[amsat-bb] Re: WB9L cross-satellite again

[Jeffrey Koehler]

How about "an inadvertent QSO'??

73,Jeff WB2SYK


--- On Sun, 10/19/08, Joe <nss at mwt.net> wrote:

> From: Joe <nss at mwt.net>
> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: WB9L cross-satellite again
> To: n3tl at bellsouth.net
> Cc: nigel at ngunn.net, jeffk13057 at yahoo.com, sparkycivic at chaw.ca, AMSAT-BB at amsat.org
> Date: Sunday, October 19, 2008, 12:06 PM
> This is indeed a strange situation.
> 
> But in my mind a "QSO"  did not happen.
> 
> I don't know.
> 
> This is making my Brain Hurt.
> 
> Cross bird doesn't fit.  Cross bird I would say were if
> the output from 
> one bird went into another and got relayed.
> 
> Again My brain is hurting here.
> 
> >
> >WB9L is intentionally working AO-51, which is thousands
> of km away from and pretty much opposite AO-16, which N3TL
> is intentionally working. Indeed, both satellites have the
> same FM/VHF uplink. WB9L copies N3TL on AO-51 at 435.300
> +/-, in FM. N3TL copies WB9L on AO-16 at 437.026 +/-, in
> SSB. It seemed clear to me that a complete contact between
> these two stations occurred across both satellites.
> >
> >I'm open to any suggestions regarding a term more
> accurate than cross-satellite for such contacts.
> >
> >73 to all,
> >
> >Tim - N3TL
> >AMSAT Member No. 36820
> >Athens, Ga. - EM84ha
> >
> >
> >-------------- Original message from Nigel Gunn
> G8IFF/W8IFF <nigel at ngunn.net>: -------------- 
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Jeffrey Koehler wrote: > Wouldn't it have to
> be, for true cross-satellite operation to occur, the 
> >>downlink of one satellite to be on the uplink of
> another? 
> >>
> >>Yes 
> >>
> >>
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