Re: [amsat-bb] G5400 woes

[Dave Guimont <dguimon1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>
>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

Yes, Tony, right on...I use an 11 element yagi (not crossed) that I made 
from pvc and AL clothesline wire for uplinking to AO40  (435 uplink) in my 
garden shack for testing downlink feeds.  I get involve in conversations 
all the time just testing!!

We've got to get the word out to all, how simple it really is to get on 
AO40!!  Once we get a HEO crowd going again, AMSAT will revive and survive...




            73, Dave wb6llo@amsat.org
                    Disagree: I learn.... 

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