RE: [amsat-bb] GRRRRRRRRRRR!

[K5OE@xxxxxxx]

"Howard Long" <howard@howardlong.com> writes:
<snip>
> Once you get the knack, it's a bit like riding a 
> bicycle. You won't remember what all the fuss was 
> about. But I do remember wondering if I was ever going
> to make a contact at all.

I remember 3 years ago when I moved back to Houston from San Francisco (had all my gear in boxes for 4 years), I had just read an article in QST about how easy it was to work AO-27.  So... I bought a new dual band FM mobile rig (FT-5100, my first 2 m rig in more than a decade), set it up on the dining room floor with a mag mount antenna next to it and left it set on 436.800 MHz--waiting for the satellite downlink to open the squelch.  You know, I never heard that squelch open all weekend :-)

73,
Jerry, K5OE

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