If you want to hear garbage on 2 meters, try listening to it in the
middle of the city.
I have to stand in one particular place to have a chance work Europe
on AO-7 when it's dark outside. The light fixtures surrounding the
parking lot and courtyard of my apartment building put out a terrible
static. There's only one spot I've found where I can hear the
satellite at low elevations to the northeast and not hear those light
fixtures.
Trying to pick anything up from my balcony on 2 meters is fruitless.
In addition to countless birdies from every piece of electronic
equipment you can think of (including an S9+40 one right on 145.800
MHz), there's constant S8 broadband static from the building.
Then on 70cm there's the military EPLRS. Luckily that's just annoying,
it doesn't really hurt my ability to copy anything.
73,
Paul Stoetzer, N8HM
Washington, DC
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Colin Hurst wrote:
> Stefan and Mark,
> 90% of the "crud" on 2 metres comes from my Cable Modem / Router.
> Lucky so far Funcube and N3XT are in the clear.
> Colin VK5HI.
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On
> Behalf Of Stefan Wagener
> Sent: Saturday, 23 November 2013 14:24
> To: Mark L. Hammond
> Cc: AMSAT BB
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Keplerian Elements for FUNCUBE 1
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Thank you very much! I had this nasty birdie on the Defli-Next frequency and
> after reading your post, I killed my Netgear N600 and WOW, the birdie on
> 145.869 is gone :-)
>
> Thank you again!
>
> Stefan
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Mark L. Hammond
> wrote:
>
>> Jerry,
>>
>> My shack is (sadly) full of 2M "birdies." Most of them come from my
>> wireless hub...replaced it once, didn't improve. Need one that is
> "silent"
>> on 2M, but with so many devices, changing anything on the wireless
>> gives me a migraine :)
>>
>> The SDR FCDP+ waterfall on 2M is really, really ugly here. Heh.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Mark N8MH
>>
>> At 09:20 PM 11/22/2013 -0600, n0jy wrote:
>> >Well, I will third that. I had a 2 degree pass and it worked well
>> >with
>> those keps. Not a lot of TLM recovered but I could hear the between
>> frame beep for the duration of what SatPC32 said was AOS.
>> >
>> >I've got a few birdies from neighboring ?? and they can wreck the
>> >FUNcube
>> telemetry very easily unless FUNcube is pretty strong. It doesn't
>> seem to take much birdie carrier to lose a frame.
>> >Anybody else have similar woes?
>> >
>> >Jerry
>> >N0JY
>> >
>> >On 11/22/2013 8:59 PM, Rick Walter wrote:
>> >>Just copied 89 frames of telemetry from FunCube 1. I agree, the
>> >>13066B
>> is a
>> >>really good fit.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>FUNCUBE-1
>> >>1 39417U 13066B 13326.90242084 .4113 0-0 57014-3 0 107
>> >>2 39417 97.7998 39.4992 0063751 190.6311 169.3388 14.77099805 237
>> >>
>> >>Rick - WB3CSY
>> >
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