[amsat-bb] AO92 L/V mode??

[BOB JOHNSON]

I would like to see more time in L/V mode.  24 hrs/ week is not enough time to test, adjust, play etc
73 Bob W7LRD

> On December 17, 2018 at 9:25 AM "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)" <amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I had asked this question on Twitter when the tweet announcing that
> AO-92 would remain in U/V mode appeared, just over a week ago. Not
> seeing an answer from the AMSAT Twitter account, I'll post the
> question here, expanding on what I wrote in my tweet.
> 
> When AO-92 was switched into L/V mode on the evening of 8 December, the
> @AMSAT Twitter account posted the announcement of the mode change, along
> with a mention that L/V mode will not be available the following weekend
> (14-15 December) due to the N4T expedition to EL84:
> 
> https://twitter.com/AMSAT/status/1071609972902060032
> 
> "AO-92 placed in L/v mode at 0330UTC and will revert to U/v in 24 hours.
> No L/v next weekend by request of EL84 N4T expedition."
> 
> I asked a question, and saw no response on Twitter from the @AMSAT account.
> 
> Back in October, a request was made of AMSAT by Tom N5HYP not to activate
> AO-92's L/V mode during the Jamboree on the Air weekend, so the satellite
> could remain in the normal U/V mode. Drew KO4MA posted a reply that
> explained his answer, here on the AMSAT-BB list:
> 
> http://amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2018-October/069962.html
> 
> "Tom,
> 
> In a private email response sent to you just prior to your email to the
> -bb, I inquired whether you had SSB capabilities. I know many other JOTA
> stations do get on the transponder satellites as well, and I think we can
> agree this would be a better presentation of our part of the hobby. I'm
> not inclined to alter the schedule when there are so many other satellites
> available, both FM and SSB/CW, but only one L-band uplink available one
> day a week. Of course AO-92 will still be available in U/v for the first
> half of JOTA.
> 
> 73, Drew KO4MA
> AMSAT VP Operations"
> 
> I was surprised to see this response, but it seemed reasonable given the
> fact we currently have a lot of satellites that support voice QSOs in FM
> and SSB. I heard JOTA stations working FM satellites that weekend, and I
> worked one of them on AO-91 during a Saturday afternoon pass. It is always
> fun to work the Scouts during JOTA.
> 
> Fast forward to the AMSAT tweet on the 8th...  Given this response from
> October, and seeing that something different was going to be done with
> AO-92 for what could be characterized as a family camping trip to the
> Florida Keys, I asked:
> 
> What changed?
> 
> The situation now mirrors how things were during JOTA in October. We still
> have a lot of satellites supporting FM and SSB/CW. AO-92 remains the only
> satellite currently capable of working with an L-band uplink (until the
> L/V repeater on the ESEO satellite is made available to us). And AO-92
> would be available in U/V mode for 3 of the 4 days of this family camping
> trip, had the normal Saturday evening switch to L/V mode happened.
> 
> JOTA is a worldwide event involving radio and Scouts. N4T is (was) not a
> worldwide event, at least on satellites. The grid EL84 has been active on
> satellites at least twice in the last six months. Yet AMSAT accomodated
> a request to not activate AO-92's L/V mode for an event that won't have
> worldwide participation via satellite, after not making the same
> accomodation for a worldwide event. This is the reason for my question.
> 
> 73.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK/VA7EWK
> http://www.wd9ewk.net/
> Twitter: @WD9EWK or http://twitter.com/WD9EWK
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 1:52 PM Andrew Glasbrenner <
> glasbrenner at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> > We deferred L/v this week at the request of the N4T kids expedition to the
> > Dry Tortugas. This was announced with the mode change announcement on
> > Twitter last week: https://twitter.com/AMSAT/status/1071609972902060032
> >
> > I apologize for not sending a reminder to the -bb. I was engaged at a
> > Christmas event for my kids last night. I hope you understand.
> >
> > 73, Drew KO4MA
> > AMSAT VP Operations
> >
> >
> >
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