[amsat-bb] Re: Charles trying SSTV, but stuck

[MM]

Saturday April 4, aprox 15:00 UTC, Charles on was 145.800 during an east coast USA pass.  It sound liked he was talking to Goddard in Maryland, no call signs were hear during the 5+ minute conversation.  A portion of the conversation was dedicated to battery status of the VC-H1 communicator.  I was mobile at the time and did not record the conversation.  It seems Charles was concerned about the battery consumption of the VC-H1 and did NOT want to run the VCH1 in automatic mode.  I also got the impression that there was not a large supply of used batteries for the VH-H1 (requires 4 AA batteries).
Did anyone get a recording of that pass and have a better view of the conversation.

Thanks Miles WF1F
www.marexmg.org


--- On Sat, 4/4/09, Glenn AA5PK <aa5pk at suddenlink.net> wrote:

> From: Glenn AA5PK <aa5pk at suddenlink.net>
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Charles trying SSTV, but stuck
> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
> Date: Saturday, April 4, 2009, 3:10 PM
> On the last ISS pass, Charles reported the batteries in the
> VCH1 need 
> replacing.
> 
> Congrats to John/K8YSE for snagging him.
> 
> 73
> Glenn AA5PK
> AMSAT #6694 
> 
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