[amsat-bb] AO-92 L band on the weekends

[Jeff]

I second the motion. I miss most passes due to club meetings, doctor visits, wife's doctor visits all on a Wednesday. Let's move it back to the weekend 😊

73 Jeff kb2m

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From: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org> On Behalf Of Dwayne Sinclair via AMSAT-BB
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:56
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Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-92 L band on the weekends

I travel with work during the week and have an arrow and d72 in my carryon luggage.

The switch to L Band takes me off the air and limits satellite opportunities down to at worse, a single fm bird late in the evening.

As a new satellite op, I was not even aware that adhoc changes to uplink band were being made. 

I have 23cm antennas ordered for home and I’m looking forward to “giving it a go” but much prefer the weekend for changing bands. 

There are not that many Fm satellites suitable for portable ops and making the change is a big impact availability... It’s tough QSO’ing at BL11.

Regards Dwayne
(310) 849-2036
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