Re: [amsat-bb] Need help with bad satellite signal on AO40

["Rudy Benner" <benner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Power supply?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Malcolm M. Preston" <malnp2l@attglobal.net>
To: <amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org>
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 2:40 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Need help with bad satellite signal on AO40


> Hi all,
>
> Just in the last two weeks I have been plagued with a terrible cw signal
on
> AO40.  At first I though it was chirp but a further look shows it to be
> something else which I can't figure out.  If the rig is key down my signal
> sounds like with a higher tone (on the order of say 800hz) which changes
to
> a lower tone (say 400hz) at the end when the key is let up.  When I send
at
> a normal rate it sounds like a chirpy signal.
>
> I checked my transmitted signal on 440 in the shack with another receiver
> and can detect nothing amiss.  KP2Z, a neighbor, listened to it also and
it
> sounded ok.
>
> The rig is an FT847 about 3 months old.
>
> If anyone thinks they can put some light on this I'd surely appreciate it.
> I can provide a .WAV file of the sounds.  I'm baffled.
>
> Mal, NP2L
> St. John, USVI
>
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