Friends, Thank you all for your comments and understanding. Please do not use FM on VO-52. There are very few (less than 3-5 radio hams in India who work thru VO-52 on FM due to the lack of all mode 2 meter and 70 cms radios and hence the exception) who use FM when VO-52 is over India. 73's Nitin [VU3TYG] Secretary, AMSAT INDIA
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nitin Muttin" vu3tyg@yahoo.co.in To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 5:01 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: VO-52 FM Operation
Friends,
Thank you all for your comments and understanding. Please do not use FM on VO-52. There are very few (less than 3-5 radio hams in India who work thru VO-52 on FM due to the lack of all mode 2 meter and 70 cms radios and hence the exception) who use FM when VO-52 is over India.
73's Nitin [VU3TYG] Secretary, AMSAT INDIA
Hi Nitin, VU3TYG
Owing of the authority of your position as Secretary of AMSAT-INDIA I thank you very much for your official suggestion:
" Please do not use FM on VO-52"
I hope that your suggestion will be clear for everybody and particularly for the actual small part of radioamateurs who are not understanding the problem.
73" de
i8CVS Domenico
At 03:01 AM 12/4/2011, Nitin Muttin wrote:
Friends,
Thank you all for your comments and understanding. Please do not use FM on VO-52. There are very few (less than 3-5 radio hams in India who work thru VO-52 on FM due to the lack of all mode 2 meter and 70 cms radios and hence the exception) who use FM when VO-52 is over India.
The question was raised in the context of Australia, where there's a very low density of operators. I know from my experience that I've had very few random QSOs on SSB. One was back in the days of RS-10. The bulk of my time on SSB has been in talking to myself, with the occasional SSB or CW QSO with a local.
As my current issue is antennas, rather than radios, I'm more or less off air for both SSB and FM at this time, but as I said, from experience, finding someone else on SSB a the same time as I am has been the difficulty, over the years. From reading the local AMSAT list, the active operators seem to be having the same issue of being able to get on at the same time.
73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com
participants (3)
-
i8cvs -
Nitin Muttin -
Tony Langdon