12 Mar
2020
12 Mar
'20
5:56 p.m.
I travel with work during the week and have an arrow and d72 in my carryon luggage.
The switch to L Band takes me off the air and limits satellite opportunities down to at worse, a single fm bird late in the evening.
As a new satellite op, I was not even aware that adhoc changes to uplink band were being made.
I have 23cm antennas ordered for home and I’m looking forward to “giving it a go” but much prefer the weekend for changing bands.
There are not that many Fm satellites suitable for portable ops and making the change is a big impact availability... It’s tough QSO’ing at BL11.
Regards Dwayne (310) 849-2036