[amsat-bb] AO-73 Lack of transponder activity

[Bob]

My personal opinion is that the required frequency offsets have never been
formally published, just the theoretical ones.  Someone familiar with
satellite operation isn't going to be looking nearly as far off frequency
as is required to operate through AO-73.  I've never seen an offset less
than 8 KHz from published TX values, I've seen it as high as 15 KHz.  I've
asked our UK brothers to publish this, but it doesn't seem to be in the
card.

Once you figure out the magic decoder ring setting, and get on frequency,
it is a wonderful bird.

73, Bob, WB4SON




On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Bryan KL7CN <bryan at kl7cn.net> wrote:

> Me too, Jack!
>
> I don't think it is widely known that the transponder is active when the
> satellite is in darkness.
>
> I wonder how we could market that a little better?
>
> --bag
>
> Bryan KL7CN/W6
>
> On Dec 10, 2015, at 10:56, Jack Colson <jcolson7 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
> On the mid-evening passes the last two nights the transponder has been on
> but no activity.  I am hearing my uplink fairly well.
> 73,
> Jack, W3TMZ
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