[amsat-bb] AO-91 or 92 problem receiving

Burns Fisher burns at fisher.cc
Thu Nov 8 19:05:25 UTC 2018


Thanks.  That's a thought.  I did put on some ferrite chokes all over the
place, and it helped some of the other birdies, but not this particular
one.  I'm wondering if it might be radiating from the camera itself and
picked up by the antenna.

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 2:03 PM Mike Diehl <diehl.mike.a at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting. I ran into a similar problem but with SO-50. I mounted a
> GoPro to the boom of my arrow and worked an AO-85 pass and everything
> seemed fine. I then had a fairly shallow pass of SO-50 and could barley
> make out anything, I quickly detached it and moved it away and I could hear
> the bird just fine.
>
> You may want to look into shielded CAT-6, I hear this helps.
>
> 73
> Mike Diehl
> W8LID/VE6LID
>
>
> > On Nov 8, 2018, at 09:22, Burns Fisher <burns at fisher.cc> wrote:
> >
> > I could not find the earlier note about 91 or 92 receive problem, but I
> > just remembered that I had trouble with 91 a few weeks ago and discovered
> > that a network camera that I had observing my antenna was generating a
> > strong signal right on the AO-91 downlink frequency.   Ferrites on the
> CAT5
> > helped some, but not enough.  So until I can examine it more, I power the
> > camera off when I'm working 91.
> >
> > I found it using an HT and just noticed the squelch breaking as I tuned
> > over the frequency.  From then on it just used the HT as a probe.
> Narrowed
> > it down to the network, and then had to do some unplugging to find the
> > actual culprit.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Burns WB1FJ
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