Re: Wish list (was RE: [amsat-bb] FM on ssb/cw designed hamsats)

[Fabio Roccatagliata <roccaf@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sincerely I don't think 70cm and upper bands are the easiest for uplink.
Common V/U setups are not enough strong for satelites operations
expecially for those living in not good locations (mountains,
etc....).

I lived for years in such "bad" locations and I found:

strong sigs in Vhf, medium on 29Mhz, easy uplink from hf and quite bad
sigs on 70cm.

I would definitely prefer to have perhaps some uplinks on 29Mhz or
144Mhz than on 70cm where, expecially with HEOs, the visibility
home-bird is very important.

Newbie sat specs: Mode A, K or T ! (Most of us started with RS12/13/15)

73
Fabio
F5VKV

On 11/25/05, Tony Langdon (ATC) <tlangdon@atctraining.com.au> wrote:
> I'm still not quite there yet.. but my personal wish list is:
>
> 1.  Mode B FM sat (so many newbies here have probs with Mode J, plus Asian
> QRM on 2m uplinks).  SO-35 was popular and fun in these parts.
>
> 2.  HEO voice (SSB for now, until a suitable digital voice mode becomes
> common) - That's what I really want to tackle next.  LEOs in this part of
> the world don't get you very far... maybe Fiji or Papua New Guinea is about
> as exotic as it gets...  HEO, well EU and US become real possibilities. :-)
> As for frequencies, 2m, 70cm and 2.4 GHz are the easiest for me to manage.
>
> Of course, there is one thing the HT owner can do with those SSB birds...
> PTT CW. ;-)
>
> Looking forward to P3E when it's launched.
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