Re: [sarex] "Is it REALLY the antenna?"

[Margaret Leber <maggie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Shorney wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 19:06:44 -0700, Scott Avery wrote:
>>Remember.... ISS is VERY POPULAR, and YOU are not the ONLY one trying.
>>Be patient... it will happen for you!
> Gee, this is starting to sound like the FM satellite debate.  FWIW, I
> used to work MIR fairly regularly.  Is ISS more popular than MIR was?

Um...it's an earth satellite, in LEO, and it's FM. The  only difference 
is it has a TNC and it's inhabited. I suspect there are more ops (and a 
larger percentange of newbies) on ARISS than back in the Mir days.

I wasn't even licenced then.

  73 de Maggie K3XS

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