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

[Mike Seguin]

I tend to agree that it might give us a bit more variety in those we work.

Today, I did work 8 stations including two new ones to me during the 
15:57 UTC pass.

Mike

On 2/19/2020 5:50 PM, Jeff via AMSAT-BB wrote:
> I agree with Patrick on moving the AO-91 L/V mode back to the weekends. Last
> couple of weeks there have been only 3 or 4 people working the mid morning
> L/V passes...
> 
> 73 Jeff kb2m
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org> On Behalf Of Patrick STODDARD
> (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) via AMSAT-BB
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 16:44
> To: AMSAT <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AO92 L/V mode??
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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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73,
Mike, N1JEZ
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