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

[Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)]

Mark,

A few months have passed since this discussion. Based on activity I
have seen since that time, it appears that L/V activity on the Tuesday
nights and Wednesday mornings dropped, compared to the previous
schedule on Saturday nights and Sunday mornings. The only times I saw
activity that approached the previous weekend schedule were around
Christmas and New Year's Day which fell on Wednesdays.

I think it is appropriate to consider moving the L/V activity back to
weekends. There are many with new IC-9700s that might have an easier
time trying L/V on a weekend, rather than a late weeknight or a
weekday morning, along with others trying all sorts of combinations of
radio and antenna for the 1.2 GHz uplink. I'm still enjoying the
Alinco DJ-G7T HT with a 10-element Yagi for my L-band uplink,
sometimes dropping from 1W "high power" on that band to 300mW.

As for the previous experimenter's activities on AO-51... those ran
for a week at a time. After AO-40, I think running those different
modes for a week at a time on an LEO satellite like AO-51 was better
than simply scheduling one day a week. You and Drew may have had to
put AO-51 into a mode like V/S, and then put the satellite back into
its normal mode, where AO-92 automatically switches from L/V to U/V
after 24 hours. I enjoyed V/S in those days, even with the need to
adjust for Doppler on the 2.4 GHz downlink almost constantly for 10
to 15 minutes, along with the cross-mode V/U where we had to transmit
in SSB or CW to be heard on the FM downlink. I worked a couple of
stations one year during Straight Key Night on AO-51 that way.

73!




Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
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On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 12:37 PM Mark L. Hammond <marklhammond at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for pointing out some things for consideration, Patrick and others.
>   There is, naturally, a long list of pros/cons for any day we might
> choose.  I seem to have good memories about AO-51 (a LEO) experimenter's
> nights--and it seems like it was usually a Tuesday night event?  Anyhow, no
> matter when we schedule, we'll have conflicts.  What we'll do is run an
> experiment, on Experimenter's night!    Effective this week, we'll switch
> AO-92 L/v operations from Sat/Sun to Tues/Wed, and run it that way for a
> few months.  Then we'll reevaluate to see if it makes sense to keep it on
> Tues/Wed or switch to another night.
>
> Hopefully this will change it up enough that some who could NOT attempt
> L-band on our usual schedule due to conflicts, might now be able to give it
> a shot!
>
> 73,
>
> Mark N8MH
>
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