While most of the activity in North America is on FO-29, there are also people working the morning and evening XW-2's, and weekend AO-73's regularly. You might try listening to the evening XW-2A and XW-2C passes. Don't expect much late at night on AO-73. It's usually quiet on the weekdays.
I highly recommend listening for each satellite's beacon as you familiarize yourself with the linear birds. It will be a fair indicator of how strong the signals should be.
73 Clayton W5PFG
On 5/18/2016 12:14, Philip Jenkins 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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