Re: [amsat-bb] Another view

[kd4hur <kd4hur@xxxxxxxxx>]

Howard:
	My orig post reply was on the asumption that cost was the major
factor in the AO-10 type system.. not residential restrictions per se.
in this instance no I couldn't help you.. Sorry..
	Too bad a neat local hill or building wasn't available, setup
everything there and use a 10ghz link to operate it !! wishful thinking.
jim kd4hur

Howard Long wrote:
 > 
 > Jim
 > 
 > As an apartment dweller, Tony suffers from a similar problem to myself. His
 > QTH is not at all sympathetic to the erection of antennas. I'm lucky to just
 > get away with a minimal bit of metal outside, but Tony's retricted to
 > nothing.
 > 
 > Hence his comment on EME!
 > 
 > Indeed, I know from bitter experience that when planning an installation in
 > an apartment block, unfortunately one has to be more concerned about what
 > the neighbours and janitor will think than the performance of the antenna
 > system.
 > 
 > 73, Howard G6LVB
 > 
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org [mailto:owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org]On
 > Behalf Of betty boobs
 > Sent: 23 December 2000 16:03
 > To: Tony Langdon
 > Cc: amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org
 > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Another view
 > 
 > Tony:
 >      Have you ever built a 70cm cross yagi for the high orbit birds? It's
 > not that
 > difficult
 > as you might think. materials are very inexpensive. I can give you and
 > others many
 > tips to ease the pain, actually make it fun when everyone else asks where
 > you got
 > that killer yagi from.
 >      as far as the typical 2mtr downlink for the old mode J, All i've used
 > for the
 > last
 > number of years is a 13-b2 from cushcraft , plenty of gain and it also gets
 > double
 > use.
 >      Rotators are not a problem, you do not need the expensive ones, very
 > cheap and
 > easily found rotors can be used with a couple of homemade brackets.
 >      The AO-10 class stations need not be out of reach just because you lack
 > the
 > information to reach that goal.. there are plenty of us out here .. fire
 > away !!
 > pick our
 > brains.. lots of talent out here..
 > jim kd4hur
 > 
 > Tony Langdon wrote:
 > 
 >  >
 >  >  RS> I think we should have a few of the RS-10/11 class satellites -
 >  >  RS> whether or not we cover AO-40.
 >  >
 >  > Well, for me, AO-10 is in the same class as moonbounce for the forseeable
 >  > future.  Simply not feasible. :-(
 >  >
 > 
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