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- From: little@nuts2u.enet.dec.com (nuts2u::little)
- Subject: Re: Info needed on 2m & 70cm Satellite connections.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.231316.10615@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:13:34 GMT
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- Jose, the only difficulty might be that AO-13 tends to favor the Northern
- Hemisphere so it's a little harder to find times to work it from down
- under. But as Luck (one of my first OSCAR contacts) points out, there is a
- lot of DX on the birds. I'm also discovering that you can get up on Mode B
- without too great an investment if you have a 10 meter transmitter and
- receiver (or a transceiver and receiver). If you get up on AO-10 or
- AO-13, let me know as I still need to work VK!
-
- Luck, I find it interesting that VUCC is available on satellites. I had
- heard about that change and in fact am working towards the new award, but
- find it a little strange. I have yet to work more than a couple of grids
- more than once. It's almost as though every contact adds a new grid for
- me. Have there been many satellite VUCC applications?
-
- 73,
- Todd
- N9MWB (QRV on AO-10, RS-10, AO-13, FO-20, and AO-21 from EN52xb)
-