Tom, In a private email response sent to you just prior to your email to the -bb, I inquired whether you had SSB capabilities. I know many other JOTA stations do get on the transponder satellites as well, and I think we can agree this would be a better presentation of our part of the hobby. I'm not inclined to alter the schedule when there are so many other satellites available, both FM and SSB/CW, but only one L-band uplink available one day a week. Of course AO-92 will still be available in U/v for the first half of JOTA.

73, Drew KO4MA AMSAT VP Operations

-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org On Behalf Of tjschuessler@verizon.net Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 9:39 PM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-92 for Jamboree on the air.

Hi Fox control team.

I know that the convention these days is to shift Fox 1D/AO-92 to L band uplink in the early hours of UTC Sundays and then go back early UTC Monday.

This weekend, October 19-21, is Jamboree on the Air, a marvelous opportunity to showcase Amateur Radio in space to young scouts and adult scouters. JOTA is from Friday evening local time through Sunday local time. Since a lot of us who may be running Amateur satellite stations for JOTA, do not have L band uplink capabilities. I am requesting on these behalf other JOTA stations, that the control team consider forgoing the weekly switch to L band to allow more people access to AO-92 passes on Saturday evening and Sunday morning.

Thanks for your consideration

73

Tom, N5HYP

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