At 04:47 AM 2/4/2011, John Geiger wrote:

Another group to target is the VHF/UHF weak signal crowd. Many of them have the necessary equipment to get on AO7, FO29, and VO52, but might not know it, or know how to proceed. These birds will give them a chance to use their multimode rigs between band openings.

With the advent of the new all band, all mode radios such as the FT-817, IC-706IIG, IC-7000, TS-2000, etc, etc, combined with many of us having an older 2m SSB transceiver kicking around, it would be surprising how many of us have the capability to work these birds. I know I do, just have to get around to giving it a try. I have worked the SSB birds before, mostly Mode A (RS-10, RS-12/13, etc), but did work the Fujis at hamfests.

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