[amsat-bb] Re: S Band Activity 08/2009

[Alan P. Biddle]

John,

Interesting report.  It was good to work you during the last V/S period.  I
have been on that mode for years, as well as L/S, but you quickly get your
WAS, Worked All Stations.  Glad to see that the number is expanding.  

I came across a G3RUH 60 cm dish with a circularly polarized patch antenna.
It was originally used for AO-40, and so it is superb on AO-51.  I have an
SSB LNA mounted directly at the feed, and use some old RF-213 to feed the
signal about 65' to the converter in the shack.  There is plenty of gain,
and using hard line is unneeded.  In fact, I have a variable attenuator to
balance the gain properly.  Works fine, horizon to horizon.  In fact, I see
more distinct limitations when using the mode-L uplink.

Alan
WA4SCA