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

[Ernie]

I agree, it may be time for a change to a weekend L/V operation. It 
seems like I've worked the same 5 people on Tuesday nights..... Variety 
is good.

Ernie W8EH


On 2/19/2020 4:44 PM, Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) via AMSAT-BB wrote:
> 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
> http://www.wd9ewk.net/
> Twitter: @WD9EWK or http://twitter.com/WD9EWK
>
>
>
>
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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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