[amsat-bb] PO-101 uplink

Jean Marc Momple jean.marc.momple at gmail.com
Sat May 16 14:33:25 UTC 2020


Brian,

The downlink is fine and strong, however from the past few days test: to get a good stable Rx I had to put up 15 watts into 14 tele. cir pol yagi which is quite a lot compared to other birds. same issues reported to me from ZS stations.

hope this helps.

73


Jean Marc (3B8DU)


> On May 16, 2020, at 3:28 AM, Brian Wilkins KO4AQF via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> 
> I have trouble getting in on 5W. Someone posted they use 10w and it works
> better. YMMV. May be source of OP’s issue.
> 
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 4:30 PM saguaroastro via AMSAT-BB <
> amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, that should do it. Remember this one does not have AFC? Like the
>> foxes, so you do need to tune the uplink for doppler.73Rick Tejera
>> (K7TEJ)Saguaro Astronomy ClubWww.saguaroastro.orgThunderbird Astronomy
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>> -------- Original message --------From: John Geiger via AMSAT-BB <
>> amsat-bb at amsat.org> Date: 5/15/20  13:07  (GMT-07:00) To: AMSAT <
>> amsat-bb at amsat.org> Subject: [amsat-bb] PO-101 uplink I was hearing
>> PO-101 just fine a few minutes ago, but had no luck gettinginto it.  Is the
>> uplink frequency 437.500mhz with a CTCSS of 141.3hz?73 John
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