[amsat-bb] SO-50 question

[Burns Fisher]

I use MacDoppler which allows me to specify which "mode" of the satellite I
want to use.  I have a special one for the 10-minute timer.  When it
disappears, I just flip to that mode, hit it with a couple seconds of 74.4,
then go back to 67 Hz tone.

Also, this is not what you were experiencing, but unlike the Foxes, the
67Hz tone does not turn it on for a fixed time so that others without the
tone can "coattail" in.  You really need to have the 67 Hz tone when you
are using it.

Burns

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 10:06 AM Bob Hammond via AMSAT-BB <
amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:

> I had not experienced that before.  There's always something new to learn
> in ham radio!
>
> thanks John,
>
> Bob W7OTJ
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 6:53 AM John Brier <johnbrier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Very likely. And a lot of people don't realize it turns off after 10min
> > regardless of whether it is being used or not. So it will turn off at
> some
> > point in the pass.
> >
> > 73, John Brier KG4AKV
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 09:26 Bob Hammond via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hmmm, I wonder if this is what happened:  " SO-50 also has a 10 minute
> >> timer that must be armed before use. Transmit a 2 second carrier with a
> PL
> >> tone of 74.4 to arm the timer."
> >>
> >> Bob W7OTJ
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 6:15 AM Bob Hammond <propgrinder at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I worked several operators last night on SO-50 at about 0115 UT and
> >> > then......pffft.  I couldn't get into the satellite at all after it
> >> passed
> >> > overhead and to the SE.
> >> >
> >> > Does SO-50 shut down if there's too much use?
> >> >
> >> > I was hoping to work the young woman who kept calling me but she was
> >> > having trouble or getting stepped on or whatever.  She'd get out
> >> "W7O...."
> >> > and then nothing.
> >> >
> >> > Just curious,
> >> >
> >> > Bob W7OTJ
> >> >
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