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

[David Swanson]

I believe Mike is on to something here, this surprise mode change idea
sounds interesting. Perhaps our outstanding IT volunteers could code a
random number generator script that sends an email to the 2 command station
volunteers on a surprise day each week. It would be a requirement of the
position that those holding command station authority shall upon receiving
this email halt their other activity and command AO92 to L mode on the next
available pass. Exceptions of course could be made if any 2 directors
object via the social media format of their choosing. If the command
station volunteer misses this message then they shall forever be banned
from command station authority, and will be forced to wear the "brown
baofeng of shame" at every symposium thereafter.

Who's with me?

Dave, KG5CCI

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 6:53 PM Mike Diehl via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
wrote:

> It's always the same people anyway. Generally those are the same people who
> spend all day everyday beside their radio so it doesn't matter what day
> it's on. Weekends are where new people with their dual band rig decide to
> give the birds a try typically, keeping U/v gives them more chances to make
> a first QSO.
>
> Personally, my vote goes to turning on the camera on the weekends so
> everyone can be frustrated equally with how our volunteer command stations
> operate.
>
> 73,
> Mike Diehl
> W8LID/VE6LID
>
> On Wednesday, February 19, 2020, Ernie via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
> wrote:
>
> > 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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