Great point, Drew. KD2EXR does a great job on SO-50 with two Baofeng UV-B5s. Check out his QRZ.com page.
His entire FM satellite station cost under $100 and he seems to hear just as well as anyone (probably better than most, actually). 73, Paul, N8HM On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Andrew Glasbrenner <glasbren...@mindspring.com> wrote: > Another point to consider is you can buy two of the cheap Chinese HTs for > about what the diplexer in the Arrow costs. That's the cheapest way to get to > full duplex. > > 73, Drew KO4MA > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 12, 2014, at 4:53 PM, Kevin M <n4...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >>> Some older full duplex HTs that you can pick up at a fest or on eBay >>> include Yaesu FT-470 and FT-530 and Icom W2A and W32A. >>> >>> 73 >>> Glenn AA5PK >> On the IC-W32A's... I read several places that the early ones with 5 digit >> serial numbers are okay, but that is not necessarily true from my >> experience. I bought two of them with five digit numbers over 11000 and >> still had the desense problems. The determining factor, as best I can tell, >> is if it receives in the 300 Mhz and 800 Mhz bands then it's possible it >> doesn't have the desense problem. >> >> Just FYI for anyone looking... >> >> And I think you can ad IC-Z1a to that list. I found a pretty good list of >> older compatible rigs here, not just HTs but all rig: >> http://herrons.com/satellite-radios/ >> >> 73, N4UFO >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
