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Re: AO-51 SSB/FM mode
Drew,
I heard you a couple times, but your signal was one of the weakest copied on
the sat. If the downlink to me had been more noisy on this end, I would not
have copied. Thanks for the QSO.
50 watts to a beam pumps it pretty good, but 5-10 is workable most of the
time. The distant passes were difficult at 5 watts on TX.
The RX seems to be getting 'desensed' at times by something or another
nearby signal. I noticed this on the last pass up the west coast. It could
have been the interlopers south of the border. It is causing the SSB receive
audio to drop. Several stations that were transmitting fairly clear then had
their audio quickly drop to unreadable levels, only to return to normal
readable levels in the same transmission. Maybe too many stations
transmitting at once?
I like this SSB/FM mode. It seems to have generated a lot of interest. That
west coast pass sounded like a DX pileup on 20 meters. :)
Ernie W8EH
Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
> OK, some clarification.
>
> The AO-51 control operator had to reduce the audio level from the SSB receiver to the FM transmitter because stations were heard using excessive power on the uplinks resulting in distortion and other problems with the downlink.
>
> Regardless, I made contacts on the 0142 pass with KI4HXT, N5UXT, and W8EH with 2.5 watts to an Arrow antenna from a FT-817, and using a TH-F6A for receive. I was the weakest of the stations heard. So...here's the deal, if you are running more than 5 watts on this uplink from a home station, you are running too much power. Let's all take this opportunity to see just how QRP we can go, and give the little guys a chance.
>
> Also, whats with one of the regulars calling CQ over stations in the middle of a QSO? It's still a single channel satellite....one at a time please?
>
> OK, hope you enjoy this mode, it's my favorite on AO-51
>
> 73, Drew KO4MA
> AO-51 Operations Committee
>
>
>>I haven't used it this time around, but last time I made several QSOs with 2 watts and an Arrow. Remember unlike the FM uplink, the volume of your downlink audio is dependent on the strength of your signal on the uplink. I'll check it out tonight with the portable setup.
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