Good afternoon all.

Is it possible to decode digipeats and transmit digipeats to io117 without elaborate equipment such as the icom 9700 but just a dual band vhf uhf transceiver with adequate output power on uhf and a simple 440 beam or ground plane antenna all manually positioned?

What software do I need to be effective?

Thanks to all.

73 de VE2LJV Samuel Galet

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-------- Original message -------- From: Bernie and Cheryl via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org Date: 2024-01-27 2:49 a.m. (GMT-05:00) To: ">> AMSAT" amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [AMSAT-BB] TX5S (Clipperton Island) on IO-117

Dear Folks:

At 2:02 UTC today (the 27th), I was fortunate enough to work TX5S on IO-117. I was able to decode a number of their digipeats to the satellite, and I am grateful that they were able to decode one of mine (I got the always appreciated "Logged 73" message from them).

15 minutes later, they sent a text to "ALL" saying "Last Pass" and worked a few more people before the bird hit LOS for me. It was like they were waving good bye (they are taking down their stuff tomorrow).

They were a great operation on the HF bands, but it's the first time I've worked a major DXpedition on satellite. What a thrill!

I so hope that we, as a community, can find the means to prevent the decommissioning of IO-117 as announced the other day. I appreciate AMSAT-NA reaching out and offering to do whatever is necessary to keep it going.

73 de Bernie, KF0QS

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