Hi Bruce,KK5DO

I agree completely with you !

73" de

i8CVS Domenico

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce" [email protected] To: "i8cvs" [email protected] Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 5:49 AM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Technical discussions on AMSAT-BB......"an endangered species" ?

maybe because you can work an fm leo with an ht and arrow antenna. you do not need to be technical to do that. i have not been on a satellite since ao40 died because there is no chalenge to me to work an fm satellite. i have given a few demos over the years but i much prefer rag chewing with someone in europe or asia than a 5 second grid square transfer.

73...bruce

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On Oct 16, 2011, at 10:25 PM, "i8cvs" [email protected] wrote:

Hi All,

I do remember that when OSCAR-10, OSCAR-13 and AO40 were alive and well this net on AMSAT-BB was full of technical messages from W3IWI now K3IO ,G3RUH, G3WDG, ZL1AOX and many others from wich it was possible to lern the radio technique particularly in the field of RF and antennas.

By the way actually with the prolification of Microsats,Nanosats and so on the above people seems to be not anymore interested on satellite technical discussions and they abandoned the net.

Can anyone explain to me why ?

Thanks for any answere.

73" de

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