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

[Fernando Ramirez]

+1 for returning the AO-92 L/V mode change over the weekend.

While we all appreciate N8MH and the other command stations ops efforts to
switch the satellite mode, I still believe the Operations Team should
request help from other operators with the necessary equipment, and time,
in order to ease the burden of commanding our satellites. In almost 5 years
working sats, I have never seen such requests.

73
Fernando, KF7R
Arizona

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 5:58 PM D. Craig Fox via AMSAT-BB <
amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:

> As I reported on twitter last night, I was the only operator on the 0602z
> pass. Nice, high, strong downlink, crickets.  And, being a working stiff,
> that was the only available pass for me.
>
> Totally for going back to the weekend.  Thank you Patrick
>
> 73,
> Craig
> N6RSX
>
> -----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 1:44 PM
> 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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