[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 mode change and recommendation

[Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL]

At 11:02 AM 12/29/2009 -0600, "George Henry" <ka3hsw at att.net> wrote:
>I tried the 13:40-ish pass, and also feel that the audio was low...
>
>I'm only working with a quarter-wave ground plane at the moment, and it was
>only a 10 degree pass for me.  I heard a couple of other stations, one of
>which was off-frequency on the uplink.  We'll see what it's like later on a
>higher pass.
>
>George, KA3HSW


I listened last night, and that was my thought too.  The FM downlink from 
Echo was twenty over nine, with a lot of white noise in the background much 
like you hear when listening to a 9600 bps signal, but the audio level of 
the stations making contacts on it was low.  Receiving Echo shouldn't be a 
problem if the output is lowered, at least for me anyway, but I wonder if 
it's possible to increase the receiver gain on Echo so SSB signals come out 
louder.  To me it seemed the audio should have been louder as I was 
receiving the downlink almost full scale.