I travel with work during the week and have an arrow and d72 in my carryon luggage.

The switch to L Band takes me off the air and limits satellite opportunities down to at worse, a single fm bird late in the evening.

As a new satellite op, I was not even aware that adhoc changes to uplink band were being made.

I have 23cm antennas ordered for home and I’m looking forward to “giving it a go” but much prefer the weekend for changing bands.

There are not that many Fm satellites suitable for portable ops and making the change is a big impact availability... It’s tough QSO’ing at BL11.

Regards Dwayne (310) 849-2036