[amsat-bb] Re: SO-67 Western Pass 11/21 @ 1741

[OZ1MY]

Hi Alan,
I have the same experience with the downlink frequency.
73 OZ1MY
Ib
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan P. Biddle" <APBIDDLE at UNITED.NET>
To: "'amsat-bb'" <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 8:15 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: SO-67 Western Pass 11/21 @ 1741


> In my 45 years of haming, I can recall ONE QSO, back in my days on HF AM,
> with somebody using NBFM.  Until last weekend, I had completely forgotten
> that the FT-847 has a button for that, and of course SATPC32 supports it
as
> well.  ;)
>
> One thing I find is that the discriminator consistently centers up about 2
> KHz lower than the published frequency.  I find that 435.343 MHz works
best.
> The rig is calibrated, and the other birds are all where they claim to be.
> So far, there has been too much traffic to determine whether the uplink is
a
> bit off.
>
> Alan
> WA4SCA
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On
> Behalf Of w6zkh at comcast.net
> Sent: 21 November, 2009 12:04
> To: amsat-bb
> Subject: [amsat-bb] SO-67 Western Pass 11/21 @ 1741
>
> This mornings pass of SO-67 was the best one sofar, probably because it
> wasnt overloaded with signals being it was partially out over the Pacific.
>
> VA7VW, WC7V, W7JPI, K7CWQ, WD9EWK, N7EDK and a XE2 station were on, and
for
> the mostpart good communications spaced out over the 12 minute pass. Once
> everyone waited for that 3 second tail audio was very good, with Leo,
W7JPI
> having Hi-Fi studio audio from that 847 with Mic gain turned down. It is
> hard to wait for the tail, as all of us are use to the other birds. I
copied
> the satellite down to 2 degs over the Pacific.
>
> Sorry no recording device of it.... guess we need to make a remote base
for
> John K8YSE out here on the Left Coast, hi...
>
> John W6ZKH
> DM06
>
>
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