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        "address": "diehl.mike.a (a) gmail.com",
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    "sender_name": "Mike Diehl",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]  AO92 L/V mode??",
    "date": "2020-02-20T01:37:48Z",
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    "content": "I started playing with a script after you mentioned this using\nrandom.seed((26 * 0xFE), 2) and the results look pretty good, I'll keep you\nposted with what I can cook up.\n\n73,\nMike Diehl\nW8LID/VE6LID\n\nOn Wednesday, February 19, 2020, David Swanson <[email protected]>\nwrote:\n\n> I believe Mike is on to something here, this surprise mode change idea\n> sounds interesting. Perhaps our outstanding IT volunteers could code a\n> random number generator script that sends an email to the 2 command station\n> volunteers on a surprise day each week. It would be a requirement of the\n> position that those holding command station authority shall upon receiving\n> this email halt their other activity and command AO92 to L mode on the next\n> available pass. Exceptions of course could be made if any 2 directors\n> object via the social media format of their choosing. If the command\n> station volunteer misses this message then they shall forever be banned\n> from command station authority, and will be forced to wear the \"brown\n> baofeng of shame\" at every symposium thereafter.\n>\n> Who's with me?\n>\n> Dave, KG5CCI\n>\n> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 6:53 PM Mike Diehl via AMSAT-BB <[email protected]>\n> wrote:\n>\n>> It's always the same people anyway. Generally those are the same people\n>> who\n>> spend all day everyday beside their radio so it doesn't matter what day\n>> it's on. Weekends are where new people with their dual band rig decide to\n>> give the birds a try typically, keeping U/v gives them more chances to\n>> make\n>> a first QSO.\n>>\n>> Personally, my vote goes to turning on the camera on the weekends so\n>> everyone can be frustrated equally with how our volunteer command stations\n>> operate.\n>>\n>> 73,\n>> Mike Diehl\n>> W8LID/VE6LID\n>>\n>> On Wednesday, February 19, 2020, Ernie via AMSAT-BB <[email protected]>\n>> wrote:\n>>\n>> > I agree, it may be time for a change to a weekend L/V operation. It\n>> seems\n>> > like I've worked the same 5 people on Tuesday nights..... Variety is\n>> good.\n>> >\n>> > Ernie W8EH\n>> >\n>> >\n>> > On 2/19/2020 4:44 PM, Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) via AMSAT-BB\n>> wrote:\n>> >\n>> >> Mark,\n>> >>\n>> >> A few months have passed since this discussion. Based on activity I\n>> >> have seen since that time, it appears that L/V activity on the Tuesday\n>> >> nights and Wednesday mornings dropped, compared to the previous\n>> >> schedule on Saturday nights and Sunday mornings. The only times I saw\n>> >> activity that approached the previous weekend schedule were around\n>> >> Christmas and New Year's Day which fell on Wednesdays.\n>> >>\n>> >> I think it is appropriate to consider moving the L/V activity back to\n>> >> weekends. There are many with new IC-9700s that might have an easier\n>> >> time trying L/V on a weekend, rather than a late weeknight or a\n>> >> weekday morning, along with others trying all sorts of combinations of\n>> >> radio and antenna for the 1.2 GHz uplink. I'm still enjoying the\n>> >> Alinco DJ-G7T HT with a 10-element Yagi for my L-band uplink,\n>> >> sometimes dropping from 1W \"high power\" on that band to 300mW.\n>> >>\n>> >> As for the previous experimenter's activities on AO-51... those ran\n>> >> for a week at a time. After AO-40, I think running those different\n>> >> modes for a week at a time on an LEO satellite like AO-51 was better\n>> >> than simply scheduling one day a week. You and Drew may have had to\n>> >> put AO-51 into a mode like V/S, and then put the satellite back into\n>> >> its normal mode, where AO-92 automatically switches from L/V to U/V\n>> >> after 24 hours. I enjoyed V/S in those days, even with the need to\n>> >> adjust for Doppler on the 2.4 GHz downlink almost constantly for 10\n>> >> to 15 minutes, along with the cross-mode V/U where we had to transmit\n>> >> in SSB or CW to be heard on the FM downlink. I worked a couple of\n>> >> stations one year during Straight Key Night on AO-51 that way.\n>> >>\n>> >> 73!\n>> >>\n>> >>\n>> >>\n>> >>\n>> >> Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\n>> >> http://www.wd9ewk.net/\n>> >> Twitter: @WD9EWK or http://twitter.com/WD9EWK\n>> >>\n>> >>\n>> >>\n>> >>\n>> >>\n>> >> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 12:37 PM Mark L. Hammond <\n>> [email protected]>\n>> >> wrote:\n>> >>\n>> >> Thanks for pointing out some things for consideration, Patrick and\n>> others.\n>> >>>    There is, naturally, a long list of pros/cons for any day we might\n>> >>> choose.  I seem to have good memories about AO-51 (a LEO)\n>> experimenter's\n>> >>> nights--and it seems like it was usually a Tuesday night event?\n>> Anyhow,\n>> >>> no\n>> >>> matter when we schedule, we'll have conflicts.  What we'll do is run\n>> an\n>> >>> experiment, on Experimenter's night!    Effective this week, we'll\n>> switch\n>> >>> AO-92 L/v operations from Sat/Sun to Tues/Wed, and run it that way\n>> for a\n>> >>> few months.  Then we'll reevaluate to see if it makes sense to keep\n>> it on\n>> >>> Tues/Wed or switch to another night.\n>> >>>\n>> >>> Hopefully this will change it up enough that some who could NOT\n>> attempt\n>> >>> L-band on our usual schedule due to conflicts, might now be able to\n>> give\n>> >>> it\n>> >>> a shot!\n>> >>>\n>> >>> 73,\n>> >>>\n>> >>> Mark N8MH\n>> >>>\n>> >>>\n>> >>>\n>> >>> _______________________________________________\n>> >> Sent via [email protected]. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available\n>> >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership.\n>> >> Opinions expressed\n>> >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views\n>> of\n>> >> AMSAT-NA.\n>> >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite\n>> program!\n>> >> Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n>> >>\n>> >\n>> > _______________________________________________\n>> > Sent via [email protected]. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available\n>> > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership.\n>> Opinions\n>> > expressed\n>> > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of\n>> > AMSAT-NA.\n>> > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite\n>> program!\n>> > Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n>> >\n>> _______________________________________________\n>> Sent via [email protected]. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available\n>> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership.\n>> Opinions expressed\n>> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of\n>> AMSAT-NA.\n>> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!\n>> Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n>>\n>\n",
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