[amsat-bb] L/S Report for SO-51

[HFDXJUNKIE@xxxxxxx]

SO-51 sounded great. It was fun. Made a few contacts. KB2M and myself 
scratched our heads the first pass until Mike cleared things up for us. I thought it 
was kinda odd not making it at 10 watts, so I cranked it up, and up and up to 
100 watts into the dish and said..ummmmm something doesnt seem right !
 

In use for L/S here .....

Kenwood TS-2000X  @ 10 watts transmit about 7 watts makes it to the patch.
1.8 meter dish with tri-band patches Khune preamp mounted right on the  patch 
 for 2.4 .  Small jumpers off the patches and preamp  into 1 5/8 heliax 
coming down the tower and into the shack (  approx 3 - 80 ft runs) to 3 -15 ft runs 
of Andrews 1/2 heliax ( I found it a little hard to hook up the 1 5/8 
connectors to the radio) for the 3 bands and a Parabolic down-converter right behind 
the radio. 

I manually tune by ear and hand for doppler shift up and down. Gotta have 
some fun.

It would be nice to see more on the bird during these Wens. modes. I guess in 
time ther will be.

Is it possible to have 2 uplinks going and 2 downlinks all FM going at the 
same time? If so maybe this will be the next experiment on Wens?

        73 Pete NA2P
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