[amsat-bb] AO-40 SUCCESS!!

[Jon Ogden <na9d-2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey gang,

Success today on AO-40.  Not only can I copy the beacon at S8 or so, but I
made a couple of QSOs.  Haven't been this excited since I worked my first
RS-13 QSO.

I reported a couple of weeks ago that I couldn't copy the beacon.  Well, I
had a solder short in my AIDC down converter on the Murata filter board.
With that fixed, things work great.  I also got a new rotor, a Ham-M, that
replaced the AR-22.  Works much better now!

Good to be back on the air after nearly a year....Good to be on AO-40 for
the first time ever.  Thanks to N0YK for the first QSO.

73,

Jon
NA9D

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Jon Ogden
NA9D (ex: KE9NA)

Citizen of the People's Democratic Republik of Illinois

Life Member: ARRL, NRA
Member:  AMSAT, DXCC

http://www.qsl.net/na9d   <- Updated on 1/12/03!!!

"A life lived in fear is a life half lived."


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