>> Were these passes to the east (where the sat is exposed to more users) 
>> or out over the Pacific?

> The time was 1849z on 31 July - 2/3rds of the continent were in the 
> footprint.

Yes, but which 2/3? That's rhetorical; the Yukon doesn't count much from 
a QRM point of view.

> I'm not sure what your point would be?  If it was that all the QRM is 
> coming from the South and East of the US that may be, but on the other 
> hand at an elevation of under 20 degrees the path loss is enough to say 
> that it is still a challenge.

PLease don't misunderstand...I would never minimize Aruni's 
accomplishment--congratulations and well-done, Aruni!--but if she was 
unfortunate enough to have tried when the azimuth to the bird was, say, 
150 (path loss being equal), I think her results would have been much 
less successful.

> I don't think we can blame all the QRM on Texas and Florida, but we 
> could certainly try (hihi - ducking)

Based on the grids we do hear, they're obviously not *all* in TX and FL. 
Unfortunately, the geometry of my station keeps passes that are over the 
Atlantic in the shadow of my house.

  73 de Maggie K3XS


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