[amsat-bb] AO-92 for Jamboree on the air.

[Andrew Glasbrenner]

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

-----Original Message-----
From: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org> On Behalf Of
tjschuessler at verizon.net
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 9:39 PM
To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-92 for Jamboree on the air.

Hi Fox control team.

I know that the convention these days is to shift Fox 1D/AO-92 to L band
uplink in the early hours of UTC Sundays and then go back early UTC Monday.

This weekend, October 19-21,  is Jamboree on the Air, a marvelous
opportunity to showcase Amateur Radio in space to young scouts and adult
scouters.  JOTA is from Friday evening local time through Sunday local time.
Since a lot of us who may be running Amateur satellite stations for JOTA, do
not have L band uplink capabilities.  I am requesting on these behalf other
JOTA stations, that the control team consider forgoing the weekly switch to
L band to allow more people access to AO-92 passes on Saturday evening and
Sunday morning.

Thanks for your consideration

73

Tom, N5HYP

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