Re: [amsat-bb] Special Bulletin - new satellite

[Margaret Leber <maggie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 29 April 2002 16:57, Gary \"Joe\" Mayfield wrote:

>  My point was mode 'S' has not been the end of all wonders it was 
> advertised to be. 

Considering the size and gain of the S2 antenna, mode S has kicked some 
serious...ahem--I mean...has done very, very well. 

Those of us who were lucky enough to get to use the S1 downlink (the 
one with a reasonable size antenna with a fair bit of gain) during it's 
unfortunatly short life know how much better a signal it presented.

I think we should consider AO-40 to be the most sucessful amateur 
spacecraft that ever blew up. :-)

 73 de Maggie K3XS
 
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