[amsat-bb] PSAT 2100z 5/31/15 pass CM98

[Greg D]

Hi all,

Tried listening for PSAT for the first time, and had a really nice 
pass.  I don't have the 10m uplink side configured, and this was all 
manually tuned.  So I still have a bit of work to do, but the results 
exceeded my expectations.  Signal peaked at S6 or so, full quieting.

I think the Keps (object 90721 Epoch 150.54728009) were a little ahead 
of reality, maybe 30 seconds to a minute.  There was some QSB, but it 
could also have been my coarse antenna rotation and manual tuning.  
Radio was a Yaesu FT-847, 2x16 element beam, and with FLDIGI on my Linux 
box, using the internal (motherboard) sound card.

Greg  KO6TH


W3ADO-5 beacon B 019 43 25 800 260 +10
W3ADO-5 beacon B 020 18 23 797 260 +12
W3ADO-5 beacon B 021 31 23 806 260 +1c

W3ADO-5 beacon B 000 43 26 802 249 +11
W3ADO-5 beacon B 002 99 35 796 251 +15
W3ADO-5 beacon B 003 65 30 800 252 +16
W3ADO-5 beacon B 004 99 32 802 252 +17

W3ADO-5 beacon B 007 93 42 796 252 +19
W3ADO-5 beacon B 008 87 23 796 252 +19

  tuning (er, clicking) around, found...

CQ CQ PSAT KO6TZ KO6TZ
CQ CQ PSAT KO6TZ KO6TZ

These seemed pretty solid, doppler-wise, but later I couldn't quite lock 
on to the subsequent QSO (doppler shift slightly too much for FLDIGI)

back to the beacon...

W3ADO-5 beacon B 011 31 42 798 249 +18

W3ADO-5 beacon B 000 40 31 802 248 +17
W3ADO-5 beacon B 001 81 42 795 251 +19
W3ADO-5 beacon B 002 34 31 799 251 +20
W3ADO-5 beacon B 003 87 37 800 252 +21

W3ADO-5 beacon B 006 68 38 792 251 +22
W3ADO-5 beacon B 007 87 23 792 252 +22
W3ADO-5 beacon B 008 46 43 791 250 +22

W3ADO-5 beacon B 006 37 28 817 250 +23