SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-214.07
SO-51 Experiment Wednesday

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 214.07 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. Aug 1, 2004
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-214.07

Experimenters Wednesday will begin this coming week on Echo.  We will
enable the L band uplink at 1268.700 mhz for FM repeater operation with 
the UHF transmitter on 435.300 mhz.  The V uplink on 145.920 will be 
off during this time.  The CTCSS (PL) tone function will remain enabled 
during this test.

Times are approximate:

Experimenters Wed Begin: 04 Aug 2004 @ 0220 utc
Experimenters Wed End: 05 Aug 2004 @ 0142 utc

Echo Configuration:

Uplink: 1268.700 mhz FM voice with a 67 hz PL tone
Downlink 435.300 mhz FM voice

The BBS system is still Closed at this time.

[ANS thanks Mike Kingery, KE4AZNfor the above information]

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73, This weeks ANS Editor, Dave Johnson, G4DPZ, g4dpz at AMSAT.org
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