[amsat-bb] Re: Wish List, The Ideal VHF/UHF Sat Rig

[MM]

Hi John,

My concern with adding 10 meters to a competition class VHF/UHF high end satellite rig, is that the rig will turn into another mediocre HF rig with VHF/UHF added on.

If we do start building Mode-A  satellites in the future, then we can always use Two radios, a dedicated HF and a High performance Sat rig.

The primary goal is to have the engineers put all the money into a kick but 6/2/440 transceiver.

Thank you very much for your comments.

WF1F


--- On Mon, 3/1/10, John Geiger <aa5jg at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: John Geiger <aa5jg at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Wish List, The Ideal VHF/UHF Sat Rig
> To: "Mark L. Hammond" <marklhammond at gmail.com>, "Andrew Glasbrenner" <glasbrenner at mindspring.com>
> Cc: amsat-bb at amsat.org
> Date: Monday, March 1, 2010, 2:32 PM
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 3/1/10, Andrew Glasbrenner <glasbrenner at mindspring.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > >> No access to frequencies below 50
> megacycles.
> > >>     
> > Many serious 6m ops listen to utilities below 50Mhz to
> tell
> > when the 
> > banding is close to opening.
> 
> 
> You also need 10m for Mode A.  I'm still hoping that
> RS12/13 pops back to life like AO7 and will have its Mode T
> going again. That was alot of fun.
> 
> 73s John AA5JG
> 
> 
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> 
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