Hi Pete, 2i0VAX
Probably you was not a satellite operator on those early days of OSCAR-10, OSCAR-13 and AO40 and so you cannot understand and realize how much easier it was to operate satellite with respect to the actual FM birds.
No automatic antenna tracking was needed and no automatic doppler compensation was needed to work all Continents for hours with many different stations all at the same time through the above wonderfull HEO satellites, without any interference and it was much and much better than on 20 meters.
OSCAR-10, OSCAR-13 and AO40 was the PHASE III of AMSAT but actually the LEO FM satellites are getting AMSAT many steps back to PHASE I
73" de
i8CVS Domenico
----- Original Message ----- From: "P.H." bbjunkie@f2s.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 7:58 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Oscar-10
Hats off to you guys.. working satellites has become much easier with the advent of computerised pass prediction and FM birds. Back in those days it took real brains to work those birds!
73
Pete
2i0VAX
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Joe nss@mwt.net wrote:
I remember using the "Oscarlocator" all the time in those days. http://www.studiorite.com/oldindex/images/OscarLocator1sm.jpg
You could get the info from QST or there was either a weekly or daily Oscasr bullitens put out by W1AW, in CW on all their HF Freqs that they used. I do not remember if the info was also sent in SSB or not. I always copied the CW version.
Joe WB9SBD
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