Comments on: SuitSat: ‘died after 2 orbits’ http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7817 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:30:38 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7817/comment-page-1#comment-33470 Reader's Write Sat, 04 Feb 2006 23:39:21 +0000 #comment-33470 During the pass about 10:30 eastern time something was heard in CT on 145.990 by hams in separate parts of the state. Faint and warbly, but a definite something. If your receiver can do "narrow band" FM, it works better. Hopefully the ISS can put the D700 in crossband repeat so we can hear it better on 70cm band. In the meantime....don't totally count it as dead yet. Comatose, but not dead. Allen w1agp During the pass about 10:30 eastern time something was heard in CT on 145.990 by hams in separate parts of the state. Faint and warbly, but a definite something. If your receiver can do “narrow band” FM, it works better.

Hopefully the ISS can put the D700 in crossband repeat so we can hear it better on 70cm band.

In the meantime….don’t totally count it as dead yet. Comatose, but not dead.

Allen
w1agp

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7817/comment-page-1#comment-33449 Reader's Write Sat, 04 Feb 2006 20:37:56 +0000 #comment-33449 I was awake and listening to the 145.990MHZ frequency at around 2:25 this morning Pacific time, when there was to be a pass over this area. I heard some SSTV telemetry, and a couple of bits of packet data, but nothing more. I'm not certain whether or not I was actually hearing the SuitSat signal, or just other amateur transmissions on the ground, but it was shortLived. If I did in fact hear the satelite, it had a fairly decent signal to my location. I was awake and listening to the 145.990MHZ frequency at around 2:25 this morning Pacific time, when there was to be a pass over this area. I heard some SSTV telemetry, and a couple of bits of packet data, but nothing more. I’m not certain whether or not I was actually hearing the SuitSat signal, or just other amateur transmissions on the ground, but it was shortLived. If I did in fact hear the satelite, it had a fairly decent signal to my location.

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