Re: [amsat-bb] Beginner birds

["Greg D." <ko6th_greg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

RS-10 was my first, and in my opinion, the easiest of the easy sats.  I made
many, many contacts through RS-10, quite a few with only 10 watts to a
home-made J-pole and a long wire from a backyard tree to a Radio Shack
DX-440 receiver.  At the same time, I was never able to get into AO-21.
Heard it, but couldn't ever get the antenna/power/doppler right, I guess.

The problem with RS-12/13 mode KA was all the unknowing satellite operators,
those folks carrying on otherwise normal HF contacts on 15 meters, not 
knowing
that they were QRMing someone uplinking on 2 meters.

A simple Mode A bird definitely has its place among our spread of 
satellites.

Greg  KO6TH


>From: Michael Kingery <mkmk518@snowhill.com>
>Reply-To: mkmk518@snowhill.com
>To: amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org
>Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Beginner birds
>Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:47:07 -0500
>
>I had the same experience as Jerry.  RS12/13 was my first satellite.  With
>hardware I already had up.  Would "practice" tuning in the middle of the
>night to get the hang of things.  The FM sats were more difficult.  Could
>not hear it were enough to be anything more than QRM for those that could
>hear.
>
>For me, RS12/13 and FO20/29 hooked me on Satellites for life.  An FM bird,
>although fun and has its place, would not have done the same thing.
>
>73 KE4AZN
>
> >
> >This offered a true "easy" path to get on a satellite.  My first contacts
>were on RS-12 in mode K using an FT-890 and a tri-band inv-vee (that's
>10/15/20 m).  That experience (every new contact was practicaly a new
>state!) led me to want to try one of those exotic FM satellite (AO-27).  It
>took me 6 months and at least a half-dozen antennas (and buying a 70 cm
>preamp) before I finally heard the darn thing.  I was beginning to think it
>was a hoax.  My point is I had to "upgrade" to get to FM sats.
> >
>
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