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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Mediocrity vs. minimalist approach",
    "date": "2012-01-29T20:08:47Z",
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    "content": "Hi Frank!\n\nLet's clear the decks on this one.... you posted:\n\n> The preamp that you don't need, unless you want to push the envelope!\n> If mediocrity is your ultimate goal, use the minimalist approach, simple,\n> cheap, but if you wish to truly enjoy the full limits of satellite\n> communications, give yourself the tools to do the job!\n\nLet's correct one glaring error in the statement above...\n\nMINIMALIST <> MEDIOCRITY\n\n(yes, I capitalized both words intentionally)\n\nOne can go with a minimalist station, and not have something that is\nmediocre.  You can push the envelope, without having to build or buy\na fully-equipped station, complete with a satellite-ready transceiver,\ncomputer control, long-boom Yagis, an az/el rotator, and even\npreamps.  Also don't forget operator skill.  Without that, the fully-\nequipped station could be mediocre.  Until we get an HEO satellite\nin orbit, a minimalist satellite station can work just as well as the\nfully-automated station.\n\nI've said it many times on this forum.  I enjoy satellite operating.  I\nstarted with portable gear, mainly due to restrictions on antennas\nand no safe place to set up my gear at the apartment I lived in for\na few years.  I now live in a nice house, but it comes with antenna\nrestrictions.  I'm making use of the back yard to work with my\ngear (which you could see in the videos I posted last weekend),\nand may be able to set up antennas on a tripod that can be put up\nonly when I'm using it.  Until then, I continue to work with the same\nportable gear I have been using for while - the same gear that I used\nto work you last night from the DM23/DM24 grid boundary, when I\ntook a detour on my way home from Palm Springs and pulled off a\nstate highway in western Arizona.\n\nI have over 11,000 satellite QSOs in my log from the past 6+ years.\nNot a record, as there are others who have many more in the same\ntimeframe, but all but about 10 of the 11,000 were made with portable\ngear from almost 200 different locations across the USA and 3 other\ncountries.  When I looked at those QSOs a little while back, about\n10% of those QSOs were in SSB or CW.  I have gear that allows me\nto work FM or SSB/CW satellites down to the horizon or the local\nsurroundings, and I'm not afraid to work signals that are not strong.\n\nIs this mediocre?  I think not.  I already have the tools to do the job\nand enjoy it.  Eventually, I will make a QSO with what I will consider\nthe smallest station I can probably assemble for a non-FM satellite\nQSO - a TH-F6A HT sending CW to FO-29, listening to the downlink\non the all-mode receiver in that HT.\n\nAs for preamps, there are situations where they may be needed.  For\nexample, I talked with Bob KO6TZ at the hamfest in Palm Sptings\nyesterday morning.  He explained that he has a 125-foot coax run\nfrom his antennas into his shack.  Short of buying very low-loss coax\nthat is cost-prohibitive (if there is a type of coax for that length), he\nuses preamps at his antennas.  That's one example where preamps\nare called for.  That's a far cry from those using HTs with antennas\nlike the Arrow Yagi, Elk log periodic, or similar homebrew designs -\nwhere coax runs are only a few feet at most, not 125 feet.\n\nAs for the rest of Frank's post:\n\n> JOB WELL DONE WYATT!\n> YOU AND ERIC (ON4HF) DESERVE A ROUND OF APPLAUSE!\n\nNow this I will agree with 100%.  Great job by Wyatt for working\nON4HF yesterday morning!  Later in the day, I worked AC0RA\njust after working K4FEG out in the desert on my way home,\nadding a new grid to his satellite log.  Wyatt was very busy\nyesterday.  :-)\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n",
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