Or prove their antenna hears as well as it transmits!
73s John AA5JG
--- On Sun, 4/18/10, David Barber [email protected] wrote:
From: David Barber [email protected] Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] Arecibo on Handy To: "'John Geiger'" [email protected], [email protected] Date: Sunday, April 18, 2010, 3:05 PM Now that really would be silly wouldn't it!
Regards
David G8OQW
-----Original Message----- From: John Geiger [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 18 April 2010 21:02 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Arecibo on Handy
SO, did you work them on the FT817???
73s John AA5JG
--- On Sun, 4/18/10, David Barber [email protected] wrote:
From: David Barber [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Arecibo on Handy To: "'Moon-Net'" [email protected],
Date: Sunday, April 18, 2010, 2:37 PM OK, I know nobody is going to believe this but....on my life...
I have been outside with an FT-817 connected via a
very
short piece of coax to a Diamond A430S10R (small 10 element beam modified
for
handheld use) and headphones and KP4AO was just audible on SSB.
Signals were inconsistent but solid enough to copy
their
callsign and CQ calls around 19.00UTC and the odd information
exchange
thereafter.
Now they've switched to CW copy is a good 80%.
No signal strength showing on S-Meter of course but
who
cares.
I would never have believed it had I not heard it with
my
own ears.
Note: NO preamp was used.
David G8OQW JO01FR
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