HI
After having a long - but awesome - lunch with John KG4AKV after the Raleigh Hamfest on Saturday, the urge to become more active on satellites has increased :-)
I live towards the eastern edge of EM85, and I am curious how many might need this grid-square. There is one fairly large city - Knoxville TN - and another medium sized - Asheville NC - inside EM 85, so I'd be a bit surprised if it is that rare. (I don't know any other sat ops in western NC, but east TN may be a different story.)
I have equipment for both FM and analog sats, but taking a Kenwood TS 2000 portable can be a bit of a problem, so I would appreciate advice on set-ups/radios (or SDR receiver?) for operating analog portable. (It's been 24 years since I have been on an analog sat - AO-13 - but that's perhaps a short article for the AMSAT Journal.)
I don't live far from EM95, so that's a possibility, although I think N4UFO keeps that one fairly active., Other nearby grids are a possibility too, but only FM at first till I decide on what I want to do, rig-wise, for operating SSB/CW portable. (Already have a great antenna, an M^2, for that, and all the coax.)
Philip N4HF