SO-67 21Nov2009 1604z Audio

[John Papay]

The audio for the Central USA pass of SO-67 on
21Nov2009 at 1604z is on my webserver:

http://www.papays.com/SO-67_21Nov2009_160547z.mp3

Lots of competition on this 8 degree (from this qth) pass .
The three second tail timer was doing it's job. Some
tried to get their response to a call into that three second
window by talking fast. It did work for some. There was
also probably some carriers that did not have the proper PL
tone and that was having an impact as well.

There certainly was no lack of interest in working this bird!

The western pass is not visible here so I hope that someone else
will record that one.

73,
John K8YSE

[luis mena]

hello John this morning your audio was very loud in santo domingo while the so67 was over the parking of las americas international airport where i work made some call but you dont copy me  will call you tomorrow on pass 14:10 utc.  73.... luis   visit my blog http://www.hi8lam.blogspot.com/   FOMENTAMOS LA RADIOAFICION, HACIENDO QUE OTROS SEPAN LO QUE HACEMOS Y DANDO LAS HERRAMIENTAS PARA QUE LO HAGAN....   PROMOTING AMATEUR RADIO, MAKING OTHERS KNOW WHAT WE DO,  AND GIVING THE TOOLS TO DO SO .... --- On Sat, 11/21/09, John Papay <jo...@papays.com> wrote:

[Dean]

With all do respect to those who made this satellite happen.......its
a very strong signal and easy sat to receive. I do understand the
dropout 3 second timer problem thats been explained but out of my past
12 years of satellite use i have used about all ssb,and fm sats up
there and this has to be the worst and most comlicated to just get a
complete contact through. Not one satellite these past 12 years has
such a problem as this one does with this 3 second dropout problem.
This problem should be fixed if it can be or change it to where this
dropout 3 second timer no longer effects communications. If it wasnt
for that one thing, this would be the strongest and most easily used
sat up there but do to that problem its to much of a pain when you
only get half the communication and then have to start all over to get
the other half through to the person to complete the contact. This
problem needs resolved

Dean

[sp9bgs]

HI Friends!

Could you help me please and write me how to add to the program ORBITRON
the sumbandila orbites?

Thanks in advance
73 de sp9bgs Jerzy

[Hannes P. Coetzee]

Hi Dean

The problem with the 3 second drop-out is a bug in the firmware and the satellite was not designed to operate like that. The 3 second tail was a late addition to the functionality to actually prevent the signal from falling out due to the spin of the satellite etc and the logic got a bit mixed-up. Somehow we did not pick it up with all the pre-flight tests.

We are investigating possible solutions to try and fix the problem.

Best 73
Hannes

-----Original Message-----
From: Dean [mailto:skycom...@yahoo.com]
Sent: 22 November 2009 03:39 AM
To: Sumbandila satellite
Subject: [Sumbandila: 203] Re: SO-67 21Nov2009 1604z Audio

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[John Munro]

Hi Jerzy,

If you reload the TLE in Orbitron you should see Sumbandila . It was is "new" but  I believe it is now in "Amateur" section

73,

John VK3JMC