AO-16 Spans the Atlantic

Radio Hams have been making contacts across the Atlantic using the Amateur Radio Satellite AO-16, which was recently reconfigured for voice operation.

On the AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) Robert G8ATE reports working CU2JX in the Azores followed by VE3NPC in Ottowa, Canada.

He did that running just 5 watts to a 6 element Quad antenna.

AO-16 is unusual in that it's uplink is FM but the downlink is SSB (more precisely DSB see link below)

The uplink is 145.920 FM, and the downlink is 437.026 SSB +/- Doppler shift.

Amateur Radio Satellite AO-16 reconfigured http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2008/
ao16_reconfigured.htm

AMSAT Online Satellite Predictions (select AO-16):
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/predict/

AMSAT Bulletin Board AMSAT-BB
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/maillist/maillist.php

Satscape Satellite Tracker:
http://www.satscape.co.uk/

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For further information contact the secretary Jim Heck G3WGM
Tel: +44 (0)1258 453959
Email: g3wgm@amsat.org
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