Thank you everyone for your help. I had my first successful contact on SO-50.
AO-27 appears to be on hiatus, since the website is also down. My next endeavor is learning the linear transponder birds. I have been trying to receive AO-7. I never heard a beacon on either mode A or B. (Daytime pass) I tuned around the downlink and I might have heard some very faint stations. I guess I need bigger antennas? Perhaps some phasing cables will help. (it's in the mail) Thank you KB5WIA for the contact this evening. Richard K7LWV On Oct 24, 2011, at 6:31 AM, David Palmer KB5WIA <kb5...@amsat.org> wrote: > Hi Richard, > >> . I am using a yeasu g-5500 rotator with the AMSAT controller and ham radio >> deluxe. Kenwood ts-2000 for the rig and a 8 element 440 and a 4 element 2 >> meter antenna. The antennas are currently linear polarized since my phasing >> cables still have not arrived from the manufacturer. > > Good setup! > >> >> My questions are, is AO-27 difficult to work? Is it on a schedule? Any ideas >> why I could not raise or hear it? > > Yes, it's on a schedule -- check the status page on www.amsat.org to > see when it comes on and off. It comes on at mid-latitudes by a timer, > so for an overhead pass in your area you *should* have heard it .... > other things to check would be that the keps are current, and that > there weren't any glitches during that particular pass (ie. maybe > radios briefly stopped tuning). Try again, it's a nice loud sat. > >> >> As for SO-50: Should I be listening 5khz down? Ham radio deluxe is >> controlling the radio frequencies and I made a custom entry for 5khz down >> and corrected for Doppler. This still did not seem to help. > > I've found SO-50 about 5kHz-8kHz down, so listen down a little. > Remember the tone on the uplink too. Also, I've seen quite a few > posts that the TS-2000 has a birdie right at the high end of SO-50's > downlink, so you may have a better chance hearing it later in the pass > as doppler moves the downlink away from the birdie. > >> >> >> Richard >> K7LWV > > Good luck on the sats!!!! > > 73 de Dave KB5WIA _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@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
