Mark,
Thank you for the reply. I didn't expect to hear right from the lions
mouth! My only hope is that future birds do not have a downlink of 436.795.
I always wanted to use satellites ever since I became a ham at 14. I
thought it was a very expensive aspect of the hobby. Recently I sold be
Re-post from Amsat's twitter:
AO-51 now shutting off tx soon after eclipse, due to batt voltage
dropping below regulator threshold. Recovers to 1w in sun.
Were people still using this bird in eclipse with only 2 out of 6 usable
cells? Perhaps this bird needs to be put on a schedule like
I am new to satellites as of this weekend. I have worked AO-51 three times with
much success. SO-50 I can hear off and on, but I am having trouble raising it.
As for AO-27, I had a nice daytime direct overhead pass and heard nothing. I am
using a yeasu g-5500 rotator with the AMSAT controller
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
