[amsat-bb] Re: The Easy SATs?

[Peter Moscatt]

Thank you all for the lending hand on this - I should have enough to
be able to get into trouble now  :-)

Pete



On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Clint Bradford
<clintbrad4d at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> ... a brief list of Sats to initially target that are pretty easy to get into ...
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> Complete info for working the easy FM birds is at ...
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> http://www.work-sat.com
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>>> ... I have a FT847 ...
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> Turn the power way down ... (grin)
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>>> ... and use 2M 70CM antennas (vertical) ...
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> Not as much "easily aim-able" gain there than a little ole handheld Yagi or beam!
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> We are talking really weak signals from 500+ miles away ... A handheld Yagi is going to probably out-perform the verticals!
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> Clint Bradford, K6LCS
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