Personally, I think an alternating schedule of LV being on weekends one week, and during the week the next, could be a good compromise to this issue. As pointed out before, weekends are a common time for people to try out new equipment and I think this applies for both sides. Many potential new ops might not be aware of the existence of such a scheduled mode switch. This would also be useful for hamfest demonstrations as most ops do not have portable L/V gear, and would at least have a couple weekends a month that could line up with demonstrating U/V operation of AO-92. I do also feel that we should try to put the satellite into camera mode at the very least once a month, I for one like seeing this mode in use, especially in cases of large storm systems and hurricanes.

Marty N9EAT AMSAT Life Member #2507 ________________________________ From: AMSAT-BB [email protected] on behalf of Perry Yantis via AMSAT-BB [email protected] Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2019 10:30 PM To: Amsat BB [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] AO92 L/V mode??

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I stayed up late tonight to work AO92 L/V mode only to find that it was still in L/V mode.Then I got on EO88 a few minutes later and was told that L/V mode would be on Wednesday this week.It would be nice it this information was posted on the BBS BEFORE the weekend gets here.Also why the change anyway????? Perry WB8OTH

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