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

Thu Feb 20 01:37:48 UTC 2020

I started playing with a script after you mentioned this using
random.seed((26 * 0xFE), 2) and the results look pretty good, I'll keep you
posted with what I can cook up.

73,
Mike Diehl
W8LID/VE6LID

On Wednesday, February 19, 2020, David Swanson <dave at druidnetworks.com>
wrote:

> 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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