Ed,
Congrats, it seems like you are in business if you heard the bird down to the
horizon. HO-68 is louder, in some cases much louder, than most of the other
sats, so check some others. If you can copy SO-50 to the horizon, then leave
your antenna alone, it's working great.
I measured a maximum of 20w directly at the antenna, and Elk claims a gain of
6.6 dbd on 2m, which would mean an ERP of 90 watts. I do not need full power
at high elevations.
73, Bill NZ5N
> From: Edward Cole <kl...@acsalaska.net>
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: New Lindy's QRV
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> One more update:
>
> I tried pass #744, this morning and copied a big
> round-table of
> several west-coast stations, but was unable to break
> in. My downlink
> was as loud as them, so...? I had one call to my CQ
> right at LOS and
> could not complete, sorry! Bear with me as I am
> getting reaquainted
> with running my radio on satellites ;-) My sub-VFO
> tuning control is
> not working which complicates netting with another
> station. So I
> find my signal with the Rx and then engage tracking.
> That tracks for
> a little while.
>
> The interesting thing is that I copied signals to
> zero-elevation. I
> would say that I am pleased with the new antennas.
>
> Question: what ERP are most stations using on SSB on
> HO-68? I am
> running 50w ERP.
>
>
>
> 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45
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