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

["Rick Allnutt" <ws8g@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Christopher Cox" <cobox@urec.net> wrote:

>
>Worked AO-10 for 2 hours on Field Day 1999, 1A.
>
>12 Volt deep charge Auto/Boat Battery.
>FT-847, couple bricks, and an Arrow 3/7 yagi on a camera tripod.
>
>Finally lost workable signals at 18000 miles out. Deep fades.
>
>That battery was just about dead afterwards....:-)
>It was one fun experiment.


Same sort of setup (FT-847 with Arrow Antenna) worked well for Field day 
2000.  AO-10 had a very nice pass on Saturday, 24 June.  My 17 Amp-hr 
battery trickle charged with a little solar pannel lost it after a couple 
hours of operating.

de WS8G(Rick)
________________________________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

----
Via the amsat-bb mailing list at AMSAT.ORG courtesy of AMSAT-NA.
To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe amsat-bb" to Majordomo@amsat.org