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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/LJ3O5OMDZF2HLJ7URC37GMRXJ6GJXOFV/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "LJ3O5OMDZF2HLJ7URC37GMRXJ6GJXOFV", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/RYTCVV42UWJDOPVHTFSX4OUN6L5IKLXM/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "w8eh.ernie (a) gmail.com", "mailman_id": "7a040161827a4a5db92c1f01c6b2e908", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/7a040161827a4a5db92c1f01c6b2e908/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Ernie", "subject": "Re: [amsat-bb] AO92 L/V mode??", "date": "2020-02-19T22:50:17Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/CMHKY4PN4YTUD6K3PSCCDXGRL2DVZULG/?format=api", "children": [ "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/3VIFYQ7OLTUIJXKOEL4LJ7Y3T6JEJPDG/?format=api", "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/FVY2RTFEG2BU5R74Y6OTTLGNI52EEJQN/?format=api" ], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "I agree, it may be time for a change to a weekend L/V operation. It \nseems like I've worked the same 5 people on Tuesday nights..... Variety \nis good.\n\nErnie W8EH\n\n\nOn 2/19/2020 4:44 PM, Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) via AMSAT-BB wrote:\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 <[email protected]>\n> wrote:\n>\n>> Thanks for pointing out some things for consideration, Patrick and 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) experimenter's\n>> nights--and it seems like it was usually a Tuesday night event? Anyhow, no\n>> matter when we schedule, we'll have conflicts. What we'll do is run an\n>> experiment, on Experimenter's night! Effective this week, we'll switch\n>> AO-92 L/v operations from Sat/Sun to Tues/Wed, and run it that way for a\n>> few months. Then we'll reevaluate to see if it makes sense to keep it on\n>> Tues/Wed or switch to another night.\n>>\n>> Hopefully this will change it up enough that some who could NOT attempt\n>> L-band on our usual schedule due to conflicts, might now be able to give 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. Opinions expressed\n> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of 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", "attachments": [] }