[amsat-bb] Re: Terrestrial repeater interference to AO-27

John W Lee k6yk at juno.com
Thu Nov 29 18:22:43 PST 2007


What I've been hearing on AO-27 sounds like 
simplex chatter. No squelch tail, etc.  Unless we are hearing
the input side of a repeater (the users).  They seem to show up 
just about every day in the afternoon, and I can never understand
the callsigns when they give them. 

73
John K6YK

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:42:26 -0800 (PST) Bob Stewart <bob at evoria.net>
writes:
> I heard some random non-sat related chatter recently on AO-27,
> as well as some odd blocking on SO-50.  I haven't gone back in 
> monitor mode, though.  If it starts to be a big problem again,
> I suppose can start recording the "good" pass on AO-27 like
> last time.  Good point about CTCSS, Drew.
> 
> Bob - AE6RV
> 
> --- Andrew Glasbrenner <glasbrenner at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> > I talked to one of the control ops via Echolink a few weeks ago 
> and he said 
> > it had been moved. I can't verify it. It was a simplex echolink 
> link into a 
> > repeater. There were actually two of them, one on 145.850, and the 
> other on 
> > 145.925.
> > 
> > I didn't know anyone else was working on this. Had he not said 
> they had been 
> > moved Riley was going to be my next call! Thanks for your 
> efforts.
> > 
> > This sort of thing is one of the reasons we shouldn't use CTCSS on 
> satellite 
> > uplinks unless we have to....
> > 
> > 73, Drew KO4MA
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "George Henry" <ka3hsw at earthlink.net>
> > To: <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 4:59 PM
> > Subject: [amsat-bb] Terrestrial repeater interference to AO-27
> > 
> > 
> > > Has anyone heard that rogue repeater thru AO-27 recently?  I 
> received a 
> > > phone call from Riley this afternoon, following up on my 
> complaint about 
> > > the repeater, and he wanted to know if it was still on the air.  
> It is 
> > > located too far from my home QTH to hear directly, and my 
> satellite 
> > > antennas are down at the moment.  The one time I *did* hear it 
> on the 
> > > ground (early October), I was out mobile and much closer to it 
> than when I 
> > > am at home, but I haven't been up that way (northern suburbs of 
> Chicago) 
> > > for quite a while.
> > >
> > > George, KA3HSW
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