[amsat-bb] FO-29 Digitalker Recording

[Floyd Rodgers]

I just took a second and notified him on echolink. He said he would move 
frequency and was not aware of the satellite.


On 8/1/2016 6:36 AM, Paul Stoetzer wrote:
> This is Echolink node 43609 - WV8CW in Horner, WV operating on 145.900 MHz.
>
> Unfortunately he has no email address in QRZ. If anyone knows how to
> contact WV8CW, please let me know so we can ask him to move out of the
> amateur satellite subband.
>
> 73,
>
> Paul, N8HM
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 6:34 AM, Paul Stoetzer <n8hm at arrl.net> wrote:
>> Scott,
>>
>> The FO-29 digitalker has not been active in many years. What you are hearing
>> is an Echolink or IRLP transmission from the ground. I'll have to try to
>> copy down the numbers to identify it. It sounds like someone was linking
>> nodes together.
>>
>> Unfortunately, it's far too common for people to setup Echolink nodes or
>> personal crossband repeaters in the amateur satellite subband and to hear
>> that through FO-29.
>>
>> What frequency were you hearing it at?
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Paul, N8HM
>>
>>
>> On Monday, August 1, 2016, Scott <scott23192 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Since I'm new at this, perhaps the Digitalker on FO-29 is nothing unique.
>>> But I heard it tonight for the first time and was recording with my
>>> SDRPlay, so if anyone else has not heard it, here is a link to a 1-minute
>>> recording with the noise gaps removed:
>>>
>>> http://k4kdr.github.io/files/2016-08-01--FO29--digitalker.mp3
>>>
>>> The quality is not great; I wasn't expecting to see FM.  But you can
>>> understand a good portion of it.
>>>
>>> 73!
>>>
>>> -Scott,  K4KDR
>>> Montpelier, VA  USA
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