[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 transmitter shut down?

[Andrew Koenig]

I heard the same thing... I'm working with an improvised setup (see the link
below), and I was wondering what happened. My first guess was my rig,
considering it is just a whip antenna on a FT-60, but now that you mention
it, I think it was the AO-51.

This is a pic of me working the AO-51 on top of my monkey bars (they were
awesome when I was 5, but now that I'm 14 they make a good "perch" for
working the birds) and you can see my rig there too:
http://log.thathamkid.com/pics/IMG_5816.JPG

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Charles Reiche <reichec at verizon.net> wrote:

> On the "gut pass" (as I like to call it), right up the middle of the USA
> at Mar 17 ~0040Z the ao-51 435.300 transmitter shut off for an estimated
> 5-10 seconds, enough for me to stare at my computer and radio to wonder if I
> hit a button, then it came back and I heard K7WIN and i believe N5AFV verify
> that it indeed happened.
>
> Was it just being programed by a ground station at that time or is it
> something we should continue to watch for?
>
> I did not have a recording of it, maybe someone else does.
>
>
> N3CRT
> Charlie
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73's
Andrew K.
KE5GDB
VP of the Clear Lake Amateur Radio Club
http://www.thathamkid.com