U-Know-Who wrote:
"Leland C. Scott" wrote in message
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:25:02 +0000, Slow Code wrote:

massvie snip
You and me both! I got bummed out when AO-40 quit. That bird had the
potential to be a communication master piece if everything worked. I
waited until it went up before getting the gear to work it. Even as it was
after the accident it was impressive. I've been on UO-14, before it died,
a few times running mobile but those birds aren't really made for
rag-chewing. Plus there always seemed to be some overpowered station
hogging the pass nearly every time. You get a window of what 8 to 10
minutes per pass. With AO-40 you had at least a couple of hours to talk on
SSB without having to chase the bird all over the sky constantly to stay
on target with the antennas like you do with some of the LEO sat's.
Readjusting the antennas by hand anywhere from 15 to 20 minutes was
normally good enough for AO-40. Another high orbit sat is what I like to
see and the one they're building now is what I'm waiting for too.

Regards,
Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO



You don't have HF privileges.

so what, AO-40 was better than HF in many ways.

my concern over the german bird in that they will over do the
complexity and repate what I suspect (with no real proof) was the cause
of loseing AO-40