[amsat-bb] Re: SO-67 schedule: 21/22 Nov 2009

[i8cvs]

Hi Jan-Albert, ZR1JAK

Yes.......but over Europe after 3 seconds from an over you will find a
minimum of  30 italian people on this list calling CQ at the same time.

73" de

i8CVS Domenico

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan-Albert Koekemoer" <jan.koekemoer at sunspace.co.za>
To: <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Cc: <sumbandila at googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 8:56 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] SO-67 schedule: 21/22 Nov 2009


> Hi All
>
> Since last week, we have learnt a couple of things re the behaviour of the
FM
> payload, most notibly that the drop-out problem can be avoided as follows:
> directly after an over, the Tx tail will be "active" for 3 seconds.  If,
> during this time, somebody starts to Tx, that person will be cut off when
the
> tail stops.  For the time being, the cut-outs can therefore be avoided by
> waiting out the 3s tail before transmitting.
>
> This is obviously an irritation that we're still working on.  Also note
that
> an over has a maximum permitted duration of 30s.  After this, the
> transmission will be terminated.
>
> The schedule for this weekend is as follows (all times in UTC; all
> activations are 15 min long):
>
> 20 Nov
> 23:00 Australia
>
> 21 Nov
> 00:19 Japan
> 00:36 Australia
> 03:33 India
> 06:55 RSA
> 09:45 Europe
> 11:35 Brazil
> 13:07 Brazil
> 14:30 Canada/USA
> 16:05 Canada/USA
> 17:38 Canada/USA
> 21:11 New Zealand
> 23:57 Japan
>
> 22 Nov
> 00:14 Australia
> 06:34 RSA
> 07:49 Europe
> 08:10 RSA
> 11:13 Brazil
> 12:46 Brazil
> 14:10 Canada/USA
> 15:43 Canada/USA
> 17:17 Canada/USA
>
> Regards
> Jan-Albert
> ZR1JAK
>
>
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