RE: [amsat-bb] My first Y2K contact on satellite

[Tony Langdon <tlangdon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Well I had an interesting time at Dayton.  I picked up one of 
> those Arrow
> dual-band antennas with the duplexer.  I was thinking about doing some
> portable stuff on the FM birds.  The demos by KK5YY at Dayton 
> gave me some
> ideas on how to operate.  I seem to remember working UO-14 
> during the late
> 1900s as a digital BBS.  It was in the late 1900s when I last worked
> satellite.

Congratulations! :-)  Hope you're enjoying your run on the birds. :_)

Does take a few goes at getting it all together.  I use 2 rigs myself, more
to carry, but it's slightly easier to manage, as you know which one is the
uplink and which is the downlink. :-)
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