[amsat-bb] Upgrade of equipment

[Russ Kinner]

When I first got my license, 2 meters was the highest freq. typically used, 440 was an experimenters band and anything above that was AT&T Microwave links for phone and network video.  It took a few years but now you can buy 1.2 GHz gear from several sources.  The experimenters area becomes common to all in a few years.  I

At my radio beginning, there were no PCs, mobile radios were crystal controlled mostly, and you bought a keypad to generate telephone tone pairs to use a repeater auto-patch and wired it in yourself.  Things change to meet the demand and it won't take long to have microwave gear and antennas easily available.  Just takes a demand that a HEO or better satellite in orbit generates.  It's one of the reasons AO-92 has L/v mode.  

I welcome the change.

Rusty, WA8ZID