[amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 beacon

[Andy MacAllister]

Hah!

I should have tuned aroung 10M more carefully, instead of just listening to 
the Doppler shift on 70cm!

Andy W5ACM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim - N3TL" <n3tl at bellsouth.net>
To: "'Andy MacAllister'" <w5acm at swbell.net>; "'AMSAT BBS'" 
<amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 5:42 PM
Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 beacon


> Hey Andy,
>
> No disrespect ... but the Grand Old Girl has been in Mode A. I worked 
> KC9ELU
> this morning and AA5PK after the AO-51 pass you mention in this email, 
> both
> on Mode A.
>
> Thanks to you for the contact on AO-51.
>
> Happy New Year, and 73 to all,
>
> Tim - N3TL
> Athens, Ga. - EM84ha
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On
> Behalf Of Andy MacAllister
> Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 6:31 PM
> To: 'AMSAT BBS'
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 beacon
>
> David, and other AO-7 watchers,
>
> I was hoping for Mode B or Mode A, but we got Mode "D" (435.1 MHz beacon
> only).
> Yes, I guess it just cycled into the 70-cm beacon mode for the last pass 
> of
> SKN 2010!
> At least it was a nice strong carrier, and I got in some SKN QSOs via 
> AO-51
> just a bit earlier.
>
> TNX to AA5PK, N3TL and K2BMI for the AO-51 SKN contacts!
>
> 73 de Andy W5ACM
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Giles" <vk5dg at amsat.org>
> To: <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 4:38 PM
> Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-7 beacon
>
>
>> Hello and happy new year,
>>
>> I've just been listening to AO-7.  The 10m beacon was off and I couldn't
>> raise a signal through the transponder.  But I did hear the 70cm beacon
>> and it was only transmitting a constant carrier (no RTTY or CW this 
>> time).
>>
>> Any of the old hands know what would cause this?
>>
>> 73 de David VK5DG
>
>
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