Hi,
I'm trying to help one of the local Honduran hams get started on the sats. He has a dual bander and a Comet CX-902 vertical antenna, 9 db gain, about 35' in the air. We set up to work tonight's AO-51 pass but did not hear a thing. About halfway through the pass, when it was obvious we were not hearing the bird, we switched the antenna from his rig to mine, just to verify that the rig was not at fault. But we still heard nothing. This suggests to me that the problem is the antenna or feedline. Is there any reason why the Comet would not work at all on the sats? He can raise the local repeater with this antenna.
73, Bill NZ5N
PS - Several of the Swan Island guys were intrigued by my sat operation and we hopefully we have a few more HRs active soon.
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