[amsat-bb] Re: Funnies

2011-05-05 Thread Edward R. Cole
At 02:40 PM 5/5/2011, Kevin Deane wrote: Since Ham Radio cartoon funnies seem to be so hard to come by, I have been making my own. I was hoping I could find out from you guy's what was the OLDEST and BEST sat you all got to use so I could make them more interesting...Basically lookin for the

[amsat-bb] Re: Funnies

2011-05-05 Thread Edward R. Cole
I forgot to mention that the command stations were very busy in the first few weeks of AO-6 because we had to keep the transponder turned-off to save the batteries. Unfortunately, this resulted in QSO's being cut in half, because the bird lit up with activity every time the Tx became

[amsat-bb] Re: Funnies

2011-05-05 Thread i8cvs
Hi Kevin, KF7MYK Not including the SPUTNIC-1 beacon on 20 MHz the ECHO-1 beacon on 108.030 MHz and the moon on 70 cm EME the OLDEST communication satellite for me was OSCAR-6 and the BEST for me was AO40 on mode U/S and L/S 73 de i8CVS Domenico - Original Message - From: Kevin Deane