[amsat-bb] Re: IF you had a choice...

At 03:50 AM 7/17/2009, Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF wrote:

I cut my teeth on Oscar 6 and 7, 2M UP, 10M DOWN, SSB.

For me, it was RS-10, where I had my first satellite contact in 1991. :) Again, 2m up, 10m down SSB. My first FM contact was much later, in 1999 on SO-35. I did try RS-12/13, but it didn't seem to be as potent as RS-10 was. Was using less effective antennas on RS-10 than later on RS-12/13.

Mode A birds are another good beginner's satellite, because a lot of people have HF and 2m SSB radios, and Doppler is not too severe (easily handled by manual tuning of the uplink).

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