Re: [amsat-bb] Re: Whence satgates?

["John Stephensen" <kd6ozh@xxxxxxx>]

PO-28 service in the amateur band was turned off a few months after launch.
The owner had some complaint about amateur use that I don't remember.

73,

John
KD6OZH

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Woodward" <dbwoodw@alltel.net>
To: <psschwarz@kellnet.com>; "VE3EMA" <harm@nexicom.net>
Cc: <amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org>
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: Whence satgates?


> The information on PO-28 on the AMSAT site shows the downlink at 435.075
MHz - I
> have listened for it a few times there, but have not heard it. Is this
frequency
> correct?
>
> 73's
>
> Don Woodward
> KD4APP
> AMSAT 33535
> kd4app@amsat.org
> http://kd4app.webhop.org
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <psschwarz@kellnet.com>
> To: "VE3EMA" <harm@nexicom.net>
> Cc: <amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 13:33
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Whence satgates?
>
>
> VE3EMA writes:
>
> > This is an excerpt from this months Satgate report written by Andrew
> > G8TZJ, was downloaded from UO-22...
>
> > but nobody seems to be installing software to make them active. We could
> > hijack PO-28.  ;-)  It is operational with an uplink on 2 metres but its
> > downlink is just below 70 cms. A lot of rigs will tune below 430 MHz.
> > However, this could lead some stations into licensing problems as
although
> > they are transmitting on an amateur frequency, they are not receiving on
> > an amateur frequency.
>
> This is interesting because a portion of the US 70cm band from 420-430 MHz
> is off limits to hams around the US Great Lakes region (are Canadian hams
> governed by this rule, too?) because of government radar systems. So is
the
> satellite out of compliance as a result? Now this may be a technical issue
> of sorts. Is the downlink below 420 MHz?
>
> Patrick...KB8RTZ...
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