Re: [amsat-bb] FIELD DAY

["Lee" <lee-fl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd like to second Keith's comments.

Our club will be operating in the QRP/Solar power category from Grid Square
EL98qi as W4NLX.  As such we'll be concentrating on FO-20/29 and trying
UO-14 when it is to the South and East for LEO passes.  AO-40 has the
potential to make an excellent showing Sunday Morning.  Based on a 0/0
attitude it appears we will see about 7 hours of squint angles than 10
degrees and at a nice high elevation as well.  Because of our QRP status
we're going to try voice but realize that we'll likely be falling back to
CW.  I am also hoping to be set up to operate Feld-Hell on AO-40.

Of course all it takes is a few or even one station to start the UL power
race that we see all too often.  Non-voice modes, CW and SSTV, particularly
need to be attentive because LEILA seems much less inclined to provide her
friendly reminder to those modes.

73,
Lee-KU4OS

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith N6ORS" <k2@pe.net>
To: "amsat" <amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 15:17 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] FIELD DAY


> Gentlemen,
>
> While testing my Field day setup this morning i noticed that when the
> bird it crowded
> Signals are significantly lower and with the small dishes used for
> portable ops the
> signals were almost borderline.  It got me to thinking .  On field day
> there will be a lot
> of guys on the bird and a lot of small portable setups.  I know no one
> needs to be reminded
> of using minimal power , lelia does that for us quite adequately but on
> field day lets really try
> to keep it to the minimum so that all the smaller guys get a chance to
> put on a good show.
> A lot of these portable setups will be in the field to introduce people
> to sat ops And a good
> showing in the field will really help out.
>
> 73.
> Keith N6ORS
>
>
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