[amsat-bb] Re: VO52 and verticals

[Tony Langdon]

At 02:35 AM 6/10/2011, John Geiger wrote:
>Has anyone had success getting into VO52 using a vertical, omnidirectional
>antenna on the uplink. I have a nice M2 2M9SSB for 2m but only have a
>dualband J pole to cover UHF with and wonder if I could get into VO52 with
>it for my uplink antenna.

I have tried, but wasn't confident enough with my downlink signal 
strength to attempt a QSO on SSB.

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