My notes say that the main uplink was on 70cm. Not knowing which way AO-40 was going to be configured, I built my station 13cm downlink with a 300 mhz IF, so I could use either 2m or 70cm up. Turns out that was a good decision.
If you have a wide-band receiver, perhaps you could modify your S-band converter to use a different frequency? I set my LO to 2.1 ghz, if I recall.
Greg KO6TH.
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Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 22:16:29 -0400 From: wb2llp@optonline.net To: AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-40 S band
I was going to set up to receive AO-51 on VS when it occurred to me that I need the 144 band as the receiver for the S band down-converter. Then I remembered that I used to have QSOs on AO-40 with the same gear that I still have, but I do not remember and can not find any notes as what band we used for the uplink.
Will someone with a better memory/set of notes please remind me what band we used for the uplink?
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