[amsat-bb] AO-7 (~20:00z pass this afternoon)

[Roy Dean]

So I had a very long pass on AO-7 this afternoon, and I noticed two things
that I have never seen before:   I had to lower my MKIIG down to "L" so as
to not blow out the transponder, and even that seemed too high (2W out, 50
ft of RG-8X, M2 Leo Pack).   Everybody sounded weird and the CW qsos going
on seemed to be suffering from a ton of drift.   I had just listened in on
CAS-4A previous to this pass and heard no problems there... so I don't
think it's my station.   Did anybody else experience this?  Or is my $20
RTL dongle finally ready for the bin?

--Roy
K3RLD