Remember "experimenters Wednesday's" ? I would vote for some sort of return of that if possible.
David KG4ZLB Sent from my iPod On 4 Oct 2009, at 14:27, "Alan VE4YZ" <[email protected]> wrote: > Bob, I second that! Right now I'm trying to locally sell my 2 K5GNA > downconverters and seriously considering getting rid of a FT736r > with the > 1.2GHZ module because of the inactivity. My FT847 is all that gets > used. > The last local flea market this year is 2 weekends from now and then > I have > to think about doing an eBay. > > A 3 or 4 day session on L/S, U/S or V/S once a month allows for > experimenting and tweaking in addition to trying to work 1 or 2 of > those > days into your other commitments. > > Thank goodness for baby monitors and older cordless phones so that I > can > periodically scan the horizon to check out the K5GNA's :-) > > ... Alan > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On > Behalf Of Bob- W7LRD > Sent: October 4, 2009 1:03 PM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-51 L/S? > > > > Hello Gents > > I would like to request a "somewhat" consistent L and / or S mode > availability on AO- 51. A recent post by John-K8YSE correctly > explained > that long term L/S availability is almost counter productive. If we > define > that by the number of operators to pass ratio. There are a few of > us L/S > holdouts mostly from AO-40 (sobsob). If we could plan that for say > three > days (or whatever) at a given date we can expect those modes, and be > ready. > Right now it appears to be a month to month variable decision with > nothing > definitive. If there were more availabilty and chit-chat about L/S > modes it > might inspire others to try it. AO-51 is the only testbed for > varied L/S > modes. The only way I have for "tweeking" my S band gear is to put > a -35Dbm > signal source at the end of my driveway and tweeking my equipment > and > antennas. Real world evaluation is always the proof of success. > > 73 Bob W7LRD > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the > author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite > program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the > author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite > program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
