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

[Jeff Johns]

You sounded great and I just logged you. The transponder was seriously FMing and on the verge of flipping due to a high power CW station lower in the passband. Thanks for the QSO!

Jeff WE4B

> On Jun 18, 2020, at 3:12 PM, Roy Dean via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
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