[amsat-bb] HO-68 26Dec09 1544z North America

[John Papay]

An audio recording of the HO-68 26Dec09 1544z pass
over North America is on my webserver:

http://www.papays.com/HO-68_26Dec2009_154401z.mp3

I counted about 20 different stations on this pass.  Packet
continues to affect the voice repeater in such a way that it
can be difficult to make a contact.  145.825 is a busy frequency
and there are probably stations that are set to beacon at
frequent intervals.  Then there are those that are trying to
connect to the BBS at the same time that others are trying to
use the voice repeater.  This does not work very well over
the US where there is a great deal of activity.

The following packets were copied during the pass.  Many other
packets were heard but not decoded.  The date/time stamp was
added to indicate when the packet was received.  It is accurate
to within a few seconds:

BJ1SA-11>PBLIST [12/26/09  15:45:53]:PB: Empty.
BJ1SA-11>KB2M [12/26/09  15:47:07]:NO -2 KB2M\D
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:47:28]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:48:04]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:48:28]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:48:41]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:49:41]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:50:05]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:50:17]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:50:29]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:50:42]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:51:06]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:51:18]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:51:30]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:52:06]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:52:43]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:53:19]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:54:07]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:54:31]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:54:44]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:54:56]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:55:20]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:55:44]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:55:56]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:56:20]:Open BJ1SA-12:1
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:56:32]:Open BJ1SA-12:1
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:56:57]:Open BJ1SA-12:1
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:57:09]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:57:21]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:58:21]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>N8MH [12/26/09  15:58:32]:¡26K
BJ1SA-11>N8MH [12/26/09  15:58:53]:NO -2 N8MH\D
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:59:10]:Open BJ1SA-12:1
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:59:22]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:59:34]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:59:46]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  15:59:46]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>N8MH [12/26/09  15:59:49]:í26K
BJ1SA-12>N8MH [12/26/09  15:59:53]¿
N8MH>BJ1SA-12 [12/26/09  15:59:57]:
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  16:00:34]:Open BJ1SA-12:1
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  16:01:23]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  16:01:35]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  16:01:47]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-12>BBSTAT [12/26/09  16:03:00]:Open BJ1SA-12:0
BJ1SA-11>N8MH [12/26/09  16:03:06]:NO -2 N8MH\D

Signals were strong throughout the pass with some downlink
polarization shifting.

Thanks again to AMSAT-China for this very nice satellite.

73,
John K8YSE EN91dh
Cleveland, Ohio