Re: [amsat-bb] K5OE Comments on UO-14

["Allen F. Mattis" <afmattis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I was also on both UO-14 passes, and only heard K5OE on the west pass.  I 
was unable to get through to Jerry with 5 watts and the 2 m mag mounted 
vertical dipole described on his home page.  I was not able to make any 
contacts on the east pass, but did get a contact on the west pass.

Allen N5AFV


At 05:38 PM 9/3/00 -0400, K5OE wrote:
>In the FWIW department, I operated mobile today and had equal passes at about
>35 degrees elevation to both the east and the west.  On the eastern pass (in
>EL28) I was not able to get into the bird at all until about the last 2
>minutes when there were only a couple of stations left in the shadow.  I
>confirmed 2 of them.  I found it illuminating that with a 50 W mobile rig and
>a mag-mounted vertical dipole antenna on 2 m, I could not even get 1 contact
>in with the bird over the eastern US.
>
>On the western pass (in EL18) I was able to make contact with everyone that
>wanted that grid, over a dozen contacts were confirmed.
>73,
>Jerry, K5OE
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