Dave,

Fully support your statement.

I was amongst the early OM's on IO-117 and done a lot of experiment and QSO’s with it. IT IS JUST A GREAT BIRD enabling worldwide QSO particularly with the delayed transmission which I was amongst the first to experiment.

One can do a satellite DXCC with this bird alone.

Unfortunately not active on IO-117 these days as taken up with other projects.

Have a nice WE.

73

Jean Marc (3B8DU)

On Oct 27, 2023, at 1:44 AM, David Pykett via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:

I totally disagree with you IO-117 has been a great success helping many to get countries via satellite that they never dreamed they would ever reach

73
Dave G0IIQ
From: Sasha Tim via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@amsat.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2023 8:13:41 PM
To: Amsat - BBs <amsat-bb@amsat.org>
Subject: [AMSAT-BB] Re: IO-117 status - we're back
 
Honestly, it would have been much better if they put in a camera there instead of the digipeater. 

Any projects working on getting into MEO: PLEASE put in a camera (and transmit in a format that is not JPEG)!

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