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20 May 02 00:55:20 BST
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Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 00:55:20 +0100 (BST)
From: hlong@btinternet.com
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Subject: [amsat-bb] Dayton Amsat AO-40 Demo
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Folks,

Thanks to everyone for listening and the few who had a QSO with us at 
Dayton. The demo ended up being more of a Q&A session than a 
continuous string of QSO's.

We had about 100 folks at the demo. The 40 handout sheets I'd made up 
ran out well before we started. FWIW, if you'd like a copy of the 
double-sided sheet, it's at http://www.g6lvb.com/DaytonAO-40.doc

The highlight for many of us was Mike N1JEZ's 24GHz demo. I managed 
to talk to him via AO-40 on the K band downlink even though he was 
barely five yards away ;-)

I contacted a number of stations both prior to and during the demo 
including N0AN, WB5GQM, W3PM and K0QQ, as well as a number of others, 
but I must apologise that my portable voice recorder stopped 
recording.

A couple of people commented how easy I made it look, which is good 
in that hopefully we'll get some more on board.

But if you want to know the true story, you only have to look at the 
table in my hotel room at http://www.g6lvb.com/images/ts2koops1.jpg. 
Here you can see what happened when I had to fix the rig when the CW 
key stopped working due to a failed SMD inductor.

A special thanks to VK6WN who helped out enormously by helping me set 
up, handing out the sheets and telling me to speak up.

Thanks again,

73 Howard G6LVB
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