First contacts to celebrate Project Oscar 1 Anniversary!!
Make one, and get in on the ground floor...
Congrats to Rob, G8ATE, for the initiation...
Tnx to the following N5ZNL, Rick; N5UXT, Angelo; N2BX, Paul; XE1HON, Manny for making it possible on AO51 Echo.... ~0150Z on 13 dec.
I was only running 5 watts uplink, ICOM 910, homebrew self-designed quadrifilars on both up and downlinks, with antennas at ~45° EL, on the same mast, and rotating manually using a U100 rotor ( I think that is the name?? an inexpensive, age-old TV rotor).
Freq. control with SatPC32.....
Plans for the antennas on my website:
http://home.san.rr.com/doguimont/uploads/
quadfil.exe
My own downlink was blasting me, and I had a problem cranking the gain down, to listen.
ONE contact would have been enough to comply with the celebration....Of course, digital would be possible with you, Rob, but in my opinion a voice or cw contact is the requirement, and impossible with you in the absence of a HEO...
So I wasn't HOGGING, just answering those that called me, and pulled the big switch after the aforementioned contacts...
Tnx es QSL to them...
73, Dave, WB6LLO [email protected]
Disagree: I learn....
Pulling for P3E...