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

[John Brier]

Good luck Burns!

I hate it when things that have worked for a long time stop working, though
that is life.

73, John Brier KG4AKV

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 14:14 Burns Fisher <burns at fisher.cc> wrote:

> 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
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