Hi John,
My concern with adding 10 meters to a competition class VHF/UHF high end satellite rig, is that the rig will turn into another mediocre HF rig with VHF/UHF added on.
If we do start building Mode-A satellites in the future, then we can always use Two radios, a dedicated HF and a High performance Sat rig.
The primary goal is to have the engineers put all the money into a kick but 6/2/440 transceiver.
Thank you very much for your comments.
WF1F
--- On Mon, 3/1/10, John Geiger aa5jg@yahoo.com wrote:
From: John Geiger aa5jg@yahoo.com Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Wish List, The Ideal VHF/UHF Sat Rig To: "Mark L. Hammond" marklhammond@gmail.com, "Andrew Glasbrenner" glasbrenner@mindspring.com Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Date: Monday, March 1, 2010, 2:32 PM
--- On Mon, 3/1/10, Andrew Glasbrenner glasbrenner@mindspring.com wrote:
No access to frequencies below 50
megacycles.
Many serious 6m ops listen to utilities below 50Mhz to
tell
when the banding is close to opening.
You also need 10m for Mode A. I'm still hoping that RS12/13 pops back to life like AO7 and will have its Mode T going again. That was alot of fun.
73s John AA5JG
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