----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon JC Pearce" [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 8:45 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Active FM Sats
On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 06:07:47 +0200 "i8cvs" [email protected] wrote:
Why to vaste time with the FM satellites for very small on a single channel to exchange only call letters and locators at most into a terrific QRM ?
Because everyone has the gear to work FM satellites.
Gordon MM0YEQ _______________________________________________
Hi Gordon, MM0YEQ
Everyone actually has a gear to work FM satellites because AMSAT in the last few years has built a lot of FM satellites only to encurage the japanese industry to produce FM rigs.
Compare the early years 1970 to 1980 when OSCAR-6, OSCAR,7 and OSCAR-8 were alive and well and you will realize that no one owned a FM rig for satellite use but only homebrewed CW and SSB rigs and that epoch time was a real satellite epoch time.
73" de
i8CVS Domenico