[amsat-bb] Re: [sarex] WB4APR's new mindset [was something else]

["Jim Shorney" <jshorney@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Fri, 11 May 2001 15:06:37 -0400, Margaret Leber wrote:

>Stan Vandiver wrote:
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>> And on the www.ariss.net map there is a gaping hole in the central US 
>> where apparently no one is trying. 

>Is it possible that hole is because the coastal stations have a crack at 
>ISS when it's out over the oceans and the count of stations in the 
>footprint beaconing as fast as they can is down to half a bazillion, 
>rather than 2.5 bazillion?


Sounds right to me.  I've been trying since day 1 from eastern Nebraska
with the same station I used to regularly UI ping MIR.  Squeaked one
packet through early on (I think).  MIR was easy.  ISS is hard.

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