Re: [amsat-bb] G5400 woes

[Anthony Monteiro <aa2tx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bob,

Just a little correction:

At 12:29 PM 1/11/2004 -0500, Bob Bruninga wrote:
>...
>DONT USE CIRCULAR for LEO's unless you have a polarity switching relay
>either!  MOST of the time the signals are close enough to vertical to give
>continuous good signals, and why give up 3 dB of gain most of the time and
>the wrong polarity HALF the time when it is rarely if ever needed?
>Just not worth the complexity.. (for LEOs).

I agree with the above.

>Of course it is REQUIRED for
>non LEO's (AO-40 is the only one right now...)

No, circular polarization is not in ANY way required for
AO-40. You just have to have enough gain. I use linear
and it works fine.

Tony AA2TX


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