Re: Stop Your Whining Already! Re: [amsat-bb] Satellite FIeldDay!

[Jon Ogden <jono@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 7/5/00 8:53 PM, Gerald Schmitt at kk5yy@arrl.net wrote:

> A simpler proposal for LEO FM satellites 5 watts 3 elements
> no discussion. Major satellite stations are usually fixed which
> is not the point on Field Day. The point is; Vince and John,
> to use inprovised communications in a "Field" location to
> demonstrate emergency readiness. Perhaps that's why
> class "D" stations cannot contact each other

If everyone ran 5 watts to 3 elements, that would probably be OK.  But to
say that FD is for stations that are "non-fixed" I kind of differ.  If I
haul my FT-1000D out along with a tent and a generator, I'd call that a
pretty fixed station.  So I add an FT-847 or IC-821 and one or two sections
of big CP yagis.  I know have an AO-10 capable station that is far more
effective than the FM birds with really no more equipment than my "portable"
HF setup.

73,

Jon
NA9D

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Jon Ogden
NA9D (ex: KE9NA)

Member:  ARRL, AMSAT, DXCC, NRA

http://www.qsl.net/ke9na

"A life lived in fear is a life half lived."

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