[amsat-bb] Re: P3 status

[Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL]

At 03:07 PM 5/22/2010 -0700, Peter Sils <du7la at yahoo.com> wrote:
>Hi Domenico. (and the group)...
>
>Thank you so very much for taking your time to respond to my question! I 
>appreciate it!
>
>I too have a lot of equipment I bought just before AO-40 went QRT. I have 
>been holding on to this in hopes that a HEO would be again active. As you 
>know, no luck (same in the stock market lately - hi).
>
>I have been active before on AO-51 but find the operation like 50MHz on 
>50.125 exchanging quick grid squares and nothing else! HEO operation is 
>much prefered to LEO (for me).


I feel sorry for all satellite operators that have never had the 
opportunity to try out a HEO.  I never demonstrated one from the shack, but 
during field days when I had an audience there was always a lot of 
fascination at equipment and at all you could hear. Most of the time there 
was always some DX too.

KB7ADL