Re: [amsat-bb] Why aren't FO satellites more popular

["Rick Fletcher" <rfletcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You might be right about that.  AO-40 has certainly become my favorite bird
but I still come back on occasion to check the FOs and FM birds.  The FOs
are still sparsely used and the FMs are still a zoo.

Rick
KG6IAL

----- Original Message -----
From: "Grant & Dorothy Zehr" <gazehr@mindspring.com>
To: <amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Why aren't FO satellites more popular


> I got operational on the FO satellites about a year before AO-40 was
> launched.  During that time FO-20 and FO-29 were pretty busy.
>
> The big reason they aren't used more now is that a lot of the folks who
were
> active on Fuji satellites have migrated to AO-40 and haven't been back.
>
> Grant Zehr AA9LC
>
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