On Oct 30, 2007, at 2:58 PM, John Marranca, Jr wrote:
Imagine...ULTRA RELIABLE DX...24 hours per day. Those with antenna restrictions or home-owner's covenants could be QRV. And if the up/ down links were UHF and above, a pair of helices could be used INSIDE, pointing through a window....
Imagine the hundreds of people QRM'ing each other. :-)
Nate, you are kidding, of course! With AO40, apogee ~35M, as I remember, at apogee we could talk to about 90% of ones hemisphere...From San Diego I worked Durban, South Africa, not too far from Madagascar, my antipode.
I think three would be needed to cover the world, but with "both" hemispheres I can't imagine there would ever be a problem...
There were times when a portion of the band would sound like 20 meters during a sunspot high, but in my experience I never failed to find a "hole"...
How about other AO40 users?? Any problems having a QSO because of band congestion??
About the poorest ham radio experience I've had in 52 years was with the low orbit 2 user FM birds!!!
73, Dave wb6llo@amsat.org Disagree: I learn....
Pulling for P3E...