[amsat-bb] Any update on AO-85?

[Hans BX2ABT]

With a limited setup and no circular polarization there is always the 
chance that a sat is just in the wrong angle for me to decode and I take 
that into account. Right now I compare with the the situation before the 
anomalies started and it definitely seems "off". I do hear the 2-min 
beacon transmissions, with the voice ID, but on the waterfall it is 
clear that the signal is not strong enough to give a S/N ratio above the 
level which I can decode. E.g. before S/N peaked at 7+ dB, now barely 3 
dB and with fading not long enough to decode a DUW frame. HTH,

Hans

BX2ABT


On 12/06/2018 09:11 AM, Burns Fisher wrote:
> We have not had any time to look at it trying to deal with the launch 
> and testing of AO-95 (Fox-1Cliff).  We let it turn into safe mode when 
> it had some odd behavior.  However, the safe mode telemetry seems to 
> be fine.  I'm surprised that the power seems low to you.  It should be 
> sending two strong frame of telemetry and then "resting" for two 
> minutes, then repeating.
>
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 7:33 PM Hans BX2ABT <hans.bx2abt at msa.hinet.net 
> <mailto:hans.bx2abt at msa.hinet.net>> wrote:
>
>     As per title. With my limited setup I am not able to decode any
>     telemetry from AO-85 anymore. It still comes through the squelch
>     on my
>     rig+discone, but S/N ratio on my SDR+ArrowAlaska is about half
>     what it
>     normally was and with fading added there is no long enough
>     sequence for
>     decoding frames.
>
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