> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 21:36:54 -0600
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ""you may as well use Skype..."
>
> On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:03:59 +0000, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
>
> >It doesn't in my case. I have *no interest at all* in operating
> >satellites that require a complex fixed station with computer tracking
> >and tuning. None. Doesn't interest me one bit.
>
> Require? Hah. I used to run the RS birds with a TR-7, IC-251A, and a TA-33 +
> 17
> el Cushcraft with an old CDE rotor. No computer control, fixed at 90 degrees
> elevation. What fun it was!
>
> 73
>
> -Jim
>
My second satellite QSO (ever) was from California to New York on RS-10 with 10
watts to a copper pipe J-pole on the uplink, and a wire strung out to a tree in
the back yard hooked to a Radio Shack DX-440 Short Wave receiver for the
downlink. How can you not get hooked on this hobby after an experience like
that?
Want to top that? Then DO have that complex fixed station with computer
tracking and tuning (that you built and/or assembled yourself) and talk from
California to Perth, Australia via AO-40.
Greg KO6TH
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