Hi to all

I just reading back my archives and i found if you want to know where to you want to go you have to know where you came from.

Here is a what we can read on March 25 2005

Greg Wycoff wrote:

... I hope others will share their thought and memory's of AO-40/AO-13/AO-10 so we can help start the drive for raising money for EAGLE and get others geared up for P3E. ...

I became QRV on the AO-40 late in its life, on Aug. 20th 2003. I started out in mode U/S with antennas made out of cardboard boxes and aluminum foil, the way Tony, AA2TX described them on p. 57 of QST March 2003, and with a DB6NT S-to-2m downconverter. The rig was an IC-910. I was able to operate very close out to the apogee, with the 50W UHF into the corner uplink antenna. The performance of the downlink S-band horn surprised me.

I operated mostly from indoors, through an open window and thus could not make use of every pass, but after my first 5 passes I had reached all 6 continents with the cardboard antennas and I own a WAC-SAT for that.

After a while I got a 85cm offset dish with a dualpatch feed for mode L/S, with 10W out from the IC-910.

Until the unfortunate early death of the AO-40 in Jan. 2004 I was able to only take advantage of a total of 26 passes, made a total of 110 QSOs, both CW and SSB and reached 39 DXCC entities.

I have made a sizable donation toward P3E and hope you all will too.

73

Werner, HB9US, AMSAT-DL # 302508, but since I have no AMSAT-NA #, noone over there will be interested in my comments anyway...

This guy was a wise one...;) Never say nobody will be interested in what you have to say...I was and i'm still is! But i just hope Greg is not too disappointed! By his inland engineers...

P.S. Someone in a recent past ask for the real number of AMSAT membership could be Emily N1DID ex W0ECC can tell us the answer? as she is on the board.

Is AMSAT-NA is transparent? asking the question is the answer...

"-" The medium is the message...The content is the audience...;)

Luc Leblanc VE2DWE WAC basic,CW,Phone,Satellite Skype VE2DWE www.qsl.net/ve2dwe