One reason some hams don't use SO 50 is that those with a Kenwood TS 2000 have very limited pass time due to the nasty birdie in the Kenwood receiver and have to listen when the Doppler shift moves the receive signal away from the S0 + 40 db birdie - really disappointing...Steve NU5D
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Martin Gillen Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 12:12 AM To: John Mock KD6PAG Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: SO-50 under-utilized over North America
Hi, John & Everyone,
Thanks for all the support and information - Wow!!
Well I just had a go!
I had a 70 degree pass, SO-50 was travelling up the East Coast.
I made a mistake though :)
I was out on the balcony with my FT-51R clipped to my jacket, earbuds connected to a speaker/microphone, the 70cm side tuned to 436.805, the 2m side tuned to 145.85 74Hz tone. (The FT-51 tunes in a 5kHz step size).