Hi All,
Thank you to those who replied to this, I will have another go this coming weekend, but I feel that I may stuggle as here in the UK we suffer from "Europe" and many people not listening so you end up with more people uping the transmit power to get over people... I have a TH-D7 so I can use the 817 for receiving?
I would like to try my hand at AO-7, but I think perhaps 5 watts may struggle there too.. my biggest problem is there is no way to install antenna's at my home due to garden size, so am trying to be good at portable ops.. I have an arrow antenna and a separate 9 ele 70cms and 4 ele on two mounted on a manual camera tripod.. I do have an amp/preamp for 2, but i find that ao16 is very hard to track due to it spinning so need to twist the antenna!
Anyway, sorry to waffle.. I'll keep at it..
Thanks,
Chris - M0DQO
-----Original Message----- From: "Mark L. Hammond" [email protected] To: [email protected],[email protected] Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:18:25 -0400 Subject: re: [amsat-bb] FT-817 use on AO16
Hi Chris,
While I haven't used an FT-817, I have worked AO-16 on 5 watts--through my 'short' M2 2M antenna.
Of course, it's all about gain--so where you are sending that 5 watts (a mag mount or 12dB gain array??) makes all the difference in the world...
The receiver on AO-16 is quite sensitive. Just now, I heard many VHF telephones from South/Central America/Caribbean coming through the bird :)
73,
Mark N8MH
At 01:00 PM 3/30/2008 -0700, you wrote:
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:42:33 +0100 From: "Chris Bloy" [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] FT-817 use on AO16 To: [email protected] Message-ID: [email protected] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"
Hi all
Has anyone used an FT-817 on AO-16?
I am having issues getting into the repeater, I think partly due to the amount of stations trying to access! But has anyone managed with 5 watts?
Thanks,
Chris - M0DQO
Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]