Re: [amsat-bb] Kenwood TS-2000

["Howard Long" <howard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark

Yes yes yes!!

I'm setting up my station now and I hope that by Monday I'll be operating.

Two problems outside the US:

o Unmetered 'always on' internet is only just becoming available - I only
got it a couple of weeks ago. And it costs - USD60 per month. You need that
for external access to your TCP server.

o In Europe AO-40 has been in the sky only whilst most of us are at work.
I've been getting about half an hour to an hour if I'm lucky when I get
home.

Last weekend I set up my station so I can remotely control the whole thing
except TX (rotator, 2 PCs, Rig, Modem, station web camera) from a remote
internet connection. That took me all weekend to do! So I can now control
the whole thing from work. But there's one big problem... I do actually have
to work when I'm at work! Darn it!

I have RX'd AO-40 stuff during the past week, but it's been very hit and
miss. I'm hoping to improve things over the weekend.

Hopefully that'll be sorted by Monday.

73 Howard G6LVB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark L. Hammond" <hammond@surrealnet.net>
To: "Perry Yantis" <PYantis@compuserve.com>; "amsat-bb@amsat.org"
<amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Kenwood TS-2000


>
> >The 1296 module for my TS-790 when it was brand new 8 years ago was
around
> >$500.
> >
> >With 8 years of technology advances since the TS-790 was built I would
> >guess that the 1296 module could be made cheaper today then it was 8
years
> >ago(also the module was in a case with its own cooling fan).
>
> Heh...I bought my 1.2GH module for the TS-790 about a month or two
ago...it
> was about $550.
>
> It's nice to do wishful thinking, though.
>
> 73,
>
> Mark L. Hammond  [N8MH]
>
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