[amsat-bb] Terrible Repeater QRM on AO-92 at 15:40z

[Roy Dean]

>
> Hi Roy What happens when the world ends? You and I and just about everyone
> is not
> able to control the future. If we all thought about 'what if' we wouldn't
> have gotten out of the stone
> age and the Wright Brothers wouldn't have flown. All we can do is deal
> with the present and the facts we have at hand. I look at it this way. If
> all the idiots want to jam the crap out of the
> FM birds, so be it. That means they are leaving the linear birds alone.
> Mike va3mw


Mike, perhaps my use of the term "QRM" is incorrect, or perhaps you didn't
listen to the recording?

This is not one or more "a-hole" operators intentionally trying to
interfere with satellite operators.   This is the output of a New England
(we think, based on operator accents and 1 area callsigns) repeater that is
either on the AO-92 uplink, or has a very strong  harmonic accomplishing
the same thing.   From what I've read, the AMSAT team is working with at
least one repeater on a solution, and they have continued to ask for
recordings.

And again, I stress that somebody putting a repeater output in the same
uplink frequency band as any of the linears will cause the EXACT same
problem, if not even worse.   So we should either nip this in the bud, or
face giving up the satellite sub-bands entirely.

  As far as your "what if" comment, people like the Wright Brothers DID, in
fact, think "what if".    In less than a week we will have the first
purpose designed commercial space flight service....

--Roy
K3RLD