I have been operating W1AW /5 this is Joe N5JF in southeast Louisiana AO-7 turned off while I was operating yesterday and today I don't own an amplifier and I've only ran under 25 Watts with the TS 2000. I would think the idea of theQRP is a good one
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 6, 2014, at 5:10 PM, Paul Stoetzer <[email protected]> wrote: > > All stations, please QRP!!!! From everything I've read about the > behavior and history of the satellite and heard from other operators > monitoring these passes, stations running excessive uplink power are > responsible for the recent mode jumping. > > There are AMSAT demonstrations scheduled this weekend that are > relying, in part, on AO-7 being in Mode B. Please keep your uplink > power to no more than 100W ERP. If you wish to calculate your ERP, > please consult this page: http://www.csgnetwork.com/antennaecalc.html > > If you cannot hear your own signals with 100W ERP, please QRT and make > improvements to your receive setup. > > Thank you, > > Paul Stoetzer, N8HM > >> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:59 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> Pass at 2155 utc time started on mode B and after approx. 1 minute switched >> to mode A ! Heard K4FEG and WA4NVM on mode B then all of a sudden it turned >> off and went into Mode A... Or am I hallucinating again ?? Jack/KC7MG DM42 >> _______________________________________________ >> Starcom-bb bulletin board >> [email protected] >> http://lists.star-com.net/listinfo/starcom-bb > _______________________________________________ > Starcom-bb bulletin board > [email protected] > http://lists.star-com.net/listinfo/starcom-bb _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
