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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/DDUUP3EZYBV435DMYFOVHXRAKSYDCX3R/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "DDUUP3EZYBV435DMYFOVHXRAKSYDCX3R", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/DDUUP3EZYBV435DMYFOVHXRAKSYDCX3R/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "wa6ilt (a) cox.net", "mailman_id": "e6a9df47e0344a0799fb4c07032df34a", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/e6a9df47e0344a0799fb4c07032df34a/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "David Reinhart", "subject": "[amsat-bb] \"Walking and chewing gum at the same time\"", "date": "2020-07-22T19:32:23Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "I put together an HEO station on the cheap. I even contributed an \narticle to the Journal on how I did it. If you take your time, shop \naround, pick up some used gear, and do some work on your own, it doesn't \nhave to cost an arm and a leg.\n\nOne problem is we keep talking HEO vs LEO and we forget what used to be \nin between. The RS birds were very easy to work. They had a much lower \nDoppler shift than the FM birds and didn't even need a VHF antenna that \nwas steerable in elevation, just azimuth; or even an egg beater with \nenough power. I used a G5RV and an ARR preamp in the shack along with my \nHF transceiver for receive.\n\nWhen I got my WAS OSCAR I worked my last state on an RS bird during a <1 \nminute pass! When I submitted my application for the award, I did some \nanalysis and figured out that over 50% of contacts were on RS birds, \nmostly RS-10.\n\nAt a couple of the Symposia I brought up the idea of a VHF/10m satellite \nbuilt from two sets of multiple cubes, separated by the HF antenna made \nof spring steel, like measuring tape, with the VHF antennas at the end \nof one stack. The 10M transmitter in one stack, 2M receiver and control \nin the other, batteries in both, solar cells all over. Nobody was \ninterested.\n\nIf you walk to talk price barriers, list price on a new MFJ 2M SSB \ntransceiver is $359, and a CW module is available, too. I used a used \nKenwood 2M multimode rig to start with.\n\nI didn't contribute a fortune to AO-40, but I put in all I could afford \na bit more besides. Not only was I terribly disappointed when it died, I \nwas even more disappointed when everything but LEO seemed to vanish from \nour goals. Whoever is on the board, I want to see that back!\n\nDavid Reinhart, W4DSR (ex-WA6ILT)\n\n", "attachments": [] }