[amsat-bb] Re: [eu-amsat] Re: Re: AO-7 report.- Band switching

[John Hackett]

Hello Mak,
              I appreciate your support and am very glad somebody else 
noticed the discrepancy ...
and while I have the pen ... (keyboard) ... congratuations on your fine 
signal on the old girl yesterday, the first time we've worked on AO-7.

Since we're both completely blocked by mountains in our respective take-off 
directions we did OK Makis.

I told !!! you the EU-Amsat reflector would be a success didn't I ... we did 
good Mak.

73 John.   <la2qaa at amsat.org>   AO-7 Resource Page Admin:

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>From: SV1BSX <sv1bsx at yahoo.gr>
>Reply-To: eu-amsat at yahoogroups.com
>To: eu-amsat at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [eu-amsat] Re: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 report.- Band switching
>Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:03:43 -0700 (PDT)
>
>   Hi John & group,
>
>personally I agree 100% with you John. AO-7 this
>summer working like a "single" Mode-B Satellite !
>This is very unusual comparing with previous years,
>where during the summer-months it was mainly "ON" in
>Mode-A. And I know that very well, as a "fan" of
>Mode-A.
But definitely, this summer-period something is
>different on satellite's behavior .
>
>I  wondering before several weeks, why the Satellite
>was not "ON" on Mode-A, but nothing more.
>John LA2QAA has an "eagle eye", so not just he noticed
>that but he wrote it, wondering also about the
>possible ralationship with "Timer's" operation , when
>the AO-7 will going out of eclipse the next months.
>Good one John.
>
>  So, I can't understand why all this
>"noise" from some others friends. If somebody watching
>the "old grand lady", it's obvious that something is
>changed.
>
>
>73, Mak SV1BSX
>
>
>
>
>--- John Hackett <archie.hackett at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello Roger,
> >                  Here's a link to the estimated
> > eclipse times through to
> > 2008.
> >
> > <http://www.planetemily.com/ao7/Eclipse.php>
> >
> > Also, the seasonal statistics of AO-7.
> >
> > <http://www.planetemily.com/ao7/stats2.php>
> >
> > If you backpeddle you'll see that mode-B becomes
> > more predominet as the
> > years go by ... the main parameter being sunlight.
> >
> > checkig this against the estimated eclipse times
> > will land you in the same
> > part of the ballpark I took my original estimations
> > from ... but please do
> > !!! remember, it's all "logical' speculation.
> >
> > There are so many variables. Even some clown with
> > too much power could upset
> > the voltage threshhold ... they might even succeed
> > in turning the old girl
> > off altogether !!! ... hence the enforced
> > tight-lippedness re: power and
> > commands etc.
> >
> > I can tell you though, I know what you mean about
> > mode-A.
> >
> > Though I'm a so-called "experienced" ... (note the
> > hyphens !!!) ...operator,
> > I truly miss the challenge of chasing RS-10 across
> > the sky while manually
> > adjusting for doppler. It had an excellent !!
> > receiver,
> > an acceptible transmitter, the Robot was novel and
> > there was plenty of SSB
> > and plenty of SSB and plenty of CW to keep everybody
> > happy.
> >
> > It rather surprised me that after P3D Amsat chose to
> > promote an FM satellite
> > in LEO, thereby limiting the the number of users per
> > pass dramatically ...
> > but that debate has been driven into the ground
> > already.
> >
> > The Europeans and Americans have differing views on
> > this as seen by the mass
> > exodus of members from Amsat-UK when it became known
> > that Amsat-UK would
> > provide substantial funding for an FM satellite.
> >
> > Many years ago, when my good friend Russel Tillman
> > was editor of The Amsat
> > Journal he explained the policy making ... "we have
> > to keep the constructors
> > happy" etc ... so as a mere operator, whether you
> > help to fund things or
> > not, you get what you are given, take it or leave
> > it.
> >
> > You may ... (or may not) ... find this link amusing
> > ...
> >
> >
><http://www.observations.biz/Joint_Observations/the_thirteen_commandments.htm
> >
> > 73 John.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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