Art - What you wrote (and correct me if I misinterpreted) is that me -
and others with mere handheld Yagi antennas - are achieving better
results on the FM birds than those with more sophisticated linear
antennas.
Clint
On Dec 6, 2009, at 10:31 PM, Art McBride wrote:
Clint,
Rotating a li
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From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On
Behalf Of Clint Bradford
Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 7:15 PM
To: Glenn AA5PK
Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 - After the Change
>> ... I think the handheld ops have less trouble with the po
, 2009 7:15:19 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 - After the Change
>> ... I think the handheld ops have less trouble with the polarity
switching because tend to compensate more quickly with a twist of the
wrist ...
That phenomenon is not evident now - nor h
>> ... I think the handheld ops have less trouble with the polarity
switching because tend to compensate more quickly with a twist of the
wrist ...
That phenomenon is not evident now - nor has it ever been - for me on
AO-51.
I know the engineers say I am supposed to be increasing or decrea
I think the handheld ops have less trouble with the polarity switching because
tend to compensate more quickly with a twist
of the wrist.
At higher elevations, the fades are hardly noticeable here. At low elevations,
the drop outs are similar to SO-50. It makes
me wish I did have polarity sw
I tried again tonight on a 30 deg pass... no luck for me... Eggbeater,
preamp, heliax gee ! It is really different !
73
2009/12/6 Clint Bradford :
> I thought I read we were supposed to experience degraded performance
> from AO-51 since last week's re-orientation of the bird.
>
> I just worke
