Re: [amsat-bb] UO-14 0222 3/26 pass

[Margaret Leber <maggie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

denmorr@bellsouth.net wrote:

> The antenna is the key.  I use an Arrow and make quite a few QSO's with 5
> watts.  The whip is too much compromise.

I didn't make *any* sat contacts on AO-27 until after I got an Arrow. 
Then it became possible. But sometimes here on the US East Coast it's 
how busy the bird is, too.

This morning I worked *somebody* in 2-land from the FT-90 in my car 
while I was driving to work. My usual repeater haunts were quiet, so I 
threw the FT-90 into scan, when darn if it didn't stop on downlink for 
UO-14. Since I had the uplink programmed as a *very* nonstandard offset 
on that channel, I keyed up and ID'd as K3XS mobile, and darn if 
somebody (and if I hadn't been driving and caught flat-footed I would 
have logged who) didn't come back to me. Of course within 90 seconds the 
bird was gone, (I have a *tiny* dual-band through-the-glass mobile 
antenna) but it *can* be done. :-)

  73 de Maggie K3XS

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