Re: [amsat-bb] AO-40 Schedule Update

["Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL" <vlfiscus@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the info Roy. I'm not on any AO-40 band yet, but will be when 
the downconverter gets here.  I was thinking of stacking a couple 23cm 
beams for the L band uplink and I'm glad to hear you've gotten good results 
with it.  My TS790 only does 10watts out on L band, hopefully that will be 
enough.

73 de KB7ADL


At 11:41 AM 7/29/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Vince,
>
>I just worked AO-40 under the new schedule, and I must say that signals were
>better than I've heard them for quite awhile. Had some nice qso's during the
>period around apogee, and signals were very good.
>
>  I was using L1 for the uplink, and found no problem with putting in a good
>signal with about 25 watts into  a pair of 35 element M2 yagis , linear
>polarized. In fact, I took some time to do some tests, and was able to hear
>my own cw returns with only .025 watts at the antennas, and was able to see
>my carrier signal, using Spectran dsp soundcard software,  at least another
>6 db below that level. Hard to tell the exact power level, since the needle
>on the wattmeter wasn't moving, hi.
>
>Just using a 34'/86cm. dish with K3TZ-stule homebuilt patch and Transystem
>3731 downconvertor, so you can see the rx system is nothing extraordinary.
>
>So, it looks like this current schedule is very user-friendly. And we always
>need more folks on L-band, so come on up and join us....
>
>regards,
>
>Roy VE7BPB
>Vancouver
>
>
>
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