[amsat-bb] How many things can go wrong at once?

[Burns Fisher]

A couple days ago work G0ABI via AO-91 based on a sched we had made.
Suddenly the elevation in my rotor did not work!  So I moved it by hand,
called and called...I did not hear myself.  Later Peter sent me a
recording--he had heard me just fine so my Rx was screwed up

Today, I found the rotor problem (a cable).  I had hoped it would be the
same problem with the Rx (like a hungry mouse) but no, apparently not.  So
I tried 91 again today.  Wait, why is the downlink band so quiet?  First,
something had happened to my database in MacDoppler and it was all hosed.
It had the AO-91 as a V/u satellite and the wrong freq anyway.  Fixed that
in time.  Still very quiet on the band.  Took my HT to probe around a bit.
Some strong carrier on 145.965.  I went outside and suddenly heard a
voice.  Aha!  Someone using the satellite band! Oh, wait, that is AO-91
booming in on my HT with rubber ducky at about 5 degrees above the
horizon!  That was actually pretty cool!  (I was probably hearing contacts
with SparkFest!)

Still trying to find the source of the 145.965 (besides AO-91 of course).
It is clearly inside my house--I even know which breaker.  But so far not
the obvious things (power supply, network switch, computer, UPS, etc).
I'll keep looking.

But it just goes to show that when a bunch of things happen at once, it is
not ALWAYS due to the same root cause.

73,

Burns WB1FJ