[amsat-bb] Re: IC-9100

[John Geiger]

But just because something is listed as a satellite radio, why only limit it
to the satellite bands?  Satellite radios also make good VHF/UHF weak signal
and contest radios.

73s John AA5JG

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF <nigel at ngunn.net>wrote:

> There aren't any satellites on 6M.
>
> There's always the "old fashioned" solution, an HF receiver, an HF
> transmitter and a pair of converters or transverters.
> They're still available for the microwave bands.
>
> There must be older 2M and 70cM multimode rigs available used ( IC211E,
> TS700, IC202/404 etc) that will happily drive transverters for the higher
> bands and amplifiers for their own band.
>
>
>
>
> On 25-Feb-11 19:51, John Geiger wrote:
>
>>
>> Used, now there are many more options.  Hard to find anything to fault
>> about the Kenwood TS790, except that it doesn't
>> do 6m.
>>
>