Re: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-40, K-band Tx Test Successful!

[Margaret Leber <maggie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 10 September 2001 13:07, Stacey E. Mills wrote in "[amsat-bb] 
Re: AO-40, K-band Tx Test Successful!":

> From: "Edward R. Cole" <al7eb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>It is nice to have a second downlink band, though I suspect only
>>a few microwave experimenters will utilize it.

> That's what they said about S-band on AO-13!  :-)

Word!...Uh, I mean "Hear, hear, well-said!". 

Anybody who builds a K-band receive capability will probably be a 
"microwave experimenter" by definition. :-)

Whether there will be only "a few" depends on how accessable we can 
make the technology, and what the perceived benefits are. 

Now that there's a good reason to try, I think we'll see a lot of 
interest in K-band RX...especially among folks like me who got their 
feet wet in S-band when the AO-40 V-TX tanked on us, and found out that 
S-band RX wasn't such a big deal..

73 de Maggie K3XS    


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