At 11:18 AM 10/9/2007, you wrote:
Taking into account the age of the solar panels ... (31 years) ... it's a safe bet that they are *NOT* producing anywhere near what they did in 1974. It's anybody's guess exactly how many watts the mode-B transponder is producing these days.
Hi John, Very interesting reading all the comments on good old O7!! Keep them coming!! We need all the interest we can in multi-channel communications instead of the "2 user" FM one AMSAT-NA recently spent the money on...
I've mentioned on here before that Andy and I worked it 22 years apart, and I'm using the same antennas!! I don't "remember" that much of a difference in sig strength so I'm going to GUESS that my present homebrew pre-amp is better than the homebrew one I was using then..
But certainly not doubting that AO7's power out has been reduced....
73, Dave wb6llo@amsat.org Disagree: I learn....
Pulling for P3E...