Hi everybody,
I finally did my first SSB bird this morning using VO-52. The winner is NL7VX Steven.
The experience was incredible !! Using SSB sat is a little bit tricker for beginner..... but FUN!!
I will try as soon as a pass will be enough high for me.... And I will also keep learning how to tweak everything around me in my shack !!
Best 73 !!
J-FVA2SS
P.S. VA2SS.... SS stands for SAT SAT!! Hi Hi !!
2009/8/4 Rocky Jones orbitjet@hotmail.com:
Jean. My experience is that you will do just fine. I have used a Lindenblad and crossed dipoles (see the QST stories) for quite a bit as secondary/field day antennas ...and now that we have a country place outside of Houston am setting them up here as first of antennas...they work great on most if not all of the low orbit satellites. I even do fairly well on AO 7. The M2 are good antennas so you shouldnt have any problems.
I would be interested to hear about your results take care and good luck
Robert WB5MZO
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 08:53:17 -0400 From: jf.va2ss@gmail.com To: AMSAT-BB@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] FO-29 and VO-52
Hi,
I would like to know if I'm dreaming, but will it be possible for me to use these two satellites with my pair of FT-817 running on SatPC32??
Am I asking too much for my 5W only radios ?? I'm using 2 Eggbeater antenna from M²... EB-144 and EB432 with AR² preamps on both antennas feed with heliax.
73
-- Jean-François Ménard VA2SS
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