[amsat-bb] Re: Phase 4

[Dave Guimont]

>On Oct 30, 2007, at 2:58 PM, John Marranca, Jr wrote:
>
> > Imagine...ULTRA RELIABLE DX...24 hours per day.  Those with antenna
> > restrictions or home-owner's covenants could be QRV.  And if the up/
> > down
> > links were UHF and above, a pair of helices could be used INSIDE,
> > pointing
> > through a window....
>
>Imagine the hundreds of people QRM'ing each other.  :-)

Nate, you are kidding, of course!  With AO40, apogee ~35M, as I 
remember, at apogee we
  could talk to about 90% of ones hemisphere...From San Diego I 
worked Durban, South Africa,
not too far from Madagascar, my antipode.

I think three would be needed to cover the world, but with "both" 
hemispheres I can't imagine there would ever be a problem...

There were times when a portion of the band would sound like 20 
meters during a sunspot high, but in my experience I never failed to 
find a "hole"...

How about other AO40 users??  Any problems having a QSO because of 
band congestion??

About the poorest ham radio experience I've had in 52 years was with 
the low orbit 2 user FM birds!!!





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

               Pulling for P3E...