Again if price is no object, you should be able to do it with a K3 from Elecraft (using the sub receive and their transverters).
73, Joe kk0sd
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Michael Tondee Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 8:26 PM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Radios for satellite operations
The Kenwood TS-2000 and 2000X are still out there. They have an annoying birdie right smack dab on the downlink of SO-50 and AO-27 but both of those are FM sats. You can work around the birdie with a preamp but the pass time is shortened a bit because you are waiting for the receive frequency to get a little bit away from the birdie so you can hear. I don't know of any issues with SSB/CW sats though. Icom is coming out with a new radio that has HF plus sat capapbility but for the price I've heard you could just about buy a Flex 5000A and add the soon upcoming V/U module for not much more. The Flex 5000A is cutting edge technology but you have to get over most hams confounded affinity for knobs. I just got my 5000A today. I chose it over replacing the TS-2000X I used to have with another. It will be awhile before I can afford to add the V/U module but I'm willing to wait because IMHO the Flex is head and shoulders above any other radio on the market today. 73, Michael, W4HIJ On 4/16/2010 12:18 PM, Jacob Tennant wrote:
Was wondering today after searching around on the internet, what radios
are
people using for satellite operations as I noticed the ICOM IC-910H and
the
Yaesu FT-847 are now discontinued?
Was hoping to get into the SSB/CW satellites but was hoping to do it on a new radio, but it seems the satellite radios are disappearing from the market.
I do have a Yaesu FT-857D that I am getting setup to do the FM satellites with and will try the SSB/CW satellites if I can do it with that radio.
Jacob Tennant - K8JWT
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