And you can still use the FM equipment you bought on AO27, SO50, and SO67.
I spent less than $200 on my FM satellite setup this year. It consists of a
used Kenwood TM251A for $99, an Arrow antennas dualband J pole for $50, and
a 50 foot run of 9913 flex for $40. It is still working fine on the other 3
sats.
73s John AA5JG
- Original Message -
From: Clint Bradford clintbradf...@mac.com
To: AMSAT BB amsat-bb@amsat.org
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 3:26 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-51 - Requiem
... because since 2004 when AO-51 was operational a lot of Hams invested
a lot of money to buy FM
hand held equipments, Arrow antennas and ELK antennas to work ...
Huh? 2004 was the year the Yaesu FT-60R was released. For under $200. The
Kenwood TH-D7 was
available - always a battery hog, but expensive due to its TNC/APRS
capabilities.
To say that we blew our collective wads on hand held equipment for
working FM birds doesn't make
sense to me. And I was working at the US' largest ham radio equipment
dealer then: that phenomenon
did not occur.
... if AO-51 will be in trouble for a long time and if a similar
satellite will
not replace it than a lot of money all around the world has been invested
in FM equipment for very small ...
The equipment purchased to work the FM sats covers the two most popular
voice bands in the
US, if not the planet. There's no handheld equipment that is exclusively
made for sat work.
... The situation for the linear satellite users is very bad as well
because
HO-68 was only activated for a limited numbar of orbits ...
I do not understand why some folks are so hot for '68. Its primary mission
was never going to
be amateur radio. It is run by the Chinese, who could really care less
about what we would like
to see happen with it. (Sorry, my wife has been to Tibet three times in
the past five years, and
has some really illustrative stories on how obscenely the Chinese treat
some very peaceful people.)
The Chinese projects have little or no interest for me.
... I don't have any information about the Fox project ...
Right at the top of the AMSAT-org Web site you will find ...
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/fox/
... I wanted a HEO so bad!
When I win the lottery, we'll have a geo-synchronous bird above North
America ...
Clint, K6LCS
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