Hello John and everyone else.
According to the logbook that contact was around 2.5 degrees
elevation which is very close to my horizon. My best distance would
probably be a contact with EI4HT.
Another feature of AO-40 which may or may not be relevant to your
talk Pete, was the variety of uplinks
Disclaimer: doing this from memory, always dangerous
I believe that the HF bands are treated as one setting but 6M, 2M and 70 cm can
have the antenna port set individually.
I know that my favorite configuration is to use the rear port for 6M and the
front port for 2M and 70 cm.
73, Bob K0NR
On
Clint,
> I thought that the FT-817'a front and rear antenna jacks could
> only be switched from the default config out of the box ...
>
> FRONT - 50mHZ, 2M, and 440
> REAR - HF work
>
> ... and vice versa using Menu Item 7.
>
> But is that Menu Item more sophisticated than that? Someone
> just wro
We had another favorable break at midday today when the ship's speed was
slowed by a convergence current for a few hours that caused us to still
be in EJ78 long enough to get that grid into a few logs on AO27.
Later this afternoon, my FT897D failed unexpectedly, but I was
eventually able to br
I thought that the FT-817'a front and rear antenna jacks could only be switched
from the default config out of the box ...
FRONT - 50mHZ, 2M, and 440
REAR - HF work
... and vice versa using Menu Item 7.
But is that Menu Item more sophisticated than that? Someone just wrote me,
indicating that
My best DX on AO-40 was VK5DG south Australia from central england.
70cms up 2.4GHz down.
Happy days !!
73 john G7HIA
From: P.H.
To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Sent: Sunday, 20 March, 2011 1:17:40
Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-40 range record ??
Hi,
For a small club sate
I have no connecton with this fellow. Just passing it along to the bb
73 Bob W7LRD
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Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 11:19:46 AM
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Still cleaning up the ham shack. Posting here before Ebay. IC-451A 70cm all
mode and RFC4-110 amp. Was replaced wit
Still cleaning up the ham shack. Posting here before Ebay. IC-451A 70cm all
mode and RFC4-110 amp. Was replaced with a IC-910H. $250- Email direct.
73 Bob W7LRD
Seattle
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