5 Feb
2011
5 Feb
'11
1:41 a.m.
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 21:36 -0600, Jim Shorney wrote:
On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:03:59 +0000, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
It doesn't in my case. I have *no interest at all* in operating satellites that require a complex fixed station with computer tracking and tuning. None. Doesn't interest me one bit.
Require? Hah. I used to run the RS birds with a TR-7, IC-251A, and a TA-33 + 17 el Cushcraft with an old CDE rotor. No computer control, fixed at 90 degrees elevation. What fun it was!
73
-Jim
You're so far south you can get away with that, though ;-)
Gordon MM0YEQ