The key phrase being "when necessary" which should be never or almost never. I'm sorry so many of you got offended at my view of the hobby but this duplex issue should have been put to bed long ago. BTW, my "snob elitist" station I'm putting back together will consist of my FT-991 which is my main rig and a Funcube Dongle Pro. Antennas will be WA5VJB "cheap yagis". I'm also working with someone to have gerbers made of my rotor control system schematic and if that doesn't work, I'll be riding the control of a TV rotator manually. Hardly some high dollar approach meant to shut others out but a challenge to get all together and working in concert. 73, Michael, W4HIJ On 7/4/2015 10:19 PM, R.T.Liddy wrote:
Yep, just goes to show you how a highly skilled operatorlike Yuri can have great success using half-duplex whennecessary. Bob K8BL (AMSAT #6593) From: Jim Jerzycke kq6ea@verizon.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Saturday, July 4, 2015 2:34 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Fox, "Easy Sats"....et al....
Yuri is an experienced operator, not somebody with an HT and an Arrow/Elk standing in their backyard waving the antenna around and saying "Helllllooooooo" into the radio for the entire pass.
Jim KQ6EA
On 07/04/2015 06:34 PM, R.T.Liddy wrote:
Yuri, UT1FG/MM has worked many stations half-duplex and givenout a ton of rare grids. Maybe he should be educated about how "dumb"his operating technique is? ? ? ? ? Bob K8BL From: Michael Mat_62@charter.net To: "amsat-bb@amsat.org" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Saturday, July 4, 2015 1:02 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Fox, "Easy Sats"....et al....
Once again I feel the need to say that we have gone in the wrong direction by trying to convince everyone how easy a "sat" is to work with a handheld antenna. I got into satellite communication because of the technical challenge involved, not by how "easy it was". This whole half or full duplex issue is a symptom of "dumbing down" There should never be any question on it. Full duplex should ALWAYS be used. 73, Michael, W4HIJ _______________________________________________
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