But just because something is listed as a satellite radio, why only limit it to the satellite bands? Satellite radios also make good VHF/UHF weak signal and contest radios.
73s John AA5JG
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF nigel@ngunn.netwrote:
There aren't any satellites on 6M.
There's always the "old fashioned" solution, an HF receiver, an HF transmitter and a pair of converters or transverters. They're still available for the microwave bands.
There must be older 2M and 70cM multimode rigs available used ( IC211E, TS700, IC202/404 etc) that will happily drive transverters for the higher bands and amplifiers for their own band.
On 25-Feb-11 19:51, John Geiger wrote:
Used, now there are many more options. Hard to find anything to fault about the Kenwood TS790, except that it doesn't do 6m.
I have both an FT-847, and a TS-790. I prefer the FT-847 for satellite work, and the TS-790 for weak signal work. It's mostly what I'm used to, and the '847 seems to be easier to use for satellites.The TS-790 seems to have a better receiver, and one of these days I'll use my IF-232 to run it with SatPC32 to see how well it works on satellites. They're both very nice radios.
73, Jim KQ6EA
On 02/25/2011 08:01 PM, John Geiger wrote:
But just because something is listed as a satellite radio, why only limit it to the satellite bands? Satellite radios also make good VHF/UHF weak signal and contest radios.
73s John AA5JG
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF nigel@ngunn.netwrote:
There aren't any satellites on 6M.
There's always the "old fashioned" solution, an HF receiver, an HF transmitter and a pair of converters or transverters. They're still available for the microwave bands.
There must be older 2M and 70cM multimode rigs available used ( IC211E, TS700, IC202/404 etc) that will happily drive transverters for the higher bands and amplifiers for their own band.
On 25-Feb-11 19:51, John Geiger wrote:
Used, now there are many more options. Hard to find anything to fault about the Kenwood TS790, except that it doesn't do 6m.
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