At 03:07 PM 5/22/2010 -0700, Peter Sils [email protected] wrote:
Hi Domenico. (and the group)...
Thank you so very much for taking your time to respond to my question! I appreciate it!
I too have a lot of equipment I bought just before AO-40 went QRT. I have been holding on to this in hopes that a HEO would be again active. As you know, no luck (same in the stock market lately - hi).
I have been active before on AO-51 but find the operation like 50MHz on 50.125 exchanging quick grid squares and nothing else! HEO operation is much prefered to LEO (for me).
I feel sorry for all satellite operators that have never had the opportunity to try out a HEO. I never demonstrated one from the shack, but during field days when I had an audience there was always a lot of fascination at equipment and at all you could hear. Most of the time there was always some DX too.
KB7ADL