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

[Pedro Converso]

If interference is on the Satellite Passband should immediately cease
as per IARU Bandplans.

145.800-146.000 12000 All modes Satellites (exclusive)

https://www.iaru.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/R2-Band-Plan-2016.pdf

73, lu7abf, Pedro

On 5/21/20, Roy Dean via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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
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