[amsat-bb] Re: RS series mode A downlink power

[Tony Langdon]

At 01:00 PM 9/17/2009, John W Lee wrote:

>RS 10/11 worked out real good for me.
>I was doing a lot of travelling  in 1987-90,
>and was able to make a lot of mobile QSO's
>using an  IC-230 (10 watts on CW) with one frequency

I used to run 10W SSB into a vertical on RS-10, and receive on a 
random bit of wire across the garden.  This setup worked well.  Never 
got the same results on RS-12/13, even with 25W SSB, except when I 
aimed a beam at the bird.

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