Ahhh, my apologies Drew. I should have said previously uncommon modes instead of unheard of modes. As I am relatively new to the Amateur Satellite community, I'm sure there is plenty that I am unaware of, and this is an example of that. Again, my apologies. I'm looking forward to seeing how things play out in the future.
-Zach, KJ4QLP
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Glasbrenner [mailto:glasbrenner@mindspring.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 5:11 PM To: Zach Leffke; amsat-bb@wd9ewk.net; amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: Half-duplex on the Kenwood TH-F6A
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From: Zach Leffke zleffke@vt.edu This technology will allow previously unheard of modes of operation that could allow these types of HTs to complete a QSO. Imagine a software defined transponder that receives an uplink in FM and downlinks SSB.
I did that on AO-16 after we put it in "bent pipe" mode, although that was FM to DSB. The ISIS cubesat radios also have this ability, and I think we'll see it on some of those soon.
73, Drew KO4MA