Re: [amsat-bb] G5400 woes

[Cliff Buttschardt <cbuttsch@xxxxxxxx>]

This is certainly true. Three db is not that bad and certainly less than all the
falderall created by Burnininga and his half baked approximations!  Linear works
just fine.  LEO's are a poor choice indeed as it addresses those not willing to
try but rather "what's in it for me--NOW!!"
      Your comments about "when we get back to sats other than LEO was RIGHT ON
Dave, WB6LLO.  Only long term interests are valid.  Day after tomorrow is not!!

Dave Guimont wrote:
> 
> >
> >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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