Now that I've had my coffee, I _do_ seem to remember reading this in a column by a well-liked QST author, but I thought it was last year. I couldn't believe it, either, that he'd recommend running something like 100+ Watts to a big Yagi. Field Day is crazy enough on the FM satellites, but to suggest something like this is completely irresponsible. The first or second year I ran the satellite station for my club, one of our own, well-known AMSAT'ers hogged every FM pass I tried to get in to. It was very discouraging, and people who were watching me operate, and knew nothing about satellites, commented that if that was what it was like, they had NO interest in even trying. C'est la vie, I guess! 73, Jim KQ6EA
--- Jeff Davis jl.davis@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:42:40AM -0700, Jim Jerzycke wrote:
You're kidding? The ARRL telling people to have at
it
with QRO?
--- George Henry ka3hsw@earthlink.net wrote:
5 watts with an Arrow? Probably your only
chance
for success would be AO-51 or SO-50 in the
middle of
the night. AO-27 is only available on daylight passes, and the competition for ALL of the FM
birds
will be fierce. Someone from the ARRL, who
shall
remain nameless, is actually recommending as
much
uplink power as possible to improve one's
chances,
so that pretty much guarantees a mess on FM..................
Where can we read about this ARRL recommendation?
73,
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