Thank you all for the lending hand on this - I should have enough to be able to get into trouble now :-)
Pete
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Clint Bradford [email protected] wrote:
... a brief list of Sats to initially target that are pretty easy to get into ...
Complete info for working the easy FM birds is at ...
... I have a FT847 ...
Turn the power way down ... (grin)
... and use 2M 70CM antennas (vertical) ...
Not as much "easily aim-able" gain there than a little ole handheld Yagi or beam!
We are talking really weak signals from 500+ miles away ... A handheld Yagi is going to probably out-perform the verticals!
Clint Bradford, K6LCS
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