[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 V/S

[Angelo Glorioso]

Hi Graham,

 I have to agree with you.. Very little fading like in the past. It reached 
the S9 + 60 on the S meter. Made contacts with N5AFV from his car and 
KC9ELU. Traffic
got heavy near the end of the pass with a few 7 landers.  I was even able to 
make a contact with N1RCN on AO-51 with about .5 degrees elevation today.

 The good old gal is working great!! :-)


73 de Angelo



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham Shirville" <g.shirville at btinternet.com>
To: "Angelo Glorioso" <n5uxt at hotmail.com>; "Bob- W7LRD" <w7lrd at comcast.net>; 
"Andrew Glasbrenner" <glasbrenner at mindspring.com>
Cc: <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 V/S


> Hi all,
>
> It is amazing just how strong the AO51 S Band signal is with even a small 
> dish on the ground.
>
> I understand that  the S Band PA  is probably producing just less than I 
> watt of RF so I really really hope that our long delayed ESEO spacecraft 
> will get off the ground before too long. This is scheduled to have a U/S 
> FM transponder with a 3 watt PA so should be workable with even smaller 
> dishes!
>
> More info on ESEO can be seen here
> http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=78&retURL=satellites/futures.php
>
> 73
>
> Graham G3VZV
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Angelo Glorioso" <n5uxt at hotmail.com>
> To: "Bob- W7LRD" <w7lrd at comcast.net>; "Andrew Glasbrenner" 
> <glasbrenner at mindspring.com>
> Cc: <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 4:19 PM
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 V/S
>
>
>> Signal here reached the usually S9+60db at 5 degree elevation on the 
>> western
>> pass. Sounded good. Just need to get rid of my hmmm on the signal. :-(
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Bob- W7LRD" <w7lrd at comcast.net>
>> To: "Andrew Glasbrenner" <glasbrenner at mindspring.com>
>> Cc: <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
>> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 6:06 PM
>> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 V/S
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Last pass signals were s9 + 20 max on a three foot dish/3731aa
>>> downconverter
>>>
>>> 73 Bob W7LRD
>>>
>>> CN87
>>>
>>> Seattle
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Andrew Glasbrenner" <glasbrenner at mindspring.com>
>>> To: "Andrew Glasbrenner" <glasbrenner at mindspring.com>
>>> Cc: amsat-bb at amsat.org
>>> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 3:41:14 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
>>> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 V/S
>>>
>>> We are in mode V/S now. I'm slightly concerned we may have hit the low
>>> voltage trip during the last pass while I was trying to get some
>>> telemetry, so reports of S reception would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> 73, Drew KO4MA
>>> AMSAT-NA VP Ops
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