RE: [amsat-bb] Re: TS-2000X

["Reicher, James" <JReicher@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon, since good operating practice is to be about 3-6 dB weaker than the
beacon, if a station is as loud as the beacon, they are using too much
power.  No ifs, ands, or buts.  The sensitivity of the L band receiver just
means the station should be using lower power.

73 de N8AU, Jim in Raymore, MO


-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Ogden [mailto:na9d-2@speakeasy.net] 
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 11:36 PM
To: Reicher, James; Amsat BB
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: TS-2000X


on 2/3/03 4:10 PM, Reicher, James at JReicher@hrblock.com wrote:

> Ah HA!!!  One of the guilty L banders speaks!
> 
> 73 de N8AU, Jim in Raymore, MO

It's amazing how quickly people rush to call the L-banders "guilty."

I worked W0LMD a few nights ago.  He has a 14 foot dish he uses on the
uplink.  He was as loud as the beacon.  He was only using about a quarter
watt.  If one has a good uplink antenna and is running the minimum power
they can, they should not be called "guilty."

The facts are, IMHO, that from the little I've seen of AO-40 that the L band
receiver is much better in performance than the U band receiver.
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Jon Ogden
NA9D (ex: KE9NA)

Citizen of the People's Democratic Republik of Illinois

Life Member: ARRL, NRA
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"A life lived in fear is a life half lived."

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