[amsat-bb] Re: bye bye S band

[Alan P. Biddle]

Bob,

I always try to be optimistic.  In fact, by coincidence, I turned my S band
electronics on yesterday for the first time since some test projects earlier
this year.  I am going to calibrate everything for use with my Flex VU5K,
just in case.  

73s,

Alan
WA4SCA



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Behalf Of Bob- W7LRD
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 6:35 PM
To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] bye bye S band



Before the weather gets bad I am planning of "redoing" a lot of antennas. 
As part of that process the satellite antennas are to be moved.  At which
time I plan to remove the S band system that worked so magnificently on
AO-40 (sobsob) and a little bit on AO-51.  With AO-51 declining the
probability of S band activity  is remote.  Why am I floating this on the
bb?  To me it appears to be a turning point of what I (we) would like to do
and what I  (we) can do.  Smarter people than I have said it will be a long
time before we can really have some L/S activity.  So rather than wear out
my rotors turning some useless hardware I will put it in "mothballs".  With
the hope that I will have the opportunity to use them again before I get hit
by the bus. 

73 Bob W7LRD 

Seattle, Wa. 
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