On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:29:02 -0700, "Rod Maupin"
wrote:

I'm in the Olympia, WA area. I just took the Extra test, and while I was
studying I got interested in the sections on repeaters and satellite. I've
worked HF for years, but never done anything else. So, my interest got
piqued.

Satellite sounds interesting, but I don't know anything about it.

for Satelites (which is a subset of VHF UHF) only the IC 910, the FT
847 and the Kenwood something like Ts-2000 are worth considering I
like 847 but with New sat coming making using of 1.2GHz I would not
buy one today for satelites work (i grabbed a chance to get the Boss
to buy me 910H with 1.2GHZ to settle some disputed billing between him
and I so I have both the 847 and 910)

Kenwood has a rep for nice gear but I have found there stuff "doesn't
play well others" that is it harder to find/interface no Kenwood
accesories so i tend to avoid them
So, I am
going to have to do some reading up. I don't even know how to work a
repeater, so you really know I've just been into HF.

Rod


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