El 04/11/15 a las 14:19, Joe escribió:
Wow! As a Old schooler, I'm quite the opposite! I was extremely happy when I saw the 10 meter use. I was on every mode "A" bird, LOVED those birds, and even the Russian mode "K" I think it was? 10/15 meters.
NO-84 is a bird that almost 90% of hams have capability of. No special high priced all mode VHF/UHF rigs. A cheap 100 buck like radio shack 10 meter rig and a scanner and youre on this bird. it's awesome. And unlike the single channel FM CB birds, you don't have the CB channel effect. Instead of one conversation at a time there can be dozens!
Unfortunately, NO-84 it's not terribly easy to hear, requiring some rotator setup, circular omni with preamp or hand-pointed arrow. With a hand-pointed arrow it's very easy to hear, but it's almost impossible to work it in this manner. This is what's keeping me from being QRV in this bird. I can be in my garden pointing the arrow or in the shack with the 10m station and PSK computer, but not on both.
However, for operators already having a fixed station capable of receiving UHF satellites, it is easy to add the capability to transmit on 10m, so perhaps more publicity is needed.
73,
Dani M0HXM/EA4GPZ.