Today different activities on the NB transponder. Signals very strong, I will remain listening until the control station does not officially start.
Same (10dB transponder noise) here in JN58xx with 85cm offset dish and Kuhne LNB.
GOOD TRAFFIC in TESTING MODE ....
many stations are QRV (known NAMES)
GOOD SIGNALS ...
HAVE FUN...
TNX AMSAT DL ... (PETER DB2OS)
I can get very stable signals with octagon with no modification. and rtl-sdr
No strange behaviours.. around 20-30 db snr levels with the stations..
Heard a UK station claiming 1W only with wifi antenna..but missed the callsign hi hi..
Very exciting. i should consider asking for special permission from authorities to use 2.4 ghz band in TA. but first. need a transverter 
Yes it is working really well... I need to mount my uplink antenna so not yet QRV but there are a lot of very interesting QSOs running.
Of course all the wellknown names and experienced hams are there first.
Maybe later we get the "you're 59 73! cq cq cq" traffic.
Hello,
Just tried with my 13 cm septum feed (without dish) as uplink antenna and about 10 W of RF power. Seems to be fully usable for CW and digital modes.
73, Viljo ES5PC
Hi Viljo
Yes, digi modes seem to work well. Decoded myself yesterday with FT8, QRA64D and JT65A - started a thread on this yesterday. I'm available to try two-way tests now.
73
Charlie
Congratulations for the whole team! Nice waterfall plots on my OpenWebRX
73,
Zoltan
activity 13.Feb. 16:00 UTC 1.40m dish LNB Kuhne SDR
Yes, digi modes seem to work well. Decoded myself yesterday with FT8, QRA64D and JT65A - started a thread on this yesterday. I'm available to try two-way tests now.
73
Charlie
Hi Charlie,
I´m also ready to start FT-8 two-way tests now...
10489,670 MHz +-
Thanks, Robert
Slight problem here - my 10MHz locked LO for the upconverter is dirty and I changed this afternoon to an old free running xtal chain. SSB signal now much better but I think the stability is now not good enough for FT8. Tomorrow I fit a crystal heater and see if that makes it good enough.
I can receive OK, so happy to try to decode you. With the present LO, JT65 should be OK.
73
Charlie
Can someone measure the exact beacon frequencies?
My equipment shows the beacon freqcuency 55 kHz higher as expected ....
73s de Robert
Moin Robert.. ja sieht etwas höher aus...
Congratulations for the whole team! Nice waterfall plots on my OpenWebRX
73,
Zoltan
Hi Zoltan,
Pardon me asking, but how do you get OpenWebRX to display the frequency in 10489.xx GHz? Would you mind sharing the part of your config file that sets this? I have been trying to do the same but failed.
It would be so much nicer to show 10489.xx GHz instead of the IF frequency 1129 MHz. Many thanks for your assistance.
73, Sion, 9M2CQC
Just establish what is the center frequency coresponding for the center frequency of IF (in your case 1129), then modify that into the line of config file that says shown_center_freq=
Originaly the value is “center_freq” so you need to write 10489.xxxx instead of that.
Worked A71A (with Achim DH2VA as operator) as a first A7-PA via QO-100!
Good signals!
