On 2010-01-03 14:42, Mark L. Hammond wrote: > Do you at least share the footprint with the other station? > > Yes. We had a 2 deg elevation and the satellite was about midway between OZ7SAT and UA9UAZ over the Kola peninsula.
> I suspect that the operator had the PL tone ON so his packets were being > repeated through the FM repeater. I think that would make the packet look > like it came directly to your station, without a path. > > That sounds like a very plausible explanation. > I understand that packet operators should turn their PL tone OFF in order to > prevent this. > > Agree. > Congratulations to Nader for uploading three messages successfully! I am > interested in his Wisp/MSPE TNC settings. For example, what the Retries time > was set to, TxDelay, etc. > > For what it is worth, here are the settings we use. You have to be rather aggressive when connecting to a satellite, so the T1 timer is set very low: Window size: 1 T1: 0.5 sec Retry count 10 Maximum packet length. 128 The latter is probably not necessary with HO-68, but it was with GO-32. Best 73 de Bent/OZ6BL _______________________________________________ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. 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
