Hello fellow V052 fans! Dale I think you must go to bed early as I am on at least one pass most nights (ok, usually late) that lights us both up and n'er a peep from the north! LOL Geez this sat lights up Siberia, northern Canada, central America, at times most all of the US, and the lack of operators is astounding.

Anyway, yes, by all means- anyone who has not at least listened to the strength of the VO52 downlink should do so. It is very strong and consistently good to the horizon. And, I guess going to the point of this thread- largely unused. But with such a wide passband, there is loads of room for many stations so no "2 meter repeater" or DX pileup characteristics.

Just my 2 cents

73s

Craig N6RSX

-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org]On Behalf Of John Geiger Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 1:20 PM To: amsat bbs; Dale Hershberger Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: VO52

Dale,

I will agree with you on this. VO52 has the best downlink at my QTH. Wish there was more activity on it also.

73s John AA5JG

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From: Dale Hershberger daleh@alaska.net Subject: [amsat-bb] VO52 To: "amsat bbs" amsat-bb@amsat.org Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 1:46 PM I was on VO 52 on the last pass. Excellent downlink signal. This is another satellite that is under utilized. I heard my downlink great. To bad I was the only one on.

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Hi All,

VO-52 is widely used in Europe with a lot of CW and SSB stations in any orbit. VO-52 seems to be here the preferred satellite along with FO-29 when she was alive. OSCAR-7 is also widely used in mode-A and mode-B

73" de

i8CVS Domenico

----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn AA5PK" aa5pk@suddenlink.net To: "Dale Hershberger" daleh@alaska.net; "amsat bbs" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:24 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: VO52

I, too, agree VO-52 is underutilized, Dale. I'm usually in there calling

CQ and scanning the downlink.

Happy to have just worked you on AO-27 a minute before my LOS.

73 Glenn AA5PK

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I was on VO 52 on the last pass. Excellent downlink signal. This is another satellite that is under utilized. I heard my downlink great. To bad I was the only one on.

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