Hi Philip,
Several of them are very rewarding and rather easy once you are accustomed to linear birds. FO-29 would be my recommendation for "easiest" in terms of consistent behavior and high likelihood of successful contacts. "Easy" includes finding several or more good operators on most passes.
Daryl K4RGK
On May 18, 2016, at 1:14 PM, Philip Jenkins n4hf.philip@gmail.com wrote:
I know the first/easiest path to sat communications is on the FM birds (which I agree with), but when someone is ready to "graduate" to the linear sats, which would be the best/easiest one to start with?
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