Re: [amsat-bb] UO-14 Passes

["Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL" <vlfiscus@xxxxxxx>]

I think your problem might be the Eggbeater antenna. I've played around
with mine and found they don't work very well. A simple verical antenna
worked better for me on the 70cm Leo sats. My thoughts on the eggbeater:
they're great to use for uplinking but not good for receiving.  Beams are
always best. Find someone in your area that has a working oscar array and
plug in your radio or track UO-14 with a handhelp beam. You'll be surprised
at the difference in recption.


At 10:26 PM 8/12/00 -0500, "David M. Tipton, PhD" <tiptond@psi.com> wrote:
>I finally came to the conconclusion that my radio is deaf.  (It's an older 
>Icom IC-471A)  I decided to order a pre-amp and put it up this 
>afternoon.  I didn't change it from the Low to the High Setting as it 
>warned about this in the manual (Might cause lots of intermod and possibly 
>hurt the front end of the radio)
>
>Anyway, with all the new pieces in place...  Egg Beater for Antenna, KLM 
>KP-2 Mast mounted preamp offering 10db and the 471, I still wasn't able to 
>hear any of the UO-14 passes today.
>
>The question is, will bumping that up to 20db really run the possibility of 
>harming my radio?  Or does anyone think that it's a good idea?
>
>I'm at my wits end here... Ready to chuck the whole rig.  Maybe go buy a 
>847 (Though that's going to take some time to acquire the funds)
>
>Dave
>
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